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"Zhou Shangshu, if you have any ideas, you might as well say it directly." Li Yang said: "As long as the method is feasible, I think everyone will agree."

Yuan Ji and Hou Yi looked at each other and secretly thought that it was true.

Zhou Yanfeng, Li Yang and Qi Kai have indeed formed an alliance to advance and retreat together. This is not good news for them.

Zhou Yanfeng smiled and said: "I do have an idea, that is, officials from my Ministry of Household Affairs will go to the local areas with the grain and grass for disaster relief. While providing disaster relief, they will supervise the actions of local officials and not give them the opportunity to embezzle grain and grass. ”

"This is impossible!"

As soon as Zhou Yanfeng finished speaking, Yuan Ji suddenly stood up and retorted, his expression even looking ferocious.

At this time, Yuan Ji had already understood Zhou Yanfeng's plan. He was planning to use the opportunity of disaster relief to put the Ministry of Households above the Ministry of Personnel. Moreover, the officials of the Ministry of Households actually wanted to supervise the rights of the officials, although currently they were only targeting grain and grass. distribution, but Zhou Yanfeng’s ambition is already obvious.

You must know that nowadays, the local situation is corrupt, and disaster relief cannot be completed in a day or two. In addition to providing food relief, local production must also be restored. There is a lot of follow-up work. If these tasks are completed under the supervision of officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs , how much power do the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs have?

When the time comes, will local officials listen to him or to officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs?

As long as this situation continues for a period of time, his official department will most likely be emptied out and become an empty shell, while the power of the household department will rise to its peak.

"Why is it impossible?" Zhou Yanfeng looked at Yuan Ji with a calm expression and asked.

Zhou Yanfeng was not surprised at all that Yuan Ji would object. His move was indeed intended to weaken the rights of the officials and at the same time increase the rights of their household departments. Yuan Ji could not fail to see this. As long as Yuan Ji did not want to sit back and wait for death, he would There will inevitably be vocal opposition.

"Your Ministry of Revenue is only responsible for the allocation and operation of grain and grass. When did you have the right to supervise the officials? Who gave you this right?" Yuan Ji looked at Zhou Yanfeng with a gloomy face and said.

Yanfeng had just formed a small group this week, and he actually wanted to take away the rights from himself. This ambition was too big, and his mood was too urgent.

Yuanji can't bear it!

"Our Ministry of Household Affairs did not have such power in the past." Zhou Yanfeng said: "But now that the situation is special, we should handle special cases. Why did disaster relief fail in the past? Is it not because of the inaction or even corruption of the officials below? With our household department Under the supervision of ministry officials, and even personally distributing food in local areas, such a situation can be avoided. By then, all the food will be in the hands of the people. If the people have food in their hands, they will naturally not follow the rebels to cause chaos. We This will cut off the possibility of the rebels’ expansion at the source, and in this way, the rebels’ issues will be resolved soon.”

The people are simple, and they do not want to cause rebellion. Everyone knows this. They are forced to live no longer, so they will follow the rebels to cause rebellion. As long as they have food in their hands and can plant it in the ground, most of them will The people will not choose to rebel. In this way, it will undoubtedly be much easier for the court to destroy the rebels.

Everyone present understood this, but it was obviously impossible for Yuan Ji to agree to Zhou Yanfeng's arrangement. Even if he knew that doing so would be beneficial to disaster relief, he would not agree, because Zhou Yanfeng was trying to tamper with his interests this time, and he would never allow himself to do so. The power in his hands was taken away.

"Officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs have lived in the imperial capital and are not familiar with local conditions." Yuanji said: "The local situation is complicated. How can a group of officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs who have never been to the place do better than the local parent officials? At that time, if the deployment is improper and causes looting by the people, it will only cause greater riots and even lead to a counterattack by the rebels. "

Yuanji's words are not unreasonable. The officials of the Ministry of Revenue basically live in the imperial capital for a long time and have never been to the local area. The situation in the local area is quite complicated. Not to mention the government forces, it is the common people, rebels, local wealthy families, etc. The relationship is complicated. Who should give, who should not give, and how much should be given to those who should give. These are all questions.

The officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs did not understand the local situation, which could easily lead to uneven distribution. They might even be deceived by local wealthy families and have no way to distribute food.

"Yuan Shangshu is too worried." Zhou Yanfeng naturally would not give in: "No matter how complicated the situation on the ground is, as long as the food is distributed to the hands of the people, all problems will no longer be a problem."

"Shang Shu Zhou, do you really think it's that simple to distribute food?" Yuan Ji sneered: "Every place has its own local forces. If you can't balance these forces, even if you have food in your hands, you won't be able to distribute it to the people. They will They will secretly cause trouble and prevent the people from receiving food. Can your officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs handle these matters? Your people don’t even know what the local forces are!”

"Since Yuan Shangshu said so, let the local officials assist the officials of the Ministry of Revenue. If both parties cooperate, the food distribution will naturally be much smoother." Zhou Yanfeng said.

"Let local officials assist your officials from the Ministry of Revenue? This is absolutely impossible!" Yuanji said: "Local officials know the situation better than officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Moreover, they deal with local affairs all year round and are better at dealing with them. Officials from the Ministry of Revenue are more skilled. When it comes to cooperation, it should be officials from the Ministry of Revenue who cooperate with local officials. "

Both parties do not mind cooperation, and cooperation is the best way, but in this cooperation, whoever occupies the dominant position, both parties are unwilling to give in. After all, there is still a big difference between occupying the dominant position and not occupying the dominant position, which represents the struggle for power.

In the hall, Yuan Ji and Zhou Yanfeng, you say one thing and I say another, tit-for-tat, and do not give in. Both parties have other people behind them to support them, and they are also the leaders of their own small groups. No one is weak, and no one is willing to give in.

"Minister Yuan, since you and I can't form a unified view on this matter, why not ask everyone's opinion?" Zhou Yanfeng said: "Our seven-member group is formed to discuss major and minor affairs inside and outside the court together, and now is the time for this group to play a role."

Both parties are unwilling to give in, but this matter also needs a final decision, so voting is the most appropriate. The formation of the seven-member group was indeed to deal with the current situation and prevent the court from becoming a one-man show.