Because he had the courage to kill the Crown Prince of Java and made passionate remarks in front of all the scholars and people in the capital, Qian Qianyi, the chief minister of the cabinet who almost lost the hearts of the emperor and the people, finally regained a little fame and was able to continue to stay in the center of the empire.

Qian Qianyi was also very satisfied with this, and he also felt like he was in a dark place. He felt that he had already grasped the feeling of being a prime minister in the cabinet. He wanted to continue working and continue to reap the joy brought by this power.

He even wanted to do some great things like Yu Qian and Zhang Juzheng in the previous dynasty. Now His Majesty the Emperor is a king who is determined to reform. Perhaps he can do some great things before his life ends.

Just when Qian Qianyi was full of energy and wanted to do something serious and no longer wanted to rely on flattery to live in a corpse and wait for death, Li Mingrui was not very happy because the Crown Prince of Java was killed by Qian Qianyi. He couldn't help but sigh and thought that his Majesty still wanted to balance now, otherwise he would not have given Qian Qianyi such an opportunity. Although he decisively comforted the scholars and people who were causing trouble in front of Shuntian Prefecture, he turned around and made wedding clothes for Qian Qianyi.

But Li Mingrui did not give up because of this. In his opinion, no matter how many officials among the conservative schools such as Qian Qianyi were so-called honest and self-reliant officials, fundamentally speaking, they were not the same as His Majesty today. They never gave up until the beginning and the end to bring His Majesty to the path they believed to be the king of Yao and Shun.

"If it weren't for the fact that my Ming Dynasty had no internal and external troubles, these old stubborn people who only knew how to study hard would dare to put faith and cultivate virtue before His Majesty, and to make peace the most important. They also said that His Majesty would let His Majesty be governed. If he had been kept in prison and went to the East Factory to tell the men of the East Factory that how could the world leave His Majesty? If he had left His Majesty, he would have to sink his land in China, and the country would not be in power!"

Li Mingrui said to Guo Yunhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, that unlike Qian Qianyi, Li Mingrui is very good at flattering Zhu Youxiao. Instead, he acts in front of Zhu Youxiao as a very deceitful and wise but refuses to give in easily, but he always deliberately shows the image of Zhu Youxiao's loyal dog behind him.

This is also the reason why Li Mingrui can repeatedly touch the dragon face but never be deceived by Zhu Youxiao. Guo Yunhou, who also relies on his own business transactions to control nearly half of the commercial wealth of Beizhili, knows Li Mingrui's move very well. He is just smiling and silent for his comments in front of him. When he saw a figure that looked like a Dongchang man suddenly flashed outside the window, he admired Li Mingrui's acumen and flattering at the right time.

Guo Yunhou couldn't help but think that this might be the reason why he is younger than him, but he can be above him. A hard-working official like himself can't do anything except to make some money for His Majesty and make some money together, so he can't practice Li Mingrui's ability to flatter him so well. Of course, he can't do even more with shameless flattery like Qian Qianyi.

Although Guo Yunhou, the Minister of Revenue, who has always had a lot of intestines, has been able to break through the knowledge in this officialdom, his country is still easy to change and his nature is difficult to change. He still couldn't help but put the teacup on the tea table: "Okay, Mr. Li, let's talk about the serious business. People are gone. Other old stubborn people in the conservative school don't have to care. As long as these people are not greedy, Your Majesty still needs them. Some places are much better than those of us who use our hands with stinking smells of money. However, Qian Qianyi cannot help but fight. This person is a little bit weak but a flatterer. He is good at making conspiracies and tricks to harm his colleagues. He also intends to advise Your Majesty not to let businessmen become officials, but the reason is that businessmen will only talk about interests and not etiquette in the court. Isn't this nonsense?"

Guo Yunhou can stand on Li Mingrui's side now because of whether this allowed the literati and official literati with businessman status to enter politics, especially the six ministries and nine ministers and three ministers in the cabinet.

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao had never considered this issue before. The reason why he asked his trusted ministers to follow him at the beginning was to break the commercial barriers of the gentry while controlling the lifeline of the country's economy, create a system of large-scale commercial tax collection. However, now the system of commercial tax collection has been established. The wealth of the entire country and the development of economic and trade have finally entered a positive proportion, but new problems have emerged.

That is, many new capitalists appeared. Since the Ming Dynasty was now a trust empire system, emerging capitalists were more powerful than the previous gentry. However, because their interests were tied to national interests, the main profit was in the hands of Zhu Youxiao and the court, and they had to pay high taxes. But as the conservatives such as Qian Qianyi were worried, once these capitalists controlled the court, they would turn the entire officialdom into a shopping mall, making profits for their own commercial interests, and downplaying the Confucian traditional idea of ​​diligence and loving the people.

Zhu Youxiao was still worried that the Ming Empire would be controlled by these chaebols in a future and would be completely separated from its relationship with the people at the bottom, so he allowed a group of guardians from the conservatives to exist. These people may have solidified their thoughts and were deeply influenced by the small peasant economy, which is also hypocritical. However, the family-oriented thought they advocated can well maintain the relationship between the upper class and the people at the bottom, and they are the main force in promoting the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor in the future.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao also thought that it seemed that the freedom of merchants to enter politics should be restricted, and government officials could be allowed to become merchant agents. However, if government officials directly become merchants, it might really make the Ming Empire worsen whether the corresponding protection of rights for the lower class and the emerging working class would be really aggravated social conflicts before it was established. After all, even in modern times, in order to avoid the emergence of a combination of officials and business, it would strictly restrict administrative officials from doing business.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not directly refuse the view that Qian Qianyi and other conservatives asked him to strictly prohibit officials from doing business, especially officials in the real-power department. He even said that he should consider it.

As the Minister of Revenue, Guo Yunhou, a big chaebol like Gong Yonggu, Yang Tingchun, Mao Yisheng, Li Mingrui, etc., opposed Qian Qianyi and others' concept of banning officials from participating in business. After all, he, the Minister of Revenue, brought a lot of convenience to their Guo family for seeking commercial benefits. Once they lose the position of Minister of Revenue, their Guo family will lose many opportunities to operate and trade, and even an approval will be much more troublesome than before.

Therefore, Guo Yunhou and others also hope to fight Qian Qianyi to intimidate those conservative officials, it is best not to lightly initiate policy reforms that officials cannot engage in business.

Seeing Guo Yunhou so excited, Li Mingrui couldn't help but persuade him, saying, "Da Situ doesn't have to be so anxious. This matter is not over yet. Look, Qian Qianyi's fate will definitely be very miserable."
Chapter completed!