Sun Cong recommended Zhang Wenmian to Liu Jin.

After Liu Jin personally inspected Zhang Wenmian's knowledge, he immediately bought a house for him around the leopard house. Although it was only two yards, it was enough for a few ordinary people to live in.

Zhang Wenmian's life has finally stabilized and he is preparing to take his wife, children and children to the capital to "enjoy happiness".

In addition to using Zhang Wenmian to provide "good strategies" to assassinate Chen Xi, Liu Jin also asked about Zhang Wenmian's major events in the court. Zhang Wenmian answered questions in a scattered manner, and the most important one was how to control the court officials.

Zhang Wenmian's advice to Liu Jin was to let Liu Jin try to change the court's rules. To put it bluntly, it was to let Liu Jin launch a reform. Only by working hard to promote the reform can Liu Jin appoint more of his own people and let the court unite with Liu Jin, a reformer.

Before, Liu Jin had always hoped that he would accomplish something big, but he was overjoyed when he heard Zhang Wenmian's suggestion. He had asked so many people before, but he could not tell the reason. Now Zhang Wenmian's reform and strengthening happened to hit his mind and was very moved.

After that, Liu Jin asked Zhang Wenmian to his mansion for several days. The two of them repeatedly talked about reform for a few hours, and then they talked until the second half of the night. Then they simply slept and got up in the morning to continue the discussion. Sun Cong, who had been often bothered by Liu Jin, finally got free.

After having a general direction in his mind, Liu Jin decided to strike while the iron was hot, and began to formulate a complete set of reform plans for the imperial government and tax acres, and then presented it to the emperor. However, the so-called asking the emperor to make a decision was just a formality. He knew that Zhu Houzhao would listen to him in everything, and he believed that as long as he determined things, he would definitely put them into practice in the end.

Liu Jin fought for Chen Xi to return to the court and put the matter into effect so as not to make mistakes in assassination of Chen Xi and let him return to the capital safely. At that time, Chen Xi, a minister favored by the emperor, was here, so his advice might be rejected by the emperor. At that time, it would be too late to implement reforms.

After Liu Jin listed the detailed plan, he began to sort it out one by one, but with his ability, he was unable to complete such a large project alone, so he could only ask Sun Cong and Zhang Wenmian to polish it or even write it on his behalf. Finally, he even asked Jiao Fang, Liu Yu and others for their opinions.

This question is equivalent to leaking the news in advance, and the news that Liu Jin was about to launch reforms spread in a small range.

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On April 14th, Xie Qian had just left the palace from Daming Gate and had not yet arrived at his own courtyard on Chang'an Street, when he saw Gu Zuo, the Minister of Revenue, coming in a hurry.

Gu Zuo looked nervous and looked around. Xie Qian didn't think much about it. He thought there was something wrong with the Ministry of Revenue accounts and was about to ask him for advice. The two soon entered the courtyard. When the gate of the courtyard was closed, Gu Zuo immediately came to Xie Qian's ear and said, "Gei Master Xie, do you know that Liu Jin is preparing to reform the administration and clear the tax and land acres?"

Xie Qian frowned: "He is a eunuch, has the courage and courage to carry out such things?"

Although Xie Qian rarely had a head-on conflict with Liu Jin, his attitude towards Liu Jin in private was extremely bad, which was different from the fact that Li Dongyang and Liu Jin were respectful and uninvading each other in history. Xie Qian has always kept a low profile, but he did not hide his disgust towards Liu Jin at all.

Gu Zuo said: "He naturally has no such ability in this matter. He heard that he had consulted many officials in court to discuss the strategy, but he didn't know who proposed it. I vaguely heard some of it, and it seemed to be a little insightful."

Xie Qian didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that Liu Jin was making a fool of himself and the end of the matter would definitely be left alone, but after knowing that this matter was not groundless, he also began to panic.

Xie Qian asked Gu Zuo to come to the study room. The two sat down. Xie Qian asked in detail about the situation, and Gu Zuo told him everything he knew.

"Now Liu Jin is looking for someone to inquire about the implementation of the policy in the Central Ministry of Revenue and the Censorate of the Crown Department of the People's Republic of China. It seems that he is interested in making such an attempt. If he cannot stop, he may be promulgated to implement the world without His Majesty's consent in the next few days."

Xie Qian has read the content listed by Gu Zuo in detail.

Liu Jin's reforms did not limit a specific department, involving the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of War and Ministry of Works. In the early days, he summarized and sorted out the original system of the court, abolished some inappropriate ones, and added some content that seemed to be able to combat corruption, conceal reports, and enrich the treasury.

This seems to be a good thing, and there is nothing wrong with it. But the problem is that Liu Jin's main purpose is to be authoritarian. One of the reforms is to promote the expert factory and surpass the East and West Factory 2 and the Jinyiwei. The reason is high-sounding, saying that the art factory and the Jinyiwei disturb the people, but in Xie Qian's opinion it is purely nonsense... If you really disturb the people, just remove the factory guards directly. Where should you reuse the expert factory?

Liu Jin's reforms mentioned the eunuchs in various places to the same level as the governor. The eunuchs in various places can supervise all important matters of local military, political and judicial affairs, which is equivalent to achieving double-headed management in various provinces.

The reform also involves severe corruption and punishing it with economic means. To sum up, it means that if the court and local officials have any faults, they will no longer be punished in a physical manner, but will be fined rice. Local money and grain deficits are deficient, and relevant officials need to be responsible for filling it. Even middle and lower-level officials make mistakes, and higher officials need to fill it, forming a system of criminal conspiracy for officials.

In addition, the reform also stipulated that officials in wealthy southern provinces cannot be held by their own provinces, but also by neighboring provinces. Officials from the Ming Dynasty needed to conduct major exchanges between the north and the south, and officials serving as governors of the grain transport could not have any contact with provinces along the canal.

As for income increase, Liu Jin was planning to send people to clean up the land in the world, share the concealed land with self-cultivation farmers, restrict gentry and officers from occupying the land, and regularly send officials from the court to local governments to investigate the military camps, military treasuries, royal villages, granaries, grains, salt administrations in the two Huaihe Rivers, and the use of funds allocated to the state treasury.

Xie Qian saw these things and became more and more angry as he looked at them. Finally, he said with great disdain: "The noodles here are shocking. Where did Liu Jin, a eunuch, have the courage to dare to oppose the gentry in the world? Your Majesty will never agree to him do this!"

Gu Zuo seemed helpless: "Gei Ge, if the former emperor was in power, there was no need to worry about this matter. But now His Majesty did one thing after ascending the throne, that is, to favor and use Liu Jin. Now Liu Jin is in the court and can be said to cover the sky with one hand, and everyone in the court must rely on his nose to survive. Now, the six ministers of the central ministries and ministers of the court are not appointed by the Ministry of Personnel to assess His Majesty. He can decide to change it on his own. He wants to implement the new policy, who can stop the court?"

Xie Qian said: "Now it seems that there is only one way to go to the Secretariat. You can follow me into the palace first."

"No."

Gu Zuo said, "Mr. Xie, I'm here to remind you today. Don't wait until the incident happens, but it's still unknown... Now Liu Jin makes a decision on His Majesty with the identity of the Chief Secretary, and you and I have no right to interfere. Besides, these are just news now. If Mr. Ge, you go to meet the saint, not only will your Majesty not listen, but you will be afraid that you will also be punished."

Xie Qian understood as soon as he heard this. Gu Zuo was worried about being retaliated by Liu Jin, so he shirked his responsibility. So he said, "Since Gu Shangshu has informed him, please come back. I will be very careful in the past two days. If what Liu Jin wants to do is beneficial to the court, it is impossible to promulgate the world. If the contrary...haha, let's talk about it later."

Before, Xie Qian was a little anxious, worried that the rash reform would shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, so he was preparing to enter the palace to face the saint to prevent Liu Jin from implementing the reform. However, in a blink of an eye, Xie Qian changed his attitude and ignored everything.

Gu Zuo was stunned. He didn't expect Xie Qian to be calm. He thought about it. Anyway, Xie Qian had already reported the matter. Morally, his responsibility to the Ming Dynasty had been fulfilled. As for the subsequent events, it had nothing to do with him. He immediately bowed: "Grade Master, then I'll say goodbye."

Gu Zuo turned around and left. Xie Qian sent him to the door of the study. He looked at Gu Zuo's back, shook his head and sighed, and then returned to the back of the desk, preparing to write a book to impeach Liu Jin.

But after only writing a few sentences, Xie Qian stopped writing and pondering... The things he reported did not seem to be enough to shake Liu Jin's position in the court.

"The corruption and abuse of power and selling official positions are simply because Your Majesty intends to indulge in it. What Liu Jin does is to make money for Your Majesty and attack it in this way, and the result will be the same as Xu Jin. As for those reforms, it is still only news and there is no limit to it... It is better to wait for Zhihou to return to Beijing and discuss with him. Regarding Your Majesty's trust, Zhihou is not inferior to Liu Jin!"

Thinking that Shen Xi was about to return to the capital, Xie Qian finally recovered his energy and vaguely saw the hope of defeating Liu Jin.

Just when he thought that if he did not participate in the court, there would inevitably be a silence in the court, on April 15, a major incident happened... Someone wrote an anonymous memorial to report Liu Jin's several major crimes and wanted to put him to death.

If it were just folk rumors, it would not be enough to shake Liu Jin's status. But this anonymous memorial was sent to the cabinet through the Tongzheng Envoy. On that day, Xie Qian was not on duty. Jiao Fang was the first to see it, so the memorial fell into Liu Jin's hands.
Chapter completed!