Crossing Wu Dalang starts from selling cakes

Chapter 541 Zhou Ji!

Da Song's destruction of the small island must be violent.

When the army came, they killed almost all the way, and all the people on the small island along the way gave way.

At the beginning, the people of the small island put their hopes on General Fujiyama, because General Fujiyama is very famous here.

Although this person is a bit immoral, he does hold great power and has cleaned up many enemies.

Although he is an internal enemy, he is also a very skillful general.

However, when the Song Dynasty army came, Fujiyama did not satisfy the common people like them, so disappointed.

Fujiyama was vulnerable in front of the prime minister of the Song Dynasty.

It was at this time that they knew that there was a prime minister in the Great Song Army, and some people from Xiaodao who went to the Great Song Dynasty to do business spread a little bit of the deeds of the Great Song Prime Minister to them.

Just like a single spark, it instantly let the small island, a small country, know that the people who came from Song Dynasty this time are so powerful.

And Wu Zhi did not dishonor his reputation outside, conquered the island in a short time and held it firmly in his hands.

Now the people on the small island know the prestige of Song Wuzhi one after another.

As long as you talk about this person, you are all afraid.

Now Wu Zhi stays on the island to rectify this place.

However, although Wu Zhi won the battle here, he was away from Song Dynasty during this time.There are already people doing things in Da Song.

Because Wu Zhi is not in Bianjing, they can operate.

Many officials in the court are still afraid of the new law.

So Wu Zhi must get it down, including Cai Jing, Huang Chuan among the veterans, and Zhao Shu.

Among a group of old ministers, because several of them were dragged down by Wu Zhi, they felt a little bit of hatred in their hearts.

Cai Jing has a handle to be caught by Wu Zhi. He always hopes that Wu Zhi can step down, and it is best to kill him, but on the surface he does not dare to oppose Wu Zhi.

And because Zhao Shu didn't get Wu Zhi's help, he was worried that Wu Zhi wanted to support Zhao Gou, since he was not his own, he was an enemy.

If there is a chance, he will not let it go.

They are all on the opposite side of Wu Zhi.

During Wu Zhi's absence, they tried every means to suppress Wu Zhi.

And they did come up with some ideas.

Under Cai Jing, there is a man named Zhou Ji.

This person is the servant of the household department.He is also very close to Cai Jing and has some rights.

In the financial system of the Song Dynasty, the main institutions were the three divisions and ministries.The three divisions are the Department of Salt and Iron, the Department of Degrees, and the Department of Households.Each of the three departments has an envoy, deputy envoy, and judge.The third division envoy is called Jixiang, and his status is slightly lower than that of Shenzhizhengshi.

In the early Song Dynasty, three departments were set up to take charge of the national finances, and the household department had almost no responsibility. It only appointed a member of the household department to receive tribute from all over the country, and it was displayed in the palace at that time.

During Shenzong's reform of the official system, the three divisions were abolished, and the national finance and accounting began to belong to the Ministry of Households.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of national household registration, land, money and valley decrees, tribute, and conscripts.

Now the household department is in power, and the secretary of the household department is Wang Wei.

Wang Wei is Wu Zhi's man again.

Therefore, Zhou Ji has no possibility of replacing the position of Minister of the Household Department.

Originally, Wang Wei was a member of Prime Minister Zengbu before, and Cai Jing always wanted to cultivate Zhou Ji. After getting rid of Wang Wei, Zhou Ji became the new Minister of the Household Department.

But before he had time to do it, Cai Jing was caught by Wu Zhi for the corruption of the construction of Long Live Mountain, so he was a little bit cautious and didn't dare to move.

Then Wang Wei flattered Wu Zhi and became his man.The position is more stable!
If Zhou Ji wanted to find a way out, he had to get rid of Wang Wei, and to get rid of Wang Wei, he had to get rid of Wu Zhi.

He is also the prime minister himself, so from any angle, he should do something to benefit himself.

Furthermore, Wu Zhi's new law will also harm his interests.

If Wu Zhi does not introduce new laws, those officials in the court will all rely on Wu Zhi.The problem is that Wu Zhi wants to implement new laws to exploit the interests of these court officials.

Except that Wu Zhi was promoted, or those who were afraid of Wu Zhi did not dare to oppose him, the rest of the officials wanted to suppress Wu Zhi.

It is best to kick Wu Zhi out of the court, so that no one will make trouble again.

Long before Wu Zhi went out, they discussed together.

This time they are even more together.

The topic of their discussion was how to take the opportunity to destroy Wu Zhi.

If you want to get rid of Wu Zhi, you must start with Wu Zhi's political achievements.

The banknotes recently produced by Wu Zhi are a good starting point.

There were quite a few of Cai Jing's people at the scene. It's not easy for Cai Jing to show up, but the people under his command can.

Cai Jing now seems to have no rights because he is being suppressed by Wu Zhi in the court. In fact, he has a lot of disciples under his command, and his connections extend in all directions.

This time he was absent on the surface, but in fact he acquiesced.

In a private room of a restaurant, there are also some noble officials from the south.

Their grades are not as high as Cai Jing's, and they actually look down on Cai Jing in their hearts.

Because they are all aristocrats with red roots, and their ancestors were officials.

Everyone wanted to get rid of Wu Zhi, so they chose to cooperate.

I am afraid that once the new law is implemented in Song Dynasty, they will become victims.

In addition to Cai Jing's people present, it was Nanfang Xungui.

The two parties are in a relationship of common purpose of cooperation.

Although they look down on people like Cai Jing, they still want to get close to the celebrities around Cai Jing.So it is also to toast constantly.

Hubu servant Zhou Ji, blushing from drinking, said with the strength of alcohol, "Everyone, there will be a piece of news soon!"

"what news?"

The honorable officials in the south asked curiously.

Zhou Ji said with a serious face: "The south is going to start collecting taxes!"

"..."

Hearing this news, the nobles in the south contempt for a while, isn't this nonsense?

They are officials in the south, they know when to collect taxes better than anyone else, and you need to go around to fart?
But since they are prime ministers, they don't have much to say.

Zhou Ji smiled and said, "Of course that's not the point. The point is that soon the southern taxes will no longer be banknotes!"

"It's not banknotes? What is that?" Everyone was shocked.

Zhou Ji played tricks on purpose, took a sip of wine and said, "Since it's not banknotes, it's gold!"

gold?

The people present looked at each other.

In this situation, it is too unrealistic for some people to say such things.

No matter where the Song Dynasty is now, paper money is used. Which one of the people in the world, including high-ranking officials and nobles, uses paper money?
Without banknotes, it is difficult to move an inch, and Zhou Ji actually said that the next tax is gold?

is it possible?

Everyone knows how popular Da Song banknotes are now.

Everyone didn't believe what Zhou Ji said.

A high-ranking southern official said with a smile: "Master Zhou, you have followed Cai Xiang in recent years, and you have not learned anything else. You are very good at deceiving people. Who told you that the southern tax needs to collect gold? What do you want me to do?" have no idea?"

"Nowadays all taxes in the world are banknotes. If we collect gold in the south, isn't that a crime of disobedience? Violating the official decree will result in beheading!"

Zhou Ji laughed loudly: "Your Majesty Wang doesn't know something. Many things are changing rapidly. What was collected in the past was paper money, but it won't be so in the future!"

"If Master Wang doesn't believe it, we can wait and see!"

Ok?
Everyone became a little suspicious, seeing what he said was so sure, could it be that Zhou Ji got some news?
After all, he is someone close to the prime minister, so he might get some news in advance.

Mr. Wang raised his wine glass, toasted Zhou Ji, and said curiously: "Mr. Zhou, just tell me what you have. Did something happen recently? I am really curious because of what you said!"

"Hehe!" Zhou Ji said with a smile: "There is a reason for being so sure!"

"Everyone can think about it, how many sources of our Song gold now?"

(End of this chapter)