Chapter 1307 Want to reform? Need to kill people?
Just when Ye Mingsheng decided to wait and see what would happen in Cui Shao's trouble with Hu Ming, Ye Cheng came to Ye Mingsheng with two memorials and reported to him:

"Your Majesty, these two memorials were submitted by Youyan Governor Zhang Zhiwen and Jianghuai Governor Murong Yuliang!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly and took the memorial. Because Jiangnan is the best economic region in Daqian, Ye Mingsheng also attaches great importance to this area, so he was the first to open Murong Yuliang's memorial.

In this memorial, Murong Yuliang can be said to be singing a song of triumph, introducing to Ye Mingsheng some of the progress he made in the reorganization of the provincial governments and the provincial judicial offices in Jianghuai. In addition, Murong Yuliang also focused on the progress of the Wanfu and Tongxin banks. In a word, Murong Yuliang's memorial showed that the situation was very good!
Ye Mingsheng was very satisfied with Murong Yuliang's report. Just as he expected, Murong Yuliang played a very positive role in Jianghuai and made a good start for his term as the Governor of Jianghuai!
Although he was satisfied overall, Ye Mingsheng still had doubts about Murong Yuliang's arrangements on some individual issues!

For example, when it came to the selection of the chief manager of Wanfu Bank, Ye Mingsheng was puzzled by Murong Yuliang's appointment of Sun Wenheng, who was nearly 70 years old and had no experience in banknote management, as the chief manager of Wanfu Bank!
Especially at present, the Coordination Office reported to Ye Mingsheng that Sun Wenheng and Murong Yuliang had very close contacts and there might be a loss of interests. This is also the reason why Ye Mingsheng did not approve the personnel appointment of Wanfu Ticket Office...

According to Ye Mingsheng's idea, Wanfu Bank will become the largest business in Jiangnan with a turnover of over one million within a few years with the support of the governor and the court. Therefore, although the chief manager of Wanfu Bank is only a chief manager in name, it will actually be a crucial position!

As a leader, Ye Mingsheng naturally understood the principle of trusting people when employing them, so he did not want to doubt Murong Yuliang's motives and ideas in appointing Sun Wenheng. However, Ye Mingsheng really did not want to see Wanfu Bank become the next Dadongsheng Trading Company!

Recently, with the progress of the splitting of Dadongsheng Company, some of the dark sides of Dadongsheng Company have been completely revealed. Ye Mingsheng has also understood some of the situations more specifically and clearly, which makes Ye Mingsheng even more heartbroken.

He really couldn't understand how the Dadongsheng Trading Company, which he once had high hopes for, had become what it is today, a place where filth and corruption were rampant!

The lesson of the Dadongsheng Company was too painful, so Ye Mingsheng did not want to see the incident of the Dadongsheng Company happen again in the Wanfu Bank.

Therefore, Ye Mingsheng also ordered Wang Xuecheng to conduct a secret investigation on Murong Yuliang and Sun Wenheng to see if there was any transfer of interests between the two.
Before Wang Xuecheng made his investigation report, Ye Mingsheng didn't want to make a decision easily. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng put down the memorial sent by Murong Yuliang and picked up the memorial sent by Zhang Zhiwen.

Ye Mingsheng was not at all surprised that Zhang Zhiwen would report to him at this time. After all, Zheng Ping's incident had caused quite a stir within the court.

The candidate jointly recommended by Youyan Governor Zhang Zhiwen and Minister of Personnel Gu Sansi was actually reported by the Censorate. This is definitely the recent focus event in the Daqian court. Many people are paying attention to this matter. For this reason, Ye Mingsheng also asked Li Jian to investigate!

Although Li Jian's investigation is still ongoing, some details about the case have already been circulated. The Ministry of Justice has conducted a series of searches and investigations and has already obtained evidence of Zheng Ping's guilt. Even Zheng Ping himself confessed in the prison of the Ministry of Justice, so the case has basically been solved, and the impeachment of Zheng Ping by the Censorate is basically true!
As the news spread, many people were waiting to see Gu Sansi and Zhang Zhiwen make a fool of themselves. After all, Zheng Ping was recommended by these two big men to be a councilor of the provincial government. Now, he had just been recommended and the Censorate had successfully impeached him. It was no exaggeration to say that this had made Gu Sansi and Zhang Zhiwen lose face!
At the same time, according to the rules of the G field, Ye Mingsheng will inevitably hold Gu Sansi and Zhang Zhiwen jointly liable. For this reason, many people in the court are currently speculating on how Ye Mingsheng will punish Gu Sansi and Zhang Zhiwen. Except for a few people who believe that Ye Mingsheng will punish them severely.

Most people think that Ye Mingsheng will not punish the minister too severely. After all, the new dynasty has just been established and it is not appropriate to punish the minister severely when people need to be reassured...

Let's get back to Zhang Zhiwen. As one of the key figures in Zheng Ping's case, Zhang Zhiwen must have been very concerned about the Ministry of Justice's investigation into Zheng Ping, so he must have known the news leaked from the Ministry of Justice. Knowing that there was solid evidence in Zheng Ping's case, Zhang Zhiwen would most likely submit a memorial to plead guilty in exchange for Ye Mingsheng's leniency!
Facts have also proved that Ye Mingsheng was right. Zhang Zhiwen's memorial was indeed an apology to Ye Mingsheng. He said that in the Zheng Ping case, he failed to manage the Youyan Provincial Administration well, allowing the traitor Zheng Ping to emerge from the Youyan Provincial Administration. He was negligent in management and committed the crime of negligence.

Then Zhang Zhiwen stated in his memorial that he was the one who recommended Zheng Ping to the Ministry of Personnel and asked Gu Sansi to recommend Zheng Ping with him. In short, he, Zhang Zhiwen, was deeply guilty in the Zheng Ping incident and he had no words to say to His Majesty and ask Ye Mingsheng to punish him.

Seeing that Zhang Zhiwen still wanted to take the blame for Gu Sansi at this time, Ye Mingsheng was a little surprised. In fact, three days ago, before the news from the Ministry of Justice spread out, Gu Sansi had already come to meet Ye Mingsheng to apologize.

In the study, Gu Sansi told Ye Mingsheng in detail the whole story of Zheng Ping's incident, including how Zhang Zhiwen pestered him to recommend Zheng Ping. The core content of Gu Sansi's story was only one thing, that is, recommending Zheng Ping was his wish, and it was a helpless move that he could not wipe away his face under the strong recommendation of Zhang Zhiwen...

At that time, Ye Mingsheng listened to Gu Sansi's story and didn't say anything. He just asked Gu Sansi to go back to work as usual. He would wait for the report from the Ministry of Justice before making a decision.

After receiving Zhang Zhiwen's memorial today, Ye Mingsheng was basically certain that Gu Sansi had indeed been deceived by Zhang Zhiwen!
But even so, Ye Mingsheng was quite disappointed with Gu Sansi!

Even if you, Gu Sansi, really couldn't save your face and had no choice but to recommend Zheng Ping with Zhang Zhiwen, but as the Minister of Personnel, shouldn't you send someone to investigate Zheng Ping's character before recommending someone you are not familiar with?

Ye Mingsheng didn’t know whether Gu Sansi had investigated Zheng Ping before recommending him, but regardless of whether Gu Sansi investigated or not, his performance in this incident was undoubtedly unsatisfactory. After all, if you sent someone to investigate and failed to find out anything, that would be extremely incompetent!
In fact, it’s not just this Zheng Ping incident. Ye Mingsheng is not very satisfied with Gu Sansi’s work in recent times. He feels that since the Fengwu Army unified the world and Gu Sansi became the Minister of Personnel, Gu Sansi’s changes can be said to be very great!
The Gu Sansi who was enterprising, fearless and very active in work is gone, and in his place is Gu Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel. Compared with the past, the current Gu Shangshu seems to have become an old bureaucrat. He no longer has the drive he had back then, and he no longer has the positive attitude towards work and appears very lazy!
Especially when it comes to making decisions on some important issues, Gu Sansi seems to be restrained, afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind. He has a feeling of sleeping on his laurels, just hoping to be safe and not make mistakes··················

In fact, when Ye Mingsheng conferred the title of Duke of Rong on Cui Shao during the grand conferment of titles at the founding of the new dynasty some time ago, someone suggested to Ye Mingsheng that although Gu Sansi's contributions were not as good as Cui Shao's, he should also be conferred the title of Marquis!
Ye Mingsheng had actually given this suggestion serious consideration. Although Gu Sansi had never publicly expressed his desire for a title, Gu Sansi was promoted by Ye Mingsheng, so Ye Mingsheng knew Gu Sansi's thoughts very well. He knew that Gu Sansi wanted a title!

However, after careful consideration and deliberation, Ye Mingsheng ultimately did not confer the title of marquis on Gu Sansi in this grand reward, nor did he give Gu Sansi any title. He only rewarded Gu Sansi with some wealth and restored his position as Minister of Personnel!
In fact, speaking only of the contributions to Daqian, Ye Mingsheng agreed with those people's suggestions. Although Gu Sansi was not as good as Cui Shao, there was no problem in conferring him a title of marquis. Moreover, since an exception was made for Cui Shao, then an exception could be made for Gu Sansi as well. There was actually no problem with that.

But in the end, Ye Mingsheng still did not help Gu Sansi. It was not that Ye Mingsheng was blaming Gu Sansi, but that Ye Mingsheng was sending a signal that he was dissatisfied with Gu Sansi's recent work. Ye Mingsheng hoped that Gu Sansi could recognize his mistakes and become the enterprising Gu Sansi he once was, so as to assist him in completing the reform!
But unfortunately, the signal released by Ye Mingsheng may be too obscure, causing Gu Sansi to not fully understand Ye Mingsheng's intentions!
Gu Sansi, who did not get the title of nobility as he wished, still did not improve at work, and now such an incident as Zheng Ping happened. Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng became more and more disappointed in him, and even began to doubt whether his decision to appoint Gu Sansi as the Minister of Personnel was correct...

When Ye Mingsheng put his mind back on the memorial, he was somewhat surprised to find that after Zhang Zhiwen apologized to him and took the blame for Gu Sansi, there seemed to be a lot more content in the memorial. Seeing this, Ye Mingsheng continued to read on.

After just one or two glances, a strange look flashed across Ye Mingsheng's eyes.

The second half of Zhang Zhiwen's memorial was actually a request to Ye Mingsheng to allow him to conduct a two-month assessment of the Youyan Provincial Government and the major prefectures and county offices under its jurisdiction. After the assessment is completed two months later, he will remove the G-level officials who have failed the assessment, provide them with skills training, and guide them to find a job in other industries.

In addition, Zhang Zhiwen also plans to pilot measures such as minimum wage standards in some large cities in Youyan, such as Yuyang, to ensure the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

Thirdly, Zhang Zhiwen also planned to have the Youyan Provincial Government contribute 2,000 taels of silver to establish two vocational schools in Youyan, recruiting students to teach leather making, textile, and civil engineering. In addition, he also planned to have the Provincial Government contribute 3,000 taels of silver to provide free education for tens of thousands of children under the age of 15 in Youyan.

Seeing Zhang Zhiwen's series of actions, Ye Mingsheng was also very surprised. After all, Zhang Zhiwen had shown a tendency to be a fence-sitter in the previous reform process. At the beginning, he only laid off 30 people, and seemed to be waiting to see how the situation would develop...

The Left Censor-in-Chief Chu Zhiyi, who trusted this, even suggested a few days ago that he should kill Zhang Zhiwen to establish his authority!
Chu Zhiyi expressed in his report to Ye Mingsheng that he believed the reason why the reform was currently progressing slowly was that many tasks could not be implemented!
To a large extent, it was because Ye Mingsheng had been somewhat sentimental before and was reluctant to kill people. He always wanted to carry out reforms in a peaceful way as much as possible!
However, Chu Zhiyi believed that if every dynasty wanted to carry out reforms, it would inevitably affect the interests of many people. It was very normal that there would be great resistance to reforms. However, it was absolutely impossible to carry out reforms without killing people or shedding blood!

Therefore, Chu Zhiyi believes that if he wants to implement the reform, he must kill people!
Killing him would turn the world upside down!
Kill him and make him bleed like a river!
As long as enough people are killed, no one will dare to oppose the reform, and the resistance to reform will naturally disappear!
Therefore, Chu Zhiyi took advantage of Zheng Ping's incident and started with Youyan's governor Zhang Zhiwen. Zhang Zhiwen, you don't want to wait and see how things develop, so I will use you as an example to the monkeys and chop off your head, so that other governors and provincial judges can see what the consequences of waiting and watching will be!
When Ye Mingsheng heard Chu Zhiyi's suggestion in the study at that time, he was shocked. He knew that Chu Zhiyi was a very upright person who could not tolerate any sand in his eyes. This was also an important reason why Ye Mingsheng promoted him from the position of Yunbing Anchashi to the position of Zuodu Yushi.

But Ye Mingsheng really didn't expect that Chu Zhiyi was so murderous. Looking at Chu Zhiyi's determined look, Ye Mingsheng knew that Chu Zhiyi was not joking with him, he really thought so!
If Ye Mingsheng had not investigated Chu Zhiyi and knew that he had no personal grudge against Zhang Zhiwen, he might have suspected that Zhang Zhiwen had a grudge against him for killing his father and stealing his wife...
(End of this chapter)