Chapter 1358 Ye Mingsheng’s experience!

Yijing Palace Imperial Study

Ye Mingsheng was writing furiously. Daqian was a vast territory with things happening all the time. Some of these things were good, but some were bad. For example, there was a flood here today, a drought somewhere tomorrow, and a locust plague somewhere the day after tomorrow.

Although Ye Mingsheng had consciously delegated some power to the cabinet and handed it over to Cui Shao, Gu Sansi and others in order to reduce his own burden, his desk was still full of memorials waiting for him to deal with.

Today is July 11th, and June and July are the rainy seasons in the south. If there is too much rain, it will cause flood disasters. Many places in the south have been severely affected. What Ye Mingsheng is dealing with now is the flood report sent by Dai Ping, Deputy Governor of Jingchu, and Bai Changjiu, Governor of Anqing!
In this flood, Anqing suffered a very serious impact, nearly one million people were affected, and the people could not continue their normal production and life. Bai Changjiu, the governor, believed that the current flood in Anqing was beyond the capacity of the Anqing Provincial Government, so he wrote this memorial to Ye Mingsheng, requesting the court to provide assistance!
As for Jingchu, although the damage was not as great as Anqing, it was also deeply affected. Dai Ping also wrote a letter to the court requesting assistance!
In response to the two people's request for help, Ye Mingsheng immediately agreed and asked the Ministry of Revenue to take out emergency silver, and asked the surrounding areas to take out some relief supplies to help Jingchu Anqing...

Although the finances of the Yijing court have always been tight, because of some previous lessons, Ye Mingsheng also asked Cui Shao to set aside a sum of money for emergencies. This sum of money is about 100,000 to 150,000 taels of silver, and it will not be used in non-emergency situations, and will only be used for emergencies when a crisis occurs!
In fact, there were some other opinions within the court about Ye Mingsheng's use of the silver as emergency money. Some people believed that 150,000 taels of silver was not a small amount of money, and that if the silver was kept in the treasury, it would not produce any results. It would be better to use the silver to do something more meaningful.

However, among these other ideas and suggestions, Ye Mingsheng's attitude was very firm. He must keep the 150,000 taels of silver as emergency funds.

Because of some things that happened before, Ye Mingsheng was really scared. He didn't want to experience the dilemma of having an emergency again and not being able to pay for it, so he could only temporarily collect the money.

Now the disasters in Anqing and Jingchu have obviously reached the standard for activating this emergency fund. Ye Mingsheng adopted Cui Shao's suggestion and used two-thirds of the 150,000 taels of silver for the emergency fund, which is 100,000 taels of silver.

Of the 100,000 taels of silver, 65,000 taels will be transferred to Anqing, and the remaining 35,000 taels will be given to Jingchu.

With this emergency money as a backstop, and with the help from some surrounding places, Ye Mingsheng believed that Dai Ping and Bai Changjiu would be able to handle this emergency well...
Ye Mingsheng had just signed and stamped the memorial when Ye Cheng, the director of the Imperial Guards Department, walked into the room and handed a memorial to Ye Mingsheng, saying:
"Your Majesty, this is the interim report on solving the problem of redundant staff that Minister Gu just sent over!"

As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted Ye Mingsheng's attention. Ye Mingsheng took the report and instructed:
"Take this instruction on the desk and give it to the Ministry of Revenue immediately. Ask them to start the rescue operation immediately!"

"Yes!"

As Ye Cheng turned and left, Ye Mingsheng also opened the report on solving the problem of redundant staff!

The problem of redundancy has always been a major concern for Ye Mingsheng. The Daqian founded by Ye Mingsheng was derived from the GL system of the Dazhou. Although Ye Mingsheng has made some changes, the Daqian GL organization is still very large, bloated and inefficient.

What Ye Mingsheng could not stand the most was this bloated and huge organizational structure, which was constantly eroding Daqian's fragile financial system and placing a heavy burden on Daqian's financial system.
According to some incomplete statistics, including the military, for every 53 civilians in Daqian, there is one person who eats a government job!
Because of this, Ye Mingsheng also identified solving the problem of redundant staff as an important part of his deepening reform!
Ye Mingsheng has been working on solving this problem for some time. Judging from the data reported from various places, the progress is not very fast.

Although Ye Mingsheng knew that the progress was a bit slow, he still asked Gu Sansi to collect the data and summarize it. He wanted to see what the overall situation was.

According to statistics made by Gu Sansi and the Ministry of Personnel, there are about 70,000 officials in Daqian, and the number of people who work for the government offices, such as runners from all over the country, is at least 300,000...
So far in the past few months, Daqian has laid off a total of about 6,000 people, of which about 700 were G members and the remaining 5,300 were servants.

After laying off these 6,000 people, Daqian reduced its fiscal expenditure by at least 100,000 taels of silver per year. The most critical thing was that the efficiency of the government office did not decrease as a result. Instead, the layoffs made some pampered gentlemen feel a sense of crisis. They were afraid of being laid off, so they worked hard and dared not take it easy like before.

Looking at the data given by Gu Sansi, Ye Mingsheng thought it was a little untrue at first, but after careful calculation, Ye Mingsheng found that Gu Sansi was not wrong. Although the number of layoffs reported by various places was not large, but when they were added together, it seemed like a lot!

After realizing this, Ye Mingsheng felt somewhat comforted. Although the progress was a bit slow, at least some results have been achieved!
In Ye Mingsheng's plan, 50,000 Daqian G members and 250,000 servants can support the normal operation of the Daqian GL system, and this is also a number that the court's finances can afford. This means that on the current basis, Ye Mingsheng needs to lay off nearly 70,000 people!

As long as these 70,000 people are laid off, Daqian's finances will conservatively be able to free up at least 500,000 taels of silver in fiscal space each year!

Although there is still a long way to go from 6,000 to 70,000, Ye Mingsheng believes that as long as he has firm confidence and persists in solving problems, these 6,000 people will only be a beginning, and the day of completely solving the problem of redundancy will not be far away...

After reading Gu Sansi's report, Ye Mingsheng made the final decision on relaxing the ticket number review!

Although this decision has some risks and may be exploited by some people with ulterior motives, in view of the current reality, Ye Mingsheng has decided to relax the review and allow Jingchu, Anqing and Guanzhong to have a bank that can absorb private savings.

These ticket houses absorb private savings, which will be directly used to solve some local livelihood problems. In order to prevent people from embezzling money, these ticket houses will be directly supervised by the Ministry of Revenue. Every other year, the Ministry of Revenue will send someone to audit the operation of the ticket houses. Three hours later, Ye Mingsheng dragged his tired body back to An Miaoyi's courtyard. Seeing Ye Mingsheng's appearance, An Miaoyi seemed very happy and smiled more. After the family of three had dinner, Ye Mingsheng also cared about Jingren's study.

Ye Mingsheng never had too high expectations for Jingren's studies. He had already accepted that Jingren was just an ordinary person in terms of study and study, and was not that talented. An Miaoyi might find this difficult to accept, but Ye Mingsheng felt that it was no big deal!
Ye Mingsheng believes that being an emperor is actually secondary to whether you are good at studying! After all, there are so many scholars who are well-versed in classics to assist you, so it doesn't matter if you are a little bit behind in studying!

Ye Mingsheng has two personal experiences in the position of emperor!
The first point is that the emperor must have enough virtue! At least not too bad!
The world is not black and white. As an emperor, you sometimes need to be confused and not be so serious. But in general, you need to know good and evil, right and wrong, what should be done and what should not be done.

You may not need to be so great and glorious, but you still need to have a conscience!

The second point is to control your own desires!
Although the emperor calls himself the Son of Heaven, he is ultimately a human being, not a god. He is not omniscient and omnipotent. But humans have desires. If you are an ordinary person, even if you have desires, you can only think about it at most, and it will not cause any harm to others.

But the emperor holds the power of life and death. Every decision you make will affect the lives of many people and even their lives and deaths!
Therefore, as an emperor, you must learn to restrain your desires and not be dominated by them. Otherwise, in order to satisfy your own selfish desires, many people will suffer, and ultimately the suffering will fall on you, and you will suffer the consequences.

As the Crown Prince, Jingren is undoubtedly kind and treats people very peacefully, without the arrogance of a Crown Prince. The only thing Ye Mingsheng is worried about is that Jingren is more playful and cannot control his desires well.

For this reason, Ye Mingsheng also wanted to intervene in Jingren's growth and cultivate Jingren's ability to restrain his own desires. However, due to his busy official duties, Ye Mingsheng has not found a good opportunity, so he can only entrust the burden of educating Jingren to An Miaoyi and Gu Sansi.

At least for now, An Miaoyi and Gu Sansi’s education has not caused any problems for Jingren, and this is also a point that makes Ye Mingsheng feel more at ease···············

After caring about Jingren, Ye Mingsheng also began to care about An Miaoyi. Due to his busy official duties during this period, Ye Mingsheng did not have much time to visit An Miaoyi, and even when he came, it was just to rest. Although An Miaoyi did not say it, there was still some resentment in her expression. As a woman, she also needs nourishment and companionship.

After a period of Wushan love, Ye Mingsheng was enjoying the peace afterwards, while An Miaoyi, whose face was a little red, hesitated for a moment and said to Ye Mingsheng:
"Husband, I have something to apologize to you for!"

"What's going on?"

"It's about my brother An Tianyu. He had some trouble with an actor from Pan's Theater some time ago!"

Ye Mingsheng smiled and said:
"Miaoyi, you are so serious, I thought it was something else. It turns out you are talking about Tian Yu's matter. I have also heard about this matter. A gentleman loves a beautiful lady. It's no big deal!"

Hearing Ye Mingsheng say this, An Miaoyi was somewhat moved. She knew that Ye Mingsheng attached great importance to rectifying the extravagant lifestyle in Yijing, and for this reason he had specially taken time out to practice weeding and fertilizing in order to set an example himself and curb this extravagant lifestyle.

Originally, thanks to Ye Mingsheng's efforts, this extravagant trend was under control. However, the revelation of the Yasuda Yu incident has undoubtedly caused a considerable negative impact on Ye Mingsheng's actions and weakened the effect of Ye Mingsheng's efforts.

It was precisely because of this worry that An Miaoyi asked her men to handle the matter privately. However, she never expected that as soon as she sent her men to deal with it, the prefect of Yijing, by chance, caught the gangster who robbed An Tianyu. This caused the matter to spread like wildfire, and some ordinary people watched with amusement...

Therefore, while An Miaoyi was angry, she was also worried that Ye Mingsheng would blame An Tianyu after learning about the situation. So An Miaoyi had been hesitating these days whether to take the initiative to tell Ye Mingsheng about this matter. Seeing that Ye Mingsheng seemed to be in a good mood today, An Miaoyi made up her mind to take the initiative to mention this matter to Ye Mingsheng, hoping to mitigate the mistake by taking the initiative to admit her mistake.

Originally, An Miaoyi thought that Ye Mingsheng did not know about this matter and therefore did not punish An Tianyu, but now after listening to Ye Mingsheng's words, An Miaoyi realized that she was wrong.

Seeing An Miaoyi's somewhat moved expression, Ye Mingsheng also took his queen into his arms and said:
"I know he didn't mean it. He has always been law-abiding and is a rare honest man. As his brother-in-law, I should be more tolerant and caring towards him!"

"Besides, there are many young masters in Yijing who spend a lot of money on those actors. Take our Ye family for example, there are several people who are so unrestrained. I didn't punish them, so how can I have the heart to punish Tian Yu!"

"Tell Tian Yu not to feel any psychological pressure, just relax and be careful in the future!"

“And the most important thing is, it’s not just a saying that bitches are ruthless and actors are disloyal. Miaoyi, you can arrange some innocent girls for him, so that Tian Yu won’t have too much involvement with those questionable people…”

(I have read some readers' opinions. They think that I wrote the protagonist a little aggrieved and not refreshing enough. The reason why I designed it this way is actually because of my own considerations. I also drew lessons from some problems encountered during the Yongzheng Reform. I think that reforms like this that touch the interests of others are bound to encounter setbacks and the process must be tortuous. So based on this, I made the current design!)