Looking at the big black pot thrown at him, Fan Jingwen knew that he couldn't throw it back, so he could only bite the bullet and explain: "Everyone, what I mean is..."
"What is it?" the ministers asked.
Fan Jingwen swallowed his saliva and said cautiously: "What I mean is... we need to find a way to solve the problems of the four provinces in the south of the Yangtze River instead of just letting it go!"
Fang Yuegong's expression suddenly turned ugly. He stared at Fan Jingwen and asked, "Master Fan, you..."
Fan Jingwen was silent for a moment.
He highly recognized Fang Yuegong's work and character.
If there had been no Liaodong incident, he would have supported Fang Yuegong without hesitation.
But there are no ifs.
He was already in his sixties, and his lifelong wish was to recover Liaodong during his tenure.
We can't delay any further.
However, the currency reform progressed slowly in the four provinces of Jiangnan. If the problems in the four provinces of Jiangnan were not solved, the court would not be able to concentrate on recovering Liaodong.
So...Fang Yuegong's time strategy must be denied.
These were all Fan Jingwen's inner thoughts. He couldn't say them directly, so he could only say to Fang Yuegong in a veiled way: "Yuegong, you are still young and can wait! I am old and time waits for no one!"
Fang Yuegong didn't listen at all.
He and Fan Jingwen had some conflicts to begin with, and when he saw the other party making trouble at this time, he suddenly became annoyed.
"Lord Fan, colleagues!" Fang Yuegong straightened his back, clasped his hands and said, "Currency reform is a national policy! I and the Ministry of Revenue are just following the will, but now the will is blocked in Jiangnan. There is the cabinet above and local officials below. Why put the blame on the Ministry of Revenue and me?"
"Besides, the Ministry of Revenue has already come up with a corresponding countermeasure, it just takes time to verify it!"
Zeng Yinglin, the official in the Ministry of Personnel, was about to refute again, but Fan Jingwen said first: "Yue Gong, you are wrong!"
"What's wrong with that?" Fang Yuegong was very dissatisfied.
“I ask you, what is policy?”
"A policy for governance!"
"Wrong! The policy is to turn the orders from above into countermeasures and pass them down! It's not just a simple transmission from top to bottom. Otherwise, what use is there for His Majesty to have you and me?"
"There are plenty of countermeasures, but they don't conform to the moderate tone set at the time. We can't change the tone, right?" Fang Yuegong asked.
"The tone cannot be changed! Jiangnan is a major tax-collecting area, and currency reform must not be implemented with tough measures! But that doesn't mean there are no other ways!" Fan Jingwen said.
"What method? I'm all ears!" Fang Yuegong responded sharply.
"Haha." Fan Jingwen smiled, "No hurry! Let's finish the impeachment first and then talk about countermeasures!"
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