strictlysupreme Chapter 225 Splitting South Zhili
Chapter 225 Splitting South Zhili
Chapter 225 Splitting South Zhili
"Why did Yan Gongzhi advocate restructuring?"
After hearing this, Gu Xiancheng asked in surprise.
"Hmph! Why do these cabinet ministers and ministers all have the same virtue, and they only know how to flatter Zhang Jiangling and help him arrogance?!"
Li Sancai finally lost his composure at this time, and said directly with an expression of displeasure.
Gu Xiancheng was the first to calm down, looked at Li Sancai, and said with a helpless smile: "Maybe you are right, maybe in the eyes of people at the level of ministers and ministers, friendship is not important, right or wrong is not important, only The pros and cons of their personal future and the fate of Ming Dynasty are important, and nothing else will be taken into consideration."
"The fate of Ming Dynasty?"
After hearing this, Li Sancai couldn't help asking, then shook his head and smiled wryly.
"It's a good one not to ask right or wrong, but everyone is just a hired worker!"
At this time, Li Zhi followed up, and said: "If Shen, Yan and others really think about Sheji, then I really don't understand. This property is not theirs. What are they worrying about? Do they really believe it?" Do you understand the principles of sages? But they are not such pedantic people."
Gu Xiancheng said: "I don't understand either. But no matter how you say it, these so-called ministers and ministers are all people without benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they are all hypocrites who only care about peace and the mean!"
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Indeed, after Yan Qing wrote the paper on the execution of Lu Huo and other traitors, he also wrote a paper asking the imperial court not to abolish the patrol team, but to change the patrol team into a patrol department and add a patrol shop.
Obviously, once Yan Qing decides to be active in reform like Zhang Juzheng and other civil servants, he will be very clear that not abolishing the patrol team is good for the Ming court to strengthen the management of Nanzhi. The imperial court was definitely not willing to abolish the patrol team, so it published this book in the name of strengthening the law and order in Nanzhi as the minister of the Ministry of punishment.
As the secretary of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Yan Qing is qualified to put forward his own reform opinions on the security of the whole country.
The emperor also had to pay attention to his opinions and not easily refute them.
Because if the emperor doesn't pay enough attention to the suggestions made by ministers at the ministerial level, how can it appear that the emperor is diligent enough to govern, trusts the minister enough, and accepts people's words well?
Even after a public minister really put forward a reform proposal, the emperor did not pay attention to it or refuted it, and many of them asked to resign.
For the ministers in Gongqing, if the emperor does not cooperate with their work, there is no need for them to shine for Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng did not reject Yan Qing's proposal, and even did not immediately approve when Hai Rui asked for the establishment of an inspection department. Let the imperial power go down to the places below Nanzhi County.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun also directly issued an order to set up inspection shops as official officials at the request of Hai Rui and Yan Qing. In order to follow the ninth rank, they should be controlled by the inspection department, and inspection shops should be set up in towns and towns with less than [-] households. In addition, some large towns and several small towns were merged into one county, and new counties were established.
In the south of the Yangtze River, the commodity economy developed, especially after Ming Zhengde, a large number of new towns appeared.
The resident population of many new towns has even reached [-] households, and they are even richer than many county capitals, such as Nanxun Town and Wangjiafan Town.
Most of these new towns did not appear close to the county capital, but in the three-way zone far away from the county capital, and they prospered only because of the developed commerce and trade.
Therefore, these places often do not have government management agencies.
But it is also a place where the population and new tax sources are concentrated, and it is also a place where thieves and profiteers are hidden.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun agreed to Hai Rui and Yan Qing's request to set up inspection departments and inspection shops in these places, and even re-establish counties if necessary to strengthen administrative management.
It can be said that because of this, it is not suitable for Daming to reduce the organization and reduce redundant staff in this era.
After all, the Ming Dynasty was originally a small court model. There were not many bureaucrats in the local area, and it was all subordinates and gentry who controlled the grassroots.
And if Nanxun, a large town with more than [-] families and hundreds of rich merchants, is only controlled by subordinate officials and squires, then the subordinate officials and squires here can almost control all the surrounding government offices. Then he completely became the emperor of the earth, and they had the final say on the life and death of the local people.
The court’s regular taxes, miscellaneous taxes and corvee can only be apportioned to the self-cultivated farmers near the county capital who are not controlled by these subordinate gentry. This will only cause more self-cultivated farmers to go bankrupt, more refugees will appear, and then more refugees will Flow into these new towns that are not under the control of the imperial court.
As a result, it seems that the economy of Ming Dynasty is getting more and more prosperous, but as a result, the whole country is getting weaker and weaker.
Through the investigation of Jin Yiwei and the report of Hai Rui and others in Nanzhi, Zhu Yijun also understood this point, so he decreed to carry out such reforms.
In addition, Zhu Yijun also used the results of the census, and the "Wanli Accounting Records" to compare the taxation of land in various divisions in the world, showing that there are many people in Nanzhi and a high tax rate, and the management of one governor is obviously not enough. It is required to divide Nanzhi into two provinces, Yingtian and Fengyang (now Anhui), and to add Yingtian and Fengyang's chief ministers, inspectors, commanders and Fuyan officials.
However, because Nanzhi was originally a land of Longxing and had a special political status, the title of Nanzhi was still retained, and the governor of Nanzhi was appointed, with officials from the two capitals serving as the governor, and the governors of Yingtian and Anhui provinces as military and administrative officials. Guarantee the long-term peace and stability of the rich land of this dynasty.
Hai Rui was reassigned as the governor of Nanzhi and in charge of the National Taxation Department. He will not return to Beijing for the time being. He is responsible for implementing the purpose and begins to split Nanzhi. .
Because Nanzhi now has many more officials, Zhu Yijun can only rest assured that Hai Rui will be responsible for the appointment and assessment of these new officials, so he has no plan to let Hai Rui return to Beijing in advance.
The implementation of the government-gentry integration of food and errands in Nanzhi was officially completed at the end of the ninth year of Wanli.
"According to the report of the National Taxation Department, the Ministry of Households has calculated that after the cancellation of the preferential exemption, Nanzhi will increase the tax and grain this year by a total of 87 stone grains, and the tax silver will increase by 9607 million taels of silver."
Zhang Xueyan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, also reported the achievements made after the implementation of the new policy of integrating officials and gentry to pay food and errands at the financial court meeting on Zhengshitang in the ninth year of Wanli.
After hearing this, Zhu Yijun nodded in satisfaction.
According to Qingzhang's results, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River had more than 2000 million acres of preferential land. It is not surprising that the preferential exemption was cancelled, and so much money and grain were increased.
Especially tax money.
Today's Jiangnan is no longer the food center of the world. Most of the gentry and big households have started to plant cash crops, so they can't get much food, but they can get a lot of money through reforms.
Many Jiangnan officials and gentry must have chosen to exchange grain with silver.
What's more, the commerce and trade in the south of the Yangtze River are developed, and the population of gentry families exempting Dingyin is large. If Dingyin is really to be collected, the increase will naturally be far greater than the increase in the amount of food.
At this time, Wang Guoguang, who was in charge of Duzhi, said: "Your Majesty, Governor Hai Rui has reported to ask for the exemption of Dingyin for the self-cultivated farmers with less than 65 acres of Nanzhitian. It is strange that I need to avoid [-] taels. Now I am making a special report." Your Majesty knows, please give your majesty an order."
"Exemption granted!"
"Let Hai Rui order the various departments to refund the 65 taels."
Zhu Yijun nodded and ordered.
Although the exemption of 65 taels of Dingyin is only about a fraction of the newly added Dingyin of Nanzhi's annual income, and it is only a few taels or even a few taels of silver to share the burden of each household, but Zhu Yijun is very clear. For ordinary people, this has played a great role, and the value of domestic demand and employment has been greatly stimulated.
For example, if the five liang of silver is also free, if the five liang of silver is free to the gentry, he will use the five liang of silver to buy luxury handicrafts or reward musicians and actors, and this will not drive many ordinary craftsmen to rely on it. Revenue only allows individual skilled craftsmen and art workers to be paid, and then only promotes the emergence of exquisite handicrafts and high-end artworks, but does not promote the emergence of large-scale industrial production;
If it is ordinary people, when they get five taels of silver, ordinary people will increase their daily needs, renovate houses, or buy various agricultural tools in order to improve the living environment and improve farming ability, and also let a large number of ordinary craftsmen and ordinary workshops With increased income, ordinary workshops will find ways to increase productivity in order to make small profits but sell more, and promote the emergence of industrial products produced on a large scale, which in turn promotes the emergence of industrialization.
Even if you are a literary and art worker, because the five liang of silver is preferentially paid to the common people, and in order to obtain more income, your works will be more willing to please the common people, reflect the lives of the common people, and thus be more conducive to enlightening the wisdom of the common people. Instead of being a gentleman's tongue.
(End of this chapter)