Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1023 Separation ([-])

At this point, the emperor finally saw the whole picture of this reform clearly.

Originally, the Salt Gai wanted to make a small Huaihai, but after Liu Yu entered the venue, he continued to make a fuss all the way to Sichuan. I didn't expect to understand how big the original Xiaohuaihai was.

Dashun's reform this time, starting from the abandoned canal, has settled down in the general direction, but many of the small details have been pushed away.

For example, at the beginning, after the canal was abandoned, the changes in the share of Shanxi salt, Changlu salt, Shandong salt, and Huaibei salt in the Henan salt area were not considered.

After the change, something happened, so I hurriedly patched it.

This is especially true for the reform of the salt administration. Liu Yu, who didn't enter the arena at the beginning, was busy making patches everywhere after entering the arena, working as a tinkerer.

In Liu Yu's words, the previous government-central government's reform plan for the salt administration simply changed votes, which was purely brainless, and it was obviously intended to be used for the last 20 years.

There are so many loopholes in it that Liu Yu suspects that the sprouts of Dashun are used to being trash by the hard-working common people, but if it is not so trash, this broken reform plan will not last for 20 years, but it will have to be proposed in five years The minister who reformed the salt administration committed suicide and apologized.

It doesn't even count as a doctor for a headache. It's purely a fucking headache. Two puffs of opium cigarettes not only relieve the pain, but also make you feel at ease for a while, but pain relief is not a cure.

The Dashun bureaucrats are really not stupid, but because Dashun's economic foundation is here, they can only manage the affairs of the landlords and farmers, but they don't really understand it.

Once capital is involved, I am completely confused, I don't know what to do, I can only make decisions with my head.

The emperor is very sure of one thing, that is, Liu Yu didn't want to enter the salt government reform before, and didn't want to get involved at all.

It’s just that the ducks were rushed to the shelves later, and more and more patches were applied, and finally the final plan of today’s “five-year restoration of Huaihe River” was conceived.

Just as Dashun's navy and military reforms were the foundation laid by the Wude Palace Sanshe Fa new learning established at the founding of the country, and it has been accumulated and developed a hundred years later.

The final plan of the salt reform this time is also the foundation laid by the navy, navigation, land reclamation, capital, etc. in the previous 20 years, and it has been accumulated 20 years later.

If this was done 20 years ago, Dashun could directly corrupt Huaihe River.

But doing it like this now, after careful reading, the emperor felt that it was a matter of course.

In fact, the emperor only cared about two things about Lianghuai Salt Industry.

Can the money be collected?

Will there be a civil uprising?

According to Liu Yu's analysis, there should be no problem with the civil uprising.

Here, the people at the bottom of the salt industry are directly divided and ruled. The salt workers will definitely oppose it, and the salt households will definitely not oppose it.

It is not a big problem for [-] to [-] salt workers to revolt because of unemployment, kill thousands of people, and recruit a group of them into the army.

As long as the salt workers and salt households do not unite, but split them up, the emperor is not worried.

The salt workers lost their jobs, but the salt farmers directly converted the pastures into shares, so how could they be united?

As for collecting taxes... definitely no problem.

Before going to bed, the emperor took up a pen and wiped out Liu Yu's last sentence of "five years as a minister", drew a circle, and criticized: "Unlucky, read more and don't use it indiscriminately".

Then he fell asleep peacefully.

On the second day of the court meeting, before entering the palace, the ministers had already exploded.

Liu Yu killed more than 800 squires in northern Jiangsu, and basically wiped out the squires in the two counties of Huaian.

Although it is true that those squires embezzled He Gong's money, but the attack was too ruthless, right?
It has only been two months since the Yuan change, and a series of things have happened, who in the court can bear it?
A few days ago, I had already said that I would stop discussing the reform of the salt administration, but in the end, someone jumped out and asked for the reform of the salt administration.

Then the emperor "went into a rage" and said that he said no more, don't reconsider it?In the end, after being angry for less than 10 minutes, I was "persuaded" and felt that it made sense, so I still need to change it.

Then he shamelessly compared the story of Wei Zheng and Tang Taizong, saying that this is not a replica of the story of Zheng Guogong persuading Tang Taizong?
In view of the fact that Liu Yu, the Duke of Xingguo, did a good job in supervising the restoration of the Huaihe River to the sea, it was completed on schedule, and there was no civil uprising.I inspected the salt industry in Huaibei before, and if I learned something, let Xing Guogong go to Haizhou to supervise the salt reform in Huaibei.

What happened a few days ago has already turned upside down, and it turned out that this happened again today.

Before they could enter the palace here, the servants ran out again and distributed a copy of "The Record of Evil Gentlemen in Huai'an" to each of the ministers who were preparing for the court meeting.

The ministers only took a few glances, and they all smiled helplessly, thinking that today's court meeting will be very lively.

As soon as the palace gates opened and entered the palace one by one, the emperor first performed a show of anger that could be tolerated or unbearable.

Throwing the book "Records of Evil Gentlemen in Huai'an" far away, I cursed for about 10 minutes.

However, as the saying goes, the strong wind knows the strong grass, and the toughness knows the honest minister.

Even though the emperor was so furious, Dashun still had loyal people.

Those who got to the top all pretended to be confused with understanding.But among the speakers, there are those who dare to speak out.

Against the emperor's wrath, the official spoke bluntly and directly told the allusion of Zheng Boke's Duan Yuyan.

"...Mr. Zhuang indulged his desires and let them go, nourished his evils and made them come true. His heart is sinister and not the right way."

"The strength of the armored soldiers and the richness of the soldiers are the bait of Zhuang Gong; the city of a hundred pheasants, the land of two despicables, are also the traps of Zhuang Gong."

"Uncle Duan is stubborn, fish ears, beast ears, how can anyone see the bait without swallowing it, or jump through the trap without throwing it?"

"Guide it with rebellion and remonstrate with rebellion."

"Teach them to rebel and retaliate against them."

"Duke Zhuang's intentions are dangerous!"

"If his heart is not right, there will be a battle of Suige, and the subordinates will commit crimes above, and they will be on the shoulders of the Son of Heaven!"

"Youzi said: He is a man who is filial to his younger brother, and those who like to offend his superiors are rare; those who are not easy to offend his superiors, but like to cause chaos, are rare."

"Filial piety, crimes against superiors, and rebellion are progressive. As the saying goes, three years old is old. The king of Xingguo is not righteous. He guides them to rebel and remonstrates them. He teaches them to rebel and rebukes them."

"The squires are guilty. Whether they should be killed or not is one thing. But Xingguogong uses this method. If it is not dealt with, it will disrupt the morality of the world."

"Since Duke Xingguo can do this, wouldn't it be true for those cruel officials who want to make achievements?"

"Uncle Duanzhi is stubborn, he is a fish and a beast. However, Mr. Zhuang knows he is, but he still casts bait and traps. Isn't this the root cause of the following crimes and shooting the Emperor Zhou?"

"Mr. Xingguo clearly knew that those squires were fish and beasts, but he still cast bait and traps. How is this different from what Mr. Zhuang did?"

"This matter should be cleared up and upright. Since there is a crime, it should be judged, educated, and moralized. The court can solve it uprightly. Such a sinister conspiracy, I think, is not advisable."

The emperor was not angry at all, and based on the three views at this time, everything he said was indeed reasonable.

That's what the speaker does anyway.

The emperor can't help it either.

To say that Nanyang Shengfan doesn't know etiquette, and letting these people go there to spread enlightenment is to set off anger.

At that time, no one dares to speak, and it is not good.

This is not to say that the emperor was worried that there would be no one to persuade him, but that the words of officials were necessary embellishments in Dashun, just like setting off fireworks and posting couplets during the Chinese New Year.

Originally, Deguo was "not very righteous" because of the lack of grain in the early stage. Because of the anger, by shaving his hair and putting it on the table, Yan Shenggong was reduced to a priest, and it was obviously distrusted by gentry officials. My good family, it wouldn't look good without some embellishments.

In the original history, the enemy Ito Hirobumi once commented on the Yanguan: [Some people worry that "China will be strong in three years", this matter should not be considered. If there is a change, the officials will take part in it.Although at this time, both the navy and the army seem to be rectified, in my opinion, it is all empty talk.Yuanxian seems to be working hard after the legal affairs have just been decided, but after one or two years, he will go on his own way, just as Westerners describe China as "sleeping".If I fight with him at this time, it is to urge him to be faster and stronger.Gentlemen, don't look at China's battle with Russia, where it began to set up power lines, and with the war against France, it began to set up a navy; if it is quiet for a year or two.Officials must participate in more changes, and those who seek the country dare not hold them. 】

Dashun's side didn't pay much attention to speech officials because they thought it could influence "country seekers", and it basically had nothing to do with the lessons learned from the previous dynasty.

But it was purely at the beginning of the founding of the country that Emperor Taizong analyzed the significance of the existence of speech officials, and rationally came to the conclusion of "embellishing you", so he didn't pay much attention to it.

The censor and the like were originally used by the imperial power to curb the power of the prime minister and civil officials, but the previous dynasty had no prime minister, and Dashun was about to become the Secretariat, so the greatest significance of the censor as the imperial power to curb the power of the prime minister is not exists?
The rest of the supervisory officials... ultimately have to rely on the imperial power and the bureaucratic system to speak, to protect or not to protect, to let go or not to let go, to control or not to care, the imperial power is in the Tianyou Temple and the six governments.

Advising the doctor is theoretically admonishing the emperor.But the problem is that the imperial power is unlimited, and it is impossible to "change the emperor according to the law" by advising the doctor. The essence is to rely on the emperor's power to restrict the emperor... Isn't this power just purely funny?

Dashun's prime minister is actually a group of secretaries in the name of the huge Pingzhang Army and state affairs, and there is a good family official system to fight in the ring.

The duty of an admonishing doctor is higher in theory, but the emperor is really Shang Zhou and Xia Jie, so how can an advising doctor directly initiate the imperial court to dismiss him?

As long as the emperor is the emperor and the prime minister concurrently, the removal and impeachment of the prime minister is essentially the removal of the emperor.

Originally, it was an official position that restricted the prime minister, and it was decorated like fireworks and couplets during the Chinese New Year.

The embellishment is to make Emperor Dashun pretend to be a Confucian emperor and meet the expectations of scholar-bureaucrats.

It is true that the attitude of the rulers of the three generations cannot be learned, but they cannot learn the knowledge and mind of Confucius, and they cannot learn what clothes Confucius wore when eating and shitting?
Singing praises is embellishment.

Advising the emperor is also embellishment.The embellishment is "I am magnanimous enough to tolerate them, and I am a truly benevolent king."

This is curve embellishment, a bit more advanced.

Dashun did not directly restore Li Tang's system, and directly cut the number of speech officials to one-fifth of the previous dynasty, but very disgustingly raised the rank of some speech officials by one and a half levels.

It seems to be more important, but in fact, the level is stuck in a position that cannot be determined by the six governments themselves.In the past, officials could be elected directly through the process, but now the level has been raised, which is quite different.

And many of them were raised from the local second assistant officials, purely mixed with sand in the court.But why do people from the big powers and factions in the DPRK and China become the daughter-in-law of the second assistant official and deputy?

As long as the imperial power is unlimited, it's just a decoration.Emperor Dashun knew this very well.

Since it is an embellishment, it can only be an embellishment.Listening to the left ear and snorting to the right ear, it is even more impossible to really argue about anything.

The emperor neither approved nor objected to this remark, but changed the topic skillfully.

Turning from the real to the virtual, we turned practical issues into theoretical issues, and discussed the difference between "conspiracy" and "Yangmou".

Of course, Liu Yu wasn't the one talking about it, but Zheng Zhuanggong was talking about it. If Uncle Duan was a good person, would Zheng Zhuanggong's methods still work?If it is a method that cannot be used by a good person, is this called a conspiracy?

The ministers who were pretending to be stupid also opened up their conversation boxes at this time. After unanimous discussion, they decided that although this matter was not wrong, it was indeed bad.

Because everyone is not a good bird, if you really want to play like this, you will break the rules.

Furthermore, you, the emperor, had better have some approval in your mind. The gentry is the foundation of the grassroots rule. If you overturn the table, can you open another table yourself?

Why, you have 100 million land reform teams and 40 grassroots cadres with strong organizational skills?
If not, almost got it.

Not to mention that the power goes down to the village level, even to the town level, you go back and count the money in the warehouse, is it enough to support the staff?Don't you know how much money you get a year?Redundancy, do you deserve Dashun?
After the cryptic and full exchange of opinions, the emperor also expressed his position, saying "this is not an example."

At the same time, it also implicitly stated that the scope of the reform and new deal is limited to Jiangsu.

He also said that Liu Yu killed too much, and he can't let this guy take care of local affairs in the future. He won't be an imperial envoy for inspections, and he won't let him control the industry and commerce, the Academy of Sciences, or when the war of annihilation is really fought. use him.

As for the decision made a few days ago to let Liu Yu take care of the reform of the salt industry, the promise must be fulfilled.

Fuck it, replace it.

However, since he has gone, he has to be there to see the scene.

But leave the matter alone, you are not qualified to deal with it, and you are not qualified to investigate it.

The matter of the salt government system is based on today, and the past is not to blame.

The ministers received the guarantee that "reforms have boundaries", and they were very savvy when they saw the emperor's behavior.

Ministers can't argue with the reform of the salt administration.Because it’s useless to bullshit, you can only bet that the reform will inevitably cost less money than before no reform, and the official salt sales will be worse. Let’s wait and see if you don’t believe me.But if it's okay to talk about the truth, the minister won't foolishly play a money-related bet with Liu Yu's meddling.

The emperor has decided on this matter, so there is no dispute.

Fortunately, the emperor's reputation is basically good. He said before that he would not take people from the new learning system as officials, and he did keep his promise, and he did not cut the cake that he had in the past.

Moreover, after ambiguously expressing the boundaries of the reform, as a transaction, several new counties in Jinghai, northeast, and southwest were also taken out, and a new province was established north of the Jilin shipyard, which was brought into the jurisdiction of the six governments and no longer the imperial power. Extended special appointment mechanism, but follow the formal process.

In addition, since this matter is a moral issue, moral education needs to be strengthened, so more Confucian temples should be built.

Although the rule of reforming Yuan Weixin and Mu Zhenguan could not directly elevate the master to the status of "teacher and saint" as in the second year of Zhenguan, but more Confucian temples were built in various places to prove that the dynasty still governed the country with Confucianism.

Let the gentry all over the world not be chilled, and don't think that this dynasty actually wants to reuse those who do not learn orthodox knowledge.

As a result, the shipbuilding appropriations for one battleship, three cruisers, and four frigates were reduced in name, and the reconstruction of the Dagu Fortress Group was postponed. Vibration education.

The next time the Son of Heaven inspects the Huaihe River and southern Jiangsu, he wants to "know Konglin", and by the way, he will remove the humiliating plaque that reads "Wei Guan Zhong Wuqi was sent to the left".

It can also be regarded as the heart of the gentry in the world.

Seeing the emperor's attitude, the ministers denounced the squires for their moral corruption and abuse of the people. Those who didn't know thought that the slain squires were killed because of their moral corruption rather than withholding river labor funds.

Soon, the court reached an agreement: publish the "Huai'an Evil Gentlemen Records" and distribute it to the world, so as to imitate others, and also make the gentry feel ashamed and respect morality, showing that the court governs the country by virtue and etiquette rather than punishment.

(End of this chapter)