Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 165 Reform Reform, or Reform!
Everyone thought that the empty seal case would last for a long time, but under the investigation and auspices of His Royal Highness King Liao, it took only a month or so before it was completely resolved.

And those Jinyi guards who knew the process of investigating the Kongyin case also admired His Royal Highness King Liao.

They have never thought about taking the ledgers of prefectures and counties from all over the country, recalculating them all, and then comparing them with the central ledgers one by one to check for any omissions.

As a result, His Royal Highness King Liao actually took all the account books of the prefectures and counties of the whole country, and then calculated them from beginning to end. What kind of thing can only be done by a god?
When a Jin Yiwei told the story to the outside world, the bystanders still couldn't believe it, and some even said:
"How did I hear that it was the students of the Imperial College who finished the accounts?"

As soon as this person said, Jin Yiwei was not happy on the spot, and immediately refuted him with his waist knife:

"What's your name, do you know whose students those Gu Zixuan's students are?
Those are all students of His Royal Highness Liao Wang, and they all learned mathematics from His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

If you don't believe me, go to the Imperial College and ask, who doesn't know about this! "

Jin Yiwei has already said this, so who dares to refute?

Just looking at the waist knife on Jin Yiwei's waist, everyone dared not speak.

And in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere in the officialdom is also clear.

First of all, those officials who were saved because of His Highness King Liao, most of these officials were clean and honest officials, and did not follow other officials because of corruption due to empty seals.

Although they can also write blank documents, the monthly silver taels handed over to them are in full, and these are all recorded.

And another large group of officials are corrupt officials who take advantage of the opportunity of blank documents to embezzle corruption.

Naturally, these officials are not polite, and all of them have been dealt with.

Except for two or three thousand corrupt officials who were sentenced to death, the remaining four or five thousand corrupt officials who were not enough to die were all imprisoned and prepared to be sentenced to exile.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also in a happy mood because he had collected a large amount of stolen money, and he even leniently did not kill all the four or five thousand corrupt officials.

The process of sentencing can be said to be severe, fast and strict, without any delay.

And those officials who were sentenced, of course, have evidence of guilt. Aren't those calculated accounts their evidence of guilt?
Even if the officials wanted to intercede for them, when those officials saw the account book calculated by His Highness King Liao, none of them dared to speak.

Most of them are unwilling to speak. Friends who thought they were clean and honest turned out to be such corrupt officials.

Everyone wished to go back in time and space, to see their faces clearly as soon as possible, and to separate their relationship.

Corrupt officials have been dealt with, and the remaining officials are naturally some decent and honest officials.

Even if there are some trembling fish that slip through the net, I believe it will be enough to deter them.

But then there is a very interesting problem, that is, the number of officials is seriously insufficient.

Even if all the spare officials in the storage cabinets are arranged on the official side, there is no way to fill the vacant official positions.

Although [-]% to [-]% of the officials of the six ministries were not killed at once as in history, there are still some at the third and fourth levels.

Not to mention that local officials were dealt with, that's more.

However, these Zhu Qis seem to be a great opportunity for reform.

According to the current bureaucratic organization of the feudal dynasty, in Zhu Qi's eyes, it is really too bloated.

Those who should be abolished should be abolished, and those that should be merged should be merged. Anyway, the positions are now vacant, and there is no question of who should be fired and who should not be fired.

Zhu Yuanzhang is also a king who is determined to reform, so naturally he will not let go of such a great opportunity.to reduce bureaucracy.

Open source and cut expenditure, everyone understands.

As for saying that there are fewer officials, will there be troubles in the local area?
This is naturally nothing to worry about, because the system of temporary workers has been well used in the Ming Dynasty.

The officials who work in the local area are not officials, but employment relationships.

As long as the number of these officials and gentry does not shrink, there will be no major problems in terms of local control.

After all, the main problem to be solved by being an official is the conflicts between the villagers in the village, as well as lawsuits, etc., and there is nothing else to do, let them do it.

You say let them introduce advanced talents, plan urban development, lay out sewer pipelines, inspect investment projects, or attract investment, can they do it?

Obviously it can't be done!
What's more, these days, the small-scale peasant economy is still the mainstay, and most people are still buried in the land.

As long as the land conflicts are well managed, the remaining conflicts are not too big of a problem.

And there is no commercial matter. A developed commodity economy like the late Ming Dynasty has not yet appeared, and there is no need to appoint special officials to manage commercial matters.

And the next reforms, such as abolishing officials and merging institutions, are Zhu Yuanzhang's responsibility.

Zhu Qi didn't know much about these political matters.

You said let him settle the score and look for evidence or something. As for other things, forget it, he doesn't know much about it.

Besides, Zhu Qi has another headache now, which is to set up a tax bureau.

Form a new department, although he is not a department with an official position, but similar to Jin Yiwei, he is directly responsible for His Majesty the Emperor.

It's like a department like the Guards, but it's not a simple matter.

Fortunately, there is already a template of Jinyiwei to refer to.

The first is to set up a tax bureau in Yingtianfu, and the headquarters is named the Daming Taxation Bureau.

Subsequently, new branches were set up in each local chief secretary.

Under the branch, there are clerks in charge of a district.

The number of people does not need to be particularly large. The main responsibility is to be responsible for the statistics of the data sent by local officials.

And compare it with the yellow that is counted every year to see if there are any errors in the data.
Then it is to calculate the tax that can be paid every year based on the number of people shown in the yellow book.

These taxes naturally include commercial tax and land tax together.

And his example is tariffs and the like. After all, Daming has not entered the tariff system yet, so we will not make statistics for the time being.

However, things like tariffs are really a lucrative thing. As long as the border is laid down, any businessman who crosses the border will have to pay, it is really as easy as collecting tolls.

And it was justified.

Most of the recipients are foreigners, or businessmen who earn money outside, and what they earn is the wealth of other countries.

Even the domestic gentry group would not object to such a thing.

After all, this tariff is in the interests of the country.
What we tax is foreigners' money, don't you gentry also object?

Don't compete with the people for profit, foreigners are also my citizens of Ming Dynasty?

I'm afraid I don't want to rebel.

And tariffs are also on the agenda, but instead of starting to collect them nationwide, we need to find a place to experiment first.

From Zhu Qi's point of view, it is definitely not feasible to start collecting taxes from the customs. After all, Daming has not yet fully closed itself, and foreign countries can still trade along the coast.

If a certain port is closed for tax collection, it will inevitably affect the daily volume of merchant ships entering and leaving the port.

Therefore, it is more appropriate to find a traffic artery on land for tax collection.

After all, if the caravan traveling by land does not go through this checkpoint, he may not be able to go to other places. Just like the ancient tea-horse road, it is very appropriate to set up tariffs on the border of Yunnan.

But now Yunnan is not in the hands of Daming, so he can only settle for the next best thing and set up a tariff point in Guangxi.

Zhu Yuanzhang also very much agrees with Zhu Qi's idea of ​​tariffs. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a fool. Hearing Zhu Qi's description, he knows that the benefits of tariffs are very great.

It is much easier to collect money from outside than to ask corrupt officials for money at home.

What's more, Guangxi's location happens to be facing Amdo and Yunnan on the edge.

These two places are now under the control of Beiyuan, which is equivalent to asking Beiyuan for money, so you can ask for as much as you can, and you must not be polite to them.

As for the amount of tariffs to be set up, Zhu Yuanzhang originally planned to set a tax of 30 yuan, just like the domestic merchants said.

When Zhu Qi heard this, he laughed in his heart. Everyone said that Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless, but it seems that I am the ruthless one.

30. Can such a low tax be called a tariff?

In modern times, there are 50% tariff barriers everywhere else?
How do you say we have to get 30%?

Zhu Yuanzhang thought he had heard wrong at first.

Isn't this 30% three tenths?

Would anyone really be willing to pay such a high tax?
This is why Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand the profit of running a business. The businessman earned nearly [-]% to [-]% of the profit from running a business.

And now our Daming is only asking them to take out half of it. Even if the half is taken out, those businessmen who run international trade will still make some money, it's just a question of whether they earn more or less.

But after all, it is more profitable than running a business in China.

After all, things that can only be sold for a tael of silver in China may be worth four or five taels, or even higher, in Beiyuan.

With such a high profit, let alone a 30% tax, even if it is a 40% tax, they will continue to spend money and go into business.

You don't have to pay, you can't get in without paying, do you dare to smuggle?
The crime of smuggling was encountered in Daming, but it requires decapitation, so I'm not kidding you.

Zhu Qi is mainly responsible for making suggestions, and it is Zhu Yuanzhang's business to implement these suggestions.

During this period of time, Zhu Qi suggested a lot of things, and left the rest to Zhu Yuanzhang.

But the emperor was too busy, and he really wanted Zhu Qi to do these things, but Zhu Qi just waved his hand and said:
"Father, it's not that I don't want to help you.

It's just that I really can't get rid of it, and you also know that the work of setting up the tax bureau is not ordinary.

If the tax bureau is not organized well, the foundation of our Ming Dynasty will be shaken.

Therefore, this son-in-law feels a heavy responsibility on me, and I dare not slack off in the slightest, last night I worked until three or four o'clock in the middle of the night..."

ah?What does three or four o'clock in the middle of the night mean?

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't understand such advanced words, and if he wanted to ask, Zhu Qi had already sobbed over there, and he couldn't cry.

Good guy, it seems that he has really suffered a lot of grievances.

Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that this period of time was really hard for the third child, so he didn't hand over the tariff matter to Zhu Qi.

After all, things like tariffs still need to go to Guangxi to supervise them personally, just like collecting taxes in the local market.

Although it is not a particularly difficult thing, it will take more than half a year to go back and forth.

Zhu Qi's son was just born not long ago, and he was sent to fight in Liao.

At this time, if the third child is allowed to work in Guangxi, it would indeed be a bit outrageous.

Even Empress Ma often complained to Zhu Yuanzhang in the deep palace on weekdays, don't always let the third child and a child do things, you should order the other sons around.

Of course, Empress Ma is not looking for opportunities for other sons to make meritorious deeds.

It was because he saw that Zhu Qi was being ordered around by Zhu Yuanzhang every day, and he also heard that Zhu Qi had to work every night, working late, so he felt sorry for this capable son in his heart.

Hearing this, Zhu Qi also burst out laughing.

Of course, this was all his strategy. Every day, he asked Zhu Di to go to Empress Ma to help him complain, while on his own side, he showed an indifferent, righteous and awe-inspiring look, dedicating himself to the country.

And what Zhu Di wants to say is also carefully designed.

What "My third brother said that even if he is exhausted for the country, he should do it."

"Third brother said, there is no such thing as sleeping and sleeping. What is his identity? What time is it now? Where can I sleep?"

"I saw my third brother lose more than 100 catties yesterday, alas, I'm really afraid that my third brother won't be able to hold on alone!"

Good guy, I've lost more than 100 catties. If a gust of wind blows, people will go directly to the stratosphere?
Empress Ma immediately quit. Although he knew that what Zhu Di said was exaggerated, he did see that Zhu Qi never stopped during the busy period, so he said those words to Zhu Yuanzhang.

As for your saying that Zhu Qi works until three or four o'clock every night, what exactly is he doing?Does that need to be said?
It is read as "live" and written as "Little Wife Bai Tang Yuer".

Speaking of this little wife, that's really amazing.

Zhu Qi originally thought that with his natural power, he could easily handle her.

But this little wife was not her opponent at the beginning, how could she think that the more she fought, the more courageous she would become!
As the saying goes, there are only exhausted cows, but no plowed land.

Fortunately, he is not fighting alone.

Bai Tang Yu'er saw how hard it was for him, and felt very guilty in her heart, so she decided that night: take supplements.

"This is a great supplement from our side, although I don't know what it is called..."

Good guy, are you looking down on the power of my Great Ming Liao King?
Not to mention, that night is to omit 100 million words of plot for everyone.

However, Zhu Qi solved the empty seal case, and started to plan the tax bureau again. It seemed to be very busy, but in fact, there was nothing to do, and most of them were left to those Jin Yiwei guards.

And just when Zhu Qi thought that he would be free for a while, he received another message from Lan Xian'er.

She followed Master and went to Guangxi.

(End of this chapter)