System, help me be an empress

Chapter 54

Inside the palace.

Xu Youxi had just returned from the Shenji Camp, and Zhou Guixue, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately came up to him, followed by his side and whispered a report: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager invites you to have dinner together at the Palace of Compassion."

"Row."

Xu Youxi planned to change into clean clothes before going to the Compassion Palace.

"Father, Queen Mother."

Compared with when he just returned to the palace, Emperor Chongjiu's condition has recovered a lot. Apart from the still slurred speech, his limbs can move slightly.Every day, the imperial physician will come to the Compassion Palace in turn to perform physical rehabilitation activities for Emperor Chongjiu.When he was free, Xie Xixi sat beside him and listened to the newly released folk tales with him, and accompanied him to enjoy the sun and enjoy the sun.

"Youxi is here!" Xie Xixi waved her hand to stop the master who was speaking, stood up, looked at Xu Youxi and said with some distress, "Youxi, have you been exhausted recently and lost weight?"

"No." Xu Youxi smiled, "I heard from the imperial physician that Father's illness has improved a lot recently?"

"Yeah." Xie Xixi patted Emperor Chongjiu's head tenderly, "I can move, and I can laugh when I listen to the script."

"That's a good thing."

……

Xu Youxi left after chatting about the family affairs, and returned to the imperial study.

At this time, the two Shangshu lords had changed into their official uniforms and had been waiting for a long time.

"Lord Du, Lord Yu, please sit down." Xu Youxi greeted briefly, then sat down, and quickly got to the point, "Master Du, have you encountered any difficulties in measuring the land recently?"

Minister of the Household Department Du Zhiyi said rigorously: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern, not yet."

Yu Tan, who was sitting next to Du Zhiyi, wished he could stare at this bastard to death!
Of course it's not difficult for you!

Do you know how hard it is for me because of you!

Because Du Zhiyi's methods were too tough, and in the name of a saint, he didn't even greet the officials. He successively dismissed two fourth-rank officials, five sixth-rank officials, and countless below seventh-rank officials.All these people came to Yu Tan to cry, the key point was that Yu Tan didn't dare to take care of Du Zhiyi's affairs, but the background of these dismissed officials in the court was so complicated that he felt overwhelmed just by looking at it. He couldn't offend directly, so he kept playing sloppy.

Alas, counting it, how long he Du Zhiyi has been the Minister of the Household Department, and how long he Yu Tan has not had a good night's sleep.

"Is the promotion of sweet potato planting going well?" Xu Youxi continued to ask.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, everything is progressing according to the statement made by the minister. Although there were some minor troubles, they were all overcome. The minister explained in detail in the daily report."

Xu Youxi nodded in satisfaction. Du Zhiyi was the person she didn't need to worry about in the entire court. The daily memorials were written concisely and clearly listed the daily work of the household department.

Xu Youxi only needs to come up with an idea, and Du Zhiyi can immediately propose the best means of realization and implement it brilliantly.

"At this time, Lord Du and Lord Yu are here mainly because of something. I hope to discuss with the two love ministers about the emptiness of the national treasury. Even if I have enough determination to reform, I can't make more treasury to support the reform. Financial resources. Although measuring land can bring great benefits to the future, it will never solve the urgent need."

Du Zhiyi pursed her lips and thought for a moment: "Of course there are ways, it depends on whether His Majesty can be cruel."

Xu Youxi asked curiously: "Is that so? Why don't Master Du tell me?"

"This year coincides with the 'Jingcha Year', and there are countless officials with problems in the DPRK and China. As long as His Majesty strictly checks and raids their homes, the treasury will be filled in a short time."

How dare you say this is Du Zhizhi!

Yu Tan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, broke out in a cold sweat with fear behind his back.

However, Xu Youxi really thought of Du Zhiyi's point, otherwise, why would she specially call Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Yu Tan, to listen to it?

Xu Youxi picked up the teacup thoughtfully, and casually said, "Besides this method, does Mr. Du have any other ideas?"

"Then reduce the number of officials and reduce unnecessary expenses." Du Zhiyi continued, "Those who are capable will be promoted, and those who have no outstanding performance will be relegated to go home."

"That's fine."

Xu Youxi agreed.

However, Yu Tan is the only one who gets more and more wrong the more he listens, are you guys discussing how to fill the national treasury, or how to empty a minister of officials? !

"Your Majesty, I feel that..."

Yu Tan, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, said that the direction of this topic must be interrupted, otherwise he really can't do it anymore.

Xu Youxi didn't give him a chance to speak, so he stopped him directly: "Yu Shangshu seems to have a better proposal, but don't worry, they all say throwing bricks to attract jade, right, let's wait for Master Du to finish first."

"..."

Yu Tan now wanted to die, and when Du Zhiyi finished speaking, would there still be room for him to develop! ! !
Du Zhiyi said unhurriedly: "There is one more thing that I want to report to His Majesty. During my time as a parent officer, I heard many times that some officials would 'collect food and kick fight'."

"Du Shangshu continued." Xu Youxi put down his teacup and listened carefully.

"Every year when farmers pay grain taxes to the local government, they need to put their grain in a container. The officials who collect the grain will kick the container vigorously, so that the sharp grain in the container will spill out, and the farmers are not allowed to clean it. When you go back, the remaining grain in the container will be weighed, and the grain that falls out will be swallowed up by the officials, and some greedy people may kick it two or three times, and in the end there may be less than one-third of the grain left in the container.” Du Zhi said.

Xu Youxi frowned: "Then Dushangshu has a solution?"

"I feel that in the future, all land taxes and taxes should be paid in silver, and the government will hire people to act as servants. This behavior can be eradicated."

Du Zhiyi's proposal made Xu Youxi suddenly realize that this is the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet at that time, praised the famous "one whip method"!

"It's reasonable. Since Du Shangshu proposed to pay in silver, it's better to be more thorough. Collect the land tax, corvee, and other miscellaneous levies of each state and county into one, and collect the silver taels together, and pay by mu." Xu Youxi recalled, "This move It is beneficial to simplify the tax collection process, and it also avoids the kicking behavior of local officials."

Du Zhiyi didn't expect His Majesty to see farther than himself. With a king like this, why worry about the future, he immediately admired him: "Your Majesty is wise, in this way, the people's livelihood can be guaranteed!"

Xu Youxi originally wanted to further implement the policy of "sharing the income of each person into the mu", that is to say, the taxation is not linked to the number of people, but once this policy is released, the number of civilian population will definitely skyrocket.

It's a pity that there have been too many extreme weather in Dagan in recent years, and the population has exploded. She is really worried that she will not be able to support her. It is better to wait until everything in Dagan is on the right track.

"This policy is called the 'One Whip Law'. Mr. Du is responsible for perfecting the detailed rules first. After the land measurement and liquidation are completed, we are considering slowly launching it."

Xu Youxi said it simply, but he knew very well in his heart that this policy violated the interests of many people. Once these Shikun nobles jumped up to resist, it would be an almost devastating disaster for Daqian.

After much calculation, Xu Youxi felt that a group of people had to be ruled first to reduce the strength of this group of Shikun, so his eyes fell on Yu Tan again: "What does Shangshu Yu think of the 'one whip method' proposed by me?"

Yu Tan was silent, and finally managed to choke out two words: "Very good."

To be honest, he is a little panicked now.

He seems to know too much, and he doesn't know if he will be assassinated by the new emperor!
"Then Shangshu Yu has to keep it secret for me, otherwise how can he surprise the civil and military officials?"

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