Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 638 So I am Huang Taiji!

Zhang Tie originally wanted to plan to resolve the matter of Ma Chu after he came back, but since the day he returned to the court, civil affairs issues have rushed up, and many of them still had to be decided by him as the emperor.

Zhang Tie originally wanted to push these things back a little bit. After all, the world is uncertain and the military is the most important thing, but after thinking about it, he couldn't do that.

Don't look at the fact that there are a lot of things waiting for Zhang Tie to return to Beijing now, but this belongs to the "scenery" of Zhang Zhou's family.

This was not the case in the previous Houliang, Later Tang, and Later Jin, and even since the separatist regime at the end of Tang Dynasty, there has not been such a "grand event".

Because the status of literati at this time was too low and ignored, it caused a very serious problem.

It’s not that no one reads anymore. Learning knowledge is always the driving force for human progress, and it is a preference engraved in human genes. Therefore, even in the fifth generation, there are quite a few people who study literature.

The very serious problem caused is actually that civil servants began to fish on a large scale.Isn't it because the fat vacancies are occupied by warriors, the status is low, and the salary is also low. Well, I will work less.

Civil officials of the Five Dynasties fished to such a degree that they were insane, not to mention prefectural and county officials, middle and lower officials of the imperial court, such as Feng Dao and He Ning, were once masters of fishing.

From the very beginning when the emperor didn't ask and didn't offer advice, to later when the emperor asked and didn't offer advice, they basically dealt with things every day.

When social abuses are discovered, they are not reported. When the emperor finds out, or the contradictions can no longer be covered up, they start to make peace with each other.

This led to a series of quite serious consequences. After the civil servants were rotten, the emperor could only use warriors more and more.At the same time, out of worries about warriors, they often began to trust the cronies and masterminds around them.

In the late Tang Zhuangzong period, Empress Liu intervened in politics and the actress Jing Jin monopolized power, the traitor An Zhongjiao in the post-Tang Mingzong period, Sang Weihan in Shi Jingtang's period, and Feng Yu in Shi Chonggui's period are all violent manifestations of this consequence.

Among them, Sang Weihan is better, at least he is really talented, but the others are not educated, and they are especially violent.

For example, Jing Jin, he recruited maids for Li Cunxu to enrich the court, and kidnapped 3000 young women at one time, and even dared to kidnap the family members of his mother Wei Bo Yabing, the world looked at him!
Li Cunxu really died unjustly. He himself was able to restrain Zhu Liang by relying on the silver guns formed by Wei Boya soldiers to play a key role in the battle of Hu Liupo and the battle of Desheng.

In just a few years, Wei Bo Yabing was treated as a paper tiger, even daring to kidnap their family members.

So without any surprise, Zhuang Zong was bitten to death by Wei Bo's tooth soldiers within a few years.

So after the Zhou Kingdom was established, Zhang Tie was keenly aware of the dead fishing atmosphere below.

Because of this stuff, I, Zhang Shengren, are very familiar with it. Before I came out to make short videos, Zhang Shengren was famous for being a fisherman in a certain state-owned enterprise.

After understanding the deep-seated reasons, Zhang Ting took advantage of the opportunity of a major cleaning of the later Jin officials by Yelu Deguang, and timely eliminated a large number of redundant officials.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of restructuring, the official positions that originally belonged to civil officials but were occupied by warriors were returned to civil officials.

Then he set an example in the court and listened carefully to the opinions of all the houses. Zhang Tie listened carefully to all civil officials, even small officials of the eighth or ninth rank, and either answered them himself, or asked the six scholars from Zhongshu Province to answer them instead.

For each official who submitted a letter, Zhang Tie prepared a small gift to encourage, although it was nothing more than ten catties of mutton, a few catties of sugar, a few bolts of cloth or a jar of fine wine.

But that is also a royal gift!This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of court officials to write letters.

At the same time, Zhang Tie also responded extremely quickly to those correct suggestions.

Last year, a Chengmen Wei from Wanshengmen in the west of Kaifeng City sent a letter to Zhongshu Shengzhangtai, saying that the Empress Dowager Ciyou traveled with too many carriages and was too bulky, and she liked to go out of the city when it was crowded, which often caused inconvenience to the people.

Empress Dowager Ciyou, Zhang Ting's aunt, was furious after hearing this, and ordered her number one dog leg, the eldest princess of Korea, Li Zhener, to lead someone to break the leg of the Chengmen captain of Wanshengmen.

After Zhang Tie knew about it, he severely punished Li Zhener, the eldest princess of South Korea, and confiscated [-] households in his food city.

He also ordered the servants to carry the Chengmen captain of Wanshengmen to the Suzaku gate, personally condolences to the Chengmen captain, expressed his apology to him, and compensated the twenty households of the eldest princess of Korea as soup and medicine expenses to the Chengmen captain. .

Then he ordered to open a small gate on the right side of Wansheng gate, to make a special passage for Empress Dowager Ciyou to visit the city.

And Chengmenwei, who continued to guard at Wanshengmen with his broken leg up, became a beautiful landscape. '

At the same time, the county captain of Kaifeng County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Tokyo, Jianyan said that the seven gate inspectors in Tokyo had the same responsibilities as the county captains of Chenliu County and Kaifeng County, Chi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and their responsibilities and powers were unclear.

Zhang Ting also reacted immediately, and ordered the Privy Council, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Households to study and judge, and return the civil affairs and public security in the city to Kaifeng and Chenliu counties.

The seven inspectors were also divided into inner city inspectors, east city inspectors and west city inspectors.

It is only responsible for the picketing of officials, officials, and sons of rich merchants who cannot be managed in the two counties, as well as inspections of privately hidden armor, long weapons, and crossbows in the three cities.

The county magistrate of Kaifeng County who raised the question was immediately promoted to the inspection envoy of Tokyo East City.

At the same time, Zhang Tie stipulated that officials of the fifth rank and above in the central government of the imperial court who did not submit a letter to speak out once a month would be punished, demoted or even dismissed from office and other strict measures.

Zhang Tie has paid so much attention to the small aspects, and naturally pays more attention to the big aspects.

At the expense of Zhang Ting, who was too tired to go back to the harem to flirt with the big talisman and was not interested in it, Zhang Zhou's administrative ability in the officialdom was finally stimulated.

So Zhang Shengren, who "made it on his own", was overwhelmed by the memorials as soon as he returned to Beijing.

He had no choice but to exempt Yin Zhengqi (Yin Yaozi) who was staying in Tokyo from being the commander of the guards and the seven soldiers and horses in Tokyo.

Then Yin Zhengqi was appointed as the deployment of the Jijie Jiangnan Capital, and led the left-behind pro-army Zuolongxiangwei 3000 people to go south to Xiangyang Prefecture.

The main task of Yin Zhengqi (Yin Yaozi) is to be in charge of coordinating Liu Zaisheng and Ma Zhaoyuan (Ma Yaozi), two high-ranking officials, and preparing to settle the affairs of Nanping and Ma Chu in advance.

I, Zhang Shengren, have to finish the matter in Tokyo before continuing to go south.

Among the things in front of me, the most urgent thing at present is to abolish the tyranny of the previous dynasty and even from the end of Tang Dynasty, as well as the deeper level of taxation.

The cause of the incident was also caused by Zhang Tie's abolition of exorbitant taxes and Dingkouyin in Hedong. The people in Hedong got benefits, and the people in other places wanted it too.

In fact, this era has indeed come to a time point of great changes in the ancient Chinese taxation system.

The taxation system in ancient China, during the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, was divided into two types: rent and tax. Rent refers to land tax, and tax refers to Dingkou silver. In addition, the common people must also perform corvee and military service.

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the rise of the government military system, there was no need to recruit a large number of peasant soldiers for battles, so the taxation system became a rent adjustment system.

It is said that if you have land, you will have rent, if you have a body, you will have mediocrity, and if you have households, you will have adjustments. In combination, it is still land tax plus tenements and silver plus corvee.

Of course, this is only a superficial understanding, and there are still many truths in it.

As for the rent-yong adjustment system, in the late Tang Gaozong period, after the government military system gradually collapsed, it began to become difficult to collect.

This thing is based on the population, and it emphasizes personal control and the government's ability to suppress land mergers.

Once the government can't suppress the annexation, a large number of people who lost their land will flee to the land, and the rent and mediocrity will not be collected, and then it will be shared equally among the neighbors who can barely maintain it. In the end, everyone can only escape by fleeing. .

Therefore, in the Tianbao period, the household tax, which is collected on the basis of acres of land, became important.

But in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the household tax was no longer available, and the country's financial resources were exhausted, so finally in the first year of Tang Dezong Jianzhong, the two tax laws were officially introduced.

The so-called two taxes means that taxes are collected twice a year in summer and autumn. The summer tax is collected in June and the autumn tax is collected in November.

But the most important change is to change the original rent adjustment based on Dingkou into separate taxation based on wealth.

This is undoubtedly a huge improvement from the tax level of the country.

It avoids the disadvantage that the big households can easily pass on the heavy corvee to the poor during the period of rent adjustment.

It not only increased fiscal revenue, but also reduced the burden of poor people to a certain extent, simplified the complexity of tax payment, and liberated productivity.

To sum up, the rich pay more taxes, the poor pay less taxes, pay taxes directly, and those who are not at odds need to pay food, livestock, cloth, etc.

Looks good, doesn't it!It is indeed very good, if it can be strictly enforced, of course it is very good.

But this ideal model, not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even the United States of later generations, where the tax police claim the federal combat power ceiling, still cannot achieve it.

Therefore, the two tax laws of the Tang Dynasty were only implemented for less than 30 years, and they basically fell apart. Officials at all levels took advantage of the fact that taxes cannot be paid in kind, and forced the people to sell their output at a low price for money, and exploited it again.

When it came to the Five Dynasties, the methods became more abundant. In addition to the two taxes, various feudal towns set up clever names to make people's lives even more miserable.

Moreover, there is another impact of the two tax laws that Zhang Tie doesn't know whether to call it a disadvantage or not to be considered a disadvantage.

That is, the two-tax law is based on the disintegration of the Fubing system, and it is a reflection of the central government's strong intervention in land, to little intervention or even no intervention.

If Zhang Tie wants to continue to implement the two tax laws, it will inevitably cause Zhang Zhou to be the same as the Song Dynasty. Even if he wants to restrain land annexation, he cannot do it at all.

This also reflects the country's basic guarantee - force.

From the Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, the model of rent and mediocrity can be effectively implemented, which allows the country to mobilize quite good force at any time from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Sometimes even if the regular army is finished fighting, the powerful local households can immediately provide considerable force. As long as the appeal of the Central Plains court is not lost, the country will not be in danger.

In the mid-Tang and the end of Tang, after the collapse of the government military system, Xuanzong was forced to implement the recruitment system, and then played around, resulting in the autonomy of the feudal towns.

After Huang Chao, Tang Ting completely lost the foundation of military power, and the military power of the vassals and towns further deteriorated. They changed from a recruiting system to a military man in charge of everything, directly replacing the role of the state, guaranteeing force with power, and protecting power with force.

Therefore, in the Tang and Five Dynasties, warriors were so capable of fighting, because all the benefits of the country were given to them.

For a time, there were few peasant uprisings inside, and the foreign enemies could only lower their eyebrows and be pleasing to the eye as gray grandchildren.

But this thing has a big problem, because Wufu doesn't know how to govern the country at all.

And if the power of governing the country is handed over to civil officials, then the civil officials will use various means to deprive the military of their control of the regime.

So they simply despise literati extremely, and treat the country as a local gang and operate it as a gangster.

As a result, after playing in the late Jin Dynasty, it ushered in a total collapse, because the common people couldn't bear it anymore.

They either fled to the mountains or swamps and became black households, or died of various natural and man-made disasters.

In fact, the Central Plains has been on the verge of total collapse since the end of Zhu Liang period.

Was the later Jin Dynasty defeated by Khitan?no!They were defeated by poverty.

No matter in this time and space or in history, even if there were not many cavalry in the later Jin Dynasty, they could still beat Khitan in a fancy way.

But they ran out of money, and they didn't even have the money to send [-] to [-] troops to fight for two or three months. The last sum of money that Sang Weihan raised for Shi Chonggui made Yelu Deguang, who was fighting in the later Jin Dynasty, turn into a camel god of war.

But the second time, there was no money at all, and the army was besieged for two or three months. The later Jin court let alone dispatched reinforcements, and even the army stationed in Yedu began to starve.

Sure enough, it was a magical era. The soldiers of the Central Plains court were not defeated militarily by the countries outside the Great Wall, but were defeated economically by the countries outside the Great Wall.

This is the problem Zhang Tie is facing. The equalization of the land and the unevenness of the land are secondary. The key point is the operating mechanism of the country.

If you accept the two tax laws, you will definitely not be able to forcefully suppress the merger. Even if Zhang Tie can, but when he stares at his legs, it will collapse.

Moreover, if the two-tax law is implemented, and if the status of warriors is not belittled, Zhang Zhou is destined to go on the old road of not suppressing mergers + recruiting soldiers to guard the place, then the story of Tang Xuanzong will be waiting for Zhang Tie not far away. .

Fortunately, he died on the last day of the last year of Kaiyuan, and then his son entered the Tianbao period. After 20 years, the world was in turmoil, and a big change came.

If he is unlucky, he will become Tang Xuanzong, watching with his own eyes everything he worked so hard to be swept away by the torrent of history.

And it is almost impossible to go back to Zuyong modulation, because the Central Plains is not the backward Hexi, and the productivity has already developed to this point.

From the Han Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, two or three hundred mu of land could support a family. Now, if we continue to develop, the time will come when seven or eight mu or three or four mu of land can support a person. The handicraft industry will also develop greatly, and the population will explode. type of growth.

At that time, there will be too many people and no land, and you will have to bear the mediocrity. Well, the foundation for the people's revolution will be established.

The handicraft industry has developed greatly, but the mediocre production model and the almost barter market have seriously hindered their development, and urban civilians and farmers in wealthy areas have also been offended.

Everyone became poorer and poorer with the mode of rent adjustment, and finally the annexation became more and more violent, and then a powerful man raised his arms.

Click it!The Zhang Zhou he built hadn't started to take off yet, and went straight back to the end of Tang Dynasty.

To put it simply, Zuyongdiao means that everyone lives in poverty together. The rich and powerful at the top are extremely rich, while the people below struggle to survive. There is not much middle class, and the commodity economy is not developed.

As for the two-tax law, after its implementation in history, it is obviously more suitable for the further development of handicraft industry and commodity economy.

It broke the insurmountable gap between the wealthy and the poor during the Han Dynasty, and a large number of middle classes emerged. The prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty largely reflected the increase of the middle class.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were very few Sufeng families, and they could not yet form a class.In the Tang Dynasty, the middle class of rich but not noble, poor but not cheap, and cheap but not poor began to appear.

In the Song Dynasty, there were countless middle-class families whose money was worth [-] yuan. In the capital, there were many families with more than [-] yuan. There were wealthy people in every prefecture and county, regardless of their size.

This is the result of the development of productive forces. Wealth has finally begun to flow into the homes of the common people in large quantities, and it is no longer all occupied by the powerful. This is the tide of history, and no one can stop it.

It won't work!Going against the wheel of history, there will definitely be problems. If he insists on mediocrity, his reputation of Zhang Teng will definitely be worse than that of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.

Zhang Tie groaned in pain, fell on the bed and stared at the roof without saying a word for a long time, why do he know so much?If you don't understand, you won't worry about it. After I die, why don't you care about the flood?

With another long sigh, the door creaked open, and Empress Cao Yanxi walked in slowly.

She knew at a glance that Zhang Ting had encountered a problem, so she didn't speak, but walked over silently and sat down next to Zhang Ting, and put Zhang Ting's head on her plump thigh.

Zhang Ting took a deep breath of the fragrance of Cao Yanxi, turned his head over with a grunt, found the most comfortable position, and continued to think.

Historically, the Northern Song Dynasty, which succeeded the Five Dynasties, of course also inherited the two-tax system, so they did not suppress it, or they could do nothing to suppress the merger.

So for the sake of stability, there is only one way to go, and that is to completely stink the warriors, and after the warriors become stinky shit, then use money to raise them like pigs, creating a military expenditure that accounts for the vast majority of the fiscal sand sculpture military empire.

Think about the mace of the golden soldier of the Song Army who was about to hit Tianlinggai, and he would never fight without a reward. Zhang Tie's crotch was cold.

Then in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Hongwu used a compromise method. The folks still adopted the two-tax law, but he gathered warriors and turned them into military households, and then implemented a system similar to rent and mediocrity among military households to a certain extent.

Obviously, it failed in the end. The soldiers of the guards in the late Ming Dynasty were not as good as the rubbish Forbidden Army of the Song Dynasty, and the civilian force was completely abolished.

When I arrived in Qing Dynasty.

what!
Zhang Ting suddenly sat up. How should I put it, the Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty is not corrupt. On the contrary, it is a perfect martial arts system that combines the military system of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Although it cannot be compared with modern countries, it is by no means a decadent thing.

Some people will say that the soldiers of the Eight Banners will still decay, and they will decay quickly.

Do not!Do not!In fact, the armed forces of the Eight Banners, the most core group of 20,000 people, have always maintained a considerable combat effectiveness, but they are small in number and dare not pull them out to make a one-shot deal.

The force of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not finally dissipate until Baliqiao was killed and collapsed by the British and French allied forces.

Looking at the entire Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners from entering the customs to fighting Zhungeer, fighting big and small Jinchuan, fighting Burma, all the way to Baliqiao, corruption is certain, but it is completely corrupt, such as the corruption of the imperial guards in the Song Dynasty and the guards in the Ming Dynasty. of.

This is a very remarkable achievement. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty was overthrown by force, the Central Plains Dynasty has never had such a unit that runs through the entire dynasty, has ups and downs but always has some combat effectiveness.

The brain damage of the Eight Banners system does not lie in its military structure, but in its political structure.

The extremely stupid non-marriage between Manchu and Han, and the even more stupid Bannerman system, are the culprits that destroyed them.

But even so, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still the most able to survive among the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties. If they had not encountered Western powers, Zhang Ke estimated that the Manchu Qing Dynasty could survive for 50 years, or even close to 400 years.

So what can I learn from the Eight Banners system?

Favorable treatment, strict military selection mechanism, sense of honor as the master of the country, and the emperor's absolute control over them.

If we add a good competition mechanism and open up to the outside world, we can absorb new systems.

Perhaps, I can use this system, with the pro-army as the upper three banners and the forbidden army as the lower five banners, and cooperate with the martial arts system to recruit brave men from all over the world into the pro-army and the forbidden army.

The role of the Green Battalion was played by state and county soldiers from all over the country and folk solidarity athletes and Yi Cong Xiaoqi.

Then Zhang Zhou in the future may use Hexi Longyou athletes from Lianglan, Gansu and other states to form a team of pro-army and forbidden troops.

Then use the perfect martial arts system to recruit brave men from all over the world to form an absolute elite standing army of [-] to [-].

At the same time, improve the competition mechanism. If there is no qualified successor for the next generation of the pro-army and forbidden army, they can be deposed.

In terms of political power, the imperial examination was used to select talents from all over the world and improve the civil service system.

From now on, in terms of force in Zhang Zhou, the emperor shared power with the honored ministers, the pro-army, and the forbidden army.

In politics, they can share power with literati and bureaucrats.

It's just that there are only so many benefits in the world, so no one can get enough!

Well, don't be afraid, most of the benefits and power in the country go to the civil service system, the military system gets a small half, and the rest can go out to enjoy the dividends of the vast world outside.

As for ordinary people, the two-tax law will continue to liberalize productivity and promote the development of handicrafts and commodity economy.

There is something wrong!Zhang Ting is getting more and more excited. Although there are still many omissions in this idea, it can be gradually improved!

Made!Thinking about it, Zhang Ting was stunned. He thought he was Li Erfeng, but he didn't expect it to be the fusion of Zhu Hongwu and Huang Taiji.

This is so special.

　It is very likely that I will have to ask for leave tomorrow, and the tiger has been arrested again. In this howling cold wind, it is estimated that it is impossible to code on the mobile phone.

　　
　
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