Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 830 The change came from the emperor's eagles and dogs all over the world

If the example of Haizhou City happened now, the ending would be completely different.

The state government office will also post a notice, but the content is how many workers will be hired to repair the city wall, how much money will be paid per person per day and will be distributed on the same day, how many meals will be managed, and how long the project will take. Whether it is a state city or an underground county, the people will decide whether to go to the construction site to earn extra money according to the busyness of the farm work.

The emergence of such a situation in the history of China has created the prosperity of several dynasties.

So after the corvee system is permanently abolished, what kind of splendid beauty will the Ming Dynasty create?

Along with corvee is taxation.

What hurts the people the most is not how much public grain has to be paid, but the process of collecting grain.

When collecting grain, the most direct impact of these two bad methods is to kick the tip of the dendrobium and pour the tip of the dendrobium into the small bucket, which not only increases the burden on the farmers, but also indirectly causes the farmers to feel hatred towards the government. Once there is a natural or man-made disaster, the anger accumulated by the people who have been exploited for many years will explode, and the destructive power to the entire society will be amazing.

In order to completely change this kind of harm to the people, as early as the 18th year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youjian had decreed that when local governments collected public grain, all of them would be weighed with floor scales, and the method of using containers to collect taxes was completely prohibited.

That is to say, from now on, when taxes are collected in various places, the weight of the grain will be used as the basis, rather than whether the Hudou is full or not.

With this imperial decree, the part of the government officials in various places who are proud of the special skill of kicking the tip of the dendrobium will no longer have a platform to display it.

The so-called kicking the Dendrobium bucket refers to kicking the grain-filled Dendrobium bucket to make the rice grains dense and full for refilling. After the grain is loaded into the Dendrobium bucket, continue to be packed into a cone to make the rice grains drip down. In this way, farmers Obviously they only need to pay one stone of grain, but in the end they were forced to pay three or five buckets more.

Don't underestimate the three or five buckets per household. If you accumulate them, how much more grain will a county charge for a season of summer grain?

The extra grain will be sold to grain merchants, and the money earned will naturally be shared by the government lords. This is a lot of income.

This kind of evil is the most direct harm to the people. It is simply a naked robbery. The people dare not speak out about it. However, the practice of some people who harm the public and benefit the people makes the people point the finger at the court. .

Numerous examples prove that the emperors and imperial courts of the past dynasties have introduced various policies to benefit the people, but in actual implementation, they have become policies that disturb and harm the people. They can pick up the white clouds with their hands, thinking that this world is just as they imagined and planned, but they don't know that the gang of grandchildren have almost cut off the roots of the old men.

Zhu Youjian was deeply touched by this, so there was a new mechanism in which Jinyiwei and Yushi sank to the county and became local permanent institutions. It was under the effective supervision of this new mechanism that the various major political formations of the court Only then can it be implemented.

Among them, Jinyiwei Hundred Households played a vital role.

The censors are mainly supervised by local chief officials. Due to the lack of manpower, they do not have the energy to conduct a comprehensive supervision of the entire local government, and because they belong to the civil service system, many censors have to deal with some less serious issues. Adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye and closing one eye, allowing local officials to play some sidelines.

Keep a front line in life, so that we can meet each other in the future, this is the ecological environment of Daming's officialdom.

As long as they are not rivals with different political views, everyone will save face for each other and avoid the consequences of directly tearing their faces.

They are all doing business for the imperial court, and everyone is a colleague, so there is no need to go too far.

But Jin Yiwei is completely different.

The identity of the emperor's pro-military means that all the generals, lieutenants and their descendants will never be able to enter the civil official group. The interests of their group are all brought by the royal family. The benefits of dipping more light.

Jinyiwei, which has its own system, has its own industry. Of course, this was developed after Zhu Youjian nodded.

In addition to receiving their salaries as errands, the generals and lieutenants all had extra children working in the pro-army's own property.

After all, a family of several people can't just rely on this one person to make money to support the family. In the case of a limited number of captains, only when there is a vacancy can the children in the family be recruited into the pro-army. Bar?

Under such circumstances, the strategy of opening other industries to allow the pro-military to live a better life and make them more loyal to the royal family came into being.

Many of the restaurants and teahouses, Qinglou pawnshops, commercial cloth houses, and water and land transportation businesses that opened all over the Ming Dynasty were run by Jinyiwei.

These industries have a common feature, that is, the mobility of personnel is high, and the population is densest, so that while obtaining economic benefits, various social conditions and public opinions can be collected by the way, and then reported layer by layer after screening. , and finally the Jinyiwei Experience Department selects the most valuable court officials who report to the palace.

Zhu Youjian browses the summary of Jinyiwei's information every day to find out whether the governance is appropriate, and if there is any, it will be corrected, and if not, it will be strengthened. This is why the officials of Jinyiwei never dare to slack off.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that Jin Yiwei's supervision of the civil service system is really taken as its own business, and there is a sense of guarding against family thieves.

In the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, there were institutions similar to the factory guards of the Ming Dynasty. They were also used by the emperor to keep his eyes open for himself, or to do some unscrupulous things. In many aspects, such as the scope of control, the accuracy of message transmission, and the ability to execute the tasks assigned by the emperor, they cannot be compared with the factory guards at all.

These institutions have a common feature, that is, the sphere of influence is limited to the capital city, that is, they only stare at the people and things under the eyes of the emperor. When they leave the capital city, their eyes are smeared. They are no better than the emperor. Earlier, from this point of view, the existence of these institutions was too weak, like a chicken rib.

And Zhu Youjian learned this lesson. After he stabilized his foothold, as the situation gradually improved, he cast out the big net that controls the world's affairs.

This has never happened since ancient times. From then on, wherever there is a government, there is the existence of the Jinyi Captain. This expands the emperor's sphere of influence to the entire Ming Dynasty, and makes local officials dare not Then lie up and down.

The changes in the corvee system and the way of paying taxes came from the reports of the relevant situation by the local Jinyiwei.

(End of this chapter)