Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty are located at the center, and they hold too much power. They have to manage political affairs, military affairs, and legal affairs. These many powers are held in their hands, and they are not clearly defined. The division of power also made many civil officials pursue the lofty ideal of limiting imperial power and ruling the world with literati and bureaucrats.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, this is not good.

The official ranks of the Ming Dynasty cannot simply be characterized as a 'civilian group', and should be carefully divided with clearer and clearer areas of authority.

Gradually sort out the power framework of the Ming Dynasty, and orderly promote the adjustment of the existing functions and powers of the government office, especially the taxation department related to the taxation system. It cannot be simply defined by a single household department. When it comes to taxation in different fields, there should be corresponding special management In this way, tax evasion, tax evasion, and tax evasion can be avoided.

There is a long way to go.

The biggest enemy of Ming Dynasty is Ming himself. It is not an easy task to properly solve these problems. Emperor Chongzhen still has a lot to do.

The turmoil and movement in the capital will not affect the local area in the short term, but it can have a corresponding impact on the places adjacent to or facing the capital.

Henan governor's yamen.

"In the past few days, my Henan Governor's Office and the Disaster Relief Office's Office have jointly launched an unprecedented scale of litigation against the feudal clans under Henan's rule."

Sun Chuanting sat on the official hat chair, looked at Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and his party, and said with a serious expression: "All the gentlemen have also contributed a lot during this period, so that the prefectures and counties in Henan have gradually checked and recovered more than 90 mu. official land and register it.

The proportion of the remaining part of the official land is still very large, but everything is difficult at the beginning, and the most difficult road has been smoothed out. All that needs to be done in the future is to follow the scriptures.

Fufan, Zhoufan, Chongfan and other feudal clans in Henan, although they hated their officials and the disaster relief administration, they had nothing to do with it. "

After listening to what Sun Chuanting said, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and the others all showed knowing smiles when you looked at me and I looked at you.

Recalling all the previous experience, including some changes that occurred during the period, for them, it is definitely an unforgettable experience.

A matter of suing the feudal vassals in Henan has had a great impact, and there have been great changes. During this period, there were even several incidents of driving up food prices and cloth prices, and even some civil uprisings almost occurred. In the end, they carried it all down. Only they know the ups and downs during the period.

"But that's nothing to be happy about."

Sun Chuanting changed the subject, looked at Chen Zilong and the others, and said with a serious expression: "Even if we can end up with millions of acres of official land in the prefectures and counties of Henan, can the taxes collected by the state really be fully collected?" ?

Others may not know about this matter, but you are in the Disaster Relief Administration, you should have a better understanding of the situation in various places, right?

Why is it that once there is a disaster in Henan Province, whether it is flood, drought, locust plague, earthquake, etc., there will be a large number of victims?
What is the root cause, have you ever thought about it? "

Ok?
Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and the others frowned slightly and looked at each other. They obviously had their own thoughts on what Sun Chuanting said.

"I report to the Governor, the exorbitant local taxes are one of the root causes of this phenomenon."

Chen Zilong pondered for a moment, stepped forward and said: "Although the governor has been paying close attention to this matter since he came to Henan, this phenomenon has been repeatedly prohibited.

Some local officials colluded with local people and used various means to exploit the people. If the situation was better, the situation would not be obvious.

Once a disaster occurs, the problem becomes serious.

Just like the matter of fire consumption, the fault is not that the imperial court recasts new coins and takes back the power of minting coins under the jurisdiction of the local government, which makes the situation in Henan much better than before. The drought encountered, I don't know how many people will be dragged down. "

Xia Yunyi followed closely and said: "In addition to the above-mentioned situation, there is another serious problem, and that is the widespread collection of population tax.

For those groups with little land or no land at all, the more children they have, the more person tax they pay.

When the student worked in Guide Mansion before, he discovered that there were appalling infant drowning phenomena in many places, and the male baby could survive, but the female baby..."

After talking, Xia Yunyi couldn't continue.

In this world of cannibalism, for the bottom group, they will always have the least human rights at all. The root cause is very simple. For the powerful, they don't have these people in their eyes.

Seeing the demeanor of Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and the others, Sun Chuanting felt that it was time to gradually try out the matter of putting the people into the mu in Henan through the groups that passed the test in front of them.

Since Emperor Chongzhen specially set up the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and transferred the Disaster Relief Office and the Independent Commission Against Corruption to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this has also made the disaster relief offices in various places, and the group of young scholars and students gathered have the hope of being promoted.

Although the number of officials promoted and awarded through the disaster relief agencies in various places is very small, many people are excited to be able to step into the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty through this.

The most intuitive phenomenon is that many of the large numbers of scholars gathered in the past could not bear the hardships of the grassroots, and finally chose to leave the disaster relief office. However, after the news of the Ministry of Internal Affairs spread, many returned to the disaster relief office. That is to say, he wanted to use the Disaster Relief Office as a springboard, and then he could step into the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the Ming Dynasty imperial examination competition was too fierce.

There are too many scholars who have studied hard for more than ten years, or even dozens of years, but failed the imperial examinations, and ended up living in a daze.

"Wozi (Chen Zilong's name), you come and distribute the detailed rules of 'Tan Ding into Mu' for everyone to read." Sun Chuanting looked at Chen Zilong, took out a stack of official letters that had been treasured for a long time, and said.

"To solve the tax problem under the Henan administration, we must do something to effectively change the malpractice of the existing tax and service system, so that the state can increase tax revenue and at the same time reduce the burden on the people at the bottom.

This matter was made clear by the emperor to Ben Fu earlier.

Promoting the reform of taxes in an orderly manner is what the emperor has always wanted to do. You are all talents favored by the emperor. I hope that you can join hands with me to do something that benefits the country and the people in Henan, even if it will be burdensome. Infamy, I also hope that you can work together to implement this good governance. "

It was extremely quiet in the main hall.

Just from the literal meaning they heard, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan and the others knew that what Sun Chuanting said must be a major event involving many levels.

What is involved must be the population tax, and even fish scale books and land taxes, but many of them have a strong fighting spirit in their hearts for some reason.

Things that the emperor attaches great importance to, if they can govern the prefectures and counties in Henan and follow the governor of Henan, Sun Chuanting, to do this well, they will definitely get the attention of the emperor, so they may be able to see the emperor , and even get a corresponding promotion, and then be able to shoulder heavier responsibilities in Henan.