Daming Jingtai: I am the eternal benevolent king

Chapter 441 Zhu Qiyu disclosed his terrorist assets, everyone in the world was shocked and reassured!

No one can identify the authenticity of the jade seal passed down from the country.

The time can only be inferred from the jade material, the age of the engraving, and the traces of completion. Appraisal experts mainly base their judgment on experience.

Therefore, the imperial court summoned experts from all over the world to come to Beijing to discuss the authenticity of the jade seal passed down to the country.

It also adopted the form of a full live broadcast, with several newspapers participating in the live broadcast, giving people around the world the feeling of being involved.

After the appraisal of more than a thousand jade experts, it is believed that the jade seal passed down to the country is the one made by Qin Shihuang and the one Li Congke was buried with.

There is no evidence to prove whether this one is the same as that of Song Zhezong and Song Gaozong, but the rumor that Boyan destroyed the imperial seal has been disproven.

But what has the Chuanguo Jade Seal experienced in these seven hundred years?
It has become a hot topic in the world.

It is estimated that the treasure presenter did not expect that the old emperor would use this method to break the situation.

They must have thought that the old emperor would use the jade seal to show the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty, but they never expected that the old emperor would be the first to question the authenticity of the jade seal, and even asked the people of the world to identify it, which made them confused.

Of course, they were all frightened by the old emperor's broad-mindedness.

This is Emperor Jingtai, this is Zhu Qiyu.

In the blink of an eye, at the end of the 68th year of Jingtai, Zhu Qiyu fell ill again. At this time, it was almost certain that the jade seal passed down to the country was authentic.

Zhu Qiyu issued an imperial edict, to the effect that the Jade Seal of the State was divided into the twenty-four seals of the emperor, and became a treasure with more symbolic meaning than practical significance. The Ming Dynasty only issued one imperial edict stamped with the Jade Seal of the State. There is only one copy, and in the future It will not be promulgated again.

It is equivalent to cutting off the legitimacy of the imperial seal.

There will be no more in the future, and the lie that has been spread for fifteen hundred years that the one who can pass on the national jade seal will win the world has also been exposed.

After all, the Yuan Dynasty did not have a national jade seal, and the Ming Dynasty did not have a national jade seal, and they both became emperors.

There is no need to tell people this lie anymore.

"Fourth, why are you so depressed? It's just a jade seal?"

Zhu Qiyu was lying on the hospital bed: "I have said that when we put the Jade Seal of the Kingdom and a stone together, whoever I point to is the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, then it is the Jade Seal of the Kingdom. Even if I point to the Jade Seal of the Kingdom of Chuan that it is a stone, it is also the Jade Seal of the Kingdom of Chuan. Stone."

"Don't you understand the meaning?"

"I understand, I just think that passing down the national jade seal can amplify the political significance, but you gave up, and I feel sorry in my heart." Zhu Jian said.

Zhu Qiyu smiled and shook his head: "Fourth, you are shallow."

"How the imperial seal came back, the court has no idea."

"Even if it has political significance, it is just a short-term benefit. It is of no use to me or you."

"I am not a young boy who just ascended the throne. I have been an emperor for more than thirty years and a prince for three years. I am politically stable. There is no need for anything to prove my legitimacy with you."

"This world is in the hands of you, my father and my son."

"Its political significance is not as great as that of my imperial edict."

"Besides, everything has two sides. You see the political significance of the jade seal, but don't you see how it can harm the country?"

"The emperor of the Han Dynasty thought that by conferring a stone into a god, he could protect the Han Dynasty for generations to come."

"Don't forget, Sun Jian lost his life because he coveted the jade seal, and Yuan Shu also perished because the jade seal arrogantly claimed to be emperor."

"This is a harmful thing."

"If I continue to bless its political significance, then it will become a spirit."

"People cannot be controlled by matter or a stone. That is what the weak do."

"You and I are both strong."

"I can control everything in this world, and so can you. I don't need a stone to add it. My decree doesn't need a stone to support it, because my words are God's decree. Do you understand?"

Of course Zhu Jianji understood.

If the Ming Dynasty continued to deify this stone, then all ambitious people would covet this stone. Just like Sun Jian, Yuan Shu, Cao Pi, Shi Le, Ran Min, and Li Cunxu, they were all deceived by a stone and eventually turned into a handful of loess.

If you deify this stone again, the stone will become a spirit, and you will truly be able to answer the words of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, whoever gets it will conquer the world.

But it also means that if the Ming Dynasty is unstable, it will be a disaster for the world.

"God cannot control people."

Zhu Qiyu said slowly: "Man can conquer heaven."

"As long as you develop science and technology, one day, man will be able to replace God and become the master of this earth and even the entire universe."

Zhu Jianji wanted to say, what's the use? After all, human lifespan is limited.

What does it mean to become the master of the world for a moment?
"Lao Si, with the development of science and technology, one day, people will be able to get rid of the control of life span, and people may live forever."

"How is that possible?" Zhu Jianyan thought his father was going to make elixirs, and his heart skipped a beat. He actually wanted to make elixirs. Who doesn't want to live longer?

He is sixty years old this year, and he really wants to ask God for another five hundred years.

"Yes, the end of technology is eternal life."

Zhu Qiyu saw through his mind and said slowly: "Old Si, alchemy is a lie. Can people get better after eating those chemical elements? That's because they wish they could live longer and refine alchemy. The more they eat, the faster they will die. "

"Technology is different. As long as we continue to study it, one day, ten years, one hundred, five hundred years, it will be possible for people to have endless longevity and be free from diseases."

"Humans will undergo artificial secondary evolution. When they evolve again, they will become immortal."

"Believe me."

Zhu Qiyu knows these people in power very well.

Anyone who holds supreme power will be afraid of death, extremely afraid of death.

But he is unwilling to restrain his desires. There is no emperor like him who is willing to restrain his desires.

Then, inject a seed of technological development into Zhu Jianji.

Otherwise, with Zhu Jianjian’s character, it is very likely that he would give up halfway due to too much investment. Then where would the third industrial revolution and the fourth industrial revolution be?

He needs Daming to continuously develop technology and explore the limits of technology.

In recent years, he has enjoyed reading science fiction novels.

What he has learned has led to the birth of many science fiction writers among the people. His favorite is to look at the future world.

He doesn't have long to live, but he hopes that Ming Dynasty can inherit his ideas, continue to go forward, and one day explore the mysteries of the universe.

"Dad, have you read too many novels?" Zhu Jianjian still didn't believe it.

"Fourth, let's make a bet. In ten years, technology will completely change everything today."

Zhu Qiyu said: "I can't live for ten years. The bet is that if technology changes the current world beyond recognition, you must unswervingly develop technology."

"Every year, 5%-10% of fiscal revenue must be allocated to develop science and technology."

"If I lose, I won't care about the future, just let you go, how about it?"

He was playing a trick.

In the past few years, the imperial court has invested countless amounts of money into the technology industry. It is still in the investment period. In the next ten years, it will enter the bulk harvest period, when technology will rapidly change life.

No need to gamble, it’s a sure thing.

"My son is willing to make this bet with my father." Zhu Jianji believed that technology would change life, but he didn't think it would be that fast.

After chatting for a while, Zhu Jianji exited the Yangxin Hall.

Zhu Qiyu is still ill and will soon be celebrating the New Year.

The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Finance are calculating the fiscal revenue of Jingtai in 1968 and preparing financial statements.

This is nothing new.

In the 69th year of Jingtai's reign, the imperial court would publish the official asset list and make all officials' salaries, property, and household registrations public.

The purpose of disclosure is mainly to eliminate corruption.

From the 65th year of Jingtai to the 68th year of Jingtai, the three-year purge has come to an end.

A total of 127 people, including all public officials, were executed, and more than million people were arrested.

After the 67th year of Jingtai, from top to bottom, we began to swat flies and clean up the grassroots officials.

Therefore, many policies targeting corruption will be introduced this year.

The most important thing is that assets should be disclosed and reported once a year, private reporting is allowed, and every report must be investigated. If an official is found to be corrupt, the official will be punished and rewarded the whistleblower; if the whistleblower is found to have framed the case, the whistleblower will be punished.

Disclosure of assets means not only disclosing one's own family assets, but also the assets of fellow family members.

If an official hides family assets in order to avoid disclosure of assets, or pretends to split up the family, but still maintains contact with them in private, the person who is reported will be guilty of the same crime as the whole family.

The imperial court was also cracking down on family power, forcing families to split up.

With the Ming Dynasty's foreign conquests, the external environment forced the Jingtai Dynasty to need a large number of families to work for the court.

As the Ming Dynasty stopped its conquests and the world expansion came to an end, the imperial court no longer needed these political families, so it was necessary to split these families.

Eliminate the breeding ground for aristocratic families and cut off the possibility of chaos in aristocratic families in the future.

Government affairs are open to the public, forcing family members to disclose their assets. It is clear who is poor and who is rich.

So the next step is to investigate the source of the assets. If they are earned from legitimate business, there will definitely be no problem. If there are illegal operations, they will definitely be investigated.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty allowed officials to do business. As long as you use your brain, there will definitely be no shortage of money. There is no need to go into details. The simplest way is to know where to plan in advance, buy a house, and your assets will exceed one million in minutes.

The main reason for making the household registration public is to worry about someone taking the money and escaping.

Don't think that Ming officials will not escape. Before the Jingtai Dynasty, there were very many people who escaped. They mainly ran to the Japanese country, and some ran to North Korea and Annan.

Jingtai ran more.

Just say that during this crackdown on counter-revolutionaries, many officials fled.

Even if the old emperor issues an imperial edict, how many can be captured? Even the emperor of the vassal country helped to catch him. He hid himself and changed his appearance. Where can he catch him?

Therefore, the whole family must make their household registration public and report their place of residence regularly every year.

It is to prevent officials from escaping.

Of course, we can't just punish without rewarding. This year, the Ministry of Revenue decided to increase the salaries of all officials.

The old emperor took the lead in making everything public, including imperial enterprises, fixed assets, deposits, etc., all were made public.

According to public data, the old emperor's deposits include 2700 tons of gold, 15 tons of jewelry, and several antiques. Calculated into Ming yuan, the amount is approximately 1700 trillion yuan.

There are 1231 imperial enterprises in total, with fixed assets of approximately 26 trillion yuan and total assets of approximately 2870 trillion yuan.

Fixed output is relatively small, about 130 trillion yuan.

Among all the assets, there are multiple giant oil mines, giant iron mines, coal mines, aluminum mines, silver mines, etc., as well as many banks, not only domestic banks, but also many banks in the vassal state, all of which are imperial enterprises.

After the royal assets were revealed, the world was in uproar.

The old emperor actually has so much money!
But after seeing the income and expenditure of all imperial enterprises, everyone became silent. It turns out that the things we use every day are produced by imperial enterprises, it turns out that the social welfare system is borne by imperial enterprises, and it turns out that the investment in infrastructure construction is all made by imperial enterprises. It's my responsibility...

When we first saw this number, everyone felt sad.

But after reading the income and expenditure report, I suddenly realized the greatness of the old emperor.

Imperial enterprises have supported social security subsidies for four billion people. Now the pensioners, medical insurance for hospitalization, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, etc. are all paid by the imperial enterprises, and the old emperor pays for it himself. Support the people of the world.

Because of the three largest insurance companies in Ming Dynasty, two are wholly owned by the old emperor, and one is a joint venture with a state-owned enterprise.

It is equivalent to saying that the money paid by individuals for social security is basically given to the imperial enterprise, which invests it, generates money, and ultimately bears the social welfare of all people.

When social security was proposed back then, it was mainly to build railways. Since there was no money to build railways, I thought of raising money from the private sector.

The old emperor proposed to protect this road and use the people's money today to build the railway. When the people get old and sick, the court will pay for them.

The opposition from North Korea and China is very loud.

Qiu Jun calculated an account. After thirty years, he would start to lose money, especially as the average life expectancy increased. After thirty years, everything would be borne by the court.

Zhu Qiyu believed that it was the young people at the back who were supporting the old people at the front, but the money was collected by the court and relied on the court's credibility.

As long as there is sufficient labor force, social security will not be interrupted.

Besides, even if we lose money, we can afford the loss if we have the railway to support us. Taking into account inflation, we actually don’t lose money.

Of course, having sufficient protection is also a benefit to the whole society. There is no need to only use utilitarianism to calculate this matter. This is also what he, the emperor, should do.

Zhu Qiyu's original intention was that the state-owned enterprises and imperial enterprises should jointly bear the responsibility, but the imperial court was unwilling to take the risk.

It became the imperial enterprise solely responsible for social security.

Later, when the imperial court saw the profit, it licked its face and insisted on taking away half of the shares.

In other words, the railway was also invested and constructed by an imperial enterprise, using social security money. This means that the money earned from the railway will be subsidized into social security. Coupled with inflation and the social security paid by the labor force later, at least within a hundred years, social security will not be able to Something will go wrong.

There is no subsistence allowance in Ming Dynasty.

For the extremely needy people, targeted poverty alleviation is provided by finding them jobs and feeding them. Those who have completely lost the ability to work are uniformly placed in almshouses and given a mouthful of food to prevent them from starving to death, that's all.

The national policy of the Ming Dynasty is to encourage people to create a better life and not to raise lazy people, idle people, or useless people.

Moreover, homeless people are not allowed on the streets. Those with mental illness will be sent to almshouses for placement. If normal people are homeless, the local government will be responsible for finding them jobs. Those who offend again will be sent to prison for forced rehabilitation.

There is no place for idlers in prisons. Even if you are sentenced to three months, you can't even think about lying in prison. The local heavy work and more dangerous jobs are all given to criminals.

In the Ming Dynasty prisons, food was not free. People had to work in exchange for food. If they didn’t work, they would have no food.

What others don't know is that the Ming Prison is a profit-making unit, and a portion of the profits is kept for itself and the bulk is handed over to the city's government.

There is a lot of profit to be made here, and the local government is very concerned about it.

In recent years, Ming Dynasty has tightened and reduced the death penalty, trying not to implicate family members, but it has increased the punishment.

Even scoundrels have to shed a layer of skin when they enter. Those who can survive ten years in the Ming Dynasty's prison are all iron men, so the maximum sentence in the Ming Dynasty is only twenty years.

Because no one has survived ten years in the Ming Dynasty prison. It has been nearly sixty years since the tenth year of Jingtai. The highest record is nine years and six months.

After three months in it, no matter how bad a person is, he has to learn to be good.

There is no transparency in prisons in the Ming Dynasty. Prisoners have no human rights. When they are sentenced, their human rights are directly deprived of them, and they are deprived of their human rights for as long as they are sentenced.

This is stipulated by law, so once you enter, people without human rights are not human beings, and they are not as useful as a pig.

In recent years, the issue of prisons has been a major concern among the public. The death rate is too high. Some people are sentenced to three months, and what comes out is an urn.

Prisoners are not allowed to be buried, which is a waste of land.

Therefore, there were many fugitives in the Ming Dynasty, and those who had committed crimes did not dare to enter, so they either fled or were killed. Social security was relatively poor.

But it can make more good people stop committing crimes.

No one who has been released from prison will commit another crime. There is no possibility of entering the palace for the second time. Even if they are beaten to death, they will not dare to be killed.

There is a great terror hidden in the prison of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there are no vagrants or beggars in every corner of Ming Dynasty.

As long as you have arms and legs, you will definitely be able to eat a full meal in Daming. Disabled people will be taken care of by the policy. Disabled people will receive disability pensions, which will be paid regularly. The local government will take care of disabled people regularly.

As for those who beg for profit, after being warned once, those who reoffend will be sent to prison. They will come out to see the results of their rehabilitation. Those who have not come out will all die in prison.

The purpose of Ming Dynasty Prison is to reform and allow criminals to start a new life.

Although the fatality rate is high, no one has come out, and no one has committed a second crime!

This proves that the Ming Dynasty’s prison system, although a bit harsh, is relatively effective.

Of course, there are many gangsters. If you commit a crime, you will know that your life will be ruined, and you will basically take revenge on society.

But in the forty-seventh year of Jingtai, a corresponding policy was introduced. Everyone in the world had the right to kill anyone wanted by Dali Temple and receive a generous reward.

This was the birth of the bounty hunter profession.

There is also a question here: have any of the wanted persons been wrongly accused? There must be. Do those bounty hunters have killers sent by powerful people? There must be.

However, the meaning of the existence of the law is to protect good people as the last bottom line.

Since it is to protect good people, the law will be biased towards good people. For things like self-defense, the regulations are relatively broad.

Therefore, in recent years, people have complained about prison sentences, but the court did not listen to any opinions and insisted on going its own way. Every time the criminal law was revised, regulations would be added to enrich the criminal law.

The laws of the Ming Dynasty were very strict. They were not as harsh as the laws of the Qin Dynasty, but they were the most severe in history. There were also tortures in the laws.

The public is also calling for the establishment of additional subsistence allowances to provide some protection to people in need.

Some people take Emperor Taizu as an example. If Emperor Taizu could have a full stomach, he would not rebel.

Officials from North Korea and China also believe that subsistence allowances can be set up. This is a good policy.

Zhu Qiyu did not think so. The subsistence allowance is a good policy, but it will change when it reaches the people. Moreover, this is contrary to the national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the subsistence allowance policy has never been implemented.

On the contrary, social security was promoted by the old emperor.

Looking at it now, this is a really good policy. It provides support for the elderly and cures diseases. Moreover, the court has a large amount of living money that can be used at any time, which is beneficial to both parties.

The old emperor used it to invest in railways and build infrastructure.

The court believes that in the future, the security fund will also be invested in railways.

That would be a shame.

The railway is actually losing money and will inevitably lose money.

The Jingtai-Chao Railway was profitable because it accounted for the monetary and labor dividends during the construction period.

To put it simply, in the 40th year of Jingtai, the per capita salary was a few hundred yuan. The Ming Dynasty was still in a money shortage, and silver coins were very tight. Therefore, the court built railways aggressively. The labor costs were very low, and the railway costs were very low.

In the 68th year of Jingtai, if you build an identical railway again, you will find that the cost is more than thirty times that of the time!
Moreover, railways have been rapidly updated over the years, and the cost has also continued to increase. Nowadays, building a railway is priced based on kilometers, which is different from what it was back then.

The cost of the railway has been recovered long ago, and it is certain to make money.

However, if we build a railway now, it will take at least thirty years to pay back the cost while maintaining the passenger flow. With current technology, a railway line will need to be replaced in basically five years, and it will have to be eliminated in twenty years at most. .

This means that it is impossible for railways to be profitable in the future.

As for the future investment direction, long-term investment is not infrastructure. At any time, infrastructure is just a way to stimulate the economy.

The old emperor's personal assets, surprisingly, accounted for 21% of the total assets of the Ming Dynasty.

This number is really scary.

In other words, the old emperor himself accounted for 21% of the Ming Dynasty with billion people.

State-owned enterprises account for only 7% of the country's assets.

It seems that state-owned enterprises can be considered powerful, but this is not the case. State-owned enterprises do not have as much liquidity as the old emperor. Moreover, the state-issued currency and major gold reserves are mostly owned by the old emperor.

Using gold to calculate pieces of paper is inherently a false proposition.

Because the paper was issued on gold, no, now it was issued on oil. The old emperor owned several giant oil mines.

Theoretically, he can print unlimited money.

Moreover, this is only the stage of the first industrial revolution. The second industrial revolution is a heavy industrial revolution, and the assets of state-owned enterprises will expand greatly.

It is equivalent to saying that the first industrial revolution was nothing more than a round of primitive accumulation.

Whoever accumulates enough primitive accumulation will benefit the most from the second industrial revolution.

That is to say, the rich will make money exponentially in the future development wave, while the poor will become even less rich, and the gap between the rich and the poor will widen rapidly.

The heavy industrial revolution, electric power, metallurgy, steel, these are not projects worth hundreds of millions.

In other words, the next ten years will be an era of great expansion for imperial enterprises and state-owned enterprises.

In the future, according to expert estimates, the assets of the two will exceed 70% of the entire society.

But this is not a good thing and shows that the domestic economy is in stagnant water.

In the old emperor's plan, it is expected that the sum of the two will be controlled at about 40%-50%. In this way, the people will be the living water, and the Ming Dynasty will continue to develop.

Private company bosses will also find business opportunities when they see the old emperor's financial statements.

Whatever you do to make money, the old emperor is the weather vane.

Watch what the imperial company does, and they will follow up and make money.

As businessmen, they admired the old emperor's business vision. All the money was earned by the old emperor himself.

Every imperial company can be traced back to its origins, including when it was established, how it made money, and its corporate history.

They all make money based on their own skills, what is there that they dare not disclose to the public?
At this time, you will find that the old emperor has a unique vision.

Before the second industrial revolution, his main focus was on heavy industry.

In terms of heavy industry, the court does not allow private capital to intervene, and will only sell it to private companies when it loses its strategic position.

Before the steam revolution, the old emperor made large-scale investments.

Now, all the big companies in China have investments from the old emperor, and the amount of assets in them is even greater.

You can't just look at the money-making side, the old emperor also made a lot of money-losing investments.

Ordinary people read the old emperor's public statements, and they also found the meaning of life and worked in the imperial company.

The imperial company operates on a recruitment basis.

There is no such thing as hereditary inheritance. The title is already hereditary. How can business still be hereditary?
Ordinary people are still alive.

There are no exams. Exams are of no use. What we are recruiting are talents. You will know after working for two months whether they are talents.

Don't set up a lifelong system, then can you still be motivated?
There is no iron rice bowl in Ming Dynasty.

State-owned enterprises, imperial enterprises and private enterprises are all recruiting, and the capable ones are promoted and the mediocre are demoted. The purpose is to see who is capable, not to check whose ancestors are innocent, nor to select spies.

Akito didn't think anything was different about the company, since anyone could be fired anyway.

The competition is certainly fierce.

The old emperor encouraged competition, and he made Ming Dynasty roll like crazy.

Forget about companies.

Officials are not guaranteed jobs. There are three types of grassroots service personnel: recruitment, favor, and appointment and dismissal.

The appointments and dismissals are mainly aimed at Jinshi.

Normally there are two channels: recruitment and imperial favor. Imperial favor is generally for those who have made great contributions to the court. For example, Yang Tinghe's son, who could not pass the imperial examination, took the imperial favor route and became a clerk at the grassroots level.

Obviously, there are very few people who take the path of Enyin. The sons of civil servants at this level are rarely willing to take this path. His father cannot afford to lose this person.

Moreover, few of those who entered the official career of Enyin were promoted in recent years.

The core reason is that there is a huge gap in academic qualifications between Enyin and the recruiter.

Recruitment has a threshold, and not everyone is required. If you want to take the exam, you have to pass the test before you can take the exam and enter the recruitment process.

In other words, in the most remote rural areas of the Ming Dynasty, a cadre at the lowest level was also a judge.

This is the minimum threshold, no exceptions.

Unless your father is very powerful and can let you take the path of Enyin, otherwise, there is no way to enter the officialdom.

Therefore, it is said that those who come in with grace cannot do anything to lift people up.

Juren is someone who has been killed among thousands of troops. There must be no problem with being talented in literature, and he must be capable of governing the place.

There are also female candidates.

The first female scholar in the Ming Dynasty was born in the eleventh year of Jingtai, and the first female Jinshi was born in the twentieth year of Jingtai.

Therefore, at the grassroots level of Ming Dynasty, it is also the starting point for raising people.

College students are still far behind.

Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty started from the position of section chief, so he entered the officialdom through appointment and removal.

There are huge barriers to entry into the officialdom for those who want to be promoted or promoted, one is a clerk, the other is a local section chief.

The police department, which is different from civilian officials, belongs to the military and noble camps. Generally, people with meritorious deeds who have changed careers enter the police system.

These are not iron rice bowls.

A grassroots clerk has a one-year probation period and a three-year assessment period, which are also included in the Beijing inspection. Every time the Beijing inspection is conducted, some grassroots clerks will be eliminated.

Those mediocre people who have no merit or ability will be eliminated.

And this elimination is not limited to the way in. Enyin came in, even if he came in and wanted to lie down, he was still eliminated.

Going through the door and trying to bribe is not allowed.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a small inspection every year, a major inspection every three years, and a special inspection every five years.

During the Grand Supervision period, 5% of the quota must be abolished.

Therefore, the grassroots level is more serious, and the iron rice bowl lasts only three years. If you can't make it in three years, you will have to go down.

Such bribery is not cost-effective. It is not cost-effective to do bribery for three years at a time and earn three years' salary.

During Jingtai's sixty-five-year purge, many censors, supervisors, and officials were arrested for practicing favoritism and malpractice. As many as 170 people were executed, and tens of thousands of people were implicated.

For extra-large inspections, the scope of inspections is expanded to include those who inspect officials such as supervisors and censors, and they will also be examined.

Let alone high-ranking officials, those who can stand in the Fengtian Palace are all rare people.

If they are dissatisfied with an official in any department of the cabinet, they will raise the issue and go through the removal process. This is their prerogative.

However, if the official fails to pass the dismissal procedure, he will not be dismissed and will be dismissed. Everything will be based on performance and ability.

It is not easy to be an official in the capital, and it is not easy to be a high-ranking local official.

If you can't deliver the stipulated political achievements on a regular basis every year, then you can do whatever you have to do. Almost every year, high-ranking officials are dismissed from office.

When the Jingtai Dynasty was dismissed from office, there would be no official pensions.

The official pension system of the Ming Dynasty has been in existence since the Hongwu Dynasty, and was further improved in the Jingtai Dynasty. For these senior officials, they are not short of this little money, and the focus is on the hidden benefits under the official pension.

If the son of the family is really unsatisfactory, he can follow the Enyin system and let the son enter the officialdom for a few years.

And the court will send regular greetings. If you die, the court will give you a reward and write an epitaph, which is equivalent to giving your name after your death.

Therefore, official pensions are crucial.

At the beginning of each year, the imperial court will set development goals for the next year based on local development. The goals are different for each province.

In order to avoid being dismissed from office, local officials would not over-report in the previous year in order to pursue political achievements, but would under-report in order to reserve their share for next year.

The water flows like this.

The old emperor has let the wind go. In the 70th year of Jingtai, the imperial court's goals will be disclosed to the whole people.

That is to say, the goals set by the imperial court for local governments are made known to all the people, and the people are allowed to supervise and report them.

It is to prevent local officials from committing fraud.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, fraud was a serious crime, ranging from dismissal from office to beheading.

If a senior local official admits that you are incompetent, he or she will usually be demoted or, in the most serious case, dismissed from office. But you cannot cheat and fool the central government.

If it was to fool the central government, once discovered, few would be dismissed from office, but most would be beheaded, because the emperor hated to be deceived.

Zhu Qiyu paid great attention to the sounds below.

He doesn't just look up, he wants to see the real place.

Even if the people are scolding him, he still wants to hear what they are scolding him for.

Even if the people are very poor, then find a way to get rich. Don't use fraud to make the court think that the place is rich. As a result, the people are already complaining, and the court doesn't know about it.

Zhu Qiyu always believes that telling the truth and doing the truth is more important than anything else.

Taizu was in the right position and was not afraid of rumors at all.

Zhu Qiyu believed that he was worthy of the people of Ming Dynasty, and he was not afraid of the people below scolding him.

Only when Zhu Jianqi didn't want to hear the voices below, he couldn't hear the voices below. Because Zhu Jianqi didn't want to hear them, officials reported good news instead of bad news in order to please them.

Zhu Qiyu just wanted to see the real place.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was booming, and of course the people below also dared to report.

Is it true that there is no such thing as fraud? So why did the purge kill so many people?
Cockroaches and rats are always there, no one knows where they are hiding.

Zhu Qiyu encouraged competition, and there was no iron rice bowl in Ming Dynasty.

In fact, an iron rice bowl means stability.

If you serve the iron rice bowl, you have to listen to me. I can knead it as much as I want. This is the rule.

The essence is to turn the public world into a family world.

Same as the emperor.

Zhu Qiyu didn't have such worries at all. The Ming Dynasty was originally his private property, and everyone on this land was his private property.

There is no need to create a batch of private property at all.

This year, he took the lead in disclosing his assets.

The main worry is that when the people discover so many assets of the old emperor one day, the impression of the old emperor in their hearts will immediately collapse.

And he said it himself and acted aboveboard.

Moreover, every amount of money is clearly calculated and earned by him, and the money earned is not to satisfy his selfish desires, but to protect all citizens.

Is he great?

Obviously he is the richest man in the world, but he also becomes the greatest man in the world.

Isn’t this logic weird?
Accompanying it is the old emperor's New Year's speech.

In his speech, he told the people of the world that my money is the money of all citizens. Every penny of mine will not be wasted on personal enjoyment, but will be used on the happy life of all citizens. To ensure the welfare of all citizens and to meet the daily needs of all citizens.

When I die, all my savings, my imperial enterprises, and all other properties will be supervised by all the people. This is a huge amount of property that I will leave to the Ming Dynasty, a legacy to the four billion people, not to The future emperor's squandered capital.

This is not purely a lie.

If it is said that Zhu Youyi squandered it, can the people still ask for it from Zhu Youyi? This is not just a nice thing to say.

But people all over the world are excited.

As we all know, the old emperor's clothing, food, housing and transportation have been made public for a long time. Everyone in the world knows how much he eats and spends on each meal.

The old emperor can only be described as hard and simple.

Especially when the people of the world learned that the old emperor had so much money, and then thought about his daily life of food, clothing, housing and transportation, it was like a saint when he was alive, and they would definitely believe his words.

Moreover, the old emperor is really doing it, and the money for welfare protection is accounted for, so you can check it at will.

He was originally a god, but after disclosing all his assets, he went to the altar again.

There is another factor. The old emperor did have a lot of fixed property, but except for the Forbidden City and the two capitals, they were all tourist attractions. They were not the emperor's private property and only the emperor lived alone.

The antiques and jewelry collected in the palace were also put on display, not for the old emperor's own enjoyment.

In addition, Imperial Enterprises provides many employment opportunities. Imperial Enterprises has a reputation for fair pricing, fair contracts, and quick payment of wages and bonuses.

All these can prove the magnanimity of the old emperor.

It's definitely not a lie.

He also mentioned in his speech: The future of the Ming Dynasty lies in the officials' governance of the Qingming Festival, with the top and bottom working together and unity, and the officials' governance of the Qingming Festival lies in supervision.

As an emperor, I have been walking on thin ice since the beginning of my succession to the throne. I dare not waste a second or waste a penny, because I have the entire Ming Dynasty on my shoulders.

God bless me, and with the joint efforts of me and the people of the world, the Ming Dynasty has achieved its great prosperity today. I hope that the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty will last for one hundred, five hundred, or one thousand years!

And this requires all citizens to supervise the court.

In the past few years, government affairs have been open to the public, but starting from this year, it will be financial disclosure and asset disclosure. The Ming Dynasty is not only my Ming Dynasty, but a Ming Dynasty shared by four billion compatriots. It is a Ming Dynasty shared by me and you.

Therefore, as citizens of Ming Dynasty, you must exercise your rights, supervise the court, supervise officials, supervise policies, supervise everything, and truly regard Ming Dynasty as your own home.

In the future, everything in the Ming Dynasty will be open to the public, allowing all citizens to jointly supervise the court, the emperor, and officials. The central and local governments will be subject to supervision and reports. All reports will be investigated, and every report will be investigated.

The property of the imperial court must be taken from the people and used for the people. They must not be despised, abused, or used indiscriminately. They must be supervised by the whole people and supervised by everyone.

My private property does not belong to the royal family, but to the four billion citizens. I am your king and father. My assets should be inherited by all my children, and the use of all properties must also be supervised, and must be done. It is used by the people and benefits the people.

Zhu Qiyu's speech covered all aspects, summed up the three-year purge, put forward requirements for the future construction of the official team, persisted in making government affairs public, how to use one's own private property, and the opportunities and challenges in the future electrical revolution. , love and concern for the people of the feudal state, etc.

On the first day of the first lunar month, the entire newspaper page was filled with speeches by the old emperor.

Attached is a photo of Zhu Qiyu sitting on a chair. In the photo, Zhu Qiyu is old and has no imperial domineering look. He is just a kind old man.

But in his heart, he always holds four billion citizens.

The old emperor would usually give a speech on major festivals, but most of the festivals were congratulatory messages. He would only give important speeches during the New Year.

This newspaper is for public welfare, must be distributed in every house, and must be read by everyone.

It must be distributed not only to the people of Ming Dynasty, but also to people all over the world.

Everyone needs to watch it.

Of course, there is no need to learn this stuff.

But it also sent a strong political signal. In his later years, the old emperor wanted to improve the supervision system and he did not trust officials to govern.

If this government system is allowed to develop, it will become corrupt in ten years, it will become seriously corrupt in twenty years, and it will be out of control in thirty years.

You can't just kill them every ten years.

Zhu Qiyu believed that there was still a lack of a system to prevent corruption. If a set of effective systems could be established, it would be very good if it could reduce corruption, if not eliminate it.

But throughout the ages, there has been no such system.

Zhu Qiyu has always wanted to formulate such a plan.

The old emperor took the lead in disclosing his property, and Prince Zhu Jianji also disclosed his property.

Everyone in the world underestimated Zhu Jianjian's small treasury.

The internal funds of the Shang Kingdom were Zhu Jianji's private property. He would definitely take them with him when he returned to the country and could not leave them to Zhu Youqi.

Therefore, Zhu Jianji's family is also very rich.

There were about 270 tons of gold, 1700 tons of silver coins, 1 ton of jewelry, and several antiques. After the fixed assets were sold, Ming Yuan 97 trillion was obtained.

Total assets exceed 400 trillion.

People across the country were shocked again.

Not to mention them, even the court officials did not expect that the fourth child was so rich!

That's really not ordinary money. If there was a ranking list of vassal emperors, the fourth child would at least be in the top three.

However, Zhu Youyi knew that this money had been divided once before. When King Qi, King Zhao and King Lu divided their families, they all received a huge sum of money. Otherwise, Zhu Jianji's total assets would be more than 600 trillion.

This is enough.

Zhu Jianzhen is not as great as his father. His money was put into the stock market to make money, and he did not put more into social security.

The main reason is that the old emperor's social security is also a paradox. It is not the old emperor who pays to support the people, but the people themselves.

But now the overall public opinion seems to be that the old emperor spends money to support the people of the world.

Of course, there are benefits to making Zhu Jianji's property public.

Zhu Jianzhen is so rich, he will definitely not covet the family assets left by the old emperor. These assets belong to four billion people. You, Zhu Jianzhen, don't even think about squandering them.

Now people all over the world have pointed it out.

The old emperor himself said that the money would be used for his four billion children and the royal family would not be allowed to squander it.

In fact, it is equivalent to naked donation.

Others would lie to others, but the old emperor would never do that.

In terms of credibility, the old emperor still has a good reputation.

However, when the prince and the old emperor were compared, their superiority was immediately obvious.

The old emperor also had money, but his money was spent on four billion people.

The prince is also rich, but his money is used to make money and make his own money. It is obvious that he has no common people at heart.

Therefore, it was definitely the wrong decision for the old emperor to abdicate to him.

As long as the old emperor is around, life will be better.

This is a truth recognized by people all over the world.

Zhu Jianji was hurt.

Everyone discloses their finances, so why should I be stepped on? What, the old emperor is a good guy, but I, the crown prince, am a bad guy?

Zhu Jianji was really angry.

On the other hand, Zhu Qiyu couldn't help laughing. The same sentence depends on how you say it. To put it nicely, you are a saint, but if you put it poorly, you are a traitor. In fact, it is the same thing.

　pay off

　　
　
(End of this chapter)