I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 195 The Fundamentals of Governing the World!Recommend King Yan!

Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Yunxi was thinking about what to do next.

He is very clear that the establishment of the People's Supervision Department cannot fundamentally solve the problem of official corruption.

Anti-corruption and anti-corruption have been a long-standing problem since ancient times.

But no matter when, corruption accumulates slowly and starts bit by bit.

Waiting for a person to be seriously ill before going for treatment, even if he can bring the dead back to life, it is not considered a miracle doctor.

A real miracle doctor is to keep a person healthy when he is not sick.

A minor illness will not develop into a serious illness.

It seems that no one has been saved, but in fact it has saved thousands of people.

It is true that the so-called good fighters have no great military exploits.

The same is true of the meaning of the People's Supervision Department.

Cure the sickness and save the patient, learn from the past and hide from the past.

The People's Supervision Bureau can at least bring about a drastic change in the atmosphere on the surface.

Corruption can only be carried out in secret and does not dare to be exposed in the sun.

In the feelings of ordinary people, we can really feel the change of atmosphere.

Only in Jinling, of course, is not enough.

The People's Supervision Department continues to send troops to the localities.

However, in order to ensure the purity of personnel, the expansion speed is not too fast.

Zhu Yunxi repeatedly told Yang Shiqi that this kind of thing would rather be slow, but also strictly select people and train them strictly.

All beginnings are hard.

The People's Supervision Department selects people from scratch.

It is very important to strictly control and maintain the purity of the team.

With the deepening of the Civil Supervision Department, the amount of commercial tax collected has actually increased a lot.

But many ordinary merchants feel that the business environment is better than before.

The extortionate yamen servants disappeared, at least on the surface.

In the past, the kind of careless officials who collected money and blackmailed casually all behaved with their tails between their tails.

Everyone knows that the Civil Supervision Department is watching.

Once stabbed there, they will not be able to eat and walk around.

For officials and gentlemen, it may be that they were reprimanded for being lax, and they were recorded on the official examination book, which affected their official career.

But if the official is affected, shouldn't he punish the government servants heavily when he comes back?

Taking the blame and losing the errand are considered light things!

Who dares?

As the saying goes, "The king of hell is easy to deal with, but the devil is difficult to deal with."

From a national macro level, of course, those who are greedy and powerful have greater influence.

But from the perspective of ordinary people, the people they deal with are the lowest level official servants.

The county magistrate who destroyed the family, the magistrate who destroyed the family.

A single official making things difficult can make many people speechless and suffer a lot.

They have no rank and are not officials.

In the eyes of officials, they are just tools that can come and go when called upon.

But in the eyes of ordinary people, they are untouchable.

After the establishment of the People's Supervision Department, this situation was finally completely reversed.

Naturally, the people praised him.

"His Majesty's grandson's move is brilliant. Since ancient times, the most difficult thing to govern is the subordinate staff."

Yao Guangxiao sighed: "It is said that the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats rule the world together."

"But according to the poor monk, in fact, those who rule the world with the emperor are not scholar-bureaucrats, but subordinate officials."

"It's the most difficult to govern them."

"Not to mention governing a country, even governing a subordinate official in a county is extremely difficult."

"Now His Majesty Taisun has set up the People's Supervision Department. It is still difficult to supervise high-ranking officials and important ministers, but it has a miraculous effect on the lower-level subordinates. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!"

The corruption of high-ranking officials and ministers is often very hidden.

Only relying on the Civilian Supervision Department can find out some, but it is impossible to find out all of them.

In other words, if you were unprepared at the beginning, you could find out a lot.

But as time goes by, they will become more and more secretive, and it will be difficult to find out.

This is the saying: "The Tao is as high as one foot, and the devil is as high as one foot."

Of course, that doesn't mean that the People's Supervision Department has nothing to do with high-ranking officials.

At least, they can no longer act as arrogantly as Ouyang Lun did before.

It can only be said that after they are hidden, it is difficult to find evidence.

But the subordinate staff is different.

Subordinate officials have to deal with the common people.

What they have done and what they have not done are known to the common people.

Just a random report, who would dare to do anything wrong?
Moreover, there are many subordinate officials with good nature who were forced to accept bribes and collude with their colleagues under threats.

Otherwise, it will be squeezed out and it will be difficult to gain a foothold.

But now that they have the People's Supervision Department, they can justifiably refuse.

In fact, such subordinate staff are not in the minority.

But when bad money eliminates good money, they can only go with the light.

Just like many people in later generations hate drinking, but in officialdom and workplace, they have to drink.

Only a clear and strict prohibition on alcohol can stop this evil trend.

This is the importance of high-level governance.

Only relying on the grassroots itself, no matter how good his character is, he is helpless!

Because he cannot change the environment, he has no choice but to obey.

Only those at the top, those who control the direction of the entire society, have the ability to make fundamental changes.

That's exactly what he did.

Zhu Yunxuan smiled lightly.

When he first traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he also thought that there must be no corruption in the Ming Dynasty in this era.

After all, Lao Zhu killed so many corrupt officials.

The skinned officials are still being offered in front of the county government office.

But what he saw and heard with his own eyes later overturned his original naive idea.

In fact, the officials and subordinates in this era were much more arrogant in their treatment of the people than in later generations.

If the Bu family thought they had Lan Yu's backing, they were very arrogant.

The government officials also dared to openly accept bribes from tea shed owners.

Ouyang Lun's servants were even more daring, even the court tax collectors dared to beat them.

All of these are different.

Slowly also figured it out.

In the final analysis, people of this era still have the idea of ​​privilege that goes deep into their bones.

I'm an official now, I'm a noble in the court, I'm a relative of the emperor, what's wrong with shitting on your head?

Are you still not convinced?
Ordinary ordinary people just swallowed their anger.

Secondly, although there are provisions for petitioning, it is by no means an easy task for the people to sue an official, even if it is a government official with no rank.

Complaints are very costly.

It is too high for ordinary people to bear.

If it is a leapfrog lawsuit, it doesn't matter whether it is justified or not, let's beat the board first.

Therefore, unless they are forced into desperation, they will not sue at all.

To put it bluntly, the system is set up so that you are only allowed to sue officials for major grievances.

Ordinary grievances, ordinary people should endure, this is the obedient people.

The existence of the People's Supervision Department is a bit like a reporting hotline for later generations, where you can sue at any time without any cost.

Moreover, the Civil Supervision Department is a separate and independent agency and is not subject to the constraints of local governments.

Through strict internal control, the possibility of their collusion with the local government is eliminated.

This still doesn't fundamentally solve the problem.

But both officials and subordinate staff can be allowed to behave with their tails between their legs.

In fact, it also gave the good people among them the confidence not to be threatened.

Let the social atmosphere improve.

Otherwise, in that environment, no official or subordinate could change anything.

Further governance requires the accumulation of time.

"You don't need to flatter me either."

Zhu Yunzhen smiled and said: "Speaking of which, the establishment of the Taxation Department is imminent. However, the Taxation Department is not a trivial matter, and I have not yet found a suitable person to be in charge."

"Old monk, do you have anyone to recommend?"

Finance and taxation must be separated.

The current situation where the Ministry of Household Affairs is all in charge, needs to be changed urgently.

Moreover, in Zhu Yunzhen's vision, the Taxation Department will be an extremely powerful organization.

Just like the tax bureau of the eagle sauce empire in later generations, it is pervasive.

There is another one, that is, relatives of the emperor, nobles and heroes must pay taxes the same as ordinary people.

Now it is limited to commercial tax, but in the future it will be expanded to land tax and all other taxes.

Since ancient times, all dynasties have made resisting land annexation a top priority.

But on the other hand, it gave officials and nobles the privilege of not paying taxes.

This is the exact opposite.

How can those who pay taxes compete with those who don't?

If you can't compete, don't you have to be merged?
Then how can we oppose land annexation?
Therefore, throughout the ages, this problem has been almost unsolvable.

Is there really no smart person who can see through all this?

of course not!

It’s just that the people in power are the nobles and officials!

How can there be any reason in the world to inflict a knife on oneself?

Therefore, the slogan against land annexation was loudly shouted.

But it ignores the fundamental problem.

Even if the emperor knew it well, because he had to rely on officials and nobles to rule the world, he could only let it go.

But Zhu Yunxi was determined to solve this problem.

The establishment of the tax department will directly point to this point.

Of course, he will not be too aggressive.

After all, Lao Zhu is still alive and still needs the support of his old man.

Land tax and other taxes should not be rushed.

But only the current commercial taxation and the supervision of the taxation department are urgent.

Otherwise, Zhu Yunxi believed that because of the death of Ouyang Lun and Zhao Mian, the relatives of the royal family, military generals and nobles who were temporarily afraid and frightened to pay taxes would soon find a new way to evade taxes.

As a time traveler, he firmly believes in this.

Treating the symptoms cannot cure the root cause.

But in this case, the candidate for the head of the tax department is extremely critical.

This person must not only have sufficient talent, but also be unselfish, and must not be afraid of the pressure of any royal relatives, military generals and nobles.

Zhao Mian, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, who committed suicide before, is a lesson learned from the past.

The reason why he dared to embezzle and accept bribes was related to his own character on the one hand, and his greedy wife on the other.

More importantly, he was in the middle of the game and couldn't resist the pressure from the royal relatives and honorable officials.

For example, Ouyang Lun asked him to open a penny tax payment document, he had to open it, and dared not refuse to open it.

If you open it to these people, you can get it for yourself.

This is the "broken window effect" in psychology.

Either way, it's illegal.

Why not get it for yourself?

Ever since, Zhao Mian got deeper and deeper step by step.

The head of the tax department has to bear great pressure, and no ordinary person can handle it.

In Zhu Yunxun's view, some people failed to leave their names in history, perhaps just because of bad luck.

But ability and talent are no problem.

However, he asked himself that he did not have the eyes of a god to be able to see through people completely at a glance.

So ask Yao Guangxiao.

Hearing Zhu Yunxi's question, Yao Guangxiao pondered for a long time, and then said: "The position of the head of the taxation department is not trivial, and ordinary people can't do it."

"A virtuous person does not avoid relatives, but the poor monk has a candidate to recommend to His Royal Highness the Grandson."

"I just hope that His Majesty the Grand Sun, don't think that this poor monk has any selfish motives."

Zhu Yunzhen laughed loudly and said: "Old monk, just say it, I will not blame you."

"it is good!"

Yao Guangxiao said: "There is one more thing. To use this person, His Majesty must agree. Whether His Highness Taisun can do it or not requires deep thinking."

Zhu Yunxi smiled and asked: "Could it be that he committed some serious crime and was relegated?"

It is not surprising that there are such characters.

After being demoted, he was depressed all his life.

Empty talent but no place to display it.

Zhu Yunxi also believes that there are many such buried talents in history.

"That's not it."

Unexpectedly, Yao Guangxiao shook his head and said, "It's just that this person's identity is not trivial."

Then, he said sternly: "The poor monk recommends King Yan Zhu Di to His Highness Taisun for the candidate for the head of the Taxation Department!"

(End of this chapter)