Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 57 Taxation Department and Inspection Team

Xu Guangqi has been an official for decades and knows the officialdom very well. He can naturally understand the difficulties and sufferings the emperor faces with the ministers in the court. The emperor is young, but he dares to change the past and create new things. He has such ambitions. In fact, It was rare, and he was immediately moved.

"Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to your favor!"

Zhu Tianqi looked at Xu Guangqi with tears in his eyes, and felt warm in his heart. He was also a little touched that someone could understand his difficulties.

But time waits for no one, Zhu Tianqi no longer cared about talking nonsense, and just asked: "When will the new tax policy be drafted at the earliest?"

Xu Guangqi immediately became serious when he heard this, and replied resolutely: "Back to the emperor, within three days, I will definitely present the new tax policy!"

"Okay!" Zhu Tianqi nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand and said: "Then my dear, please go back and make plans as soon as possible. I'll wait for the good news!"

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he immediately bowed and left, holding the "reference materials" given to him by Zhu Tianqi, and left quickly.

Zhu Tianqi began to think about how to implement the new tax policy.

Formulating a new tax policy is actually not difficult. He has told Xu Guangqi his ideas and given Xu Guangqi many mature tax law books as reference. I believe Xu Guangqi will be able to come up with a plan that satisfies him. !
The key issue is still how to implement the new tax policy. The new tax policy can not help but cancel the corvee, weaken the collection of land rent and land tax, and adjust the focus of collection to industrial and commercial tax, which directly infringes on the rights of most officials. If their profit is cut off, they will definitely fight for their lives.

Even though these ministers had lowered their heads in the previous debate on tax and labor reform, when it comes time to implement the New Deal, they will definitely still obstruct it and hinder the implementation of the New Deal. Even if they do not dare to oppose themselves on the surface, they are afraid that They work against the odds, and once this new policy is implemented in local areas, if it changes its flavor, I'm afraid it will end up with no results.

Therefore, on the one hand, we must suppress the ministers, and on the other hand, we must find another way. In other words, we must bypass the existing bureaucracy and establish a new set of controllable and reliable institutions for vertical management by ourselves. Come to ensure the successful implementation of the New Deal!
Zhu Tianqi has seriously considered this before, so he is not completely out of ideas. He has been thinking about it carefully for a while, and now he may be able to come up with a feasible plan.

Zhu Tianqi planned to establish taxation departments across the country, which would be classified according to the existing administrative divisions. Each of the thirteen chief envoys across the country would set up a provincial-level general taxation department, with a prefectural-level taxation department under it, and a state-level taxation department under the prefecture. Establish a county-level tax department.

The Taxation Department is responsible for tax collection matters and is not under the supervision of the local Chief Envoy. It only accepts the vertical management of the higher-level Taxation Department and the emperor. In addition to tax officials, the Taxation Department also arranges a certain number of royal guards according to different levels for supervision. To prevent officials from taking advantage of their powers, engaging in malpractice for personal gain, taking bribes and perverting the law.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Jinyiwei responsible for local supervision from colluding with officials from the local taxation department, Jinyiwei personnel implemented a rotation system. After the same group of Jinyiwei personnel served in the local area for one year, they were randomly transferred to other places.

In addition, Zhu Tianqi also plans to set up several roving inspection teams and send them out to randomly conduct overt and covert inspections at various health centers across the country, and report various problems that exist at the local level and within the health centers at any time.In addition to the Jin Yiwei, Zhu Tianqi also planned to select a group of young people from those Jinshi and Juren who had not yet waited for official positions. There were two reasons for this plan.

Firstly, those who can pass the Jurenhe and Jinshi examinations at a young age are considered to be the best among scholars. Their IQ is definitely no problem. With training and experience, you may be able to select among them some of the pillars of the country in the future. material.

The second is that most young people are energetic, and they have never been officials and have not been polluted by the officialdom. It should be very appropriate to let them patrol places. They are young, tactless, and some are even more upright and one-sided. , it may not be appropriate to do other things, but precisely because of this, they are not easily bribed by local people.

Zhu Tianqi also plans to design a performance appraisal system for them. Whoever finds more problems in the local area and uncovers more corrupt officials will have greater credit. In the future, they will be appointed based on their audit performance. Officials with greater credit will be rewarded. The rank is high. In this case, are you afraid that these young candidates and Jinshi, who have been waiting for many years and have not been able to hold an official position, will not work hard?
Zhu Tianqi believed that as long as he established and perfected the tax system and supervision system, he would be able to bypass the existing bureaucracy and complete the collection of various taxes in the Ming Dynasty!
Two days later, Xu Guangqi came to see the Holy Spirit with a memorial in hand. The memorial was drafted by him in these two days. In order to formulate the new tax policy of the Ming Dynasty earlier, Xu Guangqi could be said to have prepared the new tax policy in these two days. I forgot all about sleep and food, and barely slept a wink.

Zhu Tianqi took the memorial and read it carefully, nodding with satisfaction from time to time. The new tax policy formulated by Xu Guangqi can be said to be in full compliance with Zhu Tianqi's inner expectations for the new tax policy of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the key points he mentioned, Xu Guangqi also added many detailed clauses. The ladder setting of tax proportions and the starting points of various taxes were carefully considered and calculated.

Although Zhu Tianqi had not made careful calculations, he could roughly estimate the tax rate and threshold set by Xu Guangqi based on the historical data he had found before. Still very reasonable.

Zhu Tianqi closed the memorandum, with a satisfied smile on his face, and said: "Xu Aiqing, I am very satisfied with the new tax law you drafted, but we still need to be cautious about the setting of tax ratios and thresholds. The new tax law Whether it is reasonable and whether it can be accepted by the people is the key!"

Xu Guangqi nodded, raised his hand and saluted: "What the emperor said is absolutely true. Things involving numbers have always been cautious. I will summon the officials from the Ministry of Revenue later to check all the tax files of the Ministry of Revenue. The tax proportions and thresholds set in the new tax law have been carefully calculated again, and we strive to be foolproof!"

Zhu Tianqi raised his hand and handed the memorandum back to Xu Guangqi, "Then thank you for the hard work, Xu Aiqing!"

Xu Guangqi took the memorial and hurriedly saluted: "I don't dare. If the emperor has no other instructions, I will leave first!"

Zhu Tianqi nodded slightly, "Well, go and do your work!"

(End of this chapter)