Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 224 Adjustment of the Household Department
The emperor's decision put great pressure on Bi Ziyan and Guo Yunhou.

Although the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Household Affairs seem to have nothing to do with each other, the emperor's increase in power to the Ministry of Works is a clear threat——

If the two do not agree to adjust the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Tuntian Division, which was just assigned to Taifu Temple by the emperor, can be reassigned to the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Industry can theoretically take charge of farmland taxation and industrial and commercial taxation.

Xue Fengxiang, a minister who relied on the emperor's favor to be demoted and retained in office, would never object to the emperor's establishment of these institutions in the Ministry of Industry. He would even happily take over the authority of the Ministry of Household Affairs so that the Ministry of Works would no longer be ranked last among the six departments.

After thinking about this, I also realized that I relied on the emperor's support to stay in the court. Guo Yunhou ignored the difficulty of building Taifu Temple and responded:
"I believe that the departments and departments should be placed under the jurisdiction of Taifu Temple."

"Each department's gold department should also be managed by Taifu Temple."

Finally getting a positive response, Zhu Youjian thought for a while and divided:
"Each department of the Ministry of Household Affairs has four departments: Civil Affairs, Duzhi Branch, Jinke, and Warehouse Branch, which are responsible for civil affairs, Duzhi, taxation, and warehousing respectively."

"From now on, matters related to Cangke will naturally be assigned to Taifu Temple. Apart from grain, the General Administration of Warehousing will be responsible for it. Grain and other food items will be handled exclusively by the General Administration of Food."

"The General Administration of Agriculture is responsible for the summer tax, autumn grain, storage, and shipment of Duzhike."

"The Tea Taxation Section of Jinke, as well as the Propaganda Department, Taxation Department, Chaoguan, etc. under the leadership of the Guizhou Division, will be responsible for the establishment of the General Administration of Taxation. From now on, all taxes other than land tax will be managed by the General Administration of Taxation."

“The General Administration of Salt Administration was established to take charge of the local salt transportation departments and salt promotion departments under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Division, headed by..."

After raising his voice, Zhu Youjian did not say it out loud, but all the ministers knew that this was forcing Bi Ziyan to make a choice.

Although the salt policy of the Ming Dynasty was corrupted, there were still more than one million yuan in salt tax every year, which was one-third of the cash received by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Even because the local government was in arrears with land taxes, the actual income of the Ministry of Household Affairs was less than two million taels, half of which was accounted for by salt and silver.

If salt administration, like land tax and taxation, were assigned to Taifu Temple, the revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs would be completely restricted by Taifu Temple, or even ignored by Taifu Temple.

As long as Bi Ziyan still wants to be the Minister of Household Affairs, he cannot sit back and watch this.

So he could only open his mouth to fight and said:

"The General Administration of Salt Administration should be directly subordinate to the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"The General Taxation Administration established by His Majesty should also take charge of the tax collection offices in the inner court."

"Tax supervisors, mining taxes, and municipal shipping in all regions should all be under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Taxation."

This is a rebellion against the general's army, to see if the emperor is willing to withdraw the eunuchs who collect taxes from the inner court.

But he didn't know that Zhu Youjian had long thought of getting rid of the tax collection eunuchs, and the Shipping Department had long been handed over to the General Administration of Customs, so he immediately said:
"The eunuchs of the inner court will no longer have tax collection duties in the future."

"The tax supervisor can only supervise tax revenue and expenditure, and is restrained by Gao Shiming, who supervises the Second Department of Household Labor."

"The Municipal Shipping Department has been placed under the General Administration of Customs and there is no need to make changes."

"The mining tax will be collected by the General Administration of Taxation in the future, and a license system will be implemented. The Yu Heng Department of the Ministry of Industry will issue licenses to the mines that are allowed to mine, and will uniformly manage resources such as mines and mountain fields."

Such a big concession left Bi Ziyan speechless. The ministers also felt the emperor's determination to adjust the household department——

In order to establish a unified tax office, the emperor even abolished the eunuchs who collected taxes. If they did not support it, they would force the emperor to send out the eunuchs.

Such a consequence is something that all civil servants do not want to see. So they all looked at Bi Ziyan, hoping that he would agree.

Bi Ziyan was stared at by the emperor and the ministers. With no choice but to support the emperor's adjustments to the household department. He suspected that if he didn't agree, the emperor would continue to establish new institutions in Taifu Temple and completely eliminate the Ministry of Household Affairs——

After all, in the early days of the People's Republic of China, the Household Department had four subordinate departments: the headquarters, the branch, the finance department, and the warehouse department. The various general offices of Taifu Temple are actually equivalent to half of the Jinbu, Cangbu and Du branches. If he doesn't respond, Hube will be ousted by Taifu Temple.

Having made a decision in his mind, Bi Ziyan immediately began to fight for power in the Ministry of Household Affairs and requested:
"I thought Taifu Temple was responsible for collecting taxes and warehousing, but the Ministry of Household Affairs was responsible for disbursements." "The Ministry of Household Affairs should be responsible for the reward and salary of officials, and the payment of military pay to the nine-border army."

Zhu Youjian had this idea and immediately nodded in agreement and said:
"The Ministry of Household Affairs has established a Finance Department, which is responsible for fiscal revenue and expenditure, budget and final accounts, etc."

"Taxation matters belong to Taifu Temple, but how much to collect and how much to pay is decided by the Financial Secretary. The affairs of the Financial Secretary are in charge of the Minister of Household Affairs."

"Because the adjustment starts from Shuntian Prefecture in Beizhili, the tax collected by Shuntian Prefecture will be deposited in Shuntian Bank."

"The Financial Department of the Ministry of Accounts directly allocates funds from Sunchon Bank to distribute salaries to officials. The tax money from Taicang Bank needs to be released through the bank."

The Sunchon Bank that had been ambushed before was used at this time.

Bi Ziyan didn't know anything about Sunchon Bank, and he didn't know its power for a while. Not paying attention to such a trivial matter, he asked the emperor again:
"Civil affairs should be handled by the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"The Ministry of Husbandry was originally called the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but to avoid the taboo of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed the Ministry of Husbandry."

"Household registration and other matters that the Civil Affairs Bureau is responsible for should be left in the Ministry of Household Affairs."

This was a matter of course. Zhu Youjian had no intention of setting it aside, so he followed the example of the later Ministry of Civil Affairs and responded:

“The affairs of the civil affairs department are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Civil Affairs and the Department of Land Affairs.”

"The Department of Civil Affairs is responsible for household registration, immigration, public appeasement, assemblies and associations, provincial capitals, prefectures and counties, etc."

“The Department of Lands is responsible for land clearance, issuance of land titles, urban land planning, etc.”

"So the Ministry of Household Affairs has four departments: the General Affairs Department, the Financial Department, the Civil Affairs Department, and the Land Affairs Department."

"The original Thirteenth Department was demoted to a department and placed under the jurisdiction of the General Affairs Department."

Finally retaining the power of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and being able to restrict the land tax responsibilities of Taifu Temple through the Department of Land Affairs, Bi Ziyan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the emperor had no intention of completely eclipsing the Ministry of Household Affairs. The core power of the Ministry of Revenue is still retained.

And after thinking about it, he found that the Taifu Temple was responsible for troublesome matters such as tax collection and transportation from the local area. The Ministry of Revenue does not need to worry about these tedious matters. The most important thing is to ensure financial revenue and expenditure.

This made him finally realize that the emperor was not making random changes, but was really thinking about court affairs. The resistance in his heart also reduced a lot, and he decided to help the emperor do this.

Guo Yunhou looked bitter, knowing that he would still be tired. But Taifu Temple divided almost half of the power of the household department, so he could only accept it.

The adjustment of the Second Department of Household Workers was extremely cautious. Zhu Youjian was afraid that problems would arise, so he ordered:

“Officials from the Third Law Department must strengthen their review of the Second Department of Household Workers, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in particular must do a good job in supervision.”

“We must be cautious during the adjustment process and not rush for quick results.”

"First adjust the imperial court institutions, and then test it in Beizhili."

"After verification next year, we will expand to other places."

　"History of the Ming Dynasty" Chronicle 48 Official Official 1:

　　(The Thirteenth Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs) is divided into four subjects:
　　It is called Minke, and it mainly refers to the geography, people, maps, ancient and modern history of the provinces, prefectures and counties, the history of mountains and rivers, the fertile land, the width and width of the land, the amount of household registration and the number of products;
　　It is called Duzhi, and it is responsible for accounting for summer taxes, autumn grain, storage, transportation, rewards and rewards;

　　It is called Jinke, responsible for collecting taxes on ships, fish, salt, and tea money, as well as collection of stolen goods and penalties;

　　It is called Cangke, which is responsible for water transportation, military storage and cashiering of grain.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)