Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 683 Amending the Government Order
Seeing that Huang Zongxi remained silent, Li Jing said with a smile: "Chisheng, you are right about one thing. You are indeed not suitable to be an official, because you don't understand politics at all, and being an official will only harm you. The only way to do it is to be an official." My servant, your knowledge can be used, and it will not affect your learning."

Huang Zongxi heard the words and said: "Adults see love so much, students have no choice but to obey."

Li Jing smiled: "Chisheng, you will not regret making this decision. I will give you a task now, what is the task? It is to compile... compile the theory, you can understand what I mean by theory Bar?"

"It should be the meaning of a moral exposition." Huang Zongxi said hesitantly.

Li Jing said: "That's right! That's what it means. Chisheng, many things in the imperial court are decided after everyone thinks it is feasible after discussion. There is no theoretical basis at all. For example, we set tax rates based on the experience of our predecessors. Get rid of what we think is unreasonable, and we have no idea whether it is reasonable or not.

Mr. Yangming said that knowledge and action are one, and this knowledge is actually a theory.But now we only have action, but no knowledge. The task I entrust to you is to explain this knowledge and compile it into a book.Chisheng, do you think this is knowledge? "

"If this is not learning, then what is learning? It's just that this matter cannot be done by the students alone, and everyone needs to brainstorm." Huang Zongxi said.

Li Jing smiled and said: "You can choose whoever you need! There is only one thing, you are a descendant of the Donglin Party and a member of Fushe. I want to remind you that you can find these people to do this together. But it is absolutely forbidden to incorporate the political views of the Donglin Party and the Fushe into this theory.”

Huang Zongxi hurriedly said: "Definitely not! The students are still so confused."

Li Jingjing nodded: "It's good if you understand. You might as well tell you, whether it's Donglin Party or Fushe, I don't object to any political ideas you make, provided that you don't seek power under the banner of political ideas."

"Student understands." Huang Zongxi said hastily.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing continued: "In this way, first find some people to explain in detail why the court collects taxes and where the taxes are used, and then calculate the country's income and expenditure for a year with the household department personnel, and then Classify the land surveyed by the Ministry of Land, and finally formulate an appropriate tax rate." Li Jing said.

"It seems inappropriate for students to take the lead in this matter?" Huang Zongxi said.

Li Jing smiled and shook his head: "You are wrong, this matter should be done by you people who do research. If officials are allowed to do it, they will give priority to their own interests, so there will definitely be big problems. Deviation, and it is difficult to correct. If there is a problem with the tax rate formulated by you people, there will be much less resistance when correcting it, because these things have nothing to do with you, and you will not obstruct it.

So I leave it to you people who do the research to set the tax rates and the officials follow the rules.If the officials find any problems when dealing with the matter, they will report it, and then you will conduct research and come up with a better plan.

Only by doing this will the country's system become more and more advanced. "

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Of course, you have to eat food bite by bite, and you have to walk step by step. Now the tax rate is under the control of the Ministry of Household Affairs. You still have to rely on the opinions of the Ministry of Household Affairs when you re-determine the tax rate. If you don't respect their opinions and they don't cooperate with you, you won't be able to do this.

But you don't have to worry that they will completely reject your opinion. After all, you are taking the lead in doing this as my aide, representing what I mean. If they reject your opinion, they will reject my opinion. would do such a stupid thing. "

Huang Zongxi sighed lightly when he heard the words: "My lord, the students used to talk to some friends about your lord's administration, and they all thought that your lord acted urgently, but now I realize that your lord is extremely prudent in his actions."

Li Jing shook his head and smiled: "You can't be wrong if you have such a view. Those decrees I issued before were really urgent. But you don't know that many of the decrees I issued were temporary. When the country gradually stabilizes, It’s going to be reworked.”

"Is the government order a child's play, how can it be changed casually?" Huang Zongxi said in surprise.

Li Jing said with a smile: "Once the decree is promulgated, it is true that it cannot be easily changed, but it depends on the situation.

Do you know what was going on in Daming when I first took charge of the government?At that time, the treasury did not have a tael of silver, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were in arrears for several months. The army may mutiny at any time, and in fact, some troops have already begun to mutiny.Several provinces in the Northwest have been hit by drought for years, but the country has not been able to provide food relief, so that civil uprisings continue to break out in many places.

Chisheng, the country has such a situation, if you are in my position, how do you think it should be resolved? "

Huang Zongxi shook his head: "Students don't know how to solve these problems. Even if students know the decrees promulgated by adults, if students sit in the position of adults, they still can't solve these problems, because students neither have the courage to issue those decrees like adults, nor have adults That ability to enforce those orders."

Li Jing smiled: "Sometimes courage is forced out. If I can't raise money to pay the army as soon as possible, and appease the hearts of the people as soon as possible, then Daming will be hopeless. The so-called extraordinary things in extraordinary times, So I promulgated many very harsh decrees, but these decrees can only be used for a while, and it is not appropriate to implement those decrees after the country has stabilized.

In addition, many government decrees in Ming Dynasty now refer to the local decrees issued when I was in Binh Duong. These decrees may be implemented in Binh Duong, but they may not be applicable to the whole country, because the situation in different places is different.

Moreover, those decrees were formulated by me many years ago. At that time, I was still young and immature in thinking about the issues. Therefore, these decrees must be adjusted in the future.

But to be honest, I am also slowly figuring out what kind of policy should be implemented in Daming.And I can't just rely on my own groping, I need everyone to brainstorm, especially to listen to the opinions of those professionals.

So what is the opinion of professionals?Let me make an analogy. For example, if we want to introduce a new crop, this crop may not be able to be grown anywhere. Before we know the situation, we cannot easily promote it. We must first carry out trial planting.

This trial planting cannot be done by farmers, but by scientific and technological personnel who study agronomy.

After several years of trial planting in various places, these people can tell us where and under what conditions these crops are suitable for cultivation. At this time, we can find places suitable for cultivating this crop and promote them.

That's the opinion of the professionals.

It's a pity that there are too few professionals like our Daming, because the idea that all things are inferior and only high-level studies are deeply rooted in everyone's hearts, and everyone wants to study and become an official.

Therefore, if we want to cultivate professionals in all aspects, we must break the original imperial examination system and let everyone know that to be an official does not necessarily have to rely on studying.

And we want everyone to know that these professionals can participate in politics even if they are not officials, and it is even more effective than the words of officials.

I asked you to take the lead in adjusting the tax rate, which is actually for this purpose. In the future, I will recruit various talents to form a team to study various government orders.If possible, each government department should also set up its own professional team, so that we can avoid mistakes as much as possible when formulating policies.

Chi Sheng, when our Ming Dynasty has a large number of professional talents, then it will be the time when Ming Dynasty will be really strong. "

Upon hearing this, Huang Zongxi exclaimed in admiration: "My lord's words are the most reasonable words for governing the country. Compared with your lord, those members of our Fushe who talk about governing the country all day long are really a frog at the bottom of a well."

Li Jing shook his head and smiled, "You can't say that. There are still many talents in Fushe, for example, you, Mizhi, and Chen Zilong. Even Zhang Pu, who I dispatched to North Korea, is a talent."

Huang Zongxi pondered for a while when he heard the words: "My lord said that Zhang Pu is a talent, but also said that there are too few talents in Ming Dynasty, why should he be sent to North Korea? Even if Zhang Pu did something wrong, but with your lord's mind, he will not Can't stand him?"

Li Jing shook his head and smiled, "What about Zhang Pu? He is talented in literature, but he is only suitable for learning, not for being an official at all.

The same is true of Zhou Yanru, whom he admired. Zhou Yanru's political ideas are all unrealistic things, and they can't solve Ming's problems at all, because they can't see what caused Daming's current situation at all.How can you find a solution if you don't even know the reason?

So people like Zhang Pu can only let them make suggestions, and letting them take charge will only cause trouble.But they don't know it themselves, and they always feel that they are right.

Moreover, Zhang Pu's desire for fame is too strong.He even gathered some officials to write letters several times to ask Zhou Yanru to be rehabilitated, and Zhou Yanru himself was even worse.

When I returned to Beijing from Fujian the year before last, the emperor led a hundred officials outside the city to greet me with the emperor's ceremony, and you should have heard about me calling me long live. This is Zhou Yanru's idea. This person's shameless behavior is evident. Zhang Pu admires such a person, how can I tolerate him?

However, considering their knowledge, I did not deal with them after all, but let the emperor order them to be sent to North Korea, and let them go to North Korea to preach scriptures.

It should be said that the influence of Zhou Yanru and Zhang Pu is still there. The promotion of Sinology and Confucianism in North Korea has been very smooth. Many North Koreans have now begun to call themselves Ming people.

After another two years, I plan to let them go to Luzon, let them preach the scriptures for the Ming Dynasty in Luzon, and educate those Luzon natives. "

Huang Zongxi was silent for a while when he heard the words, and sighed secretly in his heart. Li Jing said that Zhang Pu, Zhou Yanru and others would not even think about returning to Daming for at least a few years.

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't talk about this matter in the future. Mizhi, you have practiced in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for nearly a year, and I think it's almost done. Go to the Ministry of Household Affairs and study and adjust with Chisheng first." The matter of the tax rate. After the new tax rate is formulated, I will arrange other duties for you."

"Yes! Thank you, Commander!" Fang Yizhi bowed and saluted.

"Okay, I'm going to the palace to meet the emperor, you go now." Li Jing said with a smile.

Fang Yizhi and Huang Zongxi hurriedly said, "Student resigns."

(End of this chapter)