Chapter 65: The Problem of a Whip

In the Mandarin Palace.

The curtain hangs lightly. Just like the atmosphere in this Wenhua Palace.

Zhu Qi calmly looked at the stack of twists and turns in front of him, which were the twists and turns that came up from all sides to oppose the knife in the field system.

Zhu Qizhen opened it casually and said, "Everyone, what should I do?" ”

Liu Dingzhi had to come out and speak.

Compared with Li Xian and Yu Qian before, Liu Dingzhi's prestige is not a little lacking.

But no matter how much is owed. Liu Dingzhi is the first assistant.

As the first assistant, to enjoy the power of the first assistant, you have to assume the responsibility of the first assistant.

Zhu Qizhen asked, and Liu Dingzhi was naturally the first to answer.

But Liu Dingzhi faced such a chaotic situation, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Although Liu Dingzhi also has a local resume, but really speaking, he has not been a pro-people official for a long time, and he was responsible for raising horses in the Taifu Temple in the northwest first. Later, he was in charge of drying salt in the Salt Transportation Division. After that, it's Shaofu.

Although he also served as a prefectural commander in Beijing.

But can Jing County be compared to other counties?

The real local suffering, money and food urge the department, he is actually not too familiar with it.

However, as the first assistant, Liu Dingzhi doesn't need to know everything, he just needs to know, who knows this.

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, Qiu Junsui's proposal to match the field with Ding, or spread the Ding into the mu, a whip levied, although there is the will of the Duke of Zhou, but the relationship is too big, the minister has been in the center for a long time, and the pros and cons are known, but Han Yong Han Lord, long in the place, in the past in Jiangxi, to help more than 100,000 people, hundreds of thousands of households, the people's suffering, all in the heart of Lord Han, Your Majesty can inquire about the pros and cons of Lord Han. Even if it is a good law, it is a law that harms the people, even if it is a good law, it can be used for this, but it may not be used for others. If you want to succeed in this matter, it is advisable to delay rather than rush. ”

Liu Dingzhi's words have a very rich meaning. First of all, I will not directly dismiss Qiu Jun's opinion. Rather, he said he didn't know.

Of course, Liu Dingzhi is probably not too familiar with the specific administration of the local government, which is also true. But if you don't know, it's a little false. Immediately pushed Han Yong out, it seemed to be magnanimous, showing a harmonious cabinet and recommending colleagues.

But he didn't know that Liu Dingzhi knew that his first assistant was not an ordinary first assistant, but a first assistant who had to face all kinds of storms.

Although everyone in the world knows that this change was proposed by Zhu Qizhen. But in Confucian ethics, they must not point the finger at the emperor.

Therefore, there is only one person they can point to, and that is Liu Dingzhi, the first assistant.

Liu Dingzhi also knows this, so he shows a kind of me just

An ordinary member of the cabinet, who does not oppress others as the first assistant, wants to get the support of the rest of the cabinet, so as to be unanimous with the outside world.

In the end, Liu Dingzhi showed a trace of his weakness.

In the face of such a trend, Liu Dingzhi was a little unbearable.

However, Han Yong, whom he recommended, was the right choice.

You must know that Han Yong climbed up from the county prefect step by step, and he is still in the evaluation of the Ministry of Officials, and he has the title of the first in the world, and the local affairs, Han Yong is very clear.

Han Yong also has a tendency to be unyielding, seeing Liu Dingzhi recommending himself, and seeing Zhu Qizhen's eyes coming over, he didn't say a word, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Your Majesty's intentions are good." The people of the world are really bitter, the small people work for a year, after paying taxes, it is just a good stomach, in the time of farming, have to drift around, work part-time everywhere, only to have the capital to survive the winter, this is still a good year, once there is a natural and man-made disaster, a year's harvest is not enough for the court to pay taxes, parents, wives and children are waiting to be fed, so that they sell their children and wives, so that they sell themselves, countless? ”

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Every time there is a natural disaster, doesn't the imperial court always have relief?" ”

Han Yong said: "Your Majesty, only a catastrophe can provide relief. In many cases, before the relief arrives, there is already starvation. ”

Han Yong sighed, he had encountered such a thing, when he was in Jiangxi for disaster relief, he was cutting first and then playing, and without waiting for Beijing's order, he opened a warehouse and released grain.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't blame him at the time, but felt that he was decisive and was promoted.

It's just that Han Yong didn't think of this at that time.

It's not that he doesn't know the political risks involved, but he just has a heart of compassion in his heart.

The people that Zhu Qizhen saw were always not seen with his own eyes, and any transmission to Zhu Qizhen's ears had been covered up in several layers. But what Han Yong saw before was a real tragedy.

Just think about it, and today's men can't stand it if they are cuckolded, and at this time, many poor people, in order to survive, pawn their wives to others.

That kind of pain, stepping my self-esteem into the mud. But how unbearable it is.

It's just that in front of being alive, everything else is not worth mentioning.

Most of the people tried their best to just survive.

Therefore, Han Yong is an active supporter of this policy. Han Yong said: "A whip law has these benefits, the first general branch of the total revenue, the power of the provincial government, and the power of the people. In the past, all kinds of land taxes were discounted, and dozens of taxes had to be levied dozens of times, and the officials had to come and go every month. The county decree has not yet fulfilled a tax, and a tax has arrived. Now the officials are greedy, and every time they collect taxes, they will not come empty-handed. However, the money of the common people for the officials is not a small amount. Now it is levied together, and it is combined into one, either once a year, or twice, which eliminates the suffering of running around and reduces the burden of the people

Picul. ”

"Second, all are enslaved, according to the system of the imperial court, with ten households as a mile, one hundred and ten households as a class, with a yellow book, divided into ten classes, with one household as the head, once in ten years. The next shift. This Taizu's law, the good law is also, but the yellow book collapsed, the rich evaded servitude, pushed to the poor, so that some people did not serve for a lifetime, and some people served almost every year, so that the family was ruined and people died, and they fled in a race to flee. Moreover, the affairs of the country and the dynasty are simple, but now the affairs are complicated. All kinds of unnamed miscellaneous servants, I don't know how many. Today, all of them are included in taxes, so that the government employs the people. There is a quota for everything, and it is forbidden to work people. This can be described as a solution to the people's difficulties. ”

"Third, limit the strong. Equal service into the field, more land to pay, less land to pay less, reduce the burden of the people. Let the small people have a way to live. ”

"With these three, the government and the people are both convenient, how can they not do it."

"It's just that the major affairs of the imperial court must not be cautious, what Liu Shoufu said is extremely true, in the opinion of the ministers, he selected the new science and technology scholars, and from the northwest, Henan, Hebei, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Huguang, and southwest counties, let the new science and technology scholars go to the post, and this method will be used first, and after one or two years old, the imperial history will be sent to investigate."

"Fill in the gaps. for the future. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay. What do you think? ”

Zhu Qizhen appreciates Han Yong's opinion, people are different, Han Yong can handle so many difficult things in the local area, and he really has two brushes.

Zhu Qizhen already realized that he underestimated the difficulty of implementing the new law on the field system.

Zhang Juzheng's implementation of a whip law is actually a summary of the local self-change law since Jiajing, and a whip law was not invented with Zhang Juzheng, but summarized by Zhang Juzheng.

As early as the Jiajing period, there were magistrates who spontaneously changed the mode of tax collection at that time, although it was not called a whip law at that time, some were called the equalization law, the levy law, the Gangyin law, the Shiduanjin and so on, and so on, but also because of different places, there were differences in the specific implementation.

When it came to Zhang Juzheng, he unified into a whip method.

In other words, Zhang Ju took advantage of this trend and finally did this thing. is not to deny Zhang Juzheng's ability, Zhang Juzheng took advantage of the trend, showing the vision of a politician.

But the problems that Zhu Qizhen has encountered now are completely different from Zhang Juzheng.

First of all, before Zhang Juzheng, the tax system set by Emperor Taizu was already overwhelmed. It has reached the verge of collapse, or rather has collapsed.

It is precisely because of this that there are such magistrates and fill the vacancies. There is a great need for this.

But this is not the case with Zhu Qizhen now.

First of all, the rule of Chengren Xuanzhi in Zhu Qizhen, although he is strong in martial arts, is still very strict with the rule of officials, and he has just cleared the land.

Although the local tax system of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Taizu period. But it's nowhere near the point where it can't be used.