Chapter 63: The Ban

Zhu Qizhen's second order, which can be regarded as a supplement to the amnesty order, is the ban.

Except for the northwest region, the ban on mountains and rivers.

In China's political tradition, minerals in the mountains belong to the Son of Heaven, and the previous ban on gold and silver mines was based on this political logic.

These things belong to the emperor and cannot be mined by others.

But the reason why Zhu Qizhen is forbidden is that mining is banned. Of course, it's not just the mine ban. But it is mainly a mining ban, and now Zhu Qi Town has even released the gold and silver mining ban.

Except for a few gold and silver mines controlled by the Shaofu, the rest can be mined at will.

The reason is very simple, one is that after the Ming Dynasty Chengping, the people's living standards have improved, and the demand for various minerals is very high, of course, the iron was beaten down by the Zunhua Iron Factory, but in addition to iron, the prices of gold, silver, tin, lead, copper, and other metals have soared, which is also an inevitable economic development.

Even if Zhu Qizhen does not open the mining ban, Zhu Qizhen can also foresee that because of economic interests, some people will take risks.

In this way, it is better to open a mining ban and let the people of the world mine all kinds of mines under the control of the government.

Of course, another thing is to wait for the abolition of the factory ban.

This is not explicitly stated.

After all, there were very few factories before the Ming Dynasty, and there was no so-called rule that factories could not be run, but the Ming court was very sensitive to the lack of people to gather.

The mine ban is banned for this reason.

But this time, when the mining ban was banned, Zhu Qizhen ordered Xu Youzhen to draw up a set of procedures, that is, how to open a mine legally, which gave a set of processes, and I won't say anything specific.

Similar to the iron ore licensing system. It extends to other mines. But the same license system can also be extended to other factories.

In other words, the imperial court made a series of regulations on the mines, all of which were equally applicable to the factory.

Zhu Qizhen seems to be a drastic reform, but in fact, he is still very cautious.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Qizhen has opened a gap for some people. Those who can see will naturally see, and those who can't see will miss it.

As for saying that no one has discovered this, it is impossible.

Regardless of ancient or modern, people are very sensitive to the smell of wealth.

Zhu Qizhen established a factory division system in Shaofu.

Of course, this kind of factory has no power source, no steam engine, no generator, the utilization rate of the machine is not high, and the most used are water conservancy equipment and pulleys.

But it does not prevent Shaofu from making money.

It's not that no one is interested in Shaofu's rolling wealth, in fact, with many places, some people secretly imitate Shaofu. Many people who are in business almost have a copy of "Duanmuzi".

Although Zhu Qizhen is making great progress, the foreshadowing he made before has not been invalidated.

However, Zhu Qizhen's recent reform of business is so much.

First, it was Zhu Qizhen who wanted to see what the commercial development of Daming was. in order to have a purpose.

After all, Zhu Qizhen's focus has always been on politics, and business in Daming is naturally dependent on politics, but it does not mean that it is exactly the same.

Second, Zhu Qizhen feels that in many cases, business development needs a stable environment and appropriate policies, and the rest of the business itself will have vitality.

Now Daming has such and such problems.

But there is time.

After all, it is only 32 years of orthodoxy, and it is only 1467 when it is converted to AD. China is not lagging behind by a large margin, and must step up industrialization in order to gain a foothold in the world.

Moreover, with the Confucianism of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen made a particularly business-oriented policy, which could make many people oppose it.

This simply can't be changed.

Whether it is the development of industry or colonization, it must be based on the basis of feeding more people.

This is the core of Zhu Qizhen, and it is also the Ming Dynasty officials who reluctantly reached a consensus with Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen can't continue to cross the line. It is very important to have a sense of proportion.

If we talk about these two commands, they are basically retreats. After all, such an order, real change is a long process, don't think about what can be ordered to prohibit.

But the following two orders have specific things to be implemented.

The first thing is to order that officials be replaced by officials from the five prefectures of Nanjing, Suzhou, Tianjin, Jinan, and Huai'an, and that half of the funds will be provided from the inner government, and the remaining part of the funds will be provided by the household department.

That is, the system of hereditary change of officials to officials that Zhu Qizhen has always wanted to implement has officially begun.

Although Zhu Qizhen had made a lot of preparations before, it still took a lot of effort to implement this matter.

The fact that the officials were changed to officials was agreed by most officials in principle.

After all, everyone has a consensus on the darkness, corruption and treachery of the officials.

There is no consensus that the substitution of officials for officials is necessarily effective.

Yes, Shuntianfu and the two Beijing counties have implemented officials to replace Xu officials for a long time, and Shuntianfu has also become the richest mansion in the Ming Dynasty because of this incident.

But know that this is Beijing.

Maybe that little common man is all in the sky. These officials did not dare to go too far. In addition, Shuntianfu has money, not to mention anything else, just the annual housing tax, deed tax, and other commercial taxes collected by Shuntianfu are tens of thousands of taels.

Other places can support this consumption.

More importantly, how to prevent the unlimited expansion of the official system.

After all, in the system of even officials, there are white servants, which are the roots and helpers found by the officials. And the bureaucracy's desire to reproduce itself is simply not quenchable.

If nothing else, there are temporary workers even in later generations.

Why are there temporary workers, naturally the establishment is insufficient, and now the officials are not covered by the government, and only pay for food and work, and even food money is not much.

If it comes, the officials will not be able to expand.

But after becoming a clerk, will there be supernumerary officials in addition to the officials, so that it is more terrible than Xu officials harming the people.

After all, the disadvantages of redundant soldiers and redundant officials in the Northern Song Dynasty should also be learned.

One more official, one more burden on the people. If you open an opening today, you may not be able to block it tomorrow.

Even in the cabinet, Liu Dingzhi has a lot of complaints about this matter, because Liu Dingzhi knows that the financial resources of the imperial court are absolutely unaffordable, and all the officials in the world are replaced by officials.

This financial burden is too heavy.

Although Liu Dingzhi is almost Zhu Qizhen's personal minister, he also argued with Zhu Qizhen on this matter for a while before it was settled.

Zhu Qizhen also made his own compromises.

It is these places that the government pays half of the funds.

You must know that as soon as this example comes out, it is likely to be a common practice in the future, and as a result, Zhu Qizhen's finances, which have always been relatively wealthy, will fall into a more difficult situation again.

However, for Zhu Qizhen, money is just a weapon, and it is also a good thing to spend it in the right place.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen also understood that only a few places where the reform of Xu officials had been completed could truly implement the specific content of Zhu Qizhen's previous two orders.

After all, these officials all know one thing.

Their future and career are tied to the changes of the imperial court, if they cannot realize their own value, then their future will be bleak, not to mention standing out from the status of officials, becoming a member of the imperial court, standing above the imperial court. Once the change fails, it is likely that the officials will change their policies, and they will be counterattacked. Their current position no longer exists.

This is the reason why Zhu Qizhen must tie the reform of the law with the reform of officials.

Because Zhu Qizhen must create a group of strata or groups that rely on the new law to exist.

In this way, they must fight for their own interests, even if Zhu Qizhen has three longs and two shorts, it will not lead to the death of the government.

After all, these officials look inconspicuous, but they are the most basic tentacles of the entire Ming Dynasty.

One person may not be important, but a group of people, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, is very important.

This is true even for the officials.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen first granted amnesty and then implemented this policy, because the Xu official class all belonged to the untouchables, and this time the amnesty turned the Xu officials into good citizens, so that the Xu official class had more choices. For example, participating in the imperial examination.