With the determination of the tax reform plan, Liu Jin's daily life has become extremely busy.

As a third-grade official, the left servant of the household department and the marquis of Liaodong, this early dynasty must go up.

Although in Liu Jin's view, this early dynasty was really boring, and even in Liu Jin's view, the early dynasty of the Hongzhi Dynasty was often formalism.

Every day in the morning, how can there be so many things to discuss, many times it is some trivial things where to pull around, it is purely a waste of time, and it is also a waste of the time of many ministers.

As some people said in later generations, a meeting with a large number of people is not important, and there are not many people at an important meeting, and the early dynasty is a typical former.

Every day after the morning court, Liu Jin sometimes had to go to the small meeting of Emperor Hongzhi, report his work to Emperor Hongzhi, and chat with him.

In this way, the morning time passed, and the time for real office work was all in the afternoon.

There are a lot of things going on in the tax reform.

The establishment of the City Department and the establishment of a tax yamen directly under the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Imperial Court are all fine, after Liu Jin explained, there are naturally officials under his hands who are busy for Liu Jin.

The real difficulty is in the training of tax officials and officials.

The officials of this era, those are all officials who have passed the imperial examination, and if you ask them to write a splendid article, everyone is very good at it, and they can find a lot of talents at will.

But if you tell them to do arithmetic, to calculate the value of the goods, to determine the amount to be levied, and so on, and so on, many times these people are blindsided.

This is not sarcasm or nonsense, but the real place that makes Liu Jin feel broken.

Originally, I thought that I would be a reader, although I mainly used the Four Books and Five Classics and the Eight Articles, but this arithmetic should also be involved.

However, in fact, most officials don't know how to count, and these people basically have been eating and stretching out their hands since they were children, and they don't need to count at all, and even many people don't even know some basic common sense.

It truly embodies the sentence that everything is inferior, only reading is high.

The imperial examination is very difficult, not only requires talent, but also needs to be very hard, many people have become nerds, except for others, they don't understand anything.

This is similar to the test-oriented education of later generations, except for the content and scope of the exam, the others are miscellaneous courses, which can be crowded.

All kinds of rules and regulations, the setting of the city shipping department, the tax yamen, etc., are not difficult for Liu Jin, the city shipping department can refer to the Song Dynasty's city shipping department to set up, and then combined with the customs of later generations, the formulation of relevant rules and regulations, this is not difficult.

It is not difficult to set up a tax yamen, and it is also easy to do it well by referring to the tax system of Western time and the tax system of later generations.

What really drove Liu Jin crazy was that there were no suitable people, and there were a lot of people who came to report, but there were very few people who knew mathematics, could count, and were familiar with all kinds of goods.

There was no way, Liu Jin had to stand on the podium again, face the blackboard, pick up the chalk, and began to teach and train those lifters.

In a huge room in the household department, up to the household department Shangshu Tong Zhong, the right attendant Lang Shi Jue, down to the ordinary officials and officials of the household department, plus from all over the Ming Dynasty successively arrived in the capital to report, and then were assigned to the household department.

The whole room was crowded with people, and everyone looked at Liu Jin at the front, watching Liu Jin talk endlessly on the podium.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please keep in mind one sentence, that is, taxes are taken from the people and used by the people!"

"Maybe everyone has always felt that the imperial court is oppressing the people, so many people are reluctant to come to the household department."

"But do you know that if the imperial court has no money and no silver, then what does the imperial court use to feed the army, the army is not strong, what can we use to resist the invasion of foreign tribes?"

"In the past, the grassland people went south every year, detained the customs every year, wantonly burned, killed and plundered in the Central Plains of our country every year, and tens of thousands of Daming people died under the butcher's knife of the grassland people every year."

"My Ming population is tens of millions, and the grassland people add up to less than one million."

"Why don't we even dare to face the steppe people head-on? Can you only watch them go south year after year? ”

Liu Jin looked at the people present, poor in mathematics, ignorant of common sense and saved, they are all readers, where is the learning ability, compared to those illiterate people, it is relatively simple to teach them lessons and teach them arithmetic.

There are a lot of smart people, and many things can be learned as soon as they are learned, and they will be able to get started quickly, plus the basic mathematics compiled by their own side, under the premise of using it, it is definitely enough.

What really drove Liu Jin crazy was the change in the ideology of these people.

Many people were assigned to the household department, and they all looked reluctant.

Some people even bluntly said that even if they were sent overseas as officials, they would not want to work in the household department, let alone go to the tax yamen.

Taxation seems to have been portrayed as a bad thing since ancient times.

Derogatory terms such as exorbitant taxes, excessive levies, etc., are used to describe the officials and officials who collect taxes, and taxes must inevitably offend people, so many people are reluctant to come to Liu Jin's command to be officials.

Even if they are assigned to Liu Jin, many people are ready to be like the people in the past, crossing their legs, drinking tea, and the Buddhist system is taxed, and those who are willing to take the initiative to pay taxes will naturally accept it, and those who are not willing to take the initiative to pay taxes are too lazy to urge.

In short, on the one hand, I feel that taxation is oppressing the people, and on the other hand, it will offend people, in short, I feel that this work is very bad.

Therefore, Liu Jin must change their minds, and only when a person's ideology and concepts change, can his actions be changed.

Otherwise, even if Liu Jin formulates a lot of rules and regulations, no matter how detailed the content, if the executor does not implement it seriously, it will be just a dead letter after all.

If we want to change the ideological concept of these people, the most important thing is to make these people understand a truth, that is, taxes are taken from the people and used by the people.

Hearing Liu Jin's question, some people fell into deep thought, but some people didn't care.

Liu Jin looked at the performances of these people one by one, thought for a while, pointed to a person and asked: "Tell me, why can't I beat the grassland people with less than one million people in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"That's because those Qiu Ba are greedy for life and afraid of death, steal their lives, and don't know the righteousness of the country, so we can't beat the grassland people."

As soon as he stood up and didn't think twice, he shifted the responsibility to the border soldiers, thinking that these border soldiers were greedy for life and afraid of death, so they couldn't win the grassland people.

Hearing Geng Yuanlu's words, many people also nodded their heads one after another, obviously with the same point of view, and they all felt that the reason why they couldn't win the battle was because the border soldiers were greedy for life and afraid of death.

"What's your name?"

After Liu Jin listened, the smile on his face disappeared, and he thought about it and asked.

"My name is Geng Yuanlu."

Geng Yuanlu replied.

"Have you been to the border?"

Liu Jin nodded slightly, and then asked again.

"No~"

Geng Yuanlu shook his head.

"Have you dealt with the prairie people?"

"Nor either~"

"Have you ever been on the battlefield yourself?"

"I'm a scholar, a lifter, how could I have been to the battlefield."

"That's it, you have never been to the border pass, you have never dealt with the grassland, and you have never been to the battlefield in person, how do you know that the border soldiers are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

Liu Jin asked one after another, and when he heard Geng Yuanlu's answer, Liu Jin immediately asked angrily.

"Do you know that because the imperial court has no silver, the soldiers at the border can't even eat enough, and they are hungry, so you can try to fight with the grassland people?"

"Do you know that because there is no silver in the imperial court, the weapons issued by the household department to the border soldiers will explode the barrel, and the swords are as thin as iron, and the border soldiers are not even willing to use such weapons, so you go and fight with the grassland people with your bare hands?"

"Do you know, because the imperial court has no silver, and the border soldiers have not had a cotton coat for four or five years, let alone armor."

"You have a lot of fish and meat at home, and you have fine clothes and jade food, what qualifications do you have to say that the soldiers at the border are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

Liu Jin's voice was very loud, with incomparable anger, filling every corner of the entire room, making the faces of these officials present change greatly one by one.

After listening to this, many people couldn't help but fall into contemplation, and some people didn't care, they are Qinggao readers, and scholars should naturally have fine clothes and food, as for those Qiu Ba, shouldn't they be bitter?

"I... I~"

Geng Yuanlu didn't know how to answer for a while.

"I see that you are not suitable to stay in the household department for the time being, I think it is more appropriate for you to go to the grassland, go to the border pass area of my Ming Dynasty, and contact the soldiers of the border pass first."

Then Liu Jin glanced at him ruthlessly and said.

"No, no, I don't want to go to the grassland, don't go to the border~"

When Geng Yuanlu heard this, he immediately became anxious, if he was assigned to the border pass and grassland by Liu Jinfa, it would be over.

"Sit down, what are you shouting, still read books, it's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, go out and take a look, it will be good for you in the future."

Liu Jin suddenly glared at him fiercely, Geng Yuanlu could only sit on the chair slowly, and the whole person's face was pitch black, it was over!

"A war between two countries is not just a life-and-death battle on the battlefield, but more often a contest between the strength of the entire country."

"In the past, we couldn't beat the grassland people in the Ming Dynasty, a very important reason is that our court is short of money and no silver, so even though we have tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, the grassland people are only less than one million."

"But we have lost to them again and again, and we have been bullied by them."

"Why am I so big, but I don't even have the money to win against the grassland people?"

"It is because the tax collection work of our household department is not in place, and many people do not know the importance of this tax, and do not understand that this tax is taken from the people and used for the people....."