In March of the first year of Chenghua, Jingshi.

After a month of preparation, Liu Juntao sorted out his rectification system of the Ming official system and compiled it into a recital, which was given to Emperor Chenghua.

In this compromise, Liu Juntao proposed a comprehensive rectification of the Ming official system:

Specifically, it is proposed to reduce the authority of the thirteen Yamen of the Imperial History, stipulating that the Ming Imperial History Speech Officials only have the right to supervise, can collect evidence of hundreds of officials violating the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and can continue to rumor, but have no right to impeach hundreds of officials. The Imperial Historian can only submit the collected evidence to the Beizhen Fu Division for inspection, and after verification, the Three Law Divisions will review and convict him.

The Beizhen Fusi has also become the highest-level judicial institution in the Ming Dynasty, specializing in interrogating, arresting, and detaining hundreds of officials in the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, in order to prevent the imperial historian from making false accusations, Liu Juntao continued to use the supervision power to threaten hundreds of officials as before, and also deliberately stipulated: If it is confirmed that it is a false accusation, then the imperial historian who made the report will be punished and convicted of the crime he reported!

At the same time, Liu Juntao also proposed to increase the number of law judges in the yamen of various prefectures and counties to be responsible for hearing all kinds of cases, and the imperial court should also set up corresponding law officers to enrich the Beizhen Fusi to be responsible for summarizing, hearing and supervising civil cases.

In this way, Liu Juntao stripped the judicial power at the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty from the hands of the magistrates, forming a separate system, which greatly reduced the authority in the hands of civil officials.

You must know that in the past, the parents who were called by the people were officials who concentrated judicial power, taxation power, governance power and other powers, and had great power!

This is only one of them, Liu Juntao also proposed in the recital that tax officials should be set up in various prefectures and counties, divided into local tax officials and Gyeonggi tax officials, that is, the difference between national tax and local tax in later generations!

Liu Juntao drew on the experience of national taxation and local taxation in later generations, and proposed that the poll tax of the Ming Dynasty should be regarded as a local tax, and the taxes collected should be used as local expenses, and should no longer be handed over to the imperial court, but should be directly circulated in the local area, but the accounts should be strictly checked to prevent local officials from enriching their own pockets.

The agricultural tax, which occupies the majority of the tax, as well as the commercial tax and customs duties that have emerged in Shandong and Shanxi in recent years, are all handed over to the national treasury as national taxes!

Although in other provinces, there is no commercial tax, and even tariffs are only a small part, which cannot be compared with agricultural taxes at all, but in Shandong and Shanxi, this situation has completely changed!

Because of the great development of the Ministry of Commerce in Shandong and Shanxi, the merchants, gentry, and wealthy merchants of the two provinces have all flourished, and various workshops, shops, and caravans have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the people of the two provinces have benefited a lot.

According to the data obtained by Liu Juntao, Shandong's commercial tax is already three times that of agricultural tax, and the tariff is nearly twice the amount!

Although Shanxi is a little worse, the commercial tax is more than twice that of the agricultural tax, and the tariff is already on par with the agricultural tax!

If in the future, all the provinces of Daming will prosper in commerce and trade, and all adopt the model of Shandong, Liu Juntao can expect that even if the poll tax is removed to enrich the place, the annual income of the Ming treasury will at least quadruple, and it will gradually grow with the prosperity of commerce!

Therefore, after planning in detail the new tax system of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Juntao enumerated the provisions for supporting commerce and promoting commerce and trade, and suggested that a commerce and trade department should be set up under the Ministry of Household Affairs of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, which would be specially responsible for popularizing Shandong's commercial and trade experience throughout the country.

This is only part of the story, Liu Juntao also proposed to train officials in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and promote the school model of Shandong and Shanxi to the whole country, and all students who have stood out through the imperial examination must study in the school for two years and successfully graduate before they can become officials.

Liu Juntao believes that the officials of the Ming Dynasty should be affairs officials who do practical things, not moralists who can only talk about morality!

Through the imperial examination, these students are cultivating their self-cultivation and cultivating the spirit and morality of serving the country and the people, and through school studies, they are learning how to govern the local government and how to serve the people diligently!

And the students in the school who have not participated in the imperial examination can also participate in the national unified examination, according to the examination results issued qualifications ~ certificates, although can not be a magistrate, but can be assigned to the Ming Dynasty according to different abilities as officials, in order to gradually replace the grassroots officials who have begun to deteriorate, purify the Ming Dynasty grassroots officials.

This made it more difficult for scholars to become officials, and at the same time broadened the path for those who could not pass the imperial examination, but also had a willingness to do so.

It can be said that Liu Juntao's proposal has fundamentally shaken the foundation of civil officials and made the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty feel unprecedented fear.

Once Liu Juntao's recital is approved to be implemented, the good days of the Ming civil servants will come to an end. At that time, the authority in the hands of civil officials will be greatly weakened, the power of impeachment, judicial power, and tax power will all be lost, and even the promotion channel will be squeezed, and the imperial examination is no longer the only way to enter the court!

Liu Juntao also has a stipulation for the peasants who occupy as much as ninety percent of the world, that is, the land in the world will be nationalized, and all land, whether it is the gentry, officials, or the powerful, must be returned to the state!

Of course, the imperial court would set the price according to the raw and cooked farmland, spend silver to buy it, and then distribute it to the peasants uniformly, according to the number of people in each household; Farmers only have the right to use, which is commonly known as "field skin", and the ownership, that is, "field bones", is still owned by the imperial court.

Every year, farmers need to pay 100 catties of grain per mu to the imperial court (the average yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty was about 500 catties), of course, different grains and different fertility of the land, the amount of grain paid is also different, and the imperial court will issue a detailed catalogue to promulgate the world.

After the peasants paid the grain to the imperial court, they did not need to pay any miscellaneous taxes, only the poll tax, and the rest of the output, no matter how much, was all their own!

This is a variant of the contract system of the later generation, and Liu Juntao directly borrowed it, but also made some modifications and guarantees.

Liu Juntao proposed in the recital that if the imperial court did not have enough money to purchase land, he could hand over the Yushan ticket number to the state, and he could hand over his property to the state; If the local magnates and gentry resist rebellion, they can lead their troops to pacify; If the ministers of the DPRK and China are indecisive, they can dispatch shogunate personnel to rush to various places to implement it!

Liu Juntao wants to use this method to let the people of the world have enough land in their hands, and at the same time prohibit the sale of land, which ensures the survival foundation of the people and minimizes the possibility of the people becoming homeless.

At the same time, after the land of those gentry, powerful and officials is acquired, they will definitely accumulate huge funds in their hands, these people will not live with silver for a lifetime, they will definitely find a way to make money, and if the land is gone, what will they do?

The answer is self-explanatory: investment ticket number, workshop, shop!

This has greatly promoted the development of Daming trade!

Liu Juntao's recital is sprinkled with tens of thousands of words, and it can be said that it has covered all aspects of the Ming Dynasty's economic, political, and military systems from all sides.

For a time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty came out to oppose it, and even many warriors and nobles also came out to oppose it, and everyone thought that Liu Juntao's recital was far more harmful than Wang Anshi's change in the Song Dynasty, and once it was implemented, the Ming Dynasty would be turbulent and even ruined!

And this time, Liu Juntao was also very tough, and directly led a group of martial artists who agreed with his change to fight back.

Liu Juntao believes that there is no immutable system in the world, and the Ming Dynasty has not increased its annual tax revenue, and it has been smooth if it does not decline, which leads to the lack of financial resources of the country, unable to expand its territory, unable to improve internal construction, and unable to develop new technologies! Over time, the Ming Dynasty will become more and more obsolete and decaying, and in the end it will not be able to escape the law of change in three hundred years!

"Only by changing in a timely manner can Daming always be alive, only by prospering commerce and trade, can Daming be extremely rich, and only by improving and modifying the system can all parties in Daming follow the rules and have laws to follow!"

Liu Juntao's roar continued to echo in the court, and Emperor Chenghua also listened with frowns, not daring to make a conclusion for a while, after all, the matter was too big.

"This is shaking the country's foundation! This is the words of the dead country! ”

"Who would dare to modify the ancestral system set by Taizu and Chengzu? How can it be modified! ”

"Let the smell of copper fill the world, and let people who don't learn and don't know how to be officials and officials, this is going to cause chaos in the world!"

"Let the officials and the royal family pay taxes together, this is a bad blessing for Taizu and a move to corrupt people's hearts!"

As soon as Liu Juntao's words fell, many civil officials rose up to attack him, and some people even compared Liu Juntao to Wang Mang.

In particular, Liu Juntao's revision of the land system has cut off the lives of the vast majority of officials in the Ming Dynasty~ Root, which of these ministers is not a big landlord? What family doesn't have thousands of acres of fertile land?

In these hearts, land is still the first, and even to some extent, it is more important than silver, so when he heard that Liu Juntao wanted to nationalize all the land, even if he would sell it for silver, he was furious and wanted to skin Liu Juntao alive.

At this time, Emperor Chenghua was already a little resigned, especially Liu Juntao's modification of the land system and the modification of the tax system, which made Emperor Chenghua very afraid, when Emperor Chenghua saw these two items, what caught his eyes was no longer words, but scarlet blood, and mountains of bones!

However, Liu Juntao's attitude was extremely tough, uniting dozens of ministers without giving an inch, there was no room for compromise at all, and he did his best to make this change successful.

"Your Majesty! If I want to be immortal and dominate the world, this change is imperative! ”

Liu Juntao said loudly: "Now there are not only Hu people in addition to my Ming Dynasty, but also Xiyi countries, if my Ming Dynasty is stagnant, once the Xiyi countries are angry and strong, what will be the situation at that time?" I am the only effective law of Daqin to implement the law, so that my Huaxia will never fade, so that I can stand tall and grace all generations! ”