Let's look at Xining's change. Wang Anshi's purpose is very clear, that is, to enrich the country and strengthen the army, so the implementation is also very targeted.

In addition, he didn't care so much about his personal reputation, and appointed a powerful faction with a bad reputation like Cai Jing, so the reform was better implemented, and it was overthrown after fifteen years.

Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "Is Xiansheng persuading the old man to learn from Wang Anshi?" ”

Ning Xiu said in a deep voice: "Yes and no. The kid said yes, hoping that the elder could reform more smoothly and not be so hasty. The kid said no, because he hoped that the elder could be stronger on key issues. ”

"Oh? What are the key questions in your mouth? ”

Ning Xiu was waiting for his words, and immediately arched his hand: "For example, tax reform, replacing taxes in kind with silver taels and forced labor." This move is of great benefit to Daming, and it must not be compromised. ”

The most important point of Zhang Juzheng's reform is a whip law.

Daming collects summer tax and autumn tax. In the early Ming Dynasty, the taxes collected were all grain.

If you take the water route, it will be better if you take the land route, and if you take the land route, there will be a lot of loss on the road, and it would be good to have half of the division left in Beijing.

If silver is levied instead, there will be no serious food loss.

As for the various types of forced labor, it made the people miserable.

In fact, by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were already professionals who replaced the conscripts, and as long as they paid money, they would replace the conscripts to participate in the conscripts.

Rather than so cheap these professional conscripts, it is better to simply replace the conscription with silver and put the money in the treasury.

"In my humble opinion, since Liang Shangshu proposed in the ninth year of Jiajing's reign that 'one province should be counted for grain and one province should be sent to serve as a conscript', the DPRK and China have been arguing about this constantly, and it was not until the 40th year of Jiajing that it began to be implemented. Initial pilots were in Nanzhili and Zhejiang provinces. These two taxes are the heaviest, and Suzhou and Hangzhou occupy half of the taxes of the two provinces, and the effect of the trial is very good, and this change has been continued. Later, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Jiangxi also gradually implemented reforms, but because there were too many resistances, they could not be promoted throughout the province, and could only be limited to one state and one county, which was really a drop in the bucket. ”

Zhang Juzheng listened very carefully, nodded and motioned for Ning Xiu to continue.

Ning Xiu received Zhang Shoufu's encouragement, his heart was overjoyed, and he continued: "The kid thinks that this time the elder of the pavilion is an opportunity to implement land measurement across the country. If you don't know if you don't check, you will have nowhere to hide from those who use the squire to avoid taxes. This will not only avoid land annexation, but also reduce tax avoidance by the people, which will greatly help the national treasury to increase revenue. ”

Ning Xiu bit the words 'increase in treasury revenue' very hard, because he knew that what Zhang Juzheng or Emperor Wanli was most concerned about was the income of the Taicang treasury.

Since the end of Jiajing, the income of Taicang's treasury has dropped sharply, and although the decline has stopped, there is still a lot of pressure to increase income.

There is no doubt that the implementation of a whip law can greatly increase the income of the land, and the treasury will have the confidence of the imperial court when it has money. In the face of all kinds of rogue natural disasters, there will be no weakness, and the national glory of the Ming Dynasty can continue.

For example, if a professional manager makes an annual report to a general meeting of shareholders, which point should he focus on to make a report? Naturally, it is revenue, profit.

Because that's all shareholders care about.

In the same way, Zhang Juzheng, the cabinet, the imperial court, or the Wanli Emperor only cared about the income of the Taicang treasury.

It is a matter of the fundamental interests of the ruling class, can you not care!

"Therefore, do you think the general direction of the old man's reform is good, but his wrists should be softer?"

Zhang Juzheng stared at Ning Xiu with a smile, and the young man who looked at it was furious.

"This is just a superficial opinion of the kid."

Zhang Juzheng sighed and said: "What you said is very reasonable, if you do the same thing with different efforts, the effect will be completely different." You can have such insight at such a young age, and the future is limitless. By the way, how old is Xiansheng this year? ”

"The kid is fifteen years old."

"At the age of fifteen, he was talented, and he was talented. Next year is the township exam, so you should prepare well. ”

Zhang Juzheng said lightly.

"Thank you Pavilion Elder, the kid must prepare for the exam carefully and live up to the high expectations of Pavilion Elder."

As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart.

Ning Xiu felt that Zhang Juzheng had something to say.

Could it be that Zhang Juzheng intends to promote him, and will take care of one or two in the township test?

Huguang is Zhang Juzheng's hometown, and those who can go to Huguang to serve as the chief examiner of the township examination must be Zhang Juzheng's cronies. In this way, wouldn't it be easy for Zhang Juzheng to hint at the examiner?

Zhang Juzheng can make his three sons into jinshi, and there is also a champion and a role model, which shows that Mr. Zhang is thick-skinned enough, if he is really optimistic about Ning Xiu, it is not impossible to move his fingers to help Ning Xiu.

The key is that Ning Xiu wants to go to the Tao and bring rewards to Zhang Juzheng.

This reward can be a suggestion, or a charge for Lord Shoufu in the court.

All in all, it was just a blow to promote Zhang Juzheng, but the rewards received were immeasurable.

Moreover, Zhang Juzheng can completely regard the promotion of Ning Xiu as a long-term political investment, which can be described as a steady profit!

After returning from the Zhang family, Ning Xiu's heart was difficult to calm down for a long time.

Zhang Juzheng's words revealed a message openly and secretly, he was very optimistic about Ning Xiu.

As long as Ning Xiu ascends the road and develops according to the normal trajectory, it is very likely to worship under Zhang Ju's main gate.

Of course, for now, Zhang Juzheng will not give Ning Xiu any promises.

If you want to be valued by Zhang Gelao, you must be admitted to the Jinshi, and there is no room for negotiation. Ning Xiu opened the annotations of the four books, and reviewed the classics one by one in the annotations of Zhu Zi and his old man.

With Ning Xiaoxiucai's memory, these awkward Confucian classics are not difficult to understand, and Ning Xiu even has a sense of integration.

When he was reading to the end, Ning Liang, the dead ghost father, pushed the door and entered, startling Ning Xiu.

"Daddy, you're scared to death."

Ning Liang straightened his face and said, "What's the matter, your father still wants people to come to see you?" ”

The corners of Ning Xiu's mouth twitched, and he smiled helplessly: "Look at what your old man said......"

Although Ning Liang was dissatisfied with his son's study before, it was because Ning Xiu gnawed at the old. Now Ning Xiu has made a finger cake, not only did he gnaw the old, but also made the Ning family rich all of a sudden. Ning Liang's attitude towards his son was naturally much better.

"Dad came to you today to tell you about the expansion of finger cake production."

"Ahh

The words of the dead ghost father scared Ning Xiu a lot.

"Expansion? You and your mother are already busy, can you still expand production? ”

Money is certainly a good thing, fools know that. But the problem is that there are only three people in the Ning family now, Ning Xiu is going to study and take the imperial examination, and he can't make cakes in person, and all the work has to rely on cheap parents, and the productivity is really limited.

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