Seeing that Tianqi had pushed all the questions to Liu Zongzhou's Holy Academy, King Xin generously said that he was not in a hurry to take his time, thinking that if he asked a few more questions, Tianqi would not let Liu Zongzhou take it, and shook his head speechlessly for a while, saying that he was a little dizzy and wanted to think again. Liu Zongzhou is also very depressed, the problem of food and clothing for the people and the supervision and appointment of officials is a big problem, but it is precisely because it is the Supervision Yuan itself that it turns to his head ‰ Remember the URL of this site: ♀ It is also the sorrow of being a subordinate, and if you can't do it well, you will be blamed not to say, and you can't think in advance of your superiors, so all problems will be left to yourself under your own promotion.

Gao Panlong saw that King Xin and Liu Zongzhou did not speak, and Xu Guangqi heard that Tianqi began to say that Long Huamin and Deng Yuhan and other Taixi people were all sanctimonious hypocrites. He said to the apocalypse: "Your Majesty, yesterday the High Master of the Military Affairs Yuan had already gone on the road to quell the rebellion, and it is said that the counterinsurgency is only a secondary aspect, and the main purpose is to reorganize the army through the counterinsurgency. Not only the South, but also the North will start to act, I don't know if that's the case? ”

Tianqi said: "Yes, the army is the pillar of the country, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Ming Dynasty has been declining day by day for so many years, and if you don't want to rectify it, I'm afraid that there will be no available soldiers in the imperial court at a critical moment, and the rebels in the southwest are now not enough to worry about, increasing the combat effectiveness of the army is the top priority, does the tall man have any experience in the rectification of the army?" ”

Gao Panlong shook his head and said: "The minister is just a weak person, and he is not good at military affairs, but the minister heard that after the rectification is completed, many old and weak and tired people will be eliminated from the military household and forced to retire, and the local cooperation with the big iron company will accept these people at that time." How do ministers think about how to think about the relationship between the people and the land, how to consider the relationship between the people and the officials, these things are still under discussion and discussion in the Holy Academy, and the emperor told Lord Liu not to hurry and take his time, is the emperor already confident? ”

Tianqi said: "Master Gao guessed correctly, I asked the Holy Academy to think slowly to ask them to come up with a long-term solution, but now they will face this kind of problem immediately, so they can only urgently follow the power and find a temporary measure to take a temporary measure for a while." For example, on the issue of the relationship between the people and the land, the first batch of retired soldiers came back and were all veterans, and they had to learn skills such as farming and repairing houses from Zhao Shujiao before eliminating the military households and retiring from the army. When they returned to their hometowns, I was ready to take out the official land of the provinces and give it to them to cultivate, and they and their families cultivated the official fields and built new farms according to the Mu of Shanglin Yuan, and the taxes were paid as usual, but because it was official land, the rent could be adjusted to their satisfaction. ”

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, if they are allowed to pay taxes and rent like ordinary people, it will definitely make them embarrassed, if they only pay taxes and do not pay rent or pay less rent, they can indeed make their lives better, but will other people feel dissatisfied when they are at a loss?" ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "Yes, the things in the world do not suffer from poverty but suffer from unevenness, other people have to pay as much as 20% of the rent in addition to paying 10% of the tax, and it is indeed unfair to other people if the retired soldiers do not pay or pay less, and it will affect the implementation of local policies in the long run, what good can you do?" ”

Liu Zongzhou saw that the apocalypse had pushed the matter over again, smiled and said: "This is easy to do, just need to tell everyone that retired soldiers only pay 10% of the land rent when renting official fields, and the difference with other people who pay 20% is because they have shed blood to protect the country, your Majesty, do you think it's good to say this?" ”

Tianqi exclaimed: "Lord Liu is really powerful, so everyone will not have an opinion, whoever disobeys will go to the front line as a soldier, and I will give him this treatment at that time." However, this system is limited to official land, and even if private land is counted, it will not be extraneous branches, and the big landlords will be enough to save face in matters such as selling land, paying taxes, destroying mulberry and growing grain, and so on, and people cannot be dissatisfied. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Thank you for the emperor's praise, but what the minister doesn't understand is how to reasonably produce and supervise officials now, it used to be very simple and only needed to be appointed by the imperial court, but now the emperor has set up a four-level auxiliary system, and the previous method is not easy to use." ”

Apocalypse said, "This is something that your Holy Academy should consider, but until you have a mature and safe method, I also have a temporary method. It is logical for an administrative official to have the unanimous approval of the upper and lower levels, and of course, to accept the unanimous constraints of the upper and lower levels, and this is the original intention of the four-level auxiliary government system. Putting aside the fact that there is no election or not for the time being, after taking office, an official should not only make an understanding report on the current situation as before, but also make a premeditated plan in accordance with the arrangements made by his superiors and local auxiliary political organs, and this is the embodiment of his individual ability under the collective wisdom. ”

Liu Zongzhou said: "Didn't the emperor say that after having an auxiliary political institution, the only personal ability is obedience and fairness? Is this premeditated plan a sign of obedience or fairness? ”

Tianqi said: "To obey the arrangements of the higher authorities and the local auxiliary government is to obey, and to satisfy the vast majority of the people below as much as possible reflects fairness, and whether obedience and fairness are done well is the greatest manifestation of their personal ability." Of course, individuals still need to have some director ability, this ability includes speaking and doing things, premeditated planning is to say, fulfilling promises is doing, and consistency between words and deeds is the embodiment of ability. ”

Gao Panlong asked: "Your Majesty, you said that you want the officials to plan and say it, what do you want them to say?" ”

Tianqi said: "I can't specify what to say, it should be a good and obedient thing that is satisfactory to the top and bottom according to local conditions, of course, you have to tell the truth in your own ability, even if there is a slight exaggeration, you have to have a degree, otherwise you can't redeem it in the end, isn't it a let people scold yourself?" To put it simply, you want to tell everyone what you are going to do when you come here as an official, and even if you want to scrape the ground, you have to tell everyone how you are going to scrape and how deep, so that everyone knows what kind of person you are. ”

Gao Panlong thought for a while and said: "The minister still doesn't understand, if all the heavy responsibility of thinking and arranging is pushed to the auxiliary political agency, and this official only achieves obedience to the top and fairness to the bottom, is this requirement too low?" ”

Tianqi shook his head and said: "It's not low at all, as long as you are obedient to the top and fair to the bottom, this official is a very good official." Of course, as mentioned earlier, you need a little director ability and can't do nothing, the ancients said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, this official is a chef who is the main spoon, and the auxiliary government agency is the institution that prescribes recipes and provides ingredients. For example, if we want to eat bamboo shoots and pork today, the auxiliary government agency should provide the bamboo shoots and pork, as well as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., and the chef decides whether to fry or stew, whether to cold salad or braised wine, anyway, to make everyone satisfied. ”

When everyone heard this, they felt that they could give it a try, and see if it would be better than being directly appointed by the imperial court now§ Guangqi said at this time: "I am looking forward to hearing the emperor say this today, and this is still an expedient measure, if the Holy Academy thinks everything clearly and thinks about a safe and sound strategy, I don't know if it is even more exciting." However, we seem to be digressing today, it turns out that we are talking about retired soldiers, promoting improved breeds, and arms procurement, and there is no need to talk about retired servicemen's affairs for the time being. ”

As soon as Xu Guangqi mentioned it, everyone remembered today's real topic, and they all nodded and asked how Tianqi thought about using two companies to carry out the promotion of improved varieties and arms procurement. Tianqi thought for a while and said: "One day in the middle of the month a month ago, I was having dinner with the queen and others in the palace, and I saw that the faces of the two princes, watermelon and pumpkin, were so white, and I gently pinched the tofu with my hand as if it was about to come out of the water∞ so I thought, why is this person getting older and older? ”

Seeing that the apocalypse suddenly talked about the affairs in the palace from the affairs of the court, everyone felt a little sudden, and after looking at each other, King Xin smiled and said: "Brother Huang said a joke, people must be getting older and older, where is the reason that the longer and the tenderer?" At the beginning, the royal brother talked about eating bamboo shoots, and when the bamboo shoots were tender, they could be eaten and turned into bamboo when they were old, and they could not be eaten, which shows that everything is like this. ”

Apocalypse nodded and said, "Everything will grow old from young to old, and the same should be true for the institutions in the DPRK and other places, which is why I want to use two companies to promote good breeds and purchase armaments." In terms of improved varieties, the yield of the old varieties can be relatively fixed, so no one cares about it, and the yield, cold tolerance, drought tolerance and so on of the new varieties are still unstable, so it takes several processes to increase the inventory of the treasury and increase some surplus grain to the people's homes. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "The minister used to have a certain understanding of the high yield and drought tolerance of sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and other crops, and after the establishment of the Bo College, with the emperor's continuous funds, he has been doing various experiments, and the minister has a deep understanding of the relationship between silver, time, helpers and seeds. Therefore, the minister's gratitude to the emperor cannot be expressed in words, and this is not because we are ministers who are related to the monarch and the minister, and the minister believes that the several processes that the emperor said must have their truth. ”

Tianqi looked at Xu Guangqi and nodded: "My admiration for Lord Xu has nothing to do with the relationship between our monarch and ministers, Lord Xu's translation of the book "Principles of Geometry" made the Ming realize that we are not omniscient and omnipotent, a lot of foreign knowledge is more advanced than us, and many places and countries are challenging the status of the Ming Dynasty. The cultivation and promotion of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes have temporarily solved the food problem that has plagued the people of the Ming Dynasty for so many years∞. ”

After listening to Tianqi's words, Xu Guangqi held back the excitement in his heart and said quietly: "The minister thanked the emperor first, and asked the emperor to make it clear what are the processes for promoting good varieties in the emperor's heart." [Serialized, stay tuned...] This book is provided by (apread.genuine, please support genuine)

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