Chapter Seventy-Five: Knowing My Sin Is Only Spring and Autumn

"The way of governance, water and fire, corruption at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Your Majesty should be fierce and lenient, but not overkill, the world is big, thousands of lives, how can we find out one by one. Your Majesty will gain something from one measurement, and you will also gain from two measurements, lest the officials be like tigers and wolves, and the people will be lambs. It refers to the saline-alkali land of mountains and rivers, which is the land of the people, and the wealth of the people is collected and scraped in order to pay taxes. ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Xuan said.

"How could it be?" Zhang Zhen said: "This time to measure the seven mansions, more than 100,000 acres of land, a lot of tax increases, will the next time the Qingzhang be the same, the next time the Qingzhang, if there is no result in a measurement, Your Majesty will think that the person who is measuring is favoritism?" ”

"The things that are measured can be one and two, but two can not be three."

Zhang Xuan said: "In this way, wouldn't there be corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the gentry embezzled taxes? ”

Zhang Zhen said: "Your Majesty, you are not deaf, you are not dumb, you are not a family. ”

After Zhang Xuan heard this, he was extremely angry at first, feeling that Zhang Zhen had failed his trust. But after all, he has gone through so many things, and he also has his own views on the whole world, and when he thinks about it carefully, he has to admit that what Zhang Zhen said is not unreasonable.

Generally speaking, the higher the degree of organization, the higher the mobilization capacity and the stronger the national strength, but in the same way, the higher the organizational ability, the greater the bureaucracy and the greater the oppression of the people at the bottom. The Qin Dynasty is a striking example.

Zhang Xuan was a little depressed, and waved his hand to let Zhang Zhen go down.

And he ordered that no one should be seen.

A thoughtful thought.

For the future, Zhang Xuan is not without a blueprint. In his opinion, whether a country's national strength is strong or not depends on a country's organizational strength, such as Qin's state, a small corner of the country, which can mobilize 600,000 troops to destroy Chu, and with the manpower and material resources at that time, it can be said that Qin's national strength is almost exhausted.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan's various government designs are obviously modeled after the Qin and Han dynasties, such as the military service system, such as the financial system.

But now Zhang Zhen is saying a policy that stands in the opposite direction of him.

If it was just Zhang Qian's thoughts, Zhang Xuan didn't care too much, but he could clearly see that this idea was not Zhang Zhen's thoughts alone, but the thoughts of many people. Zhang Xuan traced back to the origin, where this idea came from.

From one man, one dead man.

"Zhu Yuanzhang." Zhang Xuan slowly closed his eyes.

For this person, it is the founder of the ancestral family law of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.

It has to be said that to see if a person is great. It depends on his influence.

Zhang Xuan used to think that Zhu Yuanzhang, a person who had been dead for hundreds of years, was irrelevant, but at this moment, he found that he was still facing him.

Many people have the impression that the ancient times are the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Zhu Yuanzhang may not have the urge to hold some in his hands, see the Hongwu period

The empty seal case can see Zhu Yuanzhang's impulsiveness. But Zhu Yuanzhang later compromised and determined the quota for various places, and the tax revenue in the future will be based on this quota.

He was not unaware that tax revenues varied greatly from year to year due to good harvests and poor harvests. But still.

It's a compromise.

And now he's going to have to deal with that compromise.

Zhang Zhen did not object to Zhang Xuanqingzhang, and even he felt that he had to check it out. However, from the starting point, he did not have the determination to investigate to the end, but only to straighten out the finances.

Zhang Xuan thought about it and had to admit one thing, he originally wanted to extend the tentacles of the Great Xia court to every village and everyone.

Now it seems that it can be done. But not necessarily, or even if it is done, is it really a good thing?

Is a huge regime that can control everyone necessarily good for the people?

This is a question worth discussing, even in modern times.

What are the boundaries of big government? Zhang Xuan didn't know, but he had to determine the boundaries of the Great Xia Imperial Court.

Don't think about it, the court inherits the mandate of heaven, wins the hearts of the people, and is all-encompassing. It must be admitted that there is something that the imperial court cannot control.

Even if it's a temporary tube. It may not be possible to hold on to it in the future.

Suddenly, he somewhat understood Zhu Yuanzhang's feelings, the system left by Zhu Yuanzhang had many problems, which could be described as clumsy.

But this clumsy system, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, was inherited by the Qing Dynasty. Not without merit.

It is introverted and stable.

Compared with the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Song Dynasty had various monopolies, various new laws. It is a great depreciation of paper money, and all kinds of financial means can be described as exquisite. But what happened in the end.

It is Cai Jing who used clever methods again and again to collect the financial resources of various places, so that when Tokyo fell, there were not many local officials and kings, but most of them were volunteers, which explains a lot of problems.

In many cases, every system envisions smart people, but it is also smart people who do things badly.

If you are not a smart person, you will not be able to defeat the world to such a point.

The system left by Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely clumsy, but it has supported the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and some people even say that if Zhang Juzheng did not change the law, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to increase the three salaries.

Because it can't be done procedurally. Putting aside the truth or falsehood for the time being, it can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang's system may be inefficient, but stable.

For a court, stability itself is more important, and even in modern times, it is said that stability is paramount.

Zhang Xuan suddenly felt a little timid in his heart.

Yes, even if he did not specialize in finance, he also knew that many financial instruments were even going to be used in the future to convert silver coins into paper money and open up the securities market, and use this method to raise funds for the Northern Expedition.

But in the heart of a founding emperor, are these things really good?

It's all double

Bladed Sword. With its edge today, it will eventually suffer damage one day. Zhang Xuan revisited many of his ideas.

He can't stop eating because of choking, but he also has to consider the current situation of Great Xia, and many things can't be taken for granted.

As for what he did today and what troubles he would have in the future, Zhang Xuan sighed slightly in his heart: "Knowing that I sin against me is only spring and autumn." ”

Before I knew it, the east was white, and Zhang Xuan was in the study, thinking about it all night.

This night was a sleepless night for Zhang Xuan. For Zhang Zhen, it was also a sleepless night.

Because this time it was the first time he fulfilled his duties as a minister.

What is Chancellor? With the great road to the king.

Although Zhang Zhen is the first assistant of the cabinet of Great Xia, he can be said to be the head of Great Xia's civil servants. But many times, he is an obedient character.

Zhang Xuan's main thing is very positive, although many things are discussed with Zhang Qian, but what is generally discussed is how to execute.

Zhang Zhen took Zhang Xuan's order, arranged this matter carefully, and implemented it well.

Although he has a lot of power, this is not the way of a minister.

Of course, Zhang Zhen did this, not because Zhang Zhen was not assertive, but on top of many things, Zhang Xuan's attention was good, which was very reasonable.

But during this period of time, Zhang Zhen found that Zhang Xuan had some problems.

Not a single question, but a series of questions that contradict his opinion.

The first is the national debt, the second is the imperial examination, and there are a series of problems, such as the promotion of Western learning, and so on.

To be honest, Zhang Xuan didn't care too much about some of his scheming methods, such as in the money reversal case, Zhang Xuan was not very glorious.

Zhang Zhen felt that this was good, as an emperor, magic, magic, and potential. You have to have talent. In today's situation, there is really a Song Renzong, but Zhang Zhen is disappointed.

But for Zhang Xuan to stay away from Confucianism and Taoism, in many things, he deviated from Confucianism's vision of Mingjun, and there was a trace of anxiety in his heart.

Yes, no matter whether Zhang Zhen and Zhang Xuan are real relatives or fake relatives, and whether it is true or false when it is true now, as an elder of the Xia Dynasty clan, as long as he obeys orders honestly. In the future, when he is a prince, he will be indispensable.

Maybe you can get a hereditary recklessness.

But it was precisely because of the surname Zhang that he was even more worried, and felt that he had to do his best to help His Majesty and return to the right path.

It's not that Fang Mizhi is bad, but Zhang Xuan values Fang Mizhi because of Fang Mizhi's Western knowledge, which is wrong.

Western learning is not bad. Some things are also used, such as mathematics. After all, Zhang Xuan is promoting.

But if it affects the way of the saints, it is very wrong.

He felt he had to do something about it.

Under an oil lamp, the flames that danced in Zhang Zhi's eyes, he sighed softly: "Knowing that I sin against me is only spring and autumn." ”