Wu Wang Liubu II

"The kids don't like it either." Luo Yulong said.

"And who's Jisuke?" Luo Rucai said.

"The second assistant Ruan Dacheng is also the secretary of the household department, and the bachelor of Hanlin." Luo Yulong said.

"Ruan Dacheng?" Luo Rucai frowned and said, "This person seems to be a corrupt official? ”

Ruan Dacheng's reputation among the people is quite bad, and there are almost no talents who have to do three things in Nanjing, study, visit the Qinhuai River, and scold Ruan Dacheng. This reputation naturally spread to Luo Rucai's ears.

"Ruan Dacheng is still talented, he just made enemies with Donglin to end up in such a world." Luo Yulong said: "And after the child arrives in Nanjing, only this person takes the initiative to vote, no matter what this person is, even if it is a horse bone in Qianjin City, he must be given a good position." ”

"Is that all?" Luo Rucai said.

"Of course not." Luo Yulong said: "The army is fighting, and it is a million taels of weight, and we have come all the way to Jiangnan, isn't it just for the word money and food?" Even if you want to appease the gentry in Jiangnan, you must collect enough silver from Jiangnan. And Ruan Dacheng had a grudge against the Jiangnan gentry, and put him on top of the household book, so that he could collect taxes. Dad, you don't know the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River, Nanjing is prosperous enough, the prosperity of Suzhou is far from Nanjing, there are streets for 20 miles outside Suzhou, and the whole Suzhou is almost a city that never sleeps. But how much is the tax collected? ”

"In every prefecture and county in Jiangnan, there are many rich people with hundreds of thousands of taels, but the entire Jiangnan, plus Hangzhou, has a tax revenue of only millions of taels. The yellow book is too different from the reality, and that's it. But since the Chenghua years, the taxes in Jiangnan are notoriously difficult to collect, often exempting hundreds of thousands of stones, millions of Shihuang grain national taxes, Ruan Dacheng told me, not to mention anything else, the taxes owed by Jiangnan Prefecture and County alone are as much as 10 million taels. ”

"Ten million taels?" Luo Rucai was taken aback and said, "But really? ”

"Just more, no less?" Luo Yulong said: "Because the imperial court assesses officials, it is qualified to collect 60% of taxes, and 80% is excellent, but it is a cool official who collects 10% of them." This is as much as 10 million taels, which is a shortfall owed in more than ten years, and it seems that it has been waived before. ”

"The former is not counted." Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and said: "The arrears of more than ten years ago, it is impossible to collect most of them at once, even if you can come over, you will have to die, so I have exempted them from the taxes owed before, but in the future, the taxes in Jiangnan will not be able to be less than a big son." ”

Luo Rucai came up from the bottom, so he naturally knew the virtue of the government in collecting taxes.

Some of the taxes that cannot be collected are the taxes owed by large households, and these people have great wealth and power in the local area, and the government does not dare to collect them. Now that Jiangnan is blocked, these people are not easy to move, otherwise they would not have used Qian Qianyi as a signboard.

And some are:

I really can't collect taxes.

Or maybe a family has already moved out, or a family just can't afford it.

Luo Rucai is used to seeing how the Northland collects taxes.

If someone evades the tax in a certain mile, the tax he evades will fall on the person who stays, and the person will stay even if the tax is gone, so that the more people go. The heavier the taxes are borne by those who remain.

Such a policy naturally led to the entire village defecting to the rebel army, otherwise why could the rebel army make a comeback despite repeated defeats.

Therefore, he waved his hand, and he was not investigated for the past, and he should be exempted. Although the tax arrears of more than 10 million taels made Luo Rucai very hot.

"Yulong, do you want to know how our family got up?" Luo Rucai said: "The people call Chongzhen a heavy conquest, if there is no such re-enlistment of the Son of Heaven, you and my father and son would not be today, so even if you want money from the world, it is absolutely impossible, and you can't ask for money that shouldn't be." ”

"That's what the kids think." Luo Yulong said: "The gentry in Jiangnan are all famous, my family does not recognize the fame of the previous dynasty, and their land and property have to pay taxes, but this needs a person who dares to do it with an iron fist." And although Ruan Dacheng has a bad reputation, he is the only minister who dares to be heavy-handed in the child's mind. ”

"In that case." Luo Rucai said: "It's him." But what if he embezzles? ”

Luo Yulong sneered and said, "Zhu Yuanzhang dares to kill, but the child doesn't dare to kill?" ”

"How do you arrange it?" Luo Rucai asked.

Luo Yulong actually didn't want to arrange Zhang Zhen much, after all, the relationship between Zhang Zhen and Zhang Xuan was too close, but Zhang Zhen was an old man in the camp no matter what, so he couldn't let him not have a place in the cabinet, right?

"The child is going to arrange Mr. Zhang to go to the military department." Luo Yulong said: "Cabinet scholar and secretary of the military department, what does my father think? ”

Luo Rucai glanced at Luo Yulong, and Luo Yulong felt that Luo Rucai's eyes were extremely sharp, as if he was about to see through his thoughts. Luo Rucai said: "Let's also have a secretary of the Ministry of Industry." ”

"Yes." Luo Yulong said.

The military department is a very important position, but no matter how important it is, it is not too important in troubled times.

Without him, now the power of the world's soldiers and horses is in the hands of Luo Rucai, and the secretary of the military department is just a person who fights the hand, and there is no difference between him and the logistics director. And the Ministry of Industry will not have anything important for a while, and any great hero will have to make concessions to reality.

In these years, fighting a war comes first.

Therefore, all the projects of the Ministry of Industry are probably to serve the army, build cities and so on. Therefore, Luo Rucai handed over the two to Zhang Zhen together, because he trusted Zhang Zhen's ability in logistics organization. is to appease the old minister again, after all, the two demoted officials have become the first assistant and the second assistant,

The people below must give some comfort.

Luo Yulong also knew that although Luo Rucai said that he didn't care, the decision he made would have no effect without Luo Rucai's endorsement.

"Yes." Luo Yulong said.

"The officials give it to Rodain." Luo Rucai said: "There must always be one of your own people in key positions. ”

"The child understands." Luo Yulong said: "The child thinks the same way. ”

In the early Ming Dynasty, the official department was known as the heavenly official, and it was an existence that could oppose the first assistant. Naturally, it can be regarded as a key position.

Luo Rucai said: "The Criminal Department will give it to you, you can choose one person." ”

Although the criminal department is an important position, in the troubled times, it is not too important in Luo Rucai's opinion.

"The boy wrote it down." Luo Yulong said.

Luo Rucai said: "After these six departments are decided, it will be up to you to take care of them, I can't see too far in the future, dealing with these people, you need a few more eyes, and your father can't help you." ”

"Father, please rest assured." Luo Yulong said: "I won't let you down." ”

Luo Rucai said: "These civil officials are easy to arrange, but old brothers, how are you going to reward them?" And more than one person came to ask me, the civil officials have become scholars, and they want to change the title to be a scholar? What do you think? ”

What Luo Rucai said is also the truth.

With Zhang Zhen taking Nanjing as the center and sorting out the situation in various prefectures and counties, not to mention other places, Nanjing is a stable place.

And after the news of the formation of the six departments was released, many of Luo Rucai's old brothers came to ask, wanting a princely position.

"Daddy." Luo Yulong said: "The reward should not be too indiscriminate, if the reward is now good, after the father ascends the throne in the future, how to reward the heroes?" The meaning of the child depends on when the father ascends the throne, and when he will be a vassal. ”

"Enthronement?" Luo Rucai's eyes burst out with a hint of longing, and there was a sense of impatience. He wanted to ascend the throne, but after thinking about it, he gave up, don't think about it, at least stabilize the Jiangnan form, and occupy the land of Zhejiang and Jiangxi. After Nanjing has completely become a hinterland, I want to ascend the throne.

"That's going to have to be delayed." Luo Rucai said.

"The child won't let the father wait any longer." Luo Yulong said: "In the coming year, we will definitely defeat Zuo Liangyu and support my father to ascend the throne." ”

"My son's filial piety, but I know it." Luo Rucai said: "But if you want to hurry, you can't reach it." Things go on step by step, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry. ”

Having said that, in Luo Rucai's tone, it was difficult to hear the mind that he was not in a hurry.

That's the emperor's position, Luo Rucai is also a mortal, why don't you want to be the emperor during your lifetime.

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