Chapter 6 Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui

Professional things are left to professional people to do, there is a very bullish organization in the United States called "American Internal Revenue Service", this organization's bullish and domineering is definitely a role model, and Zhu Yijun wants to learn from the example.

The big brother of the Chicago gangster in the United States, known as the biggest brother in American history, has an illegal income of hundreds of millions a year, which is super much in that era.

And he was very slippery, the police couldn't catch him at all, and in the end, he was planted in the hands of the IRS.

At that time, the IRS found out that this Al Capone had never filled out a tax return and never paid taxes. So, the IRS sent an undercover agent to work as an accountant for Alcapone.

As a result, it was really found out that there was a casino with hundreds of thousands of income that had not been taxed, which was nothing in Brother Al's underworld empire, but the IRS arrested him.

In the end, Al was not convicted of triad crimes, but tax evasion was sufficient. He was sentenced to 11 years of probation and fined 50,000 yuan. Since then, he has lost contact with the outside world, and after he was released from prison, because he suffered from incurable syphilis in prison, he could only fish, and his career as a big brother in the underworld came to an end.

It can be seen that the IRS is better than the FBI. It has a special tax collection arm, and it has more authority than the FBI, and he is suspicious of convictions, and if he suspects, he will freeze all your assets first. Next, it's up to you to prove that you haven't evaded taxes.

So, there is a proverb in the United States: "In this world, only death and taxes are eternal." ”

What Zhu Yijun wants is this kind of tax organization, they even collect taxes from drug dealers, and the punishment for tax evasion is so cruel that it is definitely a nightmare for tax evaders. This kind of thing must be left to professionals, you let the officials collect their own taxes, and if you collect them, they will be gone.

The key point is that there is a very easy to operate here, that is, the flour of the fields, etc., and the tax burden of the fields is different, and it is very different. For some of the gentry, changing the nature of the land did not seem to be difficult.

Not to mention in this era, even in later generations, there will be a lot of commercial land and industrial land.

Besides, the examination law, the supervision system of the Ming officials is really full of loopholes, and the officials of the science and Taoism are staring at big cases, cases that can brush up their reputation, and they are rumors, and they can't be convicted by words, to put it bluntly, they can talk nonsense.

The implementation of the test method may be possible when Zhang Juzheng is there, but when Zhang Juzheng is gone, it is estimated that it will almost collapse.

After all, they are the biggest vested interests, and without sufficient checks and balances and the emergence of new classes, reform cannot last long. However, such a reform in front of him is positive, and Zhu Yijun supports it very much.

For example, this time to clear the land, check how much land there is in the country, and make a booklet, otherwise you won't be able to collect taxes if you want to collect taxes in the future.

Zhu Yijun not only has to check the land of officials, but also the land of royal relatives and nobles. Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is the only way to do it, and it is impossible to have a black eye.

Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair and thought nonsense, there was already a mess below, and the two sides had different opinions, and the argument was very strong.

Zhang Juzheng still squinted his eyes slightly, standing there indifferently, unable to see anything on his face, as if the quarrel had nothing to do with him. It's just that Zhu Yijun knows that Zhang Juzheng is holding back his big move.

"The minister has his own music!"

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhang Juzheng to stand up and bow down and say.

The needles in the hall were immediately heard, and the quarrels were no longer arguing, and everyone looked at Zhang Juzheng quietly, waiting to see what he said. In the past five years, Zhang Juzheng has focused on personnel, and his majesty is very heavy.

With the examination law in hand, Zhang Juzheng dismissed many officials, and Zhang Juzheng stipulated that those who did not try to levy and levy local officials on a trial basis would be punished.

In December last year, according to a report from the Huke Division, 17 local officials were demoted in Shandong and two in Henan, and two in Shandong and nine in Henan were dismissed. This made officials at all levels, who were afraid of lower penalties, not dare to slack off, and urged the heads of households to pay the taxes and grain of the year.

As a result of the change in the situation of arrears in taxes, the state treasury has become more and more abundant. According to last year's statistics of the Ministry of Households, the annual income of the whole country reached more than 4.35 million taels, which was more than 250 taels per year (including the amount of silver taels such as folding, money, grain, salt, and ransom) during the Longqing period, an increase of 74 percent.

The fiscal revenue and expenditure were offset, and there was still a surplus of more than 850,000 taels, reversing the long-term financial deficit.

However, Zhu Yijun also knows that taxes are collected, but whose taxes are collected, how many people are killed in the process of collecting taxes, and how many people are forced to die. If it is not fundamentally changed, the more taxes are collected, the faster the Ming Dynasty will die.

Despite this, Zhang Juzheng's prestige was still established in the process, after all, Zhang Juzheng's words are no different from the holy decree now. If you want a holy decree, that's okay, I'll write you one, this is Zhang Juzheng's power.

"The minister thought that the court was scarce, and the tax was not raised, but because the wealthy people had land and did not give it, the poor people were tired, and the people were poor and fled, so the forehead was reduced", which is the root cause of "the country is poor and the people are poor". Zhang Juzheng's voice was not loud, but his speech was deafening.

The people standing in the hall are not stupid, what does Zhang Juzheng mean by this, who can't hear it, this is to settle the accounts of the field!

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, and suddenly thought of a person in his mind, this person is Hai Rui! Hai Rui believes that this is the next policy and cannot really solve the problem of uneven taxation of the people.

For Hai Jui and his people, there is everything to say, but Hai Jui is fair and strict.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Hai Rui was activated, Hai Rui was seventy-two years old at the time, Shang Shuyan was old and dying, and was willing to follow the meaning of the ancients' corpse advice, enumerating the criminal law of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, skinning people and putting them on grass to make skins, and the law of perversion of the law to sentence him to death by hanging.

He said that corruption should be punished in this way, and other plans for current affairs were extremely practical. Only to persuade the emperor to use tyrannical criminal law, which was considered wrong by the review at the time.

However, Zhu Yijun understood Hai Rui's thoughts, he saw the current situation of Daming officialdom, the ups and downs of officialdom for so many years, he knew what kind of state Daming's officialdom had reached. He couldn't bear the exploitation and corruption of officials, and felt that only by using the harsh laws of Taizu's time could he reverse the decline of officialdom.

After all, although Zhang Juzheng is in power, he doesn't care much about corruption.

Zhu Yijun felt that there was a location that was very suitable for Hai Rui, and that was the Internal Taxation Bureau of the Ming Empire. Let Hai Rui collect taxes, tsk, Zhu Yijun thinks that scene must be very good-looking, you can really think about it!