15. Practicing the Law of the Meridians

Not only was the Xingyuan Mansion in an uproar, but there were also dozens of Di Newspapers along the post road and sent to the Jinju Yuan of Xingyuan Mansion in Chongrenfang, Chang'an City. [with _ dream]ā

"Zhongshu Shilang Dou Shen instructed to build three rivers and two taxes to inspect the court, and the festival made Gao Yuexi (cater) to the ruling mind, in order to achieve the meritorious service, work hard and hurt money, so that a huge life was caused." Shishu said so.

In the Daming Palace, a group of internal servants and lieutenants who were instigated by Tan Zhizhong and Yin Zhizhen also rushed to sue in front of the emperor, and Dou Shen did this, not knowing what the purpose was.

The emperor asked the lieutenant why he said this.

The lieutenant poured beans into the emperor's bamboo tube and said it one by one.

The emperor was a little angry, and urgently summoned Dou Shen in the Zichen Palace, and reprimanded him with his head and face, saying that what are you doing with two tax envoys, which caused a commotion in the entire northwest and Sanchuan.

Dou Shen was bitter in his heart, it was obviously Gao Yue's trick to trap me.

"The minister has already issued a document, saying that the Sanchuan Patrol Institute can only be set up in one place, and the construction cost will also be allocated by the Du Zhi Division, and he is ready to let Si Nong Shaoqing Pei Yanling supervise this matter. It is Gao Yue, Wei Gao and others who are both upright and two-faced. Dou Shen explained.

"Caoyun from Luoyang to Chang'an, how many transfer patrols are there?" The Emperor suddenly asked this question.

Dou Shen can only answer truthfully, there are seven places in total.

The emperor was very unhappy, and said that there were seven patrol courtyards in this period of Cao Yun, and in such a big place as Sanchuan, the two taxes and grain were calculated in millions of yuan every year, and you actually only set up one patrol courtyard, so I asked, what is the use of this place? Can it be a combination of collection, transfer, accounting, and anti-smuggling? If one place is not enough, then it can only be as Gao Yue, Wei Gao, and Du Huangshang said in the recital, Hanzhou, Lizhou, Quzhou, Fengzhou, and Yangzhou should add patrol hospitals, not to mention one, I am afraid that ten places are not enough, the original Fangzhen in the northwest and Sanchuan, the reason why I allowed the military government to camp and return to Yi, is to allow them to support the army, reduce the burden of the imperial court, and resist the western Tibet, so every year the upper part of the supply is converted into light copper coins, and it can be paid to the Beijing division. It is the foundation of the imperial court's taxation, so it is necessary to set up special patrols along the road.

Qing is now using the poor outline method to half-abolish the patrol court of the southeast Jianghuai, but he wants to go to the northwest and Sanchuan to set up two tax envoys to patrol the court and compete with the local military government for profit, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

Furthermore, what is the use of the two taxes? For example, there is no basis for taxation in the prefectures and counties today, and the addition of a two-tax envoy will not do any good except to make the people bear the burden of supporting more officials who also serve as envoys. Unless the meridian boundary of the northwest three rivers is clear, and the anvil base book is complete, it is not too late to set up two more taxes, so to speak, you are still putting the cart before the horse.

The emperor's words were very serious, and he almost said that Dou Shen used the poor gang method against the southeast and Heshuo, and sent two tax envoys to the northwest and Sanchuan, which was the real two-faced approach, the struggle for power and profit, and the act of self-destruction of the Great Wall of the imperial court.

So Dou Shen was sweating, and hurriedly said that the minister was just eager to pay for the imperial court, and he was a little too hasty.

"You don't have to worry about this, Gao Yue, Wei Gao, Du Huangshang, Liu Changqing, Xing Junya, Gao Chongwen, and Liu Haibin can do it like an arm, and it doesn't cost the treasury money." When the emperor said this, it was tantamount to giving Dou Shen a gentle warning.

Immediately, the emperor pushed the boat down the river, saying that the two tax patrol courts of the Qing Dynasty also have some truth, but they must be established on the basis of the meridian boundary law, and then the imperial court will be able to take the meridian boundary law as the warp and weft, and the two tax inspection courts as the outline, and then they will be able to take care of the national plan of the world.

"Let the Hanlin Academy make a rough system, and urge Gao Yue to practice the meridian boundary law before Xingyuan and Fengxiang!"

Dou Shen almost vomited blood, and he was busy for a long time, but in the end, he made a wedding dress for Gao Yue.

And the emperor also thought that he had actually given an explanation to the people named Ma Yiyu who took shelter from the rain and fulfilled a promise.

In addition, the emperor had secretly summoned Han Yu before.

Han Yu was not only sincerely afraid, but also very solemnly dedicated the manuscript of the investigation that condensed his painstaking efforts.

The emperor was deeply touched by the second touch after reading it, Han Yu's manuscript said that when he was in Tongzhou, he had seen an old woman surnamed Du, widowed after her husband's death, and originally depended on her married daughter, but then her daughter also died, but the tax on her head was not removed, and at the age of sixty, she had to transport grain to the government cart three hundred miles away, so that the children left by her daughter had no one to take care of, and they died of hunger at home, leaving only the old woman to return, looking at the broken house full of basil, her heart was like ashes, alone, and she lived in the world. Although Han Yu gave the old woman some money out of heartache, the old woman said that what is the use of this money, she will still enter the tiger's mouth of the government in the coming year;

Han Yu also said that there are many poor households on both sides of the Weishui River, who were forcibly requisitioned by the government to Caoyun Fiber, and these people are these people year after year, who are not well fed, clothed, starved to death and exhausted, not to mention running a family business to support young children, there is a young county magistrate in the local area, after seeing it, he personally wrote the errand on the edition and handed it over to these fiber households, so as not to let them be harmed by the government officials, and divided them into five times, and only two of them were levied every year, and the rest could be farmed and hired, which saved many people, but this is just the government of a county, If it can be implemented to the world, how many tens of millions of people will be saved?

"The uneven division is as fierce as a tiger, and the local exploitation is poisonous to the snake", this sentence in Han Yu's manuscript was particularly shocking to the emperor, and he was determined to implement the meridian law in some areas, and he could not delay it any longer.

The emperor's writing was like a spring thunder, spreading all over the land of Sanchuan.

Ah, no, in fact, after Gao Yue uprooted the seventy-three households before, he had a very good effect on the entire Xingyuan Mansion.

After the document was issued, Gao Yue took the opportunity to set up the Economic Boundary Division, with Wei Ping as the principal and Wei Zhiyi as the deputy, and began to implement the Economic Boundary Law in the prefectures and counties of Quanxingyuan.

At the same time, the Jingjie Division was also set up in Fengxiang Mansion, with Xue Baijing as the principal and Wang Shao and Wu Yuanheng as the deputies.

After this battle, there was no resistance to the implementation of the Jingjie Law, and the merchants and households of Xingyuan Mansion successfully occupied the land greatly increased, and all kinds of workshops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, in addition to the traditional workshops, cotton weaving workshops, paper workshops and printing and dyeing workshops grew the fastest!

With the help of the alchemist Wu Cailuan, Gao Yue invented the Shenlei gunpowder, and the business of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal increased greatly in Fengzhou and Xingzhou, among which the burning of sulfur also brought more valuable by-products, which could be used as alum liquid for bleaching and dyeing, which greatly promoted the development of cotton weaving and printing and dyeing industries; In addition, the extensive planting of cotton, the people's warm clothing is abundant, enough to make part of the field even, to plant ramie, bamboo, for papermaking, and the prosperity of the paper industry in Xingyuan, Fengxiang, and promote the development of the printing industry, the development of the printing industry, and provide abundant paper, for the administration of the government (paper, banknotes, documents are needed) and cultural and educational undertakings.

Wei Gao and Du Huangshang were not idle in Liangchuan, but the resistance of these two to implement the meridian boundary law was even less, and Wei Gao also engaged in a "self-practice method of protecting armor".