"Thank you, Your Majesty" Hearing that Chongzhen let him stay in the imperial study after retiring from the court, Shi Kefa thanked him happily. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing Shi Kefa's performance like this, Chongzhen was not very unhappy, what did you thank earlier, I haven't promised to give you money yet, how can there be such a thing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's discuss it and see how my proposal can be implemented more reasonably." As an emperor, he can only propose a general direction, and the specific implementation still needs to rely on the ministers of the court.

As soon as Chongzhen's words were finished, the ministers below began to gather together in twos and threes to chatter and discuss.

"This kind of plan sounds feasible, this official thinks it can be tried," a Qingliu old minister nodded. "It's a try, but such a plan is an overdraft of the future national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, through the current difficulties, what to do in the future, all of a sudden the Ming Dynasty in the north of the ten years of taxes are gone, it's really a pity" A remnant official of the Donglin Party stepped forward and questioned, for the Donglin Party Chongzhen did not rush to kill, after all, Donglin still has some hard-working officials.

Chongzhen does not have any subjective ill feelings towards the party of Donglin, what makes Chongzhen disgusting is the group of Donglin inheritors who later jumped into the river and were martyred, and the original intention of any party that can develop is good, and only in this way can this party thrive, but with the passage of time, the original intention of these parties is still remembered by a few people. It's just that the original intention of the Donglin Party is a little too advanced, not only Chongzhen, but also any emperor will not agree.

First of all, the Donglin Party opposed the feudal dictatorship and autocracy, vigorously attacked and opposed the dictatorship and chaos of the eunuchs and bureaucrats, and put forward slogans with democratic ideological colors. They strongly demanded the reform of the government and put forward the political principles of "benefiting the country" and "benefiting the people," and regarded the people as the main body of society. It's just that when the feudal dynasty developed to its peak and the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism was popular, advocating this kind of rebellious thinking suddenly offended the emperor, eunuchs, and ministers to death.

Chongzhen is from later generations, for democracy than anyone in the world knows, democracy is just a charming joke, the real democracy has not been realized on the earth, at least in the era in which he lives, even if the three most powerful countries in the 21st century, although they are called democracy, in fact, first say which is recognized as the most powerful and democratic Bald Eagle Bard, Bald Eagle democracy should be said to be a consortium democracy system, because this system was originally formulated by the emerging bourgeoisie after overthrowing the feudal forces, Of course, it is to ensure that the bourgeoisie holds the core power, and that the power is in the hands of the capitalists, not the American people.

Next, look at the polar bear, democracy or anything, you just look at how many years the owners of the polar bear have been in power, and they are still in power, it is estimated that they will not abdicate in their lifetime, as for the process of democracy in a strong country, I will not say it, everyone knows, the harmony of the province.

Chongzhen believes that the most ideal system for the future of the Ming Dynasty is a combination of a constitutional monarchy and a cabinet system. Of course, this constitutional monarchy must be the kind of dual monarchy of the Second German Empire in the future, not the parliamentary one, and Chongzhen does not want to be hollowed out. This is also the most in line with the national conditions of the future of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the constitutional monarchy now, Chongzhen never thought about it, Chongzhen knows very well that in this period, what the empire needs is centralization, and any act of delegating power is idiotic, as long as he dares to delegate power, Chongzhen believes that his empire will instantly change back to the situation of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The cultural environment is different, the empire does not have a buffer of hundreds of years, and if you don't want to die, it's better not to bring up the topic of democracy.

This group of ministers discussed for a long time, and finally Shi Kefa, an unlucky child, was pushed to the forefront, "Your Majesty, if you encounter a family with only old people, or only orphans and widows, and no young people to participate in forced service, is it too cruel to double the tax in such a situation?"

That's a problem. Chongzhen sat on his dragon chair and touched his chin, thinking about this question, "Since this matter was raised by Aiqing, let Aiqing handle it, I plan to check the population of the whole country, and all the people who live in the empire in the future will be registered clearly, where is the place of origin, where do they live now, make a waist card, everyone who comes out of their place of origin must carry a waist card, and those who do not have a waist card will be brought back to the yamen to confirm their identity, with the waist card, women will reach the age of 45, and men will be exempt from agricultural taxes, Children will begin to pay agricultural taxes after the age of 18", and Chongzhen was completely set according to the ID card of later generations.

"Make a waist card at the same time post the royal list, where the private carved waist card, full of copying, the whistleblower gets half of his family property" full of copying, this is enough for the whistleblower to relieve the worries, plus the private carved waist card of the family, Chongzhen believes, no guy jumped out to do fake. The right to engrave the waist card, Chongzhen intends to delegate it to the government office, as for the low-level county government, for the authenticity of the waist card, it cannot be delegated.

"The emperor is shengming" The ministers shouted Shengming. It's just a waist card, it's still easy to carry it around, and there is no need to go against the emperor for this little thing.

"I remember that Zhang Juzheng seems to have descendants, send someone to find it, I plan to see it, Zhang Shoufu had a lot of political measures at the beginning, and it was a bit unjust to die like this" It is a pity that Zhang Juzheng's reform has not been able to persist, if he insists on himself, how can the Ming Dynasty be so weak.