171 New Deal
In the general's mansion, the newly released cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the chief officials of the Dali Temple have all rushed to come, Cao Bianjiao is going to have a meeting, the emperor is half a moon, basically equivalent to a puppet, all the power is handed over to Cao Bianjiao, Cao Bianjiao has changed at the moment, and has become a powerful minister after Zhang Juzheng, and the power is even greater.
"I have formulated a series of policies, you must have seen it, you should be meaningless, abolish the guard system, the implementation of the conscription system and the compulsory soldier system, do not need to be implemented as soon as possible, send people to the various guards, the guards are properly settled, the general's mansion is mainly responsible for the recruitment of soldiers, conscription and recruitment, or handed over to the military department to be responsible, the same household department should also work together, as soon as possible to determine the population, land inventory and verification, the development of fish scale book, The household department should also send reliable officials to inspect various localities to ensure that the prefectures and counties in the country can vigorously implement the new policy, and strictly prevent the officials below from neglecting and lazy administration. ”
"The general can rest assured that the cabinet will supervise this matter and implement it as soon as possible." Zhang Shenyan responded that he had no objection to the new policy implemented by Cao Bianjiao, and he was very much in favor of it.
Cao Bianjiao bowed slightly, and continued: "There is also the reform of taxes, salt collection is nationalized, the government and private are uniformly implemented, the price of salt is unified, tea, wine, etc., according to the order, and the peasant households are all levied grain, mulberry farmers levy cloth, silk, and industrial and commercial households levy silver, these also need to be unified, the day of taxation is set in October after the autumn harvest, and the households of farmers and mulberry can also be taxed with silver money and paid according to the official price." After the tax is paid, when it arrives in the capital, the fire will be returned to the public, and it will not be apportioned to the people...... The household department must handle this matter as soon as possible, and there are documents sent to the townships and towns, don't write so much, it's simple, so that the people can understand after seeing it, you quote the scriptures, can the people understand it? ”
"The household department will immediately come up with a charter and start to deal with this matter!" Zeng Ying also hurriedly replied that these changes were formulated by Cao Bianjiao after consulting with him, and he knew it in his heart.
"Cut redundant officials and redundant personnel, streamline the imperial court yamen, personnel, officials should also be implemented as soon as possible, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Zongren Mansion merged into the Ministry of Rites, Taifu Temple, Yuanma Temple into the Ministry of War, the six sections are all set as three people, the pedestrian division is fifteen people, the two supervisors on the left and right of Shanglin Yuan are combined into one, and the monk Lu Division and the Daolu Division are also ordered to verify the personnel and land of the temples, and they must not occupy the people's fertile land. The imperial court assigns the scholars of the Hanlin Academy to teach the subset of scripture and history, and the personnel in the palace are recruited by themselves, and the imperial court can allocate 100 guards...... Long You, read out to all of you the adjustments to the governors of the prefectures and counties that I have formulated! ”
Yang Longyou also stood up, holding a list in his hand, and read it out at the moment:
"Political envoys: one political envoy, one person for the left and right political envoys, one for the capital, one for the grinding, and one for the school, one for the treasury envoy and one for the warehouse envoy, and five officials; Punishment according to the Inspector Division: One person each for the probation, one person for the probation, one person for the inspection, one person for the prison, and four officials; Commander of the envoys: one commander of the capital, one of the envoys, one of the inspectors, and three of the officials; Department of Academic Rites: One person for school administration, one person for experience, and one person for school inspection, and two officials. The chief of the political envoy is in charge of the people and the payment of taxes, and the criminal prosecution is in charge of the criminal lawsuit, and the chief of the envoy is in charge of the registration and rotation of compulsory soldiers, and the chief of the Department of Rites and Rituals is in charge of education ......"
"The three powers of each government are separated: the civil affairs yamen has one prefect, one co-governor, one governor, one inspector, and three officials; The criminal name litigation yamen has one person each for the general judgment, the magistrate, the school inspector, and the prison, and three officials; Commander of the guard: one commander, one governor, and one official. The prefect is in charge of civil affairs, and he is in charge of criminal proceedings, commanding and directing the militia, and putting the professor in charge of education......"
"County: Zhizhi County, County Cheng, Chief Register, Prison, Pawn History, Tax Envoy, Deputy Envoy, and five officials, who are in charge of civil affairs, litigation, and taxation of a county. The matter of the two people in charge of education ......"
When Yang Longyou finished reading it, Cao Bianjiao also stood up, paced in the hall, and said: "Separation of functions and powers, mutual supervision, is also an important means to clean up the rule of officials, clear powers, can also better solve political affairs, you have no objections!" ”
"I have no objection!" Zhang Shenyan echoed again, Cao Bianjiao had already greeted him about these things, and he also agreed, and also participated in the formulation of adjustments, which was also his plan, so he naturally had no objections.
"No objection......" The rest of the people also expressed their positions.
"Dare to ask the general, where is the governor's yamen and what is his duty?" Huang Daozhou was also asking at the moment, and he suddenly remembered this question, so he couldn't help but figure it out.
At the moment, Cao Bianjiao also explained: "The governor was temporarily sent by the court officials to inspect the prefectures and counties, naturally belonging to the court officials, there is no need to set up the yamen, the yamen of various places is the governor's yamen, the governor's duty is to inspect and supervise, not to sit in the yamen to deal with official documents, this is a matter of the political envoy and the envoy, so from now on, the governor will be sent by the imperial court, and patrol all places as the deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate. After discovering the problem, inform the imperial court, and at the same time urge the local officials to improve the handling, the imperial court will dispatch the Hanlin Academy to do capable things or the assistant of the new science and technology jinshi to investigate the people's situation, but also to let those new officials who have never had political experience accumulate experience, understand the suffering of the people, and can better follow the political people in the future, Huang Shangshu thinks it is feasible? ”
"Such a great act of kindness is naturally feasible, and the old man really admires the great general's whimsy!" Huang Daozhou was also amazed, and he didn't know how Cao Bianjiao's brain grew.
"In addition, it is the mercy of the officials and soldiers who were martyred in the Jiangnan Revolution this time, and they also need to give mourning to the soldiers who died for the country, so that the soldiers can be more loyal to defend the country, I mean, build a loyal courtier garden on the East Lu Mountain, and enshrine the spiritual seat of the court officials who were martyred for the country to be worshiped here, for future generations to admire and admire, and build a martyr's garden on top of Fangshan, and enshrine the spiritual position of the soldiers who were martyred for the country to this ......"
"There is also the reform of the currency system, I intend to implement three currency systems from now on, copper coins, silver coins, household silver tickets, minting new copper coins Daming Tongbao, changing silver ingots to silver coins, and at the same time issuing silver tickets in the name of the government, verifying the exchange price, using gold as a reserve, from now on, it is strictly forbidden to cast silverware and gold objects, and violators will be severely punished......"
In fact, Cao Bianjiao wants to thank Duoduo, if it weren't for him, how could Cao Bianjiao get enough gold and silver, copied so many wealthy families, the iron roosters who were originally unstoppable, now they are all stealing chickens and rice, so that he can get benefits, after statistics, in addition to antique calligraphy and painting, there are 150,000 or 60,000 taels of gold alone, more than 5 million taels of silver, some are Duoduo robbed, and some are those rich families in Jiangnan who contributed to the Cheng silver, all of which fell into the hands of Cao Bianjiao, plus the deposit of the household, it is feasible to issue silver coins.
The imperial court has no money, the silver is insufficient, so it can only adopt such emergency measures, Cao Bianjiao is not an economic master, he can only grope for improvement and change step by step, yes, the economy of the Ming Dynasty can prosper, and it will not collapse because of the silver problem.