Chapter 315 One Citizen Raising Two Soldiers, Why Didn't the Ming Dynasty Have Financial Problems?

Talking about Ding Fu is still a group of harmony, and when it comes to Tian Fu, the audience is murderous.

Shunqing is located in the north of Sichuan, there are few wealthy families, and the place is only a Guang'an thousand households, even so, in order to implement the policy of integrated food payment, people are also killed.

CD, southern Sichuan, and western Sichuan are different, even after the cleansing of the Liukou, nearly 10,000 Shu clan relatives died, but there are many local wealthy families.

In addition to the wealthy families, there are also guards, Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty to establish half-ploughing and half-tun guards across the country, hoping to use the land of the guards to support the guards, to achieve the purpose of not consuming a penny of food for the country.

But is there such a cheap dinner in the world? The guards have to bear the obligation to defend the border, but also have to pay a huge amount of grain, since the establishment, the guards have escaped a lot, to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the original tun households on the guard are only two or three tenths.

The soldiers of the guard post are like this, and those hereditary guards officers are even more unprofitable.

When the soldiers of the guard escaped, their cultivated land became the private property of the officers, and in the name of capturing the fugitives, the fugitives were arrested to cultivate the land, and high land rents (up to half of the land output) were collected.

In order to undertake the duty of guarding, recruit some private soldiers, and then cooperate with the strong men on the guard to show off their military power in the local area and scare the common people.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the entire guard system has already collapsed, in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of Japanese invaders went deep into the south of Zhili for thousands of miles, killing thousands of guards, what they encountered was this kind of guards who had no combat effectiveness.

In order to solve the problem of low combat effectiveness of the guards in the station, Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang adopted a recruitment system, recruited strong men from the localities, and gave them high remuneration to train the army to resist foreign invaders.

Since then, there has been an upsurge of military recruitment throughout the country, and most of those who can fight abroad are recruited by the imperial court.

From the emperor to the ordinary gentry, although they knew that the guard system had collapsed, and the guards could only oppress the common people, no one had the courage to reform this system.

Since then, the whole country has to raise two kinds of economic soldiers (recruitment, guards), so that the Ming financial revenue is beyond its means, in order to solve the problem of taxation, the imperial court once again raised the butcher's knife of taxation on the ordinary people.

Local governments impose excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes one after another, and there are countless apportionments at various levels.

However, the imperial court had to support hundreds of thousands of clans, and the bureaucrats and gentry were not far behind, plus there were two kinds of economic soldiers, and in the end, on the basis of normal taxes, three salaries were added.

As soon as the three salaries came out, the people were miserable, especially in northern Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi, which suffered from natural disasters and grain harvests, and almost became a prairie fire, and finally the Ming Dynasty was overwhelmed and collapsed.

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Strictly speaking, the Volunteers trained their arms for local regiments, and most of the soldiers were recruited from the localities, and although there were a small number of guards in the army, there were very few hereditary officers of the guards, and they did not match the boundaries of the guards system.

The more important guards are distributed in the country's anointed land, and their taxes are completely swallowed by those hereditary officers, and after more than two hundred years of development, although the hereditary officers of these guards have trained a certain number of personal soldiers, they are only a dead tiger compared to the volunteers.

Of course, it is not easy to extract teeth from the tiger's mouth, but if you knock a dead tiger, no one will let go of this opportunity.

Now that the political situation is stabilizing, Yang Lin immediately focused the reform of Tianfu on the land of the guard.

First, after the system of the guard was stinky and rotten through the war of public opinion, and then through the coercive power of the yamen, it was announced that the guard house now exists in name only, and each guard post has become the private property of the hereditary guard officers.

The abolition of the guard house was announced

It was announced that the original obligation of military households to enlist in the army without compensation was abolished

It was announced that all the land in the health center would be allocated to the people

It was announced that the land endowment of the health post was 50% more than that of the local farmland, as a reward for the free use of cultivated land by military households.

It was declared that all officers of the guard were required to pay land for one year's grain as punishment for long-term servitude to military households.

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Everyone talked about it, although everyone felt that the system of Wei had already existed in name only, but after all, it was a system established by Emperor Hongwu.

Most people think that it is important to reform the health care system, but they oppose the rape of the health care system

Among them, of course, the most criticized is that the hereditary officers of the guard post need to pay for the annual output of the land, and everyone brings out isolated evidence one by one, saying that the world is in turmoil, and there are some good guard officers in the local area.

After discussing for a long time, Yang Lin made concessions and decided to abolish the guard system based on the model of Qian Bangxin, the inspector who presided over the handling of the Guang'an Thousand Households.

The method is nothing more than that, for those who dare to raise troops to resist the new government policy, all the family assets of the officers of the guard will be confiscated.

In the part that requires the officers of the guard post to pay a one-year food subsidy, it is only a principle of treatment, and in the specific implementation process, those officers of the guard post who are more benevolent to military households can be exempted from punishment as appropriate.

After the collection of food, the wealth of the hereditary guards was limited to their livelihood.

And so on, making it easier for policies to gain popular support.

According to some statistics, in the Ming Dynasty, about half of the land in the country was occupied by the royal princes and vassal princes, local wealthy families, guards, temples and Taoist temples, these privileged classes occupied the land without paying any taxes, the government was afraid of the hard, and the ordinary people were apportioned layer by layer, and in the end everyone was overwhelmed and forced to resist, and the Ming Dynasty also died in internal and external troubles.

If the Ming Dynasty was not replaced by the Manchus, it was deserved. But because its replacement was the more brutal Manchu regime, there were too many Ming fans in later generations.

When it comes to collecting taxes, people can't speak their minds freely, but when it comes to reducing expenditure, many people seem to be filled with righteous indignation.

Now the sharing method is implemented, and the ratio of county government and province is 2:1:7, and the county gets 2% of it.

One percent of it is used to maintain the daily operation of the government (in addition to sharing the income, there are also various handling fees in the process of governing the people), and the official's tolerance is no more than one percent of the tax.

The remaining 10% will be used for the construction of roads and bridges, the construction of water conservancy, the establishment of public schools, and the training of local people.

At present, there is a shortage of soldiers, financial difficulties, and local investment costs are not much, but even so, it has also attracted all kinds of gods and goddesses to take advantage of it, and there are many local corruption incidents.

Some people classify it as a division law, in the past, there was no money and food in the local area, if you want to build roads, bridges and water conservancy, you rely on local officials to raise donations, and now the government allocates funds, but it has become Tang monk meat in the eyes of local officials.

The situation is very beautiful, and everyone is emotional.

In addition to strengthening supervision, Yang Lin quickly introduced three new policies.

First of all, the property of officials is registered, and the property of all officials is publicized, and if it is found that the source of a huge amount of wealth is unknown when it is in power, in addition to punishing those in power, it is to confiscate the unknown property several times as a punishment.

Second, the judicial power is removed from the prefects, prefectures, and prefects.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court had three divisions, namely the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Criminal Department replaced Dali Temple in charge of the main trial business.

Dali Temple has become a prudent criminal organ, mainly managing the rejection and rehabilitation of unjust and wrongful cases.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate can not only supervise the adjudication organs, but also have the right to "adjudicate on major matters and make decisions on minor matters."

In each province, there are inspectors in charge of local supervision work.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the three classes were mainly responsible for maintaining local law and order and fighting crime.

The Criminal Department and its local agencies have judicial and procuratorial powers.

In addition, the imperial court appointed many imperial histories to the local government, responsible for impeaching officials for lawlessness and dealing with local unjust cases.

Combined with the system of the previous life, learn from the system of the three legal divisions of the Tang and Song dynasties, and redefine the corresponding rights and responsibilities.

Retain the judicial power of county-level criminal chambers for public security and general civil cases.

Establish sub-divisions in each province to be responsible for local criminal jurisdiction, major civil discretion, and final adjudication of general civil cases.

In this way, an independent judiciary was established to monitor the wrongdoing of local officials.

Finally, it is to establish local councils on top of the past three-public system.

For the local council, many people may oppose it, but in fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, there was a representative system, and there were three elders in the local area.

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, officials were appointed in different places, and those officials who served in local areas were not familiar with the place of life, and relied on the gentry and wealthy families in the local area, and these powerful officials and gentry often participated in local affairs non-institutionally.

The representative system merely institutionalizes the non-institutional system of the past, and in view of the role of parliamentarians and their limitations, in order to avoid falling into populism, the number of seats in parliament is required.

11 large counties, 9 medium counties, and 7 small counties, which stipulate the qualifications for candidates and electors, and are elected once every four years.

For county councilors, local middle-aged families will be given a subsidy of one year of income (about 20 taels).

For the councillors, the subsidy is doubled

Provincial councillors are given a fourfold subsidy.

Of course, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very backbone, and it is not a day's work to improve the local supervision system, and it will take a long time to put it into trial operation and require a large number of talents.

In this way, talent training is very crucial, Yang Lin pondered for a moment, and said: "Let's build an official training school."

For the newly appointed magistrate and the newly appointed household and office secretary, it is necessary to train seriously for 6 months.

At that time, we will organize it, in addition to the laws and regulations such as Tianfu, Dingfu, Shangfu, and Mining Fu, in addition to the operation of the parliament, we also need to train how to communicate with the people, and we also need to go to the counties where the implementation is better.

For the counties that have applauded the implementation, these magistrates can be selected to hold higher official positions when the time comes.

Zhang Juzheng has done a good job in this regard, and he must use followers.

Although the imperial examination system is a better system for selecting talents, if you think about it, you were a scholar a few months ago, and you will immediately become a guest of the Son of Heaven, how is this good?

If you want to be like the volunteers, some people who can be promoted are educated and trained, and after education and training, they can be placed in other positions.

In addition, for those counties with a large number of ethnic minorities, you can select some governors and experiences from the army, and most of these governors and experiences in the army have seen blood and some have killed people, so they can be suppressed. ”

Although Qian Bangqi and the others were quite dissatisfied, they still nodded and agreed.