At this moment, Luo Mengke, an intelligence staff officer, approached quietly and whispered a few times in Yang Lin's ear, Yang Lin nodded and sighed: "Alas, some people don't know how dirty the on their heads is, and now they actually jump out, alas, it seems that they are really killing themselves." ”

Early the next morning, Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang came to the prefect's yamen lobby early, and just sat down, Zhou Zheng, the governor of the experience department (Zheng Jiupin), said with a smile: "Two adults, please sit down, the adults went out early in the morning, saying that they would be able to come back at noon to watch the water diversion of the four official tun fields around." ”

Qian Bangxin nodded and said with a smile: "Secretary Zhou, do you have any important official business to tell us, we are familiar with it first, and we can also assist the adults and share the worries of the adults." ”

Zhou Zheng smiled and said, "Two adults, the adults asked the lower officials to prepare last night, and now report to the two adults on the personnel of each county and the implementation of the new policy."

Later, Mr. Yin Chengqi Yin will report the situation in the army to the two adults.

If the adults have not come back by then, if the two adults want to go to the army for inspection, they can let Mr. Yin take the adults there, and if they want to go to the place, they can serve under them. ”

Qian Bangxin didn't care, and sat on the Taishi's chair and listened, which was much more detailed than what Shi Jinchen said last night.

It not only talks about the specific content of various new policy measures, but also discusses the background of the implementation of the policy and the unsatisfactory places in the implementation process.

Let's start with the establishment of the township office, in the past, several white servants held a field as an inexhaustible cornucopia, collecting hundreds of taels of silver every year and paying only dozens of taels of silver, embezzling huge wealth, and expropriating violently in the local area, stealing and plundering, and causing disaster to the township.

Drawing on the grain chief system in the past, the adults sent officials to send township chiefs to collect taxes, which not only strengthened local control and alleviated local contradictions, but more importantly, there was a huge amount of business endowment every year to enrich the official treasury.

Since its implementation for a year and a half, large counties have been able to increase their income by more than 10,000 taels of silver every year (such as Fucheng Nanchong), and small counties have also received 5,000 or 6,000 taels of silver, and they can receive 70,000 taels of silver in a year.

Taking this as an opportunity, re-clear the land, in the past, the cultivated land area of Shunqing Mansion was only 1.3 million mu, now there are many natural disasters and man-made disasters year after year, there are many famines, the existing cultivated land also has 2 million mu, the cultivated land area can reach the level of 3 million mu after the cultivation, even if it is according to 6 cents of silver per mu, if you add 80,000 mu of official land, you can receive 160,000 taels of silver.

In the past, the population of Shunqing Mansion was 400,000, and after the cleanup, there were 1 million, of which 300,000 were men (only men were considered men), deducting the old, weak, sick and disabled and military families, scholars, and officials, so there were 200,000 people, and each Ding paid one penny and two cents of silver every year, so Ding Fu was also about 24,000 taels of silver.

Zhou Zheng complained that some well-intentioned people spread rumors that adults fell into money bags, and they also wanted to collect money, and they also wanted to collect money, but this is all for the benefit of the country and the people, the burden of the people is lighter, and the income of the government has increased.

Qian Bangxin was quite surprised, although the Ming government stipulated that one mu of paddy fields is only 3 points and 6 cents, plus three salaries are only 6 cents of silver, but the actual collection from the common people, even in the Hongwu years, is not worth 6 cents of silver, in the past few years in some places 4 money and 5 dollars per mu is not uncommon, is the field is really so low?

And Fan Wenguang is a financial expert, and in shock, he hurriedly asked why there are so many?

Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, white servants have been rampant in various places, and all the fields are controlled by white servants to collect taxes, why are there so many in a year?

Although I know that the population and land on the fish scale book in Daming are not counted, I don't believe that there are so many people and land?

Take the brush and Zhou Zheng to recall the township where they lived, a simple calculation, and secretly patted the head again and again, the market is lined with shops, and every time the market is filled with people in seven towns and eight miles, I didn't pay attention to it in the past, but now it's really the case.

In ancient times, there was a Yang Yi Yi two speak, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the population of Sichuan exceeded 10 million, and its tax was almost 1/4 of the Southern Song Dynasty court, although it was destroyed by the war in the late Southern Song Dynasty, but after more than 200 years of development in the Ming Dynasty, the previous few years were restored to the heyday of the Southern Song Dynasty. (In the more than 200 years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the population of Sichuan increased to more than 50 million, and the Ming Dynasty was able to restore the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty in 270 years).

After sighing, Fan Wenguang threw down the brush and shook his head again and again, such a large amount of oil and water was swallowed up by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, if the mystery was discovered a few years earlier, even in the face of the Liaodong Tartars and the civil uprising in northern Shaanxi, the country would have the money to deal with it, and there was no need to levy three salaries.

Even so, the additional three salaries are only 10 million taels of silver every year, but at the same time, everyone does not know that tens of millions of taels of silver fall into the hands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials every year.

The tax is divided into two percent of the tax money paid by each county, and each county can return four or five thousand, and the returned money is used for personnel expenses, and the other one percent is used for local construction.

(5% of the commercial levy is used to reward the collectors, and 5% is used to deduct taxes, while the proportion of the field endowment and the Ding endowment is higher for the reward collectors.)

In addition, there are all kinds of charges, and in ancient times, it was necessary to charge for doing things in various rooms of the county yamen. In this way, 10% of the tax is sufficient for personnel expenses. ）。

Foreigners comment that the Chinese have no faith, and modern people are not so oriental that they dare not comment, but at least they believe in the three platforms and five constants, attach importance to social reality, and suddenly discover such a huge wealth at the same time, Qian Bangqian can hardly hide his inner mobility, blinking his eyes and saying: "Zhou experience, this, this, having said that, but in addition, the people are quite bitter about the Xu officials, and now they have set up a township office and sent so many Xu officials, if these Xu officials are tyrannical in the local area and oppress the people, how is it good?"

The corners of Zhou Zheng's mouth rose and explained repeatedly. If the officials commit illegal acts, they will not only receive sanctions, but the township chief will also be held accountable.

In ancient times, the local gentry fully participated in local affairs, and most large and small affairs needed to be discussed with the gentry and then implemented.

In addition to the gentry system, the ancient system of three elders was also implemented, and in the past dynasties implemented the three elders system, especially in the Han Dynasty, which stipulated that each township should choose one village elder, and each county should choose three county elders among the village elders to supervise officials. (The Book of Han?) The table of the hundred officials and ministers said: "The rate is ten miles and one pavilion, and the pavilion is long; Ten pavilions and one township, the township has three elders, ranks, husbands, and wanderers. The three elders are in charge of education; Liu Bang stipulates two conditions for the three elders, that is, they are over 50 years old and can lead the public, which means that they must have appeal to the people within a large local area. ）

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the local three elders could even tie up the corrupt magistrate to the capital to punish the emperor, and the local officials could not stop it.

The adults are considering strengthening this system of co-governance between the officials and gentry and the system of the three elders in the township, and are preparing to introduce a parliamentary system, in which each township will elect a councillor and each county will establish a council to supervise the officials.

The co-governance of the gentry and the system of the old people is the archway of the gods of the ancient officials, and no one dares to criticize it.

How to strengthen it, of course, is the parliamentary system in the previous life, which was elected by adult males, and supervised officials, policy implementation, and financial expenditures during their term of office.

Of course, nominally it is to strengthen the tradition of co-governance of the gentry and the villagers, and since taking office, Yang Lin has often asked himself, is it really as the wheel said, there was no democratic tradition in ancient China? To paraphrase a fashionable saying, if the tradition of co-governance of the officials and gentry and the tradition of the village elders is not a democratic tradition, then what is a democratic tradition?

Just as some wheels open their eyes and say nonsense, saying that there were no political donations in ancient China. They are entangled in the nouns and do not discuss the substance, in fact, there were political donations in ancient China.

As it was said at the beginning, officials officially took office, officials left office, and some people organized reception banquets, farewell banquets, and Cheng Yi, which is not an ancient political donation, what is a political donation?

The famous Zeng Guofan went home to rest for a year in the entrance examination, and by worshipping various clubs and participating in various banquets, he made more than 3,000 taels of silver in a year, which are recorded.

Just like political donations, there was democracy in ancient times, thousands of miles away as officials, in addition to two long-term followers, everything needs to be written with the scribes and officials around them, to collect the opinions of the gentry, to be supervised by the villagers, this is not democracy What is democracy?

In the Han Dynasty, if that official was as domineering as the Barbarian Qing Emperor, he would probably be tied up by the villagers and sent to the capital during the Hongwu period.

After figuring out the ancient governance structure, and then comparing it with the modern governance structure, the East secretly scolded the wheel for harming people, and on the other hand, was pleasantly surprised to find the road to democracy, freedom and civilization, that is, in the name of the official gentry and the village elders, the talented (squire) and virtuous (village elders) were selected to form a parliament.

Although Qian Bangxin felt that it was inappropriate, but now that the army is in chaos, Yang Lin is in the name of maintaining local stability and strengthening the supervision of officials, so it is not easy to oppose it.

In addition to the Squire Conference (abbreviated as the old gentleman), Qian Bangqi obviously found other changes, such as the separation of tax collection from households, and the registration of households, land, shops, etc., and some civil work for disaster relief, which has become a department such as the State Administration for Industry and Commerce or the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Each county has set up a gold house to be responsible for the collection of local commercial endowments, field endowments, ding endowments and customs endowments.

The counties basically merged the accounts and warehouses to form the degree branch office, which not only managed the money, but also included the grain and weapons reserves of the counties, and the treasury was only responsible for the specific affairs.

The post houses in various places are contracted out, and they are under the jurisdiction of post envoys or scribes, so as to realize their own profits and losses.

Counties generally include officials such as magistrates, county magistrates, chief clerks, and wardens, among which the chief clerk is mostly the county magistrate or staff member, who is responsible for the management of yamen personnel and documents.

The county is generally in charge of the two key departments of the gold house and the degree support house.

Most of the officials in charge of anti-theft are retired members of the Volunteer Army or generals of the Volunteer Army.

Qian Bangxin gasped, this is an adaptation of the imperial court system, whether it is good or bad, no wonder the former prefect Shi Jinchen opposed it.

With mixed feelings, everyone thought together, although the two of them admired the effectiveness of the new policy, they were worried that changing the ancestral system might cause criticism in the future.