"It's not that I don't understand, it's that the timing is inappropriate," Li Wei pointed out sharply.

Anyway, this matter must be recorded in the annals of history, so it is better to be open and honest.

"Yes."

With a wave of his hand, he asked the ministers to sit down. Then he rolled his eyes, called a eunuch, drew a picture on the paper with a pen, and said: "Zhuqing is busy with official business, you will take the drawings of the union to the prison, and let the craftsmen make some of this kind of furniture to reduce the burden of Zhuqing." ”

The thing is very simple, just a regular Taishi holder.

The Tang Dynasty allowed ministers to sit down and talk to the emperor, and in the Song Dynasty they were standing, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties they were kneeling. The imperial power is concentrated, but a generation of monarchs is mediocre, and the country will immediately **. The more centralized the imperial power, the easier it is for the monarch to be mediocre. A vicious circle is formed.

A reasonable system should disperse a part of the imperial power to the ministers. But this dispersion is not distributed to one minister, but to many ministers. Form a primitive puppet chalk master. Only by restricting each other can we put an end to the generation of a part of the **.

The appearance of a Taishi is very simple, but because he sits high and sits comfortably, it represents countless meanings.

Di Renjie said: "Your Majesty .......

"Needless to say, the one who is a confidant dies. Although it is a human monarch and a system, we must still learn to respect it. The United States does not respect you, how can you do your duty and serve the country. ”

"Yes."

This measure still touched many ministers.

Li Wei said at this time: "I have also thought about the matter of Yicang repeatedly. It's not that there is no problem with several major positions that are often closed, but because the amount is huge, and some losses and greed for ink look inconspicuous. If you really look into it, you can also find out the problem. There is no end to this. Because the salaries of low-level officials are too low to support their families. ”

This reminded him of the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were very few officials who were greedy for ink, and the atmosphere of scholars and doctors was very strong.

Although the dispute between the kings and the division led to the formation of a very bad atmosphere in the Song Dynasty, the contention and internal fighting hurt the vitality of the Song Dynasty, but the two of them wanted the good of the Song Dynasty very much in their hearts, but they did a very bad thing with good intentions.

The reason for this phenomenon is the high salary. The state spends almost 10 million yuan a year on marriage money as the salary of officials. This does not include military generals, nor does it include lower-level officials, who are not paid for their duties by officials and landlords. Later generations said that the Song Dynasty was redundant officials, but in fact, compared with the later civil servants, where could the Song Dynasty be regarded as redundant officials? It is redundant officials and high salaries that highlight this phenomenon even more. As soon as the generals and low-level officials were eliminated, Li Wei estimated that at most 20,000 or 30,000 officials, he would divide up 10 million special money.

An official is evenly shared, a year to reach four or five hundred money salary and various subsidies, at the same time, the Song Dynasty is also loose on officials in business, with their own industries and fields, in fact, as long as it is not as loose as Su Dongpo, there is wine today and drunk today, and he hurriedly went to buy ten or twenty beautiful girls to come back to soak, and then he will run a little. Even if an ordinary official raises a second wife, a third wife, and does not raise ten milk, twenty milk, and a hundred milk, in two or three years, he can also drive a BMW and live in a villa. If you know how to operate, then good, you can kill a thousand chickens for a bowl of chicken tongue soup a day, like Lu Mengzheng. Or like Song Qi, he lights up the lanterns every night and drinks with all kinds of beautiful girls. Or like Kou Zhun, he lit hundreds of huge candles every night, feasted on guests, and was full of joy.

Therefore, the phenomenon of ink greed is not strong.

Does Li Wei dare to play like that?

Officials are silent. Yes, it's okay to check, but after all, I want to eat, I was forced by life, I checked it today, dealt with a batch, and got up again tomorrow.

Li Wei sighed, there was a way to alleviate it, but he didn't want it the most. He said, "Let's set up a service." ”

"What is servitude?" Wei Yuanzhong asked curiously.

"Famous families in various states and counties, landlords of the Shu nationality, and children of official eunuchs undertake part of the official service, forming low-level officials to serve the imperial court."

"Your Majesty, that's a good idea." The ministers immediately chimed in.

The Tang Dynasty originally had similar measures, and the Song Dynasty's service also evolved from the previous dynasties: first, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials were not given a penny, because they were all from wealthy families and did not need this salary. It's just that those poor officials, Gao Yun is the Zhongshu Order, and he is so poor that he can't even support his wife and children. Tuoba Rui didn't believe it, so he made a surprise attack and ran to Gao Yun's house to inspect, there were several grass huts, there were only a few broken beds on the bed, and the kitchen was empty, or two old vegetables and a bag of salt.

Tuoba Rui stood in his house for most of the day, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "The ancients were so poor? Since then, he has not dared to call him by his name and call him Linggong.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was a little better, and the normal one could be the prime minister, and the annual income could be equivalent to that of the state-level cadres of the Song Dynasty. In order to reduce the financial pressure on the state, a small number of low-level officials, such as the lover and the lizheng, were also borne by the wealthy families in the township.

But it didn't make it clear. If these people are allowed to take on a large number of low-level officials, because their families have a good background, they do not need to be greedy for some small money to support their families, and the phenomenon of greed for ink will be reduced.

However, it strengthened the advantages of the landlords and the wealthy class, and Li Wei could not predict the consequences of this. Therefore, after hearing about it, I have not said anything. In the end, it is not a solution, whether it is a righteous position and a regular position, it is still necessary to promote, but the regular closing is popularized and the righteous position is centralized. It can't be said that there is a lot of grain in Jiangnan, so there is no warehousing, and there are disasters and floods in Jiangnan! Warehousing is necessary all over the country, just in case. The regular closing position was promoted to the whole country, the righteous position was reduced, and the management of low-level officials was reduced. That's all you can do.

Will this

The idea came out, and he said: "In fact, the loss can be made up for some time." For example, the old grain is used to make wine, which is used as rations for livestock. However, every time the law changes, there will be some clever and reckless names. Therefore, the young eunuch Simon said the word fire consumption: "

This is a heavier topic.

"I know it's far more serious than Yoshikura, and it's not easy to deal with. However, if we ignore it, the situation will become more and more serious, and eventually it can erode and affect the country. It is necessary to issue an edict so that officials in various places cannot force the people to pay taxes with food, or pay taxes with money, people-oriented, how to change the country

？ You can't put pressure on the people. There is also gold and silver treasure, in order to form a fire consumption, the officials melt it, in order to be greedy for a penny, often form a loss of two or three pennies, why bother? It is also necessary to issue an edict that when the people pay taxes with gold and silver treasures, they must make a register and register them, and the people must keep the stubs and supervise each other. The offender will be severely punished. ”

The edict has two preventive measures to improve it, and it is impossible to completely eliminate the greed for ink and all kinds of disguised greed for ink.

There are many things, such as the establishment of schools, the two-level imperial examination, the immigrants who moved out the vacant land in Yunshuo, and carried out some benign reforms in taxation, such as improving the commercial tax, and the imperial court tried to control some industries to transfer taxes from the peasants. In addition, although the introduction of a guest tax system for the people of other towns has loosened the policy of closing the prefectures and counties, increased the flow of population, and prospered industry and commerce, the effect has not been very significant, and the current types of taxes must be reformed.

The effect of this kind of innovation is good, but some of them will involve the interests of various landlords and magnates.

So he said: "The edict is passed on to the Fanyang Lu family, Qinghe and Boling Cui family, Longxi and Zhaozhou Li family, Chayang Zheng family, Taiyuan Wang family ......"

After thinking about it, I made the most basic representative of the surname Wang of the Tang Dynasty, Shandong Cui Lu Li Zheng Wang, Qiao surname Wang Xie Yuan Xiao, Southeast Wu surname Zhu Zhang Gu Lu, Guanzhong Wei Pei Xi Xue Yang Du Dai Northern Yuan Chang Sun Yuwen Yu Lu Yuan Dou, but far more than these Wangmen, listed in the Zhenguan revised "Clan Chronicles" on the surname of the nearest 400. Some of the famous doors are on par with the above-mentioned gates.

Therefore, all the top gate valves are simply listed one by one: "Le'an Yu family, Ren family, Bohai Gao family, Feng family, Diao family, Zhongshan Xing family, Gaoyang Xu family, Guangping You family, Cheng family, Qinghe Zhang family, Julu Wei family, Fanyang Zhang family, Zu family, Shanggu Hou family, Kou family, Taiyuan Guo family, Hanoi Sima family, Hedong and Guanzhong Hedong Pei family, Xue family, Bang family, Jingzhao Wei family, Du family, Wugong Su family, Hongnong Yang family, Ango Huangfu family, Hu family, Liang family, Longxi Niu family, Tianshui Zhao family, Quan family, Shangguan family, Wuwei Yin family, Dunhuang Suo family. The Wang family, the Yan family, the Zhuge family, the Xie family of Chen Jun, the Jiang family and the Cai family of Jiyang, the Xiao family of Lanling, the Xu family of the East China Sea, the Zhou family of Runan, the Yuan family, the Yin family, the Chen Liuruan family, the Chen family, the Gou family, the Geng family, the Zhong family, the Taishan goat family, the Pingchang Meng family, the Liu family of Zhangcheng, the Daojia family, the Haggard Guohuan family, the Nanyang Lejia family, the Lujiang He family, the Wujun Zhu, Gu, Zhang, Lu family, the Danyang Ji family, the Gan family, the Huiji Yu, Xie, Yin, the family, the Wu Xing Shen, Qian, Qiu family, the Shiyang Tao family, the Yuzhang Xiong family. There are also Dai Beiyuan, Chang Cho, Yuwen, Yu, Lu, Yuan, Huan, Henan County Mu, Qiu, Zhu, Gu, Shan, Dugu, Helan, Murong, Hou Mochen, Taiyuan Weichi, Bohai Helian Gangan, Ying, Doulu, Chongzhou Xie Si, Lanling Wan Qi, Yongzhou Fumeng, Tongzhou Dang, Lei, Wu Wei'an, Shi. Let each family send a person who can speak on behalf of their family and that room to come to Xijing and have a face-to-face interview with Lian. ”

It is a rare opportunity to put things in order to implement some changes. Otherwise, there will be more resistance later.

But it is necessary to consult with these gatekeepers, without whose assistance any change can become a dead letter.

Looking through the history books, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the elites and prime ministers of various dynasties and generations, almost eighty of the people, are from these ranks.

Actually, there are still them, but the impact is small, so I didn't invite them.

Cen Changqian asked worriedly: "Your Majesty, is it ...... for these people to go to Xijing?" ”

"Cen Qing, I know that I just get rid of some unnecessary shortcomings, and I will not act impatiently, otherwise it will shake the world and may not be beneficial to the country and the people. For example, if the land is divided into taxes, it will solve some of the phenomena of inequality between the rich and the poor and uneven tax payment, relieve the pressure of the state, and benefit the people. However, in a few decades, the country's arable land will be reduced by half, Cen Qing, believe it or not? ”

It's not that the common people don't farm, but that the big families hide their acres.

If there is no other way out, in the end, the pressure of taxation will eventually be spread on the common people. The poorer the poorer, the richer the richer:

Take a look at these prime ministers, half of them came to first-class or second-class families, and half of them, including Di Renjie, were still from official eunuch families. If you look at the origins of several prime ministers, you can see how difficult it will be to solve the gap between the rich and the poor.

beckoned, and said to Qiu Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong: "Erqing, you go to the East Palace with the Lian:"

"Whoa."

Coming to the East Palace and letting them sit down, Li Wei asked, "What do you think of Confucianism?" ”

"Your Majesty means?" Di Renjie was puzzled

"What would happen if it was a miscellaneous study?"

Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong both understood what Li Wei meant. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, he was not very exclusive to miscellaneous studies, and some even took the miscellaneous examinations during the imperial examination. But the status is low. However, the emperor seems to be very cautious about miscellaneous studies, and that Gewu is dedicated to miscellaneous studies. There are already quite a few people who are watching it.

But Di Renjie shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, it's all knowledge, it's all good." However, Confucianism cannot be belittled, it is the idea and bond of the unification of the country, once it is cut off, the country will not be a country, Your Majesty, please think again. Including Buddhism, it not only praises the good and depreciates the evil, but also gives the people sustenance and hope. Therefore, the emperors of the past dynasties promoted Buddhism and Taoism, and they also took a fancy to this. The state must also be based on Confucianism, supplemented by Buddhism and Taoism, and Buddhism must not be allowed to affect the country's production, and it is the most reasonable composition to override Confucianism. As for miscellaneous studies, it can be disseminated, but it cannot stand on the three main bodies. ”

Confucianism must be the mainstream, otherwise science will be revived again, and the country will be in chaos without the support of Confucianism's righteousness!

Short-sighted, to the point!