Pondering sometimes, he silently adjusted his emotions and said, "Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years.??

You said that the first assistant should talk about the Tao and the state, and I agree very much. However, I have heard that if the political affairs are smooth, the people's hearts will be smooth, and if the people's hearts are smooth, the spirit of heaven and earth will be smooth, and only when the atmosphere of heaven and earth is smooth can yin and yang be orderly. ”

"Yes, whether a country's politics is smooth or bad is the key to harmonious yin and yang. There is a proverb among the people, and the family and everything is prosperous. The same is true for a country. Ge Shouli finally couldn't help but say bluntly, "Yuanfu is ready to implement great policies, and the government and the opposition are also looking forward to your implementation of great policies." The old man thought that Shen Gong was in the court, and he should follow the way of the emperor, refresh the rule of officials, rest with the people, and harmonize the violent and radical reign of the old Gaoge. Now it is necessary to fully implement a whip law, although the untie point is to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but this law has too many shortcomings, I am afraid it will backfire. Saying that, he arched his hand earnestly, "Yuanfu, please forgive the old man for relying on the old and selling the old." This kind of tax policy, which is related to the foundation of the country, is really better than being still, and all kinds of evils will come out if you move! ”

"Ge Lao's worries have become a certain country, but since the tenth year of Jiajing, it has been a full fifty years now, and the implementation effect is very good. Shen Mo said lightly, "And the problems that should arise have already come out, and the new law implemented this time will not disappoint." ”

"Then the old man should ask Motosuke." Ge Shouli sneered, "Where is this Fa Xin?" ”

"It's still Hui Lao who asks" Shen Mo said lightly, "I'll answer." "It's just foolish to want the head of the hall to speak like a subordinate.

"It's okay." Ge Shouli also realized his rudeness, and smiled apologetically, "The old man is muttering in his stomach to ask Yuansuke." The old man was old, took a sip of tea, sorted out his thoughts, and then asked, "First of all, the article weaving method is about one size fits all. There are more than 1,100 counties in the country, including mountainous areas, water towns, and dry fields...... There are also woodlands, orchards, cotton fields, rivers, lakes and seas for fishing, how to cut it all in one fell swoop? ”

"These are the reasons why you can't do it. Shen Mo smiled gently, "Originally, when I was the prefect of the premises, I had a headache every tax collection season. Good guy, just look at the tools that Lao Cangsheng pushes on his shoulders to pay taxes. In addition to grain, there are also all kinds of local specialties, such as paper inkstone, bamboo, wood and rattan lacquer, silk satin, pots and pans, and even salted fish and cured meat. What's even more worrying is that I still have to send these tools to more than 30 military and political organizations, and this transportation process not only requires a large amount of labor to be requisitioned, but 30% of the loss is at least such a large price, but how effective is it? Once the country has something to do, the court uses silver, and except for grain, this warehouse full of tools is useless! What the country needs, money, food! And if you have money, you can buy food, so you don't collect tools, only money, which is good governance for the benefit of the country, the people, and the officials! ”

"I didn't say that it was not good to change the cashier's money" Ge Shouli shook his head and said, "But a whip method is right or wrong, not the number of stones, just look at how much silver should be per mu!" But there is a difference between rich and poor land, and the difference between the output of the upper and lower grades is more than ten times? Even if it is the same piece of land, the difference between the different years is huge, can one size fit and one size fits all? ”

"This issue is very critical," Shen Mo said, "The decision on the standard is naturally in the hands of the household department. But this conversion standard is not constant and is not uniform. At the beginning, Emperor Taizu set up the thirteen Qing officials corresponding to the provinces, and the original intention was to share the finances of the provinces. However, there is a deviation in the financial placement, and the taxes collected by the provinces are not directly sent to the receiving unit through the household department, and as a result, the household department has a large financial power, and can only be the current national accountant. The Thirteen Qing Officials Division naturally has no real name. ”

Ge Shouli nodded, he was a veteran for many years, so he naturally knew the ins and outs of these things very well, so he listened to Shen Mo and continued: "Now, it is time to restore the ancestral system and let the Thirteen Qing Officials explain the role. The Cabinet is prepared to assign a department of officials to be responsible for the conversion coefficient of a province, not only for each province, but even down to the prefecture and county. After the decree is announced, the household servant will leave and lead the team and go down to each province to knock on the security of each prefecture and county. After that, in February before the tax is paid every year, the Department of Officials will go down to the provinces again to investigate, and according to the actual situation, determine whether it is implemented compared with last year, or whether there is an increase or decrease. ”

"This" Ge Shouli was a little dizzy when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Lord Shoufu, with all due respect, although the household department is a large department, but to complete your idea, I am afraid that it will have to be expanded several times." And there's also a regulatory issue, how do you make sure that they won't be fooled by the people below them, or even bought by them? ”

"The number of people is not a problem!" Shen Mo waved his hand, and said with a somewhat smug smile: "From the reform of the Guozijian that began in the first year of Longqing, it has been more than six times now......

"It turns out that Motosuke had such an idea. Ge Shouli said suddenly. The so-called reform of Guozijian was introduced to the rebellion of the prisoners in Nanjing in the first year of Longqing. At that time, Shen Ge Lao promised the prisoners on behalf of the imperial court to give them a better education and future. After returning to Beijing, he proposed to reform the Guozijian.

First of all. After all the inmates in the school have dropped out, they will no longer accept money donations. Only three types of prisoners will be accepted: Ju, Gong, and Yin, and the ancestral system will be restored, and they will be trained by prison points and internship experience. The study system is four years, the first three years to sit in prison points, learning cultural knowledge is the main, after the new science and technology is produced, will also enter the country to study, but people do not need to integrate. Then, whether it is a new science and technology jinshi or a supervisor who has completed the points, the city is sent to each yamen for internship and experience, and one year later, it is named and assigned according to the comprehensive evaluation ranking given by each yamen, officials, and Guozi supervisor.

Of course, in order to avoid the related households from taking a shortcut to the south and causing the dissatisfaction of the officials with background in the department, Shen Mo set the rules of strict entry and exit. First of all, the provincial inspectors should be responsible for the recommended supervisors, and the results of the supervisors during the school period will be an important basis for assessing their political performance, and the second is the premise of "sitting in prison for three years", which is that the supervisors can complete the points. If you can't fix it, you have to continue to study, and if you can't finish it in six years at most, you can only go back to the province and take measures yourself. Moreover, whether the yamen who interned in the last year was willing to give praise or not depends on their expression.

In this way, it also caused the government and the opposition to be full of complaints, those who have come out of the scientific field, and those who can't squeeze into the country's prison, many people have angrily written to the letter, saying that this is a chaos and the destruction of the country! Fortunately, Shen Ge is always the champion of the six heads, the brand is hard, and it is the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang, which did not make them make trouble.

Later, after the completion of the first batch of inmates in Longqing's fourth year, some people made a fuss, but in the internship calendar of the previous year, the bigwigs of various departments had already seen the extraordinary ability of these inmates, and it was too late to love them. Yu Jiagaoge broke off with a snort, this world is quiet, one by one, one by one, now the door god who subdues demons and suppresses demons has returned to his hometown, and the voice of veto has risen again, one by one, one by one, Getting back to business, Ge Shouli said, "What about supervision?" ”

"You're going to have to do it all over the time." Shen Mo laughed loudly: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate also has thirteen imperial histories!" ”

"You mean?" Ge Shouli's eyes lit up.

"Yes, one by one, if there is a problem, immediately participate." Shen Mo smiled at Old Man Ge and said, "Since you are so uneasy, I will hand over the supervision power to you, you see that there is a problem there and immediately raise it, the rectification and rectification, the measures should be taken, and even some places are temporarily stopped, you have the right to decide, how about it?!" ”

, "Ah" Ge Shouli was impressed by the silent bearing, and some beautiful emotions were bred in Xiong, and he was speechless for a while.

"I can't afford to waste food because of choking, Ge Lao." Shen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and his smile was still as warm as a spring breeze, and he said, "The common people are suffering for taxes. The tax payment just mentioned is still light, and for the old people, the biggest trouble is forced labor. Because there are still tools in the field and poll tax, Lai is not lost. It is not good to talk about conscription, repairing river embankments, working as errands for post stations, and repairing roads, all of which are conscriptions, and they have to pay bribes to officials after completing their tasks. If you don't give money, he'll do it with a big stroke of the pen, and he'll do it again next time! Do you have an opinion? I have the final say in this matter, and if you don't do it, you won't do it, what can you do? The common people have been suffering from taxes for a long time and will not change it, and the country will really not be a country. So no matter what, we're going to get this done! After a pause, he waved his hand firmly and said, "In order to avoid the disadvantages of the law for a long time, we must establish and improve the rules from the beginning!" ”

"If you can strictly follow what Yuan Fu said, this thing is really promising." Unconsciously, Ge Shouli's position was gradually loosening: "But the Metropolitan Procuratorate can supervise the officials, but they can't control those Jian merchants, and the old people have to pay taxes, and they have to sell their tools before they can get back the money." Pingbai let those jian merchants add in, which made the common people have an extra weight, which is also an important reason for the veto. ”

"The grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, this is a dead knot that cannot be cured." Shen sighed and said, "But the sale of goods by the common people for tax payment is compulsory, and it is not actually a market behavior of buying and selling freely. Therefore, we must take care of the peasants and attack speculation. ”

"So how do you do it?" Zhuo Shouli asked.

, "Three examples." On the one hand, the government should adjust grain prices by closing positions and buying grain at high prices when grain prices are low. The murderous aura between the silent eyebrows flashed: "On the other hand, it is necessary to severely impact the police of Jian businessmen, and those who raise prices during the tax payment period will be severely punished for destroying the national tax, and the light will be a fine and a cane, and a heavy punishment will be killed and the house will be raided!" ”

"That's all it can be." Ge Shouli sighed and said, "I hope that the strict punishment law can make Jian Shang rein." 1”

, "Ge Lao, you are from Shanxi, and you naturally know Jin Shang very well. Shen Mo also sighed and said, "You should know that most of my businessmen in the Ming Dynasty are sincere and trustworthy, and regard word of mouth as their life." As long as we do our work thoroughly, I believe that the various abandonment associations will come forward to prevent someone from messing up the market and driving out those black sheep! ”

"I hope so." Ge Shouli nodded, this article was passed, and said, "I believe now that this style is very good." But I'm not optimistic about how long it will last.

Because it is too affected by the quality of the officials of the premises. It's not that I wipe Yuanfu's face, there are many officials who uphold the sage's education and cherish their feathers, but there are still too many people who are officials for thousands of miles just for money, these people can endure under high pressure for a while, but they reach out when they have the opportunity. Picking up the teacup, but finding that it had already been drunk, he put it down a little embarrassed and said, "What if the old apportionment has not been eliminated after the implementation of a whip law?" Or what if it is eliminated and regenerated, isn't it more burdensome to cultivate than before? There is also the problem of corruption of officials, although there is a destiny for collecting silver, but when the old people hand it over, it is all fine silver, and the premises must be smelted into silver locks, and there will be losses in it. But there was no fate, and the extra went into their pockets. ”

, "Ge Lao really sees the article weaving method very thoroughly." While pouring him tea, Shen Mo said appreciatively, "These are indeed two difficult problems, the first one is good to say, the Metropolitan Procuratorate strictly supervises, once there is an extra-tax apportionment, or free labor, immediately play impeachment, and after verification, recall and strictly deal with it!" After a pause, he said helplessly, "As for the problem of fire consumption, the people have well-being, and the officials also have well-being" felt that such words were really inappropriate from the mouth of a chief assistant, so he said in another way: "To put it mildly, it is only a thief on a dry day, and there is no thief for a thousand days, we have blocked this opening, and they will go elsewhere to find leaks to make money." It's better to just turn a blind eye and feed them, as long as you work hard for me, you can not be held accountable. Saying that, he snorted coldly and said, "If you don't do anything after taking the money, then the money is their talisman!" "When it comes to the way of economic power, silence is absolutely superb.

, "What kind of yin and yang do you boast about when you are old." Ge Shouli blushed and said, "In front of Yuanfu, it's just a class with an axe, and he is smiling and generous." Said a little Xiao Cable: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and one wave is higher than the other. ”

"This is a bad statement, there is a way, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure." Seeing that Ge Shouli was finally convinced, Shen Mo was overjoyed, and sent out with a high hat in his hand: "I, the first assistant, is true or false, and I look forward to having an old man like you mention it at any time, so as not to make mistakes.

became a sinner of the nation. ”

"Where is the adult," Old Man Ge said happily, "I went to see Yang Weiyo before I came." He said to me, "My lord is an immortal genius, and I will be persuaded by you." I didn't believe it at the time, saying that I had been stubborn all my life, where did anyone convince me? ”

"It's you who are too good to your juniors." He smiled silently, and said with a sad look on his face: "I'm busy with official business, and I don't have time to see Puzhou Gong, how is he now?" ”@