At first hearing this, Shi Kefa was also at a loss in his heart.

He didn't change drastically, he didn't understand the general trend of military affairs, and he was even more ignorant of the financial and tax system...... He can hardly tell where the pros and cons are, and what they are.

I just faintly feel that in this way, the prince has strong troops in Huaiyang, the salt field is managed, the place where the salt comes out is controlled, the salt is changed to a salt ticket, and there is no longer any nest or the like, I am afraid that this will be more trouble-free, and it will be able to control death.

In this way, it doesn't matter if the official salt is private or private, and the benefits are all in the hands of the government.

I thought so in my heart, but I have been an official for many years, and I have also developed a deep city government, of course, I don't have to answer the emperor's words immediately, I just got up and replied at the moment: "Echo the emperor, the subject is not very clear about the salt administration, reform such a big policy, it also needs to be discussed slowly, after the minister goes down, he will also consult the relevant officials, and when the time comes, he will repeat it to the emperor to know." ”

"Oh." Chongzhen felt a little disappointed, and when he encountered a major event, he still hoped that he could get the support of the cabinet as soon as possible, especially for the reform of the ancestral system, related to major policies, and the support of the first assistant was still very important.

At the moment, he just nodded, and said with a reluctant smile: "Qing's words are very kind, this important matter, you should act cautiously." ”

"Yes, the minister is ignorant!"

"One more thing."

Chongzhen pondered and said: "This time the salt class is sorted out, the prince's suggestion should not hurt the salt merchants, there was a nest before, everything is as usual, and the court will also borrow their manpower and experience, and will not embarrass them too much." In the future, the price will of course also make them profitable, but it is absolutely impossible to collude up and down to enrich their private fat. Since then, the imperial court has issued official licenses, and this generation can be salt merchants for generations and rest with the country. Such a good thing can't be cheapened by themselves, and they don't repay the court at all, right? ”

"What does the emperor mean, but also to persuade donations?"

This is what Shi Kefa is most worried about!

The Jiangnan gentry are most worried about this. The emperor once hit the idea on the head of Xun Qi, but as we all know, before that, there was a student who had written to persuade the emperor to persuade the gentry to donate military salaries in Jiangnan, and then Chongzhen sent the folded book to the discussion, and the Jiangnan officials immediately attacked in groups, strongly opposed, Chongzhen saw that the ministers were like this, so he gave up the idea of fighting the Jiangnan gentry, and put his attention back to Xun Qi's head.

Of course, the donation also failed.

Shi Kefa is also very disgusted with the matter of soliciting donations. Even if the rich have thousands of mansions, it is also accumulated over the years, and even if there are rich and unkind, they are a minority after all. The royal family is short of money, so they make up their minds on the rich, you must know that a rich man, at least 100 poor families rely on to live, if all the rich fall, who will the poor give as tenant farmers, and how can they work hard to make money to support their families?

If there are no rich people in the country, there will be turmoil, and this is true.

He didn't think that the land annexation was severe, the rich were still hiding their land and evading taxes, and the poor were selling out their fields, and they still had to pay the Dingkou tax, and then the gentry opened mines and silk factories, sat on the tea mountain, bought ships to trade at sea, silver poured in like a mountain, prices soared, and the poor became more and more embarrassed, but the political axe could not levy industrial and commercial taxes, otherwise it would be accumulation, and whose truth was this?

This kind of major political dispute is a very important matter, and under the current conditions, there is absolutely no possibility of resolving it.

Chongzhen also knew very well in his heart that when he was at sea, Zhu Cihong had several long talks with him, and the most talked about was to open up sources and reduce expenditures, and the most important thing in open source was to levy industrial and commercial taxes.

Under the industrial and commercial tax, there are several important measures, which are very ruthless.

Chongzhen doesn't talk about implementation now, if you think about it, it feels incredible, and there is no need to mention it at all.

"It's not a solicitation." Chongzhen has always been polite to Shoufu, and replied with a smile at the moment: "The prince also has a discussion on this matter." The rich are also the cornerstone of the imperial court and the vitality of the country. Many great things have to be carried out by relying on them, robbing homes and houses, killing the rich and helping the poor, that is what thieves do. Li Zicheng used 5,000 sticks to knock out tens of millions of taels of silver in Beijing, and I became the emperor, how could I follow the example of the thief? ”

As soon as he spoke, Shi Kefa's heart was really in his stomach.

The most worrying thing is that the emperor is scheming, the prince is young and doesn't know how powerful.

What are the little people in Yangzhou? If you really force the gentry and wealthy businessmen to donate, and do something like Li Zicheng did in Yanjing, the world will immediately be in chaos, and if you don't wait for someone to attack, you will cross first.

At that moment, he replied solemnly: "The emperor is wise, but I don't know how His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is proposing?" ”

"The crown prince, please donate, just like the Han Dynasty Nasu gave the knight, no matter the true color, the donor of the millet can give the court a name and him, the rich are precious, of course they are willing to donate, and the court can get its corn and silver, and it can also be enough to pay the soldiers...... This discussion is very proper, but the details should be discussed by the cabinet, military affairs, and the six ministries, and the prince suggested that the Huaiyang area should try it out first, sir, what do you think? ”

Shi Kefa only came to play the Yangzhou civil uprising today and put forward a way to deal with the aftermath.

Unexpectedly, one bombshell has not been digested, and the other has already been dropped.

Looking at Lu Zhenfei and Wang Jiayan's faces again, they all looked confident, obviously, before the prince played the invitation, these henchmen and ministers had already received the information and had already prepared in their hearts.

Such a big thing, of course, a few words are not clear, Chongzhen gave an order, and a eunuch sent the crown prince's recital over.

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was also popular to donate officials.

Bribing eunuchs and ministers can be awarded officials, and in the more than ten years of Chenghua, thousands of officials have been awarded official positions.

However, it did not go through the six ministries of the cabinet, and the officials relied on silver, so the government and the opposition looked sideways, and as soon as Emperor Xiaozong ascended the throne, he immediately dismissed this kind of officials, and people thought it was good governance at that time.

When Shi Kefa heard about the donation, his first reaction was the West Garden of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and his second reaction was the story of the Chenghua period.

But at first glance, I think it's a little interesting.

The income from the donations, of course, was all entered into the Generalissimo's Mansion for the purpose of military training.

The official position of the Ming Dynasty is not as complicated as that of the Song Dynasty, and the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, and the departments of the Criminal Department are in charge of the review of criminal cases.

Of course, officials in their own posts should not pay donations, otherwise the officials' character flow will be complicated and it will be easy to corrupt the rule of officials.

Seeing this, Shi Kefa nodded again and again.

As for the donation, there are many, the own position can not be donated, nor can it donate more than three official positions, in addition, and honors, ranks, court canons, prison qualifications, official robes and supplements, can be donated.

"This ......" Shi Kefa frowned, shook his head, and said in his heart: "In this way, the salt merchant position is still above the prefect, even if he is not given a real position, what kind of system does this become?" ”

However, at this level, the persuasiveness seems to be much smaller, during the Wanli period, the people wore clothes and hats, and basically there were not many people who cared about it, and there were many people who wore Zhu Zi, but there was no official recognition from the government.

Now donating the official uniform grade, the ancestors canonized, in fact, it is a false appearance, and it is not a real award, the court gets real benefits, and the rich get a false name, and the two are convenient.

Except for the prison layer, Shi Kefa really has nothing to say.

At that moment, he respectfully put down the recital, got up and said: "Your Majesty, there is nothing to say about the remaining ministers, that is, the qualifications of the prisoners can be donated, and the ministers think that they can't. ”

"Oh, this layer, the prince also made a special explanation."

Chongzhen is in a really good mood, the salt class is rectified, and the donations are almost all open source methods, and the entries are clear, and they are very feasible at a glance.

He has been in power for seventeen years, and in addition to Yang Sichang, who can help him solve a little substantive problem, only Chen Xinjia is counted as half, and Hong Chengchou can reassure him in the local area.

Looking back now, Yang Sichang is just focusing on Tian Fu, and he has no other way to do it except for training.

Fortunately, the imperial family has such a crown prince, and now there are many capable officials in the shogunate, and the crown prince himself is even more talented, and the method proposed, from the program to the detailed rules, is detailed and explained, just by looking at the recital, it is to know that the crown prince is a person who can do practical things, have a long-term vision, and can take care of the details.

Those civil officials who talk rhetorically and have nothing but self-confidence, shouldn't they be ashamed to die!

With this relaxed emotion, Chongzhen said to Shi Kefa in a brisk tone: "Sir, I don't know, among the people, there are many people who are willing to serve the court and have no name. The official position can not be donated, and if you donate to the prison students, you can come out to do some small things for the imperial court, and some of them are even more hateful, and the field is not complacent, in fact, there are also real talents and real learning, and the prison students are allowed to participate in the township examination. Therefore, Yu Chaogang will not be confused about the qualifications of donating prisoners, and there are many depressed and talented people who can be born from this. ”

In the end, Chongzhen also laughed, the emperor's majesty, he couldn't care about it for the time being.

He smiled and said to Shi Kefa, Wang Jiayan, Lu Zhenfei and others: "This method is wonderful, and I am also very happy to think about it." It is the qualification of the prisoner, the crown prince agreed to fold the color of 200 taels of silver, the true color of 1,000 stone grain, there are dozens of prisoners in a county, and if they are added together, the court will use enough! ”

Regarding Chongzhen's overly optimistic judgment, all the ministers present were a little skeptical, a prisoner is five hundred taels, and there can be dozens of wronged bosses in a county who have paid this money?

In this regard, we can only doubt it for the time being.

They really didn't know that during the Kangxi period, there were more than 17,000 donors in Gansu Province, and during the Qianlong period, 20 stone white rice, that is, 50 or 60 stone millet, could donate a county Cheng, and the people were a sensation at that time, and tens of thousands of county Cheng were donated in a month.

The Qing Dynasty's method of donating officials was too bad, thieves and beggars could get a county beggar, and Zhu Cihong also took its rough lead, just on the price code, it was much higher.

Even so, it is really not a problem to get tens of thousands of prisoners in a province and tens of thousands of wronged people who buy canons!

And the most critical part of this matter, in fact, Chongzhen himself is not very clear.

Everyone present, I'm afraid that there is no one who can understand.

The chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, is still not attached to the people's hearts, all walks of life have their own plans, and now the Xun relatives and civil and military send their sons into the palace as guards, and the guards accompany the emperor day and night, and the loyalty is needless to say, and in the future, it will score a wedge in the civil and official group. As soon as the door of donation was opened, it was equivalent to tying the merchants, landlords, and gentry back to the chariot of the Ming Dynasty.

Will anyone look forward to the dynasty in which they have invested in Taiwan?

So, how significant!

(To be continued)