Chapter 163: Household Department
200 pro-soldiers, each with a desert eagle, three magazines, a total of 21 bullets, and a theoretical upper limit of 4,200 kills, which was not enough to annihilate the tens of thousands of troops of the Jianrui battalion, so the Security Committee carried out a decapitation operation. {Starter}
The decapitation operation was very successful, and the forbidden army surrounding Sushun Province was leaderless and chaotic. In the midst of this chaos, His Royal Highness Prince Chung walked out of the mansion with the Desert Eagle in his hand and surrounded by his own soldiers, and although he did not speak, he attracted everyone's - look, Prince Chung has come out!
Su Shun is very safe, this group of forbidden troops with cold weapons has no threat ability at all, when Emperor Xianfeng's imperial guards were slaughtered by the Desert Eagle, Su Shun could see the power of this thing.
The "pro-soldier" got a horn from somewhere, and thoughtfully handed it to Prince Zhong, and Su Shun's lazy voice became very loud: "Everyone...... Only punish the first evil, and don't ask the rest, everyone disperses, go home separately, and are not allowed to gather together, otherwise it will be regarded as a rebellion, and it will be difficult to forgive you again! Shengshang Kuanren, except for the president of the Jianrui Battalion, even his family will not be involved. Don't look at me, don't disperse, don't blame my own soldiers for being merciless! ”
Originally, it was a lazy sheep, but when it came to the back, Su Shun actually had a little bit of the demeanor of the prince of Xiaoxiong, these chaotic forbidden troops were intimidated by the majesty of the household department of the holy family Zhenglong, and began to have people fleeing, first the marginal minority, and later, the forbidden army that lost its leader collapsed, which made Su Shun disappointed, hating that his tone of voice was too tough, and scared the forbidden army away, and he fell into the abyss of house arrest, alas!
Soon, the 500 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who rode in a large military vehicle easily came to the capital, and under the authority of Jing Shou, the leader of the forbidden army, he began to take over the city defense of the capital, and the soldiers of the Jianrui Battalion were ordered to stay at home and not go out. The military vehicle is a big monster, the officials and the people are silent when they see it, this is a monster that doesn't even have foreigners, and the British and French troops are infantry when they enter the city. These hundreds of divine soldiers are really unpredictable.
The Minister in Beijing soon spread the word that this was obviously a mechanized force that only the Duke of London could have, and rumors began to spread in Europe that the Duke of London had a great relationship with the Qing Emperor.
The Daqing News began to be distributed in the capital again, and the residents of the capital took to the streets to buy newspapers to see what the emperor had to say.
The Qing News downplayed the rebellion, and Prince Gong appealed to the emperor, saying that he had no intention of rebellion, and that the generals of the Jianrui Battalion forced him to coup and ask for leniency from the Holy Lord. The opposite is really lenient, Prince Gong instantly reinstated the hereditary iron hat title, the official was reinstated, and he met with the British and French ministers one by one, in order to stabilize the minds of various countries, especially to stabilize the stock price of the Qing Railway Bureau, which was listed in London, and the British ** team helped fight the Taiping Army in Jiangnan, and the Sino-British relationship was particularly important.
This time the rebellion ended with only one shot, and the British appreciated it very much, and it seems that the authority of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty still existed.
Taking advantage of this mutiny, the Qing News began to publicize the reform of property rights. Because in the past, the punishments of the Qing Dynasty liked to sit together, which had a lot to do with the property rights system of the Qing Dynasty. The property rights system of the Qing Dynasty can be called the family property rights system, and the head of the family holds all the property and is protected by the Qing law firm. All the property in a family belongs to the head of the family, so why is the authority of the head so strong in the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the family is very united, and the family always comes when things happen, and the modern property rights system is to break this organizational form.
The Emperor's Decree, the subjects of the Qing Dynasty, as long as they are at least 18 years old, regardless of gender, have their own property rights, and have the right to dispose of their own property, and no one may interfere with the power of adult men and women to dispose of their own property, including his parents, including officials at all levels, including the emperor. The emperors are deliberately added here to make a precedent for the implementation of "the king under the law" in the future.
It turned out that the people of the Qing Dynasty thought that the emperor was magnanimous and did not care about the families of the rebellious generals, but they did not expect that there was such a profound meaning hidden behind it. At this time, the president's family was relieved, and it seemed that the emperor really did not intend to hold them jointly and severally responsible.
For the bannermen of the Jianrui battalion, the emperor also found a way back for them, two ways: one is to open a mine, and the other is to tuntian. At present, the Qing Dynasty has great restrictions on mining and tuntian, because it is afraid that a large number of people will gather together and it will be easy for the people to revolt. The prevention of the Han people made the three northeastern provinces not allow the Han people to enter the reclamation, which was also to prevent the Han people from occupying the Manchu nest. At present, the Qing Dynasty is in urgent need of financial resources, and the mining of the whole country and the tuntian fields of the three eastern provinces are fully opened, and the mines in various places are allowed to be bought by private individuals, and the Ministry of Industry of the Qing Dynasty uses land to invest in the mines, and once again empty gloves white wolf.
This time, the flag people are also relieved, and they will no longer be held responsible. As for whether you want to go or not, it is still free, those who have money can not go, and those who have no money can use it as a job opportunity. As for the deprivation of Yulu, I don't dare to force it, and it is merciful not to kill you.
The rebellion also involved a large number of eunuchs from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were not held accountable, however, the emperor officially decreed the abolition of the eunuch system, and now the eunuchs are free to find work without restrictions, and no one can be emasculated to deprive people of their reproductive rights in the future, including His Majesty the Emperor. The Ministry of Internal Affairs paid them a generous severance pay to compensate them for their mental losses, but in the future, there would be no oil and water from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and their plans to make a fortune were ruined.
The seven divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including Guangchu, Duyu, Zhangyi, Accounting, Construction, Shenxing, and Qingfeng, comprehensively transferred the royal finances, treasury, guards, mountain collection, etiquette, Huangzhuang tax, engineering, criminal punishment, and animal husbandry to the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry. Among them, the power of the household department has never been stronger.
Since the 500 warriors of the Shenji Battalion had taken over the defense of the imperial city, the guards on Jingshou and Sushun were also relaxed, and only 50 personal soldiers were sent to protect and monitor their movements in turn, of course, there were snipers ambushed not far away.
Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guoquan has always been dissatisfied with the imperial court, because the imperial court hired the British army to fight the Taiping army, and the Hunan army could only participate in the encirclement work. This time, Zeng Guoquan was taken aback, Emperor Xianfeng even dared to abolish and rebuild the Eight Banners Forbidden Army, which was really wild. For the next while, he didn't dare to complain to the court, and he also respected the court in front of his brother.
This time was the most vigorous reform of the imperial court, and the rebellion did not last for more than three days, which can be said to be fleeting, reshaping the authority of the New Deal era that "woke up" and worked hard, so that the Huayang coalition forces in Jiangnan cooperated better with the counterinsurgency. Lord Su Shun smiled lightly and the general style of using soldiers is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Guo Songtao has regarded Su Shun as a big idol, a famous general of the ancients, nothing more! I knew that if Su Shun resisted the foreigners, he might be able to win, but if he hadn't lost, the emperor wouldn't have woken up.
Now, the household department has become the financial department with all the power in the world, and all the property of the Qing Dynasty is passed through the household department, and the corruption of the household department has become the top priority of the imperial court's work.
Household taxation has a very characteristic of the times. The Qing law stipulates that those who transfer the tax from the provinces to the central household department must take 50 taels of silver ingots as a unit, so the loose silver collected by the provincial yamen from the people must be cast into 50 taels of ingots that meet the specifications before they can be handed over. The silver taels lost in the casting process are called fire consumption, and therefore, fire consumption is also known as fire consumption silver.
According to the law, a firm is required to pay a tax of 100 taels of silver to the central and local governments, and if there is an additional 10 taels of fire, then the firm must actually pay 110 taels. For another example, a certain reclamation number needs to pay 100 catties of tax grain according to the law, and if the additional fire consumption is 10%, then the reclamation number must pay 110 catties of tax grain.
The fire consumption has left an excellent excuse for local officials to be corrupt, and some bold officials even dare to say that they have lost 50 or 60 percent, but in fact all of them have gone into their private pockets, especially the feudal officials who hold their own positions and high power. In times of war, the imperial court had to rely on these magistrates, so they were even more arrogant.
This typical example can show how unreliable the current financial practice is, the use of silver taels or copper coins is inconvenient, and paper money will bring inflation, and the imperial court has not tried, and as a result, everyone is reluctant to use it. The issue of paper money is very addictive, and when the imperial court saw that it was so easy to get money, it naturally printed more and more, and it became less and less valuable, and finally silver and copper coins were popular in the market.
j。 p。 Morgan's financial reform for the Bank of Japan was to use standard official silver and gold coins instead of various silver-containing currencies in circulation, which was also a common method in Europe, called the coinage system.
Downing was still ready to carry out a radical reform of the current currency, with the ultimate goal of making banknotes universal and greatly reducing the loss and greed in circulation. At the beginning, the common people were definitely not happy to use banknotes, and the game was just a piece of paper, which didn't look like a feeling, and who knew when the imperial court would go crazy and issue paper money indiscriminately. So at the beginning, it was a dual-track system, on the one hand, there would be a standard silver and gold content coinage, and people could exchange banknotes into silver dollars and gold dollars at any time at the counter, and there was no handling fee. In this way, the people will be able to trust the money slowly.
At the same time, all the money issued to officials and state employees is in banknotes, and merchants and reclaimed households also use banknotes in taxes, so there is no need to pay excess fire consumption at this time, and many taxpayers can be conquered at once. Since there is a guarantee of taxation, taxpayers across the country will increasingly recognize the banknote system.
The central bank of the Qing Dynasty was already in the process of being prepared to be named the "Daqing Household Bank" to guarantee credit with the state treasury. Officials of the Great Qing Dynasty were appointed to the county level, and the Great Qing Household Bank was also prepared to open in each county seat. All the money of the Qing government was channelled through the Guò Hubu Bank, which acted as a firewall against corruption. It is impossible to deduct salaries, and officials and staff can directly use the most advanced mechanical chip identification card of the Bank of Zurich to open an account in the bank of the Daqing Household Department, and the money will be issued directly to the individual. (http://.)。 During the disaster relief, all the money was sent directly to the accounts of the victims, and the officials did not touch a penny.
The Qing Dynasty also has a special feature: the Cao Yun system. The imperial court even set up the position of governor for Caoyun, whose status was comparable to that of the feudal officials. In Downing's view, this is a ridiculous system, a completely unnecessary bureaucratic system implemented by the authorities to ensure food security. All bureaucratic systems have the potential to be corrupt, let alone the luck of the country.
After the establishment of the Hubu Bank in the county, all peasant households can pay money and taxes to the bank at the market price, and the food security can be established through the guò government to buy grain with banknotes on the spot. Once there is a shortage of grain in a certain place, as long as the grain price index is published in the Daqing News, there will naturally be rice merchants who will transport grain from all over the country or even the world to places with high prices.
Now the transportation in the south of the Yangtze River has been interrupted by the Taiping army, but as long as there is money to be made, the rice merchants are afraid that they will cross the line of fire to sell grain to the north, which is the charm of the market.
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