And the Wang Wen in front of him, for others, this guy is not only mean and unkind, he is stubborn in doing things, he is stubborn, he is self-serving, and his language is vicious, which is disliked by the ministers of the DPRK and China.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, he is mean and unkind, he is iron-faced and selfless, and he recognizes the law and does not recognize human feelings; His stubbornness has been seen, and he is self-serving, which is called contempt for the powerful and not flattering; And the language is vicious, which can also be interpreted as outspoken and daring.

Muma's, this is alive and well from a fifteenth-century Bao Qingtian? Uh, or Hai Rui, in short, those characteristics of him are annoying shortcomings for those ministers, but Zhu Qizhen feels that those are the shining points of Wang Wenren's surname. Such an official is really a talent, and he is an excellent material for the chief prosecutor of the country.

"It seems that Aiqing is extremely proficient in the duties of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, hehe, in this way, I can entrust this matter to Yu Qing with more confidence." After Wang Wen, who had a dry mouth and foamed at the corners of his mouth, drank all the tea in front of him, Zhu Qizhen told Wang Wen his intention to let him go to Nanzhili to serve as the imperial history of the left capital of the Nanzhili Metropolitan Inspectorate.

"I have been a hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, vigorously expanding the borders, encouraging people's livelihood, so that the cultivators have their fields and the dwellers have their houses. Like a teenager, gradually entering middle age, many problems that did not appear in the past have now gradually become my stubborn disease, and I am very anxious......"

Zhu Qizhen did not hide it, and told Wang Wen his thoughts and ideas, of course, he told Wang Wen with reservations, for Daming, the most important tasks that need to be solved now are the problem of taxation, the problem of transportation and salt, for Daming, these are not only related to people's livelihood, but also related to the important events of Daming's national fortune.

The drawbacks of Cao Yun are not that no one sees them, but because of the entanglement of interests, which makes these civil and military ministers pretend to be blind. And there is also a lot of clamoring that the shipping of Shenma will cause a large number of workers to lose their livelihoods and cause social unrest...... In a word, Caoyun has been entangled with the interests of all parties, and as for salt, Zhu Qizhen is very clear in later generations, those stories about salt merchants are just like the old woman's footwrap is smelly and annoying, and it is precisely because of this that Zhu Qizhen also remembers the Ming and Qing dynasties, these salt merchants are not good birds. At least in the absence of the Ming Dynasty's tax system, the wealth they plundered can even be equivalent to nearly fifty percent of the annual Ming Dynasty's taxes.

In addition, there is the issue of taxation, many people in later generations always talk crookedly about the heavy taxes of the Ming Dynasty, which is all nonsense, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, to the Wanli period, the economy of the Ming Dynasty has been growing at a high speed and developing rapidly.

-------------------- and the taxes of the Ming Dynasty, starting from the tax benchmark set by Zhu Yuanzhang, it has lasted more than ten emperors, and there has been almost no change, of course, the Liao salary of later generations and the like are not to be discussed, at least, at this time in Zhu Qizhen, there is no such national hard surname collection index.

The country's taxes have been maintained at a very low level, so the people of the Ming Dynasty have grown, and the economy and industry and commerce have also developed vigorously, but have these resulting taxes increased?

Tell you, there is no increase at all, or in other words, after the collection, the taxes paid to the court have not increased, and even sometimes decreased, so why do the people of the Ming Dynasty still suffer from life?

In addition to various reasons, there is another extremely important factor, and that is: officials create evil. According to the regulations, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were extremely low. However, they live a life of luxury. In particular, a large number of officials, who are dozens of times the size of officials, have no salary, but they also have a very decent life. How can they live an enviable life of decent luxury with little or no wages? That means they have a way to get their money.

In fact, the way to get money is also very simple, of course, there is corruption, and the state funds are put into their own private pockets. However, this is in the minority. State funds are accounted for, and blatant corruption is risky. Most of their money is extorted and scraped by scraping the ground.

Extortion of ordinary people through additional distribution. You may not seem to have a heavy tax burden on the land, but the extra money you collect is often several times to ten times the official amount of tax. There are so many names that I can't point them out one by one, in short, what is the dough, the change, the dressing, the suppression, the punishment of the stolen goods, the consumption of fire, the consumption of rats, and the consumption of birds.

After the grain is harvested, it has to be transported thousands of miles by the people to the designated places. Think about it, with the road transportation conditions of the Ming Dynasty, how much manpower and material resources would be needed to transport grain thousands of miles to the specified place? How much is delayed in normal work? And all these freight costs are borne by tax-paying farmers; Although all the losses have been collected in advance in advance at several times the amount, once the losses and risks really occur in transportation, they are still completely borne by the taxpayers. This kind of exploitation made the society really unable to bear it, so Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip reform, abolished some harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and more were legalized and distributed to the acres of land. However, in the following practice, there is still "an order outside the article, and a whip outside the whip", that is, after the old exorbitant taxes are legalized, the new excesses and miscellaneous taxes will be created immediately.

And all these unconstitutional, exorbitant taxes, extortions, and extortions are not included in the official financial revenue of the political axe. Liu Zongzhou, a minister in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, said that in addition to the positive tax, the additional distribution reached more than 100 times, and some peasants had a tax burden of 35 taels of silver per mu, and people were ruined because of this.

Three or five taels of silver, at that time, you could buy more than three or five hundred catties of fine white rice. However, at that time, the yield per mu must not have been able to produce so much even the belt valley. The tax is higher than all the production of the land, and you say that the tax burden is not heavy?

This is a pyramid-shaped mechanism for distributing spoils, with the top being the senior members of the central government, the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and the central government, and the millions at the bottom, who are not included in the state financial establishment, and who have personally extorted and extorted the officials, are equivalent to today's urban management police and township cadres. It's a very complete network of food chains. These scraped plots of land were handed over to the pockets of leaders at all levels in the form of bad rules and common practices.

Even Haiqingtian Hairui, who is considered to be the most incorruptible in history, has a formal salary that is simply not enough to support his family. He has a wife, children, and a number of young concubines, with a salary of two or three taels a year, which is equivalent to four or five thousand yuan in purchasing power, can he support his family of ten? Therefore, even Hai Jui has to take bad rules, there is no doubt about it, officialdom is generally like this, whoever doesn't take it, who can't live.

The revenues collected by the dynasties in history through the rules that were clearly put on the table were only a fraction of what was extorted and extorted through unspoken rules. Some people always don't understand the question: the Ming Dynasty did not have a heavy tax burden, why did the common people rebel, leading to the eventual demise of the dynasty? Because in fact, the fact that the tax burden is not heavy is an official record, not a factual truth. The common people are not only burdened with regular taxes, but also all kinds of unexplained and inexplicable and inexplicable names for all kinds of extortions.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen needs an official, a high-ranking official, a high-ranking official who is out of step with ordinary Ming regular officials and is isolated from this official circle, to make real things for himself.

-------------------- no matter how mean Wang Wen is, he is not kind to others, and no one is a bird, but when he heard the task given to him by Zhu Qizhen, for a while, he couldn't help but have that unstoppable cold sweat on his head. If Zhu Qizhen really let himself do it, wouldn't it be tantamount to completely pushing himself to the opposite side of more than 80 percent of the officials in the world?

Looking at Wang Wen, who was sweating like rain in the cold winter wax moon, Zhu Qizhen couldn't understand what he was thinking in his heart, but for such a thing, except for Wang Wen, a fierce minister who was hated by ghosts, Zhu Qizhen was really difficult to find other more suitable candidates.

In fact, there are also, such as Yuan Bin next to Zhu Qizhen, Ha Ming may also be competent, but the problem is that they have more important things to do. Zhu Qizhen is now surrounded by too few people who can be entrusted with important tasks.

Therefore, he can't help but think of ways from other aspects, and Wang Wen is what Zhu Qizhen thinks is a good choice.

"I know what you're worried about, Wang Qing." Zhu Qizhen sat up straight, looked at Wang Wen in front of him, and said with a faint smile: "I don't need you to use the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect these things. After saying this, Zhu Qizhen raised his hand and said to the guard with a knife who came with Wang Wen: "Jianghuai, come here." ”

"The last general, what does Your Majesty command?" The one who brought that Wang Wen to the Chongzhi Hall was the close guard Jianghuai who called the door under the city of Najing and almost killed by Wang Cheng's bow and crossbow.

"Jianghuai, are all the injuries healed?" Looking at Jiang Huai, who was tall and burly, but there was no loss of agility between his eyebrows, Zhu Qizhen asked with a smile.

"Your Majesty, the last general's injuries have already healed, and these words, the strength of this arm has almost been fully trained." That Jiang Huai smiled, and deliberately moved the arm that had been shot through the shoulder, playing quite tigerly.

"Hehe, okay, I know, I want to ask you, would you like to follow Lord Wang and go south to Zhili?" Zhu Qizhen looked at Jianghuai, who had been following him, courageous and knowledgeable, and bold and careful in doing things.

(To be continued)