In these compromises, Shen put forward a policy strategy for the current situation.

The first is the collection of commercial taxes, the north gradually expands the tax collection mode of the tax bureau, and in the south, it temporarily carries out rough commercial tax collection, focusing on the collection of taxes on tea, wine, market ships, silk, etc.

The second is to rectify the salt industry and transport it, which can make huge profits. The salt administration is mainly based on the current implementation system, and the rest of the provinces will be rectified. Caoyun can be taxed on entrainment of private work.

The third is to rectify the mining industry, most of the world's copper mines fall into the hands of private individuals, and countless copper objects are used to cast copper every year, and private copper mines can be directly seized, and the illegal mining of gold and silver minerals can be strictly investigated.

This is the open source aspect, and there is nothing to build on the throttling aspect. At this time, the Ming Dynasty basically reduced the amount of money that could be throttled, and the emperors were required to be frugal. As for the clan Lumi or something, this can't be moved for the time being.

In terms of disaster relief and water conservancy repair, Shen also put forward corresponding strategies. Local disasters and famines should be reported as soon as possible, and then the local government will provide relief first, and then the imperial court will allocate money and grain to supplement local expenditures and carry out comprehensive relief. In terms of water conservancy, the system of protecting the armor was fully implemented in the north, and the system of peasant idle labor was restored to stabilize the local situation.

At the same time, in the local administration, we should first sort out corruption, eliminate the administrative officials with bad reputations in the localities, and promote grassroots officials who are honest and understand the people's conditions to take charge of the localities, and intensify the crackdown on bandits.

Zhu Youxiao carefully watched these twists and turns, and was immediately very pleased, and finally an official with a normal brain who could put forward some constructive suggestions came up. I can't help but have a lot of initial impression of Shen Yun, who served as a second assistant in the cabinet before, was actually suppressed by Ye Xianggao, and there was little room for manoeuvre.

Now that Ye Xianggao has gotten out of the cabinet, the cabinet is finally not a soy sauce department that can only passively deal with government affairs. Zhu Youxiao was extremely satisfied with these measures proposed by Shen Xiao, so he approved them one by one, all of which were approved by Shen Xiao, and added a sentence behind him: "Aiqing can let go of governance." ”

At the same time, Shen Yu was asked to discuss the rectification method of a post station.

Shen Yun's cabinet received the approval and was immediately overjoyed. Since the emperor supports it, then the cabinet can do a big job next. As for the rectification of the post station, Shen Yu also quickly came up with a plan.

In fact, the plan for rectifying the post station is ready-made, that is, the measures implemented by Zhang Juzheng. At that time, the post station under Zhang Juzheng's renovation had changed the chaos and become orderly. It's just that the people behind him died and the post station quickly eroded again.

So Shen Yu moved Zhang Juzheng's plan out and made some additions, mainly to replace the survey token, the so-called survey is a token divided into two halves. For example, if a person wants to go from Hainan to Beijing, he must first go to the post station to buy a survey, and gallop to Beijing, and the cost is 50 taels or 100 taels according to the distance. Then the traveler will be given a survey token, as long as it can be combined along the way, you can take the carriage of the post station, and the post station is responsible for food and accommodation along the way, so you don't have to spend more brains, even if you are a road idiot, you can reach the destination along the way.

Many post station surveys are sent out as favors by post guards, so it is necessary to comprehensively replace post station surveys and control the recovery of survey tokens.

Shen Yan's plan was sent to Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao improved it again.

The first is to improve the treatment of post guards, and pay 5 yuan per month. The second is to manage the income of the post station for daily expenses, which has been purchased by horses. The third is to crack down on smuggling and galloping newspapers. And open related businesses, and unify the income into management.

The previous post station also belonged to the self-financing model, and the profit and loss of each post station was imposed on these post guards. As a result, the post man was threatened, and he also suffered losses because of extortion, and then smuggled goods and took over the private express delivery business.

In this case, it is necessary to simply change this self-financing model to one in which the government bears its costs. and manage and operate the business.

The Ming Dynasty post station is a mature system, which is a good resource! It can fully develop into an ancient courier company and a long-distance passenger transport company. Moreover, it is the only one of its kind, this kind of express company can not only operate passenger transportation, but also express goods and information.

With such a good resource, you can make money by operating it casually. Even if you don't make much money, your expenses won't increase much. And even if the cost increases, it is also the cost of paying military salaries to the post soldiers, which is distributed to the people at the bottom, and solves the suffering of some groups, and makes these post soldiers live a good life without digging the corners of the country.

The cost of the post station is mainly the purchase of personnel and horses. There is no shortage of horses, after all, the horses used in the post station are not war horses, and they can be bred in all provinces. The reason why Daming can't raise too many war horses is mainly because war horse breeding needs a relatively large site, which can allow horses to run freely. There are so many people in the provinces, there is not enough land, and there is so much land to raise horses? Obviously unrealistic. It is only on the prairie that there is enough space for these horses to gallop, so that they can become war horses.

As for post horses, it is not difficult to raise them, and there is no shortage of forage in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao wrote down the plan, which was very detailed, just like a plan for later generations. Then it was sent back to the cabinet, and Shen Yan, the first assistant of the cabinet, carefully read this extremely detailed plan, and immediately found that this reform plan for the system was obviously very reliable. As in this anti-corruption campaign, money is given first, and then the problem is eliminated. In this way, there will be no smuggling business that will not be able to maintain the balance of the post system.

Zhu Youxiao even wrote the working hours and evaluation rules of the post guards clearly.

Shen Yan had to admire, but he wasn't very surprised. Since the emperor ascended the throne, many such reforms have been carried out, and after the reforms, things have been done very carefully, such as the tax bureau, which has made the tax system meticulous, not as before, just a simple commercial tax collection.

Shen immediately agreed to the reform plan.

The emperor's decree naturally requires the approval of the cabinet, and how can it be implemented if the cabinet does not agree? Therefore, before Zhu Youxiao, he bypassed the civil official group and used eunuchs and factory guards to implement it.

However, it is clear that the enforcement framework for eunuchs and factory guards needs to be rebuilt, unlike the civil administrative system, which covers the whole country.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao suppressed the Donglin Party and promoted Shen Yu and others, and the civil service system could finally be used. This made Zhu Youxiao really worry-free.

Shen Xiao immediately began to implement these reform plans, and compared with Zhu Youxiao's slightly more radical reforms, Shen Xiao's style was still softer.

Like a raging storm, it often only lasts for a few hours. And the wind and drizzle, but it can be the next day. The same is true of reforms, which are too radical and confusing for lower-level officials and ordinary people. After all, the pace is too fast, and they can't do it at all.

After all, after a set of new policy measures, officials and ordinary people must have a familiar process. When there are too many things to reform at once, and officials and ordinary people cannot digest such a large amount of information and changes, chaos will arise.

In terms of the reform of the post station, it is actually relatively simple.

It is too easy to crack down on smuggling, after all, the post station is based on post guards and galloping roads as the core of operation, since this kind of smuggling activity has a fixed person and a fixed route, just send a few people over and catch it.

A country like China has always been governed by man. The so-called legal system only lasted for a short time in the Qin Dynasty. As for the Celestial Empire in later generations, it also did not deviate from the tradition of human rule. This has something to do with the fact that there are too many people in China, and if there is a system above, if someone is watching, it will be well followed. Once the upper layer starts to decay, the lower layer will also decay rapidly.

Therefore, the reform station only needs to send a few reliable officials to preside, supervise it at all levels, and punish those who violate the system, and it will not take long to achieve results.

If it is not effective, it means that it is not a person, and it will be replaced. And as long as the cabinet is attentive, such a problem generally does not arise. There are still many honest officials, and there are many ways to recognize and employ people in China's traditional administrative system.

For example, in the traditional look-at-you-see, Qi Jiguang has a link in selecting soldiers, for example, those who have the image of murderous death, Qi Jiajun does not want it. This kind of person goes to the battlefield and has a very poor ability to resist risks. The battlefield is an environment that can crush the fate of an individual, allowing people with different fates to die on the same day. If the luck of your officers and soldiers is stronger, then you will have a certain advantage on the battlefield. But this blessing of luck is similar to the buff in the game, but with a certain status bonus or debuff. If an army is more fortunate than the enemy, but lacks training, it may be lucky on the battlefield, or mutiny, flee, surrender, and save their lives when faced with a desperate situation.

If an army not only has strong luck, but also is well-armed and well-trained, as well as reliable command, and is not too inferior in terms of troops, it is basically invincible.

If it is an ordinary army, it is usually necessary to go to the battlefield a few times first, eliminate those soldiers who are not lucky enough like a sieve, and then continue to replenish the soldiers into it, and then die a batch, and then keep a batch. Only after such repeated screening can an elite army be obtained.

As long as there are enough grassroots officers, as well as good armament and sufficient training, the recruits who go to the battlefield will also have a greater chance of winning the war, and greatly reduce casualties.

During the period of the Qi family's army to resist the Japanese, the casualty rate was so low that it was rare in history. Out of the training and equipment have been strengthened, luck is indeed a very important factor, and another is that the Japanese Ronin is actually not a regular army, although there are Japanese ronins as professional thugs, but the Japanese ronins are mostly individual fighting fiercely, once they meet the Qi family army, this kind of well-coordinated army can only kneel.

In the officialdom, Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty was actually very good at getting to know people with faces.

There have always been many officials who are proficient in metaphysics, some officials are good at fortune telling, some are good at traditional Chinese medicine, some are good at feng shui, and some are good at a little bit, which is a very face-saving thing. When the literati gathered, in addition to reciting poems, they would also exchange numerology and medical science with each other. For example, take out the eight characters and let the classmates refer to them together, and sigh to each other about ruining life.

These officials have nothing to do a lot of the time, and if they have hobbies in this area, they obviously have a lot of time to comprehend metaphysics. In turn, these metaphysics gave rise to two schools. One is called the study school, which is popular in the upper class, and the main force is these officials and literati. The characteristics of the study school are that they are relatively proficient in theory, but they are slightly lacking in practical experience. One is called the Jianghu School, which is the kind that walks the streets and alleys, and is not as good as the study school in terms of theory, but it has rich practical experience, and the general liars are from this level.

Soon, Shen Yun, the first assistant to the cabinet, became the busiest official, and various reform plans were constantly implemented, and at the same time, he had to follow up and evaluate, so he was naturally too busy to keep his feet on the ground.

This is the advantage of the good relationship between the cabinet and the emperor, if Zhu Youxiao is allowed to preside over these reforms all day long, soaked in a pair of government affairs, it is basically impossible rhythm, and the eunuchs have no civil service major.

Therefore, China has always been inseparable from the position of prime minister, there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who was more diligent in government, and he did what the prime minister was capable of and became a national designer. Obviously, the later emperors could not all be like Zhu Yuanzhang, so they set up a cabinet in disguise, and the first assistant of the cabinet was actually the same position as the prime minister, but there were certain checks and balances in power, so the celebrant was born.

Zhu Youxiao asked the celebrant to keep an eye on it for a few days, and found that Shen Yan was still relatively reliable, so he began to prepare to increase the establishment of the Beijing camp with confidence.

Only five infantry divisions remained, plus a newly formed artillery battalion. Now two infantry divisions have been transferred, and at the same time, the Wuxiang cavalry division has also been transferred to the border town of eastern Liao.

There were only three infantry divisions and one cavalry division left in the entire Beijing division, as well as an artillery battalion.

This military strength made Zhu Youxiao dare not continue to send troops out.

"As long as the Beijing camp is expanded, the troops can be pulled out to fight smuggling, crack down on illegal salt and mine theft, and set up armed cards to collect taxes. Are you afraid that there is no silver? Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but get excited.

Next year will be the second year of the apocalypse, and the current situation is still relatively optimistic.

The Royal Military Factory immediately began to carry out large-scale equipment manufacturing activities, and Zhu Youxiao naturally spent money like water, not only in the military industry, but also in Shen Yan's reform activities.

At this time, Dongjiang Town sent an urgent note.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Dongjiang Army has won a great victory......" Qian Guoxing entered the Heart Cultivation Hall with a happy face, Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a while when he heard it, and then showed a look of surprise on his face, and hurriedly took the chapter over and looked at it. (To be continued.) )