From mid-March to late April, the Privy Council issued more than 20 decrees, covering acres of land, households, military service, workshops, mining rights, postal communications, and many other fields.

The fact that the acres of land, households, and mining rights will be allowed to be privately smelted in the form of permits, which will have a great impact on the interests of the traditional forces, but the uninterrupted war for more than a decade has devastated the traditional forces, and they have no ability to stand up and resist the new policy, let alone resist it.

The situation in Jiangning was generally stable, and the structure of the government council, the military staff, and the three houses of the Privy Council was divided into the three houses of the government, military power, and political power.

It was only at this time that Gao Zongting and others realized that Lin Bin's real intention was to set up a public council.

The Council of the Principals is placed above the Military Staff and the Privy Council, but under the Principals; If necessary, Lin Jian can close the council or elect another councillor to form a new council.

During Lin Lian's absence in Jiangning, the Military Staff and the Privy Council were responsible to the public council, which was actually to "supervise the country" and take charge of the power of the national government on behalf of Lin Lian, which made the matter of establishing the prince less urgent......

At the beginning of May, a large group of cavalry with banners and armor, dressed in the clothes and armor of the forbidden camp army, protected more than a dozen carriages and horses, came out of Juchao City and traveled north along the east bank of Chaohu Lake.

The day before yesterday, he crossed the river from Yijiang to Juchao, where he summoned Chen Huawen and other Luzhou military and political officials, and did not leave Luzhou until today to go north to Shouzhou.

Although the threat of war is minimized, Luzhou is still the most important barrier on the periphery of Jiangning, and it is also the strategic and military and political center of gravity of Qianli Huaixi; Of course, Lin Lian's choice of Luzhou for the first stop of the political patrol has another intention.

Lin Lian summoned Chen Huawen, the governor of Luzhou Prefecture, who saw him off, to the car and said: "Huawen is reluctant to give up, then give me another ride......" In the wide carriage, there were also Gao Zongting, Wang Chengfu, and Sun Shangwang who accompanied Lin Tie out of Beijing to patrol the government this time.

"Does the lord have something to show me?" Chen Huawen boarded the carriage, sat with Sun Shangwang, and asked.

"There is one matter, I originally wanted to discuss it after I came back from Xuzhou, but I said it in advance, let you make some preparations in Luzhou first," Lin Jian said, "After the Jianghuai Governor's Mansion is abolished, the Jiangdong County Governor's Mansion will be under the direct command of the center." Jiangdong County itself is the land of fish and rice, rich in the world, and the new deal is mainly concentrated in Jiangdong County, I called Sun Shangwang to estimate, at this time, the central income, almost eighty percent from the territory of Jiangdong County. With the deepening of the New Deal, it is difficult to reduce this proportion in a short period of time. This seems to be a good thing at first glance, but it is actually not a good thing, and it is easy to marginalize Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei and Hunan counties......"

Chen Huawen nodded, at this time, the central revenue mainly came from Jiangdong County, and the governments of Jiangdong County were directly led by the Privy Council, which would lead to a large proportion of the central officials transferred in the future to Jiangdong County, making the Privy Council of Jiangdong County in the future. On the one hand, it will over-expand the power of the Privy Council, and on the other hand, it will marginalize Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei and Hunan counties, which is by no means a good thing.

Lin Jian continued: "I want to separate the five prefectures of Shou, Hao, Xinyang, Dongyang and Luzhou, as well as the counties of Yijiang and Chizhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River (also roughly according to the Anhui Province of later generations), and set up a new Xuanfu Envoy; The five counties of Chongzhou and Jiangning Prefecture set up two Zhili Prefectures, and the remaining part of Jiangdong County set up a Xuanfu Envoy...... This is just an idea of mine, you can discuss it in a small area first, and if it is feasible, it will be decided by the public council! ”

The prefectures of Jiangdong County are directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, which directly controls nearly eighty percent of the country's financial resources; With Lin Binding, the Privy Council naturally can't turn the sky upside down, but in fact it is not a good power structure - Lin Jian wants to separate the Jiangdong County Prefecture from the Privy Council, and then split it into four major blocks, so as to achieve the purpose of balancing Jiangxi, Liangzhejiang, Mindong, Liangxiang and other counties.

"In addition, in the next step, I plan to separate the Mingzhou Mansion, Quanzhou, and Yizhou Mansions from the Xuanfu Division of Liangzhejiang and Mindong and put them under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council," Lin Jian said, "On the one hand, it is convenient for the Privy Council to directly deepen the new policy in these three prefectures; On the other hand, once the new policy is implemented in depth, the scale of finance and taxation in Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Yizhou will far exceed that of ordinary prefectures and counties, and the Privy Council will need to directly control ......"

At this time, the revenue of the Central Committee and the Privy Council came from Jiangdong County, of which the five counties of Chongzhou contributed nearly 40%, more than 6 million silver dollars. In the past, the total amount of taxes and grain paid by the two Hunan provinces to the center was only three million taels of silver; Jiangdong County, as the traditional financial powerhouse of Yuan and Yue, paid to the center of the tax and grain in the highest annual total of no more than 6 million taels of silver, which shows the power of the new policy.

If the new policy is implemented in depth, the tax revenue of Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Yizhou will be greatly increased, and it will be able to easily exceed the fiscal and tax level of the traditional county department. If the three prefectures are also placed under the jurisdiction of the two Zhejiang and Mindong county divisions, it will lead to excessive financial power of the two Zhejiang and Mindong county divisions.

The new policy that Lin Jian wanted to implement not only involved the distribution of power in the center, but also further adjusted the distribution of power between the center and the local county officials: if Jiangdong County was not separated from the Privy Council and divided into four parts, it would be easy to over-concentrate power in the hands of a few people, and at the same time, it would also weaken the possibility of local secession and independence......

On the basis of Huaixi, the two prefectures of Yijiang and Chizhou were merged to set up a new Xuanfu envoy, and Chen Huawen was naturally the natural candidate for the Xuanfu envoy, so Lin Jian also talked to him about this issue first, and asked him to make some preparations to promote this work.

Seeing Chen Huawen, Gao Zongting, Wang Chengfu, Sun Shangwang and others write down his words, Lin Jian sighed in his heart and said to Chen Huawen: "You can send it here, don't delay the trip back to Luzhou!" "Let Chen Huawen retire.

Chen Huawen got out of the car, retreated to the side of the road with the accompanying Luzhou officials and his entourage, and the carriage and horse team slowly set off and headed for Shouzhou in the north.

Lin Jian also continued to leave Gao Zongting, Wang Chengfu, and Sun Shangwang in his car to discuss things.

Lin Jian said: "Although there is some discussion about the issuance of the new tax policy of the field system, it is still within the scope of control; I think the next step is to vigorously promote the reform of the commercial tax, and the resistance below should be smaller......"

Gao Zongting said: "The lord will reform the municipal commercial tax and split the traditional tax into two parts: the field tax and the municipal commercial tax, and the local government will get a large part of the benefits, at least below the prefecture and county, there will be no resistance......

The bulk of the traditional tax includes salt, iron, tea, horse wine, etc., which used to be the source of income of the inner treasury, and had nothing to do with the household and the locality, so most of the tax supervisors such as salt and iron envoys and tea porcelain were eunuchs.

Taking the Lianghuai Salt Farm as an example, the annual salt tax revenue is as high as 2 million silver, all of which go into the inner treasury; Taking the Fuliang tea industry as an example, when the tea affair in Fuliang Mansion in Jiangxi Province was at its peak, the annual output was 5 million catties of new tea, and the tea tax was the highest, and it could collect 400,000 taels of silver a year.

In addition to taxes, the tax collection is also included in the inner government, and the inner government sends eunuchs to various places to set up tax cards to supervise the collection; This is also a key reason why the power of the courtiers in the middle of the Yuan and Yue periods expanded, and the courtiers such as Hao Zongcheng, Zhang Yan, and Liu Zhi were able to check and balance the foreign ministers.

The excessive expansion of the eunuchs' power makes the struggle between the eunuchs and the foreign ministers' forces particularly bloody, and the eunuchs act as tax supervisors rampant in the place, not subject to central supervision, and the emperor is not familiar with world affairs, so how to effectively control the eunuchs' power by giving a few eunuchs to manipulate and get in their hands? As a result, all kinds of drawbacks eventually led to a situation in which a huge amount of tax and municipal commercial tax revenue was shared by the magnates, local forces, and eunuchs, and only a small part was subsumed into the inner government.

The most fundamental thing for Lin Jian to have real power is to concentrate all the revenues that can be collected by the world and allocated in a unified manner to the Privy Council. Of course, under the Privy Council, in addition to the branch department, the new establishment of the tax department, the mine supervision department, and the workshop department is to further disperse the financial power within the Privy Council.

In the new municipal commercial tax, Lin Jian will greatly reduce the collection range of the municipal commercial tax, and merge it into the industrial and mining tax in the form of field tax, but allow the local government to levy the municipal commercial tax at a ratio of 20 to 1 from the salt tea and other commodities sold into the country.

Wang Chengfu said with a smile: "With the salt matter alone, the local government can increase the income of an additional one million silver dollars in total. After the implementation of the new city commercial tax, it will be apportioned to the counties, and the financial resources ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 silver dollars can be used for local branches every year, how can the prefecture and county oppose it? ”

Lin Jian said: "We need to set up more inspection departments and township departments under the county to manage local affairs, break the previous pattern of the king not being able to go down to the county, and don't want to increase local revenues. ”

In order to implement the new policy, it is necessary to set up township divisions under the county level and infiltrate the tentacles of political power into the villages.

At present, the new policy is easy to implement, and it is also easy for the inspection department and the township department to directly control the local political power below the county level; But fundamentally, it is necessary to have money and financial resources to support the central government to infiltrate below the county level.

At present, there are more than 500 counties under the direct control of Jiangning; There are 6 to 10 inspection departments and township departments under the county, and the number of officials directly increased by as much as 350,000. Considering the future expansion of institutions, the bureaucracy of the new empire will easily break through the 100,000 or even 200,000 mark.

Throwing the traditional central income into it will not be able to support such a large bureaucratic group; But in reality, with the traditional natural economy, it is possible to feed such a large bureaucracy.

Before the war, in addition to the officials officially appointed by the imperial court, there were a large number of village warriors and village soldiers in the local area, and their support came from the local area; As for the private officials of the old system, their support only came from the exploitation of the local government by the officials.

After Lin Jian took control of Jiangning, he set up a gold bureau to strengthen the collection of gold from commodities entering Jiangning, and collected 600,000 silver dollars last year; In two years, Jiangning Mansion repaid the previous loan for the aftermath of the war in Huaidong Qianzhuang. This was also the result of the sharp decline of nearly one-third of Jiangning's population, and the severe devastation of the traditional Jiangning gentry and noble class by the war. Before the war, this number will probably increase by two or three times, and it may even be more.

However, before the war, the government set up a tax supervision department in Jiangning, and the annual income of gold was only 350,000 taels of silver, a difference of two orders of magnitude. This is not to say that Jiangning's previous commercial activities were not prosperous, but that as many as millions of taels of silver were collected by local villagers, nobles, and officials of the tax supervision department.

It is very difficult to collect the municipal commercial tax, except for a few directly governed prefectures, the municipal commercial tax of other prefectures and counties, Lin Jian intends to all belong to the local tax source, so that the local government will use the new municipal commercial tax to support the additional township divisions below the county level; In the same way, the establishment of many township departments below the county level is also aimed at further suppressing the local township forces, infiltrating the administrative tentacles, and expanding the increase in the city's commercial tax revenue.

To this end, the Department of Taxation will set up additional municipal tax offices under the prefectures and counties, and preliminarily determine more than 30 types of municipal and commercial taxes that can be levied, so as to expand the sources of local fiscal revenue.

As for the new field tax, the basic land tax belongs to the center, and the differential field tax, that is, the part of the additional income in addition to the average household of 40 mu of land, Lin Tie will allocate all of it to the local fiscal tax source.

In fact, Lin Jian wanted to make the local officials appointed by the central government the main force to resist the local township forces and suppress land annexation, rather than to make them collude with the local forces; Further down is the implementation of the system of appointing officials in different places.

This kind of tax division method is set up according to the experience of later generations, and it is also forcibly promoted when the old and the new are replaced. If the new tax law is implemented, if the central government's annual income wants to continue to expand, it will only be able to use its brains in the industrial and mining industries and foreign commerce and trade.

Lin Jian also wanted to wait for the new deal to have a general framework and let everyone form a preliminary consensus on the new policy, and then set up a new dynasty, or even slow down the pace of the Northern Expedition, hoping to reduce internal resistance to the new deal in the event of an external threat.

Taking a carriage by land is not as comfortable as taking a boat, but you can stop from time to time to pay attention to the local agricultural policy, in this case, it is also very soon to leave Luzhou Mansion and enter the territory of Shouzhou.

Lin Jian had already received a rumor that Liu Miaozhen and Song Jia had rushed to Shouzhou to see him first.

Lin Jian originally planned to go to Xuzhou before March, but he didn't expect to sort out the new policy, but it dragged on for another two months, and he was also ashamed to see Liu Miaozhen and Song Jia go to the south of Shouzhou to pick him up.