"Got the statistics?" Zhu Houwei looked at the thick stack of newspapers in front of him, and his face was a little cold!

"Back to Your Majesty!" Yan Tianyuan, the commander of Jinyiwei, who was standing like a benchmark, responded in a deep voice: "In the past ten years, Jinyiwei has dispatched tens of thousands of people to go deep into the township, three times before and after, and it has been verified clearly, and there is no omission!"

"Tell me about ......"

Yan Tianyuan Zhengse said: "According to the sealed archives of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, comparing the household registrations of various places, there are as many as 2.74 million households in and out, with a population of nearly 10 million, that is to say, these 10 million people do not belong to hidden households, but the original household department and the current tax department have not received a penny of tax from these 10 million people.

However, these non-hidden people actually paid taxes, but did not pay taxes, and after verification, it can be determined that they were intercepted by local governments and even embezzled. ”

"The tax department or the local government?"

"Official!"

Zhu Houwei said coldly: "When I set up a tax department, I will separate the power to collect taxes from the local civil affairs yamen, in short, the local civil affairs yamen have no right to collect taxes at all, how can they embezzle taxes?"

"Back to Your Majesty, although the tax department has been established for several years, but the people's rights and responsibilities for the imperial court are not clear, especially in the township, the yamen in various places send officials to collect the taxes of the people who are not in the tax department, even the tax department is only treated as a hidden household, even if you know that it is wrong, you have not done a deep investigation, which is inevitably suspected of dereliction of duty."

"Go on and tell you everything you know."

"Your Majesty, the prefecture supervision agencies are unable to effectively supervise the county-level tax administration departments, so that the tax administration yamen has many clever names and indiscriminate collection of taxes, but it is not harsh, and the people can basically bear it."

"Let's talk about the hermit, the hidden field ......"

"Back to Your Majesty, three verifications, the number of hidden households in the Ming Dynasty is different every time, but the reason for the difference is that a large number of hidden households choose to go to sea, and as the clan and the nobles leave the Ming Dynasty and go overseas, there are also a large number of hidden households who choose to follow......

It has now been verified that there are more than 18.4 million hidden households that have not been naturalized and do not pay taxes, and the total population is almost 65 million, not including the population who have migrated to Tianjin and Wei.

Now, in accordance with the holy decree, the local government has announced to the people in the territory that there are nearly 20 million hidden people who plan to emigrate and report to the people......"

Zhu Houwei frowned and said: "I have already decreed that no matter whether it is a powerful person, a local gentry or even a large landowner, it is not allowed to block the immigration and naturalization of hidden households. People who choose to emigrate can file with the government, and when they emigrate, they can receive food and food from the government, so I don't find it strange that there are 20 million hermits who choose to emigrate.

But there are still tens of millions of hermits who do not want to naturalize, do not want to immigrate, I am very puzzled, I tell the world, all the people who go to the hidden registration, each household will be given 20 acres of land, by the local resettlement, why are they still unwilling to naturalize, but also attached to the powerful landlords, slaves and servants! ”

Yan Tianyuan didn't dare to speak out, this was a national policy, but it wasn't something that he, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, could casually put his beak.

"What about Hideda? How many fields in the world have been encroached upon and annexed, and how many fields have been held by the scholar class to evade taxes! ”

"Back to Your Majesty, in addition to Tibet, Xinjiang, and Southeast Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty has 835.7 million mu of land, of which 60 percent is controlled by the powerful and gentry from all over the country, and the remaining 40 percent is taxed according to Ding."

"Daming has gone so many clans and nobles, and there are also a lot of scholars, and the land that was originally in the hands of these people has been privately sold by local governments and merged with large households."

"Eight or nine are inseparable from ten......"

"Good, good, good." Zhu Houwei laughed and said: "All dynasties have punished corruption, and the Ming Dynasty is even more so, I have raised the salaries of officials, hoping for high salaries and honesty, but in the end it is still wishful thinking, it is I who underestimated the greed of human nature, Tianyuan, as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, how do you understand the duty of the Jinyi Guard."

Yan Tianyuan was slightly stunned and said: "Jinyi Wei is the emperor's guard, and he is responsible for detective, arrest, espionage, and supervision of hundreds of officials!"

Zhu Houwei didn't seem to be satisfied with Yan Tianyuan's decent answer......

"Jinyiwei is a knife in the hands of the emperor!" Zhu Houwei said solemnly: "Why are civil officials afraid of factory guards, because they uphold the will of the emperor and are sharp blades hanging over the heads of hundreds of officials, as long as it is necessary, regardless of right or wrong, they can kill the world!"

Yan Tianyuan was silent, of course he knew what Jinyiwei was doing, to put it bluntly, he was the loyal dog of the royal family, as long as the emperor wanted to, they were mad dogs, and they could bite all the people the emperor wanted to kill regardless of it!

As for the investigation, collecting and even concocting evidence, and extorting confessions by torture are Jinyiwei's housekeeping methods, but it is a pity that there is an eye in the Jiajing Dynasty, so Jinyiwei is almost useless......

Now that the emperor suddenly said this, Yan Tianyuan inevitably chuckled in his heart, he knew that the emperor had a murderous intent, and he would also use the killing blade of Jinyiwei!

"I have been saying that what kind of era, what kind of policy should be used, the so-called law that is not easy to achieve in ten thousand years, is the biggest joke in itself, so I have always wanted to build Daming into a world with sound justice.

I have a perfect judicial system, so that the people can let the officials and the powerful in the world have the law to follow, and can be in awe, but I am still wrong......"

The emperor said that he was constitutional, how could he easily make a mistake, let alone that he was still in front of his courtiers, so Zhu Houwei did not continue.

But he knew that he was really wrong, and that the fault was that the thoughts of his later generations had an impact on him today, and the influence was still too great, so deep-rooted that he ignored the essence.

This essence is feudal autocracy, and there are some policies that can be effective in later generations in today's Ming Dynasty, especially in the era of centralized power.

For example, justice!

Zhu Houwei reformed the judicial system, separated the judicial power from the civil affairs department, and divided it into three, the purpose is not to want the people of the Ming Dynasty to have a place to tell their grievances when they are bullied and exploited, or to let the people be able to stand up bravely to resist the power when they are subjected to injustice!

It's a pity that it backfired, and the people not fighting with the officials is still one of the most deep-rooted ideas of the people in this era, but as long as there is still a little way to live, who will risk ruining the family and the government to fight a lawsuit!

The four simple words of officials protecting each other are really a perfect interpretation of the heaviest helplessness in the hearts of the vast majority of people in this era.

If you want to change this situation, unless you can implement popular legal education among the people of the Ming Dynasty, but if you want to achieve this, there is a long way to go, and these five words are not enough to describe its difficulty......

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