Zhai Luan's heart chuckled, and the murderous face when he saw Yan Tianyuan before immediately appeared in his mind.

Zhu Houwei slowly explained Yan Tianyuan's report and asked, "As the head of the Ming Dynasty, what do you think of Zhai Aiqing?"

"When the water is clear, there is no fish...... Zhai Luan sighed: "From ancient times to the present, official corruption has been repeatedly prohibited, which is all due to people's greed and luck, if you really want to eliminate corruption, I am afraid that there will be no one in the world ...... ten officials."

"Not one out of ten?" Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "Zhai Aiqing seems to be very conservative, in my opinion, I am afraid that there is no one in a hundred, and I have never thought of raising a prison or even killing the world because of greed, and the majesty is as great as Emperor Taizu, so severe punishment and strict laws cannot warn the world, it can be seen that it is either a system problem, or it is really greedy, but if you don't die a group of officials, how can you deter the world!"

Zhai Luan finally understood why Yan Tianyuan's face was full of murderous aura, since the Zhengde Dynasty, the sharp blade of Jinyiwei that had not shown its edge was probably about to come out of the sheath......

It's just that I don't know how many officials' heads will be cut off this time with this unsheathed blade, and I don't know how many officials' relatives will be cut off by sitting together.

"The reason why I say that there is a problem with the system is that I also know that it is not easy for local officials." Zhu Houwei said in a deep voice: "The new yamen, such as the tax department, the three departments of the inspection law, etc., whether they are officials or subordinate officials in these new yamen, even if they do not enter the stream, they can be regarded as the official establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and they can receive Yulu, and each yamen also has financial subsidies, but what about the old yamen?"

For example, the county government, there are many small officials who are not in the stream of a county government, and there are also staff members such as the county official and the master, these people share and even government affairs for the official official, but these people's monthly income depends on the officials of the local government to solve it by themselves.

Whether the local officials are incapable or want to be comfortable, in short, in order to support these officials who handle government affairs for them, they have to pay out of their own pockets, not to mention before I promote the officials, even after that, it is not easy for the local Zhengyin to bear this not a small expense, so they go to greed.

In addition to being greedy and cleverly setting up a name to collect exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, even if I deprived the local civil affairs officials of the right to collect taxes, they still collected miscellaneous taxes that the tax department did not care about, and in the end, the heavy tax burden still pressed on the heads of ordinary people.

After all, the promulgation time of the new deal of the Ming Dynasty is still too short, and the people who know the implementation of the new deal and how to implement it are far less than they imagined.

Officials protect each other, the official words are open, and the kind and simple people would rather live a difficult life than let the whole family take risks, which is the normal state of the people.

Ling Yin, the prefect who broke the house, and the prefect who destroyed the door, a simple sentence shows how helpless the people are.

Zhai Aiqing is also from a poor family, when he knows how difficult the people's livelihood is, how to solve the people's predicament is the responsibility that the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty should shoulder. ”

"The minister is ashamed...... Zhai Luan got up and saluted, the emperor said this, but if there is still a little bit of shame, he should assume the responsibility of his official position!

"So what is Zhai Aiqing going to do?"

"Send officials to the countryside to announce the new policies of the imperial court, so that the people of the world can truly know the new affairs of the country, and in addition, order the procuratorial yamen to strictly supervise whether the local government abuses its power, and strictly investigate the theft of the power of the tax department by the local civil affairs departments......

"That's a good point." Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "But how the civil affairs departments in various places operate, do they still depend on the supply of government officials?"

"There has never been such a case in the country." Zhai Luan said solemnly: "The counties and counties have all the money, Zhengyin used to raise the master, the wardens, the six-room officials and even the officials, but now the six-room punishment room, the household tax management, as well as the establishment of patrols, the yamen also need to arrange so many officials, these officials, the ministers think that they can issue a decree, expressly prohibiting the establishment of the yamen, and even the master......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhu Houwei sneer: "Master...... Master Qian Gu is in charge of taxes, the criminal master is in charge of criminal cases, and Master Shuqi is in charge of classics and literature! Officials have worked hard to read books for more than ten years, and finally read them as bookworms, and in the end they will not know anything except reading, wind and snow, and reciting poems, everything has to rely on the master and the people under them to do it well, and the scholars who have been trained with great difficulty have finally become waste, I want these officials, what is the use of these officials in the Ming Dynasty, and what is the point of the imperial examination! It's better to directly arrange the masters to manage the government, it must be better than what these officials do! ”

Zhai Luan was depressed, not only the local yamen, but also the Beijing official...... Of course, the Jingguan is not called the master but the staff, and it is for the officials to pick up the gaps and make suggestions, which is the norm, even Zhai Luan's own mansion has ......

After studying hard in the cold window, it is not easy to become a scholar, and the mentality of the reader will naturally change, and most of the former ideas and ambitions have also been left behind.

Isn't being an official just to seek wealth, not to become a privileged class and then to be powerful?

If it is for the sake of the people, as the emperor said, what is the servant of the people......

That's pure, if you really want to be like that, who is still studying behind closed doors, and still more than ten years like a day, wouldn't being an official taste like chewing wax!

Zhai Luan is also a traditional scholar, so he does not accept the emperor's statement at all, and in fact, none of the officials in the world accept it.

"Just do what Zhai Aiqing said, the abolition of the abolition, the announcement of the people to let the people know about it, and the announcement to the world, from next year to cancel the tax in kind, all the land tax that should be paid is discounted, and the tax department can only be collected by the tax department's yamen, which government dares to involve the tax administration, which hand I will chop off!"

Zhai Luan can be regarded as able to understand the original intention of Yang Tinghe's worries, Emperor Jiajing's mind is really full of chaotic thoughts, and it is really outrageous that it is difficult to serve.

"The government taxes and fire consumption, this fire consumption will also be added to the people's heads, less physical income, maybe this fire consumption can change from one or two points to five or even eight points, then cancel the real silver tax, the people pay all the taxes using paper money, no paper money to go to the banks around the exchange! The bank is royal and mine, and I don't charge the people a penny! ”

Zhai Luan was completely convinced, and the emperor used all the tricks he could think of in order to clean up the corruption in the government, but to say that the Ming Dynasty has been free of corruption since then, and the rule of officials has been completely clear since then, it is pure.

There are policies and countermeasures, never underestimate the wisdom of officials to make money!

However, these measures have at least limited the means by which officials can make money on the surface......

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