How can you not be silent, how can you not be silent?

Most of the people present are from states and counties, and most of the officials are almost the same, although they are all wearing unified Daming purple and red official uniforms, there is still a world of difference between official uniforms and official uniforms.

Most of the officials from the coastal states and counties often make continuous improvements in the subtleties of their official uniforms, and the overall appearance is very clean, and the good satin upper body has an excellent effect.

But those officials from remote areas or inland states and counties are not treated so well, and most of the official uniforms are a little gray and gray because of the frequent rinsing of daily wear.

Just by looking at the appearance, you can see at a glance how different the differences between different states and counties are.

This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, often the south is richer than the north, the coast is richer than the inland, the poor transportation, the difference in industry to a large extent determines the difference.

Not to mention those officials from Shaanxi, Zhu Youzhen even saw that many officials still had patches on their bodies.

"I summoned you to Beijing this time, first, I will not give you money rashly, and second, I will take silver from you in the future, but today I will tell you how to give full play to the advantages of your own region, actively develop the place, and truly benefit the people of the government."

The officials in the audience were in an uproar, but they were not noisy, and they had heard many different opinions from different officials in different places in the seminar over the past month.

There is a lot of useful information in these opinions, which makes every official feel that there is something to gain.

It's just that they're still waiting, waiting for a message, a signal.

"Many officials may say that the imperial court continues to collect taxes from the local government without returning them, and how can it benefit the people when the yamen are almost poor and can't afford to eat."

"I am here today to tell you about this, first of all, I can tell you very clearly that every year the tax money collected by the imperial court has a place, except for military expenses and budgeted court expenditures, it will be transferred to the local government in various ways, you don't have to worry about this."

"And the transfer does not mean that a certain state and county will return 100,000 taels to you if it receives 100,000 taels this year, but it may be that you pay 100,000 taels but you can't get a cent, because your local development is good, and your yamen can live well without relying on the year-end subsidies of the imperial court; And what kind of states and counties will get this silver, those states and counties with poor regions and those industries are still in the development period may only be able to collect a few thousand taels of silver a year, but they may be able to get back tens of thousands of taels of silver at the end of the year, which is not necessarily. ”

"This is the first development policy I have formulated for you Aiqing, tax and silver subsidies, this policy will cover all Daming counties and military towns, of course, military towns will be separately listed by the Ministry of War to calculate the amount of subsidies and silver taels."

Many officials in the audience immediately smiled, without exception, they were more or less from the relatively backward states and counties of the Ming Dynasty.

Since it was a discussion meeting, Zhu Youzhen had already set the rule that he could not just listen and not speak, but should not only listen to the good policies of the imperial court for the local area with his ears, but also speak freely.

At present, a state and county official raised his hand and said: "Your Majesty, if there are local officials who are lazy and inactive, won't they be able to rely on subsidies to survive the fat year after year." ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled heartily and replied: "If there is really such an official, then it is no wonder that I am unpredictable, there have been written in various places before that in the future, there will be a clean government supervision office in various states and counties in Daming, which is a department under the command of Daming East Factory, I hope you Aiqing will not meet here in the future." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers were shocked.

The fancy little abacus that many officials had originally dialed in their hearts was also put away at this moment.

No one knows the prestige of the East Factory.

At present, the Dongchang Imperial Prison is overcrowded, and living in it is a high consumption.

If you want to live, you have to take money, and if you really commit an unpardonable sin.

It is estimated that it is difficult to save his life with money, and he may die in prison at any time.

No one dares to take that risk.

On the other side, an official raised his hand and said: "If it is taken from the prefectures and counties under my jurisdiction every year, and in the end it is given to other prefectures and counties, maybe the people under my jurisdiction will have opinions." ”

Zhu Youjian listened and said: "No, if the tax silver collected by your state and county every year is not as high as the tax silver that is subsidized back, then I should be happy for you."

The local people should also thank you for your efforts, after all, it has proved that you are in power, and the local people have lived a better life than the whole Ming Dynasty. ”

This is not unreasonable.

Which of the following officials has not been up and down in daily government affairs for decades, and more importantly, this time Zhu Youzhen did not choose those theoretical schools that are high above the temple.

It is a practical school that is close to the people's livelihood, that is, the parents and officials of these states and counties at present.

Seeing that everyone present was thinking a little thoughtfully about the changes brought to them by the new tax policy, Zhu Youzhen threw out another bombshell.

"From now on, all local prefectures and counties with the permission of the Provincial Development Planning Agency can carry out their own commercial banks with strict restrictions and people's livelihood protection under the provisions of the detailed rules of the "Ming Imperial Court Business Management Law", so as to serve the local people while earning a certain amount of profit within a reasonable range."

Zhu Youzhen's words were thrown like a thunderbolt among the officials in the audience.

Everyone couldn't believe what they were hearing.

"Ming Imperial Court Business Management Law"?

When was this law written?

Most of the restrictions and profits were ignored by the state and county officials present, who only heard part of the words, but a word came to mind together: "local yamen allow legal business."

Zhu Youzhen's decision was actually a big risk, because in the eyes of all cabinet officials, including Huang Liji and officials from the Seventh Ministry, such a decision would undoubtedly make it easy for the local yamen to breed corruption.

And this kind of corruption is different from the traditional exploitation of local people by officials or embezzlement, and once it is actually put in place, it is usually extremely hidden.

Nowadays, although some officials do some small business in private, most of them let their own family members do some small business.

However, the new policy is completely different, it completely allows all localities to engage in business activities within a certain range, which is fundamentally different from the previous new policy.

The audience suddenly raised dozens of hands.

Zhu Youzhen said with a smile: "Come one by one, the Aiqing over there will come first." ”

The official who was called held back the excitement in his heart and said, "Is what Your Majesty said true? Can local yamen also operate? If there is a profit that also belongs to the locality, will the imperial court take it away? ”