As long as no major changes occur, the major policies of the imperial court every five years will be strictly implemented in accordance with the established plan.

This set is a modern concept of governance, which is simply a great progress for the feudal dynasty's man-ruled society.

In the five years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, although the war has not stopped, the first five-year plan of the Ming Dynasty has never been relaxed.

The main purpose of the first five-year plan was to ensure the stability of the country and the people, and to recuperate and recuperate.

"In all the state capitals of the world, according to statistics, the people are suffering, 55.63 million!"

"There are a total of 1,258,600 soldiers in the Ming Dynasty!"

"One hundred and sixteen tributary kingdoms and fiefdoms!"

……

In the eyes of everyone, Zhu Han picked up a piece of music in his hand, and then read the data on it again.

Zhu Han read the number counted by Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and others, and the face of the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang showed undisguised pride.

Because the expulsion of the Mongols and various forces was quick and steady, the population loss of the whole world was not as great as in history.

After a few years of recuperation, the population has reached more than 50 million.

Moreover, this population is not counting the southwest region occupied by Chen Youliang.

With a population of 50 or 60 million, it can be said that the Ming Dynasty has unlimited potential.

"The affairs of tens of millions of people, the clothing, food, housing and transportation of millions of troops, so many things, if everything is too small, let us handle it personally, even if we are tired to death, it is absolutely impossible to handle it properly."

The basic tone of today's cabinet meeting is the affirmation of the first five years, and then the arrangement of the next five years.

Just now, everyone deliberated for a while, and basically all the national policies have been formulated.

Zhu Han suddenly put forward such a sentence now, which made everyone wonder.

"Seventy-five, tell me, what do you think?" Brother Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile.

He likes to listen to Zhu Han put forward different ideas, because whenever Zhu Han also puts forward his own ideas, it will inevitably make Daming's national strength a little stronger.

Although sometimes the ideas put forward by Zhu Han sound unbelievable at first, the results after the fact can always prove Zhu Han's correctness.

"The national policies that Li Liu and others said just now are very good, but there is one place that has not been taken into account!" Zhu Han said slowly.

"I don't know where Lao Li didn't take it into account?"

"Would you like to show it to His Royal Highness?"

Li Shanchang and Liu Bowen immediately asked Zhu Han respectfully like elementary school students.

"Seventy-five, tell me quickly, where are you?" The elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang also immediately asked.

More than a dozen people have been discussing for several hours just now, and the national policy formulated can hardly be said to be flawless.

Zhu Han shook his head slightly, "This national policy is really good, it can be said that it is so detailed that every county order only needs to be implemented in accordance with the official documents of the imperial court!" ”

The implementation rules of the national policy formulated by the Ming Emperor and the cabinet are naturally not specific to every official, and it is already very detailed to be able to reach the limit level.

"Isn't it better to have more detailed rules?" Brother Zhu Yuanzhang was a little puzzled.

"It's good, it's good, but there's too much work to do, and this is just a year-round task for a county order, which is enough to keep a seven-grade county order busy, and when it comes to implementation, these restrictions must be assigned to the officials below, and these people will definitely do more and more miscellaneous work, and naturally they will be harder and more tired!" Zhu Han said slowly.

"The officials are rich, the people are fat and the people's ointment, and they have taken the court's money, of course they have to do more work and let them eat idle meals, then they are sorry for the people of the world!" Brother Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

For this statement, Zhu Hanke is not surprised.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, many officials did not dare to take bribes and relied closely on the court's money, and many times it was difficult to maintain even family food and clothing, and they had to let their families receive food and money, so that they could maintain their lives when they were officials in other places.

It can be imagined how low the officials in the early years of the Ming Dynasty were.

But people's hearts have been self-interested since ancient times, and the imperial court wants to use a small amount of money to let officials be cattle and horses, and none of those who can be admitted to the imperial examination to become officials are fools.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom.

All kinds of fancy, filial piety, drifting and other corrupt methods are displayed one by one.

Emperor Hongwu set a standard for officials to be honest and wanted them to be saints, but he didn't expect the Ming Dynasty to raise more corrupt officials.

Therefore, Zhu Han's strategy is basically to take the path of high salary and honesty.

Although high salaries and honest maintenance cannot make those greedy officials become clean officials, it can enable those officials who want to do a good job in politics to stick to their principles and not become corrupt in order to make ends meet.

In the era of the British Empire in history, the sun never sets on colonial rule, and the salary level of officials in the country is also unique in the world, far higher than that of France, Prussia, Spain, Austria, and the Netherlands on the European continent.

"Just now you all said how much silver the court had left this year, how much silver the court had left in the previous year, how much silver had been left in the previous year, and how much silver had been left in the treasury the year before, and there was more and more silver in the treasury."

"But the Ming Dynasty is a court, not a business, the purpose is to govern the world, not to accumulate silver, not to save more and more silver, the better!"

"Thousands of dollars of silver are piled up in the treasury, and sometimes you can buy much-needed food and supplies, but there are some things that you can never buy immediately with money."

"For example, the administrative implementation of the officials of the imperial court, large and small, is not an overnight effort, if you can't let them do their best from the beginning, when there is a problem, it may not be effective to supervise and punish them!"

"Instead of this, it is better to take out some of the silver of the imperial court, increase the income of these officials, and at the same time recruit some officials!"

Zhu Han's tirade made the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen and other court ministers fall into contemplation and surprise.

In fact, when the Ming Dynasty opened the country, the salary set for the officials was not low, and the annual salary of the county order could reach twenty-two silver, which was equivalent to almost three or four hundred thousand.

However, in recent years, the rapid development and prosperity of the Ming economy, coupled with the inflow of a large amount of gold and silver into the territory of Liaoyang and other places in the Wa Kingdom, the prices of many things have increased significantly, and the silver that originally appeared to be relatively large has become commonplace.

Moreover, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it also followed a measure of the official system of the feudal dynasties of the previous dynasties, that is, there were a large number of officials in the large and small Chaotian Yamen!

Although these officials also represent the authority of the imperial court, they are not members who enjoy the treatment of officials, and they often work the most but cannot get a few eldest sons of the imperial court.

"Raise your salary?"

"Recruiting officials?"

The elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ponder these two suggestions put forward by Zhu Han.

Undoubtedly, there is a central problem with these two proposals, which is that it will cost a large amount of silver to pay money every year.

Zhu Yuanzhang is the happiest thing now, one is to receive good news from the various military regions in the frontier, and the other is to tap the silver in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the two suggestions of sweating are implemented, the gold and silver in the Ming treasury will be consumed at least three or four percent.

"Seventy-five, to increase the income of officials, we agree with this, but to expand the recruitment of officials, it is really a bit of a waste, the officials used by the imperial court now, is not enough, if you recruit more officials, don't you give many people the opportunity to be lazy?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with some doubts.

Zhu Han was still calm, "The expansion of officials I am talking about is not simply recruiting new people, but recruiting many officials currently used by the imperial court into official officials, and also evaluating, hiring, recalling, and transferring them like just officials!" ”

The problem that Zhu Han said was precisely the problem of grassroots officials in the Ming Dynasty that Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and others did not expect.

The Ming and Qing dynasties in history can be said to have reached the pinnacle of feudal rule.

But there has been little progress in the management of the rank-level officials.

The actual holders of local power were not the officials sent by the imperial court, but those officials who were not high in official positions and did not enter the stream.

Local officials are often passed down from generation to generation, and they do not need to have tenure and transfer restrictions like the liuguan of the imperial court, plus they marry and worship each other, which creates iron-clad officials and flowing officials.

The power at the local grassroots level is corrupt, and the most rotten are these inconspicuous officials in the eyes of important officials of the imperial court.

Zhu Han's plan was to directly bring these lowest-level officials directly into the unified assessment of the imperial court, and cut off the soil of hereditary and collusion among the grassroots power officials.

After Zhu Han said his thoughts, the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly clapped excitedly.

"Qiwu, your proposal is really good, it goes to our hearts!"

While Zhu Yuanzhang said it, he kept remembering in his heart that when the grassroots officials of the Yuan Dynasty were collecting taxes, they forced their fathers and mothers to ruin their families.

The common people always felt that the senior officials of the imperial court were all clean officials, and most of the local officials were difficult and corrupt.

But the imperial court has not come up with a corresponding solution to this problem.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has sufficient financial revenue, it can use a large number of Yulu to bring all the big and small officials into the unified assessment of the imperial court.

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty made such an affirmation of Zhu Han's suggestion, Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Zhu Sheng, Shi Nai'an and others naturally did not have any dissensence.

The second big plan that began in the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty officially set the tone today.

The first is to continue to maintain the strategy of recuperation, in addition to the construction of Yingtianfu and Beiping Mansion, all other large-scale projects of the imperial court are mainly based on water conservancy and people's livelihood, even if it is the emperor's hometown, Fengyang will not build the imperial mausoleum of the capital, but build a perfect water conservancy ditch.

This suggestion was made by Zhu Han to persuade his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang.

Fengyang is not a place where the wind and rain are smooth, there will be droughts from time to time, and there will be floods at every turn.

In the dignified land of Longxing of the Ming Dynasty, if there is a large number of victims, it will be a big joke.

Therefore, in Zhu Han's opinion, in Fengyang's hometown, the construction of water conservancy ditches is much more important than the construction of the Imperial Mausoleum in the capital.

The second national policy was to promote the education of the Ming Dynasty throughout the world, and the Confucian New School formulated by Zhu Han was the only content of the imperial examination throughout the country, and by the way, local grassroots officials were included in the unified assessment of the imperial court.

This measure is equivalent to allowing the Ming Dynasty to have a modern official system equivalent to the development of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the later generations, and it can reach more than any feudal dynasty in terms of organization and mobilization.

Finally, in the next five-year plan of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Youliang, who was entrenched in the southwest, should be eliminated and the Chinese territory should be completely unified.

As for the others, such as continuing to expel the remnants of the Mongols, as well as going to the Western Ocean and opening up wild places such as Liaoyang and Haidong, etc., they are not part of the hard national policy, and they can be acted upon.

Under the influence of Zhu Han, although the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, all walks of life have burst out with vigorous vitality.

Even if it is a continuous campaign, the livelihood of the people everywhere is getting better day by day.

Under such circumstances, the news that the Ming Dynasty was about to recover southwest Sichuan, Yunnan and other places not only did not make the people panic and fear, but many people actively supported the imperial court's decision to eliminate Chen Youliang's entrenched forces.

Among them, the merchants and factory owners in Jiangnan, Huguang and other places are the main force!

Because of these big businessmen and factory owners, many of them have absorbed the new technology developed by Zhu Han, and gradually have a tendency of capital sprouting.

And capital's thirst for the consumer market is endless.

Sichuan, Yunnan and other places are good mountains, good waters, good people and good places, if these places can be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, then the market of these big businessmen will be further expanded, and they will be able to earn more silver.

Zhu Han quickly heard these situations, and this thought of the fact that my current Ming treasury was not lightly punished by himself, so he immediately raised a new note to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang.

Who knew that after the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he suddenly jumped up.

"What, how can this be?"

"Let the court borrow money from the people?"

"If this kind of thing is done, the prestige of Daming will be gone!"

"Seventy-five, we can agree to whatever you say, only this is not good!"

The proposal put forward by Zhu Han and his brother Zhu Yuanzhang is to issue a Ming bond, which is actually a war bond, and Zhu Han even thought of a name for him, which is called Pingxi Bond, and the main purpose is to eliminate Chen Youliang, who occupies the southwest.

But the elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang obviously did not want to issue this bond.

Because in his opinion, borrowing money from the people, especially in the name of the imperial court, is simply a shame and a disgrace.

"There are borrowings and repayments, and interest is paid, what are you afraid of!?" Zhu Han's face was relaxed.

"You said that there is borrowing and repayment, but the court is supreme, and the people must want to lend this money to the court, if the court does not pay it back, then there is no way, so they will definitely think that the court is taking the opportunity to collect money and loot the people's fat and ointment!"

Obviously, Zhu Yuanzhang's opposition to the issuance of bonds was not a simple matter of losing face, but because he was afraid that the people would take the opportunity to lose trust in the imperial court.

"Brother, my issuance of bonds is not only to give the imperial court a generous military budget, but also to open up a new life-saving path for future generations!" Zhu Han said with a serious face.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes immediately widened when he heard this, and he asked curiously.

(End of chapter)