Yu Qian shook his head and said, "It's not anymore, the branch transportation method is extremely disadvantageous. ”

The disadvantages of doing it yourself are huge?

Zhu Di was a little unhappy to listen, his face turned pale, and he asked: "I do think that the branch method is not in line with the current situation, but you said that the disadvantages are great, but I am curious." ”

"Yongle Nian Cao Law implements the branch transportation law, you just said, the democracy movement only accounts for forty percent, and peasant households around the country are exempt from paying the tax grain of the current year when they participate in the transportation of grain, and the tax grain of the current year is exempted from transporting grain, and the freight is calculated in the branch of the grain."

"Such a good policy, almost no levy on the people, what kind of disadvantage is it?"

Yu Qian also obviously noticed a slight change in the emperor's tone, and seemed to be a little unhappy, but he didn't think too much about it, he explained:

"It is true that there is no apportionment and levy on the people in the taxation of the branch transportation law, which is the virtue of Emperor Taizong's love for the people, but since the implementation of decentralization, the imperial court needs to mobilize as many as 120,000 soldiers every year in order to complete the task of transporting grain, and they have worked hard for many years!"

Yu Qian said, quite hating that iron is not steel.

"Although the imperial court did not levy and apportion the husbands and officials and soldiers involved in the transportation of grain, it had a very strict time limit."

"The Jiangnan region is far away from the capital, and it takes a year for farmers there to smoothly transport grain to the official warehouses in Linqing, Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places."

"Such a long grain transportation cycle has seriously delayed the normal farming of the people, so that Su Songben is a rich area, and it has almost become a poor land for grain in the Xuande period!"

Hearing this, although Zhu Di was still unwilling to admit it on his face, he already knew it in his heart, and let this kid talk about it again.

"In addition, the guards of Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Songjiang, Anqing, etc., in order to transport grain back to the guard, also need to drive empty ships to Huai'an every year to transport grain, and how much manpower and financial resources will be wasted?"

Seeing that Yu Qian was going to say more, Zhu Di hurriedly stretched out his hand and said, "Gotta get it!" I see, even if you're right, what's next? ”

"What is the new law that was practiced during the Xuande period?"

"What do you mean that the minister is right?" Yu Qian cleared his throat very arrogantly, and when he saw that the emperor was white-eyed, he said: "Xuande has been four years, and the law of redemption has been practiced." ”

"The so-called redemption is that the grain from all over the country is transported to Huai'an and Guazhou, and it is transferred to the army that specializes in transporting the grain, and the army is composed of the soldiers sent by the local guard."

"Henan is in the Daimyo's Mansion to transport the army, and Shandong is in Jining to redeem and transport the army, but compared with the branch transportation law, the transportation costs of the army in the transportation method must be apportioned to the peasants, and those that are insufficient will be levied."

"In the fifth year of Xuande, the 'rules for increasing consumption' of grain were established, that is, the freight was calculated according to the distance of the region, and it was levied with the increase in the consumption of regular grain, which was collected by the grain chiefs in various places, and handed over to the officials and soldiers when the grain was redeemed."

"The redemption law has been implemented until now, and most of the 13 provinces in the upper and lower capitals of the Ming Dynasty have been implemented, but there are still considerable areas where the branch transportation law and the redemption law are parallel."

"The reunification of the dynasty has not made any changes to the Cao Law, and there are no clear provisions on whether the regions will carry out the branch transportation law or the redemption transportation law, so the local Cao Yun is really chaotic at the moment!"

After Yu Qian said this, he couldn't stop shaking his head and sighing.

Looks like a serious problem!

After listening to it, Zhu Diquan roughly understood the changes in the Ming Cao Law in the past 20 years from his death in his last life to the present.

To be honest, it's very disturbing to hear.

It's a shame that this is not in the sky, otherwise I would have been eager to reincarnate immediately to help Da Ming avoid detours, but fortunately, God gave this opportunity.

The disadvantages of the branch transportation method are very great, although Zhu Di is very reluctant to admit it, but this is the case.

Yu Qian mentioned the key point, although the branch transportation law does not apportion the people, but it allows the people and the army to go back and forth twice a year, and it takes more than a year to come and go in the Jiangnan area.

As for the redemption method, Zhu Di listened to it and felt that the problem was not small.

The advantage of the redemption and transportation method implemented by Hao Shengsun during the Xuande period was that the common people in the Jiangnan area directly handed over the grain to the grain chiefs in charge of each region, and then the grain chiefs handed it over to the Wei Institute, who sent troops to transport the whole process to Beijing.

In this way, the common people no longer have to undertake the transfer task, and will not delay the agricultural time, they only need to pay according to the mileage, so that both the military and the civilian will feel convenient.

But the problem lies precisely here, and it is also the problem in Henan today, which has the right to "increase consumption", which has led to the fact that some local grassroots officials who were originally not of high status now have very big rights.

For example, those local grain chiefs who were responsible for collecting grain in the first step were scattered all over the country, and these people had very low official positions, or even no grade, but they controlled the collection of grain for several miles.

How much to levy and how much to add, isn't it all up to them?

From these grain chiefs, to the local river yamen, and even the important officials of the court in the center of the capital, the people of the entire chain of interests have eaten the dividends of this additional consumption, so there is no time to stop at all.

After all, do you make money, and who hates making less?

What new law is going to be implemented now, Zhu Di can't think of it for a while, which requires the ministers of the court to work together and put forward a whole set of new regulations.

At present, it seems that the redemption method is more appropriate, and it can only be done first.

Zhu Di thought of this and said: "Listen to my thoughts, if you think it's wrong, you have to mention it to me, I won't necessarily not listen." ”

"First, the imperial court must immediately determine the new Cao Law, and the parallel branch transportation law and the redemption law can not continue any longer, and the branch transportation law must be completely abolished and all the redemption laws should be adopted."

"Second, to improve the treatment of non-commissioned soldiers in various places, in order to avoid the local grain chiefs from indiscriminately increasing the apportionment, I want to exempt Xuande from the five-year consumption rule."

"That is to say, from now on, the cost of transporting the army to and from various garrisons every year to transport grain to and from various places will be borne by the imperial court, and the additional levy and dispatch will be fundamentally eliminated."

After listening to this, Yu Qian nodded and said: "Your Majesty has no opinion on what he said, but now that the Henan River Yamen has stopped, the imperial court needs someone to go to Henan to preside over the overall situation." ”

As soon as Zhu Di heard it, he knew that he had already been selected, so he said, "If you have something to say, just say it." ”

Yu Qian didn't hide it, and said directly: "The minister recommended Gu Xingzu from the far side, this person, Your Majesty should also be familiar with, he was sealed in the first year of Jingtai because of the defense of Beijing. ”

Zhu Di shook his head and thought about it.

Gu Xingzu is one of the more special eleven new generals who were crowned in the first year of Jingtai, because his grandfather Gu Cheng was a personal soldier in front of the account of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, and he was deeply trusted and had outstanding military achievements.

This person had already led troops to fight as early as the Yongle period, and followed Zhu Di around, Zhu Di was also more familiar with him and knew his character.

Therefore, Gu Xingzu is one of the very few ancestors who are the founding generals of the People's Republic of China, and he was awarded the honor because of his exploits in defending Beijing in the first year of Jingtai.

He also has the three identities of Huaixi Xungui Group, Jingnan Meritorious Hero Group, and Jingtaixun Group, and now his status among the nobles is not low.

asked him to go, firstly, considering that the position of Governor of Caoyun was not intended to be permanent, and secondly, apart from him, the other newly appointed generals were not prestigious.

Caoyun sounds like it is in charge of transporting grain, but it involves the local prefectures and counties and even the guards of the army from Henan to Beijing, and the pool is very deep, otherwise it would not be a single Henan river yamen, which will raise tens of thousands of idle errands.

These people are only recorded on the books, and Zhu Di knows how many shady things there are in secret.

This kind of work cannot be done by civilian officials alone, and military generals with military merits must be sent to assist civilian officials, so that they can control the field.

Yu Qian's thoughts coincide with Zhu Di.

When people from other factions go to Henan, they may not be able to control the field, Gu Xingzu has been standing from the Yongle period to the present, and he is supported by the forces behind him.

Such a person, whether it is the rich guard in the Susong area of the south of the Yangtze River, or the Beijing military guard post that is bankrupt and compensated, or the local guard post in Henan, he can hold it.

Zhu Di no longer hesitated and said, "Yes." ”