Qianqing Palace West Warm Pavilion.

After Zhang Juzheng came, the clouds and rain had stopped outside, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be washed.

And after Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng coming, he saw that he looked lonely, so he said: "Mr. has only been recuperating at home for a few days, and when I saw him at this time, I was a lot haggard." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Yijun instructed Zhang Hong: "Tell the imperial supervisor to give Mr. the ginseng that Li Chengliang sent a few days ago to Mr. to help Mr. recuperate." ”

Zhang Hong said yes.

Zhang Juzheng also got up and wanted to kowtow to thank him.

Zhu Yijun said "no courtesy", and then said: "I already know about Jiangling, and I have ordered Jinyi Wei to investigate strictly, sir, you can rest assured, I will administer justice to sir." ”

Zhang Juzheng's eyes turned red, and then he thanked him.

Then, Zhu Yijun said again: "Mr.'s chapter music, I read it, and I also approved it." ”

"It's just a shack of displaced people, and they may not be willing to be registered by the government. After all, the household has to pay taxes and pay Ding Yin. ”

"It is better to do this, the edict stipulates that after the shantytowns and displaced people are assigned to the household, they can be exempted from forced labor for three years, exempt from all kinds of miscellaneous taxes for two years, and then pay taxes and silver for the imperial court after they are a little richer, and in this way, they will be willing to make up the household, after all, there are only the benefits of the household, such as being able to start a business, their property and life are protected, the court can also build water conservancy for them, and give relief to those who cannot be self-reliant."

"Your Majesty, this is benevolent."

Zhang Juzheng got up and replied.

"The summer tax is about to be collected, and this year, the tax is different from previous years, it is necessary for the officials and gentry to pay the grain and work as errands, for fear that the local officials will be cunning, and they do not want to offend the gentry for this, and I am afraid that the local officials will be undermanned even if they are willing to offend;"

"Therefore, I believe that when the imperial court directly sends a group of soldiers and horses and a group of bureaucrats who are specially responsible for supervising the collection of taxes, and specially supervises the collection of taxes and silver, the local officials are subject to their supervision and cooperation."

"This can also be regarded as conducive to the unification of finance and taxation, and the tax and silver will be collected and unified by the new official office of the imperial court, and the unified liberation will be carried out, so as to avoid the dismissal and investigation of local bureaucrats because of ineffective taxation, which will lead to the impact of other local government officials."

Zhu Yijun didn't mention Zhang Juzheng's criticism, as if it hadn't happened, but only talked about political affairs.

Because Zhu Yijun knows, it is useless to say, Zhang Juzheng has his choice.

"What Your Majesty said is that if you want the officials and gentry to pay food as soon as possible, collect it by special personnel, and use swords to deter it, the effect should indeed be better, and if there is a change because of this, it can also be suppressed in time."

Zhang Juzheng also followed, and said: "It's just soldiers and horses, and the minister thinks that he can only be transferred from the pro-military guard, after all, the pro-military guard is the guard of the Son of Heaven, so he naturally pays attention to some decency, and will not oppress the people as soon as he arrives in the place; ”

"Moreover, the discipline requirements of the pro-military guards are also stricter;"

"What's more, most of them are the old departments of Qi Hou in the past, and they can do nothing in the autumn, but other soldiers and horses, once they get to the place, they may be self-defeating."

Zhu Yijun nodded, and said: "The first batch of soldiers and horses responsible for tax collection were drawn from the pro-military guards, and the national tax department was set up, and the political departments set up sub-divisions, and the prefectures and counties set up bureaus and sub-bureaus, and the soldiers and horses drawn from the pro-military guards were incorporated into various divisions, sub-divisions, bureaus and sub-bureaus to serve as officials. ”

"It just so happens that now it has been half a year since the pro-military guard started training in August last year, and now they have all been transferred to the border towns in batches for two months of actual combat training, which is more than enough to deal with the local civil uprising due to the new policy."

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "It's just that taxation is not only a deterrent by force, but more importantly, how to successfully collect taxes in a better way while deterring by force." This is not to conquer a place, but to urge the gentry and the common people of the dynasty to complete the payment of taxes, and naturally it does not mean to exterminate the gentry and the common people who do not pay taxes, but to give different degrees of intensity according to their different degrees of reaction! ”

"This requires officials who are rich in experience in playing games with the gentry and the common people to control and command this army, and let the gentry and people with different status and consciousness complete the payment of taxes."

Zhu Yijun said: "From my point of view, I will reinstate Hai Rui as the deputy privy envoy, the secretary of the household department, and the official of the imperial history of the right capital, and the governor will promote the national tax department, and he will be directly responsible for recommending and appointing the relevant branches and bureaus and sub-bureau officials, and will be responsible for collecting taxes and requesting tax exemption and tax refunds for some disaster victims and poor people. ”

"This person not only dares to speak, but also dares to ask for the people's life, and even reprimands the king for the people, so I am relieved to let this person manage the taxes."

"It just so happens that his worries have ended, let him go directly to Nanjing and wait for the arrival of the soldiers and horses of the National Taxation Department, and he will officially start to be responsible for all kinds of taxation in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Zhu Yijun then said a few more words, and asked Zhang Juzheng: "What does Mr. think?" ”

Letting Hai Jui take the rank of privy deputy envoy is equivalent to giving Hai Jui the power to transfer troops to deal with the military coup d'état, and bringing the official title of the head of the household department is equivalent to allowing Hai Jui to interrogate the household ministry about the dispatch of all kinds of money and grain collected, and the imperial history of the right capital naturally gives Hai Jui the power to impeach local officials who are not subservient.

Zhu Yijun's arrangement was naturally planned a long time ago.

"Your Majesty Shengming, Haigong is honest and loves the people, but he is not afraid of Haoqiang, but he is a minister who makes Haoqiang fear like a tiger, and he is the sword of my Ming Dynasty!"

"Let Haigong be in charge of national taxes, then the country will be able to increase taxes without the people burdening them, and the new policy of officials and gentry paying grain and errands will not just be a virtual appearance."

Zhang Juzheng hurriedly agreed.

"Then it's ordered!"

Zhu Yijun commanded.

Zhang Juzheng said yes.

"In addition, in order to prevent the military in charge of collecting taxes from being bribed by the arrogant, a special allowance system is set up for those in charge of taxation;"

"Every year, the officers and men of the pro-military department who are assigned to the National Taxation Department in charge of tax collection will be given a special allowance, and the specific amount of the allowance will be set as much silver.

"I believe that the gentry will not spend too much capital to buy, after all, instead of spending too much capital to buy all the officers and soldiers who levy taxes, I am afraid that it is better to honestly pay grain as a cost-effective errand."

Zhu Yijun continued.

Zhang Juzheng still praised the order, and flattered: "Your Majesty's concern is very comprehensive, even so, I am afraid that the pro-army guards want to go south to collect taxes for the Son of Heaven, if only some officials have been allowed to do this, I am afraid that other officials will not be satisfied, why don't Your Majesty order be changed every year and sent from the pro-army to collect taxes in turn?" ”

"What Mr. said is that not only the other officers and soldiers of the pro-military department will be greedy, but I am afraid that the border towns and local officials and soldiers will also be greedy."

"In this way, starting next year, let the military ministers with the strictest military discipline and the best combat records be selected by each capital department every year to serve in the Beijing camp, conduct drills and competitions, and then the best performers will be selected to serve in the pro-military guard, responsible for tax collection, and after the tax collection is over, these military ministers can stay in their posts, or they can be promoted to local posts."

Zhu Yijun said.

Because it is only to select military ministers, rather than mobilizing a large number of soldiers and horses, and disturb the local people and increase the consumption of money and grain, so that the internal and external disorder, and the reorganization of the six guards of the Son of Heaven before, and the great training of the Son of Heaven's pro-military guards, is to facilitate the administration of the officials and gentry to pay food and serve as errands today, so Zhang Juzheng did not admonish him, and he also gave the order.

"The combat effectiveness of the pro-army guards must be maintained for a long time, and the imperial secretary must issue an order to the Privy Council, and regularly ask the pro-army guards to be transferred to the places where they are fighting."

Zhu Yijun instructed again.

Zhang Juzheng still obeyed the order.

Thus, the matter of transferring troops to participate in the collection of taxes was thus decided.

And Zhu Yijun thought that although Hai Rui would not tell the gentry anything, in order to further increase Hai Rui's enthusiasm for taxation, he also instructed Zhang Juzheng:

"Sir remembers that he asked the Imperial Secretary to write in the will of the Governor of Hai Rui that he Hai Rui had successfully implemented the new policy of letting the gentry pay grain and errands, and how much national money was added to the imperial court, the imperial court would take out a certain proportion of the national treasury to exempt the poor from forced labor! His hometown of Qiongzhou seems to have a lot of poor people, presumably he Hai Rui is very willing to do his best to promote the integration of the official gentry and the poor families in the world as an errand. ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhang Juzheng glanced at Zhu Yijun, but in the end he didn't say anything, and continued to obey the order.

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "I don't know if Hai Ruiding has succeeded an heir under his name after returning to his hometown." ”