"Why does Yan Gongzhi also advocate restructuring?"

Gu Xiancheng asked in surprise after hearing this.

"Humph! How come these ministers and ministers are all virtuous, and they only know how to flatter him Zhang Jiangling and help him be arrogant? ! ”

Li Sancai finally lost his temper at this time, and said directly with a disgruntled face.

Gu Xiancheng was the first to calm down, looked at Li Sancai, and said with a wry smile: "Maybe what you said is right, maybe in the eyes of people at the level of ministers and ministers, the friendship and human feelings are not important, and right or wrong is not important, only the pros and cons of their personal future and the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty are important, and nothing else will be taken to heart." ”

"The national fortune of the Ming Dynasty?"

Li Sancai couldn't help but ask after hearing this, and then shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I don't care if it's right or wrong, but everyone is just a hire!"

Li Zhi followed up at this time, and said: "If Shen, Yan and the others really take into account Sheji, then I really can't understand that this industry is not theirs, what are they bothering about?" Do you really believe in the teachings of the sages? But come to think of it, they're not that pedantic either. ”

Gu Xiancheng said: "I don't understand either. But no matter how you say it, these so-called ministers and ministers are all people who have no benevolence, righteousness and morality, and they are all hypocrites who can only be peaceful! ”

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Yan Qing did submit a script on the execution of Lu Yi and other rebels, and then asked the imperial court not to abolish the patrol team, but to set up the patrol team as the patrol department, and add a patrol shop.

Obviously, once Yan Qing decides to be as active in reform as Zhang Juzheng and other civil ministers, it will be very clear that not abolishing the patrol team will be beneficial to the Ming court to strengthen the management of Nanzhi, and he will know the meaning of the song and know the elegance, and he will also guess that the imperial court will definitely be unwilling to abolish the patrol team, so he will be on this book in the name of strengthening the security of Nanzhi as the secretary of the criminal department.

As the secretary of the Criminal Department, Yan Qing is qualified to put forward his own reform opinions on public order throughout the country.

The emperor also had to pay attention to his opinion, and not easily refute it.

Because the ministers at the minister level, if the emperor doesn't pay enough attention to the suggestions put forward, then how can it seem that the emperor is diligent enough, trusts the minister enough, and is good at accepting people's words?

Even after a minister really put forward a reform opinion, the emperor did not pay attention to it or refuted it, and many of them resigned.

For the ministers located in the minister's office, if the emperor does not cooperate with his work, there is no need for him to shine for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, neither Zhu Yijun nor Zhang Juzheng rejected Yan Qing's proposal, and even did not immediately approve Hai Rui's request for the establishment of an inspection department, just to wait until now, to see if there are any more knowledgeable ministers who are willing to ask the imperial court to let the imperial power go below Nanzhi County like Hai Rui.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun also directly issued an order, according to the request of Hai Rui and Yan Qing, to set up inspection shops and shop officials, in order to control the inspection department from the nine products, and set up inspection shops in towns and towns with less than 5,000 households, and set up inspection departments in new towns with more than 5,000 households; In addition, a number of large municipalities and several small municipalities were grouped into a single county and new counties were created.

In the area south of the Yangtze River, the commodity economy is developed, especially after the Ming Zhengde, a large number of new towns appeared.

The permanent population of many new towns has even reached 10,000 households, and it is even richer than many county capitals, such as Nanxun Town, Wangjiafan Town, etc.

Most of these new towns did not appear next to the county town, but in the three areas far away from the county town, and only flourished because of the development of commerce and trade.

As a result, there is often no government administration in these places.

But it is also a place where the population and new tax sources are concentrated, and it is also a place where thieves and profiteers are hidden.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun agreed to Hai Rui and Yan Qing's request to set up inspection departments and inspection shops in these places, and even re-establish counties if necessary to strengthen administrative management.

It can be said that because of this, the Ming Dynasty is not suitable for reducing institutions and streamlining redundant personnel in this era.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was originally a small court model, and there were not many bureaucrats in the local area, and all the officials and squires controlled the grassroots.

And if more than 100,000 families, hundreds of wealthy merchants, and rich towns in eastern Zhejiang like Nanxun are only controlled by Xu officials and squires, then the Xu officials and squires here can almost control the surrounding officials, and then completely become the emperor of the soil, and they have the final say on the life and death of the local people.

As a result, the official taxes and levies of the imperial court could only be apportioned to the yeoman peasants near the county capitals that were not controlled by these officials and gentry, which only led to the bankruptcy of more yeoman farmers, the emergence of more displaced people, and then the flow of more displaced people into these new towns that were not controlled by the imperial court.

As a result, it seems that the Ming economy is becoming more and more prosperous, but the whole country is getting weaker and weaker.

Zhu Yijun also knew this through the investigation of Jinyiwei and the report of Hai Rui and others in Nanzhi, so he issued an order to carry out such a reform.

In addition, Zhu Yijun also demanded that Nanzhi be divided into Jiangsu and Fengyang (present-day Anhui) provinces on the grounds that the results of the population survey and the "Wanli Accounting Record" showed that there were many people in Nanzhi and a high tax ratio, and that the management of a governor was obviously insufficient.

However, because Nanzhi was originally the land of Longxing and had a special political status, it still retained the title of Nanzhi, and set up the governor of Nanzhi, with the senior members of the two Beijing ministries serving as his post, and the governors of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces were military and political, so as to ensure the long-term stability of the financial endowment of this dynasty.

Hai Jui was reappointed as the governor of Nanzhi and in charge of the Department of National Taxation, and was responsible for the implementation of the decree, began to split the Nanzhi, worked out the split steps together with the Fu Press, and was responsible for recommending the corresponding officials to the Ministry of Officials to the corresponding positions.

Nanzhi is now going to add many officials, and Zhu Yijun can only rest assured that Hai Rui is responsible for the appointment and assessment of these new officials, so he has no intention of letting Hai Rui return to Beijing in advance.

The implementation of the integrated grain payment of the gentry in Nanzhi was officially completed at the end of the ninth year of Wanli.

"According to the report submitted by the State Taxation Department, the household department has calculated that after the cancellation of the preferential exemption this time, Nanzhi will increase the tax grain by a total of 870,000 stone grain and tax silver by 9.67 million taels of silver this year."

Zhang Xueyan, the secretary of the household department, also reported on the achievements made after the implementation of the new policy of the official gentry to pay grain and work as errands in the ninth year of Wanli.

Zhu Yijun nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.

According to the results of the Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan gentry have more than 20 million mu of preferential exemption fields, and it is not surprising that the preferential exemption has been abolished and so much money and grain has been added.

Especially tax silver.

Today's Jiangnan is no longer the food center of the world, and most of the wealthy gentry have begun to grow cash crops, so they can't harvest much grain, but a lot of silver can be collected through reform.

Many Jiangnan gentry must have chosen to exchange silver for grain.

What's more, the trade in Jiangnan is developed, and the population of the gentry who are free of Ding Yin is large, and if they really want to put away Ding Yin, the increase will naturally be far greater than the increase in grain.

At this time, Wang Guoguang, who was in charge of the degree branch, said: "Your Majesty, Governor Hai Rui has reported to the Governor Hai Rui for exempting the Ding Yin of the self-cultivated farmers who are less than 50 acres of Nanzhitian, and the ministers have calculated that they need to be exempted from 650,000 taels. ”

"Excuse me!"

"Let Hai Rui order all divisions to return the 650,000 taels."

Zhu Yijun nodded and ordered.

Although the exemption of 650,000 taels of Ding silver is only about a fraction of the new Nanzhi annual income of Ding Yin, and the share of each small household is only a few taels or even only a few coins of silver, Zhu Yijun knows very well that this plays a great role for ordinary people, and the domestic demand and employment value driven by it are also very large.

For example, if the five taels of silver are exempted to the head of the gentry, he will use the five taels of silver to buy luxury handicrafts or reward musicians, and this will not drive many ordinary craftsmen to rely on this to obtain income, only let individual skilled craftsmen and art workers get paid, and then only promote the emergence of exquisite handicrafts and high-end artworks, but will not promote the emergence of large-scale industrial production;

If it is the common people, they will get five taels of silver, and the common people will increase their daily needs, renovate their houses, or buy all kinds of agricultural tools, in order to improve the living environment and improve their farming ability, and also increase the income of a large number of ordinary craftsmen and ordinary workshops.

Even if it is a literary and artistic worker, it will be exempted from the people because of the five taels of silver, and in order to get more income, his works will be more willing to please the people and reflect the lives of the people, which will be more conducive to opening up the wisdom of the people, rather than being a gentry.