Wu Tingju was rudely poured into a lot of counseling, and he thought that he was the only one who was a little white.

For the first time at the national policy meeting, His Majesty was late.

Huang Jin told them: "Your Majesty is teaching you the Ten Methods of Fitness, and your Majesty will be there soon." ”

“…… What are the 10 ways to keep fit? ”

Huang Jin hesitated for a moment, and then demonstrated in front of the Huagai Palace: "That's it...... Jiazi Jue: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai; B word formula, son, ugly, yin......"

Seventeen counselors and two companions watched Huang Jin's demonstration of techniques, and they were unconscious.

"Dare to ask Huang Gonggong, this law ...... What are the benefits? Why did Your Majesty teach you to ......," Yang Tinghe asked.

Sun Jiao's face was solemn: After her daughter came home the night before, she got up in the courtyard yesterday morning and did this.

Your Majesty said...... It is derived from ancient books. As the name suggests, it strengthens the body. In the past, when he was in the palace, His Majesty insisted on practicing, and after the Queen Mother entered the palace, he persuaded His Majesty to run less, and His Majesty changed and re-practiced this method, and ran once every three or five days. ”

The emperor hadn't come here anyway, so Huang Jin was here to chat with them.

But the point remains: why teach concubines this?

In the Imperial Garden, only Wen Suyun and the other nine concubines were here.

What Zhu Houxi said about not touching is not slamming bang, not not not touching.

"Stretch your arms a little bit." He corrected Zhang Qinghe's posture, "Take a bigger step......

Zhang Qinghe cringed, and now that the emperor touched her arms and waist, she only blushed with shame.

The girls were confused.

Even the most lively Wen Suyun didn't expect the emperor to be like this.

She couldn't help but ask boldly: "Your Majesty, do you want to train your concubines into a women's army?" ”

Zhu Houxi was amused: "What nonsense? If there is a war, will I need my concubines to fight? You all practice these ten methods of physical fitness, your body is too delicate, and you are afraid that pregnancy and childbirth will be in danger in the future. Whoever doesn't practice well, I won't go to anyone's palace to see first. ”

After that, he looked at them meaningfully: "Concubine Xian has also practiced. ”

Although Lin Qingping didn't practice, I believe they can understand.

Now that he has been included in the harem, Zhu Houxi really doesn't want to hear about the death of this concubine today, and the death of a prince and princess tomorrow.

is a little younger, if it weren't for Sun Ming giving birth to a sister-in-law is really important, Zhu Houxi is ready to try to only plow and not plant.

Hearing the emperor say this, except for a few people who couldn't see their inner thoughts, the eyes of the rest of the people obviously lit up.

"I am busy with state affairs, but since I have entered the palace and have a reputation, as long as it doesn't rain in the future, I will come here at six o'clock in the morning, and I will practice this method with you." Zhu Houxi said to Wen Suyun, "Suyun, you learn the fastest, and then practice one or two with them, and today you will at least master the four tricks of A, B, C, and D." I went to the Imperial Study. ”

"The concubine obeys the ......"

The ten girls watched His Majesty stride neatly towards the Qianqing Palace, while the back looked at each other.

The Emperor was different from what they had thought before.

“…… Sister Shufei, you learn the best, do you have any tricks? "A certain concubine has a sweet mouth.

Wen Suyun only thinks now, was it because she thought it was too interesting before, so she was a little forgetful? His Majesty gave her the title of Shu, could it be to tease her?

"Qinghe, you guys are too restrained. You see how much your majesty stretches when you do it......" she opened her mouth but looked at Zhang Qinghe.

The palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting to serve not far away in the imperial garden just watched the ladies dance together, and gradually became noisy.

After a while, Zhu Houxi had already scrubbed his clothes and face a little and came to the imperial study.

Seventeen counselors all looked at him strangely.

It's a draft again, it's a theory of three principles, and what are the ten ways to keep fit.

Your Majesty, how did you learn so much and all of them were amazing?

Huang Jin just tactfully clicked it just now, Concubine Xian is pregnant because of the secret method, and I think that the ten methods of health are part of the secret method?

They didn't ask much, probably this was part of the plan: maybe next year, there will be frequent good news in the palace. The first queen, the second concubine and the nine concubines have all learned the secret method, and there will always be a few princes, right?

The heirs are prosperous, and there will be one less cause of chaos in the world.

But this secret method ...... Although most of the old men don't need it, what if they really want to learn? The children at home can use it.

"It's the first time for the detached to come to the imperial study, are you used to it?" Zhu Houxi asked directly.

When Wu Tingju heard the emperor's question, he stood up and saluted restrainedly: "Minister...... Still getting used to it. When the minister saw this unswerving national policy today, he knew that His Majesty was angry and swallowed the seas......"

Compared with the new law, the spectacular vista of the Great Wall of the South Seas makes people even more bald, and it is really hard to imagine how this national policy was established before the "party struggle" drama.

The water in this imperial study is very deep.

"Fei Qing has left for Sichuan, Jiang Qing is in Jiangnan, the repetition is complete, let's discuss how to stop the new law in Guangdong." Zhu Houxi only smiled after listening to Wu Tingju's sycophancy, and started the formal topic, "This time it will be implemented comprehensively, what are the difficulties, how to solve them, make plans early, Zhang Fujing is still waiting for the will of the imperial court." ”

When the people in the internal file department are ready, and when the counselors get used to it, they will also come with blank scrolls to record some important points.

When the emperor asked, the others looked at Wu Tingju first, and actually asked him to speak first.

Wu Tingju scolded his mother in his heart: Yang Ting and this party leader still have a glimmer of hope, hoping that the emperor will change slowly.

Yesterday, after the court push, there was a meeting in the Wenlou, and they actually asked themselves, a newcomer, to charge and tell the emperor about the current difficulties.

He stood up again and saluted: "Although the minister is still studying the general outline of the new law and the new laws, the minister has served in Guangdong, so please briefly state your views first. ”

Zhu Houxi nodded: "There are words to play directly." At the national policy meeting, there is no formality. ”

After Wu Tingju sat down, he pondered for a moment before saying: "Now that the new law has the potential to open up new horizons. Compared with the laws of the Xining period, compared with the laws of today, they are only a corner. The minister believes that if Guangdong's new law is to be effective in three to five years, there are five major difficulties. ”

Zhu Houxi motioned to him.

This is not only to let Wu Tingju charge, but in fact, it is not to give him a chance.

How much he can digest the new law in a short period of time, and whether he can put forward a realistic action strategy, also determines whether he can add points in the emperor's mind.

Yang Tinghe was happy to have someone charge, Wang Qiong wanted to strengthen his own strength, and Wu Tingju also wanted to gain a firm foothold in the national policy meeting.

He said, "One of the difficulties lies in the degree of support. The imperial court wants to take out the money to buy the annual office and the sitting office that Guangdong bears, and Guangdong also has to take the money out to buy the rest of the sitting office and miscellaneous office, which is a large amount of silver. Guangdong officials began to apply for conscription, and in order to appease the situation, the treatment of officials was raised, which was another large amount of silver. The minister roughly estimated that the silver taels to be paid by the household department to Guangdong would probably be about 120,000 taels of silver per year. The additional salaries and many official expenditures that Guangdong needs to pay to local officials will add up to nearly 100,000 taels. ”

Zhu Houxi took notes a few times: "Go on." ”

"The second difficulty lies in power and responsibility. If the official gentry apply for the payment of the field endowment and the unified collection of silver by the department can be implemented, the income of the field endowment and the silver money will increase a lot. However, in order to do procurement, treasury transfer, commercial taxation and other matters, it may be necessary to increase the number of yamen and officials. I am afraid that Guangdong needs to reconsider the functions of the provincial, prefectural, and county-level yamen, and what duties each of the officials should bear. ”

"The third difficulty lies in the ease of the market. If the official gentry and the land are paid and the unified collection of silver is implemented, the wind of the people's contribution may subside. In the past, many of the hidden households and people in Guangdong were collected by large households, but now if the department is unified, the silver is levied, how can the people exchange grain and rice for money? If you allow the local big households to exploit it, it may be chaotic. Therefore, it is necessary for the new law to not become a law that harms the people. ”

"The fourth difficulty lies in education. The gentry and big families had the intention of resisting, and the people were at a loss when they heard the new law, and they were easy to be instigated, even the officials in Guangdong also needed time to understand the gist of the new law. The minister thought that if the people in Guangdong could not first educate and educate the new law, the old system would be so much easier and extremely difficult to implement. ”

"The fifth difficulty lies in the officials. After all, the new law has to be tried out by officials from top to bottom in Guangdong, although there is a law on the treatment of officials to appease it, and there is a law for passing the examination and the laws of the Ming Dynasty to spur it, but the yang and the yin are violated, and the harm to the people is still unguarded. Moreover...... Since His Majesty ordered the ministers to speak out, the ministers were not restrained. There are many officials in the world who are afraid of the danger of changing the law. ”

After Wu Tingju finished speaking, he could only look at the emperor worriedly.

In a short period of time, there has been a lot of financial pressure, including the pressure of institutional reform involving a wide range of issues, the change in the use of silver in exchange for food in relation to the whole people, the threshold of understanding caused by the new law being too "new", and the laziness and even resistance of officials in implementing the new law.

These are very real problems.

Even the important ministers at the national policy meeting, didn't you reluctantly become the new party after you applied your wrists?

"Well said question." Zhu Houxi gave an answer that made Wu Tingju breathe a sigh of relief, and then said, "Do you have anything to add?" ”

This time, everyone looked at Yang Tinghe, so the party leader stubbornly said: "In addition, at present, only Guangdong is trying to implement the new law, and the rest of the provinces are still the same. Another difficulty is the official exchanges between the Six Ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Beijing and Guangdong. The old and the new are parallel, and there can be no chaos in the Beijing Yamen. ”

"The minister's side is worried about how the test law will be implemented in Guangdong." Wang Qiong added, "Guangdong officialdom has experienced two major upheavals, and at this time it must be panicked and even resentful. If the constraints of the examination law are improperly applied, it may be counterproductive. In addition, how to become a Guangdong official also needs to be determined after the implementation of the new Guangdong law. ”

Zhu Houxi waited for a while and asked, "There is no supplement for the time being, so what about the solution?" There is no need for Guangdong to start implementing it within the year, but Xianchen is right that the new law needs to be widely publicized in Guangdong to educate the government and the people, so it is still necessary to come up with one, two, three or four at the national policy meeting as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the government and the opposition have met again and discussed one after another, and the counselors have spent more than a year only coming up with some appalling new laws, and then they have not been put into effect for a long time, then I am afraid that they are still fighting for power and profit under the pretext of the new law. ”

Wu Tingju broke out in a cold sweat: Is he speaking so directly?

However, the basis of the new law was proposed by Your Majesty, so are you now accusing the counselors of not being sincere in changing the law?

Yang Tinghe replied: "In the past few days, the minister has summoned all the ministers to hold several meetings on the implementation of the new French policy in Guangdong. Under the public opinion, the ministers thought that the new law was too much, and it was appropriate to try it step by step. Next year, Guangdong will first compile and review the rules, and only order officials, squires, and wealthy households to apply for land contributions. By the end of next year, there will be a figure on how much land Guangdong can actually collect, and all officials will have a bottom in their hearts. By the following year, the income has increased, the expenditure has been sufficient, and then the law of conscription and procurement will be carried out. In this way, Guangdong has time to adapt, and the imperial court can also calmly dispatch. ”

After he finished speaking, he also looked at the emperor with some apprehension: In fact, he has said many times that conscription is the foundation. But the next step is to only move Tian Fu, and I don't know what the emperor thinks.

Zhu Houxi just asked lightly: "At the beginning of the country, more than 230,000 hectares were 1.05 million stones, and now more than 70,000 hectares are 1.08 million stones." Officials, squires, and wealthy households have all applied for payment, is it according to the standard of expropriation of various fields at the beginning of the country, or according to the current standard? Editorial and review rules, after the unified depreciation of silver, is it shared according to the number of people, or according to the acres of land? If it is apportioned to the mu, is it according to the right to the field or according to the right to the bottom of the field? ”

One sentence made the imperial study depressed.

If according to the current standard, Guangdong Tian can become more than three times. According to the standards of the beginning of the country, even if all the fields in Guangdong are clarified, they will not expand much.

In the end, there were so many three and a half million stones, did you make up a paste of them?

And the conscription of silver is the most important, according to the person or according to the acreage?

The law change is about to enter the substantive area, Yang Tinghe can only say: "Your Majesty, the laws are really too widely implicated, and the ministers are stupid......"

"Qing and the others are stupid, do you still have smart subordinates in the Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Houxi looked at them, "I know that it is true that too much is implicated. If the new law cannot be achieved, I may be able to retreat to the next best, but the Qing and others feel that there is no way out. The matter has come to this point, if there is no sharp spirit to do what the predecessors dare not do, it will naturally be difficult everywhere. ”

Zhu Houxi didn't blame them, after all, he had never seriously thought about changing the law, even if he was forced to start thinking about it now, a lifetime of thinking still imprisoned them in the old system.

And the plan proposed by Zhu Houxi is a bit ahead of their time.

They can see that it will greatly damage the benefits that the gentry and wealthy households are currently bringing by evading servitude.

They can also see that there is a lot of financial pressure on the offices to buy and improve the treatment of officials.

However, they don't know how much the annual revenue can be raised by starting with the commercial tax, and whether the merchants can make the wealthy gentry who are willing to change more profitable so as not to contradict the new law.

"Then I'll tell you." Zhu Houxi smiled, "I only need to have room in the eyes of the people of the world, and all the counselors will make overall arrangements." If it is successful, the credit will be in the Qing and so on, and I can sit back and enjoy its benefits. ”

The counselors who are familiar with the rhythm are slightly bitter: it is coming again, and it must be another class.

So Wu Tingju saw that they skillfully picked up the brush and prepared to record the main points.

Zhu Houxi said slowly: "First of all, money. I can borrow the additional expenses of the imperial court from the internal funds to the household department as the cultivation cost of the trial phase of the new law in Guangdong, and will not cause additional pressure on the other provinces and household departments. The detached ministers can then play a note, and I am ready. ”

He has money for the time being, presumably Zhang Fujing will send a lot of it after he opens the killing ring again this time.

It is very reasonable to take it from Guangdong and use it in Guangdong, and it is very reasonable to kill the rich and help the poor.

Ngo Dinh Khu: ...... Is that how the counselors work? His Majesty told him that he could make an IOU to Neku.

The crowd was in good spirits: after many years, the emperor was finally willing to lend money to the household again.

Zhu Houxi continued: "As for the additional expenses brought about by local procurement and the treatment of officials, the power of Guangdong Province, the prefecture and the county, and the problem of laziness and resistance of officials, we might as well look at it in a different direction. Guangdong should not only spend more, but also spend more. There are many officials in the ancestral system, and there is no hope of promotion for Xu officials, and they are meager in their lives, so how can they meet the life of superior people if they don't exploit the township? Guangdong expansion! Huang Jin. ”

So everyone saw that the emperor was obviously ready again, and Huang Jin asked people to carry a shelf from behind the map of the Ming Dynasty and put it on the side.

Zhu Houxi pointed over there and said: "Redundant officials are terrible, but they can't go to the other extreme. I have counted that among my Ming ministers, there are a total of 1,852 officials in the two capitals. The remaining thirteen political envoys added up to a total of 6,930 officials, of which only 1,899 were above the seventh rank. ”

The rest of the people are now just looking at the chart on it.

The Song Dynasty was redundant officials, and the Ming Dynasty went to the other extreme. The total number of officials paid by the government is only 8,782 in the whole country.

The expenses of the remaining officials were paid by the officials or officials, and without these items in the financial expenditures, they could only be counted as various kinds of conscription to be apportioned.

Zhu Houxi found these problems from the statistics, so he felt incredible.

Even so, some people pointed the finger at the phenomenon of parasitic affairs in the military attache group, and criticized the Ming Dynasty for its serious redundancy.

In the future, when the technological conditions are already very advanced, although the number of people has increased several times, the overall size of the civil service is in the millions.

In the current state of such inefficient communication, Daming relied on a total of less than 9,000 civil officials to maintain the operation of daily government affairs.

Zhu Baba's early experience was too miserable, so he adopted such a set of management methods with a very small establishment.

However, it is conceivable that the human resources needed to manage the actual needs of various localities are all flexibly controlled by various localities and ultimately apportioned to the common people.

As a result, a vicious circle ensued a more efficient state apparatus that could not be sustained by the finances, and eventually collapsed.

So Zhu Houxi said categorically: "Starting from Guangdong, expand the number of officials. Many of the necessary officials were also included in the ordained officers and the final products. The increased revenue in Guangdong can be used to ensure the treatment of their officials, which is the motivation for them to be willing to implement the new law. From the ninth grade upwards, the opportunities for promotion should increase. There are about 3,000 Jinshi in the world, and there are only more than 13,000 people, and then subtract the old and sick among them, how can such a few people help me govern the Ming Dynasty well? ”

The counselors stared in amazement at a tower-like diagram on the left and a tree-like diagram on the right.

…… Your Majesty always plays with something very new.

Zhu Houxi looked at them and said: "If you want to implement the new law, everything is on the officials." The high-grade officials in Guangdong, I have seen it in my eyes, and they know that as long as they do a good job, they will have a bright future. But what about the officials of the five, six, or seven grades? What about the lower-grade officials and officials? Let more talents and people in Guangdong be appointed as officials, and let capable officials have dignity, security, dignity, and promotion, then no matter what the new law is, they will help the imperial court to implement it! ”

Don't you know that you can earn more money and a higher status by being an official than by escaping from service?

But it's too difficult to get into the jinshi, and the ceiling for lifting people is there.

Don't you want to be a high-ranking official?

is not qualified, but to be a clerk is to completely limit his identity, and he will be a slave who is called and drunk all his life.

Officials have no "official power", they are masters in the eyes of the people, and in the eyes of officials, what are they?

Zhu Houxi stared at them: "The provincial, prefectural, and county levels are all fixed, and ordinary officials who have not entered the stream also have the possibility of promotion, and the total number of officials below the fifth grade has expanded to nearly 10,000, can Guangdong absorb the gentry who are willing to be loyal to the imperial court?" With the status of officials, under the Law on the Treatment of Officials, the Law on Examination Success, and the laws of the Ming Dynasty, can they be both constrained and motivated to implement the new law in Guangdong? Nearly 189 grades and uninfluent officials have been added, and according to the average annual income of 120 stones, millions of stones! ”

The counsellors felt that they had before them a naked picture of war:

If this idea is completed, the Guangdong Tianfu can theoretically increase to more than two million stones. In addition to the 400,000 stone of annual grain required by the imperial court, is the remaining tax grain not enough to support Guangdong Yulu?

What's more, Guangdong will also have other income from the commercial tax level.

What His Majesty did not point out naturally included what so many officials could earn by participating in the business in various ways.

In a nutshell...... Separate the gentry from the wealthy from the simple chain of land interests.

Let a large part of the gentry officially enter the Ming officialdom from now on, and how strong can the other part of the stubbornly resist the new law?

If you adapt to the new rules, you will survive and grow.

Those who don't adapt to it will be wiped out.

"Below the eight grades, each government can choose its own. Below the six grades, Guangdong Province chooses its own. More than five grades, the officials are selected. Below the seventh grade, you can work in your hometown. Do not take the talent, lifting, and jinshi as the threshold that must be possessed, and give the opportunity to show the talent and lift the person who has not been successful for a long time. To promote social studies, it is always necessary to let all officials in the future be educated, literate and know etiquette. The provincial examinations are unified by the provinces to reduce the difficulty; The provincial and township examinations are sent by the imperial court to take the main examination, and the main list can be used to take the Ministry of Rites examination, and the deputy list can be awarded officials. Zhu Houxi pointed to the right, "As for the local government office, I have also considered it." Can you see clearly? ”

That tree-like picture, Yang Ting and them could see it clearly.

They saw that Guangdong Province had a governor-general, under whom there were the political envoy department, the capital command envoy department, the criminal prosecution department, the public security department, the tax department, and the metropolitan prosecutor's department.

In each prefecture, there is a government office, a criminal bureau, a public security bureau, a tax bureau, and a metropolitan inspection bureau.

In each county, it is the county office, the criminal prosecution office, the public security office, the tax office, and the metropolitan inspection office.

They saw the doorway: criminal law, inspection and anti-theft, taxation, and supervision were all stabbed to the end, and they were not subject to the control of the yamen at the same level. Although I am in a place, I am afraid that it will lead all the way to the imperial court.

The province is the governor in charge of moderation, but what about the prefecture and county?

Yang Tinghe asked this question.

Zhu Houxi laughed and pointed at them: "Don't you think that this national policy meeting is quite effective?" ”

Seventeen counselors were stunned, they knew this well, and it was indeed very efficient to have a small meeting behind closed doors.

Suddenly, I only felt that the old system of the Ming Dynasty was about to be wiped out, and Taizu was probably very excited in the spirit of the sky.

His old man's coffin won't move, right?

(End of chapter)