The white rainbow passed through the sun.

Such visions have existed since ancient times.

Its essence is a phenomenon in astronomy in Feng Shui, which refers to the appearance of a long white rainbow through the sun on the horizon.

In ancient times, this was a sign of extraordinary changes in the world.

Because the sun symbolizes the emperor.

And the sun is pierced by a white rainbow.

So it is another bad omen, indicating that the emperor may have some dangerous situation......

After the vision.

It should be up and down the heavens.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

Whether it was the people on the streets, or the people who cultivated Buddhism and Taoism, or the officials of the imperial court, everyone was shocked by this vision!

"Why did you suddenly have such a vision?"

"What happened?"

"It's ...... White rainbow through the sun? ”

"Something big is going to happen."

"This ......"

"Has Your Majesty been assassinated? This?? ”

In the palace, some patrolling soldiers were stunned when they saw this scene, and under the command of the captain, everyone poured into the hall where Su Che was.

In the main hall, Zhan Hui, Zheng Shiyuan, and Han Yi were still immersed in Su Che Fangcai's words, and they didn't even react at the moment, after seeing the soldiers entering the hall, they were all subconsciously stunned, did Your Majesty want to execute them?

Before they could react, all the soldiers fell to their knees in unison.

The captain at the head immediately said respectfully: "Your Majesty, there is a vision outside, there is a white rainbow through the sun, and the ministers are worried about Your Majesty's safety, so come immediately!" ”

Directly above.

Su Che glanced at the people below, and then looked outside, he could feel many visions outside, everything was changed because of his words.

In this world of immortals and demons, it is normal to have such a change reaction, this is definitely not a normal atmosphere, but a real vision of heaven and earth.

But.

It is precisely this kind of reaction that can prove that Su Che's decision is really effective.

This not only did not make Su Che afraid, but made him very excited and expectant.

"What a white rainbow."

Su Che narrowed his eyes and said softly: "It's just tax reform and financial reform, which caused such a big change?" ”

Historically.

After the empty seal case occurred, because it involved countless people, there were visions in various places, and when the news reached the capital, Lao Zhu also had some scruples and stopped his butcher's knife for the time being.

Originally, Lao Zhu wanted to think about it in the long run, so he issued an edict and asked the people of the world how to deal with this matter.

At this time, Zheng Shili wrote a book to admonish.

And this Brother Zheng Shili is Zheng Shiyuan in the hall at this moment.

Zheng Shili put forward four points of view in a righteous and strict manner, among which there was a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang.

This directly angered Lao Zhu, and Zheng Shiyuan, who was originally implicated, had already been released from prison, but after this incident came out, he was arrested again and exiled directly.

Lao Zhu's violent temper naturally can't tolerate being provoked like this.

What about even star variations?

And the same is true for Su Che.

He has already decided on something, and it is impossible for him to change his decision because of a small vision of heaven and earth!

Su Che glanced at the soldiers guarding and said lightly: "Stand down, it's just a small vision, it's nothing at all." ”

When the captain heard this, he hurriedly responded, and then all the soldiers stood up in unison and left the main hall.

Su Che looked at the three of them again and continued: "It seems that God also approves of our change, otherwise there would be no such reaction. ”

"It's not your responsibility to do this, but you can write it down, and we'll announce it at tomorrow's court meeting."

The three of them looked at each other, and they could only be.

The time soon came for the next day's pilgrimage.

Su Che announced the new policy.

Since transporting spiritual rice would cause loss and make it customary to empty the ledger, treasure money would be levied from now on in lieu of taxes.

Such a decision can be said to fundamentally solve the problem.

If it is to be converted into things such as spirit stones, spirit gold, and spirit silver, it will inevitably be lost again.

This is also known as "fire consumption".

This is not a trivial problem.

At first, fire consumption may not be a big deal.

But over time, the fire consumption will become more and more, more and more exaggerated, and it will become a complete chaos.

Officials will ask the people for the loss of fire consumption, which will greatly increase the burden on the people and make the people's lives more and more miserable.

And after the officials asked the people for the loss of fire consumption, they would also report the loss of fire consumption to the imperial court, eat it all at both ends, eat fat heads and big ears, the so-called three years of Qing Governor's Mansion 100,000 snowflake silver, one of which is the income of fire consumption silver.

In the Qing Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming system, this problem also occurred in the Qing Dynasty.

The Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, after careful consideration, introduced a method that could balance fire consumption with state financial expenditure: fire consumption returned to the public.

This measure can be simply understood as: use the increased fire and silver consumption in various places to use the office expenses of the local government.

It can also be understood as the money that was originally hidden privately in various places, and it was put on the surface as incorruptible silver.

Plainly.

The people still have to pay more money, but this part of the extra money has been made public and legalized.

In a way, this is no way out.

This is because the change from dark collection to open collection and chaotic collection to the prescribed collection rate has indeed slightly reduced the burden on the common people and prevented corruption among local state and county officials.

It's a compromise.

can turn the originally embezzled money into legalized income, this kind of immoral thing, Su Che can't do it, let alone disdain to do it.

He has a better way.

Replacing the original tax with the collection of treasure money can directly solve the problem of empty seals, and can also solve the problem of fire consumption, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Above the court.

Su Che briefly introduced his policy of changing the law.

First of all, all treasure money will be levied thereafter.

Both the land endowment and the conscription were combined into treasure money and collected, which was equivalent to the abolition of the conscription, and the ordinary people no longer had to bear the conscription to the imperial court.

They only need to pay treasure money to the imperial court in lieu of conscription.

The collection of treasure money allowed the imperial court to hire labor to undertake conscription.

This can greatly increase the market value and recognition of treasure banknotes.

Once this policy is implemented, the credit level of the treasure banknotes after that and the previous treasure banknotes can be said to be different, and there is no longer a continuous depreciation.

Zhu Yuanzhang only managed to print the previous treasure banknotes, and never cared about the issue of inflation, let alone the credibility of the treasure banknotes.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang is familiar with ancient and modern times, and his culture is not low, his knowledge of the financial industry is obviously insufficient.

At this moment, Su Che's decision can directly make the treasure banknote circulated, and at the same time, the purchasing power of the currency will also increase.

Once the currency is circulated and widely recognized by the market, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty will become exceptionally healthy.

As long as the financial system becomes healthy, then Su Che will be able to release water, and he will no longer be troubled by lack of money.

It's all mutually reinforcing.

There is a give-and-take.

Once the treasure money is widely recognized, the private economy will also be stimulated.

It's a double win.

Secondly, all kinds of forced labor, including A service, conscription, miscellaneous labor, force difference, etc., were combined into one, and the general number was compiled into one article, and the summer and autumn taxes were collected together with the field tax.

Then, spread part of the forced labor into the acre!

This is the core part of a whip law, as long as the forced labor is spread into the acre, it can be conducive to the fairness of taxation to a certain extent, and reduce the burden of ordinary people.

Since then, the Qing Dynasty has implemented the "spread into acres", and its source is here.

A whip law simplified the collection of taxes, taxing land and population in money, but did not abolish the poll tax.

The poll tax was abolished, and only the tax was levied according to the amount of land.

Both are essentially common.

Su Che did not directly spread the land into the mu, but first carried out the "part of the forced labor into the acre", after all, the road has to be walked step by step, the meal has to be eaten in one bite, and the policy must be implemented slowly, not too anxious.

In the end, all that needs to be done is to consolidate the taxes and simplify the process.

Both the levy and the land were combined into a single tax amount, and then all taxes were paid in a unified manner.

In this way, the purpose of simplifying the tax process and consolidating tax items is achieved.

When Su Che finished saying this whipping policy, someone immediately knelt on the ground and exclaimed bitterly: "No, Your Majesty, by all means, once this policy comes out, it will hurt the country and the people, in recent years, the treasure money has become more and more worthless, the value of the treasure money varies from place to place, and the tax is exactly the same, which will cause chaos!" ”

"And the taxation of treasure money is unprecedented in ancient and modern times, and this law should be endless! The people's hearts will change!! ”

"Your Majesty, please think twice, please think twice!"

The treasure money originated in the Yuan Dynasty.

But the treasure banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty are silver standard, which can be exchanged for silver, and they are not currency in the strict sense, but the existence of "silver tickets".

But the treasure banknotes of the Ming Dynasty were different, there was no silver standard at all, and it was purely a substitute for currency.

This also leads to the fact that once it is printed on a large scale, it will be inflationary and less and less valuable.

In the history that Su Che knew.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of the treasure banknote lifting division, as the issuance and production of banknotes, after some preparations, the second year, "the edict in the book province to make the Ming treasure banknote, the order of the people."

Daming treasure banknote with mulberry as the material, "one foot high, six inches wide, cyan, outside the dragon flower column", it is written "Daming pass treasure banknote", there are eight seal characters on both sides, "Ming treasure banknote, the world passes", the middle is painted is a few strings of copper coins.

When it was first issued, the value of the money treasure banknote was 1,000 copper coins, which was how much treasure money it was and how much currency it was worth, and it did not depreciate.

But in the twenty-third year of Hongwu, the treasure money could only be converted into 250 copper coins, and then it was only 160 Wen.

In Zhu Di's Yongle period, the treasure money became less and less valuable, even if the imperial court promulgated a decree to enforce the treasure banknote, all those who refused to use the treasure money would be punished, and even the whole family would be recharged!

Even so, the orders of the imperial court could not prevent the decline and complete depreciation of the treasure banknotes, which became waste paper.

Economic laws are not something that can be controlled by executive order!

After that, in the period of Ming Xianzong, "banknotes have always been unable to direct money".

When it was first issued, the treasure banknote worth 1,000 yuan was gone, and by this period, even a penny was gone.

Even if the treasure money falls to the ground, passers-by don't even look at it.

The imperial court had no choice, and finally lifted the ban on silver, and the treasure money was completely reduced to history.

In Su Che, the immortal and demon Daming, the treasure money corresponds to spirit stones, spirit silver, and spirit gold, which is even more depreciating.

At this moment, it has only been seven or eight years since the issuance of the treasure banknote, and the value of the treasure banknote is less than half of the original.

Under such circumstances, Su Che tried to save this Ming treasure banknote, which was naturally full of difficulties.

And this new deal will also move many people's cakes!!

Su Che glanced at the courtiers kneeling below, and this person's name immediately appeared in his mind - Fang Keqin!

This person is also known as Fang Jining because he was the prefect of Jining.

His reputation may not be very great.

But his son was famous.

His son is a generation of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty - Fang Xiaoru, who was executed by Zhu Di and the ten clans.

At this moment, Fang Keqin is a well-known virtuous minister, but he stands up against it at the moment, which means that it is very intriguing.

"Drag it out and kill it." Su Che said lightly.

As soon as these words came out, a guard immediately dragged this Keqin out.

Fang Keqin's eyes widened, and he was stunned for a while, and he even forgot to shout injustice! He never dreamed that he would be directly executed if he was just admonishing, which was completely unreasonable!

Not only him, but the courtiers in the court were all stunned at this moment, why did they kill people directly? This is just a persuasion, so I dragged him out and killed him, this behavior is too rude, and it doesn't make sense at all!

Even if it is Emperor Hongwu, it should be stopped, if it is such an unreasonable indiscriminate killing of innocents, then everyone will be in danger.

For a while, all the ministers knelt down one after another, begging Su Che to think twice, they couldn't kill people indiscriminately like this, let alone such loyal and patriotic ministers? It must not be treated so roughly!

Su Che waved his hand.

The guards who dragged Fang Keqin away from the court suddenly stopped.

Su Che glanced at the many ministers and said lightly: "If you want us to give a reason, then give you a reason." ”

"Presumably many people already know, we recently got an empty printed account book, and many of you should also know what this is, the old disadvantages of the previous dynasty!"

"We didn't expect that you guys with thick eyebrows and big eyes would collude and unite to bully the king."

"The empty printing of the account book makes it convenient for you, and it also opens the mouth of corruption, we don't plan to continue to pursue the past, but find a way to solve this matter, but this party Keqin jumped out and said that it is absolutely impossible, saying that this is a policy to hurt the country and the people, and it will lose the hearts of the people."

"We want to ask you, and also ask that side of Keqin, the hearts of the people in your mouth, are they the people at the bottom, or those officials who eat with a mouthful of oil?"

"Let's solve this matter, but this loyal and patriotic Fang Keqin jumped out like this, I really think we don't take that empty seal to heart?"

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers in the court inevitably had numb scalps, and even Fang Keqin was completely stunned, he hadn't heard those rumors before!

Soon, Yushi immediately stood up to impeach Fang Keqin for corruption and bribery, and the matter was empty!

As soon as these words came out, Fang Keqin's face became even more ugly.

He was originally killed because of his advice, but he could still leave a reputation as a clean official, and he was even widely spread by Shilin.

But now that he has been impeached for corruption, it is also related to the matter of the empty seal, which shows that he stood up and admonished because of the matter of the empty seal.

This directly turned him from the original Qingliu official to a villain who embezzled and took bribes!

For a Qingliu official like Fang Keqin, whose ancestors have been from Confucianism for three generations, this is the most unacceptable!

But.

He knows very well that at this moment, this imperial history stands up, I am afraid that there is really evidence of his corruption and bribery!

This is the most desperate!

He couldn't argue with that.

Because he's really embezzled!

(End of chapter)