"In the appointment of magistrates, in principle, the policy of locals being officials is implemented in places below the prefecture, and the appointment of officials at and above the prefecture is not restricted by nationality, and the number and treatment of officials in various places should be linked to the amount of taxes, and more officials can be arranged in places with more taxes, and the treatment of officials is also high, and those with less taxes will have fewer official positions, and the amount of taxes should be linked to the interests of the officials themselves and the interests of the local gentry.

Emperor Zhu's words fell.

The officials present opened their mouths one after another.

This.

It's also too insidious!

Where did this emperor come from?

What do scholars study for?

To be an official!

Now he actually binds the qualifications of a local doctor to be an official with the local tax situation.

The target cannot be achieved.

It is also necessary to let outsiders become officials, and the locals have no officials!

And the fact that outsiders rule does not mean that they do not have to pay taxes.

When the time comes, the taxes will have to be paid, and the officials will not have to do it, and the outsiders will definitely come to make money when they come to be officials, and the outsiders will be more ruthless in making money, and they will have no scruples.

At this time, Peng Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Education, raised a question: "Your Majesty, if this is the case, won't the court officials be controlled by people in wealthy areas in the future?" ”

Oh, yes.

If they are all southerners, they are all Jiangnan and Cantonese officials.

Then sooner or later, the world will deviate from morality.

Emperor Zhu smiled slightly.

Naturally, he thought about this problem too, and it was patched.

"The tax assessment is not based on the number, but on whether it can complete the indicators given by the imperial court, for example, Guangdong pays 10 million taxes, which is not qualified! But if Henan has five million taxes, it is extremely good! The criterion of evaluation is to be evaluated according to the wealth of the local area, as long as the target can be completed, it is excellent! ”

Emperor Zhu said.

"In addition, the provinces have reserved basic seats in the council. So. I don't have a one-size-fits-all approach, and I'm sorry if this condition can't be done honestly! If you dare to incite tax resistance! Then it depends on whether their heads are hard or their bullets are hard! ”

Emperor Zhu's words were murderous.

So that the officials below are not very afraid to speak.

Emperor Zhu, the founding emperor, rarely shouted and killed, but the people below were not so hard-headed that they had to try whether Emperor Zhu's bullets were accurate enough.

Peng Jun took a deep breath: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that they will dare to pass on the taxes to the tenant farmers, the tenant farmers are already very bitter, if they pay more rent, I am afraid that they will really not be able to live, please think twice, please think twice!" ”

"Can't live? How can you not live! We have the Northeast, the South Seas, and North America in the future! There are places for them to live!! With so many outlets, I have to be a tenant farmer in the countryside, can I be blamed? And they are renting other people's land, what can people do if they want to raise the rent? Fair trade, if you think the rent is too high, you can go! You can go to the South Seas and the Kanto! If you don't want to go to Nanyang to Kanto, even if you go to Guangdong to work, you can survive, right? There are so many ways out here, you don't go by yourself, no wonder the imperial court, if you dare to make trouble, my army is not the tofu scum green battalion soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty! Just a few chaotic people, the backhand will be pressed down! ”

Of course, Emperor Zhu was not afraid of tenant farming.

In fact, in history, as long as the officers and soldiers can be guaranteed sufficient food and salary, they will not be afraid of any rebellion.

Now Emperor Zhu's money does not depend on the field tax, and the soldiers are the elite of a hundred battles.

Tenant farmers are in turmoil, and they can't make any big waves.

When the ministers present heard this, their jaws dropped.

What kind of emperor is this?

This emperor Lao Tzu didn't care at all whether the tenant farmers could survive or not.

What else to say is that there is a way out

Well, that's the way it goes.

But the emperor Lao Tzu should at least say something soft.

The truth that water can carry a boat and can also capsize a boat, you should always understand, right?

However, Emperor Zhu was already iron-hearted.

If tenant farmers feel that it is not cost-effective to lease land for farming, they can leave the land and get away from the land.

Emperor Zhu had a way out for them.

If you don't want to leave the countryside, you don't want to be exploited by the landlords in the countryside.

Where in the world is there such a good thing?

"What does this emperor Lao Tzu want to do, I don't understand, I can't understand."

Tai'an, Shandong.

Liu Yong, the Han minister of the former Qing Dynasty, now lives in seclusion here.

Opposite him, Ji Xiaolan, who was smoking a cigarette pouch, frowned, and looked like he couldn't figure it out.

"Yes, it's really confusing, what do you say Emperor Zhu is going to do? Rectify the rule of officials? I didn't catch a few corrupt officials and cut them down. The average tax burden reduces the burden on the small people, and he doesn't seem to take this matter very seriously, what kind of tax sharing system is this, don't you clearly encourage the officials below to collect more taxes! In the end, most of this burden falls on the heads of the small people! ”

Ji Xiaolan knocked on her pipe, raised her head and looked at Liu Yong and said, "Brother, what do you say this Emperor Zhu is thinking?" ”

"How can I know this, this is a heroic lord who broke out of the country in a peaceful and prosperous era, and his ideas are really elusive."

"To collect the tax of the scholars, this has been a difficult thing to do since ancient times, this Emperor Zhu is like this, and the people below are not without being fooled." Ji Xiaolan shook her head and said.

"If you fool you, you will be fooled, it is too easy to get in this day, and if you don't experience a little twist and turn, I'm afraid you won't be able to sit still." Liu Yong held a white piece in his hand and landed on the chessboard.

"Will the world be in chaos?" Ji Yun lowered his voice.

"It's not chaotic, this Emperor Zhu knows too well what the emperor wants to catch, the military power is in hand, the wealth of the Ming court, I'm afraid it's the richest court ever, and I'm afraid of any small people making trouble, and Emperor Zhu has Nanyang and Northeast China, these are two pressure relief valves, which can send people to these two places, and there are fewer people in the Central Plains and Han Land, and life will naturally not go on." Liu Yong said.

Ji Xiaolan couldn't help but nod when she heard this.

"Yes, as long as there is a way out, who would be willing to go out and rebel, I heard that Emperor Zhu is going to open up North America. This is really, opening up territory thousands of miles away, I think this North America is even if it is taken down by the Ming Dynasty, it will not be able to hold it in the future. ”

"Shou? I don't think Emperor Zhu intends to defend it at all. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Emperor Zhu has made a ceremony, will it be far away?"

"Are you saying that Emperor Zhu doesn't want to be Qin Shi Huang, he wants to do it. Zhou Tianzi? ”

"Zhou Tianzi of the world," Liu said.

Ji Xiaolan was silent for a moment and said; "Can it be done?"

"It's hard for the whole world, but half the world. He is now. "Liu Yong snapped his fingers and said: 'Japan, the entire Eastern world is respected by Emperor Zhu, and the countries that signed the suzerain-vassal treaty are not the same as the previous tributes to the Qing Dynasty, they are all vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and they have the obligation to send troops to fight.'

(End of chapter)