Mandarin Palace.

Zhu Yunxi was thinking about what to do next.

He knew very well that the establishment of the People's Supervision Department could not fundamentally solve the problem of corruption among officials.

Anti-corruption and anti-corruption have been a big problem since ancient times.

But at any given time, corruption accumulates slowly and begins little by little.

Waiting for a person to be seriously ill and then treated, even if he can bring the dead back to life, he is not a miracle doctor.

A true miracle doctor is one who keeps a person healthy at all times when he is not yet sick.

A minor illness will not develop into a major illness.

It doesn't seem to save anyone, but in fact it saves thousands of people.

The so-called good fighters have no outstanding military achievements, and this is exactly the case.

The same is true of the People's Oversight Division.

Cure the sick and save people, punish the former and the latter.

The People's Oversight Division can at least turn the semblance of a semblance of a change.

Corruption can only be carried out in secret, and dare not be made public in the sun.

In the feelings of the common people, we can really feel the change in the atmosphere.

In Jinling alone, of course, it is far from enough.

The People's Supervision Department continues to send personnel to the local areas.

However, in order to ensure the purity of the personnel, the pace of expansion is not too fast.

Zhu Yunxi repeatedly told Yang Shiqi that he would rather be slow down in this kind of thing, but also strictly select people and train them strictly.

It's hard to get started.

The People's Oversight Division selects people from scratch.

It is very important to strictly control and maintain the purity of the team.

With the deepening of the People's Supervision Division, the amount of commercial tax collected has risen a lot.

However, many ordinary merchants feel that the business environment is better than before.

The extortion of the officials is gone, at least on the surface.

In the past, the kind of officials who were arrogant, collected money casually, and blackmailed casually, all of them clamped their tails and behaved as people.

Everyone knows that there is a people's supervision department watching.

Once you get poked there, you can't eat and walk around.

For the officials, it may be that he was reprimanded for not being strict with the emperor, and he was written down on the official merit book, which affected his official future.

But the official lord is affected, and when he comes back, he can't punish the officials heavily?

Eating a board and losing errands are considered light!

Who would dare?

As the saying goes, "Hades is better, but the little ghost is difficult".

Standing at the macro level of the country, of course, it is those who are greedy and greedy, and those who are in high positions and powerful have a greater impact.

But from the perspective of ordinary people, the people they deal with are the lowest level of officials.

The county order of the broken family, the prefect of the extinction.

A casual attempt by an official can make many people unspeakable and suffer.

They have no rank and are not officials.

In the eyes of officials, they are just tools to "come when called and go when they are called".

But in the eyes of ordinary people, it is an existence that cannot be provoked.

After the establishment of the People's Supervision Department, this situation has finally been completely reversed.

Naturally, the people praised each other.

"His Royal Highness Taisun's trick is high, since ancient times, the most difficult thing to govern is the Xu officials."

Yao Guangxiao sighed: "It is said that the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together. ”

"But according to the poor monks, in fact, those who rule the world with the emperor are not scholars, but officials."

"It is most difficult to govern them."

"Not to mention governing a country, it is also extremely difficult to govern a county."

"Now His Royal Highness Taisun has set up a people's supervision department, which is still difficult to supervise for high-ranking officials and ministers, but for grassroots officials, it has a miraculous effect, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!"

The corruption of high-ranking officials and high-ranking officials is often very hidden.

Relying only on the People's Supervision Division, some can be found, but it is impossible to find out all of them.

In other words, if you are unprepared at the beginning, you can find out a lot.

But as time goes on, they become more and more secretive, and it becomes difficult to find out.

This is "one foot high, one foot high".

Of course, this does not mean that the People's Supervision Department has nothing to do with high-ranking officials and ministers.

At the very least, they can no longer act as arrogantly as Ouyang Lun before.

It can only be said that after they are hidden, it is difficult to find out the evidence.

But the officials are different.

The officials had to deal with the common people.

What they have done and what they have not done, the common people are clear.

With a report in hand, who would dare to do anything wrong?

Moreover, there are many good-natured officials, who were under duress before, and they could not help but accept bribes and join their colleagues.

Otherwise, they will be excluded and will find it difficult to gain a foothold.

And now with the People's Oversight Division, they can justifiably refuse.

In fact, there are not a few such officials.

But when bad money eliminates good money, they can only be with the light.

Just as many people in later generations hate to drink, but in the officialdom, they have to drink.

Only a clear and strict ban on alcohol can stop this unhealthy trend.

That's why it's important to have high-level governance.

Relying only on the grassroots itself, no matter how good his character is, he is helpless!

Because he can't change the environment, he has no choice but to obey.

Only those at the top, those who control the direction of the development of society as a whole, have the ability to make fundamental changes.

And that's exactly what he did.

Zhu Yunxi smiled faintly.

When he first traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he also thought that the Ming Dynasty in this era must not have any corrupt winds.

After all, Lao Zhu killed so many corrupt officials.

The officials who peeled the skin are still in front of the county yamen.

But what he saw and heard later overturned his original naïve ideas.

In fact, the officials of this era, the officials, treated the people much more arrogantly than later generations.

If the Bu family thought that they had the support of blue jade, they were very arrogant.

The officials also dared to openly accept bribes from the owners of the tea sheds.

Ouyang Lun's domestic servants were even more daring, and even the tax collectors of the imperial court dared to beat them.

And so on and so forth.

Slowly, I figured it out.

In the final analysis, it is the people of this era who still have the idea of privilege that goes deep into the bone marrow.

Lao Tzu is an official, Lao Tzu is a nobleman of the imperial court, Lao Tzu is a relative of the emperor, what's wrong with on your head?

Are you still not convinced?

And ordinary people swallowed their anger.

Second, although there are regulations on appealing, it is by no means easy to sue an official by the people, even if it is to sue a government official with no rank.

The cost of filing a complaint is very high.

It is too high for ordinary people to bear.

If it is a skip-the-line prosecution, it doesn't matter whether it is reasonable or not, let's talk about it first.

Therefore, unless they are cornered, they will not sue at all.

To put it bluntly, the system is set up so that you are only allowed to sue officials for major grievances.

Ordinary grievances, the common people should endure it, this is the obedience to the people.

The existence of the People's Supervision Department is a bit like a whistleblowing hotline in later generations, which can be reported at any time without any cost.

Moreover, the Department of People's Supervision is a separate and independent body, not subject to the control of the local government.

Through strict internal control, the possibility of collusion between them and the local government is eliminated.

This still does not solve the problem at the root.

But you can let officials and officials hold their tails and be people.

In fact, it also gives the good people among them the confidence not to be coerced.

Let the social atmosphere improve.

Otherwise, no official or official would change anything in that environment.

Further governance requires the accumulation of time.

"You don't need to flatter Lonely."

Zhu Yunxi said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the matter of setting up a tax department is imminent. However, the tax department is not trivial, and Gu has not yet found a suitable person in charge. ”

"Old monk, do you have any recommendations?"

Finance and taxation must be separated.

As the current situation is handled by the household department, it is urgent to change.

Moreover, in Zhu Yunxi's vision, the tax department will be an extremely powerful and powerful institution.

Just like the tax bureau of the Eagle Sauce Empire in later generations, it is pervasive.

There is another one, then the emperor's relatives, nobles and heroes must pay the same taxes as the common people.

At present, it is limited to commercial taxes, but in the future, it will be expanded to include land taxes and all other taxes.

Since ancient times, all dynasties have taken anti-land annexation as a priority.

On the other hand, officials and nobles were given the privilege of not paying taxes.

That's the opposite of the opposite.

How can those who pay taxes compete with those who don't?

If you can't compete, don't you have to be merged?

So how can you oppose land annexation?

Therefore, in all dynasties, this problem is almost unsolvable.

Is there really no smart person who sees through it all?

Of course not!

It's just that it is the nobles and officials who are in power!

How can there be a reason in the world to cut on yourself?

Therefore, the slogan against land annexation was shouted loudly.

But they turn a blind eye to the underlying issues.

Even if the emperor knew it, because he had to rely on officials and nobles to govern the world, he could only let it go.

But Zhu Yunxi is determined to solve this problem.

The establishment of the Department of Taxation will be directed at this point.

Of course, he wouldn't be too aggressive.

After all, Lao Zhu is still alive, and he still needs the support of his old man.

Field tax and other taxes, can not be rushed.

But it is only the current commercial tax, and the supervision of the tax department is also urgent.

Otherwise, Zhu Yunxi believes that now because of the deaths of Ouyang Lun and Zhao Mian, the imperial relatives and military generals who are afraid and frightened to pay taxes will soon find a new way to evade taxes.

As a traverser, he is convinced of this.

The method of curing the symptoms cannot cure the root cause after all.

But in this way, the person in charge of the tax department is extremely crucial.

This person must not only have enough talent, but also be iron-faced and selfless, and he must not be afraid of the pressure of any imperial relatives and military generals.

Zhao Mian, the head of the household department who committed suicide before, is a lesson from the past.

The reason why he dares to take bribes is related to his own quality on the one hand, and his insatiable wife on the other hand.

More importantly, he was in the bureau and could not resist the pressure of the emperor's relatives and nobles.

For example, Ouyang Lun asked him to open a penny tax payment paperwork, he had to open it, and he didn't dare not open it.

If you open it to these people, you will get it for yourself.

This is the "broken window effect" in psychology.

Anyway, no matter how you do it, it's against the law.

Why don't you fish it for yourself?

As a result, Zhao Mian fell deeper and deeper step by step.

The head of the tax department is under a lot of pressure, and no ordinary person can do it.

In Zhu Yunxi's view, some people have not been able to leave a name in history, perhaps just because of bad luck.

But ability and talent, there is no problem.

However, he doesn't have the eyes of a god to see through people at a glance.

So ask Yao Guangxiao.

Hearing Zhu Yunxi's question, Yao Guangxiao pondered for a long time, and said: "The position of the head of the tax department is not trivial, and ordinary people can't do it. ”

"The virtuous do not avoid relatives, but the poor monk has a candidate to recommend to His Royal Highness the Taisun."

"I just hope that His Royal Highness Taisun, don't think that the poor monk has any selfish intentions."

Zhu Yunxi laughed and said, "Old monk, even if you say it, how can you blame you." ”

"Good!"

Yao Guangxiao said: "There is another one, if you want to use this person, you must have the consent of Your Majesty, whether His Royal Highness Taisun can do it or not still needs to be deliberated." ”

Zhu Yunxi smiled and asked, "Isn't it a person who has committed some serious crime and been degraded?" ”

It is not surprising that there are such characters.

After being demoted, he was depressed all his life.

There is no place for talent.

Zhu Yunxi also believes that there are many such buried talents in history.

"Not really."

Unexpectedly, Yao Guangxiao shook his head and said, "It's just that this person's identity is not trivial." ”

Then, he said with a straight face: "The candidate in charge of the tax department, the poor monk recommended Yan Wang Zhu Di to His Royal Highness the Taisun!" ”

(End of chapter)