Chapter 131: The Working Cabinet
Among these memorials and memorials, the policy strategy for the current situation is proposed. ∷∷ Point∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷
First, commercial tax is collected. The north gradually expands the tax collection model of the tax bureau, and in the south, a rough commercial tax collection is temporarily carried out, focusing on taxation in tea, wine, market, silk and other aspects.&1t;/p>
The second is to rectify the salt industry and the canal transportation can make huge profits. The salt administration in northern Zhili mainly implements the current system, and the other provinces will rectify it. The canal transportation can tax the private property.&1t;/p>
The third is to rectify the mining industry. Most of the benefits of copper mines in the world fall into the hands of private individuals. They are used to cast countless copper ware every year. Private copper mines can be directly seized and secretly investigated for gold and silver mining.&1t;/p>
This is about increasing the source, but there is no suggestion on reducing the cost. At this time, the Ming Dynasty basically saved the cost of saving, and the emperors were asked to be frugal. As for the royal family's fortune and rice, this is temporarily unavailable.&1t;/p>
In terms of disaster relief and water conservancy repair, the corresponding strategies have been proposed. Local famines should be reported as quickly as possible, and then the local government will provide relief first. The court allocates money and grain to make up for local expenditures and provides comprehensive relief. In terms of water conservancy, the Baojia system is fully implemented in the north, and the slack and slack labor system is restored to stabilize the local situation.&1t;/p>
At the same time, in local administration, corruption is first sorted out, the local administrative officials with bad reputation are eliminated, and grassroots officials who are honest and understand the people's conditions are in charge of the local government, and the crackdown on bandits can be strengthened. At the same time, in the north, the grain collected from the land tax in that year can be used to form a charity warehouse. No more color is used to dismantle new grain, but only the color is used to dismantle the grain of the charity warehouse every year.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao looked at these memorials carefully and felt very relieved. Finally, an official who was normal and could make some constructive opinions came up. He couldn't help but have a better initial impression of Chen Yan. Previously, Chen Yan served as the secondary assistant in the cabinet. In fact, Ye Xianggao was suppressed and there was no room for him to use.&1t;/p>
Now Ye Xianggao has left the cabinet, and the cabinet is finally not a soy sauce department that can only passively deal with government affairs. The measures proposed by Chen Yi made Zhu Youxiao extremely satisfied, so he approved them one by one, and all passed Chen Yi's suggestions, and added a sentence behind it: "My dear can let go of the government."&1t;/p>
At the same time, Chen Yan asked him to discuss the rectification method of a station.&1t;/p>
Chen Wei was immediately overjoyed when the cabinet received the approval. Since the emperor supported it, the cabinet could do a big move next. Chen Wei quickly came up with a plan for the rectification of the post station.&1t;/p>
The plan to rectify the station is actually ready, that is, the measures implemented by Zhang Juzheng. At that time, the station under Zhang Juzheng's rectification had changed the chaos and became orderly. However, the people later died and the station was quickly corrupted again.&1t;/p>
So Chen Wei moved out Zhang Juzheng's plan and made some supplements, mainly to replace the token of the squatting. The so-called squatting is a token divided into two halves. For example, if a person wants to go from Hainan to the capital, he must first go to the post station to purchase squatting. The cost of squatting to the post station is different according to the distance. Is it 5 o liang or 1 o liang? Then a passenger will be given a squatting token. As long as he can get along the way, he can take the squatting token. There is a squatting station responsible for food and accommodation along the way. There is no need to worry too much, even if he is a squatting station, he can reach his destination smoothly.&1t;/p>
Many post station surveys were sent out by postmen as favors, so the post station surveys were completely replaced and the retrieval of the post station were controlled.&1t;/p>
The plan of Shenyang was sent to Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxia made some improvements.&1t;/p>
First, increase the salary of postmen, and pay 5 yuan a month. Second, manage the income of postmen, and use it for daily expenses and has been purchased. Third, crack down on smuggling and reporting. Related businesses are opened to consolidate the income into management.&1t;/p>
The previous post stations also belonged to the self-sufficiency model. The profits and losses of each post station were imposed on the heads of these post stations. Even the post stations were threatened and suffered losses due to extortion, and then they smuggled goods and took over private express delivery services.&1t;/p>
Since this is the case, we might as well change this self-profit and loss model to the official bear its costs and manage and operate the business.&1t;/p>
The Ming Dynasty station was a mature system, which is a very good resource! It can be fully developed into an ancient express company and a long-distance passenger transport company. And it is the only one. This kind of express company can not only operate passenger transport, but also express goods and information.&1t;/p>
Such a good resource can be made by just operating it casually. Even if you don’t make much money, your expenditure will not increase much. And even if the cost increases, it will be the cost of paying the postmen to the postmen to the lower class. This money is given to the lower class, which solves the suffering of some groups, and allows these postmen to live a good life without having to poach the country's corners. After some rectification, naturally no one will poach the country's corners.&1t;/p>
The cost of the post station is mainly the purchase of personnel and horses. There is no shortage of horses. After all, the horses used in the post station are not war horses, and all provinces can breed them. The reason why the Ming Dynasty could not raise too many war horses was mainly because war horse breeding requires a relatively large field, which allows horses to run freely. There are so many people in each province, and there is not enough land, and there is so much land to raise horses? It is obviously unrealistic. Only on the grassland can there be enough space for these horses to gallop, so that they can become war horses.&1t;/p>
As for horses used in the post, it is not difficult to raise them, and the Ming Dynasty did not lack grass.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao wrote down the plan in great detail, just like a plan for later generations. Then he went back to the cabinet. After carefully reading this extremely detailed plan, the reform plan in the system was obviously very reliable. Like this anti-corruption campaign, he also gave money first and then eliminated the problem. In this way, the postmen would not be unable to maintain the balance of income and expenditure of the postmen due to the smuggling business.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao even wrote the working hours and evaluation rules of the postmen clearly.&1t;/p>
Chen Yan has to admire him, but he is not very surprised. Since the emperor ascended the throne, he has carried out many such reforms, and after the reform, they have done things very carefully. For example, the Taxation Bureau has made the tax system more meticulous, unlike before, but just a simple commercial tax collection.&1t;/p>
Chen Yi immediately agreed to this reform plan.&1t;/p>
The emperor's government orders naturally require the cabinet to agree. How can the cabinet continue to implement them if it does not agree? So before, Zhu Youxiao bypassed the civil servant group and used eunuchs and factory guards to implement them.&1t;/p>
However, the execution framework of eunuchs and factory guards is obviously to be rebuilt. Unlike the administrative system of civil servants, which covers the whole country.&1t;/p>
At this time, Zhu Youxiao suppressed the Donglin Party and promoted the people of Shen Yan. The civil service system was finally available. This made Zhu Youxiao really worry-free.&1t;/p>
Chen Yan immediately began to implement these reform plans. Compared with Zhu Youxiao's slightly radical reform, Chen Yan's style is still softer.&1t;/p>
Just like a storm, it can only last for a few hours. But a gentle breeze can last for a whole day. The same is true for reform. Once it is too radical, the lower-level officials and the people will feel at a loss. After all, the pace is too fast and they cannot reach these rhythms.&1t;/p>
After all, if a new policy measures continue, officials and the people must have a familiar process. When there are too many reforms and neither officials nor the people can digest such a large amount of information and changes, chaos will arise.&1t;/p>
The reform of the station is actually relatively simple.&1t;/p>
It is too easy to crack down on smuggling. After all, the post station is based on postmen and the road is the core of operation. Since this kind of smuggling activity has fixed people and fixed routes, you can just send someone to catch it.&1t;/p>
A country like China has always been a model of man-ruling. The so-called legal system was only maintained for a short time in the Qin Dynasty. As for the later generations, the Celestial Empire also did not deviate from the tradition of man-ruling. This is still related to the fact that there are too many people in China. If there is a system above, it will be well followed if someone watches it. Once the upper class starts to rot, the lower class will rot quickly.&1t;/p>
Therefore, the reform station only requires a few reliable officials to preside over the presidency, supervise them at all levels, and punish those who violate the system, and it will not take long to achieve results.&1t;/p>
Ineffectiveness means that the entrusted is not human, so it will be replaced. And as long as the cabinet is dedicated, such problems will generally not arise. There are still many honest officials, and there are many ways to identify and employ people in China's traditional administrative system.&1t;/p>
For example, in traditional physiognomy, Qi Jiguang selects soldiers to see the physiognomy. For example, those who are afraid of death, Qi's army does not want. Such people have poor risk resistance when they go to the battlefield. The battlefield is an environment that can crush individual destiny and can make people with different destiny die on the same day. If the luck of your officers and soldiers is stronger, then there will be certain advantages on the battlefield. But this kind of fortune is similar to the b in the game, which is just a certain state bonus or deduction. If an army's fortune is stronger than the enemy but lacks training, then it may be a waste of luck on the battlefield, or mutiny, escape, surrender, and save lives when facing a desperate situation.&1t;/p>
If an army not only has strong luck, but also has good armed forces, sufficient training, and reliable command, and is not at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, it is basically invincible.&1t;/p>
If it is an ordinary army, you usually have to go to the battlefield to fight a few times first, eliminate those soldiers with poor luck like a sieve, and then continue to replenish the soldiers, then die a group and retain another group. Only by screening them repeatedly can you get an elite unit.&1t;/p>
The Qi family army is different from those ordinary troops. The new recruits' luck is checked. As long as there are enough grassroots officers, good armed and sufficient training, the new recruits who go to the battlefield will be more confident of winning the war and greatly reduce casualties.&1t;/p>
During the Qi family's anti-Japanese war, the low casualty rate was rare in history. The training and equipment were strengthened, and luck was indeed a very important factor. Another thing is that the Japanese pirates are not actually regular troops. Although there are Japanese ronin as professional thugs, most Japanese ronin fight fiercely. Once they encounter a closely-cooperated army like the Qi family, they can only kneel down.&1t;/p>
In the officialdom, Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty was actually very good at meeting people through faces.&1t;/p>
There have always been many proficient in metaphysics in the officialdom. Some officials are good at fortune telling, some are good at traditional Chinese medicine, some are good at Feng Shui, and some are good at a little bit. These are all very respectful things. When literati gather, in addition to reciting poems and writing pairs, they will also communicate with each other's fortune and medical principles. For example, take out the eight characters for classmates to study them together and sigh at each other's wasted life.&1t;/p>
Many times, these officials have nothing to do. If you have any interests in this area, you will obviously have plenty of time to understand the metaphysics. In this way, these metaphysics have produced two schools. One is called the Study School, which is popular in the upper class, and the main force is these officials and literati. The Study School is characterized by being proficient in theory, but it is slightly insufficient in practical experience. The other is called the Jianghu School, which is the one who walks around the streets and alleys. The theory is not as good as the Study School, but it has rich practical experience. Generally, scammers come from this level.&1t;/p>
Soon, the cabinet assistant Shen Wei became the busiest official, and various reform plans were implemented continuously, and follow-up evaluation was required, so he was naturally too busy to go to the ground.&1t;/p>
This is the benefit of a good relationship between the cabinet and the emperor. If Zhu Youxiao was asked to preside over these reforms all day and stay in a pair of government affairs, it would be basically impossible, and the eunuchs did not have a civil servant major.&1t;/p>
Therefore, China has always been inseparable from the position of prime minister. There was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty. That was because Zhu Yuanzhang was more diligent and he did what the prime minister could do, and he became a national designer. The emperors behind him obviously could not have been like Zhu Yuanzhang, so he established a cabinet in disguise. The cabinet auxiliary actually had the same position as the prime minister, but had certain checks and balances in power, so the Silijian was born.&1t;/p>
Zhu Youxiao asked the Sili Supervisor to keep an eye on him for a few days. Now Shen Qing is still relatively reliable in doing things, so he began to prepare to increase the establishment of the Jingying.&1t;/p>
There are only five infantry divisions left in the Beijing camp, plus a newly established artillery battalion. Now two infantry divisions have been transferred, and the Wuxiang Cavalry Division has also been transferred to Liaodongbian Town.&1t;/p>
There are only three infantry divisions, a cavalry division, and an artillery battalion in the entire capital.&1t;/p>
This military force made Zhu Youxiao afraid to continue dispatching troops.&1t;/p>
"As long as the Beijing camp is expanded, the troops can be pulled out to armed anti-smuggling, crack down on private salt, stealing mines, and armed card establishment to collect taxes. Are you afraid that there will be no money?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but get excited.&1t;/p>
Next year is the second year of Apocalypse, and the current situation is still relatively optimistic.&1t;/p>
The Royal Military Factory then began to carry out large-scale equipment manufacturing activities. Zhu Youxiao naturally spent money like water. Not only did the military industry cost money, but also the reform activities in Shenyang.&1t;/p>
At this moment, Dongjiang Town sent an urgent memorial.&1t;/p>
"Emperor, Emperor, Dongjiang Army's great victory..." Qian Guoxing entered the Yangxin Palace with joy. Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, then he showed a look of surprise on his face, and quickly took the memorial to read. (To be continued...)&1t;/p>
ps: First update!&1t;/p>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!