Chapter 115: Loren's Heart

The same person facing this problem is Luo Lun.

Because Luo Lun is now in Nan'an County, Quanzhou.

The situation in Nan'an County is completely different from that in Ninghua County.

Luo Lun didn't have to do anything at all, but just released the news that he would pay off all the money by taxing land and servicing. As one of the pilot projects, countless people came to Nan'an County.

Just someone with status comes to find out.

When Luo Lun checked the local situation, most people were not content with farming, and it was normal for them to go overseas to do business very early.

Nan'an County is only fifteen miles away from Quanzhou, and there are waterways connected. It can be said that it is within a short distance. The land of Fujian has a large population and a small land area, which has long been no longer a rumor.

The plains of Quanzhou are still very densely populated. Many people want to dig out food from the soil, but there is no land to speak of. However, a considerable number of sailors and merchants running on the sea are from Nan'an.

Moreover, there are also large merchants in Nan'an County, and there are a large number of them.

Although the status of a businessman in Fujian is not as good as that of a businessman in Tong'an, he heard that the businessman in Tong'an is even more powerful in the Fujian businessman circle. In a small county, almost half of the men are doing business outside.

If you can pay taxes and exempt labor from money, most prefectures and counties are willing to do so.

Moreover, the potential benefits of the One Whip Method are also to relax the people's dependence on land. Previously, the Ming Dynasty's control over the migration of the people was very strict.

If you move, you need to lead the way.

Because a lot of labor requires people, if all people run away, the county will be blind.

Now after the whip method, this kind of dependence has been greatly reduced and has no benefits. The most grassroots prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty are too lazy to waste their energy.

Luo Lun did nothing, and the obstacles to practicing the whip were cleared.

Not to mention that the whip method is beneficial to the poor, even the rich are willing. After all, most local big households are involved in the sea. Compared with the interests of maritime trade, a little bit of the benefits on the land is nothing.

People look forward to this method, and they are almost drought and look at the clouds and rainbows.

This saves them a lot of trouble.

As for the grain merchants who are cutting prices, they don’t look at where it is. It’s Quanzhou. The shipping is extremely developed. If you really want to raise the price, is it difficult for me to transport two ships of grain from Houjiaozhi Province? As for the money, people who run for sea trade also settle the money in silver. Are you afraid that there is no money?

This is also Liu Dingzhi's response.

People in the court placed Li Dongyang in Ninghua, and how could Liu Dingzhi not be able to see it? He responded with his backhand. What should I do if Luo Lun did?

Should we follow the trend or deliberately sing the opposite tune?

If you deliberately do something bad, you will naturally have to deal with it well. But following the trend, does that mean that the most stubborn people agree with the whip method?

During the court struggle, Liu Dingzhi took the lead.

Luo Lun was also trapped in a conflict like Li Dongyang at this moment.

He actually wanted to discover various problems in the implementation of the whip method locally.

Is there any problem with this whip method?

Some, after all, this whip method is not summarized from bottom to top, but is made at the highest level and then implemented.

In terms of details, it is difficult to be perfect.

But these are all minor problems.

Luo Lun took care of it.

In the general direction, the implementation of the One Whip method in such a place where transportation is developed and trade is active is really no problem at all, and it is even appropriate.

Luo Lun strives to promote the one-whip method, and just think about it, he knows that his political future is gone.

There is nothing else, and in politics, it cannot tolerate a recurring person.

But he insisted on picking the bones from the eggs, but it wasn't impossible. It was just that he was uneasy.

The political struggles in the Ming Dynasty have not yet risen to the point of party struggles. The moral standards of the Ming bureaucrats have not yet fallen to the point of only focusing on interests.

Especially these people who have just entered the officialdom for a few years.

I still have a heart to be an official and a people in my heart.

"Stop, stop." Luolun sighed and ordered the summer tax of the 33rd year of Zhengtong to be collected by the one-whip method.

So the people of Annan were very happy. Even the people of several nearby counties responded to their respective county magistrates, thinking that they were the same as the people of Annan.

So, various parts of Fujian coastal areas called for a whip method to float like snowflakes.

With the active cooperation of the people, Luo Lun's workload was greatly reduced.

Luo Lun was not in the officialdom, and spent almost the most common time reading sages and communicating with Wu Yubi, Chen Xianzhang and others. He seemed to be preparing to resign after he was appointed as the county magistrate, and then he resigned and went home.

After all, he felt that he had no future in the officialdom.

Therefore, during the summer tax of the 33rd year of Zhengtong, the discussion on the One Whip Law was once again stirred up in the court.

As before, the discussions were different within the court, but now all prefectures and counties in various places are involved.

After all, more than a dozen county magistrates who were placed before were spread throughout most provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

The imperial edict issued by the court was also issued clearly, and officials at all levels looked at it clearly.

Therefore, provinces in various places use their own situation as the starting point and discuss the pros and cons of the one-whip method.

Among them, there are almost clear distinctions: support and opposing.

Almost coastal provinces, along the Yangtze River, along the canals, across the south of the Yangtze River, and around the prefectures and counties near Beijing all supported it. However, inland provinces and prefectures and counties in the ravines all opposed it.

A clear opposition has been formed.

Before and after the collection of summer taxes, that is, around May, it became the focus of the court's discussion.

Zhu Qizhen convened a cabinet meeting again. He ordered two cases to be placed on both sides against the wall, neatly arranged more than ten meters long, and there was no gap on it.

They were filled with memorials.

Zhu Qizhen didn't even finish reading it, which made the cabinet very anxious.

All of them are fierce feedback from the prefectures below.

Zhu Qizhen said, "Sir, what do you think?"

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, this matter has been agreed before. After the success or failure of the pilot project in various places, we will discuss it. It is better to slow down the national affairs than to hurry, especially for such matters that involve the people's livelihood in the world. No matter what is said below, we must slow down."

Zhu Qizhen nodded and said, "What the Chief Auxiliary said is good."

In fact, Zhu Qizhen is still very satisfied with the current situation.

Because the number of supporters and opponents of a law is expanding at the same time.

Opponents are based on the ancestral system, which is not in line with the local people's sentiment, etc., and they have no intention of opposing them for various reasons, and there are also more supporters.

This also reflects the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

Given the greatness of the Ming Dynasty, many places, with Jiangnan Jingcheng, the income of the people in these places was quite high. Although it cannot be compared with later generations, overall, it is not much different from that of the Song Dynasty when it was in its prime.

Many urban weather is revealed.

But there are many places where people live a difficult and difficult life hundreds of years ago, and even a little bit of natural disaster, just a life that cannot be persisted.

This is also reality.

There are more places in between.

This multi-level reality also caused local officials at all levels to respond differently to the same affairs.

This is already very good.

Zhu Qizhen is actually reflecting on this point at this moment.

Is the one-whip method suitable for national implementation?

The problem of silver shortage, the problem of grain reserves, the problem of service laws, and the problem of clerks, these problems are all entangled with the One Whip Law.

One-size-fits-all is not necessarily a good thing.

But although Zhu Qizhen had this idea in his mind, he would never say it first. Because as long as he revealed a little bit of wind, those who opposed it would gain a better position.

Zhu Qizhen is so familiar with the method of advancing, retreating, and retreating. Naturally, he knows when to advance and when to retreat?

"However," said Zhu Qizhen: "Among these memorials, the memorials of Li Dongyang, the magistrate of Ninghua County, are particularly interesting. I don't know if you have read them."

Zhu Qizhen signaled that Huai'en immediately instructed the eunuch to hand the stack of memorials and copy them one by one to the cabinet ministers.

Some of these cabinet ministers have read Li Dongyang's memorials, while others have not read Li Dongyang's memorials.

But no matter whether you have seen it or not, now the emperor will let you see it carefully. He will naturally look at it carefully while thinking about Li Dongyang's thoughts.

Liu Dingzhi naturally saw it. Seeing the emperor responding to Li Dongyang's memorial solemnly, he was secretly happy in his heart, and knew that the dilemma of Ninghua County could not trap Li Dongyang. Not only could Li Dongyang be able to solve it perfectly, but he would be able to keep the emperor's heart in the future.
Chapter completed!