Chapter 65 The problem of the one-whip method

In the Wenhua Palace.

The curtain hangs lightly, like the atmosphere in this Wenhua Hall.

Zhu Qi looked quietly at the stack of memorials in front of him, which were memorials that were opposed to the field system from all aspects.

Zhu Qizhen casually opened it and said, "Everyone, what should I do?"

Liu Dingzhi had to speak out.

Compared with Li Xian and Yu Qian before, Liu Dingzhi lacks prestige at all.

But no matter how much you owe, Liu Dingzhi is the chief assistant.

As the prime minister, if you enjoy the power of the prime minister, you must assume the responsibility of the prime minister.

Zhu Qizhen asked, and Liu Dingzhi was naturally the first answer.

However, Liu Dingzhi had no idea what to do when facing such a chaotic situation.

Although Liu Dingzhi also had local resumes, he did not really have been a civil servant for a long time. He was responsible for raising horses in the northwest of Taipu Temple. Later, he was responsible for drying salt in the Salt Transportation Department. Then he was responsible for drying salt. Then he was Shaofu.

Although he was a county magistrate in the capital.

But can Beijing County be compared with other counties?

He is not very familiar with the real suffering of local suffering and money and food to foster the ancestral department.

However, as the prime minister, Liu Dingzhi didn't need to know everything. He just needed to know, and who would know this.

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, Qiu Junsui proposed to use land to match the resident, and to spread the resident into the acres and collect one whip. Although it has the legacy of Duke Zhou, it has too much to do. I have been in the center for a long time, and the pros and cons of the ranks are known to some of them. However, Lord Han Yong and Han have been in the local area for a long time. In the past, they were in Jiangxi to provide relief to more than one million people and hundreds of thousands of households. The sufferings of the people are all in Lord Han's heart. Your Majesty can ask Lord Han for the pros and cons. But I am in charge of the cardinal command and have to advance a word. Even if it is a good law and cannot be implemented, it is a law that harms the people. Even if it is a good law, it may be used for this, and it may not be used for that. If you want to achieve success in this matter, it should be slow rather than urgent."

Liu Dingzhi's words have a rich meaning. First of all, we do not directly deny Qiu Jun's opinion. Instead, we say that we don't know.

Of course, Liu Dingzhi was probably not very familiar with the specific administration of the local government, which was true. But if he didn't know anything about it, it was a little false. Then he introduced Han Yong, which seemed to be magnanimous, showed a harmonious cabinet and recommended his colleagues.

But he didn't know that Liu Dingzhi knew that he was not an ordinary prime minister, but a prime minister who had to face various storms.

Although everyone in the world knows that this reform was proposed by Zhu Qizhen. However, in Confucian ethics, they must not point the finger at the emperor.

Therefore, there is only one person they can point to, that is the chief assistant Liu Dingzhi.

Liu Dingzhi also knew this, so he showed that I am just an ordinary member of the cabinet and do not suppress others as the chief minister. I want to get the support of other people in the cabinet and be consistent with the outside world.

Finally, Liu Dingzhi showed a hint of guilt.

Faced with such a trend, Liu Dingzhi couldn't stand it anymore.

However, the Han Yong he recommended was the right choice.

You should know that Han Yong was step by step from the county magistrate and prefect. He was also known as the top government in the world in the evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel. Han Yong was very clear about local affairs.

Han Yong also had the tendency to be unwilling to let him go. Seeing Liu Dingzhi recommending him, Zhu Qizhen looked at him. Without saying a word, he went out and said: "Your Majesty, I think Your Majesty's original intention is good. The people in the world are really hard. After paying taxes, the common people are just barely fulfilled. During the slack farming period, they have to drift around and do short-term work everywhere to get the winter. This is still a good year. Once there is a natural disaster, the harvest is not enough for the court to pay taxes. Parents, wife and children are hungry, so that they sell their children to scatter their wives, and even countless people sell themselves?"

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Doesn't the court provide relief whenever there are natural disasters?"

Han Yong said: "Your Majesty, only major disasters can provide relief. Many times, the relief has not arrived, and people are already hungry."

Han Yong sighed, he had encountered such a thing. When he was in Jiangxi, he took action first and then reported, and opened the warehouse and released the grain without waiting for Beijing's orders.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen did not blame him at that time, but instead felt that he was decisive and was promoted.

But Han Yong didn't think of this at that time.

It’s not that he didn’t know the political risks involved, but that his compassion was not extinguished.

What Zhu Qizhen saw was not seen with his own eyes. Anyone who came to Zhu Qizhen's ears had been covered up. But what Han Yong saw before was truly tragic.

Just think about it and you will know that men today cannot bear being cuckolded, and at this time, many poor people pawn their wives to others in order to survive.

That kind of pain has trampled my self-esteem into the mud. But it is so unbearable.

But in front of being alive, everything else is worth mentioning.

Most people use all their strength to survive.

Therefore, Han Yong actively supported this policy. Han Yong said: "The first general branch has these benefits. The first general branch collects the power of the government and the power of the people. In the past, various land taxes were discounted and dozens of taxes had to be collected dozens of times, and the clerks had to travel around every month. The county magistrate had not finished the tax, and the other tax came again. Now the clerks were greedy and would not come empty-handed every time they collected taxes. However, the money that the people had to take care of the clerks was not a small amount. Now they were collected together and combined into one, once a year or twice, which saved the pain of running around and reduced the burden on the people."

"Secondly, all taxes and service are all based on the imperial court. Ten households are one liter and one hundred and ten households are one a. They are listed above the Yellow Book and divided into ten squads, with one household as the head of the village, and once every ten years. The shifts are rotated in sequence. This is the law of Taizu, which is a good law. However, the Yellow Book collapses, and the rich evade taxes and service and push them to the poor. Some people do not have taxes and service for their entire lives, and some people serve almost every year, so that their families are destroyed and their people are killed and they compete to escape. Moreover, the affairs of the country are simple, but now there are many things. There are many miscellaneous servants without names, and I don't know how many. Today, all the taxes are included in the government, and the government has a fixed quota, which prohibits the working people. This can be said to solve the people's difficulties."

"Third, restrict the powerful. All the troops are sent to the land, and more fields are paid, and less fields are paid, reducing the burden on the people. Let the common people have a way out."

"With these three things, both officials and the people will do, so how can they not do it?"

"But, the court must be cautious. What Liu Shoufu said is very true. In the opinion of his ministers, he selected the new Jinshi last year, and from one county in the northwest, Henan, Hebei, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, Huguang and southwest, he ordered the new Jinshi to take office. This method is adopted first, and after one or two years of age, he will be sent to the censor for investigation."

"Check for omissions and fill in the gaps. For the future."

Zhu Qizhen said, "Okay. What do you think?"

Zhu Qizhen appreciates Han Yong's opinions very much. People are different. Han Yong can handle so many difficult things in the local area, and he has really made some tricks.

Zhu Qizhen had already made a point of view that he underestimated the difficulty of implementing the new law in the field system.

Zhang Juzheng's implementation of the one-whip method is actually a summary of the local laws that have been changed by itself since Jiajing. The one-whip method is not an invention with Zhang Juzheng, but a summary of Zhang Juzheng.

As early as the Jiajing period, local officials spontaneously changed the tax collection model at that time. Although it was not called the One Whip Method at that time, some were called the Equal Method, the One Method, the Outline Silver Method, the Ten Duan Jin Method, etc., and the like, there were also differences in specific implementation due to different places.

When Zhang Juzheng was unified, it was a whip technique.

In other words, Zhang Juzheng took advantage of this trend and finally did this. Not to deny Zhang Juzheng's ability, Zhang Juzheng followed the trend and showed the vision of a politician.

However, the problem Zhu Qizhen encountered now is completely different from Zhang Juzheng.

First of all, before Zhang Juzheng, the tax system set by Emperor Taizu was overwhelmed. It was already on the verge of collapse, or it had collapsed.

It is precisely because of this that there are local officials who can make up for the gaps. This is very necessary.

But Zhu Qizhen is not like this now.

First of all, although Zhu Qizhen Chengren Xuan's rule was devoted to military affairs, he was still very strict with the administration, and he had just cleared the land.

Although the local tax system in the Ming Dynasty was no longer as good as during the Taizu period, it was far from unusable.
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