Chapter 679 Big Government and Small Government
"Money..."
In the Ganqing Palace, the emperor looked at another memorial requesting funding and couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.
It’s really profitable and spend more.
In the past, when the financial situation was tight, there was not such a great pressure. Now that the financial situation is a little tolerant, the pressure suddenly hits.
In the past, there were many political affairs. If you didn’t have money, you would choose to do whatever is important and prioritize. If you do other things, you should drag them first and owe them.
Now that the finances are tolerant, the debts owed before suddenly have to be paid back, which is undoubtedly very uncomfortable.
Tens of millions of taels of silver were spilled out like flowing water before the national treasury was heated up.
And now, it is only the beginning of the ninth year of Zhaowu!
Next, northwest, southwest, Liao Province, North Korea, navy, northern Xinjiang, disaster relief...
Everything needs a huge amount of money, material resources to make it.
No matter how much money is, it gives people a feeling of dropping the bucket.
Although paper money has become the mainstream after several years and you can try to issue currency over-issuance, it is obvious that the emperor did not want to set this precedent before the concept of currency is completely clear.
After all, without having a clear concept of currency and a clear system of currency, the emperor did not want to open up this gap in currency finance.
As his thoughts circulated, the emperor pursed his lips and gave instructions on the memorial book after requesting funds. He picked up another memorial book. He just picked up the emperor and frowned.
The reason is nothing else. This memorial was too thick. After pondering for a while, the emperor slowly opened the memorial. His eyes were frozen for a moment, and the emperor's eyes suddenly condensed.
It took a long time for the emperor to slowly put down this memorial book. The name "Du Yinxi" was very clear.
There were not many middle and lower-level officials who were concerned about by the emperor, but Du Yinxi was the most special one among them.
Officials naturally want to climb up, and those who are suffering also try every means to transfer to a comfortable place. Most of the other lower-level officials who the emperor is concerned about are also like this.
Only he, Du Yinxi, served many times and achieved great achievements. The Ministry of Personnel transferred him to the Tianjin Maritime Warehouse Office and even transferred him to the capital to become an official. He deliberately retreated and kept mingling with the victims in Shaanxi.
The first project was a disaster relief supervisor in one place, but the relocated officials who participated in the migration strategy, and the relocated officials who are now responsible for connecting with the migration strategy of Liao Province.
In the Daheng officialdom, few officials are willing to do these things.
Although it is a credit for doing it well, it involves tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people. If you are not careful, it will be a major event in heaven.
Not to mention the harsh environment in Shaanxi, the wind and sun and cold winter during the migration process are beyond what ordinary officials can bear.
Thankful things are not popular in the officialdom!
However, he was willing to block Yinxi, and he performed his duties very well. He moved several times over the years and completed them successfully, reducing the number of people in Shaanxi by about 400,000, and adding 400,000 more people in Liao Province.
And this memorial...
The emperor opened the memorial again, his eyes fluttered, and he studied it almost word by word.
The so-called... The location of the station is different, and the perspective of considering things is different.
What the emperor considered was the general direction of the whole world.
The specific branches and branches are the business of officials at all levels.
Not to mention, the emperor is not a saint. It was the first time he was in charge of the world. Many things were full of personal prejudice.
Some of these prejudices are right, some are wrong.
This is why in recent years, the emperor rarely came to promote anything in person, but only set a basic framework, allowing all officials to fill in the branches and brainstorm.
Du Yinxi's memorial reveals a problem that the emperor has never considered or ignored in the past.
In other words, it is an idea that is contrary to the current direction of the court!
At its core, it is the difference between a large government and a small government.
What Daheng is now implementing is naturally an unquestionable large government system. Strictly speaking, it is even a large government system that is more thorough than previous dynasties.
The rights that are about to be taken back to the center will be taken back to the center, further weakening local rights, such as the Taxation Department, the Supervisor's Office, the Local Commission for Inspection, the Maritime Bureau, etc., almost all local affairs except basic civil affairs are directly under the jurisdiction of the central government.
And this is just the concentration of rights. The biggest change is that the rights brought about by the reform of Lijia are sinking to villages and towns!
Daheng wants to establish a large government system that can directly command villages and towns with the order of the center!
This is the emperor's expectation and the direction of Da Heng's current progress.
What the emperor thought was naturally beautiful. The large government system with power sinking to the bottom was almost cut off most of the foundation of the gentry's control of the local area. Moreover, the court's strategies could also reach the grassroots level and easily coordinate the power of the world!
The most important thing is that under such a large government system, we can better keep up with the development of the times.
After all, when commercial capital becomes more and more prosperous, the ambitions of commercial capital will inevitably spread with the growth of wealth!
Capital, for profit, must be bloody and ugly!
When Western capital expanded in disorderly history, the exploitation of the people had clearly explained everything.
Without a strong and powerful government system to control it, it will inevitably be a scene of collapse of rituals and music, disordered capital and barbaric.
This... is enough to destroy the foundation of this nation!
As long as the big government controls barbaric and disorderly capital, under the interests of the sky, the overall environment will completely change from agriculture to business.
Landlords who want to pay rent for hundreds or thousands of acres of land will no longer want to be financially guarded, but will change with the times and make money with money.
In this way, the land annexes that plagued the people of all dynasties and overturned dynasties were not completely resolved, but also greatly suppressed. Moreover, it was not the suppression of today's policies, but the suppression of the general environment of the times that suited the people's hearts most.
With this item alone, Daheng’s national destiny will last at least two hundred years!
Strictly speaking, small governments do not mean weak governments, but rather they refer to the rule of inaction in the Han Dynasty.
It means that the court should only grasp the general direction and not interfere too much with the people at the bottom.
It is enough to have lenient taxes and low taxes, benevolent government and good governance, so that the people can live their own life with peace of mind.
It looks nonsense, but in fact, it also makes sense.
But this principle is what the emperor has always attached to but ignored.
Chapter completed!