Zhu Su and Liu Bowen did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly entered the palace to have an audience. When they arrived at Jinshen Hall, they saw that Lao Zhu and Prince Zhu Biao had been waiting for a long time.
As soon as he saw Zhu Su and Liu Bowen coming, Lao Zhu greeted: "Mr. Liu, Lao Wu, come quickly."
"Let's take a look at this memorial. What do you think of the method presented in this memorial?"
"Memorial?" Zhu Su took it and opened it. "Please set up a tax department to collect commercial taxes?"
"It seems that among the civil servants, some are already overwhelmed and want to defect." Zhu Su chuckled. "But if there are people who can establish a tax department, we will rely on the Ministry of Household Affairs and only try it on a small scale. What is the purpose of levying a business tax? We have already started to establish it.”
"Dad, why did you ask Mr. Liu and I to come here in such a hurry just for this kind of memorial?"
Zhu Su's tone was resentful. He was very busy right now. He had to do scientific research, take care of the affairs of the Imperial College, and discuss the tone of the new study with Song Lian, Liu Bowen and others. He was so busy that he never touched the ground.
Lao Zhu laughed angrily at this rebellious son, and Zhu Biao tapped Zhu Su's forehead: "Why are you so worried?"
"If there is no practical and practical solution, how can I bother you, a busy person?"
"Leaving this matter to him will indeed make the best use of it."
"Li Shanchang was still advising the court officials a few days ago. Now that he is in charge of recruiting arithmetic experts and preparing for the establishment of the tax department, the court officials must regard him as a traitor!"
Now there is another deviant who has a new style of learning and practicality. Liu Bowen congratulates Lao Zhu from the bottom of his heart.
"In the future..." Zhu Su looked at the next few pages with doubts, his eyes quickly scanned, and his expression finally became serious. "Please open Enke and recruit experts for use?"
"Look back!"
"The Duke of Korea has great prestige. If he takes charge of this matter, there will be no worries about the matter." Liu Bowen said calmly. "Even if the courtiers have objections, the Duke of Korea will definitely handle it properly."
"In that case, let him take charge of the Enke matter!"
As for ideological awareness, you can take one small meeting every three days, one big meeting every five days, and slowly transform it!
As soon as the emperor opened his mouth, this special enko was confirmed. Soon, under the emperor's power, various places received imperial edicts about adding enko:
Tell the people that this Enke is to collect commercial taxes for the imperial court, so full-time tax officials are recruited.
"Is this policy proposed by the Korean government?" Liu Bowen frowned, but after a moment, he relaxed. "In this case, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty even more."
"One leaf blocks the eyes, one leaf blocks the eyes! Why didn't I think of that!" Zhu Su held up this memorial and felt as if he could see the sun through the clouds. All along, he had always thought that the feudal dynasty would ultimately rely on scientific examinations held every three years to select scholars. What the scientific examination embodies is thought, so we can make use of scientific examination to make the thoughts of the Ming literati break away from the prison of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Aren’t most of the civil servants in later generations just grassroots workers? There is no need for them to know too much. They only need to be conscientious and be able to be honest social animals and understand the work in their hands!
"Why did you say that?" Lao Zhu seemed to be in a good mood.
"A talent for governing the world is indeed a talent for governing the world." Lao Zhu's face looked a little strange. "Mr. Liu, please turn to the end and take a look."
Look forward and backward to understand what the Lord will not do!
"Who proposed this policy? I would like to congratulate Your Majesty for having acquired another talent for governing the world." Liu Bowen said sincerely. For him now, the most uncomfortable problem is that there are too few like-minded colleagues in the DPRK.
He is also the only civil servant who has brought forth the old and brought forth the new to eliminate millennia of ills. Song Lian is still a bachelor of learning and is not proficient in practice. When it comes to practice, almost everything depends on His Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the Fifth Prince and himself.
It's just a discussion between four people.
"This policy will definitely cause an uproar between the government and the public, but... it is implemented in a practical manner and can be implemented." Liu Bowen also said. Regarding the remnants of the old power literati in the court, Liu Bowen also had an attitude of ignoring it.
Anyway, these people will be liquidated by His Majesty sooner or later. Instead of worrying about whether they will become resistance to the New Deal, it is better to go their own way and implement the New Learning and New Deal to the end.
"However." Lao Zhu touched his chin. "It's not bad to do this. This Li Shanchang still has real abilities, otherwise we wouldn't have handed over all the logistics, food and salary to him when we were fighting in the north and south."
"Hahahahaha." Lao Zhu laughed heartily, pointed at Liu Bowen and scolded: "You old coward has no good intentions!"
But I have never thought that there is another purpose of opening a subject to obtain academic qualifications... that is to recruit talents with special skills, and use them exclusively! What the Taxation Department needs is a large number of tax collectors who are proficient in arithmetic, so open an Enke exam that specializes in arithmetic.
Isn’t that the end? The imperial court does not need these tax collectors to debate scriptures with the old literati, nor does it need all of them to be so-called moral gentlemen!
To accomplish this, it will not be accomplished in a day. First, he must open the Imperial College and cultivate new literati who will stand with him. Then, by taking advantage of the scientific examination, he will gradually let the new literati rise to power and slowly ban the old literati...
...Only in this way can we have enough manpower to establish the Taxation Department and completely bring the national finance and taxation into Lao Zhu's hands.
"Oh?" Liu Bowen was confused, and he turned the memorial to the end as he was told, and his brows furrowed for a moment: at the end of the memorial, it was clearly written: "Your Majesty Li Shanchang kowtows to remonstrate."
When Liu Bowen heard these words, he came up solemnly, and saw that his superiors asked Lao Zhu to conduct a special scientific examination. He did not need to stick to any official status or moral articles, but only focused on taxation and skills.
He studies arithmetic and recruits children from good families with relevant expertise to join the tax department to collect commercial taxes for the country.
The tax collector is directly under the jurisdiction of our emperor, but all the people of the Ming Dynasty can participate, regardless of whether they have achieved fame or not, or how much they have studied. This examination is based on the meaning of the sages' "managing the world for practical use" and is based on practicality, so
It does not examine the more profound Confucianism, and only focuses on three categories: arithmetic, law, and taxation.
The incident occurred suddenly, and after three months, the examination will be carried out. The chief officials in various places should post our notice in various places under their jurisdiction, and also send people to announce it to the people, so that it can be clearly stated in all directions, so that everyone can hear it.
Admire this!
This imperial edict in vernacular, which was very characteristic of Lao Zhu, soon caused uproar in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. Before the princes in the court had time to object, some students from all over the world responded excitedly. When many people saw the notice of the imperial edict, they
I immediately packed my bags and headed directly to Yingtian!