Chapter 223 Court Council, Reform, and Determination
Chapter 223: Court meeting, reform, determination
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Chapter 223: Court meeting, reform, determination
afternoon.
In the Nuan Pavilion next to the Imperial Study Room in Shengtian Palace.
The ministers gathered together, and Qin Wei came in all kinds of ways.
"Greetings to Your Majesty!"
"My dear friends, no courtesy!"
Qin Wei sat on the main seat and glanced at the ministers casually.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
When the ministers stood up, Qin Wei was not polite and said directly: "Today I invite you all to come to the court for discussion. There are several things to discuss."
As he spoke, he waved, and Xiao Shunzi immediately handed him a booklet.
Opening the brochure, Qin Wei glanced at it and said, "The first thing is about the promotion of the martial arts pavilion to all states and counties."
All the ministers were slightly stunned, but only Zhuge Zhengwo understood.
Qin Wei had already communicated with Zhuge Zhengwo before, but others knew nothing about it.
Just when Qin Wei finished speaking, Xiao Shunzi immediately called to the little eunuch next to him to deliver the folds one by one to the ministers.
The content in the excerpt is the rules and regulations of the Yanwu Pavilion formulated by Qin Wei.
Starting from the county-level martial arts pavilion, how to recruit students, how to assess students, how to be promoted to the prefectural-level martial arts pavilion, then the state-level martial arts pavilion, and finally the Kyoto-level martial arts pavilion.
Generally speaking, it is similar to elementary school to junior high school, junior high school to junior high school, and finally the college entrance examination.
After entering the state-level martial arts pavilion, you will become an official of the imperial court. The academic system of the state-level martial arts pavilion is four years. After completing the study, you can pass the assessment to join the Kyoto martial arts pavilion. If you fail, you can serve as a junior military attache in the garrison of the state.
After reading this, all the ministers looked at each other in astonishment.
This approach was something they had never thought of.
"Do you have any objections, dear ministers?" Qin Wei asked.
Ministers, you look at me and I look at you. Finally, Sun Wenjian, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, these prefectures and counties have built martial arts pavilions, which cost a lot of money and food. I am afraid that the Ministry of Revenue cannot support them."
The promotion of Yanwu Pavilion is definitely not a trivial matter. Just talking about the money spent is not a small amount.
There are 2,000 counties and more than 300 prefectures in Dali. With so many prefectures and counties having to build martial arts pavilions, the expense can be imagined.
"Don't worry about the money issue now. I'll talk about it later." Qin Wei said.
Sun Wenjian then stepped back and said nothing.
Qin Wei has said this, what else can he say.
Zhou Wensheng, the Minister of Civil Affairs, stood up again and said: "Your Majesty, is the Yanwu Pavilion the same as a government school or a county school? Where do the professors come from?"
Qin Wei said: "All levels of martial arts pavilions have the official position of Wu Zheng, which is one level lower than the county magistrate, magistrate, and chief secretary. As for professors, they can be selected from sects in various places, as well as from the military and town martial divisions."
"This~~" Zhou Wensheng frowned a little.
"What's wrong?" Qin Wei asked.
Zhou Wensheng said: "Your Majesty, this may require thousands of officials! Official salaries are quite high."
Qin Wei smiled softly and said, "Didn't I tell you that we would talk about the money later?"
Everything is inseparable from money. It takes money to build a martial arts pavilion, and it also costs money to recruit officials and professors. After the martial arts pavilion is established, the daily expenses are not a small amount.
"Your Majesty, students from this state-level martial arts pavilion can serve as military attachés in the garrison, but what about the Kyoto martial arts pavilion?" Wang Shouzhi, the Minister of War, asked.
"After students from the Kyoto Yanwu Pavilion complete their studies, they can enter Qingfu Mountain!" Qin Wei said calmly.
Students who can enter the Kyoto Yanwu Pavilion must be unique talents. Such talents are innate seedlings, and naturally they must be carefully cultivated.
This time it is not just the Yanwu Pavilion that is being reformed, but also Qing Fushan and Qin Wei.
In the past, Qingfu Mountain was a place for pure cultivation of innate warriors. In the future, Qingfu Mountain will still be a place for pure cultivation. However, Qin Wei will require every innate warrior to recruit disciples, at least one disciple every year.
The ministers were shocked, and everyone understood that this martial arts pavilion would probably become the target of countless people in the future.
Being able to enter the sect of an innate warrior is a great blessing for most warriors.
Ji Yuanchen was thoughtful and asked: "Then the martial arts pavilion must also be included in the assessment scope of the county chief officials?"
"Naturally, both civil and martial arts should be given equal importance," Qin Weidao said.
"Isn't this unfair to the nobles?" Ji Yuanchen said.
Qin Wei narrowed his eyes slightly and understood what Ji Yuanchen meant.
The method of selecting civil servants in Dali is the imperial examination, but there is no military examination in Dali. The method of selecting military attaches is recommendation, which is the honorable recommendation system. This is why the garrison troops in various places in the Five Army Governor's Mansion are controlled by honorable officers.
The establishment of Yanwu Pavilion is undoubtedly to break this rule.
For the Xungui Group, this is equivalent to cutting off their roots.
Thinking of this, Qin Wei looked at the military attaches in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and sure enough, the faces of these guys were extremely ugly.
After Ji Yuanchen finished speaking, the hall suddenly fell into silence.
Qin Wei tapped his fingers on the table, his expression as calm as ever.
He had already thought about this.
He wanted to implement the martial arts pavilion system with the purpose of selecting geniuses from among the people, so that the geniuses among the people would no longer be buried, so that they could serve the imperial court.
This will definitely infringe on some people's interests.
And there are many things he needs to reform, and Yanwu Pavilion is just the simplest one. If he can't even do this, then the three-year development plan he formulated is nonsense.
"Does the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army have any objections?" Qin Wei asked.
All the military officers bowed their heads and remained silent.
Naturally they have objections, but they dare not speak out.
Seeing them like this, Qin Wei didn't care and said directly: "In the future, distinguished disciples can also become officials if they want to, as long as they pass the various assessments of the Yanwu Pavilion."
"If you can't even do this, then don't be embarrassed in the army!"
Are there no talents among the nobles?
Of course not.
In fact, martial arts practice has very strict requirements for inheritance, and it is difficult for ordinary small families to cultivate warriors.
Talent is important, but resources are even more important.
The nobles' ability to control the Five Army Governor's Mansion relies not only on their privileges, but also because they can train many powerful warriors, and they are also warriors with military talents.
And now Qin Wei wants to give resources to those geniuses from the private sector, because there are more geniuses in the private sector.
"If you have any objections, you can tell me!" Qin Wei said calmly.
There was silence in the Nuan Pavilion, no one spoke.
When Qin Wei saw this, he sneered in his heart.
Dali's nobles look very powerful, but they are actually just a bunch of paper tigers.
Even though they control the Fifth Army Commander's Office, their power is actually very weak.
After all, this world is a world of cultivation, unlike previous lives in ancient times where having military power means being a master.
Supporting soldiers and self-respect will not work in this world.
Just like Beiyuan City, the reason why Beiyuan City can be independent from Dali is not because they have a hundred thousand Sky Eagle Army, but because they have a Situ City Lord who is in the third level of Xiantian.
"Since you have no objections, it's settled now."
"Zhuge correct me!" Qin Wei called.
"I'm here!" Zhuge Zhengwo stepped out of the queue and bowed in response.
"You are responsible for this matter, with the assistance of the Zhenwu Department and various ministries and yamen. I give you the power to act as the opportunity arises. You can kill first and report later!" Qin Wei grinned.
Kill first and play later!
He relied on this to run rampant in Kyoto, and now he gave it to Zhuge Zhengwo.
As soon as these words came out, the officials in the palace suddenly became as cold as a chill.
Especially those nobles, their expressions were a bit unnatural.
At this time, they suddenly remembered that Qin Wei was not a kind person.
When the Zhenwu Division was established, Qin Wei took over the Chengguo government. Now that he is in the imperial power, anyone who doesn't open his eyes will definitely be lighting a lantern in a manhole and seeking death.
"I obey the decree!" Zhuge Zhengwo responded.
Qin Wei nodded, glanced at the book in his hand, and said, "Let's talk about the second thing, tax reform."
As he spoke, he winked at Xiao Shunzi.
Xiao Shunzi understood immediately and once again summoned a group of young eunuchs to distribute the booklet to the ministers.
When the ministers got the coupons and looked at them, their expressions changed. Even the old guy Ji Yuanchen was a little stunned.
The tax system in Dali is still in the stage of head tax, that is, tax is collected on a per-capita basis. The number of people in a household is taxed based on how many people there are. Taxation is generally based on food.
In addition, there are city taxes, customs duties, shipping taxes, agricultural mulberry silk, etc.
Just like the Ming Dynasty in Chinese history, there is also a large tax-free group in Dali.
Scholars with great reputations, warriors who have reached the fourth level of cultivation, noble families in the court, and official families all belong to the privileged group, and they are all exempt from tax.
The key is that the problem of land annexation also exists.
It has been more than three hundred years since the founding of the Dali Dynasty, and the problem of land annexation within the dynasty has actually reached a very serious stage.
I think back then, a Wanfu Temple in Tianzhou could occupy millions of acres of fertile land, and other sects also owned a lot of fertile land. This was one of the reasons why Emperor Li had to suppress the sects in the world.
But it is not enough to suppress the sects all over the world. There are also many nobles, official families, martial arts families, etc., who are annexing land wantonly.
The only thing that makes Qin Wei happy is that the situation in Dali is much better than that in the late Ming Dynasty in Chinese history. This is mainly because the old emperor has already discovered this problem and has been solving it.
Killing nobles, destroying aristocratic families, re-employing poor people, etc., although they were not thorough enough, they also suppressed the problem of land annexation in Dali.
Now that Qin Wei wants to create a truly prosperous Dali, tax-free privileges and land annexation are the biggest gaps before him.
Therefore, he proposed the system of dividing the land into an acre and paying taxes to the gentry as a whole.
The levy of dingyin into land taxes abolished the previous "poll tax", so the landless poor people were freed from the burden of dingyin; the tax burden on landlords was increased, which could limit or ease land annexation to a certain extent, while leaving less land
The burden on farmers is relatively light.
At the same time, the imperial court would relax control over household registration, allowing farmers and craftsmen to move freely and sell their labor. This would help mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and other workers for production and expand the productivity of the entire Dali.
Moreover, after the land is divided into acres, the land and land are merged into one, and the land and land taxes are uniformly taxed, which simplifies the taxation and collection procedures.
Then cooperate with the gentry to pay taxes as one, and completely abolish the tax-free privileges.
This will not only increase the fiscal revenue for the court, but also contribute to the population growth of Dali.
With money, Qin Wei can do more things, with people, more talents can appear, and Dali's strength will become stronger and stronger.
In this world of cultivation, ordinary people seem to be unimportant. They are not even qualified to rebel. But for a dynasty, the people are the bottom cornerstone. How tall the pavilion can be built in the court depends entirely on what the people at the bottom can do.
How many resources are provided.
"Do you have any objections, dear ministers?" Qin Wei asked again.
All the ministers were silent.
This was more terrifying than the implementation of the Martial Arts Pavilion. They didn't know what to say.
"Your Majesty, this matter should not be rushed!" As the chief assistant, Ji Yuanchen could only stand up when no one spoke.
He wanted to persuade Qin Wei, but he didn't know how to persuade him.
There is no problem with the two systems proposed by Qin Wei. He knew that implementing these two systems would be beneficial to the court, but the impact would be too great.
This affects almost everyone in Dali and pushes all the privileged groups in Dali to the opposite side.
The interests of noble families, official families, sect forces, martial arts families, and even every official in the court will be harmed.
And once the conflict intensifies, the entire Dali will be plunged into turmoil.
Ji Yuanchen didn't know what consequences these two policies would have after they were promulgated.
But Qin Wei's face darkened and he said: "That's right, not only will I not delay, I will also implement these two policies as soon as possible."
"The government continues to suffer chaos. The longer this matter is delayed, the greater the turmoil will be."
He stood up and said solemnly: "My dear friends, please stay in the front hall to rest tonight. Early tomorrow morning, the cabinet will immediately issue a document and send it to all states, prefectures, and counties, requiring government offices at all levels to reopen within three months."
Measure all the fields."
"The Governor's Office of the Fifth Army immediately issued military orders to the garrison troops in various states, requiring the garrison troops in various regions to stand guard and wait. Once they receive the order, they will immediately launch a thunderous strike. Anyone who dares to initiate a riot will be shot to death."
"The Zhenwu Division and the Imperial City Division monitor the world. Officials at all levels who are passive and sabotage will be implicated for three generations!"
Are you kidding me? This kind of thing cannot be postponed.
Once the time is prolonged and those people react, trouble will definitely occur.
Qin Wei didn't give them time, so he had to complete the land measurement first. As long as the land measurement was completed, there would be a basis for dividing the land into acres.
It is not easy for such a large dynasty to implement a policy.
There are countless officials in government agencies at all levels, and it is almost impossible to get them to do things seriously and follow orders.
But Qin Wei is not without support.
He has the Imperial City Department to monitor the world, and he has the Zhenwu Department to suppress the sect forces. He has just solved the slowdown, and one victory after another has forged his imperial power.
Now that the external troubles have been eliminated, he can fully deal with the internal problems of the dynasty.
"Whether Dali can take off depends on this time."
"Whoever dares to stop me is my enemy."
"I will let him know what it means to be angry with the emperor and kill millions of people!"
Qin Wei said solemnly.
When all the ministers heard this, they were all trembling with fear.
They already understood Qin Wei's determination.
Qin Wei looked at the pale-faced ministers with a stern look in his eyes.
There must be no talk of benevolence at this time.
The vast majority of people fear power rather than morality.
He just wants to intimidate these ministers in front of him with the power of the emperor. If he can't intimidate these ministers, then how can he intimidate so many privileged groups in the world.