Li Maochu was right, the private salt matter is far from over.
Moreover, this matter has given Zhu Yunxi a headache for a long time.
The time traveler is not omnipotent, especially a child from an ordinary family like him. How can he lead the entire empire without even being a squad leader?
Even after so many years of study, he can lead and control this empire, but how to make this empire better and how to get rid of its stubborn and incurable diseases?
As for the private salt matter, on the surface, it seems that a group of second-generation nobles with clairvoyance are wielding power and illegally, using their connections to collude with others, harming the country and enriching themselves.
What about actually?
First of all, this kind of thing has been common in all dynasties and has been banned repeatedly. At its root, it is a human problem.
For example, the salt transport envoys of Lianghuai and Jiaodong, the salt administration officials of various provinces, etc., have too much power. They are so powerful that they can make decisions by one person, and they have almost no supervision.
In addition to being a problem of people’s greed, isn’t it also a problem of the system?
When it comes to institutional issues, we fall into an endless cycle of clichés, saying that officials are in trouble, human relationships cannot be evaded, etc. There are a lot of irrefutable truths.
The most important thing is that Zhu Yunxi is the highest beneficiary of this system. Does he want to overthrow it?
Is reform easier said than done? Let’s not even talk about whether the system that is too advanced, the methods that are too radical, and the laws that are too strict are suitable for this era. Then it will be like a wheel. Let’s talk about it again. Are the people who exercise these rights still human beings?
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It's still like these within the Ming Dynasty, people who have been admitted to the sage article, people who have been promoted to Jinshi, people who bring their families and relatives and old friends, people who have this relationship with others!
No matter how nice it sounds, no matter how nice it sounds, when it comes to implementation, it still looks like a bird?
Sometimes, Zhu Yunxi advises himself not to be serious in this world.
The world has been developing for thousands of years, but it has not been able to completely separate rights and desires. Who do you think you are?
The old man killed so many people and still failed to correct his attitude. Do you have that kind of temper?
However, he found that if he did not take this issue seriously, then according to the inertia of history, these systems and these people would still be the cause of the demise of the Ming Empire, and even China would once again fall into the cycle of chaos every three hundred years.
Fire cord.
He sometimes comforts himself or even deceives himself.
Life lasts only a few decades, but after a few hundred years do you know what a ball is? You don’t know where the bones and scum have rotted! Do you care so much?
Just do your best in the present moment and live up to the people of the world, then you will be qualified!
At first glance, this sounds good, but if you think about it carefully, isn't this the same as caring about the flood after my death?
Then we will continue to expand on this issue. In addition to the issues of system and people, it is also an issue that requires weighing the pros and cons from an overall perspective.
This is even more of a fucking headache!
The more the Ming Dynasty prospers and develops, the more problems it will have. It can even be foreseen that the speed of development is far less than the speed of the problem's contagion. Let alone cure it, even if it is caught or prevented, it cannot be solved.
Then does the Ming Dynasty still need to develop? For example, trade, customs, commercial taxation, rivers, salt and iron mines and forests, etc. Do we need to do things that are rich in oil and water?
Then this fucking problem is back to the original starting point. Even if you don’t do anything, just let the people of the world farm in peace and contentment. If God gives you face, you will eat. If God doesn’t give him face, you will starve to death. These empires can be cured.
Is it a chronic disease problem?
The answer is, it’s your mother’s spring and autumn dream!
Do nothing and still have a problem!
And the problems were even bigger than when the Ming Empire was prosperous, because the appearance of a prosperous empire could hide these problems.
But every official in the Ming Dynasty knows it. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty not to be prosperous. Where does the money to support the soldiers, the money to support the officials, and the money to support the emperor Zhu Yunxi come from?
The more prosperous it is, the more stable it is, even if there are problems.
The ultimate goal of prosperity is to benefit the people.
Don’t give up eating because of choking!
But at the same time, as an emperor, others can ignore these matters that are as complicated as varicose veins in his mind, but he cannot but consider them.
Others can care about him after a hundred years. I will first talk about the past few decades of being romantic and happy, but Zhu Yunxi cannot think like this.
Therefore, we must promote change.
I dare not say that reform is a silent change that moistens things.
Some people say that boiling a frog in warm water is a fallacy. A frog has legs and can jump. It is not stupid if it cannot speak!
So how does it change?
Zhu Yunxi still had a severe headache.
When it comes to this, there must be someone who is extremely handsome, eighteen centimeters long, tireless and always twenty years old. I'm sure you have something to say. Didn't you think about it?
It’s not that I haven’t thought about it well, but that I really need to be cautious.
Just like private salt, when talking about private salt, we must talk about the finances of the Ming Dynasty, because salt is the most important source of finance.
Now, more than 30 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the world is peaceful and the population has not yet increased. As long as the land is clear and clear, the salt tax can be controlled by the emperor. But not much, in another fifty years, the emperor will not be able to control it, because the country wants
There are too many places to spend money.
Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty who were so arbitrary did not dare to regard the salt tax as their own money bag. Having said that, they had the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was in charge of the city entrance tax at each gate of the capital.
The emperor himself has plenty of money.
To reduce the tax revenue from the national salt and iron monopoly, which extracts profits from the people, we must promote other tax revenue.
Promoting other taxes will give officials too much power, and then various problems will arise...
As far as private salt is concerned, it seems that the better way at present is to hand it over to the Ministry of Accounts.
The characteristics of civil servants are like this. If you don't let me take a share of the pie, then I will keep an eye on you! Unless you are always as honest as water, sooner or later you will be like the light.
Handing it over to the Ministry of Household Affairs will mean that there are many more gesticulating mothers-in-law on the heads of the salt farms in various places. In that case, he will have more worries and his rights will be restricted.
But, but what the fuck is saying is to get the fuck back.
Is this a good thing?
Nowadays, the local salt transport envoys have great power, but the accounts are still clear, and the annual salt output is stable, which can provide reliable and stable financial resources for the internal treasury and the household department.
Once it is handed over to the Ministry of Household Affairs, we used to work to eat, but now we can eat without working, so who will do anything?
Are there few such examples?
Then these people worked together in series, and everyone tried their best to hollow out the salt fields in various places. Who was damaged?
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In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunxi sat on the Arhat bed in a daze, lowering his head in thought.
The brows are furrowed tightly, forming a "Chengchuan" shape. It is deeper than the groove deliberately squeezed out of the A cup, just like the D groove is naturally formed.
"I can't figure it out!" He sighed in his heart and rubbed his eyes vigorously until his eyes turned red, then he put down his hands.
People! System!
Rights!Desire!
People in today's Ming Dynasty system will have desires when they have rights!
Or was it the system of the Ming Dynasty that allowed people to control their rights and desires?
No wonder people say that you must read philosophical things. It will be helpful whether you are in business or politics.
These dialectical questions and logical questions are really troubling!
At this time, Zhu Yunxi suddenly envied the old man.
Hey, let’s not think too much, let’s just sharpen the knife!
If you're greedy, I'll cut you, and you'll see if we kill you quickly.
If you are greedy, we will kill you and take your whole family with you.
Corruption is good for a while, but is buried in mass graves afterwards.
Cut off your head and sell your wife, kill your son and skin you.
Let your daughter enter the church, and her ancestors will be painted green for eight generations.
At the same time, Zhu Yunxi definitely seemed to have some sympathy for those foolish kings in history who did not act, were unwilling to act, and preferred to live in ignorance all their lives.
So he picked up his pen and wrote on the paper, "The faint king is excusable!"