After saying this, Zhao Si pointed to the door and said to Liang Shicheng who was standing in the corner: "Shicheng, take the four Bagos out and go to Shutong and ask him to take the four of them around the cabinet and go to other places.
A few pavilion elders dropped by here."
"yes!"
"Huatian, give me and Xuanming a new pot of tea."
"yes!"
After Huatian left, only Zhao Si and Changsun Moli were left in the room.
"Sit over here, we are so close, how can I serve you tea?" Zhao Si said with a smile.
Changsun Moli smiled, moved his position, and sat in the first position on the lower right side of Zhao Si, close to him.
Zhao Si picked up the teapot and filled Changsun Moli's teacup.
The hot steam rose up, like a mist, with a refreshing fragrance, swirling and rolling, slowly filling the surroundings of the two of them.
"I've heard that you and Maoming are the two Ming Dynasties who are causing trouble in the Ministry of Secretariat. They are known as the two heroes of the cabinet!"
"Haha, these bastard words have reached the ears of the officials. These guys really dare to arrange anything. Mao Ming and I are both for official business, but our ideas are somewhat different from those of our colleagues, and there are always conflicts.
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"Well, my uncle, as soon as he took office, suggested that the Department of Planning should be changed to the Department of Planning, and then he urged the Zhongshu Province to amend the regulations in the "Guoshihuidian. Official System Code" and changed the Department of Planning to Shangshu.
The most powerful department in the province. As long as the Central Committee and local governments of the Song Dynasty draw money from the national treasury, they have to go through the hands of the Ministry of Planning."
"Officials, I think Maoming has made good changes. Since the Planning Department manages money, every penny and every dollar must be properly managed."
"Managing money is one thing, but I heard that he turned the Audit Office into his fatal parting hook?"
"Deadly farewell hook? Officials also like to read chapter chapters and storytellers in market teahouses?" Changsun Moli couldn't help but laugh.
"If you have nothing to do, take a look and change your mind. I am always thinking about military and national affairs all day long, and it is easy to get into trouble." Zhao Si replied with a smile.
It was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun lazily shone in through the west window, shining through the glass and reflecting on the ground with its colorful brilliance.
In the light beams, you can see the floating dust, like fish and shrimp in the sea, rising and falling, left and right, time becomes slow and solidified with their movements, as if the air becomes
Got water.
Changsun Moli did not continue on this topic. As a minister, a joke was enough. It was time to answer the official's questions head-on.
"I feel that Maoming is right to use the Audit Office. He serves as the Chief Auditor himself, enriches the audit team of the Audit Office, and strengthens audit work. First, he conducted annual audits of all departments of the three provinces and one hospital, and now it has become half-year audits. Then he improved the audits of each county.
The Audit Bureau will first use Lianghuai, Liangjiang, and Lianghe as pilot projects to conduct state and county fiscal year audits..."
"Now it has been extended to most counties. Next, Maoming started to carry out handover audit... Officials, I think it is appropriate for Maoming to strengthen the team building of the Audit Office and improve the audit process, which is in line with the establishment of the Audit Office by the government.
Original intention.”
Zhao Si held the tea cup and gently blew the tea powder floating on the tea soup. The light ball cast from the window shone on his feet, and then reflected from the water-milled ground, as if giving an inconspicuous light to his face.
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The Audit Office was newly established during the official reform after Zhao Si came to the throne. According to the law, it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Household Department and later the Du Branch. However, it was not put into use in the hands of Cai Jing, Xu Ji and other ministers, and it gradually became the Shangshu Province.
It is a marginalized nominal government office.
Many people don't even know that there is such an organization in Shangshu Province, let alone what it is used for.
Unexpectedly, Zeng Baohua took over as the Secretary of the Du Branch, and as soon as he changed the Du Branch to the Department of Planning, he opened up the Audit Office. After many hardships, it became a sharp edge in the financial management of the Song Dynasty.
"Xuanming, tell me, compared with Yuan Changgong, how well did Maoming do this plan?"
Zhao Si's very sudden question made Changsun Moli stunned.
Cai Jing has been in charge of the finance of the Song Dynasty for more than ten years since he was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs during the Shaosheng period. He is a world-famous financial expert. In the early years of the Apocalypse, the battle to destroy Xia and the campaign in Mobei made the state treasury abundant and he had no worries about expenses.
He strategizes and is good at dancing.
The subsequent wars such as Ping Liao and others also relied heavily on the good foundation he laid.
The officials asked themselves to compare Zeng Baohua and Cai Jing, which is a bit... hard to say.
Zeng Baohua's talents were not known to others, but he was very aware of them. When the two of them worked together in the Northeast, he was appointed as the governor of Shanbei, and he was appointed as the Governor of Beiping, responsible for the Northeast and Mobei's food, salary and logistics. That was a well-arranged arrangement
when.
In addition, the reconstruction of Yanyun Prefectures, the resettlement of nearly one million soldiers and civilians, the construction of Hebei Water Conservancy and the North Canal, the construction of Jizhou Tianjin and Tanggu Ports, and the hugely expensive expansion of Beiping City, have not been left behind.
Everything was carried out in an orderly manner and completed one after another.
Changsun Moli believed that Cai Jing could not achieve this talent.
It's just that Cai Jing has a long-standing reputation. Although he has been involved in several big things, he has already settled into a stable official position and serves as a priest at Sungkyun University. To belittle him wantonly is a bit unconscionable.
Changsun Moli thought for a while and replied cautiously: "In my personal opinion, Yuan Changgong and Maoming are both capable financial managers and have made outstanding contributions to the financial construction of the Song Dynasty. To talk about the difference between the two, I think,
Some of the wealth generated by Yuan Changzheng's justice is still in the lake, and I am waiting to use it, but I feel uneasy."
"The wealth that Maoming has managed is clear, and I can use it in a very practical way."
Zhao Si pointed at the eldest grandson Moli and laughed, "You, you put it politely, but you are very mean. No matter how unscrupulous he was and how many tricks he spent, his greatest contribution to the Song Dynasty was to establish a
A complete, efficient, unified taxation system led by the central government. This alone is enough to be remembered for generations to come.”
Yes, it doesn’t matter that the former Han Dynasty could write "Salt and Iron Theory", but these financial management ministers have always played tricks, which are not easy to say, it is a means of amassing money. Until the Qing Dynasty, the imperial courts of all dynasties did not really involve the national finance.
——Establish a unified central taxation system.
What all the dynasties have been doing, whether it is the rent-yong modulation or the two-tax system, whether it is thirty taxes per one or one whip law, in the end it is the per capita tax collection and the tax package system.
Even if Yongzheng implemented the system of dividing people into acres, and ostensibly abolished the head tax and the tax on the number of people, in fact, because a unified central taxation system was not established, in the end it was taxed on a per-person basis, rather than on a per-item basis——
Only by establishing a unified central taxation system can tax collection in kind be truly implemented.
In fact, many capable people in the past dynasties also knew this, but they did not know how to establish a unified central taxation system. In the process of exploring, they faced many difficulties and finally gave up halfway.
Under his own guidance and support, Cai Jing used his superhuman intelligence and means to establish this system bit by bit. Although it is still very rough and has many shortcomings, the framework has been established and the foundation has been laid. All that is left is
Continuously improve and improve.
Based on this alone, no matter how bad Cai Jing's reputation is in history, no matter how many tricks he plays under the table, I will ensure that he enjoys his old age - besides, this guy is very smart and will never leave anything to himself.
Cause trouble.
Changsun Moli understood the meaning of Zhao Si's words - Zeng Baohua and Cai Jing each had their own strengths and different styles of doing things, but they were both working for Song Dynasty and for him.
So no matter what the criticism from outside is, he will always trust Zeng Baohua.
Heaving a sigh of relief for his friend, Changsun Moli followed Zhao Si's words.
"Perhaps Chen and Maoming's work styles are completely different from those of their colleagues, so they have been criticized a lot."
"Xuan Ming, you are self-aware." Zhao Si replied with a smile.