Chapter 104 10% of the palace property tax is transferred to the treasury of the Ministry of Households
After arguing for a long time, Zhu Youjian finally got rid of the label of competing with the people for profit. I don't know who invented this term, so these officials often use this label as an excuse to oppress people.
"Your Majesty, running factories in the palace is not beneficial to the people, but it is of no benefit to the country. Doing so will only enrich the treasury of the palace and has nothing to do with the imperial treasury. The imperial court is the arm and center of your majesty's governance of the world. Your majesty
Isn't it putting the cart before the horse to reuse the inner palace?" Zhou Yanru was forced by the emperor, so he had to tell the truth. To be honest, you are doing all these things without the cabinet and ministries, and your inner palace is eating meat.
Is it appropriate to put us aside?
"This is the purpose of your coming, right? I am also quite troubled by the empty treasury, but it is neither reasonable nor reasonable to hand over the palace's factory affairs to the foreign court. The court is here to govern the country, and it is not involved in business matters.
This is called truly competing for profits with the people. At the same time, I am also worried about the large-scale factory affairs in the inner palace. I am afraid that they will use the name of the palace to act lawlessly and bring disaster to the world, so I have specially established the Supervision Department Yamen.
One is to supervise whether there is corruption, abuse of state property, misuse of state property, and ineffectiveness in the affairs of the Neigong factory. The other is to register and inspect the business operations of the Neigong factory, and 10% of the annual revenue will be given to the Ministry of Household Treasury as national tax.
To benefit the country!"
The emperor said a lot of things, and the most important thing the courtiers heard was: 10% of the income from the inner palace factory will be handed over to the national treasury? Is this a good thing? The first reaction of everyone was surprise. Then there was the second
Response, is 10% too little?
"Your Majesty, 10% of the tax revenue is used for state purposes. It's a drop in the bucket and it's hard to use it." Chen Yan, the second assistant to the cabinet, reacted the fastest, which made Long Wangshu start to pursue greater interests. These regular affairs in the inner palace only earn a million taels of silver.
, giving 10% to the national treasury, which is really not much when calculated carefully.
"The system is set up for the long term. Now it seems that the profit of 10% is not much, but in the long run, these factories in the inner palace will need to be expanded, and I will use the money to raise new soldiers, which is already a lot. Let's do this
, this 10% profit is not only for the factories in the palace, but also the royal village and mines in the palace pay a 10% tax to the national treasury."
Did I hear it right? The imperial village and mines also have to pay 10% of the tax to the state treasury? Zhou Yanru felt excited after hearing the emperor's words. The imperial village and mining tax were rights that countless civil servants wanted to take back from the emperor. Unexpectedly
How could the emperor give up this profit so easily? The money paid to the palace by these royal estates and mines in a year is only a little over 10%, right? If it could be realized, it would be equivalent to cutting off the palace's income.
Thirty percent, how come you still have an income of 400,000 taels of silver a year! This doesn’t include those from Nanzhi!
"This is a great kindness by Your Majesty, and I would like to thank Long for his kindness on behalf of the people of the world." After reacting, Zhou Yanru took the lead and knelt down, fearing that the Emperor would change his words and make things go wrong.
Looking at the ministers who were eager to facilitate this matter, Zhu Youjian sneered in his heart. Haha! Is this 10% tax really so easy to get? Just wait. Sooner or later, you will spit out what you have eaten. It depends on when you can get it.
I figured this out.
"Okay, this is like talking about something! Don't just make nonsense of the whole reason of competing with the people. The national economy is difficult, so we have to use our brains to find solutions, instead of opposing for the sake of opposition like some people who engage in party disputes.
.Why is it said that the struggle between the parties harms the country? Why the people in Donglin were still unable to change the general trend of the country's weakening power back then. It is because they did not consider how to save the country, but only thought about how to defeat dissidents! If you act like this, you will end up with the traitor party in a different way."
"Your Majesty is wise!" How can one not be wise? They all handed over the most important profits of the imperial village and the mine supervisor to the court, and also criticized the Donglin opposition party, the natural enemy of the serving ministers.
Although the ministers here are more or less involved with the Donglin Party, Donglin now does not regard them as one of its own, and they also have conflicts of interest with the opposition Donglin Party members. How should I put it, in these years?
The so-called party struggle is Donglin's involution. Those who cannot be swept away by Donglin are the eunuchs, and those who remain are Donglin. Most of the so-called representatives of the eunuchs are not from Donglin!
"There is nothing wrong with His Majesty setting up the Supervisory Office to supervise palace affairs. However, I think you should be more cautious about the people your Majesty appoints. It is best to use people with formal backgrounds!" Zhou Yanru, who had finished his excitement, calmed down.
In addition to money matters, there are also official matters when entering the palace.
"The matters involved in the Yamen of the Supervisory Office are all daily common affairs. Using the official officials of the imperial court will somewhat eliminate the imperial officials, but ordinary people cannot do these common affairs, so it is most appropriate to use the supervisory students. Although this yamen refers to the grades of imperial officials, it is
The official grades set up are not the same as those of other officials in the imperial court! It is not a big deal if they are born as supervisors. Of course, their actions are also subject to the control of the foreign court. Regarding the accounts and documents they have compiled and the national taxes they have paid, the Ministry of Household Affairs can
Check again. If there are errors, you can order a re-inspection. The Supervisory Office has the power to supervise their actions! The Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple also have the right to deal with their corruption and bending the law. In this matter, they are no different from the imperial officials."
In addition, the leadership is only a temporary measure. In the end, we have to return to the framework system of the imperial court to solve the problem. Therefore, Zhu Youjian will not let the supervision department completely derail the current imperial system. Except that the personnel power cannot be handed over now
In addition to the staff department, the business still has to be involved with other departments of the imperial court, and there must be checks and balances. The current supervision department is equivalent to a public-private unit with independent financial and personnel rights.
The courtiers wanted to have control over the Supervisory Office, but they also did not want them to impact the existing bureaucracy surrounding the imperial examination system. This was a pretty good idea.
The current yamen established around prison students is still too naive and cannot effectively impact the current bureaucracy, and the source of these prison students is not ideal. Let’s establish a firm foothold first. After one or two years, the situation can be improved.
When you have the final say, a serious new university education system will come into being. In this current situation where you have no control over yourself, both internally and externally, it is not a good thing to make things bigger.
Not to mention myself, even the important ministers in the DPRK actually have very weak control over the bureaucracy. What Zhu Youjian's predecessor did was really troublesome. Not to mention that you are in trouble, at least maintain a stable center.
Institutions are fine, too. As a result, since there was no way to deal with external chaos, he tried so hard to mess with the central institutions, which made everyone in the central institutions feel insecure and unable to form a stable governing atmosphere. He really thought that the chaos was caused by the lack of competent officials.
Is it caused by this? I think things are too naive. The only way to save Ming Dynasty now is not to rush for success, run fast in small steps, stabilize and improve the basic market that can be controlled, and figure it out step by step. The more urgent the operation, the more