Chapter 180 The strength of the new party is so terrifying
Chapter 180 The strength of the new party is so terrifying
The emperor threw out a set of structures and ideas that seemed to have been well thought out, and then it became a "painful" and "itchy" question-and-answer time for the advisers.
"Your Majesty, if this is the case, Guangdong's expenditure next year will reach hundreds of thousands of taels. Where will the money come from?"
"Guangdong has decided to use taxes in lieu of wages, and with the newly added government land last year and this year, there will be no worries within a few years after the tenants are rented out."
"...It's just that Your Majesty, the people of Guangdong may not be able to afford more rent, and the hidden households have not been clarified."
"Ke Ze unified the rich and the poor to share the burden, and the people were not bound by corvee and could rent a lot. The rest, Huang Ming recorded, could be rented out by tenants."
"...Huang Ming Ji?"
"I ordered Wei Bin to go to sea with goods and bring only three things with him when he returned to Hong Kong: silver, human beings, and things that did not exist in the Ming Dynasty."
Wang Qiong's scalp was itchy and he tried to keep up with the rhythm: "So Huang Mingji can use the barbarians to farm, so the local corvee procurement will also be borne by them?"
"This is a detail that you and others need to discuss. Huang Mingji can bear it, or local commercial banks can bear it. The most important thing is that the people do not have to bring their own dry food to serve in the army during the off-season, or they do not get money when they answer the army.
Where the new law is understood, the wealthy gentry and wealthy households will naturally understand it. This method can make money faster than just escaping from taxes and servitude."
The huge government procurement is worth hundreds of thousands to nearly one million taels a year, and how much can they earn from the output of all the fields in Guangdong in a year? The total amount of land is just that much.
What's more, there is also a private market that has become active accordingly.
"Your Majesty, I am afraid that most of the squires will wait and see at first, so how can we establish trust?"
"This matter is nothing to worry about. Huangmingji asked all the relatives to participate in it. Your Majesty, when you have done business with your relatives before, you have no partners? These people know where the profit lies. What's more, Huangmingji Sea Trade Company, transferred to
The large number of vehicles and boats required for operation, purchasing and hiring are a huge business." Zhu Houcong looked at them and said, "The sea trade company went south with nearly three million taels of silver, and it turns over two or three times a year. Guangdong
How huge are the business opportunities?”
"...Your Majesty, other provinces will not have such investment and effectiveness in the future..."
"Effectiveness is first of all a rule. The common people can concentrate more on their own land, and the officials and gentry can pay the grain together, so there is no need to worry about land tax; when doing business, taxation is standardized, and the annual income of real money increases, and expenditures are flexible; when farmers, merchants, and study, they start from the bottom up.
When more people's efforts are directed, vitality will be revealed; from the imperial court to local governments, etiquette and laws will be taught and regulations will be established, and the officials and people of the world will behave in an orderly manner."
Zhu Houcong paused for a moment and then said: "This is also in line with the laws of nature. This human principle is both an individual and a country. Everyone hopes to live a good life. If the current etiquette system only makes the officials and gentry become increasingly rich and the people become increasingly difficult, then it will
The solitary yin does not arise and the solitary yang does not grow. Many of my thoughts on the new law stem from this. The reason why it is in line with nature lies in the word circulation. People must circulate, money must circulate, and power must also circulate."
The government uniformly converted silver, and the officials and gentry paid grain and taxes together. The heavy pressure of the new law enveloped the counselors.
Can Guangdong, which has massively increased the number of officials and improved their remuneration, really be able to carry out this reform? What will be the reaction of other provinces after they know the true and complete nature of the new law?
Yang Tinghe glanced at Sun Jiao: Yuan Zonggao is no longer here, and now you are the head of the country. Can you advise me?
Sun Jiao didn't speak.
Yang Tinghe was heartbroken: Fei Hong, that old guy! After the old party is still in the court, the emperor will always leave room for leeway. If the new law fails, the new party will fall and die without a burial place.
Sun Jiao, the head of the state, could sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and help the emperor control the overall situation.
"Your Majesty, I think that next year Guangdong will only open Enke, reorganize government offices, and select officials. As for taxes and levies, we should leave them to the year after next, right? We will compile and review the rules next year, and there will be no major campaigns. If there are any, we will report them to the emperor and the local area.
It will take time for merchants to purchase, educate new laws, divide the gentry, and continue to use lawsuits and punishments as a weapon to subdue the local area." Yang Tinghe still had to stick to his rhythm, "The most important thing, Your Majesty, the Beijing camp has not been completed, and the prince has not yet been born."
If Sun Jiao didn't persuade, Yang Tinghe would have to speak on his own.
He quickly assured: "The general outline of the new law has long been announced to the public, and taxes and levies must be implemented. Since the results can be seen five years before Jiajing, I think it is safer to implement them step by step. Next year, the Guangdong government offices will have a new look, and the officials will fulfill their duties.
One or two effects can also be seen in various procurement and commercial tax affairs; taxes and levies will be determined in the next year, and the officials and gentry will pay them together. By then, the prince will be prosperous and the capital camp will be established. Even if the other provinces are frightened, they can only attack with more ammunition.
Minister, wait."
Yang Tinghe said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, you will have to clearly understand the difficulties faced by the ministers."
The party leader asked for protection, and Zhu Houcong laughed: "Don't worry, Sir. I just hope that you and others will plan from the overall situation and not be afraid of moving forward. I have put forward these ideas, and you and others should try their best to act safely. Jiajing had a plan five years ago
Just a preliminary look.”
Yang Tinghe breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Majesty is wise."
Zhu Houcong looked at everyone again:
"In "The Supplement to the Explanations of the University", I read a sentence, and I quite agree with it. Whatever the people want, Heaven will follow it. Heaven uses the power of the people in the world to dedicate their wealth to one person as the king, and it is not selfish.
Rely on it to control it, teach it, and nurture it."
"Just as Taizu conquered the world, because under the rule of Meng Yuan, our Chinese people will always be slaves and their lives will be ruined. Those who comply with the destiny and act on behalf of heaven must comply with the human principles that everyone wants to settle down and live their lives. If I cannot make everyone in the world
If it is possible to settle down and establish a destiny, the Ming Dynasty will increasingly violate human principles, and destiny will eventually belong to others. If everyone in the world is to be able to settle down and establish a destiny, the method may need to be found in physics."
Zhu Houcong paused for a moment: "There are many people in the world who call Qiu Gong evil talk, which is taboo for the emperor. He said: Although the things in the world are born in the heaven and the earth, they must be equipped with human power to achieve their purpose. Their bodies have different sizes, fineness and thickness.
, its skill is shallow and deep, and its price is as high as a thousand coins. Its body is either big or refined, and it must not be accomplished in a day. I deeply believe that this is the truth of things, and the principles of human beings
reason."
"The world's wealth is not fixed, and the Ming Dynasty's soil and products are all in quantity. However, how the human power is used in accordance with physics will increase and decrease the world's wealth. I must implement new laws, because the Ming Dynasty's human power has been increasingly bound to the fields and corvee labor.
Many things in the world are indifferent to it. Although this book cannot be fully trusted, it still understands Taoism, distinguishes talents, judges people's bodies, observes the sentiments of the people, respects reverence, abstains from lust, be careful in words and deeds, maintains dignity, respects concubines, and is strict in internal governance.
The ministers can also read and think about the key points of governing the country such as establishing the foundation of the country, teaching relatives and subordinates, etc."
The next few paragraphs combine the framework of the Guangdong New Law with the theories of heaven, physics, and human principles, and the elderly study class is encouraged to follow up.
This was also a discovery that Zhu Houcong made after being introduced to him in the Wanfa Museum. Qiu Jun's "Addition to the Explanations of the Great Learning" was indeed "treasonous and unethical" in this era. It not only elaborated on the sensitive issue of the source of the monarch's legitimacy, but also Proposed the concept of "labor determines value".
Although Zhu Houcong would not adopt all of them, it did not prevent him from using valuable contents to package his own theories of heavenly principles, physics, and humanities.
The current problem of the Ming Dynasty is actually involution.
There are too many official restrictions, and everyone mainly thinks about the fields. The more daring merchants are heavily restricted, and sea trade merchants are even prohibited. And there are probably more than 100 million people, and less than half of them have escaped and became " "Hermit", with no identity, no dignity, and no future.
Zhu Houcong knew that there would be many problems with the details of the new law, but that was something that his subordinates should help him think through.
His general direction is only one: loosen the ties first and release the productivity from people.
Seeing that they were thoughtful, Zhu Houcong smiled and said: "This is an occasional gain, but I still need you to think carefully about it. I don't need the essence of the new law or the essence of learning. I only want a prosperous and powerful Ming Dynasty."
The seventeenth counselor and the two companions looked at him with complicated emotions.
Occasional gains... Except for Wu Tingju, everyone else was thinking: You have too many occasional gains, how come you always have gains?
The emperor does not want this reputation. He wants these advisers to use his wisdom to show off, to build a halo, and to gain fame.
But he wants results.
Of course, the advisers don't dare to talk about new academic discoveries outside now - judging others by oneself. They don't dare to snatch this honor. When will the emperor officially disclose his knowledge and experience, I'm afraid he will Considered.
Now it's just to reassure them: the new law is not random imagination, the new law is also in line with the teachings of the saints, the laws of nature, physics, and human principles.
Therefore, the reform was also part of the way they created their literary name.
The policymakers did not spend a long time discussing the feasibility of this structure, because after the structure was opened, they already knew the divisive effect of Guangdong's expansion and improved treatment on the Guangdong gentry.
With Huang Mingji doing the purchasing himself and the Emperor borrowing money from the account department, Guangdong's financial pressure in a short period of time was really not that great.
So it soon became clear what the next step was: institutional reform.
Having more official positions is naturally welcome, and it is also very effective to divide the resistance. It is also the basis for the next step to mobilize taxes, open businesses, and collect business taxes.
Next comes a very clear question: Who is responsible for going to Guangdong to promote the new law?
Sun Jiao asked for permission: "I'll go. Once the queen is chosen, I'll probably be criticized if I still set up the Taiwan Pavilion. Jiefu will implement new laws and reform government offices in Guangdong, and other provinces will be in an uproar. I went to Guangdong, but I'm not sure. To preach the new law and only supervise those who preach it can be regarded as your Majesty’s warning of Jiefu’s power to exclusively focus on Guangdong.”
Wu Ting is confused: starting screenwriting again?
Zhu Houcong thought about it and it was indeed true. The head of state and cabinet minister was really eye-catching.
"Then this is the arrangement. After the wedding ceremony, please go south. As for the people who preach the new law, the Ministry of Civil Affairs can gather this batch of officials in Beijing who were selected to take up posts in Guangdong to study first. More manpower is needed. One point, let’s transfer people from the Imperial Academy, and you can also choose some people from the Hanlin Academy.” Zhu Houcong remembered something and introduced it to them with a smile, “As for propaganda, I have sent Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, and Tang Yin south.”
The others looked at him in astonishment, did this action mean anything?
"Since Yang Shen visited the gentry, I ordered the three of them to record down the changes in Guangdong in the past few months. Zhang Fu respectfully submitted that the poems, prose and paintings of the three of them are exquisite and can be published in a book. I have already approved the three of them. I am afraid that the poems and paintings are a bit sophisticated, so Zhang Fujing asked painters and poets to compile some simple and easy-to-understand poems for distribution in Guangdong. They were all signed in the names of the three of them and privately sealed."
Yang Ting's and theirs' mouths opened wide.
Is this how the talented people in Wuzhong are used? Isn’t this more uncomfortable than killing them?
Just find some cats and dogs to write and draw, let them sign their names, and let so many people read it!
Zhu Houcong didn't care what they thought, he only used people to their best advantage, and at most he could make up for it: "Therefore, it would be easier to preach education. Chen Jin has arrived in Guangdong, and the inspector Wang Hong and the commander-in-chief Jiang Xiuyi are all using their orders. Zhang Fujing reported that there is no such thing. In the new disaster, Guangdong will only deal with those who seek rebellion, and there will be no major problems for the time being. I have ordered Wen Zhengming and three others to bring the new Guangdong imperial examination son to Beijing. Before the wedding ceremony, please prepare the new law to preach and educate. Next year, Guangdong Expand the number of students, increase the number of entrance exams, and recruit talents."
Let Guangdong scholars first experience the temptation of exam editing.
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Yang Tinghe gradually became a stranger to Beijing officials, not only because of his "resolute" attitude, but also because of the many "imaginative" plans he came up with.
Everyone knows that Guangdong is going to implement a new law. The new law that Yang Tinghe mentioned at the court meeting where His Majesty killed people last time is new enough. I didn't expect it to be so new now.
The organization has undergone major changes. From the officials who have not yet joined the ranks but are on the staff, to the governor, there will be nearly 10,000 officials in Guangdong Province alone who are paid salaries by the court and local governments.
This is nearly 10,000 officials with improved salary!
Then, the New Party actually "borrowed" 400,000 taels of silver from His Majesty's internal funds!
This has not happened for a long time. Emperor Zhengde never lent money to Hubuhua!
The strength of the new party is so terrifying that the lion opened his mouth and His Majesty actually agreed.
But His Majesty did not fully support it. The Queen was Sun Jiao's daughter. After the news spread throughout the capital, many people's jaws were shocked.
His Majesty has said that this year's draft will no longer just be selected from ordinary people's families, but isn't the background of this queen too terrifying?
When Sun Jiao's dream came true, he did not say that His Majesty could not make Sun Ming his queen, but said that it was not suitable for Sun Jiao to serve as a cabinet minister again.
They all stayed in the Central Government and were later appointed: Sun Jiao went to Guangdong to supervise and preach the new law. He was sent on a temporary basis to just take care of this matter and not conflict with the Governor of Guangdong.
Checks and balances! It must be checks and balances!
We must implement new laws to strengthen the country, and we must guard against Yang Tinghe's continued rise to power!
Everyone sometimes thinks about Yang Tinghe and feels both admiration and pity.
After enduring it for so many years, he turned out to be a reform party, and his loyalty to the public body was unprecedented in a century. Is it for the sake of the Ancestral Temple, or for conscience?
I don't know, I admire him for having so many ideas in his mind for so many years.
But pity him: Guangdong's approach has simply pushed financial pressure to the extreme, and wants to use expansion to reduce resistance.
I don’t know if it will work. But if it doesn’t work, Yang Tinghe and the New Party will be finished. They will be punished by the clan.
Yang Tinghe's life seemed increasingly heroic. Every time he entered the palace and saw some eunuchs starting to practice the ten physical fitness techniques, he couldn't help complaining in his heart.
This is the secret technique of boudoir. What have you practiced?
There was a lot of negative energy in his heart, thinking that the emperor asked him to show off and be busy, while the emperor himself was leisurely playing happily in the palace with the newly selected harem concubines, Yang Tinghe felt aggrieved.
It was a very leisurely old age life.
Why didn't you imitate Liang Chu and run away?
Wang Qiong is also super tired: Guangdong's major organizational reform, the most practical workload is in his staff department! There are so many yamen, so many officials, how to name, determine the grade, determine the salary of the staff, how to select and pass the examination,
This all requires coming up with a strategy as soon as possible.
"Just work this time. If Guangdong's new law is successful, the rest of the provinces will follow suit in the future." Wang Qiong summoned all the subordinate officials, "Mr. Yang Ge said that those officials and clerks who deal directly with the people,
Their official names and powers must be simple and clear. Also, pay attention to the superior and inferior jurisdiction of the Ministry of Punishment and the Sentencing Department, the superior and inferior jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Taxation Department, and the superior and inferior jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Originally, according to the Procuratorate Division
We also need to think carefully about how to reorganize it into the Department of Public Security."
A bald official subordinate to the staff said: "...Great Heavenly Official, can't you add some people to our staff first?"
"If you want to be promoted and if you want to hire more people in the civil service department in the future, do it first in Guangdong!"
The subordinate officials murmured: The original imperialists like the Datianguan helped the new party gain power, right, so that His Majesty could rely on them to check and balance the new party?
After all, there were stains in the past, and it was too precarious for the official position to be solely tied to the whims of His Majesty. A new value for existence must be created.
If the new law is enacted, will it bring the world's complaints to overthrow the new party and enjoy its success?
Dingguo Gong Xu Guangzuo also felt as tired as Wang Qiong.
All the way to Guangdong, my buttocks were almost knocked apart by the carriage, and I felt seasick for a while.
After I went there, I became a tool man.
Does Zhang Fujing have the authority to transfer Huguang soldiers south? If he doesn't transfer them, Xu Guangzuo will rest. If he does, Xu Guangzuo will just show off.
Of course, it's not useless.
With the support of important ministers and the number one minister in Guangdong, the court's determination and power to intimidate are full.
But he was not allowed to rest for a while, and he hurried back to Beijing - His Majesty was getting married, and he had to go to welcome the bride on behalf of Your Majesty.
In three months, we fought from Beijing to Guangdong, and from Guangdong back to Beijing. The whole road was a rush march! It was like rushing to pass!
Even if we are like Wen Zhengming and others, they can take a leisurely boat ride back to Beijing with the candidates for the new imperial examination in Guangdong?
If I had known this, I might as well have followed Guo Xun's example and trained troops!
The new imperial examination candidates are all paid by the government to take them to Beijing to take the examination. Guangdong is a long distance away, so it is better to start earlier for this subject.
The three great talents were only given Jinshi backgrounds, Wen Zhengming had not even passed the imperial examination, and the three of them were not in the mood to pay attention to those new candidates.
"I tried to resign this offering after arriving in Beijing!" Tang Yin said sadly and angrily, "Those paintings are like children's graffiti, how could I be allowed to sign it and leave that seal! I, Tang Bohu, the first generation, have a famous name... Text Father, you must plead for me!"
Wen Zhengming's eyes were bright red: "I don't want to think that I will become a national relative after all."
"...Although she is not the queen, she is still one of the two concubines. I heard that it will be given to an earl."
Wen Zhengming didn't want to speak and glanced at Tang Yin helplessly. He was only worried about the safety of his precious daughter who was raised a little wildly in the palace.
"Xizhe, why don't you speak?" Tang Yin had to ask Zhu Yunming.
"You two have never been officials." Zhu Yunming was silent for a while, "I have been in Xingning County for several years, but I came here in a daze. I thought I was an official for one of my parents, and I did some practical things in those years. In the past few months, I saw When I came here, I realized the hardships of the people. I never thought about it deeply. You all have no official status and have always been carefree. I have been an official for several years, but I still bought some land. Now that I think about it..."
The three of them were silent for a moment.
"After returning to Beijing, I would like to ask your majesty to publish the work of the three of us into a collection. Zhengming, Bohu, your majesty has made the right use of the three of us. We are really not talented officials. We are already fifty or sixty, so we can only It's a bit of a bad name. The situation in Guangdong is the situation in the world. It is a matter of merit to spread our name. In this life, besides poetry and paintings, we must leave something else."
The plight of the people was not what touched him.
It was Yang Shen's madness, Zhang Fujing's decisiveness, Gui E's shrewdness, Huo Tao's tact...many real officials touched him.
In the big drama before Guangdong, Zhu Yunming finally realized that he was not suitable to be an official.
But now they knew the emperor's intention of ordering the three of them to go south.
Tang Yin thought about it and then laughed: "I'm afraid it's a new law that will go down in history. Do the three of us want to leave our names with this? It's a happy event, Jingchang Valley, but it's a pity that he left a little early."
Xu Zhenqing died young, and one of the four talented people in Wuzhong has passed away. Now the remaining three have different opportunities.
The emperor invited them to serve as worshippers, not to compose palace poems and create portraits of noble people, but to travel around the world and record the world's affairs.
At this time, it is how people like Zhang Fujing are struggling to move forward, and how the people are suffering under natural and man-made disasters.
"In this way, will there be a day when you and I can draw a picture of a prosperous age?" Tang Yin asked again after drinking.
Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming didn't say anything, and looked at the river outside the boat together.