Chapter 188: Monarch and Minister

The courtiers after that did not produce any moths.

They all know each other very well.

Blowing the conch in front of the ministers, it seems that the new law has been blown into a rare one in the world, unparalleled on the earth, otherwise, it will not be able to save the country, otherwise, it will not be able to govern the people.

Zhu Qizhen listened to it in the back, his face was expressionless, but he was a little bored in his heart.

What are the several laws implemented by Zhu Qizhen? He knows it all. In essence, it is a kind of standardized and refined management of the local government.

But there is a problem, that is, this kind of management has a certain burden on the local government.

If the place is rich, this little burden is nothing. But if it is really poor like Ninghua County, it is really not suitable for implementation.

Ninghua County has changed in recent years, on the one hand, Li Dongyang has really spent his efforts, and on the other hand, Zhu Qizhen has exempted Ninghua County from taxes.

For several years.

Although the taxes in Ninghua County are not much, they are up and down.

It is precisely because of this little money that there is the basis for Li Dongyang's governance, otherwise it would be difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. He can't even support the officials he brought, how can he do things for the court?

This is also the abbreviation for most of the poor places in the Ming Dynasty.

The rule of the Ming Dynasty in these places was fundamentally maintenance, even symbolic.

So in this meeting, Zhu Qizhen wrote down the name Li Dongyang. This is a person who does not lose the heart of a child. As for whether it will become an old fritter in officialdom in the future, I don't know.

Of course, this meeting was not entirely successful.

In the end, there were several courtiers in the Hanlin Academy, and they gave advice on the spot.

made Han Yong a faceless one on the spot.

It was Zhu Qizhen who ordered all these people to be released to the northwest counties as county orders.

That's the end of the game.

As soon as this meeting ended, Han Yong drafted new laws and regulations on the second day and presented them to Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen took a closer look and knew that Han Yong had worked hard, and these new laws and regulations were already very different from the laws that Zhu Qizhen had just begun to implement.

A lot of it has been revised.

After reading it, Zhu Qizhen said: "If Mr. has a heart, let's do it according to Mr.'s wishes." ”

Han Yong said, "Your Majesty." He paused slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister will officially promulgate the new law today, and adjust the provinces to first the provincial capital, then the government, and then the county to slowly implement. There is just one thing that the minister can't help but say in front. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "You and I, the monarch, what is there to say. ”

Han Yong said: "The Ming Dynasty has a positive tax, about 40 million stone of grain, 1,500 silver. Among them, the military expenditure is around 10 million yuan, and 12 million stone of grain is reserved for local funds. There are also various miscellaneous taxes in the local area,

It's just that after the law change, there will be a surge in spending in various places. ”

"The cost of 12 million stone a year is simply not enough. This matter was thought to be considered in advance. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What do you mean? ”

Han Yong said: "Salt and iron is the great benefit of the world, it should be returned to the imperial court, but now Zunhua Iron Works, but it is classified as a young government, the minister thinks that this is inappropriate, before the court did not change the law, the money and food were enough, and the minister did not say anything, but now the change is imminent, I have to say that it is in front." ”

Zhu Qizhen heard this, and said secretly in his heart: "Amazing." ”

Han Yong's move is to go along with the reverse.

Zhu Qizhen always took the initiative in front of the ministers, although he was the emperor, and the financial resources he controlled were almost equal to those of the imperial court.

Once something happens in the finances, it is the situation where the imperial court asks for money from the inside.

In this way, Zhu Qizhen has the initiative.

Many people see this, and many ministers want to solve it.

Only Han Yong is now now, so that Zhu Qizhen almost has a reason to speak.

The change was strongly advocated by Zhu Qizhen, and the financial gap should also be solved by Zhu Qizhen.

It's not that Han Yong didn't see the financial gap formed because of the change, but that he had already sharpened his knife to Shaofu and regarded Shaofu as a lamb to be slaughtered.

Zhu Qizhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "In this way, from now on, Zunhua will pay the iron tax." Straight to the entrance to the house. How is it? ”

Daming Iron Thirty Taxes One.

The annual tax of Zunhua Iron Factory is about more than 200,000 taels, which is not a small amount, and the taxes of many prefectures and counties are not so much, so it can be said that the tax of a factory is comparable to that of a government.

This was normal in the industrial age, but in this day and age, it is special.

But for the gap in the imperial court, it was not enough.

It's just that Han Yong is a courtier after all, and he didn't mean to be aggressive, but took a step back and said: "The minister listens to Your Majesty, but when the court is not enough, please don't be stingy with Neiku." However, the most important thing now is that the local government does not use it enough, and in the opinion of the ministers, some taxes should be delegated to the local government and kept for their own use. ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen heard it, he knew that Han Yong's offensive was not over.

Listening to Han Yong's words, it is estimated that he will not be too restrained in spending money. If the number is insufficient, it must be made up by the inner treasury.

This is the difference between Han Yong and Liu Dingzhi.

Liu Dingzhi was born in the household department, and he was very cautious about the gap in the imperial court, so he naturally knew what the situation would be if the imperial court was not enough. But Han Yong is different.

Han Yong came from the local area, and his various practices were even wilder, and he didn't know what would happen if there was a gap in the imperial court's finances.

But he didn't think that the imperial household department had no money, but he really had no money.

It's a lot of inner libraries, emergencies, this Han Yong has a way to make money. In Jiangxi

At the time of the disaster relief, there was no money in the treasury at that time. But Han Yong just got the money. None of the big families he visited dared not to pay for it.

And there is money in the inner treasury too.

Although Zhu Qizhen did not disclose how much money was in the inner treasury. But a lot of numbers can't be hidden. Others may not be able to figure it out, but as the head of the cabinet, he has too many resources, and he wants to know, maybe he can't know the most accurate figures, and he still understands how much money he has.

In Han Yong's heart, he had already regarded the income of the inner treasury as the income of the imperial court, and the emperor used two or three million taels to do it, what did he do with so much money?

Zhu Qizhen knew in his heart that Han Yong had already started a battle for the inner library with him. The biggest chip in Han Yong's hand, which Zhu Qizhen gave him, was the change.

However, this one thing is a long tug-of-war. Between monarchs and ministers, there is a grind.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it in his heart, but his face did not move at all, and said, "What tax?" ”

Han Yong said: "Punish dirty silver." ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he suddenly remembered a lot in his heart.

What is Dirty Silver? It is the income of the punishment that can be redeemed by silver in the law. That is, the atonement silver of the Qing Dynasty is in the same vein. Of course, the scope of redemption in the Ming Dynasty was very small. The Qing Dynasty was expanded.

Zhu Qizhen not only thought of this, but thought of the so-called income generation in later generations.

For a long time, when the grassroots were in financial difficulties, they had this method and found ways to generate income. Among them, the traffic police fine is a very important one.

It was complained about by many people.

It's just that I never thought that Han Yong would use it now.

The fine of dirty silver is more than 100,000 taels a year, and the less is tens of thousands of taels, which was paid to the Criminal Department before, and after Zhou Chen's reform, it was paid to the Ministry of Households.

This amount of money is not as good as the iron class in Zunhua, what use can it be?

But Zhu Qizhen understood it when he thought about it.

In the past, the amount of dirty silver was small, and the place had to hand it over to the imperial court, and the matter of the prison was exploited by the officials layer by layer, and the officials could be said to eat the upper family and the lower family.

Now, after the reform, this money goes directly to local government spending. The numbers are sure to skyrocket.

Only a person like Han Yong, who is proficient in local conditions, can understand the joints. This sum of money is about tens of thousands of taels in the central government, but after decentralization, it is about hundreds of thousands of taels, or even millions of taels.

However, this is not necessarily a good thing for the people, and it is likely that the local government will fine it for the sake of fines.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen didn't have anything to do for a while. At the very least, the dirty silver still has to be reported according to the case, and there are account books, which should be better than extortion by officials.

In the implementation of the law of officials, there are some costs that Zhu Qizhen still dares to pay.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Okay. He secretly said in his heart: "Let's suffer the people for a few years." Then I felt that his sentence itself was already extremely shameless.