Chapter 117: The Pros and Cons of Easy Knowledge

Truly become an important minister of the court.

The ability to do things is naturally the first, especially when you meet such an emperor who loves to toss.

But in addition to the ability to do things, some political attitudes and standing in line are also to be considered, especially the position of the first assistant, what to do is not a dilemma?

From this dilemma, find a way, that is, Liu Dingzhi does things most often.

Zhu Qizhen felt that the following looked almost the same. Said: "Shousuke, what do you think? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Yi Zhishan This matter is not without precedent, the minister received Han Yong Han, and he did a similar thing in Jiangxi, so he thought it was better to let Han talk about it." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened and was slightly surprised.

He saw this easy-to-know list. The first thing that Zhu Qizhen thought of was the various bills of later generations. This is a process of formalization of the administrative system.

Zhu Qizhen thought it was Li Dongyang's idea, but he didn't expect that Li Dongyang was just the wisdom he learned from his predecessors, and asked, "Oh." Han Qing, what do you think? ”

Speaking of the experience of local administration. Han Yong is the richest of the few.

All the way up from the place, all kinds of tricky things have been done. The local affairs are clearer, and after only a few months in the cabinet, the status has skyrocketed.

even surpasses cabinet elders like Wang Yonghe, and his influence is directly chasing Liu Dingzhi.

Han Yong pondered for a while and said: "Your Majesty, this idea is very good, but in fact, it is not easy to realize, Emperor Taizu's legislation can be described as a good thing, and he thinks about the people everywhere." However, now it has become a government that harms the people, and all of these cannot but make people think deeply. There is good governance, but there is no good system. ”

"Li Dongyang's mind is good, and the minister also knows that when he was in Ninghua County, this matter has benefited the people, but he doesn't know it after that."

Zhu Qizhen sighed secretly in his heart.

Different underlying ideas give rise to different policies.

It's like what Han Yong said, there is good governance, but there is no good system.

This assertion is an extension of the theory of being a good person first and then doing good deeds in science.

Overemphasizing the role of the human being. has always respected the so-called Ming monarch and virtuous ministers. It cannot be said that we do not attach importance to the institutional things, but we do emphasize them.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen also knew that Han Yong's attitude towards changing the law was not too positive.

It's not that Han Yong is against it, but he does it step by step from the bottom, there are no rules and regulations in his heart, and there is no idea that this cannot be changed, this cannot be changed.

It's just that because he has seen more and understands the disadvantages of the place, his attitude is more serious.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know that the system of Yi Zhishan was also very popular in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but it was abolished in the Qing Dynasty.

Not really

This easy-to-know sheet is no longer available.

First, most of the people are illiterate, and there is not much difference between having this and not having this, and it cannot even increase the cost of violating the law and discipline of the officials.

Second, after one or two hundred years of development, this easy-to-know list has long become difficult to know, and even complicated to the point that no one can understand it.

Even the cost of printing easy-to-know leaflets has become a financial burden for local governments.

In the Kangxi period, this provision was officially abolished.

But the administrative system of the ancient empire is definitely not what everyone imagines, an order is given from above, and the order is immediately obeyed below. Even during the Kangxi period, the Yizhishan had been abolished.

However, there are still many places that have been used until the end of the Qing Dynasty and until the modern fiscal reform.

Even during this period, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was used.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Does Han Qing think this matter can be done? ”

Han Yong's document reform in Jiangxi did not make much splash, but he was unwilling to brush the emperor's meaning on this, and said, "You can give it a try." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "As long as this matter is beneficial to the people, we must give it a try, and send a decree to Li Dongyang, exempt Ninghua County from shipping taxes this year, and let Ninghua County keep all the taxes, I want to see what Li Dongyang can do." ”

Zhu Qizhen is very interested in Li Dongyang, not only because Li Dongyang is from Beijing.

In Zhu Qizhen's political philosophy, he valued northerners over southerners, and among northerners, he valued the people of Zhili and Shuntianfu over the northerners in other places.

I won't talk about the reasons for this.

Therefore, he generally trained northerners. The main reason is that most of the southerners don't need to be cultivated by Zhu Qizhen, and they can climb up from below.

Half of Jiangxi was not a good thing for the emperor.

However, Zhu Qizhen attaches more importance to other contents carried on top of Li Dongyang's sparseness, such as the idea of financial regularization and modernization.

Zhou Chen's original approach was just to make the financial operation of the Ming Center more formal. But above the locality, above the grassroots, there are still many places that Zhu Qizhen can't see, and these people have lived thousands of years ago, and there has been no change. Outside the mountain is Yuan, Ming, and Qing, for them, they all don't matter.

And whether the Ming Dynasty is strong or not, in fact, is not in the center of the financial resources? But in a county at the grassroots level, it has a relationship with what kind of life is lived.

This is exactly what Zhu Qizhen wants to do.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen wants to do this thing after reforming the officials.

Li Dongyang walked ahead of him.

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, Li Dongyang went to work alone. If he wants to do such a thing, I'm afraid he can't do it alone. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "The meaning of the first assistant is the same

What? ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Your Majesty, why not include Ninghua County as one of the pilot reforms of Xu officials." In the major policies of the state, we must always consider a comprehensive approach. ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen heard this, he knew in his heart that Liu Dingzhi had hidden opposition to the reform of Xu officials.

It's not that Liu Dingzhi doesn't think that the reform of Xu officials is bad.

And the financial burden is a little too great.

Now, in addition to the pilot of a whip law, in many places, the pilot reform of Xu officials is also being promoted. Liu Dingzhi's court expenditures that were visible to the naked eye skyrocketed.

Beijing, a large city of one million people, needs thousands of officials to complete its operation.

Although these pilot cities are not as good as Beijing, there are more than 1,000 officials. The treatment of each and every one of these officials is inconspicuous.

Even the officials at the lowest level are not as good as the soldiers in the Beijing camp.

But anything that is inconspicuous, as long as it is multiplied by a huge number, is a huge number.

Such pressures are something that any Chancellor of the Exchequer should consider.

Liu Dingzhi did this, on the one hand, to give Li Dongyang more opportunities to perform, and on the other hand, to let Zhu Qizhen understand that some small counties are not suitable for such reforms.

Not to mention anything else, such as Ninghua County. There is no need to think about carrying out such reforms. In the future, Ninghua County will pay the national tax of imperial grain every year, which will be infinitely close to zero.

Even then, it is not possible to afford a huge county agency.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, such a Ninghua County, in modern times, is a township.

In such a situation, it is not suitable for too large a government agency.

Zhu Qizhen's mind changed at this moment. The economic development of the Ming Dynasty is so disparity, not only the imbalance between the north and the south, the imbalance between the east and the west, and even the imbalance within each province, such as near Quanzhou, and Ninghua County are all counties under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, but in fact, there are very few similarities between the two sides.

Even Ninghua is a little closer to Jiangxi than Fujian from transportation.

Although Zhu Qizhen understood Liu Dingzhi's thoughts, he didn't break it, but pretended not to know, and said, "Yes, it's just that where did this person come from?" ”

Liu Dingzhi said: "Although there are new students in various colleges now, these novices are not suitable for expatriation, and the ministers think that some officials should be transferred from Tianjin and Beijing. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Forget about Beijing. There are too many expatriates. It's no longer suitable for recruitment, but why is it transferred from Tianjin? ”

As the reform of the officials spread, Beijing's manpower was repeatedly transferred.

The reason is very simple, Beijing has been in the city for so long, there have been certain rules in the city management, and a certain charter has been formed. There is nothing logically wrong with abolishing officials and changing them to officials. But there is a big problem with implementation.