Chapter 259: Lao Zhu's Touch
"Yoo Chun!"
Lao Zhu is furious!
What does it mean that I teach well, it is clear that you are using the banner of me to force the students to repair toilets for the people, and then put the basin on my head!
This time it's a real basin, no discount!
"Liu Chun, don't think that you have a little credit, you dare to act recklessly, and you don't even pay attention to me. Tell you, I just disposed of a celestial official, if you play tricks again, I will cut you, look at this full court, how many people intercede for you! ”
Liu Chun was speechless, why did he come to this set again!
"No one will intercede with the ministers, they will only set off artillery battles, which is more lively than the New Year!" Liu Chun said in a muffled voice.
Lao Zhu was stunned for a long time, his face finally couldn't hold back, and he smiled. He shook his head, walked in front of Liu Chun, grabbed Liu Chun's arm, and the two of them walked to the middle of the main hall, which was empty, only a mat, and the nearest eunuch was also ten steps away.
Lao Zhu asked Liu Chun to sit down, and then he also sat on the ground, and the monarch and the ministers were side by side.
The old eunuch who was waiting at the gate of the palace almost screamed out in fright when he saw this scene!
"My Lord Liu, you can do it, this treatment is as good as His Royal Highness the Prince!" The old eunuch was secretly happy, and he rushed to His Majesty to value Liu Chun so much, and they were Pixiu guards, there was nothing to be afraid of. That Jiang Zhen was ambitious, and His Majesty intended to let Zhan Hui Zhishi go home, but Jiang Zheng had to set off the prison and take Zhan Hui.
That guy thinks that if you kill more, you can please Your Majesty...... As everyone knows, this huge country, thousands of things, the good and the bad, it is connected, only knows how to kill, in the final analysis, he is still a reckless man, eagle dog!
It's not climatic!
The old eunuch was full of joy and felt relieved.
But he didn't know that Liu Chun had committed the mistake of dying again at this moment, and complained to Lao Zhu.
"Your Majesty, the ministers are promoting the reform of the law in Changsha, and the biggest feeling is that there are too few people, and there are not enough officials at all!"
According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, in a county, there are only three official officials, namely the county order, the county official and the main book, and according to the size and level of the county, the three officials are not all there.
It is simply impossible for such a person to be responsible for a myriad of government affairs.
If it is pushed by force, it will only be full of holes and loopholes. Therefore, before Liu Chun wanted to change the law, he brought hundreds of Tai students and all the Guo family members, and relied on them to roughly understand the situation in Changsha Mansion.
"Your Majesty, the minister feels that there are too many things that the court needs to do."
"Many? What's in it? ”
"Build roads, build schools, and develop agriculture...... Of course, the most important thing is to repair toilets and wells! ”
Lao Zhu frowned, "Is it so important to repair a toilet?" ”
"Of course." Liu Chun said: "The minister went down to investigate, and many of the diseases of the people in the countryside are caused by poor sanitary conditions, such as diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, etc., especially schistosomiasis, which is the most serious, and in some fishing villages, more than 30% of the labor force is infected with schistosomiasis. The imperial court levied land endowments and levies silver, just ask, if the strong men in the family are sick and unable to work, then the imperial court will collect taxes again, which will only make them unable to live. What to do? Sell your land, sell your sons and daughters, and become a homeless! ”
Liu Chun walked down in Changsha, and he really had too many feelings.
The difficulties of people's livelihood are not to be said, every aspect needs to be done.
If you want to do something, you need people, and you need to spend money...... This is also the original intention of his proposal to reform the tax law, because only by reforming the tax law can there be enough money to support these things.
Zhu Yuanzhang listened silently, and the word "homeless" deeply stung him.
Speaking of which, Zhu Yuanzhang is a homeless, their hometown suffered a drought, followed by locust plague and plague, had to go out to flee, and became a poor homeless, along the way, Zhu Yuanzhang has seen too much life and death, what is easy to eat, he saw it with his own eyes!
Grass roots, tree bark, Guanyin soil, everything was eaten, and as a result, the stomachs of the homeless people swelled like a ball, and they suffocated to death.
The roadside was full of bones, wild dogs roamed, and crows barked...... Now that Zhu Yuanzhang thinks about it, he feels panicked. It is precisely because of the desperate situation that thousands of people stand up, desperately, relying on wooden sticks, farm tools, and Dayuan's iron horses, everyone has nothing left, and there is only one rotten life left!
I can't count how many people died.
After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, why did he repeatedly restrain the nobles and suppress the merger, he was afraid that the reappearance of displaced people would completely ruin his country.
Lao Zhu, the emperor, like most of the founding monarchs, was in awe, they knew what was the most important thing!
"Since the beginning of the Imperial Pole, I have been lightly taxed with the meager endowments, rested with the people, restrained the officials, and refrained from expropriating and extorting money, and did not interfere with the people's livelihood...... Am I not doing the right thing? ”
"Of course Your Majesty did the right thing, but Kechen thinks that it may not be ...... Enough! ”
"Not enough?" Lao Zhu snorted coldly: "Isn't it enough to be well-dressed and fed, diligent and busy, and never slack off?" ”
"Minister, minister thinks Your Majesty should think again, the duties of the imperial court!"
"Bunny!"
Lao Zhu finally began to curse.
"Are you unscrupulous, and think I can't bear to do anything to you? You still dare to accuse me of my fault, you, you are so bold! ”
Liu Chun was puzzled: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister wants to say this, but that Your Majesty wants the minister to change the law, but the first problem that the minister encounters is the law set by His Majesty!" ”
"What law did I decide?"
"Your Majesty, divide the grain area, implement the grain chief system, each grain area, according to the different circumstances, some send the grain to the political envoy Yamen, some to the guard as military rations, and some even to be transported to the capital and handed over to the household Taicang. In such chaos, how can the minister collect taxes? The minister can't manage the guard, let alone the household, how can this make the minister good? ”
Lao Zhu frowned deeply, "Are you going to abolish the grain chief?" ”
"The minister thinks that even if he doesn't waste the grain chief, at least he must stipulate that the taxes of a certain area should be handed over to a yamen, and then handed over at each level, and finally summarized to Taicang."
"The minister also has a suggestion, that is, to determine the amount that can be withheld by various localities, so that the local government will have the money to do things, and all the government affairs mentioned by the minister can be carried out calmly."
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Liu Chun talked a lot to Lao Zhu, all of which were his thoughts in the past six months.
It is far from enough to reform the fiscal and taxation alone, and the functions of the yamen must also be adjusted, in other words, the number of officials must be increased...... Unfortunately, Lao Zhu has always been worried that the officials will exploit the people and knock out the bones, so he tried his best to restrain the officials. Even such an important matter as requisitioning grain was handed over to the grain chief from the people.
But it backfired, and what Lao Zhu got was just the most efficient tax system.
A prefecture has become a lot of grain areas, and each grain area has different destinations, some are long, how short, and there are many complaints between each other.
If not, the rich would not have scrambled to shirk their duties as grain chiefs. In many cases, a medium-sized family, because of the grain chief, will go bankrupt, or even die, after all, thousands of miles of grain, the loss and consumption are too amazing.
There must be a unified taxation system, with which the local government can cooperate with the construction of roads, dig canals, establish a complete transportation network, and then develop a unified market that connects the whole country.
In a word, Zhu Yuanzhang focuses on preventing cheats, and Liu Chun hopes that His Majesty the Emperor will be more prosperous!
"Stinky boy, do you want me to change the national policy? How daring! Zhu Yuanzhang said with a dark old face: "I have fought the world for half my life, ruled the country for half my life, and when I became the emperor, your kid was not born yet!" Do you dare to point fingers at me? It just doesn't make sense! ”
Liu Chun's dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, "The minister doesn't dare, but the minister wants to say that if the grain chief's system is not adjusted, the minister will not be able to change the tax law." If you don't let the people see the real benefits, how can they support the change of the law, the minister is also afraid that he will not be able to complete His Majesty's mission, so he risked his life to admonish, if His Majesty thinks it is inappropriate, then please ask Your Majesty to exempt the minister's envoy and take back the royal flag! ”
"Humph!"
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up angrily!
Pointing at Liu Chun's nose and scolding, "It's this trick again!" It's another trick! When you first encouraged me to set up a royal bank, you said half of it, and then you forced me step by step to do what you wanted! ”
"Now, you've stepped up! Everything has to be changed! The fiscal and taxation fields must be changed, and the official system must also be changed! You kid want to dig a pit and let me jump in, right? You're so damned! ”
Liu Chun was full of grievances, "Your Majesty, the minister is really not intentional, the minister has walked below for half a year, and the shoes have worn out more than a dozen pairs, the minister, the minister has come out of the knowledge, if Your Majesty doesn't believe it, the minister has no choice!" ”
Lao Zhu turned around on the ground a few times, and suddenly said, "You take off your shoes!" ”
"Huh?" Liu Chun was stunned, and Lao Zhu scolded: "It's about to take off, do you still want me to do it?" ”
Liu Chun really wanted the emperor to take off his boots, but he didn't have the guts, so he could only take off his thick-soled court boots and expose a pair of feet.
Lao Zhu swept over at a glance, Liu Chun's feet were full of thick calluses, he crossed the mountains and mountains, at the beginning, there were blood blisters on his feet, every night, he had to pick up, and he could continue to walk the next day, and after breaking a few layers of blood blisters, the skin under his feet would become thick and hard, similar to cowhide!
Zhu Yuanzhang is a person who has endured hardships, and even so, he was shocked.
"It's a good messenger, why do everything yourself!"
Liu Chun said meaninglessly: "Your Majesty, in fact, there are many people who work harder than the ministers, and in the past six months, those students have changed a lot." ”
Liu Chun paused and said, "These insights of the minister are not my opinion alone. We asked a lot of people, gathered all their complaints, and every night, gathered around the campfire to discuss how to solve these problems. When the discussion comes to a conclusion, write it down. In the past six months, we have recorded more than 200,000 words! ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was really shocked, and said movingly: "You deserve to be my student!" I want to see what you've written! ”