At dawn the next day, Gao Yihuan got up early, and under Zhao Juan's service, after washing up and eating something, he went to the council hall to prepare to participate in the cabinet proceedings.

After returning from Sichuan, Gao Yihuan never left Xi'an, and after a winter of hard work, after the princess became pregnant, he spent the night with Zhao Juan.

When Gao Yihuan came to the council hall, the cabinet scholars who came to participate in the discussion, as well as the six ministers, the ministers, and the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, had already arrived.

In Gao Yihuan's view, he will definitely reform the administrative system of Wei in the future, and the officials who come today are all Gao Yihuan's feelings, and in the future, it may involve officials in the reform, as well as the yamen.

The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are the three legal divisions of the Western Wei State, which control the judiciary, and the cabinet deals with the affairs of the Western Wei State.

However, no matter how powerful these officials and yamen are, they are not as powerful as Gao Yihuan, he is a combination of three powers, and he is arbitrary.

Gao Yihuan is ready to reform the system at the right time, but obviously not now, and it is necessary to centralize power to fight for the world in order to achieve great things.

Besides, he didn't want to feel uncomfortable on his own, but was ready to dig a hole for his son after he dominated the world.

However, although it is not changed now, it does not prevent him from calling these officials over for training.

In addition, the Western Wei State inherited the Ming system, but there was no celebrant supervisor, Gao Yihuan was in Xi'an, he could review and approve the folds by himself, but when he went out to fight, the power could only be handed over to the cabinet, which was easy to cause the problem of excessive power, so that the cabinet lost checks and balances, and it was not a long-term solution.

At this time, thirty or forty people gathered in the hall, and many officials gathered in twos and threes, whispering in the hall to talk about the new policy of Wei.

Suddenly, a guard shouted, "The king has arrived!" ”

The hall suddenly fell silent, and Gao Yihuan walked into the hall surrounded by several guards with knives, and everyone got up one after another to welcome King Wei into the hall.

Gao Yihuan smiled and waved his hand, inviting everyone to sit down, the layout of the conference hall is a bit strange, divided into eight parts, namely the six departments, the Duchayuan and the Dali Temple, there is a big chair in front of each area, and the chief officials of each ministry are seated respectively, and the officials of each ministry are behind, but they can only listen to the discussion, and cannot speak, unless Gao Yihuan gives permission, they can express their opinions.

The cabinet scholars of the Western Wei Dynasty all received the titles of scholars or squires of various ministries, and the chief officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple could not serve as cabinet scholars, and the supervision system was separated from the administrative system.

The time of deliberations in the council hall is often very long, most of the time it is a whole day, and sometimes it will even be discussed for several days until a satisfactory plan is reached.

At this time, the guards came in, served tea and pastries, Gao Yihuan waved his hand to let the idlers and others retreat, and coughed lightly, and the lobby was suddenly quiet, Gao Yihuan immediately smiled: "Today is to discuss the new policy proposed by the cabinet, and everyone is prepared, so let's start with Master Li!"

Li Yan was the first assistant of the Western Wei Kingdom, and he was also the secretary of the ministry, he stood up, saluted Gao Yihuan, and said with a slight smile: "My lord, colleagues, on behalf of the cabinet today, I will explain some of the strategies formulated by the cabinet this year. If you have any questions, you can ask the cabinet later. ”

Gao Yihuan smiled and nodded, raised his hand and said, "Let's start!" ”

Li Yan bowed slightly, and then spoke: "The main purpose of this new policy is to restore Guanzhong and Sichuan and enhance the national strength of the Great Wei. The Cabinet has deliberated on a total of five laws and three policies. The first law is the official loan law, Guanzhong and Sichuan were damaged by the war, and the people were poor and unable to rely on their own ability to quickly resume production. The Cabinet suggested that the feudal government should lend farm tools, seeds, and rations to the people, and that the people repay them the following year. ”

Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, the interest rate of one cent is very low, which can not only help the people tide over the difficulties and quickly put into production, but also increase the income of the feudal government to a certain extent.

At this time, Li Yan continued: "The second law is a fifth-class civil law, according to the people's land and tax amount, the people are divided into five classes, and large households that pay more taxes can participate in state and county deliberations. The third law is the water conservancy law, the feudal government encourages the reclamation of famine, the construction of water conservancy, the cost of the local households according to the level of wealth and the amount of land production, to fund the construction of water conservancy, if there is still a shortage, you can borrow from the feudal government, the same is a penny, for the harvest of the next year or the next few years to repay! ”

Gao Yihuan nodded, these two strategies can be regarded as together, and this fifth-class civil law can continue to evolve in the future.

Both Guanzhong and Sichuan now have large tracts of wasteland, and water conservancy projects are widely built to ensure irrigation, increase the area of cultivated land, and the development of agricultural production, which will also increase the tax revenue of the feudal government.

"The fourth law is, the banknote tax law. The silver of the world is in the hands of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, they can control the circulation of silver, if the people need silver to pay taxes, they tighten the supply of silver, it will cause silver and copper to be cheap, so as to exploit the people. The implementation of the banknote tax law, the people can use a fixed proportion of copper coins to exchange money to pay taxes, so as to reduce the exploitation of businessmen. ”

Zhang Juzheng's whip law combined the land endowment, forced labor, and other miscellaneous levies of various states and counties into one article, and combined the collection of silver taels, which were converted and paid according to the mu. This greatly simplifies the tax system and facilitates the collection of taxes. At the same time, it makes it difficult for local officials to cheat, which in turn increases fiscal revenue.

However, the price of silver was easily manipulated by merchants, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty under the three salaries had a lot to do with the fluctuation of silver prices. Usually, 1,000 wen is exchanged for one tael of silver, and when paying taxes, merchants can speculate the price of silver to 1,500 wen for one tael of silver, which is more powerful than the government.

The implementation of the banknote law is Gao Yihuan's consistent proposition, which has been mentioned before, and this time it was officially ordered by the feudal government.

"The fifth law is the law of taking scholars, the feudal government will reform the imperial examination, rectify the Guozijian, light eight shares, heavy policy theory, Gewu, in addition, Jinshi needs to enter the Guozijian first, and the experience of handling government affairs is taught by the old ministers, and the study is divided into subjects, such as law, agriculture, arithmetic, and heavenly work, in order to be awarded to the real official!"

In this way, Confucianism became a stepping stone to a career in government, but in order to govern the locality, it was necessary to understand various affairs.

Li Yan continued: "Of the three strategies, the first is the official evaluation policy, in order to prevent officials from doing nothing, or acting excessively for the sake of political performance, such as forcing people who do not need to borrow money to make official loans, or building new water conservancy projects excessively without the actual situation. The assessment of officials will be based on the population of the state and county, the area of cultivated land, the taxes paid by the state and county, and the proportion of fifth-class households. ”

"The second policy is to encourage fertility, the world is fighting every year, the population has decreased sharply, a large amount of land has been abandoned, the people of our Wei State are only 23.13 million, and the ministers think that they should reward fertility and increase the population to enhance the national strength. The last policy is to standardize the original tunding and militia groups, and organize the rural households, with ten households as one guarantee, and more than two dings of each household will be drawn as a government soldier, and the government will give subsidies and tax exemptions. This strengthened the feudal government's rule over the countryside and maintained law and order; Build up a military reserve and save a lot of money and time on training. ”

Gao Yihuan nodded, he didn't have any opinions on these four laws and three policies, but his thoughts alone were definitely not comprehensive enough, so he said with a smile: "Master Li has finished talking about the new policy of the cabinet, now let's discuss it one by one, you can speak freely if you have any opinions." ”

The officials sitting behind several chief officials began to talk in whispers, and one after another people stood up to raise objections or add some strategies.

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