Chapter 412: The Ills of the Feudal Dynasty (Explosion 2)

"My lord, you came up with this system of three provinces and six ministries from the problem that the people are not ancient due to the large amount of taxes?"

Jia Xu no longer squinted his eyes and looked as steady as Mount Tai at this time, because he felt that Ma Chao's three-province and six-ministry system had nothing to do with the taxes and education he mentioned before. It seems that he has been preparing for the three provinces and six ministries for many years, and today he is just using this issue to say it.

"Since this is the case, if you want to continue education and morality, you must be propagated by the Ministry of Rites and increase investment in education; The Ministry of Criminal Justice shall formulate a commercial fraud code and punish those who violate the law in accordance with the law; The prestige of the military department suppressed those wealthy families who amassed wealth, so that they did not dare to rebel against the prestige of the Ma family; The household department levies taxes according to the population and income, and tries to balance the income of the people under its rule, and the taxes collected are naturally used by the Ma family for urban transformation, enriching the people and rejuvenating the country......"

After listening to Ma Chao's answer, not only Jia Fox believed it, but Yang Fu and Meng Da also believed it: the entire political system seems to have nothing to do with the above incidents, but after Ma Chao's explanation, they found that if they want to completely eliminate the things that poison morality in commerce, they really have to start with the five ministries of rites, punishment, soldiers, households, and workers.

The entire political system of the Ma family seems to have been completely laid down at this moment. All that's left is to break down the work of each specific item again. After that, even after pacifying the world and unifying the country, it can be completely implemented in accordance with this!

The entire state hall fell into silence here: those who could understand it naturally thought deeply about Ma Chao's whimsical setting; Those who don't understand it are also in this silent atmosphere, thinking carefully about the advantages of the three provinces and the six-part system.

And Ma Chao was also silent at this time, but he was naturally silent not for the six ministries of the three provinces, but for the root status quo of the entire feudal society. Why did the Ma family have a dispute between Yang Fu and Meng Da? In Ma Chao's view, the root cause is poverty!

Ma Chao comes from the economy and society, so he naturally knows the importance of business. Therefore, it is natural to choose the policy of developing business in Fuzhou County. But what happens after the beginning of poverty and the sudden wealth? These ancients did not understand, and this led to the disagreement between Yang Fu and Meng Da.

Yang Fu argues that affluence leads to the collapse of the moral system; Meng Da, on the other hand, believes that Yongzhou is not rich at all. But the entire feudal society, even if it is any prosperous dynasty, have they really made the common people rich?

No!

The root of feudal society was the contradiction between the big landlords and the peasants. After the dynasty was established, what did the rulers start to do? It is to rest on its laurels, to adopt a policy of ignoring the people, so that the common people only know how to farm and starve, and endure the exploitation of the big landlords from generation to generation.

For thousands of years, the common people have relied on the sky for food, the output of the land is thin, and they have to endure the exploitation of natural and man-made disasters. They have always been the main taxpayers of feudal society, but the poorer they are, the more they pay taxes, the poorer they become, and in the end they can't even eat, so they have no choice but to rebel.

A rebellion without the participation of the peasants is only worthy of being called a rebellion, and there is no rebellion in a feudal dynasty that cannot be quelled, but once the peasants rebel, it means the end of the dynasty, for example, there was no Yellow Turban Rebellion in the past few years. And what's after that? It is another round of feudal brainwashing and foolishness.

The key to solving this problem is not, as Yang Fu said, according to the thinking of the ancients, to let every ordinary person be in dire straits, and arouse the pity of the common people to help each other in their bones in the midst of hunger and cold. Instead, we should continue to take the road of commercial innovation, invigorate and expand the economy of this feudal society, and enable the whole society to enter a fast-moving economic society.

In fact, it can also be seen from the Ma family's tax income this time that commercial tax has begun to gradually occupy the main force of the Ma family's taxation. And as long as there is enough commercial tax, then the tax of the peasants will be reduced. As long as the peasants' taxes are reduced year by year, but the economy grows year by year, then the peasants' lives will get better and better. At that time, when the world is in harmony and the Haiyan River is clear, where will the peasants still think of going to the uprising?

As a result, perhaps the Millennium Dynasty may no longer be a dream. Of course, that time was too long, and when that time really came, I am afraid that it would be a comprehensive economic and social society, rather than a single agrarian feudal society. Ma Chao thought to himself, he wouldn't live to that time.......

So at present, Ma Chao can only point this way well, use his concept of going through the millennium, first lay down the political system of the Ma family, and then guide the development of the entire rule. And if that doesn't help, then he at least has no regrets.

"Before entering Chang'an, I had asked Zhongshu Province to refine the assessment, assessment, process and other systems of the Ministry of Officials. Looking at it yesterday, there is something extraordinary, which can be of great use. As a result, it was announced that the Ministry of Officials was officially established in the Ma family today. And the first secretary of the ministry was ......" Speaking of this, Ma Chao suddenly found that he couldn't go on. Because, the Ma family seems to have a lot of talents, but when it comes to filling the vacancy, it is still stretched.

Jia Xu, Fa Zheng, and Yang Fu have long had responsibilities, and other civil officials also hold important positions. The two newcomers are not qualified enough to convince the public, and Li Ru's poisonous snake ....... Forget it, I still don't mention him.

"Lord, at present, there is still too much shortage of capable people in the Ma family, and the position of secretary of the ministry needs to understand the spirit of the Ma family's reform and promote suitable people to fill the Ma family." Fa Zheng suddenly spoke at this time, he stared at Ma Chao and said carefully: "Since the lord succeeded to the throne, he has a discerning eye, a simple selection of talents, a well-appointed person, and a subordinate courage, this is the position of the secretary of the ministry, and it is also concurrently held by the lord, and in the future, there are people who are both virtuous and capable, and then the lord will share the worries ........"

Ma Chao sighed, he understood what Fa Zheng meant. At this time, the Ma family was in its infancy, and the position of the official was very important. Sometimes it is necessary to resist the pressure of the ministers to remove or promote talents, and it is most appropriate for oneself, who currently has absolute power, to exercise this power in troubled times. After all, Ma Chao has not yet become the emperor, so he can't go too far beyond the Han system.

"Therefore, according to what the Lord Bo said." After Ma Chao took these words, he continued the matter of the political system: "Today's affairs of the three provinces and six ministries are still handed over to the Zhongshu Province for careful consideration. ”

"Commanded by humility." Jia Xu and Fa Zheng expressed their attitudes, and couldn't help but feel a little pain in their heads: being Ma Chao's subordinates, it was really hard, and there was always this kind of task in the clouds, and it was like a fight for several days......

Seeing Jia Xu and Fa Zheng, the old and little fox, had a headache, Ma Chao felt happy for no reason. Then after seeing the generals in the row on the right, Ma Chao realized that it was time for him to make an appointment to the military department.

After the expansion of the Ma Jiajun, it already had a scale of 50,000 people. However, in the later battle of Qinguan, Fa Zheng received more than 10,000 Xiliang veterans under Niu Fu, and after screening, almost 10,000 people were left to enlist in the army. In the first battle of Chang'an, although Ma Chao lost a lot of heavy armored iron cavalry and light cavalry, he had to come down, and Ma Chao already had more than 55,000 soldiers and horses under his command at this time. At this moment, the matter of upgrading the ranks of subordinates and dividing the corps is already a matter of course.

Therefore, Ma Chao said with a smile: "Since I have concurrently served as the secretary of the ministry, then I will first rectify the military department today." You must know that at this time, it is still a troubled time, the world has not yet been calmed, and the Ma family is by no means a short-sighted family living in a corner of Yongzhou! ”