Chapter 1249: Belated Deployment (1)
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The first month has passed, and after more than a month of hard work, the situation in the quarantine area has completely improved, everyone's panic has been alleviated, and Su Tiancheng can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Effective defense measures stubbornly resisted the spread of the Black Death, and inside and outside the quarantine area, from more than 200 people died a day at the beginning, to dozens later, to now, no one has died in five days.
But this defeat and resistance to the Black Death consumed a lot of silver, this number, Zhu Xianxuan and Su Tianhao are very clear, the Great Jin Dynasty, which has always been rich, has also begun to become overstretched, Su Tiancheng also knows the way, and it is very good to fight the spread of the Black Death, and the next step is to take the capital of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, only by unifying the Central Plains, many things can be slowly started to deal with, especially the problem of the imperial court's financial expenditure.
The Great Song Dynasty is a very good example, the treatment of officials is very high, but there is almost no silver in the treasury of the imperial court, and the army cannot be strengthened, so that the Great Song Dynasty is weak and has suffered many invasions.
The personnel in the quarantine area have begun to be forcibly evacuated, and they are provided with good food and drink every day, and some people are even reluctant to leave, such a situation cannot be sustained, otherwise the imperial court will not be able to continue to bear it, more than a month, hundreds of thousands of people, if it were not for the severity of the Black Death, the imperial court would not have been able to do this.
The more special situation is that many officials in the capital of Daming have also entered the quarantine area. These officials, Fan Jingwen basically knows them, even if they are not familiar with them, they have also met, because they have been sticking to the quarantine area, Fan Jingwen has seen almost all the officials. also reported to Su Tiancheng about the situation in this regard, these officials fled the capital of Daming with their families, on the one hand, they brought the relevant situation in the capital of Daming, and on the other hand, they also revealed the meaning of returning to the court of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Yang Sichang and Zhang Pu also rushed to Tianjin, including Su Tianhao, the head of the household department, also rushed over, and all the prime ministers of the Great Jin Dynasty gathered in Tianjin. Su Tiancheng respects the opinions of Fan Jingwen, Yang Sichang and others, they came from the Ming Dynasty and empathizes.
According to the opinions of the people, all these officials who defected were accepted, and in terms of placement, they were basically ready to stay in the capital, in fact, Zhu Xianxuan, Yang Sichang and Fan Jingwen and others thought that the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty. It is still necessary to set it up in Beiping, at least in terms of the stability of the political power and the understanding of the common people. Compared with Nanjing, Beiping has a much greater influence, but there are also problems, because of the strict selection of officials, there are very few officials in the imperial court, but local officials. In the process of equipping, all efforts were poured into it, because the local officials were directly involved in the stability of the government, and the new tax system and land system. It needs to be vigorously promoted at the local level, so as to ensure the expenditure of the imperial court.
At the beginning, the emperor did not pay attention to the configuration of Beijing officials, but he was bent on requiring local officials, especially the governor and prefect, to strictly grasp it, and to go through a lot of training.
However, the configuration of Jingguan cannot be neglected.
Xu Eryi, who was mainly responsible for training, was already familiar with the rules and regulations formulated by the Great Jin Dynasty, focusing on the training of these officials who returned to the Great Jin Dynasty, regardless of whether these officials could change their understanding from the ideological point of view, at least they had to do things in accordance with the rules of the imperial court.
The role of Beijing officials, Su Tiancheng is clear, without a certain macro understanding, it is incompetent, not to mention that the Great Jin Dynasty founded by Su Tiancheng is also a highly centralized court, the central government must control the locality, can not let the local mischief, throughout the country, most of the talents are still concentrated in the Ming capital, after the selection of the imperial examination, after the tempering of the government, anyway, these officials in the Ming Dynasty belong to the social elite, the Jin Dynasty must absorb these talents, It is also impossible to carry out a moderate education and transformation of them, and to require them to completely turn their minds around, and they can only slowly experience and restrain themselves in the process of handling the government affairs in a concrete way, and the court can only use a strict system to manage these officials.
Liaodong is stable, the capital of Daming is basically stable, and the Black Death is basically contained.
Zhu Xianxuan first raised this question.
Tianjin Guanyi, which became Su Tiancheng's temporary palace.
Su Tiancheng does not have so many requirements, and there is no need for any pomp, except for the more sergeants guarding the official post, there is no change in the rest, and the prevailing style of eating and drinking in the south has also been effectively curbed, mainly because Su Tiancheng and Jiang Ningying took the lead to stop any form of extravagance and waste, and even the ceremony of Su Tiancheng's enthronement tended to be simple, upward and downward, the officials began to become thrifty, and the common people knew the same way as the economy, which to a large extent strengthened the national strength, to know the officials of the Great Jin court, There are a lot of them, which are used to eat and drink, and they can basically bear it.
All the prime ministers of the Great Jin Dynasty are concentrated here, and there are also Su Tianhao, the secretary of the household department, Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department, and Li Juesi, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works.
After Zhu Xianxuan made it clear that he needed to attack the capital and destroy the Ming court in one fell swoop, Su Tianhao spoke next.
After the implementation of the new tax system, there are too many things in the household department, and the manpower is seriously insufficient, and all the land is owned by the imperial court, and taxes are collected according to the requirements, which is very important for increasing the income of the imperial court, and the commercial tax has become the pillar of the tax revenue of the imperial court of the Great Jin Dynasty, but the entire south, except for the whole province of Shandong, Yingtianfu, Zhejiang and some places in Fujian, followed by the newly established Yangzhou Mansion and Suzhou Mansion of Jiangsu Province, the commercial and trade taxes are higher, In other places, it is still difficult to collect a large amount of trade taxes, after all, commerce and trade in these places are still lagging behind, but there are a lot of silver taels that need to be spent.
Su Tianhao also directly raised objections to the emperor's expenses, according to the rules followed by history, the palace should have a separate income, at least in the tax, should be set aside for the palace's expenses, but unfortunately the emperor did not agree to do this, the emperor also took the same as the hundred officials, what is even more strange is that the queen mother and many concubines also take the money, these money are all from the household expenses, not to mention the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, such a system is a bit disrespectful, Although there are rules to follow for the standards of the queen mother and the concubine mother, no one has really implemented it like this, in Su Tianhao's view, the world is the emperor, and the matter of spending money and silver can not be tied.
Therefore, Su Tianhao's expenses in the palace are still specially opened, and the two places that the imperial court expenses need to be focused on satisfying are the expenses of the Jiangning camp and the other is the expenses of the palace.
Su Tianhao did this, and he also got the support of Zhu Xianxuan, after all, they have a very special relationship with the emperor, if there is a problem with the expenses in the palace, wouldn't the face of the Great Jin Dynasty be gone.
After Su Tiancheng finished speaking, Yang Sichang talked about the implementation of many policies.
The best implementation is the reform of the tax system, especially the commercial tax as a separate piece, this policy is implemented very well, but also because of the precedent of Shandong, the rest of the places in accordance with this system to implement, the next scale in the country, basically there is no problem, the implementation of some difficult is the land system, all the land is owned by the imperial court, the implementation of this system has encountered a lot of resistance, and even bloodshed, but in the end it is basically implemented.
Yang Sichang personally grasped this matter, and he didn't understand it at first, but later, he finally understood that using this method can curb land annexation to the greatest extent, and the common people will have land to cultivate, and the taxes of the imperial court will be guaranteed. As for the role of developing commerce and trade, through the actual situation in Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Yingtianfu and other places, he also found that because of the rise of large-scale workshops, many farmers who were stranded in villages and towns in the past have entered the workshops to do things, have a basic income, and can ensure their livelihood, which also greatly reduces the pressure on villages and towns.
Through this method, the peasants and merchants were stabilized to the greatest extent.
Some of the problems are the scholars and gentry, these people have great opinions, thinking that the previous system has been damaged, the court has taken back the cultivated land, obviously competing with the people for profit, and the trade and trade transactions are full of deceit, so the social atmosphere will be destroyed, and their interests have also obviously been damaged, so it is still a very unstable class.
But there were also wise men among the scholars, and when they saw the rise of commerce, they simply began to join in the trade, and joined forces with some merchants to build large-scale workshops and earn silver through business.
When Yang Sichang said this, the biggest worry was whether the imperial court could control business transactions very well, after all, many large-scale workshops have risen, and some workshops have absorbed more than 1,000 workers. (To be continued......)