For a time, the political atmosphere in the whole country was tight.

The officials did not know what the emperor's true intentions were, and although they were unwilling to be cut from power, they all chose to remain silent after the experience of the Donglin Party and the more than 100 officials who had just been rated as "impetuous".

But silence is not the same as not resisting, and their way of resisting is procrastination.

If possible, they want to slow down a year and a half and wait to see how things change.

After all, this kind of thing has never happened in ancient times, so maybe the emperor will turn around and change his mind?

Or, will the officials of the DPRK and China take action?

Qin Shuhuai and Chongzhen naturally expected this situation.

It doesn't matter if the officials use procrastination, some are people who are anxious to grab their power.

That's the 500 criminal officers who have been trained in the past two months. Half of these probationers were selected from the Procuratorial Division, and they were skilled in their profession and had a decent reputation, while the other half were directly selected from among the scholars who were famous but had not yet become officials, and Qin Shuhuai hoped to use their "scholarly spirit" to make a good start for judicial justice.

Each province shall have one procurator and two deputy envoys.

The probationary envoy was promoted from the original third rank to a senior member of the first rank, at the same level as the superintendent, and was no longer under the jurisdiction of the superintendent and the political envoy, but was directly under the jurisdiction of the criminal department.

Each of the following prefectures, prefectures, and counties has set up a provincial envoy, a provincial envoy, a county envoy, and a magistrate, who are specifically in charge of local litigation and criminal matters, and are not subject to the jurisdiction of local officials.

Moreover, in order to give the local government the confidence to raise sentences according to the procurators, Qin Shuhuai also set up punishment yamen in various places, and the scale of the punishment yamen is as large as the scale of the administrative yamen, such as the county-level punishment yamen, which is the same scale as the county yamen, and is not even lower than the county yamen in form.

After the first batch of 500 criminal officers were sent to the local authorities, they soon forced the local parents and officials to surrender their judicial powers. The way to hand over power is very simple, that is, they have to issue their own notices, and in the future, neighborhood disputes, prison lawsuits, and all kinds of lawsuits will have to be brought to the criminal yamen to fight.

At the same time, the envoys were given special funds from the imperial court to look for houses everywhere and try to secure the office - a matter that did not require the help of other local officials to ensure their independence from the very beginning.

In short, in the future, regardless of the county order, prefect, or even governor, those who dare to try without authorization will be dismissed from their posts and dealt with strictly, and the result of the trial will be invalid.

It is conceivable that this kind of struggle for their own power, can these torturers not be active?

In addition to the punishment and probation, the new policy also ordered the governor to be demoted from the first rank to the first rank, and only commanded the troops and horses under his jurisdiction, which was equivalent to the commander of the sub-military region, and was not allowed to participate in politics.

The governor and the governor are both from the same grade, and the two are rated. The governor is only responsible for the administration of a place, and is not allowed to interfere in military affairs or judicial affairs.

In addition, the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen were not allowed to be located in one place, and all the money and food for the governor's soldiers and horses were allocated by the imperial court, and could not be settled locally. After the governor received the taxes, he handed them over to the imperial court, and no longer sent them to the governor's palace, which had no right to use the local taxes, otherwise it would be a rebellion.

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After watching for a while, officials all over the world still couldn't wait for the first bird to resist.

The reason is simple, the military all supported the imperial court.

On the one hand, it is due to Qin Shuhuai's deterrence, and on the other hand, the interests of the military in this new deal have not only not been affected, but have been improved. For example, they no longer have to be commanded by multiple systems, and their treatment has been improved.

In this way, the iron fist of the imperial court has a foundation.

The New Deal was carried out in an orderly manner in the shock, confusion, and hesitation of the whole country.

Eventually, batch after batch of officials began to understand and accept the New Deal.

Because they don't have a choice.

In particular, a group of new grassroots officials worked very hard, explaining the intention of the new policy to the peasants, merchants, and squires over and over again.

Why do they work hard?

Because their political achievements are closely linked to the implementation of the new policy.

For example, one of the most important items in this year's assessment of local government officials is the amount and proportion of farmland obtained by landless tenant farmers and displaced people.

This indicator, according to Qin Shuhuai, is called the "one-vote veto system".

To put it simply, if this work is not up to standard, no matter how good the other work is, you have to get out.

These grassroots officials have studied hard for more than ten or even decades before they get into an official position, and they are naturally unwilling to lose it easily.

So they immediately showed their skills and tried their best to persuade the local big landlords to sell their land.

This level of diligence is simply better than that of the "intermediaries" of later generations.

For example, a certain large family has thousands of hectares of fertile land. That's great, the county magistrate sent Li to hit the outpost, greatly publicizing the "policy", and then the county magistrate went to "visit" with gifts, and asked for warmth for a while, and finally the county magistrate personally went out, licking the old face and going to the door in person.

It's embarrassing that you don't sell your land!

The strong executive power of the Chinese nation is vividly reflected at this moment - although the execution is somewhat distorted.

To what extent is it distorted?

A wealthy family in southern Shaanxi wanted to open a commercial bank, so he went to the county government to apply for a "license" according to the new policy, but the county order was weird and did not do it for several days. After careful inquiry, I learned that the county magistrate knew that his family had 3,000 mu of land, and if he did not sell the extra 2,500 mu of fertile land, he would never get him a "license."

There is a county order in Huainan to levy people in the name of repairing the Huai River. In previous years, this kind of thing, large families could be exempted from this forced labor as long as they paid money, but this year, the money is not good. The county order is also a thief, and it specially levies the sons of large families, and treats them equally. How could the sons of these big families do such work? As a result, the county decree openly and secretly stated that as long as they sold all the surplus 500 acres of land, they could be exempted from forced labor.

In short, if you want to say that these grassroots officials are smart, they are really smart.

Since the implementation of the New Deal, Qin Shuhuai has not known much about this kind of thing. However, he just turned a blind eye, at most he pleaded for it painlessly, but every time it was thunderous and rainy.

He knew too well that, compared with these little details, letting the landless peasants have land was the right thing and the royal way! As long as these officials did not forcibly occupy the land of the rich, did not hurt people, and did not cause human lives, he would not be too lazy to care!

He just needs to implement the new deal quickly!

Gradually, the landlords and powerful people across the country finally knew that the imperial court was not just talking about it this time. In the face of the reality that one mu of land had to pay one tael of taxes, and under the soft and hard work of countless grassroots officials, many large landowners began to accept the new policy and sold their land to the government in installments over 20 years at the market price, and then the officials sold the land to the peasants who were registered in need of land.

During this period, the General Administration of Customs of Daming was also established, and the first prime minister of customs was Li Fu, the former governor of Zhejiang, who had privately organized smuggling at Ningbo port.

The New Deal is being implemented step by step and is being accepted by more and more people.

But the problem of money has been exposed again.

In order to implement the new policy, it is necessary to establish various institutions in various localities, such as customs, taxation departments, and criminal punishment yamen, and so on, which not only involves the construction costs of various office yamen, but also inevitably increases the number of public officials -- all of which will eventually boil down to the word "money."

In addition, it is also necessary to increase the salaries of officials and soldiers.

It is unlikely that taxes will increase as soon as the New Deal is implemented. For example, the tax department alone has been preparing for four months, and it was only in June that it was basically covered in the area north of the Yangtze River. The customs are similar, and it will take some time before they can be officially operated.

Therefore, in the first half of the year, the income of the Ming treasury was extremely small, and it was not expected to exceed 800,000 taels.

According to rough estimates, it will take at least five million taels of silver to make the new deal land.

So what about the 4.2 million shortfall?

Qin Shuhuai asked Chongzhen to ask for this money, but he didn't expect Chongzhen to play a bachelor with him, and it was just one word, "poor".

In the end, Chongzhen finally gritted his teeth and promised him to settle one million taels by himself - according to him, he was going to sell the treasures in the palace, but Qin Shuhuai didn't believe it.

But he also knew that after Chongzhen took out the one million taels at the bottom of the box, he might really have no money.

After thinking about it, he thought of Jin Shang.

The Jin merchants are rich, so can the court just borrow them?

As for how to borrow?

Qin Shuhuai thought of one word: national debt.

So he personally went to Shanxi, found Zhang Desheng in Taiyuan City, and asked Zhang Desheng to find all the top Jin merchants in Shanxi.

Not to mention, today's Zhang Desheng is so popular in the Jin business circle. The first reason is that the Zhang family's family background and business connections are not weak, and as for the second, of course, it is because Qin Shuhuai has done several live advertisements for him.

At present, everyone in the Jin business circle knows that Zhang Desheng, the second eldest of the Zhang family in Taiyuan City, is the brother of Grandpa Guo (although Qin Shuhuai has never admitted this), so he can rest assured that he will do business with the Zhang family!

Not only can you rest assured, but you are also close to the Zhang family, and people can cover it if you have something.

In fact, officials from all over Shanxi do take care of the Zhang family - because they also think that Qin Shuhuai and Zhang Desheng are brothers!

In this case, it is difficult for Zhang Desheng not to make a career.

Therefore, when Qin Shuhuai found Zhang Desheng and asked him to do something, Zhang Desheng almost jumped up and agreed.

Three days later, Zhang Desheng gathered the seven famous families in the Jin business circle. Without exception, the patriarchs or heads of these families rushed over in person.

The rest is simple.

Qin Shuhuai said that he borrowed money from them on behalf of the imperial court, a total of 3.5 million taels, which is expected to be repaid in three years, and the annual interest is worth 100 interest and 8.

In order to reassure them, Qin Shuhuai proposed to use the customs tariff as collateral - if the court can't change it by then, then the customs tax will give them as much as they can until it is repaid.

Qin Shuhuai believes that these merchants must be worth the customs.

Unexpectedly, they were all silent.

It's not that they don't believe it, it's that they don't dare.

Who dares to let the court vouch for it, doesn't this make it clear that he doesn't believe in the court and the grandfather of the country?

Moreover, if Grandpa Guo doesn't care about this matter anymore, who will we find to take the money from the customs?

3.5 million taels is a large amount, and they naturally have all kinds of worries.

That's the nature of a businessman, realistic, but you're beyond reproach.

Qin Shuhuai was helpless, and finally had to use the wharf of the Jianghe Gang as a guarantee.

The Jianghe Gang is not the imperial court.

And as a helper, Qin Shuhuai can call the shots.

As soon as this condition came out, the seven Jin merchants immediately agreed to it - they would rather believe that the imperial court would break the contract than that the dignified prince would break his trust.

Everything went smoothly.

The New Deal is in full swing, taking root and sprouting.

The time is June in a flash.