Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 388 Encouraging Virtue (Part [-])
"It's against the original intention of Taizu."

It can be said that the long speeches above are all aimed at eliciting this argument.Because for a dynasty, this is the prerequisite for doing things, which is the so-called legal principle.

I have never seen any descendant emperor say that the founding emperor of his own dynasty did anything wrong, let alone point to a system established by the founding emperor and say, "This is a disorderly fate, and I will not obey the imperial edict."

If you can even violate the wishes of your ancestors at will, why do you inherit the inheritance of your ancestors?
Therefore, such things as ancestral precepts can be used by officials to resist the emperor's indiscriminate orders;

Gao Yushi has said so much before, just to stand firm: I am putting forward the following purge suggestions based on the original intention of Emperor Taizu to establish the station.

In fact, there is a foreshadowing by the way here, that is, high pragmatism only mentions "original intention" instead of specific implementation methods.

In other words, as long as the "original intention" of Emperor Taizu is followed, even if the current purge method is slightly different from that of Emperor Taizu, it is not so strange. The situation faced by Taizu is different!

Next, Gao Wu put forward a total of eight major and nineteen minor rectification suggestions in the essay. There is no need to go into details here, but simply talk about the most important two:
First of all, the post station’s power to collect taxes and corvee from the local government will be abolished, and the local government will collect a post post tax on its behalf. Attached is a table corresponding to the link between taxes and the strength of the post station that I formulated after the investigation.

Secondly, the supervision of the actual situation of the post station (including but not limited to the size, facilities, and number of personnel) is firstly appointed by the imperial court to conduct unscheduled surprise inspections at least once a year, and secondly, the local government actually supervises—because The local government has to hand over a sum of tax money in hand to the post station, so generally speaking, the post station will not be allowed to make false reports.

Conversely, the post station also has the right to directly go to the imperial court to impeach the local chief or subordinate officials at all levels when they have not received or not paid enough post taxes that they should have received.

This setting is a typical mutual supervision-for the place, if you want to spend my money, then I must see that you have reached the due standard; for the station, if I have reached the standard, you must give me money, Otherwise I will sue you!

Although the mutual protection of officials and officials is the most common operation, there is one point: the two "officials" must have related interests, at least there must be no conflict of interest. Otherwise, how can officials and officials protect each other under the competition between two tigers?

Of course, Gao Yude has always been unafraid to speculate on these officials with the greatest malice. He even thought: If the local officials and the post station agree, they will directly increase the search of the people, and then add two to five to divide up the overcharged money. What?

This depends on the third article of high pragmatism: in the future, when the censors in the north and south and the provinces arrive and go on tour, the Ministry of Finance will mobilize capable personnel and assign each censor a special financial team. Three to five people are responsible for checking post taxes!

Don't look at this financial team that is directly under the Ministry of Households but only obeys orders from the province's inspector censor when it is in the local area.But in fact, Gao Yushi knows in his heart that his move may be the most dangerous move in the whole "Shu Yi Lu Shu".

The most dangerous, and none of them.

It is even more dangerous than taking back privileges such as post station taxation and corvee collection.

But at the same time, the significance is much greater.

Because this is the first tentative revision of the financial system set by Zhu Yuanzhang by Gao Yushi. Although the magnitude of this revision is very small, the action is very slight, and the prudence is almost timid, but what it really represents is only Gao Yushi. A person is clear.

This is a very hidden breakthrough.

As long as this system can form a practice, it will have at least several advantages:

First, since then, the local government said that I can only collect so much tax here, so I only pay so much tax to the center, and there has been a qualitative change-the center has directly sent people to check the accounts. If you dare to talk nonsense, it is Joking about his own black hat and even his family's life!

In the near future, this "tax inspection team" will be a sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of local officials, and they are all dedicated financial personnel, completely different from the original one where only one God knows whether he understands numbers or not. The patrol censor of art is the nominal supervisor.

Second, since it is necessary to send a special person to check the accounts, Gao Pragmatism can find a way to sell some new algorithms to the Ministry of Households to improve administrative efficiency. Lay the foundation - the development of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other academics, which one does not need to cultivate mathematics talents?
Let the Ministry of Accounting first find that it has the opportunity to expand its power, and the Ministry of Accounting will naturally increase the training of relevant talents. At that time, Gao Pragmatic can use hidden means in it to carry private goods, take advantage of the power of the Ministry of Accounting, and do something for the future Foreshadowing of talents - whatever you want to reform, if the people under you can only read four books and five classics, nothing will happen.If all the officials in the world had Gao Guoyan's mathematics level now, he would have to worry too much about his high pragmatism!
Third, the post tax is originally an extra tax obtained by a local government. Now the imperial court entrusts them to handle it, regardless of whether there is anyone to supervise it. Anyone who has been an official knows: I will handle the matter, and the power is in my hands; the power is in my hands. If I hold it, it will be beneficial.

At the very least, your inn won't be able to ignore me from now on, right?

So this is Gao Pragmatic's method to minimize local opposition. With this in mind, it is easy to send personnel to supervise, otherwise someone will jump out and say that supervision is just superfluous.

Fourth, high pragmatism is secretly cooperating with Gao Gong.After Gao Gong took charge of the Ministry of Officials, he has been advocating that Jinshi should not be used without juren, because in fact, the group of juren is not only much larger than the group of Jinshi, but also there are many talented people among the juren, so it is a pity to abandon them.Once the high-practice method is implemented, there will be at least 45-75 more positions in the two capitals and thirteen provinces to arrange members of the tax inspection team who are in the eighth and ninth grades, and these members will definitely not choose Jinshi masters to do it. Probability is selected from Juren.

Moreover, it is impossible for the Ministry of Household Affairs to only use these dozens of people, and there must be some spare capacity for supplementary manpower at any time, so how can we gather 200 people?At this time, one or two hundred juren who are more reliable in numerology have been placed. After some years of experience, they can be used directly when they want to reform the fiscal and taxation system in the future.

Although they didn't pass the Jinshi examination, but now it's not about cultivating "Chuxiang", what's the use of your Jinshi "diploma"?Hai Rui is just a man of Juren background!
　An uncle's father passed away suddenly. I may discuss with my father about tomorrow's travel arrangements at night. Today's Chapter 2 may or may not be available. You don't have to wait deliberately.

　　
　
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