Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 269

"can!"

Zhu Youxiao's voice finally ushered in the dead Hanhai Palace. He looked at Zhu Youjian firmly, obviously moved by the "seven million taels" of silver.

After all, even at the moment, although Daming earns more than [-] million taels of silver per year on paper, after the military salary and salary are paid, there is not much that can be used.

Excluding the original tax money of the salt class and the tea class, the establishment of the two departments can at least increase the revenue by more than [-] million taels. How can Zhu Youxiao not be tempted by this?
"Isn't [-] people a bit too much for the salt department and the tea department?"

Zhu Youxiao's mind became active, thinking about whether the students could be inserted into more places, but Zhu Youjian's words poured cold water on him:
"If possible, the most important thing they should go to is to test the merits of the officials, and to go to the local government."

"It's just that with their current capabilities, if they are sent to the prefectures and counties rashly, I'm afraid the gains will outweigh the losses."

Zhu Youjian has always believed that people need a process of experience, and the salt department and the tea department are undoubtedly the best places for experience.

As long as the most difficult salt and tea classes are solved, it will be much easier for these people to be sent to prefectures and counties as officials, so that they will not be unable to play against the local powerful gentry.

What's more, they are only the first batch, and what Zhu Youjian has to do is to wait for the second batch.

Once the first batch has experienced one year, they can go to the prefectures and counties with the second batch with more people.

As long as the place is controlled, it is enough for the center to deter with soldiers and horses.

Controlling the locality, and then promoting official schools, prohibiting private schools and ethnology, this is the way to dig out the roots.

The power of the Xiangdang lies in its control of official schools, the power of the powerful gentry lies in its control of private schools, and the power of clans lies in its control of ethnology.

In this world, controlling the place of learning knowledge is equivalent to controlling the path of ascent.

What Zhu Youjian has to do afterwards is to completely control the way of ascension, and then stipulate what textbooks the talents hired by the court need to learn.

At that time, if he doesn't need to speak, private studies and ethnology will also collapse.

After all, they don't have teaching materials, and even buying them secretly is useless.

As long as Zhu Youjian stipulates that students must obtain a diploma from the official school before they can take the imperial examination, this move will directly disintegrate private school and ethnology.

However, he couldn't beat everyone to death with one shot, because among the millions of scholars in the world, there are a large number of ordinary people.

Therefore, a time limit must be set, or the official system must be reformed directly.

And the easiest is undoubtedly the latter.

Those who participated in the imperial examination were directly awarded official positions, while those who did not participate could apply to serve as subordinate staff.

If you want people to serve as subordinate staff and have passion, then the subordinate staff system established by Zhu Yuanzhang must be completely reformed.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Youxiao, and continued to say:

"Brother, as I said just now, most of the students will participate in the operation of the two divisions and the official department, and a small number of them will be divided into three parts."

"Three parts?" Zhu Youxiao looked at him curiously, and Zhu Youjian nodded slightly:
"Yes, there are three parts. These three parts are the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple."

"However, before joining these three places, my brother still needs to make some arrangements and reforms in the official system."

"First of all, it is to thoroughly determine the positions of the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of War, and the Dali Temple among the six ministries."

"For example, the finance and taxation of the six ministries and four temples will be handed over to the Ministry of Households for management, and the projects under heaven will be handed over to the Ministry of Industry for management."

"The Ministry of Rites is completely in charge of our Daming's foreign negotiations, while the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Ministry of War will be completely separated."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian first singled out the Ministry of War and said:

"At present, the Ministry of War, apart from controlling the soldiers and horses of the five cities, can be said to be dispensable."

"Thus, what I want to do is to send some outstanding students to other places, and the Ministry of War will only be responsible for arresting and guarding inside and outside the city from now on, that is, soldiers and horses."

"The Bingma Division is responsible for encircling and suppressing bandits, guarding the city and other tasks."

"The local government officials are directly under the Ministry of Punishment. They are mainly responsible for investigating and handling cases in the prefectures and counties, as well as tracking down thieves in the city, preventing, stopping and punishing illegal crimes, and managing prisons and prisoners."

"As for Dali Temple, it is used as a place to judge legal crimes and punish them."

"The final Metropolitan Procuratorate must be reorganized as a place to inspect whether officials in the world violate the law and discipline, and cancel the power of inspecting the censors' gossip!"

What Zhu Youjian said is actually a replica of the governance of society in later generations, but these have already appeared in ancient times, and what Zhu Youjian did is nothing more than perfection.

For example, Dali Temple generally does not censor ordinary people, but Zhu Youjian has established the authority of Dali Temple, and in the future it only needs to be responsible for the trial of cases under the sun.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice no longer has the power to try and convict people, but only has the power to arrest people, investigate cases, guard, detain, and patrol the city.

The Ministry of War has repositioned itself, no longer conflicting with the five army governors' mansions, and is simply responsible for the public security issues inside and outside the city, market towns, and roads.

With such a positioning, it can be said that the military and government have been separated. The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the equipment of the soldiers and horses.

However, Zhu Youjian has already thought about this kind of problem.

The equipment of the soldiers and horses only needs simple paper armor, knives and guns, and a few kilograms of tiger crouching guns are enough.

Generally speaking, they have the strength to defend the city from being captured by bandits and grass bandits, and they also have the strength to take the initiative to attack and destroy bandits, but they do not have the strength to go out of the city to fight against regular troops.

In this way, the position of the Ministry of War is obvious, and the current embarrassing situation has been overcome.

However, under such drastic reforms, the status of some people will inevitably rise, and the status of some people will also decline.

When functions change, some organizations will need to recruit more people.

"According to my younger brother's arrangement, I'm afraid the current two million subordinates are too many, while there are too few yamen servants and soldiers, and there are too few officials in Dali Temple."

"Despite the deterrence of the local army, I am afraid that many people are unwilling to give up their own interests."

Zhu Youxiao has seen through the essence. If he is not very knowledgeable in military affairs, he can be said to be very sophisticated in politics.

Although Zhu Youjian has grown rapidly, Zhu Youxiao is still slightly better than him.

However, this is only temporary, because Zhu Youjian's growth rate makes Zhu Youxiao feel a lot of pressure.

"There are more than [-] counties in the Ming Dynasty. There are at least [-] people in Dali Temple in each county, and a total of nearly [-] people are needed."

"In more than [-] counties, the yamen servants need to maintain a ratio of at least one hundred to one with the common people. Even if there are only [-] people in each county, nearly [-] yamen servants are needed."

"If it's a soldier and horse division, even if each county only maintains a sentry with [-] people, it needs [-] people..."

Speaking of which, Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother: "Your brother will need millions of people if he speaks, and I, Daming, only have more than [-] million people at the moment."

"Hehe..." Hearing what his brother said, Zhu Youjian smiled first:
"Brother still believes in the number of people in the old yellow book? If it wasn't for my younger brother who checked the army's farmland, I am afraid that the number of people on the yellow book will still be less than [-] million by now."

Zhu Youjian's words made Zhu Youxiao smile bitterly.

Who would have imagined that an investigation of the army's farms in the world would not only find out nearly [-] million troops' farms, but also find out nearly [-] million military and civilian households?

Naturally, following Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Youxiao himself knew that Daming's household registration and population were a mess.

If it is true to form more than one million soldiers, horses and yamen servants, I am afraid that many problems of Ming Dynasty can be solved, but the salary...

"There are millions of people, the court may not be able to pay them with this amount of money."

Zhu Youxiao felt a little heavy, but Zhu Youjian comforted him:
"According to the current prices, the salary of ordinary subordinates should be set at six hundred cash per month, and seven taels of cash per year."

"The annual salary of government servants is eight taels of silver, and it is more reasonable to set the annual salary of soldiers and horse officers at ten taels of silver."

"If this is the case, wouldn't I have to pay more than [-] million taels of silver for my two million subordinates in Ming Dynasty, plus these one million yamen servants and soldiers?!" Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath.

"Not that much." Zhu Youjian shook his head and said:
"Soldiers and horses actually don't need five hundred people, and ordinary bandits only need a few dozen people, and when defending the city, yamen servants can also walk up the city wall."

"Therefore, as far as the county is concerned, a hundred people are enough, so the number of government servants and soldiers and horses will not exceed [-]."

"As for the subordinate officials..." Zhu Youjian glanced at his imperial brother, and said with a helpless smile:

"Have you forgotten about the redundant staff? I'm afraid less than [-]% of the two million subordinates can handle the work."

"Since this is the case, it is better to disband the other [-]% directly. Anyway, they have no salary, but only for power."

"Once the Bingma Division is fully established, they can only wait to be disbanded."

"The subordinate officials of Ming Dynasty only need to have a ratio of one to three hundred people compared to the common people."

The proportion mentioned by Zhu Youjian is a bit too large, but there is no way to do it. After all, Ming Dynasty's economy determines that there cannot be a system with too small a proportion.

One to three hundred is not bad, at least it can guarantee that each village can have one or two subordinates.

According to this ratio, only [-] to [-] subordinates are needed, which is enough to meet the policy issuance in other places except the capital.

After all, in the release and implementation of some policies, in addition to the subordinate staff, there are also government servants and soldiers and horses who can carry out together.

In this way, even if the capital is counted, even if there are [-] subordinate officials, [-] yamen servants and soldiers, their salaries will not exceed nine million taels of silver.

What's more, many disabled and retired soldiers can also be properly resettled through this. Among the [-] soldiers and horses, a group of soldiers and horses can also be retired slowly, and the military salary of the army and the salary of officials under the civil service system can be controlled at [-]. Less than one million taels is enough.

The arable land area of ​​Daming has already surpassed the level of the [-]st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

In the [-]st year of Qianlong's reign, the population of the Qing Dynasty was [-] million, while the current Ming Dynasty will not exceed [-] million, probably fluctuating around [-] million.

Daming had a small population, but had a lot of arable land, and its financial revenue reached 80% of the [-]st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

The reason is also very simple, because of the relocation policy of Liaodong and the relocation policy of the old port, and the recovery of the cultivated land in the old port.

Zhu Youjian is quite familiar with Daming's economic situation.

Even at the moment, he believes that Daming's financial potential has not been fully tapped.

Just a single salt tax, during the Qianlong period, it could reach more than [-] million taels, while the current Daming is still in the early [-] million, and there is a lot of room for improvement.

Not to mention tea tax, mining tax, wine tax, and commercial tax.

But what needs to be paid attention to is that while some taxes are established, some taxes must also be cancelled.

For example, commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty mainly included city tax, customs duty, and ship tax. Tariffs were not customs duties, but "passage taxes." Tax.

The existence of this kind of tax has made the circulation of goods more difficult.

According to Jin Yiwei's report, some traders from Jiangnan went to Luoyang, but they had to go through dozens of checkpoints along the way, and there were people asking for money at each checkpoint.

The amount of tax paid along the way was several times the value of the goods, and it did not fall into the hands of the court.

As businessmen, they can only choose to sell cloth at high prices to repay their capital, so this tax should be abolished.

As for agriculture, farmers are dazzled by the miscellaneous third tax. The regular tax seems to be only 5%, but in fact, with the addition of other third taxes, the tax rate is directly increased to 15%~20%.

Although this was considered a relatively low tax rate in the past dynasties, Zhu Youjian knew that the proportion of agricultural tax in Daming had to be changed.

Lowering the agricultural tax is not only alleviating social conflicts, but also giving the people and the court a way to survive under the disaster of the Little Ice River.

In his opinion, a 10% grain tax in kind is enough, and the most important thing is to ensure that the gentry pays grain and works as one.

As long as Daming's current nearly [-] million mu of land can be harvested, the nearly [-] million shi grains will be worth around [-] million taels after being folded, which is enough for the basic administrative expenses of Daming.

Then add agricultural tax plus commercial tax, customs tax, salt tax, tea tax, and wine tax to the state-run model.

With Daming's current territory, the tax revenue is enough to break through [-] million taels of silver.

Of course, this is a discount, and the actual collection is still in kind. After all, if Daming really collects so much money every year, I am afraid that he will have to face a small economic crisis every year.

However, food-based things are what Daming needs most next.

"My brother only mentioned Yang Wenyue and the others, but what about Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang? What does my brother want to transfer them to?"

Zhu Youxiao became more interested in his younger brother's thoughts. Although he was still worried that such a new policy would cause a large number of civil servants and gentry to retaliate, he thought about the military power in the hands of their brothers and the students of Yanshan Academy, and gradually let go of it. Come on.

"The two of them, my brother is going to let them prepare an arms research institute." Zhu Youjian responded with a smile.

"Armament Research Institute?" Zhu Youxiao became interested. It sounds like it is for researching things, and it is an ordnance, but I don't know what kind of ordnance it is researching.

Similarly, in the face of Zhu Youxiao's inquiry, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly:
"Well, the Armament Research Institute mainly studies things that can be applied to the battlefield, and of course people's livelihood."

Zhu Youjian had wanted to make this thing for a long time, but he hadn't written it well because of the research theme and direction. In addition, before he had absolute force, the research was done to make wedding dresses for others, so he never proceeded.

It's just that it's different now, the imperial power is at its peak, soldiers and horses are all over the world, and talented seedlings among Yanshan students have also been selected.

At this time, it is also time to gather some talents who are good at research and development to start promoting technology and industry.

Daming needs to increase delivery capabilities, steel production, food production, and military equipment changes.

Therefore, steam engines, railed carriages, blast furnaces, percussion guns, gunpowder, chemical fertilizers and other scientific and technological products.

However, Zhu Youjian himself has no confidence in how long it will take to study these things.

The steam engine looks simple, but how to make its kinetic energy enough to pull the train is a huge problem.

With Zhu Youjian's rudimentary knowledge of science, at most he can make a steam engine that can pressurize and pump water, and the final use is probably also used in mines.

It seems that if he remembers correctly, the earliest version of the steam engine used in industry was used to pump water for mines...

It's just that he can't control so much, anyway, he gave the direction and things to discuss, and left his simple knowledge of science, how far he can study, it all depends on Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, and the brothers Song Yingxing who are looking for up.

"Okay, since you know what's in your heart, then you can figure it out..."

Zhu Youxiao said so in his mouth, but he thought in his heart that when this so-called "armament research institute" was created, he would definitely go and observe it.

After thinking about it, he returned to the topic and said:

"Regarding this, you haven't said anything about the kings' overseas feudal vassals, have you thought of a surefire solution?"

"Of course there is a way, and it's relatively simple, but you still need to go to Tianzhu Hall." Zhu Youjian smiled, and then prepared to go to Tianzhu Hall.

It's a pity that he was stopped by Zhu Youxiao before he took two steps.

Turning his head to glance at the other party, he found that Zhu Youxiao was pulling him with a frown, and glanced at the wheelchair next to him.

"..." Zhu Youjian, who was at a loss for words, could not disobey orders, so he could only sit in a wheelchair and was going to ask Sun Shoufa to come in and push the wheelchair.

But before he could speak, the wheelchair began to move.

Looking back, isn't it my brother who is "doing it himself"...

"Ahem, brother, it's out of style..." Zhu Youjian reminded vaguely.

"What's wrong with pushing your younger brother?" Zhu Youxiao raised it quite interestingly, and after refuting Zhu Youjian, he immediately started running.

"Wait, wait, slow down!" Sitting in a wheelchair, trying to feel the feeling of being pushed and running, made Zhu Youjian feel timid.

If he falls while riding a horse, he can jump the horse ahead of time. If he falls in a wheelchair, it will be too late for him to call for help, and it is estimated that he will fall even harder when he jumps off the bike.

"Your Highness?!"

When Zhu Youxiao pushed Zhu Youjian to run out, Man Gui and the others who were chatting at the gate of the hall didn't react, they only felt a black shadow rushing past, startling everyone.

After reacting, they realized that it was Zhu Youjian who was pushed away, and everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

It's just that when they saw the person pushing the cart clearly, they were instantly speechless.

The emperor pushed the prince to run, this is probably the first time in the history of the Ming Dynasty...

Worried that the emperor would overthrow his highness, Man Gui and the others had no choice but to trot all the way to follow.

As the chief designer of Prince Qi's Mansion, Zhu Youxiao knew more about the plants and trees of Prince Qi's Mansion than he did in the palace. Zhu Youjian's heart was in his throat when he was driving with wind and electricity along the way, and he only asked his brother to slow down when he was tired.

However, some talents are always awakened when interest comes up.

For example, at this time, Zhu Youxiao's carpenter showed his physical strength to the fullest.

Pushing Zhu Youjian, he ran a hundred steps in one breath without panting, and did not slow down when turning, and almost threw Zhu Youjian into the air.

This caused Zhu Youjian to hold his breath and prepare to be thrown.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhu Youxiao's "driving skills" were not bad. Not only did he not fall all the way, but he also stepped on the bumps on the back of the wheelchair, pushing and sliding.

"You made it yourself to play..."

Zhu Youjian glanced at Zhu Youxiao, who was full of excitement, and thought about his age as a good big brother. In the end, he could only complain in his heart, "A man is a teenager until he dies."

"It's here! Hiss... huh..."

When the wheelchair arrived at Tianzhu Hall, Zhu Youjian looked back and saw only the marks left by the rubber tires on the wooden wheelchair on the floor tiles along the way.

"In ancient times, there was a gaoliang river chariot god racing a donkey cart, and today there is a carpenter emperor racing a wheelchair..."

At this moment, Zhu Youjian only felt that Zhu Youxiao built this wheelchair not for him, but for his own enjoyment.

"It's here, brother, tell me."

Panting heavily, Zhu Youxiao pushed Zhu Youjian to the general sand table in Tianzhu, but the sand table was almost blank, only some places along the coast had flags and characters.

The flags and country names on it were all obtained from inquiries from the Old Port when they traded with European merchants. As for whether there were any mistakes, Zhu Youjian couldn't control them.

Anyway, with the fighting power of the southern states, even if something goes wrong, there is no big problem.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian got up and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Brother, sit down, don't get tired."

"Hmm..." Panting heavily, Zhu Youxiao sat down without giving way, and Zhu Youjian said with a huanghuali wooden stick after Mangui and the others arrived:
"The kings choose Tianzhu as their vassal overseas, and the reason why they choose Tianzhu instead of other places is mainly because of the inconvenience."

He pointed to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Indochina Peninsula with a stick and said:
"Wuszang and Duogan are the sources of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and they should not be handed over to vassal kings or other small states of different races."

"Three announcements and six comforts are the outlets for me to go to Xiaoxiyang from my homeland in the future, and I can't hand them over."

"The only places that can be canonized and the conditions are not bad are Japan and Tianzhu."

"Let's leave it alone in the land of Japanese pirates. It won't be long before there will be chaos, and it's okay to entrust other vassal kings later..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian paused, thinking of Yan Siqi and others who were still training in Ryukyu Mansion.

After a moment, he continued:
"The coastal area of ​​Tianzhu, my plan is to send fifteen to twenty vassal kings there. Of course, if the vassal kings are all interested in this place, they can also discuss the division of the vassals."

"Ceylon, the big island in the south of Tianzhu, will become the "Little Western Supervisory Commissioner" in my future, responsible for uniting the kings and jointly fighting against the Mughal Khanate established by the northern captives."

"However, although it is necessary to fight against this country, the military power in the hands of the vassal kings must also be limited."

"This kind of restriction is not a limit on the number of people, but a limit on weapons."

"Such as my Ming's rifles and riding guns, they can naturally be given to them, but artillery weighing more than [-] kilograms is expressly prohibited."

As he said, Zhu Youjian continued: "There is only one way to prevent Xiao Fan from overpowering the suzerain..."

"It is to maintain the continuous progress of Daming, so that Daming will become the backing and confidence of the various feudal clans in the long years."

"At the same time, closely carry out trade with the various vassal states, and use the method of Emperor Taizu Gao to "use tea to control the vassal" to "economically control the vassal"."

"Similarly, in Xiaoxiyang Supervisory Commissioner, a large-scale army must also be stationed, so as to deter the feudal vassals and at the same time protect them."

"Not only that, but at the same time that there is a Xiaoxiyang supervisor in the south, after the Mughals are captured in the north, the west will go west to recover the Tubo territory north of the Tianzhu River, and this..."

"It is the basic national policy of my Ming Dynasty to rule the vassals with clans."

Zhu Youjian's chrysanthemum pear stick hit the Ganges River on the sand table, and he directly set the Ming Dynasty's unchanging national policy for the Tianzhu vassals in the future...

(End of this chapter)