Daming heir

Chapter 301

The canopy hall was silent.

On the gold bricks of the main hall, the whole hall is full of crimson Gongqing Hou Bo, all of them are flushed.

Anyone can hear the teasing tone in the emperor's words.

Daming had sweet potatoes and other potentially high-yielding crops, so the common people would naturally be able to eat and earn more.

For the majority of people in the hall at the moment, this is a good thing to have both.

A few people are even thinking that feeding the people is something that has never happened in the Central Plains since ancient times, and the remaining surplus will naturally be received by themselves.

The meritorious generals pinned their hopes on conscripting the wounded to serve as local food chiefs. This would increase the military's voice and power in the court, and it would also help them seize the interests that were originally controlled by the local gentry groups.

The civil servants hope to build a strategic position, master the system of tax collectors and food chiefs from the top of the court, and participate in the division of interests.

common people?

With sweet potatoes, a crop that may fill people's stomachs, it is enough to let them eat their stomachs.

The people can let it go, but they can't make it known.

If the common people can have more surplus after eating their stomachs, then what is the use of the court and the government?
What else can they, the courtiers of the humerus, do?
On behalf of the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, if the people need it, the officials will be useful.

If the common people really have no worries about food and clothing, what else does Daming need them for?

On the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his courtiers with a smile in his eyes.

A hehe sound came from the emperor's mouth.

"Masters are troubled. Now that the state affairs are heavy, and the meritorious officers and men of the Southern Expedition are recruited to serve as the local food chiefs in Zhili, they will be supervised by the Taisun. The Fusi of Jinyiwei South Town and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will jointly supervise. The Ministry of Households will verify and pay the local tax every year. The Ministry of Officials assists in running local prefectures and counties, and the Ministry of War assists in handling the rotation of tax collectors. In front of the Hall of Martial Arts, a government office for the supervision of tax collectors from all over the world was built."

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials in the hall were stunned.

Who would have expected that the emperor would directly bring up the affairs of the tax collectors in this world, and would directly set up an official office in front of the Hall of Martial Arts.

In this way, whether it is the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or the Ministry of War, they only have the power to assist, but not the leading power.

And let the grandson personally supervise this matter, it is obvious that the emperor wants to give the grandson another errand.

Looking back, the court said that there might be a decree to grant the grandson to supervise the affairs of the tax collectors in the world.

This is on top of the court hall of the Ming Dynasty, another yamen was created.

The ministers sit on wax.

After the emperor's words, the benefits they originally fought for will obviously be greatly reduced.

But the emperor on the throne at the moment made them lack the courage and guts to dare to speak out against it.

Zhu Yunxi, who was standing on the steps of his majesty, was very surprised.

It is his ultimate goal to make the tax office independent of the imperial court step by step.But I didn't expect that the old man directly contributed to this matter in one step.

Involuntarily, Zhu Yunxi silently looked up at the old man above.

A large part of the reason why the Ming Dynasty eventually went downhill was that the imperial court could not collect taxes.There is a lot of land in the world, but the land that can be taxed is very little. In addition, in the process of collecting taxes in summer and autumn and various additional taxes, the imperial court exploited up and down, and the money and food that can finally fall into the big warehouse of the household department are even more difficult. less hair.

Life is alive, and people cannot live without money.

If the court has no money, the world will be in turmoil.

People eat horse chews, food and soldiers, government expenses, relief reserves, everything needs to be supported by taxes.

It is controlled and relatively independent, and has a tax office that collects taxes strongly. As long as the king can ensure that the tax office is relatively clean and subject to certain supervision, the source of Ming's tax revenue is sufficient.

In this process, as long as the tax office will not breed corruption on a large scale, and will not deceive the king to exploit the region on a large scale, it will be far more powerful than continuing to implement the existing cumbersome, complicated and lengthy tax collection system.

And this is the real reason why all the officials in the court are silent at this moment.

For officials, they more hope to complicate one thing.

From Yingtianchaotang to local prefectures and counties, only when the process of things becomes extremely complicated and the procedures become more complicated can they ensure that they have enough means to intervene in it, and then in these plethora of processes, find the most beneficial for them to obtain point of interest.

Now, the new system of tax collectors and tax offices directly simplifies the originally complicated tax collection process to the process of dispatching local tax officials and food chiefs to directly connect with the tax office of Yingtian.

The procedures are simple and the responsibilities are clear.

If you want to gain benefits from it, it becomes extremely complicated and difficult.

Involuntarily, many officials thought of the thing that is currently being carried out in a hurry.

Once the land and mu taxes for the entire Ming Dynasty are determined, the tax collectors in the tax office will only need to collect taxes according to the roster.

In the case of a disaster year, it is only necessary to reduce or exempt the corresponding part of the tax according to the relief purpose of the imperial court.

Yu Xin, the left servant of the household department who didn't take much care of the department's affairs, suddenly felt that he might really be a useless person at this moment.

Zhan Hui, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the chief civil servant, was in a dilemma for a while.

He is well aware of the thoughts of his colleagues, but he will never disobey the will of His Majesty the Emperor.

Think left and right.

Zhan Hui finally stood up: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to relocate the people from Zhili to the south of Jiaozhi."

Zhu Yuanzhang silently looked at the official secretary in front of him who had been for him for many years, and smiled slightly: "The relocation of the people to enrich the cochin will be handed over to the grandson."

Zhan Hui thought about it for a while, and nodded silently: "I think that regarding the matter of tax collectors in the tax office, His Majesty's sacred heart is benevolent, and it is feasible to do so."

Tianguan Shangshu has already nodded in favor of the emperor's decision.

The rest of the officials had no choice but to speak up at this time.

…………

More than half a month.

Quietly, the tax collectors' office of the world was supervised. In front of the Wuying Hall in the Imperial Palace of Yingtian City, not far from the Sixth Division Value Room, there was no big commotion. long thing.

At the same time, the imperial court also formally issued a decree to relocate the people from Zhili to Jiaozhi in the south, so as to enrich the number of Ming people in the newly conquered land for the Ming Dynasty and stabilize the newly conquered land.

first batch.

That is, no less than thousands of households and more than ten thousand people were assembled by the government at Longwan Wharf by the Yangtze River outside Yingtian City. They boarded a huge [-]-meter-long ship, set sail, and headed south to Jiaozhi.

Most likely, this life is doomed, and they will multiply and prosper in Jiaozhi, with endless descendants.

It's just that no one would have noticed that among the thousands of relocated households, there were a hundred or so households belonging to the group of small gentry and merchants in Yingtian City who had spread rumors back then.

After all, compared to the entire Yingtian Mansion and Zhili, if no less than [-] households were to be relocated to Jiaozhi Road, these hundred or so households were nothing.

But only the hundred or so families knew that this was the court's punishment for spreading rumors in the city because of the emperor's grandson offering rewards for crops and long-term dissatisfaction with the matter of sharing the land into the mu.

If not, why did the family next to the courtyard wall also have countless fertile fields, and after the matter of spreading the tenants into the mu, the neighbors who were dissatisfied were not included in the relocation list.

But no matter how terrified these people are, how regretful they were at the beginning.

But no one inside or outside Yingtian City will take them into consideration.

because.

Now Ying Tianfu is in a hurry to carry out the reform of the system of tax collectors and food chiefs in accordance with the requirements of the Daming Tax Office.

"Bang bang bang."

When a dewy morning comes, the first ray of cold sunshine shines on the rural land of Yingtianfu. In Liuhe County, north of Yingtian City, at the foot of Guabu Mountain by the Yangtze River, in front of a house located in a fertile source , There was a burst of intensive knocking on the door.

The house here is located not far from the foot of Guabu Mountain, covering an area of ​​tens of acres, creating a garden with both Su Yang and Hui style simplicity.

However, it formed a sharp contrast with a small village not far from the surrounding area.

But the knock on the door didn't call the people in the house first, but it caused the barking of dogs in the village not far away.

In the distant field, quietly, a few peasant men raised their heads.

When I saw the door of Huang Siye's house, I don't know when a large number of officials wearing Pixiu clothes and Yanling swords on their waists appeared.And a small team of Jinyiwei in flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives.

After seeing the person who knocked on the door of Fourth Master Huang's house, the peasants in the fields immediately retreated back into the field, but in the end they timidly but curiously raised their heads and eyes from time to time, looking expectantly at Fourth Master Huang's house.

Tian Mai watched Huang Si's concierge not responding for a long time, and couldn't help frowning.

The tax collector Pixiu beside him showed a murderous look: "My lord, do you want to knock on the door?"

Tian Mai immediately turned her head and gave the tax collector a casual look.

"The tax office is the land of the country and the country, and it is the place where the world's taxation and financial resources are related. It must not be contemptuous and overbearing."

After exhorting, Tian Mai quietly watched the door of the mansion that had been closed for a long time.

"Treat people who have never violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, be lenient, restraint, and keep knocking on the door."

The tax collectors in Pixiu costumes with knives in their hands could only shake their heads helplessly.

"Bang bang bang."

"The Tax Office."

"Open the door."

"Tax inspection."

There were a series of knocks on the door of Huang Siye's house at the foot of Guabu Mountain.

Finally, when the sound of cock crowing came from the courtyard.

A steward with a mustache stretched out his hands and patted his mouth, breathing, and came out from behind the slowly opened door under the service of the porter.

The steward glanced outside, but saw that it was really the tax collectors in the costumes of the tax bureau recently set up by the imperial court, the corners of his eyes twitched, and he immediately calmed down again.

The steward waved his hands in the air and bowed in the air: "It turned out to be all of you on the mission. I don't know if the mission came to the door early in the morning. What's the matter? My master just went to the county seat yesterday and was invited to attend the summer harvest banquet in the county hall."

The tax collectors outside the door looked gloomy, waiting for an order from the adults.

Tian Mai snorted and sneered: "Come here, enter the mansion, and detain all members of the Huang family. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!"

At this moment, Tian Mai is full of murderous looks, so there is no tolerance and restraint as mentioned earlier.

And following his order, a group of tax collectors who had already been prepared for a long time drew their swords and rushed into the Huang's house, knocking down the steward who was blocking the door.

And Tian Mai led Jin Yiwei into the gate of the mansion slowly.

"Jinyiwei report the crime."

The movement in front of the mansion has actually attracted the attention of Huang Siye's family members. The men gathered in the front yard to watch a tax collector named Pixiu rush into the house, arrest and detain servants and servants with impunity, and lock them up. These people are already in a panic.

The steward who opened the door put his hands on the ground, losing control in fear.

However, the accompanying Jin Yiwei turned a deaf ear and reported the crime committed by Huang Siye's family in a low voice.

"The Huang family in Liuhe County, Yingtian Prefecture, invaded and occupied fields, resisted the imperial court, exploited the people, refused to promote the distribution of people into the fields, and hid the fields. Stealing the food chief of Guabu Mountain, fighting big and small, wantonly buying people as slaves, and offering bribes The government. Repeated criminals have been found out for many years, and the imperial envoy supervises the Tianxia Tax Collector's Office to arrest Huang Sijia."

Jin Yiwei, who was shouting, took out a volume of decrees that had already been frayed from his arms, glanced at it casually, and recited the crimes against Huang Siye's family.

Then he took it back and stuffed it into his bosom with the intention of fringing up the edges that had been used, and waved forward.

The last team of Jinyiwei also rushed into Huang Siye's house.

to noon.

Huang Siye, who went to visit the county government in Liuhe County yesterday, was also escorted back to the foot of Guabu Mountain by a team of Jinyiwei Tiqi.

Tian Mai breathed out, crossed his legs, pressed his elbows on his knees, and squinted at the crowd full of people kneeling in the front yard of the Huang Mansion.

In his hand are boxes of account books.

They are all tax reconciliation books for rural fields and acres undertaken by the post of Guabu Mountain Grain Chief over the years.

Several officials of the tax office who wore Pixiu costumes but did not wear knives started their calculations early in the morning.

When Tian Mai was about to fall asleep.

A civil official finally stood up holding the cleared account books.

"My lord, it has been found out that the Huang family has been occupying acres of land for many years, concealing taxes, and concealing the amount of three items from hidden households."

Tian Mai hummed, and slightly lowered his head to look at Huang Si's family kneeling in front of the hall in the front yard.

Huang Si's family went through uneasiness, anger, confrontation, bloodshed, panic, panic, and continued anxiety this morning, and now they are completely numb.

Everyone in the Huang family knows that no one can escape.

Especially when they knew that the old man was 'invited' to the county government last night, and was detained for a whole night by the young county magistrate who took office in Liuhe County after 15 years of Enke in Hongwu.

Tian Mai shook the amount of the Huang family's encroachment and exploitation calculated by the tax bureau's clerk, and snorted coldly: "Let's record it, Huang Sifa is assigned to Changhua Iron Mine, and if the rest are disrupted, it will be recorded in this year's year." The list of the second batch of migration south to Cochin."

a whimper.

It's just that Tian Mai's words didn't stop.

"Order the Zhili tax department of the tax office to dispatch personnel to take over the post of chief grain officer of Guabu Mountain."

"Write to the county magistrate of Liuhe County, and forward the list of food chiefs throughout Liuhe County as soon as possible, and report the list of persons involved in the law."

The clerk of the tax office took this matter down, nodded, and stepped aside.

Tian Mai finally stood up, walked to the front of the corridor, looked at the servants of the Huang family who were all over the floor, and waved a big hand: "They are all escorted to the Longjiang Wharf to be moved to the camp. The house here is torn down and returned to the field, and some of it is left as melon steps." The Office of the Chief of Mountain Grain."

After finishing speaking, Tian Mai had already walked away.

In the entire Liuhe County, the Huang family is not the first, but it is not the last either.

After finishing his errands in Liuhe County, he still had to go to Jiangpu County next door.

In this way, the two counties in the north of Yingtianfu can be regarded as the completion of the restructuring of the tax office, tax officials and food chiefs.

As for the errands in the four counties of Jurong, Lishui, Gaochun, and Liyang in the south of Yingtianfu, there are others to handle them.

"Tax Office, open the door and check the tax."

Such shouting will reverberate in Yingtian Mansion for a long time.

Then, it will reverberate throughout Daming.

……

"The reform of the grain chiefs in the six counties of Yingtianfu is already progressing steadily, and the selection of the officials of the tax office has also been completed. The remaining places will be determined after the imperial examination."

In the small study of the East Palace, Yan Shizi Zhu Gaochi reported the work summary of the tax office with a haggard face.

The imperial envoy supervises the deputy director of the tax collectors' office in the world, which is Zhu Gaochi's current job.

That is to say, we will follow in the footsteps of the second uncle sooner or later!
Isn't it a test now!
Zhu Gaochi held the recent work summary of the tax office in his hand, and stared at Zhu Yunxi who was writing and drawing at the desk with resentful eyes.

"How many people are taking this exam?"

Zhu Yunxi, who writes and paints, asked without raising his head.

Zhu Gaochi pursed his mouth, and stuffed the Tax Office's summary into his sleeve: "A total of more than 300 people have registered for the exam."

Zhu Yunxi stopped the pen in his hand, looked at Zhu Gaochi, and frowned slightly: "It's not as good as the number of people in Hongwu's 25 years."

"It's rare in the past years." Zhu Gao gave Zhu Yunxi a white look: "The examination is about to begin. Ren Hengtai mentioned it before. This time, the number of applicants for Jinshi will be on par with Hongwu's 25th year."

Zhu Yunxi nodded: "It's better to have more, lest everyone feel that they are a treasure, with high eyes and low hands, and don't know the difficulties of the court and the suffering of the people."

Zhu Gaochi said in a low voice: "If Enke is still like this in the future, there may be slander. Now there are already discussions among scholars, but..."

"It's just because they were able to be on the list and become two Jinshi, so they haven't complained yet." Zhu Yunxi took Xiaopang's words, looked at each other, and smiled slightly: "Look, they are just like this. Hypocritical. In my opinion, it’s not as good as the girls on the banks of the Qinhuai River, who are honest and upstanding!”

Zhu Gaochi's expression was strange: "I dare not spread these words."

In the study, Zhu Yunxi hummed twice.

The eyes are faint.

"I'm looking forward to the day when there are Jinshi everywhere in Yingtian."

Let those bastards who are standing up and down are worthless!
Zhu Gaochi sighed softly. There was one piece of Enke data in Hongwu's 27 years that he didn't say, and the world seldom paid attention to it.

There are more than [-] people registered for the examination of this subject, and [-] of them are in the middle of their hearts.

No matter what the purpose of these people is, at least what they show in front of the world is the attitude of supporting Xinxue.

At this time, Zhu Gaochi said again: "The official vacancies reserved by the tax office should not only focus on the two Jinshi candidates, but also those who failed the list. The yamen needs more people to do errands, and it is far from enough for the soldiers who have fought to retire to fill in, and it is not enough to take on important responsibilities in a place."

This is just one of them, there is also Tianxia Post Station, which is now also the resettlement place for the wounded soldiers from the front line.

In the past two years, the restructuring and construction of post roads have developed rapidly, and the things that are convenient for the people and merchants of the world will naturally be sought after. It is precisely because of this that every year, various places request to send more people.

Zhu Gaochi nodded silently.

By saying this, Brother Xi actually wanted to arrange those mentally educated students who failed the rankings into the tax office.

Just then.

The door of the small study was knocked open with a bang.

Sun Cheng, who had forgotten the rules of the small study, rushed straight into the study.

"Third Master, the lecture hall is in chaos!"

"Those samurai rioted!"

(End of this chapter)