People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

These memorials were handed in by Jin Yiwei, about the crimes of officials from various places.

Some of the confessions caught Li Shanchang's attention.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, many places were still in flames of war.

A large part of the grain and grass collected by the imperial court is military supplies.

There is a lot of room for manipulation in the collection of these grains. In the Jiangnan Pirates case, many officials took advantage of the opportunity to collect military grains to wantonly exploit the people outside of taxation.

Li Shanchang himself was born in logistics, and he was the left minister of Zhongshu Province.

He is very familiar with the logistics management of the front line of Ming Dynasty.

Li Shanchang's body trembled when he saw the many data reported by the local government.

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In some places, there was a difference of [-]% or even [-]% between the food collected in some places and the number recorded in his mind...

He raised his head and looked at the emperor, only to see Zhu Yuanzhang smiling but not speaking.

Li Shanchang broke out in a cold sweat, knelt on the ground and shouted:

"The minister is dereliction of duty!"

"These people are daring. My Ming's army was born and died in the front, but they use the name of war to fill their own pockets...

This is military rations, they dare to be greedy for ink!

If it is the tax collected by the court, what should they do?
No matter how corrupt these officials in Jiangnan are, what about officials from other places? "

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice could not hear the slightest anger, but the two prime ministers were all discouraged.

Especially Li Shanchang, he gritted his teeth even more.

He has followed Zhu Yuanzhang for so long, and he knows where his credit mainly comes from.

That is, he can help Zhu Yuanzhang manage the logistics work.

With him, Li Shanchang, the Dinghaishenzhen, Lao Zhu will never have to worry about the rear problems.

However, these memorials clearly show that he had a problem in the rear.

Li Shanchang's face was pale and pale, and his body was trembling.

He also understood why Zhu Yuanzhang had the confidence to let him agree.

"I didn't think carefully, these low-level officials have too many problems!
When I think about it carefully, most of those local officials are not locals, and they don't sympathize with the hard work of the local people!
In this state of mind, corruption is inevitable!

I feel that His Majesty's food chief system should be implemented! "

The implementation of the grain chief system means that the court will deprive the power of the grassroots and further strengthen its control over the local area.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied with Li Shanchang's response, and at the same time he was glad that he founded Jinyiwei.

If not, where did he get so much information on the corruption of low-level officials to pinpoint Li Shanchang?

Lao Zhu asked Wang Guangyang again:
"What do you think?"

Wang Guangyang still said the same thing:

"I feel that what Li Xiang and His Majesty said makes sense..."

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a slightly better mood, but suddenly became furious:
"Are you an answering guy? What else can you do besides saying this?"

Seeing the emperor getting angry, Wang Guangyang immediately knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, this humble minister is guilty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, Li Shanchang was not mad at him, but Wang Guangyang was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"go out!"

The emperor pointed at the gate and told Wang Guangyang to go away.

Wang Guangyang didn't know what he did wrong, so he rolled and ran out.

Li Shanchang saw these in his eyes, showing an imperceptible smile.

"go on……"

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored this episode, and he began to arrange for Li Shanchang to arrange Jiangnan.

Regarding the matter of measuring the land, Old Zhu let it go...

Regarding the yellow book, Zhu Yuanzhang is also planning to slowly implement it...

These policies and the Lijia system are all things that really use the knife on officials.

Measuring the land, making yellow books...

It means that the emperor has pushed the operating space of grassroots officials to the extreme.

Li Shanchang wanted the emperor to think about it, but because of what happened just now, he lost his confidence.

That's it, even the elimination and the fight.

It was only when he came out of the imperial study that he realized that the emperor had set him up today.

Ever since Jin Yiwei presented the evidence, he has been manipulated by His Majesty.

Even if he wanted to object to something next, he lost his confidence.

"Your Majesty, it's really amazing!"

Li Shanchang also understood that since Zhu Yuanzhang set up Jinyiwei, the emperor must have a series of actions, which will make them very uncomfortable.

Zhu Yuanzhang's distrust of officials also became more and more serious with the start of the pirate case.

If there is only good news, it is probably that Wang Guangyang does not seem to be liked by the emperor.

When Li Shanchang left, Wang Guangyang could be vaguely seen.

He still likes the right chancellor of Zhongshu Province very much. After all, compared with Yang Xian, he has stopped too much.

……

On the second day, when everyone was unprepared, the emperor deposed Wang Guangyang. This right-hand man could not even stay in the capital when his butt was not hot.

Making this decision is also a blow to Zhu Yuanzhang, who has misjudged the wrong person twice in a row.

He didn't ask for the appointment of the right minister right away, so he simply left the position vacant.

But in addition to being depressed, he finally received some good news.

The palace, the imperial study.

Prince Zhu Biao took Mao Xiang to report the situation to the emperor.

At this time, a month has passed.

Zhu Yuanzhang held the thing called "report" in his hand.

Even he himself couldn't sit still in front of the data.

"Double the output? Mao Xiang, are you sure you didn't deliberately lie to me just because you want to claim credit?"

Lao Zhu still didn't believe it, so he asked Mao Xiang in a blink of an eye. The other party was startled, and quickly knelt on the ground and said:
"Your Majesty, I did not lie, His Royal Highness witnessed..."

Zhu Biao said:
"Father, what Mao Qianhu said was not a lie, and my son has followed it for a few days. Since the pencil workshop uses the method of assembly line operation, the efficiency is much faster!

Assigning different processes to different people to train new workers is much faster!
Our workshop itself has been alleviated due to the lack of skilled workers, and overall, the output has increased!
And because the output has doubled and our cost has been reduced, Erchen tried to get people to lower the price of pencils...

The selling price of these pencils is already close to the cost of peers.

Erchen feels that if the workshop expands further, the cost can be further reduced.

At that time, in the three workshops that Yingtian competes with our workshop, business will not be easy..."

At this time, Mao Xiang weakly interjected:
"There are only two of them. The one in the west of the city brought some rogues to make trouble yesterday, and they have already been cleaned up by Jin Yiwei's brothers..."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the words, Longyan was very happy.

No wonder Zhang Yi told him to try out this management method called assembly line with confidence. It turned out to be really useful, and it was very useful.

In addition to solving the problem of production efficiency, the most important point of the assembly line is that after dividing one thing into many processes, the requirements for craftsmen are also reduced a lot.

A while ago, the pencil workshop was poached by many master craftsmen...

It is very rare for these skilled workers to train again after they leave.

But if the assembly line operation is completed, at least the recruitment problem will be resolved.

This is, the management model called industrialization in the future?

Lao Zhu seemed to be looking forward to the factory described by Zhang Yi.

"This assembly line operation seems...can be used in other places?"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and looked at Zhu Biao.

The prince bowed his head and said:
"Father, the frontline wars continue, and the production speed of the imperial court's weapons and armor has also been tight!
It seems that the Minister of the Military Weapons Bureau under the Ministry of Industry has heard complaints...

If we can introduce the assembly line work into the Military Weapons Bureau, we will have a much faster production scale and speed!
Even the manufacture of weapons and armor can reduce some costs and reduce the financial burden on the court! "

The father and son thought of going together in this matter.

At the first moment, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought of the problem of the Military Weapons Bureau.

Weapons will wear out. Although Daming has passed the most difficult time, the war with the Mongols is not over yet.

In the south, Ming's army never stopped its conquest.

The cost of war is not just food, salaries,
Weapons and armor are equally important.

As long as the cost of weapons can save some money, the burden on the court will be reduced a lot.

It can increase the scale and reduce the cost. How can Zhu Yuanzhang be unhappy about such a good thing?

The craftsmen of the Military Weapons Bureau, in addition to the craftsmen hired from the people and the craftsmen recruited in shifts from various places, the main military craftsmen come from the old and weak soldiers in the army.

These people may not know the craft before, and they all started to learn after entering the Military Weapons Bureau.

According to the traditional master-apprentice model,
The training cost here is also huge.

However, after the assembly line operation, the training cost will be greatly reduced, and the production scale will be expanded, that is to say, Zhang Yi has a small assembly line operation management method.

The changes brought to Daming are no less than a big victory ahead,

This victory is not limited to the Weapons Bureau, some institutions of the imperial government may be able to be restructured...

Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his head and looked at Mao Xiang:

"I told you that if you do a good job, I will reward you, Mao Xiang... I will give you the title of commanding officer, would you like it?"

Mao Xiang was very excited when he heard this.

For Jin Yiwei to command Tongzhi, it is equivalent to allowing him to skip the second level of Zhenfu envoy and commander, and go directly to the position of deputy commander.

This position is already at the same level as Ling Shuo, second only to Gao Jianxian.

After the Jinyiwei was established, most of the old school inspectors were attracted by the privileges brought by the Jinyiwei, and they were more inclined to investigative work in this area.

Since his seniority is low, Gao Jianxian arranged for him to handle "business", which is actually a kind of neglect.

It's a pity that Gao Jianxian didn't understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts, and the old business of checking the school was a shortcut to transforming the dragon.

"From now on, you will be in charge of intelligence work and control the [Water Army] for me!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After the emperor let Mao Xiang go out, Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly:
"I am very dissatisfied with Gao Jianxian's recent performance!
No wonder Zhang Yi said that Jinyiwei is a double-edged sword, and this power touches people's hearts!

Whoever walks from the front to the back and suddenly has power that he never had before will lose his heart! "

Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said:
"For example, Yang Xian!"

Zhu Biao was silent.

Yang Xian's death did not affect Zhu Yuanzhang so easily.

He had high hopes for Yang Xian, but the other party's performance disappointed him to the extreme.

Coupled with Wang Guangyang's misjudgment, Lao Zhu had a little doubt about his ability to employ people.

This kind of suspicion will intensify his distrust of his courtiers. Although Zhu Biao can clearly see the emperor's heart disease, he is helpless.

"Father demoted Wang Guangyang to Zhejiang, do you still have some expectations for him?"

"Wang Guangyang's ability is good, but he is too lacking in ambition. I hope he can make some achievements for me this time!"

Old Zhu sighed:

"There are quite a few capable ministers in this court, but there are not many people who are prime ministers. I hope he will not disappoint my trust in him!"

In the early Ming Dynasty, the emperor followed the old system of the Yuan Dynasty,
Wang Guangyang was demoted from the right minister of Zhongshu Province to Pingzhang Zhengshi of Zhejiang Xingzhongshu Province. Although he was demoted, the position of Pingzhang Zhengshi of the province shows that Lao Zhu still has expectations for him.

This is a place for pilot reforms. Whenever Wang Guangyang makes some achievements, Zhu Yuanzhang will use him.

Speaking of the pilot project in Zhejiang, Lao Zhu suddenly remembered that Liu Bowen, an old boy, hadn't handed over a satisfactory draft of the tax law for himself for a month, and couldn't help being furious:
"Even Liu Ji, an old boy, cheated and played tricks?"

Zhu Biao smiled wryly when he heard the words, Father is such an impatient person, what decent things can he make Liu Ji hand over in a month?

He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was in a bad mood, and whoever bumped into his head would be unlucky.

He could only comfort softly, buying time for Master Liu Ji.

……

Liu Ji's situation is indeed not very good. Since he was beaten up by the emperor last time, he took the opportunity to rest at home sick.

Although it was named Rest, he did not forget the mission given by the emperor.

Plan out the rules and implementation methods of commercial tax.

With his ability, the first draft of this matter was already half a month old.

However, in the following time, Mr. Liu fell into a daze of repeated revisions.

I don't know how many drafts were changed, and Liu Bowen scrapped another version.

"Master, His Royal Highness asked someone to bring a message from the palace to ask about your progress..."

As soon as Liu Bowen heard it, he immediately understood what Zhu Biao wanted to remind him. There was a high probability that the emperor was dissatisfied with his work progress.

He understood that if he didn't hand over anything to the emperor, the ten big boards last time only made him a little skinny, and this time he would not be able to get out of bed for three months.

"Prepare the car for me, I will enter the palace!"

After Liu Ji changed his clothes and put on his official uniform, he went to the palace.

Just walking halfway, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and he suddenly yelled:
"I won't go to the palace anymore, let me go out of the city..."

After all, he was still not satisfied with what he made, so Liu Ji simply asked the servant to turn the car around and go to Qingxin Temple.

"why is it you again……"

When Zhang Yi saw Liu Ji, he was helping to weed. His disgusted look shocked Liu Bowen a lot.

"There's something I want you to show me!"

"I wash my hands!"

Liu Bowen was very docile because he wanted something from others.

After Zhang Yi washed his hands, he took a look at the things he handed over, and immediately rolled his eyes:
"I'm still a child, Master Liu, why do you torture me like this!
I can't understand this tax law, how can I help you? "

What Liu Bowen handed over was naturally the tax law compiled by himself.

Zhang Yi had no choice but to let go, and asked:

"I don't look at the specific issues, but in matters of government affairs, you are naturally a hundred times better than me, and Xiaodao can't see what the problem is?

Can you tell me what you think is wrong? "

Liu Bowen thought for a long time and said:
"That day when I went back to argue with you, the old man told the emperor that the emperor asked me to set the tax law, but no matter how I wrote it, the old man was wrong...

I was supposed to enter the palace for a face-to-face meeting today, but I am not reconciled, so I am going to ask you for a question! "

Seeing that Zhang Yi couldn't understand, Liu Ji explained the above regulations one by one.

Zhang Yi has a good memory, and he memorized most of them in a short time.

From the tone of Liu Ji's words, he probably guessed where the old man was confused.

"Mr. Liu, do you know what the most basic nature of the tax law should be?"

"what?"

"Adjusting the world's wealth is essentially robbing the rich and helping the poor!"

Zhang Yi said something casually, but Liu Bowen stood there dumbfounded. (end of this chapter)