People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 167 The IRS adapted by Jin Yiwei is born! The civil servants are jumping up and down! !

After Chen Han finished talking about the legal examination of the reform, he looked at the officials above the main hall.

He knew very well that the reason why these officials stood up to oppose was because it was the law and not just to restrict their behavior.

This makes it even more difficult for them to establish relationships in the officialdom.

Although the examination method may not cover all aspects.

But it should be able to prevent 80% of incidents from happening.

Especially the Tax Inspection Department that Chen Han said.

Zhang Juzheng smiled when he heard Chen Han talking about the Tax Inspection Department.

When Chen Han first told him about the reform half a year ago, he said that he would create a special team under the direct control of the emperor and go deep into the local areas.

It mainly supervises the prefect and county magistrate levels.

This team is all the elite of Jin Yiwei.

These people were responsible for investigating and investigating crimes at the upper level. After they were decentralized, since they were under the direct control of the emperor, they did not need to be responsible to the prefect or county magistrate.

The prefects and county magistrates do not need to answer to the Tax Inspection Department.

The relationship between them is to supervise each other and do not interfere with each other's exercise of power.

But, they have a stake.

After the Tax Audit Department is removed, it will be mainly responsible for all-round financial supervision and tax collection.

For example, in the process of collecting the amount of silver per mu, he was responsible for collecting taxes together with the local government.

To put it simply, the prefect and county magistrate are responsible for keeping accounts, and the tax inspection department is responsible for collecting money. Only when the two parties verify that the accounts and money are consistent can the two yamen be able to communicate.

Similar to the local government, the accountant is the accountant, and the tax inspection department is the cashier.

Since the prefects and county magistrates actually collect taxes, but the money collected has to be put into the treasury of the Tax Inspection Department, they have no access to the money, but they have accounts in hand.

On the contrary, the Tax Audit Department directly receives these taxes, but they are not responsible for the specific collection.

In this case, the two parties must supervise each other in order to ensure that the tasks can be completed.

The Tax Inspection Department does not allow the prefect and county magistrates to mess with the accounts.

The prefect and county magistrate levels do not allow the tax inspection department to embezzle after they have collected the taxes, so that their accounts and money cannot be reconciled, and they are supervising each other.

In addition, every time a tax is collected, there will be inspections by officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Sixth Section, and the Imperial Court.

In other words, at least three parties confirm each other.

As a result, although there is no 100% guarantee that defects will be eliminated in the tax collection process.

But it can be reduced by at least 80 percent.

In fact, the most troublesome thing is that the prefects and county magistrates do the accounting, and the money collected is also kept by them. That is equivalent to supervising the money in your own wallet. How can you keep it right?
Separating those who manage accounts and those who manage money is a method of modern business management.

Furthermore, the Tax Inspection Department is subordinate to Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei is subordinate to Si Lijian.

It is a yamen belonging to the internal officials, and it is originally opposed to the prefecture and county magistrates under the jurisdiction of the cabinet.

In this way, the people who manage money and accounts below are equivalent to two teams.

They are inherently antagonistic, and naturally they will not allow the other party to make mistakes.

They will even deliberately supervise the other party, trying to find out the other party's troubles and correct them.

Chen Han wanted to make good use of the natural opposition between internal officials and the cabinet to supervise and contain each other.

There is a very interesting phenomenon in the politics of the Ming Dynasty.

Foreign officials want to punish internal officials to death, and vice versa.

By taking advantage of their antagonism and quarreling with each other, but each managing their own share, the tax collection work can be completed better.

Money matters more than heaven. Once the national finances are in chaos, it will bring huge trouble to the country.

That's why Chen Han created the Tax Inspection Department.

Moreover, the Tax Inspection Department has the right to investigate any financial transactions within its jurisdiction, including the salaries of officials such as the chief envoy, governor, governor, magistrate, and county magistrate, as well as financial transactions involving favors.

Only when two sets of teams supervise each other in the same place can corruption and bribery be effectively prevented.

After Chen Han finished explaining his thoughts.

Zhang Juzheng was the first to applaud: "The Duke's examination law and the establishment of the Tax Inspection Department are really a genius move, a genius move.

Mutual supervision and flexible adjustment, neither allowing local prefects or counties to set up messy tax projects, nor allowing the tax inspection department to manage both money and accounts, separate accounts and money, supervise each other, and achieve each other's achievements, is a genius move. "

As a financial management expert, Zhang Juzheng could tell at a glance that this method would be effective. But other officials had Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.

Salaries are not high in the first place, and they have always relied on miscellaneous offices and annual offices, that is, using ordinary people as free labor force, to meet their daily needs.

For example, the food and drink in the yamen, and even the food and drink in the officials' own homes, have to be obtained from various miscellaneous offices and annual offices, that is, they are obtained directly from the hands of ordinary people.

Why were the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty so low? They were still able to survive, and I never heard anyone say they starved to death.

In addition to corruption, they actually have many ways to solve the problem.

It just depends on annual affairs and miscellaneous affairs.

What are these things?
In fact, it is to directly ask the people to provide them with daily necessities.

For example, if there are no candles in an official's house, the common people must provide them with candles, urine buckets, and food.

Even the underwear of the official wife was provided by the common people.

Those who carry sedan chairs, empty toilets, cook, and do laundry can all be assigned to the common people.

For the common people, working for officials for free is also called corvee service.

Corvee service is divided into force service and military service.

Liyu, as the name suggests, provides free labor to the government.

Military service is what it means to be a soldier.

The idea of ​​"sharing a small amount of money into an acre" is an upgraded version of the whipping method, which means that the common people are exempted from labor. From then on, the government has to spend money to hire common people to provide the expenses.

This is the real greatest liberation for the people.

When it comes to an official's salary, his salary is actually his other expenses besides living.

For example, singing harmonies with friends' poems and exchanging favors.

Everything else is done by the common people.

It's equivalent to food and accommodation included.

Then this little salary doesn't seem to be too little.

At least a monthly salary of ten taels of silver.

What is the concept of ten taels of silver?

A well-to-do family of four may only spend four to five taels of silver on food, drinks, and toiletries throughout the year.

But a county magistrate earns ten taels of silver a month.

If you calculate it this way, it seems to be quite a lot.

Therefore, those who say that the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty are low must see the actual situation clearly before speaking.

Many officials do not need to spend any money on food, drink, and diarrhea at their homes, as all are provided by local people.

A large part of the things produced by the common people have to be supplied to government agencies for expenses.

He even had to provide free labor to the official's family on a regular basis.

But now that all these things have been shoveled away, for the common people, it is equivalent to removing a huge mountain.

Because the land tax is very low.

Since Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that no more taxes should be added, in the past two hundred years, in fact, land taxes have remained the same as they were at the beginning of the founding of the country.

If this amount of taxes could be used to support such a huge government expenditure, it would have exploded.

The reason why it can be maintained is because of the so-called messy allocation of tax and miscellaneous offices.

So the reason why officials jump on the fence when it comes to the content of the law of spreading people into acres and the one-whip method is mentioned. This is the reason.

If there are no common people to provide them with free food, drink, food and labor, will they be willing?
Then some officials stood up immediately and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang Ge, Duke of Liao, my salary in the court has always been meager. Officials rely on the tax office and miscellaneous office to meet the daily expenses of the yamen.

Now that everything has been cut across the board, I would like to ask the Duke of Liao to come up with a plan on how to maintain the government offices. "

The civil servants thought to themselves: Yes, if you don’t let us use the annual income to run miscellaneous tasks and let the people pay for it, then there must be a way to pay for it.

What about the Tax Inspection Department? If this yamen is involved, how can we embezzle tax revenue? No official will dare to ask for bribes. Isn’t this nonsense?
This yamen must not be established!

We can't really use this salary to support our own office expenses. We really can't survive.

Chen Han hated these civil servants, but the world really had to be governed by these civil servants, so he came up with his own method...

PS: First update! On the last day, let’s see if I can still fly with my monthly ticket! ! Dear fellows, please give me a helping hand! !
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