The Master of Time and Space, Earn three small goals with blood at the beginning

Everyone can see that Zhang Juzheng’s reform measures are indeed a good medicine to save the country.

There is no fool among the officials who can participate in court meetings, especially civil servants.

Those who can go through the cruel imperial examination system, get involved with scholars all over the world, and get involved in the court are all elites among the elites.

They understand all the truths, and they can also see all the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty. Even if there is no solution, at least they know what the problem is.

This booklet written by Zhang Juzheng and the reform plan proposed in it are really thought-provoking and profound.

They can completely understand and imagine that once such a plan is implemented, the entire Ming Dynasty will take on a completely new look and realize the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty.

But they still have to object.

The method is a good one, but it hurts their interests too much.

The first is to pass the test.

Once the passing examination law is implemented, it will be difficult for officials like them to fish in the future.

Everyone works hard to study in the imperial examination, pass the imperial examination, and then become an official. Isn’t it just comfort that everyone wants?

But once the law is implemented, everyone will no longer be able to live comfortably. They can only work like cows and horses. Do they still have the decency of officials?

This kind of regulation can be implemented on ordinary people, but it cannot be implemented on scholar-officials. Scholar-officials are decent people, how can they be like cattle and horses?

What’s more, there is still land to be measured later.

God, what does Zhang Juzheng want to do?

Didn’t his family also annex a lot of land?

And even if officials of the Manchu Dynasty wanted to measure the land, it would not be that easy.

Officials are assigned to various places, but they are just flowing officials.

There is no foundation.

It’s impossible to mobilize troops from the imperial court for everything, right? The cost of governance would be too high.

We have to rely on local officials.

Although the subordinate officials have a low status, they have a strong foundation, especially the local fish scale register, which is the data of the land. The county magistrate has to rely on them if he wants to collect taxes.

If the land is measured and the court obtains real land data, then the value of the subordinate officials’ fish scale books will be greatly reduced and they will lose their credibility.

This is tantamount to tampering with the subordinate staff’s cake, and the subordinate staff will definitely not cooperate honestly.

What’s more, these subordinate officials are all locals and have close relations with the local powerful. Measuring the land also infringes on the interests of the local powerful. Since the subordinate officials collude with the local powerful, it is extremely difficult for officials to measure the land.

Most current officials don’t have that ability.

What’s more, officials are also gentry, and measuring land does not respect their interests.

Among Zhang Juzheng’s reforms, the only advantage was to pay taxes in silver.

Silver was not much in the hands of the common people, and most of it was in the hands of the gentry.

If taxes were paid in silver, the common people would have to sell their crops to the gentry in order to obtain silver.

At that time, the gentry can take the opportunity to lower prices and make profits.

And after the silver is collected, it is impossible to directly deliver the scattered silver coins to the national treasury.

These pieces of silver must be resmelted and cast into official silver before they can be sent to the treasury.

To smelt silver, there is consumption, so there must be fire consumption.

Huohua has a lot of space.

Officials can obtain the benefits of fire consumption by operating it, which is equivalent to extra income, which is of course a good thing.

Therefore, apart from paying taxes in silver, almost all ministers did not support Zhang Juzheng’s reform strategy. Except for a few people such as Gao Gong who supported Zhang Juzheng, most people opposed it.

For example, Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, said: “Your Majesty, I understand that your Majesty is determined to reform, but running a big country is like cooking a small dish. You should not be too hasty, but should take care of it slowly.”

“What’s more, the strategy proposed by Zhang Juzheng is quite harsh on the clan. Once word spreads, the world will mistakenly think that your majesty treats your relatives harshly, which is extremely detrimental to your majesty’s reputation.”

Xu Jie was a smart man, and as an elder of the Licorice Kingdom, he never had the courage to contradict the emperor, so he used roundabout methods to tactfully advise him.

Especially the emperor’s reputation is used to exhort him. After all, the emperor is rich all over the world and already has everything. What he cares about is often his posthumous reputation.

The reason why many emperors were worried was that they were afraid that their reputation would deteriorate after their death, that they would become the faint king recorded in history books, and become the laughing stock of future generations.

The ministers also took advantage of the emperor’s thoughts and used their posthumous names to make the emperor worry.

Xu Jie’s implication is that if such reforms are carried out, apart from other aspects, at least the emperor will not be able to escape from being harsh and unkind. He is so harsh on his relatives. In the Ming Dynasty, a society where relatives hide from each other. Among them, it will naturally not be recognized by public opinion.

“Mr. Xu Ge, I know that your family has 300,000 acres of land, and there is even more hidden land, but I

I don’t plan to collect taxes from you. Why do you object to it? “Jiang Hao stared at Xu Jie and sneered.

In the future history, Emperor Yongzheng’s reform will be to share the land with the peasants and implement the integration of officials and gentry into errands and payment of grain.

It means that the gentry is exempted from their privileges and allowed to pay taxes to the court just like the common people.

Therefore, Emperor Yongzheng’s reputation became particularly bad.

Not to mention his posthumous name, when he was alive, rumors were flying everywhere.

Why did he usurp the throne and poison Kangxi to death? He changed the biography to the fourteenth elder brother and changed it to the fourth elder brother.

Why does he raise blood drops? As soon as the blood drops come out, the head falls to the ground.

So much so that Yongzheng had to write a book “Dayi Jue Mi Lu” to prove his innocence, but the result became darker and darker.

Jiang Hao never intended to exempt the gentry from the exemption.

On the one hand, it was because Jiang Hao’s next move was very big and might be beyond the imagination of these people, so he slapped him and gave him a sweet date.

Retain some of their privileges to prevent them from being completely ruined. After all, they still need to be used. At least it can be a facade, so as not to cause too much turmoil in the country.

On the other hand, the reason why Yongzheng made officials and gentry work as errands and pay grain as one was because he really couldn’t collect money and didn’t know how to create wealth, so he could only find a way through agricultural taxes.

But Jiang Hao knew that the output of agriculture was very limited, and it was impossible to make a fortune through agriculture.

He has no intention of relying on agricultural taxes at all, and naturally he doesn’t care whether these officials and gentry pay agricultural taxes.

Compared with the output value of industry, the output value of agriculture is pitiful and not worth mentioning at all.

Jiang Hao will also reduce or reduce the world’s money and food in the future, so that the people of the world can take a breath and not oppose Jiang Hao’s drastic reforms.

“Your Majesty… I… I am guilty. The land I owned was donated by my family with the connivance of others. If this happens, let them go back!” Xu Jie was frightened to death and quickly knelt down to plead guilty.

The emperor was able to accurately report his family’s land, and his words were very harsh, which made Xu Jie a little frightened.