It is clear that the advantages of the ad hoc military aircraft department lie in concentrating power, simplifying processes, integrating resources, and overall planning, so as to achieve perfection in a certain matter to the greatest extent.

The old system of the Ming Dynasty was already full of decay and was restricted by the civil servants. Therefore, if you want to save the Ming Dynasty, you must create a new system.

Through staged reforms in the government, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty was improved by gradually eradicating bad governance, dividing and suppressing the civil servants.

"Your Majesty, the Military Aircraft Department has issued an order and has been rushing for eight hundred miles to send it to Liaoqian and Dongjiang Town." Wang Chengen looked serious and bowed with his hands in hand.

"Yeah, I got it."

Emperor Chongzhen was busy at his desk and said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Banban, I'm going to summon Bi Qing to see you. I have some things that I want to discuss with Bi Qing."

"My slave obeys the order."

Wang Chengen hurriedly bowed and responded.

The pattern formed under the rule of Liaodong gave Emperor Chongzhen hope. As long as he planned and took action, it was still possible to save the ruined Ming Dynasty.

The first element that Ming Dynasty places on the agenda is to steadily improve the financial crisis and truly reduce the burden on the people at the bottom.

Only by doing this well can we prevent class conflicts from becoming acute when a disaster breaks out, leading to large-scale rebellion.

No matter what time it was, maintaining the stability of the overall order and reducing the scope of local turbulence was what Emperor Chongzhen tried hard to do.

"At this stage, if we try to implement the idea of ​​dividing a small family into an equal share, it will touch too many core interests and offend too many privileged groups."

Emperor Chongzhen put down his pen, looked at what was written in front of him, and frowned, "If you really dare to do this, I don't know how many rebellions will arise under the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Even if there is no rebellion, there will be rebellions long ago.

However, there are still conditions for trying the issue of slicing and returning fire consumption to the public.

Attrition has always been used by many local officials, especially low-level officials, as a tool to line their own pockets and squeeze the people. This matter must be put to an end.

The three major salaries will no longer be apportioned in the future. No matter how difficult it is for the court, they cannot continue to apportion them.

By reducing the burden on the people at the court level, even if excessive levies and miscellaneous taxes cannot be completely eliminated at present, life will at least be easier.

After all, the vested interests affected by the return of fire to the public were local officials and officials, and it did not involve too much local gentry, large and small landowners and other groups. Even if there were constraints and obstructions during the period, the scope was ultimately limited."

Governing a country is like cooking fresh food.

If you want to govern the Ming Dynasty well, you must first distinguish between primary and secondary contradictions. Although there were many primary and secondary contradictions before Emperor Chongzhen.

But after peeling off the cocoon, we can still prioritize.

Emperor Chongzhen thought carefully about the trends that would result from the implementation of a certain new policy, and put forward some targeted ideas. Emperor Chongzhen felt that some new policies could be implemented in a timely manner.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"Bi Qing is here."

Seeing Bi Ziyan coming over, Emperor Chongzhen smiled, stretched out his hand and said, "Bi Qing is worthy of being the Minister of Finance of the Ming Dynasty. Since joining the cabinet, he has been in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, and the measures he has specified have indeed alleviated the treasury's dilemma."

When Bi Ziyan heard this, he bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty is so wise and powerful, what I have done is not worth mentioning."

Bi Ziyan blushed a little at what the emperor said. The current situation of the Ming Dynasty's treasury was alleviated because the measures he ordered were not as effective as they should have been.

Adjusting and changing the tax system of the Ministry of Households, even if you want to see results, requires time. But at this stage, what Ming Dynasty lacks most is time.

But on the other hand, the Ming Dynasty's taxation system cannot be rushed.

After all, if the central court's clear measures are to be passed on to local governments for rectification and effectively implemented, there must be no impatience.

In order to ease the dilemma of the Ming Dynasty's treasury, one was the reform of banknote tariffs, and the other was the opening of checkpoints. These two gradually stabilized financial resources enabled the treasury to actively open up revenue.

In addition, there are also fixed-term bonds on sale, which can be said to solve the urgent needs of the national treasury.

"I'll just get straight to the point."

Seeing Bi Ziyan's behavior, Emperor Chongzhen handed the draft charter to Wang Cheng'en and said: "I plan to trial the return of fire consumption to the public in all prefectures and counties under the rule of Beizhili.

Attrition has always been a maladministration of the country, and one or two things can be seen just from the loss of water transport.

I know that when taxes are levied at the local level, "loss" will be used as an excuse to impose additional losses on the local people.

This is a very bad and bad policy. I was not aware of the harm in the past, but it is different now. This matter must be put to an end as soon as possible, and it should be tried out in Beizhili first."

Bi Ziyan: "..."

After receiving the official letter from Wang Chengen, Bi Ziyan felt a wave of injustice in his heart. If the matter of Huo Huo's return to the public was really carried out, it would probably cause turmoil in the local area, especially those local officials and staff.

After all, a large amount of extra income has been eliminated. It is definitely unrealistic to support the whole family and live a comfortable life with only that fixed salary.

The exorbitant taxes and confusion in the local areas are well known to everyone, both in the imperial court and in local official circles.

But if you know you know it, whether you can say it, whether you dare to say it, whether you want to say it, has become another matter.

After all, there is real money involved.

"Your Majesty... if you try to implement the return of fire to the public under the rule of Beizhili, it may cause some turmoil in the local area." Bi Ziyan carefully read the official letter he took, and he agreed with it in his heart, but he said: "Your Majesty.

I know that Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Zhili, is presiding over the reconstruction of Chidao, which is a good thing for both the government and the people.

If we choose this time to try out Huo Huo Gui Gong..."

"I know Bi Qing's concerns very well."

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and interrupted: "The reason why there are severe exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the local area, including exploiting the people in the name of loss, is because the salary is too low.

Therefore, when doing this, the Ministry of Household Affairs must clarify the detailed salary rules for each official rank as soon as possible, and increase some salary reasonably so that Ming officials will not be unable to support their families."

Speaking of the officials in the Ming Dynasty, the salary they received was the lowest. Emperor Chongzhen knew clearly that this was because Emperor Taizu Gao knew the greed of officials. No matter how high the salary was given to them, they would still be greedy when they should be greedy and use power for personal gain.

, it will still be like this.

However, for Emperor Chongzhen, if he wanted to gradually reform the Ming Dynasty and gradually eradicate the bad governance, he must protect the good officials who were pragmatic and willing to work, and eliminate the criminal officials who were corrupt and violated the law.

Fire expenses were returned to the public, salaries were increased, and new rules for governing officials...

This is a set of boxing combinations performed by Emperor Chongzhen.

The intention is to use the "return of fire to the public" as a starting point to gradually rectify the administration of officials. If your salary has been increased, but you are still corrupt and perverting the law in private, then it will be righteous to arrest you and kill you.

Some money can be saved, and some money cannot be saved. Even if the current financial crisis of Ming Dynasty has not been effectively solved, the money that cannot be saved cannot be saved.

Returning fire expenses to the public and increasing salaries are new policies that are linked to each other. If you want to increase salaries, you must implement the return of fire expenses to the public, otherwise such good things will have nothing to do with you.

"These are all my ideas. Bi Qing will clarify them as soon as possible."

Seeing the surprised look on Bi Ziyan's face, Emperor Chongzhen said: "But we can let it out first, and at the same time, in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs, issue the details of the return of the fire to the governor's office in Zhili."

(End of chapter)


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