No matter how many achievements he has made in the past fifteen years, Zhu Youdong's mentality has always been relatively upright: I am just an ordinary person. If the gods hadn't messed with each other, such an opportunity would never have been available to me. Therefore, I cannot be like the geniuses.

, everything is fully rolled out at the same time, which is beyond my ability.

The Ming Dynasty has been in existence for more than two hundred years. Various problems are numerous, intertwined, and involve a wide range of issues. Therefore, in order to reform this country from top to bottom, we must proceed step by step, step by step, and proceed slowly and down-to-earth.

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Zhu Youdong has been thinking about it for four years since he was a baby. It wasn't until he became enlightened and had his own team that he put it into practice. Thanks to four years of thinking, he walked step by step, although there were some mistakes.

There are mistakes and small flaws. But overall, it's very stable.

In the beginning, of course, he wanted to make money. After opening a few small gold fingers and getting a little money, he started to use cowpox method and high-yielding crop promotion, and put on a bulletproof vest for himself.

According to his original plan, he wanted to build a base in Tianjin Port. As a result, Empress Dowager Li and Wanli gave him a push and asked him to go directly to Nanjing to take charge. This push significantly accelerated his pace.

On the second day in Nanjing, I went to Huangceku. On the surface, it was a false shot. In fact, this move was of great significance: the thoughts of His Highness Taisun's group were effectively unified, and everyone understood the current situation of the country.

.Thus, even if the great-grandson later did something slightly unreasonable, everyone would be able to accept it.

Then it is to seize the power of public opinion. Only with the power of public opinion can we make better money and climb the technology tree. After making certain achievements in money and technology, we will form a new navy and army. After that, His Highness Taisun's strength will enter a spiral.

fast lane.

After the Battle of Sarhu, Zhu Youdong won the support of most military generals across the country, and his reputation was unparalleled for a while. With the death of Zhu Changluo, he was quickly pushed down from the position of supervising the country - this progress far exceeded his

own expectations.

Therefore, after truly reaching the top of national power, he became more cautious in doing things.

Since he became the supervisor of the country in the 40th year of Wanli (1612), in more than three years, Zhu Youdong actually did not do much in terms of internal reforms.

One, of course, is to continue the census.

The second is to reform the currency system and open banks.

The third is to reform the salt policy.

The fourth is to increase the salaries of civil servants and officials across the country.

These four, especially the latter two, are of course interlocking and complementary to each other.

If you don’t know the approximate population of the country, you won’t know everything about the country. Therefore, this must be done first.

To reform the currency system, the principal prepared by Zhu Youdong and Cao Sanxi was not enough. Therefore, they had to sell part of the state-owned assets to raise funds. In the short term, there was nothing faster than selling salt mines to make money.

However, only with relatively reliable population data can Zhu Youdong have the confidence to sell most of the country's salt mines: in this salt mine auction, Bi Maokang had a total of 13 salt mines in his hands that were not included in the list.

The thirteen salt mines left behind ensure that at least one large-scale salt mine in each province is controlled by the state. Their salt production combined with census data show that even if private salt mines across the country uniformly raise prices,

These thirteen state-owned salt mines also have enough power to drive down the price of salt - this is one of the significance of the census.

After selling the salt mines and reforming the shockingly inefficient salt administration of the Ming Dynasty, the court had money. The next step was to increase the salaries of officials.

It’s still the same sentence: high salary does not necessarily lead to integrity, and low salary will definitely breed corruption. In modern society, there are indeed many people who don’t care about salary, as long as the work is easy. But there is a premise: there is no shortage of such people.

money!

Moreover, the work efficiency of such people will definitely be extremely low. Isn’t it said in modern society? Lazy government and inaction are also corruption!

No matter how unhappy Zhu Youdong feels about the current civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, he must admit that the Ming Dynasty’s model of centralized power and civil servants governing the country is much more advanced than the Western system of monarchs and vassals. This is the future for him and other time travellers.

One of the biggest advantages for competitors when competing.

Therefore, he still has to rely on these civil servants.

Then the salary must be increased.

As for after the salary increase? On the one hand, it must be to reorganize the Metropolitan Procuratorate and increase the intensity of detecting corruption. On the other hand, it is: ideological reform!

Guan Zhong said that warehouses are practical and know the etiquette and food and clothing, and they know honor and disgrace. In the past, we could not live on wages alone. It is useless to fight against corruption when we can't even feed and clothe ourselves. But now, everyone's income has increased so much.

Whether it is anti-corruption or ideological reform, they all have a material foundation.

In Zhu Youdong's plan, in order to completely reverse the Ming Dynasty's national finances and reduce the burden on the common people, it is necessary to implement the three axes of Yongzheng in the historical standard: fire expenses should be returned to the public, farmers should be divided into acres, and officials and gentry should work together to pay for food.

To achieve this goal, the administration must first be rectified.

To rectify the administration of officials, we must first raise salaries.

Then we need to strengthen supervision and ideological transformation.

The current officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is basically dominated by hypocrites. Because all officials in the country have to be greedy, everyone cares more about superficial moral articles. Over the past few hundred years, except for a few people who stick to their true intentions, basically everyone

Became a hypocrite.

To correct such a trend, of course it is impossible to purge all the officials in the world. In addition to raising salaries, we must also knock down the benchmark that leads this trend of hypocrisy! And when it comes to this, what can be more powerful than knocking down the Yanshengong family?

Which one is more shocking and has better and faster results?

Speaking of which, Zhang Shize was very capable in handling matters. After seven or eight months, he had successfully found the three tombs Zhu Youdong told him in advance and obtained the things Zhu Youdong mentioned.

His Highness Taisun needs a huge amount of money, but Ming Dynasty now has a lot of money. As long as the method is right, he can naturally make money. In short, Zhu Youdong is not miserable enough to rely on the gold captain to provide financial support.

In fact, these three tombs are not famous for the amount of gold and silver buried with them. They have only one thing in common: burial documents.

There are a large number of bamboo slips in the Yinqueshan Han Tomb, and the contents on them are mainly Taoist and military strategists. There are also some things from Mohism, Yin Yang, and Legalism.

Among them, the most valuable ones are "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Sun Bin's Art of War". In the historical perspective, before this tomb was discovered in 1972, Chinese academic circles could not make a conclusion on whether Sun Bin existed. The bamboo slips of this tomb

After the discovery, the controversy came to an end.

The owner of the tomb in Shuihudi, Yunmeng, Hubei, was a low-level official of the Qin Dynasty, and his burial objects were extremely shabby. However, this dedicated official used all the legal provisions of the Qin Dynasty that he had studied and written personally throughout his life.

Burial objects.

The Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Slips vividly and comprehensively demonstrate the dense and reasonable legal system of the Qin Dynasty. It ranges from national policies and decrees, officials instructing people to farm, how to use cattle, and various disputes between neighbors.

How to deal with it. As well as market management and tax collection, national workshop production, currency circulation, warehouse storage, military honors and titles, etc., involve all aspects of national production and life.

The tombs in Bakuo Village, Ding County, contain three versions of the Analects of Confucius.

"Shi Ze, with these things, we can take action against Yan Shenggong."

"Yes, I accept your order."

"Well...how are you going to do it?"

"Your Highness, over the years, I have been convinced that you are the one who was born to know. After carefully studying the things unearthed from these three tombs, I was also shocked. My idea is to first release the Qin bamboo slips in Sleeping Tiger Land.

Go out and let everyone know how exquisite and reasonable Qin's law is. Hey, compared with Qin's law, my Ming law..."

"Yes." Zhu Youdong nodded happily: "I gave the idiots from the Ministry of Justice two full years to revise the Ming Law, and also asked the Jesuits to send them a Chinese version of Western Roman legal provisions for reference. But they

The things they took out are absolutely stinky. Just let them take a good look. Our Chinese laws were already so sophisticated more than a thousand years ago. It’s not shameful to see these idiots.”

"Yes, I have the same plan. Your Highness, I will prepare to release the Han bamboo slips from Yinque Mountain."

"Okay, so, for example, it will trigger continued attention and great discussion on this matter among scholars, even Taoist priests, and generals across the country."

"That's exactly it. Finally, I will take out the three editions of the Analects from the tomb in Barkhor Village together! Hundreds of schools of thought are now alive! I don't believe it anymore. At this time, the Kong family can still sit still!"
Chapter completed!