"What's this gelding doing?"

Yang Lian had the hottest temper and looked very unkind, calling Wei Zhongxian a castrated dog.

Menzi shook his head: "I don't know either!"

Ye Xianggao pondered for a moment and said: "Let him come in!"

After a while, Wei Zhongxian entered Ye Xianggao's main hall and met everyone. Wei Zhongxian bowed slowly and said: "I have met Mr. Ye Ge, and I have met all of you!"

"Wei Zhongxian? Why did you come to my house?" Ye Xianggao's eyes fell on Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Ye Ge was always asked by the emperor to come to our family. Today, the emperor has scared you all!"

Yang Lian wanted to curse, but Ye Xianggao stopped him with his eyes.

At that moment, Ye Xianggao said: "Is this why Eunuch Wei came here today?"

"Today the emperor told our family that although the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty is good, I feel that it is against the harmony of nature to see this person peeling skin and stuffing it with grass today!" Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Your Majesty said, Isn’t this ancestral system a little out of date!”

Ye Xianggao pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "Your Majesty!"

Wei Zhongxian said hello and turned to leave.

Yang Lian frowned and couldn't help but said: "What does this castrated dog mean?"

"What's the meaning?"

Ye Xianggao glanced at Yang Lian, and then slowly said: "Your Majesty, you want to reform!"

"Reform?" Everyone was slightly stunned.

"The emperor asked this castrated dog to come over and say that the ancestral system is out of date. This means that this ancestral system must be changed!" Ye Xianggao said: "But, how should this ancestral system be modified? It also needs to be discussed with us!"

Yang Lian immediately said: "Your Majesty, the Holy Ming!"

Reform is a good thing.

This is also what the Donglin Party members have been pursuing.

It is absolutely impossible for them to spit out the meat in their mouths.

How to allow yourself to embezzle more benefits in a reasonable and legal manner is the key.

As for what happened to the Ming Dynasty and the people of Ming Dynasty, this is not what the Donglin Party members consider.

Make enough for yourself first and then talk about it.

Ye Xianggao pondered for a moment, and then said: "The emperor is more difficult to deal with than we thought, but he may not follow our wishes!"

“Don’t be afraid of reform!”

Han Xu on the side also said: "What happened to Zhang Juzheng's reform in the past? If it is for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, we will have to suffer and be tired, so what's the problem!"

"Send a letter tomorrow asking for reform!" Yang Lian said immediately.

Zhang Mansion

Zhang Haogu threw the idea of ​​textile looms and Jenny machines to Zhu Youxiao, and he himself had to consider the Ming Dynasty's new policies.

In fact, his idea is also very simple.

This is a reform thing.

Do it step by step

As soon as Zhang Haogu thought about it, he directly figured out the contents of Yongzheng's New Deal.

Basically, Yongzheng's New Deal was just a few patches for the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Haogu thought for a while and wrote seven words on his hand: Huo Huo returns to the public and raises honest silver.

When local officials levied money taxes, they would levy excessive amounts of money on the grounds of wastage, which was also called "huo wastage" or "waste envy". Yongzheng's idea was to change the "waste envy" surcharge into a statutory tax and establish a system to support honest silver. In combating the arbitrary apportionment behavior of local officials.

Although the exploitation of farmers still exists, at least the arbitrary apportionment has been reduced and will not become more severe.

Zhang Haogu did not even mention such things as sharing the land with farmers, returning the land to the countryside, and the gentry all paying the grain and serving as errands.

Reform is something that must be done step by step.

Ming Dynasty is now like a giant who is seriously ill. It will not work if he is given too strong medicine.

Although it is said that there will be great resistance to the return of the emperor, but if it is combined with Yanglianyin, as long as the court really gives money, the resistance will be relatively small.

The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were really too low.

Of course, strictly speaking, Zhang Haogu's salary was not bad. When Zhu Yuanzhang designed the bureaucratic salary, he still took personal life into consideration. If it can be achieved in full, personal life problems will not be big.

However, the cheating part is that the Ming Dynasty had a system called Zhese to replenish salaries. In the early Ming Dynasty, salaries were mainly distributed in grain. However, when the grain in the treasury was insufficient, other things were occasionally distributed to replace it. This

It's the so-called "color folding".

During the Zhu Yuanzhang era, money and banknotes were occasionally issued. At that time, banknotes were still useful. One stone of rice should have been issued, but the actual banknotes issued were about one tael of silver, which was roughly the same as the market price. By the time of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, due to the devaluation of banknotes,

, one stone of rice was supposed to be given, but the actual banknotes issued could only be exchanged for one to two cents of silver. In other words, the value had depreciated to only 10 to 20% of the original value.

By the Chenghua period, the ten-guan note was only worth twenty or thirty cents. In other words, it had devalued to two to three percent of its original value.

If you continue to issue banknotes, you will be acting like a hooligan, and your wages will be reduced by 50%.

Later, instead of giving out banknotes, they gave out pepper and hematoxylin.

When Emperor Chenghua arrived, he became even more immoral. He began to take out the palace's large inventory of silk and satin cloth, clothes, kerchiefs, quilts and mattresses, tables, chairs, porcelain tea bowls and tin teapots and give them to officials as salary.

Anyway, Zhang Haogu finally figured out that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a very good hooligan. Although Zhu Yuanzhang set the salary standard for officials very low, he set a very high salary level for his descendants.

If given the chance, Zhang Haogu really wanted to take action against the clan members of the Lao Zhu family.

Anyway.

Zhang Haogu calculated it and found that his salary was 61 dan per month and 732 dan per year. One tael of silver can buy two dan of rice. His monthly income was almost 30 taels of silver. Naturally, it was much higher than that of the poor peasants.

few.

However, this is the capital city, and I have to support my own servants and bearers. If my family does not have thousands of acres of fertile land to support me, this little money will not be enough for my own expenses.

He is about to drink the northwest wind, which will definitely be worse than Hai Rui's.

Hai Rui's salary and the fact that my wife and I do some work can barely support our family, but now there has been some inflation with the inflow of silver.

From an institutional point of view, this aspect of Ming Dynasty is really cheating.

If you can spend money on envy and return it to the public, and raise money on integrity, it can at least make people who don't need to be greedy not to be greedy.

Zhang Haogu thought about it again.

Then, pick up the pen and write.

Make up immediately!

This is another wicked move made by Yongzheng. "Alternate" actually refers to officials who have not been awarded actual positions and can only wait for appointment in the Ministry of Personnel.

The imperial examinations held every three years continuously produced people who were qualified to serve as officials for the imperial court, but the specific official positions were always limited, resulting in many people without official positions, so there was the "candidate" rule.

Yongzheng arranged for the imperial envoy ministers to go to local places to audit accounts, and the best candidates to form the imperial envoy investigation team are the alternate officials. The alternate officials will also be divided into different levels. During the inspection process, if an official is found to be corrupt, he can be removed from office on the spot.

Then select an alternate official of the same level as the official from the imperial envoy investigation team to fill the official position and take office immediately.

This is a set of combo punches.

While writing, Zhang Haogu began to admire Yongzheng.
Chapter completed!