On the golden bricks in the main hall, the whole hall was filled with crimson princes and uncles, and everyone's face was flushed.
Anyone can hear the teasing tone in the emperor's words.
In the Ming Dynasty, with potentially high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, people would naturally be able to have enough to eat, and everyone could earn more.
For most people in the hall at this moment, this is a good thing.
A few people are even thinking that feeding the people is something that has never happened in the Central Plains since ancient times, and the remaining surplus will naturally be collected by themselves.
The meritorious military generals hope to use the wounded to serve as local grain chiefs, which will increase the military's voice and power in the court, and will also help them seize the interests that were originally controlled by the local gentry group.
The civil servants hope to be in a high position, to control the system of tax collectors and grain chiefs from the top of the court, and to participate in the division of interests.
Common people?
With the availability of sweet potatoes, a crop that may fill people's stomachs, just let them fill their stomachs.
The people can follow it, but they cannot know it.
If the people can still have more surplus after having enough food, then what role do the court and the government play?
What else can they, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, do?
On behalf of the emperor and the herdsmen, if the people have needs, then the officials will be useful.
If the people really had no worries about food and clothing, what else would the Ming Dynasty need them for?
On the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his ministers with a smile in his eyes.
A hehe sound came from the emperor's mouth.
"Your Majesty, please be diligent. Nowadays, the state affairs are heavy. We have selected the meritorious soldiers from the Southern Expedition to serve as local grain ministers in Zhili. This will be supervised by Tai Sun. The Fusi of Jinyiweinan Town and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will jointly supervise. The Ministry of Household Verification will verify the amount of local taxes paid every year.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs will co-operate with local governments and counties, and the Ministry of War will co-operate with the work of tax collectors. An official office for the supervision of tax collectors from all over the world will be built in front of Wuying Palace."
As soon as these words came out, the officials in the palace were suddenly stunned.
Who could have expected that the emperor would directly take the matter of tax collectors in the world and set up an official office in front of Wuying Palace.
As a result, whether it is the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Personnel, the Inspectorate, or the Ministry of War, they only have the power to assist, but not to take the lead.
And by letting Taisun personally supervise this matter, it is obvious that the emperor wants to give Taisun another job.
Looking back, the imperial court unexpectedly came out with a decree to give the grandson the authority to supervise the affairs of the tax collectors in the world.
This is an additional yamen built on top of the court hall of the Ming Dynasty.
The ministers sit on wax.
The benefits they originally fought for will obviously be greatly reduced after the emperor's words.
But at this moment, the emperor on the throne did not allow them to have the courage and guts to express any opposition.
Zhu Yunxi, who was standing on the steps, was surprised.
His ultimate goal was to make the tax office independent of the court step by step. However, he did not expect that the old man would directly facilitate this matter.
Involuntarily, Zhu Yunxi silently raised his head and looked at the old man above.
A large part of the reason why the Ming Dynasty finally declined was that the court could not collect taxes. There was a lot of land in the world, but there was very little land that could be taxed. In addition, during the summer and autumn taxes and various additional taxes,
In the process, the imperial court exploited people from top to bottom, and eventually the money and food that could fall into the large warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue became less and less.
In this world, people cannot survive without money.
If the court has no money, the world will be in chaos.
People eat horse chews, food pays soldiers, government expenditures, and relief reserves all need to be supported by taxes.
It is controlled and relatively independent, and has a tax office that collects taxes powerfully. As long as the king can ensure that the tax office is relatively clean and subject to certain supervision, the source of Ming's tax revenue will be sufficient.
In this process, as long as it is ensured that the tax office will not breed corruption on a large scale and will not deceive the king and exploit local areas on a large scale, it will be far more effective than continuing to implement the existing cumbersome, complicated and lengthy tax collection system.
And this is the real reason why the officials in the court are silent at this moment.
For officials, they want to make things more complicated.
From Yingtian Chaotang to local prefectures and counties, only when the process of things becomes extremely complicated and the procedures become numerous, can they ensure that they have enough means to intervene, and then among these numerous processes, find the most beneficial way for them to obtain
Points of interest.
Now the new tax collector and tax bureau system has directly simplified the originally complicated tax collection process to the point where local tax collectors and grain directors are dispatched to directly interface with the Yingtian tax bureau.
The procedures are simple and the responsibilities are clear.
If you want to seek benefits from it, it becomes extremely complicated and difficult.
Many officials couldn't help but think of the idea of dividing the land into an equal share and integrating officials and gentry, which is currently being promoted with great fanfare.
Once the land tax for the entire Ming Dynasty is determined, tax collectors from the tax office will only need to collect taxes door-to-door according to the roster.
If there is a disaster, you only need to reduce or reduce the corresponding part of the tax in accordance with the imperial government's relief decree.
Yu Xin, the left servant of the Ministry of Finance, who originally didn't pay much attention to the ministry, suddenly felt that he might really become a useless person.
Zhan Hui, the civil servant's chief official, was in a dilemma for a while.
He knew the thoughts of his colleagues, but he would never disobey His Majesty the Emperor's will.
After thinking about it for a while.
Zhan Hui finally stood up: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to decide on the decision to move the people from Zhili to the south to Jiaozhi."
Zhu Yuanzhang silently looked at the person in front of him, who had been the official minister for many years, and smiled slightly: "The matter of relocating the people to enrich Jiaozhi will be entrusted to Taisun."
Zhan Hui thought for a moment and nodded silently: "I think that in the matter of tax collectors at the tax office, your majesty has a kind heart and benefits the people, so this is feasible."
Tianguan Shangshu has already nodded in agreement with the emperor's decision.
The remaining officials had no choice but to voice their support at this time.
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More than half a month.
Quietly, in front of the Wuying Hall of the Yingtian City Palace, not far from the duty room of the Sixth Section, the official office of supervising the tax collectors' office of the world began to handle the tax collectors' grain of Yingtian Mansion and surrounding counties without making much of a fuss.
A long-term thing.
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At the same time, the imperial court also officially issued a decree to move the Zhili people south to Jiaozhi, so as to increase the number of Ming people in the newly conquered areas and stabilize the newly conquered areas for the Ming Dynasty.
The first batch.
There were no less than thousands of households and more than ten thousand people in total. The government gathered them at Longwan Pier on the Yangtze River outside Yingtian City. They boarded a hundred-meter-long giant ship and set sail south to Jiaozhi.
In general, it is destined to thrive in Jiaozhi and have descendants in this life.
But no one would pay attention to the fact that among the thousands of relocated households, there are about a hundred or so households that belong to the small gentry and merchant group in Yingtian City that spread the rumors.
After all, compared to the entire Yingtian Prefecture and Zhili, which have to move no less than 100,000 households to Jiaozhi Road, these hundred or so households are nothing.
But only these 100 or so families knew clearly that this was the punishment imposed by the imperial court on themselves and others for spreading rumors in the city because the emperor's grandson offered crop bounties and they were dissatisfied for a long time with the sharing of land.<
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If not, why is it that the neighbor next door to the courtyard, which also has a lot of fertile land, and was dissatisfied after the start of allotment, was not included in the relocation list?
But no matter how frightened and regretful these people were.
No one inside or outside Yingtian City will care about them anymore.
Because.
Now Ying Tianfu is vigorously carrying out the reform of the tax collector and grain chief system in accordance with the requirements of the Ming Dynasty Taxation Office.
"Bang bang bang."
When a dewy morning arrives, the first ray of cold sunshine shines on the rural land of Yingtian Mansion. In Liuhe County, north of Yingtian City, at the foot of Guabu Mountain by the Yangtze River, in front of a house located in a fertile land
, there was a burst of intensive knocking on the door.
The house here is located not far from the foot of Guabu Mountain, covering an area of dozens of acres, creating a garden with both Suyang style and Huizhou simplicity.
But it is in sharp contrast to the low-rise villages not far away.
The knock on the door did not first call the people in the house, but instead caused the sound of dogs barking in the village not far away.
In the distant fields, several artificial crop men quietly raised their heads.
When I saw the door of Mr. Huang's house, I don't know when a large number of officials wearing Pixiu uniforms and wild goose feather knives appeared on their waists. Together with a small group of Jin Yiwei wearing flying fish uniforms and embroidered spring knives.
After seeing the person knocking on the door of Mr. Huang's house, the farmers in the fields immediately retreated into the fields, but in the end they still timidly but curiously raised their heads from time to time, looking at Mr. Huang's house expectantly.
Tian Mai watched as the concierge of the Huang family did not respond for a long time, and couldn't help but frown.
The tax collector next to me, Pixiu, looked murderous: "Sir, do you want to knock on the door?"
Tian Mai immediately turned his head and glanced at the tax collector lightly.
"The tax office is the land of the country, the state, and the country. It is the place where the world's taxation and financial resources are related. It must not be treated lightly or overbearingly."
After giving the warning, Tian Mai quietly stared at the door that had not been opened for a long time.
"Be merciful and restrained when dealing with people who have not violated the Ming Dynasty's laws, and continue to knock on the door."
The tax collectors wearing Pixiu uniforms and holding knives in their hands could only shake their heads helplessly.
"Bang bang bang."
"Tax Department."
"Open the door."
"Check taxes."
There was a series of knocks on the door of Mr. Huang’s house at the foot of Guabu Mountain.
Finally, the sound of cockcrow came from the courtyard.
A steward with a mustache stretched out his hand and patted his mouth to breathe. Under the care of the concierge, he walked out from behind the slowly opened door.
The manager glanced outside and saw that it was the tax collectors wearing Pixiu uniforms from the tax office that had just been set up by the imperial court recently. His eyes twitched, but he immediately calmed down.
The steward waved his hands in the air and bowed: "It turns out that you are all on duty. I don't know what the purpose is when my boss came to visit me early in the morning. My husband just went to the county seat yesterday and was invited to attend the summer harvest banquet at the county Zunming Hall."
The tax collectors at the tax office outside the door had gloomy eyes, just waiting for an order from the adults.
Tian Mai snorted and sneered: "Come here, enter the house, detain the Huang family, and anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!"
At this moment, Tian Mai was full of murderous intent, and there was no mercy and restraint as mentioned before.
Following his order, a group of tax collectors who had been prepared for a long time immediately rushed into the Huang family's residence with their swords drawn, knocking down the stewards blocking the door to the ground. p>
Tian Mai, on the other hand, led the Jin Yiwei into the mansion slowly.
"Jinyi Guardian reports the crime."
The movement in front of the house had actually attracted the attention of the fourth master Huang's family. The men gathered in the front yard and watched as a tax collector named Pixiu rushed into the house and unscrupulously arrested and detained the servants and locked them up.
These people are already in a panic.
The steward who opened the door put his hands on the ground, fearing that he would lose control.
However, the accompanying Jin Yiwei turned a deaf ear and reported in a low voice the crimes committed by Mr. Huang's family.
"The Huang Si family in Liuhe County, Yingtian Prefecture, occupied acres of land, resisted the imperial court, exploited the people, refused to promote land sharing, and hid acres of land. They stole the grain chief of Guabu Mountain, fought big and small, bought people into slavery, and paid bribes
The government. After many years of repeated crimes, it has now been identified. The imperial envoy supervises the tax collectors office in the world and is ordered to arrest the Huang family."
The Jin Yiwei who shouted took out a rough-edged decree from his arms, glanced at it, and then confessed the charges against Fourth Master Huang's family.
Then he took back the will that had been used and stuffed it into his arms, and waved forward.
The last group of Jin Yiwei also rushed into Huang Siye's home.
to noon.
Yesterday, Fourth Master Huang, who went to Liuhe County as a guest of the county government, was also escorted back to the foot of Guabu Mountain by a team of royal guards.
Tian Mai took a deep breath, crossed his legs, pressed his knees with his elbows, and glanced sideways at the crowd of people kneeling in the front yard of Huang Mansion.
In his hand are boxes of account books.
They are all tax verification accounts for rural fields and acres assumed by Guabushan Grain Chief over the years.
Several clerks from the tax office, who were wearing Pixiu uniforms but did not carry swords, started doing accounting and inventory checks early in the morning.
When Tianmai was about to fall asleep.
A clerk finally stood up with the cleared account books.
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"Your Excellency, it has been found that the Huang family has occupied three acres of land for many years, concealed taxes, and hid three amounts."
Tian Mai hummed and lowered his head slightly to look at Huang Si's family kneeling in front of the front courtyard.
In this early morning, the Huang family went through uneasiness, anger, confrontation, bloodshed, panic, panic, and continued uneasiness, and now they are completely numb.
Everyone in the Huang family knows that no one can escape.
Especially when they knew that the family's master was 'invited' to the county government last night and was detained all night by the young magistrate who took office in Liuhe County after Hongwu's fifteenth year.
Tianmai Doudou sent the clerk from the tax office to him the calculated amount of the Huang family's misappropriation and exploitation, and snorted: "Let's put it on record. Huang Sifa allocated Changhua Iron Mine, and the rest were messed up and recorded in this year's account."
List of the second batch of people migrating south to Jiaozhi."
A cry.
But Tian Mai’s words did not stop.
"Order the Taxation Department directly under the Taxation Administration to dispatch personnel to take over the position of Guabushan Grain Chief."
"The county magistrate of Liuhe County shall be issued and the list of grain chiefs throughout Liuhe County shall be forwarded as soon as possible and the list of persons involved in the law shall be submitted."
The clerk from the tax office wrote down the matter, nodded, and stepped aside.
Tian Mai finally stood up, walked to the corridor, looked at the Huang family servants all over the floor, and waved his hand: "They are all escorted to Longjiang Wharf to be moved to the camp. The house here was torn down and returned to farmland, leaving part of it as a melon step."
Shanliang Chief's Office."
After saying that, Tian Mai walked away.
In the entire Liuhe County, Huang’s family is not the first, but it is not the last either.
After finishing his errands in Liuhe County, he had to go to Jiangpu County next door.
In this way, the two counties in the northern part of Yingtianfu can be considered to have completed the restructuring of the tax bureau, tax collector and grain director.
As for the errands in Jurong, Lishui, Gaochun and Liyang counties south of Yingtian Prefecture, others have to handle them.
"Tax Office, open the door and check the tax."
Such slogans will echo in Yingtian Mansion for a long time.
Then, it will reverberate throughout the Ming Dynasty.
……
"The restructuring of grain chiefs in the six counties of Yingtianfu has been steadily progressing, and the selection of tax bureau officials has been completed. The remaining places will be decided after the Jinke Imperial Examination."
In the small study room of the East Palace, Prince Yan Zhu Gaochi reported on the work summary of the tax office with a haggard expression.
The imperial envoy supervises the deputy commissioner of tax collectors all over the world, which is Zhu Gaochi's current job.
Just say that sooner or later we will follow in the footsteps of our second uncle!
Now it’s come true!
Zhu Gaochi held the recent work summary of the tax office in his hand, and stared at Zhu Yunxi who was writing and drawing at the desk with resentful eyes.
"How many people are taking the exam today?"
Zhu Yunxi, who was writing and painting, asked without raising his head.
Zhu Gaochi pursed his lips and stuffed the tax office summary into his sleeve: "A total of more than 5,300 people have registered for the examination in this department."
Zhu Yunxi stopped the pen in his hand, looked at Zhu Gaochi, and frowned slightly: "It's not as good as the number of people in Hongwu's twenty-five years."
"This is rare in previous years." Zhu Gaochi rolled his eyes at Zhu Yunxi: "The examination is about to begin. Ren Hengtai mentioned before that the number of candidates admitted to the Jinshi examination this time will be in line with Hongwu's 25th year."
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "A little more is better, lest everyone feels that he is a treasure, has high vision and low hand, and does not know the hardships of the court and the sufferings of the people."
Zhu Gaochi whispered: "If Enke continues to be like this in the future, there may be slander. Now there are already discussions among the scholars, but..."
"Just because they can be on the list and become two-ranked Jinshi, they have no complaints." Zhu Yunxi took over Xiaopang's words, looked at the other party, and smiled slightly: "Look, these people are just so pretentious.
Hypocritical. In my opinion, it is not as good as the girls on the banks of the Qinhuai River, who are real, responsible and upright!"
Zhu Gaochi had a strange look on his face: "I don't dare spread these words."
In the study, Zhu Yunxi hummed twice.
The eyes are faint.
"I'm waiting for the day when all the people in the world will be Jinshi."
Let those bunch of upright Confucian bitches be worthless!
Zhu Gaochi sighed softly. There was a piece of data about Enke in the 27th year of Hongwu that he had not revealed, and the world rarely paid attention to it.
For the Jinke Examination, more than 5,000 people were registered to take the exam, and 1,080 people were interested in studying.
No matter what the purpose of these people is, at least what they show to the world is the attitude of supporting Xinxue.
At this time, Zhu Gaochi said again: "The official vacancies set aside by the tax bureau will not only focus on the two candidates in the current exam, but also on those who failed the exam. From now on, the tax bureau will take turns to have positions in all roads, prefectures and counties in the world.
The yamen needs more people to run errands, and it is far from enough for the soldiers to retire from the war, nor is it enough to shoulder the important responsibilities of a place."
This is just one of them. There is also Tianxia Station, which is now also the place where wounded soldiers and soldiers on the front lines are resettled after they are discharged.
The restructuring and construction of post roads has developed rapidly in the past two years. Things that facilitate the common people and merchants all over the world will naturally be sought after. It is precisely for this reason that various places have to submit petitions every year to request more manpower.
Zhu Gaochi nodded silently.
Brother Xi said this because he actually wanted to arrange for those who failed the examination to be assigned to the tax bureau.
At this time.
The door to the small study room was knocked open with a clang.
Sun Cheng, who forgot the rules of the small study, rushed straight into the study.
"Third Master, the martial arts hall is in chaos!"