Chapter 306 Zhu Gaojie: The King of Han did not rebel, but I did!
Yang Rong said with some embarrassment: "Your Highness, I want to move Huang Ceku from Houhu, Nanjing to Beijing. Two months may not even be enough to plan the itinerary."
As a minister, he knew that this was not the time to complain to Zhu Gaojie. He should have agreed flatly, as if there was nothing he could not do as long as His Highness told him.
But it is obviously unrealistic to complete the huge project of transferring the Yellow Book Library in two months, unless he can invite the powerful old god to transfer hundreds of thousands or millions of important files with just a wave of his hand.
Eucalyptus is transferred out of thin air.
However, Yang Rong is not an old god, he is just a mortal, but His Highness always arranges errands for him that are not done by human beings.
Zhu Gaojie touched his chin. He also knew that his requirements were a bit too strict.
He asked: "If I leave it to you, how soon can it be completed?"
Yang Rong thought for a while and said: "One year, at the earliest it will be one year."
Zhu Gaojie nodded: "Okay."
Yang Rong was a little surprised, thinking when did His Highness become so easy to talk to? If it had been before, His Highness would have slapped him.
In fact, it will not take that long to move Huangceku. This is just a negotiation method. First, shout out a high price that the other party cannot accept, so as to always occupy a favorable position in the negotiation process. According to common sense
He said that the other party should bargain with him.
However, what caught him off guard was that His Highness agreed directly.
Yang Rong fell into deep thought. Could it be that His Highness just said that he was trying to trick me for two months? Hiss... I thought His Highness was on the first floor and I was on the third floor. What I didn't expect was that His Highness was actually on the ninth floor.
layer……
High, too high.
Zhu Gaojie said: "Go to the Ministry of Revenue and find Mr. Xia."
Yang Rong was a little confused: "What are you looking for, Mr. Xia?"
Zhu Gaojie said calmly: "Go to Mr. Xia to settle your salary for this month."
Yang Rong was even more confused: "But it's not the time to pay the salary yet..."
"No, you can write a report of resignation and return home and submit it to me. You type the report and I will approve the note. Then you can go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to collect the salary and salary for the month."
Yang Rong said categorically: "...I'll move Huang Ceku here in two months, right? No problem!"
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Zhu Gaojie looked at Yang Rong and Si Tiao's expressions, and sighed: "It's not that I mean to make things difficult for you. There's nothing I can do about it. You have to know that this is...that person's intention."
He stretched out his hand and pointed to the sky to hint at the move of Huangceku. It reached heaven to hear it, and it was a decree from heaven.
The heavenly decree is naturally the oracle of the emperor, the old man, who is destined to be carried by heaven.
Yang Rong said solemnly: "Your Majesty...why did you suddenly think of this?"
He was embarrassed to say directly that His Majesty the Emperor had not been in charge of politics for two years, so why did he suddenly become diligent? This is not like the style of our Mr. Yongle.
According to His Majesty's style, he is not very interested in anything other than fighting.
Anyway, he was doing something for the old man and fulfilling the old man's dying wish. He didn't mind using the old man's name and using his reputation to frighten others.
Yang Rong took a breath, and for a moment he was a bit arrogant: "Your Majesty, are you still thinking about this matter? This is an old thing that happened more than ten years ago. Your Majesty still doesn't give up?"
"Aren't you still thinking about it? If you can't find Emperor Jianwen, the old man won't be able to sleep for the rest of his life."
Zhu Gaojie sighed, "After all, they are also uncles and nephews. The old man still thinks about this friendship and can't let it go."
Yang Rong thought to himself, screw me, Your Highness, please don’t put too much gold on your father’s face.
Is Your Majesty thinking about the friendship between uncle and nephew? He is clearly thinking about his nephew's head!
His Majesty the Emperor’s last wish during his lifetime is to send his nephew, Jianwen, to the West!
"But is there any connection between relocating Huangceku and searching for Emperor Jianwen... Wait,"
Yang Rong suddenly had an idea, "Don't tell me, this is a plan to count the population of the country and find the 'Emperor Jianwen' who has slipped through the net."
Zhu Gaojie nodded: "I really think so."
Yang Rong's tongue curled up as he spoke: "This, isn't this... a joke!"
"There are more than 60 million yellow books in the Houhu Yellow Book Library. Is it possible that Your Highness would have to check them one by one? Even if you check them, Emperor Jianwen may not be on them!"
This is so ridiculous!
In his entire life, Yang Rong has never heard such a ridiculous order!
If you want to find Emperor Jianwen by checking the population, the difficulty is undoubtedly to find a needle in a haystack. Moving the Houhu Huangceku to Beijing is already a costly and extremely difficult project.
And if you want to count all the more than 60 million yellow books in the yellow book library, moving the yellow book library is simply a small project worth mentioning.
This requires not only huge manpower and material resources, but also incredible manpower!
It would take at least half an hour to carefully check a yellow book and try to find out what is wrong with it. Even an experienced senior official can only review forty copies at most in one day.
Even if 500 senior officials were recruited and worked tirelessly every day, it would still take eight years to complete the verification of all the yellow records.
Eight years later, that is, the twenty-fifth year of Yongle, will our Emperor be able to live until that time? Will he still see Emperor Jianwen arrested?
What? I told His Majesty in a dream: "Your Majesty, just go all the way. We were caught by your nephew. What, you don't believe it? It's okay. We will wipe Emperor Jianwen's neck right now and send him to follow you."
Keep me company on the road to hell!"
The Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money just to make His Majesty the Emperor feel more comfortable. This was a very good plan.
Even if the officials worked diligently and tirelessly for twelve hours a day to review more than 60 million yellow books during His Majesty's lifetime, would they really be able to find Emperor Jianwen?
Emperor Jianwen has been hiding it for more than ten years. It's not like your Majesty hasn't looked for it before, but he still hasn't found it. The Minister of Rites, Hu Hu, who is out here, has his eyes glowing green when he hears the words "Emperor Jianwen", and he wishes that all the local houses and fields were destroyed.
Dig three feet into the ground.
This also proves that Emperor Jianwen must have some back-up to help him hide his identity. There were more than one million black households in the Ming Dynasty. In the eleventh year of Yongle alone, there were tens of millions of gangsters. If Emperor Jianwen plunged into the sea of people as a man,
Among them, or if they find a random hill to hide in for the rest of their lives, even if the officials of the Ming Dynasty tore through the more than 60 million yellow books, they could not find a single hair of Emperor Jianwen!
Zhu Gaojie smiled slightly and said: "I didn't say that I had to ask you to check all the records in the Huangsi library."
"What do you mean, Your Highness?"
"Officials are decentralized and checked against yellow records."
Zhu Gaojie said, "You also know that there were too many illegal households in the Ming Dynasty. Even the Tax Supervisory Office has been investigating illegal taxes and white taxes, and wants everyone to experience the beauty of paying taxes, but there are always some people who don't understand.
Concealing the population is an attempt to avoid taxes.”
"Decentralize the officials, check the illegal households, and investigate the traces of Emperor Jianwen at the same time. Finding Jianwen is a trivial matter, but checking the population is the big deal."
Zhu Di is not a fool who only wastes national power, and Zhu Gaojie doesn't seem to be bothered by spending the whole country to find Jianwen.
The old man asked Zheng He to go to the Western Seas not only to search for Jianwen, but also to promote the Ming Dynasty's national prestige overseas, as well as to investigate the situation of overseas countries and foreign trade.
Hu Hui from the Ministry of Rites was asked to make secret visits throughout the country, mainly to investigate local illegal activities and to act as the emperor's eyes and ears to conduct private visits to the people.
In the final analysis, Zhu Gaojie moved the Yellow Register Library and checked the Yellow Register to survey the population and increase tax revenue.
Taxation is the main structure of the economy in any dynasty and any country. If you want to make the country rich, the easiest way is to increase taxes and violent collection. But if this is the case, it will easily lead to civil unrest.
Zhu Gaojie wanted to raise taxes, but he didn't want the tax amount to go up, so he had to start with quantity and find out all the illegal households.
Since the establishment of the Tax Supervision Institute, although the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty has increased more than ten times, it has been spread to the head of the population. The amount of tax levied on individuals has not only not increased, but has been declining, liberating people from the pressure of paying taxes.
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To this day, in fact, the amount of taxes imposed by the imperial court on ordinary people has basically not affected the lives of ordinary people. Under the dual jurisdiction of the Tax Supervision Yuan and the Tax Supervision Department, there are basically no arbitrary and excessive taxes, and local officials privately raise taxes.
of illegal activities.
Even if local officials raise taxes privately, the money will not fall into their pockets, but will be levied as a black tax by the tax superintendent. In this way, they will not get any money, but will also ruin their reputation and career. This kind of
Who is willing to do it?
To deal with evil people, you have to use more evil methods.
Despite this, there are still too many people who are unwilling to record their names on the court's list and bribe government officials to achieve the purpose of tax evasion.
Even if they pay taxes, their lives will not be affected, but they are still unwilling to pay taxes.
"With all due respect, Your Highness, the imperial court has tried to thoroughly investigate the underworld, but the effect has been... minimal." Yang Rong said hesitantly.
He is a pragmatist and must consider practical issues before doing anything.
"In fact, it is not difficult to solve the problem of yellow records. It only requires eight words, clear rewards and punishments, and give both kindness and power."
Zhu Gaojie said nonchalantly, "Rewards are for officials at the lower levels of the imperial court. They are divided into twenty levels based on the merits of the criminals found by the officials. The rewards for each level are different. Rewards are distributed according to the levels, whether they are promoted or rewarded with silver.
Well, they are the best means of motivating people. Among the twenty levels, the highest-level reward can be directly promoted to the third-level tax officer of the Eighteen-level Tax Supervisor. There can only be one highest-level tax officer in each province.
He is the official who has uncovered the most illegal accounts and collected taxes in the province. Until a new top official appears, he can replace the original tax official."
"Penalty refers to officials who are involved in the yellow list and taxation. If they know the law and break the law, conceal it and fail to report it, and take bribes to help people who are trying to evade and avoid taxes to commit illegal acts, they will be punished according to the rules of the Tax Supervision Bureau of the two capitals and the Tax Supervision Department of the Eighteenth Road.
If you add ten grades, you will be beheaded as soon as you receive your salary! There is no such thing as being beheaded by a prisoner. The government, the province, and the imperial court will review you in turn and wait for the queen to ask for the beheading, and then kill you on the spot!"
"We use both kindness and power, not only to give some sweetness and draw a big picture that will make them jealous, but also to use torture to warn everyone and prevent some people from fishing in troubled waters and waiting for work!"
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Zhu Di thought about it for most of the night, and now all he could think about was his "dear" nephew Jianwen. He was wondering whether he should apologize first, reminisce about old times, or sprinkle more cumin on Jianwen to make a royal cake for Jianwen.
Making barbecue...
Ahem.
Zhu Di calmed down and understood that no matter how much he thought about it, his fourth son would not be able to send Emperor Jianwen here tied up in the middle of the night.
But because he missed his nephew too much, he had lost sleep and simply couldn't sleep. He calmed down and remembered that he had not simulated Zhu Gaojie's life as a commoner.
In the middle of the simulation, the mention of the traces of Emperor Jianwen made him so excited that he almost forgot about it.
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[After learning the content of this letter, Duke Mucheng of Guizhou resolutely promised to follow you to rebel.]
[It has nothing to do with position or risk. Whether this letter is true or false, even if the Duke of Guizhou's government may be destroyed due to this failure, Mu Cheng doesn't care. 】
[As the adopted son of Taizu and the son of King Muying of Qianning, Mu Cheng strictly abides by the promise made by the Mu family and Taizu. Everything in the Duke of Guizhou’s mansion was given by Taizu. If everything is destroyed because of Taizu,
He doesn’t care either.]
[The Mu family, a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold.]
[Under the setting sun, outside two dilapidated thatched houses, tens of thousands of troops gathered, lined up in order, and ready to attack.]
[You lead Mu Cheng, Zhang Fu, and these tens of thousands of troops to the north in a mighty manner. 】
[You declare war on your brothers, declare war on the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. You will take back your lost dignity with your sword and knife, and make atonement for the enemy with your blood!]
[However, before you could leave Yunnan and reach Sichuan, the emperor of Ming Dynasty had already passed away. 】
[Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty failed to return triumphantly from the Fifth Northern Expedition after all. He died of illness in Yumuchuan. Prince Zhu Gaochi succeeded to the throne as Emperor Hongxi. At the same time, he ordered the Marquis of Ningyang who was accompanying the expedition to
Chen Mao and Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu led their original entourage to the strong horse team and rode three thousand miles back to Beijing. At the same time, they transferred their confidants to Nanjing to take charge of Nanjing's military power.]
[You, the elder brother, are indeed very capable. In less than half a month, you have completely controlled the northern and southern capitals and brought the country of the Ming Dynasty into your own hands. 】
[After his troops occupied the south and north, Emperor Hongxi mourned publicly. By the time the world learned of Emperor Yongle's death, he had already secured his throne.]
[When Emperor Hong Xi played such a trick, he was certainly not trying to prevent your rebellion in advance. He was trying to guard against your second brother, Prince Zhu Gaoxu of Han.]
[It’s just that Prince Zhu Gaoxu of the Han Dynasty was a smart man. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately settled down in Shandong. 】
[Emperor Hongxi prepared so many arrangements, but in the end because the King of Han calmed down, he came to power with nothing.]