Rujun said: "How can I be optimistic? Although His Majesty re-established four auxiliary officers after he came to the throne, and two of them were civil and military, it can be seen that His Majesty wanted to maintain a balance between civil and military affairs; but His Majesty himself may not have felt that the Ministry of War is still under the civil service
The food and fodder supplies for the guard station, the inheritance of generals, and the rewards for meritorious service all have to go through the procedures of the Ministry of War. In fact, it is still a policy of civil and military control."
"Of course, this may also be an expedient measure. The basis for my similar judgment is that since His Majesty took the throne, he has waged war against civil servants, but has not made any move to change the official system for military generals, and there is not even the slightest sign of it."
"Your Majesty today always makes plans before taking action when doing things. Long before Emperor Taizu passed away, Your Majesty sent people to spread the teachings of monks from various places to the capital; long before Emperor Taizu passed away, His Majesty discussed with others how to enfeoff the people.
matter; long before the death of Emperor Taizu, His Majesty had revealed that he would rewrite the "History of the Yuan Dynasty" and compile books; long before the death of Emperor Taizu, His Majesty had already been handling government affairs according to the strategies of the four auxiliary officials."
"And now there is no news that His Majesty has made any changes to the army, which shows that there will be no action in the near future."
When Ru Yun said this, everyone felt that it made sense. Li Qing, who had not spoken until now, said: "I am not above the court, so I may see things more clearly than you all."
"Although His Majesty still maintains Emperor Taizu's policy of balancing civil and military affairs, now is not the time for the founding of the country. As long as there is no war in the world, after these founding heroes pass away one after another, civil society will inevitably prevail over military forces!"
Of course, Yunxi didn't know that someone was tirelessly analyzing his thoughts. Of course, even if it knew about this and heard their analysis, it would just laugh. How could people at this time completely guess what he was thinking.
In the next few days, Yunxi will go to court first in the morning. Because he must have adopted the policy of "imitating Zhou's feudal state" in early July, everyone's attention has been changed to this matter today, although the general matter has been decided yesterday.
Yes, but there are still people who are obsessed with some details or etiquette matters.
So no one is paying attention to Yunxi, Shang Bing and their relationship with religion. Yunxi reminds people of the control of public opinion in later generations: What should you do if you want people to forget one thing quickly? Just create another big thing to distract people.
Attracting attention and changing the topic is the only way to control public opinion.
Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief when he was criticizing the excerpts. Finally, he no longer had to read many excerpts and leave them out, which not only wasted time but also made the literati dissatisfied.
Yunxi ordered the relevant departments to start preparing for the actual sealing. Shang Bing and others spent the whole day in the "relevant departments" to study the specific implementation details.
But before the focus on the country's lockdown has passed, many people have begun to fish in troubled waters.
On the fourth day of July, among the piles of remonstrances about the feudal state, Yunxi found such a piece of paper.
The author of the excerpt is called Liu Chuan, and his official position is censor. He wrote in the excerpt: "... Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the only ones with the most talents, and Su, Song and Zhun rented their subjects privately, causing people's livelihood to be exhausted..., the world
If there is nothing, please allow your majesty to reduce or reduce it. The taxes on official and private land should be the same as those on other lands.'
Yunxi knew that sooner or later someone would propose cutting taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because the taxes here have always been the highest in the country.
The taxes in the Ming Dynasty were very low. In the northern region and some southern regions, the official land tax per mu was 5 liters, 3 in 5 scoops, and the private land tax was 3 liters, 3 in 5 scoops. In most areas in the south, the official land tax per mu was 1 dou, 2 liters, and the private land tax was 1 dou, 2 liters.
The land tax is 8 liters, 5 in 5 spoons.
The five prefectures of Su, Song, Hu, Chang, and Hang have the highest land tax, with official land of about 1 stone, and civilian land of 3 dou, 5 to 6 dou.
The land tax formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang was obviously carefully considered. Based on the grain output per mu of land and the number of crops per year, the mu tax on official land in most areas was about thirty tax per mu, while the tax rate on private land was less than thirty tax per mu.
The tax rate on official land in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is about 10% to 15%, while the tax rate on private land is only one for fifteen to thirty tax.
Yunxi smiled at Zhuo Jing and said, "Zhuo Qing, come here and take a look at this book."
Zhuo Jing got up, took the book and looked at it. Yunxi waited for Zhuo Jing to finish reading, and said: "I don't know where Liu Chuan is from, but he can't escape Su, Song, Hu, Chang, Hang Wu."
People from the government. He probably thinks that I am a person who does not eat grains."
"The tax bills of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang do seem to be relatively high, but why don't they mention the grain yield per mu of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang! The five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang produce two crops a year, and each mu of land produces far more grain.
In other places, taxes will be levied according to other places, haha."
"It's also said that the people have a hard time making a living. Even with the current tax, the people have far more food left per acre of land than in the north. If the people in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have a hard time, wouldn't the people in the north have long since starved to death?"
"When the late emperor moved to Jiangsu, the people of the five Zhejiang prefectures moved to Fengyang, Beijing and other places. The land occupied by each household in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not much less than that of other places, and the taxes were even lower. This was a clear deception of the emperor.
ah!"
As early as Yunxi started speaking, the other four people pricked up their ears when they heard Yunxi's words. Halfway through, they knew what was going on, and they also knew that this official's idea was impossible to realize.
of.
But after they heard the last words Yunxi said, they were shocked. Because Yunxi rarely told lies, they thought that Yunxi wanted to punish this outstanding man for deceiving the emperor, which was a capital crime.
So Chen Xingshan immediately said: "Your Majesty, although the accusations made by this person are untrue and slightly selfish, is it too much to punish him for the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
Bao Zhao also said: "Your Majesty, although this person's words are untrue, a slight punishment will be enough. How can he be punished for the crime of deceiving the emperor?"
Yunxi just made a slip of the tongue, but he felt uncomfortable when he saw the two ministers' strong rebuttals: Neither of you are from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and you are officials promoted by me personally. Why are you so worried about this person?
Talk? It’s not like civil and official officials are protecting each other!
So Yunxi decided to deal with it more harshly. He said: "Since this person is so worried about state affairs, and the younger brother of the King of Qin is in urgent need of officials, let him be demoted to the rank of Shazhou Guard. It just so happens that he is the seventh rank, and his experience is from the seventh rank, and he is only demoted to the seventh rank.
Level one."
The reason why Yunxi punished him so severely was because he was the censor. Although Yunxi said Guangna Yayan, he had no good impression of the censor. The official position of censor was originally established to set up a separate supervisory official.
However, in every dynasty, even when politics is still relatively clear, it will become a tool for political struggles between officials, and even party struggles, and basically cannot play the role of supervising officials.
Yunxi felt that the Jinyiwei was much easier to use than the Yushi. As long as the Jinyiwei was not given the power to review cases and arrest people, it was still qualified as a supervisory agency.
The officials present immediately felt that the punishment was too severe, but when Bao Zhao tried to dissuade him again, Zhuo Jing immediately stopped him. Zhuo Jing and Chen Xingshan had followed Yun Xi for a long time, and knew that Yun Xi had already made up his mind.
, he refused to reply after being dissuaded, so in order to prevent Bao Zhao and Yun Hei from getting into trouble, he quickly stopped him.
