Then Chen Xingshan did not mention the punishment of Liu Chuan, but only mentioned the content of the memorial itself, and said to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, the land tax of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is indeed similar to that of other places, with a tax of thirty to one. This matter
Liu Chuan is lying; but the tax on official land is higher than one in ten taxes, which is indeed higher."
Yunxi said: "But even so, the people in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang who rent government land still have much more food left per mu of land than the people in the north."
"This is similar to the North-South Ranking Case during the time of Emperor Taizu. The key point of the debate among officials at that time was: Should we insist on fairness in selecting officials based on merit, or should we insist on fairness in selecting officials from all provinces?
Now the question is, do you want the tax ratio to be fair, or do you want the food left over after the people pay the tax to be fairly fair?"
In fact, there is no absolutely correct way to do this kind of thing. It all depends on which side you sit on, or which side is in your interest. Yunxi is the emperor now, so of course the latter is in his interest, so he adopts the latter
'fair'.
Moreover, Yunxi believes that the behavior of foraging in the land cannot be encouraged. In fact, it is impossible to get rich by farming before the advent of the mechanization era, and as the population increases, life will become more and more difficult. Therefore, it must be encouraged
The common people go out to explore. It doesn't matter whether it's 'going to Guandong' or 'going to Nanyang'.
Moreover, Yunxi knew through Jinyiwei that the gentry in the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang had embezzled official land without authorization. Although these embezzled fields were taxed according to official land, they had to be rented to the gentry privately.
.Zhu Yuanzhang killed someone once when he was in power, but the phenomenon still exists.
If he reduces the official land tax here, the gentry will increase the rent, and in the end the ordinary people will not benefit.
Regarding the matter of land tax, not only the three civil servants paid attention to it, but Zhang Wen and Guo Zhen were also listening carefully. After all, their families had a lot of land. Since their tax exemption rights were canceled under Yunxi's suggestion, all their land was lost.
They have to pay taxes. However, they have no land in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so they just pay attention to Yunxi's attitude towards land tax.
Among the five ministers present, there were no people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, so they could look at this issue from a more neutral perspective. Zhang Wen and Guo Zhen did not talk about matters that had nothing to do with themselves, but the three civil servants were different.
He has the ideal of governing the country and bringing peace to the world.
Of course, Bao Zhao supported Yunxi. As a northerner, he had long disliked southerners, especially those from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the imperial examinations were strongest, so he supported Yunxi.
The other two people thought about it over and over, and finally could only admit that considering Yunxi's approach from the national perspective was the right thing to do.
After finishing today's memorial, Yunxi returned to Qianqing Palace from Jinshen Palace and sent someone to call Qin Song.
When Qin Song arrived, Yunxi first smiled and asked: "Qin Qing, how is your control over Jin Yiwei now?"
Qin Song said: "Your Majesty, I brought a few people from Jinwu's vanguard to serve as the commanders of the Jinyi Guards, Qianhu, Baihu. The two commanders knew each other and because I was the commander of the Jinyi Guards appointed by Your Majesty, they did not dare to
We are fighting with the ministers, and now the imperial guards in the capital have almost controlled it, but it is still difficult to control it in other places."
Yunxi said: "That's enough. Although things in other places are also important, they are not as important as those in the capital."
Qin Song said: "Your Majesty, what is the important matter for calling me here today?"
Yunxi said seriously: "From today on, you will pay closer attention to the officials in the capital. These people will definitely test my knowledge of the local situation and the current situation of the imperial court in these days."
"I know that I cannot understand everything in detail, so you first compile a relationship book of the officials in the court, including their place of origin, years of service, which subjects they were awarded as Jinshi, Juren, Xiucai, and which year they were admitted to the Imperial College.
Being an official, etc., write down all the details."
"Then monitor who they met every day. You don't need to know what they said. Report it when I ask you to report it."
The emperor used one person to deal with the entire group of officials. With the separation of civil and military affairs, it was difficult not to be fooled by civil officials. Today's incident is because Yunxi paid attention to it in later generations, and usually paid attention to the country's population, land and other matters.
, so I discovered it myself.
But he may not be able to discover other things, so Yunxi decided that he must carefully consider any official's remonstrance to change the law. He should first consider the purpose of the person who recommended it and whether it is related to his interests, and then discuss it.
other.
And Yunxi still had to find helpers. He was unwilling to use eunuchs as in history, and military generals could not help in the daily management of the country for the time being, so he could only use Jin Yiwei.
Yunxi's definition of Jinyiwei is a secret agency that hides in the dark and only collects intelligence. Yunxi also plans to divide Jinyiwei into two agencies, internal and external, after Qin Song completes the integration.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Qin Song promised.
In fact, Yunxi didn't originally want to talk about this when he asked Qin Song to enter the palace today. It was just a temporary addition after receiving this letter. What he really wanted to say was the next thing.
Yunxi said: "There is one more thing I want to tell you. Next, use Lanzhou as the place to spread Buddhism to the Western Regions, and Kaiyuan City as the place to spread Taoism to the northeast. You ask people to pay attention to all the great temples in the Central Plains that have not participated in the mission.
Daguan, please write it down and tell me. If you dare to disobey temples and temples, I will let them know the price."
The system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang for both Buddhism and Taoism is actually very strict. People under the age of 40 are not allowed to become monks, and no ultimatums are given. A county can only have one temple and Taoist temple, and the number of people cannot exceed 20. Prefectures and cities are not allowed to
If there are more than 30 people, no more than 40 people will be allowed in the city.
Large sects such as the Taishan Sect, Shaolin Temple, and Wudang Sect were all specially approved by Zhu Yuanzhang himself; Buddhist holy places such as Jiuhua Mountain, Wutai Mountain, and Emei Mountain, where many Buddhist temples gathered, were also specially approved by Zhu Yuanzhang. And Zhu Yuanzhang also allowed
All monks and Taoist priests who want to obtain a degree certificate will go to Beijing to take the exam, and those who fail will not be given it.
Although in actual operation, various temples and Taoist temples will find ways to circumvent Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, such as obtaining children through various methods, and then raising them in temples since they were young, and then lying about their age to obtain ultimatums when they are in their thirties. But this is just a problem.
It’s just something that no one has checked. What if we really check any temple or Taoist temple and we can’t find any problems?
Yunxi has decided to deal with those who are disobedient in the temples and Taoist temples that he, Shang Bing, and Zhu Song have greeted severely.
"This matter is not urgent. According to the speed of their work, it will take three or four months before the trip can be completed. But I am afraid that I have forgotten, so I will tell you now."
Qin Song still said: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Yunxi remembered something again at this time and said: "There is something I almost forgot, but it has nothing to do with Jin Yiwei. You take a pen and paper to draft the decree."
Qin Song immediately picked up the paper and pen. Yunxi said: "I hereby order Pingliang, Shenyang, Nanyang, Anlu, and Luoyang to stop building palaces." Then Yunxi said to Qin Song: "You can hand this over when you go out later. Give it to Wang Xi and ask him to send it to Zhongshu Ke, draft a formal decree, and then come to me to stamp it with a jade seal."
When Zhu Yuanzhang was on the throne, he canonized all his sons as kings and selected fiefdoms. Then in the 24th year of Hongwu and the 28th year of Hongwu, he divided them into two batches and ordered the construction of royal palaces in advance for the princes who had not yet been ennobled.
The above places are all comfortable places inland. Shenyang is closer to the border, but there is Zhu Song in the north who has just been renamed King of England, so there is no need for a prince.
Yunxi has now revoked the seal at will without arranging a place for it, but he will not be allowed to seal someone who was sealed before he was approved.
Then Yunxi asked: "What's going on in the city these days?"
Qin Song said: "Besides the affairs in the court, there haven't been any major events in Beijing recently. It's just..."
Yunxi saw that he was hesitant in speaking and said with a smile: "What is it? Is it related to me?"
As if taking the risk of beheading, Qin Song said: "Your Majesty, because your Majesty has written several excellent poems before, he is considered a great poet in the world; but this time after the death of the late emperor, your Majesty did not There are no poems in memory of the late emperor, but some scholars and scholars say that your majesty was not very filial to the late emperor."
When Yunxi heard about this, he was tired of these civil servants who made trouble, and he was also quite helpless. Of course, he was very sad about the death of the late emperor, after all, they had been together for six years. But he just couldn't remember the poems in memory of his elders. , he clearly remembered reading several poems of condolence.
If you do it yourself, the level will be far different from what you used to do before, so you might as well not do it; if you hire someone to write it for you, if someone exposes it, it will be doomed.
After Qin Song finished talking about the matter, he immediately added: "But this is just the statement of some boring civil servants. Most civil servants still think that His Majesty wanted to write the best poems to dedicated to Emperor Taizu, so no poems have been handed down to the world so far. ."
"Your Majesty, do you want me to collect evidence of the crimes of these civil servants and then punish them?"
Yunxi waved his hand and said: "It's just a boring statement made by a rotten civil servant. It will not be good to deal with this group of people. Let them go."
After the business was finished, Yunxi always tried to win over his close ministers from all aspects, so he and Qin Song started chatting. Yunxi said: "Your son is seven months old."
Qin Song said: "Yes, Your Majesty, it has been more than seven months."
"Can you crawl?"
"Not yet. I can only move one leg at a time, so I keep spinning in circles. He always wants to crawl towards me, but then moves further and further backward." Qin Song said something full of things about the child. What to say.
Yunxi is not like Qin Song who always talks about his children. It may be because Yunxi's children are taken care of by servants, and he only goes to see them sometimes. Although Qin Song's family is now well off, After all, it is the early Ming Dynasty, and Qin Song has more time to see his children.
So Yunxi stopped talking after a few words. He quickly turned to other topics, and then talked to Qin Song for a while before letting him go.
