Yunxi also officially issued two decrees in the court today.
The first edict is "No Beggars and Refugees", which roughly means that beggars and refugees do not engage in production and are of no benefit to the country. From now on, unless there is a major disaster nearby, beggars and refugees are prohibited from existing in the capital. Once found, they will all be sent to the frontiers.
Yunxi hated beggars deeply. They did not create any social value and were just a burden to society. Yunxi hated beggars extremely in his two lives.
Not to mention the beggars of this era and various criminal elements hiding among them. The organizations closest to modern underworld in ancient China were beggar gangs, beggars' bones, etc. In order to ensure social security, they must be banned.
Most officials have no objections to this decree. The ideal of Chinese-style feudal society, or Confucianism, is that everyone abides by Confucian moral norms, the state selects officials who are talented and capable, and the people have harmonious interpersonal relationships, and the old age has a happy ending.
Having something to support and being useful will form the Confucian ideal of a harmonious society.
Regardless of whether this ideal is realistic or not, there is no place for beggars in this Datong society, and the current officials who are Confucian believers will naturally not support it. However, a few great Confucians have suggested that those who are old and have no relatives may be forced to become beggars.
, Your Majesty, please consider it at your own discretion. Considering that the probability of such elderly beggars being sent to the frontier to die on the road is higher than the probability of arriving at the destination alive, Yunxi nodded and agreed to send them to the almshouse.
The second edict is "Changing the Regulation of Officials in Yingtian Prefecture", which roughly means that Yingtian Prefecture is the best place in the country, and its local governance is complicated. In order to adapt to the special governance of the capital, the system of Yingtian Prefecture should be changed.
The purpose of Yunxi was actually to re-establish the local government system according to the system of later generations in his own memory. In ancient China, starting from the Qin Dynasty, the control of the grassroots became weaker and weaker. Basically, it fell to its weakest in the Ming Dynasty. During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties
On the contrary, the control over the grassroots level has been strengthened.
Yunxi is very dissatisfied with this situation, especially in cities. Yunxi does not have a good way to manage rural areas now. Forced reform may make things worse, so he decided to maintain the original system for the time being; but the urban population concentration is
It is very high and there are no complicated clans, so the reform should be successful.
The reason why the reform is only temporarily carried out in Yingtian Mansion is, firstly, that it violates the rules set by Zhu Yuanzhang. If Yunxi publicly reveals his ultimate goal, I am afraid there will be a lot of obstacles in the court;
Second, because of the huge difference between modern and ancient social conditions, Yunxi himself was not very sure about the success of his reforms. Even if he succeeded in the end, there would be many detours in the process; using Yingtianfu as a "pilot" to carry out reforms, etc.
After it matures, it will be promoted to provincial cities, prefectures, prefectures and even the smallest county towns, which can avoid social unrest caused by detours in the process to the greatest extent. After all, he is personally watching over the capital.
The specific reform measures are as follows: 1. In Yingtianfu and Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, the six-room clerks were abolished and replaced with administrative clerks, who were appointed as unofficial officials to take charge of affairs and selected students from the Imperial College.
Second, cancel the original government officials in one prefecture and two counties, and add police officers to manage public security, tax collection, arrests, etc.; the police establishment temporarily belongs to the health center, and will be adjusted appropriately in the future, so that it will not be regarded as a lowly service.
Third, the functions and powers of the officials of Yingtian Prefecture were changed. From now on, Fu Yin will no longer personally judge cases, but will add a lieutenant, the fifth rank, to review cases, question cases, and assist officials; the daily security of the capital will be handled by three general judges.
Management: Manage the north, south and middle of the city respectively, and have jurisdiction over the patrol police; the central government is responsible for the money and food of Yingtian Mansion, and is responsible to the governor.
4. In Jiangning and Shangyuan counties, the county magistrate will no longer personally judge cases in the future, and will upgrade Dianshi to the eighth rank to review cases and investigate cases; a county captain will be added to be in charge of daily security in the county and have jurisdiction over patrol police; the chief bookkeeper will be in charge of money and food.
Responsible to the county magistrate.
Fifth, reform the military and horse departments of the five cities, which are responsible for the daily security of the capital, and hand them over to Yingtian, one prefecture and two counties. The former military and horse commanders will be selected as the lieutenant of the government, and the deputy commander of military and horse forces will be appointed as the county magistrate;
The rest went to the Ministry of Personnel to select officials.
The actual implications of these reform measures are: first, to cancel the status of grassroots civil servants in Yingtianfu; secondly, to make the responsibilities and rights of grassroots officials clearer.
According to the system formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, power at the prefectural and county levels is highly concentrated, with all power at the prefectural and county levels resting in the hands of the prefect/magistrate/county magistrate. At the same time, the establishment of grassroots officials and subordinate staff is extremely simple, resulting in virtually no
Most power was given to the gentry in the countryside, and to the gentry and various criminal gangs similar to the underworld in the city.
At the same time, there are still a large number of "white-bodied" subordinate officials who are not in the imperial establishment. The imperial court does not pay them wages, but there are still countless people who are willing to work. So where do their money come from? They can only exploit the people. Even Zhu Yuanzhang
Nothing can be done.
Yunxi felt very puzzled after reading the history books and seeing this situation: Are the people above the court all fools? Don't they know that when there are not enough subordinate officials in the government, they hire a large number of "white-bodied" subordinate officials?
Surely these white-bodied and petty officials will not eat themselves? They will definitely exploit the people. Why has such an incredible system been adopted in the court since the abolition of the township pavilion system in the Qin and Han Dynasties?
After Yunxi became the grandson of the emperor, he specifically asked Zhu Yuanzhang for advice. Zhu Yuanzhang said at the time: "The system of subordinate officials is actually for the people to serve the public..."
Yunxi couldn't defeat Zhu Yuanzhang, so he could only stop playing at that time. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Yunxi immediately raised the wages of subordinate subordinates as a transitional measure, and now he is finally beginning to completely change the situation.
The officials looked at each other in confusion, not knowing how to deal with Yunxi's decree. The biggest change Yunxi made to the officials was to abolish the military and horse departments of the five cities, but he also made arrangements to properly arrange the military and horse commanders. As for dividing the governors and counties,
The power of order, this is what it should be, and they will not and cannot object.
However, His Majesty's sudden elimination of subordinate staff in Yingtian Mansion may cause turmoil. Those who do the work of subordinate staff are all retired soldiers, which may not be consistent with the system.
Gao Feng, a member of the Hanlin Academy, remonstrated: "Your Majesty, the subordinate staff are cunning and unpredictable. The late emperor punished them many times during his time. It is reasonable to investigate them. However, since ancient times, subordinate staff have been used to handle government affairs for prefectures and counties, and they have been rash.
I’m afraid it’s inappropriate to cancel.”
At this time, an unexpected person stood up and said: "What's wrong? Since ancient times, the system of rural pavilions has been implemented in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The township chiefs and pavilion chiefs were mostly retired soldiers, and they were not humble servants.
.Your Majesty’s move is consistent with the ancient system.”
Everyone was surprised for a moment: 'Why did Fang Xiaoru suddenly stand up and speak? He is not a flatterer.'
After listening to his words, everyone suddenly realized: 'It turns out that your majesty's system coincides with the ancient system he admired, so Fang Xiaoru will speak out.'
After that, people asked various questions, and Fang Xiaoru and his friends went back one by one.
When other people saw this situation, because it was hard to say what Yunxi's reforms would be like, and it did not violate the interests of officials, they stopped raising their opinions.
However, those great scholars who were not of the same school as Fang Xiaoru thought to themselves: 'If something goes wrong, there will be no need to remonstrate.'
Of course Yunxi understood what these people thought, but he didn't care: they were just a bunch of rotten scholars, and as long as Fang Xiaoru caused trouble, they would have no influence.
Yunxi returned to Qianqing Palace, first criticized yesterday's memorial, and then began to think about what Yingtian Mansion should do next.
'First of all, of course, we must distinguish between the patrol police, criminal police, and tax police, who are assigned to the general judge, the lieutenant, and the central management respectively. As for the future, whether to use the criminal police first to continue cleaning up the filth in the city, or to use the patrol police first to change the customs. Or should we first use the tax police to change the industrial and commercial taxes in the city?'
Yunxi had a headache. These three can be said to be equally important: although this time, although the subordinates and beggars were eliminated on a large scale, the bullies with greater influence were eliminated, and the evil forces in the city were attacked, but those who had families and businesses in the city The little hooligans and bullies have not yet been punished, and we need to continue to defeat them.
It seems that there is no rush to change customs, but what Yunxi can't stand the most is the various habits of people nowadays: horses walking on the road and pooping freely, sewage being poured on the street, people and pigs, chickens, ducks and other domestic animals living together, people's All kinds of other unsanitary things, encroaching on the road... Yunxi didn't want to tolerate it for a long time.
As for changing the industrial and commercial tax, we cannot delay it for a long time. The subordinate staff have been abolished, and the new policemen have serious salaries. The merchants in the city are exempted from all kinds of extortion and only pay regular taxes. The tax amount is simply ridiculously low. The original tax was re-established Although the commercial tax was slightly higher than the thirty-one tax set by Zhu Yuanzhang (Chapter 161), in his opinion, it was still low and would continue to increase.
Yunxi thought about it for a long time with no results, so he put it down for the time being and continued to criticize and answer the memorial. 'Fortunately, there is still some time. It won't be too late to think about it after the three police officers are separated and the area is reorganized.' He thought.
Huang Huai entered the palace in the afternoon and reported to Yun Hui: "Your Majesty, according to the list of Jin Yiwei and Zhensi, there are a total of 725 subordinate bullies in the city who need to be arrested. Only one person has not been caught, and the rest have been arrested. , is being interrogated.”
"Since there is only one person on the run, you don't need to worry too much. Anyway, we will reset the area in a few days, and he will be caught as long as he does not leave the city. How many beggars and refugees are there in the city?" Yunxi said.
"Your Majesty, we have collected a total of 1,499 refugees and beggars from the entire city who have no roads and fixed places, excluding the beggars and bullies who were arrested," Huang Huai said.
There are more than a thousand beggars and homeless people in the capital city with a population of one million. Yunxi doesn't know whether it is a large number or a small number. Their numbers have never been counted in the past dynasties. However, regardless of whether it is a large number or a small number, Yunxi's current method of dealing with it is the same.
"My decree has been made. All these more than a thousand people will be exiled to the northwest under the rule of King Qin."
