The figure given by Lin Jue was 25 million taels. Compared with the past annual military expenditures of 30 to 40 million taels, this figure was obviously much lower. Lin Jue knew that Yang Jun would make a fuss, but
Lin Jue was not afraid, because this figure was calculated based on the total number of soldiers and horses trained by all the local regiments of the Forbidden Army Xiangjun in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the amount of their military pay. In fact, the balance of five million taels was relaxed. An additional five million taels were added every three years.
The cost of changing equipment is two. Of course, this is not a temporary expenditure when a war suddenly breaks out. When a war occurs, all resources will be allocated.
Once this plan is passed, Yang Jun will no longer be able to change clothes at will and ask for money for various reasons. The money will be allocated every year, and the rest is your own decision. If you are unwilling to disarmament, then you will find a way to maintain it yourself.
If you want to change your clothes and horses at will, you have to spend your own money. That little money is definitely not enough for you to fiddle with. If you want to reach out for it, there is no way. You can only find a way by yourself, either reduce your troops or don't fiddle with it. You should follow the rules for weapons and armor.
With the requirement to change clothes every three years, no one will pay for your troubles. This is the so-called total responsibility.
Finally, the most important point is to thoroughly examine the process of fiscal and tax payment. It is necessary to reduce expenditures, but to increase revenue is fundamental. According to the size of a huge country like Dazhou, normal taxes are expected to be between 80 million and 10 million.
100 million taels of silver. Before the reform, the tax revenue dropped to 60 million taels. There must be something wrong. Maybe it is local withholding, maybe it is a statistical omission in the tax name, or it may be other reasons. In short, we need to find out.
Understand. Clarify the channels for fiscal and tax collection. Don’t collect what should not be collected, and don’t omit what should be collected.
This package of measures was exactly the drastic reform carried out by Lin Jue and others on the Sansi Yamen. Lin Jue was determined to make the financial affairs of Dazhou clean and tidy first. Even if he was a poor family now,
As long as you plan it properly and thoroughly, it can still run smoothly.
Although Lin Jue did not agree with the radical approach of the reform, after accepting the Sansi Yamen, Lin Jue understood their approach. Faced with such a situation, how could the two adults, Yan Fang, not be heartbroken and eager to change the status quo?
The Great Zhou Dynasty is like a noble prince wearing splendid and gorgeous clothes. In fact, once the clothes are taken off, his bones and flesh are ragged, and he is no longer human. When the wind blows, the prince is about to fall. At this moment, he is just standing there, making people
I think he is still so noble and gorgeous.
Lin Jue was also grateful for the things left by the two adults. Some people in the Ordinance Department had experienced the experience and could do things after being transferred, and they were all practical people. In just half a month, the Sansi Yamen was able to
The foundation for rapid operation. In addition to capable people, there is also the financial foundation left by the reform of the Ordinance Department. Last year, the fiscal and tax revenue exceeded 100 million, which greatly relieved the pressure. Moreover, after the new law was repealed, the aftermath fell into three categories.
Lin Jue was surprised to find that although Changpingcang in various places was abolished, its official loans and discounted grain reserves amounted to more than 30 million taels. Changpingcang was originally run independently, and this amount of money
In fact, it is not included in the fiscal expenditures, but is the income turned over every year and retained by the bank. This large amount of money is now all attributed to the Sansi Yamen, which has greatly alleviated the large deficit spent on counterinsurgency relief.
On the third day of February, this package of plans and plans was written as a memorial and sent to Guo Chong's desk. Guo Chong gave it great approval, but on one thing, Guo Chong's instructions were: the court will decide after discussion. That is about
Proposal to allocate military expenditures.
Guo Chong undoubtedly still worships
Following his old method, the method of contracting military expenditures will definitely arouse Yang Jun's opposition, so he cannot give positive instructions, but debate and decide in the court. He acts as an arbiter, so that he can maintain
His detached position gave him an impartial attitude.
Sure enough, in court, once Lin Jue's idea of contracting military expenses was proposed, he was denounced by Yang Jun as a ridiculous move. Lu Zhongtian, Wu Chunlai and other officials also denounced it as nonsense. Military affairs are national affairs, how can it be used like this?
A simple way to solve the problem of military expenditures. The two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of words in the court. Lin Jue, Du Weijian and Yang Xiu presented the facts, took the data, and calculated the figures of military expenditures over the years on the spot to prove that they were given a lump sum.
The numbers are reasonable. The annual military expenditure of 25 million taels is enough to maintain the daily operation of the entire Great Zhou army.
But Yang Jun didn't care about this. His attitude was so arrogant and domineering that he almost pointed at Lin Jue's nose and scolded him. He spoke like an old man and showed off his seniority to the point where even many courtiers couldn't stand it.
Under this situation, Lin Jue had to give him some hard information, so Lin Jue said: "Privy Yang, as far as I know, there are 189,000 people in the Zhou army who are living on empty wages. These are all
It’s time for Privy Council Yang to investigate the empty quota. It’s not that the lump-sum military expenses I gave are less, but that embezzlement of empty salaries has become a common practice within the army, and the embezzlement of imperial military salaries is huge. Privy Council Yang should start from within to rectify these people and pursue them.
If you repay these losses, you will find that the military expenditure package provided by me is more than enough for the daily expenses of the army."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the room was shocked. What Lin Jue meant was that the number of 180,000 or 90,000 people in the army was fictitious, and these fictitious people still received military pay and money every month, and could even die in war as false reports.
They pretended to receive pensions from the imperial court for their military quota. This empty quota of 189,000 yuan was used to extract more than 3 million taels of silver from the imperial court every year, not counting the existing costs of replacing equipment and weapons, etc.
Everyone looked at Yang Jun in shock, including Guo Chong, who was stunned with his mouth open. How could he believe that such a thing would happen?
Yang Jun never expected that Lin Jue would reveal this scandal. In fact, Yang Jun was not unaware of these things, but these things were commonplace in the military. When Yang Jun himself led the army, he actually did
There is a saying among the military generals: military attaches are not taken seriously by the court, but they have to fight on the battlefield. Civil servants do not have to fight hard, but they still have high status and good treatment. What is the good of being a military attache? If you don't make some money,
After dying in battle, the wife, children, and parents at home would starve to death. Under this guiding ideology, it became common for the generals of the Zhou army to make money. It was easier to make money when there was a war, and many people were so crazy that they took the heads of ordinary people to take military merit.
When there is no war, people who want to make money rely on empty pay and theft of military pay, or by cheating money by changing clothes and horses. Some generals are so bold in private that they dare to resell arms and armor that are shipped for replacement.
In exchange for money, they enriched their own pockets. Some even dared to sell it to their enemies, and sold the swords and armor of Zhou Dynasty to use against themselves, which was extremely crazy.
Although Yang Jun knew all this, he had always turned a blind eye. He was a soldier, so he naturally understood the psychology of these people. These people wanted to make money, and as long as they didn't do anything too outrageous, he would I won't punish them. But these things are highly confidential, but I don't know how Lin Jue knew about them. He actually revealed them.
How did Yang Jun know that Lin Jue briefly served as the hostess of the Privy Council's Yamen? Although Lin Jue did not deliberately know these rumors at first.
It was a mess, but his official named Ma Pijin was a talker. Lin Jue's time in the Privy Council's public house was very short, but Ma Pijin still told many secrets he knew in order to get closer to Lin Jue.
Perhaps because his words had a shocking effect and left a deep impression on Lin Jue, Ma Pijin took the initiative to talk about some dark things about the soldiers and horses in various departments of the Privy Council. Lin Jue was shocked when he heard this. He didn't believe it. These were all true, so Ma Pijin got a file from somewhere. The file was full of evidence that generals everywhere were short-changing and deducting military pay. They were all listed by others and reported to Yang Jun.
Lin Jue had no choice but to believe it. How could he not believe the evidence here? After an investigation, all the leading officials involved were still content in their positions, and none of them had been dismissed or punished because of these reports. This is Lin Jue was even more surprised.
Lin Jue originally wanted to investigate this matter secretly, but at that time Yan Zhengsheng and Fang Dunru were in jail, and later committed suicide. What followed was a series of revenge actions, and Lin Jue had no intention of investigating this matter. It wasn't until Lin Jue left the Privy Council to serve as the third envoy that he remembered the matter. So he recorded these figures from memory and threw them out at this moment. As for the real evidence, Lin Jue had no real evidence.
Yang Jun didn't expect that these things were no longer secrets in Lin Jue's eyes. He had read all the reporting letters and kept them in a file in his office. The reason why he didn't say anything was because he He felt that these things were not a big deal. It was okay for the generals to be greedy for money. But more importantly, these reporting materials were exactly the means by which he could control these leading generals. As long as these people went to Beijing to report on their duties, Yang Jun They would meet them alone and show them these reports. Naturally, these people would be scared to death, but Yang Jun would tell them that he would suppress these things and keep them secret. He said it was confidential, but in fact he was using it to control these people towards him. Just follow orders. In the final analysis, Yang Jun is still doing it for his own interests.
Originally, Yang Jun would not leak this kind of thing to his subordinate officials. However, there is no airtight wall in the world. Zhou Dynasty civil servants like Ma Pijin usually have nothing to do, but they are extremely well-informed about the gossip within Yugeyamen. How could these things in the Privy Council's yamen be hidden from their eyes and ears? The petty official responsible for keeping the files in Yang Jun's house leaked the secret while drinking with a group of yamen officials in private, and this matter became a It was an undisclosed secret in the yamen. Ma Pijin was also eager to show off his skills to his new boss and attract attention, so he told the story. He even took the risk to take out the file and showed it to Lin Jue, and then Lin Jue believed that it was true. .
When this matter was revealed, Yang Jun was embarrassed and angry. Someone actually leaked this matter. It was so audacious. He thought that the Privy Council was monolithic, but now it seems that it is full of holes. Someone must have leaked it to Lin Jue.
The news may be that Lin Jue bribed someone from the Privy Council.
"Privy Yang, what's going on?" Guo Chong asked in a deep voice.
Yang Jun absolutely refused to admit this. He shouted loudly: "There is no such thing as spitting blood. Lin Jue, you... what evidence do you have? How dare you talk such nonsense, you need to prove it with evidence. Otherwise, you...
This is false accusation and frame-up."
Yang Jun yelled with a red face, but actually he felt very guilty. If Lin Jue really came up with evidence, then he didn't know how it would end.
