When Sheng Yingqi was invited in, he opened his mouth to blame Yao Rong: "Yingzhi, you are confused!"
Yao Rong smiled and said: "To offend a powerful minister is to be stupid? Brother Sizheng (Sheng Yingqi) is more upright than me, why are you still afraid of Wang Erlang?"
"I'm not afraid of him, I respect him for his ability to do his job," Sheng Yingqi said. "The late emperor passed away, Yang Ge Lao cleaned up the bad government, Wang Ruoxu cooperated well, and the cabinet is so harmonious, which is a sign of great governance in the world. What do you think?
Why make waves?”
Yao Rong did not answer this question, but asked: "Brother Xizheng, am I greedy for money?"
Sheng Yingqi said: "The whole world knows that Ying is honest and honest."
Yao Rong asked again: "Am I afraid of death?"
Sheng Yingqi said: "The Mongols invaded the border, and Yingzhi personally led his army to attack at night. He is not someone who is afraid of death."
Yao Rong asked again: "Am I coveting power?"
Sheng Yingqi said: "Yingzhi is not a person who is greedy for power."
Yao Rong said: "I am not greedy for money, not afraid of death, and don't love power. Why should I ask for trouble and provoke Wang Ruoxu?"
"Yingzhi opposes reform?" Sheng Yingqi asked with a frown.
Yao Rong said: "Now that the trouble in the north has been eliminated, the civil strife has calmed down, and the world is exhausted, we should cultivate our health and rest. But what does Wang Ruoxu want to do? As long as Yang Gelao becomes an official, the whole dynasty will be a royal party, and reforms will inevitably be carried out.
.Some things really should be changed, but we can’t do it without changing it, but we must not act too hastily. Let’s just say that the tax system was reformed last year, and many places were messed up. Corrupt officials took advantage of the situation, and the poor people became increasingly poor. Such reform is worse than not changing!
"
However, Sheng Yingqi supported the reform. He said: "When digging out carrion, it will inevitably damage the good meat. It is only a temporary pain."
"I'm afraid that I won't be able to control the changes, which will lead to chaos in the world and ruin the current peaceful and prosperous age!" Yao Rong said sadly, "Besides, that king Ruoxu has people all over the court who are his followers, and he will become a powerful minister in the future! Your Majesty is young, we will wait for you.
If we don't rise up now, no one will dare to say anything in a few years. This is not a good thing for the country! Also, judging from King Ruoxu's past words and deeds, it seems that he wants to revitalize merchants. Shang cannot be abolished, but if merchants flourish, the world will inevitably decline.
"Everyone in the world talks about benefits but not about justice. I am from Zhejiang, and there are countless people in Zhejiang who have been ruined by cotton cloth!"
Sheng Yingqi said: "It is indeed necessary to suppress business, otherwise benevolence and righteousness will not exist."
Yao Rong grabbed Sheng Yingqi's hand: "Brother Sizheng, please give me a helping hand!"
Sheng Yingqi shook his head and said: "I agree with suppressing business, but I also agree with reforms. I don't help anyone, I just want to correct the path."
Yao Rong was speechless.
Sheng Yingqi's great-great-grandfather was Zhu Di's imperial physician Sheng Yin.
The first duty of this person was to manage the water transport gate. He was selfless and decisive. At that time, eunuch Li Guang's family was selling illegal salt, and they could not get through the gate. No matter how they tried to coerce or induce them, they could not get through. The ships were even blocked in the river.
He had no choice but to pour all the illegal salt into the canal to get away with it. Because of this incident, Sheng Yingqi was framed by the eunuchs and was demoted to Yunnan as a postmaster.
Later, he was reinstated to arrange affairs. The local magistrate of Wuding, Yunnan, died of illness. His wife governed Wuding Mansion illegally, and his son even controlled bandits to plunder the prefecture and county. When Sheng Yingqi learned about this, he drove to Wuding Mansion alone and immediately brought him to Wuding Mansion.
The two men subdued them and asked the court to arrange a new local magistrate. These two bribed the Yunnan garrison eunuch and caused trouble again. Sheng Yingqi immediately joined forces with the censor Zhang Pu and the deputy inspector Chao Bideng to punish Liang, the Yunnan garrison eunuch.
Yu, was bitten by the eunuch. All three were imprisoned, and Zhang Pu was beaten to death.
After Shun Nian, Sheng Yingqi returned to office again and quelled local rebellions many times.
Chen Yong was ordered by Wang Yuan to carry out Qingtian reforms in Jiangxi. After being squeezed out, Sheng Yingqi succeeded him as governor of Jiangxi. He knew that Chen Yong's reforms had caused a lot of troubles, and he could not help but suffer from corruption during the implementation process.
He did evil things, but overall he very much agreed with this reform. During the period when Sheng Yingqi was patrolling Jiangxi, there were no more civil unrest, and there were three consecutive years of bumper harvests.
Then he became governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The rebellion in Guangxi was so big that it was Sheng Yingqi and Yao Rong who really set off the explosion.
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Sheng Yingqi first discovered that Chieftain Cen Meng was up to no good, so he took a lot of precautions. However, his term soon came to an end, and Yao Rong was replaced as the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong. Yao Rong took advantage of Sheng Yingqi's arrangement and took the lead in killing Cen Meng and his son.
He returned to his hometown in Guangxi.
It was precisely because the conversion of native land into exile infringed on the interests of other chieftains that the rebellion broke out again, and it became bigger and bigger, making it impossible for Yao Rong to suppress it.
Sheng Yingqi was very strong, and so was Yao Rong. The former agreed with reforms, while the latter advocated reform. Moreover, both of them were good at fighting, neither greedy for money nor afraid of death. Logically speaking, they should be of the same mind as Wang Yuan.
It's a pity that Yao Rong's philosophy of governing the country has very serious differences with Wang Yuan!
Is Sima Guang, who opposed Wang Anshi's reforms, a bad guy?
…
After Sheng Yingqi left Yao's house, he went to see Wang Yuan the next day.
Sheng Yingqi and Yao Rong were very good friends, and everyone in the court knew about it. Wang Yuan smiled and asked, "Did Minister Sheng come here because of Yao Censor's affairs?"
"No," Sheng Yingqi said, "I know that the king wants to reform, and the first step in reform is to clear the fields. Mr. Jian'an (Chen Yong) cleared the fields in Jiangxi. Although he achieved outstanding results, there were also many omissions. When I succeeded as governor of Jiangxi,
"There are many people complaining and complaining, which means that good governance is taken advantage of by corrupt officials."
Wang Yuan immediately said seriously: "Master Sheng, please speak."
Sheng Yingqi said: "Whether it is the governor or the chief secretary, Qingtian must ultimately be implemented by the state and county magistrates, and the state and county magistrates must send officials to measure. Whether Qingtian can succeed depends entirely on the state and county officials and officials, and bad things
It is often these people who cause trouble to the people. It is not just a lie, and it can be seen everywhere."
Wang Yuan said: "Tell me in detail."
Sheng Yingqi said:
"First, the chief officials of the prefectures and counties were perfunctory. They did not send anyone to measure the land. They just kept the fish scale book and copied and altered it at will, making only a few changes. This approach has the least harm."
"Second, shrink the bow to get the surplus. The land of the gentry and powerful people is measured with a big bow (chi), and one acre is only half an acre. The land of the common people is measured with a small bow, and half an acre is only one acre. In this way, good government becomes tyranny.
, Qingtian became a nuisance to the people.”
"Third, they pretend to be rewarded. In order to please their superiors, some officials use small bows to measure the land. This can increase countless acres and increase taxes. This also turns good government into tyranny."
"Fourth, the officials deceive the superiors and deceive the subordinates, and take advantage of others. If you don't give money to the officials in Qingtian, the fields will become the fields. If you give money to the officials in Qingtian, the fields will become the fields. The people who go down to the fields will often become the fields.
To levy taxes and levies according to the quota for farmland is also a form of tyranny for the people!"
Not only Sheng Yingqi was aware of these problems, Gui E, Chang Lun and other reformists also encountered them when clearing land in local areas. However, in order to speed up land clearing and not dampen the enthusiasm of officials, they often turned a blind eye and only punished a group of typical cases.
Go too far.
It's all a matter of execution. No matter how honest the prefecture or county officials are, they still have to rely on officials to measure the land. How can the officials not play tricks?
Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even hundreds of years later, grassroots officials will not be honest.
Wang Yuan asked: "How does Mr. Sheng think this kind of incident should be prevented?"
"We can't prevent it, we can only try to restrain it," Sheng Yingqi said.
Wang Yuan asked again: "How to restrain it?"
Sheng Yingqi said: "Reorganize the officials and strictly enforce the ancestral system!"
Wang Yuan smiled. He thought he had met a great talent, but he didn't expect that he was still the same old man. But it was rare to think so.
With the communication speed of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible for officials to govern. Even if you let scholars be officials, would they be honest and non-corrupt? Even if officials were allowed to be promoted, would they all have their own pursuits? Those who should be corrupt would still be corrupt!
Zhu Yuanzhang was able to clear the land quickly because there was a large amount of wasteland at that time. As long as it was registered and cultivated, farmers could obtain the relevant land, and the taxes in the first few years were very light. In this way, the gentry and farmers naturally competed to clear the land and register it, but
Nowadays, land annexation is serious, and it is almost impossible to clear the land. Even if Zhang Juzheng reforms, there will be a lot of problems in the process of clearing the land, and it will become evidence for political opponents to attack Zhang Juzheng.
Restoring the ancestral system will not have much effect. All officials must be rotated after their three-year term.
When the three-year period expires, the father lets his son take over. After the son has served for three years, he returns the seat to the father. Isn't it the same thing if the left hand is replaced by the right hand?
Of course, as a central decision-maker, you have to engage in formalism, otherwise you will have no bottom line and even bother to do formalities.
The matter of Qingtian is not urgent for the time being, we will wait until Yang Tinghe gets out, but now we can start to rectify the staff.
Officials in the Ming Dynasty also had grades, but only civil servants were stipulated, ranging from first to fifth grades. Wang Yuan planned to include civil servants in the standard, and also set first to fifth grades, and increased their salaries. At the same time, it was strictly forbidden for officials to be
White work!
Those officials who work for free are all voluntary. They just do not receive wages and seek gray income instead. The officials secretly acquiesce in order to save trouble.
Wang Yuan planned to discuss with Wang Qiong how to grade officials.
Wang Qiong was a third-ranked Jinshi, and he had a clear understanding of the affairs of minor officials, unlike Wang Yuan who had been away from the grassroots for a long time.
Wang Yuan also prepared a big killer weapon, that is, before clearing the field, he announced that the officials could be promoted to the county magistrate. As long as the clearing of the field was good, and after the censor verified that it was correct, he would let them be promoted to the eighth or ninth rank officials, which would benefit the world.
The officials rushed forward. This will inevitably lead to the emergence of a group of "good officials" who dare to clear the fields and will not hesitate to offend the local gentry for the sake of their own future.
Of course, strict review is required when promoting officials to prevent officials from being impatient and taking credit for their merits, and causing public dissatisfaction by indiscriminately clearing up officials.
Before Wang Yuan and Wang Qiong could discuss the issue of official classification and come up with a definite result, Zhang Cong came to report: "Prime Minister, in half a month, the Jingji Railway will be completed."