Great Ming National Teacher

Chapter 39 Li Yunya's Prescription

The biggest problem Zhu Youjian is facing now is the financial crisis. More and more places are spending money, and the money collected is getting less and less. The Ming Dynasty, a company that has been in business for nearly 300 years, As of today, it finally started to go bankrupt, unable to make ends meet, and living beyond its means, has reached the brink of collapse.

Zhu Youjian tried his best to find a solution, but the knowledge he has learned in the past, whether it is the sages cultivating virtues or doing more good deeds, is all useless. No matter what the way of the saint or the means of the emperor, it cannot be solved in practice. The question, no money or no money.

Because of this, he lost his composure and cried bitterly. He felt helpless, hesitant, and didn't know what to do.

Li Yunya said to him: "The so-called can save the emergency but not the poor. Even if I lend you money to tide over the difficulties this time, you will still be short of money in a short time. Not only will the old debts be repaid, but new debts will be added. One day there will be more debts." When the time comes, I can't save him."

Zhu Youjian is not an idiot, on the contrary he is very smart, this time his emotions have stabilized, he asked Li Yunya to wait a moment, asked the eunuch to bring in water to wash his face and hands, and stabilized again, after hearing what Li Yunya said, he stood up and walked to Li Yunya. In front of Yunya, he bowed deeply: "I hope Yunya will not hesitate to teach you!" I learned the style of ancient Mingjun asking sages for advice.

Li Yunya was happy, let him sit back, and said patiently: "There are two main reasons why you don't have money. The first and deepest reason is land annexation. The Ming Dynasty was established for nearly 300 years, and more and more land was lost. In the hands of officials and gentry, they don’t have to pay taxes. Fewer and fewer people pay taxes, and the treasury will naturally become more and more empty. For example, after the money invaded this time, the Gyeonggi area was in a mess, and there were countless casualties. Many families were killed. Landlords and gentry took the opportunity to devour unowned land by various means, and I have earned more than 100 million mu in the past few months, but I don’t have to pay taxes, and so do those gentry.”

Zhu Youjian was silent after listening, and he didn't pay for his merits in the examination. This is the ancestral system left over from the founding of the country, and even the tradition left over from the past dynasties. What can he do?Hearing Li Yunya's blushing and breathless statement that he had acquired more than 100 million mu of land, Zhu Youjian was even more depressed. The sum of his Huangzhuang was not more than half of his family's.

"The second reason is that the officials deceived the top and the bottom. In the past two years, there has been a wave of resignations in the imperial court. One by one, the old people have returned to their hometowns, run academies, cultivated the township party, and colluded with each other, saying that there is a monster like me in the court. Dao makes trouble, they will never become official, now many aspiring young people would rather study sage books hard in the folk, while scolding the court, I guess if I hadn’t personally led the troops to fight with Jiannu last year, they would have woken up to ask for the Qing emperor’s side gone."

"They dare!" Zhu Youjian said angrily.

"Why don't they dare? This group of people is in collusion with the local government, deliberately falsely reporting the famine, or withholding it, and the money and food they handed over are getting less and less. You send people down because they are entangled, and what they come back to tell you is also false. News. I heard that there are still some scholars and even officials who have defected to the rogues. Now Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and others have people around them to help them spread the word, saying that the vitality of the Ming Dynasty is exhausted, and it is true that Gao Yingxiang has a dragon spirit Destined to be the son of heaven, Zhang Xianzhong is a god who descended to earth to punish this red-flame evil dragon of the Ming Dynasty..."

"Bang!" Zhu Youjian thumped the table hard, and said nothing angrily. The eunuchs outside have learned their lesson now, and they didn't rush in again.

"Otherwise, how do you think those rogue bandits in the Northwest would develop so fast? Gao Yingxiang even played the banner of occupying Guanzhong, defending Tongguan and proclaiming himself emperor. Zhang Xianzhong is also going to Sichuan. He Renlong and the others fought so hard that even Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao The situation is also somewhat unstable, mainly because the nature of the rogues has changed, if they captured Chang'an City some time ago, they would have already become kings and emperors by now."

Zhu You checked his anger: "Yunya must have a countermeasure?"

"Well, to solve these two problems, there is a way to set up the Ministry of Public Security."

"Ministry of Public Security?" Zhu Youjian felt fresh when he heard the word, "But it's the same as the Ministry of Public Security?"

"It's outside the Six Departments. Since the constitution of the Six Departments has been completely rotten to the root, we simply set up another department outside the Six Departments system. The so-called public security means public safety. The soldiers from our military academy are the main ones, and your Jinyiwei's are the main ones. With the help of people, plus some local police officers, the central government set up the Ministry of Public Security, the chief ministers set up public security departments, the state government set up public security bureaus, counties set up sub-bureaus, and townships set up police stations. The main functions are responsible for population census, investigation and detection, and arrest. The most important criminals, after they stabilize, let them collect taxes."

"Let them collect taxes?"

"Yes, the money collected will be given to you directly without going through the household department."

"This matter is of great importance, I'm afraid..." Zhu Youjian was troubled.

"I know what you're worried about. You can stop collecting agricultural taxes for now. Land taxes in various places are still collected by the household department. Our public security system only collects commercial taxes. All merchants in various places will be divided into five classes according to their scale and operating profits, and they will each pay a certain amount. Business tax, otherwise the business cannot be opened.”

Zhu Youjian took a deep breath: "During the Wanli period, someone in Zhang Juzheng once proposed to collect business taxes, and the courtiers attacked him, saying that he was fighting for the interests of the people. Once this method came out, I am afraid that the world will be in turmoil, and those who rebel and follow thieves will be even worse." many."

"Impossible." Li Yunya smiled, "Take the power of the industry under my name now. My porcelain shop can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver every month, but there are many local hooligans, county government officials, etc. Door card is required, of course they dare not extort from my business, but generally a store of this size will hand over hundreds of taels of silver. We set up the Ministry of Public Security just to want this money. We collect 100 taels a month, and then Severely crack down on all extortion, they will be very willing to give it, and the merchant who pays the money will send them a business document, and there is no need to pay any irrelevant fees to anyone. Think about it, how many merchants there are in the world , There are even bigger porcelain shops than mine, if all the money can be collected, you don’t have to worry about money and food anymore.”

Zhu Youjian's heart was pounding: "Then how to solve the first problem?"

"That's easy, just use the stalls to pay for the mu, and the officials and gentry pay the food together!"

"Officials and gentry pay grain as one?" Although Zhu Youjian had a hunch that he would say such words, but when he actually heard it, he still felt a little unacceptable. After all, not paying grain is the welfare of the scholar-official class, not just in the Ming Dynasty, but in the future In the Song Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and even other dynasties when there was no imperial examination system, the scholar-bureaucrats did not pay food.

Li Yunya said: "First of all, the tax is divided into acres. In the past, we collected poll tax and collected taxes per person, but many people's land has been sold. He has no land and still has to pay taxes. Many big landlords own countless lands. , but only one person’s tax is paid, so the tax system needs to be reformed, no poll tax is collected, and land tax is changed. As for the government and gentry paying taxes together, for example, if I have more than 100 million mu of land under my name, I will pay one-third of it Public grain can give you more than 80 shi of grain a year. How many troops can you feed? How many victims can you help? This is just my family. How many more high-ranking officials and princes are there in Beijing than me Nobles, to put it bluntly, when the country is in crisis, can't they help?"

It was already implemented in the Ming Dynasty, but there was little progress. It was not implemented until the Kangxi and Qiannian years of the Qing Dynasty. Because of this, Yongzheng left a lot of infamy in history and offended the scholar-official class who had the right to speak. Even the emperor could not even think about having a good reputation.

Does Zhu Youjian have the courage of the later Yongzheng?Li Yunya left the decision-making power to himself. Anyway, the prescription was prescribed by himself, and there is nothing you can do if you don't take others.

In the end, Zhu Youjian only allowed him to form the Ministry of Public Security. He had to think about whether to implement the Ministry of Public Security as well as government and gentry payment.

When Li Yunya returned to the capital camp, he immediately began to recruit people. He selected 5000 people who were of good quality, and transferred [-] people to the Jinyiwei, a total of [-]. The Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei and Dongchang developed rapidly under the hands of Wei Zhongxian. The number of people increased sharply, and spies spread all over the country. In the Chongzhen Dynasty, they were suppressed by Zhu Youjian in various ways, and the number of people also dropped.

From the central government to the local government, Li Yunya took out [-] young people of suitable age from the entire Jinyiwei system, mixed them together, and then scattered them all over the country.

First set up a model in Beizhili, and Li Yunya set up the structure by himself. First, set up the Public Security Bureau in Beizhili. Sub-bureau, and then set up police stations in the townships below.

All the directors and directors in charge are from the military academy. Most of the sub-bureau directors and directors below are soldiers who have only received training for more than a month in the Beijing camp, and a small number are Jinyiwei. The yamen servants and catchers are collectively called the police, which means to warn and patrol.

Most of these people have never studied, but they are young and passionate, and they have not been corrupted by the big social stains. Li Yunya does not ask for more, but only asks for his own orders. The simplest police code of conduct, let them know what their responsibilities are, what they should do, what they should not do, how to deal with problems, etc. He has limited energy, so he can only build a Suncheon Public Security Bureau and a police station. Daxing branch, the others are done by themselves, and he will take time to go around and patrol, and correct any mistakes immediately. Newly, the public security system was expanded to Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan provinces.