Zhu Youxiao took a breath as he spoke and took a sip from the drink beside the dragon chair.
It was Hakka's secret honey and honeysuckle drink.
It was sweet but not greasy.
It was indeed a good thing.
Fang Congzhe and others had already knelt on the ground.
When the emperor took a breath, the ministers shouted together: "Only your majesty can be powerful and blessed."
Zhu Youxiao smiled: "Yes, I am the only one who can do good and bad things.
Then I announce that what officials have done will be checked once a month to see what they have done.
What have they done for the people under my rule?"
What's up."
The coaxing of the ministers below was so loud that the emperor wanted to re-open the examination.
When Xu Guangqi was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he had already applied some principles of the imperial examination method during his inspection in Beijing in the third year of Tianqi, and achieved good results.
But there is no real restoration of the examination method, and now it is finally officially reopened.
In November of the first year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng wrote a memorial to formally implement the examination method.
The Examination Law stipulates that the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate set deadlines for the matters that their officials should do, and registered them in three account books.
One book was kept by the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate as a base book, the other was sent to the Sixth Section, and finally One for the cabinet.
The six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will register in the account books and conduct inspections on a monthly basis.
For each matter undertaken by the subordinate officials, one must be logged out every time they are completed.
Otherwise, they must be reported truthfully, otherwise they will be punished; the Sixth Section can also register according to the account books and require the Sixth Department to report the implementation status every six months.
Violators will be punished in one case.
Finally, the cabinet also recorded in the account books and verified the audit work of the six departments.
Zhang Juzheng's examination method has two main assessment aspects, one is the tax collection rate, and the other is the thieves capture rate.
If the tax collection rate and thieves capture rate are less than 90%, the assessment result will be judged as unqualified.
This method has excellent results.
Before the Kao Cheng Law was implemented, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was only two to three million taels of silver.
After the implementation, it increased to about 4.5 million taels per year.
In this way, the fiscal revenue has been unable to make ends meet.
It turned into a slight surplus.
In the tenth year of Zhang Juzheng's first assistant, the originally empty warehouse already contained seven to eight million taels of silver.
But Zhu Youxiao asked Xu Guangqi, Fang Congzhe and others that the examination method does have miraculous effects in terms of fiscal revenue, but it also has problems.
Ye Xianggao once said: "Whether taxes can be collected in full depends on many reasons, which are not entirely determined by the ability and attitude of the county magistrate.
The capture or slipping of bandits is more due to chance.
If If the superior officer ignores the difficulties and blindly presses his subordinates, and the subordinates press the soldiers, it will lead to many suspects surrendering, which is not in line with the clear and generous spirit of the dynasty. " And Xu Guangqi put it more bluntly: "Nothing is free of charge for collecting tickets from superiors, writing documents, annual gifts, and recommendations.
Recently, it has developed to the point where every time you go to Hajj after completing your exams, you can easily spend three to four thousand taels of silver.
This money will not Falling from the sky and coming out of the earth, can officials at all levels be honest?
Whenever the capital is inspected, the officials on the road call it the opening of the market. " Therefore, the two shortcomings of the Kao Cheng Law are also obvious: the administration is not lenient and the corruption of officials is intensified.
After discussing with the cabinet and the six ministers, Zhu Youxiao decided to slightly modify the examination method.
The clerk shouted: "Be careful, don't do anything inappropriate before you."
The discussions among the ministers just subsided.
Zhu Youxiao said: "Gentlemen, what I want to investigate are mainly four aspects.
One is taxation, the other is thieves, the third is immigration, and the fourth is people's livelihood.
I set the completion rate at 80%.
Set limits on responsibilities, and use responsibility for things.
People are responsible for results.”
The ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
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Compared with 90%, the 80% score was much more relaxed.
Zhu Youxiao continued: "These four things are closely related.
If immigration is done well, taxation will be easier to complete, thieves will be reduced, and people's livelihood will be prosperous, so the focus is to do a good job in immigration."
Fang Congzhe said: "Your Majesty, I don't know how many people the immigration can accommodate.
The Ministry of Household Affairs doesn't know this either.
It can only be decided by Your Majesty."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Taiwan can accommodate at least five million people, and the weather in the north has become colder in recent years, but Taiwan at least is not worried about this.
In Japan, we should immigrate two to three million people, and more in Liaodong. , Now that the Jiannu slaves have been completely suppressed by our Guards, even if there are 10 million immigrants, there will be no problem. " Fang Congzhe silently calculated and said: "Your Majesty, in this way, we can try our best to immigrate.
However, in this way, there will be no one to cultivate the cultivated land in the interior."
Zhu Youxiao said: "It doesn't matter whether there are people cultivating the cultivated land in the interior, because as long as there is so much cultivated land, it will be the output of the Ming Dynasty overseas or in the interior.
The fallow land in the interior can also increase the moisture and increase the output in the coming year.
How can it be so?
It’s not like killing two birds with one stone.”
Xu Guangqi came out and said: "Your Majesty, the cultivated land in the interior is mature land, while the overseas land is newly cultivated land.
There is a big difference in the yield between the two.
Therefore, for immigration, a plan must be made to first ensure that the inland people have their own land and that the land is cultivated.
Then we can resettle the remaining landless farmers.”
Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to immigrate landless farmers to other places first, so that inland landlords would be faced with the situation of having no one to hire, and the landlords would be more polite to farmers who rent their crops and reduce the amount of rent they collect.
The life of farmers who rent land will be easier.
He thought for a while and said: "The tenants in the mainland who rent the land from the landlord's family will not have enough left over to support their families after paying the rent.
Therefore, I believe that the annual rent rate must be stipulated."
Zuo Guangdou came out and said: "Your Majesty, the matter of renting crops has always been negotiated between landlords and tenants.
There has never been a matter of the imperial court forcing the rent rate.
Please think deeply about it."
Zuo Guangdou has become much quieter since the third minister of Donglin was dismissed.
He actually thought a lot.
The reason why Donglin reached this point could not be due to the emperor's suppression, because Ye Xianggao and Sun Chengzong were still in the cabinet, and even Yang Lian was favored by the emperor.
So when he thought about it, there were actually some problems with Donglin's internal thinking.
But now he had to stand up.
In Chinese history, renting land for farming was very common, and the collection of land rent was negotiated between landlords and tenant farmers.
There was no precedent for imperial coercion.
Now the emperor wanted to use the power of the court to suppress the landlords and please the tenant farmers.
He felt it was inappropriate, so he stood up directly.
Zhu Youxiao hadn't heard Zuo Guangdou speak for a long time, and then he remembered that this thorn was still there.
He looked at Zuo Guangdou and said: "Then what method can Zuo Yushi have to solve the problem of tenants being unable to make ends meet?"
Zuo Guangdou was a little uneasy now.
I'm the censor, okay.
I'm only responsible for pointing out what's wrong with this matter.
I'm not responsible for how to handle it.
But when the emperor asked, he couldn't answer like this, so He had no choice but to reply: "I once served as the censor of farming, and I know the importance of water conservancy.
If water conservancy is built in the north and rice is planted, the yield will be greatly increased, and the tenants can make a living
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