Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "The examination is divided into two ways, the year-end small examination reward is less, and the reward is double or three or even four, and the examination of Beijing and the big plan, for the excellent, it will be rewarded more, in order to create a model, but not more, a province of ten or so is enough, can be listed in the local chronicles; But the big reward is not to give too much silver and grain at one time, so that it is extravagant, but mainly to improve its treatment, such as the imperial court for his favor to support a number of staff, a number of doctors, a number of car sedan drivers, a number of servants and even concubines, and the scale of the mansion for him, etc., and even to his wife and son, can not make him rich!
”"Your Majesty is very true!
It's just that in this way, the imperial court's expenditure on money and grain will increase a lot. ”Fang Congzhe replied."
This is what the imperial court must bear, otherwise they will have to use all kinds of overt and covert ways to find the people!"
Zhu Youxiao said that he knew that if the Ming court wanted to let the officials rule Qingming, it had to assume more responsibilities, and if it wanted to make the court more centralized, it had to assume more functions.The Ming Dynasty used to be a "small court", with few taxes and not enough social responsibilities.According to Zhu Youxiao's idea, the Ming Dynasty will have to be a "great court" in the future, with more taxes and more social responsibilities and functions.Because in Zhu Youxiao's view, the current "small court" model of the Ming Dynasty has led to the gentry being too "free", and they have not played the social role they should play, such as governing the place for the court and pacifying the people.On the contrary, there are more and more displaced people, and the gentry are less and less concerned about the imperial court, and the infrastructure is also very poor, and the frequent increase in floods and droughts is related to the lack of infrastructure such as water conservancy, but the Ming Dynasty is still an agricultural empire, and if the infrastructure such as water conservancy is not done well, it will affect the development of the entire empire.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao said that this is something that the imperial court must bear.Because these local officials had to be controlled by the imperial court through various welfare systems, and could not be controlled by the gentry and wealthy through money and beauty."
Yes!"
Fang Congzhe asked."
In addition, in the future, the food will no longer be distributed to the silver and the reward silver, and all the silver will be discounted, and you will work out a ceremony to invite the statue of Taizu to the Ministry of Rites, and then order the Baoquan Bureau to mint a batch of silver coins with the statue of Taizu; These silver coins are used as a reward for officials and rewards, and the statue of Taizu is engraved on the silver coins so that the officials can keep in mind the teachings of Taizu on the silver coins, and also to protect the Ming money law by the power of Taizu, to ensure the fairness of silver coin transactions, and to summon the world at that time; These silver coins from the statue of Taizu are the silver coins specially issued by the Ming court, and the silver coins have the statue of Taizu and the specific catties, so as to ensure the accuracy of the catties and taels of the silver coins with the power of Taizu, so as to facilitate market transactions, without the need to weigh the silver with scissors when trading; Whoever dares to privately mint Daming silver coins is to privately engrave Taizu, which is disrespectful to Taizu.Including burning and recasting into silverware and even making fake silver coins that are short of catties and two, it is also a great disrespect to Taizu, once it is found, all silverware and fake silver coins will be confiscated, and it will be decided!
There are also scholars who can use the power of Taizu to use the silver coins for trading and storage, but they have the obligation and must keep them properly, and anyone who damages or makes them too dirty is also disrespectful to Taizu!
According to the severity of the sentence, the sentence shall be more than three years of service to the sentence of beheading. ”According to Zhu Youxiao's knowledge, the Ming Dynasty has not established a perfect monetary system, so that the current finance of the Ming Dynasty is completely uncontrolled by the imperial court.However, the Ming Dynasty has now entered the era of trading with silver as the main currency because of the large inflow of silver.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has long wanted to slowly establish the Ming monetary system, so that the Ming court can control the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and then make the Ming Dynasty richer.Now asking the statue of Taizu to mint silver coins is the beginning of Zhu Youxiao's desire to make an official currency.Zhu Youxiao did not engage in paper money from the beginning, because the indiscriminate issuance of treasure banknotes made famous generals lose trust in official banknotes.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao could only start by minting silver currency, and starting from distributing money and silver rewards to officials.Zhu Youxiao did not directly prepare for the establishment of an official currency in terms of taxation.That is, through the way that only the bank is collected and not the grain is collected.Because Zhu Youxiao knew that this was not an easy task, after all, if taxes only collect money, many self-sufficient self-sufficient farmers who do not have much commodity trading activities only have grain in their hands but no silver, and letting them only pay silver will make them have to exchange grain for silver with the big gentry in order to pay taxes and silver, and the big gentry will take the opportunity to lower the price of grain and exploit the peasants.Especially the homesteaders of the North.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only used silver as much as possible to spend in terms of expenditure, but in terms of imperial court input, he still adopted the flexible method of collecting grain and cashier."
Your Majesty, if all the silver is distributed, the officials and their families will have to go to the market to buy grain, so I am afraid that it will lead to the instability of the silver price in the market, and the price of grain will increase again, which is not conducive to the livelihood of the common people."
Fang Congzhe admitted that the emperor was very clever in doing this, and it was indeed better to send silver than food, after all, Daming was not short of silver and food now, but he still had to remind Zhu Youxiao to come."
At present, the West Factory is very effective in urging the collection of taxes in Nanzhili, and even if the collected grain is first transported to the local government to replenish the local official warehouse, there will still be a lot of surplus transported into Beijing, and at that time, it will definitely lead to a large increase in grain in the capital, just increase the amount of silver in the market to keep the price of grain and avoid hurting the peasants; However, the price of grain had to be controlled in the hands of the imperial court, so the imperial court had to set up a grain bureau, which would set up official grain stores in various places, and then sell official grain to officials and people, so as to avoid the new grain from being processed in the official warehouse and becoming stale grain, and even the old grain would eventually become moldy, and the excessive loss of grain in storage due to rodent infestation and fire, artificial greed for ink, etc. ”Zhu Youxiao said.Fang Congzhe understood what Zhu Youxiao meant, and knew that the emperor wanted to take back the silver coins issued to the officials by selling grain, and at the same time control grain, an important material related to the livelihood of the world, in the hands of the imperial court, so he replied: "Your Majesty Shengming!
Obey the order!
”"I have rewarded the officials with silver, but then they can't be lazy, and they must be strict in their exams!
No one can be idle!
First of all, from the central court, how much must be completed in the daily government affairs, there must be a plan if it cannot be completed, and it must be severely punished if it fails to be completed beyond the planned date!
The completion will be counted in the performance, and the reward will be prepared according to the completion effect!
”"The six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are examined into all kinds of government affairs of local officials, and the six subjects are examined into the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the cabinet is examined into six subjects, the political hall is examined into the cabinet, and I am personally examined into the political affairs hall!"
Zhu Youxiao commanded."
Obey the order!"
Fang Congzhe immediately replied.As a result, when Nanzhili was in full swing to clear the acres of land and collect taxes, the central court of the Ming Dynasty also vigorously began his reform of official governance.