Xuande

Chapter 819 Promulgation of Jiade Tongyi

The 90.00% idle officials who changed jobs were gathered to study the new tax law in a surprise attack.

They will focus on learning and quickly understand the calculation methods of the new tax law. After several months of surprise training, this group of people will join the eight groups of the taxation department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, which will be responsible for the tax collection of a certain social class. .

This wave of job transfers has caused many officials who had been idle to lose their status as officials and become officials with lower benefits. It is hard to say when they will be able to restore their status as officials.

In this wave of job transfers, Liu Bei eliminated more than 400 official positions and added more than 400 strong laborers to the tax department that was in short supply.

At the same time, Liu Bei also clearly informed the various departments of the imperial court that the imperial court does not support idlers. If they want to do things in the imperial court, they must make achievements. too much.

As long as someone dares to do such a thing, the consequences will never be simple.

This large-scale transfer operation is mainly aimed at the taxation department of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Taxation work will be the focus of Liu Bei's work for the next period of time. Building a new taxation system on the basis of the taxation work of the Second Empire will be very important for Liu Bei and the Third Reich. are all significant.

But this time, the person who took full charge of the tax work was Gu Yong who was transferred back from the position of Langya County Governor by Liu Bei.

In August, Liu Bei decided to transfer Gu Yong from Langya County to Luoyang, and made him the left servant of the household department, who also took charge of the work of the tax department, and took charge of the work of the tax department. He's in charge of scheduling.

Because the Taxation Department has great powers and a very large number of people, accounting for two-fifths of the personnel in the Household Department, people say that taking the Taxation Department is equivalent to taking half of the Household Department, and its status will be very important.

During Liu Bei's reign, this was the first time that an official from Jiangdong was able to achieve such a high position in the central government and hold such a heavy power. It was good for Gu Yong, the Gu family, and even for the people of Jiangdong. Well, it was all a breakthrough.

The court of the Eastern Han Dynasty had appointed some high-ranking Jiangdong officials, such as Zhu Jun who had some dealings with Liu Bei back then.

However, after Zhu Jun returned to his hometown, Ding You, there was a major change in the court, so he lost his room for development. He thought about returning to Luoyang, but at that time, it happened to be the peak moment of Liu Bei Group and Yuan Kui Group's tit-for-tat confrontation, and no one paid any attention to him. .

When Liu Bei thought of Zhu Jun again later, Zhu Jun had already died of illness.

Liu Bei just felt a little bit sorry.

Mainly at that time, Liu Bei already had Gu Yong and Lu Kang under Liu Bei's command, and the Gu family and the Lu family, two families with high status in Jiangdong, opened up the situation in Jiangdong, with one more Zhu Jun and one less Zhu Jun. It doesn't make much sense anymore.

As for Gu Yong, Liu Bei also knew something about him.

When putting him by his side as an official, Liu Bei noticed that although Gu Yong was taciturn and not good at socializing, he was very particular about the rules and was willing to abide by them. He was strict with himself and had considerable demands on others.

Such a character is very useful to Liu Bei.

Moreover, Gu Yong is from Jiangdong. At this moment, the Gu family is not a large-scale clan that is well-known throughout the country. It is just a representative clan in the Jiangdong area. There is no connection between people of interest.

It was Liu Bei who promoted him, and he didn't have any other friends, which meant that if he wanted to gain a foothold in Luoyang, he had to rely on Liu Bei, and he would do his best for the things Liu Bei entrusted to him.

So after thinking about it for a while, Liu Bei called Gu Yong back to Luoyang, appointed him as the left servant of the household department, withdrew taxes, and was fully responsible for collecting taxes from the world, especially high-ranking officials and dignitaries.

This is a relatively difficult task, and if it is not done well, it will offend many people, but it doesn't matter, when Liu Bei was appointed, he had already made a low point with Gu Yong, and planned to give the tax collectors who passed the formal training and assessment the power to be armed.

And in the later stage, when the taxation department is more mature in operation and has the ability to collect taxes comprehensively, it can break away from the general framework of the household department and form a separate taxation department to specialize in taxation. At that time, the taxation department will become a powerful department , has a powerful deterrent effect on the world.

Gu Yong expressed his longing for such a prospect, but he also knew what this department and this position meant, so when Liu Bei added manpower to him, he also paid great attention to the selection and training of responsible personnel.

When the Ministry of Officials conducts the exam, the content of the exam for the tax collectors is based on the relevant theoretical propositions of the tax department organized by Gu Yong. This ensures that all the selected people have basic knowledge. After coming to the tax department, Gu Yong will organize another If you personally check the interview, if you fail the interview, you will not be able to work.

You can't stuff everyone into the tax department when they come, the basic character and morality still have to be tested.

The selection of officials is in a hurry, the court is also busy, and the whole world is actively repairing the "labor pains" brought about by the successful implementation of the Dutian Law.

In such a tense and busy atmosphere, the last day of the first year of Zhenguan quietly slipped away, and the second year of Zhenguan came.

At the New Year's meeting in the second year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei issued a New Year's edict. He had many expectations for the new year.

He hopes that this year, everyone can work together to complete the remaining problems brought about by the previous wars, resolve the trauma of the war, settle the people who lost their homes, and let them live and work in peace and contentment.

Then, he hoped that everyone can simultaneously advance the work of granting land, distribute the land that people deserve, increase the number of fields owned by hardworking people, enable them to resume production as soon as possible, increase food production, and fight against possible natural disasters. Disasters bring more confidence.

Next, Liu Bei officially announced the compilation and publication of "Jia De Tong Yi" at the New Year's meeting.

He officially announced that the "Jia De Tong Yi", which took two and a half years to compile, was officially completed. After the establishment of the "Han Law", the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty finally had its own fundamental law.

The "General Theory of the Garter" is essentially the constitution of the Third Reich, in which all official and private codes of conduct of the Third Reich are described and stipulated in detail.

From the aggressive state policies of the Third Reich, which are open, progressive, exploring, and attacking the Quartet, down to the marriage and funeral customs of ordinary people, and even the prohibition of concubinage norms, family life norms, and domestic violence in personal life , are in it.

After all, the Han Empire was in the Middle Ages, a typical classical empire. It has only been more than [-] years since the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which founded the dynasty. Even completely unreasonable existence.

People generally don't know what they should and shouldn't do, or many people don't know what they can and cannot do. The government also has its own views on this aspect, and internal views are not unified.

In the era when Confucianism dominated the discourse power, there were generally two voices within the Han imperial government. One voice was based on the Spring and Autumn Prison Judgment as the main processing method, and the other voice was based on the Han Law as the main basis for processing. In general, the Spring and Autumn Prison Judgment faction has the upper hand.

But the disadvantage of the Spring and Autumn Judgment is that there are not many cases in the Spring and Autumn Book that can resolve all the difficult problems that will occur in the future in the world. In many cases, Confucian scholars who are engaged in judicial work cannot find relevant evidence and have to rely on the Han law. to solve this problem.

Therefore, what should be used as the absolute basis for judging cases was widely debated at that time.

Therefore, no one can explain how the people of the empire should live in order to completely avoid all lawsuits, and indeed no one knows.

Even those who practice justice themselves do not know how to deal with this problem.

Therefore, an all-inclusive "Constitution" is meaningful to everyone living in this land.

And because this book is completely open to the public and can even be published, Liu Bei also plans to publish it on a large scale. Therefore, as long as you can read and have a little money, everyone can read "Jia De Tong Yi" See how the country regulates their daily life.

After reading this "Constitution", people will know how to live in the Third Reich correctly, what they can do, what they should do, and how to avoid risks.

From this perspective, "Jia De Tong Yi" can even be said to be a "basic strategy" that everyone living in the Third Reich should read.

Liu Bei hopes that starting from this moment, the influence of alienated Confucianism on the Han Empire in the past 300 years will be slowly removed, and some strange cognitions will be reversed. In the Middle Ages, everything is not too late In this era, a comprehensive change will be carried out.

It is not just a change in rules and regulations, but also a change that touches people's souls. Liu Bei hopes to cut open and burn the big net that Confucianism has woven for the people of the entire empire.

As for the deep strangulation caused by this big net wrapped around people's bodies, it may not be eliminated for a while, but as long as the big net is removed and no longer binds people, then sooner or later, everything will be changed.

Full of openness and enterprising spirit, "Jiade Tongyi" will fundamentally reverse the Han Empire's main internal governance thinking, reverse the inertial thinking of pursuing stability, and turn to external development.

At this point, Liu Bei does not believe that the imperial dynasty can give up stability to pursue something. Maintaining the stability of the rule is a natural pursuit of a government, even a modern government, so it is unrealistic to expect the ruler to give up stability.

But in the way of maintaining stability, Liu Bei hopes to reverse the inertial thinking under the Confucian discourse power, that is, to adjust the way of competing for stock and change it to a way of striving for increment.

In ancient China, most of the time, the system was stabilized by competing for stocks. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the population was sparse and the increase was huge. In this case, the stability of the system could be easily maintained, and all classes of society could benefit from the increase. Gain benefits from it, and everyone is still in peace.

However, with the passage of time and the growth of the population, the increment is exhausted, and the competition for the stock has become the mainstream for the continued development of individuals.

At this moment, the contradiction between strong individuals and weak individuals will become extremely acute. Whether the competition for stocks can be controlled by the imperial system and not get out of control will become an important factor for the continuation of the imperial system.

Some rulers are ambitious and skillful, and can reduce the growth rate of contradictions by curbing the brutality of stock competition, and restrict and redistribute the stock society to a certain extent, so as to maintain the stability of the system and prolong the existence of the system.

But this is just a life extension method, not a solution to the problem, but directly or indirectly solved some of the people who raised the problem, and delayed the development of the contradiction with relatively cruel means.

More rulers do not have this key ability, and can only watch the brutal fighting and constant chaos in the existing society.

In the end, a group of incompetent rulers watched the stock more and more concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the majority were squeezed out of the stock society. Survival became a problem, and finally they went to destruction in despair, or to the final resistance.

No matter which way they go, it means that the system will collapse, the social order will completely collapse, and then the imperial dynasty will enter the next cycle of increment and stock.

When a society enters the stock society, the problem of contradictions is all-round. It cannot be solved by one or two reforms or by killing one or two people. There are only two ways that can really solve the problem.

One is to develop productivity through the technological revolution, create a new internal incremental point, and once again drive society into an incremental society.

The other is that when the technology cannot undergo revolutionary progress, we should open up to the outside and use a new space to create new incremental points.

All in all, it is to create a new incremental point, so that society can once again enter the incremental mode and continue to develop.

If it can’t be done, the stock society will collapse sooner or later, and what will be left to the people is absolutely desperate suffering, and it will be a high-intensity war that will destroy all wars and military disasters, and most people will die.

In most periods of ancient China, the possibility of technological revolution did not exist. Even if there were occasional small technological advances, it would not reach the bottom of the revolution. Therefore, foreign expansion was the only way to enter an incremental society.

While Liu Bei is working hard to promote the development of science and technology, he also knows that this thing will not be fast enough. The real solution to the problem is to open up externally, and use external development as a solution to internal stability.

Anyway, he couldn't just watch the Third Reich he built move towards a stock society without finding a new growth point, and finally started the brutal involution mode, ending in waves of internal turmoil.

He wants to do his best to find a sustainable development path that can provide more possibilities for future generations.

And once this kind of thinking becomes an inertial thinking similar to Confucian discourse power, that dead circle will be jumped out by the Third Reich.

(End of this chapter)