In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 317 Delegating power again
After assigning the tasks to each supervisor, Lin Rui stopped taking care of them. Instead, he summoned the chiefs and deputies of the Statistics Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Supervision Bureau to the Imperial Study Room.

These three departments can be said to be the most important to Lin Rui, and they are also the basis for the emperor to firmly control the world in the future.

Since Luo Yangxing and others have performed well in the past two years, Lin Rui has no intention of getting rid of them for the time being.

After all, these people came here to seek refuge. Although they were not loyal enough, they were always worried and frightened. Instead, they acted very carefully and obediently. They did not dare to be as perfunctory and arrogant as before.

The same goes for Wang Dehua and other eunuchs from the Supervision Bureau. They all behave with their tail between their legs, because countless eunuchs have been killed in the past two years. Once they make a mistake, no matter how big or small their official position is, they will basically confiscate their homes and distribute them, or they will be killed directly. Simply merciless.

Nowadays, almost all eunuchs know the current market situation. The emperor trusts female officials, those wives with imperial orders, not eunuchs.

Not to mention seeking credit and pleasing the emperor as before, except for Wang Dehua and a few other eunuchs, it was very difficult for the other eunuchs to see the emperor on weekdays.

Because now the entire front and back palaces, eunuchs are almost prohibited from entering and exiting, and they are all placed in the imperial city and away on business.

It can be said that today's eunuchs have completely become lackeys running errands, and they do all dirty work. The emperor does not like it, and the wives of the superintendent also hate it, not to mention how miserable it is.

However, these eunuchs had no other way out except relying on the imperial power, so they all became cautious and low-key, and worked more carefully than before.

"Huang Aiqing, within three years the Bureau of Statistics will compile statistics on all states and counties in Dahua. At that time, I want to know the specific population of Dahua, how much farmland, how many shops, restaurants and inns, as well as the prices, customs and customs of various places..."

The first person Lin Rui summoned was the director of the Bureau of Statistics, a wife named Huang Ya, who was Mrs. Lu's former assistant. Her ability was just as powerful as Mrs. Lu's.

If you want to govern a country, you must first understand all aspects of the country in detail and have accurate data for reference. Only in this way can you formulate reasonable policies, so the Bureau of Statistics is indispensable, especially under such conditions in ancient times. Down.

"Your Majesty, the Bureau of Statistics may have insufficient manpower and funds."

Huang Ya was not scared. After all, Dahua only had more than 1000 counties. Each county sent a wife to lead a team to conduct field statistics. Two years would be enough to cover the situation in all counties.

"Funding is not an issue. Just apply to the Financial Supervisor for the amount you need. As for manpower, a large number of literate women will be sent from the south in a while. Then we will allocate more to the Bureau of Statistics.

However, for the sake of long-term planning, it is best for you to open your own academy to cultivate reserve talents. From now on, you will increase the statistics of Dahua's various data every three to five years and then publish them. "

Lin Rui plans to turn the Bureau of Statistics into an independent department that only provides data to the Royal Family and the State Council.

No one can intervene to determine the amount of funding each year. Only in this way can the accuracy of the data be ensured in the long term to avoid interference and fraud in the future.

In the future, after his death, there will be special legislation, and even the emperor will not be able to interfere with the statistical work and data release of the Bureau of Statistics.

"It's your Majesty. When I get back, I will start preparing for the statistics school and recruit apprentices."

Huang Ya was also overjoyed. She originally thought that the Bureau of Statistics was just a temporary department, but who would have thought that His Majesty actually asked the Bureau of Statistics to run its own academy to cultivate reserve talents. The treatment was almost as good as that of the Financial Supervisor and Audit Supervisor.

"Well, let's recruit half of the male and female students, so that they can get married in the future."

Lin Rui nodded. The Bureau of Statistics will not set up branches in a short period of time. Instead, it will adopt mobile statistics. Every two or three years, a group of people will be sent to each county for statistics, and they will return after the statistics are completed.

After Huang Ya left, Lin Rui assigned tasks to the Intelligence Bureau and the Supervision Bureau respectively. From now on, the Intelligence Bureau will be the ears and eyes of the emperor, while the Supervision Bureau will be the iron fist that intimidates the supervisory officials. The former's spies will be spread across all walks of life. All localities, especially the military, and the latter's various prefectures and counties must set up branches and list them.

"Luo Yangxing, what's the current situation in North Korea?"

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the analysis of the situation reported by the Korean Branch last month, although the Jiannu are currently at a disadvantage, since most Koreans are on the side of the Jiannu, the Jiannu still firmly controls the Hanyang area. As with the northern territories, it may be difficult for the Japanese to defeat Jiannu and occupy the entire Korea in a short period of time."

Luo Yangxing quickly replied, obviously he had done enough homework when he came, and he no longer dared to think about living like that during the Chongzhen period, not knowing everything.

"Well, continue to pay attention. If the situation changes, report it immediately without delay."

Lin Rui nodded and told him to step back.As for North Korea, he is bound to win it, but he is not in a hurry. He will let the Jiannu and Japanese people mess around for a while. When they are almost done fighting, he will send a large army to clean up the mess. Then he will be able to rule better.

I believe that after those Koreans saw the ferocity of the Japanese and the barbarism of the slaves, they would be happy to become obedient citizens of Dahua.

What's more, if he takes action now, not only will he have to use the land route with a lot of effort, but he may also force the Japanese and Jiannu to join forces. Therefore, he plans to wait until the navy is stronger before transporting troops directly by sea. At least the logistics and supplies must be transported by sea. .

Lin Rui felt unhappy when he thought that the mighty Chinese navy could not defeat a small Japanese country and North Korea. He also hated the emperor and scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty with itch.

But no matter how unhappy it is, there is nothing that can be done in a short time. If you want to rely on the hundreds of broken ships of the Dengzhou Navy to defeat the navy of North Korea and Japan, you will die.

The Jiangnan Navy was even worse, rotten to the core. Only the Fujian Navy and Zheng Zhilong still had some combat effectiveness.

But they only win by numbers, and most of them are small boats. They only dominate offshore areas such as Fujian and Guangdong, and they simply do not have the ability to fight in oceans.

In the next few days, Lin Rui presided over the regular quarterly meetings of the Government Affairs Council, the Supervisory Council, and the Court, setting out the government affairs and judicial goals for the next five years.

In terms of government affairs, Lin Rui planned to let go completely because he found that he was not suitable for governing the country at all, so he could only continue to delegate power to the six cabinet departments.

The new land policy in the north was completed in March this year. Although there are discrepancies in the overall farm population data, it is not exaggerated and is still acceptable.

Mainly due to the serious population losses in Henan and northwest China, a large amount of land was left uncultivated.

Now Lin Rui has also looked back. He is no longer eager for quick success and wants to create a prosperous world of great harmony at once. Instead, he has given the Government Affairs Council sufficient time and space for governance.

It only set a general goal, that is, within five years, the seven provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Huaixi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu will also complete the New Land Deal. There is no need to worry in other provinces.

After all, Fujian has a lot of fields and mountains, Guangdong and Guangxi also need to be developed, and there are still many toasts in Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Sichuan and other provinces. If it were to be applied across the board, the situation that had just settled down would probably be a bit turbulent.

So for now, we only need to take back the land in core areas such as the entire north, Sichuan Basin, Jianghan Plain and Jiangnan area, and set up production teams.

The next step is to complete the formulation and collection of commercial taxes for restaurants and shops in various cities. In the future, apart from business taxes and land rents, as well as taxes and customs taxes on some tea mountain mines, China will no longer collect any taxes.

Especially the city gate tax and various official river tolls, and even the taxes from the big workshops in the south, Lin Rui does not plan to collect for the time being.

The purpose is to encourage business development and smooth trade.

All these taxes will be collected by the tax bureau directly under the Government Council. As for the rents paid to the people and the rents paid to the landlords, they will also be temporarily handled by the royal agent.

"Your Majesty, the treasury is now empty..."

"Don't tell me that the national treasury is empty. There is no money in the national treasury. Just quickly formulate the business tax, customs tax and mining tax, and then collect them. Wouldn't this make money?"

Lin Rui impatiently interrupted Hong Chengchou's cry. After all, he didn't want to target his inner treasury, but it was absolutely impossible for him to allocate money from his inner treasury to the Government Affairs Council.

"But Your Majesty, this will take time. As the saying goes, water far away cannot dissolve fire near..."

"Then go get a loan from the bank. Anyway, the internal treasury will not allocate a penny to the state treasury in the future. In addition, the financial supervisor will have bills for the salaries paid to civil servants in the past two years, as well as the funds allocated to the Supervisory Office and the courts. Yes, in the future the Ministry of Household Affairs will have to repay the principal with interest, and the military expenditures for the garrison of each province in five years will also need to be allocated from the Ministry of Household Affairs."

Lin Rui waved his hand and planned to keep public and private affairs separate from now on.

When Hong Chengchou and other civil servants heard that they were going to borrow money from the bank, their faces twitched, but when they encountered such a stingy emperor, they all had no choice but to accept their fate.

After understanding that they would not be able to get any money from the emperor in the future, Hong Chengchou and the six officials also gave up. After returning, they hurriedly formulated various tax systems and did not dare to delay them anymore.

(End of this chapter)