I, the Ming Dynasty, can still save me

After talking about the Ministry of Rites, next is the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works.

It can be said that the reform of these two departments is the highlight of today.

But unlike the Ministry of Rites, due to Zhu Youxiao's previous reforms.As a result, many departments of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry have been set up, and now it is just a slight adjustment to the departments they are responsible for.I saw him slowly saying:

"As for the Ministry of Household Affairs, I agree with your proposal in the title book. Some additional departments can be added. However, finance and taxation are too important and must not be ignored. In addition, there are now a series of tax laws such as customs duties, mining taxes, commercial taxes, etc., so Now we need to be very cautious when making adjustments. According to my idea, it is to expand and change on the basis of the Thirteen Cleansing and Officials Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Four Sections."

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Ministry of Revenue was in charge of the country's territory, fields, household registration, taxation, salaries and wages, and all financial matters. It can be said that the task was very heavy.The internal administration of government affairs is divided into divisions based on regions. In addition to being responsible for the local budget and food, each division is also responsible for some general affairs of other yamen, and their responsibilities often overlap.

But as Zhu Youxiao said before, although the Ministry of Household Affairs in the Ming Dynasty seemed very powerful, it seemed that all matters related to money in the Ming Dynasty were related to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

But in fact, the authority of the Ministry of Revenue is far from being as high as imagined, and even to some extent, his authority is pitifully low.

To put it bluntly, it is just an accounting department of the Ming Dynasty. He is only responsible for counting all the accounts of the Ming Dynasty from the prefectures and counties, the Chief Secretary to the six ministries and nine ministers of the central government. Allocate silver.

Therefore, a very interesting phenomenon will occur, because the Ministry of Household Affairs can only make statistics, but it cannot grasp the real tax property of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, whenever he wanted to allocate grain and grass, many local prefectures and counties or the other five ministries had money, but they did not want to spend the money, so they made excuses.Either they say that they have not been allocated, or they are owed money. As a result, many financial allocations have been in vain in the end, and the problem of arrears of wages and fees is serious.

In the end, the Ministry of Household Affairs couldn't bear it anymore, and finally established Taicang Yin specifically for military pay. However, other money and grain were still divided and managed by many departments, making it difficult for the Ministry of Household Affairs to coordinate.

Therefore, the first thing Zhu Youxiao did after he came here was to increase the authority of the Ministry of Revenue, not only to severely punish departments that did not comply with the documents of the Ministry of Revenue, such as collecting tax arrears in Southern Zhili.

The next step was to expand the authority of the Ministry of Household Affairs. First, it took over the power of the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs to control the national salt tax and grain, and then transferred all the small treasury of the other five departments and Jiuqing to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Finally, there is the source of income, which continuously adds new revenue to the household department, such as customs duties, commercial taxes, mining taxes, salt merchants' deposits, etc.

All these factors have greatly increased the power of the current Ministry of Household Affairs, turning it into a department that integrates tax collection, warehousing, accounting, etc.He truly became the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the financial situation of Ming Dynasty was greatly improved, and he no longer had to worry about insufficient money and food.

Because of this, what Zhu Youxiao needs to do now is to further formalize it and sort out its relationship with the local chief secretary.

Hearing what the emperor said, everyone immediately became alert, especially Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Household Affairs, who looked at the emperor for fear of missing any word of the emperor's words.Zhu Youxiao said unhurriedly:
"The Thirteenth Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of warehouses, private salt taxes, and customs duties, and supervises matters related to the provinces and the Ministry of Household Affairs. However, it would be too cumbersome to handle the affairs of each Chief Secretary through the Thirteenth Department.

Therefore, I thought that on the basis of the Thirteen Clearinghouse Officials Division, and based on the Four Sections of the Ministry of Household Affairs, I would set up five divisions:
One is the Civil Affairs Department, which is in charge of local geography, people, maps, and the development and changes of things, mountains and rivers, dangerous and flat terrain, and fertile and barren land.And the fish scale atlas in Nanjing was handed over to the Department of Civil Affairs.

The second is the Finance Department, which is mainly responsible for finance and tax matters, such as the collection, transportation and distribution of summer taxes and autumn grain.There are also various rewards, salaries, taxes and grain left by the management area, and fines and discounts for recovering stolen goods.The third is the Commerce Department, which is in charge of overseas trade, Chinese and foreign merchant ships, the implementation of the "Regulations on the Protection of Commercial Taxes", fish, salt, tea, customs duties, mineral taxes and other matters.

The fourth is the Warehousing Department, which is in charge of grain storage, water transport cashiers, military storage cashiers and other matters in warehouses in 13 provinces in Beijing and Beijing.

The fifth is the Duzhi Department, which is responsible for statistics, inspection of the Ming Dynasty's annual household warehouse storage of silver, grain and grass, formulation of the imperial court's annual expenditure plan, etc. "

Zhu Youxiao finished all the plans for the five departments of the Ministry of Household Affairs in one breath. These five subordinate departments were determined by him after much thought.Responsible for agriculture, commerce, industry, warehousing and accounting respectively.Although there are still some omissions, the responsibilities of the household department are basically clearly divided.

After hearing this, other people present were also secretly shocked.The emperor's plans for the household department were so meticulous. He must have planned them in his mind long ago, otherwise he would not have said them all at once.

"Dear dear friends, what do you think of my proposal? If you have any opinions, you can put forward your opinions. You can tell me everything you know. I will definitely not blame you."

Everyone present looked at each other in confusion, and then turned their attention to Bi Ziyan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Wang Yingjiao, the former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.These two people are extremely familiar with the affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs and should have the most say.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs has such an organized plan, and I think there is nothing wrong with it. However, I have some doubts, and I would like to ask for your Majesty's explanation.

One thing is that the Ministry of Household Affairs originally had a Baobao Promotion Department and a Baoquan Bureau, which specialized in printing treasure banknotes and copper coins, but I did not see that Your Majesty did not include these two departments in the five departments of the Household Department.Secondly, if the household department in Beijing is changed, will the household department in Nanjing also be changed in the same way? "

Wang Yingjiao, the assistant minister of the cabinet, stood up and agreed that since Zhu Youxiao came to the throne, he has single-handedly handled all reforms in the Ministry of Household Affairs.It can be said that he witnessed with his own eyes the power of the Ministry of Revenue gradually increased, becoming a veritable financial institution of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor's current proposal was obviously more in line with the interests of the Ministry of Revenue, so he naturally raised his hands to agree.It's just that the emperor didn't include the money-minting institution in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which really surprised him.

"I am going to set up a separate agency to manage the matter of the Baochao Lifting Department and the Baoquan Bureau. This matter has something to do with the Ministry of Industry. I will give separate instructions later.

As for the question of whether to change the Nanjing Household Department, I have been thinking about it for a long time. Currently, the reform of the Sixth Department is limited to the Beijing Sixth Department. The Nanjing Sixth Department will continue to be the same as before. I have other arrangements. "

Listening to Wang Yingjiao's doubts, Zhu Youxiao gave an answer unhurriedly.

But the emperor's seemingly understated answer shocked Yang Lian and others.

Ye Xianggao and others were right. The emperor only reformed the Six Ministries in Beijing and not the Six Ministries in Nanjing. It seemed that he wanted to abolish the Six Ministries in Nanjing. (End of chapter)