Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Chapter 632: Officials’ personal performance list scares all officials! (Please subscribe!!))

"Brother-in-law... ahem, Lord Ouyang, what is fiscal transfer?"

Zhu Biao asked hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, what Guo Zi just said has made it very clear. Whether it is the reduction in tax revenue or the delay in construction, the root cause of these problems is due to population mobility!"

“Then why does population movement occur?”

"Is it because of the loosening of household registration? I think this is just the superficial reason. The real reason is the imbalance of development. For example, the development of coastal and southern regions is generally much better than that of inland and northern provinces!"

"During war, the people and their families fled to stable places. In peacetime, the people and their families moved to places with better development. These are the people's spontaneous actions to seek benefits and avoid harm. It is human nature. I think the court should not only not stop it, but should support it. The people should have the right to choose better living conditions!"

Hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Huang Zicheng immediately retorted: "Prince Consort Ouyang really loves the people like his own children, and always considers the people in everything! If you say so, then wouldn't the people of the entire Ming Dynasty be able to come to the capital to settle down? How crowded and chaotic would the capital be? I'm afraid that other places in the Ming Dynasty will soon be deserted!"

"Stupid and short-sighted." Ouyang Lun rolled his eyes at Huang Zicheng, and then continued: "A happy life is created by your own hands, not by asking for it!"

"For people who want to live in the capital or other well-developed provincial and state capitals, the court should not stop them. It should even provide them with employment counseling and assistance channels to help them in life and work. However, whether they can take root in the city depends on themselves!"

"Through the natural selection of society, those who can stay in the city will be citizens with high quality and strong abilities, and they will promote the further development of the city!"

"Of course, the imperial court should not give up on backward provinces, counties, and towns. It should increase infrastructure construction in them, such as building primary schools, middle schools, and roads, so that the lives of the people in these places can also be guaranteed!"

"Someone will definitely ask, these backward provinces, counties, and towns can't even collect taxes, so where do they get the money to build infrastructure? This is where fiscal transfer payments come in!"

"The so-called fiscal transfer payment, in general, is that the court uses the taxes collected from the more developed provinces to subsidize the backward and underdeveloped provinces!"

"In this way, the rich will help the poor, and the development of the entire Ming Dynasty will be balanced. The lives of the people in different provinces will not be too different, and the levels will be clearer. The people can choose to work hard to go to big cities to enjoy a better quality and more convenient life, or they can choose to lie down and live a leisurely life in a small county town!"

"When this is achieved, the tax reduction and construction delay issues mentioned earlier will be resolved. In addition, I would like to correct one point. The tax reduction in backward areas is only temporary and will not last forever. Backward areas have their own development methods. Not all of them need to be compared with developed coastal areas! As for how to develop backward areas, sorry, these are paid content."

Forehead.
Everyone in the Taiji Hall's faces turned dark.

When it comes to the exciting and key parts, I don’t talk about them anymore, which really whets people’s appetite!

However, after listening to Ouyang Lun's remarks, Zhu Biao understood a lot. To put it bluntly, the reason why the Ming Dynasty is now backward and has lower tax revenues is mainly because the places with faster development and higher tax revenues have absorbed population and resources. The court then collects these taxes and redistributes them, focusing on taking care of and developing backward areas, thus forming a cycle and balance.

In this way, not only the development problem of backward areas is solved, but also the importance of the central court is strengthened!
It can be said that there are many benefits to implementing the "fiscal transfer system". Thinking of this, Zhu Biao naturally agreed with this method.

"Lord Ouyang is right!"

"Then let's leave this matter to the Ministry of Revenue. We must ensure that all the people of the Ming Dynasty can enjoy the benefits brought by the country's development!"

"Haha, I am so lucky to have Lord Ouyang share my worries. If anyone says something bad about Lord Ouyang in this regard in the future, I will be the first one to not forgive him!"

After Zhu Biao finished speaking, he deliberately glanced in Li Shanchang's direction, and his meaning was self-evident.

Li Shanchang and Huang Zicheng's faces were as ugly as they could be. They originally wanted to find fault with Ouyang Lun, but now they have become clowns and have to be warned by the emperor. After this incident, their image in the eyes of Emperor Zhu Biao has deteriorated a lot.

However, at this time, the people of the Huaixi Party did not dare to jump out and talk anymore. After all, the Emperor Zhu Biao had just made a harsh statement. No matter how stubborn they were, they did not dare to run into the emperor's gun at this time!
As the Huaixi Party officials shut up, the Taiji Hall became much quieter.

Zhu Biao saw that his warning had worked, so he turned to look at Ouyang Lun, "Lord Ouyang, could you tell me more about the Ministry of Revenue? Now that the year is coming to an end, the Ministry of Revenue is the most important, and we must not make any mistakes!"

This year is the first year that Zhu Biao inherits the throne.

Everyone in the world is watching!
Although the entire Ming Dynasty knows that the current Ming Dynasty is still ruled by the retired emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, if the development this year is not good, he, the new emperor, will most likely have to take the blame, and he, Zhu Biao, cannot let his father Zhu Yuanzhang take the blame!
Hearing Zhu Biao's question, Ouyang Lun naturally understood Zhu Biao's anxiety and worry.

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"Guo Zi, please explain it to His Majesty in detail."

Ouyang Lun was too lazy to waste his time talking about such a troublesome matter, so he decided to let Guo Zi handle it.

Hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Guo Zi did not hesitate at all and immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the tax collection work of the Ministry of Revenue has begun to progress steadily. However, the various expenses of the court this year and the salaries, year-end bonuses, and ratings of officials at all levels of the Ming Dynasty have all been announced."

"Also, the commemorative gift boxes to be distributed to Ming officials this year are also being prepared. The Ministry of War is responsible for the statistics of the Ming army. Once the Ministry of War has completed the statistics, the Ministry of Revenue will summarize them all at once!"

"This memorial contains some preliminary statistics from the Ministry of Revenue. These data are also published in the financial newspapers of the Ming Dynasty and the announcement office of the Ministry of Revenue!"

"If you want to see this data, you can go directly to the Ministry of Revenue or the Imperial Court Records Library."

Guo Zi had already thought about these words in his mind.

After Guo Zi finished speaking, Ouyang Lun said, "Guo Zi, since all of your colleagues are here, why don't you just send everyone the personal performance rating sheet compiled by the Ministry of Revenue!"

"It also allows you adults to have a clear understanding of yourselves."

Hearing Ouyang Lun's words, Guo Zi nodded repeatedly, "Yes!" Next, Guo Zi and several officials from the Ministry of Households took out a thick stack of papers and distributed them one by one according to the names.

In the Taiji Hall, all the civil and military officials were dumbfounded when they saw this operation.

Li Shanchang was sitting on the stool with a confused look on his face. He never expected that Ouyang Lun had this trick.

Although the Ministry of Revenue has always distributed year-end bonuses and year-end gifts based on officials' performance and other aspects, the Huaixi Party only regarded this as a means for Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort Party to target them and basically ignored it. The less money, the less; if there is no gift, then there is no gift. Who said that the Ministry of Revenue is in the hands of Ouyang Lun? When they take back control of the Ministry of Revenue, Ouyang Lun and the officials of the Prince Consort Party will forget about getting any benefits!
Feng Shui turns around!
But what they didn't expect this year was that Ouyang Lun directly had someone publish a list of their political achievements in front of the emperor.

This is simply stripping everyone clean!

When the tide recedes, you can see at a glance who is swimming naked and who is taking advantage of the situation!
It's simply murderous and heartbreaking!

Officials who have performed well and achieved remarkable political achievements this year are naturally not afraid of this move. In fact, when they saw the performance list of the Ministry of Revenue, they all straightened their backs. In the past, the Ministry of Revenue would also compile performance lists, but they were always distributed together with the year-end bonuses, not publicly. This time, they were distributed in the Taiji Hall in front of Emperor Zhu Biao, and they felt an inexplicable sense of pride!
But those who are just sitting in their positions doing nothing, not daring to take action, and trying to fish in troubled waters, are constantly complaining in their hearts. You know, some people's performance reports last year were almost a blank sheet of paper, which means that you did nothing this year. If the Emperor sees this, it would be obvious that they are just eating for nothing!
The true colors are revealed immediately.

Li Shanchang also began to sweat on his forehead. The Huaixi Party used to be very powerful and they controlled almost all important positions in the court. Even the promotion of officials was in their hands. In order to control power, they naturally had to appoint people based on personal connections, and among them, many officials were arranged to "eat dry rice".

Even though the Huaixi Party has been conducting an internal purge during this period in order to cope with the pressure from Ouyang Lun and the Prince Consort's Party, most of those purged are those with dirty hands and feet. Those who are incompetent but have clean hands and feet are not dealt with. After all, just cleaning up those with dirty hands and feet has already eliminated a lot of people. If they exclude those with clean hands and feet, then there will be no one left in their Huaixi Party!
However, Ouyang Lun's personal political achievements list will undoubtedly expose these people.

Ouyang Lun is so insidious!
Guo Zi was also very sensible. He prepared two copies of the performance report for each official. While distributing them to the officials, he would also present one copy to the Emperor Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao looked at the official's personal performance list handed over, sometimes smiling and nodding, sometimes frowning and thinking, and sometimes looking gloomy. The content of this performance list was quite different from what he had heard!
Officials were also extremely nervous when they received their performance reports.

Especially on those achievement lists, there are only a few entries on the list, or some are even blank. They now want to know what Emperor Zhu Biao will do after learning the truth.

Many officials have already begun to build up their emotions. If the Emperor Zhu Biao wants to deal with someone later, they will start begging for mercy, and playing the victim, trying to make Zhu Biao soften his heart, so that they can get away with it.

Just at this time.

"The Emperor has arrived!"

When this voice was heard outside the hall, many officials in the Taiji Hall suddenly wanted to die, and even their legs began to tremble slightly.

You have to know that besides hating corrupt officials, what Zhu Yuanzhang hated the most were those officials who did nothing and just did nothing. Before, there were officials who did nothing and were thrown to the Jinyiwei by Zhu Yuanzhang. Although they later came out alive, they were also skinned alive!

Ruined!
Zhu Yuanzhang walked slowly into the Taiji Hall with his hands behind his back.

"Your subjects greet the Emperor!"

All civil and military officials saluted.

"Father!"

Zhu Biao also hurriedly walked down from the dragon throne to greet him, and personally helped Zhu Yuanzhang to the dragon throne.

"I heard that the Ministry of Revenue had prepared a list of achievements, and I was somewhat interested, so I came to take a look. You guys just continue."

"Emperor, you preside over it yourself, we are just going to watch."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the dragon throne and spoke slowly.

"Yes, Father!"

Zhu Biao nodded, "Continue!"

Soon, Guo Zi and other officials from the Ministry of Revenue distributed the personal performance lists of the officials in the Taiji Hall. Emperor Zhu Biao and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang also looked through the officials' performance lists.

The scene became exceptionally quiet.

Ouyang Lun stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue has compiled this list of individual officials' performance before, but it was previously sent to individual officials, only the rating level was made public, and the details of their individual performance were not made public!"

"After discussing with the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and visiting many officials, I decided to make the officials' individual performance lists public this year. Of course, this will not only be done this year, but every year in the future. For the entry of these performance lists, the Ministry of Revenue will set up a special evaluation team. No one will know before the individual performance lists are released every year! No one has the right to ask!"

"Even with the Emperor and His Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue will only report on the progress of the assessment. Only after the assessment is completed will they agree to publish it!"

"The reason for doing this is to prevent people from cheating!"

After hearing what Ouyang Lun said, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao agreed, especially Zhu Biao. To be honest, before this, he was still a little worried about the rectification of the civil service, fearing that the officials would be dissatisfied. However, with the list of personal achievements of officials prepared by Ouyang Lun at the Ministry of Revenue, Zhu Biao suddenly felt more confident.

One only needs to take a look at the official's personal performance list to see who is taking advantage of the situation and who is just sitting there doing nothing. It is crystal clear.

It’s so much better than the list he worked so hard to make!
Unlike what Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao recognized, the individual performance lists of officials that Ouyang Lun asked the Ministry of Revenue to prepare were like putting a mountain on their shoulders, especially those who had no political achievements throughout the year. They couldn't speak with confidence and their backs were bent a lot!
No more living a life of idleness and waiting for death, no more taking advantage of troubled waters, no more taking advantage of one's age and seniority
Of course, what they fear most now is that Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang will cause trouble for them!

(End of this chapter)