Jingtai Fenghua

Chapter 281 National Promotion (Fifth update)
Although Chen Xun was doubtful in his heart, he did not dare to be negligent in his actions. He also handed over his plan and said it was a good thing. Other ministers also praised it one after another!

Seeing that all the ministers had said yes, Zhu Qiyu sneered inwardly, but on the outside he still smiled and greeted them to stand up!
"We will discuss this memorial at a later meeting. I want to know if there are any omissions in this memorial. After all, the memorial is written by one person, so it is inevitable that there will be mistakes. All of you have served in local governments and have rich experience. My experience can provide good suggestions for this memorial. I still hope that everyone can pool their wisdom to benefit the people of Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Qiyu sat there and looked at them with a smile.

"Yes!" Those ministers immediately raised their hands and said yes.

"It will be delivered before noon tomorrow. This time, I am planning to ask the Marquis of Luling to go to Jiangxi and Zhejiang to start the New Deal reforms in these two provinces. Various problems may arise, but I believe that as long as it is for me, The people of Ming Dynasty have made mistakes, we can correct them!" When Zhu Qiyu proposed the New Deal for the first time, the ministers also looked at Zhu Qiyu in surprise!
I thought to myself that Zhu Qiyu was still ambitious. He proposed the New Deal and such a good strategy less than a year after he ascended the throne. This was very helpful for him to stabilize his throne and the Ming Dynasty!
Chen Xun couldn't help it at this moment, and was very curious in his heart as to who came up with this strategy, so he stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, I am brave, and I really want to know which official came from such a good suggestion." Hands, I have been thinking about ways these days, but I am stupid and have never been able to think of it. Therefore, I really want to know who wrote it. I want to discuss more with this person. I also hold a position in the local area. However, I hope it helps with this strategy! ”

"I also want to know!" Gao Gu also stood up and said with his hands in hand.

Then many ministers came forward and wanted to know who had done it!

Zhu Qiyu just looked at the ministers below with a smile, and then said lightly: "It comes from the Marquis of Luling. After the Marquis of Luling learned that there were so many corrupt officials in the two provinces, he was very shocked and has been thinking about ways to change it. The memorial is It was delivered yesterday,

I thought you had finished writing it, so I waited for you first. I never thought that I would receive such a memorial on this day. Yesterday, the Marquis of Luling told me that if other ministers had a better way, they would not let it go. I will take out this memorial! Unexpectedly, it was just one book! "

Zhu Qiyu didn't tell the truth to those ministers, and he couldn't tell the truth. He couldn't say that he had asked for the strategy a long time ago, and then he forced those ministers to write it. Those ministers didn't write it down and beat them. If word spread like this, it would have a great impact on Zhu Qiyu's reputation. The ones with the greatest influence are Lin Cunde and Yu Qian who know about this!

After Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, all the ministers knelt down and said forgiveness!

They were extremely shocked in their hearts, especially Chen Xun and other ministers who were familiar with Lin Cunde. None of them thought that this memorial was written by Lin Cunde. Some ministers could not help but look at Lin Cunde standing in the distance.

And all those military officers and nobles were staring at Lin Cunde!

This made Lin Cunde a little embarrassed, and he quickly smiled and handed over to the ministers.

"The Marquis of Luling is really smart, I am ashamed of myself!" Chen Xun couldn't help but said from the bottom of his heart. He thought it was Lin Cunde who wrote it, but he couldn't believe it. But now, Zhu Qiyu said it, and Chen Xun could only admire it. !
"Well, how about I ask the Marquis of Luling to give me some answers?" Yu Qian stood up at this moment and said with his hands raised to Zhu Qiyu.

He hoped that Lin Cunde could stand up and speak out the benefits of this strategy, so that the ministers would fully agree and implement these strategies to benefit the country and the people!

"Yes, please ask the Marquis of Luling to answer one or two questions for me!" Wang Zhi also stood up and said that he also hoped to implement it.

"Well, Marquis of Luling!" Zhu Qiyu was on top, of course he was happy. Aren't the previous arrangements just for today? As long as those ministers can agree, other issues are not a problem!

"I'm here!" Lin Cunde immediately stood up and said with cupped hands.

"Come to the front and answer questions for the ministers and me. I also hope that everyone will have a better understanding of this policy so that it can be implemented in the future!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile.

"Yes!" Lin Cunde immediately handed over his hand and walked to the front.

Wang Ying was very excited. Her son-in-law was going to teach those civil servants, which made her happy just thinking about it. Moreover, those civil servants looked at Lin Cunde in disbelief. They couldn't believe it was written by Lin Cunde, but they admired Lin Cunde!
Then the ministers began to ask about the contents. There were some places that the ministers did not remember. Lin Cunde could only ask Cheng Jing to bring the memorial and go find those places and read it out to the ministers. After hearing this, the ministers also understood. What's going on. Other issues are not a problem. The key is how much tax to increase.

This point needs to be settled. Lin Cunde has two plans in the memorial. The tax has been increased by half. In this case, the Ming Dynasty's tax can be converted into silver taels to about 11 million taels. If it is increased by 10%, it will be about 11 million taels. Twenty-two million taels, and from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the taxes converted into cash are only between fifteen million taels and twenty-two million taels!

In the Ming Dynasty, there were less than 240 officials, mainly low-level officials. Lin Cunde calculated that if he followed his own strategy of raising integrity, there would be less than civil servants, and there are now more than generals, % of whom are below the seventh rank. ! Officials of the seventh grade spend an average of taels of silver to support their integrity. Averaged out, it is about taels. The total amount of money to support integrity in the whole country is less than million taels! If you increase it by %, you can save more than million taels every year to hire people to work!

The people of the Ming Dynasty hired people to work. The average labor cost for ordinary laborers was less than 700 taels a month. After a year, it was only about 80 taels. The remaining money could hire more than 10 million people to work for a year. There were only so many people in the Ming Dynasty, why did it need to hire so many people? In the two capitals and thirteen provinces, on average, each region needs to employ 600,000 people for a year's work. This is impossible, there is no need for so many!

Lin Cunde also explained this in the memorial. After hearing this, the officials also tended to increase taxes by 10%, and the people were also willing to exempt them from labor and corvee labor, as well as consumption. For the people, it was a huge sum. Expenses are well known to those officials. If these are added to taxes, it will increase by at least 20% or even more. Otherwise, there would not be so many people selling their land and houses!
From these data, we can imagine how much money those local officials in the Ming Dynasty corrupted every year. At least 30 million taels were divided up by those officials!
And they also persecuted the people!

The money corrupted by officials is still the money of the poorest people. Those who are a little bit powerful. Some people in their families are scholars or officials, but they don't dare to touch it. They just know how to bully the powerless people!

Then the ministers began to discuss, and Zhu Qiyu sat there and listened to their discussion, feeling very happy. The ministers did not object, which means that this matter can be implemented!
As long as it can be implemented, it will be very beneficial to the people. From now on, for the people of Ming Dynasty, there will be only one kind of tax, land tax, and no other taxes!
If you don't have land, you don't have to pay taxes. Moreover, in fact, although officials and scholars in the Ming Dynasty were exempted from land tax, they had a prescribed amount. Therefore, the extra land also had to pay taxes!

In fact, Chen Xun and the others knew it very well, but they didn't dare to object. After all, their family didn't have much land, and they didn't dare to object if they really had a lot of land! For example, Yu Qian's family does not have a total of 100 acres of land. How much can an increase of 10% tax increase? But Yu Qian's income can increase by more than three thousand taels a year, and the same goes for Chen Xun and others!
This is a lot of money!

As for those officials whose families had a lot of land, they did not dare to object. After all, they knew where the land came from. If they really wanted to investigate, they would be out of luck. Besides, an increase of 10% would not be enough for them. It’s really not a thing!
The only ones who have influence are the big local landowners. But those big landowners have strong family backgrounds. They are not afraid of heavy taxes, but they are afraid of raising taxes and drawing ding for nothing. For this matter of corvee service, those landowners have to pay every year. Huge price!

If it were implemented, those big landowners would rather pay more to exempt them from labor and corvee labor, and add extra money if nothing else happened!

You must know that if local officials want to make money, they will come up with various names. If ordinary people have no money, then those landlords are big fat sheep!
After discussing for almost half an hour, Zhu Qiyu smiled and said to the ministers below: "Okay, okay, it's getting late. My dear friends, do you have any ideas about the new policy?"

"Yes, I hope to promote it nationwide!" Jiang Yuan immediately stood up, raised his hands and said, Jiang Yuan manages the household department, of course he hopes to make money, and only by promoting it nationwide, will their officials in the capital have the opportunity to get the Integrity Bank!

At this moment, other officials also reacted. They raised their hands to Zhu Qiyu and said, "Your Majesty, I hope to promote it nationwide! There is no problem with this policy!"

"Yes, there is no problem. National promotion is the best!" Yu Qian also said with his hands in hand.

"Well, Cunde?" Zhu Qiyu didn't care about the ministers, but looked at Lin Cunde. The policy was designed by Lin Cunde. How to implement it, he still needed to ask Lin Cunde what he meant.

Lin Cunde immediately held up his hands and said: "I don't agree. What I mean is to promote it in Jiangxi and Zhejiang this year. After seeing the effect, we will consider national promotion. This is only safe. After all, with such a big policy, if there are problems, it will be corrected by then." It’s difficult, it’s better to promote it in two places! Moreover, this time I am going to Jiangxi and Zhejiang to fight corruption, arrest those corrupt officials, and implement administrative measures to observe how local officials will choose after having the Integrity Bank. There will be no corruption. The probability of corruption needs to be assessed!”

"Only when all assessments meet the expectations of the court can it be promoted. If problems are found, we can quickly adjust them in both provinces!"

After Lin Cunde finished speaking, those ministers were unhappy. This was related to their income!
(End of this chapter)