Borrow the day to change the day

() "Your Majesty, the two things mentioned just now can be added to the one-stop plan." Zhong Jinwei replied.

"Oh, Master Zhong, be more specific."

"In this way, Your Majesty, the Salt Administration, the income from the cement, and the tax collection after the road is built, can share part of the profits and use it to improve the treatment of officials and national education."

"Master Zhong, I think there are two problems with what you said."

"Oh, Your Majesty, what's the problem?" Zhong Jinwei didn't think there was a problem, so he asked Emperor Chongzhen.

"After paving the road with cement, you still need to collect taxes? Roads are used for the use of the people of the world. If taxes are collected, the people who have no money are what you call grassroots. Wouldn't they even be able to leave the door?" Emperor Chongzhen said to the road repairer. There are doubts about the tax collection in the future. If we follow Zhong Jinwei's logic, wouldn't all the areas paved with blue stones in the capital be able to collect taxes?

"Your Majesty, not everyone has to collect road tax. No matter how solid the cement paved road is, it will always be damaged and uneven after a long time, which requires maintenance. But where does the money come from, and the Ministry of Households can't let it out?" Zhong Jinwei Thinking about future generations, even ordinary national highways will have local governments collecting taxes.That's a tax of several trillion yuan, not when the Ming Dynasty had several million taels of silver a year.So in his subconscious, he directly copied the way of later generations.

Emperor Chongzhen could imagine that if all road construction expenses in the world had to be paid from the Ministry of Households, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, would not hang himself for himself.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile, and listened to Zhong Jinwei continue.

"The biggest damage to roads should be heavy objects. Ordinary people walk on the road, and the damage caused to the road is very small and can be ignored. Therefore, according to this situation, no tax is imposed on pedestrians, and taxes are collected on horse-drawn carts, ox carts and other vehicles. For example How much is charged for a car carrying people, how much is loaded, how much is a four-wheeled carriage, etc., are charged according to the weight of the vehicle."

What Zhong Jinwei said made sense. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and asked: "Master Zhong is saying that a proportion of the vehicle and horse tax collected will be used for road maintenance, official salary increase, and national education?"

After being influenced by Zhong Jinwei for a long time, many new terms were also unconsciously used by Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhong Jinwei nodded: "Your Majesty is very right, this is what I think."

"Master Zhong, what do you think about the salary increase of the officials you mentioned? Is it to tie them to our innovative chariot?" Emperor Chongzhen asked the second question.

"Your Majesty, yes, and no. The officials' salaries have been raised and they have been given benefits, so they will take care of the matter with care. In addition, I understand that the current salaries of officials are really not enough for them to spend." Zhong Jinwei said here, He reported to Emperor Chongzhen one by one what he learned from Yu Haining that day and the use of his salary.

Emperor Chongzhen listened carefully, thinking while listening.After Zhong Jinwei finished speaking, he sighed: "It seems that I have been in the deep palace, and I still know a little less about folk affairs."

After Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, he admired Wen Tiren even more. With such a low salary, Wen Tiren could still maintain integrity and self-discipline.

"Your Majesty, after raising the salaries of officials, we can increase the anti-corruption efforts. Now almost no officials are corrupt. If all corruptions are investigated, it may be difficult to implement. Therefore, I suggest that the former ones can be pardoned, but If there is any recidivism thereafter, they will be severely punished, and there are examples to learn from this.”

"Oh, what is the example? I haven't heard of it." Emperor Chongzhen also read a lot of history books, and he didn't seem to remember such a thing.

"Your Majesty, this example happened in later generations, of course you have never heard of it." Zhong Jinwei replied with a smile.

"Tell me about it."

"In later generations, there was an area on the border of Guangdong, in the country of Duli. At that time, all the police in the country, even the yamen servants, collected black money, and the officials were corrupted. The government established an organization called the Independent Commission Against Corruption to crack down on official corruption. **, but because all the officials were corrupt, it couldn't be implemented. In the end, the king pardoned all the officials for their previous corruption, and began to liquidate the corrupt behavior from the agreed moment, before it was implemented."

Zhong Jinwei didn't bother to explain the concept of the administrative special zone, and directly referred to it as a country, which had no effect on what he wanted to say anyway.

"Oh, what's the result?"

Zhong Jinwei replied: "The level of clean government in that country has become one of the top clean government rankings among thousands of countries in the world."

"Just pardoning the previous corruption can have such an effect?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little bit unconvinced.

"Of course not. The biggest reason is related to the ICAC. The corruption before the amnesty is just a basis for anti-corruption." Zhong Jinwei explained.

"Tell me about the magical power of the ICAC, which is so effective." After hearing Zhong Jinwei's words, Emperor Chongzhen was very curious about how the ICAC worked.

"According to my impression, this ICAC is specifically targeting officials and accepting real-name reports from the people. After receiving the report, it will conduct verification. They are only responsible to the king, and other officials cannot interfere with their verification. Moreover, they must cooperate with the investigation of the ICAC. .In addition, the ICAC will conduct irregular anti-corruption campaigns for officials. After all, the purpose of anti-corruption is to eliminate corrupt officials, not catch corrupt officials.”

Why did Emperor Chongzhen feel that the ICAC's way of doing things seemed very familiar, investigating officials, accepting reports, and being responsible to the emperor.Suddenly, he remembered, and asked Zhong Jinwei: "Isn't this ICAC my Dongchang and Jinyiwei?"

Zhong Jinwei smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I also feel that the ICAC and the factory guards do the same job, which is why I suggested to His Majesty to use the factory guards. But between the ICAC and the factory guards, there is still different."

"What's the difference, is Master Zhong referring to the propaganda?" Emperor Chongzhen asked.

"Yes, this is a difference. Also, the focus of the factory guard is treason. Of course, corruption is also the scope of its investigation. But in my impression, the people investigated by the factory guard are generally high-ranking officials, and the ICAC Officials are all included, and they will protect the people who give evidence with their real names, and severely crack down on those officials who want to retaliate. Of course, the basis of this is that the people in that country basically have the knowledge of Juren, and the report is justified. What does the official do to break the law? , can be correctly assessed.”

Emperor Chongzhen thought that this anti-corruption was also linked to education for all, but speaking of it, it really has something to do with it.If you only know farmers who are buried in the fields, you probably don’t have the courage to report them.

Emperor Chongzhen recalled that Emperor Taizu's skinning of human beings could not deter the emergence of corrupt officials. The ICAC has this effect, and it seems to have to learn from it.

So, he said to Zhong Jinwei: "In my opinion, it is still possible to let the factory guards learn from the ICAC. It's just that the timing must be right, after the one-stop plan is implemented."

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it, Zhong Jinwei's one-stop plan would change the existing structure of many courts at once, increase a lot of yamen, and may encounter many things.

But no matter how many things I encounter, I am not afraid, but I am afraid that I don’t know how to change.Now that there is a road, let’s go on.Emperor Chongzhen thought.

Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen remembered something again, and said to Zhong Jinwei with a little worry: "Master Zhong, basically there will not be much tax money to be collected from the salt administration. All its profits will be used to open China and France in exchange for food. Then the cement will be left over." Is it enough for disaster relief, military expenses, official salaries, national education and road maintenance, where so much money is spent?"

When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he felt that Emperor Chongzhen's worries were justified. It is impossible to produce a lot of cement at once, and road construction is also a slow process, and the profits obtained cannot meet so many demands.

But immediately, Zhong Jinwei had an idea, and suggested to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, don't worry about this. There should be a lot of money in the future, such as glass, steel, etc. As long as the new furnace experiment is successful, it is possible to make Come out. At that time, it should be possible to set up a state-owned enterprise and use all the profits earned to do the things just mentioned, even if it is not enough, you can also develop other products, and do it according to this idea.”

Emperor Chongzhen listened to the key new term of state-owned enterprise, and endured it all the time. After Zhong Jinwei finished speaking, he asked quickly: "Master Zhong, what is a state-owned enterprise?"

"Similar to the monopoly of salt and iron, the imperial court organizes a trading company that specializes in the trading of glass and steel products." Zhong Jinwei explained.

When state-owned enterprises appeared in history, they definitely had their place.Zhong Jinwei had long thought of the current situation of Daming, and it would be best to use the state-owned enterprise.

As for the disadvantages of state-owned enterprises, reforms should be carried out slowly after the immediate predicament is overcome.

After listening to Zhong Jinwei's explanation of state-owned enterprises, Emperor Chongzhen felt that there was indeed a way, but he was still a little worried. He asked Zhong Jinwei, "Isn't this a competition between the court and the people?"