nanming man

Chapter 699 New Deal of Wei State

At dawn the next day, Gao Yihuan got up early. Under Zhao Juan's service, after washing up and eating something, he went to the Yizheng Hall to participate in the cabinet discussion.

After returning from Sichuan, Gao Yihuan never left Xi'an. After a winter of hard work, after the princess became pregnant, he spent the night with Zhao Juan.

When Gao Yihuan came to the Yizheng Hall, the cabinet bachelors who came to participate in the discussion, as well as the six ministers, Ge Shizhong, and officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple had already arrived.

From Gao Yihuan's point of view, he will definitely carry out reforms to Wei's administrative system in the future. The officials who came today are Gao Yihuan's opinion. In the future, officials who are being reformed, as well as the Yamen, may be involved.

The Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are the three law departments of the Western Wei Dynasty. They are in charge of the judiciary. The cabinet handles the affairs of the Western Wei Dynasty. At least, once had the right to return the imperial decree.

However, no matter how powerful these officials and yamen are, they are not as powerful as Gao Yihuan. He has three powers in one body, and the universe is arbitrary.

Gao Yihuan intends to reform the system at an appropriate time, but obviously not now, to fight for the world must centralize power in order to accomplish great things.

Besides, he didn't want to make himself uncomfortable, but was going to dig a hole for his son after he unified the world.

However, although he will not change it now, it will not hinder him from calling these officials over to train him.

In addition, the Western Wei Dynasty inherited the Ming system, but there was no supervisor of ceremonies. When Gao Yihuan was in Xi'an, he could review the memorials by himself, but when he went out to fight, the power could only be handed over to the cabinet, which easily caused the problem of excessive power. The loss of checks and balances in the cabinet is not a long-term solution. Therefore, Gao Yihuan is thinking about how to free himself from the heavy government affairs.

At this time, three to forty people gathered in the hall, and many officials gathered in twos and threes, whispering in the hall, talking about the new policy of Wei State.

Suddenly a guard shouted: "The king is here!"

The hall suddenly became quiet, and Gao Yihuan walked into the hall surrounded by several guards with knives. Everyone got up one after another to welcome King Wei into the hall.

Gao Yi smiled and waved his hands, inviting everyone to sit down. The layout of the meeting hall is a bit strange. It is divided into eight sections, namely six departments, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple. There is a big chair in front of each area, and each department sits The chief officer is followed by officials from various ministries, but they can only listen and cannot speak during the discussion, unless Gao Yihuan allows them to express their opinions.

The cabinet bachelors of the Western Wei Dynasty all held the titles of ministers or ministers of various ministries, while the chief officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple could not be cabinet bachelors, and the supervision system was separated from the administrative system.

The time for deliberations in the Yizheng Hall is often very long, most of the time it is a whole day, and sometimes it will even be discussed for several days until a satisfactory plan is reached.

At this time, the guards came in and served tea and pastries. Gao Yihuan waved his hands to let the idlers back down, and then coughed lightly. The lobby was suddenly quiet. Get ready, then Li Xueshi will start!"

Li Yan is the Chief Assistant of the Western Wei Kingdom, and also the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He stood up, saluted Gao Yihuan, and said with a slight smile: "Your Majesty, colleagues, today I represent the cabinet to explain some strategies formulated by the cabinet this year. Your Majesty And colleagues, if you have any doubts, you can ask the cabinet later."

Gao Yi smiled and nodded, raised his hand and said, "Let's start!"

Li Yan bowed slightly, and then said: "The main purpose of this new policy is to restore Guanzhong and Sichuan, and strengthen the national power of Wei. The cabinet has discussed five laws and three strategies. The first law is the government loan law. Guanzhong and Sichuan were devastated by war, and the people were impoverished and unable to rely on their own ability to quickly resume production. The cabinet suggested that the feudal government should lend agricultural tools, seeds and rations to the people for a profit, and the people would repay them in the coming year.”

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly. The interest of one penny is very low, which can not only help the people tide over the difficulties, put them into production quickly, but also increase the income of the feudal government to a certain extent.

At this time, Li Yan continued: "The second law, the fifth-class civil law, divides the people into five-class households according to their land property and tax payment amount. Large households that pay more taxes can participate in state and county discussions. The third law is According to the Water Conservancy Law, the feudal government encourages land reclamation and construction of water conservancy. The cost is paid by the local households according to the level of wealth and the amount of land they own. If there is still a shortage, they can borrow money from the feudal government. The harvest in the next few years will be repaid!"

Gao Yihuan nodded. These two strategies can be regarded as the same, and this fifth-class civil law can continue to evolve in the future.

Both Guanzhong and Sichuan now have large areas of wasteland. If water conservancy projects are widely constructed to ensure irrigation, increase the area of ​​cultivated land, and develop agricultural production, the tax revenue of the feudal government will also be increased.

"The fourth law is the money tax law. The money in the world is in the hands of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. They can control the circulation of silver. If the people need silver to pay taxes, they tighten the supply of silver, which will make silver expensive and copper cheap. In order to exploit the common people. With the implementation of the banknote tax law, the common people can use a fixed proportion of copper coins to exchange banknotes to pay taxes, thereby reducing being exploited by merchants."

Zhang Juzheng's whipping method combined the land tax, corvee and other miscellaneous levies of various states and counties into one, and combined the collection of silver taels, which were converted and paid by mu.This greatly simplifies the tax system and facilitates the collection of taxes.At the same time, it makes it difficult for local officials to cheat, thereby increasing fiscal revenue.

However, the price of silver is easily manipulated by merchants. The collapse of the Ming Dynasty under the three rates has a lot to do with the fluctuation of silver prices.Normally, one thousand cash is exchanged for one tael of silver. When paying taxes, merchants can raise the price of silver to [-] cash for one tael of silver. The exploitation is more severe than that of the government.

It is Gao Yihuan's consistent proposition to implement the banknote law. It has been mentioned before, and this time it is officially ordered by the feudal government.

"The fifth law is the method of selecting scholars. The vassal government will reform the imperial examinations, rectify the Guozijian, lighten stereotyped writing, emphasize policy theory, and study things. In addition, Jinshi needs to enter the Guozijian first, and the veterans will teach the experience of handling government affairs. Learn by subject, law, agriculture, mulberry, Arithmetic and natural craftsmanship can only be awarded to real officials!"

In this way, Confucianism has become a stepping stone to embark on an official career, but to govern the local area, one still needs to understand various affairs.

Li Yan continued: "Three policies, the first policy is the official assessment policy, in order to prevent officials from inaction, or excessive actions for the sake of political achievements, such as forcing the people who do not need to borrow money to take official loans, or excessively building water conservancy projects without considering the actual situation. The assessment of officials will be assessed in terms of the population of the prefecture and county, the area of ​​arable land, the taxation of the prefecture and county, and the proportion of fifth-class households."

"The second policy is to encourage births. The world goes to war every year, the population drops sharply, and a lot of land is abandoned. The people of our country Wei are only 310 million. I think that this is to reward births and increase the population to strengthen the national strength. The last policy Yes, the Fubing Policy, standardize the original settlements and militia groups, and organize rural households. Ten households are guaranteed for one. If there are more than two households in the household, one of them will be selected as the Fubing. The government will provide subsidies and tax relief. Each prefecture set up a Zhechong prefecture, set up a school lieutenant, and received intensive training during the slack season. This can strengthen the feudal prefecture’s rule over the countryside and maintain law and order; establish military reserves and save a lot of training costs and time.”

Gao Yihuan nodded. He didn't have any opinions on the five laws and three policies, but his own thinking was definitely not comprehensive enough, so he said with a smile: "Scholar Li has finished talking about the cabinet's new policies, and now we discuss each one, everyone. If you have any opinions, you can speak freely."

The officials sitting behind several chief officials began to discuss in a low voice, and some people stood up one after another, raised objections or added some strategies.

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