Chapter 300: Riots in the Martial Arts Hall

There was silence in the Huagai Hall.

On the golden bricks in the main hall, the whole hall was filled with crimson princes and uncles, and everyone's face was flushed.

Anyone can hear the teasing tone in the emperor's words.

In the Ming Dynasty, with potentially high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, people would naturally be able to have enough to eat, and everyone could earn more.

For most people in the hall at this moment, this is a good thing.

A few people are even thinking that feeding the people is something that has never happened in the Central Plains since ancient times, and the remaining surplus will naturally be collected by themselves.

The meritorious military generals hope to use the wounded to serve as local grain chiefs, which will increase the military's voice and power in the court, and will also help them seize the interests that were originally controlled by the local gentry group.

The civil servants hope to be in a high position, to control the system of tax collectors and grain chiefs from the top of the court, and to participate in the division of interests.

Common people?

With the availability of sweet potatoes, a crop that may fill people's stomachs, just let them fill their stomachs.

The people can follow it, but they cannot know it.

If the people can still have more surplus after having enough food, then what role do the court and the government play?

What else can they, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, do?

On behalf of the emperor and the herdsmen, if the people have needs, then the officials will be useful.

If the people really had no worries about food and clothing, what else would the Ming Dynasty need them for?

On the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his ministers with a smile in his eyes.

A hehe sound came from the emperor's mouth.

"Your Majesty, please be diligent. Nowadays, the state affairs are heavy. We have selected the meritorious soldiers from the Southern Expedition to serve as local grain ministers in Zhili. This will be supervised by Tai Sun. The Fusi of Jinyiweinan Town and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will jointly supervise. The Ministry of Household Verification will verify the amount of local taxes paid every year.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs will co-operate with local governments and counties, and the Ministry of War will co-operate with the work of tax collectors. An official office for the supervision of tax collectors from all over the world will be built in front of Wuying Palace."

As soon as these words came out, the officials in the palace were suddenly stunned.

Who could have expected that the emperor would directly take the matter of tax collectors in the world and set up an official office in front of Wuying Palace.

As a result, whether it is the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Personnel, the Inspectorate, or the Ministry of War, they only have the power to assist, but not to take the lead.

And by letting Taisun personally supervise this matter, it is obvious that the emperor wants to give Taisun another job.

Looking back, the imperial court unexpectedly came out with a decree to give the grandson the authority to supervise the affairs of the tax collectors in the world.

This is an additional yamen built on top of the court hall of the Ming Dynasty.

The ministers sit on wax.

The benefits they originally fought for will obviously be greatly reduced after the emperor's words.

But at this moment, the emperor on the throne did not allow them to have the courage and guts to express any opposition.

Zhu Yunxi, who was standing on the steps, was surprised.

His ultimate goal was to make the tax office independent of the court step by step. However, he did not expect that the old man would directly facilitate this matter.

Involuntarily, Zhu Yunxi silently raised his head and looked at the old man above.

A large part of the reason why the Ming Dynasty finally declined was that the court could not collect taxes. There was a lot of land in the world, but there was very little land that could be taxed. In addition, during the summer and autumn taxes and various additional taxes,

In the process, the imperial court exploited people from top to bottom, and eventually the money and food that could fall into the large warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue became less and less.

In this world, people cannot survive without money.

If the court has no money, the world will be in chaos.

People eat horse chews, food pays soldiers, government expenditures, and relief reserves all need to be supported by taxes.

It is controlled and relatively independent, and has a tax office that collects taxes powerfully. As long as the king can ensure that the tax office is relatively clean and subject to certain supervision, the source of Ming's tax revenue will be sufficient.

In this process, as long as it is ensured that the tax office will not breed corruption on a large scale and will not deceive the king and exploit local areas on a large scale, it will be far more effective than continuing to implement the existing cumbersome, complicated and lengthy tax collection system.

And this is the real reason why the officials in the court are silent at this moment.

For officials, they want to make things more complicated.

From Yingtian Chaotang to local prefectures and counties, only when the process of things becomes extremely complicated and the procedures become numerous, can they ensure that they have enough means to intervene, and then among these numerous processes, find the most beneficial way for them to obtain

Points of interest.

Now the new tax collector and tax bureau system has directly simplified the originally complicated tax collection process to the point where local tax collectors and grain directors are dispatched to directly interface with the Yingtian tax bureau.

The procedures are simple and the responsibilities are clear.

If you want to seek benefits from it, it becomes extremely complicated and difficult.

Many officials couldn't help but think of the idea of ​​dividing the land into an equal share and integrating officials and gentry, which is currently being promoted with great fanfare.

Once the land tax for the entire Ming Dynasty is determined, tax collectors from the tax office will only need to collect taxes door-to-door according to the roster.

If there is a disaster, you only need to reduce or reduce the corresponding part of the tax in accordance with the imperial government's relief decree.

Yu Xin, the left servant of the Ministry of Finance, who originally didn't pay much attention to the ministry, suddenly felt that he might really become a useless person.

Zhan Hui, the civil servant's chief official, was in a dilemma for a while.

He knew the thoughts of his colleagues, but he would never disobey His Majesty the Emperor's will.

After thinking about it for a while.

Zhan Hui finally stood up: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to decide on the decision to move the people from Zhili to the south to Jiaozhi."

Zhu Yuanzhang silently looked at the person in front of him, who had been the official minister for many years, and smiled slightly: "The matter of relocating the people to enrich Jiaozhi will be entrusted to Taisun."

Zhan Hui thought for a moment and nodded silently: "I think that in the matter of tax collectors at the tax office, your majesty has a kind heart and benefits the people, so this is feasible."

Tianguan Shangshu has already nodded in agreement with the emperor's decision.

The remaining officials had no choice but to voice their support at this time.

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More than half a month.

Quietly, in front of the Wuying Hall of the Yingtian City Palace, not far from the duty room of the Sixth Section, the official office of supervising the tax collectors' office of the world began to handle the tax collectors' grain of Yingtian Mansion and surrounding counties without making much of a fuss.

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At the same time, the imperial court also officially issued a decree to move the Zhili people south to Jiaozhi, so as to increase the number of Ming people in the newly conquered areas and stabilize the newly conquered areas for the Ming Dynasty.

The first batch.

There were no less than thousands of households and more than ten thousand people in total. The government gathered them at Longwan Pier on the Yangtze River outside Yingtian City. They boarded a hundred-meter-long giant ship and set sail south to Jiaozhi.

In general, it is destined to thrive in Jiaozhi and have descendants in this life.

But no one would pay attention to the fact that among the thousands of relocated households, there are about a hundred or so households that belong to the small gentry and merchant group in Yingtian City that spread the rumors.

After all, compared to the entire Yingtian Prefecture and Zhili, which have to move no less than 100,000 households to Jiaozhi Road, these hundred or so households are nothing.

But only these 100 or so families knew clearly that this was the punishment imposed by the imperial court on themselves and others for spreading rumors in the city because the emperor's grandson offered crop bounties and they were dissatisfied for a long time with the sharing of land.<

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If not, why is it that the neighbor next door to the courtyard, which also has a lot of fertile land, and was dissatisfied after the start of allotment, was not included in the relocation list?

But no matter how frightened and regretful these people were.

No one inside or outside Yingtian City will care about them anymore.

Because.

Now Ying Tianfu is vigorously carrying out the reform of the tax collector and grain chief system in accordance with the requirements of the Ming Dynasty Taxation Office.

"Bang bang bang."

When a dewy morning arrives, the first ray of cold sunshine shines on the rural land of Yingtian Mansion. In Liuhe County, north of Yingtian City, at the foot of Guabu Mountain by the Yangtze River, in front of a house located in a fertile land

, there was a burst of intensive knocking on the door.

The house here is located not far from the foot of Guabu Mountain, covering an area of ​​dozens of acres, creating a garden with both Suyang style and Huizhou simplicity.

But it is in sharp contrast to the low-rise villages not far away.

The knock on the door did not first call the people in the house, but instead caused the sound of dogs barking in the village not far away.

In the distant fields, several artificial crop men quietly raised their heads.

When I saw the door of Mr. Huang's house, I don't know when a large number of officials wearing Pixiu uniforms and wild goose feather knives appeared on their waists. Together with a small group of Jin Yiwei wearing flying fish uniforms and embroidered spring knives.

After seeing the person knocking on the door of Mr. Huang's house, the farmers in the fields immediately retreated into the fields, but in the end they still timidly but curiously raised their heads from time to time, looking at Mr. Huang's house expectantly.

Tian Mai watched as the concierge of the Huang family did not respond for a long time, and couldn't help but frown.

The tax collector next to me, Pixiu, looked murderous: "Sir, do you want to knock on the door?"

Tian Mai immediately turned his head and glanced at the tax collector lightly.

"The tax office is the land of the country, the state, and the country. It is the place where the world's taxation and financial resources are related. It must not be treated lightly or overbearingly."

After giving the warning, Tian Mai quietly stared at the door that had not been opened for a long time.

"Be merciful and restrained when dealing with people who have not violated the Ming Dynasty's laws, and continue to knock on the door."

The tax collectors wearing Pixiu uniforms and holding knives in their hands could only shake their heads helplessly.

"Bang bang bang."

"Tax Department."
To be continued...