Chapter 71 If you give it a different color, it will be easy to swing. If you give it a true color, you will get benefits
Good rain knows the season, and spring will happen.
In the early morning of the next day, there was a continuous light rain, and the spring rain was as precious as oil. This spring rain came in time, which allowed the people to water less once, saving effort and disputes over water.
Inspecting the borders and inspecting Dingjian, the supervisory power was re-extended to the core of the Shanxi Party, Xuanfu and Datong towns.
The court meeting has begun. The young emperor is listening to politics and reading on the platform, while the courtiers are noisy below.
The King of Siam, Hua Zhao, sent a barbarian envoy to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty. The barbarian envoy said that the original seal was correct, but it was burned because the Dongniu Kingdom conquered the city. He asked for a replacement. Lu Shusheng, the Minister of Rites Please make up for it.
An envoy from North Korea came to express his gratitude, and the Ministry of Rites requested a banquet.
A censor from the Imperial Procuratorate asked Wang Shouren to offer sacrifices to the Confucius Temple. Wang Xijue refuted it. It was not that Wang Shouren was not good at learning. To be precise, it was because there were many scholar-bureaucrats who combined the knowledge and actions of their heart studies into their conscience. This concept of the unity of knowledge and action The major premise has been lost, leaving only conscience.
In this way, Wang Shouren's philosophy of mind seems to be that as long as he has a conscience, everything can be successful. If Wang Shouren is worshiped again, he may cause harm to the world's people.
After a short debate, Wang Xijue won a great victory in the debate. Knowledge is the beginning of action, and action is the completion of knowledge. Cognition and practice are complementary to each other. The unity of knowledge and action can lead to conscience, and only the conscience is left. , as long as you think about it, it can come true. Doesn’t this become heresy like Zoroastrianism and Nestorianism?
If they want to bring Wang Shouren to the Confucius Temple, Confucian scholars cannot only talk about the cultivation of conscience, but must also talk about the unity of knowledge and action and practice, rather than high-minded talk and high-mindedness but low-handedness.
The courtiers suddenly started to make a noise. Zhu Yijun raised his head and looked at Wang Guoguang, the Minister of Household Affairs who had caused the debate in the court.
Wang Guoguang said quite solemnly: "If you give the sergeant rations and salary, it is easy to squander it, but if you give it to the true color, you can get benefits. When calculating the redundant expenses of the nine towns, it was discovered that the rations, pay, and fat coat are not good enough. The silver does not fall into the hands of the sergeants, but is given in kind. The sergeants can get a bit of benefit."
"The entire Jiubian, except for the three towns of Jizhou, Yongping and Shanhaiguan, can be given half pay. , in the other six towns, the sergeants can’t even get half of their pay.”
Wang Guangguang is destroying people and money.
Distributing physical objects may also be misappropriated by others, but if these physical objects are discounted, they must be sold, which requires manpower and material resources to sell. The more people involved, the greater the possibility that the matter will be exposed.
Once military items are released on the market in a certain place, the supervisory censors in various places can still monitor one or two things. The error correction mechanism of the Ming Dynasty can still play some role, but when money is issued, there is no need to take action. , as the silver flows from the court to the soldiers, it will be stripped layer by layer. When it reaches the hands of the sergeants, there will still be some silver left.
“Silver is expensive, valley is cheap, and silver is cheap, valley is expensive. This completely conflicting phenomenon occurs frequently in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and on the border.” Wang Guoguang said quite accurately: “Most of the soldiers on the border are soldiers. , there are very few farmers, and when there is less food, more food is consumed. When there is more money, food becomes more and more expensive, causing silver to be cheap and grain to be expensive.” There is more food, but less silver, and the food is getting cheaper. In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, silver is expensive and grain is cheap. "
"The border defenses are uneasy, and the people are uneasy."
"It's still too troublesome to say this. I drew a picture myself, and everyone will know it at a glance."
According to the idea, the court collected silver taels from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and then the court distributed the silver taels to the border officials in the form of military pay. , merchants transported grain from the hinterland to the border, traded for silver, and then brought the silver back to the hinterland.
In terms of system design, this is a complete internal cycle.
But in implementation, many problems occurred.
The imperial court collected money from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in another terrible institutional corruption-Huo Liao.
What the imperial court wanted was gold and silver, which had fewer impurities. Most of what the people could collect was variegated silver, which had more impurities. When people pay taxes with variegated silver, they have to pay an extra part of the fire consumption tax. The fire consumption tax depends entirely on the local tax collector. It should be one to two cents per tael (1% to 2%). Two dollars or more. (10% to 20%).
And the imperial court sent military pay to the border areas, and the gold and silver were sent from the imperial court to the border areas, and turned into variegated silver. The variegated silver was just fine, and it was fine if it could reach the hands of the sergeants, but Often, because of the inability to supervise, it is extremely difficult for sergeants to get even half pay, let alone full pay.
Qi Jiguang commanded three towns, and all he could guarantee was that the Zhejiang soldiers who followed him to the north would receive full pay. As for the original guard sergeants, Qi Jiguang could allow them to receive half pay, which was already Qi Jiguang's knife is sharp.
Businessmen transporting grain from the hinterland to the frontier suffer huge losses, but the price difference cannot make up for the losses along the way, so merchants are too lazy to transport grain.
Merchants will not take their money back to the hinterland. Instead, they will buy goods from the nearest border and transport them back to the hinterland to earn the price difference.
This leads to more and more silver in the border areas, soaring food prices, making silver cheap and grain expensive;
In the hinterland, due to the high concentration of wealth, silver is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the people have to pay taxes. , it is necessary to exchange grain for silver, which makes silver expensive and grain cheap.
The inner loop design of the Nayin Kaizhong method seems to be logically self-consistent and successful, but during the execution process, it was extremely failed.
The Ming Dynasty originally had an effective plan to use internal circulation to solve the problem of grain and grass in the border areas, which was the method of collecting salt and opening up the middle, that is, salt introduction.
Businessmen must lure salt from the border and bring it back to the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty in order to obtain salt and make profits.
For merchants to obtain salt, they must transport grain to the border, or to the border merchant villages. The merchants hired hard laborers to farm on the border, and then put them into warehouses on the spot in exchange for salt. On the border of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers were given in kind as military pay, such as rice, beams, salt, oil, coats, etc., and there would also be encroachment, but the difficulty was much more troublesome than embezzling money.
This method of collecting salt was completely destroyed. During the Hongzhi period of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, Ye Qi was the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and changed the old system to: merchants exchanged silver for rice and paid the silver. Yu Yunsi, if the silver is delivered to Taicang, it can be exchanged for salt. This method of salt introduction in Shangtun was completely destroyed in one fell swoop.
Taicang has more money, but the border is restless.
The salt introduction method has been completely corrupted, and now, Wang Guoguang just wants to let the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have food, not enough food, so he has started a round of historical reversal, and the military pay will not be given to silver, but to real thing.
This is not Wang Guoguang's initiative. There is a sentence in Hai Rui's "Public Security Shu": Restoring the true nature of salt cultivation to enrich border reserves would set the stage for reversing history. Border forces should restore the method of cultivating salt and accumulating more grain to enrich the country. Border.
“I remind you that if the soldiers don’t have enough to eat, they will mutiny at Xiaoying.” After listening to Wang Guoguang’s statement, Zhang Juzheng spoke up to support Wang Guoguang.
Once the money is no longer exchanged for silver, but is replaced by the previous physical food payment, it will cause the border areas to have to farm. The court does not have so much food, so it has to rely on local border towns for farming.
"It would be more appropriate to discuss this matter in the longer term. This amount of silver has been from the Hongzhi period to today. If it is lightly touched, it will be unrest for the country." Wang Chonggu frowned.
Once Wang Guoguang's court proposal is passed, it means that the court's supervisory power in the border areas will be extended from inspecting the construction of the Great Wall to supervising food and wages. This is an extension of the supervisory power.
Working together will lead to mutual benefit. Once the imperial court has the power to supervise the food and wages of the border areas, the military generals from all over the country will not be willing to work with the Ming Gong of the Jin Party to work together to do evil. If Wang Chonggu can agree, then Strange.
Tan Lun, Minister of the Ministry of War, immediately said: "Do you want to ask Qi Shuai? Qi Shuai controls the three towns of Jizhou, Yongping and Shanhai, which is one more town than Xuanfu and Datong. Let’s see if Qi Shuai agrees with this matter.”
“They are all border generals. If Qian’anbo is willing, why would the two towns of Xuanda oppose it?” Yuan Fu promised, can Qi Shuai refuse? "Wang Chonggu said very dissatisfied, it was Zhang Party's people who were supervising! Of course Qi Jiguang would agree, and it would not affect Qi Jiguang's continued drinking of soldiers' blood at all!
Wang Chonggu firmly believes that Qi Jiguang is the same person as them, and everyone is drinking the blood of soldiers!
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "Governor Wang must be careful, Qi Shuai returned the badge of the Quanchu Guild Hall to me outside Xuanwu Gate. This matter has spread throughout the capital. No one knows about it. Everyone knows about it." I, Zhang Juzheng, am unpopular, and even Qi Shuai is not willing to continue to work with me. I am in the same league."
"Governor Wang, Qi Shuai is now Qian'an Bo and Wu Xun. I am a civil servant and it is not easy to be with one. Wu Xun is too involved.”
After Zhang Juzheng said this, he looked at Wang Chonggu with a smile on his face. He dared to cut off the side generals. Qi Jiguang dared to return his waist card to Zhang Juzheng. If the guild hall's waist card is returned to the guild hall, Datong general of Xuanfu, dare not show filial piety? Do Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei dare to cut off from the generals?
Zhang Juzheng was scolding people, and his civil servants were no longer involved with the military commanders. Wang Chonggu was also a civil servant, and he was deeply involved with the military commanders. Zhang Juzheng scolded Wang Chonggu, who couldn't even stop talking.
"Recently, there have been many discussions on changing the basics and colors of various items of money and food in order to save convenience. However, the original intention of the ancestors' legislation was not inconvenient for the people. Now it is only appropriate to correct the shortcomings and make up for the shortcomings. This matter has been decided. Come on." Yang Bo suddenly expressed his opinion on Wang Guoguang's proposal. He agreed to the local exchange of silver for physical goods, which meant that he agreed to the court's supervisory power and further extended it to the local areas.
Yang Bo's statement seemed extremely sudden, Wang Guangguang was a little surprised, Wang Chonggu frowned, and the knot on Ge Shouli's forehead spread out.
This is the benefit Zhang Juzheng gained yesterday. He will not pursue the ten generals excessively. Yang Bo agreed to the extension of the Ming court's supervisory power.
Yang Bo had to agree even if he didn't agree. Ma Gui, Ma Jin and others were held accountable by Zhang Juzheng. If they refused to let go and Zhang Juzheng continued to pursue them, the Jin Party would definitely suffer greater losses.
Yang Bo knows Zhang Juzheng’s character very well. When he is still willing to discuss, it is best to agree. In this way, hello to you, hello to me, and hello to everyone.
If Zhang Juzheng refuses to agree, he will definitely do it.
"That's it?" Zhang Juzheng looked at Wang Chonggu and asked Wang Chonggu's opinion.
Wang Chonggu thought about it again and again, and then said reluctantly: "That's it."
Zhang Juzheng suddenly stood up, bowed his head to the little emperor on the platform and said : "Your Majesty, I have this memorial."
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Zhu Yijun stopped writing, does he have anything to do with himself?
He is just a ten-year-old, sunny and cheerful child.
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