"Hit a stick and give a sugar date, this is the way of the emperor. I know that this tax reform is so awesome that it will drive people crazy. There must always be a bowl of mild soup to make these people calm and honest. Silver is this bowl of soup."
Zhu Gaojie said slowly, "It has been heard from time to time that officials are corrupt, so I gave this name specifically to encourage them to be honest officials as the name suggests. Knowing that the minister's salary is not enough, he decided to raise honest and honest silver from both China and foreign countries. It is useless to reward the treasures from above every year." According to the local wealth and the official's political performance, a certain amount of money for raising integrity is distributed, and the number of money for raising money is from 50 times to 100 times the salary.
"For example, Lu Chaoyang, as the second-grade tax inspector, his salary is equivalent to 440 taels. In view of his important political achievements, more than 40,000 taels of integrity-supporting silver should be paid by the end of the year."
Yao Guangxiao touched the monk's bald head and asked, "Did this money come from the treasury?"
"The money for raising integrity is considered as salary, and of course it comes from the treasury."
"The world is so big and there are countless officials like ants. Have you ever thought about whether the national treasury has enough money to distribute such a huge amount of money for raising integrity?"
"The national treasury has money, and it's not just ordinary money."
Zhu Gaojie tapped the handrail with his finger, "The taxes collected in the first half of this year are enough to distribute this huge amount of money for raising integrity. The so-called silver for raising integrity is taken from officials and used for officials."
Yanglianyin came from Tian Wenjing, a minister of the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
During the ten years that Tian Wenjing governed Henan, he was praised by the world as having the best political achievements in the world.
This person was born in the Han army. Although the so-called Han troops were also Han people, they had already submitted to the Qing Dynasty when the Qing regime was still in the Northeast.
Therefore, even if these Han soldiers did not participate in the imperial examination, they had other ways to become officials. Tian Wenjing is one of them. He also started from a low-level official position. After working at the grassroots level for many years, he slowly climbed to the position of bachelor's degree student in the cabinet.
It was in this position that he became close to Prince Yong Yinzhen and became a retainer of Prince Yong. This Prince Yong was later named Emperor Yongzheng. Thanks to his good teamwork, Tian Wenjing's official career was at a rapid pace.
If you don't care about this man's character and position, just judging from his methods, he is indeed a great man of his generation.
"That's really... neat."
Yao Guangxiao held the Buddhist beads in his hand and was thinking about Zhu Gaojie's strategy.
He is extremely accomplished in the way of governing the country, so he can naturally understand the purpose of raising honest banks. To be honest, raising honest banks is not very clever, and it can even be called a bad chess in a bad way.
Human greed is like a snowball on a high mountain, which grows bigger and bigger until it becomes uncontrollable and explodes, triggering an avalanche. Raising honest money cannot satisfy people's greed, and it is meaningless except that it will lead to the country's economic collapse.
But if you combine Yanglianyin with the Tax Supervisory Academy, it becomes very subtle.
The turmoil caused by the Tax Supervision Institute is too great. If it cannot be controlled, it will be like embarking on the old path of the Hongwu Dynasty.
During the Hongwu Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had zero tolerance for corruption. He did more than Zhu Gaojie. Zhu Gaojie at least left a way for corrupt officials to survive, while Zhu Yuanzhang killed them all. The massacre did not bring a clean country, but a more chaotic country. Officials knew that being a corrupt official in the Hongwu Dynasty was very risky, but they still took the risk because if they were not corrupt, they would be dead.
In fact, the salary in the Ming Dynasty was not that low. It was no problem to support a family in Hukou with a year's salary, but for an official, it was far from enough to rely on salary alone. He managed servants, entertained guests, and curry favor with his superiors... who was not allowed to ask for money, Zheng Er The salary of a high-ranking official is just over 400 taels a year, and it is gone after just spending it casually. Is this possible without being greedy?
However, the emergence of Yanglianyin can make up for this shortcoming.
Officials of the second grade receive tens of thousands of taels in salary every year just from the money they receive. These tens of thousands of taels of money come from taxes that the local government could not collect before. Black taxes and white taxes are so intertwined that they all have to be collected.
In order to ensure that these taxes could be collected, Zhu Gaojie also had an unprecedented policy of establishing the Tax Supervision Institute. In addition, he also made sure that the Tax Supervision Institute itself would not be corrupted.
Everything was ridiculous when pulled out, but after being linked together by Zhu Gaojie, a very delicate state of peace was maintained.
The existence of the Taxation Yuan, Taxation Department, Tax Internal Affairs Department and Yanglianyin cannot guarantee that corruption in the Ming Dynasty will disappear, but it can suppress the phenomenon of corruption in the Ming Dynasty, reduce the occurrence of corrupt officials, and cultivate a huge number of honest people. Officials, ensure that officials can live a comfortable life without being corrupt.
The most important thing is that the country's fiscal revenue has increased astonishingly.
White tax and black tax, each tax is a huge astronomical figure.
In the previous tax collections of the Ming Dynasty, the actual amount collected was not even the tip of the iceberg, the figure was between 1% and 5%.
If it can reach 5%, it is enough to call it a prosperous era. The country is prosperous and the frontier army is strong.
And Zhu Gaojie unveiled the cloth, revealing the true appearance of the iceberg, which could reach 30% at least. How terrifying is this?
The income of the Ming Dynasty this year must be at least five times that of previous years!
"Seniority and human relations have been around for a long time. All human affairs are in the hazy mist. Hard steel is useless. Slow things down."
Zhu Gaojie sighed, "The same is true for the way of governing a country. Although a strong medicine can cure diseases, the country itself cannot bear the strong medicine. In the end, the life-saving medicine for treating diseases turns into arsenic for killing people. I am like this With one move, the young master thought I was in a hurry, but he didn't know that it was already extremely slow."
Yao Guangxiao said with emotion: "You are far better than me in running the country. It is really a magical method. None of the things you do are actually a panacea, and ordinary people can do it. The real difficulty is to combine everything." Connecting them together without leaving any hidden dangers, this clever political method taught me a lesson."
Having said this, the prime minister in black bowed and saluted.
Zhu Gaojie quickly supported the old monk's body and said, "Young Master, please don't try to hurt me. How can I bear your obeisance to me?"
"Let's talk about the matter, your words have really benefited me a lot today, and I can bear my respect."
Yao Guangxiao waved his hand and said in admiration, "It is said in Zuo Zhuan that in five hundred years there will be a king. His rise will be sudden, and his death will be sudden. First, there was Taizu who was steadfast and drove away the foreigners, and then there is your Majesty, with a The power of the earth swept across the world. I thought that the Ming Dynasty would have no successor, but I never thought that there would be a king like you who is better than Taizu and His Majesty. You really opened my eyes."
He had previously thought that Zhu Gaojie was too hasty and did things in a very stupid way as soon as he became the prince. But now it seems that the new prince was clearly prepared and had laid out a dragnet to control the world. Incorporated into it, watertight, every step is interconnected.
Zhu Gaojie smiled slightly and said: "Young Master, the matter is not over yet, let's continue and see?"
"Then let's take a look?"
"have a look."
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After a brief cooling down, Sun Futai, the prefect of Hangzhou, also calmed down.
He realized that these Tax Supervisory Department officials who came to collect taxes seemed to be no ordinary people, and the methods of doing business were something he had heard about before. However, Sunfutai had also come through the wind and waves, and he had never seen anything before, so he made up his mind. How to do.
Sun Futai said with a smile: "My lord, don't worry, I will pay the tax naturally."
The inspector of the Tax Supervision Department was stunned for a moment: "How come you suddenly become so sensible?"
"That's natural. I also understand your difficulty, sir. Only after collecting taxes can you comply with what I said above. We are all officials. I understand, but..."
Sun Futai said with a smile, "How to collect taxes? Don't you just say a word? The silver bricks in this cellar, just put in a sack, are your salary for a whole year. This cellar, I will I gave it to your lord. Isn’t it just for this little money that we become officials? You see, after you have been busy for a long time, all the money has to be handed over to the court. How can you put it in your own pocket? To be honest, we, the chief minister of Zhejiang, Sir, I can speak the truth, wouldn't it be nice to say a few kind words for you, Sir?"
He likes money, but he is not stupid.
The officials of the Tax Supervision Department in front of him were very aggressive, and it was obvious that the lake could not be overcome. Sun Futai's idea was to send these people away first and solve the problem. As long as he was still in the position of Hangzhou Magistrate, there were many ways to make money. .
Later, the Zhejiang chief envoy was moved out in order to put pressure on the other party and warn the other party that he had a backer behind him. They were also officials in Zhejiang, so they had to give him some face.
However, Sun Futai never expected that the inspector's face changed drastically when he heard this: "You fucking want me to die, fuck you, get out of here!"
He kicked Sun Futai to the ground and looked around in horror.
Sun Futai didn't understand the system of the Tax Supervision Department, but he, as an inspector, knew it.
From the Tax Supervisory Institute in central Beijing to the tax supervising departments of various provinces, there are officials from the "Tax Internal Affairs Department" in each department. The Internal Revenue Service hides its identity within the system of every tax supervision department. They appear to be ordinary tax supervision officials, but in fact their main task is to keep an eye on the officials within the tax supervision department to see who has been corrupted, and then report it to them. To your boss.
Tax officials who know the law and break the law will be punished with ten levels of punishment. This is no joke.
In the Ming Dynasty, ordinary officials who embezzled more than sixty taels were sentenced to death.
But if you embezzle more than sixty taels in the tax supervision department, the nine tribes will be punished directly.
There are more than sixty taels in this cellar! Just taking a silver brick and stuffing it into his pocket and being seen by the mysterious tax department official is enough to sentence him as an inspector to kill the nine tribes!
These nine tribes kill each other as if they were joking!
An official from the Taxation Department who was counting the silver bricks in the cellar inadvertently glanced at his own inspector, his eyes cold.
He really hoped that the Inspector would be a little bit greedy. As long as he caught his tail and sent this Fourth-level Inspector to prison, he would be promoted to three levels on the spot.
It's a pity that the inspector was not tempted by Sun Futai's offer.
Sun Futai was kicked so much that he almost vomited out his overnight meal, but the inspector was still angry. He waved his hand and said: "Here comes someone. He puts this beast named Sun in jail to await trial, and he wants me to collect the money. This is Do you want my nine clans to be wiped out in ashes?"
"Why are you using the chief envoy to pressure me? He's not from the same system. Our tax superintendent is afraid of him?"
"Listen to me. Work diligently today to check the illegal tax of this person named Sun. Tomorrow, go and check the chief envoy to see how much he has been corrupted!"
"You have to pay taxes honestly to my tax supervisor!"
