The horse administration of the Ming Dynasty has now been changed to a system in which the common people responsible for raising horses will give the horses they raise to Taipus Temple in exchange for silver, and Taipus Temple, the imperial government, will purchase the horses themselves.
In this way, people who raise horses can have the freedom to engage in other occupations, which will help improve productivity and also allow the government to increase tax revenue.
Therefore, Taipu Temple became a government office in the Ming Dynasty with its own small treasury.
However, before the early Wanli period, most of the money deposited in Taipu Temple over the years was not actually used to purchase war horses, but was instead used for other purposes.
Because before this, the Ming Dynasty's finances had been unable to make ends meet, so it was often necessary to use the horse price silver from Taipu Temple to supplement other uses.
But this also led to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's army. After all, war horses were still a very important strategic resource in this era.
Whether it is communications, sentry reconnaissance, or large-scale mobile operations in the plains, he is still inseparable.
Since the early Wanli period, because Zhu Yijun supported Zhang Juzheng in carrying out tax reforms, the national tax revenue has increased a lot, and the horse price silver in Taipus Temple has no longer been misappropriated.
However, after Zhu Yijun came to the throne, he frantically increased troops and built additional stations. Not to mention the increase of 80,000 troops in Jizhou, there was also an increase of 30,000 cavalry troops in Liaodong. Stations and garrison bases were also built in Korea and Japan. Now, Set up a military station in Myanmar.
As a result, the demand for war horses naturally increased sharply.
Although the horse price money from Taipu Temple no longer needs to be diverted to other departments, it cannot save money. This has led local officials to ask the court to continue to reduce the horse price money because the horse price burden is too heavy for the people who raise horses. It is also difficult for requests to be approved.
However, now that the imperial court has been plowing its courts in southern Myanmar, it has increased a lot of gold and silver income by collecting gold and silver in southern Myanmar. It can also reduce the price of horse silver and reduce the burden on the domestic people.
Therefore, now that Fu Laipeng, the young minister of Taipus Temple, said this with a smile, Xu Zhenming was in a happy mood.
Of course, because Zhu Yijun quickly approved many chapters overnight, the imperial edict for Fu Laipeng to be promoted to Shaoqing of Taipu Temple was quickly promulgated.
So now, Fu Laipeng changed into the red-robed official uniform of the fourth grade and came to serve in Taipu Temple.
Now that Shi Xing congratulated him on his promotion, Fu Laipeng hurriedly raised his hands and said, "Ashamed! Ashamed!"
With that said, Fu Laipeng took out two copies of the post and gave them to Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming: "Prepare a little wine for the day after tomorrow, and I'd like to invite you two to visit me and enjoy the honor."
"It will come naturally."
Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming replied.
As he spoke, Fu Laipeng raised his hands towards the Forbidden City and said, "It is indeed a great favor from the Emperor for me to be promoted to the position of Imperial Servant and Young Minister. It also shows that Your Majesty still trusts his ministers, so he is willing to issue such a favor. And I heard that the reward money is also approved." It shows that the emperor still believes that his ministers will continue to uphold the integrity of the country after using rewards and gold to support their integrity."
"The emperor's favor is of course a great favor, but it is harder to earn rewards. In addition, using profit to promote integrity is not the right way. In fact, most of the courtiers do not attach importance to profit, and most of them value virtue over profit, so even if there is no salary , with the scholar’s ambition to serve the country, he will also be loyal to His Majesty’s country.”
"What's more, whether it is generous rewards for hundreds of officials or exemption of taxes for the common people, they are all used for plundering money from foreign countries. If this continues, I don't know if the surrounding factions will hate me Huang Ming even more because of this."
Shi Xing expressed his opinion with a smile.
"There is no other way. Either we can't afford the military, reduce the number of troops, and use the saved national funds to relieve the plight of the people; or we can only suffer the injustice of the Fanyi."
"Anyway, as a minister of the Ming Dynasty, you can only care about the people of the Ming Dynasty. For other barbarians, let them respect or hate them!"
"Anyway, they didn't invade the Ming Dynasty when they couldn't fight in the past. This time, they invaded by themselves. There were even scholars from the country who participated, and they actually wanted to collude with the barbarians to destroy their own country!"
Xu Zhenming started talking at this time.
Shi Xing couldn't help but nod.
"However, Mr. Shi is right. This way of enriching the country and benefiting the people only requires the officials to work harder. Fortunately, Your Majesty knows that we have worked hard, so the rewards are generous."
Fu Laipeng said.
Shi Xingqiang smiled and said: "So your Majesty is wise!"
"Your Majesty is a sage, but it is a pity that because the country wants to be strong externally and prosperous internally, and does not use external benevolence and internal law as a strategy, Mr. Xiuwu and others will also be torn apart in the future."
Xu Zhenming sighed at this time.
Shi Xing and Fu Laipeng both nodded and couldn't help but sigh.
Li Sancai and others were indeed taken to the execution ground.
According to historical records, Li Sancai admired luxury and was good at making friends. During his tenure as governor of water transportation, he always held lavish banquets to entertain passing officials and gentry, so that many officials in the world became close to him.
Today, although Li Sancai has not yet reached the position of Governor of Water Transport, there are still many officials who have good relations with him.
So there are many people who sympathize with him.
But no matter how sympathetic Li Sancai was, he would still be torn apart by a car.
no way.
Political struggle is so cruel.
Especially now that restructuring is still the main theme of the Ming Empire, and the benefits brought by external expansion are not large enough, the struggle has become more intense.
"My lord, I am incompetent. I never thought that Shenwu County would be so unethical. He was not even allowed to speak the truth and actually framed me forcibly."
"The arrogance is as strong as Mount Tai!"
Li Sancai only sighed a few words before he was torn apart by a car, and after he sighed, he, Yang Cunren and others were torn apart by a car in the city.
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Because of the series of events that occurred during the burning of the palace, Shen Shixing and others were not forced to step down.
Therefore, the restructuring is still being implemented.
In fact, because Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers showed strong tactics in this incident, the ban on infant abandonment and foot binding was better implemented.
The local prefects and other officials did not dare to compromise, which curbed the phenomenon of a large number of abandoned babies and foot binding among the people.
"Foot binding is something left over from our ancestors, why do you want to ban it!"
The capital is Wuqing County.
Ning Wenfang, a very conservative student, cried and questioned the county magistrate Peng Yingshen because he asked him to remove his daughter's foot binding.
Peng Yingshen therefore asked: "When did our ancestors leave this bad habit? Empress Gao of this dynasty is the first ancestor of this dynasty's ancestral temple. Can she have foot binding? You are violating the custom of your ancestors by binding your feet!"
After saying that, Peng Yingshen said: "Either you carry out the order, or you wait to be dismissed from your position! And you will be excluded from the good households who are free of charge for horses and silver!"
Ning Wenfang could not refute, so she had to agree with tears.
The prefectures and counties in the capital have always had the heaviest burden of raising horses. Now that the imperial court is exempting horses from paying silver, the capital's prefectures will first exempt horses from paying silver.
Because the people in the various prefectures and counties in the capital have been exploited by the powerful elites in the capital and the collection of horse-priced silver, the situation of thieves in the capital has not been greatly improved.
Therefore, now that the imperial court has gained benefits from its external expansion, the first people to be troubled by Su Xiaomin are the people of Gyeonggi, so they decided to exempt horses from paying silver.
Wuqing County is one of the counties to be exempted.
It's just that since Zeng Shengwu established the tax-paying good household system, the Ministry of Household's requirement is to exempt good households from the horse price silver.
In order to make Ning Wenfang willing to let go of his wife and daughter, Peng Yingcan used this to force Ning Wenfang.
Ning Wenfang had no choice but to agree and received two pairs of full-length embroidered cotton shoes distributed by the county magistrate's office to encourage people to relax and respond to the court's call.
His wife, Yangshi, couldn't help crying with joy when she saw that her husband had agreed.
