Good rain knows the season, when spring is here.
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, allowing the people to irrigate once less, saving effort and disputes over water.
Inspecting border areas and reviewing Dingjian construction re-extended supervisory responsibilities to the core of the Shanxi Party, Xuanfu and Datong towns.
The court meeting has begun. The young emperor is listening to the government and reading on the platform, while the courtiers are noisy below.
King Hua of Siam recruited the Song Dynasty and sent a barbarian envoy to pay tribute to Fangwu (local specialties). 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, requested an order to make a replacement.
An envoy from North Korea came to express his gratitude, and the Ministry of Rites requested a banquet.
A censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate asked Wang Shouren to offer sacrifices to Confucius Temple. Wang Xijue refuted it. It was not that Wang Shouren was not good at learning. To be precise, it was because many scholar-bureaucrats had lost sight of the premise of integrating knowledge and action with conscience. Only conscience is left.
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. The only thing left is to lead to conscience. As long as you think about it, you can achieve it. Doesn’t this become heresy like Zoroastrianism and Nestorianism?
If they want to carry 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 quarrel, and Zhu Yijun raised his head and looked at Wang Guoguang, the minister of household affairs who had caused the controversy in the court.
Wang Guoguang said quite solemnly: "If you give a sergeant's rations and salary, it is easy to lose money, but if you give them a true color, you can get benefits. When calculating the redundant expenses of the nine towns, it was found that the rations, wages, and fat coats were given to silver, which did not fall into the hands of the sergeant." Instead, they are given in kind, and the sergeants can get some benefits."
"In the entire Jiubian, except for the three towns of Jizhou, Yongping, and Shanhaiguan, they can get half pay. In the remaining six towns, sergeants can't get half pay."
Wang Guoguang 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, and the sale 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, and the Ming Dynasty's error correction mechanism can still play some role, but when issuing money, there is no need to take action. The money flows from the court to the In the process of becoming a soldier, it will be peeled off layer by layer, and in the hands of the sergeant, 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 and borders of the Ming Dynasty." Wang Guangguang said quite accurately: "There are mostly soldiers in the border areas, and there are very few farmers. , when there is less food, more food is consumed, and when there is more money, food becomes more and more expensive, causing silver to be cheap and grain to be expensive."
"But in the hinterland, due to the implementation of the One Whip Method, there are more farmers, more grain and less silver, and food is getting cheaper and cheaper. In the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, silver is precious and grain is cheap."
"The border defenses are insecure, and the people are insecure."
"It's still too troublesome to say this. I drew a picture myself so that everyone can understand it at a glance."
According to the idea, the court collected taels of silver from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and then the court distributed the silver taels to the border areas in the form of military pay. Merchants transported grain from the hinterland to the borders, traded in silver, and then brought the silver back to the hinterland.
In terms of system design, this is a complete internal cycle.
However, many problems arose during implementation.
The imperial court collected money from the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, resulting in another terrible institutional corruption-Huo Liao.
The imperial court wanted 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%).
The imperial court sent military pay to the border officials, and when the gold and silver were sent from the imperial court to the border officials, they turned into variegated silver. Variegated silver was just fine. It was fine if it could reach the hands of the sergeants, but often due to the inability to monitor it, it led to Not to mention full pay for a sergeant, even if it is half pay, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
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 sharp knife.
Merchants transporting grain from the hinterland to the frontiers 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 would not take their money back to the hinterland. Instead, they would buy goods from the nearby border and transport them back to the hinterland to earn the price difference.
This resulted in more and more silver on the border, 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. To pay taxes, people have to exchange grain for silver, which makes silver expensive and grain cheap.
This internal 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 grain and grass problems on the border, which was the method of collecting salt and opening up the middle, that is, salt introduction.
Merchants had to bring salt from the border back to the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty in order to obtain salt and make profits.
In order to obtain salt, merchants must transport grain to the border, or to the border trading villages. The merchants hired hard laborers to farm in 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 salt-receiving method 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 this: merchants exchanged silver for rice and paid the silver to the Transportation Bureau. The silver was delivered to Taicang and could be exchanged for it. When we arrived at Yanyin, the Shangtun Yanyin method was completely destroyed in one fell swoop.
Taicang has a lot of money, but the border is restless.
The salt introduction method has been completely corrupted, and now, Wang Guoguang just wants the Ming soldiers to have food, not enough food, so he has started a round of historical reversal, and the military pay will not be given in silver, but in kind.
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 was no longer exchanged for silver and replaced with the previous physical food payment, farming would have to be done on the border. The court did not have so much food, so it had 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 lasted from the Hongzhi period to today. If it is touched lightly, it will be unsafe 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 and verifying food and wages. This is an extension of the supervisory power.
If you work together, you will gain. Once the imperial court has the power to supervise the food and salary of the border areas, the military generals from all over the country will not be willing to work with the Jin party's Ming Gong. If they work together, they will blame each other. It would be strange if Wang Chonggu could agree.
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 is the same. Do you agree to this?"
"They are all border generals. If they are willing to move to Anbo, why would the two towns of Xuanda and Daxi oppose it?"
"Qi Shuai is Yuan Fu's sect. Yuan Fu agreed, how can Qi Shuai refuse?" Wang Chonggu said very dissatisfied. The people who were supervising were Zhang Party members! Of course Qi Jiguang would agree, and it would not affect Qi Jiguang's continued drinking of soldiers' blood at all!
Wang Chonggu firmly believed that Qi Jiguang was the same person as them, and everyone was 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 been 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 collaborating with me, I am in the same boat."
"Governor Wang, Commander Qi is now Qian'an Bo and Wu Xun. As a civil servant, I shouldn't get too involved with a Wu Xun."
After Zhang Juzheng finished speaking, he looked at Wang Chonggu with a smile on his face. He dared to cut off with the side generals. Qi Jiguang dared to return the waist card to Zhang Juzheng. The side general of Xuanfu Datong dared to return the waist card of the Quanjin Guild Hall to the guild hall. The Xuanfu Datong side general , dare not to show filial piety? Do Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei dare to cut off from the generals?
Zhang Juzheng was scolding people, but 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 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. Let this be settled." Yang Bo Suddenly he expressed his opinion on Wang Guoguang's proposal. He agreed to the local government's proposal to convert silver into physical goods, which meant that he agreed to the imperial court's supervisory power and further extended it to the local governments.
Yang Bo's statement seemed extremely sudden, Wang Guangguang was a little surprised, Wang Chonggu frowned, and the knot on Ge Shouli's forehead relaxed.
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.
Even if he refuses to agree, Zhang Juzheng 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 a script to start this memorial."
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Zhu Yijun stopped writing, did he have anything to do with him?
He is just a ten-year-old, sunny and cheerful kid.
