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    "It's not that I don't understand, it's just that I said it at the wrong time," Li Wei pointed out.

    "Anyway, this matter will definitely be recorded in the annals of history, so why not be honest?"

    "yes."

    He waved his hand and asked the ministers to sit down.  Then he rolled his eyes, called a eunuch, drew a picture on the paper with a pen, and said: "Your Majesty is busy with official duties. You can take the drawings of the couplet to the general and let the craftsmen make some furniture like this."  , to reduce the burden on the ministers."

    The thing is very simple, just a regular Taishi Zi.

    In the Tang Dynasty, ministers were allowed to sit down and talk to the emperor. In the Song Dynasty, ministers were allowed to stand and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they were allowed to kneel.  The imperial power is centralized, but if the ruler of a generation is fatuous, the country will immediately collapse.  The more concentrated the imperial power is, the easier it is for rulers to become foolish.  A vicious cycle is formed.

    A reasonable system should decentralize part of the imperial power to ministers.  But this dispersion is not dispersed to a certain minister, but to many ministers.  Forming a primitive pseudo-democratic lord.  Only by mutual agreement can we prevent the occurrence of some corruption.

    The appearance of a piece of Taishi Te is very simple, but because it sits high and comfortable, it represents countless meanings.

    Di Renjie said: "Your Majesty

    "Needless to say, a scholar will die for his confidant. Even though he is a ruler, even though it is a system, he must still learn to respect him. If the Union does not respect you, how can we make you do your duty and serve the country."

    "yes."

    This measure still moved many ministers.

    Li Wei then said: "I have thought about the matter of free warehouses repeatedly. It is not that there is no problem with the several large permanent warehouses, but because the amount is huge, some losses and corruption, it seems inconspicuous. If we really investigate, we can also find out  Fault. This cannot be eradicated because the salaries of low-level officials are too low to support their families.¡±

    This reminded him of the Song Dynasty.

    In the Song Dynasty, there was very little corruption among officials, and the atmosphere of scholar-bureaucrats was very strong.

    Although the battle between kings and si led to the formation of a very bad atmosphere in the Song Dynasty, the fighting and internal strife hurt the vitality of the Song Dynasty, but in their hearts they wanted the Song Dynasty to be good, but they did a very bad thing with good intentions.

    The reason for this phenomenon is that the salary is high.  The state spends almost 10 million yuan in wedding money every year as official salaries.  This does not include military commanders, nor does it include lower-level officials. Lower-level officials are responsible for their duties and are not paid by government officials and landlords.  Later generations said that the Song Dynasty had redundant officials. In fact, compared with the numerous civil servants later, how could the Song Dynasty be considered redundant?  It is redundant officials and high salaries that highlight this phenomenon.  After getting rid of the generals and low-level officials, Li Wei estimated that at most 20,000 to 30,000 officials would divide 10 million special funds.

    If an official is equally divided, his salary and various subsidies can reach 400 to 500 yuan a year. At the same time, the Song Dynasty was still relaxed about officials' business, and they had their own industries and fields. In fact, as long as they were not as liberal as Su Dongpo, they would be drunk now.  , hurriedly bought ten or twenty beautiful girls, came back to hang out, and started running the business again.  Even if an ordinary official has a second wife or a third wife, instead of ten, twenty, or one hundred, he will still be able to drive a BMW and live in a villa after two or three years.  If you know how to run a business, then you can be like Lu Mengzheng, who killed a thousand chickens for a bowl of chicken tongue soup a day.  Or like Song Qi, who lights up lanterns every night and drinks heavily with all kinds of beautiful girls in his arms.  Or like Kou Zhun, he would light hundreds of giant candles every night, entertain guests and make a great deal of noise.

    So the phenomenon of greed for ink is not serious.

    Does Li Wei dare to play like that?

    ¡°Officials cannot speak.  Yes, you can check it, but you have to eat after all, and you are forced by life. I checked it today and processed a batch. I will start riding again tomorrow.

    Li Wei sighed, there was a way to relieve it, but it was the last thing he wanted.  Said: "Let's set up a service."

    "What is official service?" Wei Yuanzhong asked curiously.

    ¡°Residents from various states and counties, common people landowners, and officials¡¯ children were responsible for part of their duties and formed low-level officials to serve the imperial court.¡±

    "Your Majesty, this is a good idea." The ministers immediately agreed.

    The Tang Dynasty originally had similar measures, and the Song Dynasty¡¯s service also evolved from previous dynasties: first, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials were not paid a penny because they all came from wealthy households and did not need this salary.  It's just that those poor officials were raped. Gao Yun was Zhongshu Ling and was so poor that he couldn't even raise his wife and children.  Tuoba Rui didn't believe it, and there was a sudden attack. He went to Gao Yun's house to check. There were several thatched houses, with only a few tattered linen beds on the beds. The kitchen was empty, except for two old green vegetables and a bag of salt.

    Tuoba Rui stood in his house in a daze for most of the day, and finally squeezed out one sentence: "Are the ancients so poor?" From then on, he did not dare to call him by his name, calling him his father-in-law.

    By the Tang Dynasty, things were a little better. A normal person could become a prime minister, and his annual income could be equivalent to that of a state-level cadre in the Song Dynasty.  In order to reduce the financial pressure on the country,A large number of low-level officials, such as Haozhe and Lizheng, were also borne by the wealthy households in the township.

    But it¡¯s not clear.  If these people are allowed to take on a large number of low-level officials, because their family background is good and they do not need to spend a small amount of money to support their families, the occurrence of corruption will be reduced.

    However, it only strengthened the advantages of the landlords and the wealthy class. Li Wei could not foresee the good or bad consequences of this.  Therefore, after hearing about it, I kept silent.  It is not a solution after all. Both the free warehouses and Changping warehouses still need to be promoted, but the Changping warehouses should be popularized and the free warehouses should be centralized.  It cannot be said that there is no warehousing in Jiangnan because there is a lot of food. There are also disasters and floods in Jiangnan!  Warehousing is required across the country just in case.  Chang Pingcang was promoted nationwide, free warehouses were reduced, and the number of low-level officials in management was reduced.  That's all that can be done.

    Make this

    After expressing his thoughts, he added: "Actually, some losses can be made up for. For example, making old grains to make wine and making rations for livestock. However, every time the method changes, there will be some tricks and plunders. Therefore, Young Supervisor Ximen said the word "fire consumption": "

    This is a more serious topic.

    "I know that it is far more serious than the charity warehouse, and it is not easy to deal with. However, if you sit back and ignore it, the situation will become more and more serious, and eventually it will corrupt and affect the country. We must issue an edict so that officials everywhere cannot force the people to use food to pay taxes, or use food to pay taxes.  Paying taxes with money, putting people first, how to change the country

    ?  We cannot put pressure on the people.  There are also gold and silver treasures. In order to cause fire damage, officials melt them. In order to greedy for a penny, they often cause a loss of two or three pennies. Why bother?  It is also necessary to issue an edict that when people pay taxes with gold and silver treasures, officials in various places must register them in a register, and the people should prepare stubs to supervise and control each other.  Those who commit crimes will be severely punished.  "

    The two improvement and prevention measures in the imperial edict cannot be accomplished completely if we want to completely eliminate corruption and all kinds of disguised corruption.

    There are still many things to do, such as the establishment of schools, the two-level imperial examination, the immigration of vacant land in Yunshuo, and some positive reforms in taxation, such as improving commercial taxation. The court is trying to control some industries to transfer taxes from farmers, but this cannot be done.  Even if we just take it, we should also adopt some tolerant policies for businessmen and carry out benign collection.  Also, although the guest tax system has been implemented for people from other places, which has loosened the closed policies of states and counties, increased population mobility, and prospered industry and commerce, the effect is not very significant, and the current tax types must be reformed.

    The effects of these innovations are good, but some will involve the interests of various landlords and powerful people.

    So he added: "The edict is issued to the Lu family in Fanyang, the Cui family in Qinghe and Boling, the Li family in Longxi and Zhaozhou, the Chayang Zheng family, and the Wang family in Taiyuan"

    After thinking about it, I added the most basic representatives of Wang surnames in the Tang Dynasty: Shandong Cui Lu Li Zheng Wang, overseas Chinese surname Wang Xie Yuan Xiao, Southeast Wu surname Zhu Zhang Gu Lu, Guanzhong Wei Pei Xi Xue Yang Du Dai Bei Yuan Chang Sun Yuwen Yu Lu Yuan  Dou, but there are far more than just these gatekeepers. There are as many as 400 nearby families listed in the Clan Chronicle revised by Zhenguan.  Some famous sects are comparable to the above-mentioned sects.

    So I simply listed all the top families one by one: "Le'an Yu family, Ren family, Bohai Gao family, Feng family, Diao Zhongshan Xing family, Gaoyang Xu family, Guangping You family, Cheng family, Qinghe Zhang family  , the Wei family in Julu, the Zhang family and Zu family in Fanyang, the Hou family and Kou family in Shanggu, the Guo family in Taiyuan, the Sima family in Hanoi, the Pei family, Xue family, and Bang family in Hedong and Guanzhong, the Wei family and the Du family in Jingzhao,  The Su family of Wugong, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Huangfu family, the Hu family, and the Liang family of Anzao, the Niu family of Longxi, the Zhao family, the Quan family, and the Shangguan family of Tianshui, the Yin family of Wuwei, and the Suo family of Dunhuang. Overseas Chinese surnames are closely related to Jiang Duzhong  The Wang family, Yan family, Zhuge family, Chenjun Xie family, Jiyang Jiang family, Cai family, Lanling Xiao family, Donghai Xu family, Runan Zhou family, Yuan family, Yin family, Chenliu Ruan family, Ying" Chen family  , the Gou family, the Geng family, the Zhong family, the Taiyang family, the Meng family in Pingchang, the Liu family and the Dao family in Zhangcheng, the Huan family in Zhangcheng, the Le family in Nanyang, the He family in Lujiang, the Zhu, Gu, Zhang, and Lu families in Wujun,  Ji family and Gan family in Danyang, Yu, Xie, and Yin families in Kuaiji, Shen, Qian, and Qiu families in Wu Xing, Tao family in Shiyang, and Xiong family in Yuzhang.  There are also Daibeiyuan, Changchun, Yuwen, Yu, Lu, Yuan, Huan, Henan Junmu, Qiu, Zhu, Gu, Shan, Dugu, Helan, Murong, Houmochen, Taiyuan Yuchi, Bohai Helianwanqian  , Ying, Doulu, Chongzhou Jiesi, Lanling Wanqi, Yongzhou Fumeng, Tongzhou Dang, Lei, Wuwei An, Shi.  Let each of their families send a person who can speak on behalf of their family and that room to come to Xijing and interview with the couplet.  "

    It is a rare opportunity to put things right and implement some changes.  Otherwise, there will be greater resistance in the future.

    But it is necessary to negotiate with these gatekeepers. Without their help, any changes will become empty words.

    Looking through the history books, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the founding of the Tang Dynasty, almost 80 of the elites and prime ministers of each dynasty and the common people came from these ranks.

    Actually, there are still some, but the impact is relatively small, so I didn¡¯t invite them.

    Cen Changqian asked worriedly: "Your Majesty, are you ordering these people toGoing to Xijing is?  "

    "Qing Cen, I know that I am only getting rid of some unnecessary disadvantages and will not act hastily. Otherwise, it will shock the world and may not be beneficial to the country and the people. For example, if the land is divided into taxes, it will solve some of the inequality between the rich and the poor and the inability to pay taxes.  The phenomenon of equalization can alleviate the pressure on the country and benefit the people. However, in a few decades, the country¡¯s cultivated land will be reduced by half, Cen Qing, do you believe it or not?¡±

    It¡¯s not that ordinary people stopped farming, but that big families concealed their acres of land.

    If there is no other way out, the pressure of taxation will eventually fall on ordinary people.  The poor get poorer and the rich get richer:

    "Look at these prime ministers, half of them come from first- or second-class families, and half, including Di Renjie, are from official families.  If you look at the origins of several prime ministers, you will know how difficult it will be to solve the gap between rich and poor.

    He waved and said to Qiu Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong: "Second Qing, please go to the East Palace with me:"

    "Here."

    When he came to the East Palace and asked them to sit down, Li Wei asked, "What do you think of Confucianism?"

    "What do you mean, Your Majesty?" Di Renjie asked doubtfully.

    "What would happen if I started a miscellaneous study?"

    Both Di Renjie and Wei Yuanzhong understood what Li Wei meant.  In the early Tang Dynasty, miscellaneous studies were not very objectionable, and some even took the examination of miscellaneous studies during the imperial examination.  But the status is very low.  However, the emperor seems to be very cautious about miscellaneous studies, and the book "Gewu" is dedicated to miscellaneous studies.  Many people are already passing it around to watch.

    But Di Renjie shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, it is knowledge, and it is all good. However, Confucianism cannot be belittled. It is the thought and bond that unifies the country. Once severed, the country will not be a country. Your Majesty, please think again. Including Buddha  Tao not only praises the good and denounces the evil, but also gives the people sustenance and hope. Therefore, the emperors of the past dynasties also took a fancy to this point when they promoted Buddhism and Taoism. The country must also focus on Confucianism and Buddhism and Taoism as a supplement. Buddhism and Taoism cannot be allowed to  It is the most reasonable structure that affects the country's production and is above Confucianism. As for miscellaneous studies, it can be spread, but it cannot be based on these three subjects."

    ?? Confucianism must be the mainstream, otherwise if science is revived, the country will be in chaos without the support of Confucian monarchs and ministers.

    The words are short and the meaning is short, and hit the nail on the head!
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