parentshiftbook Chapter 458: Kill The Big Fights In, The Small Fights Out, The Inspectorate Without Enough Manpower
Chapter 458: Kill The Big Fights In, The Small Fights Out, The Inspectorate Without Enough Manpower
Below, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still immersed in the shocking news that one pound of peanuts could squeeze out four or five taels of oil, couldn't help but come back to his senses when he heard Yan Changqing's words, and then thought about the re-evaluation of weights and measures that Yan Changqing just said.
In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang did not find the conversion between baht, liang, catty, jun, and stone to be very complicated, but now after listening to what Yan Changqing said, he felt that it made sense.
Compared with the degrees and quantities of the decimal system, the "measurement" that mixes the 24-base, hexadecimal, 30-base and 4-base systems together is really troublesome.
In addition, what Yan Changqing said before about big buckets coming in, small buckets coming out, and long rulers and short rulers also made him unhappy.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in a poor peasant family, knew very well what Yan Changqing said about big buckets coming in, small buckets coming out, and the long and short feet.
Although the order he issued may only be to collect a dou of temple tax.
After arriving at the place, the local officials also levied a tax of one bushel of land.
But when the people pay the land and acres tax, they may often have to pay the land and acres tax per dou per liter.
In some places, people even need to pay a tax of two liters per dou, or three liters per dou!
The reason is very simple, because the power used by local officials to collect land tax has become too big, or it can be said that it has been deliberately made bigger by those local officials!!
The bucket that originally could only hold one bucket became able to hold one bucket and one liter, or one bucket and two liters, or even one or three!!!
In this case, it is useless even if the people say that they weighed enough for a bucket at home.
Local officials will only say that the fights created by the common people are small fights, not the official standard "fight"!!!
Either the common people would add one, two, or even three liters to make up for the official "dou", or they would be arrested by the officials for evading land tax.
Faced with this situation, ordinary people have basically no other option except paying for food to make up for the official "struggle".
After the local officials collected a dou or a liter of grain, they might use a small dou that could be filled with a liter of water to pay the land tax to the government.
In this way, local officials can spend at least two liters, or even three or four liters of grain!!!
Because of this kind of big fights and small fights, Zhu Yuanzhang also killed many local officials in the past.
It can only be said that it curbed the local officials, but it did not really solve the problem.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at Yan Changqing and asked:
"The new weights and measures, Mr. Yan, are you ready?!!"
Yan Changqing nodded and replied:
"It has been made. I will send it to His Majesty later."
"If Your Majesty finds it useful, you can directly use the new weights and measures when inventorying and approving the number of acres of land in the world, and at the same time promote it to the whole world.
For new weights and measures, he could just copy them directly from the modern weights and measures of later generations as a template.
For him, a science student, it couldn't be easier.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly, and then asked:
"The problem of local officials turning over small amounts and collecting large amounts, how can we completely solve this problem?!.||!"
Yan Changqing answered directly without thinking:
"Use new weights and measures to inventory and verify the number of acres of land in the world, and at the same time inform all local officials in the world during this process."
"Starting from the second year after the inventory and verification of the number of acres of land in the world, land and acres tax will be collected and reported based on the new weights and measures."
"In the second year after the census and statistics of the land and acres in the world, the imperial court budgeted the land and acres tax that should be levied in various places based on the number of land and acres it had and the new weights and measures."
"If local officials collect all the acres of land that should be taxed locally."
"But if the land tax paid in the end is less than the land tax budgeted by the court, all officials related to it will be charged with corruption and their homes will be ransacked, removed from their posts, and taken down!"
“Similarly, in the process of inventorying and approving the number of acres of land in the world, new weights and measures were cast into iron statues and placed in every county in the world.
“Before the common people in the world pay taxes on their land and acres, they can first compare their grains on the iron statue weights and measures.
“If your own grain can fill the weights and measures on the iron statue, but cannot fill the weights and measures used by local officials to collect taxes on land and acres, then the local people can beat the officials who collect taxes to death without guilt!! !”
"This sentence can also be engraved on the iron weights and measures to warn local officials!!!"
“Finally, during the period when local officials were collecting land and acre taxes, the imperial court also randomly selected one-tenth of the local counties every year and dispatched the central censor and the royal guards in disguise to inspect.
"Once it is discovered that local officials are using big fights to collect taxes on people's land and acres, they can be captured on the spot and escorted back to Beijing for trial!!!"
"In addition, it also started with the year when the imperial court inventoried and counted the number of acres of land in the world [and ended in the following year when the imperial court collected taxes on the land in the world under Xinkangwei.
"This period of time is the time left for the people all over the world to change to the new weights and measures established by the imperial court.
"If you wait until the next year, the imperial court will use the new weights and measures as the standard to collect taxes on the land and acres of land in the world."
"There are still people who continue to use old weights and measures in the process of buying and selling, or even privately make non-standard weights and measures, so all of them will be taken down!!!"
"As for whether it's a confiscation of the property or a confiscation of a percentage of the property, this can be discussed later."
"You can even encourage people to take the initiative to report the continued use of old weights and measures, or the private use of non-standard weights and measures."
"Anyone who reports truthfully can receive rewards ranging from one to one hundred coins!!!"
"Of course, this reward will naturally come from people who use old weights and measures, or privately made non-standard weights and measures.
If this set of combos continues, Yan Changqing estimates that more than 95% of the big fights in the world, the small fights coming out, and the long and short rulers can be contained.
At least local officials should not dare to use big fights to get in and small fights to get out when collecting taxes on land and acres.
After all, there is a one-in-ten chance that the county where you are located will be recruited and send the central censor and royal guards to make secret visits and inspections.
Such a probability is not small. There are absolutely very few local officials who dare to bet on this probability.
Secondly, during the period of inventorying and verifying the number of acres of land in the world, new weights and measures were cast into iron statues and placed in every county in the world.
Let the people of the world judge the size of new weights and measures in addition to the weights and measures standards given by local magistrates and officials.
Similarly, it is also possible to directly use the iron statues of new weights and measures cast by the imperial court as the standard to judge the size of new weights and measures without going through the local magistrates.
This also avoids to a certain extent the possibility of local officials having two different opinions about what is what, and relying on information errors to cover up the local Miao surnames.
Thirdly, if the people find that local officials collect taxes on land and acres of land, they can be beaten to death without guilt.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang engraved this sentence on the iron statue of New Weights and Measures, it would be equivalent to giving the people an opportunity and confidence to say "no" reasonably.
At least local officials will have to think about whether they will be beaten to death by angry people if they continue to use the methods of big doujin and small douchu to exploit the people.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang said that beating him to death would be innocent in this situation!!!
With these three shackles on local officials, it can be said that local officials will either no longer play the trick of "big fight in, small fight out" [or they will risk their lives to play "big fight in, small fight out"]. trick of means.
Basically, most officials will have a sober and rational answer to whether it is worth risking their own lives to buy one or two liters or one or two buckets of grain for the sake of greedy ink.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, thought for a moment about the solution proposed by Yan Changqing, and couldn't help but nodded secretly.
Generally speaking, he is very satisfied with the solutions proposed by Yan Changqing.
A little bit of a fly in the ointment is:
"."Are we going to randomly select one-tenth of the local counties every year and send the central censor and the royal guards to inspect incognito?!!"
"If this continues, the number of censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be far from enough!!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Yan Changqing and smiled bitterly.
To collect taxes on land and acres, one-tenth of the local counties need to be randomly selected every year, and the central censor and Jin Yiwei will be dispatched to supervise incognito.
To levy commercial taxes, it is also necessary to randomly select one-tenth of the local counties every year and send the central censor and Jin Yiwei to review in private.
To count the number of newly added acres of land, it is also necessary to randomly select one-tenth of the local counties every year and send the central censor and Jin Yiwei to the incognito verification.
This emptied out his entire Inspectorate, and he couldn't find so many censors from the Inspectorate to send as central censors!!!
"With the profits brought by peanuts alone, there is no problem in raising another three thousand Ducha (Li Li Zhao) imperial censors."
"In addition to expanding the number of censors in the Inspectorate, as mentioned before, we will dispatch central censors and royal guards to review the collection of local commercial taxes."
"As well as the matter of sending the central censor and Jin Yiwei to incognito to verify the number of new acres of land in various counties in the world, and what was just mentioned about sending the central censor and Jin Yiwei incognito to supervise the collection of land and acres taxes."
"Between these three, you can actually dispatch them by mistake."
"For example, in the spring, you can send the central censor and the imperial guards to the private sector to verify the number of newly added acres of land in various counties around the world."
“In summer and autumn, you can send the central censor and royal guards to inspect the collection of taxes on land and acres in counties all over the world.
"In winter, the central censor and the royal guards can be sent to the private sector to review the commercial tax collection in all counties in the world."
"In this way, the same group of inspectors and censors can complete these three tasks."
"It's just that in this way, these inspectors and censors will be traveling back and forth outside all year round.
"So it is recommended that Your Majesty recruit more censors from the Inspectorate so that they can take turns and take a break."
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said calmly.
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