.In terms of financial reform, it is completely different from those ruling in the past dynasties who are ashamed of making profits. In the high-profile view of justice and profit, the first time it was proposed that gathering people is called wealth, and managing money is called righteousness, and public benefit view. It requires officials at all levels to distinguish between public benefit and personal benefit. If it is to create wealth for the country, then profit is righteousness. If it is to create wealth for the country just for personal fame and not create wealth for the country, it is unrighteous.

Under the guidance of this kind of thought, Gao Gong believed that making money is a useful study by sages. "The eight politics of "Hong Fan" was the first of all food and goods; the three things in "Yu Tan" were finally prosperous. Therefore, financial management is the main task of the king's government!

This is not only a strong criticism of the non-utilitarianism of Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism, but its real purpose is to call on government officials at all levels to pay attention to practical knowledge in economic life and do practical work for the economic recovery and financial relief of the Longqing Dynasty.

So how do you do it specifically?

Unlike the rulers of all generations who think of making money, they take more money from the people. Gao Gong believes that if you want to make money, you cannot just rely on exploiting the surname to accumulate money, but should be the source of wealth, harmony, and saving money.

Let’s talk about saving money first. Gao Gong believes that there is “saving money and “saving money and making up”. The so-called “saving money” means that the court will only use it every year after the calculations are made. All unhelpful work, nameless rewards, and unintentional expenses are reduced. This not only reduces the burden on the people, but also uses these saved expenses to timely use disaster relief and military expenses.

As for the "savings" that has been raised by Gao Gong to the height of the country's major affairs, what method should be used to save and how should the country's annual income be distributed to be reasonable? Gao Gong proposed "three and one," that is, to divide annual income into four equally, consumption expenditure accounts for three quarters, and one-quarter of the savings are used for savings. In this way, a cumulative savings can reach three-quarters of the annual income for three years, and it is exactly more than one year's food.

By the same token, you can get a balance of three years of expenditure in nine years, so that even if one year is not successful, you can be prepared and not afraid of it even if you encounter a famine.

Then how should we "make the source of wealth? In addition to the traditional development of water conservancy, restricting mergers, and farming the people, Gao Gong also gave industry, commerce and finance an unprecedented positioning. Previously, "focusing on the foundation and suppressing the end has always been a basic economic policy pursued by all dynasties and generations, and has always been praised by rulers. Although there have been many calls for valuing business since Chenghua, it is Gao Gong who can truly stand in a ruling position and turn the view of valuing business and servicing business into a national practical economic policy. He believes that agriculture is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and it is appropriate to pay attention to it, but on the other hand, the development of industry and commerce cannot be ignored.

Of course, in Gao Gong's view, agriculture is the foundation of the country. As long as everyone has land, "everyone works hard, the country can have a steady stream of wealth. His commerce idea was born on his commerce idea. He saw the fundamental relationship between agriculture, that is, business has been an industry that has communicated with each other since ancient times. If agriculture has achieved a bumper harvest, but no merchant has put agricultural products into the market, then farmers will not gain benefits. "The year of prosperity is no different from the year of disaster: if it is a year of disaster, it can also be traded elsewhere through merchants, and farmers can use the profits of the year of prosperity to buy it. In this way, the relationship between agriculture and commerce is interdependent. While developing industry and commerce, it can further drive the development of agriculture.

How to develop industry and commerce, Gao Gong proposed that the first thing to do was to improve the status of merchants. He submitted a memorial to the emperor to eliminate his past problems, no longer make a clever name, add indiscriminate records, and exploit merchants at will. He would not secretly ask merchants for their expenses, nor would he make things difficult for merchants to oppress merchants. When it comes to trading with merchants, the court should estimate the price of goods at market prices, and he should not default on the payment of goods. Even if there is no silver in the treasury for a while, it should be moved from other places to protect the interests of merchants. He also issued an edict to investigate how officials and civilians of the previous dynasty would be able to make the case. The law was in place and the request was made.

Of course, the merchants Gao Gong refers to are actually small merchants and handicraftsmen. He did not give any evaluation of the big merchants and big factory owners in the southeast, nor did he issue any targeted policies.

The specific financial reform was led by Zhang Juzheng. In fact, since he took over the Ministry of Revenue in the late Jiajing year, he has been focusing on promoting it. It was just because his method was regarded as a rash and obstructed by the old ministers in power such as Xu Jie, Ge Shouli, and Zhao Zhenji, so he was struggling. However, over the years, he has made considerable progress in all aspects. At this moment, under the banner of Gao Gong's comprehensive reform, he was naturally able to tell it.

Zhang Juzheng's plan to change the draft is composed of three parts: reducing expenses, changing taxes, and changing currency.

Let’s talk about the first reduction of expenses. In addition to the unhelpful work, nameless rewards, and unintentional expenses that Gao Gong said, his starting point is to the vassal states, and "redundant officials, redundant officials, and the above.

The clan and vassals were one of the main reasons for the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty, and this was a consensus among the government and the opposition. In many densely populated areas such as Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, the money and food they earned every year were not even enough to pay the clan’s family’s Shilu. The clan’s vampire, parasite, was finally going to suck the host’s blood dry.

Since the early years of Jiajing, the Ministry of Rites proposed to grant the prince a prince and the prince a general to the state-controlling general. This method of reducing the title was to reduce expenses. However, it was mostly abandoned because of the strong opposition of the royal family. It was not until the end of Jiajing that the "Regulations on the Religious Vocationals" were issued, which restricted the royal privileges in the form of laws and regulations. One was to reduce the descendants of the prince, and the other was to stipulate that if the prince had no descendants, the same clan could not inherit the title, but the royal relatives and nobles still enjoyed many privileges.

During the Longqing period, ministers repeatedly submitted memorials to amend the "Regulations on the Clan and Fate", requiring more powerful measures to suppress the privileges of the royal family, but they all ended in vain. Now Gao Gong's return and the time was ripe, Zhang Juzheng took decisive action and instructed Qi Yuanzuo, the ritual department of the Ministry of Rites, to memorialize Qi Yuanzuo, the prince at the beginning of the country, and there are only 49 generals. Now there are 29,492 remaining jade letters, which is no less than half of the required income this year. Therefore, please: 1. The number of people who have been granted titles is limited. The eldest son of the prince inherits the prince, and the second son of the prince is granted the prince, and the second son of the prince is granted the prince, and the second son of the prince is granted the prince. The general of the county is granted the title of one, and there is no legitimate one for one. The lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one, and the lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one; the lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one, regardless of the legitimate and illegitimate, only one son is granted the title of one. Anyone who is not allowed to be granted the title of one, the lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one, and the lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one; the lieutenant of the state is granted the title of one, regardless of the legitimate and illegitimate, only one son is granted the title of one. Anyone who is not allowed to be granted the title of the title shall be given the amount of money and the seal and ward.

2. The qualification to inherit the inheritance. If the royal family has no heirs, they cannot support the brothers and end up with the brothers, nor can they use their disciples as heirs. If the princes have no heirs, they "just push one person to manage the affairs of the government" and they cannot ask for the successor to the king.

Third, the subordinates were not given a secret. The seventh generation of the state-owned county prince gave up the title of Lieutenant of Fengguo. In the future, the lieutenant of Fengguo would not have to be given a title. He would only give the first son he gave him 500 taels of silver. I would like to listen to it.

Fourth, the prince's daughter is only three, the prince's daughter is only two, and the general's lieutenant's daughter is only one, and the county lord and the county lord are given the salary, and the county lord and the county lord are given the same, so they are exempted from Dai. Each son-in-law does not have to give a crown and a wedding, and they are all in one's own way.

5. Discuss the children who are promiscuous, the children who are promiscuous, and the children born from now on will be treated by them.

His children who are good at marriage will only give names to them in the future and will no longer be given food.

In fact, according to Zhang Juzheng's idea, it is best to have the prince's legitimate son be granted the prince, and the other sons be granted the generals of the state. This method of reducing the titles of the ranks was used to reduce the growing honor of the royal family. However, Longqing couldn't bear it, and the cabinet was also worried that it would shock the royal family and was used as an excuse to oppose the new policy, so he had to do it step by step. But even so, it was enough to slow down the embarrassing finance of the Ming Dynasty...... Through the re-investigation and verification of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue, it was found that the royal family was prone to falsely report the population of 17,761. Although most of them were low-level titles, they could also save 2 million taels of silver and 5 million stones of grain for each province, greatly reducing the burden on many vassal provinces.

Zhang Juzheng was not so polite to the redundant officials. At this time, the main redundant officials of the Ming Dynasty did not come from the government, but from the middle officials, Jinyi and hereditary noble generals. In the "Memorial on the Resolution of the Retired Personnel", he formulated a plan to be eliminated in five years and completed in three batches, reducing the number of people to the level of the junior high school.

As for the reform of finance and taxation, it is mainly to implement a one-whip method and implement a tax-free silver discount. However, before the whole country must be cleared, the actual number of acres and the fish scale book must be checked, and the area where each acre of land belongs can be negotiated.

The purpose of Zhangtian was to investigate hidden fields. Zhang Juzheng knew very well that this would inevitably touch the interests of nobles, officials and gentry, and aroused their resistance. However, he made up his mind and determined to carry out the Qingzhang movement. He wrote to the governors from all over the country, encouraging them to let go. "The fact that Qingzhang has been in a century, and it is better to be in charge of Xinzheng and his servants. If they do things in a hurry, it would be a pity that they would just be a false document at this time. He had asked the department department, and those who violated the limits would not be investigated, so that the officials could do it cheaply. At the same time, he ordered severe punishment of the nobles and powerful officials who hindered Qingzhang and the officials who were not good at Qingzhang. This was also the focus of Zhang Juzheng's next work.

In addition, he also insisted on promoting the currency reform and agreed with Shen Mo in the past. "Authorized by the Baochao Tuijue Department, Huilianhao and Riyilong issued new versions of Baochao in Jiangnan and Jiangbei respectively, and were responsible for acceptance.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng did not want to hand over the right to issue money to the two major bills, but the credit of the court had long gone bankrupt and the financial difficulties were extremely difficult, which forced him to delegate this power. Moreover, whether he admitted it or not, the bank notes issued by the two major banks had long been spread across the country. Now the official admits that it is actually included in the scope of supervision, so it is nothing unacceptable to think about it like this.

Jiang was fully responsible for the military reform. Similar to Zhang Juzheng, since he took charge of the Ministry of War, he has promoted reforms in all aspects step by step. Others such as the One and Four Attendants System, the Professionalization of Military Civilians, preferential treatment of border defense officials, the transfer of local military civilians in the Ministry of War, and the admission of military generals to school and teaching, etc., were all discussed and implemented in a complete manner with Gao Gong before. Compared to Gao who was in the whirlpool, Zhang and the other two seemed much more calm.

The only thing that caused considerable controversy was that he proposed to dismiss the internal supervision school from the Beijing camp this year, and the emperor personally held a big reading. The big reading is a big military parade. The last big reading was in the Wuzong Dynasty, and it has not been held for nearly 50 years. Once it was proposed, many ministers opposed it, saying that this was a waste of money and was a bad idea that was only silent to please the emperor. Can there be enemies in the world who were scared by your big military parade? It would be better to help the families of the border guards if you have money.

However, soon, those guys who only knew how to talk were trapped in the sea of ​​suffering of Gao Gong rectifying the administration, and they had to rely on silence to help rescue him. Who would dare to provoke him? So there was no more opposition. Although Emperor Longqing was indifferent to various strategies for revising the grass, he was very interested in Dayue... On the one hand, the years of warnings in the capital forced the emperor to pay attention to border defense. On the other hand, the opportunity to wear a battle robe, cross a horse, and pretend to be a general was really exciting for the emperor who was like being held in a deep palace...

So an edict was issued to hold a grand reading in the autumn. The edict was spread, and all generals from all walks of life were excited and stepped up their training, striving to overwhelm the staff in front of the emperor's leadership and show their faces.

On the silent side, he also began to step up the preparation of military funds. He asked Gao Gong to agree to add a doctor, two officers and four chief officers in the Ministry of War arsenal, as Wu Dui's deputy, to the production of the Arsenal Factory. He also issued a dead order and must complete the production tasks issued by the Ministry of War with quality and quantity.

At the production mobilization meeting, he clearly stated to the officials and the head of the arsenal that these armored ordnances would be put on the battlefield. When any problem occurs, they will be severely punished. In order to ensure the quality, he also ordered another doctor in the arsenal Qingli Department to strictly inspect all the weapons entering the warehouse, and no one is allowed to enter the warehouse, otherwise he will be killed or not.

After listening to Mr. Chen’s murderous speech, everyone knew that he was going to be serious and no one dared to fool him anymore. Zhu Xixiao, the younger brother of Duke Cheng, who attended the meeting as a representative of the producer, had to suggest that the arsenal was willing to contribute to the expulsion of the sect, but if it was produced according to the highest standards, the cost required would surge, and the original allocation of production funds was far from enough.

"I have calculated the difference." Looking at Zhu Xixiao silently, "It's 800,000 taels. The Ministry of War will pay this money in three times and within half a year."

Xu Wenbi wanted to speak loudly, but he didn't expect that Chen Si would have figured out their production costs and profit margins long ago. However, in this way, the factory made too little money and it was really not a big deal.

"As long as it can be completed on schedule and on quality," said Silently, "The Ministry of War will reward everyone with an additional 200,000 taels." It is impossible to make the horse run fast and not eat grass.
Chapter completed!