Chapter 975

The success of the Liu rebellion and the Chinese army have successfully established the Chinese Empire, but this does not mean that everything is over. All this can only be said to be the beginning of the peak era of the Liu family.

The Liu Dynasty appeared again, and it was a unified dynasty, not a Pianan small court. It was the second powerful Liu family after the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Liu Yuanqiao claimed to be Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, but everyone knows that he has no relationship with royal Mao. However, Liu Yuanqiao occasionally mentioned it when he was a fisherman in Jiaozhou. I'm sorry to mention it more.

The problems they have to face are still the same. Some things are no easier than before.

In the past, what they wanted to consider was how to defeat the Ming army, seize the world from the Zhu family and replace it, but now, what they want to consider is how to rule the world.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that it is difficult to fight the world, and it is more difficult to defend the world. For these emperors, how to make the world last for generations is also a very serious problem.

Now that Liu Yuanqiao has captured the world, what we need to consider now is to formulate a set of systems so that he can inherit Liu's territory from generation to generation.

In the past dynasties, the most afraid thing is to let his powerful officials seize the world after seizing the world. This is also what the emperor is most afraid of.

But fear is fear. One thing remains the same after all. That is, the emperor must ask the Minister for assistance, because no matter how capable the emperor is, he can't finish everything. There are few workaholics like Zhu Yuanzhang.

Since the combination of Jiang Shangjia and King Wen last week more than a thousand years ago suddenly rose, the combination of emperors with prime ministers leading all civil and military officials to govern the world has been popular in all dynasties.

Since Jiang Taigong, the official position of prime minister has officially stepped onto the historical stage and become the first of all civil and military officials. In history, a virtuous prime minister can prosper the country and secure the country, or turn the tide and fall. If it is a traitor prime minister, it will bring disaster to the country and the people.

Daming was established on the basis of the Dayuan empire. The Dayuan Empire suffered from the great power of power ministers and prime ministers, and the power minister said lightly that it was abolished.

After learning the experience and lessons in this regard, after killing Hu Weiyong, Zhu Yuanzhang refused to appoint the prime minister again because the prime minister's power was too great and threatened the imperial power, so he distributed his rights to the six Shangshu.

Therefore, Hu Weiyong was the last prime minister in Chinese history. Although for more than 200 years after the Ming Dynasty, there had always been the first auxiliary cabinet to lead all civil and military officials and assist the government, the first auxiliary was the first auxiliary. Some people called it the first auxiliary, the old cabinet and the prime minister, but no one called it the prime minister.

In fact, this means that the prime minister's rights are distributed to six ministries and only to the cabinet, which is equivalent to distributing one person's rights to several people.

But these civil servants were not in vain. They soon began to reverse the situation and made use of all officials to become the end of the rule of the world by the imperial power and scholar bureaucrats.

The political system of the Ming Dynasty is that the imperial power and scholar bureaucrats rule the world together. The emperor lives in prohibition and governs by bowing and bowing. All officials guard the world. It can be called the best combination and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Because in the past dynasties, it is inevitable that there will be confused monarchs and powerful officials. These are the factors that will lead to the demise of the country, but the huge power has been distributed to the cabinet and six ministries. It is difficult to rebel. Not surprisingly, in the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, there has been no powerful officials threatening the imperial power.

However, there are disadvantages in this way. Although there is no single power minister threatening the imperial power, the overall official power threatens the imperial power.

In the following decades, the emperor's power was basically trapped in the capital. It can be called that the government order did not go out of the Forbidden City and the imperial power did not go down to the county. There was no way. The civil servants kidnapped the whole civil service group to deal with the emperor. The emperor had no other way except relying on eunuchs.

Liu Yuanqiao appreciated the long life of the Ming Dynasty, but did not appreciate the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He was forced to be so poor.

You know Liu Yuanqiao, but you know how rich the people of Daming are and how difficult it is for the emperor to get some money. The best metaphor is Emperor Wanli.

When the people became extremely rich, the emperor also knew that many places were rich, so he sent eunuchs to collect taxes. As a result, the whole civil service group and the squire group were angered. They opposed the emperor's behavior openly and secretly. They said that heaven was angry with people and that taxes were collected violently.

This made Emperor Wanli feel embarrassed and embarrassed.

Liu Yuanqiao is sneering at these bloody dog officials. Their hearts are punishable and their poison resentment is extreme. They can collect excessive taxes. The emperor's tax collection is heaven's anger and people's resentment.

The emperor's small business is to compete for profits with the people. The emperor can only rely on the income of the imperial villa. If he doesn't send eunuchs to collect money, it's not enough.

If this set is to be used on Liu Yuanqiao, it will not work. If other emperors will worry about face and what others say, they will rest with the people and compete for profits with the people, but these words can't help Liu Yuanqiao at all.

He knows exactly how rich the people are and how rich they are. As for competing for profits with the people, they do not compete for profits with the people, but with these squires.

The biggest difference between Liu Yuanqiao and the Ming Dynasty is that he attaches more importance to interests than anything else, so that some officials said anxiously: "Dahua is to learn from the practices of the Yuan Dynasty and contract the state's taxes to Semu people, who will manage them."

It is said that the Mongolian Emperor didn't know how to collect taxes. He collected very little taxes, and the cunning Semu man gave the emperor a very large digital contract, so he collected taxes, which made the people angry.

Liu Yuanqiao will not do so, but he will not be as stupid as the emperor and the government of the Ming Dynasty to give up these commercial taxes. Liu Yuanqiao will not give up commercial taxes, and even organize the government and the imperial court to do business and increase the government's income.

In fact, the overall problem of Daming is the problem of lack of money. If one is short of money, the result is that one disease causes all kinds of diseases, and all kinds of contradictions appear.

In the words of the Liu family, there is only one disease in Daming, that is, the poor disease. If the poor disease is cured, all other diseases can be cured. Therefore, don't tell him about benevolence, righteousness and morality, don't tell him about fishing for fame and reputation, he only cares about money.

At the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the tea tax could earn 200000 or 300000 yuan a year, which was enough to cover the land tax of a province. However, later, those clean and moral gentlemen were asked to collect taxes. The more they collected, the less they collected. Unexpectedly, there were only 2322 a year. Only the Ming Dynasty could do such a thing.

So people don't have to pay taxes? These grassroots farmers still have to pay what they should. Only those gentry and dignitaries don't pay. All the money has fallen into their wallets. Liu Yuanqiao publicly criticized this act.

If there were such officials in the Chinese dynasty, these people would have to push out the Meridian Gate to kill them.

After some calculation, Liu Yuanqiao slowly began to formulate his governing policy.

The first is to make the country rich and the people strong. As long as you have money in your hand, everything is easy to do. As long as the people are peaceful and the people live a stable life, others just want to coerce them into rebellion and win them over. It's not easy. It's a hot Kang life with wives and children. However, follow others to revolt. You think everyone is Liu Yuanqiao!

After solving these problems, the problem of government administration will be solved. The cabinet policy of the Ming Dynasty is of extremely positive significance, that is, on the positive side, it is open and transparent in many places, and there is no soil for power ministers. It is easy for the emperor to take advantage of tit for tat among the ministers.

However, they coerced the whole group of officials and civil servants, fought against the imperial power, forced the imperial power into the Forbidden City and prevented the government from leaving the imperial city. In Liu Yuanqiao's eyes, although there is no lost world, it is actually equivalent to losing the world, which is equal to sharing the world equally with others, which is unacceptable to him.

Because Liu Yuanqiao thought of this, he was thinking that he would continue to follow the practice of Daming in politics, but also restrict the cabinet and the privileges of Shilin. Only by eradicating their privileges, let them pay taxes like other people, put an end to corruption and tax evasion, can he make the imperial court long-term stability.

From the perspective of human nature, it is impossible to put an end to corruption, because the power of an official is in hand. Even if you don't reach out to others, others will put money in your pocket. It is difficult to refuse the woman who delivers the money to the door.

Liu Yuanqiao also understood that he was so rich that he could hardly refuse the red envelopes and silver stuffed in by others, let alone others.

Corruption can be suppressed by political means, but tax evasion must be eliminated. The Ming Dynasty had such a big plate and such a big country. If it collected taxes seriously, its silver would be enough.

Daming does so much business, but few people pay taxes. At the beginning, the vassal kings don't pay taxes, followed by the scholar bureaucrats and the whole scholar forest don't pay taxes. A Daming, such a big empire, only receives more than 4 million liang of land tax a year. How can a mere 4 million liang of silver meet the expenses of the whole huge country?

Will the whole court not collect taxes? Of course, officials collect taxes. They create clever names and impose exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. However, these taxes have fallen into their hands, not into the imperial court or the emperor. As a result, the wealth of officials has reached the extreme point, while the people have reached the extreme point. The people can't eat enough. In the end, there is only rebellion, and Daming will perish.

When Liu Yuanqiao thought of this, he realized that tax is the key. We must listen to Liu Bu and set up an IRS to be responsible to the emperor and collect taxes.