Chapter 199 Reorganization
In addition, for more than half a year, Xiao Tianjian has stayed in Beijing. In addition to paying attention to the war situation in Liaodong, he also paid attention to the epidemic in the north. What he was most worried about was the plague in the north. In this year, it did not break out on a large scale as in history. Due to the early calming down in the north, coupled with the Taiyi Medical Bureau and local governments It is important to pay attention to the control of the epidemic in the north. Although there were indeed some small-scale epidemics in the areas of Xuanda University and Baodingfu, Hebei Province in April of the beginning of the year, according to the reply of the Taiyi Medical Bureau, the epidemics in these places do not belong to plague, but to the general epidemic.
Due to the attention of the government, the epidemic was discovered very early, and the imperial medical bureau prepared in advance. As soon as it was found, it immediately mobilized a large number of drugs to enter the epidemic area. In accordance with Xiao Tianjian's will, troops were sent to blockade the epidemic area, and the bodies of the dead were cremated and buried. At the same time, preventive drugs were distributed in the epidemic area. , set up a drug application office to apply medicine to treat people infected with the epidemic free of charge, and also dissipate the epidemic area. Therefore, this small-scale epidemic did not spread on a large scale and was quickly extinguished.
After entering the winter, the large-scale plague that may occur in history did not appear in the north, which also made Xiao Tianjian completely relieved and no longer had to worry about this matter.
In addition, because the Dazhong Dynasty had already decided to set the capital of Beijing, after the earliest agreement on this matter, some businessmen with a keen sense of smell began to lay out in the north in advance. Originally, Beijing was the political and cultural center of the Ming Dynasty. Now the Dazhong Dynasty is going to set the capital of Beijing. It is certain that the north will prosper again in the future, so Some businessmen consciously went to the north to buy industries in advance. Although China and North Korea launched measures to restrict land mergers, they encouraged businessmen to invest in various industrial industries in the north. At the same time, they also introduced various measures to encourage the south to migrate to the north and even Shaanxi, filling the people caused by natural and man-made disasters in the north over the past few years. The land that has been sharply reduced.
Therefore, in the past two years, merchants and immigrants in the south have immigrated to the north under the encouragement of these policies. The court has also continuously introduced various measures to guide the change of agricultural structure in the north. First, vigorously promote the new high-quality seeds newly selected by the agricultural sector, and in addition, large-scale expansion and high yields. And drought-tolerant crops, such as corn and sweet potatoes, also introduced potatoes, that is, potatoes, through the south, and began to expand in the north, so as to improve the planting structure in the north and increase the yield of farmland in the north.
Moreover, in order to improve the diet structure of Chinese people and improve the dietary nutrition of Chinese people, Xiao Tianjian strongly encourages the development of animal husbandry, especially the breeding of chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep in the family. The open space in the field also encourages people to use it as much as possible to grow vegetables and high-yielding pumpkins and other crops to guide Farmers can better meet their needs.
In terms of taxation, in fact, the Dazhong Dynasty did not reduce the tax imposed on the people, even higher than the amount of tax collection in the Ming Dynasty. However, the reason why the people in the Ming Dynasty could not afford the tax of the court was not that the tax was too high, but that the lower officials and officials collected taxes. Well, there are many well-known things that have been added to various additional factions and fees, which are what the people hate deeply.
After the money was collected, it did not enter the treasury or the local treasury, but let the officials and officials at all levels enter their private pockets, forming a vicious circle in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone followed these unspoken rules, and the burden of the people is increasing. The aggravation led to the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the wave of civil rebellion.
However, after the establishment of the Great China and North Korea, various measures have been introduced in response to these malpractices. First, it is to increase the income of officials, that is, the high salary/integreasing policy he proposed. The salaries of officials in the Greater China and North Korea are more than several times that of the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty. Every year, they also take out a sum of money to evaluate the performance of officials and evaluate the results. Excellent officials can also get a considerable reward.
In addition, the salaries of the officials are also borne by the state, and they are also given relatively higher salaries. Although this has increased a considerable financial burden, a large piece of gray income has been included in the national management system.
Put some things that officials have done secretly together before into a clear and formal way to solve the problem of the livelihood of lower-level officials, so that they can support their families with salaries.
In addition, implement an improved version of a whip method, spread Ding into mu and other policies, clean up the land and measure, customize new taxes, avoid those landlords from hiding the fields through various means, avoid the land, and be as fair as possible. Whoever has more land, the higher the tax, and the more land, the higher the tax amount, which effectively inhibits the landlord. Enthusiasm for land mergers.
After the establishment of these systems, all localities were strictly ordered to cancel all kinds of messy additions and fees in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and then cracked down on the former court officials. All localities have liquidated the former court officials and killed a large number of notorious officials in the previous dynasty, which made a lot of people's hearts. To stabilize the place, the most important thing is to eliminate the various burdens sent to the people through these means.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian ordered local governments to hand over the financial revenue to the Bank of China for management, and use the Bank of China as an agent to manage the local financial account, so that local officials do not have to deal with money and goods, and naturally they can't collect any more fire consumption and other things, and cut off some ways for officials to make money. In short, China and North Korea implement these systems. It has been greatly reduced and exempted from the burden on the people of Daming before, so that the people can leave enough food for their survival after farming and paying taxes, and there will be a surplus on hand in the future. The people's requirements are actually so low. They can live with enough to eat. They have a little pocket money in their hands and can wear clothes to protect themselves from the cold. If you want them to copy the opposite of the court, there is no door!
So in the past few years, the people have seen that the days are getting better day by day. After each harvest of summer and autumn grain, they can save some grain for them to eat, and the bandits everywhere naturally begin to disappear. It is really some stubborn bandits who continue to do evil, and the government and the military in various places will do it. With a heavy punch, they couldn't make a living, and in the end, they could only end up in a different place after being captured.
From the first year, the fiscal revenue of the Great China Dynasty was less than 5 million taels of silver in a year. By the beginning of the fourth year, it had soared to nearly 20 million taels, almost reaching the highest level of fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, and there is still huge room for the next growth. The household department even It is optimistic that by the end of the fifth year of Tianyuan, if nothing unexpected happens, there will be no problem for the fiscal revenue of China and North Korea to exceed 30 million taels of silver.
Of course, the income is high and the expenditure is also high. Xiao Tianjian aims to set up all kinds of new schools and all kinds of mining and metallurgy all over the country. In addition, all localities are required to build roads in their spare time, repair dredge rivers, build various farmland water conservancy facilities, improve land, and other measures. Money, so all places look at the flow of fiscal revenue, but it is immediately spent through various channels.
In order to monitor the financial expenditure situation in various places, Xiao Tianjian considered it over and over again. The purpose is to set up a general audit bureau under the supervision institute. The money spent by provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties will be handed over to the General Audit Bureau for audit. Officials under the province make a lot of money from the financial expenditure through these things.
In this way, in the fourth year of Tianyuan, the General Audit Bureau seized hundreds of crimes of emercry through such an audit alone. Xiao Tianjian was cruel to corrupt officials. Although he did not take measures to skin them like Zhu Yuanzhang, he issued a decree to confiscate his family property and kill the criminal officials. The labor reform of labor should be issued, and even if it is not sentenced to death, the living sentence is also extremely heavy. Many corrupt officials and officials, in addition to being sentenced to life reform through labor and never being released, are also after the sentencing, whether it is a death penalty or a living crime, before serving the sentence, they first stripped off their clothes in the place where they committed the crime and went to show it to the public. Then send them back to their place of origin to show their people, and let them lose their shame and throw them at their doorsteps. In the end, those who should be killed should be killed. If they should be sent to the labor camp, they will be sent to the labor camp to serve their sentences.
For these officials, such a punishment makes them feel much more afraid than being sentenced to beheading. Those who can be officials are all scholars, and their shame is relatively heavy. For them, officials can glorify their ancestors, but when they commit the crime of corruption, they have to go back to their place of origin. Let's do it once, let them completely lose face. In addition to their personal shame, the whole family will be humiliated with them. For a long time, the members of their family could not raise their heads in the local area, like ordinary mice crossing the street shouting and beating, which undoubtedly made them more afraid than killing them.
In addition, Xiao Tianjian decreed that officials and officials at all levels should visit labor camps in various places every year to experience the work and food of prisoners in labor camps for a day as a warning to the officials.
With all efforts, the officials think about it carefully. Now the salary given to them by the court is not low, which is enough for them to live a quite decent life. If they commit a crime because they reach out for money, it will not worth it. Therefore, the Dazhong Dynasty will take the money in one hand to implement a high salary and a clean government, and fight with a knife in the other hand. The policy of fighting corruption/corruption has played a quite good role. In addition, the independent supervision power of the Supervisory Institute as supervision and the independent case trial power of Dali Temple have also greatly curbed the protection of officials and effectively prevented the occurrence of rotten cases, making it difficult for officials to endanger themselves. There is a new atmosphere in the world. It is not too much to say that it is a bright universe in the world.