Chapter 689 To reform the law and establish a Magna Carta
"The above is what Guo dared to advise His Majesty, and His Majesty and his assistants said after he risked his life and advice. They still do not want to believe the thoughts of the people we hear. In their eyes, it seems that the life and death of one or two or even four or five people is not important!"
"And they still stubbornly and arrogantly believe that they are always trying their best to protect the life and death of the majority of the people and safeguard the interests of the majority of the people! Instead of being stubborn and ignoring the wishes of the people in the world!"
Outside Nandu Railway Station.
In a house.
Guo Bin said a few words to his colleagues and friends who saw him off, and then took a sip of the wine, and then put the wine glass on the table: "Well! Guo has tried his best, but as for the result, it doesn't matter!"
As he said that, Guo Bin smiled bitterly: "But, Siberia is a bitter and cold place. I heard that there can only be potatoes filling the stomach all day long! I will never taste this Jiangnan dish again when I go."
For a moment, poetry surged in Guo Bin's heart.
At this time, the scholar Geng Yuyuan stood up, bowed to Guo Bin and said, "Mr. Guo dares to anger Long Yan for the world, Geng admires it!"
Then, Geng Yuyuan turned around and looked at the other civil servants and said, "It's just that your Majesty and the assistant ministers are too arrogant. They even said that the people we hear are not the people's voices. If so, why not let the court listen to the people's true voices!"
"What does Geng Gong mean?"
Another scholar Gao Zhibi asked.
"Next year is the year of a great competition. Why not take advantage of the gathering of the provincial leaders of all provinces across the country to go to the Censorate to make a letter to the court! I would like to ask the court for reform!"
Geng Yuyuan replied.
"Reform? How to reform?"
Gao Zhibi asked.
"Of course, it is to reform the law to return the freedom of the people and limit the power of the monarch! Let Your Majesty see what our people are thinking!"
Geng Zhiyuan replied.
"This may be a solution!"
"At the time when His Majesty was in the south, we advocated returning the people to the people and freedoms to call on His Majesty to reform the law. However, at that time, because he asked the scholars of the great princes in the world to stop him, he eventually became an internal struggle for the scholars, which made His Majesty have reason to refuse the reform. The spokesperson was not consistent, so it would be better to follow the old ways!"
"But at present, the court's control over economy and people's livelihood is becoming increasingly strict, and more and more people are eager for freedom. Many scholars from the Grand Duke have turned to believe that they cannot let the court do whatever they want, especially the restrictions on the monarchy, the struggle for local autonomy and the abolition of redundant officials and soldiers!"
Guo Bin nodded at this time, said a few words, and said, "The same thing is true. The king cannot conquer any country if he wants to conquer, and even expand his territory all over the world!"
"What does it mean is the national condition, but this is not the national condition. It is clearly the king who kidnapped the country and the people for his own ambitions!"
"What do you say is that overcapacity, workers are unemployed, and they are afraid of it, destroying machines, and workers return to farming!"
"The decline in grain prices is also caused by too much arable land for foreign countries. The court guided the Han people to reclaim a lot of farmland in India, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, Myanmar and other places over the years! These places are still paying land taxes every year. In my opinion, either the landlords who own these fields will be independent and autonomous, or they will be exempted from land taxes, especially for the gentry in the area who have already made great achievements. The price of grain will not fall one after another due to the purchase of a large amount of grain by the imperial court's Grain Industry Bureau."
"Mr. Guo said that right. Just like some countries in Thailand, the Magna Carta should be established. The king needs to follow the charter!"
"Secondly, there are the redundant officials and soldiers mentioned by Mr. Guo!"
"There are too many officials in the national dynasty now!"
"In the past, a county was just a magistrate, a county magistrate, a few close-knit officials, and the rest were all clerks!"
"But now, in addition to the magistrate, county magistrate, chief clerk and other officials in a county, there are also officials from various bureaus, and they are even stationed in the east and west factories!"
"In addition, there are no longer only official positions in the inner world, but also all kinds of officials!"
"Before this, the imperial power was not sent to the countryside. The land of Lijia was governed by the gentry. But now, the court controls everything, so that officials are complicated!"
"For redundant soldiers, there are no need to say that patrol soldiers who eat public food can be seen everywhere, as well as millions of national defense soldiers, and the Imperial Army that is currently increasing to one million!"
"The annual military pay subsidy expenditure it brings has been taxed in the past few years. Before His Majesty ascended the throne, the nine sides needed only a few million pieces of cotton, and now it has increased to tens of millions of pieces, which is a proof!"
"There is also redundant work. The number of craftsmen in official factories is incredible. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of craftsmen in large factories!"
"Therefore, the labor costs are extremely high, so that factories suffer more and more serious losses. The court never refused to close these factories, but gave benefits to the people and allowed private businessmen to operate them. It also called it "in order to ensure that strategic resources and technical cores are controlled by the court, and avoid private business operations to threaten the court, and even sell them to other countries for heavy profits!"
"But because we want to protect these large factories with serious losses, the court had to use state funds to subsidize them, so that in order to support these loss-making official factories, the state funds were spent greatly!"
"Even, the court has strongly occupied some profit-making businesses and used power to make the profits of many profit-making businesses flow only into the court as official treasury, and then supplemented these losses!"
"If mining is prohibited within the customs, we will find an absurd reason to protect the ecology of the mainland. What's wrong with taking advantage of the land and using it for the people?"
"The court did this clearly to control the benefits of mining in its own government office by only allowing the mining of minerals overseas!"
Geng Yuyuan agreed.
"I have summarized the key points to reform are:
1. Establish a constitution to limit the power of the monarch and regulate the rule of the court;
2. Increase local autonomy;
3. Removal of redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant labor;
4. Open up corresponding bans and allow private merchants to operate corresponding industries freely, and any commodity can be traded freely;
5. The exemption of gentry is restricted from production and expansion of official factories.”
Gao Zhibi said and asked again: "I wonder if you have anything to add?"
"There is also a strict court discussion system. We cannot only limit the dictatorship of the king, but also restrict the emergence of powerful ministers;"
"The court discussion system is the best system to limit both!"
"Therefore, I believe that the auxiliary ministers and ministers must be appointed by the court, and the composition of the court cannot be limited to the ministers and ministers. All the people in the world must have representatives of gentry. In addition, military affairs and the promulgation of laws must also be decided by the court! Like the Parliament of Taixi!"
Another great scholar named Wang Yiyan started speaking at this time.
"Very wonderful!"
Guo Bin couldn't help but slam the table and applauded: "The court discussion of this dynasty can be said to be the best system of this dynasty! It should be carried forward very much! Fortunately, the prince mentioned it, it is a pity that Your Majesty and the late emperors of all dynasties have many times when they are not strictly abide by it. If the system can be formed and written into the constitution of the court, if the king does not abide by it, the world can be attacked! With such a provision, our emperor will surely flourish forever!"
"We have to mobilize more people, so that the court can see the true voice of the people in the future!"
Geng Yuyuan replied.
"That's right, then I'll go back to my hometown and mobilize fellow villagers!"
"I didn't plan to go back at first, since that's the case, I'll go back!"
"I also went back to organize a literary meeting with a shy face!"
For a moment, these gentlemen responded one after another.
Guo Bin bowed to this and said, "If our Ming Dynasty reform can be successful in the future, even if Guo dies in a foreign land, he will never complain!"
Everyone bowed to Guo Bin.
Chapter completed!