After a whole day of discussion, everyone expressed their own ideas and had nothing to hide. Everyone had enough confidence in Su Tiancheng's claim to be emperor, so at this time, they must show their own abilities and leave a deep impression on Su Tiancheng. Moreover, in everyone's eyes, Su Tiancheng is undoubtedly very wise and able to listen to everyone's opinions, whether it is positive or negative, they can listen patiently. This is a situation that everyone has never encountered before.

The next day, when everyone walked into the governor's office again, they all seemed very solemn. All the matters today must be determined. Su Tiancheng will definitely make the decision. As for what will make the decision in the end, everyone actually knows it.

Su Tiancheng was holding a stack of paper in his hand, which was densely filled with self-written.

"The opinions and suggestions you put forward yesterday are all on this. I have read them carefully last night and have benefited a lot. I really hope that you can participate in political affairs discussions with such an attitude in the future. This is a form worth promoting. I don't even say the disputes in the court. You also know that those who give to the Censors and the Censors discuss matters may have a more intense attitude, but their discussions often go to extremes and eventually become an attack on people, or some punitive measures taken against someone, and they are proud of it. This is wrong. When discussing national affairs, you need to have a serious attitude, a demeanor to be inclusive, and you need to see the overall situation."

"I have always believed that nothing is perfect, and needs to be continuously improved, and the same is true for handling political affairs. If we cannot make progress, we will follow the old and be self-consistent, and the people will suffer losses, as well as the court itself."

"The opinions discussed yesterday were roughly divided into three aspects. The first aspect is that you basically agree with the establishment and responsibilities of the Censorate. And Lord Fan and Lord Xu put forward good suggestions. I think it is completely feasible. There are not many officials in prefectures, prefectures and counties, but the supervision is not small. There is a form of corruption that is the most difficult for us to pay attention to, that is, not giving money without doing anything, or ruling away the responsibility, and giving money to do things randomly. Whether it is right or wrong, it is satisfying. The people are very accurate. The government government and government offices are open, so don't come in without money. Why is this kind of problem not easy to find? It is because the people have no knowledge and do not know how to handle things. Therefore, some of our officials take advantage of the situation and do whatever they want."

"The supervision of the Censorate is by no means a form of indication, but needs to penetrate deep into the bone marrow. Our officials must understand at all times that there is a sharp sword hanging on their heads. The scale of this sharp sword is the evaluation of the people. The people have a scale in their hearts, and they know the quality of officials."

"The people are the most important, the country is the next, and the king is the least. You must remember this sentence and must be implemented in our daily behavior."

"The functions and matters of the Censorate. You have agreed on it, so I won't say much. The following is the focus of the taxation, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple."

"I thought about it for a long time last night, and the suggestions you put forward are in line with the actual situation. I understand your painstaking efforts, but I think of a person a thousand years ago, and you also know this person, that is, Shang Yang and Shang Yang's reforms. I won't go into details. You are very clear. Here I want to talk about why Shang Yang's reforms led to personal tragedy. The biggest flaw of Shang Yang's reforms, in my opinion, is that they believe too much in the role of violence, despise the function of etiquette and education, and blindly use violence, including the same for the powerful. This led to personal tragedy. Qin became stronger and eventually destroyed the other six countries and unified the world, but Shang Yang was broken by a car."

"It's very interesting that after Shang Yang was broken into pieces, the successor ruler also adopted the reform system established by Shang Yang to manage the country according to this system. As a result, Qin State quickly became stronger in a very short period of time."

"When I talk about Shang Yang here, you may understand that the matters we have to decide yesterday and today are no less than a reform. It can even be said that the things we discuss and decide in the future will far exceed the reform of Shang Yang. But you also need to understand one truth: any change will have to suffer pain, because we want to change our past bad habits and adapt to the latest changes. We need to start from ourselves and adapt to other changes brought about by institutional changes. It is possible that this change is completely different from the education we receive."

"First of all, the status of the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple. You emphasized a fact yesterday, that is, the prefecture, county and government offices, except for money and food, the most common matter is Songzhu. This just shows that the government in the eyes of the people is to uphold justice and resolve disputes between them. They believe in the government and obey the government's management. What should we do under such circumstances?"

"For thousands of years, prefectures and counties have been responsible for the case. This has become a habit and is a practice that everyone adapts to and recognizes. Ask yourself, before you enter the court, when you were still ordinary people, have you heard of many unjust prison matters? Anyway, I have heard of a lot of them. On the other hand, are the prefects, prefects and counties deliberately corrupt and abuse the law? I don't think it is true that a thick Ming Dynasty law has several prefects, prefects and counties can read them through and understand the rules and regulations. In our imperial examinations, the Ming Dynasty law has not been involved at all. Therefore, the officials who serve as prefectures and counties are not experts in law at all, and they can even be said to know nothing about it."

"What do we rely on when handling cases in this situation? It depends on the majesty of the government and the positions of officials themselves. Using powerful means or even deterrent means to make the people surrender is by no means what we call a mirror hanging high, nor is it because we handle cases impartially."

"It is a huge project that separates the matters of Song Prison and allows people with rich experience to handle such matters. It is by no means possible overnight. The people also need time to adapt. But we must do this, even if we do it while improving. The majesty of our government is to be established by integrity and honesty, impartial case handling, so that the people can truly support us and support us with conscientiousness."

"As for the matter of increasing expenses in this way, I have long had a view that whatever needs to be done is to increase the amount of expenses, it is also necessary to do it."

"Next to talk about taxation, which is the most debated and the most thoughtful thing for me."

"You should be very clear that in the early years of Chongzhen, the court was extremely embarrassed and could not get out the money or pay out the military pay. When the bandits were in chaos, the troops of the garrisons in various places also began to rebel and mutiny. Under such circumstances, the court had no choice but to increase the Liao pay, but many people still opposed it, saying that it increased the burden on the people, and it was wrong to do so."

"When I talk about this, I have to say something. I hope you can understand what the role of the court is and what the role of the government is. In my opinion, it is to protect the interests of the people. When the family, country and the world are in danger, we must try our best to protect it. At the same time, let the people live better and better life and make the country more and more prosperous. When the court and the government do things for the people, what the people should do for the government, and paying taxes is a natural responsibility. Otherwise, how should the court maintain it? Without silver, the court cannot do anything well."

"The taxation matter is not a small matter. When you consider taxation, you think of light taxes and low taxes, and the people. This is very good. But you have ignored the most important point, that is, the government cannot collect enough taxes, cannot maintain necessary expenses, and the government cannot operate normally. In the end, everything may occur, such as corruption, fish and meat, being invaded by foreign enemies, and even risking the country's destruction. The consequences of this harm will eventually be borne by the people, but the price paid is even more heavy. To put it bluntly, the family will be destroyed."

“So I’ve always emphasized taxation.”

"We discussed yesterday that the salaries of officials must be greatly increased. To do this, we need to take out the money. Where can the money be taken out, we must take out the tax. We must also want the horse to run well and not eat grass. This kind of thing is impossible. If I were not able to eat enough, I would not be able to eat enough. If I become an official, I would definitely try my best to reach out to the people, and the burden that the people have increased is probably far more than the tax."

"In terms of increasing taxes, what I need to emphasize is the direction of increase. When we increase taxes, we are not thinking about reaching out to farmers. Farmers are not rich or even very poor. Increase their taxes and cannot support us. We increase taxes in commerce and vigorously increase trade taxes."

"I have always believed that the Ming Dynasty court put the cart before the horse. It kept the rich trade and commerce, but increased taxes to farmers, so that the farmers could not survive. Isn't this a joke? We cannot make such mistakes. The focus of our taxes is on trade."

"You may know some of the experiences of Dengzhou, Laizhou and Qingzhou. Increased trade taxes are not to directly steal silver from merchants. The government provides necessary guarantees for the development of trade so that they can trade with peace of mind and earn money with peace of mind. Under such conditions, they have to pay a sufficient amount of taxes to the government."
Chapter completed!