In Wenhua Palace, more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Jie Jin.

Shocked, suspicious, and surprised.

No one can understand that such a shocking policy of advice actually came from the mouth of such a talented man like Xie Jin.

It is understandable that the abolition of physical taxes is abolished. After all, there were some precedents to follow as early as the era of the development of trade in the Song Dynasty, and the pros and cons are also available for reference. However, the agricultural tax is not abolished for thousands of years?

It is natural for the people to farm and pay grain and to serve the labor for thousands of years.

The Jianwen Dynasty had abolished the labor force because the country had money but hungry soldiers. The people participated in the fortifications of the court to earn wages to improve the living environment. This is reasonable, but the agricultural tax was completely abolished. In the future, if the country had a high horse and a short stirrup, would it ruin the people's hearts if they wanted to re-export them?

"What Dashen proposed, let Dashen talk about his ideas and opinions, let's listen, and then express their respective opinions."

Although the big guy was shocked, he did not rush to slap the table and stare. He tried to listen to Xie Jin explain his thoughts in the original form, and then he began to think about it.

It is of great importance. At this time, no one rushed to speak out, so it was better for Yang Shiqi to come and ask for some advice.

The latter looked at Xia Yuanji in his right hand and said, "Weizhe, you are in charge of finance, profit and taxation. What do you think if the policy of abolishing the two taxes is feasible?"

Facing Yang Shiqi's inquiry, Xia Yuanji obviously did not prepare enough for a while. He held the tea and put it close to his mouth, but he didn't take a sip for a long time. Finally, he put it down and shook his head.

"It is not feasible to abolish agricultural tax, but you can try to abolish in-kind tax."

This made Xie Jin, who was not far away, look a little surprised.

After being a cabinet minister for so many years, this is the first time Xie Jin has proposed a major national policy, and he never thought that he would be rejected directly by Xia Yuanji.

"Why not?"

Xie Jin, who was dissatisfied, knocked on the table and stared at Xia Yuanji and asked: "There is no difference between 30 taxes and 1000 grain taxes and 1000 grain taxes and 100% off. Next year, the Shandong grain warehouse will be built, the court will control the grain prices and fully accept the Indian grain exports. Even if the people of the Ming Dynasty leave the arable land to engage in handicrafts or sideline production, there is no reason to go hungry. Why should they keep the 30 taxes and 100 grain taxes and 100% off?"

"If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of something."

Xia Yuanji sighed and looked at everyone and said, "India is not my land of Ming Dynasty, and Indian grain is also grown in my land of Ming Dynasty. Once the agricultural tax is abolished and the grain price control policy is implemented, landlords, local officials, and clans who hold a large amount of land are likely to acquire land in large quantities.

If India collapses, domestic food prices will be difficult to control."

How long has the emperor issued the policy of gentry paying food in one's own way? Now that agricultural tax is exempted, it is equivalent to regaining the eternal privilege of not paying taxes.

"At that time, the stairs tax was set. The more land the higher the grain tax, the higher the tax. The people within ten acres of land were thirty taxes, while the landlords and clans had 20 or even 15 taxes, in order to divide the land into households and curb mergers.

Although the land of the grain chief does not need to bear additional grain levies, the local grain chiefs have to make up for the gaps, so they still cannot get any cheaper. Therefore, with the prosperity of the local area over the years, and the decline of farmland in Sichuan and Shaanxi and Gansu has successively promoted most landlords. The grain chiefs began to reduce their holdings of land contracts in their mansions and sold more land to their own tenants.

More and more semi-cultivating farmers have become self-cultivating farmers, achieving self-reliance and living a self-sufficient life.

Now that agricultural tax is exempted, grain prices will fluctuate again, which will undoubtedly help the landlords to buy and hoard land for mergers. This will affect the foundation of the country. If something happens, the country will shake, so I do not recommend abolishing the agricultural tax."

Xia Yuanji's considerations were quite forward-looking, which also made everyone present nod.

The country's comprehensive production conversion and the vigorous innovation and development speed of all walks of life have not yet reached the point where it can afford the transfer of tens of millions of farmers across the country. Therefore, the existence of agricultural tax is to protect the people rather than the little grain collected by the court for the insignificant collection.

Now the annual tuition of food in the Ming Dynasty is only 20 to 30 million shi. Not to mention a person like Yang Shiqi, even Xia Yuanji, who has always been stingy and stingy, does not take it seriously at all.

Just kidding, the imperial court has burned hundreds of millions in recent years, but still care about these 20 to 30 million?

The northwest only burned military expenditure for four years. In which year wasn’t there a tens of millions of taels of white silver and tens of thousands of trucks of grain?

The gold of India and the silver of Japan were continuously transported to the so-called water pump pipe into the Ming Dynasty. The banks were crazy about sucking copper notes to save precious metals and protecting the purchasing power of copper coins. If the domestic productivity could not improve rapidly, the Ming Dynasty should go from absorbing external gold and silver to transporting gold and silver to the outside world.

"Maintaining current stability in China is a major event, a serious matter. His Majesty's book says that stability overrides everything. You must make sufficient research and preparation before activating agricultural tax. This preparation may take ten or even twenty years to ensure that there is no problem in all aspects before it can be abolished."

At this time, Xu Buji spoke up again, supporting Xia Yuanji's view.

"The abolition of the agricultural tuition that lasted for thousands of years may make the people happy, singing and dancing, and will make them worship the tablets of immortality for many years of continuous years. However, when problems arise in the future, this current good rule will become harsh policies, even tyranny and tyrannical policies, and stability will no longer exist."

After Xia Yuanji and Xu Buji expressed their objections one after another, the other ministers shook their heads after careful consideration and did not support Xie Jin's proposal, which also made Yang Shiqi feel a little disappointed.

"Since everyone disagrees, the matter of grain tax will not be abandoned for the time being. The physical tax will be cancelled. How to cancel it and how to replace it, and what method will Weizhe thinks."

Yang Shiqi is not Wang Anshi. He does not have the courage to cut off his arm, nor does he have the courage to break through the south wall. He insists on promoting a national policy that concerns tens of millions of people across the country with his own strength. Although he really wants to take out the authority of the cabinet chief and promote it with all his strength to engrave his name into history, just as Xia Yuanji said.

What if something goes wrong in the future?

The remnants of the Xun Meng Incident affected decades of the Song Dynasty. A reform led to hundreds of local uprisings. Was it Wang Anshi or Sima Guang responsible for the blame?

At least Yang Shiqi thought about it, he couldn't take the blame even if he didn't want to.

"It is not difficult to handle the abolition of in-kind taxes and the discount to the current bank."

Xia Yuanji refuted to understand Jin's first proposal and expressed his affirmative opinion on this second one: "In the past two years, in order to encourage private family workshops and self-operated production, His Majesty stopped taxes on production and only imposed commercial taxes after trading and sold, which laid a solid foundation for the abolition of physical taxes. Now we can implement them in a timely manner, which can only be considered a little more exciting.

In order not to avoid the situation where the people have to rush to sell goods and cause losses due to paying real money, I suggest that the cabinet report to His Majesty next year, and then implement the abolition of in-kind taxes after agreeing on the guiding price policy, and at the same time, a grace period will be set according to the circumstances of each province.

For example, it is relatively easy to buy and sell physical goods in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. You can give 15 to 20 days of contract, as long as you pay equal amounts of cash or bank copper notes within this period. However, it may be difficult for Yunnan, Guizhou and Liaodong to buy and sell goods. We can give 30 to 50 days of contract, so that people will not be able to sell them hastily at a low price and suffer losses."

Xia Yuanji is really stable.

Yang Shiqi closed his eyes slightly and said that these two policies were rejected by Xia Yuanji.

When the price guidance policy is agreed with Zhu Yunwen next year, the in-kind tax will be abolished, can the credit of this policy be recorded in the cabinet?

After all, once Zhu Yunwen returned to Beijing, Yang Shiqi planned to submit his resignation.

"The guiding price policy is uncertain, can't the physical tax be abolished?"

Yang Shiqi couldn't hold it anymore, sat upright, looked at Xia Yuanji with a look, and said seriously: "The physical tax is not an agricultural tax, it does not involve the people of the world, nor does it connect to the national foundation. It will be decided to be piloted this year, and next year it will be implemented according to the actual market situation and changes. Isn't that good? It can be used as a reference for the guiding price policy.

When it comes to tolerance, the people's losses will not be too great. Moreover, this year Wang Yusen created a household contract responsibility system to encourage the people to develop breeding and animal husbandry, manual work, reward those who meet the standards, and subsidize proportional subsidies for those who fail to meet the standards, which greatly prospered the livelihood of millions of people outside the inner and outer city of Nanjing.

We can use this as a reference to link the two policies. Once the people are forced to do so, the local trade department can purchase according to the guide price at that time, and the reduction is the actual tax amount. Isn't that enough?"

After saying that, Yang Shiqi no longer planned to give Xia Yuanji another chance to express his opinion. He patted Xia Yuanji's forearm twice, and then raised: "I agree to abolish the physical tax. The first statement of the cabinet on the first day of next year will be issued by Tongzhengshi Mingtong.

Yang Shiqi raised his hand, and Xie Jin, as the leader, was certainly the only one who followed closely. Zhu Gaochi responded silently.

The three cabinet ministers of the cabinet made a statement, and the opinions of each ministries were no longer important. Everyone supported Yang Shiqi's opinions and agreed to the introduction and promulgation of this policy.

"Then I'll stick to it."

Xia Yuanji was unable to stop the overall situation, but he still added his own meaning: "The Tongzhengsi Department's official newspaper must clearly mark the trial at the end of this policy."

As long as you write it and try it out, it can be abolished at any time if something goes wrong.

This is like the imperial court burning grain every year, and the saying goes to the people is that it is expired and deteriorated and cannot be eaten.

Regardless of whether the people believe it or not, it is a matter of mind and the court cannot control it.

At least on the surface, the court has taken the right to do so.

Trial the policy, and only when you try to find out whether it is good or bad, stop it if it is bad. It is also a kind of attitude of the court to be responsible for the people.

Anyway, it is all good for the court.

Yang Shiqi agreed with this.

It is the credit of the cabinet, and it is not too bad to blame the cabinet if it is not.

After discussing two things in a row, Yang Shiqi was also a little tired, but he still opened his memorial and continued to talk down according to the matters described above.

"The third thing is the proposal to expand the scope of the official inspection and increase the number of personnel in the Censorate and promote the inspection system. This proposal was proposed by Jing Qing, the left censor of the Censorate. Jing Qing, please give me specific opinions. If you can decide today, the meeting of the cabinet department will be decided."

I have always had a weak sense of existence. Jing Qing, who was with the last seat, said a little surprised.

His proposal was reported to Yang Shiqi alone a few months ago, but he had never heard Yang Shiqi mention it. Even Jing Qing himself almost forgot it, and he never expected that he would take it out today.

Although he was a little inadequate, it was his own idea. Jing Qing organized the language and spoke.

"Several cabinet masters and officials, as the provincial governments and localities have successively completed the reform of officials in recent years, the traditional methods of officials and the scope of officials have obviously been somewhat slow, so I want to expand the scope of officials and the methods of officials and the methods of officials.

In addition to the rigid five-year plan indicators as the first test of political achievements, the scope of the two traditional official inspections, namely, official voice and civil voice, should be expanded to include the internal room and children of officials. For the relatives of wives, concubines, parents and their own children, should we carefully consider the next promotion and appointment of this official?

Because the scope of the inspection is large, the Censorate needs to increase its personnel and set up the Qing official department of each province according to the structure of each department. At the same time, the Censorate has established a patrol system to select capable Censors to conduct inspections on various provinces, receive relevant local reports, and jointly supervise them with the Qing official department of the Ministry of Personnel of each province. It severely punishes corruption, abuse of law and even relies on power to rampant local behaviors."

The Censorate is doing some offensive work.

Everyone's faces looked a little bitter smile.

There is already an Jinyiwei Office in the local area, and I don’t even know where the branch of the West Factory is hidden. Now the Censorate wants to do such a big move again, checking the top and bottom, and becoming an official is almost an ant on the hot pan.

This is too painful.

"Xu Butang is the Minister of Personnel, what do you think?"

Yang Shiqi asked Xu Buji, which made everyone curl their lips secretly.

Is this still necessary to ask?

Who doesn’t know that the emperor hates officials’ illegality the most? Xu Buji certainly supports Jing Qing’s proposal unswervingly.

As expected, Xu Buji said two words skillfully: "Feable."

"Everyone can express your opinion."

Yang Shiqi drank tea leisurely, and a sound of controversy sounded in his ears.

Anti-bureaucratic corruption is the most basic political correctness. Don’t be too concerned about this matter and offend others. Anyone who openly supports it must not object. To put it more than anything else, it means opposing the emperor or Zhu Yunwen.

Then Xu Buji will take down a big hat for you, and you will probably be able to pull it out and kill it on the spot.

"Okay, let's discuss the specific quota for increase personnel after the meeting between the Censorate and the Ministry of Personnel. As long as you discuss it, you can get it to the cabinet and directly approve it."

Yang Shiqi put down the tea bowl and looked around: "I'm just talking about what's going on here, what else do you have?"

Three things, except for the first one, I was very happy, and the other two were all exhausted and sad. Everyone here was exhausted and had no energy to continue speaking.

It's over quickly. Everyone wants to go home and sleep with their beautiful wife and concubine for a while.

It’s the Chinese New Year, can’t people relax?

"Then that's all today."

Yang Shiqi stood up and said loudly: "The Tongzheng Department has prepared a record for today. The cabinet and the two judicial departments of various ministries will be signed and filed. After His Majesty returns to Beijing, he will submit it to the imperial court for review. Let's disperse."

After saying that, they raised their legs and left, and the big guys also stood up and gave it to him humbly.

"Great send to the elder of the court."

After seeing off Yang Shiqi, everyone packed up their own hands and left the scene. Only before Xie Jin left, he turned his head and looked at Xia Yuanji and snorted coldly.
Chapter completed!