Chapter 52, Luonan Reform
Pan Long waited for more than ten days, and finally waited for news of the reform of Diluan on the Lantern Festival.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Di Luonan read out his reform plan in public at the New Year's ceremony. As Li Wu said, the entire plan was very large, and more than 140 items were listed in the entries alone.
Among these more than 140 items, the main contents are fourteen.
Article 1: Investigate all industries, organizations, and expenses in the world and make them public. Re-examination and announcement will be carried out regularly in the future.
Article 2: Investigate the ownership of fields, shops and various industries, and re-determine taxes.
Article 3: Adjust the land tax and corvee service, restore the physical tax system in the early days of the Great Xia, and limit the scope of corvee service to the 200-mile road or the 100-mile wilderness of the hometown. Those who exceed the scope will be changed to taxation and the court will pay the fees.
Article 4: Re-approval of officials in the world, emphasizing "no responsibility, no salary, no power," and changing the idle positions of descendants to civil titles, with rank but no power or salary, and each generation of title is reduced.
Article 5: Reform the official promotion system, reduce the number of promotions through channels such as recommendations and recruitment, and take the imperial examination as the core of the promotion system. Among the officials promoted by the court, more than 80% of the officials must come from the imperial examination. The promoted talents must either pass the imperial examination in the corresponding subjects or have experience in related industries. After being promoted, they must engage in corresponding positions. They must not change their position within three times (nine years).
Article 6: Industrial adjustment. The lending industry is completely nationalized. Minerals, transportation, medicine and other industries must be invested by the Daxia court. The investment method is determined based on actual conditions, including but not limited to the provision of cash, tax reductions and policy preferential treatment.
Article 7: Limit the scale of various jianghu organizations, and divide large organizations into small and medium-sized organizations in accordance with the rank of the organization's leader.
Article 8: For large-scale road repairs and water conservancy, in principle, the leaders of various rivers and lakes will be awarded or promoted in comparison with the actual results.
Article 9: Adjust the standards for offering, and verify the imperial fields and other imperial families in accordance with the standards. All industries that exceed the standards will be directly managed by the internal warehouse.
Article 10: Improve the veteran’s retirement system, restore the fields and industries of honor, establish the Zhongyong Department, which is directly under the emperor, and is responsible for the contact and guarantee work of disabled people, veterans, military families, and martyrs. The Zhongyong Department’s operation and maintenance are in accordance with the Heroes and Martyrs’ Temple, and are not responsible to the court, and the manpower and expenses are all paid by the Emperor’s Six Army.
Article 11: Restore the "Transportation and Distribution Department" in the early years of Daxia, and use the official transportation capacity to transport output from various places to stabilize prices and ensure supply.
Article 12: Refer to the practices of the North, establish militias. The court will uniformly recruit young and strong men, conduct military training during the slack season, and establish a staffing to give retired veterans to civilian titles as officers, practice regularly and be obeyed at any time.
Article 13: The Royal Tiangong Department was changed to the Tiangong Department of the Ministry of Works, and merged with the former Department of Works, to promote the practical application of research results.
Article 14: In addition to the investigation, the right to publish the patrol patrol may be granted. Any information allowed in the Daxia law may be published without approval.
In addition, there are many fragmentary terms and conditions for all aspects.
As soon as this plan was proposed, it immediately caused an uproar and a fierce debate occurred in the court.
Di Luonan had obviously made sufficient preparations. He asked someone to bring in two hundred and thirty-three boxes of information and used a large amount of information to prove that the plans he proposed had reliable basis and could work effectively.
The debate lasted for thirty-six hours, from the fifth day of the first lunar month to the eighth day of the first lunar month. Di Luonan was always full of energy when he debated. On the contrary, the ministers who debated with him gradually became depressed, and in the end they even had to rely on spiritual medicine to have the spirit to continue the debate.
After all... I can't sleep in the Golden Palace.
Thanks to the wealth of Daxia, Dazhou, there are all kinds of magic pills, and there are even experts who can help use true qi to promote the rapid digestion of medicine. Otherwise, after this debate, several older civil servants who are not good at martial arts will die directly in the Golden Palace.
The result of the big debate was that Di Luonan won a great victory. In fact, it can be seen from the preparations of both sides that when they saw that more than 200 boxes of information were carried over by the strong men and arranged neatly in the square outside the Golden Palace, occupying almost one-third of the square, many ministers had already bowed their heads and admitted defeat, unwilling to humiliate themselves again.
Those who insist on debate are basically that Di Luonan's plan has suffered a lot of losses to his interests, or they have considerable prejudice against Di Luonan, or... they are just simple stubbornness.
But no matter what, the ministers finally unified their opinions - being unified is also a way of unification.
Therefore, Di Luonan's plan was slightly modified - mainly because some ministers had to change it a little bit, even a few punctuation marks were good, and then they were officially published and distributed to various places.
According to the plan, the preparation period is from now on. After a year of preparation, the plan will be promoted first in Xiazhou and Qingzhou starting next year. Then, it will be promoted in Yangzhou, Jizhou and Yizhou in the year after tomorrow. The year after tomorrow will be promoted in the remaining places in Jiuzhou.
The first work during the preparation period was to publish the book, named "Shendu War", to local government offices and official schools to explain to the people.
In this book, not only Diluonan's entire plan, but also the main content of the debate between the two sides. Many possible problems have been mentioned in it, and there are even solutions.
After reading this book through and reading it through, it will be much more convenient and reduce many unnecessary troubles when the plan is implemented in the future.
Dingfeng Town also has yamen and official schools, so naturally they were divided into two books. There was nothing to do in winter, and a large number of curious people flocked to the yamen and asked the chief minister Yuan Xu to explain.
Yuan Xu was also very idle and just wanted to relieve his boredom. He put on a long gown, treated the yamen lobby as a bookstore, and told everyone about the content of this book every day.
As he talked, people asked questions from time to time, and then he could read a little in the book and often found the answers to the questions, which was really convenient.
Later, I didn’t know who started the first one, but I actually brought the wine and food to the table, listening and eating and drinking. The scene was extremely lively.
Yuan Xu endured it at first - after all, the villagers in the countryside looked down and looked up. He was not old and was really embarrassed to put on airs.
But a few days later, someone even brought the stove in and ate hot pot in the lobby of the yamen. The hot soup that was rolling out rose, and almost all of them were smoked on the plaque of "Zhengda Guangming".
Yuan Xu finally couldn't bear it anymore, and roared and furious. With an order, the yamen runners rushed up, punched and kicked the bastards out.
They were fighting and scolding.
"It's really not a thing! I've eaten for so many days, but I don't even tell us a little bit!"
"That's it! It's very hard to be on duty! It's okay if you don't have food or drink, you have to stand up straight!"
"I'll be heart-to-heart during the Chinese New Year. Brothers, beat me hard!"
As for hot pot... there is no problem with beating people, but you must not turn the pot. The northern part of the country will not waste food. In the end, the hot pot of food was led by Yuan Xu, and several elderly people were invited to sit next to eat.
Chapter completed!