Chapter 138 When Zhang Gui mentioned the harm of the gentry, Wei Zhongxian cried!

"Don't want to resign?"

Zhang Gui heard that many civil servants who resigned from office were amused after implementing the resignation investigation system, they became amused and said to other ministers in the Charter Department: "But this is not allowed to do so!"

"Yes, they cannot let them go. If they want to resign and retire, they have to leave with politeness. Even if they have accumulated officials over the years, they should be taken legally. The so-called gentlemen love money and take it in a good way! How can the national treasury and the people embezzle?

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Yuan Keli agreed at this time.

Zhang Gui stood up and said, "The officials who did not investigate the problem may not be because of their integrity, but because they have not had the opportunity to use their power for personal gain. We might as well think about what they had embezzled the national treasury and the people after they resigned.

possible?"

"The responsibility of the Department of Planning and Planning should be to formulate corresponding prevention regulations in advance for Your Majesty. The so-called prevention of problems and preparations for the future. The construction of the system cannot be established until the problem is very serious, as it may be out of place."

Yuan Keli heard Zhang Gui say this and said: "The nuisance station is the most likely way for resigning officials and gentry to embezzle national treasury!"

"They will obtain subpoena tickets for the post station through their friends who are officials, extort fees from the post station, and even force local people to provide them with service, or even military households!"

Han Yu said at this time: "It is precisely because some censors have written memorials to ask the court to sack the post stations, which not only saves national treasury, but also avoids the loss of national treasury and the exploitation of the people due to disturbing the post stations.

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Zhang Gui suddenly thought of the incident that led to Li Zicheng's rebellion after Chongzhen sacked the post station, and said, "It is not possible to sack the post station!"

"Why not?"

Han asked.

Zhang Gui said: "After the post station is abolished, how can so many post station soldiers be arranged? The court cannot ignore their lives and death. The purpose of our reform is to enrich the country, strengthen the army, and also benefit the people. Therefore, even if the post station system is full of problems, we cannot be resolute.

Cut off.”

"What's more, the post station does have functions that the court actually needs. It is better to start reform from the fundamental reason that the post station costs too much and the people are exploited too much."

"Then I can only mess with officials and gentry."

Chen Zizhuang replied.

"Reform is torture, and we can only mess with officials and gentry. Could it be tormenting the people? The people can't stand it."

Zhang Gui replied.

Wei Zhongxian interrupted, "Then we will do this for our Dongchang. Our Dongchang will send an official school to inspect various post stations. Once anyone who is disturbed by the post station is found, arrest it!"

"What should I do if the Dongchang's own people are corrupt?"

Yuan Keli asked at this time.

Wei Zhongxian: “…”

Zhang Gui said at this time: "Then let the civil servants set up the inspectors and the censors are set up in the districts; the east factory also set up the inspection post supervisors and the districts are set up; our west factory also set up the office thousands of households and the districts are set up in the districts.

; Each of them all sent an official to inspect the affairs of the post in the world, how about it?"

Wei Zhongxian said with a resentful look: "We have no objection. Since Yuan Zongxian is worried that our Dongchang will take the opportunity to do something wrong, the three parties will have an official, so they can supervise each other, so that they can be questioned and concealed by the court.

, shelter local officials.”

"This is good, but this requires a lot of officials to be added. Generally speaking, reforms are streamlining institutions and laying off redundant personnel. Only the reforms of our Ming Dynasty have been increasing officials."

Chen Zizhuang said at this time.

Zhang Gui smiled and said, "This is also the difference between my Ming Dynasty and previous dynasties. For example, the two Song dynasties had a major disadvantage, which was that they were serious redundant, but the same dynasty was just the opposite. The complicated ones were not officials, but clerks, gentry, and students.

Although these people have caused little direct damage to the court on the surface, they have taken charges and exploited the people among the people, which has caused great damage to the people. Whether the people can live and work in peace is the foundation for whether the country can continue.

, This requires us to add a group of upright officials to control them, or mobilize the people to fight against them."

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu, a famous thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, learned from his mistakes and summarized the three major harms that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

He believed that these three major harms were clerks, gentry, and students.

As a child of an official and a student, he ranked gentry and student as two of them, and he had courage.

Wei Zhongxian, who came from the bottom, had a deep impression of this and said, "If it weren't for me to say that the uncle looked like a torch, what we ordinary people feared the most was the clerks, gentry, and students, none of them were bone-knocking and marrow-sucking! And basically,

The last turn came, and the clerk went to the countryside to extort the taxes. It was the gentry who collected the rent. Then a husband said that we had stole his things and insisted on going to the government to sue us. Some husband took this opportunity to help us sue.

Asking for money for the sake of fame, these husbands are afraid that the world will not be in chaos! Our family has cut off their descendants and entered the palace because they can't stand it."

Wei Zhongxian said that, unconsciously wiping up the corners of his eyes, as if the class hatred of the past really had a deep feeling for him.

Zhang Gui patted Wei Zhongxian on the shoulder: "Old Wei, since this is the case, you should talk more to the people."

"Uncle Guo, don't worry, the people in the palace are our in-laws' family, but the people are our mother's family. How can we not speak for them?"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Zhang Gui didn't know if Wei Zhongxian's words were just saying it on the scene, but no matter what, in his opinion, it was already good that Wei Zhongxian could promise to speak for the people on the scene.

Then, Zhang Gui said: "There is a saying in the Han Dynasty, saying, "Learn from ancient times and seek truth from facts." Our reforms are the same. We cannot copy the reforms of the ancients, but we must also combine them with the actual situation of our dynasty. I wonder what the officials think?"

"Learn from the past with great knowledge and seek truth from facts."

After hearing this, Chen Zizhuang pondered for a moment and looked at Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli stood up excitedly and said, "Uncle Guo's words are indeed correct! The problem in our Ming Dynasty is not about redundant staff, but about the fact that there are many officials and many gentlemen and students, so it is difficult to issue government orders and pay taxes, even if it is

The national treasury for disaster relief is difficult to be fully exerted to the mouths of hungry people. Therefore, we cannot stick to the pillars and zithers. We must learn from the ancients that we should streamline the institutions and lay off redundant staff!”

"In fact, even if the Censorate, East Factory and West Factory have added a number of official schools to inspect the stations, at most they will increase their salary and newly established integrity silver by tens of thousands of taels. Even if there are some corruption, it will probably not exceed the price.

100,000 taels, but compared with the current major deterioration of the post government, the loss of hundreds of thousands of taels of national treasury caused by the loss of treasury is nothing, and as long as they can make the post government reduce the excessive expenditure of 100,000 taels of silver every year, the court will increase

It’s also profitable for so many officials to manage the post office.”

"Maybe it can increase income."

Zhang Gui replied.

“Increase income?”

Others from the Charter and Curatorial Department looked at Zhang Gui quite surprised.

Zhang Gui smiled and said, "Every stations are on the main roads, and most of them are gathered by merchants. As long as the business order of the stations is rectified, the commercial tax revenue will naturally be increased."

"They can operate industries in various post stations, mostly powerful officials and gentry. The court will rectify and collect taxes, which will probably make the powerful officials and gentry dissatisfied."

Han Du said.

Zhang Gui said: "If these taxes are easy to collect, why should the imperial court set up a Western Factory? The Western Factory chose the most loyal and brave official schools to form a tax police force every year. What is the purpose of? The purpose is to raise the taxes! Just then, the Western Factory

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