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The reason why Liu Jin thought about this issue was naturally not just random thoughts.
After returning from the Western Expedition this time, Liu Jin was not only granted the title of Duke of the Kingdom, but also got an iron rice bowl. He also had a large fiefdom in Beihuanghuangzhou. At the same time, Emperor Hongzhi also revealed to Liu Jin that Liu Jin Accept the position of Minister of Civil Affairs.
Originally, according to the arrangements of Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin was to take over the position of Minister of Household Affairs. Ji Zhong was old and in poor health, so he would definitely not be able to work for a few years. Liu Jin could take over at that time.
However, Wang Hao, the former Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was confused about the new school and was sent back to his hometown by Emperor Hongzhi to take care of his old age. The position of the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs became vacant.
The position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is not an ordinary position. It is known as the Heavenly Official. He is in charge of thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty and has a high position of power.
Wang Hao went home to take care of his old age. Many people were eyeing this position, including the left and right ministers of the Ministry of Personnel, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel in Nanjing, and the ministers of the other six departments, etc.
Therefore, during this period of time, these people have naturally had to go to the three ministers of the cabinet. The cabinet has also nominated candidates to Emperor Hongzhi many times, but they were all rejected by Emperor Hongzhi. Obviously, Emperor Hongzhi I already have a candidate in mind, and that is Liu Jin.
In fact, both Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin had sensed the phenomenon of officials in the Ming Dynasty eating their meals with their corpses in plain sight.
There are many ministers and officials above the court, but there are not many truly capable officials.
Because all officials are selected from the imperial examination, whether they are the elders of the three cabinets, the minister of the six ministers, or the Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy, the censor of the Yushitai, etc., they are all selected from the imperial examination. selected among them.
¡°These officials are all talented and knowledgeable, and any one of them can write beautiful articles. However, when it comes to governing the country, they basically only follow the script and do not have much experience at all.
So many times they only shout slogans, such as governing the country by virtue, being loyal, benevolent, diligent and frugal, etc. These are all false and empty slogans, and they cannot propose any policies and strategies that have substantial progress and innovation.
Of course, this does not mean that everyone is like this. For example, Zhang Juzheng, who came to power in a few decades, was a truly talented person who could carry out innovations and reforms based on the situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time.
But there are too few such people. In the Ming Dynasty, there was only one Zhang Juzheng in the three hundred years of history. In addition, most officials actually only advocated governing the country with benevolence, justice and morality.
Of course, there may be some people who have their own ideas, but they also know that those who have reformed the law since ancient times have had a bad end. Shang Yang of Qin and An Shi, the king of Song, have learned from the past, so even if they have ideas, they will not do it. What a change.
Anyway, for ministers with high positions, they hold great power and live a good life. If they make changes, they may not end well. If they don't make any changes, they can continue to live their own small lives.
Therefore, a dynasty often only undergoes real changes when it is founded. After that, it often continues along the same path as the beginning until the dynasty's demise.
In other words, the one who can really make changes is actually the supreme ruler of the country. Only the emperor who holds all the power can truly change something if he intends to innovate. Even if the ministers below want to change, they must also consider the emperor. thoughts and consider the consequences to yourself.
At this point, Emperor Hongzhi had this idea.
Everything he has experienced in the past few years has also allowed Emperor Hongzhi to see clearly the situation in the Ming Dynasty.
A few years ago, ministers always sang praises and talked about a prosperous era of great governance. However, the famine caused by a heavy snowfall in the three northern provinces immediately pierced this so-called prosperous era of great governance, and everything was exposed.
Not only the people at the bottom are always on the line of not having enough to eat, businessmen and officials collude to enrich the country, regardless of the safety of the country and the life and death of the people. The price of food is raised to the sky, and the food in the national treasury is emptied. He even wanted to take the opportunity to restrict and control the imperial power.
All this made Emperor Hongzhi know that the so-called prosperous age was just blown up by the people below.
Just because they listened to the words of these civil servants and obeyed their advice, they praised themselves and promoted a prosperous age.
But at least speaking at least, the people of the Ming Dynasty have always lived a very tired and miserable life, and even having a full meal is a luxury.
To truly strengthen the country and enrich the people, we need to formulateWhen it comes to policies that are truly beneficial to the country and the people, the ministers in the DPRK often have no solution.
Emperor Hongzhi still remembered that every winter in the past, when the little northern Tatar prince went south to plunder, the advice given by the ministers in the court was to strengthen the walls and clear the country, hold on to the fortified city, and wait until the Tatars had robbed enough, then they would naturally Leave.
What kind of method is this?
Emperor Hongzhi was worried every winter, unable to eat or sleep. However, these ministers could only come up with such a solution. You can imagine Emperor Hongzhi's helplessness.
Emperor Hongzhi himself wanted to fight, but the ministers strongly opposed it. In the end, he overcame all opinions. Then Liu Jin raised a lot of money and relied on generous rewards to finally win the crucial battle. Defeat the Tatars, otherwise there would be no stable life now.
Everything that has happened in the past few years has made Emperor Hongzhi feel deeply powerless. His ministers are very powerful if they are asked to write articles, but if they are asked to actually come up with ways to solve the country's problems, they alone I can't think of any of them, most of them are ancestral.
The original army of the Ming Dynasty had long been in disrepair, and the military household system was completely corrupted. The military households were impoverished, but they had to endure the oppression of thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc. at all levels, and they had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of national defense.
Such a military household system was no longer able to support the Ming Dynasty's national defense mission, but the ministers in the court could not think of any way to solve this problem.
Only Liu Jin suggested to Emperor Hongzhi that the military system should be reformed. The military household system was a compulsory military service system. Although it was very expensive, tens of millions of dollars were poured into it every year, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was straight up. During the reform of the military system, it was impossible for Ming Dynasty to continuously agree to its neighbors and expand its territory to such a vast area.
There are also tax issues.
In the past, when Emperor Hongzhi wanted to do something, he would basically be turned away by Zhou Jing, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, saying that he had no money. The only thing Zhou Papi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, could do was to stare at the little internal money of Emperor Hongzhi.
This made Emperor Hongzhi very helpless, and at the same time he urgently needed to make some changes. However, Emperor Hongzhi himself did not know how to do it, and the ministers below did not want to change this situation, so the court was always short of money and the treasury was poor. It can starve a mouse to death.
Later, Liu Jin was placed in the position of Minister of Household Affairs and tax reform was carried out. Last year alone, the revenue of the Ming Dynasty's treasury tax bank exceeded 80 million taels of silver, more than ten times the previous amount. This was just the tax bank, and A large amount of taxes in kind such as grain, cloth, tea, etc. are not included in the calculation.
The treasury of the Ming Dynasty suddenly became extremely rich, and there was so much money that it could not be spent all. It was also the first time that the Ming Dynasty increased the salary of officials up and down the Ming Dynasty. The court had money and could do things easily.
Not only did they build several cement roads from north to south and east to west in Daming, but they also allocated a large amount of money to build the river bank of the Yellow River, build reservoirs, build bridges and pave roads, etc.
¡°In less than two years, the roads, bridges, highways, rivers, reservoirs, etc. built in various parts of the Ming Dynasty exceeded the total number of roads, bridges, highways, rivers, reservoirs, etc. built in the Ming Dynasty over a hundred years ago.
The effect is naturally very obvious.
In the past, it might take ten days and a half to transport grain from the south to the north, and the losses were huge. Now it only takes a few days to take the cement road, and there are four-wheeled carriages, so the losses are very low.
In the past, every summer, Emperor Hongzhi would worry about the Yellow River flooding and bursting its banks, and he would always receive notices about droughts and floods in certain places.
Although there are some now, the built reservoirs, river lifts, etc. also play a huge role in greatly reducing disasters. Coupled with the high-yielding food crops introduced from Huanghuangzhou, even if there is a disaster, it will not cause too much The famine, the court's wealth, and the convenience of traveling from north to south and east to west, coupled with the continuous migration of people overseas, all made the Ming Dynasty in the past few years smooth and peaceful.
But Emperor Hongzhi knew very well that there were still many problems in the Ming Dynasty, among which the problem of officials¡¯ corpses being left alone was a very serious problem.
The Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty before. In Zhu Houzhao¡¯s words, the Ming Dynasty is developing and advancing towards an era that has never appeared in previous dynasties.
New things, new situations, new enemies, new problems, new ideas, etc. are constantly emerging, all of which need to be dealt with and solved by the emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Since the emperor is at a high level, it is naturally impossible to cover everything. In the end, he must rely on officials at all levels below to rule this increasingly large empire.
Therefore, it also brought a new test to the officials of the Ming Dynasty. If they want to remain in the same position as before and just shout slogans and talk about governing the country with benevolence, justice and morality, it will definitely not work.
This is why Emperor Hongzhi placed Liu Jin in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He hoped that Liu Jin could change the current situation.
Ming Dynasty needs capable officials, officials who can handle and respond to various new things, in order to cater to the arrival of the new era.
To put it simply, Emperor Hongzhi knew that the current production relations could no longer meet the needs of more and more advanced productive forces. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The new officials have also brought new challenges. If they want to remain seated and eat nothing like before, just shouting slogans and talking about governing the country with benevolence, justice and morality, that will definitely not work.
This is why Emperor Hongzhi placed Liu Jin in the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He hoped that Liu Jin could change the current situation.
Ming Dynasty needs capable officials, officials who can handle and respond to various new things, in order to cater to the arrival of the new era.
To put it simply, Emperor Hongzhi knew that the current production relations could no longer meet the needs of more and more advanced productive forces. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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