Lord of the House

From mid-March to late April, the Privy Council issued more than 20 decrees, involving fields such as fields, small households, military service, workshops, mining rights, and mailing.

Tianmu, Dinghu and mining rights will be allowed to be privately owned in the form of issuing licenses, which will have a great impact on the interests of traditional forces. Stand up * the New Deal, let alone resist.

The situation in Jiangning was generally stable. Under the government, the government meeting, the military staff, and the three houses of the Privy Council were divided into the three houses of parliamentary power, military power and political power.

At this time, Gao Zongting and other talents realized that Lin Fu's real intention was to set up a government meeting.

The government meeting is placed above the military staff and the Privy Council, but under the state government; if necessary, Lin Fu can close the government meeting, or select another senator to form a new government meeting.

During Lin Fu's absence in Jiangning, the military staff and the Privy Council were all responsible to the government meeting. In fact, Lin Fu was in charge of "supervising the country" and taking charge of the government's government, which made the matter of establishing the prince no longer so urgent...

At the beginning of May, a large group of cavalry with flags, armor and soldiers, dressed in the armor of the forbidden army, protected more than a dozen chariots and horses, came out of Juchao City and went north along the east bank of Chaohu Lake.

This is Lin Fu's team that went out to Jiangning in late April to inspect the government and inspect the army. The day before yesterday, they crossed the river from Yijiang to Juchao. They called Chen Huawen and other Luzhou military and political officials in Juchao. They did not leave Luzhou until today to go north to Shouzhou.

Although the threat of war has been reduced to a minimum, Luzhou is still the most important barrier on the periphery of Jiangning, and it is also the strategic and military and political center of Huaixi thousands of miles away. Of course, Lin Fu chose Luzhou as the first stop of his patrol, because he had another layer of intentions. of.

Lin Fu summoned Chen Huawen, an official of the Luzhou government who was seeing him off, to the car and said, "Huawen is reluctant to part, then give me another ride..." In the wide carriage, there is also the person who accompanied Lin Fu out of Beijing to patrol the government this time. Gaozong Tingji, Wang Chengfu, and Sun Shangwang were three.

"Master has something to say?" Chen Huawen got on the carriage and sat down with Sun Shangwang, asking.

"There is one thing, I wanted to discuss it after returning from Xuzhou, but let me tell you in advance, let you do some preparations in Luzhou," Lin Fu said, "After the Jianghuai Governor's Palace is abolished, the Jiangdong County's residences will be returned to the central government. Leader. Jiangdong County itself is a land of fish and rice, the richest in the world, and the New Deal is mainly concentrated in Jiangdong County. My name is Sun Shangwang and I made an estimate. At this time, almost 80% of the central revenue came from Jiangdong County. With the deepening of the New Deal, this proportion is short. It’s hard to come down in time. This looks like a good thing at first glance, but it’s actually not a good thing. It’s easy to marginalize Zhejiang, Fujian, Exiang and other counties…”

Chen Huawen nodded. At this time, the central revenue mainly came from Jiangdong County, and Jiangdong County's houses were directly led by the Privy Council, which would lead to a large proportion of the central officials transferred to Jiangdong County, making the future Privy Council become Jiangdong County. Privy Council. On the one hand, the power of the Privy Council will be excessively inflated, and on the other hand, Zhejiang, Fujian, Exiang and other counties will be marginalized, which is definitely not a good thing.

Lin Fu continued: "I want to separate out the five prefectures of Shou, Hao, Xinyang, Dongyang and Luzhou, as well as the two prefectures of Yijiang and Chizhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River (also roughly in accordance with the later Anhui Province), and set up a new one. Fu Envoy Division; Chongzhou five counties and Jiangning Prefecture set up two Zhili Prefectures, and the remaining Jiangdong County part will set up a Xuan Fu Envoy Division... This is just my idea, you can discuss it in a small area first, if it is feasible, submit It will be decided by the government meeting!"

Jiangdong County's prefectures are directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the Privy Council almost directly controls nearly 80% of the country's financial resources; with Lin Bie, the Privy Council naturally cannot overturn the sky, but in fact it is not a good power structure-Lin Bie is to control Jiangdong County's various prefectures. Independence from the Privy Council, and then split into four parts, in order to achieve balance with Jiangxi, Liangzhe and Fujian, Liangxiang and other counties.

"In addition, in the next step, I plan to separate Mingzhou Prefecture, Quanzhou Prefecture, and Yizhou Prefecture from the Xuanfu Division of Zhejiang Province and East Fujian Province, and put them under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council," Lin Fu said. "On the one hand, it is convenient for the Privy Council to directly make the new government On the other hand, once the new policy is implemented in depth, the scale of finance and taxation in Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Yizhou will far exceed that of ordinary prefectures and counties, and the Privy Council needs to directly grasp it..."

At this time, the revenue of the central combined household department and the Privy Council totaled 16 million silver dollars from Jiangdong County, of which the five counties of Chongzhou contributed nearly 40%, more than 6 million silver dollars. In the past, the taxes and grains paid by Hunan and Hunan to the center were only three million taels in total; Jiangdong County, as a traditional wealthy area of ​​Yuanyue, the highest annual total of taxes and grains paid to the center was no more than six million taels. Silver, which shows the power of the New Deal.

If the new policy is to be implemented in depth, the tax revenue of Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Yizhou will be greatly increased, which will easily exceed the fiscal and taxation level of traditional prefectures. If the three prefectures are also placed under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhe and Mindong commanderies, the financial power of the Liangzhe and Mindong commanders will be too large.

The new policy that Lin Fu wants to implement not only involves the distribution of central power, but also further adjusts the distribution of power between the central and local county governors: if Jiangdong County is not removed from the Privy Council, it will be easy to make excessive power Concentrate on individual hands, while at the same time weakening the possibility of local separatism and independence...

On the basis of Huaixi, the two prefectures of Yijiang and Chizhou will be merged to establish a new Xuanfu Envoy. Chen Huawen is naturally the natural candidate for Xuanfu Envoy, so Lin Fu also discussed this issue with him first and asked him to make some preparations to promote this work.

Seeing Chen Huawen, Gao Zongting, Wang Chengfu, Sun Shangwang and others writing down his words, Lin Fu sighed and said to Chen Huawen, "Just send it here, don't delay the trip back to Luzhou!" Chinese to retire.

Chen Huawen got out of the car and retreated to the side of the road with the accompanying Luzhou officials and squires. The chariot and horse team slowly set off, heading north to Shouzhou.

Lin Fu continued to leave Gaozongting, Wang Chengfu, and Sun Shangwang to discuss matters in his car.

Lin Fu said: "Although there are some discussions about the issuance of the new tax system for the land system, it is still within the controllable range; I think the next step is to vigorously promote the reform of the city's commercial tax, and the resistance below should be less..."

Gao Zongting said: "The lord reforms the city business tax and splits the traditional tax into two parts: the market tax and the city business tax. The local area will get a large part of the benefits, at least below the prefectures and counties, there will be no resistance..."

The bulk of the traditional taxation includes salt, iron, tea, horse wine, etc. These used to be the source of income for the internal treasury and had nothing to do with the household and locality. Therefore, most of the tax supervisors such as salt and iron envoys and tea porcelain were served by eunuchs.

Take Lianghuai Salt Works as an example, the annual salt tax revenue is as high as 2 million silver, all of which are put into the internal warehouse; take Fuliang tea industry as an example, when the tea business in Fuliangfu in Jiangxi was the most prosperous, the annual output of 5 million catties of new tea, the highest tea tax was 1. An annual levy of 400,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the tax, the over-tax monies are also included in the inner government, and the inner government sends eunuchs to various places to set up tax cards to monitor and collect them; this is also the reason that the power of courtiers in the mid-Yuan and Yue period expanded, and courtiers such as Hao Zongcheng, Zhang Yan, and Liu Zhi were able to check and balance foreign ministers. a key reason.

The excessive expansion of the power of the eunuchs made the battle between the eunuchs and the foreign ministers extraordinarily bloody, and the eunuchs acted as tax supervisors in rampant places and were not supervised by the central government, and the emperor was not familiar with world affairs, so he gave a few eunuchs, If you have it in your hands, how can you effectively control the power of the eunuchs? This led to various drawbacks, and eventually resulted in a situation in which the huge revenue from taxation and city business tax was shared among the powerful, local forces and eunuchs, and only a small part was included in the inner government.

Lin Fu wanted the power of reality, and the most fundamental thing was to concentrate all the revenue that could be brought into the center and allocated uniformly in the Privy Council. Of course, under the Privy Council, in addition to the Zhidu Department, the newly established Taxation Department, Mining Supervision Department, and Workshop Department are to further disperse financial power within the Privy Council.

For the new city business tax, Lin Fu will significantly reduce the levy rate of the tax, and combine it with the industrial and mining tax in the form of a field tax. However, local officials are allowed to additionally take 20% of the salt, tea and other commodities sold in the country. Proportion, the city merchant tax is levied.

Wang Chengfu said with a smile: "Only from salt matters, the local government can add an additional 1 million silver dollars in total. After the implementation of the new city commercial tax, it will be apportioned to the counties, and the annual increase will range from 2,000 to 10,000 silver dollars. How can the prefecture and county be against it?”

Lin Fu said: "We need to set up more inspection divisions and township divisions under the county to manage local affairs, breaking the previous pattern that the king's law cannot go to the county. How can we not try to increase the local revenue?"

In order for the New Deal to be implemented, it is necessary to add township divisions under the counties to infiltrate the tentacles of the regime into the villages.

At present, the new and old are replaced, and the new policy is easy to implement. It is also easy for the inspection department and the township department to directly control the local government below the county level.

At present, there are more than 500 counties under Jiangning's direct control; if the counties have six to ten inspection divisions and township divisions, the number of officials directly increased is as high as 30,000 to 50,000. Taking into account the expansion of the organization in the future, the bureaucratic group of the new empire will easily break through the threshold of 100,000 or even 200,000 people.

Putting all the traditional central revenue into it cannot support such a large bureaucratic group; but in fact, with the traditional natural economy, it can support such a large bureaucratic group.

Before the war, in addition to the officials officially appointed by the imperial court, there were a large number of village braves and village soldiers in the local area, and their support came from the local area; and the private officials of the old system of officials, their support only came from the officials exploiting the local area.

After Lin Fu took control of Jiangning, the Lijin Bureau was set up to strengthen the collection of lijin for goods entering Jiangning. Last year, it collected 600,000 silver dollars; in two years, the Jiangning House repaid the loan for the aftermath of the war in Huaidong Bank. This is still the result of a substantial drop in Jiangning's population by nearly one-third, and the traditional Jiangning gentry and nobles were severely damaged by the war. Before the war, this number would probably increase by two or three times, and there might be more than that.

However, before the war, the Neifu set up a tax supervision department in Jiangning, and the annual lijin income was only 30,000 to 50,000 taels of silver, a difference of two full levels. This is not to say that Jiangning's previous commercial activities were not prosperous, but that as many as millions of taels of city business tax were embezzled by local villagers, nobles and officials of the tax supervision department.

It is very difficult to levy the municipal business tax. Except for a few directly-governed prefectures, the municipal business tax of other prefectures and counties, Lin Fu intends to all be included in the local tax source, so that the local government can use the newly levied municipal business tax to support the additional township offices below the county; The reason ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The addition of many township divisions below the county is also to further suppress the local township forces, infiltrate the administrative tentacles, and expand the increase in the municipal business tax.

To this end, the Department of Taxation will set up municipal tax offices under the prefectures and counties, and preliminarily determine more than 30 types of municipal and commercial taxes that can be collected, in order to expand local fiscal tax sources.

As for the new land tax, the basic land tax belongs to the central government, and the step land tax, that is, the additional income beyond the 40 mu of land per household, is allocated to the local fiscal tax source by Lin Fu.

Lin Fu actually wanted to make the local officials appointed by the central government become the main force to fight against the local township forces and suppress the land annexation, not to make them collude with the local forces; further down, it is the implementation of the off-site official system.

All these tax-sharing methods were set by Lin Fu based on the experience of later generations, and he was forced to promote them while the old and the new were replaced. With the implementation of the new tax law, if the central revenue wants to continue to expand, it can only use its brains in industries such as industry and mining, as well as foreign commerce and trade. Lin Fu also has to prove that the central government has a steady stream of impetus for the implementation of the new policy.

Lin Fu also wanted to wait for the new political system to have a general framework and let everyone form a preliminary consensus on the new policy, and then establish a new dynasty, or even slow down the pace of the Northern Expedition. resistance.

Taking a carriage by land is not as comfortable as taking a boat, but you can stop and pay attention to the local agricultural administration. In this case, you will soon leave Luzhou Prefecture and enter the territory of Shouzhou.

Lin Fu also received a report long ago that Liu Miaozhen and Song Jia had already arrived in Shouzhou to see him.

Lin Fu's original plan was to go to Xuzhou before March. He didn't expect to come up with a clue about the new policy, but it was delayed for another two months. When he saw Liu Miaozhen and Song Jia coming to the southern border of Shouzhou to pick him up, he felt guilty. . My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter