New Shun 1730

Those who can become the governor of a province are not nerds.

However, some things should not be said too clearly. Although the governor of Guangdong said that opium is very harmful, he did not think it was a big deal. It would be fine if it was discovered and controlled in advance.

Even if the emperor asked him to investigate, he would only investigate and investigate, and report to the court to express his position that this thing is very harmful. In his opinion, although the matter is big, it is easy to solve.

The implication of what he said to Liu Yu was that there was a problem with the tax law of the court, which was the real problem that the court had to solve.

If the single whip law could be continued and improved to ensure that after the court levied taxes, the local government would not levy additional taxes, and then the central and local governments would share taxes, this would be very good. It is appropriate to abolish corvée, improve the conscription law, and cooperate with the abolition of the Ding tax.

But he would not say it. As long as he said it, he would offend people.

It is not just those who are interested in it that are offended.

It may even directly offend the emperor: if this is done, taxes must be raised openly. Which emperor didn't want to record in history books that he had light taxes and levies and a tax rate of 1 in 30? But if the local needs were not apportioned and were counted as national taxes and then distributed, it would be impossible to have a tax rate of 1 in 30.

Since the Ming Dynasty, it has been known that the court has been doing the trick of "gentlemen stay away from the kitchen" and "stealing the bell while covering their ears". But just like the Ryukyu issue, who has nothing to do to uncover this painted skin?

Plug your ears and pretend not to know.

Isn't it good to be a good emperor who taxes 1 in 30?

Why be a tyrant who taxes 1 in 10?

Now he said this to Liu Yu, in fact, to put it more clearly, it was to remind Liu Yu not to dream of "wanting the horse to run but not eat grass".

The household government doesn't give money.

How can the local government encourage migration? What's the use of encouragement? Can you swim across the ocean and produce seeds and oxen by encouragement?

Besides, the few cents collected by the household government are not enough in the event of famine and war, and it is estimated that it can't afford it.

Now that the opium dealer has revealed his cover, the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people need to be solved. Isn't it because the court has no money to deal with it in a low-key manner? If the court does not deal with it in a low-key manner and does not pay, where will the court put its face?

The Guangdong Jiedushi thought, although I think this matter is good for the country, I do not think that moving back to Guangzhou is a good thing. But the trouble caused is not caused by me after all. Now you ask me to help you solve the problem of these unemployed people going to Southeast Asia, and you don't pay, how can I solve it?

I thought again, anyway, I have made it clear, and I have said both the pros and cons. If you are really anxious and want to petition His Majesty to link it with performance appraisal, and then arouse civil unrest, it has nothing to do with me, but I have reminded you.

In short, I have given you a favor, but I will not do the matter.

The court admits that the trade center has moved north, and there are indeed livelihood problems for the unemployed. I can do it. The local government will impose some taxes to solve them.

If the court does not admit this matter and pretends that it does not exist, I will not care. If something goes wrong, the court will pay to suppress it. Anyway, it is not caused by my tax increase, so the responsibility cannot be found on me.

Otherwise, the court will not admit that there is something wrong, but I will take the initiative to increase taxes to solve it. What if it is not solved and something goes wrong. Then is it your responsibility? Or is it caused by my tax increase? That is hard to say.

Before things are done, the blame should be divided clearly.

Otherwise, it is better to have no merit than to have no fault.

Even if the household government clearly stated that there is no money and no money will be allocated; the treasury also said that there is no money. As long as the emperor or Tianyou Palace, or you, the Duke of Xingguo, take the blame, you can do it yourself. If there is no money, the worst thing is to increase taxes.

But if you don’t give money or take the blame, you will definitely not do it yourself.

Besides.

Who got the benefits of the changes in trade routes and the northward shift of the trade center?

Most of the benefits went to the treasury, leaving a mess in Guangdong. Logically, the treasury should also pay for it.

It is not right to say that the benefits were taken by the treasury and the nobles who invested in the company, and then the mess was left to the household government to clean up with the money from the national treasury.

This is not reasonable at all.

Besides, the national treasury household government did not pay, so wouldn't it be left to these "grassroots" local officials to solve the problem? If nothing goes wrong, it's fine. Once something goes wrong, wouldn't it be an excuse for these local officials to "randomly levy" to appease the people's grievances?

Let alone borrowing the heads of local officials, Cao Mengde at least returned your wife and children to me for support. If he borrowed his head, I'm afraid his wife would have to be exiled to the border.

This is not a question of a tiger escaping from a cage, but a question of stabbing and killing people and saying that it is not my own army.

This kind of talk should be stopped at the right time.

Liu Yu was embarrassed to raise a big banner and talk about reason. Because once this matter starts to be talked about, the legitimacy of Dashun will be gone - you Dashun has this reason and that reason, doesn't Daming have this reason and that reason? Why don't you, Li Zicheng, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, and Li Laiheng honestly understand the court?

Therefore, after Dashun regained the capital and established the world, it has always adopted an attitude of "abstract affirmation and concrete negation" for some things.

This is the special political correctness of Dashun.

Starting from the "Emperor is not very dark" in those days, it did not smear the previous dynasty, and even took the initiative to clean up and whitewash. Take the most common grain transport as an example. Did Dashun acquiesce to the situation of "rushing south but not north, protecting grain but not protecting people" before?

Talking about morality, there is no big mistake or small mistake, only right and wrong.

Since all crows are black, then "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen", "pretending not to know", "it's not that the court doesn't love the people, it's really that the court doesn't know, if it knew, it would definitely be solved, but it doesn't know", are the most popular practices under this awkward political correctness.

So when the Guangdong Jiedushi arrived, he said that many things should be reduced to small matters and small matters should be reduced to nothing.

Even if we can detect that there is something wrong behind the opium dealer with political sensitivity, when the opium dealer mentioned the Dayuling trade route, it involves the dignity of the court pretending to be deaf and blind, so this matter cannot be investigated in depth.

As for Liu Yu's fantasy of encouraging local governments to relocate people, the Guangdong Jiedushi directly told Liu Yu that it was useless. You want the horse to run and not eat grass. You take the benefits, and we will take the responsibility if something goes wrong. We will not do it.

So if the inner treasury, nobles, household government or Jiangsu Province do not pay, then for the sake of the court's face, we will pretend that there are no refugees and unemployment in Guangdong.

If you insist on saying that there is, and you must point out this matter, then you pay the money - or, if you don't pay, you can issue an official document with the seal of the Six Governments and Tianyou Palace, and let us handle it on our own, add more people and donate money, and it will have nothing to do with us if something goes wrong in the future.

After being tactfully criticized by the Guangdong Jiedushi, Liu Yu helplessly said with self-mockery: "So, Han Fei said: Bole cannot judge a horse by its hair, teeth and lips; when a carriage is given to a driver, if one observes its tail, then Zang Huo will not doubt whether it is good or bad. Confucius cannot judge a scholar by his appearance and clothes and his words... The officials of a wise ruler, the prime minister must rise from the prefectures and the brave generals must rise from the ranks."

"Your Majesty does not let me take charge of local affairs, it is precisely for this reason. I am fanciful."

The Guangdong Jiedushi heard Liu Yu's formal words and hurriedly said: "The Duke cares about the people, and cares about them, which is a good thing. However, the Duke has been in the army for a long time, or has dealings with merchants. "The matter in this place is really difficult to handle, and it is very different from the military and merchants."

"It's not that we don't want to do it, it's like using Taishan to cross the North Sea. It's not that we don't want to do it, but we can't do it."

"The Duke is always wise, and he may solve it with unusual means. I just said that the two methods that I can think of with my dull thinking have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is extremely difficult to do it. It's not that this matter cannot be solved, but I don't know how to solve it. "

After giving Liu Yu enough steps, Liu Yu wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the human trafficking, but after thinking about it, he felt that now was not the time.

The Guangdong Jiedushi was slippery and did not leave his hands, unless he said publicly that he encouraged the variant of human trafficking and took the blame.

Otherwise, as long as the three cases in Macau were handled, the Guangdong Jiedushi and local officials would definitely prefer to do less.

But Liu Yu couldn't say such words that violated the political correctness of Dashun, especially at the critical moment when the emperor was looking for an excuse to punish Portuguese and British merchants.

Moreover, Liu Yu felt that even if he told them, the Guangdong Jiedushi, who seemed to be slippery now, would nod on the surface, but in his heart he would not do it unless the emperor gave in and used public documents to support it, so as not to get involved.

It was difficult to say anything at this time, so he had to return to the place of interrogation.

Several guards had already started to poke the tongue of the opium dealer and dragged him to the back.

Liu Yu asked people to interrogate the other few with larger amounts, but this time they were not as "a brave man again after 18 years" as the opium dealer just now.

Although they knew they would die, dying was different from being tortured inhumanly before death.

After several sets of torture instruments were set, they were finally put on the clamps, and they answered whatever they were asked.

Before Liu Yu came, the Guangdong Jiedushi took the lead and had already interrogated them.

But the direction of the interrogation by the Guangdong Jiedushi was still different from the direction Liu Yu wanted.

The direction of Liu Yu's interrogation was mainly about the situation of the Portuguese and British. The main purpose was to ask the upper line, because his real purpose was to take the opportunity to deal with Portuguese and British merchants.

The direction of the interrogation of the Guangdong Jiedushi was mainly the lower line. Because the purpose of the Guangdong Jiedushi was to find out the criminals, truly control the opium problem, and prevent it from happening.

The result of the interrogation was similar to what Liu Yu had learned before.

If it was purely procedural justice, the British East India Company really couldn't do it: according to the confession, there were indeed British goods. British goods were indeed from the British East India Company. However, the British East India Company would not use its own ships to load the goods, but let non-company merchants load the goods.

Moreover, when giving them the goods, they would also ask them to write a "statement" stating that these opium would not be sold to China, because Chinese law prohibits selling and smoking.

As for whether the British East India Company knew that these people were selling to China? Haha...

Portugal is much simpler, and several major suppliers are Portuguese. Moreover, Portugal does not have a physical company, and all are private behaviors. In theory, private behaviors do not involve the country. It cannot be said that because a certain countryman has committed a crime, all people in this country are completely banned from coming to the country.

This is the biggest difference between Portugal and Britain in the opium trade at this time. Because Britain has a monopoly corporate entity, it is difficult for non-company employees to participate in the Eastern trade. Once caught, it is the responsibility of the corporate entity, and the company can be banned.

However, this is not a problem.

Because the law of Dashun is completely different from their system. The British have never understood that if the emperor says you can trade, you can trade; if the emperor says you can't trade, you can't trade. As for whether you are an individual or a company, it is meaningless.

Dashun does not have something like the "Navigation Regulations", but if necessary, the emperor can just write a few words.

Dashun has its own national conditions.