Daming: Teach the prince about dragon slaying skills at the beginning

[How come every system has a lot of problems after being pointed out by Mr. Yan? ! ! 】

[Yes, if Mr. Yan had not pointed out the problems and drawbacks of these systems, I am afraid that after dozens or hundreds of years, these problems will be hard to recover! ! ! 】

[I now seriously doubt that if the country is governed according to the various systems originally established by the father, can the Ming Dynasty still have a 300-year state? ! ! 】

[I don’t think it will work. The royal family salary system that Mr. Yan first pointed out at the beginning alone is enough to crush the Ming Dynasty in one or two hundred years. 】

[Then there is the Daming vassal system, forget it, I won’t talk about it, and then there is today’s Daming Tongxing Baochao system and so on. 】

[Suddenly I feel that it is not easy for the descendants of the original descendants to meet such an old ancestor as the father. 】

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Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yu, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes kept expressing their thoughts with their eyes as they collided with each other.

In the end, a point of view was unified, or the idea is:

"Father is really pitiful, fortunately there is Mr. Yan!!!"

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Chapter 1 Ninety: The chaotic local administrative system and the salary of officials in Ming Dynasty【Please subscribe, please order in full】

Yan Changqing on the podium looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and sighed slightly:

"If you look at it according to His Majesty's original three-level system of province, prefecture, and county."

"Then the county is the basic tax collection unit, responsible for the actual implementation of tax collection and payment."

"The government is responsible for accounting and auditing, and adjusts the distribution of taxes according to the amount of production wealth in the counties under its jurisdiction."

"The province is in charge of transshipment. The collected money, food and materials do not need to go through the government, but are sent directly from the county to the province, and then distributed by the province."

"The three levels of local administrative divisions—province, prefecture, and county—have a clear division of responsibilities in terms of finance and taxation."

"It can be said that if only the three-level local administrative division system of province, prefecture, and county is implemented, then it can also function normally in terms of finance and taxation."

"If it is said that the division of local administrative regions in Ming Dynasty has been unified into a four-level local administrative division system of province, prefecture, prefecture, and county."

"Then it's actually a little bit better. As long as the extra states are given a clear division of fiscal responsibilities, it will be a good thing for fiscal and taxation."

"But the problem is precisely that the three-level local administrative division system of province, prefecture, and county, which was originally implemented well, and the four-level local administrative division system of province, prefecture, state, and county, coexist at the same time!!!"

"After the division of local administrative regions has become a general pattern in which the four-tier system of province, prefecture, state, and county coexists with the three-tier system of province, state, and county, problems have arisen in the fiscal and taxation work that originally had a clear division of responsibilities."

"That is the original level of the local administrative division of [Fu], and it is impossible to determine what level it is."

"Sometimes it is the second level from the bottom up, and sometimes it is the third level, and there are more states that do not have a fiscal division of labor."

"In this way, when the four-level system of province, government, state, and county coexists with the three-level system of province, state, and county, then the government is responsible for accounting and auditing, and the state and county are responsible for collecting taxes?!"

"Or the state is responsible for accounting and auditing, and the government is responsible for transshipment?!"

"But in this way, what should the province be responsible for and what should it do?!"

"Or is it still said that the province is responsible for transshipment, and the government and state are responsible for accounting and auditing?!"

"But in this way, after the state accounting and auditing, what's the point of the government accounting and auditing again?!"

"If there are problems and inconsistencies in the accounting and auditing amounts between the state and the government, then what should I do and who should I listen to?!"

Hearing Yan Changqing's question after question, even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help being speechless for a while.

What can he say? ! !

Can he say that he copied the local administrative divisions of the Yuan Dynasty? ! !

The Yuan Dynasty divided the whole country into the directly-administered areas of Zhongshu Province, the territory under the jurisdiction of Xuanzheng Yuan, and 10 Xingzhongshu provinces.

There are roads, states (prefectures), and counties in the province, and the roads are under the management of the province.

Some governments and states are managed by roads, some are managed by provinces, and some states are managed by governments.

Some counties are managed by roads, some by the government, and some by the state.

The division and management of local administrative regions in the Yuan Dynasty of Ta'am was quite complicated and chaotic.

Therefore, after he divided the local administrative regions of the Yuan Dynasty to the translator and copied them, the general pattern of the coexistence of the four-level system of province, prefecture, state, and county and the coexistence of the three-level system of province, state, and county is now.

Afterwards, he felt that it was not good to completely copy the division of local administrative regions of the Yuan Dynasty. It seemed that he, Ming, had no idea of ​​his own!

Therefore, in order to show the difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, he then designated the province as the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division. Under the Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, there were Fu and Zhili Prefectures. There are counties below Lizhou.

Although there are some differences in the names, the overall contextual framework is actually the same as that of the Yuan Dynasty.

But after hearing Yan Changqing's last question, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help asking:

"How can the money, food and taxes collected by the county be inconsistent?!"

After all, how much money, food and taxes should be, he has already formulated it himself.

Yan Changqing glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang lightly, and said in a flat tone:

"Although Your Majesty has formulated a land tax of [-] per cent, how can it be possible for the following to collect only [-] per cent?!"

"The annual salary of an official of the first rank in the Ming Dynasty is 44 shi, while the lowest salary for an official of the ninth rank is [-] shi."

"Relying on such a salary, officials of the first rank can live well in most cases, but if they live in the capital, they will be a little tight."

"A ninth-rank official who receives sixty shi, of course, is even less likely to live on the official salary of the imperial court."

Hearing Yan Changqing's sudden advancement of officials' salaries, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, but couldn't help retorting:

"How could it not be enough?!"

"We made such a salary after we calculated it ourselves for them!!!"

"Officials of Zhengyipin, 44 shi of rice, need to use at least [-] shi of rice for processing and shelling before they can be developed."

"And for the two thousand stones of rice, it takes about [-] to [-] acres of land to grow so much food!!!"

"And in order to cultivate the [-] to [-] mu of land, about [-] to [-] people are needed to cultivate it."

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"Fifty people support one person, isn't this kind of salary treatment generous enough?!"

"Even the ninth-rank officials with the lowest salaries still need support from three to four common people!!!"

"And they are officials themselves, enjoying subsidies and preferential treatment from the imperial court such as tax exemption."

"These add up, enough for them to live a rich and decent life!!!"

"If you say that the annual salary is low, we can only say that they are greedy and greedy!!!"

Yan Changqing nodded, and then said:

"If we just need to support their family, wives, concubines and children, then this kind of salary is indeed enough."

"But apart from the whole family, wives and concubines, who doesn't have a few servants?!"

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"Especially the higher the rank of an official, the more wives, concubines, children, servants and maidservants there are in his family."

"For example, in the family of a first-rank official, will the number of wives, concubines, children, servants and maidservants add up to only 50 people?!"

"The living expenses of these wives, concubines, children, servants and maidservants need to be supported by this first-rank official."

"In addition, among these officials throughout the year, who doesn't have one or two big or small weddings that require a banquet?!"

"Who doesn't need to attend ten or eight wedding banquets?!!"

"After all, you are an official in the same dynasty, you are an official in the same department, and your colleagues are happy. Even if you can't come in person, then you need to prepare a small gift to represent your heart, right?!"

"After all, being an official and being a person requires a bit of 'sophistication', and this itself is also a manifestation of etiquette."

"Even if there is no such thing as bribery, it's just the most basic human relationship, which one doesn't need extra expenses?!"

"If you accidentally get sick, seeing a doctor and buying medicine will cost you a fortune."

"And these imperial courts will not bear it, it is all supported by the officials' own salaries!!!"

"In the end, adding up all these miscellaneous things, does Your Majesty still think that the salaries of officials are enough to support their so-called 'decent' and 'rich' lives?!"

Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked indifferently.

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Chapter 191: The Real Tax Amount of Daming That No One Knows【Please subscribe, please order in full】

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent again. Originally, according to his estimation, the official salary of a first-rank minister in the court is equivalent to 50 people supporting one person.

In addition, the imperial court gave various preferential policies to ministers of the first rank, such as the exemption of these officials' own fields from taxation, the exemption of their families from corvee, and so on.

Adding up all these miscellaneous things, it is not an exaggeration to say that a hundred people support one person! ! !

With the power of a hundred people to support a high-ranking minister in the court, plus the power they themselves have, Zhu Yuanzhang never felt that the salary he set for court officials was too low.

But now Yan Changqing pointed out a very real problem, that is, the wives, concubines and children in the family of the first-rank ministers, plus various maids, servants, bearers, etc., in all likelihood, there are more than a hundred people.

If you count the normal, year-round, ten or eight times of human relations that Yan Changqing said.

Then the cost of one minister, or a family, even exceeds the cost of hundreds of people.

In other words, in fact, the imperial court supports a minister of the first grade with hundreds of people.

　"Four Nine Sevens" and the first-rank minister himself has to support a family with one person's strength, which is equivalent to the cost of hundreds of people, or even more! ! !

As a result, the salary of a first-rank official is relatively insufficient.

However, in the face of this situation, can he say that there is a problem with the expenses of this official official? ! !

Although he hated corrupt officials, he didn't like extravagance.

But he can also understand the money and expenses normally needed by officials, at least he can understand the money and expenses of the first-rank ministers that Yan Changqing said just now.

And the most important point is that he personally formulated the highest treatment that officials of all levels can enjoy.

For example, the different colors of court clothes worn by officials of different levels, and the maximum number of maids and servants that officials of each level can have, etc.

In order to prevent those officials from going beyond the ostentation, or the number of servants in the residence, etc.!

But the so-called highest treatment, sometimes in the eyes of those officials, is the ostentation and treatment that they should have! ! !

Therefore, those rich officials will definitely increase the ostentation treatment they can enjoy directly to the highest limit level mentioned by Zhu Yuanzhang.

And those officials who have no money, often for the sake of face, will forcibly raise their ostentatious treatment to the highest limit that Zhu Yuanzhang said.

As a result, those official families who were not wealthy, naturally made the situation worse.

Therefore, if we only look at these aspects, Zhu Yuanzhang now reluctantly admits that the official salary he set may be a bit low.

But it is only possible. If those officials don't pay attention to ostentation and treatment, and they don't attend a few wedding banquets throughout the year, then it will naturally be enough for their family's expenses.

Yan Changqing looked at the silent Zhu Yuanzhang, and continued:

"Because it is impossible for the court to pay for their private life expenses, those officials have to find ways to increase their own income."

"Those officials generally try to find ways to transport and transfer money and food."

"For example, if the quota given by the imperial court for collecting grain taxes is 1 shi."

"Then when the county starts to collect grain taxes, the tax of 1 shi is called 'shipment' collection, and it must be shipped out."

"But in addition to this, there is an additional 'retention' levy!!!"

"As the name suggests, this 'retention' collection is a collection that stays and survives."

"Moreover, not all of this 'retained' collection is left in the county, but the amount that needs to be retained at the state or prefectural level must also be counted."

"If the levy of 'shipment' is based on the imperial quota, the levy of 'retention' depends entirely on how much the county, state, and government need each!!!"

"The sum of the two is the total amount of food tax they will tell the people to collect from the people in the end."

"So on the surface, the imperial court only collects a fixed grain tax from the people every year."