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In November of the fifth year of the Qingli period, Du Qi, the transport envoy of Liangzhe Road, received a reply from Zhao Jun and began to communicate with the landlords according to his instructions.
But the effect was obviously not very ideal, and the landlords did not accept the court's advice.
Du Qi was quite patient at the beginning. He invited more than ten large landlords who took the lead to Chunfeng Tower in the east of Yandingfang, Hangzhou, and had a detailed discussion with them in person.
However, these landlords were respectful to Du Qi on the surface, but when it came to the court's policies, they hesitated and made excuses. They just said that they supported the court, but they also hoped that the court would take it easy and talk about it later.
After discussing this matter several times and seeing that there was no further progress, Du Qi lost his patience.
Without further consultation with them, he went to the countryside himself, visited various prefectures and counties, inspected the countryside, measured the land, and strictly urged local officials to implement the court's policy of dividing the land tax by land.
In fact, many local officials are also resistant to this matter, mainly because this matter is thankless.
Although the imperial court has been trying to weaken the influence of these large landowners in recent years, such as paying salaries to officials, providing promotion opportunities for officials, strictly investigating corruption among local officials, cracking down on collusion between officials and businessmen, etc.
But first of all, Zhao Jun only cracked down on official corruption, and did not crack down on these big landowners and so many local officials across the country.
They have been operating in the local area for so many years, and their relationships are complicated and cannot be resolved overnight.
Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many corrupt officials, but corrupt officials were still rampant during his lifetime and continued to appear even more after his death.
Even though Zhao Jun has continued to crack down on corruption in recent years and has introduced numerous supervisory measures, as the saying goes, every policy has its own countermeasures. Not only are corrupt officials now more covert in their methods of embezzlement, but even the supervisory forces assigned by the imperial court are at risk of being corrupted.
For example, in the fifth year of the Qingli period, the imperial court investigated and punished as many as 86 officials and deputy officials from various supervisory units, including local censors, imperial city officials, prefectures, and road officials.
This is what we have found out, and we don’t know how much more we have not found out.
Therefore, in many places, facing the new policy of the imperial court to distribute the land tax according to the amount of land, officials from the provincial government to the county government were actually more or less unwilling.
However, no matter how unhappy they were, the Constitutional Council was keeping a close eye on this matter, and the pressure was put on the four departments, including the Transport Commissioners and the Censors.
Officials at the road level did not dare to be negligent. They continued to implement policies in their own roads, forced the state and county governments to fulfill their obligations, and strictly supervised the payment of autumn taxes this year.
In this way, the government decree conveyed in June was basically completed successfully by the time the autumn taxes were paid in November.
By December, it is the end of the year and the busiest time of the year.
Currently, the imperial court requires all departments to complete the data for the twelve months of the previous year before February of the following year.
But officials have to go home for the New Year. In addition to the long New Year holiday, there is also a long Lantern Festival holiday during the Spring Festival.
It is impossible to go to work during the half-month vacation in January.
This forces all departments to complete the statistics of the data from January to October of the previous year within the two months of November and December, and then count the data from November and December of the previous year in the following year.
So recently, everyone, including the Constitutional Yuan, has been busy with data issues.
On December 14th, the weather grew increasingly cold, and a snowstorm began to fall in Bianliang. However, the snowstorm lasted only three days; on the fourth day, the sky cleared up and the snow quickly melted away.
The mountains outside the city are lush and green. Although some bare deciduous trees spoil the scenery, the presence of evergreen trees prevents the world from being too desolate.
Zhao Jun went to the Ministry of Statistics this morning and asked the Minister of Statistics, Wu Yu, to add some new data statistics starting next year.
In addition to the original required data on population, birth rate, death rate, economy, employment, education, health, culture, etc., new data requirements such as steel production, textile production, and total grain production will also be added.
Many times, governing a country with data may not be right, but data is definitely an important measure of governing a country.
Data is very easy to falsify. Wu Yu is a straightforward person who cannot tolerate any injustice. He has been the Minister of Statistics for several years and has done a good job, which makes people feel at ease.
After returning to the Constitutional Yuan, I had to check last month's data report again.
Regular meeting in Chongzheng Hall in the afternoon.
Zhao Zhen plays computer less and less now, mainly because of computer wear and tear.
Although the laptop will not suffer too much damage as long as you don't play large-scale 3A games, CPU silicone grease is a big problem, and Dasong cannot produce silicone grease.
Therefore, for the safety of your laptop, try to use it as little as possible unless it is necessary.
This morning, Zhao Zhen was in his study reading the documents processed by the Constitutional Council yesterday. He put forward some of his own opinions to prove his presence, and he would discuss the matter in the afternoon.
The house was also replaced with a coal stove and an iron table, which was covered with cotton cloth. Everyone gathered around the big iron table, put their feet on the warm pedals, and worked at close range.
"Your Majesty, this is last month's data report. Since the implementation of the new policy in November, agricultural taxes have skyrocketed in the second half of the year, reaching 27.43 million guan, a full 40% increase over last year."
Lu Yijian touched his reading glasses. Since Zhao Zhen invented high-purity glass, with the application of natural alkali, the court also opened a small glass factory.
It mainly produces glass products, such as magnifying glasses, glasses, telescopes, etc., which are exclusively used by the powerful.
no way.
High-purity glass requires soda, but no one can synthesize soda, so only natural soda in nature can be used, so it is naturally impossible to produce transparent glass on a large scale.
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