Chapter 222 The importance of education
Henan has the current situation, such as various new policies, whether it is tax, commercial, agricultural affairs, it can be implemented smoothly. If you are careful, the thief will eventually play a significant role.
Of course, it is not unrelated to Ying Yi's thunder method.
For example, if there are no thieves ravaging the tax affairs, with the foundation in the Central Plains of Henan, there will be a lot of nobles and landlords and merchants who come, it will be difficult for them to eat and live in them no matter who comes.
The taxation problem has accumulated many problems over the years. Not only has anyone realized that many years ago, a big bull from the Ming Dynasty had reformed this issue. That was Zhang Juzheng.
A whip is spread out, and acres are put into the acres, and the gentry pays taxes together. All kinds of harsh and complicated taxes are integrated into the only way to remove many things that can be done in complicated taxes, and to include the original privileged class in the tax law. One is beneficial to the people and the other is beneficial to the country, which is of great significance.
In fact, the tax laws that Ying Yi practices now are very similar to those of Zhang Wenzhong Gong’s new laws.
Zhang Juzheng's new law reform was forced to implement with his powerful skills and the status of governing the world. However, Ying Yi was too relaxed here. Li Chuang was in trouble with the Central Plains and the people were displaced, but those local households and local emperors also suffered disasters.
Second, when Ying Yi entered Kaifeng, he used thunder and purged the remaining residents and killed people.
In this way, the smooth implementation of the new law can be ensured.
During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng's reforms were injected with a strong booster to the increasingly declining Ming Dynasty. However, when people left, tea was cold and people died, the politics stopped. Zhang Wenzhong's new law was finally abolished under the opposition of the gentry and landlords, which is very sigh.
However, although Wen Zhonggong’s new method is good, there are many unsolved problems, such as the so-called fire consumption.
In summary, taxes, service, and silver are discounted. However, no matter what, the fire consumption cannot be eliminated. The people will pay the taxes into silver. Because most of them are scattered silver, the government needs to smel them after collecting them. During the smelting process, a certain amount of losses will be generated - for example, if one hundred taels of scattered silver was originally received, only ninety taels of left after smelting.
Among them, there are some things to do.
This is one of them.
The second fire consumption is the consumption of the long-distance transportation tax and silver process, which must be reduced to it.
There is more room for action here.
Perhaps the 100 taels of silver originally collected from the public were only forty or fifty taels left after removing the fire consumption. What should I do if there is such a big gap?
Stand on the people.
According to the new law, people only need to pay ten taels of silver. If they spend money on fire, they need to pay twenty taels or even more.
This is a problem that even Zhang Juzheng cannot solve.
After all, it is still limited by the times and by social productivity.
In fact, there are ways to solve this problem, such as banning the monetary status of gold, silver and copper and using paper money to replace it.
The Ming Dynasty was either a treasure banknote that had never been issued or a paper currency. Unfortunately, paper currency was easy to be counterfeited and had greater hidden dangers.
This is the limit of the times. The problem of fraud cannot be solved, and paper money cannot replace the monetary status of gold, silver and copper.
The tax law that Ying Yi practiced was directly linked to the new currency, and cut off the so-called fire consumption with one knife. Ying Yi was sure and sure that the new currency made of gold and yuan alloy would never be melted by the people. It would never be like gold, silver and copper, and it would be broken with scissors.
Moreover, the new currency has a large denomination, up to 10,000 yuan, and it is only a card that is slap in size, but it is equivalent to 100 taels of silver.
The issuance of new coins solved the problem of fire consumption and greatly eliminated the hidden dangers of officials doing things. In addition, the earth-sitting tiger in Henan was swept away, and even the rest was intimidated by Ying Yi's fierce power and had to accept it, so that Ying Yi could easily melt Henan.
However, if placed in other places, such as Jiangnan, tax laws are difficult to implement. The privileged class, which was suppressed by Zhang Juzheng, has risen again and become more fierce, will never be able to easily depress the low and become small.
Of course, Ying Yi didn't care. His knife was sharp enough.
Ying Yi's smelting of Henan is all-round, and tax laws and commercial laws are just one of them. In comparison, the importance of education to the people is still above it.
First, this method can break the inherent knowledge privileges formed over the past thousand years, and second, it is the first step for Ying Yi to implement the Yuanqi plan on a large scale.
The gentry class is the intellectual privileged class. The privileges they possess are rooted in knowledge. The ruling class is composed of knowledgeable people, and privilege comes from this.
However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, society gradually changed, and this class transformed from a relatively pure scholarly family to a combination of merchants and scholars.
Businessmen use money to support scholars. When scholars reach high positions, they feed back to merchants, protect them from policies and gain benefits for them.
The so-called parties in the Ming court, such as the Donglin Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Jin Party, etc., are all such deformed and cancerous.
The existence of this class, one is to monopolize land and knowledge, and the other is to monopolize business, forming a giant lying on the country and sucking blood hard.
The Ming Dynasty was not destroyed by natural disasters, nor by Tartars. The root of its decline and destruction was this blood-sucking worm.
In the original history, the Qing Dynasty used butcher knives and blood to shatter this class, and was heartbroken. With its slave system, it was just before entering the Central Plains.
It can be seen that this cancer is not without a solution. It is fierce, but also weak. Its fierceness is directed at weakness and faces violent strength, so it can only lower itself and make small.
This is a class corrupted by money and interests. The so-called capital class is this thing. There is only profit but no righteousness.
Those who have no righteousness have no bones.
Of course, in this current era of change and turbulent change, it has not been completely corrupt. After the Jiashen National Incident, there were still scholars who died in the country. However, they were finally not as tragic as the 100,000 people who died in the demise of the Song Dynasty.
The scalp is itchy and the water is too cold, so it is nothing but the same.
To reverse, education is one thing. But we cannot use one-size-fits-all approaches because of the evil strategy of Shang. We must use the method to limit it, use knowledge to educate it, and guide it in an orderly and meaningful manner under the premise of following the evolution of the times.
The existence of a country and civilization is aimed at the entire nation. Everyone is like a dragon, which is the ultimate goal of humanity.
The meaning of a country to the nation is to be savage, civilize its spirit, and cast an inbreakable body and a not bendable spirit.
The first step is to start with education.
Laws involving related aspects are the first guarantee. In addition, Ying Yi had already considered specific educational methods.
In terms of humanities and culture, Ying Yi will not make too many changes. No matter how three hundred and thousands or the Four Books and Five Classics are the essence of civilization, and the spirit of this nation is hidden in it and there is no need to change it.
Chapter completed!