Wanli Youming

Chapter 373

Chapter 373

The horse administration of the Ming Dynasty has long been changed to a system in which the people responsible for raising horses hand over the horses they raise to the Taipu Temple for silver, and the Taipu Temple, that is, the imperial government, buys the horses themselves.

In this way, it will not only make it easier for the people who raise horses to have the freedom to engage in other occupations, which in turn will help increase productivity, but also allow the government to increase tax revenue.

Therefore, Taipu Temple became a yamen in Daming with its own small treasury.

However, before the early Wanli period, most of the silver deposits in Taipu Temple over the years were not used to buy war horses, but were used for other purposes.

Because before this, Daming's finances have been unable to make ends meet, so in many cases, it is necessary to use the horse price silver from Taipu Temple to subsidize other uses.

But this also led to a decline in the combat effectiveness of Ming's army. After all, war horses are still very important strategic resources in this era.

Whether it is communication or sentry, or large-scale mobile operations in the plains, he is still inseparable.

Since the early days of Wanli, because Zhu Yijun supported Zhang Juzheng to carry out tax reforms, which increased the national tax revenue a lot, the horse price silver in Taipu Temple was no longer embezzled.

However, after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he frantically increased his troops and set up post stations. Not to mention the addition of [-] troops in Jizhou, even [-] cavalry troops were added in Liaodong. Post stations and garrison bases were also laid in North Korea and Japan. Set up a military station in Myanmar.

As a result, the demand for war horses naturally increased dramatically.

Although the horse price silver in Taipu Temple no longer needs to be diverted to other departments, it cannot be saved. This has led local officials to ask the court to continue to reduce or exempt the horse price silver for the people raising horses because of the heavy burden caused by paying the horse price silver. requests are also difficult to obtain.

However, now that the imperial court has done a lot in southern Myanmar, it has increased a lot of gold and silver income by collecting gold and silver in southern Myanmar, which can also reduce the price of horses and silver, and reduce the burden on the domestic people.

Therefore, after Fu Laipeng, the Shaoqing of Taipu Temple, said this with a smile, Xu Zhenming will be in a happy mood.

Of course, because Zhu Yijun quickly approved many chapters overnight, the imperial decree that Fu Laipeng was promoted to the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple was also issued very quickly.

So now, Fu Laipeng also changed into the red-robed official uniform of the fourth rank, and came to serve in Taipu Temple.

Now because Shi Xing congratulated him on his promotion, Fu Laipeng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Ashamed! Ashamed!"

As he said that, Fu Laipeng took out two posts and gave them to Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming: "I will prepare a little wine in the future, and I invite the two of you to come to the humble house to appreciate it."

"Naturally."

Shi Xing and Xu Zhenming replied.

Fu Laipeng bowed his hands towards the Forbidden City and said: "I can be promoted to the position of imperial servant and Shaoqing. It is really a great favor from the emperor. It can be seen that His Majesty still trusts his courtiers, so he is willing to issue this decree. It is also heard that the reward money is also approved. It has come down, which shows that the emperor still believes that the courtiers will continue to uphold the integrity of the country after using incentives to support the integrity."

"Emperor's favor is a long grace, but it is to earn reward money, so you have to work harder; in addition, it is not the right way to promote honesty with profit; in fact, most courtiers do not value profit, and most of them value virtue over profit, so even if there is no salary , with the scholar's ambition to serve the country, he will also be loyal to His Majesty's country."

"What's more, nowadays, whether it's rewarding officials or exempting ordinary people from taxes, they are all using the money plundered from the outside world. If this continues, I don't know if the people around me will hate me even more because of this."

Shi Xing expressed his opinion with a smile.

"There is no way to do this. Either we can't afford the military, reduce the number of troops, and use the saved state funds to solve the difficulties of the people; or we can only wrong the Fanyi."

"Anyway, as a courtier of Ming Dynasty, you can only care about the people of Ming Dynasty. For other barbarians, let them respect or hate them!"

"Anyway, in the old days when we did not have military affairs, I did not see them not attacking our Ming Dynasty. This time, they invaded Burma by themselves, and even scholars from our country participated in it. They actually wanted to collude with the barbarians to destroy our own country!"

Xu Zhenming spoke at this moment.

Shi Xing couldn't help but nodded.

"However, Mr. Shi is right. This way of enriching the country and benefiting the people just requires the officials to work harder. Fortunately, His Majesty knows that we have worked hard, so the rewards are generous."

Fu Laipeng said.

Shi Xingqiang smiled and said, "So Your Majesty is wise!"

"Your Majesty is a sage, but it's a pity, because the country wants to be strong on the outside and prosper on the inside, and the strategy of benevolence and internal law is not the strategy, so Mr. Xiuwu and the others will also be torn apart."

Xu Zhenming sighed at this moment.

Both Shi Xing and Fu Laipeng nodded and couldn't help sighing.

Li Sancai was indeed escorted to the execution ground next.

According to historical records, Li Sancai admired extravagance and was good at making friends. During his tenure as Governor of Water Transport, he held grand banquets to entertain passing officials and gentry, so that many officials and officials all over the world became close to him.

Today, although Li Sancai has not yet become the Governor of Water Transport, there are still many officials who have a good relationship with him.

So many people sympathize with him.

But no matter how much Li Sancai received sympathy, he would still be torn apart.

no way.

Political struggles are so cruel.

Especially now that restructuring is still the main theme of the Ming Empire, and the benefits brought by external expansion are not large enough, which leads to more intense struggles.

"Your Majesty, Xiuwu is incompetent. I never thought that Shenwu County would be so immoral. He wouldn't even be allowed to tell the truth, and he would forcefully frame him."

"The height of arrogance is overshadowed by Taiyue!"

Before Li Sancai was torn apart by the car, he only sighed a few words, but after he sighed, he was torn apart by the car together with Yang Cunren and others.

……

Because of the series of incidents that occurred in the central palace on fire, Shen Shixing and others did not step down at last.

Therefore, the restructuring is still being implemented.

Even, because Shen Shixing and other ministers in power showed tough tactics in this incident, the ban on abandoned babies and foot binding was better implemented.

Local magistrates and other officials did not dare to pretend to be false, so that the phenomenon of a large number of abandoned babies and foot-binding among the people was curbed.

"Foot binding is something left by our ancestors, why do you want to ban it!"

Capital Wuqing County.

Ning Wenfang, a very conservative student, cried and questioned the county magistrate because Peng Yingshen asked him to remove her daughter's foot-binding cloth.

Peng Yingcan then questioned: "When did the ancestors inherit this bad habit? Empress Gao of this dynasty is the first ancestor of the ancestral temple of this dynasty. Is there foot binding? You are violating the custom of the ancestors by binding your feet!"

After speaking, Peng Yingshen said: "Either you carry out the order, or you will wait to be expelled! And you will be excluded from the good households who are free of horse price and silver!"

Ning Wenfang couldn't refute, so she had to agree with tears.

The prefectures and counties in the capital have always had the heaviest burden of raising horses. Now that the imperial court has waived the price of horses, it is the first to waive the price of horses in the prefectures of the capital.

Because the people in the prefectures and counties of the capital have been exploited by the powerful in the capital and expropriated by horses and silver, the situation of thieves in the capital has not been greatly improved.

Therefore, now that the imperial court has gained benefits from its external expansion, the people in Gyeonggi are the first to suffer from Su Xiaomin's troubles, so they decided to waive the price of horses and silver first.

And Wuqing County is one of the counties to be exempted.

It's just that since Zeng Shengwu established the tax-paying good household system, the requirement of the household department is to first exempt good households from the horse price silver.

In order to make Ning Wenfang willing to let go of his wife and daughter, Peng Yingshen used this to force Ning Wenfang.

Ning Wenfang had no choice but to agree, and received two pairs of full-foot embroidered cotton shoes issued by the county magistrate's office to encourage the people to put their feet up in response to the imperial court's call.

Seeing that her husband agreed, his wife Yang could not help crying with joy.

(End of this chapter)