If the Haizhou City example happened now, the ending would be completely different.

The prefecture government office will also post a notice, but the content is how many workers are required to repair the city wall, how much money each person will pay and how many meals are provided on the same day, how long the expected construction period will last, etc. In this way, the people in the prefecture city or underground counties and townships will decide whether to go to the construction site to earn more extra money based on the busy and idle farm work.

The emergence of this situation in Chinese history has created the prosperity of several dynasties.

So what kind of brilliant and prosperous scenery will the Ming Dynasty create after the permanent abolishment of the corvee service system?

Taxes are also accompanied by corvee labor.

What harms the people the most is not how much public grain is paid, but the process of collecting grain.

When collecting grain, kick the hukou and pour the tips, and the big buckets are in large buckets. The most direct impact of these two bad methods is that it not only deepens the burden on farmers, but also indirectly causes farmers to hate the government. When the conflicts accumulate to a certain extent, once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, the anger accumulated by the people due to exploitation all year round will erupt, which will cause amazing destructive power to the entire society.

In order to completely change this harm to the people, Zhu Youjian issued an order as early as the 18th year of Chongzhen, when collecting public grain, all governments used land scales to weigh them, and completely prohibited the use of containers to collect taxes.

In other words, when taxes are collected in various places, the weight of the food is based on the standard, rather than whether the hubu is full or not.

This imperial edict has been heard, and the evil officials in the governments in various places who were content with the special skill of kicking Hulanting, had no platform to display since then.

The so-called kicking hukou tip means kicking the hukou full of grain to make the rice grain densely enrich and recharge again. After the grain is loaded with a flat hukou bucket, it continues to be placed in a cone shape to make the rice grains drift down. In this way, farmers obviously only need to pay one stone of grain, but in the end they are forced to pay three or five extra buckets.

Don’t underestimate the three or five buckets of each household. As accumulated, how much more grain will a county collect in summer grain in one quarter?

The extra grain will be sold to grain merchants, and the money they earn will naturally be shared by the officials, which is a huge income.

This kind of evil deed is the most direct harm to the people, and it is simply a naked robbery. The people dare not speak out about it. However, the behavior of some people who harm the public and the private sector has made the people point the finger at the court.

Countless examples have proved that the emperors and the courts of all dynasties introduced various policies to benefit the people, but when they were implemented in detail, they became strategies to disturb the people and harm the people. However, the men who formulated the policies knew nothing about this and were above them and could pick the white clouds. They thought that the world was as different as they imagined and planned. But they knew that the grandsons below had almost dug up the men's roots.

Zhu Youjian was deeply moved by this, so the Jinyiwei and the Censor were able to sink to the county and become a new mechanism for local permanent institutions. It was under the effective supervision of this new mechanism that the various major political formations of the court were implemented.

Among them, the Jinyiwei Hundred Houses played a crucial role.

The main targets of the censors are local officials. Because they have too few staff, they do not have the energy to conduct comprehensive supervision of the entire local government. Moreover, because they belong to the civil service system, on some less serious issues, many censors have adopted a turning a blind eye and allowed local officials to play some edge balls.

Stay at the forefront of life and meet each other in the future. This is the ecological environment of the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

As long as you are not a mortal enemy with different political views, everyone will give the other party a face to avoid the consequences caused by breaking up directly.

They are all for the court, and everyone belongs to their colleagues, so there is no need to go too far.

But the Jinyiwei is completely different.

The identity of the emperor's personal army means that all the generals and the descendants of the school captains will never be able to enter the civil servant group. The interests of their group are brought by the royal family, and there is no need to rely on the civil servants at all. Only when the royal family is strong can they have more benefits and gain more weight.

The self-contained Jinyiwei has its own industry. Of course, this was developed after Zhu Youjian nodded.

In addition to serving as a servant, the lieutenants all worked in their own industries.

After all, a family of several people cannot just rely on this person to make money to support the family. With the limited number of lieutenants, only when there is a vacancies, the children in the family can be recruited into the personal army. Then the rest cannot be eaten all day long, right?

In this case, the strategy of starting other industries and allowing the pro-military army to live a better life and making them more loyal to the royal family emerged.

Many of them are opened in the Ming Dynasty, including restaurants, tea shops, pawn shops, shops, and water and land transportation industries. They are run by Jinyiwei.

These industries have one common feature, that is, they have strong mobility and the most dense population, so that while achieving economic benefits, they can also collect various social and public opinion, and then screen and report them layer by layer. Finally, the Jinyiwei Experience Department selects the most valuable officials to report to the palace, and the officials report to the palace.

Zhu Youjian would browse the summary of information about the Jinyiwei every day to find out whether the government is properly managed. If there is any, it will be corrected, and if there is no, it will be encouraged. This is also the reason why the officials of the Jinyiwei Hall never dare to slacken.

It is precisely for the above reasons that the Jinyiwei really takes the supervision of the civil service system as his own business, and there is some intention of guarding against thieves.

There were institutions similar to those of the Ming Dynasty factory guards in the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and they were also used by the emperor to show their opinions for themselves or do things that were not up to the top. However, compared with the current Ming Dynasty factory guards, these institutions are simply incomparable to the factory guards in terms of size, power, scope of control, accuracy of information transmission, and execution of the tasks assigned by the emperor.

These institutions have one common feature, that is, the sphere of influence is limited to the capital, that is, they only focus on the people and things under the emperor's nose, and they will be blinded when they leave the capital. They do not know any major events happening in the local area earlier than the emperor. From this point of view, these institutions have too weak presence, as if they are useless.

Zhu Youjian learned this lesson. After stabilizing his footing, as the situation gradually improved, he spread the big net to control the world.

The emperor's hawks and dogs went to the county, which has never happened since ancient times. From then on, anywhere there were government officials, there were the existence of the imperial lieutenant, which expanded the emperor's sphere of influence to the entire Ming Dynasty, and made local officials dare not deceive their superiors and subordinates.
Chapter completed!