Dominate the Country

Facts have proved that after becoming an official, his intentions are still very effective.

At the meeting in early December, people on both sides gave Chen Ming a precise explanation of their respective affairs.

Many officials from the three prefectures in northern Anhui worked together to commit corruption, passing off inferior goods as good ones, and exchanging inferior goods for superior ones to get their hands on disaster relief supplies. The heads of the principal criminals were all gone. The case of the Shandong Laizhou prefect covering up tax evasion by his relatives has also been settled. The amount of money involved in the case amounted to more than 100,000 yuan. This amount was enough to send the Laizhou prefect to jail for more than ten years. But in the end, the prefect ended up losing his head!

Because in his work report, this representative of the new generation of reformists has repeatedly called for establishing China's first-class seafood processing enterprises, textile enterprises, mining companies, and top port [Qingdao] in Laizhou. The problems with him are not only He is responsible for covering up tax evasion by his relatives' companies, and he is also responsible for using his power to force a fishery company in Laizhou to sell large quantities of seafood to his relatives at low prices. Another thing is that the Laizhou Mining Company discovered a large gold mine in Ye County, but it hid it on the grounds that it was "uncertain." This guy is so audacious that he commits suicide and is punished for several crimes. No one can save his life.

It is still difficult to say who will win and who loses between the old and new factions. The current situation is considered to be evenly matched, and it still depends on how public opinion ferments in the future.

"Second uncle. How long do you think it will take before there will be no corruption among officials in this world?"

"I consider myself to be a good official. The salary is definitely high enough for their whole family to live comfortably, so why are there so many people who fall down on this word of money?" Chen Ming is not Zhu Yuanzhang, even if he wanted people to run away, he would not feed them. The salaries he gave to officials and soldiers all over the world were absolutely generous, but it had only been three years since Chen Han founded the country, and countless officials were already troubled by the word 'money'.

Chen Ming recalled his historical experiences. He has a rather traditional understanding in his mind. It seems that officials in all dynasties were relatively honest when they were first established, and then they gradually became corrupted. By the end of the dynasty, the situation was irreversible.

According to his seriousness, the current Chinese officialdom should be relatively clean. It has only been three years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and everything is still thriving and exuding vitality. But why is this so? China has killed many more officials every year in the past three years than Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, who killed more than a dozen prisoners in a year.

Although compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty, Chen Han's current clean government has done quite well.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I believe that this matter is consistent with today's trends. It is a common saying in the world: to be an official for thousands of miles is to have food and clothing, and if someone does not do it for himself, he will be destroyed by heaven and earth. Since hypocrisy has declined, this principle has almost become the truth of the world." Chinese people have been since ancient times. I long for Mr. Qingtian, because from ancient times to the present, the door of the yamen has always been open to money. Especially during the Manchu and Qing dynasties, everyone knew the ridicule of the Qing magistrate's one hundred thousand snowflakes in three years. During the Yongzheng period of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, the officialdom became more restrained. The former Emperor Qianlong showed his greatness not long after he succeeded to the throne. Similar to Kang Mazi's style. "The world is declining, and people's hearts are not the same as before." Nowadays, when people talk about officials, they subconsciously think that they are corrupt and bribery-minded. As for officials, if they were not greedy for anything, many people would probably feel that they were incompetent.

Chen Ming smiled helplessly with a frustrated face. After receiving the news from Shandong and Anhui, although he was very angry, he really didn't expect that the scope of the two cases was so wide. These two cases are both nest cases, and if you catch one, you can pull out a bunch of big rats.

Chen Ming read the files of the two cases in detail. To be honest, he really wanted to give up on one of his ideas. Because he feels that it is too difficult to realize his concept of honest government in the current world. It cannot be said that raising a good person with a high salary is ineffective, but it is definitely not a panacea that will work as soon as it is used. He also uses the Supervisory Yuan and the National Security Bureau to monitor officials all over the country and investigate and deal with corruption, but the Supervisory Yuan and the National Security Bureau are also officials themselves. Chen Ming very much hoped that the empire under his rule would be a country with clean officials and fair officialdom, but reality hit him one after another.

"So, instead of turning the country into a country where even a corrupt official has no such great desire, you should pay more attention to money." John Bull can turn the whole country into an empire on which the sun never sets, and the same goes for China. in this way. Moreover, Chen Han's official administration is now as good as heavenly compared to that of Britain at the same time. Chen Ming feels that his psychological tolerance for official corruption should be improved.

Sighing deeply, Chen Ming said in a rather serious tone: "Uncle Wang, I have something to ask you for today." Let's change the subject and get to the point.

"I obey the Holy Orders, and I dare not fail to obey them." Chen Cong quickly bowed and said to himself that it was the emperor who was speaking. Who else could refuse?

Chen Ming took out a notebook in his hand. The first content in this notebook was the fundamental reason why Chen Ming intended to let the old and new Confucianism start a war again. To be honest, the reporting reward system is quite contrary to China’s traditional political and moral concepts. Because China has respected ‘morality’ and despised money since ancient times.

Reporting should be praised, but giving money suddenly disqualifies it and is "morally" insulted.

If Chen Ming doesn't first let the old and new Confucian schools have a vigorous encounter and throw out this kind of decree, even if he can implement it with his absolute power and authority, he doesn't know how long he will be criticized for. This matter will also destroy a little bit of his reputation!

Therefore, Chen Ming first threw out the old and new Confucianism, and then threw out Guoan, making the momentum louder, so as to pave the way for his true purpose.

So the tax department and anti-corruption departments all implement the reporting reward system.

The latter directly threatens the interests of the bureaucratic class to a greater extent. If they want to be speechless, they must be shut up with facts and public opinion. Just like now!

Although it is impossible to completely shut up the bureaucrats, it can at least shut up a large part of them. And public opinion will not tend to favor the bureaucrats on this issue.

Of course, this little book was not like this at the beginning. The cases in northern Anhui and Laizhou were closed, and then Chen Ming saw the detailed files. The collusion between the bureaucrats made him very angry. He added a lot of things, and even added a little bit of what he didn't say to Chen Cong now. I think Chen Cong's face will be very good after he takes it back and reads it carefully. Chen Ming just wants to use him as a scapegoat, but a kind-hearted emperor will not cheat people casually.

He wanted to cover some of it before, but now he feels that there is no need to leave room for others, and there is no need to take anything into consideration.

The newspapers controlled by the government, whether overt or covert, will report these two cases in a big way after today. The activities of the old Confucian school in Shandong were assisted by the four great masters of Confucius, Mencius, Zengzi and Yan. These things will also be thrown out, which will surely cause some trouble for the four great masters of Confucius, Mencius, Zengzi and Yan.

But this is not the point. The point is that the editorials in the newspapers will question the current Confucianism and the entire bureaucracy in terms of "official morality". A large number of attacks will make some trolls have no time and face to spit on the policies that Chen Ming is about to implement!

Chen Ming's approach is to add some burden to the tax department. He wants to increase the salary of the tax department. Whenever the tax departments across the country find tax evasion, they can get 5% to 10% of the amount involved in the case as a reward. At the same time, Chen Ming will also use a large amount of money to encourage those who report tax evasion. They will receive a reward of at least 5% and up to 20% according to the amount involved!

There are also those who report officials and are also involved in the case. People will be given major preferential treatment-reduced corresponding guilt. Those who are not involved in the case will receive a certain share of the funds involved in the case. For the case handlers, a certain share of the funds will also be rewarded.

This is the way Chen Ming learned from the Americans. Rabbit later used this method, but it was obviously flawed in its implementation. The reward system for reporting does not pay enough attention to the reward for whistleblowers, and the rewards are not in place, which cannot give full play to the enthusiasm and initiative of the masses to report and participate in the fight against corruption.

Chen Ming solved this problem at the root, improved the reward system for reporting, improved the confidentiality level of whistleblowers' information, and encouraged citizens to actively exercise their right to report. This seems to be one of the reasons why the combat effectiveness of the tax department of the United States in the previous life was so high. That is an organization that claims not to let go of a "rich man", and under its reputation, only "death and taxation are inevitable". With its own armed forces and armored vehicles and helicopters, the Chicago gangster godfather Al Capone, who the FBI could not do anything about, was killed by the tax bureau in seconds!

So Chen Ming abolished those false ways and gave direct monetary rewards.

Use pure money as a reward to reward officials who handle cases and to reward those "moral" citizens who take risks to report.

"This share... is too high." The total is 20 to 30 percentage points, and Chen Cong can't help but feel distressed.

Chen Ming almost rolled his eyes, "Whether it is tax evasion or corruption, the money in their hands is only the country's money when it is in the hands of the government. Otherwise, it is all fake." Is the proportion of 20 to 30% high? It is indeed very high. But no matter how high it is, it is better than the money being in the hands of those corrupt officials.

Receiving a report, verifying the evidence, and digging out a corrupt official, no matter how much money is distributed, from the perspective of officialdom and national interests, this is much more important than money, and this is not the role that money can play. This is digging out a borer in the trunk of China, and this is the biggest gain of the court.

"And those who evade taxes, in addition to paying the arrears, will also be severely punished."

Let all those who should pay taxes feel nervous, painful, and fearful when they think about it. If they are not afraid, they will not pay taxes obediently.

Since the big tax evasion case, there have been no big tax evasion cases. However, the reports submitted by local tax departments show that tax evasion cases have been rising in a straight line in the past two years. This trend is not slower than the growth rate of corrupt officials from a global perspective.

Chen Ming really envied the US Federal Internal Revenue Service. Isn't it powerful enough to explode? They can do whatever they want to collect taxes.

And judging from the identity of the criminals, most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises. Chen Ming laughed. Are China's big companies really so conscientious that none of them evade taxes? It's bullshit.

This thing is a "Chinese phenomenon".

As long as the country collects taxes, it can give the bureaucrats below a new trick. The country has to collect one dollar of tax from the farmers, and they can collect two or three dollars or even more taxes. While successfully completing the country's taxation tasks, they can also make a lot of money. Even local landlords and wealthy families in the countryside joined forces and both made huge profits. Therefore, after experiencing the prosperity in the early and middle stages of each dynasty, land concentration became common, the rich became richer, and the poor became poorer.

And this kind of thing is also true when it comes to business taxes. Many small and medium-sized merchants who have no power and can only abide by the law have been severely damaged and dare not not pay taxes. However, many big merchants, big and small officials and businessmen with backgrounds, pay less than small and medium-sized merchants because of their complex and numerous relationships like spider webs, "reasonably avoid taxes", and even do not pay a penny of tax.

The final result is that the strong will become stronger and the weak will become weaker.

In the end, it is difficult to say what kind of peak state the official business group can develop to.

Therefore, the tiger of the reporting reward system must be released. The country is short of money now, and the finances have been in a serious deficit. Land can't always offset fiscal expenses, right? The development of colonies and wars in the future will require money!

China's finances are entering a turning point. Military expenditures are declining, and overall expenditures are decreasing. In order to reduce the fiscal deficit even more, the country needs to increase its source of income as much as possible and increase normal tax revenue. Chen Ming wanted to take out the personal income tax immediately. Compared with the killer weapon of personal income tax, what is this policy now? Don't push him too far!

It's not that point yet. Chen Ming still has time to improve his fiscal expenditure.

So he is still using "normal means" to expand the country's fiscal revenue. This country needs to increase revenue, and it can't let the wealthy businessmen who are as rich as a country live a life of luxury and debauchery, while putting a heavy burden on farmers and low- and middle-income earners, right?

"Your Majesty, do you want me to propose this proposal at the court meeting?" Chen Cong also understood.

"I need the support of my uncle." It's best for Chen Cong to deal with the affairs in the court himself. Chen Ming wants to maintain his high position as much as possible, and personally go down to fight the cuckold fist. If he can avoid doing so, he will not do so.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, this old minister will go through fire and water without hesitation!" Isn't it just a black pot. The more he quarrels with the civil and military factions in the court, the happier and more assured the emperor will be.

"Hahaha..." Chen Ming laughed happily. It was really comfortable to have a caring and obedient Prime Minister in front of him.

After Chen Cong pushed it down, Chen Ming's joy had not subsided. He called Liu Wu, "Go and call Chen Jiqing."

"Come here, hang up the Zhoutian Kunyu map for me."

This world map was drawn based on Nan Huairen's "Kunyu Quantu" and Zheng He's "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", combined with the current world geography cognition.

The area is absolutely large, and it occupies a large part of the wall after hanging it up. When Chen Jiqing hurried to the Qianqing Palace, he saw Chen Ming standing in front of the big map with his hands behind his back, looking up at the map in front of him. The location he should correspond to should be the American continent!

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you."

"Get up and take a look. Where do you think the American land is the best?"

Chen Jiqing could hear Chen Ming's good mood at the moment from his voice, but Chen Ming's words were too surprising. The best part of the American land, does Chen Ming want to eat it?

"Your Majesty...are you interested in entering America?" He was stunned.

Mexico is the forbidden fruit of the Spanish, North America is the territory of the British, and in South America, besides the Spanish, there is also Portugal...

"Humph. I just want to eat a piece. If I don't take advantage of this great opportunity to enter North America, I will miss it." As the younger brother of France, the Spanish will definitely join the war against Britain, and Chen Ming is not satisfied with just taking Luzon. Of course, this is not the point.

"This is not the point, the point is where you want to build a feudal state!" American feudal state.