Chapter 577: When the Total Volume is Number One, His Majesty Starts Talking About Per Capita!

From Hai Rui in the outer court, to Li Fang in the inner court, to Empress Chen, all remonstrated with the Longqing Emperor not to be overly extravagant, because the national treasury was in great deficit. The Longqing Emperor sent Hai Rui away, drove Li Fang away, and alienated Empress Chen.

When there is no money, save a little. If the Longqing Emperor had been frugal at the beginning, his imperial mausoleum wouldn't have had a budget of only 500,000 taels of silver.

Currently, Great Ming court officials found it hard to understand why the imperial court owed the 110,000 taels of silver for the imperial mausoleum construction in the sixth year of Longqing and the first year of Wanli, and didn't pay it off until December of the first year of Wanli.

Not to mention the Emperor's 37.12 million silver investment in opening the seas, nor the terrifying figure of 11 million silver in annual military expenditures, let alone the 20 million silver debt for building roads and opening mines for the Suiyuan post road and mining industry.

Just for the Drum and Bell Tower of the Main Office, the Emperor spent 1.2 million silver, just to build such a Drum and Bell Tower that needed to be wound once every three days and have its time corrected.

Therefore, some court officials understood the 500,000 silver budget for the late Emperor's mausoleum as Zhang Juzheng's revenge on the late Emperor for not listening to him. If you didn't listen when you were alive, we'll settle the accounts together after you pass away. The completion of the Drum and Bell Tower was Zhang Juzheng's reward for His Majesty's support of the New Policies.

When Zhao Mengyou reported this kind of street rumor, Zhu Yijun felt incredible about this kind of public opinion. He looked at Zhao Mengyou and said blankly, "No, in their hearts, is Zhang Master that powerful?"

"Goodness, I didn't even know Zhang Master was that powerful! Sometimes I even feel that Zhang Master is timid, hesitant, and swaying."

In the Longqing period, Zhang Juzheng had to be ranked behind Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, and Gao Gong. It wasn't until June of the sixth year of Longqing that Zhang Juzheng finally won against Gao Gong.

Gao Gong said in the cabinet: "A ten-year-old crown prince, how can he govern the world?" He also said in the memorial of "Five Things": "Those who approve from within, allow us to report clearly before implementation."

Although the Emperor was only ten years old, was it appropriate for the Emperor to approve memorials with the word "directly"? It was these two sentences that completely angered Empress Dowager Li.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng was not that powerful. If Gao Gong hadn't become arrogant, it would have been difficult for Zhang Juzheng to win, because before the late Emperor passed away, he held Gao Gong's hand and entrusted the country to him.

"Your Majesty is the monarch and father, so naturally, you don't see Zhang Master as that powerful." The Embroidered Uniform Guard Zhao Mengyou thought for a moment and explained this problem. The perspective was different. His Majesty was the Emperor and looked from top to bottom, while the common people looked from bottom to top. Standing in different positions, the problems looked different.

Zhao Mengyou shared some small rumors from the streets with the Emperor. These rumors were not elegant, but the Emperor still needed to know them.

"Demon books" stirring up public opinion and public opinion interfering with court policies was not a rare thing in Great Ming. For example, in the tenth year of Wanli, after Zhang Juzheng died, a book titled "Deathbed Testament" attributed to Gao Gong circulated in the capital, eventually triggering a comprehensive liquidation of Zhang Juzheng.

That "Deathbed Testament" was not written by Gao Gong, but the demon book stigmatized Zhang Juzheng, preparing public opinion for the liquidation.

For example, the two demon book cases in the Wanli period, "Youwei Hongyi" and "Xu Youwei Hongyi," were both storms caused by establishing a crown prince.

Zhu Yijun played this set even more skillfully than the base scholars. "Romantic Stories of Pure Scholars and Famous Confucians" was the best-selling book among best-sellers in the capital. It launched two issues in total, and each time it caused a rush to buy.

Zhao Mengyou took a step back and shouted loudly, "The Marquis of Ningyuan sends New Year's gifts, including three auspicious beasts, ten stalks of thousand-year ginseng, one hundred jin of hundred-year ginseng, six carts of furs, 30,000 jin of dried goods such as hazel mushrooms, monkey head mushrooms, and wood ear, 3,000 head of various livestock, and eighteen live fish. The Marquis of Ningyuan's congratulatory memorial: 'May you have this every year, may you have this every day, may you have abundance every year, may the country be prosperous and the people at peace, and may the government be smooth and the people harmonious.'"

The auspicious beasts were one white deer, one white tiger, and one specially selected gyrfalcon—which was a bird. The Emperor actually didn't care about these things; they belonged to traditional gifts. As for that gyrfalcon, did Zhu Yijun need to specifically "boil" with it? During the time of approving memorials, he could boil the eagle to death.

The most valuable thing here was the 3,000 head of livestock. Of course, the Emperor would also reward them back.

"The live fish were personally caught by the Marquis of Ningyuan by breaking the ice on the Heilongjiang River." Zhao Mengyou explained the specific situation of these eighteen live fish that had mixed in. These eighteen fish were all caught by Li Chengliang by breaking the ice on the Heilongjiang River and sent to the capital to express his submissiveness.

The reason why the Heilongjiang River was called the Heilongjiang River was because of the Liao Dynasty's Liao Taizu, Lu Abaoji. The Liao Dynasty's Taizu Temple was called the Black Dragon Temple, and the gate of the Liao Dynasty's Taizu Mausoleum was called the Black Dragon Gate. And because there was a lot of humus in the water of the Heilongjiang River, the water color was black, hence the name Heilongjiang.

"Why do I feel like Li Chengliang is looking for me to bring goods?" Zhu Yijun flipped through the list of gifts, the more he pondered, the more wrong it felt. There were too many things here. Once the Emperor accepted them, a sentence like "Imperial Fur," "Emperor's Selection," or "Royal Good Goods" would give these Liaodong specialties a market, wouldn't it?

Li Chengliang sent so many gifts, and Zhu Yijun also had to reward them back. His personality naturally wouldn't double it, but Li Chengliang, or the Liaodong region, would definitely not lose out.

Zhao Mengyou whispered, "It should be."

"It should be Hou Yuzhao who came up with the idea. Because this time there is also a memorial entering the capital." Feng Bao placed Li Chengliang's memorial in front of His Majesty.

Li Chengliang mainly explained the rumor about his dog growing horns. It didn't grow horns; the hair on the top of its head was just particularly lush. That dog was also in the livestock team entering the capital.

Dogs were one of the traditional six domestic animals: cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, and dogs.

Li Chengliang stated in the memorial that he was a rough man who hadn't read many books and couldn't say so many big truths. He felt that linking the dog growing horns with wanting to rebel was too far-fetched. He, Li Chengliang, did not recognize this impeachment.

He believed that to impeach him for rebellion, in practice, one should impeach him from the perspective of the 3,000 retainers, not the dog growing horns. Therefore, that Regional Inspector of Zhili, Li Zhi, was slandering him.

"In the matter of fighting with court officials, the Marquis of Ningyuan is not as good as Li Rusong. Li Rusong knew how to detour and find an excuse for tax increases to dig up people's ancestral graves. Li Chengliang, on the other hand, submitted a memorial and talked about the 3,000 retainers. Isn't this giving the base scholars an excuse?" Zhu Yijun looked at Li Chengliang's memorial and was completely in the dark.

Li Chengliang was not as good as not submitting such a memorial.

The memorial could not be checked by others, because if others checked it, it wouldn't be a "plea." Therefore, Li Chengliang completed this memorial independently, but it gave the base scholars an excuse to impeach him. The dog growing horns was not rebellion; the 3,000 retainers were.

"Your subject actually thinks that those 3,000 guest soldiers are the topic that cannot be touched; otherwise, they wouldn't have looked for such bizarre things as dog growing horns to impeach. Without these 3,000 guest soldiers, the situation in Liaodong would deteriorate. No matter who goes to Liaodong, they have to rely on these 3,000 guest soldiers to continue to advance inch by inch." Feng Bao analyzed these 3,000 guest soldiers.

"That's true. If they could talk about it, the base scholars would have talked about it long ago." Zhu Yijun recognized Feng Bao's statement. Li Chengliang, Xu Wei in Nagasaki, Chen Lin in Ryukyu and Songjiang, Yin Zhengmao in Luzon, and Zhang Yuanxun in Old Port, as military nobles, all sent New Year's gifts. Because Zhu Yijun didn't celebrate his birthday, every year's New Year's greeting was the only opportunity to send gifts to the Emperor, and Zhu Yijun also made corresponding rewards.

Courtesy demands reciprocity. This money really couldn't be saved.

On the contrary, the Suiyuan Viceroy Pan Jixun didn't send New Year's gifts, only a congratulatory memorial. It wasn't that Pan Jixun didn't have a submissive heart, but Pan Jixun didn't lead troops. Suiyuan was the heartland of Great Ming, just like the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and was completely different from other places.

"Go to the Ten Kings City." Zhu Yijun made corresponding rewards, wrote letters to the viceroys of all places, and prepared for the final busyness before the New Year.

In the busyness before the New Year, there was an extra itinerary to go to the Ten Kings City to express the friendship of relatives. This itinerary was exceptionally important, because whether the relocation of the princes was smooth or not was directly related to the results of Great Ming's land measurement and population census.

Fortunately, everything went relatively smoothly. This year, five more prince mansions were relocated to the capital. Added to the previous five prince mansions, it was now the Ten Kings City in name and reality. The sharpest resistance to land measurement in Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, and other places where contradictions between people and land were sharp had completely disappeared.

The Great Ming Emperor's carriage first arrived at the Ten Kings City, and Zhu Yijun met the princes from all over the country who had relocated to the capital, especially the Prince of Dai, Zhu Naixuan.

"Prince of Dai, you asked me in the memorial, 'Is begging on the street also the ancestral law?'" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhu Naixuan in front of him with a complex expression, somewhat helplessly, "The grace of a gentleman is cut off after five generations. The foundation and the grace and blessings left by the ancestors for their descendants are consumed after a few generations."

"It is difficult for princes everywhere, and it is difficult for the imperial court. Everyone should just make do. The starting point of the clan children is already much higher than the vast majority of people in Great Ming. If they can fall to the point of begging on the street, it can only be said that they are not seeking progress."

A very realistic problem: the issuance of clan records in Great Ming was tightened. Even if they had clan records, they couldn't get salaries. Only over 20,000 people received clan salaries, while Great Ming had more than 60,000 clan records. It wasn't that everyone could relocate to the capital. Below the commandery prince, they could only think of ways to make a living themselves.

It was precisely for this reason that the Prince of Dai, Zhu Naixuan, was so bold as to ask the Emperor in order to be able to rank first in relocating to the Ten Kings City.

If he came late, he wouldn't even be able to beg for leftovers!

Zhu Naixuan bowed his head and said, "Your subject can manage himself well, but I can't take care of others."

The Prince of Dai submitted that memorial for his own welfare, to go to the capital to raise birds, walk dogs, and fight crickets, not for others. How could he, a prince who grew up under the policy of banning princes, manage so much? In the capital, he could still eat well, dress well, and live well. In the Prince of Dai's mansion, even scammers didn't come to the door, because there was really no oil to squeeze.

Zhu Yijun stayed in the Ten Kings City for nearly half an hour, met with many princes, and connected with their feelings. He mainly urged the princes to prevent being cheated and not to be cheated by scammers after receiving clan salaries.

The Great Ming Emperor's carriage left the Ten Kings Mansion and headed to the Royal Institute of Technology. The construction of the second phase was nearing its end, and the overall atmosphere of the Royal Institute of Technology was indeed much better than the Imperial Academy. The Institute of Technology was filled with a pragmatic style from the inside out.

Zhu Yijun had to walk through the east, west, south, and north of the capital one by one. Every year before the New Year, it was like this.

Time flies. December 25th of the eleventh year of Wanli was the last court meeting. It would be a holiday until the sixth day of the first month of next year, when the court meeting would continue.

"Last year, the Xishan Coal Bureau, Shengzhou Coal Bureau, Womagang Coal Bureau, Yongping Coal Bureau, and many other coal-iron joint official factories produced a total of 930 million jin of coke, coal briquettes, and honeycomb coal. The crude steel output was 5.08 million jin, and the pig iron output was 42 million jin. Compared to last year, coal increased by 58%, crude steel increased by 145%, and pig iron increased by 116%. The reason for such a difference in growth is mainly that the coal mining volume can finally be used for iron and steel smelting on a large scale in addition to supplying the people for the winter." Wang Chonggu, as the general manager of the Xishan Coal Bureau and the person in charge of the official factory group construction, reported the coal and steel output.

The reason for such a difference was that the coal mining volume could finally be used for large-scale iron and steel smelting in addition to supplying the people for the winter.

"Previously, the construction cost of each mile of post road was 9,800 silver. Now the cost is 8,600 silver, a reduction of 1,200 silver. With the increase in steel output and the improvement of the engineering soldier group camp system, the construction cost of post roads will be further reduced." Wang Chonggu explained the impact of this growth concisely. He needed an indicator to measure the impact of the growth in steel production, and Wang Chonggu chose the reduction in post road construction costs. The cost seemed to be reduced by 12%, but anyone who had supervised the Great Construction knew that this cost reduction was extremely huge!

This was also the indicator that the officials of the Great Ming imperial court felt most deeply: the construction cost of post roads.

Post roads are good, but they are expensive. Expense is not the shortcoming of post roads; poverty is the shortcoming of the Great Ming dynasty.

The total budget for the Beijing-Kaifeng post road was 13.75 million silver. At current costs, the budget could be reduced to 12.1 million silver, saving 1.65 million silver, which saved the money for three late Emperor's mausoleums, and there were 150,000 taels for His Majesty to reward the hundred arts for the Aoshan Lantern Festival.

"Last year, the two wool factories in the capital had 600,000 bolts of coarse wool and 100,000 bolts of fine wool. The Lanzhou wool factory had 150,000 bolts. This year, the raw wool washed and imported into the hinterland from the border was 120,000 bags. This year, the Yongding and Yongsheng wool factories had 720,000 bolts, and fine wool was 120,000 bolts, totaling 820,000 bolts. The Lanzhou wool factory had 180,000 bolts of coarse wool."

"This year, the wool output finally exceeded 1 million bolts. Your subject congratulates Great Ming, congratulates Your Majesty!" Wang Chonggu said solemnly.

The wool output exceeding 1 million bolts meant that there were fewer horses raised on the grasslands and more sheep raised. Not having so many horses on the grasslands was the prerequisite for everything in Suiyuan's Wang Hua.

Originally, the wool business should have been the Great Ming version of the "sheep eating people" movement, but after tossing and turning, it became a "sheep eating horses" movement.

According to the memorial of Xu Fan, the special envoy to the West and the Portuguese Minister of State, impacted by Great Ming cotton cloth, England's wool output dropped to 130,000 bolts, while Spain's wool output was 740,000 bolts. Great Ming's total wool output exceeded the sum of the West for the first time.

Eleven years. Since the big sailing ships arrived at the port eleven years ago, Great Ming finally completed another commodity advantage surpassing, which was the comprehensive surpassing of the wool textile industry.

The reason why the Celestial Empire is the Celestial Empire is comprehensive leadership. That is the Celestial Empire. Under His Majesty's leadership, Great Ming is step by step realizing the strategic proposition of becoming great again.

"Same joy, same joy. If Great Ming is strong, then the people of Great Ming are strong. If the people of Great Ming are strong, then the country is strong." Zhu Yijun said with a smile, "The way of practice is one, just faith and reality. Faith means righteousness; what is said must count, and promises must be fulfilled. Reality means facts, practice, and not speaking falsely."

"Backward is backward. In the early years of Wanli, shipbuilding was not as good as the West, and wool production was not as good as the West. I admit it. This is a big step. I solemnly thank Wang Wang Cifu for governing the country and making a huge contribution to Great Ming becoming great again."

"For this year's Chonggu Technology Progress Award, I have decided to award it to the hydraulic technology of the Royal Institute of Technology. I don't know what Wang Wang Cifu thinks?"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Wang Chonggu didn't expect that he was qualified to participate in the decision-making of the Technology Progress Award. He didn't climb the pole, but immediately bowed and said.

This matter listens to His Majesty.

The Great Ming Technology Progress Award was popularly known as the "Chonggu Award," because there was an inscription of "Presented by Wang Chonggu" on the award plaque. Zhu Yijun also followed the trend and called it that.

The emergence of hydraulic technology was quietly changing production, and it was also well-deserved technological progress.

"I have never liked the proposition of 'the country advances and the people weaken, the country retreats and the people strengthen.' This does not conform to the objective facts of production at all." Zhu Yijun looked at the court officials and said with great emotion, "And now, the coal-steel joint operation and wool production mentioned by Wang Wang Cifu are typical examples of the country advancing and the people strengthening."

"Under a collapsed nest, how can there be complete eggs? If the country retreats, how can the people be strong?"

"The kind of thinking they clamor for, that if the country retreats, the people are strong, the key lies in what kind of people this 'people' is? The powerful are strong, and the common people are weak." Wang Chonggu said solemnly, "Your Majesty, if the country retreats, the powerful are strong and the common people are weak; if the country advances, the powerful are horizontally strong and the common people are slightly stronger."

The definition of "people" is very critical. Is it the powerful or the common people?

When cutting the cake, the powerful can still cut a piece of cake larger than the common people, so the country's progress also makes the powerful stronger, but the common people have just caught their breath.

This is in line with the discussion on distribution in the second volume of Zhang Juzheng's "Class Theory." The upper structure that occupies 10% divides seven percent of the profits, while the lower foundation that occupies 90% can get three percent of the profits, which is enough to shout "Long live the Emperor."

The country advances and the people strengthen, the country retreats and the people weaken, which is the experience summarized by Great Ming in practice.

"Your Majesty, Wang Wang Cifu has concealed the coal and steel output." Zhang Juzheng said with a very calm face.

"Ah?" Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Juzheng with furrowed brows and asked, "What did I conceal? What did I conceal? There are six books and one account, so don't talk nonsense!"

"Why are the coal and steel outputs of Shandong and Henan not in the report this year?" Zhang Juzheng also asked with a solemn face.

Wang Chonggu breathed a sigh of relief. He was both angry and lucky. He hurriedly said, "Ah, this, it's mainly because the accounts haven't been calculated yet. I will report to Your Majesty after the New Year."

"That is very good." This "very good" from Zhang Juzheng, I don't know if it means Great Ming is very good now, or Wang Chonggu is very good, or both.

Wang Chonggu was angry that Zhang Juzheng gave him a big slap in the face whenever he saw a gap, making him dizzy. This was coal and steel. Concealing one hundred jin was three sets of armor. Concealing thousands or tens of thousands of jin, what did Wang Chonggu want to do?

What was lucky was that Zhang Juzheng was actually patching for Wang Chonggu. In case someone took this to make a fuss, Wang Chonggu could be considered to have reported it to His Majesty, so it was not concealment.

This matter was indeed a small matter, but once it was taken by the base scholars to make a fuss, it would be a matter of the sky falling and the earth collapsing. Didn't you see that the base scholars could raise the fact that there were a few more hairs on the dog's head to the height of Li Chengliang wanting to rebel?

Wang Daokun, the Minister of Works, looked around and said, "This year, a total of 83 five-masted ocean-crossing ships were built, and 720 three-masted clipper ships were built. It is worth noting that only four fast sailing ships were built. In this regard, the expectations were not met. At first, the shipyard expected to build six fast sailing ships, but only four were completed."

Wang Daokun suspected that the fast sailing ship was incompatible with his horoscope!

Ever since he became the Minister of Works, every time he reported to His Majesty, it was below expectations, making Wang Daokun want to resign!

"Is the Great Minister of Works a bit too small to look at the construction difficulty of fast sailing ships? That Philip II hasn't even figured out five-masted ocean-crossing ships yet. Spain is a shipbuilding power. We can already mass-produce fast sailing ships. It's not bad. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." Zhu Yijun said with a full face of smiles, "Being able to mass-produce is already the blessing of the ancestors!"

"Then can our Great Ming compare with the barbarians? Isn't that lowering our status?" Wang Daokun was still somewhat dissatisfied.

Zhu Yijun laughed and shook his head, "Now you treat people as barbarians? How many years have you been rich? In the first year of Wanli, didn't the National Surname Lord run to the Manila shipyard in Luzon to rob? At that time, even three-masted clipper ships couldn't be built. I remember that at that time, the Great Minister of Works was in Songjiang Prefecture, holding that unfinished ship, eating and living on the ship."

When Yin Zhengmao dragged the ship back to Great Ming and entered the New Port, Wang Daokun was really on that unfinished ship, eating and living for more than a month, before he figured out what was going on. When needed, they were foreign masters; now that they were not needed, they were barbarians.

Wang Daokun said with great certainty, "That Philip is also a barbarian. If you want to compare, compare with Great Ming itself. At the beginning, the five-masted ocean-crossing ship was very smooth, but now it is dragging its feet."

"This is to verify the copper-clad wood technology, right? A fast sailing ship costs more than 50,000 silver, so it must be protected well, right?" Zhu Yijun knew very well why the production target was not met on time, because he was waiting for the landing of the copper-clad wood technology.

Copper-clad wood technology was to deal with the ship's mortal enemy, the shipworm.

That thing could produce hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time, and it could mature and reproduce the second generation in half a month. Half of Columbus's fleet was destroyed by shipworms. Fast sailing ships were still wooden ships. Although Great Ming also had ways to prevent shipworms by brushing tung oil on the surface, the effect was still not very ideal.

Copper-clad wood was a very good solution. Copper was expensive, and Great Ming had little copper. If it weren't for the continuous inflow of copper materials from Luzon, Great Ming wouldn't be able to be so extravagant to use the copper-clad wood method.

But it could greatly increase the stability of navigation and the lifespan of the ship. As long as it could sail far once, the profit would be enough to offset the investment in copper-clad wood.

"I looked at it, and it's not much. Great Ming has 120 million people, and the per capita coal is only seven jin. The per capita steel is even less than half a jin. Is this much? This is not much at all. A big hoe is two and a half jin, and a small hoe is two jin. The steel produced in a year is not enough for everyone to have a hoe. We still need to work hard." Zhu Yijun finished reading this year's production report and said sincerely.

"Ah?" Zhang Juzheng raised his head and looked at His Majesty, and then looked at the court officials. When the total volume is number one, His Majesty starts talking about per capita!

Great Ming has so many people. Can this per capita also be number one? Can it be so average?

His Majesty practices what he preaches. The steel produced by the official factory is really not enough for everyone to issue a farm tool. This is indeed the truth, but there are also mines in the private sector, and there are also blacksmith shops in the private sector. Great Ming has abolished official mines since the Hongwu period, and it's not that it doesn't use ironware. Moreover, if a farm tool is well maintained, it can be used for ten or twenty years. The handle of the shovel has been changed two or three times, but the shovel can still be used.

Zhang Juzheng understood it as a kind of incentive means to prevent excessive pride and complacency inside and outside.

Some things can also be averaged, such as income. Once income is averaged, everyone can immediately feel the real existence of class.

After the production report, Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan made a huge chart and pasted it on a board, explaining the specific situation of the imperial court's fiscal revenue this year.

"We can clearly see that this year's commercial tax exceeded 40% of the total revenue, reaching 14.23 million taels of silver, while this year's overall fiscal revenue, including the profits handed over by major official factories, was 35.14 million silver." Wang Guoguang introduced the overall situation. Great Ming's tax reform was underway. Now the imperial court reports are all converted into currency after converting various physical objects, which is more intuitive.

This is also the specific embodiment of Great Ming's transformation from the "rent-adjustment-corvee" tax system to the currency tax system.

Compared to the annual revenue of about 6 million silver in the Jiajing and Longqing periods, Great Ming's overall tax revenue in the eleventh year of Wanli increased by a full six times.

"Your Majesty, your subject requests an order to try to implement the 'Single Whip Law' in the Southern Office area next year." Wang Guoguang introduced the super-high revenue of Great Ming this year and immediately talked about the next step of fiscal reform, the Single Whip Law, and the pilot of the currency tax.

"Then let's have a court meeting to see the views of the court officials and Ming public, and then issue a chapter to the Southern Office Yingtian Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture to ask for the opinions of the Provincial Governor and the local area. If everyone feels it is okay, then we will pilot it in a small area in the Southern Office first." Zhu Yijun thought for a moment. The Single Whip Law pilot in the Southern Office was not a national implementation.

Only by constantly summarizing experience and lessons in practice can it be promoted.

The implementation of the Single Whip Law needs to be cautious, but it cannot be stagnant.

"Your subject believes that 'small steps and fast running,' just like the Tax Inspection Institute, it is appropriate to start from Songjiang Prefecture." Zhang Juzheng expressed his point of view, narrowing the test area and limiting it to Songjiang Prefecture.

Because Songjiang Prefecture is the most suitable. ===== CHAPTER 578 =====

"Then let us have a court discussion, see the views of the various court officials and public ministers, and then send a document to the Southern Yamen at Yingtian Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture to ask for the opinions of the Provincial Governor and the local authorities. If everyone feels it is feasible, then let us first conduct a small-scale pilot in the Southern Yamen." Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment; the Single Whip Law was to be piloted in the Southern Yamen, not implemented nationwide.

Only by constantly summarizing experience and lessons in practice can it be promoted and expanded.

The implementation of the Single Whip Law requires caution, but one cannot hesitate and stop moving forward.

"Your subject believes that taking small, quick steps, just like with the Tax Audit Office, is appropriate to start from Songjiang Prefecture first." Zhang Juzheng expressed his own point of view, narrowing the test area and limiting it to the single location of Songjiang Prefecture.

Because Songjiang Prefecture is the most suitable.