This time, Lu Hanqiang didn't want to beat anyone, nor did he want to smash anyone's job, after all, this is an extraordinary period, and it should be unanimous with the outside world, stability, this is an overriding event.
The eyes of the old Shangshu of the household department were red, and his legs and feet were quick and he immediately stepped forward, "Minister" Lu Hanqiang waved the strange lengthened and thickened tooth wat in his hand and interrupted him on the spot: "The minister has something to say." ” Fighting on the battlefield, training in the military camp, and now Lu Hanqiang's voice is definitely super octave, how can this guy who was hollowed out by wine compare, he was drunk at that time.
"Lu Hanqiang, speak."
Lu Hanqiang said with a smile: "Please ask the emperor to order the Ministry of Punishment to have a department and publish the list of families I submitted." ” This criminal department has been prepared for a long time, and without saying a word, the right attendant of the criminal department stepped forward and took out a stack of lists in his sleeve, and then opened his mind with enthusiasm.
Lu Hanqiang frowned, "You make a long story short, I don't have time to listen to you in detail."
Then whispered, but absolutely clear, muttered: "Grinding and chirping, not doing business, cleaning up some useless, really." ” This slapped everyone's face again, including Chongzhen, who felt that Lu Hanqiang was right at this time, so he impatiently ordered: "Say the total." ” "According to the list made by Lu Hanqiang, the actual collection of gold and silver and other things was converted into more than 5 million silver and 3 million stone of grain."
Quietly glancing at Chongzhen's face, the right attendant of the Criminal Department continued: "After deducting various expenses, the actual figure is four and a half million taels of silver and three million stone grains. ” As soon as this various expenses came out, everyone knew it, and Chongzhen nodded silently.
Chongzhen nodded, so Lu Hanqiang stood up and said: "This is cash silver grain, but in addition to these, there are twenty-seven luxury properties of the eight Jin merchants in various places, fifty-one manors in each place, and a total of 700,000 mu of land.
If calculated according to the current price of land in the country, there are few rumors from the outside world, according to seven taels of silver for one mu of land, 700,000 mu of land can be counted as five million.
Not to mention the manor and so on."
"So much" Even Chongzhen was surprised by the strength of the eight Jin merchants, thinking of so many family businesses, Chongzhen was a little afraid.
Lu Hanqiang nodded and said: "There are so many, but, luxury properties and various manors are real estate, which cannot be sold for the time being, and no one can buy them, so it can only be valued, which is one of them."
Then the tone changed to intimate: "700,000 acres of land, but the minister is ready to suggest that Banzai not be sold." ” "Why is this" The current Chongzhen thinking began to turn with Lu Hanqiang's thinking again, which is a good phenomenon.
"Now in the 300th year of the dynasty, the land annexation is serious, most of the country's land has been annexed into the hands of the big landlords and gentry, and the people who can really pay taxes for the country are getting fewer and fewer."
This point, Chongzhen is deeply touched, but there is nothing to be done, the land annexation is serious, and the annexed land will no longer pay taxes to the state, pay taxes, which has caused the three hundred years since the founding of the country, the population has increased several times, but now the tax is far less than when the country was founded, but how can this be an emperor dare not even restrict the land annexation, because this will offend the gentry class who can not be offended in the world.
"Therefore, for the long-term plan of the country, the minister means that if these lands are sold, it is not those gentry and landlords who will be purchased" and then squinted his eyes at the household secretary who stood aside: "And according to the national policy set by the ministers at the beginning, the gentry and the powerful do not pay grain, what is this called competing with the people for profit."
Then with a sarcastic face, he also asked the initiator Zhou Tingru: "Is it the Zhou Pavilion Department?"
This sentence almost choked Zhou Tingru to death. smiled proudly: "And the sale of land to get silver money, it is not included in the household department Shangshu to spend indiscriminately, and it will not become a climate." ” "What does Lu Aiqing mean" As long as the money from the sale of land does not fall into the household, Chongzhen is a little happy in his heart, and now the title has changed back to Aiqing again.
"The minister's meaning is to take these fields under the ownership of the emperor and set up imperial villages in various places, but not to set up royal families to cultivate, but to mobilize the enthusiasm of cultivators and implement joint production contracting."
Chongzhen has Huangzhuang in various places, and the Ming Dynasty royal family directly operated Zhuangtian.
Beginning in the Yongle period, Wu Zongshi developed rapidly, and within a month after he ascended the throne, he increased the number of Huangzhuang by seven, and then increased to more than 30.
In addition to the emperor's Zhuangtian, there were also the queen mother and the crown prince Zhuangtian.
The Emperor's Zhuangtian was a land of "self-management" that was run by eunuchs appointed by the Emperor.
The income of the Huangzhuang Zi Grain or Huang Zhuang Zi Grain Silver was directly controlled by the eunuch in charge of the Zhuang Zhuang and was at the disposal of the court itself.
The Queen Mother's Zhuangtian is also known as Gongzhuang.
Most of the internal management personnel of the imperial village are directly appointed by the palace to manage the eunuchs, and there are dozens of officials and schools, village heads, family members, etc.
The people who are fixed to be called Zhuangke farming, that is, the real big pot of rice, sometimes the output is not much to pay, which has become a piece of chicken ribs in the hands of various emperors at that time, especially in the fifth year of Zhengde, and because of the heavy oppression, the Zhuangke uprising in the Huangzhuang came out.
Now Lu Hanqiang suddenly proposed a contract system for joint production, which immediately aroused Chongzhen's interest, at this time he had forgotten the original intention of this court meeting, and he had been completely led into the ditch by Lu Hanqiang.
Lu Hanqiang smiled slightly: "The so-called contracting, is to turn the land into the imperial village this time, but it is not directly managed by the royal family, but contracted to the people, and a certain amount of money is handed over to the treasury every year, which has the advantage of not only giving the people hope, but also ensuring the harvest of the emperor's treasury in drought and flood, isn't it almost the best."
Chongzhen tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally asked suspiciously: "Is there any difference between this and a tenant?"
"Of course, there is a difference, the tenants are physically attached to the landlord, they have almost no freedom, but the one who contracts the emperor's land is free to come and go, poll tax, and all kinds of forced labor they don't have to pay anymore, especially, if you lose money this year, you can no longer contract, and the emperor will contract this matter to capable people, let them go, let them do, plant beans, plant wheat, or plant five acres of rape flowers by him."
Speaking of this, Lu Hanqiang wanted to sing a song, but this is a serious court, or it is better to say: "They may not plant the dealer and cultivate more profitable mulberry hemp, or simply develop and breed livestock, so that the landless people have income, and the emperor's income is also stable, isn't this the difference?"
Cao Huachun, who was standing behind Chongzhen, first understood the twists and turns here, and immediately his eyes lit up, he was sincerely thinking about Chongzhen, this change can immediately turn chicken ribs into a cornucopia.
Tilting his head and looking at Cao Huachun's appearance, Chongzhen immediately understood that this was a way to make money, and this must be done, and now, Chongzhen is about to let the money go crazy. t1706231537: