Chapter 463 How to Solve the Financial Problems of the Ming Dynasty Sangen Quanxu does not regard himself as an outsider at all, and he does not have the consciousness of any courtiers, his words and deeds, everything makes Lu Xiangsheng's heart tremble.For example, Quan Xu reached out and pinched the prince's face, stroked the little princess's head, and the oysters he had burned, Emperor Chongzhen reached out to take them, and he actually dared to hit Emperor Chongzhen's hand with chopsticks.What is it called?
This is called offense, in terms of it, it is enough to kill the head, but the problem is that Emperor Chongzhen is not angry, except for a few eunuchs in the imperial dining room who are helping on the side, even Emperor Chongzhen changed his clothes and rolled up his sleeves to help, although most of the time he is adding to the chaos.Even the most loyal minister in the court did not dare to reprimand Emperor Chongzhen, but Quan Xu dared, and the small-mouthed Balabala kept talking.Lu Xiangsheng was dumbfounded, Quan Xu actually mixed with the emperor like a family, you are really capable!
In fact, Quan Xu is not like a family, but Chongzhen really treats him as a family.Chongzhen liked Quan Xu very much, and even asked Queen Zhou to call his eighth sister Zhu Weiyuan, if it weren't for the bad impression left by Zhu Weiti's biological mother on Chongzhen, this sister would have recruited a horse a long time ago.It's just that because of this, it was delayed.Quan Xu was busy for more than an hour, and only then did he clean up this kind of raw seafood, and the monarchs and ministers ate meat and drank wine in a big bowl.Don't talk about state affairs, the world is chatting nonsense.Quan Xu was unconsciously poured a lot of wine, and gradually lost control, and his whole person was a little fluttery.Lu Xiangsheng was also barely supporting, at this time, Queen Zhou and Chongzhen eyebrows, after a while, Chongzhen let out a long sigh, and his voice was a little low: "Quanqing, Lu Qing, I deserve to be the emperor!"
”Saying that, Chongzhen seemed to be a little drunk, and he began to scold, scolding the eunuchs, scolding the ministers, and scolding Jiannu At this time, the thing that made Lu Xiangsheng's soul fly away appeared, and Quan Xu actually trembled and said: "Actually, these things are very simple!"
”"Simple?"
Chongzhen looked at Quan Xu in disbelief: "Simple?
”"Yes!""
Let's talk about Liao salary first, how much did Liao pay last year?""
Five million seven hundred and twenty thousand taels!""
Yes, a penny or two cents per acre, right?"
In the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver was equal to ten cents, one coin was equal to ten, and one cent was equal to ten cents.Quan Xu continued: "In this way, how many acres of land are left in our Ming Dynasty?"
About 500 million acres!
”Speaking of this, Quan Xu looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Lord Lu, during the Wanli period, the imperial court counted acres of land, how many lands were there in the two capitals and thirteen provinces?"
”Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said: "In the 30th year of Wanli, the total area of cultivated land in the country reached more than 11.61 million hectares. ”The highest value of cultivated land in the Qing Dynasty was more than 849 yuan in the thirteenth year of Guangxu.Speaking of which, the territory of the dog Qing is far ahead of the Ming Dynasty, but the amount of cultivated land is not only not as good as the peak value of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, but even the 8.5 million in the Zhu Yuanzhang period is a little worse.Of course, some people may also say that there has been a phenomenon of cultivated land concealment in China's history, and the data on the books may not be the real situation.However, didn't the Ming Dynasty have a cover-up?
Quan Xu smiled faintly: "Why is the three million dumped fields gone in thirty years?"
”"Liaodong" Quan Xu said with a smile: "The largest cultivated land in Liaodong is 890,000 dumps, even if it is 1 million dumps, where is the 5.61 million dumps of fertile land?"
”"This" Quan Xu stared at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Actually, you know everything, right?"
Because the dynasty raised soldiers, raised more than one person, there was no need to pay food, in order to" Lu Xiangsheng was so frightened that he woke up drunk: "Dongsheng, you are drunk!"
”"I'm not drunk!"
Quan Xu said with a big tongue: "All the problems of Daming are actually the problem of money and food, and it is not difficult to solve this problem!"
”Chongzhen's face changed: "Why isn't it difficult?"
”"To solve this problem, I have three strategies!"
In fact, Quan Xu was not drunk at all, his head was quite sober: "First, cancel the privileges of the gentry and nobles, and spread the land into the acres, but this method is destined to not be implemented!"
”Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, he was almost scared to death.Chongzhen naturally understands that according to Quan Xu's method, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos, let alone collecting taxes, and I am afraid that the rebels will hit the capital at that time."
What about the second option?""
Difficult to transfer!"
Quan Xu pointed to the east and said: "Japan, Annam, Champa, Nanzhang, Korea, Ryukyu, Luzon, Hemaoli, Merokyu, Borneo, also known as Rai, Champa, Chenla, Srivijaya, Siam, Champa, Java, Huni, Manraka, Sumatra, Sulu, Dumbqi, Sudana, Western Zori, Zori, Rambang, Tampa, Baihua, Pahang, Johor, Na Orphan, Liva, Nambal, Aru, Ding Jiyi, Barasi, Guli, Kechi, Ceylon, Punggar, etc., let them pay tribute, but, At present, the imperial court may not be able to carry it out. ”This method is like an empire on which the sun never sets, using the colonies of the world to feed back to Britain.Even if Britain was beaten into a dog by Germany during World War II, and Britain used the world's colonies to kill Germany, in fact, the result was the same whether the United States entered the war or not.Germany, which fought on two fronts, would eventually be depleted, the difference would be a few more years, and that's it.Chongzhen was a little disappointed: "Then what else can be done?"
”"The third way is to expand and develop!"
Quan Xu pointed in the direction of Liaodong and said: "Your Majesty, give me another million people, I will run Liaodong into a granary, after two years of development, Liaodong is enough to gain a foothold, this time Huang Taiji has run, since next year, the imperial court does not need to send grain to the Liaodong army, on the contrary, I can transport a million stone of grain to the imperial court!"
”Chongzhen looked shocked: "One million people, can transport one million stone of grain?"
”"That's right, Liaodong Liaodong is very big, bigger than Beizhili, but the people are gone, they are all killed by wild boar skins, and the three million people in Liaodong are almost dead!"
Quan Xu spread his hands: "I can recapture Liaodong now, it's useless to recapture it alone, if you don't immigrate to Shibian, Liaodong still can't hold it, now Jiannu is hiding, or in a few years, they will rebel, the only way is to immigrate to Shibian!"
”How Chongzhen reacted, Quan Xu didn't care, he deliberately pretended to be overwhelmed, and fell to the ground with a thud.In fact, the problems of the Ming Dynasty were said to be easy to solve, but in fact they were easy to solve, and they were not easy to solve.It can be seen from the data of acres counted during the Wanli period that the acres counted by Zhang Juzheng at that time were not the real number of acres, but also the number after concealment.However, in just thirty years, more than half of the fields became the fields of the gentry, and they did not have to pay taxes.Of course, some people will blame the Ming Dynasty for being praised by the clan, and it is also mentioned that the Ming Dynasty's vassal king's income was provided by the local finance, that is, the part of the national tax that was retained in the local area.What does that mean?
This part is the most important, bearing the salary of the nine borders, the emperor's inner treasury, the central yamen treasury and the Beijing officials, and the most supervised are also subject to the so-called "case of transporting money and grain from the capital border".The remaining part of the tax revenue is the so-called retention, which bears the expenses of officials, local administration, clans, and so on.Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the finances were scarce, and even the military salaries that were transported to the nine sides could not be complete, the local finances would not be much stronger, so how could the clan's Yulu be paid?
If by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the local finance could still pay tens of millions of taels to the clan as some people say, and with such execution and control, it would be impossible for the Ming Dynasty to perish.Their salary, the court is 10,000 stone for the prince every year, and half of the rice money is also supported.Jin, Zhou, Chu, Lu, Shu, Dai, Liao, Shen, Tang, Yi, Zhao, Zheng, Xiang, Jing, De, Chong, Hui and other seventeen prefectures and counties were the first to seal the first 2,000 stones.The raider is a thousand stones.Half of the banknotes are also supported.Su, Qing, Ning, Han and Huai Wufu county kings were first sealed with 1,000 stones, and half of the rice banknotes were also supported, and the seal was the same.Ji, Yi, Heng, Rong four counties of the king of the year of the Lu rice 1,000 stone, three points of true color, seven points of money.The king of Minfu County was first sealed with 500 stones, and half of the rice banknote was also supported, and the attack was the same.That is to say, even if the imperial court gives them a real salary, about 600,000 stone grain a year, not to mention, even the officials can't receive the full amount of money, let alone the vassal king?
Let's take a look at the Qing Dynasty, the prince's annual salary is 10,000 taels of silver, and Lu rice is 10,000 hu; The prince is 6,000 taels of silver, 6,000 taels of rice, 5,000 taels of silver for the prince of the county, 5,000 taels of silver, 5,000 taels of silver, 3,000 taels of silver for the eldest son, and 3,000 taels of rice; Hu is equal to stone.Which dynasty costs more?
Actually, it's clear at a glance.The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were all stared at by the officials, like thieves, and their biggest danger to the country was to occupy the fields.In fact, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty ate empty treasury, which is pure nonsense, and it is clear that the slaves gave the Ming Dynasty dirty water.For another example, in the tenth year of Wanli, Zhu Congshu, the general of Fengguo in the Huairen Mansion of Shanxi Province, and others came to Beijing after crossing the pass, and said: "From the 40th year of Jiajing to the 10th year of Wanli, a total of 21 years, the grain due to Lu has not been given at all. ”And Shenzong's reply was only "With Zonglu in arrears for a long time, the officials of the government urged him to deal with it in many ways, and gave him one or two quarters every year to support him." ”It can be seen that not only will the arrears not be compensated, but the next year's will only be "given to the first and second quarters".Quan Xu actually knew that to solve the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen had no way to do it.The gentry receive food in one body, and the world is sure to be opposed.As for the vassal king?
With the urine nature of the Ming Dynasty, these vassal kings will not receive any money.The most likely solution is to give Quanxu the population and let him develop Liaodong, whether Chongzhen has the courage and skill, it depends on Chongzhen's own.