Chapter 780 Confidence of the Mystery "Many of you are actually from prominent backgrounds, and because of your background, you have sympathy for the Jiangnan gentry!"
”Quan Xu's voice suddenly raised an octave: "But, have you forgotten your ideals now?"
Do you still want to look at this world, where the wolf smoke is everywhere, the people are not happy, and the country will not be a country?
”The generals were silent.Quan Xu looked at the generals, and suddenly his eyes fell on Fu Zonglong: "Fu Yuanxian!
”"The minister is here!"
Fu Zonglong is a Jinshi of Wanli for ten years, he has been a magistrate, a royal history, a director of the household department, and the highest Guizhou patrol case, on the way to Beijing to serve as the secretary of the military department, he was captured by Quan Xu, and later became Quan Xu's person.Quan Xu said: "Don't be nervous, let's talk casually." ”Fu Zonglong was a little apprehensive, and secretly thought: "Could it be that you have to settle accounts now?"
”"Yes!"
Fu Zonglong looked at Quan Xu's sneer, from the fear in his heart.Quan Xu asked: "You are now the deputy chief of staff of the General Staff, so tell me, how is your income now compared to before?"
”Jeon Wook's favorite thing is to use numbers to explain problems.Of course, it's up to whom.If it is a person with a net worth of millions or even tens of millions, Quan Xu will definitely not explain it and hit it directly.Fu Zonglong, a native of Kunming, Yunnan Prefecture, is also one of the landlords and gentry, and his family has more than 4,000 acres of land, which is nothing in the Central Plains, but in Yunnan, these lands are not less.More than 4,000 acres of land are in Yunnan Prefecture, which belongs to large households, and the grain of two seasons a year can harvest more than 2,000 taels of silver a year.Fu Zonglong bowed down and said: "The highest food before the minister was three grades, the full amount was 35 stone per month, 420 stone per year, and the family's field could earn more than 2,000 taels of silver. ”Fu Zonglong's Yulu is equivalent to more than 78,900 catties of rice, of course, if you follow the price of grain under Quan Xu's rule, this is not much money at all, less than two hundred taels of silver.Quan Xu said: "What now?
”Fu Zonglong thought for a while and said, "Yulu ......"
"Don't count your Yulu!"
”Quan Xu's new dynasty is silver, and according to the current market price, Fu Zonglong is the money of the five first-class ministers.Fu Zonglong smiled and said, "How can there be an average of thirty or forty thousand taels of silver every year!"
”Fu Zonglong's initial income was not because he could operate, in fact, Fu Zonglong's income mainly came from his investment, when he showed his support for Quan Xu, Quan Xu sent him a fortune, which he gave to Quan Xu's mansion as it was.Quan Xu naturally doesn't look down on Fu Zonglong's money, but Fu Zonglong doesn't dare to ask for it, as long as his investment is counted, the current Fu Zonglong, like Shen Mingze and others, is a small shareholder of Quanji's large enterprises.Because the value of Quanxu's corporate shares is too high, and it is a huge profit in a monopoly industry, the income from stocks alone is as much as three or four thousand taels.Jeon Wook never believed in any loyalty and never betrayed his oath.Not to mention this kind of subordinate relationship, even the biological father and son parted ways in the face of absolute interests, and even saw each other with swords and bayonets.Quan Xu waved his hand and said, "Your field income!"
”"Field income?"
Fu Zonglong groaned: "Then there are three or four thousand taels of silver!"
”Of course, there is not much land for Fu Zonglong now.For an officer like him, or a civilian official, the upper limit of land is 1,000 acres.However, Fu Zonglong knew that Liaodong had too much grain and the lowest income from growing grain, even if he adopted a scientific planting method, his annual income could reach two or three stones (five or six hundred catties), and in fact, the income of one mu was only about one or two silver, that is, the highest income was difficult to break a thousand.However, Fu Zonglong knows that the income from planting flax and cotton, these two cash crops, especially cotton, raw cotton has dropped to one penny of silver per catty, but each mu of land can still earn two or three taels.In other words, Fu Zonglong obviously had more than 3,000 acres of land, and he still had to pay more than 300 taels of silver, but he could still earn 2,000 or 3,000 taels, but more than 1,000 taels of silver than before.Fu Zonglong cannot represent all the current officials of the Ming Dynasty, but he can represent the majority, including officials from the gentry such as Shen Mingze, Mao Yuanyi, Zhu Xun, Sun Yuanhua, etc., who no longer pay taxes like Zhu Ming's officials.On the contrary, they are also big tax payers.For example, Fu Zonglong's equity income should also be deducted from personal income tax, and farmers do not have to pay taxes, but they also have to pay taxes when selling grain or crops.Taken together, these taxes will add up to a very considerable amount, and Fu Zonglong pays more than 10,000 taels of silver in personal income tax every year, which exceeds the actual income of many people.As for Cheng Jingxian, their family has many businesses, high turnover, and higher taxes, with taxes of more than one million taels alone, of course, Cheng Jingxian is still not the person who pays the most taxes.Quanxu is the person who pays the most taxes in the whole Ming Dynasty, only the railway company, the annual tax is as much as more than 30 million taels, of course, so far, the railway company is not the company that pays the most taxes.Rather, it is the Nanyang Development Corporation, which is similar to the Dutch East India Company.Founded less than seven years ago, the Nanyang Development Corporation has grown into a behemoth, with more than 24,000 veterans of the entire family army taking in, surpassing the Dutch East India Company in terms of strength.With Quanxu's method of tossing, why is it that Quan's Daming is disaster relief, construction, and the construction of schools in more than a dozen provinces, and there has not yet been a financial crisis, this is because of the existence of Nanyang Development Corporation.Of course, the existence of the Nanyang Development Corporation is not the only one, and Quan Xu is ready to set up a European Development Corporation of the same model, pulling the vested interest groups of the whole family and aiming at this piece of fat in Europe.Once the European Development Corporation is formed, it will be able to accept a large number of decommissioned equipment and equipment members of the Royal Navy and Royal Army, and even the Nanban soldiers of the Southbound Legion.Quan Xu has always believed that European colonialism is both simple and crude, playing politics, and the Ming Dynasty is the ancestor of Europeans.Quan Xu looked at the generals and said: "This world is fought by you and me together, you have also followed me for a long time, you should know that I am a person, I will never let my brother be wronged, in fact, this is also to blame, I should explain it to you clearly!"
”Many things, the same thing plays a very different role in other words, just like now, it's not that Fu Zonglong is not loyal, in fact, when most people encounter problems related to their own interests, they are almost the same, and if they don't say it on the surface, they will resist in their hearts.It is precisely because he knows this that Quan Xu will try his best to appease the generals on his side.Most of the original intentions of being loyal to the monarch and defending the country are actually to make meritorious contributions, seal their wives and sons, and glorify their ancestors.It doesn't matter what the intention is, what matters is the result.Jeon Wook grabbed his generals, and the army generals had to surround themselves and become the sharpest spear to solve these problems by themselves.Quan Xu looked at the crowd: "Back then, Taizu reused the gentry and reduced the taxes of the gentry, the original intention was to make the gentry loyal to the court, but the problem is that now the gentry are no longer big.As the saying goes, the past does not forget the teacher of the future, and we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. ”"Wait for you to understand!""
That's the best!"
Quan Xu continued: "You didn't get the privilege of tax exemption like the nobles of the previous dynasty, the whole world, everyone, including me, has to pay taxes, now the world is ours, the rules are set by me, then you have to abide by it, if you feel wronged, and tell me, as long as it doesn't hurt the heavens and reason, you are the master!"
”"Your Ministers obey!"
Quan Xu pointed to the south and said: "Those people in Jiangnan must surrender unconditionally, I don't allow it, I don't agree, their ancestors have been lying on Da Ming for generations, drinking blood, and now they are full, and they want me to reveal it in a word, is this possible?"
Do you promise?
”"No!"
Soon, the Daming Times, the mouthpiece of Quan Xu, immediately published part of the spirit of Quan Xu's speech, the core point of view is very clear, the traitorous behavior of the Jiangnan Jingentry group must be the most completely liquidated, and their behavior of supporting the vassal king to set up a small court to divide one side at a time of national crisis is even more unforgivable, and the only way out for the Jiangnan Jingentry group is to surrender immediately, otherwise, the grass will be cut and the roots will be eliminated, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!
Although it is said that most of the army forces of Quan Xu and Quan Daming have been drawn into disaster relief work, the problem is that Quan Xu has more than five divisions and one guard.In fact, he had sixteen divisions.In addition to the fact that it is very troublesome to mobilize troops in Hanhai Province at present, it is possible to mobilize the troops of Taiwan, Luzon, and Qiongzhou, and these troops will immediately launch landing exercises.Preparing to land from the east, southeast, and south, a large number of ships came and went to various places to survey the environment and mobilize supplies, and it seemed that the smell of gunpowder began to fill the air.Especially the generals of the navy, they are suffocated.In the battle for the founding of the country, except for the First Fleet and the Marines who fought a battle and occupied Shanhaiwei, other battles had nothing to do with the navy.You must know that now Quan Xu has the navy and the army side by side, and the pressure on Yang Yandong is not light.The admirals were gearing up and preparing to go upriver from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Nanjing.At this time, the small imperial court in Nanjing could only rely on Hong Chengchou, the governor of Huguang, of course, now he has become the prince and prince of the New Southern Ming Dynasty, and the governor of Huguang, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.With the announcement of Quan Xu's speech to the General Staff, the small court in Jiangnan felt the end of the world.At the same time, Hong Chengchou also regretted it very much.Before Quan Xu ascended the throne, he thought about surrendering Quan Xu.After all, Hong Chengchou had dealt with the whole family army at that time, and he was not as confident as the Jiangnan gentry.Of course, Hong Chengchou is also a gentry, the butt determines the head, and the head determines the thinking, and he is very dissatisfied with Quan Xu's new policy, as well as the ruthless behavior of the gentry who raided their homes and exterminated the clan at every turn.No matter how dissatisfied you are, you have to face the cruel reality.He once thought that the Jiangnan gentry could integrate Jiangnan's power and use Jiangnan's power to negotiate with Quan Xu, but the result was good, the small Jiangnan court fought every day, and the head was broken and bloody, and the business was not done.