Chapter 816 The Beginning of a New Life Quan Xu asked Quan Gan and Niu Jinxing to conduct a sample survey, and the survey population was 40 percent peasants, 40 percent ordinary workers, 10 percent businessmen, 5 percent officials, and 5 percent soldiers.It took almost fifteen days for Quan Xu to receive the investigation reports of the two from Quan Gan and Niu Jinxing respectively.As a result, as Quan Gan said, the so-called bride price issue is purely a rumor.After a full-scale investigation, in the past five months, a total of 1,353 households in seven prefectures, including Shuntianfu, Yongpingfu, Zunhuafu, and Hejian Fu, were transferred, and it was found after investigation.The highest bride price for peasants was about 1,200 taels of silver, the lowest was 16 taels of silver, and the average was about 350 taels of silver.The highest bride price for the workers was 800 taels of silver, and the lowest was 140 taels of silver.an average of four hundred and forty taels of silver.The highest merchant was 56,000 taels of silver, the lowest was more than 2,400 taels, and the average was about 7,900 taels of silver.The highest official dowry is Yan Shijie, chairman of the Guangping County Council, with a dowry of 1,200 taels of silver, and the lowest is Hong Chengchou's younger brother Hong Chengjun, who married his wife Xiangshan Yuan, and the dowry is 66 taels of silver.The average was about five hundred taels of silver.After Niu Jinxing's random inspection, a total of 1,757 households were found in Defu, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Dengzhou, Jinan and Nanyang.The highest bride price for peasants was about 980 taels of silver, the lowest was 25 taels of silver, and the average was about 320 taels of silver.The maximum bride price for the workers was 830 taels of silver, and the minimum was 40 taels of silver.The average was about four hundred and eleven taels of silver.The merchant was worth a maximum of one hundred thousand and one taels of silver, and the lowest was a thousand taels of silver, with an average of fifty-five thousand taels of silver.The highest for officials was three thousand six hundred taels of silver, the lowest was one hundred and fifty taels of silver, and the average was five hundred and ninety taels of silver.Quan Xu found that although the folk bride price has increased significantly compared with before, it is not as exaggerated as the rumors, but if the government does not deal with it, I am afraid that it will be higher and higher, and eventually cause social problems.Quan Xu mentioned this issue at the latest meeting of the Government Council, and he proposed that the tax department should interfere, and the people's dowry should not exceed the annual disposable income of the local per capita family.If the excess is exceeded, a heavy tax will be levied, and if it exceeds 1,000 taels, it will be taxed 10 percent, if it exceeds 3,000 taels of silver, it will be taxed 30 percent, and if it exceeds 5,000 taels of silver, it will be taxed 45 percent, and so on.Quan Xu's trick is bragging about it, and if there is a bride price of 1,000 taels of silver, he dares to say thousands of taels or even tens of thousands of taels to the outside, so he will be taxed according to this.I'm not afraid to brag, I'm just afraid that you won't.As long as there is an increase in taxes, the eyes of the tax collectors will light up, although they collect a lot of taxes, but they can't stand Quan Xu's ability to spend money is too powerful.Originally, the Anhai Railway planned by the Ministry of Railways was only a preparatory plan, but I didn't expect Quan Xu not only to approve, but also to reply: "conservative" The original intention of the Ministry of Railways was to build a railway from Andong Province to Hanhai Province, but Quan Xu was not satisfied, but asked them to build two railways from Andong Province, namely the Northern Line Railway, from Andong Province, through Boli Province, Heishui Province, Beizhen Province, and Tianshan Province, directly to Hanhai Province.The southern railway instead runs from Hoi Ninh Province, Liaoyang Province, Bak Zhen Province, Tien Shan Province, to Siberia.In this way, the amount of work on the railway will increase by more than five times.As for Quanxu's approval of the Linlong railway line, this is even more of a headache for the railway department.In fact, this Linlong Railway, in later generations, also has a name called Longhai Railway Line, which is from Lianyungang to Lanzhou through Xuzhou, Guide, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Shaanzhou, Chang'an, Tianshui.The construction of a railway from Beijing to Hanhai Province is also underway.There were also people who were very puzzled why Quan Xu spent a lot of money and a lot of human resources in the places where birds don't shit in the north, until the Slavs and the Ming Dynasty started a big war in the Ural Mountains, and at this time, those who had any objections to the construction plan of the Northern Railway quickly shut up.The first consideration of the imperial railroads was military, followed by economy, and finally efficiency.That is, in the far northeast, in addition to Jiannu and Mongolia, there are people who can threaten the interests of the Ming Empire, then, if you don't say it, it's over.Even the Longhai Railway, which was the most important in later generations, was affected, the progress of the project began to slow down, and the empire threw a lot of resources into the construction of the Donghan Railway and the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway.With the promulgation and implementation of the bride price tax by Quanxu, the people were in an uproar for a while.There has actually been a new round of marriage craze, because the new bride price law stipulates that it will be implemented from February 1 of the second year of Dingxin, and will now not be affected by the new tax law.In the future, that will have to pay a large amount of bride price tax.At the same time, bragging will also be taxed.Obviously, he received a bride price of 1,000 taels of silver, as long as he said that it was 2,000 taels of silver, no matter how much of the bride price of taels of silver was paid by his in-laws, he would need to pay taxes here.And it is taxed according to the bragged data.Encourage the people to supervise, as long as you find three people who can prove that, you say this, then it will be implemented in accordance with the new tax law.After Jeon Wook promulgated the bride price bill, he immediately went into an ostrich state and began to take his personal guards to the north to escape the summer.Because the city of Beijing was too hot, just when Quanxu was going all the way north, after several months of turbulence, the first batch of immigrants to La Plata, who was not from Xinhua Province of Daming, finally arrived in Xinhua Province.The new port had already built a silhouette, and as soon as the migrant ship docked at sea, Yan Wentao couldn't wait to leave the stuffy cabin.In the small space, the smell of sweat, athlete's foot, and vomit mingled into a terrifying stench that turned the small space into a hell of purgatory.Yan Wentao was almost collapsing on the ground on the dock, his anger was like a gossamer, his face was pale, and it really made people worry about whether he would choke his breath in the next second.After Quan Xu became the emperor of the Ming Empire, a new era was opened, but any new era means that a lot of old things can die, the first thing that the iron-blooded tyrant did after coming to power was to liquidate the crimes of the Shi Dafu group, and none of the guys in the cabinet who colluded with foreign enemies escaped, Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, Hou Sui, Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia, these cabinet ministers, were all sentenced to death.Most of the officials in Shanxi, Hebei, Huguang, Jiangsu, and Liangguang were of the nine ethnic groups, and all men over the age of 18 were beheaded, women were beaten into pariahs, and men under the age of 18 were exiled overseas.The woman emigrated to the Northeast, the killing was ruthless, and the punishment was severe, which really made the officials of the world relive the bloodshed and horror of the Hongwu period.Not only that, Quan Xu also strictly investigated corruption, embezzled more than 500 taels of money and silver, and all of them were exiled overseas to work!
It should be said that Quan Xu is very benevolent, he does not intend to kill them all, the dividing line of five hundred taels of silver has already given the officials of the world a chance to live.However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are too capable of death, even if it is the new dynasty, it is also impossible to avoid the problem of corruption and corruption, after a round of strict investigation, officials at all levels have been arrested, regardless of size, all pack their bags and work in the farmhouse in Xinhua Province, for a while, the Ming Dynasty is simply boring!
Of course, this is not the most important thing, the important thing is that many children of officials like Yan Wentao have been lucky enough to get their lives back.But the death penalty can be avoided, the living crime cannot be escaped, he lost everything overnight, relatives, friends, status, money, women, these are gone.He was put on a big ship with many rich boys like him, and then it was a nightmare voyage, and the wind and waves of the sea and the humid and stuffy conditions of the ship made everyone want to jump into the sea and let the sharks tear themselves apart, so that they could die a happy death, and many people died in the middle of the road because of the water and soil.He himself was sick, and he was so uncomfortable that he died, but fortunately, there was a doctor on the ship, and the medicine reserves were quite sufficient, so he was given some medicine every day, and he actually survived half-dead like this.He doesn't have any gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, he just wants to live.Only by living can there be hope, and when you die, there is nothing.At this time, all the people who could get off the boat were driven to the dock and assembled, including Yan Wentao, Hongchen and Wushuang's biological father Lu Zhenfei, and their brother Lu Zepu.Fortunately, Lu Zhenfei did not get seasick, and along the way, instead of being thin, he was faintly fat.That's right, Lu Zhenfei's heart was like ashes, but after losing his daughter for more than 20 years, he found his daughter again, and he had a new hope.At this time, looking into the distance, this continent is boundless, the terrain is flat, but the vegetation is relatively lush, the wild grass more than one person high, swaying with the wind, there are some wooden houses not far from the sea, and fortifications made of stones, and barbed wire fences are hung, and there is no trace of civilization in sight."
What is this place?""
This is Li Daming's Xinhua Province!""
Xinhua Province?""
That's right!"
An official wearing a black robe with a wrinkled face said: "Contemptible people are not talented, his surname is Shen Minglu, and he is the county magistrate of Shenlu County, Xinhua Province!"
”"Meet the county lord!""
This Shenlu County, why haven't you heard of it?""
Contemptible Shen Lu, the first to come here, this land with a radius of thousands of miles is all Shenlu County, do you have any opinions?""
No, no!""
This is the newly opened territory of the Ming Dynasty, understand?
Our navy has opened up a territory as vast overseas as the Ming Dynasty!
”Shen Lu looked at everyone: "You see, this place is very desolate now, this official told you, the land here is very fertile, the climate is warm, and the rainfall is abundant, as long as you are not afraid of hardship and tiredness, you can also build a new Jiangnan in our Xinhua Province!"
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