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In this way, after most of the noon, and so on, at dusk, there was a commotion in front of the door, Xu Mian and others who were ordered to go returned one after another, according to the emperor's order of the six personnel also came to Wenyuan Pavilion, the household department Shangshu Xia Yuanji after the subordinates fought hard for a stick of incense, and finally made casualty statistics on the earthquake, and now made a summary: "In August of the first year of Xuande, the Jingshi earthquake started from the northwest, flying sand and dust, black air barriers, and did not see the day, and people fell like sitting in the waves. Before long, the sound of the four fields was like a thunderbolt, and the birds and beasts were frightened. It was three earthquakes in a row in the night, and the flat ground was opened for several feet, and a big ditch was cracked under the victory gate, and the water was like a spring. The shock and injuries of the officials and the people were incalculable, and even the whole family was destroyed. At noon, there was a great tremor as before. Officials and people inside and outside, violent during the day, sleeping in the open at night, dare not enter the house, day and night are not distinguished, like chaos. The corpses of the dead were piled up like mountains of people crushed by the courtiers, and they were unrecognizable. The collapse of the city of Tongzhou was even worse. There was a fire in the air, burning on all sides, and the cry shook the sky. There are Li Zongbing, with eighty-seven families into the capital, staying in the pavilion, all of them are lost, and there are three families. The streets of Zhuozhou, Liangxiang and other places were cracked, and black water gushed out, three or four feet high. Shanhaiguan, the place of the three rivers sinks into the river. What is the unprecedented change, ...... shocked the dynasty? “

Xia Yuanji's voice was not loud, but it was loud enough, and the huge Wenyuan Pavilion was silent for a while, and it took a long time to hear Zhu Zhanji sigh and say: "It's all because of my immorality, so that yin and yang are not in harmony, and disasters are warnings!" “

"Your Majesty, this is a natural disaster, not your Majesty's fault?" Yang Shiqi said loudly.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "Although it is a natural disaster, but at the beginning of my ascension to the throne, such things happened, and I can't get rid of it. “

"Majesty-?" Yang Shiqi wanted to say something, Zhu Zhanji waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about how to help the disaster?" “

Yang Shiqi answered, bowed his head and thought.

Xia Yuanji said: "Your Majesty, the Jinyi guards have already found out clearly, inside and outside the capital, there are many military and civilian houses, and they are unable to repair them, so they may be unemployed." Overwhelmed by the population, it can't be buried, and it's good and compassionate. He Jia's mercy is a quick discussion. It is still passed and heard. ”

Zhu Zhanji said: "Quasi-play!" ”

Yang Rong said: "The top priority is to set up porridge factories in various places and distribute "warehouse silver and rice relief".

Zhu Zhanji said: "Make it up! “

Jian Yi said: "This disaster is strict, and Weichen Jian yì ordered the household department, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry according to the disaster situation" The earthquake dumped the house, and those who were unable to repair it were given four taels of silver by the official. For private houses, each one is given two taels of silver. Those who are overwhelmed by the population and cannot be buried shall be given two taels of silver each. ”

"Should it be so?" Zhu Zhanji said in a deep voice: "This matter will be handed over to the household department, right?" ”

Xia Yuanji's face showed a look of embarrassment, he began to be in charge of the household department during the Jianwen period, the Ming Dynasty has long been on guard against the Tartars, and the northern front is extremely long, so from the Hongwu time, the Ming Dynasty's household expenditure, a large part of the expenditure is to supply the northern frontier region, to guard against the invasion of the northern Tartars, this way to Yongle has changed, Zhu Di to the Son of Heaven to guard the country, five times to send troops to Mongolia, the hidden dangers of the frontier have been greatly lifted, but Yongle sent hundreds of thousands of troops, soldiers and horses food cost a lot, Not to mention that the nine sides where the Ming Dynasty was located established a large number of defense systems and large-scale garrisons.

These numbers have been increasing since the early years of Yongle, and by the later period of Yongle it has become a huge number. The Ming Dynasty mainly used several ways to pay military salaries: Tuntian; democracy movement; Jingyun. Tuntian was mainly a military tun, but after Yongle, a large number of tuntian land was occupied by private individuals, and the income of the military tun decreased sharply. This is where the importance of the pro-democracy movement comes in. However, the land in the border areas is also relatively barren, and the pro-democracy movement generally transports grain from hundreds of miles away to the border areas. Later, the people in charge of the democracy movement also got into trouble, and either ran away or hired special businessmen to deal with the matter. Later, the democracy movement did not work, so they had to rely on the appropriation of the imperial court to take the silver to buy grain near the border pass and supply the local army, which can be said to account for the majority of the Ming household.

The tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty mostly came from the Susong area, and the tax revenue of Jiangnan accounted for a large part of the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty, so the tax revenue of Jiangnan was up, and the financial revenue of the imperial court was more. The fiscal revenue of the Suzhou Prefecture is often more than that of the government secretary (province) in some remote areas. The reason why the fiscal revenue of the Nanzhili area is so large is the so-called "Jiangnan Heavy Endowment", and the rent of the official land is much higher than that of the private land. In fact, Guantian and Mintian are privately owned land, but in history Guantian is the state-owned land of the Song Dynasty acquired by Jia Nidao at the end of the Song Dynasty, and its land rent is very high, and the original rent was continued when it came to Hongwu, at first the people of Jiangnan could still cope with it, and so on in the later period of Yongle, Zhu Di edited the "Yongle Canon", sent troops to Annan, went to the West six times, moved the capital to Beijing, and five went out of Mongolia, dredged the Grand Canal, this series of large-scale spending, spent a lot of silver, and these taxes were mostly on the people of Jiangnan, and over time, the people of Jiangnan were overwhelmed, It is that many official fields have been abandoned due to natural disasters or re-endowments, or hidden in the form of "sprinkling" and "trickery". As a result, officials had to distribute excess taxes to other lands in order to reach the "original amount". As the cycle continues, the government has less and less land, and the remaining land has to bear more taxes. In the long run, it is easy to have problems, and it is difficult for the imperial court to collect taxes, from the late Yongle period, the household is gradually difficult, the reason why Cheng Zu can maintain a lot of hands during his reign, in addition to the strong support of the people in Jiangnan, Zheng He went to the West, more measures were taken to encourage the production of Juntun. Quotas were set and the results of the commanders were linked to the production situation. The rent of some military tuns was reduced or exempted, and the production of military tuns during this period reached the peak of the Ming Dynasty, greatly surpassing the Hongwu Dynasty, which greatly increased the government's financial revenue and ensured the supply of military salaries for the army.

The Ming Dynasty's agricultural tax revenue mainly came from land taxes and military rents. Both of these incomes during the Yongle period surpassed those of the Hongwu period, but they began to decline after that. Yongle Dynasty's field income was greatly reduced, difficult to maintain, after Hongxi, the West was canceled, the wealthy households in Jiangnan refused to pay taxes, coupled with Annan's many rebellions, Renzong in order to calm the people's grievances, and reduced a lot of taxes, the household can receive less silver, although Renzong is not more generous than the Yongle years, but the household has been empty, in fact, there is no silver, it can be said that this earthquake came at the wrong time.

Zhu Zhanji saw that Xia Yuanji was silent, and couldn't help but glance at him with some surprise, Xia Yuanji has always been knowledgeable, and now that such a big disaster has happened, it is the time to ask the household department for silver, but as the household department Shangshu did not express his position, he was somewhat unreasonable, and said with a slight sigh: "Xia Aiqing, this matter is very important, and the household disaster relief silver must be delivered in time?" ”

Xia Yuanji's face was a little ugly, and he suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is difficult for Weichen to obey?" ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhu Zhanji was a little surprised, but also Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and others were surprised, but Jian Yi sighed lightly.

Zhu Zhanji said with some displeasure: "Why did Xia Aiqing say this? ”

Xia Yuanji twisted his neck, and said with an open look: "Your Majesty, Fei Weichen doesn't know the priorities, but there is no silver in the household department?" ”

"No money in the household?" Zhu Zhanji bowed slightly, although he as an emperor, he ignores the household department on weekdays, but he also knows that the Ming Dynasty has low taxes, and when the emperor's grandfather was there, the generosity has not stopped, and the Ming Dynasty has been customized, and the world's wealth is provided with four million stones of grain for the Beijing Division, and the Wangfu Lu rice everywhere, as well as the officials in the world, can maintain this situation over the years, it can be said that the household department has done its best, and the household department is indeed out of silver? “

After a period of silence, Zhu Zhanji sighed lightly and said, "How many silver taels can the household department come up with?" “

Xia Yuanji thought for a while and said, "Two hundred thousand taels!" “

Zhu Zhanji said: "If you look at how much money is needed for this disaster relief. ”

The household servant on the side had already calculated the silver taels, and then stepped forward and said loudly: "If it is played according to His Majesty, a total of 120,000 taels of silver will be needed?" ”

"One hundred and twenty thousand taels? Alright, alright? Zhu Zhanji secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Natural disasters can't wait, Lord Yin Liangxia is still doing his best, right?" ”

Xia Yuanji's face was a little ugly, and he said: "Your Majesty, this silver is the clan and the hundred officials, and it has been given to natural disasters, but you are afraid?" “

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