Transportation will be consumed, such as rats and finches eating, floating in water, rotting, etc. Therefore, in addition to the main items of field grain, the collection of rice consumption is a big burden and a big omission. The biggest problem is that "the powerful only provide the positive amount, and the one qiē transfers all the expenses, and the consumption and the positive amount, etc., are the only responsible poor people." It's a drain." In order to change this situation, in the eighth year of Xuande, Zhou Chen created the "square meter method". square meters, referring to the positive amount and the consumption of rice. The method is: "The government and the people are all painting and consuming." In the early years, one stone of rice and seven buckets of rice were consumed, and the cost of distance and distance was allocated. The surplus of the appropriation is stored in the county warehouse, and it is said that there is more than rice. In the following year, there were more than one meter, one stone, and the subtraction was six buckets. In the second year, there is more benefit, and the subtraction and consumption are five buckets. On the basis of the square meter method, the establishment of "Jinongcang". One of the sources of rice in Jinongcang is the surplus rice that remains after the allocation of square meters, in addition, there is also the grain and rice stored in the official banknotes issued in the harvest year, and the rice saved by the implementation of the "Beijing Pension Method". According to Zhou Chen's performance in the seventh year of Xuande: "First, Su, Song, and Chang were 1 million stones of rice in Nanjing, which was thought to be the strength of Beijing's martial arts. Each stone plus plate consumes six buckets of rice. However, the former can be withdrawn from Nanjing, but can it be taken from the three governments? It is 600,000 stones. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty• Biography of Zhou Chen", this method stipulates that those who take it on the spot will be given one stone per rice and one bucket of rice. The surplus is five buckets of rice per stone. In addition, in some counties, they also persuaded the rich to borrow rice, and cleaned up the land rents that were encroached upon by the wealthy right. In addition to the fact that Jinongcang is used for the cultivation and food of the poor, "where the battle of Pitang Weir is counted, it is given to the eater, so it is taken; Those who were unfortunately lost in the fortunes of the rivers were able to pretend to be able to use them." "Compradors pay official silks, repair houses, houses, temples, schools, and make books and pray for floods and droughts" and so on are all used at any time. This method of mixing the collection of land taxes with the expenditure of conscription actually set a precedent for the combined collection of conscription. In the reform of the enslavement system in the Ming Dynasty has pioneering significance, respected by historians of all dynasties, Yang Zheng at that time in order to cope with the history exam, but did not deal with the "square meter law", over time remembered Zhou Chen's name? I don't want to blurt it out at this time.

When Zhou Chen heard the words "square meter method", his eyes suddenly lit up, and he muttered: "It's really a good method, adults are good to learn?" “

Yang Zheng paused for a moment, and said in his heart: "Isn't this method original to you, hasn't it been implemented at this time?" ”

Zhou Chen seemed to appreciate Yang Zheng's method very much, lowered his head and pondered, but stopped speaking.

Xia Yuanji on the side saw that his confidant would be so unsociable, and shook his head slightly. In his book "Susong Water Conservancy", he analyzed the shape of the waterways in the area at that time, and believed that the key to water control was to dredge the downstream rivers so that the flood water could flow smoothly into the sea. However, in the past, the Wusong River, the main water discharge road, has been strictly silted up, although the upstream section of more than 120 miles from the Wujiang Long Bridge to Xia Jiapu can be opened to water, but there are many shallow and narrow places, and from Xia Jiapu to Shanghai County's Nanjiapu mouth (the old mouth of the Wusong River into the sea, in the south of Wusongkou today) is already "overgrown with reeds and has become a flat land". It is better to focus on dredging Liujiagang in Jiading County and Baimao Port in Changshu County in the northeast into the river in the upper section, and focus on dredging Fanjiabang in the lower section that leads directly to the south of the mouth. In addition, sluices were set up at the mouth of the river to control the discharge of water and high tides, and then the embankment was repaired and reinforced, so that floods could be controlled. More than 100,000 people were involved in the construction that year, and it was completed in September of the following year. The main project of its treatment is to divert the water from the upper reaches of the Wusong River from Liujiagang by Xia Jiapu; Open Fan Jiabang, connected to the big Huangpu, and divert the water of Dianshan Lake into the sea from the south stilt, thus changing the basic pattern of the downstream drainage channel of Taihu Lake, in which Zhou Chen helped to manage the finances, with a very small amount of silver, completed the huge project that year, and since then has been extremely important to this young descendant.

Later, Zhou Chen was admitted to the Jinshi and selected Shu Jishi. Invited into the Wenyuan Pavilion, and repaired the "Yongle Canon" and so on. The director of the penal department, the foreign officer, he is silently concerned, but he has not been promoted for more than ten years, so he is a little surprised, for the future life that he values, how to know how the world in the womb is not known, after some inquiry, he knows that his henchman is too unsociable, in addition to fiddling with his own numbers all day long, he rarely walks around with colleagues, coming and going, the reputation of the early years is gradually forgotten by others, and he has not been given the opportunity to be promoted, it is rare for the country to have such a pillar, Xia Yuanji really didn't want to let such a good talent be wasted, so he used his relationship in the officialdom, in the twenty-second year of Yongle, promoted to the long history of the Yue Wang, it was promoted to a level, this more than a year, finally showed what he had learned in his heart, and was rewarded by the imperial court, so that Xia Yuanji was very happy, and decided to help this descendant again, just yesterday the emperor recruited him into the palace to discuss matters, and said that the problem of Su Song's taxation, Jiangnan Guantian was re-endowed, which was a very special phenomenon in the economy and finance of the Ming Dynasty. The heavy burden forced the peasants to flee in large numbers, the state tax sources were reduced, and the arrears were severe. Suzhou Mansion, from the twentieth year of Yongle to the first year of Hongxi, owed 3.92 million stone of grain; Songjiang Prefecture, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth year of Yongle, had to be exempted from several million stones. In the early years of Xuande, Suzhou Mansion accumulated arrears to 7.9 million stones, and taxes could not be levied at all, but Jiangnan was the financial land of the imperial court, bearing the huge amount of bureaucrats and nobles. Driven by the trade in the Susong area, but there is no less silver, those bureaucrats, big households in the hands of two silver can be a lot, three, the current situation, the DPRK and the central government use money in many ways, if the household department reduces the taxes in the Jiangnan area, I am afraid that it will be more and more supportive in the future, so he Jianyi Emperor sent an official to govern as well.

The emperor also had this intention, the two discussed the right candidate, Xia Yuanji thought of Zhou Chen, so many years of eunuch sea career, but also honed his character, calm and capable, it is rare that in addition to editing the "Yongle Canon" over the years, in terms of financial management is even more powerful than his own household book, so he moved this thought, and the emperor recommended Zhou Chen, but let a long history go to the south of the Yangtze River, the governor's tax grain is not a trivial matter after all, in addition to the court discussion, it also needs the approval of the three cabinets. The seven cabinet ministers, Huang Huai is old, Jin Youzi has been worried since last month, Zhang Ying has just entered the cabinet, and he can't be the master, so in the final analysis, the cabinet is still Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu The three have the final say, Yang Rong and Yang Pu have seen Zhou Zhen and praised him, today he specially led Zhou Zhen to meet Yang Shiqi, one to let him have a preparation, and the other is to let Zhou Zhen enter Yang Shiqi's eyes, if he really goes to Jiangnan in the future, it is better to do things? “

The group talked and laughed, Yang Zheng suddenly remembered that Zhou Zhen went to Jiangnan in his previous life and began to become famous all over the world, and after seeing this honest financial planner, he said in his heart: "I really don't know how such a person made such a big move in the complicated situation in Jiangnan, and solved the tax problem in Jiangnan in one fell swoop!" was muttering, and suddenly Zhou Zhen raised his head, stared at Yang Zheng and said: "I will increase the consumption of taxes and transportation every year, and there will be consumption of rats and finches to eat, float in water, rot, etc." Therefore, in addition to the main items of field grain, the collection of rice consumption is a big burden and a big omission. The biggest problem is that "the powerful only provide the positive amount, and the one qiē transfers all the expenses, and the consumption and the positive amount, etc., are the only responsible poor people." This consumption can not be leveled, Lord Yang's method, is really a good way, the total of rice and rice consumption, the heavy consumption of the department is less, the light consumption of the department is more, according to the provisions of the square meter rule, and then the square meter rule to calculate the amount of rice grain and silver to be levied. In this way, the taxes of the court and the people are correct, and the adults are really geniuses? “

"My day, didn't you create this method, how did it become my invention?" Yang Zheng was slightly stunned.

But he listened to Zhou Zhen and said: "Although this method is good, it is also a little troublesome, and it needs to be helped, otherwise I am afraid that it will be implemented a lot?" ”

Yang Zheng was stunned, and then had to admire that this guy was indeed a capable minister, because from the written records of the previous life, after Zhou Zhen went to Jiangnan, the first thing was to solve the problem of Cao Yun, at that time, Jiangnan grain was transported to Beijing, there were military transport, there were civil movements. In the democratic movement, the burden of transporting the people is quite heavy, "the military ships give the officials, the people go to the boats, and they are miscellaneous, and the rate is three stones to one stone, and they go back and forth for many years, and they lose agriculture." Zhou Chen discussed with Chen Xuan, the governor of Caoyun, to exchange the grain from Jiangnan to the Cao army for transportation, and the specific method was: the people transported it to Huai'an or Guazhou for water exchange, and then the Cao army transported it to Tongzhou. Each stone of grain is transported to Huai'an, and five buckets of grain are consumed, and five buckets of grain are transported to Guazhou, and five buckets and five liters are consumed. The officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan Guard Station directly transported it to the nearby warehouse, and added two buckets of rice across the river, and paved the reed mat fee of five he. With this method, the peasants not only saved costs but also made it convenient, and the Cao army also benefited. “

The two were talking, and suddenly heard Yang Shiqi say: "In the eyes of Junior Brother Yang, where is the best place to use this square meter method?" ”

"Of course it's Jiangnan?" Yang Zheng didn't even want to blurt it out.

Yang Shiqi said: "Why is this? “

Yang Zheng really didn't know, thought for a while and said: "I have heard that Lord Zhou is erudite and talented, do you want to let Lord Zhou answer this question?" “

Yang Shiqi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said, "Junior Brother Yang is really a smart person?" ”

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