In the Gyeonggi area, one out of every five or six acres of land is a royal village

Even if Zhu Yijun refused to admit it, he felt that this did sound a bit excessive, not only did he look slightly embarrassed, but he said stupidly, "But after all, it was obtained by the ancestors of the past dynasties by punishing the traitors and rebels, and it is not good for me to distribute it directly to the people, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if I score points, who will I give them to in the end, will they still be taken by Haoqiang in the end."

Of course, there is a part of the thief's stolen goods, but that's not all of them, and maybe not even the big one.

However, this is not easy to say, so he can only speak in a different way of thinking, he walked slowly with the emperor, and said, "Some time ago, Weichen happened to talk about this matter with Dasi Nong, he said that some time ago, Shuntian and other eight prefectures and counties, Zhang, the official and the guard, the border herding horses, the army and other places, a total of 2,835 hectares, the annual levy of 6,920 taels of silver, 24 stone of grain. There are more than 11,550 hectares of new and old farmland. ”

Dasi Nong is the head of the household, and the Ming people love to use the ancient name.

Zhu Yijun was surprised when he heard this, and said, "Gyeonggi Xungui only cleared more than 11,000 hectares of land, only more than 1 million acres of land."

"That's right, that's what Dasi Nong said, Beizhili Qingzhang only found a total of 5 million mu of hidden land, of which Xungui accounted for 1.15 million mu." Gao pragmatic sighed, "By the way, the emperor, after this Qingzhang, Weichen also appeared, and the minister's Sanshenyuan actually has a hidden field that I don't know which dynasty has been left at the beginning, about 20 hectares, about 2,000 acres, and now it has been re-engraved in the yellow book, and the fish scale drawings have also been drawn. ”

Of course, two thousand acres is not a small number, but twenty hectares of land is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, not to mention that he has re-registered, so Zhu Yijun didn't bother to ask, but hesitated and said, "Do you think there is really only this number in Xungui Yintian, near Gyeonggi?"

Gao pragmatically smiled bitterly: "How is that possible." ”

"Are you sure" Zhu Yijun frowned, "I just doubt that you have any evidence?"

Gao pragmatic said, "The minister didn't check it in person, how could there be evidence, but as long as you compare the data from other places, you know that the Qingzhang of Gyeonggi and even the entire North Zhili must have missed a lot." ”

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What data?"

Gao pragmatically said, "For example, in Huguang, the original yellow album and fish scale atlas only had more than 36 million mu of land, but in fact, after the Qing Dynasty, Huguang had nearly 92 million mu of fields, and there were 56 million mu more, almost tripling

There is also Shandong, which was originally registered as 80 million mu, and after Qingzhang it was 116 million mu, an increase of 36 million, which is also about half more than the original.

There is also Sichuan, which originally had only about 13.5 million mu, but after the Qing Dynasty, it reached 40 million mu, an increase of 26 million mu, which is also a triple."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a while, and suddenly asked, "What about Nan Zhili?"

Gao Pragmatic smiled, "South Zhili is even more powerful, more powerful than North Zhili, only more than 3.3 million mu." ”

Zhu Yijun's face suddenly turned ugly, and he said angrily, "It's really too far away for the emperor, and I can't control them."

Gao Pragmatic was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "Actually, there are also those who are more powerful than Xungui Yintian." ”

Zhu Yijun's eyes widened, "There are more powerful"

"The vassal kings and the clan." Gao Pragmatic is also out of the way today, relying on Zhu Yijun's most likely not to kill him, and said in a deep voice, "Now there are more than 30 vassal kings in the country who have removed the heirs and eliminated the country due to events, and the clan is as high as more than 120,000. Some of the distant branches of the low lords are okay, there are not many fields, and some are even difficult to make ends meet, but the princes and the high lords are close to the branches, in addition to the original country to give the closed fields, there are also a large number of hidden fields, tricks, which has a great impact on the Yongle years, the Northern Expedition remnants, the southern expedition to Annam, and the seven Western Oceans, the expenditure is far better than today, and there is especially spare power. Your Majesty, you can do it now."

Zhu Yijun stopped, and the people fell silent, and said, "That's why your palace trial strategy theory says that today's big trouble lies in poverty."

"Yes, yes." Gao pragmatic said, "The minister also said that if the officials are poor, the people will be poor, the people will be poor, the army will be poor, and the country will be weak." ”

"I remember." Zhu Yijun sighed and said, "You say, if you want to make the officials not greedy, you must first increase their wealth so that the small people do not steal, first get rich and collect their desires so that the soldiers do not make trouble, and first sufficient their salaries to make the country not weak and enrich their treasury first." ”

Gao pragmatically nodded, but did not speak. On this issue, what he should have said was basically said in the policy theory.

But Zhu Yijun was still worried, at this time they were walking to the Nansha River, Zhu Yijun took Gao Pragmatic and others to walk along the river, and after a while, he said, "But the method you gave in the strategy, I see that the main thing is to collect business taxes, but I didn't say anything about the land." ”

Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, talk about the business tax, although the minister will also be scolded, but there is still a general salvation, but if you talk about the property at the same time, I am afraid that it will be pointed out by thousands of people, and it will end without a problem." ”

Zhu Yijun laughed, then slowly retracted his smile, glanced at Gao pragmatically, and said, "So you will take this opportunity today to throw the problem to me."

Gao pragmatic arched his hand and said, "The emperor has wronged Weichen, Weichen is just reading from the book, I'm afraid that Weichen is not the only one who has said these words today." ”

"You're not alone." Zhu Yijun nodded, but said, "But it's so shocking, but you are the most, they all like to describe it, what kind of people sell their sons and daughters, and they cannibalize each other, but no one has ever explained the data so clearly and clearly." Just after comparing these data, I realized that the problem was serious. ”

Gao Pragmatic just smiled, but didn't speak.

Zhu Yijun thought about it again, and then frowned and asked, "In your opinion, the Qingzhang of the north and south will continue to even say, and strengthen it."

Gao pragmatic said: "There are only two reasons for the poverty of the world, one is insufficient production, and the other is poor scheduling. It depends on which step the emperor wants to solve first. ”

Zhu Yijun was surprised and said, "I can understand the lack of production, what does it mean to be ineffective in scheduling?"

In fact, it is difficult for you to fully understand the lack of production, but that can be talked about later, I originally planned to talk to you about this scheduling failure today.

"Your Majesty, there are many kinds of poor scheduling." Gao pragmatic said, "For example, commerce is not prosperous, transportation is not reached, distribution is unreasonable, etc., all belong to poor scheduling." ”

Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "I can understand that the transportation is not up to this point, as if the transportation is not as convenient as the sea transportation." But there are other issues here, such as the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of workers, and the fact that shipping sometimes kills people in storms, which are all old topics that have been debated by the imperial court for hundreds of years. However, I don't understand what this has to do with the lack of commerce and unreasonable distribution. ”

Gao pragmatically smiled, "But the emperor, these two points are the real crux of the Ming Dynasty at present." ”