Chapter 169 The reason why I care about coastal defense
It is easy to remind people of the content of the book on the drum of "nonsense", and it is natural to associate Liu Yu with the matter of Liu Yu here.
This matter is definitely going to cause a big storm, Zhang Muzhi thought, Liu Yu, this kid will choose the time.
It will be exempted for one year, and even if the official trial of Baiyun Airlines is successful, it will be two years later. If it is effective after two years, it may be rolled out nationwide.
But at that time, it was basically time to put down the rebellion against the Dzungaria. When Liu Yu led the troops away, no matter how bad the turmoil was, he couldn't force the emperor to remove the generals on the front line.
When the quasi-division is finished and the war is outstanding, even if someone impeaches, what is the use?
Thinking of this, Zhang Muzhi smiled secretly in his heart, thinking that Liu Yu really did things quietly and made some big moves.
Anyway, Pingzungar is a hurdle, and if you can't get over, Liu Yu will definitely die. But if it passes, no matter how much impeachment there was before, it would be a fart, and wiping the cheeks would still be hard to impeach.
Zhang Muzhi said, what does it mean to have no fear? This is called having no fear.
But this Bai Yunhang is really bold.
Is it the one who is close to Zhu who is red, and the one who is close to ink is black? Or is this Bai Yunhang a bold man, and the two people smell the same, so they met?
Squinting at the old eyes, he quietly glanced at the emperor, and when he saw that the emperor was calm, he waited for everyone to speak. He thought that his attitude was no longer important at this time, so he didn't say a word, waiting for others to speak first.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Liu Yu is a dragon ban, and he also leads the responsibility of training. He interferes in local affairs, is this a bit of a dog meddling with rats? β
"Once this matter becomes the norm, those who lead the army out of the town will interfere in local affairs, and I am afraid that there will be a disaster for the town."
came up and buttoned a big hat first, Zhang Muzhi's eyes opened slightly, and he said in a muffled voice: "This is wrong." Bai Yunhang made it clear that he had a heart, but he was short of manpower, so he had to borrow people. This is not what Liu Yu forced Bai Yunhang to do, how can this be called interfering in local affairs? Since this matter is Bai Yunhang's sparseness, what does it have to do with Liu Yu? You can't just say that he instigated this because Liu Yu was training in Weihai, right? β
Li Gan sighed, tasting the sentence "The dog is nosy with a mouse", and said in his heart that this is not a nosy.
Everyone didn't know that Liu Yu used the words "cut off the luck, open the imperial examination, and support the puppet" to scare the emperor, so naturally they didn't know Li Gan's nightmare.
The nightmare of the enemy coming from the east, the fleet penetrating the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the opening of the imperial examination has always surrounded Li Gan's heart.
Of course, when a person dies by nature, it is not necessarily the same before he is alive.
However, Li Gan's nightmare is more specific, and it is the evaluation of later history books such as "Shenzhou sank again, starting from Taixing".
is like the attitude that Liu Yu has always shown: Dzungar scabies, even if you don't need to train the new army, you can win. The formation and training of the new army is just a training of hands in Dzungaria, and the real threat is only the East China Sea.
Li Gan also believes that this is indeed the case.
The internal and external environment of Dashun is far more relaxed than that of the previous dynasty, and it is far less problematic than the Qing Dynasty in history.
If we compare the Manchu Qing Dynasty, regardless of the northeast and southwest, the northwest is more stable than the Manchu Qing in Dashun.
One is that Shaanxi is the birthplace of Dashun, and one-fifth of the troops of the old fifth battalion are stationed near Xijing.
The second is the issue of religion, and the situation in Dashun is completely different from that of the Manchus.
In the Shaanxi uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many Hui people, many of whom fought side by side in the Dashun army, and many Hui people among the sons of the good family.
The green sect in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty was the Hanaifei sect after the Chinese magic reform, which integrated Confucianism and Jingjiao before the Tang Dynasty, advocated "Confucianism and Buddhism", and began to translate the scriptures into Chinese at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Many of the followers not only served as soldiers, but also participated in the imperial examinations.
The Hanafi faction is indeed more tolerant in some respects, such as tolerating the same marriage between men and women.
Even after the magic reform in China, the deceased must wear filial piety and have the first seven. There are only patriarchs in the church, there are no judges, no teachings, and even Hui Han intermarriage, private marriage is not allowed, the order of the parents must be respected, and there is no requirement that the intermarriage party must be converted.
Originally, in history, because of the great uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many religious rebels retreated to Huguang with Li Guo, and the follow-up Mi Layin and Ding Guodong opposed the Qing Dynasty and supported "Zhu Zhigong".
It is necessary to follow the story of Di Renjie to support Li Xian, the king of Luling.
From the age of the name "Zhu Zhiqi", it is easy to judge that this is the line of King Su: Zhan Lu Gong Zhenbi, Jin Gentry [Zhi] Lie Zhong, Xi Hui is lucky, and Kai advises Henglong.
This led to a wave of massacres by the Manchus against the Hanafi faction in the northwest, destroying their original dominance.
The newly introduced Sufis quickly seized the opportunity and expanded aggressively.
The Sufis sent to China naturally underwent a magical transformation, but what they fused was some dross.
After the demon reform, the Sufis learned a lot of dross, and the believers knelt down to worship the leader, and the "Taoist ancestor" Ma Mingxin even openly said: Kowtow to me, I am the Lord, I am the saint!
When encountering three calamities and eight tribulations, burn incense and pray; Sooner or later, incense shall be offered to the imams; Catholics are to give money to the patriarch or church...... It has become a feudal manor, and the feudal lord has financial resources, manpower, people's hearts, internal judicial power, and administrative power. Ma Mingxin's Zhehe Renye faction also became an important factor in the chaos during the Tongzhi period.
But there was no such situation on Dashun's side, because Dashun did not break the situation of the Hanafi faction's dominance, nor did it massacre the northwest cause the Sufis to take the opportunity to occupy the vacant position.
After the reform, the Hanafi sect still held the main position, the magistrates still held the judicial power, and the family power of the leading figures in the church in each region came from the government: either military officers, or good family sons, or officials in the examination examination.
The eunuchs of the Sufi sect wanted to develop, and these border soldiers, officers, sons of good families, or imperial examination officials who were reformed by Confucianism and Buddhism, intermarried with the gentry and soldiers, and delegated power from above, would not agree in the first place.
If we engage in a cult of personality or a feudal manor system, we will first label it an "evil faction" and use official forces to suppress it.
In general, the Hanafites were relatively moderate and relatively easy to secularize. In particular, it was transmitted to China and merged with Confucianism, Nestorian Christianity, etc.
Since the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has been firmly grasping the judicial power, and the Dashun continues.
Coupled with the special political status of Xijing, it is said that the northwest, which is a mess, is actually very stable on the side of Dashun.
The northeast is also very stable, the southwest is a long process of changing the land and returning to the stream, but it is not a big problem, and the Junggar in the Western Regions is not the former Warat, and as long as the snow-capped mountain region is recaptured, it will be stable.
Dashun is a natural land power country, but if the new army can really defeat three enemies with one enemy, or even break through thousands of thousands, as Liu Yu said, and the Rakshasa country is thousands of miles away and is temporarily unable to fight on a large scale, then in fact, there is not much land threat.
Only when Dashun has no land threat will he consider the matter of coastal defense.
Therefore, in Li Gan's eyes, Liu Yu's prophecy about the "East China Sea crisis" has become the most dangerous blade hanging in his heart.
It is precisely because of this that after Liu Yu said those frightened words, Li Gan cared so much. If the land threat is not eliminated, it is difficult to care about coastal defense. The northwest is the place where the border will be choked, the west can enter, the north controls Mongolia, and the south enters the Qinghai Snow Mountain, where the place is stable, there is no big chaos, and there is not much risk on the land.
Li Gan once asked Liu Yu if there was a quick solution to the coastal defense matter?
Liu Yu's answer is also very simple:
Britain, the tonnage of warships is 200,000 tons, and one ton is about 2,000 catties.
As long as the tonnage of warships exceeds that of Britain, the East China Sea can be guaranteed.
According to the cost of Western countries, the average cost of a warship is about 40 to 50 pounds, 150 taels, including cannons.
200,000 tons, or 30 million taels of silver.
200,000 tons of warships, let alone 70,000 navy, according to 40 taels of silver per person per year, plus officers' maintenance fees, training fees, gunpowder consumption, and training costs, military salaries of 5 million taels.
Therefore, as long as the emperor can come up with 30 million taels of silver and guarantee 5 million taels of military salary per year, he can ensure that there will be no worries about the East China Sea after 30 years.
Indeed, theoretically well solved.
As long as there is money.
As long as you can guarantee an annual income of 80 million taels, this is not a problem.
When the emperor heard the words of 80 million years of income, he thought it was a fantasy, and Liu Yu could not tell him that in the year of the formation of the Sixth Anti-French Alliance, Britain's annual income was 160 million taels.
The problem of coastal defense boils down to money.
So Liu Yu helped to check the acres of land in Wendeng, for Li Gan, of course, this is not a meddlesome, but a responsibility.
If we can count the acres of land nationwide, not to mention the annual income of 80 million, it should not be a problem to increase it by six or seven million.
Money doesn't come from the wind, you have to pick a little bit and squeeze out a little bit.
If you collect an extra six or seven million a year, you can do a lot of things.
Even if half of it is used as a national inventory and cost, and there are still three or four million left to invest in the navy, Li Gan feels that it is better than investing 100,000 taels of internal funds in the navy by deducting the rope now.
If you want to solve the problem of the Navy, it is in itself about money.
In other words, if you want to solve most of the problems in the country, as long as the money is in place, many problems can be easily solved.
Even if it is a catastrophe in Shandong this year, as long as there is enough money to buy rice in the south and transport it, how can there be such a violent disaster?
Shandong is not in the northwest, but on three coasts, as long as there is money, it is not a problem at all. Even if Jiangnan rice is not enough, what about Vietnamese rice and Siamese rice?
As for what these people said about "the army intervening in the localities, I am afraid that there will be a disaster in the feudal towns", this is purely a remark from the heart.
Li Gan knew in his heart that Liu Yu's promise was to train a "controlled army", and to be able to transfer him away, and this army could still be warn, so that it could be regarded as a real success in military training.
This army was not Liu's army, it was his emperor's army; Those officers are not Liu Yu's descendants, but the emperor's protΓ©gΓ©s of the Son of Heaven selected from the Wude Palace, how big is his head Liu Yu can make this army a domain?
Even Li Gan knew very well in his heart that Liu Yu didn't care about the New Army and Army, and he didn't want to seize military power in this at all, even if he was far away in the capital, he also knew what Liu Yu was doing in training.
He knew that Liu Yu was doing this, just to send him a signal: The correct use of the students of Wude Palace in the local area is to parachute in groups of hundreds of people to conduct an inventory, not just disperse as officials and mix sand in the officialdom.
Li Gan thought to himself that I understood Liu Yu's meaning, but I am afraid that you have not really understood it yet.
Baiyun Airlines Station came out and suggested that the trial of apportionment into mu is just a continuation of the reform of Zhang Juzheng in the previous dynasty, and it is not that no one has mentioned it in the DPRK and China. The point is that no one has figured out a way that works.
The difficulty of apportioning the land into the mu is no longer taxed, nor is it implemented, and even when it comes to this step, it is a matter of course to try it out in Wendeng. The number of acres has been checked, and the people who benefit from disaster relief are the most trusting times, even if someone instigates, they can only incite those on the curve, not to incite the people at the bottom who don't know the truth.
If it is only those people above the curve, if they are not coerced and instigated to deceive the bottom, will the court be afraid of the opposition of those people?
The real difficulty lies in the preparation before the implementation, to take stock of the acres of land, to determine the amount of tax and silver to be apportioned for each acre of land with different fertility according to local conditions, and to ensure that the policies of the imperial court can be interpreted in each village and township and not deliberately misinterpreted to cause unrest.
Li Gan thought to himself, what you are worried about is the success of the trial, but you don't know what you should really worry about is how the preparation before the trial is completed.
Xin said: "It's okay, it's an opportunity to introduce the topic to the policy itself, if you focus on the policy itself, then the real killing opportunity is hidden." β
So through the voice of opposition just now, he said: "What I am considering in this matter is the matter of apportioning the land into the acre, which seems to be indeed beneficial to the people. This tax is only a drop in the bucket for the rich, but it is a great burden for the poor. β
"Now we have to reclaim Mongolia, Nuergan, Liaodong, Taiwan and other places, if the Ding tax is bound, it will affect migration, and it is not easy to count taxes. Just talking about this method of spreading the land into the mu, do you think it is good? β
"As for Bai Yunhang's investigation of the hidden fields in Wendeng, this is just an unexpected gain after saving the famine. I am also clear about this matter, so there is no need to talk about it. β
Several people in the Tianyou Hall knew that there were two taboos in this matter handled by Bai Yunhang.
It is hateful to spread the land into the acres, but what really makes the gentry resentful is the inventory of the acres.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that there is another way to say this matter of checking the acres of land."
"First, the official may measure the land in a small size for the sake of merit, and there may not be any hidden land at all, but he measured tens of thousands of acres of land in a county and increased taxes, thinking that it was a meritorious achievement for promotion."
"Second, officials may have 100,000 mu of land in a county in order to love the people, but only 80,000 mu are left after the measurement, so that there are fewer taxes, the people benefit, and the officials' love for the people can also be implemented."
"Three, even if all the hidden fields of the land are measured, neither exaggerated nor reduced, then, are these hidden fields all planted by the self-cultivated people? Presumably all tenants. β
"Originally, there was no tax on land, maybe one stone of grain per acre of land was collected, and the rent was six buckets. Now that this land is taxed, I am afraid that the rent of one acre of land will become seven buckets. In this way, I am afraid that the people's resentment will boil and the world will shake. β
When Li Gan heard this, he frowned and said, "According to Qing's intentions, the more hidden fields there are, the better?" The more hidden fields, the lighter the burden on the people? But if they are all hidden fields, what will happen to the taxes of the imperial court? For example, in this Shandong disaster, if I had an extra 2 million taels of silver to buy grain from Jiangnan, Vietnam, Siam and other places, how could so many people in Shandong starve to death? β
The minister shook his head and said: "The minister is not saying that the more hidden fields the better, but that the acres of land should be checked and the symptoms will not be cured, but the overcollected taxes will be passed on to the tenants." The minister thinks that if you want to cure the root cause, you should restore the well field! However, if it cannot be recovered, then the inventory of acres is nothing more than a palliative treatment. For example, Zhang Taiyue's method, decades later, is what it used to be. In the long run, it doesn't mean much. β