This winter, not only Zhang Yong and Gu Dayong Zhishi, but also Li Chonghei, the right capital imperial history, also Zhishi.

Li Chongsi once supported Wang Yuan in Shandong to improve the river, and supervised the military affairs of Nanjing when King Ning rebelled. Wang Yuan originally wanted to reuse this old minister, but Zhu Houzhao was too capable of living, and Li Chongsi's body was a little unbearable.

When Li Chongsi left Beijing, Wang Yuan went to the emperor and asked this old minister to raise the official.

As a result, Li Chongsi served as a scholar in the Ministry of War, and the house in his hometown could be renamed "Shangshudi".

Wang Yangming also resigned in Nanjing, his lung disease needed to recuperate, but Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to pay attention. Anyway, as the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, he is not busy with work, and he does not delay his pension while going to work.

By the way, Wang Yangming's old tree blossomed, and now he has a son and a daughter under his knees.

They were all born to concubines, Mrs. Xuxian was not pregnant for a long time, Wang Yangming couldn't stand the nagging of the clansmen, and he also wanted to leave offspring, so he accepted a concubine.

Twenty-seventh of the lunar month.

Peng Ze, the head of the household, came to Yang Tinghe's house to visit the patient, and asked respectfully in that loud voice: "Sir, is it better?" ”

Yang Tinghe leaned on crutches and sighed: "Meng Dong (the tenth month of the lunar calendar) contracted the wind and cold, and he has been cured. Unexpectedly, a few days ago, I was cold again, and after drinking the medicine, there was no big problem. Alas, people are not as old as they were when they were young. ”

"Knock, knock, knock!"

Suddenly, the bell rang, but it was the pendulum clock in the parlor that was striking the hour on the hour. Some craftsmen improved European clocks and made self-striking devices, which were quite popular among the gentry and wealthy merchants, and were called "self-striking bells" by the folk.

Although Yang Tinghe disliked Wang Yuan a little, he had to admit that Wang Yuan and the School of Physics had indeed brought many good changes.

At least, life is much easier.

Yang Tinghe has been dizzy in the past few years, and his son Yang Shen hired craftsmen to create a pair of glasses out of glass, which is now hung on his chest every day and used at any time.

The two chatted for a while, and Peng Ze said: "Mr. Wushan (Li Chongsi) Zhishi, this right capital imperial history should make up a ......"

Yang Tinghe immediately waved his hand: "It's not the imperial history of the left capital, it's useless to fight." Whoever you choose, and depending on Your Majesty's wishes, I can recommend one person as usual. ”

Peng Ze wanted to speak and stopped, although he was old, his body was very tough, and he still wanted to compete with Wang Erlang.

Yang Tinghe comforted and said: "Jiwu, you are now a household secretary, you can enter the cabinet smoothly after a few more years, and don't have any disputes with Wang Ruoxu." ”

"Yes." Peng Ze can only be obedient, he is a diehard loyalist of Yang Tinghe.

Yang Tinghe asked again: "It has been a year since the salt policy reform, how has the salt tax money been collected?" ”

Although the Tai Warehouse was managed by the Governor of Kuraba (Shangshu or Shiro) and was not subject to the control of the Tobu Shangshu, the Tobe Shangshu had the right to check the accounts.

Yang Tinghe replied: "This year, the salt tax and salt tax in various places have been lifted. After being converted into silver taels, the total increase was more than 1,820,000 taels. ”

This data, there are definitely people who take advantage of loopholes, and the supervision of the imperial history is not effective, but it is barely within the acceptable range.

Even so, it still scared Yang Tinghe: "The salt tax and salt tax are more than 1.8 million more? ”

Peng Ze said: "Exactly, it will be reported to the cabinet and the household department in two days." ”

Yang Tinghe said with emotion: "Wang Ruoxu, the talent of the country, I am really not as good." ”

Peng Ze Moran, as the head of the household department, is one of the main beneficiaries of the salt administration reform, and he has a lot of money to do things, unlike the previous ones.

The main reason is that the previous salt tax and salt tax were too nonsense, and the central government received less than one million taels every year, and the sudden increase of 1.8 million taels was quite scary. Moreover, it does not harm the interests of stove households, small people and most of the businessmen, and even divides sixty percent of the profits to the localities, and adds three levels to the officials of the world.

The implementation of the new salt law has not met with much resistance. Except for a small number of powerful people and tun households, everyone is in favor of reform, and everything is like a spring breeze and rain, and all it needs to do is to strictly investigate corruption and smuggling.

Yang Tinghe thinks about it now, and he still feels a little unreal, is it so easy to carry out reform?

Peng Ze also said: "This year's imperial court's input, excluding the gold and silver shipped back from the extreme east, has been converted into more than 10 million taels of silver. ”

"If you don't include the wealth of the Far East, you can also have 10 million taels?" Yang Tinghe thought he had misheard.

Peng Ze said: "There is more and more money in the customs. The benefits of coinage are also becoming more and more abundant. There is also a tax and silver treasury, and many taxes must use new money (i.e., silver dollars, copper coins), this law has been implemented in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and it can also save a lot of discounts and transportation costs. If the local governors and imperial historians are effective in rectifying the customs, I am afraid that they can increase the tariff by one or two million. ”

Yang Tinghe was completely speechless, ten years ago, the central government's fiscal revenue was less than five million taels (excluding a large amount of in-kind taxes), but now it has directly doubled!

Peng Ze is really happy, the emperor is rich, and he is also wealthy.

Yang Tinghe asked, "What about the expenses?" ”

Peng Ze replied: "The biggest expense is disaster relief, and there are constant disasters in various places, and the disaster relief superintendent is exhausted. The second was counterinsurgency, with rebellions in both the north and the south. In particular, the rebellion in Guangxi took three years, mobilized 100,000 troops from three provinces to quell it, and consumed a huge amount of food and wages. It's a border town again, and there are more and more people begging for money on the nine sides, and the border army must be strictly rectified! ”

The military expenditure of the border towns in the early Ming Dynasty was mainly solved by the local government, and then it was not spread to the people, and the central financial allocation was a supplementary option.

The changes began in the Zhengde and Jiajing periods, and the border towns became more and more erosive, and the local government could not supply them, so they could only continue to increase the central financial allocation. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the central government could not bear it, and although the local government could not afford it, they had to forcibly pay salaries (such as Liao salary) in order to fight the war, and natural disasters forced the people to rebel.

From Peng Ze's words, we can know that the biggest expenditure of the central government is actually countless natural disasters.

In recent years, the temperature has been rising, and it no longer snows in the south, but floods and droughts have been staged in turn.

It is now the end of the year, and next year will be even more terrible, with a severe drought in all provinces south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, with the emergence of a large-scale locust plague, one stone of rice will rise to two or three taels of silver.

The good news is that due to the military victories of Wang Yuan and Zhu Houzhao, the border troubles have been much weaker than those of the historical Jiajing Dynasty, and the central military expenditure has also been greatly reduced. Jiajing was really a headache, dealing with Mongolia in the north and the Japanese in the south, internal rebellion and uprising, military spending accounted for the lion's share, and the imperial court had no money to help the victims.

Due to the effective relief of the imperial court, the Ming Dynasty in this time and space is estimated to be able to starve to death by millions of victims.

Jiajing Jiajing, the house is clean, do you think it's fun? All the money of the imperial court has been used to fight, and the common people can only rely on themselves to bear the disaster!

After Peng Ze left, Yang Tinghe came to the courtyard on crutches and watched the sparrows in the treetops silent for a long time. Suddenly, he muttered to himself: "Wang Ruoxu, Wang Ruoxu, if you want to change the law, go and change the law." Since you are open source for the imperial court, then I will help you save money. The Leopard House Border Army, Dongchang and Jinyi Wei are too redundant, and after the reduction, hundreds of thousands of stone grains can be saved every year! ”

The Dongchang and Jinyi Guards of the Zhengde Dynasty are indeed scary, and they don't do much business, and the pure fragments are caused by Zhu Houzhao's indiscriminate reward. Take Yingzhou's victory as an example, the eunuchs, generals and nobles who participated in the war, otherwise they would have been rewarded, and their families also sealed a large number of brocade clothes and hundreds of households. Those warriors in the leopard room, the emperor's favorite musicians, artists, and monks...... Almost all have relatives who serve as brocade guards.

These brocade guards who are rewarded for nepotism don't do anything, and they still receive a salary every month. For example, Li Ying's son, who was awarded the title of Jinyi Wei Baihu at the age of three, has received a salary for ten years.

Similarly, Zhu Houzhao also rewarded a large number of fictitious military attachés, who usually can't be seen, and you can't see them when they receive their salaries, because they will send domestic servants to receive their salaries.

Every year, 4 million stones of grain enter Beijing from all over the country, and one-twentieth of them are used to feed these wine bags and rice bags.

Just look at Yang Tinghe's knife, whether he dares to face the civil official, because the civil official also has a large number of heirs who are Jinyi Wei Baihu - Zhu Houzhao likes to play like this, a certain civil official is able to do things, and when he opens his mouth, Jinyi Wei Baihu seals the past, and you can't understand the emperor's thinking logic at all.

Including Wang Yuan's son Wang Ce, before he was admitted to Xiucai, he also received the salary of Jinyiwei for many years, and it can be automatically canceled after he has fame.