"Emperor Qi, when Chu rebelled before rising, my Qing Dynasty earned 30 million taels of silver every year, and now Huguang, Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang have fallen into the hands of thieves, and the total annual income is afraid to lose as much as 12 million taels, if the imperial court loses the entire south in the future, then the annual income may be reduced to less than 15 million taels, and at that time, the household department is really unsustainable!"

"If the imperial court can lift the ban on mining and realize the donation policy, it may be able to collect some silver......"

Zhang Tingyu knelt on the ground and painstakingly listed this large string of numbers, in fact, he wanted to tell Yongzheng that there was no free lunch in the world, even if he wanted to collect taxes from merchants, he had to give them some benefits first!

As long as the mining ban is opened, there will be an explanation inside and outside the court, and the money can be collected, and you can rely on the mine to collect some more money, which can be called the best of both worlds.

However, for Yongzheng, this article is not feasible, "agriculture is the foundation of the world, and workers are the end." There is one more person who works in the market, that is, one person who plows the land among the acres. If the crowd tends to work, there will be many manufacturers of things, and if there are many things, it will not be easy to sell, and it will be stagnant and cheap, and there will be many people who are chasing the end, which is not only harmful to agriculture, but also harmful to workers. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers understood that it was still not possible to open a mine. In fact, it is also very easy to understand that although mining can make great profits, it is also easy to gather displaced people, and if something goes wrong in the future, no one can afford to take this responsibility.

When this article was denied, Yongzheng talked about another article, but it was the same opposing attitude.

"Manchuria is where the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty is located, how can it be easily developed? However, it would be good if the children of the Eight Banners could return to Manchuria....... The Zongren Mansion may organize the unemployed children of the Eight Banners to return to Manchuria to cultivate fields in preparation for the future. ”

Yongzheng frowned, he would not let the Han people go to Manchuria, after all, it was the back road of the Eight Banners, and if he really couldn't get through the customs in the future, he would naturally be able to survive outside the gates. Therefore, if Eight Banners go, Yongzheng will still be very happy, after all, this hardcore money and food is also a lot of money at the moment.

Of course, this directive is not surprising, in June, Yongzheng also made a decree to let the Eight Banners have no permanent property to move to Rehe Reclamation, which will not cause any controversy.

It's just that at this time, Zhang Tingyu's suggestion was rejected, but he himself was not unhappy at all, just stepped aside lightly and stopped talking.

The hall fell into a period of calm, but Yongzheng's face gradually turned to disappointment, and at this time, Li Weijun, the governor of Zhili, knelt down and said loudly: "Minister, Li Weijun, the governor of Zhili, has a play." ”

Everyone was a little surprised when they heard that this person had a performance, but many people looked at Li Weijun with a little disdain and disdain in their eyes, and this has to start with this person's origin.

If it was placed two years ago, it is estimated that there are not many people who know Li Weijun, at that time Li Weijun served as the Zhili Shoudao, and his immediate boss was the acting governor of Zhili Zhao Zhiyuan, this person was from a prominent background, the grandson of the famous general Zhao Liangdong, the son of Zhao Hongcan, the governor of Liangguang and the secretary of the military department, and the nephew of Zhao Hongxie, the former governor of Zhili.

It can be said that in front of Zhao Zhiyuan, Li Weijun, a scholar from a tribute student, is almost worthless, but after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Zhao Zhiyuan's position as the governor of Zhili was replaced by Li Weijun, and the reason is that Li Weijun became the general of Fuyuan, Nian Qianyao, and after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Nian Qianyao participated in Zhao Zhiyuan's mediocre and inferior manner, and could not afford to be entrusted with the important task of governor of Zhili, so Li Weijun naturally became the governor of Zhili.

"The minister checked the old example, the first instance of the five years of the Zhili people, divided into nine rules, the upper and lower levies nine coins of silver, and the lower ones levied one penny of silver, and the wealth of the family is the amount of silver, and the newborn are added, and the dead are expelled, and this law is also. If there is no company, it may not be able to pay attention to the audit...... And along with the old habits, every time the editor is reviewed, there is the name of the secretary Bo account addition, regardless of the pain of the people, will seek to overflow the forehead, so the one who should be deleted is not deleted, and the one who should not be increased is increased, and even the person is dead and refuses to be expelled, and the son is born and is responsible for his registration, the barren in the ditch is still the Ding on the book, and the son of Huangkou is already the call of the call, and the beginning of the compensation, even if he flees, it is inevitable to ........"

When Li Weijun presented, the ministers soon smelled a different smell, since the previous household department to recover the arrears and fire consumption back to the public, the ministers' sensitivity to the policy is also getting higher and higher, this time Li Weijun reflected the Ding Yin problem, is also a big problem that has accumulated disadvantages for a long time, and now it is presented, I think it should not be so simple behind it.

The so-called Ding silver problem has actually been around for a long time, since the Ming Dynasty has begun, that is, as the saying goes, the poll tax, this tax was used as a kind of local tax in the Ming Dynasty, and the four poor silver such as Lijia and Junzi were all requisitioned by local officials and not handed over to the central government, so it naturally became a malpractice of Ming Dynasty officials to collect money.

Later, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, it was obvious that the lessons brought by this maladministration were learned, and the collection of Ding Yin was taken as a tax collection by the central government, that is, the local officials were asked to hand over Ding Yin along with Tian Fu, and at the same time, the compilation and examination of Ding Ding was gradually institutionalized, and the compilation and review of Ding Ding was carried out once every five years to ensure the collection and release of Ding Yin.

As the so-called "direct province at the end of each year, each will report the total number of Ding Zhi's registration, observe the growth of the household registration, and take the Dingzhou County test." At that time, Ding Yin's growth also became one of the assessment goals of local officials. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, this tax reached a huge amount of 38,900 taels, so it was also a target that the Qing court attached great importance to at that time.

Of course, at the beginning of the establishment of the Ding Yin system, there were already deep drawbacks, just as Li Weijun said, the trend of false reporting and exaggeration in the compilation and examination of household Ding was very serious, especially many officials and gentry took advantage of the privileges of preferential exemption to conceal people, and treacherous people entrusted them as guests to circumvent them, but the money that Ding Yin wanted to collect still existed, so it fell on the poor people.

As a result, there were a lot of inexplicable things at that time, such as in Cao County, Shandong, when there were already people who benefited users and others to release the rich and the poor. The poor people in the lower households bought dozens of acres of land, and reported from the truth, and they were promoted to households. In the meantime, there is no inch of land, there is not enough to make ends meet, and those who call for heaven are all included in the middle households. The rich man Tian Lianqian Mo is even poor, and the poor land has no cone, but there are many servitudes. ”

Later, in order to absorb the hearts of the people and win the name of a holy monarch, Kangxi came up with a policy of "never giving more", to put it bluntly, he set a quota on the poll tax, so as to accommodate the hearts of the people.

But the problem is that this kind of "never increase" policy is more of a formalism, it just no longer increases the amount of Ding Yin, and does not reduce or do not levy, and the original burden is not less now, but many people have been fooled in the name, and they have praised it as a virtue and politics.

"The minister thinks that in order to solve the disadvantages of Ding Yin in Zhili, Ding silver should be spread into the field endowment, and the amount of Ding silver should be determined by the field."

Li Weijun's words have not finished speaking, and they have already set off a storm in the hearts of the ministers in the palace, the reason is very simple, this so-called paving into the mu is still aimed at the gentry, and when Li Weijun just finished speaking, some people jumped out to oppose it.

"The minions think it is impossible to ...... This policy is called to solve the people's difficulties, but it is actually a move to harm the people! ”

"The minister thinks that if the land is spread into the mu, it will damage the holy name of the emperor, this person has a bad intention, and he really deserves to be killed!"

"The ancestral system cannot be changed lightly, please let the emperor see it!"

Some people directly buckle their hats, some people confuse right and wrong, and some people are murderous, they are shouting and shouting to kill Li Weijun on the surface, but in fact they are protesting to Yongzheng, this player doesn't play like this, just ask for money, how to shoot at the foundation of the gentry now? In particular, Zhili is still the chassis of the Eight Banners, and many of the Eight Banners are also expressing their opposition.

This trick is too vicious, for the gentry, their rights and interests mainly lie in two points, one is the field, the other is the population, in the past, because the big guys were hiding the population, so the so-called Ding Yin could not receive them at all, at this time, Ding Yin was turned into the land tax, after all, you can hide the population, this land can not be hidden.

If it is in accordance with Li Weijun's intention to realize the apportionment of the land to the mu, the future tax collection will completely depend on the amount of land and the amount of tax to be paid. In this way, in essence, the Ding Yin of those landless people was transferred to the gentry who owned a lot of land, and in addition, with this trick, it would also reduce the number of people who would work, and it was simply digging the two bases of the gentry's land and population to death.

Yongzheng didn't speak, just watched the performance of this group of jumping clowns coldly, but he felt extremely tired in his heart.

But the current Yongzheng didn't want to stop there, he quickly named his name, "Zhang Tingyu, you are the head of the household, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Tingyu smiled helplessly, where is this Li Weijun's excerpt, it is obviously a means that Yongzheng tried, Li Weijun is just a knife used to carry the black pot, since his proposal was not passed, he has already understood Yongzheng's purpose, that is, to aim the knife at the landlords of the world as much as possible, Yongzheng does not want the people's hearts on the surface, but in fact he hopes that the world can be stabilized the most.

"The slave thinks that if it is done in Zhili, it is fine."

Although Zhang Tingyu only said such a sentence, the effect was very good, first of all, he told Yongzheng that it could be implemented, but at present, only Zhili could. also told the ministers that this policy is limited to Zhili, so don't jump around, both of them sound quite satisfied, which shows the agility of their thinking.

Seeing Zhang Tingyu speak, the others didn't dare to stab, they didn't have the character of a big Ming official, they just didn't see the movement clearly before, but now that they see the movement clearly, where do they dare to anger Yongzheng?

Yongzheng glanced at the ministers in the hall and cleared his throat.

"The state and county orders are officials close to the people, and the foundation of government is also. As for money and food, the relationship is particularly important, and the slightest grain is the fat of the people. If you increase one point, the people will suffer a point, and if you subtract one point, the people will get a point. If there is a request to temporarily increase the fire consumption to make up for the shortfall, the emperor will send an edict to the court, and he will not be allowed to ask, and all the ministers will hear about it. The arbitrary increase in fire consumption in Jinzhou County is regarded as a precedent, how can the people be worthy? After that, it is advisable to prohibit it, or be impeached by the superiors, or be corrected by the department, and the crime will be punished severely, and there will be no leniency. ”

The ministers knelt down to promise, and Yongzheng earnestly admonished again, "Seek the people diligently, no matter how big or small, you will postpone the visit and observe it, and benefit the people for the sake of the time." And pay special attention to the collection of money and grain, for fear of harassment by Lu Yan, this idea is always in mind. ”

The ministers smiled bitterly, some of them may really care about the lives of the poor, but there are definitely not many such people, after all, if the big guy wants to climb into the Heart Cultivation Palace, it is not those low-level people who rely on it, but the Yongzheng Emperor, who is already in power, is no longer something that this group of courtiers can influence.

Everyone didn't expect that this crusade against Hanchen turned out to be another attack on the gentry under Yongzheng's means, but no one dared to oppose it, whether it was Hanchen or Baqi, at this time, they were a little uncomfortable as if they were forced to swallow a fly.

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Jiangning City.

"It's really unusual...... Yongzheng is really not to be underestimated! ”

Li Fu with a bit of admiration, he really didn't expect that Yongzheng followed the opportunity of the fall of Zhejiang, and fought such a beautiful battle backhand, so to speak, the realization of the policy of apportioning the land into the mu is even more important than the fall of Zhejiang.

Ning Yu knew about Yongzheng's policies from later generations, so he was not too surprised in his heart, but just smiled: "Sir, do you think that this spread into the mu can make the Qing Dynasty look new?" ”

"Refreshed? Hahahaha, that's not to talk about, but this trick is much stronger than Kangxi's Never Endowment! ”

Li Fu smiled, he began to pull up his fingers, and said with a smile: "The acres of land are Ding, the more fields are more Ding, and the less fields are less. The people have no compensation for the suffering, and its benefits are two; In the year of compilation, the book is made as usual, and there is no need to add audit, which is beneficial to three; After each field is finished, all of them can go up and down, and their benefits are ........"

"There are nine rules of three classes, there is a whip, there are those who follow the A faction, and there are those who follow the Ding faction, and within a province, the rules are different. …… So far, it has been unified and it is really a ..... of good governance."

Seeing that Li Fu was praising Yongzheng, Ning Yu was not angry, after all, Yongzheng did a really good job this time, but he was not vain, he said with a smile: "Although Yongzheng's move can win the hearts of the people, there are still loopholes in it, and after all, he has not been able to go to a more thorough step." ”

"A more thorough step? What does the Metropolitan mean? Li Fu seemed to understand a little, but he was still a little unsure.

"The officials and gentry are all on errand and pay food...... is the last resort to plug this loophole. Ning Yu smiled on his face.

But when these words were heard in Li Fu's ears, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, because this move was more radical and bold than paving the land into the mu, and he couldn't help but lose his words: "If this strategy is implemented, I am afraid that the gentry of the whole world will oppose Yongzheng!" This is not reform, this is war! ”

A smile appeared on Ning Yu's face, he seemed to like this word of war very much, and recited it softly a few times.

"Yongzheng will not implement this policy yet, but the beginning of the new system of my Han Army is the best time to determine this system!"

"Yongzheng doesn't dare to go to war, I dare!"