Chapter 136: Changes in the City of Beijing

From Zhu Qizhen's holy decree to Xiangyang, King Xiang set off from Xiangyang.

After he arrived in Jingshi. The autumn floods have passed. King Xiang arrived at the Ten Kings' Mansion first. handed a sign to the palace and waited to see him.

He returned to the Ten Kings' Mansion.

King Xiang still has a mansion in Beijing.

After King Xiang returned to the palace, he had just settled, and the people below came to report that someone from Shuntianfu had come.

King Xiang was a little surprised.

After all, the palace is the palace, and the threshold is high after all.

The gap in identity, these people don't dare to come to the door at all.

King Xiang said to the chief steward, "Go and see." What the hell is going on? ”

In front of outsiders, the chief steward always maintained the identity of a eunuch, and bowed slightly and said, "Yes." ”

After the chief manager went down, he came back after a while and said, "Shuntianfu sent someone to change the household sticker." ”

When King Xiang heard this, he said a little strangely: "Shuntianfu is Yu Qian." It's also a capable official. ”

The household post system has a long history.

It has originated since the Han and Tang dynasties, and it has been perfected in the Song Dynasty.

It's like the current household registration book, no, there is more content than the household registration book. There are not only a few members of the family, but also how many fields and properties there are in the family, how many houses, and all kinds of real estate.

Since the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu also inherited the household post system, and before the three years of Hongwu, it was only the behavior of individual local officials, but after the third year of Hongwu. But it has spread across the country.

However, the system is one thing, the reality is another. Since the Taizu Dynasty, the various systems of the Ming Dynasty have always been wider.

Few people dare to re-do the account post.

Because the household post is also one of the bases for the collection of taxes by the government offices.

Anything that is not on the register is the so-called hidden field. But there is so much honesty there.

King Xiang said that his foundation is not here, but in Xiangyang. But even then, there are one or two Zhuangzi outside of Beijing. Not to mention the nobles at all levels who are rooted in Beijing.

They have been rich and prosperous for many years, but they are not the reward of the court. Naturally, there are also businesses, outside the city of Beijing, the imperial court gave land to these nobles, and they annexed various lands.

This is also the problem of Shuntianfu itself, for Daming, the land annexation in this era is not very serious, but it is not without serious places.

Nanjing and Beijing are among the places where land annexation is most serious.

Most officials know that the account posts here are true and fake, so it is difficult to say that Shuntianfu is difficult. Maybe you've stabbed the gods on the way.

Yu Qian is only a few points, and his courage alone is far from ordinary people.

The chief manager said: "Lord Wang, you are wrong about Yu Qian, where is Yu Qian a capable minister, he is clearly a tiger." The officials of the Shuntian Mansion came to the palace to ask for money. ”

King Xiang frowned and said, "Want money?" What money? The chief manager said, "Room class." All the houses in the capital are taxed according to their size, and most of the area is taxed, and the small area is less taxed. If the house is too small, it is exempt. ”

"How much silver?" King Xiang asked.

The chief steward said, "Not much, less than ten taels of silver a year." ”

King Xiang gently tapped the back of the chair and said: "This must not be what Yu Qian dares to do, but the meaning of the one in the big one, my courtyard costs ten taels of silver, and it is estimated that Beijing City will be put away, and there will be one or two hundred thousand yuan a year." That's a great idea. ”

The chief manager said: "But the prince is thinking badly, there is one thing that the prince didn't think about?" ”

"Oh." King Xiang said, "What's the matter?" ”

The chief steward said, "And the deed tax." ”

The so-called deed tax is the transaction tax. Whether it is a house or a field, when the transfer of ownership, the government needs to use Qi, and the tax rate is generally around 3%.

King Xiang immediately understood, and said: "What a serial set, the house class is a long stream, and the deed tax is the big one." ”

King Xiang is not a prince who doesn't understand anything, he has also supervised the country. He is no stranger to the operation of the imperial court.

I immediately figured out this routine, and first created a household post, which is to confirm the property. After confirming the property, there are not many classes, and the courtyard of King Xiang is a royal gift, and the prince's specifications. It's already a first-class mansion, and it only takes ten taels. The whole city of Beijing, but about 10,000 taels. This amount of money is not much for one, but it is not much for Suncheonfu.

In fact, the deed tax exists in name only among the people. Because everyone is reluctant to pay this extra money, most of them do not go to the government to pass the deed.

This is the so-called white deed, and the official is the red deed.

Now the officials of the Shuntian Mansion are asking from door to door, and at this time, the white deed is not counted.

And the city of Beijing is not anywhere else.

In other places, the frequency of housing transactions is not too high, but Beijing is different, officials rise and fall, and the sea is dusty, and I don't know how many houses pass through every year.

Moreover, it is not easy to live in the capital, and in the city of Beijing, there may not be no houses worth 10,000 gold, even if it is an ordinary courtyard, it is about dozens of taels of silver.

This modern Beijing housing price is similar.

Only all the houses are transferred to the government, and this income is far above the housing class. It is estimated that it will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver.

10,000 taels of silver is not much, but tens of thousands of taels of silver is a lot.

Enough to do a lot of things.

King Xiang suddenly sighed and said, "The capital is not a place where I can live for a long time, otherwise I would also like to see what my good nephew can do." ”

Just when King Xiang sighed, the city of Beijing changed. But he didn't know that the changes he knew were just the tip of the iceberg.

Shuntianfu annexed fifty percent of the soldiers and horses, and even Jinyiwei and Dongchang, the Ministry of Industry and even the Ministry of Households. Yu Qian almost wasted his mind, I don't know how much thought. to get to where we are today.

At this moment, Yu Qian was reporting to Zhu Qizhen. His planning in Beijing.

After Zhu Qizhen handed over the task to Yu Qian, Yu Qian thought carefully in his heart. I want to turn all kinds of white servants into state officials.

The biggest problem is not how to destroy these hereditary officials.

Not to mention, the Ming Dynasty has only been established for more than 70 years, and Emperor Taizong has only moved the capital to Beijing for a few decades.

Even if they are intertwined, Yu Qian's ability cannot cure them. That would be too much to underestimate Yu Qian.

But it's easy to clean up these people.

But it was a bit difficult to make them officials of the imperial court. The hardest thing, if nothing else, is money.

Yes, money.

In the city of Beijing, no, not in the city of Beijing, it is only the Yamen of the Shuntian Mansion, and does not care about the scribes of the six departments of the imperial court. There are also more than a thousand people of all kinds, or even more.

In the Qianqing Palace, what Yu Qian said first was the situation of the various squares in the capital.

Yu Qian said: "There are 28 squares in the city, and the ministers set up 28 squares to rule it, and under the square, there are three people, who are clerks, tax collectors, and thieves. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "This is probably the neighborhood committee." ”

Yu Qian continued: "The minister set up a patrol house in the original five cities, and the city was filled with fire, thieves, and murders. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "This is probably the police station." ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister is in Daxing County, and Wanping County has six rooms, one patrol and arrest room, and orders the students to be selected as officials. or select students from the county schools to serve as officials. ”

Zhu Qizhen also heard about it, and Yu Qian sent a large number of them under the pretext that many officials in the flood did not behave well this time. Of course, Yu Qian is not a talented person, so naturally all of these officials who perform well have official status, such as the head of the six houses, and even all kinds of officials, such as the five city patrol houses.

After having an official status, all kinds of treatment will naturally go up. Pressing with one hand and fighting with the other, so that the group of officials will not bring much resistance to Yu Qian.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's just that the taxes in Daxing County are enough? ”

Zhu Qizhen asked this, but there was a reason, Yu Qian had actually asked the household department, but the household department was very stubborn, each family had its own place to pay taxes, and it was impossible to allocate a penny, and even the taxes that Shuntianfu should hand over to the household department could not be less.

This is also the attitude of many people among the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty, they don't want the emperor to toss more. It's just that it doesn't work with the emperor, so I used this method.

Zhu Qizhen even opened his mouth to Yang Shiqi for this matter, but Yang Shiqi refused with righteous words.

All parties in the world do not need money, if the Shuntian government allows the household department to allocate funds for this reason, or takes advantage of the taxes originally paid, if other places ask the household department for money, what will the household department do.