Zhu Cihong frowned, today's imperial court tax is too small, I think that the Southern Song Dynasty was more than the place controlled by the Ming Dynasty now, but there was a tax of 80 million taels of silver every year, and the Ming Dynasty is now only 10 million taels, eight times less, although this is the main reason for the commercial development of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong secretly sighed, the Ming Dynasty is still banning the sea, which greatly restricts the development of commerce, and it is necessary to open the sea to revitalize commercial reform in the future, but it is impossible to do these things now, or to solve the problem of Hubei and refugees first.

The refugees must be resettled, and taking advantage of the reconstruction of Hubei is a good opportunity, and Zhu Cihong cannot let it go no matter what.

Zhu Cihong gritted his teeth, endured the blood dripping in his heart and said: "He Aiqing, you said that if I forcibly decree that all land in Hubei will be nationalized and redistributed, taking five mu per person per household as an example, if there are five more mu, as long as I can get the land deed, how about I compensate five taels of silver per mu?" ”

The average land in the Ming Dynasty was eight taels of silver per acre, but Hubei was close to Henan and Sichuan, which was the land of two wars, and many gentry and rich people wanted to flee, Zhu Cihong felt that if the imperial court was willing to pay five taels of silver to buy an acre, even if some people were unwilling, it would be a minority, and ordinary people would definitely have no opinion, because their fields were originally small, and even many families had an average of less than one acre of land per person.

"Your Majesty, this move" He Tengjiao opened his mouth, the emperor was a little whimsical, he didn't know what to say, he was very embarrassed.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhu Cihong said.

"Your Majesty, although this move is good, there are 40 million mu of land in Hubei, and if there is not 10 million mu to get the excess title deed, there must be 7 million mu, and 35 million taels of silver are needed, how can the imperial court have so much silver." He Tengjiao sighed.

The emperor's idea is of course good, if there are five taels of silver and one acre of land, although many gentry and landlords may be unwilling, as long as the court can really send the silver truthfully, there will be no big resistance, but this must have enough silver.

Thirty-five million taels of silver! The corners of Zhu Cihong's mouth twitched, although he was ready to hemorrhage just now, but when he heard such a huge amount of silver, he still couldn't hold it lightly, so much money was not enough to empty the entire treasury of Daming now.

Half a year ago, he exterminated the Wei State Mansion and Gao Hongtu and other Donglin Party members, and obtained about 27 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as hundreds of mansions and nearly 100,000 hectares of fertile land. In addition to those fertile fields, most of the hundreds of mansions have been exchanged for silver, about three million taels of silver, together with ten million taels of tax silver, that is to say, about 40 million taels of Daming's treasury this year.

It looks like an astonishing amount of money, but in the past half a year, he has raised the salaries of officials, increased military salaries, and several major battles, plus most of the silver for the establishment of Yinglong's army came from the treasury, and half of it has been spent, and there are at most 20 million taels left.

This year, the treasury has been overdrawn by more than 10 million taels of silver, and there will definitely be an even more tragic war next year. Now the Manchu Qing is attacking Tongguan, at most one more month, Tongguan will be broken, once Li Zicheng is defeated out of Shaanxi, the Manchus will no longer have to worry about the future, will gather the country's troops to the south, in order to deal with the Manchu Qing's large-scale attack soon, Zhu Cihong must vigorously expand the Yinglong army, which requires a lot of silver.

Zhu Cihong's fingers tapped on the table from time to time, a little hesitant, leaving silver to deal with the next year's war is necessary, but the refugee problem is also very serious, if the refugees are not properly resettled, there will be many will be forced to make a living, and gradually degenerate into mountain bandits and robbers, making a living by robbing homes and houses, forming the source of turmoil, which will lead to the originally peaceful Jiangnan also becoming unstable, which is not good.

He Tengjiao paid attention to Zhu Cihong's expression, and said with a slight sigh: "Your Majesty, in fact, if the emperor is really determined to collect all the land in Hubei to resettle the refugees, it will not cost 35 million taels of silver, but 10 million taels of silver!" ”

"Oh? What does He Aiqing mean by this! Zhu Cihong's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked.

He Tengjiao said with a smile: "The emperor can know that the land in the world is also divided into three, six and nine, under normal circumstances, the high-grade paddy field is twelve taels of silver per mu, the medium dry field is eight taels, and the inferior thin land is five to two taels, but now Hubei is close to Henan and Sichuan, and it has just been ravaged by the left-rebel army, the people are precarious, the land price is actually less than half of the usual, and most of the land is mainly middle and lower grade dry land, with an average of two taels of silver per mu is enough, if the emperor only collects the middle and lower grade dry land, as long as about 10 million taels of silver. ”

"Seriously!" Zhu Cihong was overjoyed, if it was only 10 million taels, he could accept it, after all, there were still 10 million taels left, plus his personal Neinu and more than 3 million taels, which together were enough for him to expand Yinglong's army and deal with the Manchu Qing south.

"It's the emperor!" He Tengjiao confirmed.

"Okay, I agreed, and in the near future, I will order the household department to transfer the silver taels, and Aiqing will take the lead in recovering the land, and at the same time, I will also order the relocation of refugees from all over the country to Hubei for resettlement, and Aiqing must also be prepared." Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

As long as he can defeat the Manchus once when the Manchu Qing in Jiangnan are going south in the near future, not to mention taking advantage of the situation to go north, at least he can win at least two years for the Ming Dynasty again, with this time, he can reform taxes, open the sea ban, revitalize the economy, and truly enrich the country and strengthen the army, and when the time comes, he will be able to hit the Manchu nest in one fell swoop and completely destroy the Manchus.

"Obey the order!" He Tengjiao didn't say anything more and retreated.

Immediately, Zhu Cihong ordered people to send an edict to the household department on a fast horse for 800 miles, asking the household department to immediately allocate 10 million taels of silver to Wuchang, and relocate the homeless refugees from various states to Hubei.

When the decree reached the city of Nanjing, it immediately caused an uproar, and the cabinet quarreled for three days before compromising and agreeing to transfer 10 million silver to Hubei, but the prefectures and counties arranged for the homeless refugees to move to Hubei.

If it weren't for Ying Longjun's recent two successive victories that raised Zhu Cihong's prestige to the peak, the cabinet would not compromise at all, after all, it was 10 million taels of silver, and the imperial court paid taxes for a whole year.

The Cabinet compromised and the Ministry of Household immediately allocated the silver taels, and at the same time issued a list of the relocation of homeless refugees from various places, and the Publicity Department also vigorously reported on the matter.

In the beginning, many refugees did not want to go to Hubei, which was close to Henan and Sichuan, and they had become refugees because of the war, and everyone was afraid of experiencing war again. In the end, Qian Buque, director of the Publicity Department, thought of a way to vigorously publicize that the emperor was in Hubei, and that Ying Long's army would be stationed in Hubei for a long time, which was absolutely safe, so the refugees were relieved and gradually moved to Hubei.

With the delivery of the silver taels by the household department, except for some large gentry households who together retained about 2 million mu of high-quality paddy fields, all the land in Hubei was recovered, and the land was re-equalized as soon as the refugees arrived.

A month later, refugees from all over the country arrived in Hubei one after another, and Zhu Cihong issued an order, according to their respective surnames, with 30 households as a village, to form a village, distributed throughout Hubei, and spread the land on the spot.

The reason why Zhu Cihong made such a big effort to solve the refugee problem was to create a stable rear so that he could do his best to fight a decisive battle with the Manchus in the future.

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