.“ Good! Good! Wanli actually stepped down from the throne, clapping lightly, and paced to himself, "It's better to quarrel, it's better to quarrel!" Didn't you quarrel and come up with a solution? I also have an idea, isn't Zhejiang able to produce a lot of silk? What about the silk market? ”

Zhao Zhigao hurriedly replied: "A piece of silk can be sold for six taels of silver in the mainland, and if it is shipped overseas, the countries of the South Seas can be sold for more than ten taels!" If you go a little further to the Western countries, you can sell it for at least fifteen taels of silver! Now there are 8,000 looms in Zhejiang and 10,000 looms in Jiangsu. ”

"Of course you can!" Wanli nodded excitedly and said, "The key is silk, can you increase mulberry fields and produce more silk?" ”

"Your Majesty! Historically, Jiangsu's silk has mostly relied on Zhejiang to supply silk, which is also due to the climate. Zhejiang's climate is suitable for silkworm production, and the meaning of the ministers is to simply allocate half of the existing farmland in Zhejiang to mulberry fields, which can produce 10 million taels of silk a year, that is to say, 200,000 more silk! ”

"The farmland has been changed to mulberry fields, what do the people eat and drink?" Seeing that Zhao Zhigao and the emperor were talking more and more outrageous, Shen Cheng couldn't help frowning. As long as the government controls the pass, restricts the merchants in the law, and helps the merchants on the trade routes, and at the same time, it is enough to keep an eye on them, and the rest of the things will naturally be done by the merchants themselves, and those merchants know much more than their own officials! The government should not interfere too deeply, is it really a good thing that the imperial court blindly changed the farmland to mulberry fields regardless of the market demand? If Western countries don't import so much silk this year, what if there is a huge inventory?

Zhao Zhigao glanced at Shen Cheng in surprise, and then said, "It's not enough to transfer it from other provinces!" In the past, other provinces had to transfer at least 2 million stone of grain to Zhejiang every year, and the mulberry fields were increased and then transferred. Zhejiang has always had more mulberry fields than farmland, and the mulberry households sold silk, and then used silver to buy grain from the market, which has been the case for many years! ”

"The grain transferred from other provinces has always been more expensive than the ones you produce, are the farmers willing?" Shen was still a little confused. Although this has been the case for many years, if another half of the farmland is allocated to mulberry fields, the grain gap in Zhejiang Province will certainly be extremely huge, and even if other provinces increase the amount of grain, it will still be impossible to completely fill the gap in grain demand, and grain prices will inevitably rise.

Zhao Zhigao patiently explained: "The silk yield per mu of mulberry field is higher than the grain yield per mu of farmland; What is the price of silk and what is the price of grain? Can the yield of this grain be higher than that of mulberry planting? Those farmers don't know what to grow to make money? If it weren't for the limited conditions, they would have planted all the mulberry fields on their own! With the silk source, it is certainly not a problem to add thousands of looms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang! ”

Shen always felt that there was something wrong with this, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he had to nod his head in agreement.

"There is another one, the changed mulberry fields are still taxed according to the farmland, and the tax is not allowed to be increased!" Wanli was a little proud, and he came up with such a good way! It seems that my Daming is still more than Zhu Yidao, a capable person! It's not that you don't want to think of a way, but you're too lazy to think of a way, and if you force yourself, won't this solution come out?

"The Emperor Shengming......" Zhao Zhigao was a little excited, and knelt on the ground tremblingly, "In this way, with policy support, the people of Zhejiang will definitely actively plant mulberry fields, and the treasury will be able to relieve a lot this year!" ”

He was really excited. The emperor has not been to the court for two years, and as soon as he went to the court, he cared about the national economy and people's livelihood, which was indeed too unexpected for him! Shen Yi and the others were even more excited, no wonder the emperor wanted the Son of Heaven to come that day, and God actually brought me such good luck. In the future, we must do things solidly, the emperor can repent, and no longer do nothing in the harem, I am really expected to be ZTE! Zhao Zhigao's original mind of staying away from the temple gradually faded, he felt that since he was an old bone, it was better to gamble with the rest of his life, anyway, there was nothing to worry about, if he won and left his name for the ages, if he lost, his life would not be in vain......

Wanli's face was a little red excitedly: "Let the celebrant and the Ministry of Industry handle this matter!" Of course, there is also the household department, and all the money earned will go into the account of the household department! How to start, the cabinet will go back and discuss a detailed strategy, who needs to be there to calm the scene, who to rely on, and then hand it over! ”

Zhao Zhigao, Chen Yubi, and Zhang Wei, replied loudly almost at the same time: "Yes!" ”

Wanli's heart stirred. After many years, he can finally do something like the grandfather of the former emperor and come up with a way to enrich the treasury, and he still has a sense of accomplishment. Since Zhang Juzheng's death, the government and the opposition have struggled endlessly, which has upset him, and the treasury has become increasingly empty, and he has been unable to make ends meet every year. Fortunately, there was still a Zhu Yidao to protect his internal treasury, although it would not also add silver to the treasury, but the internal treasury was the first time since he took power that it exceeded the treasury's deposits: eight million taels of silver! Even though it's only a fraction of the annual tax, it's already very good! He clearly remembered that on the day he became emperor, there were only less than 10,000 taels of silver left in his inner pocket! Looking at such an empty interior, even Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but sigh!

"But who do you think can be used for the specific operation of this matter?" Wanli suddenly asked this question again. Indeed, this matter still needs an official who is familiar with business and has the ability, and he feels that the current governor of Zhejiang, Cheng Qiyuan, does not have this ability. The year before last, it was decreed that Jiangsu and Zhejiang should collect taxes in advance, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the important towns of Daming taxes, but the task was the worst, and Cheng Qiyuan almost provoked a civil uprising because of this matter. It is very unreliable to let such a person supervise this matter in Zhejiang, so Wanli also plans to listen to the opinions of several cabinet scholars.

"This ......" Zhao Zhigao really doesn't have any good candidates in his heart. He had considered how to enrich the treasury, but it was really unclear who should handle this kind of thing. Chen Yubi has a candidate in his heart, but this person's ability is indeed limited.

"Your Majesty, the minister recommends a person, and he can take on this important responsibility." Shen Cheng said suddenly. Now everyone's eyes were on him, somewhat complicated. It has been a long time since the cabinet and the celebrant have held such a financial meeting, and Shen has always participated in the meeting for the first time, but he can get the favor of the emperor because of this, so don't be too lucky!

"Lee Hwa Ryong of Banju. This person has enough experience and means to supervise this matter, although Zhu Qianhu once thought of a way for him, but he himself in Banzhou from the auction has derived the government-run Bocai industry and pawn business, not to mention that more than half of Banzhou's current taxes are commercial taxes; According to the situation in Banzhou in the past, it would still be a big trouble to collect it, but now, the Miao people regard him as the god of wealth, because he promised to cancel all taxes of the Miao people, and can get financial subsidies from the local government and county, so as to encourage the local Miao people to go to the county to work for the government and private people, and solve their food and accommodation problems. On the surface, the abolition of the agricultural tax on the Miao people has reduced the revenue of the government treasury, but in fact, due to the increase in the income of the Miao people, the consumption has also increased greatly, and the local restaurants, green buildings and other businesses are quite hot! Your Majesty, you may not know that Banzhou has now faintly become a merchant turnover center on the Sichuan-Guizhou border! Shen has always talked eloquently, and everyone around him was dumbfounded, how could he Shen always know this kind of thing so clearly?

"The minister is in the ministry, and there is an annual inspection every year, and every time Li Hualong comes to the ministry, he has to make everything he does into a recital and then hand it in, and the minister has to review it every month." Shen Cheng would no longer give Chen Yubi any chance to clean him up, and when he saw that Chen Yubi was about to open his mouth, he preemptively made things clear.

Wanli nodded heavily. Li Hualong still has such talent, but I really didn't see it before. However, if these things are true, it is undoubtedly the most appropriate for him to supervise the change from rice to mulberry.

"But are there any other candidates?" Wanli is full of hope that Zhao Zhigao can bring up another one. After all, your old man is the first assistant, this kind of financial meeting has made a servant of the ministry steal the limelight, how can it be bad But Zhao Zhigao shook his head and said to Wanli sincerely: "Your Majesty, Shen is always the candidate, and the old minister seconded it." ”

Chen Yubi also had to give up his hand and said: "The ministers also seconded it." ”

Since this is the case, Wanli is not good to say anything. "That's Li Hualong! Let him hand over the affairs of Banzhou, and make him the Imperial History of the Supervision Yuan Zhejiang Supervision, and supervise this matter! The master of ceremonies wants to say hello to the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, and the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau must fully cooperate with everything Li Hualong does! I have to wait for his good news! ”

This decree was in the hands of Li Hualong, and he was puzzled. The original intention of the imperial court to implement the strategy of changing rice to mulberry in Zhejiang in order to increase the revenue of the national treasury is not to be said. But if half of Zhejiang's rice fields are to be allocated for mulberry fields, will rice farmers be willing? In addition, once grain production declines, grain prices in Zhejiang are bound to rise, and even if it is transferred from neighboring provinces, the government can completely control the quantity. If the people can't afford to buy food, what can be done about it? If someone uses this incident to incite the people to make trouble, what can they do? If the officialdom of Zhejiang deceives the imperial court together and forcibly expropriates and expropriates in the name of changing rice to mulberry, what can be done about it?

He suddenly felt that it was a fire pit, and he was waiting for him to jump with his mouth wide open! Are several of the first and second assistants of the cabinet poor and crazy, how can such a thing be done? If you want to implement the change of rice to mulberry in Zhejiang, the first thing is not to transfer yourself to the imperial history as a supervisor, but to purge the local officials!

Tidying up the cloth.

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