Chapter 167: National Strength
On that day, Yun Xi stayed in the dormitory of the hugqin. www.biquge.info The next day, Yun Xi came out of the dormitory holding the qin, and when he arrived at the Dongnuan Pavilion, the subordinate officials of the East Palace had already arrived. Although we have already bowed to each other on Chinese New Year's Eve, today we have bowed to each other for the New Year.
Then Yun Xi began to take care of the government again. These old Zhu's health is often not very good, and a lot of folds are handed over to Yun Xi to deal with, and then he is the last check, so Yun Xi is very busy.
Yun Xi handed a handful of folds to Chen Xingshan and said, "Chen Qing, this is the fold I corrected yesterday, can you see if there is a mistake?" If it is correct, send it to His Majesty. "Chen Xingshan promised.
One of them smiled and said, "Your Highness is still so careful, you don't even want to have typos." ”
Yun Xi looked up, and sure enough, it was Zuo Zanshan Zhuojing. In the past two years, the subordinate officials of the East Palace have changed again, Qi Tai was promoted to the left servant of the household department, Lian Zining was promoted to the left servant of the ministry, Guo Zhen entered the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies as the governor's office, and the scheming Guo Ying resigned from his errand on the grounds of poor health, so Guo Zhen was able to enter the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.
When the old man goes, a new man must come. Chen Xingshan was promoted to the left concubine. Originally, Lao Zhu wanted to transfer Chen Xingshan to the Ministry of Rites as a waiter, but Yun Xi felt that there was a position he envisioned that was particularly suitable for Chen Xingshan, and when Lao Zhu transferred him, it was already the end of Hongwu's thirties, so Yun Xi politely refused.
Zhang Shu was promoted to the right concubine, and Qin Song was promoted to the right Yude. Zhuo Jing, who had appeared in the former Tobu Affair six years ago, was appointed as Zuo Yude. Although something went wrong at that time, Zhuo Jing was still very capable and decisive, and Yun Xi transferred him to Zhan Shifu as Zuo Zanshan.
And Zuo Yude is Yang Ren. Yang Ren once served as the magistrate of Jiangning, and Yun Xi also watched him try cases, and he was extremely upright. In history, he was originally going to be the prefect of Yuanzhou, but this time and space was somehow discovered by Lao Zhu and stuffed into the East Palace.
Unlike Chen Xingshan, who has only been in Beijing and is full of idealism, although Yang Ren is upright, after all, he has been in the place for a long time, and his methods are also very sophisticated, which is stronger than Lian Zining, which is also the reason why Lao Zhu stuffed him into the East Palace.
Yun Xi said to Zhuo Jing: "How can you be careless when dealing with national affairs? Maybe a typo will make the following misunderstand. ”
In the afternoon, Yunxi didn't have to deal with the excerpts. During the Chinese New Year, although Lao Zhu Sanling Wushen was not allowed to take a holiday without permission, the central government was fine, after all, it was under Lao Zhu's nose; Locally, they all live in the prefectural/county government anyway, and it is difficult to catch them if they stay, and even the common people want to celebrate the New Year. So there weren't many folds to be delivered.
Yun Xi stayed in his study and wrote. Look up information while writing.
From then until the seventeenth, I practiced martial arts in the morning, made folds in the morning, wrote in the afternoon, or went out for a walk.
Since the 18th, there have been more government affairs, and Yun Xi has become more busy. But it's not without good things. The exact figures for last year's autumn endowment came out, and counting the summer endowment, a total of more than 4.7 million stone of wheat, more than 2,470 million stone of rice, more than 29.4 million stone of grain, and more than 20 million yuan worth of money, banknotes, silk, silk, and other things.
These things, according to the purchasing power of silver at the end of the Ming Dynasty, were worth at least 18 million taels of silver. Yun Xi is very curious now: he had not studied the economic problems of the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, so he didn't understand how it evolved to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the state could only collect four million taels of silver?
Even if there is no commercial tax, the agricultural tax can only be collected by sixty percent, and there are nine million taels of silver, how can it not reach the point of only four million taels of silver?
But because this is just an academic problem, Yun Xi thought about it and didn't come up with a specific process, knowing that it was the gentry group that lost it, anyway, the Ming Dynasty under Yun Xi would not go down the old road.
However, because Lao Zhu collected too many taxes, enough for ten years of expenses without war and disaster in the Ming Dynasty, and because the Yellow River broke and affected the two provinces of Heshan and Shandong, he decided to exempt these two provinces from summer taxes, although only a small part of these two provinces were affected.
Yun Xi died and persuaded Lao Zhu to exempt the summer tax in those places affected. Yun Xi was afraid that they would get used to being exempt from taxes, resulting in no tax collection. Yun Xi's plan after that will cost a lot of money.
However, on the whole, the Ming Dynasty was very wealthy at this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang's ability was comparable to Emperor Wen of Sui in the Book of Tang. Historically, in the case of just three years of civil war, Zhu Di was able to send Zheng He to the West, to compile the "Yongle Canon", to send hundreds of thousands of troops to fight Annam, and to start dredging the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, all of which were Zhu Yuanzhang's contributions! It's all Zhu Yuanzhang's accumulation!
At the end of the first month, there were another Japanese pirates harassing along the river. Yun Xi was so angry when he saw the excerpt that he almost ordered all the ships to be painted black and sailed to Edo or Kyoto.
However, he knew that Lao Zhu would definitely not agree, so he just wrote 'Wei Prepared'. However, fortunately, good news soon came back from the coastal area of the Yangtze River, and Ning Haiwei commanded Tao Duo to defeat the Japanese and sent all the prisoners to Liaodong according to Yun Xi's order.
Lao Zhu originally wanted to wait for the envoys of the 11th district to come and hand them over to the envoys of the 11th district to deal with. According to the custom, these envoys of the eleventh district would execute all of them in the Ming Dynasty after receiving them. However, Yun Xi thought about the principle of making full use of labor and went into exile. Of course, there are also some heinous people who have been beaten to death by the local people.
At this time, the officials of the Donggong Department all used the 11th district to refer to Japan, and the reason was that Yunxi used the word 11th district when referring to Japan again. Lian Zining, who was still in Zhan Shifu at the time, asked curiously why Japan was called the Eleventh District. Yun Xi doesn't know why.,He's just looking at it from the anime.,Although I know it's a number, I don't know how to make it up.,I didn't say anything.。 But because Lian Zining has a lot of friends, this word was quickly known by others.
Although most officials don't use the word, they all know what it means; The people of Donggong also used this word after getting used to Yun Xi's statement. Later, Lao Zhu also came to ask, but at this time, Yun Xi had already made up a statement, saying that he had numbered the surrounding feudal states and vassals, and listed one to ten all of them as countries or regions: Joseon, Nuer Gandusi, Northern Yuan, Warat, Yili Jiangli, Uszang, Siam, Annam, Luzon, and Ryukyu.
On the afternoon of the first day of February, Yun Xi came to the Qianqing Palace to meet Lao Zhu. After Lao Zhu saw him, he said: "Didn't today's excerpt be delivered, why is it here again now?" ”
Yun Xi said: "Look at what grandpa said, can't you come to see grandpa without folding your grandchildren?" ”
Lao Zhu said: "Is there anything you think is very important to read." You look the same now as you did five years ago when you asked for a share of the acre. ”
Yun Xi said: "I can't hide anything from my grandfather." Then he handed the fold in his hand to Lao Zhu.