Chapter 252 Don't talk about money, talking about money hurts feelings!
Indeed, what can Yang Qing do if he doesn't pay for it?
Saying that repairing the Wanshou Palace is just to give them face.
He just made it clear that you want to welcome back the emperor to get me, and you want me to pay the ransom, do you really think of him as a fool? Even if the household department has money, even if the inner treasury is piled up like a mountain of silver, if I don't pay it, what can you do to me? Anyway, the household department and the inner library are under the control of Yang Qing, he said that thousands of representatives of the four people spent all the taxes of the household department, that is, it was spent, and he said that the more than 10 million silver in the inner treasury was given to his concubine to repair the Wanshou Palace, that is, the palace was repaired......
Besides, no one knows how much silver there is in the treasury.
The account book of that thing was in Zhang Yan's hands.
And all the silver was deposited in the Imperial Bank, in fact, the full code was in the Imperial Bank's bank in Liangzhou, where the Wanshou Palace is located, this silver vault had just been built, and it is said that it took a whole day and a night to transport the silver into it.
But......
"But the household department and the inner treasury are not out, so who will pay for the fifteen million stones?"
Xu Fuyuan asked with an ominous premonition.
"Why did the dark prince think his brother returned?"
Chen Zilong said.
"The meaning of Mu Zhai is private fundraising."
He then explained.
"Private fundraising? Fifteen million stones! Even if the market price is nearly 10 million taels, the price of such a large amount of empty grain and rice will definitely skyrocket, and there is no doubt that it will rise to one tael, that is, fifteen million taels, how can the people raise such a huge amount of money, this is simply ridiculous! ”
Xu Fuyuan stood up and said.
"Dark Princess, sit down first!"
Xia Yunyi pulled him and said.
Counting his age, Xu Fuyuan still respects him very much, and then sat down, they and Chen Zilong are the founders of several societies, and the three of them can be regarded as irreversible. The three of them once said together, Xu Fuyuan claimed that he would not return to death, Xia Yunyi claimed that he was content with uselessness, he could not take it, and Chen Zilong assessed himself as success or failure, and later he did it all. Xu Fuyuan resisted the Qing Dynasty until he died of illness in the Kang Mazi era, and Xia Yunyi committed suicide and martyrdom after the fall of his hometown, so Chen Zilong needless to say.
The atmosphere at the wine table was solemn.
This problem is really serious, it is one thing for them to support the return of the emperor, and it is another thing for them to pay for the redemption of the emperor.
Especially with so much money.
A conservative estimate is 10 million taels!
But if you really want to say that there is not much, just like the Xu Fuyuan family, it can be said that there is no pressure to take out a tenth. He is actually the great-grandson of the younger brother of the old thief Xu Jie, who was engaged in by Hai Rui because of the merger of his children as high as 240,000 mu, of course, it is also said that it is 400,000 mu, but it should not be, after all, Songjiang is such a place.
But that's not the case!
Qian Qianyi said that it was private fundraising, but that is, those who opposed Yang Qing would pay for it, and those who did not bird Donglin Qunxian would not pay it, for example, the Fujian gentry would not care, the Huguang gentry would also be choked, and the Yunnan and Guizhou gentry should not be counted on. If it was in the past, it could be passed on to everyone through tax increases, but now it is impossible to raise taxes, the Ming tax rate has been clear, and the prison country has played the emperor's holy decree, never to increase the endowment, this is the real never to increase, after the peasants need to pay only the field tax, who dares to raise the tax just wait for the brocade to copy the house!
And ordinary people are even less likely to pay extra money.
To put it bluntly, it was the gentry of these three provinces who came to pay this huge amount.
Isn't that?
Why!
Talking about money? Talking about money hurts feelings!
"What do you think of the Loyal Marquis in power?"
Wang Fuzhi suddenly said with a smile.
"If it weren't for the aggressiveness on the fields, invading the fishing gentry, it would be called the first capable minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the whole army would make the Ming Dynasty several times stronger than the ancestors, vigorously promote new species to make the south of the Yangtze River without hunger, and make the people richer and richer, since Zhang Juzheng is incomparable, even if Zhang Juzheng is much worse than it."
Xia Yunyi said honestly.
Theoretically, Yang Qing did not invade the fishing gentry, but only took back the official land where the gentry invaded the fishing through the meridian realm, but the real gentry outside the official field were originally immovable.
Of course, guilty raiding is another matter.
"Zhong Yi is overrated, right? Yang Qing's merit lies in abandoning the north, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are already rich, before the imperial court to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to raise the world, so that Jiangsu and Zhejiang suffer from the burden of the world, and now he broke his arm to make the Ming Jedi resurrected, if the Chongzhen Dynasty princes did not have the drag of the northern famine plague may not be as good as him. He just cut off the rotten part of the diseased tree, and naturally left a cluster of flowers, and if he stuffed him with tens of millions of hungry people in the north at this time, he would be in a state of great trouble. Even so, between the Jianghuai River and even the Henan region, it can restore stability, relying on the work of sweet potatoes, if there is no grain increased by this thing, he is not so carefree.
But this strong army is indeed unmatched. ”
Gu Xianzheng said.
He had fled from the northwest.
What is the starvation of the northwest, he knows very well, Yang Qing broke his arm to survive, and it is an indisputable fact that the north threw Li Zicheng in exchange for the stability of the Ming Dynasty in the south. Even now, he is not interested in the Northern Expedition, and would rather stop with Dolgon, and would rather give Li Zicheng a million stone of grain to buy peace every year like the annual coin, in fact, he just doesn't want to carry so many burdens, even so the Tuntian area on both sides of the Huai River is supported by sweet potatoes.
"But why hasn't Xu Wending done this sweet potato? The result? ”
Wang Fuzhi said.
After speaking, he picked up the sweet potato wine.
Gu Xianzheng stopped talking.
Indeed, Xu Guangqi has not done it, and even Xu Guangqi has even solved the winter storage, sweet potato sparse very clearly pointed out that sweet potato cellars are even better than the humid south, although the fire kang seedlings have not yet been made, but there is no problem at all in the promotion of the northern mountains, but what is the result? Isn't it still in the sea? The forces of all parties in the imperial court, the local gentry, and the heavy resistance made Xu Guangqi, who was not already strong, unable to realize his intentions at all, and finally had to give up gloomily, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would promote sweet potatoes in the north at least twenty years in advance, at that time, not to mention whether the famine in the northwest could be solved, but the famine in the northeast of Shandong and Henan would definitely be greatly alleviated.
Daming will not fall into the fate of Nandu.
However, what Xu Guangqi can't do, whether it is Yang Qing or Li Zicheng, can do it in the shortest possible time, which can't be said to be lucky.
"Everyone, the Ming Dynasty needs a powerful minister!"
Wang Fuzhi said earnestly.
"The previous party struggles that were purely internal friction should also be over, and as for the fields, hasn't he openly learned the Tao of Najia?"
He continued.
The elites in the room were silent.
"Jia Rudao I won't do it!"
Yang Qing said with a wine glass.
In front of him is full of his own henchmen, his small circle with Li Yutian as the dog-headed military advisor, with Huang Fei and a few generals as the core, and then with Song Quan, Gao Hongtu and Lu Zhenfei and Song Yingxing, plus Zheng Zhilong, Huang Binqing, Zhang Mingzhen, these are the periphery. They actually control the army and finances of the Ming Dynasty, but these people also have to be profitable, who will mess with him without interests?
"However, I am also not in favor of land annexation!
What era is it, and why are you still staring at the land? Opening factories, opening mines, and overseas trade, which one is not a daily profit? How much did you earn from this this year? Are they all far superior to those landlords? The future belongs to industry and commerce, so why take the money from the mouths of those peasants?
Besides, it's easy to get land.
Crossing the ocean to the Americas has several times the fertile fields of the Ming Dynasty, even if you go to the South Seas, there is, whoever wants to reclaim the land I will be the director and occupy it with him, he can occupy 10 million mu I also support, but the land annexation of the interior of the Ming Dynasty must be suppressed. But suppression is not encroachment, and it is certainly not possible that one day a public land law will be issued to force landlords to sell land to the state. ”
He said.
"How is the land system after the Marquis of Zhongyong clear?"
Song Yingxing asked.
At this time, the factions of the Ming court were very clear that the Yang Party was against the Donglin Party, and the remaining local factions were either attached to the Yang Party or Donglin.
Those who fled from the north to the south were attached to the Yang Party.
After all, the latter theoretically also went south from the north, and these people were naturally a gang, which was the basic plate of the Yang Party, and their foundation was the Tuntian District on both sides of the Huai River and the Weisuo Huangzhuang all over the south.
The basic base of the Donglin Party is those Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials, and the foundation is the Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry, but this foundation is unstable, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang gentry are also hostile to Yang Qing or tolerate him or even support him because of their different interests.
The latter was the emerging industrial and commercial class.
In the final analysis, everyone understands that Yang Qing brought prosperity to industry and commerce.
The remaining provinces will have to choose sides.
Fujian is considered neutral, they have Zheng Zhilong, a special representative, enough to ensure their own interests, as long as the maritime trade is opened, the Fujian gentry have no opinion, and the tea plantations in the mountains and mountains are the guarantee of their wealth, and they have no special requirements for the imperial court.
Huguang and Jiangxi are different.
Huguang is still almost, after all, after years of war, especially the reshuffle of King Gui's rebellion, there are many Huangzhuang in Huguang, especially the miscellaneous cards that have been reorganized and the shantytowns that have been recruited, most of them are placed in Huguang in the form of Huangzhuang. It can be said that the Huguang gentry have no choice, they do not have any means to fight Yang Qing, and cooperate with the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because it is difficult to achieve the old feud between the two sides for many years, and even if they succeed, Donglin Qunxian does not welcome them. It's better to simply break the jar and break it, the Chu Party was able to form an alliance with Wei Zhongxian back then, why couldn't the Huguang gentry form an alliance with Yang Qing at this time?
Since you can't resist, just close your eyes and enjoy it!
And the Jiangxi gentry were very entangled.
They have a close relationship with Donglin Qunxian, for example, their boss Jiang Riguang in the court is a veteran of Donglin, but the other gang led by Song Yingxing is Yang Qing's gang, they are riding the wall in a sense, they can continue to ride the wall, but now they can't ride anymore.
Fifteen million stones!
Who pays for this?
Even the gentry of Su Song didn't want to pay for it, let alone the gentry of Jiangxi.
Again......
Don't talk about money, talking about money hurts feelings.