In November of this year, Wang Fuzi traveled all the way to the starry night, and finally arrived at the CD after a two-month trek, and handed over the book through Qian Bangqi to meet Yang Xuan, the king of Shu.

Seeing the worship post, in the previous life, Wang Fuzhi seemed to be as famous as Gu Yanwu, and immediately summoned Wang Fuzi in person in the Duanli Palace.

Wang Fuzi was about 30 years old, his body was thin, his eyes were bright, and after saluting Yang Xuan, Wang Fuzhi sat down under the guidance of the scribe.

The prince sat on the table, and the steps of the case were preserved, and ten Taishi chairs were placed on the left and right sides of the steps, and in front of each chair was a small table.

After seeing Wang Fuzhi sit down, Yang Xuan said with a smile: "I heard that Brother Nong has always advocated the use of the world, and the Duanli Hall is the place where the Lone King handles daily government affairs, and Brother Nong, what do you think?" ”

Wang Fuzhi got up and arched his hand and said: "The prince expelled Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang, defeated Haoge and Duoduo, and the people of the world admired it. ”

Hearing Wang Fuzhi say this, Qian Bangzhi looked quite contradictory, shook his head and said: "And Brother Nong, the prince also wants to send troops to Huguang like Guo Fenyang, expel the Tartars, and restore Erjing."

But Brother Nong also saw that there were too many villains around the emperor, and they were bent on asking the prince to invade the Tartars from Hanzhong.

Now Dolgon has already appointed Wu Sangui to block in Guanzhong, Duoduo led the army into Huguang, Zhuge Wumu Qishan was unsuccessful that day, the prince is loyal and benevolent, but to ensure the success of the Eastern Expedition to the Northern Expedition must be planned many times.

Wang Fuzhi sighed and said: "The situation of the prince is like a spark in the world.

After the prince expelled Sun Kewang, he sent an envoy to ask the emperor for an order, who expected that he would first be crowned the Duke of Qianguo, the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guihu, and Guangzhou, and later the emperor was renamed the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Ganyun, and Yunnan provinces.

Prince, as Qian Changshi said just now, in the past, Zhuge Wumu's Northern Expedition, although there was the Dongwu Alliance, it was difficult to succeed, if the Tartars captured Liangguang and then raised troops to the east, even if the prince was talented, it would be difficult to succeed.

Lord Wang, now that the Tartars have captured Shaoguan in Nanxiong, and their army has approached Guangzhou, this autumn of sincerity and death, the prince must not watch the strategy of watching because he is not angry in his heart, and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight."

Ye Dabin shook his head and said: "And Brother Nong, having said that, but in the past few years, there has been a drought year after year, coupled with Zhang Xianzhong's sabotage, and the soldiers and bandits are rampant.

And Brother Nong, to contend with the three tired southwestern provinces against the Barbarian Qing is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, so that our king will retreat after killing Luckedhun, so that when the soldiers, horses, and grain and grass are ready, they will be on the eastward crusade."

Wang Fuzhi shook his head and said: "Although what Mr. Liu said is true, the world doesn't see it that way, and future generations will not see it that way."

Later generations are afraid to criticize the prince, saying that the prince sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, saw the Tartars defeat the two Guangyi army, and plundered the emperor, and then the prince sent troops to the east, so that the prince can rightfully become the lord of the world. ”

Yang Xuan stood up, shook his head and said, "And Brother Nong, this statement is a big fallacy, although the emperor is not kind to me, but the monarch and ministers are so righteous, I should regard it as righteousness."

The shame of Jingkang is the pain of the Han people in the world, Emperor Chongzhen died at the hands of Liukou, Emperor Hongguang, Emperor Longwu, and Emperor Shaowu died in the Tartars one after another.

And Brother Farmer, everyone put Lone on the fire to roast, and everyone criticized Lone a lot. ”

Wang Fuzhi was overjoyed, knelt down to Yang Xuan and said: "Prince, since this is the case, please send troops to the east to relieve the siege of Liangguang and the siege of the emperor."

Yang Xuan walked down the steps, walked back and forth a few steps on his back, and stopped and said, "And Brother Nong, when to go east, this king has already made a calculation.

As the book of war says, the strength of the Tartars is several times that of us, and the road is too difficult, so when to enter the east of this king must be considered again and again. ”

Wang Fuzhi shook his head and said: "Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, so the prince still sits on the mountain and watches the tiger fight."

Lord Wang, although it takes a lot of preparations to advance eastward, when will the prince prepare? ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said: "And Brother Nong, there are a lot of things to do about the eastward advance, if you really want me to go eastward as soon as possible, then please be a secretary here with me, help participate in the military aircraft, and do your part for the eastward advance." ”

Wang Fuzhi hesitated for a long time before agreeing.

After that, Yang Xuan's most concerned thing was political reform, that is, the training of officials, and the preparation for the eastward expansion.

When Zhang Xianzhong attacked the city, the fourth (Sichuan) governor Long Wenguang ordered Zhao Jiawei to kill the capital of Jiangyan, causing flooding in the CD) plain.

In the past two years, Yang Xuan personally led a large army to fight with the Tartars, attacking Yunnan and Guizhou, and He Zhen, Liu Tichun and others also fought bloody battles with the Tartars in Longnan and Yunyang, so the food consumption was very large.

Coupled with natural and man-made disasters, Zhang Xianzhong and others sabotage, the three southwestern provinces are far from recovering the historical level, and the grain stored by the governments of the three provinces is only 600,000 quintals, and it is difficult to support more than ten towns and soldiers to fight fiercely against foreign countries.

According to official statistics, the population of Yunnan-Guichuan Province plus Shaanxi and Huguang exceeded 1,600 people (even during the reign of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, contemporaries of Shu people such as Ouyang Zhi, Zhang Lang, and Fei Mi recalled that only 2 percent of the Sichuan people died in Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion, and considering that they were evasive for the Manchu Dynasty, it should actually be less than 2 percent.) But the vast majority of Yunnan-Guizhou regions and western Sichuan are ethnic minorities, and the Tianfu Ding Fu cannot be collected at all, even if the military grain is added, it is only 4 million quintals, and according to the division law, less than 240 hundred quintals can be used by the royal government (the official population of the Ming Dynasty is 60 million, the Tianfu is 27 million quintals, and the per capita Tianfu is basically about 0.65 quintals.

Some data show that the cultivated area of the four (Sichuan) in the Ming Dynasty was 13,482,767 mu, and the tax grain was 1,082,544 quintals, or 0.08 quintals per mu of cultivated land.

The cultivated land area of Guizhou Prefecture is 516,686 mu, and the tax grain is 50,807 quintals, and the tax grain per mu of cultivated land is 0.098 quintals.

Yun (South cultivated land area of 1,799,358 mu, tax grain 142,690 quintals, tax grain per mu of cultivated land 0.079 quintals.

Compared with other provinces in the country, Yunnan-Guichuan has the highest tax per mu of cultivated land, and the reason is that its cultivated land area was surveyed in the early years of the Ming Dynasty and has not changed for hundreds of years.

After adding the three salaries, 1 bucket and 2 liters of rice per mu of paddy field and 4 liters of wheat per mu of dry land are paid, so the field tax collected in this way is only 4 million quintals. ）

Speaking of the Ding Fu, the population of 16 million, deducting women, children, the elderly, and the soldiers and officials who are exempt from paying the Ding Fu, should have 4 million men, but a small number of men in the settlement area do not pay the Ding Fu at all, so that less than 2.5 million men who really pay the Ding Fu will be levied according to 1 money and 2 cents, and 300,000 taels of silver can be collected every year, and only 180,000 taels can be divided according to the division of the French royal palace.

The salt endowment can collect 800,000 taels of silver every year (5 catties of grain per person per year, so that there are 400,000 small quotes, 2 taels and 5 coins of silver per small quote, and 1 million taels of silver could have been received, but in fact only 800,000 taels were received), 1.2 million taels of silver for business, 200,000 taels of silver for wine, 200,000 taels of silver for Guan, 200,000 taels of silver for mines, plus tea and horse trade, income tax, etc., 3 million taels of silver can be received in a year, and only 1.8 million taels of silver can be used by the king's palace according to the division method.

And now the monthly salary of the cadet soldiers, 1 tael and 5 yuan for the private, 1 tael and 7 yuan for the corporal, 2 taels for the sergeant, 2 taels and 3 yuan for the market, plus technical allowances, so that each soldier needs to pay 250,000 taels of silver a year.

Now the Volunteer Army has 15 towns of infantry, the strength of the army has already exceeded 120,000 people, the annual salary alone is more than 3 million taels, if you add the construction of weapons, the manufacture of vehicles and ships, and the battlefield gunpowder and other expenses, the annual expenditure of the army is more than 3.5 million taels of silver.

In this way, the annual deficit of silver is more than 1,700,000 taels of silver, and even if half of the rice (1,200,000 quintals) is sold when the grain is not eaten, the actual deficit will exceed 1,000,000 taels of silver every year.

If he is an ordinary person, of course, he can't smooth out the deficit, but Yang Xuan is a traversal clan after all, and in the past two years, he has obtained a lot of liquid money through the cause of silver coin minting, which seems to be beneficial to the country and the people, which can completely guarantee the net inflow of silver.

In the past two years, a total of 10 million taels of silver coins have been minted, although the amount is still quite small, and there can be a huge space in the future, but the single act of minting money will make a profit of 200,000 taels of silver.

In addition, the greater income comes from the issuance of paper money, first of all, there is the role of silver coin preservation, paper money in the market can be replaced at any time with the same amount of silver coins without any handling fees, coupled with its easy to carry, the imperial court taxes levy more silver coins, paper money instead of copper coins and silver broken silver, in many, many places began to slowly abandon copper coins and use paper money.

In just two years, a total of 4 million banknotes were issued, and most of them were small denominations of 1 to 1 cent (the denomination was too large for the people to accept), but this alone made up an income of 40,000 taels of silver.

As shown in previous studies, small denomination banknotes are very prone to depreciation in the process of use, and even if they are replaced in 10 years, even if they are reduced by 5%, it is still 200,000 taels of silver income.

The hoarding of gold also reduces the risk of payment, due to the issuance of silver coins and the acquisition of gold, so the gold-silver ratio appreciates from 6:1 to 7.5: "1, the 500,000 taels of gold hoarded in this way can be equivalent to 3.75 million taels of silver, plus the 1 million silver coins that have not yet been issued, as well as the silver coins in various places and silver villages, so that the stability of silver coin exchange can still be guaranteed in the short term."

Just as the issuance of fiat currency during the Anti-Japanese War ensured the supply of the army, the issuance of silver banknotes also had the same effect.

In addition to these, not to mention the 4 million taels of silver and 200,000 taels of gold that were snatched back from the camps of Zhang Xianzhong, Haoge, and Luo Luohun, as well as the silver taels obtained from the abolition of various health centers in recent years, and the inspection of the stolen money obtained by notorious embezzlers in various places.

Even so, today's yamen still eats grain every year, and has a deficit of one million taels of silver every year.

If it was impossible to make up for it in the past, but now after the introduction of silver coins, this way to ensure a surplus of cash receipts and expenditures.