Song Haiping: "Since I have taken over the head of this reform committee, then I must first know the current family background of the shogunate. The pen is fun and the cabinet is www.biquge.info to set the policy. ”

Abe Masahiro looked back and made a few looks, naturally there was a low-level account money and grain to pay the account book to Song Haiping, Song Haiping looked at the balance of the account book, the shogunate deposited a total of 3.81 million taels of silver in the treasury in various places, 63,800 taels of gold, and 1.49 million copper coins. There are 550,000 koku of rice, 18,000 koku of white flour, and 420,000 koku of miscellaneous grains. In addition, there are armor weapons, dried fish, carbon, gunpowder, saltpeter, asbestos cloth, silk, pickled salted radish, sweet radish, and a number of ......

As for the current staff of the shogunate, which is often referred to as the financial expenditure personnel, there are more than 118,000 people.

If it was a purely agrarian society, the Tokugawa shogunate would have achieved good results. After all, he controlled the most fertile land in the country and all the mineral deposits in Japan, and finally did not starve to death like the Ming Dynasty. However, if you want to buy a modern fleet from Britain with this money, I am afraid that there will be no money to maintain it after buying it back, and it is no wonder that the emperor took the lead in the Meiji Restoration and began to save rations and buy ships to prepare for war.

Song Haiping closed the account book and said: "If it is only gold and silver, we also have millions of taels on our ship that can be used for emergencies, but I don't seem to have much grain stored in it." ”

Sheng Haizhou: "Back to my lord's words, it is the end of April in the Western calendar. In a month's time, the wheat and the first crop of rice will be harvested. ”

Song Haiping: "How much land tax does the shogunate collect from farmers now?" ”

Ii Naobi: "Back to my lord's words, the Tokugawa family tax has always been sixty percent. ”

Song Haiping: "In addition to the sixty percent agricultural tax, how much rent do farmers have to pay to the landlord?" I have seen in some documents that the field tax during the Japanese shogunate was basically 60%, and in some places it was as high as 70%. ”

Ii Naobi: "Back to my lord's words, in Japan, the shogunate, local daimyos, and temples are the biggest landlords. In fact, the shogunate didn't care about how the daimyos, including the daimyo and the temples, collected rent. Theoretically, it is as much as they want to collect, and as for the matter of seven or eight field taxes, it is about the fact that the people who collect taxes at the bottom have done tricks and feet to collect money and do things that damage the public and private interests, and such things have become common practice in many places. ”

Song Haiping: "In the past, when I read books, it was said that Japanese peasants rarely ate rice balls once a year, but now I see that the shogunate does not have much surplus grain. In fact, with a population of 40 million, it is easy to say that it is easy to eat enough. What is the yield of rice and wheat per acre in Japan now? ”

Sheng Haizhou: "Back to the adult's words, in a good year, the dry field can produce two stones of wheat (240 catties), and the paddy field can produce four stones of rice in two seasons. ”

Song Haiping: "In the place where we came, whether it is wheat or rice, if the yield per mu in a season is less than 1,000 catties, that is, 8 stones, it will be laughed at." Because that must have been not carefully managed. In summary, high grain yield is inseparable from farmland and water conservancy, which we can repair in the future, as well as improved seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. I can't help it, the old farmers know more than me, but we can still try to provide some fertilizers and pesticides, and it is not a problem for us to have enough workers in the education department to build a few fertilizer production plants in the future. ”

Jing Yi Zhibi: "Then if the grain production increases in the future, do you still have to add one more to the field tax?" ”

In the psychology of people like Naobi I, they don't treat ordinary farmers as human beings at all, and they can't eat rice balls once a year. Tokugawa Ieyasu took the whole world, and he only ate something at each meal, but it was rice balls, salted radish strips, and a small fish a few inches long during the festival.

Song Haiping: "Wrong, not only can it not be added, but taxes must be reduced." It is not realistic to ban the field tax at once, so I decided to reduce it by half within three years, that is, 30% of the agricultural tax. 10% per year. ”

Masahiro Abe didn't understand either: "My lord, why do you have to be so nice to the peasants?" ”

Song Haiping: "A gentleman is a man of righteousness, and a villain is of profit." The peasants didn't understand anything, so if we cut taxes in the shogunate, they would think that the shogunate was good, and if other daimyo and temples didn't follow suit, they would become bad people. ”

Katsu Kaishu: "I probably understand, but what if other daimyo and temples follow us in reducing taxes." ”

Song Haiping: "We have chemical fertilizer, which can increase production." When the time comes, we will find out that we have not lost our income, but when their income decreases, we will have to save money, and the most important thing is to raise fewer soldiers, but will we give a small amount of fertilizer to other daimyo? ”

Speaking of this, Song Haiping laughed along with the other important ministers of the shogunate.

Song Haiping continued here: "Gentlemen, please believe me, it has always been the peasants who have not had enough to eat to rebel, and the peasants who have not had enough to eat have rebelled. ”

One of the shogunate officials below said, "The Nanban signed a trade contract with us, but they sold opium in the market, which was called Fushou ointment. More than ten years ago, the Qing State wanted to ban the sale of opium, but the British sent troops to the door. Smoking Fushou ointment damages my body, buying Fushou ointment silver outflow, adults have an idea? ”

Song Haiping thought about it, in a few years, in order to open more ports to sell opium, Britain, France and the Qing Dynasty would have to fight again. However, for those who have studied chemistry, this is not a thing, opium is still too low-level in the end, and all doping drugs are legal in this era, in this case, military stimulants (strong pills) are not over. Directly let people quit Fushou ointment, and they can also make a lot of money from the Qing Dynasty and even foreigners.

For example, military stimulants can be made into an oral type for the army, or a snuff type for the children of the Eight Banners, and it is very simple for you to have a cigarette or a cigar type.

But he couldn't tell these people what to ************ and strong pills, so Song Haiping had to say euphemistically: "I already have an eyebrow for this matter, and after a while, I will let the foreigners return it with interest." Besides, opium should still be a medicinal herb. When the price goes down, we'll have to charge some too. ”

As far as Song Haiping knows, diseases such as diarrhea, colds, and toothaches are very effective when taken in small amounts, and they themselves are also used as foreign medicines in China. Very simple laboratory equipment can also be used to refine morphine, a military narcotic. By the time of World War I and World War II, morphine had become a friend of the soldiers of the belligerent countries. However, these are not as strong as military stimulants (Dianabol), and the toxicity and side effects are slightly smaller than morphine military stimulants.

In addition to finding new ironclad ships and building a modern Japanese fleet, the most important task of the immediate reform is agriculture. Since Song Haiping knew that there was still a month to go before the wheat harvest, it was still too late to increase the yield by topdressing once. Song Haiping made a phone call to Lin Haiyang on the ship and asked him to use the ship's resources to produce a batch of all-element fertilizers based on nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

There are more than 80 kinds of elements in seawater, among which the potassium content is quite high, and a large amount of potassium can be obtained in the process of separating seawater. As for phosphorus and nitrogen, it is not a problem, you must know that there is more than just seawater in the seawater - it is also very easy to get some marine plants and animals to produce fertilizer.