Chen Bangyan said: "First, rectify the salt administration. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Liangguang, especially Guangdong, has many salt farms, from Chao and Hui in the east, to Lian and Qin in the west, and there are large salt farms in the sea, and the profits are extremely lucrative. However, now the salt government is full of malpractices, the law and discipline are abolished, the private salt is overflowing, the major salt farms are unsupervised, and the salt merchants are allowed to make false reports and conceal reports, under the hundred years, the salt merchants, the relatives and the official gentry collude with each other, and the private fertilizer is full, resulting in the corruption of the salt government, the people are miserable, and the court has lost a lot of taxes.

Second, there are many guards and military fields in Guangxi, but now the acres of land are hoarded to the homes of the powerful and powerful, and the military system exists in name only. His Majesty may send people to explore the acres of military household land in the garrison, verify the number of military households, recover the arrears of grain and salary over the years, so as to replenish the treasury silver, and at the same time transfer some of the patrol battalion soldiers to open tuntian to supply the army with military rations, and through the tuntian to raise the army, the imperial court can also throw away the burden of food and salary of the patrol battalion sergeants;

Third, send officials to trade with foreign countries, fill the gap with the benefits of maritime trade, and make up for the lack of taxes.

As far as the minister knows, trade with foreign countries is extremely profitable, up to several times or even dozens of times, so merchants go back and forth. At that time, because Zheng Zhilong, a sea coward, controlled Haikou, he had to pay 1,000 taels of silver every year for the round-trip ship, in exchange for the order flag to be inserted in the bow of the ship, so that the passage could be unimpeded. In this way, Zheng Zhilong has a cashier of 20 million, which is rich enough to rival the country. According to the foolish wishes of the ministers, His Majesty or the official may send officials to trade with foreign countries, and the imperial court will organize the purchase of sea vessels, if they can trade goods from all over the world and trade with foreign countries, the profits will be abundant; In addition, merchants and citizens were encouraged to trade with foreign countries and the mainland on their own, and the court only set up cards to collect their taxes, and the silver taken from the two could add up to the food and salary, which was enough for His Majesty to recruit troops and train troops and the Northern Expedition. ”

Chen Bangyan said three suggestions in one breath, all of which contained important information, and Zhu Youlang was silent after listening.

As for the first suggestion to obtain tax revenue by rectifying the salt administration, although he thought it was good, he did not intend to deal with it immediately, for no other reason, the time had not come. The rectification of the salt administration is a big project, and now the provincial capitals of Guangdong have not been fully recovered, and several important salt-producing areas such as Chaozhou, Huizhou, and Guangzhou are in the hands of the Qing army. Once the salt administration of the state capitals in western Guangdong is rectified, the salt merchants, gentry, and even the Qing army in the occupied areas of eastern Guangdong will inevitably be involved.

Moreover, the rectification of the salt administration requires enough cronies and professionals, and if the manpower is insufficient, it is possible to make wedding dresses for others in the end.

The salt policy of the Ming Dynasty has almost completely collapsed at this time, and the sales of official salt are far more than private salt because of the middle layer of exploitation, and now the private salt almost occupies the entire market of the two Guangzhou, and the annual income of the imperial court is better than nothing.

Therefore, sooner or later, the salt administration will be rectified, Zhu Youlang deliberately kept an eye on this, he had to wait for an opportunity, at least after the recovery of Liangguang, Daming has a stable rear base, and then he will take the salt administration as the starting point, and then clean up the officials, clean up those officials who secretly sell illegal salt or collude with salt merchants to sit on the ground and share fertilizer, and clean up the chaotic officialdom of Liangguang.

The second proposal to clear the acres of land in the Guangxi army, open tuntian, and recover the arrears of grain and wages over the years is not easy to implement, but after all, it is feasible, and the overall difficulty is less than that of rectifying the salt administration, and the whole province of Guangxi is under the control of the center.

After 300 years, the system of the Ming Dynasty has long existed in name only, and the treatment of military households is very low. In addition to sending more than one ding to the guard to fill the army, each military household also paid one more ding to serve with the army. In some places, each military household was even ordered to send two to three surplus soldiers to carry out all kinds of heavy labor with the army.

When a soldier goes to serve in the guard, his uniform and the cost of the journey are all borne by his family. During the period of service in the guards, the soldiers provided their own clothing, and their food and salary did not increase due to the birth of children and the increase in population, so the wives and children of the soldiers were often poorly clothed and hungry.

Military households are also not exempt from some conscription because of the provision of military personnel, and their living conditions are far inferior to those of civilian households. Not only the family, but the soldiers who went to the guard station were not much better than their families. Soldiers are exploited by the officers, and military rations are often withheld by the officers, or they are not paid. Some guards did not even pay military salaries for several years, and some non-commissioned officers and soldiers made a living by begging.

In some guard posts, the sergeants' tun fields were encroached upon by the squires and generals of Haoyou, who let the sergeants farm and plough the land for them, and even let the sergeants fish and collect wood for them and sell smuggled goods. Sergeants have become tools and drudgery in their hands.

In the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the military households and their children in the guard have long been reduced to the serfs of those hereditary officers or squires, and those who can escape have fled, and most of those who have not escaped have not learned their skills, and they have long been unbearable to fight, and they are no longer any different from a group of peasants.

The status quo of Guangxi's health center is not much different from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the hereditary generals of the health center collude with the squire Haoqiang, encroach on the military land, cultivate it privately, and do not pay taxes.