The Royal Palace, the Council Hall.

The palace of the Son of Heaven was originally rebuilt by the yamen of the governor of Liangguang, and the council hall was set up in the original governor's signature room.

Outside the council hall, there is a temporary cabinet, six ministries and other central institutions. Since the establishment of the Yongli Imperial Court, the Yongli Emperor will meet with the cabinet scholars and civil and military officials here, and the Son of Heaven has something to discuss or the three grades or above the civil and military affairs can be held, and it is not scheduled.

In addition, there are no guards in the hall, and the etiquette is simple, and the monarchs and ministers can be exhausted. The council hall became the place where Zhu Youlang received hundreds of civil and military officials on a daily basis and listened to political deliberations.

In the hall, Zhu Youlang sat on the main seat, and on both sides sat Yang Shouchun, the master of ceremonies and the clerk and clerk; The Imperial Horse Supervisor Palm Seal Pang Tianshou; Wu Yingdian University Shi Zhai Shiyun; Household Shangshu Yan Qiheng; Zhu Tianscale, the secretary of the ministry; Chen Zizhuang, the squire of the military department; Wu Zhenyu and other two ministers and five ministers.

"Since last year, the total amount of gold, silver, and copper coins in the household treasury is about 7,430,000 taels of silver, all of which are obtained from plundering criminal ministers and inferior gentry;

The provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, and Huguang have canceled a whip law in accordance with His Majesty's orders, and will no longer fold the color.

Last year, a total of 1,230,000 stone of rice and wheat were collected; more than 53,500 horses of cotton and silk; more than 86,600 bundles of silk and grass; more than 15,000 stones of horse material;

According to the general calculation, there are a total of 218 civil and military officials in various provinces and officials serving in the inner court, and the total expenditure of rice and materials for internal and external officials is more than 58,600 taels of silver, more than 23,400 stones of grain, and more than 6,840 horses of cotton and silk.

There were a total of 368 members of the clan and the honorable relatives, and a total of more than 24,500 taels of money, more than 8,300 stones of grain, and more than 1,650 horses of cotton and silk were disbursed last year.

The rest were used as food for the royal camp and the box camp, and the total consumption per year was about 534,000 taels of silver, about 1,486,000 stone of grain, and more than 30,000 stone of horse material.

Longitude branch, silver money is still for the country, there is a lot of surplus, rice and wheat is short of more than 300,000 stones, back to Your Majesty, the minister finished playing. ”

Qu Shiyun, who was wearing a red court dress, bowed to Zhu Youlang and returned to his seat.

Zhu Youlang nodded after listening, his brows furrowed slightly, in his previous life, he had been a leader at the local county and town level, and he knew that if he wanted to change his internal affairs, he must know his family background well.

These years have been busy with wars, and the financial situation of the center is not very clear, although he knows that after the dynasty is only a corner of Lingnan, the center's finances will definitely be very short, but after really hearing that series of shocking data, Zhu Youlang felt very sad.

Not counting the bulk of the plundered income, the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, and Huguang only received 1.23 million stone of grain, which was only more than 1 million taels of silver!

Although more than one million taels of silver is not a small number, the total income of a country's financial center is really pitiful.

Although Zhu Youlang is not very clear about the financial details of ancient times, he also knows that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual income remained 80 million taels all year round, and according to the 1:1.5 ratio, the estimated silver was also 50 million taels, which can be described as extremely rich.

Although the territory of the southern crossing was several times smaller, it created an unprecedented miracle economically. After the Shaoxing peace talks, the financial year has surged from less than 10 million at the beginning of the river crossing to more than 60 million guan, the tax during the Xiaozong period was more than 80 million guan, and the annual income during the Tianxi period reached 150 million guan, even if the factor of inflation is taken into account, it is converted into more than 80 million taels of silver.

Unlike the Northern Song Dynasty, the revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty was only the revenue of the central government, and considering the sharp contraction of the Southern Song Dynasty, such an economic miracle cannot but be shocking.

It is not only far away from the Tang Dynasty, which was still a toddler in the economy before, but also the Ming Dynasty (in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the annual revenue of the national treasury was only three or four million taels, and the three salaries were increased to 16 million taels, which became a laughing stock for drinking water to quench thirst and ruining the country. In the 30 years of the Song Dynasty's southward journey, the population was still less than 20 million, one-fifth of the late Ming Dynasty, the territory was less than half of the Ming Dynasty, but the annual income was nearly 30 times that of the Ming Dynasty, and more than 60 times the unit population. The economy is unprecedentedly strong.

is also the remnant regime of Nandu, with the same small territory and population, compared with the Southern Ming regime and the Southern Song Dynasty regime economically, one is simply a rich man with a lot of money, and the other is a poor beggar with pants!

The reason why there is such a big gap between the two sides, Zhu Youlang also has a rough number in his heart, whether it is the Northern Ming Dynasty or the Southern Ming Dynasty, has always been the main collector of agricultural taxes (summer and autumn taxes), and less commercial taxes, on the contrary, in the Southern Song Dynasty, industrial and commercial taxes are ten times that of agricultural taxes, far exceeding the proportion of the Ming and Qing dynasties!

The Southern Song Dynasty was the most criticized by later generations for raising soldiers, and the harsh taxation was obvious to all, and it has always been the most criticized by later generations, but the land policy of the Southern Song Dynasty did not suppress land annexation greatly improved the efficiency of land use, and violently promoted the process of urbanization, and the urban population reached nearly half of the total population.

Therefore, the harsh taxation of the Southern Song Dynasty did not lead to its demise as at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but became the only dynasty in Chinese history that did not break out in a national civil uprising (the Qin Chensheng and Wu Guang uprisings, the Western Han Lulin Red Mei Uprising, the Eastern Han Yellow Turban Uprising, the Tang Huangchao Uprising, the Ming and Li Zicheng uprisings, the Qing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising, and the Northern Song Dynasty Fangla Songjiang Uprising were all limited to one route). ）

Obviously, the economic success of the Southern Song Dynasty is of great significance to Zhu Youlang, and the simultaneous development of agriculture and industry from agriculture to agriculture and industry will be the ultimate direction of the Ming Dynasty in the future!

"The shortage of more than 300,000 stone of military rations can be purchased from the private sector by the treasury of the Ministry of Users, and if it is not enough, special personnel will be sent from Guangdong to take sea ships from Guangdong to buy enough from Annam, Champong, Chenla, Siam and other vassal states."

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, the Nanyang countries have fertile land, three crops a year, rich in rice, and the price of rice is low, and there is no problem in purchasing more than 300,000 stone grain." Qu Shiyun echoed.

Qu Shiyun had frequent contacts with the Western priest Julius in his early years, and was later baptized into the church, named Dormer, and had some understanding of the customs and customs of the countries of Nanyang and Obarro, and Xu Guangqi, Fang Yizhi and others were all representatives of the Western school, and they were the first enlightened bureaucrats to open their eyes to the world in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was also the potential internal reason for Zhu Youlang to reuse him and appoint him to be the first assistant of the cabinet.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many ministers with temperament and integrity, most of them were Taoist scholars who talked about their hearts and minds on weekdays, and reported to the king when they died, and the people were stubborn and stubborn.

Really responsible, enlightened and pragmatic ministers are indeed rare, the central cabinet ministers are not full so far, first, Zhu Youlang in line with the principle of rather lack than indiscriminate, do not want to pull in some old but little ability to govern to make up the number, to avoid these conservatives to do nothing, gang factions, and then revitalize the party to drag the legs, second, it is really too lack of practical talents, Qu Shiyun is at most only the talent of the Chinese, have been entrusted with important tasks by Zhu Youlang, there is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer, where the talent is the most important factor!