Chapter 80 Fill the land with the rent

After a simple birthday lunch, Zhu Youxiao went back to the main room to take a nap, watching Ren Rongrong still carefully serving the tea by the side, and there was a trace of touch in his heart.

"Your Majesty, Rong Rong will give you a beating on the shoulder."

Zhu Youxiao has not been able to adapt to the attentive service of others, and waved his hand, "Are you used to living here alone?" ”

Ren Rongrong stood at the bottom, without the slightest awareness that she was the master, "In the past, my father-in-law did not live in the outer house, and Rongrong has always lived alone, there is nothing lacking here, and the emperor has occasional rewards, which Rong Rong never dared to think of before." ”

Zhu Youxiao didn't remember that he had a reward, he thought that Wang Chengen helped do it, and he didn't debunk it, "How long will it take for your stepfather to return?" ”

"According to the schedule, my father-in-law should go to Henan, and if the errand goes well, I can return to Beijing before the New Year's Day."

Nodding, Zhu Youxiao expressed his understanding, then picked up the chrysanthemum tea on the table, and felt full of fragrance after taking a sip......

The reason why Zhu Youxiao seems to have fallen into the eyes of money is mainly because since he became the heir, he has successively had the wages of the temple mausoleum, the starting silver of the Guangmiao mausoleum, the silver and reward of Liaodong, the reward of close ministers and military and civilians, and the emblems of the two empress dowagers, and other 'unproductive ceremonial expenses', and the budget for the crown wedding, the research and development of the Wang Gong Factory and the Taiji Factory, and the mass production of firearms will not be a small amount next year, which will cause the internal funds to be exhausted.

If the old practice of opening an imperial store and levying a mining tax to make up for the deficit is followed, it will inevitably repeat the mistakes of history, not to mention the complaining methods such as adding a royal village.

Huangzhuang is the Zhuangtian directly operated by the royal family, also known as 'Gongfu Zhuangtian', which began in the eighth year of Tianshun (1464), including the emperor, the empress dowager and the Donggong Zhuangtian, and its land sources have four aspects: wasteland and pasture in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, confiscation, dedication, and encroachment on private land.

Regardless of the others, in addition to the harm of Huangzhuang, in addition to 'managing the Zhuang official school recruiting clusters, calling the head of the village, accompanying the party, occupying land, collecting property, polluting women, slightly distinguishing, being falsely accused, the official school is bound, the whole family is frightened, and the people's hearts are hurt and the disaster is born', which is the occupation of people's land.

The land system of the Ming Dynasty mainly inherited from the Yuan Dynasty, and according to the different owners of the land, it can be divided into official fields, private fields, school fields, Huangzhuang, citian (kings, princesses, lords, ministers, internal supervisors, temples and temples to give begging villages), Baiguan Zhitian, Shangtun, Juntun, Bian Chen's Lian Tian, horse pasture (the land where officials and horses graze), livestock land (Guanglu Temple, Taifu Temple's livestock grazing land), Chengqiao (the space next to the city wall), cemetery cemetery, public occupation of the land (folk mound, official warehouse, altar hall) and so on.

The official land is state-owned, which is owned by the poor, and is not allowed to be bought and sold freely, and the collection is called field rent, and the branch rule (the number and quantity of land rent paid) is heavier; Mintian is owned by the private Haoyou, including newly opened fields, Shasaitian, idle fields, etc., which are allowed to be traded, and the department is lighter. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Guantian accounted for the majority, and after the middle of the century, Guantian was gradually privatized through the granting of land, and its branches converged (usually accounting for about 30% of the harvest).

In addition to bearing the normal land of the state, the private land occupied as Huangzhuang also needs to be paid 'three cents of silver per mu', which infringes on the fundamental interests of the owner.

The number of Huangzhuang reached the peak of 37,595 hectares and 46 acres in the Zhengde period, and it was returned in Jiajing, coexisting in 'Renshou, Qingning, Weiyang three palaces of 63 official lands, 16,015 acres of 47 acres'; to the 27th year of Wanli found out that Huangzhuang has '26,070 acres of fields and beaches in Dantu, Danyang, Chongming, Wujin, Jiangdu, Tongzhou, Rugao, Taixing, etc.', which has been greatly reduced compared with before.

Compared with the Huangzhuang, there are more Zhuangtian of internal officials, kings, and relatives, and the harm is greater.

The emperor's land (through grants and invitations) was mainly extracted from the official fields, and 'used them to fill the land with their rent', such as Zheng Guotai gave 300 hectares of land and Fu Wang gave 19,000 hectares of land. The internal officials often donated the people's land in the name of the emperor, although they got a temporary profit, they actually trapped the emperor in a place of unbelief.

After Zhu Youxiao ascended to the pole, he did not follow the previous dynasty's methods of opening Huangzhuang and Huangdian, because the two items did not gain much, and the harm was obvious. After Xu Guangqi's allocation, he realized that the land given to Huangzhuang and the kings would increase the burden of tenant farmers, so he never opened this opening, did not give Wang Tianrui any land, and even avoided his uncle Wang Sheng; In order to reduce unnecessary expenses, also try to avoid ceremonies such as Halloween.

There are many ways to make money in later generations, and Zhu Youxiao can't do this kind of trick of killing chickens and eggs, not to mention that he hasn't sacrificed a big killer - a bank.

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"Has Kebaba been here?" Zhu Youxiao put down the teacup and asked.

"Once every three or two days." Ren Rongrong pointed to the west room, "Mama Ke lived in it when she came." ”

"Remember, your accounts should be separated, and you should do a good job of purchase, sale and inventory management as described in the small book I gave you last time, and I will check the accounts when the time comes."

"Ah, the emperor doesn't believe us?" Ren Rongrong regretted it after saying it, and quickly covered her mouth, as if this would make the words just now not come out.

Zhu Youxiao smiled, "If you don't believe it, I won't come to you to eat Shou noodles today." ”

Ren Rongrong took her hand away, stepped away from Yang Xiao, and jumped forward, "Rongrong must run 'Wangfujing' well, if it loses, the emperor won't blame it." ”

“…… Loss? Hmph, wait for me to beat you on the board. Zhu Youxiao was intoxicated by the dimples when she smiled, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, and she said with good intentions.

"Ah, the emperor ......" Ren Rongrong subconsciously covered her buttocks, her face was discolored, and then she saw him smile, as if she understood, Hongxia floated on her cheeks again, and there was a scolding of 'Deng's disciple' in her heart.

Zhu Youxiao smiled heartily, "Don't talk about it, go get the pen and ink, and I will add some details." ”

After Ren Rongrong said 'oh', she ran to the east ear room to get the four treasures of the study, removed the peony flowers on the small table, and placed the paper in front of Zhu Youxiao, ready to grind.

Although Zhu Youxiao practiced calligraphy for a while under the guidance of Ma Xingcijing, because the time was still short, it was far from reaching the point of swaying freely, "You write, I will grind." ”

"Yes." Ren Rongrong knew that the Son of Heaven was not very good at writing, so she obediently took off her embroidered shoes, sat cross-legged at the other end, and stared at him with a pen against her chin and big eyes.

Zhu Youxiao was a little disappointed when he saw that she quickly hid her little feet under her skirt, and said while grinding, "Kebaba's supermarket and your Wangfujing go in two forms, so you should separate finances and be responsible for your own profits and losses." Twenty percent of the gross profit from the operation needs to be taxed at the Propaganda Division, and two percent of the net profit is left as a reserve, two percent is sent to the internal fund, and the rest is used to expand the business...... Hey, why don't you use your pen. ”

"Your Majesty, those two forms?"

"Kebaba runs a supermarket, and you run a shopping street. The relationship between the supermarket and the shopping street is really ......"

"Your Majesty, what is true containment...... Oops, it hurts, how does the emperor beat people. ”

Zhu Youxiao withdrew his hand, and he was helpless about this problem, "It's really contained...... Take eggs and egg yolks as an example, supermarkets are egg yolks, and eggs are Wangfujing. ”

Ren Rongrong rubbed her forehead, and her pouting mouth turned into an arc, "Ah, Rongrong understands, isn't this the relationship between mother and son." ”

"Whatever analogy you want, go on...... Where did you just go? ”

"Eggs are king...... Yes...... It is 'the rest for business expansion'. ”

"Well, the rest will be used to expand the business, and these two business models should be opened to various provinces......

"Your Majesty, you say it slowly, Rong Rong just wrote about Maori, ah, what is Maoli? Emperor...... The Emperor ......"

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