Chapter 888: No Money Again
Lu Chengqi didn't think he was so wise and martial, he was just glad that there were many ministers in this era. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Find a random minister to come out, and the achievements he makes can scare people to death. This is not the "political achievement" of those who are only economic in later generations, but the officials who really govern the local area and think about the people can be promoted to the center. Otherwise, hehe, you have long been eliminated under the double assessment of the Ministry of Officials and the Supervision Department, where can you still stand in the Daqing Palace?
Like Zhang Fangping, it seems that his reputation is not obvious, even in history, not many people know that there is such a person.
Indeed, he is just from a system department, and he has been admitted to the Maocai and other subjects, and he is also a virtuous and good Fangzheng department, and he is a head shorter than the officials who were born in Jinshi in terms of "academic qualifications". But the ability to do things is good, and he has successively served as the governor of the Yuan, the Zhizhi Yuan, the Zhikaifeng Mansion, the Hanlin Bachelor, the Imperial History Zhongcheng, the governor of Chuzhou, Jiangning Mansion, Hangzhou, Yizhou and other places, and he has done an excellent job in every job. Later, Lu Chengqi was promoted to Li Ran, the original imperial history, there was a lack of people in the imperial history, and after thinking about it, he originally planned to use Sima Guang, but Sima Guang had already entered the cabinet, so he had to think of Zhang Fangping, who had a bad relationship with Sima Guang, but was just as upright.
It is precisely with such hard-working officials, and whether they treat the people sincerely or only for promotion, but what they do in office has indeed brought a lot of benefits to the local people. In addition, there is nothing wrong with the big policy, so the development of Dashun in the past few years can be described as a thousand miles in a day.
If the GDP of later generations is calculated, Lu Chengqi estimates that in the past seven years, Dashun's GDP should have risen by more than 50%, or even quadruple.
Without him, it only liberates the people's enthusiasm for production.
In the past, peasant households with little land, no land, and no household registration were given land, so how could they not farm with all their lives?
People who don't want to face the loess with their backs to the sky go to silk factories, porcelain factories, cotton mills, sugar mills, and shipyards...... When these hired workers go to the factory, they can not only learn a skill as an apprentice, but also get paid and have enough to eat. If the time comes, maybe he will be an "official" in the factory, and he can manage a few people, so he really doesn't have to worry. The apprentice has become a master and can take the apprentice.
In addition, the establishment of the Mongolian school for the whole people to read and count, and the measures to benefit the people, such as nursing homes, medicine bureaus, and welfare homes, have rarely heard of human tragedies where people have frozen to death and have nothing to support them. Don't be afraid during the famine, there is a standing position in the local area, which can withstand the needs of the moment. There is also the Grand Canal, which runs through the north and south; Sea freight is convenient, and grain can be transported without a problem.
Any foreigner who arrives in the Central Plains is entering the "Garden of Eden" and thinks that this is a real paradise.
The state city is bustling and noisy, and the chickens and dogs in the countryside smell each other, which is a prosperous scene.
But this seems to be an illusion in front of him, because it is very inappropriate, a courtier came out with a court wat and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a book to play!" ”
Lu Chengqi looked at it fixedly, and also felt a big headache: "Lin Qing, what do you have to play?" ”
It turned out that this person was the town of Hubu Shangshulin.
It stands to reason that Lin Zhenzhong is already forty-six this year, and his official position is a book, so he should be promoted to the top. But unfortunately, his starting point was too high, and Dashun could make many generations, so he was forgotten in the corner for a while and continued to be his household secretary.
However, Lin Zhenzhong is not in a hurry, he is only in his forties, and one day he will be able to become an official. Even if you can't enter the cabinet, you can get a governor to participate in political affairs and shoot left and right. If you blindly insist on it, maybe the emperor will remember you and get tired of you, and you will not be far from being demoted from Beijing.
Of course, it is not good to blindly forbear, and you can make a little noise, so that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that if you want to get money, you have to go through his hands in Lin Zhenzhong.
If Queen Zhou Zhiruo is in charge of Lu Chengqi's personal money bag, then Lin Zhenzhong is in charge of Dashun's money bag. In the face of this God of Wealth, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to offend Lin Zhenzhong excessively, in case he stuck the funds of your yamen, you would have no place to cry. People also act according to the charter, you write out the plan for next year, and it has to be accurate to a penny, otherwise the household department will not approve it, what can you do?
Lu Chengqi also thinks that Lin Zhenzhong is a talent, but he is too capable of making trouble, and now Lu Chengqi is not afraid of seeing the imperial historian, and he is most afraid of seeing Lin Zhenzhong, who wants money for death. Because as soon as Lin Zhenzhong opened his mouth, he was talking about the problem of the treasury.
It's really difficult for him, Dashun has too many places to use money, tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, Lin Zhenzhong is about to grab his hair, but he can't squeeze out a few money. He repeatedly demanded an increase in agricultural taxes, but was rejected by Lu Chengqi again and again. The reason is very simple, the people of Dashun are so poor, and you still increase the agricultural tax, isn't this to force people into a desperate situation!
In fact, Lu Chengqi couldn't figure it out, the household department had the Royal Bank in hand, how could he still be short of money?
In fact, Lu Chengqi didn't see Dashun's expenses, shipbuilding, military salaries, Yulu, ordnance supervision, and the Grand Canal...... Which one doesn't ask for money?
If Dashun had conscripted as he had done in the past dynasties, he might have been able to save a lot of money. But Lu Chengqi resolutely refused, saying that Qin died in tyranny, and now I am in Dashun to conquer and conscript, isn't it another tyrannical Qin?
In this way, it was all bitter Lin Zhenzhong, and he finally squeezed out a little money, but it was gone in a blink of an eye, and he really wanted to cry without tears!
"Your Majesty, the treasury has been empty recently, I don't know if the shipping department will have to pay the tariff this month?"
Baiguan also guessed that Lin Zhenzhong's voice must be about money.
Now for Lu Chengqi, money is not a problem, the problem is no money. The fiscal deficit every year makes people panic. But thanks to the help of Huangzhuang, Lu Chengqi was able to do some of the things he wanted to do.
Lu Chengqi glanced at Lin Zhenzhong with a headache, and said weakly: "Lin Qing, it's only the first half of the year, why is the treasury out of money?" ”
"Your Majesty doesn't know, every time on the eve of Qingming, you have to worship your ancestors and the temple, this is the royal etiquette, and you can't keep it simple. If the treasury has no money, how can it be done? Lin Zhenzhong said eloquently.
Lu Chengqi also knows that the Han people attach so much importance to their ancestors, and even extravagance is nothing. But the treasury is out of money, how are you still doing this, aren't you looking for your own hardships to suffer!
However, he has always used the "law of the ancestors" to refute Lin Zhenzhong's move to increase agricultural taxes, and now Lin Zhenzhong uses the "law of the ancestors" to force Lu Chengqi, and he can only say that he is cocooning himself.
"What do you think?"
Lu Chengqi had no choice, so he could only ask for help from the civil and military officials and start a court discussion. He understands the laws of economics, and he also imperceptibly gave it to the civil and military officials, knowing that currency cannot be over-issued, and the consequences of over-issuance are very serious.
"Your Majesty, can you issue another tax coupon?"
Someone supported the trick, after all, Lu Chengqi used this trick a few years ago.
Lin Zhenzhong immediately retorted: "Now that the Royal Bank tax coupons have been overissued, no matter how much money you can't even get out, how can you issue tax coupons?" It must be known that now it is no longer Yin who eats grain, but Yin eats Chen's grain, and Yin eats grain! (To be continued.) )