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10 million guan per year sounds like a huge amount, but hundreds of thousands of Manchu (human) Han (traitor) laborers sentenced to hard labor still have to eat, and to maintain their very intense labor, no matter how little or less, they will always spend more than 100,000 yuan worth of rice grain every year; Not to mention the loss of labor and transportation tools such as dustpans, flat burdens, baskets, shovels, crowbars, pickaxes, ropes, and carts, the annual horse feed cost of more than 10,000 ordinary pack horses and towed horses alone is hundreds of thousands; Of course, the above is just a small head, the real bulk of the cost or engineering materials, not to mention the start of two rivers at the same time, just along the Yellow River old road excavation, along the trunk canal for the regulation of water volume of the river sluice to build less than two hundred, a river sluice is thousands of catties, heavy (summer) tons, light iron material, the budget to do 10 million; And that's not even counting the most expensive of all, the cement bottom of the river and the reinforced concrete embankments on both sides, and even if Dushui Yamen were able to bring relatively cheap pozzolacanic cement from Jinzhou (Sumatra), the cost would be astronomical.

For Cai Tong and Duzhi Yamen, even if 2 million guan is allocated every year to serve as the loan interest for the Yellow River comprehensive control project, they can only maintain the total loan amount of 40 million guan for four years at a lower interest rate of 8% per year, and all the principal and interest must be paid off every four years, otherwise it will not be able to maintain it at all.

It's a pity that although Zheng Kezang's abacus is good, he can't borrow money at all after Cai Tong contacts the two quasi-central banks of Sihai and Tonghai. Can't borrow money? This made the Duzhi Yamen dizzy. Isn't the borrowing interest rate too low? However, the interest rate has been raised, and there is a problem in the payment of interest, so we can't let the Duzhi yamen, who starved to death rats in the warehouse, tighten their belts again. What the? Can't borrow money even when the interest rate is raised? Sihai, Tonghai, you are excessive, this is an official matter of the imperial court, and besides, it is not to ask you to borrow money, but to let you borrow money from two or three hundred money banks across the country, what kind of big tail wolf do you pretend, and the shareholders of the two No. 2 of the Yamen can not exercise their shareholder rights before the purchase price is repaid, but they cannot be so perfunctory.

However, the hosts of Sihai and Tonghai put the difficulties on the table: yes, No. 2 does not operate the actual deposit and loan business now, but in view of Zheng Kezang's sale of No. 2 equity in the thirteenth year of Wucheng, the sale of Taiping Iron Smelting Field in the sixteenth year of Wucheng, and the large loan of the sect and domain in the eighteenth year of Wucheng, the vast majority of the silver in the market has been siphoned off.

Juju kicked back to Zheng Kezang's feet, but Zheng Kezang, who could get the report of the Duzhi Yamen, was furious, he thought that Cai Tong and the Duzhi Yamen were fooled by the manager of the inner court, what to take away the money, the market was tense, it was simply a bunch of nonsense - most of the proceeds from the sale of the shares of Sihai and Tonghai in the thirteenth year of Wucheng were spent on war expenses, and the proceeds from the sale of the Taiping Iron Smelting Yard were deposited back by the Ministry of War to earn interest, and most of the large loans of the clan just now were also used in domestic trade, and there would be absolutely no shortage of money in the market. The crux of the problem is the interest rate, and the money industry association is obviously trying to take advantage of the fire to rob, and the inner court manager is even more in order to divide the credit pressure of the clan's loans.

Under the pressure of Zheng Kezang, the Inner Court Manager had to decide that the Inner Court would buy 3 million yuan of Yellow River (comprehensive management) bonds every year, and the Sihai and Tonghai banks also promised to digest 1 million yuan of Yellow River bonds each year, and the remaining 5 million yuan were purchased by the two quasi-central banks to persuade the banks to buy them with the opening reserves pledged in the two banks.

The matter seemed to be resolved, so Zheng Kezang, who settled accounts after the autumn, instructed the Salt and Iron Yamen Money Industry Department to formulate relevant regulations to regulate the maximum limit of deposit and loan interest in the bank; It is also preparing to order the Criminal Department to formulate laws and regulations to restrict usury by money banks, pawnshops, escort houses, and private individuals. However, the two money banks of Sihai and Tonghai complained to Zheng Kezang through the manager of the inner court, arguing that deliberately lowering the interest rate on deposits and loans did not meet Zheng Kezang's requirements for promoting the further development of industry and commerce, but would instead lead the flow of funds to land investment with relatively higher profits, and stifled the vitality of industry and commerce at the source.

The Southern Song Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty were both times when China's economy was extremely active, and it can be said that they all touched the threshold of capitalism, and one of the reasons why this threshold was not crossed in the end was that the invasion of foreign enemies interrupted the process, and the other reason was that the industrial and commercial profiteers transferred the profits to land management, so that there was not enough stamina to continue to develop. In this regard, Zheng Kezhang is naturally reluctant to repeat the mistakes of the past, but Qian Zhuang's words are obviously misleading, and even Zheng Kezang, who is not an economist, knows the important role of low interest rates in stimulating the economy. Therefore, the only reason for the opposition of the two quasi-central banks is nothing more than the fear that after the decline in profit margins, the number of people interested in operating the bank ticket number will decrease, and the related business of the bank bill number will also decrease, which will affect the expected benefits obtained by the two quasi-central banks in terms of reserves and other aspects.

It is understandable that the interest department has its own little abacus, but it is not right to be alarmist, but Zheng Kezhang did not directly deal with the top management of the inner court manager and the two money banks, after all, if you change people to do it, similar problems will arise in the future, so the key lies in how the Huaxia court conducts profit-oriented - Huaxia does not inhibit land annexation, this is because Huaxia has enough land waiting for the landless and displaced people to fill, and it is also because the landless and displaced people are also needed by industry and commerce. But this does not mean that Zheng Kezhang acquiesces to the profits that can be made by investing in land.

Soon, in accordance with Zheng Kezang's instructions, the Agricultural Administration Yamen discussed and consulted the opinions of the agricultural administration departments of all provinces, prefectures, and counties -- the amount of land taxes collected in China was obtained after the amount of land taxes collected in the Qing Dynasty was apportioned into the mu on the basis of the amount of land taxes collected, so the actual tax pressure was very high, but Huaxia did not collect miscellaneous taxes and apportionments other than the regular taxes, so it appeared to be slightly lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties -- precisely because the original tax pressure was already very heavy. The local agricultural administration yamen unanimously expressed that they could no longer increase the burden on the people, and many local officials asked the imperial court to reduce taxes appropriately for reasons such as worrying about the country and the people or selling their reputation, and of course, there were also officials who intended to attach themselves to Zheng Kezang, so in the first half of the nineteenth year of Wucheng, the Chinese government and the opposition were in a mess because of the problem of levying land taxes.

In response to the worries of the government and the opposition, several scholars from the Hallym Academy, which was the secretarial institution, proposed to Zheng Kezhang a proposal to implement a cascade tax rate: if the per capita cultivated land in the household registration is ten (summer) mu or less, the land tax will be levied according to the original collection level; If the per capita cultivated land in the household is between 10 (summer) mu and 50 (summer) mu, the part exceeding 10 (summer) mu shall be levied at 1005% of the original rated land tax; If the per capita cultivated land in the household is between 50 (summer) mu and 500 (summer) mu, the part exceeding 50 (summer) mu shall be levied at 107.5% of the original rated land tax; If the per capita cultivated land in the household is between 500 (summer) mu and 5,000 (summer) mu, the part exceeding 500 (summer) mu shall be levied at 110% of the original rated land tax; If the per capita cultivated land in the household is more than 5,000 (summer) mu, the part exceeding 5,000 (summer) mu shall be levied at 12.5% of the original rated land tax; The land tax payable by meritorious people and lords will be calculated after deducting their tax exemptions; In addition, the additional levy of 15% for non-self-employed land will continue to be implemented as usual.

According to this plan, the more acres of land owned by an individual, the higher the total amount of taxes paid, but the magnitude of the increase is not large, so there is a certain inhibition on land investment, but it will not shake Zheng Kezang's original purpose of using land merger to achieve intensive agricultural production, which is naturally adopted by Zheng Kezang and Zheng Kezang. However, since the largest landowners in China were the royal family, clans, and magnates, the new land endowment system was the brunt of the levy on the Huangzhuang, so the new tax system of the agricultural administration yamen was greatly opposed by the inner court manager as soon as it was introduced. However, Zheng Kezhang supported the Agricultural Administration Yamen with all his might, and the Inner Court Manager's Office, whose arms were no longer close to his thighs, united with some clans and magnates to bypass Zheng Kezang and directly put pressure on the Agricultural Administration Yamen.

Considering that the land policy was the most easily repeated, the agricultural government yamen, which was forced to introduce the new policy only under the pressure of Zheng Kezang, was unwilling to overstimulate the inner court and the elites, so as not to be liquidated and counterattacked in the future. Therefore, when the two sides hit it off, the agricultural administration yamen secretly sent a letter to the local government, announcing that in the future, when calculating the area of cultivated land, mountains, forests, lakes and ponds per household, the accounting power will be delegated from the county level to the level of the inspection department, so as to reduce the land occupation of large landowners in a single expropriation area under the condition that the threshold remains unchanged, thereby reducing the total amount of land endowment, so as to ensure that the interests of large landowners will not be excessively harmed.

Zheng Kezang, who was on the top, did not know that he had compromised behind his back, maybe he knew, but he was powerless to stop the action of interest groups, but in any case, his action to transform land income from a profit to a normal profit was still partially successful, at least after such a toss, in the eyes of the people at that time, it seemed that the operation of land was to seek stability, and if you wanted to seek wealth, you still had to operate high-risk and high-reward industries such as industry and commerce, maritime trade, and finance.

It is only a matter of time to see whether Zheng Kezang's fine-tuning in the economic field is truly successful, but at present, the major reform of government institutions advocated by him has been unanimously opposed by the civilian clique -- in the future, it is normal for state government departments to increase or decrease, and changes in the economic environment, the need to streamline administration, and the implementation of government and fertilizer distribution may lead to changes in a country's government agencies. Although Zheng Kezhang had set up a number of similar strange institutions under the framework of the Great General's Mansion and the Metropolitan Governor's Office, it was a temporary system in a chaotic era, and the two could not be confused at all.

Due to the fact that the previous dynasties made a decision like Zheng Kezang, the only common opposition was the Ming Dynasty's Zhengde's order to marry a widow, the Ming Dynasty's Wanli insisted on collecting mining taxes, and in another time and space, the Qing Dynasty's Yongzheng realized that the gentry paid grain and the gentry were on an errand. Therefore, the unbearable queen Chen Xianqiao also persuaded her several times, but Zheng Kezang, who knew that he could not tame the bureaucracy at all and did not want to tame the bureaucracy, could not find a suitable spokesperson before the forces that checked and balanced the bureaucracy such as the Gongmin Association and the Xiangxian Association had not fully grown up, so he had to continue to go into battle shirtless.

However, even if Zheng Kezhang kicked many cabinet ministers and cabinet counselors who violated the yang and yin to overseas vassals, Li Cang, who succeeded Lin Weirong as prime minister, still refused to sign Zheng Kezang's edict. Just when Zheng Kezhang did not rule out further purging to implement his own policy, things took a turn for the better - Tong Chunniang, who had been sick since the seventeenth year of Wucheng, was critically ill, and when she was dying, this Zhao Concubine Niangniang, who had never asked about government affairs, suddenly implored Zheng Kezhang to treat her subordinates well.

In order to let this intimate person who has accompanied him since childhood leave without regrets, Zheng Kezhang finally made some concessions to the ministers and agreed not to change the court institutions in the future. The Wenchen group, which was afraid that continuing to fight the bull would make Zheng Kezhang show off his butcher's knife, also took the opportunity to take a step back, so the emperor and his courtiers finally reached a consensus on the reform of the imperial court.

On August 27, the 19th year of Wucheng, Zheng Kezhang issued an edict to reorganize the yamen of the central ministries, among which the Ministry of Rites was reorganized into the Ministry of Etiquette, the Ministry of Officials was reorganized into the Court of Judges after being merged with the Examination Yuan, the Yamen of the Duzhi was changed to the Province of Duzhi, the Yamen of Salt and Iron was changed to the Ministry of Salt and Iron, the Yamen of Agriculture and Forestry was changed to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs was split into the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Arrest and Robbery, the Ministry of Military Affairs was changed to the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Education was changed to the Ministry of Culture and Education, the Yamen of Health and Welfare was changed to the Ministry of Health and Welfare after the merger of the Household Affairs Department of the former Ministry of Crime, and the Yamen of Posts and Communications was renamed the Ministry of Posts and Communications.

After the restructuring, each province has one of the three products and two from the three products; Each yamen has a person who is a three-grade Shangshu and a servant who is a three-grade waiter; Under the province and the yamen, Cao set up one of the four pins of Lang and one of the four members of the outside Lang; Cao has a division, and the department has a director of the five products and a deputy director of the five products; There are rooms under the division, and each room is equipped with one person from the six products and one person from the six products; In addition to the chief officials at all levels, the provinces, Cao, divisions, and houses also have a number of subordinate officials and a number of officials.

In this way, the outer dynasties of the Huaxia Dynasty set up eight provinces, including the cabinet and the degree branch, salt and iron, agriculture and forestry, law and administration, military affairs, culture and education, health and welfare, and postal communication, as well as two courts, including the Grand Judicial Yuan and the Supervision Yuan, and four yamen, including the Governor's Yamen, the Arrest and Theft Yamen, the Dushui Yamen, and the Construction Yamen; The Chinese Dynasty and the Central Dynasty set up six courts, including the Court of Judges, the Court of Ceremonies, the Court of General Administration, the Court of Gezhi, the Court of Bide, and the Privy Council; The inner court of the Huaxia Dynasty set up the Zongren Mansion, the Inner Servant Province and the emperor's secretarial advisory body, the Hanlin Academy.

In addition, according to the results of the restructuring of the Huaxia Center, the local administrative organs have also made corresponding changes - each province has set up Cao, Si and Fang under the Governor's Office; Each prefecture and prefecture shall set up divisions and houses under the prefect and prefecture; Each county shall set up a house under the magistrate; Each local Cao is set up from one of the four grades, one is the fifth grade of the outer lang, the local departments are set up from the fifth grade of the director, one is the sixth grade deputy director, and each local room is set up from the sixth grade of the six grades, and the seventh grade of the deputy is one person; As for the inspection divisions under the county, there are police stations in each room, and there are officials such as the eight products of the Zheng, the Cheng of the eight products, and the master of the nine products??????

At this point, Zheng Kezhang finally made the bureaucracy of the Chinese court similar to that of his previous life, and whether it was right or wrong to do so will be judged by future generations??????