"Yes, where did the extra five million taels go?"

"Have you been greedy for ink by the princes of the court?"

"Find out these corrupt officials and let them spit out their salaries."

"Such corrupt officials and corrupt officials, not killing them is not enough to make the people angry!"

Many scholars began to denounce loudly in the audience.

Gao Hongtu couldn't bear it, and gave Zhang Youyu, the left waiter of the household, a look.

Zhang Youyu, as the relevant affairs official of the Ministry of Households, also participated in the first court meeting today.

After receiving Gao Hongtu's order, Zhang Youyu immediately got up and refuted: "It's nonsense, the levy of one and two cents per mu of Liao salary is just a standard set by the imperial court, not a real number!" The actual annual levy of Liao salaries is only more than 3 million taels, and these 3 million Liao salaries have to be misappropriated by various urgent tasks, so that Liao Town will be in arrears of military salaries. ”

"Isn't it ridiculous that you have never watched the government in the household department, and second, you have never served as a local pro-people official, so you are talking about the heat here, saying where the over-levied 5 million liao salary has gone!"

Zhang Youyu's second sentence is a personal attack.

This time it stabbed the hornet's nest, which angered the soldiers at the scene.

Jiangnan scholars originally praised current affairs and judged people, and Chongzhen's connivance through these seven days has boosted the scholars' courage to discuss politics, and now Zhang Youyu actually said that they are talking about it, which is really unbearable.

At that moment, the soldiers present stood up one after another, glared at Zhang Youyu and launched a siege.

"Zuo Situ's words are wrong, don't my generation know the world if he hasn't watched politics in the household department?"

"If you have never served as a pro-people official, must you be familiar with local practice? This is a small fallacy! Zi said: Those who are born to know are also down; Those who learn and know, the next time! It can be seen that there is really no one born to know in that world! ”

"Is the right scholar in his heart? Is there a profit benefit from it? ”

Seeing that the officials directly ended the personal attack, Chongzhen secretly shook his head.

The rebuttals of those officials all got to the point, Shi Kefa actually made a small mistake just now!

Just when Chongzhen was thinking that he was instructing a certain official to refute, Qian Qianyi suddenly shouted: "Everyone, I didn't say a word!" ”

When Yilun Hall was a little quieter, Qian Qianyi questioned Shi Kefa again: "I dare to ask the right scholar, the standard of Liao salary set by the imperial court is one cent and seven cents per mu, and all the prefectures and counties in Nanzhi are levied according to this standard, according to the 740 million mu of cultivated land that you Xiao Ming has no cultivated land in the Atlas of the Household Department, then the Liao salary should be 8.48 million taels!" ”

Speaking of that, he said: "Why did you only ask for more than 8 million taels?" ”

"Yes, why only eight million taels were collected?" The rest of the officials also expressed their support.

"That!" Shi Kefa's face suddenly changed slightly, and he was really hit by the officials.

Zhang Youyu asked in a low voice: "Right Shizi, dare to ask where the remaining seven million tax silver went?" ”

Shi Kefa was thinking about how to cover up the past, but Qian Qianyi directly tore open the sore and said: "The remaining seven million tax silver were intercepted by the yamen at all levels of the local provincial capital, state and county, are you right?" ”

"Buzz!" The officials present immediately fried the pot when they heard this.

Gu Yanwu, Low Hongtu and others also looked embarrassed.

Low Hongtu saw that Chongzhen was a little relieved, and he was also angry.

The heart said that His Majesty let those Tang Qi, who knew the sky and the earth thick, mess around and make the bad habits of officialdom public, did he want to completely tear his face with the civil officials in the whole sky?

Is he really afraid of the recurrence of small courtesy discussions and fighting for the country?

Shi Kefa also tried to argue: "The tax silver of the imperial court has always been divided into two parts, one part is sent to the Jingshi Household Department, which is called Qijie, and the other part is left in the provincial capitals, prefectures and counties and other levels of yamen, which is called retention, and the retained part of the tax silver is to be used to distribute the money to local officials and Tang Qi. ”

As a result, Shi Kefa's justification was fine, but his justification attracted a calmer condemnation.

"Nonsense, officials have no regular taxes, and Situ's salary has not been reduced to servitude."

"In the future, when there is no increase in salaries, there are also officials who take more than one penny."

"Could it be that before the Liao salary was levied, the official Situ received one less salary?"

"Before the Liao salary, there was an additional levy on the salary, and before the levy was levied on the salary, the training salary was again levied, so didn't the magistrate and Situ receive seven portions of the salary? Drifting is drifting, not to say retaining, coaxing ghosts. ”

"Shame is not shame at all."

"Eight salaries are the silver of Xiao Ming's life, and he dares to float?"

Finally, Tang Qicui said that Chongzhen was looking forward to drifting! It's finally here!

Shi Kefa didn't sweat under his forehead, and weakly defended himself: "There are things that have drifted in ancient times, and there are certain risks in water transportation, sea transportation or land transportation. ”

In the crowd, Tang Qicui whispered: "But I heard that Liao Yu has drifted eighty percent before he leaves Beijing!" When you get to Jizhen, there are seventy percent of this drift, and from Beijing to Jizhen is not only by sea, but also by sea, and there is no less distance by land, and there are bandits on the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it is really difficult to convince the right Shizi! ”

Tang Qicui directly broke the defense, and there was a way to do the work, which is really vague.

The financial revenue and expenditure of the small Ming Dynasty, from the central to the local, are not two bad accounts.

The tax collection end is a bad book, all kinds of tax evasion and tax evasion by the noble officials and wealthy clans, and the official Tang Qi is also a kind of greedy for money to eat and take cards, and it is wrong to collect seven achievements in ten percent of the tax silver.

That's really nonsense, because according to the fish scale atlas during the Chongzhen period, there are no cultivated land of 740 million mu in the country, no tax on eight liters of eight in seven spoons of private land, no tax on seven liters of eight in seven spoons of official land, and no clan royal village that pays any taxes, but the total tax rate before the average is maintained at eight liters and eight in seven spoons.

In this way, 580 million mu × 0.0335 stone / mu = 19.43 million stone.

According to the price comparison of one stone and one tael, just the land tax can earn 19.43 million taels!

But what about in practice? Since Zhang Juzheng's death, Xiao Ming's field tax has been reduced year by year, and even 10 million taels have not been levied in the Chongzhen period.

If the field tax is like this, the tax and the conscription are even more important.

Because the officials and officials were not exempted from military service in a small amount, and the people fled in small amounts, the two taxes actually did not exist in name only during the Chongzhen period, and a few scattered silver taels were collected in a year.

Those few pieces of silver were even enough to pay the tax collector Situ as errand money.

The first is not the eight salaries, it will definitely be able to be collected in full, the Liao salary is not 7 million, the suppression salary is not 2.8 million, the training salary is not 7.3 million, and the eight salaries add up to 17.1 million!

But that's just a theoretical tax figure.

In fact, only half of the eight salaries can be levied.

One is because there are too few people who have fled, and seven is not greedy for ink.

From the early years of Chongzhen to the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the regular tax, Ding tax, and conscription plus eight salaries all add up to more than 20 million taels a year!

That's why it's said that the tax collection side is not a bad debt.

However, the tax collection end is rotten, the expenditure side is even worse, and it is so rotten that it can be rotten again, and the eight ministries and yamen at all levels are floating layer by layer, and ten percent of the appropriations can not be allocated in place, and the incense has not been burned.

If you really want to poke out the two bad debts, everyone's face is good-looking, including Chongzhen.

Because Chongzhen's inner court is even worse, the civil officials have not collected taxes for seventy percent, and the inner court has been ten percent!

Shi Kefa directly picked up the picks, and the low Hongtu of the Hubu Shangshu was directly exposed to the muzzles of the officials.

There are not a few officials who have pointed the finger at Low Hongtu: "Low Pavilion Elder, little scholar, did he just stand up and say a few words?" What's going on with Liaoyu? ”

Low Hongtu knew that it was used with those officials at all.

Low Hongtu could only beg Chongzhen and said: "Your Majesty, the time difference is less, and the court meeting should be over." ”

Chongzhen smiled, so far, my intention has not been perfectly achieved, and I used Tang Qi's sarcastic comments just to knock and warn the cabinet, and I really wanted to tear my face.

Chongzhen just wants the cabinet to understand that both the inner court and the cabinet are shit.

So if you want me to wipe my ass clean, then it's okay, but at most they have to give out the straw paper money, there must be no indication at all, don't think about it today's court meeting.

When Chongzhen became the emperor, he said to Tang Qicui: "Qian Muzhai, let's do that today." ”

Tang Qicui comprehended, and immediately stepped down from the stage and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, His Majesty and the cabinet have no national matters to discuss, and today's review will end here. ”

When a scholar spoke, Chongzhen also got up at the right time and left Yilun Hall surrounded by Gu Yanwu and other officials.

Although the officials felt that they were still unsatisfied, but the Holy Majesty had not left yet, so they also wanted to delay the time any longer, so they hurried back to the dormitory to write articles while they had no impression in their minds.

If you can write an eloquent essay,

It is certain that from now on, Jane will be in the emperor's heart.

……

The doctor's hall on the right side of Guozijian has not been prepared for a long time.

As soon as Chongzhen retreated, he sat in the center, and Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong sat on Chongzhen's right and left.

Seeing that Gu Yanwu and the seven people were all standing, Chongzhen said: "Wang Xiaoban, add seven chairs, and invite the seven pavilion elders to sit and deliberate." ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly took the big eunuch to the small hall and added seven chairs, and Gu Yanwu and the seven of them sat down in turn before thanking Chongzhen according to the courtesy.

Chongzhen raised his hand and said, "It's over." ”

Gu Yanwu turned his head to Shi Kefa and said, "Right Shizi, he will explain the situation to His Majesty first. ”

"Yes." Tang Qicui responded, and then waved at Chongzhen, and then got up, "Your Majesty, due to the fall of the Jingshi, all the accounts of the household department have been lost, so the financial expenditure accounts of Chongzhen's eighteen years are already legally accounted for. ”

"This is a must-mention." Chongzhen said, "Let it pass in the past, and only discuss this year's budget today." ”

"Yes." Shi Kefa said, "Beizhi, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi have all fallen, and a small part of Henan Province, Shanxi Province and Huguang Province have also fallen into the hands of thieves, and Qichuan Province is suffering from Zhang Xianzhong's poisoning, so your Xiaoming's reliable tax sources are only Nanzhi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Liangguang and Yunnan-Guizhou, and the total number of mu is even 800 million mu, so Chongzhen's eleventh year of regular tax, Ding tax and conscription plus eight salaries, the total budget is only 10 million taels. ”

Chongzhen didn't feel the slightest sense of that number.

Because the income in the next few years is only 20 million.

If you can collect 10 million taels this year, it's not wrong.