"Yes!"

The dead Hanhai Hall finally ushered in Zhu Youxiao's voice, and he looked at Zhu Youzhen with firm eyes, obviously moved by the "seven million taels" of silver.

After all, even now, although Daming has an annual income of more than 30 million taels of silver on paper, after paying military salaries and salaries, there is actually not much that can be called.

In addition to the original taxes and silver of the salt class and the tea class, the establishment of the two divisions can increase the income by at least more than 4 million taels, how can Zhu Youxiao not be moved?

"Just invest in the Salt Division and the Tea Division, is more than 40,000 people a bit much?"

Zhu Youxiao's mind became active, thinking about whether he could insert the students in it into more places, but Zhu Youzhen's words poured cold water on him:

"If they can, the most important thing they should go to should be the examination of the officials, as well as going to the local government."

"It's just that with their current ability, they are rashly sent to the state and county, I am afraid that the gains outweigh the losses."

Zhu Youzhen has always believed that people need a process of training, and the Salt Division and the Tea Division are undoubtedly the best places for training.

As long as the most difficult salt class and tea class are solved, it will be much easier for these people to be sent to the state and county as officials, and they will not be unable to play with the local powerful gentry.

What's more, they are only the first batch, and what Zhu Youzhen has to do is to wait for the second batch.

Once the first batch has been trained for a year, it can go to the state and county with the second batch with more people.

As long as the place is controlled, it is enough for the center to deter with troops and horses.

controlled the locality, and then greatly promoted official learning, prohibiting private learning and clan learning, which is the practice of digging roots.

The strength of the township party lies in the control of official learning, while the strength of the powerful gentry lies in the control of private learning, and the strength of the clan lies in the control of clan learning.

In this world, controlling the place of learning knowledge is equivalent to controlling the path of ascent.

What Zhu Youzhen had to do after that was to completely control the way to rise, and then stipulate what textbooks the talents hired by the imperial court needed to learn.

At that time, if he does not need to speak, private learning and ethnography will also disintegrate.

After all, they don't have textbooks, and even if they buy them secretly, it's useless.

As long as Zhu Youzhen again stipulates that students must obtain official school graduation certificates before they can participate in the imperial examination, then this move will directly disintegrate private learning and clan studies.

However, he could not have killed everyone with one shot, because among the millions of scholars in the world, there were a large number of ordinary people.

Therefore, it is necessary to set a one-year period, or to reform the bureaucracy directly.

And the simplest is undoubtedly the latter.

Those who participate in the imperial examination are directly awarded official positions, and those who do not participate can sign up to serve as officials.

If you want people to serve as Xu officials, and you still have passion, then you must completely reform the Xu official system set by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhu Youxiao and continued to speak:

"Brother, as I said earlier, most of the students will participate in the operation of the two divisions and the ministry, and a small number of them will be divided into three parts."

"Three parts?" Zhu Youxiao looked at him curiously, and Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly:

"Yes, three parts, these three parts are the military department, the criminal department, and the Dali Temple."

"However, before joining these three places, my brother still needs to make some arrangements and reform the official system."

"First of all, it is to completely set the position of the Criminal Department, the Military Department, and the Dali Temple in the six departments."

"For example, the finance and taxation of the six ministries and four temples will be handed over to the Ministry of Household Management, and the world's projects will be handed over to the Ministry of Industry for management."

"The Ministry of Rites is completely responsible for the negotiations with the outside world of our Ming Dynasty, and the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Military Department will be completely separated."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen first singled out the military department and said:

"The current military department, in addition to controlling the five cities of the Soldiers and Horses, can be said to be dispensable."

"Therefore, what the ministers want is to send some outstanding students to the local area, and the military department will only be responsible for the arrest and guarding inside and outside the city from now on, that is, the soldiers and horses."

"The Terracotta Division is responsible for encircling and suppressing bandits, guarding the city and other tasks."

"The local officials are directly subordinate to the criminal department, and are mainly responsible for investigating and handling cases in the prefecture and county, as well as tracking down thieves in the city, preventing, stopping and punishing illegal crimes, and managing prisons and prisoners."

"As for Dali Temple, it is used as a place to try legal crimes and punish them."

"The last Metropolitan Procuratorate must be reorganized into a place to inspect whether officials in the world have violated laws and disciplines, and cancel the power to inspect the imperial historians!"

What Zhu Youzhen said is actually a copy of the governance society in later generations, but these have had signs in ancient times, and what Zhu Youzhen has done is just improvement.

For example, Dali Temple, generally speaking, will not censor ordinary people, but Zhu Youzhen has set the authority of Dali Temple, and it only needs to be responsible for the trial of cases under the world in the future.

The Criminal Department has no power to judge people, and the power to convict is only the power to arrest people, investigate cases, guard, detain, and patrol the city.

The military department repositioned itself, no longer conflicting with the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and was simply responsible for the security of the inside and outside of the city, the market town, and the roads.

With such a positioning, it can be said that it has moved towards the path of separating the military from the government, and the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the equipment of the Terracotta Division.

However, for this kind of problem, Zhu Youzhen has also thought about it.

The equipment of the Terracotta Division only needs simple paper armor, knives and guns, and dozens of catties of tiger squat cannons.

In general, they have the strength to defend the city from being attacked by bandits, and they also have the strength to take the initiative to exterminate the bandits, but they do not have the strength to go out of the city to fight the regular army.

In this way, the positioning of the military department is obvious, and it has got rid of the current embarrassing situation.

However, under such drastic innovations, the status of some people will inevitably rise, and the status of others will also fall.

When functions change, some agencies need to recruit more people.

"According to my younger brother's arrangement, I'm afraid that there are too many two million officials at the moment, and there are too few officials, soldiers and horses, and there are too few officials in Dali Temple."

"Despite the local military deterrence, I am afraid that many people are reluctant to give up their interests."

Zhu Youxiao saw through the essence, if he did not understand much in military affairs, then politically he could be said to be very sophisticated.

Although Zhu Youzhen has grown up very quickly, Zhu Youxiao is still slightly better than him.

However, this is only temporary, because Zhu Youjian's growth speed makes Zhu Youxiao feel a lot of pressure.

"There are more than 1,600 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and there are at least 30 people in Dali Temple in each county, and a total of nearly 50,000 people are needed."

"In more than 1,600 counties, the government officials need to maintain at least a 100 to 1 level with the people, even if there are only 10,000 people in each county, nearly 170,000 government officials are needed."

"If it is a division of soldiers and horses, even if each county only maintains one outpost of 500 people, it will need 800,000 people......"

Saying that, Zhu Youxiao looked at his younger brother: "My brother's opening will require millions of people, and I am only more than 86 million people at the moment." ”

"Hehe......" Hearing his brother's words, Zhu Youzhen smiled first:

"Brother still believes in the number of people in the old yellow book? If it weren't for the younger brother who had checked the military tuntian, I am afraid that there would still be less than 60 million people on the yellow book. ”

Zhu Youzhen's words made Zhu Youxiao smile bitterly.

Who would have thought that a move to check the military tuntian in the world would not only find out nearly 100 million military tuntian, but also find out nearly 20 million military households and civilian households?

Naturally, thinking about Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao himself knew that Daming's household registration and population were a confused account.

If you really set up more than one million soldiers and horses, I am afraid that you can solve many problems in the Ming Dynasty, but this is the ......

"Millions of people, I'm afraid the court won't be able to give them this silver."

Zhu Youxiao's mood was a little heavy, and Zhu Youzhen comforted him:

"According to the current prices, the salary of ordinary officials should be set at 600 wen per month, and 7 taels and 2 yuan a year."

"The annual salary of the official is eight taels of silver, and the annual salary of the soldiers and horses is set at ten taels of silver."

"If this is the case, then my two million officials in the Ming Dynasty, plus these million officials and soldiers, won't I have to pay more than 20 million taels of silver?!" Zhu Youxiao took a deep breath.

"Not so much." Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"In fact, the Terracotta Division does not need five hundred people, and the ordinary bandits are only a few dozen, and when defending the city, the officials can also walk on the city wall."

"Therefore, in terms of counties, 100 people are enough, so the number of soldiers and horses will not exceed 400,000."

"As for the officials...... Zhu Youzhen glanced at his imperial brother and smiled helplessly:

"Did my brother forget about redundancy? I am afraid that less than 30 percent of the more than 2 million officials can do things. ”

"In that case, it's better to disband the other seventy percent directly, anyway, they don't have a fortune, but just for power."

"Once the Terracotta Division is established, they can only honestly wait to be disbanded."

"The officials of the Ming Dynasty only need to reach a ratio of 1:300 with the people."

The proportion that Zhu Youzhen said is a bit large, but this is also a matter of no choice, after all, the economy of the Ming Dynasty determines that it is impossible to have a system where the proportion is too small.

One to three hundred is already good, at least it can guarantee that each village can have one or two officials.

According to this ratio, only four or five hundred thousand officials are needed, which is enough to meet the policy issuance in other places except the capital.

After all, in the issuance and implementation of some policies, in addition to the officials, there are also officials and soldiers and horses that can be carried out together.

In this way, even if you count the capital, even if there are 600,000 officials, 500,000 servants, and soldiers and horses, their salaries will not exceed 9 million taels of silver.

In addition, many disabled and retired soldiers can also be properly resettled through this, and a batch of soldiers and horses can be slowly retired from the 880,000 soldiers and horses, and it is enough to control the army's military salary and the salaries of officials under the civilian system to less than 25 million taels.

The area of cultivated land under the Ming Dynasty has exceeded the level of the 31st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

The population of the Qing Dynasty in the 31st year of Qianlong was 200 million, and the current Ming Dynasty will not exceed 200 million, probably floating around 150 million.

The Ming Dynasty has a small population, but a large amount of arable land, and the fiscal revenue has reached 80% of the 31st year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

The reason is also very simple, because of the Liaodong relocation and reclamation policy and the relocation policy of the old port, plus the recovery of the cultivated land of the old port.

Zhu Youzhen still has a good understanding of Daming's economic situation.

Even for now, he believes that the financial potential of Daming has not been fully tapped.

Just one salt tax alone can reach more than 7 million taels during the Qianlong period, and the current Ming Dynasty is still in the early 3 million, which has a lot of room for improvement.

Not to mention the tea tax, mining tax, liquor tax, and commercial tax.

However, it is important to note that while some taxes are being established, some taxes must also be abolished.

For example, the commercial tax in the Ming Dynasty mainly included three types: city tax, customs duty and foreign tax, and the customs tax was not the customs tax, but the "pass tax", which roughly meant that the government set up customs cards on the main roads through which merchants passed, and collected pass taxes.

The existence of this kind of tax has made it more difficult to circulate goods.

According to Jinyiwei's report, some traders from the south of the Yangtze River went to Luoyang, but they had to pass through dozens of checkpoints along the way, and there were people at each checkpoint who reached out to ask for money.

Along the way, the amount of taxes paid was several times the value of the goods, and it did not fall into the hands of the imperial court.

As merchants, they can only choose to sell cloth at a high price to return to their capital, so this tax should be abolished.

As for agriculture, the miscellaneous third tax is even more dazzling to see the farmers, the positive tax seems to be only 5%, but in fact, with the addition of other third taxes, the tax rate is directly raised to 15% ~ 20%.

Although this is a relatively low tax rate in all dynasties, Zhu Youzhen knows that the proportion of agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty must be changed.

Lowering agricultural taxes is not only to alleviate social contradictions, but also to give the people and the imperial court a way to survive under the Xiaoice River disaster.

In his opinion, 10% of the grain tax in kind is sufficient, and the most important thing is to ensure that the gentry pay grain and work as an errand.

As long as the Ming Dynasty's current nearly 800 million acres of fields can be harvested, nearly 80 million stone grains will be worth about 28 million taels after being folded, which is enough for the basic administrative expenses of the Ming Dynasty.

Then we add the agricultural tax plus the commercial tax, the customs tariff, the salt class, the tea class, and the wine class of the state-run model.

With the current territory of the Ming Dynasty, the tax revenue is enough to exceed 45 million taels of silver.

Of course, this is a folded color, and it is really collected in kind, after all, if Daming really collects so much silver every year, I am afraid that he will face a small economic crisis every year.

However, food-based things are the most needed existence for the next Ming Dynasty.

"My brother only said Yang Wenyue and them, but what about Sun Yuanhua and Bi Maokang? What does my brother want to transfer them to? ”

Zhu Youxiao was more interested in his younger brother's idea, although he was still worried that such a new policy would lead to a large number of civil officials and gentry to fight back, but he thought about the military power in their brother's hands and the students of Yanshan Academy, and gradually relieved his heart.

"The two of them, the younger brother is going to let them prepare an armaments research institute." Zhu Youzhen responded with a hint of a smile.

"Armaments Research Institute?" Zhu Youxiao was interested, as soon as he heard about this thing, he was studying things, and it was still ordnance, but he didn't know what kind of ordnance he was studying.

Similarly, in the face of Zhu Youxiao's inquiry, Zhu Youzhen also bowed slightly:

"Well, the Armaments Research Institute is mainly to study something that can be applied to the battlefield, and of course, people's livelihood."

Zhu Youzhen has wanted to make this thing for a long time, but he has not written the research theme and direction well, and before there is no absolute force, the research is to make wedding dresses for others, so it has not been carried out.

It's just that it's different now, the imperial authority is at its peak, the soldiers and horses are all over the world, and the talented seedlings among the Yanshan students have also been selected.

At this time, it is also time to gather some talents who are good at research and development to start promoting technology and industry.

Daming needs to increase delivery capabilities, steel production, grain production, and military equipment changes.

Therefore, steam engines, railed four-wheeled carriages, blast furnaces, blast guns, gunpowder, fertilizers and other scientific and technological products.

However, as for how long it will take to study these things, Zhu Youzhen himself has no confidence.

The steam engine looks simple, but how to make it have enough kinetic energy to pull the train is a huge problem.

With Zhu Youzhen's rudimentary knowledge of science, at most he can make a steam engine that can pump water under pressure, and the final use is estimated to be used in the mine.

It seems that if he remembers correctly, the earliest version of the steam engine used in industry was used to pump water from the mines......

It's just that he can't care so much, anyway, he gives the direction and things that can be discussed, and then leaves his simple science knowledge, how far he can study it, it all depends on Bi Maokang, Sun Yuanhua, and the Song Yingxing brothers who are looking for.

"Okay, since you know it in your heart, then you can do it yourself......"

Zhu Youxiao said this on his lips, but he thought in his heart that when this so-called "Armaments Research Institute" came out, he would definitely go to observe and observe.

The idea fell, and he returned to the topic:

"In this regard, the matter of the kings' overseas vassals, brother, you haven't said it, have you thought of a perfect plan?"

"Naturally, there is a way, and it is relatively simple, but you still need to go to Tianzhu Palace." Zhu Youzhen smiled, and then prepared to walk to the Tianzhu Palace.

It's a pity that he didn't take two steps before he was stopped by Zhu Youxiao.

turned his head to look at the other party, but found that Zhu Youxiao frowned and dragged him, and glanced at the wheelchair next to him.

Zhu Youzhen, who was speechless in the "......", was not easy to disobey, so he could only sit in a wheelchair, ready to ask Sun Shoufa to come in and push the wheelchair.

But before he could speak, the wheelchair began to move.

When I turned my head, didn't my brother do it himself......

"Ahem, my brother is out of character like this......" Zhu Youzhen reminded vaguely.

"What's wrong with pushing your own brother?" Zhu Youxiao acted quite interestingly, and after refuting Zhu Youzhen, he immediately ran away.

"Wait, wait!" Sitting in a wheelchair, trying to feel like being pushed and running, Zhu Youzhen was afraid.

If he falls on a horse, he can still jump in advance, and if he falls in a wheelchair, he can't shout for help, and it is estimated that he will fall harder when he jumps out of the car.

"Your Highness?!"

When Zhu Youxiao pushed Zhu Youzhen to run out, the Man Gui people who were chatting at the gate of the hall did not react, only to feel that a black shadow rushed past, startling everyone.

After reacting, they found out that Zhu Youzhen was pushed and ran away, scaring everyone into a cold sweat.

It's just that when they saw the person pushing the cart clearly, they were instantly speechless.

The emperor pushed the prince to run, which is estimated to be the first time in the Ming Dynasty......

Worried that the emperor would overthrow His Royal Highness, Man Gui and the others had to trot all the way up.

As the chief designer of the Qi Palace, Zhu Youxiao knows more about the grass and trees of the Qi Palace, than the palace, and he is speeding along the way, Zhu Youzhen's heart is hanging in his throat, and he just asks his brother to slow down.

However, some talents always awaken when interest comes up.

For example, at this time, Zhu Youxiao's carpenter's physical strength was vividly displayed.

Pushing Zhu Youzhen, he ran for more than 100 steps in one breath without panting, and did not slow down when turning, almost throwing Zhu Youzhen away.

This caused Zhu Youzhen to hold his breath all the time and was ready to be fallen.

However, what he didn't expect was that Zhu Youxiao's "driving skills" were not bad, not only did he not fall all the way, but he also stepped on the bulge behind the wheelchair, pushing and sliding.

"You made it yourself......

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Zhu Youxiao, who was full of excitement, and thought about his age as a good big brother, and finally could only complain in his heart, "A man is a teenager until he dies."

"It's here! Hiss...... Whew......"

When the wheelchair arrived at the Tianzhu Palace, Zhu Youzhen looked back and only saw the marks left by the rubber tires on the wooden wheelchair on the floor tiles along the way.

"In ancient times, there was a sorghum river car god racing donkey car, and now there is a carpenter emperor racing a wheelchair ......"

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen only felt that Zhu Youxiao built this wheelchair not for him, but for himself to have fun.

"It's here, brother, you can say it."

Zhu Youxiao panted and pushed Zhu Youzhen to the general sand table of Tianzhu, and the sand table was almost blank, only some places along the coast had flags and words.

The flags and country names on it were all obtained from the old port when they were trading with European merchants, and as for whether there was any mistake, Zhu Youzhen couldn't care about them.

Anyway, with the combat power of the southern princely states, even if something goes wrong, there is not much of a problem.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen got up and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Brother, sit down, don't get tired." ”

"Hmm......" panting, Zhu Youxiao sat down directly without pushing, and Zhu Youzhen took the Huanghuali wooden stick and said after Mangui and the others arrived:

"The kings are overseas vassals, and the first choice is Tianzhu, and the reason why they choose Tianzhu and not other places is mainly because it is inconvenient."

He pointed to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Indochina Peninsula with a stick and said:

"Wusizang and Duogan are the sources of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and they cannot be handed over to the vassal king and other small foreign states."

"Three propaganda and six consolations are my local outlet to the sea in the West after tomorrow, and I can't hand it over."

"The places that can be canonized and the conditions are not bad are Japan and Tianzhu left."

"Leave it alone for the time being, it won't be long before there will be chaos, and then you can canonize other vassal kings to ......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen paused, thinking of Yan Siqi and others who were still training in the Ryukyu Mansion.

After a moment, he continued:

"Tianzhu coastal land, my plan is to send fifteen to twenty vassal kings, of course, if the vassal kings all fancy this place, they can also discuss the division of the domain."

"Ceylon, on the large island south of Tianzhu, became the "Little Western Supervision Envoy" after my Great Ming Dynasty, responsible for uniting the kings against the Mughal Khanate established by the northern captives. ”

"However, even if you have to fight against this country, the military power of the vassal kings must also be limited."

"This restriction is not a limit on the number of people, but a limit on weapons."

"For example, my Ming Dynasty's infantry and cavalry guns can naturally be given to them, but artillery exceeding 20 catties is expressly prohibited."

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen continued: "There is only one way to prevent the small clan from overpowering the sect master, and there is only one ......."

"It is to maintain the continuous progress of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty will become the backer and confidence of the feudal clans in the long years."

At the same time, it closely traded with the vassal states, and used the means of Emperor Taizu Gao's "tea system" to "control the feudal domain economically". ”

"In the same way, in the small Western supervision envoys, it is also necessary to station a large army, so as to deter the feudal domains and protect them at the same time."

"Not only that, at the same time that there is a small Western supervision envoy in the south, but also in the north, after taking the Mughals, go west to recover the territory of Tubo north of the Tianzhu River, and this ......"

"It is the basic national policy of my Ming Dynasty to control the feudal domain."

The Huanghuali stick in Zhu Youzhen's hand knocked on the Ganges River on the sand table, and directly set the Ming Dynasty's unchanged national policy for the Tianzhu domains in the future......

(End of chapter)