"How much is the yield per mu?"

"Ninety-eight pounds ......"

On September 14, when Da Ming was expanding his territory everywhere under Zhu Youzhen's arrangement, two sentences of dialogue on the Northeast Plain instantly made people's faces darken.

In the rice fields outside the capital, Huang Taiji's hand was inserted in a bag of grain in the grain truck, and when he took it back, the plump rice grains made people salivate, but the yield made people frown.

Crops in the Northeast are a cyclical problem in agriculture, and when the climate is warm, such as the Han and Tang dynasties, rice was cultivated in both the Tang Dynasty and the Bohai Kingdom, and the source of rice in the Korean Peninsula and Japan is the Northeast Rice.

However, as the temperature dropped, and many other countries such as the Bohai Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom, and the Jin Kingdom were destroyed, the Mongols did not govern the Northeast for a long time.

However, in a hundred years, the Northeast has once again become a semi-primitive environment.

It wasn't until Huang Taiji and Nurhachi led the people north to reclaim their territory that the area regained some vitality.

As for the crops that Jin Guo cultivated on the cultivated land, it was basically japonica rice obtained from the Korean side.

The Jin Kingdom did not have the same background as the Ming Dynasty, so after relocating and cultivating the fields, there was no qualification to be picky at all, and the crops began to be planted from the first year of reclamation.

In the first year, the yield of japonica rice per mu was only more than 60 catties, while the yield of japonica rice per mu in the second year reached more than 90 catties, and in the third year, it reached the peak of 116 catties.

Logically speaking, this year, which is the fourth year, the grain yield per mu should reach a new high, after all, the newly cultivated fields will generally stabilize at the beginning of the third year.

However, the reality gave Huang Taiji a blow to his head, and the grain yield per mu of the more than 100,000 mu of cultivated land that Shangjing had reclaimed for four years had plummeted from 116 catties last year to about 100 catties.

This is not only the case of cultivated land in the fourth year, but also the yield per mu of more than 100,000 mu of cultivated land that has been cultivated for three years is only more than 80 catties, while the cultivated land for two years is only a little over 60 catties, and the cultivated land for one year is only about 40 catties.

Huang Taiji, who originally thought that Daikin would finally be self-sufficient this year, faced with such a situation, his face was extremely ugly.

"594,000 mu, I originally thought that I could have 400,000 stone grain this year, so it seems that the maximum is 3230,000 stone, it must be that this group of minions did not take good care of it!"

Zilharang couldn't help but scold, and he wanted to draw his knife and hack to death a few hungry Han slaves next to him......

"Alright......" Huang Taiji stopped them, and Zilharang stopped swinging his sword.

Only the few Han slaves who knelt on the ground were so frightened that they urinated directly in the crotch of their pants.

"It has nothing to do with them, it should have something to do with the weather."

Huang Taiji patted the ashes on his hands and waved his hand to signal the grain cart and the slaves to leave.

Although he did not know the relationship between the reduction of grain production and the cooling of the Xiaoice River, he also knew that grain was more weather-dependent, and that bad weather and poor harvest should also be done.

The Xiaoice River not only sent a vision of drought in several provinces to Daming, but also received a certain amount of care outside the customs and the whole world.

Huang Taiji can feel that the temperature is a little cold this year, and at this time last year and previous years, it was enough to wear a shirt during the day in the capital, but now he needs to add clothes.

"This year's winter should come in early October." Huang Taiji tightened his clothes, turned his head and said to Zierharang:

"Khan Ama is currently suffering a stroke in bed, Xingjing City is managed by Dai Shan and Fan Wencheng, Xingjing City and Huifa City, as well as the fields of the Puer River, should be able to produce a lot of food."

"As long as we have 600,000 stone grain this year, we can still live well."

"It's just that there are not many Han slaves left." Zilharang muttered, and not far from the back where he said this, on the cultivated land that had been reclaimed, it could be seen that the number of Han people in the entire Shangjing City had decreased by more than half compared with last year.

"The rest of the Han people have to be kind to them, they can't be so harsh, they are only cultivating the fields, and now their number is only 70,000."

Huang Taiji looked at the scrawny group of Han slaves, and Zierharang also said:

"Slave of the North

Guo Sangdai of Ergan has gathered more than 100,000 savages, and Amin can't even catch savages now."

"That's enough...... Huang Taiji walked towards the capital with his hands behind his back, and said as he walked:

"60,000 Qiding, 15,000 Han Yingding, 22,000 Mongolian Yingding, and 340,000 Jurchen Menghan old and weak women and children, more than 400,000 people and more than 900,000 mu of arable land are enough to maintain balance."

Huang Taiji seems to be telling about the strength of the Jin Kingdom, but there is some loneliness in and out of the words.

After all, before the Battle of Fuliao, the Jin State controlled nearly 400,000 Han Chinese, 260,000 Jurchens, and the Mongols, in fact, they had nearly 700,000.

At the end of the Battle of Fuliao, the number of Jurchens plummeted from 260,000 to 180,000, and there were only more than 40,000 bannermen.

It took them four years to replenish the number of Qiding to 60,000 and the number of Jurchens to 230,000.

It's just that the combat effectiveness and quality of these savage Jurchens who were filled into the Eight Banners of Jianzhou are much worse than those Jianzhou Jurchens who died in the Battle of Fuliao.

The three-to-one farming and warfare structure made the development of the Jin State very deformed, and many Han and Mongol, Jurchens, who needed to participate in labor, were far less than before.

If it goes on for so long, the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom will gradually become the guards of the late Ming Dynasty.

Huang Taiji knows very well, but he has not changed, the reason is that he knows that Daikin does not have a so-called "long-term".

"If it weren't for the great drought in the north this year, I'm afraid Zhu Youzhen's gang would be ready to fight again."

Huang Taiji's words seem to have become Zhu Youzhen's untenable morality.

"......" Hearing Huang Taiji's words, Zilharang was also silent for a moment, and then finally said:

"I sweated profusely and had a stroke in the cold winter last year, and after I woke up, I could only speak, and my brain was sometimes muddy, sometimes sober, but this year's cold winter, I don't know ......."

"I've asked Fan Wencheng to protect Khan Amma." Huang Taiji took Jilharang into the capital city.

In the city of Shangjing, there are no wanderers on the streets, everyone is farming, and the rows of wooden houses in the city make it easy to imagine that if one of them catches fire, it will be a disaster for the whole city.

Judging from the layout of the city and the scene outside the city, it is obvious that the current Jin Kingdom is completely a slave social system, except for the high-level of the Eight Banners, everyone else is a consumable.

The two of them walked towards the palace, and as their backs slowly walked away, the same thing also appeared in the Yanshan Mountain Range.

"It is estimated that there are less than 26 million stone ...... in the field and household department at this age."

In the mountains and forests, when Zhu Youzhen, who was holding a bow and arrow, rode on horseback and glanced at the music in his hand, he immediately looked around him.

Around him, Lu Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were guarding him, and a member of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was accompanied by eunuchs and more than a dozen horsemen guards.

Dong Yingju rode his horse and just arrived to hand over the note, the surrounding mountains and forests were yellow, and the late autumn was coming to an end.

This scene poured into his eyes, making Zhu Youzhen feel a little pressure, but the pressure did not come from this group of people, but from his shoulders.

"How much land does the Imperial Horse Supervisor estimate will have this year?" Zhu Youzhen handed the performance to Dong Yingju and questioned the eunuch who was the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch.

In this regard, the eunuch immediately replied: "The statistics have not yet been completed, but among the nearly 10,000 mu of military tun fields, nearly 30 million mu have been harvested this year, and I am afraid that this year's income will ......."

The accompanying eunuch hesitated, glanced up, and made sure that Zhu Youzhen was not angry before saying:

"I'm afraid that this year's Tian Fu's income is only about 30 million stones......

After saying one sentence, the burden on Zhu Youzhen's shoulders was even heavier, according to common sense, Tian Fu, who should be able to earn 80 million stones, is only less than 60 million stones this year.

"What would it be like if there was a national drought...... Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think.

If the Xiaoice River continues, coupled with the great drought in the country, I am afraid that the imperial court's Tianfu income will not even be able to guarantee 20 million stones.

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen can be regarded as slightly experiencing the helplessness of Chongzhen in history.

"The income of the two divisions, the city division, and miscellaneous is probably how much

Less ......"

Zhu Youzhen put his hope on taxes, and Dong Yingju's words also eased his anxiety a little:

"The two divisions should be able to earn 8.4 million taels by the end of this year, the city division should earn about 2 million taels, and the miscellaneous revenue should be about 1.6 million taels, totaling about 12 million taels......

"Where's the Imperial Horse Warden?" Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at the eunuch with him, and the other party also said:

"The annual income of the officialdom of Huangdian and the north field, the textile factory of the south field, and the six major shipyards should be less than eight million taels in total."

"That is to say, the total tax revenue this year is about nineteen million taels, and the land endowment is less than 60 million stone ......," Zhu Youzhen frowned.

"It should be so......" Dong Yingju replied.

In the face of such a tax, Zhu Youzhen's expression was not good-looking.

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty earned 14 million taels of silver and 80 million stone fields.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty earned 16 million taels, more than 69 million stone field endowments.

This year, in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the annual income is 19 million taels, less than 60 million Ishida Fu.

Under this law, the fifth year of the Apocalypse has become the best year for the Ming Dynasty's finances, and judging from the sharp decline in land and tax growth, the Ming Dynasty is changing from the financial situation of heavy land tax to the balance of land and taxes.

"We still have to speed up the push......

Zhu Youzhen stretched his brows, constantly thinking about what else could increase taxes.

But when he thought about it, in fact, there were only mining taxes and deed taxes, business taxes, and wine taxes.

Among the four, the liquor tax is already in progress and is estimated to be levied from next year, while the deed tax exists, but it has not been strictly collected.

The so-called deed tax is equivalent to the transaction of a written contract in later generations, and the imperial court levies a tax of 3% according to the amount.

It's just that since Zhang Juzheng's death, this kind of transaction tax has existed in name only, and 90 percent of them have evaded taxes, and then the remaining 10 percent are also incomprehensible.

Even if the local government is collecting taxes, Zhu Youzhen can clearly see from the household departments of each year that the amount of tax is not much, and most of them do not go into the private pockets of local officials, but serve as local financial funds.

This kind of transaction tax, the proportion that the imperial court can get is only less than one thousandth of the amount it should have.

According to the results of Mao Yuanyi's investigation in the history books that Zhu Youzhen read in his previous life, he strictly implemented the deed tax, and he could completely obtain an income of five or six million taels.

However, there is one point that Zhu Youzhen has to consider, that is, prohibiting private land sales.

If this is forbidden, then the deed tax is basically a tax on the urban population, because it is better to collect taxes on the purchase and sale of houses.

It's just that with the current urbanization of less than 10% of the population, perhaps the income from the deed tax will be discounted by three percent, and the annual income will only be one or two million taels.

As for the mining tax...... This is Zhu Youzhen's biggest headache.

Thanks to his imperial grandfather Wanli, the word mining tax is more stinking than.

If Zhu Youzhen collects taxes in the name of collecting mining taxes, the people of the world can scold his old Zhu family from Zhu Youzhen to Zhu Yuanzhang.

How to minimize the impact of mining tax collection? Zhu Youzhen already has an idea about this, which is nothing more than the official camp of mining and iron.

Like salt, wine and tea, it is directly collected by the imperial court, so that the imperial court is playing inside, and Zhu Youzhen can turn the contradiction between the government and the people into an anti-corruption problem.

However, the last commercial tax, if the salt, iron and tea mines are all government-run, then the collection of commercial tax is directly set at ten taxes and one is enough, and all miscellaneous items must be abolished, and the field tax is directly adjusted to ten taxes and one.

At present, the pressure of the people is mainly in miscellaneous, and the existence of miscellaneous items has directly increased the number of people who only need to bear 3% of the tax to 15%~20%.

What's more, most of the miscellaneous items went into the pockets of local officials, which Zhu Youzhen could not tolerate the most.

"Step by step, solve the problem of the liquor division next year......

Squinting his eyes, Zhu Youzhen had a plan in his heart, that is, to put it in ten years

on the financial problems are solved.

As long as these problems are solved, the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty can reach 50 million taels of silver, and if the peasants pay the grain directly in the form of silver, eliminating the link of discounting, then the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty can reach 80 million taels of silver.

However, there is a problem with this, that is, the scale of silver in circulation in the Ming Dynasty is not enough for the people to take out 80 million taels of silver in cash every year to pay taxes.

In other words, in order to meet the above conditions, Zhu Youzhen still needs to solve a problem, that is, the problem of currency.

The issuance of currency is not a simple market behavior, but a violent machine used by the imperial court to ensure the credibility of money and ensure the circulation of money.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to issue currency, it is impossible to only control the currency itself, but must have a strong influence and control over the production and circulation of materials itself, otherwise the currency will inevitably be hyperinflationary and depreciated.

This is true for paper money, but it is also true for metal money.

If you want to mint coins and monopolize the problem of counterfeit money among the people, you need the imperial court as a violent machine to monopolize the mining, circulation and use of copper.

However, the Ming Dynasty was basically a mess of accounts for this.

Not to mention that the Ming Dynasty did not have much influence on the production and circulation of important products, even the control of the currency was completely lost, which did not start in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but was a consistent trend after the Hongwu.

Jiajing seems to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who wanted to ban the minting of private money, but the result was that every time the ban was shouted, and finally the people were banning private money, and the officials used the reason of "small people's inconvenience" to stop the policy.

In the sixth year of Jiajing, Zhu Houxi even instructed in a note, "Only the hypocrisy of private casting is forbidden, and there is no need to prohibit it."

In other words, Zhu Houxi himself also tacitly agreed that the imperial court would not take back the right to mint coins, but changed it to "prohibit private minting of copper coins of too poor quality", and as for other minting of better ones, it was not forbidden.

As a result, judging from the official performance of Jiajing's fifteenth year, the Ming court actually did not even do this at all.

Jiajing's private counterfeit money fifteen years ago is at least not much different from the real money minted by the imperial court.

As a result, the counterfeit money after the 15th year of Jiajing was extremely shoddy, and the people who made it were unscrupulous, and the people who used it had no doubts, but it was minted by the government, and the quality of the coins and the circulation of coins of the past dynasties were blocked.

Zhu Youzhen has long looked through all the notes on "coinage" in the archives of the household department of the Ming Dynasty, and he knows very well that the current coinage market is bad money driving out good money.

Originally, what the imperial court should have directly monopolized, in the Ming Dynasty, it became the government to compete with private coinage according to market rules.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty did not want to have a direct monopoly, but hoped to improve the quality and cost of coinage, so as to naturally eliminate inferior private money.

But the problem is that the Ming court does not monopolize the mining and circulation of copper, and a large number of copper mines are controlled by the gentry and powerful people.

To put it bluntly, in the end, if you want to take back the right to mint money, you have to monopolize all copper mines, and to monopolize all copper mines, you need to step on the shoulders of the gentry and.

Zhu Youzhen didn't dare to say anything else, if he wanted to talk about the ability to step on the shoulders of the gentry and heroes, he was six more than any emperor or prime minister.

"If you are tough in your words, he will be tougher, and if you simply raise your sword, he will die rather than give in...... But if you are tough and put a knife in his neck, he will know how to kneel obediently."

This is the conclusion that Zhu Youzhen came to after reading all the six books about Zhu Yuanzhang's archives.

If you only have a sword, then you are Zhu Yuanzhang, Qin Shi Huang, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty......

If you only have a mouth, then you are Song Renzong, Ming Xiaozong, and Ming Shizong......

You have to have a knife and a mouth to control this group of gentry and heroes, and the so-called knife is the army, and the so-called mouth is the fame and public opinion power and the people who belong to themselves.

It just so happens that these things are there, and the only inconvenience is that he needs to wait.

"The matter of the Wine Division must be put on the itinerary, and after this year's Yanshan student Enke, in addition to filling the official vacancies, he will all enter the Wine Division."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to Dong Yingju, and Dong Yingju also responded.

"Right now

How many officials are there in the country?" Zhu Youzhen asked again, and Dong Yingju also subconsciously replied:

"There are more than 23,400 civil officials, more than 193,700 scribes who need to be given money, and more than 1,496,000 officials who do not need money."

"There are more ...... officials" Zhu Youzhen turned his head to Lu Wenzhao and spoke, and Lu Wenzhao also understood what he did.

After he responded, Zhu Youzhen said to Dong Yingju:

"I said at the last court meeting that the salaries of hundreds of officials are indeed low, and the household department is ready to prepare, draft a charter, and reformulate some of the salaries of hundreds of officials according to today's prices."

"In addition, from today onwards, we will divide the nine products into the nine products, the nine products, and the second nine products."

"In order to be classified into the second nine grades, the scribes normally make a register in the official department, and the second nine grades are twelve taels of silver in the year, and the official positions at all levels should be increased according to this step by step."

"Your Highness, in this way, I'm afraid that millions of officials will not be convinced......" Dong Yingju persuaded hard, but Zhu Youzhen said:

"The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials will distribute Yanshan teaching materials to the officials, and they will be assessed in October next year, and if they fail to achieve the results of the C class, they will all be abolished."

"The officials who have attained the grade of C are all classified as scribes and into the ninth grade."

Zhu Youzhen couldn't bear the millions of officials, although the Ming Dynasty didn't give them a fortune, but the court turned a blind eye to the matter of their greed for money below.

For so many years, they have been greedy for money, and now they are still hindering the pace of financial reform of the imperial court.

It just so happens that 150,000 Yanshan students will graduate again next year, and even if all the millions of officials are picked, the 340,000 Yanshan students plus the recruitment of non-governmental talents will be enough to fill the vacancy.

There are more than 100 million people in the Ming Dynasty, even if there are only 20,000 officials, and 500,000 scribes can manage it very well.

What's more, if the scribe can't manage it, then it will be managed by the Gongwei Battalion for one more year.

However, Dong Yingju is not Zhu Youzhen, he is a household servant, and he needs to calculate whether the taxes of the imperial court can afford to support the scribes, so he said:

"If the number of scribes reaches a million, the expenditure per year is twelve million taels, which ...... I'm afraid the court can't afford it."

"Don't worry, there won't be so many." Zhu Youzhen saw Dong Yingju's concerns, so he reassured:

"The number of scribes will be strictly limited to 600,000."

600,000 officials, this number can basically be compared with the number of the common people by 200 to 300.

In this era, this ratio is enough to do the things that the imperial court explains.

What's more, it's better to be less busy, and if you're busy, you don't have time to think about how to be corrupt.

"The officials and scribes are better at the household level, and it is better not to exceed 10 million taels, and the other ......

"Brother! Look what I hit!"

Just as Zhu Youzhen was about to continue to explain to Dong Yingju, he heard Zhu Youxiao's happy voice sounding in the mountains and forests.

Zhu Youzhen looked back, but saw Zhu Youxiao riding on horseback and holding a bow and arrows among dozens of Han generals, while the cart behind him was the corpses of leopards, impalas and other prey.

"Don't exceed 10 million taels." After an explanation, Zhu Youzhen rode his horse to Zhu Youxiao.

Lu Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao and others followed, and Dong Yingju also turned his horse's head and returned to Dading Palace.

"What? Is there something going on?"

When Zhu Youzhen arrived in front of Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao also saw the back of Dong Yingju, who turned the horse's head and left, and asked Zhu Youzhen curiously.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he told Zhu Youxiao about a series of reform policies that he and Dong Yingju had said.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao did not show dissatisfaction with any policy, but said with a smile:

"Anyway, my brother will look at it, but for now, let's take a look at my prey first."

After that, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand at his prey, and his happy mood could be seen from the smile on his face.

"It's winter soon, and it's almost time to go back to the capital."

Facing his brother's happy appearance, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but pour a basin of cold water, which made Zhu Youxiao's smile freeze.

However, he also knew that there would be nothing fun in Yanshan after winter, so he could only wave his hand: "My brother arranged it."

After that, he beckoned Zhu Youzhen to go hunting with him into the depths of the forest......

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