"Bang-"

"Get out of here!"

"Get out of here!"

"Roll !!"

In the inner court heart cultivation hall, when the sound of smashing kept coming out, it was Zhu Youxiao's angry roar that came out with it.

A large group of eunuchs and palace maids crawled out, and in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu You was trembling, and the four Wang An who were kneeling in front of him were also sweating.

"Long live the anger...... At least the account is settled, and now we ......"

"Anger?!"

Wei Zhongxian still wanted to show his loyalty, but Zhu Youxiao took the Beijing official "Official Dinglu Book" handed over by the household department and glared at Wei Zhongxian and scolded angrily:

"They levied 60,000 taels of silver from the people of Wuqing County, and issued 30,000 taels to the household department, and the household department issued 500 taels to my internal treasury, and they themselves were greedy for 30,000 taels! Much more than what Tobe was getting! ”

"Bang !!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but grab the inkstone and smash it at the gate behind Wei Zhongxian, the sound of the inkstone colliding with the gate made Wei Zhongxian tremble, and Wang An, Wang Tiqian, and Liu Ruoyu also reached a united front at this moment.

"Long live the anger and get angry, what kind of horse do you shoot? Shoot ***! ”

It was rare for the three of them to scold Wei Zhongxian in unison in their hearts, and Wei Zhongxian was also taken aback, hooking his head and not daring to raise his head.

"It's the other way around! It's the other way around! ”

"I rule all directions in Kyushu, I am the Son of Heaven, and I am the emperor! Are they going to use these things to deceive me?! Zhu Youxiao excitedly shook off the booklet in his hand, and continued:

"Doubling the envy of the people, they took the money into their pockets, but they wanted me and the court to bear the infamy for them!"

"In the end, the people complained about the court, and the reputation of the land divided between the King of Qi and me was all ruined by them!"

"King Qi...... Where is King Qi?! ”

Zhu Youxiao vented loudly, and Wang An had to bite the bullet and say:

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi has traveled to Baoding, and it is said that His Royal Highness is tired of traveling and needs to rest for a few days before entering Beijing."

"They made my brother sick from exhaustion?!" Zhu Youxiao raised his hand and smashed the book on the table, and the "bang" made everyone's bodies tremble.

"They took the money, turned their heads and said that the money given by the court was not enough, and they asked for more money, and they still needed my brother to wipe their butts for the bastard things they did! How can there be such a good thing in the world? ”

Zhu Youxiao trembled with anger, and pointed to the kneeling four: "Copy...... Raid the house! ”

"Copy! Gotta copy! Wei Zhongxian hurriedly agreed, but as soon as he agreed, Wang An jumped out and sang the opposite:

"Hooray, you can't copy it!"

Wang An didn't wait for Zhu Youxiao to continue to be angry, so he continued:

"The case of Qi Wangxing has already punished more than 100,000 officials in the world, and there are major droughts in all eight provinces in the world, and there are floods in Zhejiang and Nanzhili that have not yet ended."

"Among the 17 provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, 10 provinces have suffered from drought, and Jiaozhi has just been recovered, and the feudal domains are about to ...... again."

"It must be known that there are corrupt officials in the world, not only officials and officials, but also Yanshan, and the gentry and heroes, and think twice about ...... long live"

Wang An's words gradually calmed Zhu Youxiao's anger, but this anger was not gone, but suppressed.

"You're right...... There are many things in the world, and I am aware of internal and external troubles, so I really shouldn't make a big move......"

Zhu Youxiao sat back on the dragon chair, regained some of his senses a little, put his hands on the armrests, and quickly became calm:

He picked up a new booklet of the "Officials Dinglu", which recorded what the income of the officials would be in the future.

From the point of view of Zhengyipin, Bi Ziyan stipulated that Zhengyipin was 3,000 taels of silver, as well as the medical guarantee of Tai Hospital, and there were no other miscellaneous exemptions.

2,000 taels for the second grade, 1,600 taels for the 3rd grade, 1,200 taels for the 4th grade, 800 taels for the 5th grade, 500 taels for the 6th grade, 200 taels for the 7th grade, 100 taels for the 8th grade, and 50 taels for the 9th grade.

The subordinate products are eighty percent of the genuine products, but this system only exists in eight products and above.

The nine products are divided into nine products, from the nine products, and the second nine products and so on.

The ninth grade is fifty taels of Yulu, from the ninth grade to fifteen taels, and the second nine grades are ten taels, and most of the Yanshan scribes will be from the ninth grade, and the soldiers and horses of the soldiers and horses and the government are the second nine grades.

In addition, after the management quota this time, Xu officials have to participate in a new examination, and those who pass the examination will become sub-nine officials, and those who do not pass will continue to practice, and they will only have six taels of silver every year.

This is undoubtedly a big gamble, once the Ming Dynasty now has more than 1.2 million Xu officials pass the examination, then the Ming Dynasty will suddenly spend 18 million taels more.

With the finances of the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that he can't take out so much silver to make money.

However, since it is a general exam, what is the exam? When to take the test? How to take the test? This is what Zhu Youzhen said.

Bi Ziyan sandwiched a handwritten book in "Official Dinglu", and Zhu Youxiao also took it out and took it apart to look at it.

In the handwriting, Bi Ziyan specifically said that this was a delaying tactic, and the number of people from Jiupin that the Ming Dynasty really needed was only 600,000.

The number of the second nine products is about 500,000.

If this is implemented, the number of last officials in the Ming Dynasty will reach 1.12 million, and the expenditure will reach about 15 million taels.

This looks very terrifying, because if you count the military salary, the Ming Dynasty needs to spend 27 million taels of silver every year.

27 million taels of silver, which basically accounts for 53% of the expenditure of the Ming Dynasty, which has a total income of 49 million taels after the grain is turned into color this year.

And the premise is that the price of grain must always be maintained at 500 Wen, otherwise once the price of grain is reduced, the total income of the Ming Dynasty will be lower.

However, if the drought is over and the Ming Dynasty can achieve an annual income of 80 million stones, then even if the price of grain falls back to 400 Wen, the field will have 32 million taels of silver, and the income of the household department and the imperial horse supervisor will be 56 million taels.

Politics is actually an economic account, including the military.

The amount of 27 million taels of civil and military salaries is still acceptable to Zhu Youxiao.

"Since the official Dinglu has already decided, then wait for the King of Qi to return to Beijing to make a decision, and once the decision is made, it will be executed immediately!"

After that, Zhu Youxiao put the book "Official Dinglu" on the table, got up and was about to walk out of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Seeing this, Wang An and others followed suit, and according to Zhu Youxiao's words, this "Official Dinglu" was also sent to Baoding......

"Your Highness! Your Highness, I have been wronged! ”

"Your Highness—"

Early the next morning, as hundreds of officials in Baoding County were bound and shackled, Zhu Youzhen, who was in the Baoding County Ya, also got this copy of "Official Dinglu".

He was looking through it, but Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao couldn't help but discuss while listening to the howling voices of the group of officials who were escorted out:

"Your Highness has already cleaned up the officials of the nine counties on his return trip this time......

"Anyway, some people want to be officials, and they don't care what they do." Cao Bianjiao snorted coldly, obviously not having a good impression of the officials in this fish and meat township.

He glanced at Zhu Youzhen in the hall, and then quickly withdrew his eyes.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen closed this book of "Official Dinglu".

"Huh ......" breathed a long sigh of relief, the content in "Official Dinglu" did not disappoint Zhu Youzhen.

The experience of his previous life has long made him know the things that are profit-making for grass-roots officials, not to mention that in the feudal dynasty, the means of profit are actually the same.

Since the outbreak of the Shaanxi incident, he has completely understood one thing, even if the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been rectified for many years, it is still so bad.

Officials in several provinces dared to embezzle disaster relief money and grain, and it is not surprising that there were people secretly collecting taxes at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

He thought differently from Zhu Youxiao, Bi Ziyan and others, what they thought was that the local government used "envy" to fish the people and make the court infame, but what Zhu Youzhen wanted to do was to directly cancel "envy".

Just canceling the bad rules of income, this is not in line with Zhu Youzhen's idea, what he wants is to completely consume envy.

How to take the consumption envy? It's simple, but it's also difficult, because it involves the birth of an industry.

Bank......

Later generations knew about the existence of banks, and the money bank, which was similar to the bank, was actually developed in the Ming Dynasty.

In feudal society and semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the long-standing pluralistic currency system and the mixed circulation of multiple currencies made currency exchange already exist in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The exchange business began to appear in the Western Han Dynasty and developed in the Tang and Song dynasties, and began to be operated by gold and silver shops and cabinet shops.

Although Song Yuanming specialized in paper money, the common people still used silver ingots and copper coins, which also led to the parallel production of silver, money and banknotes, and a variety of public and private institutions appeared on the market to concurrently engage in exchange business.

After the operation of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Qizhen, the Daming treasure banknote has almost no degree of trustworthiness among the people, which is why Zhu Youzhen did not pursue paper money, but pursued coins.

If he used paper money to distribute money, even if his intentions were good, the people, the army, and the officials would feel that they were at a loss and that they were being forced.

For example, after the depreciation of the treasure money in the orthodox years, the people did not care about the strict orders of the imperial court, and the imperial court could only relax the people and cancel the ban on the use of silver.

In the following generations, even if the private money was huge, the copper coins were of different weights, and the fineness was different, none of the officials dared to mention the treasure money again.

Without treasure money, it was inconvenient for people to exchange coins, so money banks began to rise, and this is the Ming version of the bank.

By the time of Zhu Youzhen, the money banks in various parts of the Ming Dynasty had become an independent financial organization.

Not only did they participate in the exchange of gold and silver, but they also contracted to lend money and provide facilities for issuing posts and withdrawing money.

The original exchange of bills in the two places has also become a credit circulation tool in the nature of banknotes.

In addition, a number of small-scale money exchange shops and money and rice shops are quite active in rural areas.

In other words, what Zhu Youzhen wants to do is not to open up a new industry, but to seize a semi-mature market.

In the investigation of the two capitals and 17 provinces of the Ming Dynasty, there are more than 2,900 money houses in Jinyiwei, and how much gold and silver these money houses occupy, Zhu Youzhen does not understand, but it is by no means a small amount.

It is not very realistic to expect the imperial court to undertake the bank, and then the people will come to deposit money in an endless stream.

A more realistic approach is to change the currency system by taking over the banks in some economically developed provinces, and then issuing coins to officials, imperial store employees, and the military.

Zhu Youzhen is not very good at financial means, but Bi Ziyan, Li Changgeng, and Dong Yingju must know how to operate.

Zhu Youzhen only needs to tell them the advantages of the currency system, as well as the rules of the bank's contracted lending and lending, as well as various treasury bonds.

The problem of the currency system is not difficult, there were also gold and silver coins in ancient times, and the reasons why they are not in circulation are also more complicated, in general, it can be summarized into three points, and the first point is the large loss.

First of all, the ancient Central Plains Dynasty had a vast area and a large population, so the coins were cast in batches and polished in batches after molding.

For example, the square hole in the middle of ancient copper coins is convenient for stringing together the money and polishing the round edge, because there are burrs on the round edge.

After polishing and circulation, copper coins can be easily strung together with ropes to facilitate circulation, while if gold and silver coins also adopt this method, the loss is too great.

The second point is that compared with the size and area of the population, the Central Plains Dynasty had fewer gold and silver reserves.

In the case of more people and less gold, more wolves and less meat, and more monks and less porridge, it is impossible to exchange a large number of gold and silver coins, and there are only a few thousand people in small western countries, which is equivalent to a village in the Central Plains Dynasty, and of course it can be exchanged with gold coins.

Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was a veritable cosmopolitan city at that time, with a population of about 800,000 and more than 1 million at its peak, while Constantinople had about 300,000 people at the same time, Rome had only 50,000 people, and Paris had only more than 20,000 people.

If nothing else, in this city alone, the dynasty had to issue tens of millions of coins.

As for the third point, the people are too poor, because the land annexation led to a large gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times, and the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the aristocracy, so the common people were poor and could not use a large number of gold and silver coins, so they could not "circulate".

These three points are the situation that it is impossible for gold and silver coins to circulate on a large scale, and Zhu Youzhen's main target is not gold and silver coins, but silver and copper coins.

How to reduce the fire consumption of the local government, the first thing is to unify the currency system, collect all the coins, and use pure silver coins, copper and silver coins, and pure copper coins to form a simple currency system.

The currency system cannot be approximated, and even the shape is best not to be changed, which is convenient for the people to accept.

Therefore, the new currency of the round sky will become the mainstream currency of the Ming Dynasty.

The implementation of banks is inevitably related to mainstream currency, and its emergence is to avoid letting the government transport and pay taxes on its own and put forward a large amount of envy under the pretext of making it a lot of envy.

The greed of hundreds of officials is nothing more than taking advantage of loopholes in the rules, because they also know that direct greed is tantamount to crime, and it is easy to leave people with a handle.

Since the hundred officials are currently using envy to create a large amount of bad income, Zhu Youzhen will slowly solve the problem of envy.

As long as the problem of consumption is handed over to the bank, then the problem will change from a political issue to a game between the court and the bank.

"Go and pass on Lu Wenzhao, and ask him to bring the quantity of gold, silver and copper in the imperial horse supervisor and the state treasury, as well as the quantity of minerals and output in all parts of the world."

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Cao Bianjiao immediately went to do it, and Zhu Youzhen also closed his eyes and waited.

The reason why he asked Lu Wenzhao to also bring the books and quantities of minerals was because he was about to carry out the next scale of economic governance.

Minerals State-owned ......

To mint coins and build railways, it is necessary to need a huge number of minerals, and iron ore can be jointly operated by the government and the people, but the three types of minerals such as gold, silver and copper can only be operated by the imperial court.

When Zhu Youzhen was thinking this, Lu Wenzhao also came with hurried footsteps, and he was still holding seven or eight books that had been prepared long ago.

"Your Highness......"

Entering the hall, he took the lead in saluting, while Zhu Youzhen motioned to Cao Bianjiao and them to take the booklet.

After the booklet was in hand, he began to look through it, and Lu Wenzhao explained:

"At present, there are a total of 4,927 mines in Daming, of which the old port occupies more than 1,300, plus the mines in the hands of the imperial court, there are about 2,200 in total."

Lu Wenzhao gave a general explanation, while Zhu Youjian kept turning over and saw a large number of gold, silver, copper and iron ore in the hands of private merchants.

"How many of these miners have violated the law and colluded with officials......

Zhu Youzhen asked absentmindedly, but Lu Wenzhao knew that His Royal Highness wanted to attack these people.

You must know that before the first year of Taichang, there were more than 600 mines in the hands of the imperial court, and now, excluding the old port, Daming can have nearly 300 more gold, silver, copper and iron coal mines, all of which stem from the investigation of the local gentry and heroes.

When investigating corruption, the gentry and heroes can always be accurately involved, which is unavoidable, because the Ming Dynasty is a society with connections.

It doesn't matter if you are a common man, a businessman, a gentry, or a powerful man...... In short, if you want to do business, you need to deal with the government.

As soon as this deal is done, collusion between officials and businessmen is inevitable, and even the officials themselves encourage their families to do business.

These more than 300 gold, silver, copper, and iron coal mines were copied during the investigation of corruption.

If Zhu Youzhen wants to take action against corrupt officials and corrupt officials, then he can also take the opportunity to nationalize a large amount of minerals at the same time as he does it against corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

"The government earns more than 12,000 catties of gold, 170,000 catties of silver, 1,720,000 catties of copper, more than 16,000 catties of iron, and 760,000 catties of coal every year......

Zhu Youzhen said, glancing at the mineral data in the hands of the gentry and Haoqiang, and the amount obtained as a result was very small, which made people laugh.

"The people earn more than 5,000 catties of gold, more than 30,000 catties of silver, 790,000 catties of copper, more than 40,000 catties of iron, and 30,000 catties of coal...... Scold! ”

Zhu Youzhen sneered lightly, for the annual output of these mines that are more than the Ming Dynasty, but the report is not as good as one-fifth of the value of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen was really angry.

In addition to coal and iron, the Imperial Horse Supervisor can now earn nearly 5 million taels of silver in minerals every year, while the gentry and Haoqiang, who control more than 500 mines than the Imperial Horse Supervisor, can only earn less than 2 million taels of silver every year.

It is no wonder that the annual gold, silver, copper and iron classes of the Ming Dynasty can only have one-third of the income during the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, less than 400,000 taels of silver.

A group of co-authors are all concealing the real production, and using the cover of local officials to avoid paying a lot of taxes......

Especially in the iron class, the official iron of the Northern Song Dynasty is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, but the iron ore tax of the Northern Song Dynasty can collect more than 100,000 taels, while the Ming Dynasty only has a pitiful 30,000 taels.

According to the proportion of the Song and Ming dynasties, just for iron ore, according to the fifty tax of the commercial tax, the Ming Dynasty can also collect more than 500,000 taels of silver, not to mention others.

Zhu Youzhen has never had hope for this group of gentry and heroes, but now that they are concealing the true proportion of minerals, it is somewhat convenient for Zhu Youzhen.

"Keep an eye on them, when investigating corruption, focus on the officials related to them, and after involving them, confiscate their homes!"

Zhu Youzhen put the document on the table, and roughly figured out how much the imperial court could profit after all the gold, silver, copper, and iron coal mines of the Ming Dynasty were confiscated.

Just talking about gold, there is at least 20,000 catties and 300,000 taels of income every year, while silver can have an income of 4 or 5 million taels of silver, copper can also have 3 or 4 million taels, and the output of iron ore can reach 200 million or even 300 million catties, not to mention coal.

It is a bit shabby when converted into tons, but if you use a detonator made of mercury thunderate, plus cement and steam pumps, it should be able to increase the output by several percent.

300 million catties of iron, equivalent to 180,000 tons of iron, if all used for railway construction, the standard is lower, at least the construction of 3,000 miles of railway can be guaranteed......

It's just that if it was all used for construction, then the people of the Ming Dynasty would not want to add new iron tools.

Therefore, to ensure 300 million catties, strive for 400 million catties, and preferably reach 500 million catties of iron, so that Daming can build 3,000 miles of railways every year.

From the capital to Guangzhou, it is about 4,000 miles, from the capital to Shuofang, then from Shuofang to Ningxia, and finally from Ningxia to Jiayuguan, this route is 3,500 miles......

In addition, there are railways from Beijing to Liaodong, from Beijing to Annam, from Beijing to Zhejiang, to Yunnan, and to Duogan.

If these railways were to be built at a rate of 500 miles per year, they would all be completed in seven years, without regard for manpower and the environment.

If you consider this, then the construction of these railways will probably take decades......

However, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care, science and technology will continue to improve with time, and the time of infrastructure construction will continue to shorten with the progress of science and technology.

If the minerals are state-owned, then the imperial court only needs to pay for costs and labor, and the source of labor costs and workers is not a problem for the Ming Dynasty under the great drought.

Anti-corruption, minerals, banks, and large-scale infrastructure construction (work for relief), these four points and one line will become what Zhu Youzhen has to do, and these four points need to look not only at Zhu Youzhen, but also at the Armaments Institute.

The steam engine was only a few steps away from the Watt version, and once these steps were crossed, the Ming could enter the first industrial revolution, freeing up more people to reclaim unconquered territory.

The Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, the Hanbei, Anxi, Beiting, and Mengchi of the Tang Dynasty, and the Three Xuan and Six Comforts of the Ming Dynasty......

Even as long as Zhu Youzhen is black enough, he can use the banner of recovering the territory of the Yuan Dynasty to forcibly turn the Great Mongol Empire into the Yuan Dynasty, and occupy the territory of the four khanates first in name, and then recover it in practice.

It just so happens that in terms of black face, Zhu Youzhen is indeed black enough......

"From today onwards, all the gold, silver, copper and iron from the old port will be deposited in Tongzhou, and the iron materials from the rest of the places will continue to be supplied to the Ordnance Bureau."

Zhu Youzhen wants to save iron to solve the problem of logistics pressure in the Ming Dynasty, as long as the logistics pressure is solved, he will no longer have to use a large number of people to go to the battlefield to adventure.

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and then got up and said:

"Your Highness, the situation in the capital is not very good, the matter of "Official Dinglu" is in an uproar, you may be able to stabilize the situation when you return to Beijing."

"Back?" Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't go back to ......"

Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao's face was embarrassed: "But if you don't go back, I'm afraid I won't be able to maintain the situation, and the officials will always make trouble......"

"Let them make ......"

Zhu Youzhen glanced contemptuously at the "Official Dinglu" booklet on the table, and said disdainfully:

"The bigger the trouble, the easier it will be for the lonely to clean up, and the more people can clean up......"

The meeting was held in the afternoon, and the update was estimated to be around six o'clock.

(End of chapter)