The ministers expressed their positions one after another.

There are also people who do not squeak.

However, this does not mean that people who do not squeak are watching the play in their hearts at the moment, and some people are like Wang Gen with a temperament, they will not be vain, but they are determined in their hearts.

Such people are actually more capable of action.

Zhu Jianji nodded with satisfaction, after beating the chicken blood, it was time to get down to business.

Zhu Jianji asked Chen Xun, the secretary of the household department, "Last year, there was a surplus in the treasury, what is the estimated revenue of the treasury this year?" ”

Chen Xun said with a smile: "There was a surplus last year, about 20 million taels, as for this year's treasury income, it is difficult to estimate, after all, our income composition has not stabilized at present, and there are still a lot of windfalls." ”

The word windfall is well used.

In fact, it is to rob the Gentiles.

Zhu Jianji's eyes lit up suddenly, "A surplus of about 20 million taels?" I'm a surprise! ”

Twenty million taels is not a small amount.

Before Zhu Jianji did not promote various reforms, or during the Ming Dynasty in history, 20 million taels may be the entire treasury income of the Ming Dynasty in some bad years.

I tossed so many things last year, and I still have an income of 20 million taels.

Wouldn't the overall income have to be more than 150 million taels?!

Meddlesome!

It shows that the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty has been rising according to a ratio, which is what a prosperous era should look like.

But Chen Xun quickly poured cold water on Zhu Jianji, "But after a period of deduction, Weichen and many colleagues in the household department found that there is a bottleneck in our treasury revenue, which can be reached in three years at the latest, and if we don't count the expenses, our treasury revenue can reach up to 30,000 yuan - well, about 300 million taels." ”

Thirty thousand is the traditional saying, but the "Three Series Book" clarifies the value of billion.

The ministers also bowed slightly, the estimate of the household department is forward-looking and wise, and now the main income of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, is the promotion of agriculture and industry, and the bulk comes from sea trade.

But there is a peak in sea trade.

Because the demand from overseas is only that great.

And the domestic market demand, as the population explodes to a certain number, will also stagnate, because medical care and living standards can only meet that amount, too much, can not be sustained.

Zhu Jianji calculated a little in his heart.

Three hundred million taels, it doesn't seem like much.

In the Ming Dynasty, when the annual income of the treasury basically did not exceed 40 million taels, it could continue to develop, because there was a very important reason: in the feudal era, many valuable materials were owned by the state, and when the state used them, the cost was very low, and at the same time, the population of the Ming Dynasty was not high.

300 million taels, which is equivalent to the financial resources of the normal six or seven Ming Dynasty.

So actually a lot.

And the wealth of the country is not just the money in the treasury.

There is also a Daming Bank......

Moreover, this income cannot be compared vertically, compared with the trillions of later generations, it is indeed incomparable, but you have to compare horizontally, 300 million taels in this era is already a giant.

"What is the population now?" ”

Chen Xun replied: "According to the statistics of the Ministry of Household last year, plus the Northeast, not counting Jiaozhi, there are 18078252 households in the country, with a total of 123982134 people, an increase of more than 20 million people compared with the previous big statistics. ”

The rest of the courtiers were immediately delighted.

Population growth so fast?

The growth of 20 million in three years is simply a rainstorm growth rate.

In the first year of Guang'an, a large-scale statistics were made, and the statistics of the household department at that time showed that there were a little more than 15 million households in the country, and the population was just 100 million.

Today, it has reached more than 120 million!

In the early years of Jingtai, the population was only 11 million households, 70 million people.

This is still the rule of Renxuanzhi to recuperate.

It must be known that in the last years of Yongle, the population was only more than 8 million households.

In just over 20 years, the population of Daming has almost doubled, which is already the standard in the prosperous era.

But Zhu Jianji was not surprised.

The peak of the population of the Ming Dynasty was in the Wanli period, about 130 million to 150 million, Jingtai 20 years, plus Guang'an 3 years, the Ming Dynasty buried itself in the development of agriculture and economy for 23 years, but the population has not yet reached the peak of 150 million.

It's a long way to go.

We need to keep up the good work.

However, there are many problems caused by the population explosion, and Zhu Jianji asked: "Is there a famine in all parts of the country?" ”

Chen Xun shook his head, "According to the statistics of the household department, if it is because of the famine caused by the disaster weather, there is, such as after the previous drought in the Yellow River, such as last year's Jiangsu flood, and after the Shuzhong earthquake the year before last, there was a famine for a short time. ”

There are people who are corrupt.

After a pause, he said, "However, the previous Shandong locust plague was handled perfectly. ”

Everyone looked at Huang Yulang, the secretary of the General Political Department of Reform.

Huang Yulang was slightly embarrassed.

At the beginning of the locust plague in Shandong, he came up with an idea, and spread rumors that locusts have various aphrodisiac healing effects, and then the people captured the government to buy and eliminate the locust plague......

Therefore, he was also appointed as the Secretary for General Affairs of Reform.

Zhu Jianji nodded slightly, "Corruption is a long-term hidden danger, rectification must be rectified, but not for the time being in the past two years, the place needs to be stable, of course, I have to spit out what I eat, if I don't clean them up in the past few years, it doesn't mean that I don't count in my heart, those corruption moths really think that my Ming Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei are vegetarians!" ”

The left and right sides of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are all about to speak and stop.

I still endured it.

In order to develop in recent years, the emperor and His Majesty the Guang'an Emperor have not rectified the rule of officials, and the status of the Imperial Procuratorate has plummeted, but it is understandable that after all, there are too many things to do in the country now, and local officials need to do their best.

Once the rule of officials is rectified, local officials will be panicked, which will affect the implementation of policies.

Since His Majesty said that it would be put on hold for the time being, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will endure it any longer.

However, when the two Du Yushi thought of the secret files kept by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, their hearts were dripping with blood - under the prosperous scenery, the corruption among the local officials of the Ming Dynasty was really shocking.

That's all people's fat and people's ointment!

Zhu Jianji glanced at Zhu Xiang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the left and right capitals of the Imperial Palace, "What you should do is still to do, don't take the last step for the time being, don't worry, when Mobei and the Indochina Peninsula are completely stabilized, I will pick out these moths one by one!" ”

The three of them are in charge.

Zhu Jianji continued: "At present, although my Ming Dynasty has been in the war of expansion, the domestic development has not been greatly affected, and the population and economy are skyrocketing, and this is likely to be a sign, a sign that a country is moving towards a new era!" Not surprisingly, the next will be a greater outbreak period, there may be a series of new things, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Agriculture and many other departments to prepare, especially in the ideological work, must change the traditional pedantic concepts, to be good at accepting, absorbing, learning the affairs and principles of the new life, I even thought - well, I will open the skylight to speak brightly, the purpose of educational reform, is not to eliminate or suppress Confucianism, in fact, Confucianism also has its value, However, I want to vigorously promote the Confucian concept of Gewu, hoping that Gewu will become popular and become the mainstream. ”

Confucian self-cultivation.

Gewu is a strong country.