In the first year of Yongle (1403), the Ming Dynasty's Juntun "sub-grain grain" (that is, Juntun tax) income reached 23 million stones, equivalent to nearly double the annual grain income of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the tax revenue of the government and private fields was 31 million stones, and the two taxes totaled more than 50 million stones.

There are about 4 million hectares of military land in the country, and about 4 million hectares of land for officials and people in civilian prefectures and counties.

There are about 8 million hectares in the country. (The tax on official and civilian fields is low, and the tax per mu of military tun is generally three to seven times that of official and civilian fields, so there are more grains in military tunzi)

Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "How many fields did the vassal king of Yongle have?" ”

Xia Yuanji didn't look at the fold he handed over just now, and said directly: "The national vassal king covers a total area of 140,000 hectares. "There is no tax on these fields.

If Zhu Gaoxu is proficient in history, he will know why the late Ming Dynasty was so miserable, and Yongle could still collect more than 50 million taxes, and it was 20 million or 30 million in the middle and late periods.

Because in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the official statistics of the field became less and less, and in the end there were only four or five million hectares of land. (In the middle, Zhang Juzheng reorganized once, and got more than 7 million hectares, and then it went down again)

Among them, the military tuntian was less than 10% of the Hongwu period in the later period, and more than ninety percent of the military tuntian was occupied and annexed by senior military attachés.

More and more people are exempted from seeking refuge in the private fields, and the military and civilian fields are decreasing, and the tax revenue is of course getting less and less.

In fact, after the Yongle period, the "output value" of the "Juntun" in the Ming Dynasty began to deteriorate. A large amount of land that originally belonged to the "Juntun" was encroached upon by military generals at all levels and even by the powerful and high-ranking officials of the DPRK and China, and the "military households" who cultivated the "Juntun" also became serfs.

Only in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, there were only 16 million mu of Juntun land on the books of the Ming Dynasty, less than a fraction of the Yongle period. This figure is still "watered". Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department of the same era, lamented that "Tuntian has no real name", and the legendary land has long been divided.

The "military cantonment" has reached this point, not to mention the "blood transfusion" of the state's armaments, and even the "raising of troops" is difficult. The "two million army" on the books of the Ming Dynasty has also become the norm to escape. For example, Guangxi Province should theoretically have 120,000 garrisons, but by the time of the Hongzhi period, there were 18,000 left. The Left Guard Banner Army in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, originally had more than 4,700 people, but when it was drilled in the 16th year of Hongzhi, there were only 141 people. Jinhua Qianhuwei should have 1,200 elite soldiers, but by the time of the Jiajing period, there were only 34 people left.

Therefore, the original Yongle period was already the most glorious peak of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty after Yongle was in decline.

Zhu Gaoxu knew about what would have happened in the future, but the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty sitting at the scene didn't know.

Zhu Gaoxu asked at this time: "Do you know how much tax there is this year?" ”

Xia Yuan Jidao, the autumn tax has not been confiscated, I don't know.

In the first year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaoxu's new tax law was not officially implemented, and only a few places ruled by Zhu Gaochu did so before, so the summer tax was twice as high as last year, but the autumn tax was the main focus of the Ming Dynasty.

The tax rate of the Ming Dynasty varies from place to place; Depending on the ownership of the land, the tax rate varies depending on the source.

Generally speaking, where Guantian is five liters and three in six spoons, Mintian is reduced by two liters, and Chongguantian is eight liters and five in five spoons, and there is no Guantian (because of crimes, etc.) one bucket and two liters. Suzhou, Song, Jia, Hu, Chang, Hangzhou Zhuzhou and western Zhejiang, because of the fertile land, was once the place ruled by Zhang Shicheng, so the field is unique, and there are eight buckets of tax per mu.

Lao Zhu's own hometown, the mu tax is 0.5 liters, is it very outrageous in comparison, and the gap is a hundred times

In the Hongwu Yongle period, the military field was one mu and one bucket, and in the first year of Yongle, it was changed to one mu and one bucket and two liters, which was several times that of the official and civilian fields.

However, the yield of one mu is usually about two stones, and this tax rate is only equivalent to one-twentieth.

"I set the tax at one tenth, Xia Butang thinks about it, according to the average of one percent, how much will the tax be this year?"

Zhu Gaoxu set the military land as the 11th tax, and only 4 million hectares of military land were counted, and the yield of less than two stones per mu was calculated at a low yield, which was converted into 700 million stones, and 70 million stones of grain could be collected, which was three times more than the original Yongle.

Among them, autumn grain accounts for at least about 60 million stones.

When Zhu Gaoxu's data came out, there was an uproar all around.

"The vast majority of the vassal king's fields will be used as official fields and private fields, and from next year, the official fields will be taxed in two."

There was another uproar at the scene, which is definitely a heavy tax.

"The land tax has not changed, and it is still three liters per mu for the time being." Zhu Gaoxu didn't understand why the land tax in the Ming Dynasty was so light, and he couldn't receive much grain in the later period, and at first he estimated that the people did not pay attention to water conservancy, and then he remembered the danger of forced labor. So he had to find a way to slowly abolish forced labor, but at the beginning of his administration, this could not be abolished all at once, but had to be done slowly.

For example, the tax in the Susong area has been reduced to the same as that of ordinary areas at the beginning of the first year of Hongxi.

After Zhu Gaoxu's restructuring, next year, all the country's tax, grain, military and official fields will definitely exceed 100 million stones, twice as many as in the first year of Yongle.

This statistic is indeed shocking, but there are two problems, one is that the new tax law will be implemented next year.

Second, with the retirement of the current sergeants and the taking away of the military land, Zhu Gaoxu will also increase the tax revenue of the people's land in the later period, which will be on par with the military field, and cannot reduce the military land.

He promised Jianwen that he would never increase the tax, and that he must ensure that the benefits received by the people far exceed the taxes paid.

In fact, it is very simple to let the common people benefit from it, just cancel the heavy forced labor.

As mentioned earlier, a middle-class peasant with 20 acres of land will go bankrupt if his family does not have a scholar.

But now Zhu Gaoxu still has a lot of things to do, many projects require labor, and the temporarily necessary forced labor cannot be abolished, but can only be done step by step, according to his tax situation, gradually abolished.

"In the future, there will only be more and more taxes and grains, and the taxes and silver have not yet been calculated, so Zhu Aiqing don't have to worry, Daming has money and grain." Zhu Gaoxu said confidently.

His commercial tax has not yet begun to be fully collected, and the tax revenue from the opening of the sea alone will at least exceed 10 million taels next year, which is equivalent to 40 million stone at the current price of grain.

But Zhu Gaoxu was still not satisfied: "In a few days, when the ships from Jiaozhi and Fujian come, you will listen to it again, we have to work hard." ”

In the next few days, everyone cooperated with the emperor to introduce several new plans of the Ming Dynasty and announced them to the whole country.

At the beginning of December, an incomparably large fleet of ships came from Zhenjiang to Jingshi, and the Jingshi was empty at that time, all watching.

Because this is the largest fleet since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it has not been transported, it has come in from the sea, there is no way, this fleet has many treasure ships, which is too huge.

This time, the fleet departed from Angkor, went to Cochin, and then joined with Cochin, and then went to Fujian, and then joined the Fujian fleet, and at the same time came to Jingshi.

The entire fleet consisted of 2,680 ships of all sizes, including 178 treasure ships of more than 1,000 materials.

Yongle was only more than 1,000 ships when the Ming Dynasty went to Annan, and this time more than 2,000 ships were dispatched to Beijing, so that the ships outside the Beijing Division covered the sky, and the sails were in the wind, which was extremely spectacular.

Huang Fu, the political envoy of Cochin, has returned, bringing with him the harvest of the two envoys of Cochin and Saigon in the past two years. (At this time, Saigon Cheng announced that the envoy had just been formed.) ）

The next day, Zhu Gaoxu deliberately summoned Huang Fu to Fengtian Hall to report in front of hundreds of officials.

The original history is also this year, in August, by the Ministry of Shangshu Jianyi to the Ming Dynasty Chengzu Zhu Di to report the Jiaozhi setting: the construction of the sergeant guard gate total 472. One division of the capital, one division of the administration, one division of the judges, ten guards, two thousand households, fifteen prefectures, forty-one prefectures, two hundred and eight counties, one city division, one hundred inspection divisions, and ninety-two tax bureaus; Twelve cities were built, 3,120,000 people were pacified, 2,087,500 barbarians were obtained, 13,600,000 stone of grain reserves, more than 235,900 elephants, horses and cattle, 8,677 ships, and 2,539,852 weapons were obtained.

This is the harvest of the original history Zhu Di in Jiaozhi to the present.

At that time, it did not include Champa and the part of the Angkor dynasty now occupied by Chu Gaoxu.

The entire Jiaozhi population of more than 5 million people stored 13 million stones of grain for the Ming Dynasty. (Of course, this is two years of survival, the original history of the Ming Dynasty in January 1406 to conquer Annan, August 1408 report, should be regarded as two and a half years to store 13 million stone grain.) ）

Counting the local use of the Ming army, it is estimated that nearly 20 million stone taxes have been levied in Jiaozhi in more than two years.

However, there was no number of fields in Jiaozhi's report, but Jiaozhi could grow two and three crops of rice at that time, and it was normal for the tax to be high.

After Huang Fu went to the palace today, he reported the common data of the political envoys of Jiaozhi and Saigon Chengxuan, after all, before he came back, he did not know that Zhu Gaoxu had established the political envoy of Saigon Chengxuan.

"Ministers knock to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live."

Zhu Gaoxu first flattened him, and then said, Huang Fu, you report to everyone.

Huang Fu immediately reported: Cochin Champa and Angkor, Old Port and other places, a total of 772 sergeant guards were built. One division of the capital, one division of the administration, one division of the judges, twenty-two of the guards, seven of the thousand households, twenty-five of the prefectures, sixty-one of the prefectures, three hundred and eight of the counties, three of the municipal divisions, one hundred and eighty of the inspection divisions, and one and two of the tax divisions; Twenty-three cities were built, 5,120,000 people were pacified, 3,487,500 barbarians were obtained, 28,400,000 stone of grain were stored, more than 325,800 elephants, horses and cattle, 12,620 ships, and 3,539,852 weapons were obtained.

The ministers were in an uproar, but they did not expect that the small Jiaozhi and other overseas places had stored nearly 30 million stone grain for the Ming Dynasty (in addition, during the rebellion, nearly 5 million stones were transported to the Huguang area to support Zhu Gaoxu's war), with a population of nearly 9 million.

Huang Fu also said: "The minister also brought back from Fujian the maritime tax (including copper coins and treasure banknotes) collected in the past year, which is equivalent to about 5.89 million taels of silver, the maritime tax collected in Jiaozhi and other places, totaling 680,000 taels, and the commercial income of the two places is converted into 4 million taels of silver, and the total of the three items is equivalent to 10.57 million taels of silver. ”

The ministers were even more moved.

The emperor didn't speak, first with a smug expression, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he could make money, and then looked at Xia Yuanji with a smile.

Tobe Shangshu Xia Yuanji didn't seem to be very excited, because he was thinking in his head, what is business income? Why more than four million?

(End of chapter)