Chapter XXVI Financial Programme

Government reform to improve the ability to collect taxes. This is one of them, in fact, if the Ming court can implement the taxes levied in the imperial court regulations. That's not a small amount either.

It's just that the Ming officials have never had that ability. So He Xi's first knife was cut here.

Starting from Nanjing and Beijing, it took several years to reform most of the local prefectures and counties in the country.

It's a huge task.

And He Xi naturally won't be just this one way.

The second is the ban.

Don't dare to say all the bans, at least most of them have been lifted. At sea, almost all counties near the sea can go to sea. There is a new customs office in the prefecture. You have to pay taxes when you go to sea.

This is to encourage exports.

The Ming Dynasty was originally a country with strong productivity, but now after industrialization, the production of various materials has increased on a large scale. If you don't find more sales and markets, you will be in trouble.

Therefore, it is reasonable to encourage going to sea.

He Xi supports the businessmen who go to sea, and naturally they are not those big households. It's a real small businessman. Of course, it is impossible for a real small merchant to go to sea, they don't even have a boat. But those who have just made a fortune. Businessmen who want to go further are He Xi's target group.

It is almost impossible to expect these bureaucratic businessmen to take risks.

Bureaucrats are the most conservative people. This can also be extended to bureaucratic businessmen, who are more likely to operate within the scope of their privileges, which is essentially to make money.

They don't dare to go out into the ocean.

But these self-made businessmen dare.

Opening the sea in full swing can also render useless many things that make the business of many powerful businessmen useless.

Moreover, in order to encourage going to sea, He Xi ordered the customs bank to start operating insurance business. On the one hand, it is of course to encourage middle and lower businessmen to go to sea. In addition, this insurance is essentially a very profitable business, and it can be regarded as relieving the financial pressure of the imperial court.

In addition to encouraging the opening of the sea, the operation of industry and commerce is also encouraged.

This incident made many people restless.

Someone muttered in a low voice, "Does the court want to share the world with merchants?"

Although this sentence was said in a small voice, it reached the ears of many people, and some people just sneered when they heard it. Some people were shocked when they heard this.

This sentence can also be regarded as a glimpse of the idea behind He Xi's series of means.

Yes, the court and the merchants share the world. This is probably capitalism.

He Xi didn't think that the discipline of a capitalist should be a little better than that of a scholar. It's just that the situation in the world is like this, and He Xi has no other choice but to choose to support businessmen.

After all, times are different.

He Xi knew that this article encouraged industry and commerce, which made many people not satisfied. But so what? He Xi is no longer the original He Xi. He didn't have to do anything now, it was enough for these people below to dare to be angry and not dare to speak.

These people did not dare to directly oppose the legitimacy that Zhu Xiongying cared about the most, nor did they dare to provoke He Xi on the matter of changing the law. In this matter, He Xi cares more than Zhu Xiongying.

In this way, this one should have been a sensational word, and it passed indifferently.

He Xi continued with the third article.

The third is naturally currency reform.

The first is to revoke the silver coins. Copper coins were minted instead. Determine the exchange of one dollar note for one hundred copper coins. All the original copper coins were recovered and destroyed.

It is said to be a copper coin, but in fact the copper content is not high. There are many other alloys of metals. I have to admit that the Ming Dynasty has made rapid progress in the technology of iron smelting.

The suits of the copper coin minting are very good.

Above is the words of Daming ingots.

Secondly, the proportion of paper money exchanged for gold and silver has decreased, and before, one yuan could be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver. However, we will make adjustments in the future. One yuan will probably never be exchanged for a tael of silver.

Even the future can

There will be less and less silver to exchange.

He Xi's operation can be summed up in one sentence.

That is currency depreciation.

Of course, it's also rectification.

In fact, in the past few years, the comparison of one yuan for one thousand wen before the war has been unsustainable. Although He Xi is also minting copper coins, there are too many banknotes. Copper coin minting is not that easy.

The final situation can be imagined.

One yuan can be exchanged for up to three or five hundred copper coins.

He Xi's series of rectifications are just an acknowledgment of the actual value of money. Of course, in this adjustment, the actual debt of the imperial court was also reduced a lot.

Of course, the copper coins that He Xi wants to formulate are naturally machine-rolled. There is no hole in the middle, and on the whole, it is larger than the original copper coin.

This is, of course, an illusion.

He Xi was only ready to confirm that it was a copper coin at the beginning, but it was difficult to say in the future.

After all, even with the copper mines of Nanyang, the copper of Daming is still too little. In the future, he will be willing to exchange copper coins for paper money, or for iron coins.

Many of the merchants below who held a large amount of paper money immediately had hesitation in their hearts.

The number of currency devaluations that have changed is quite substantial.

However, there are also many positives today.

On top of that, the imperial court personally came forward to encourage industry and commerce, which was a rather powerful signal to many people. It's up to some people to interpret it.

Many businessmen followed the army and came to Nanjing step by step. Earn a lot along the way. Not to mention, the meaning of this is that in the future, the spring of merchants will come.

Compared with these signals of the imperial court to support industry and commerce. A few national debts are nothing.

Moreover, they were naturally afraid of the authority of the imperial court, and they did not dare to bargain with the imperial court. After He Xi's great victory, although they were dissatisfied in their hearts when they said such a thing, they did not dare to come forward.

Not to mention, it won't be long before the auction about reverse property will begin.

At this time, leaving a bad impression on He Xi is irreparable.

There is also the matter of national bonds, different merchants have different opinions, but a considerable number of businessmen feel that this national debt is no different from the previous imperial court required to worship.

It's nothing more than a name to be paid back.

Who can really ask the court for money?

This national debt, in the eyes of many people, is already a meat bun beating a dog. It is already quite good that the imperial court can politely say this thing. What else?

Some businessmen are trying to take advantage of the current situation to get more articles of association that are beneficial to themselves.

Seeing that there was no objection, the finances for the next few years would probably be decided according to He Xi's plan.

He Xi also knew in his heart that this matter was easy to say, but it was not easy to do at all. This is also a war, but a war without gunpowder.

It can't compare to the vigor of the battle between the north and the south. But more important, more nuanced and silent.

It can be said that the war between the north and the south is for today, and there is no obstacle on the route of changing the law. If there is any obstacle, it is the officials themselves.

Because this reform itself is to change, the normal life that the Ming court has maintained for hundreds of years. Among them, the changes are so great that China will be two worlds in the future.

It's like the War of Liberation, the three major battles, of course, resonant. However, the campaign against bandits was fought for more years before it could be regarded as changing the pattern of society.

The military power is in hand, and the general policy is upheld. It is not a very simple thing to blow the atmosphere of law change to every corner of the Ming Dynasty and become the official ideology.

It is necessary to start from a very subtle place, and remember to be ruthless. It's a lot of hard work, it's very torturous, but to do things right, you can't help but do such things.

"Let's hope everything goes through safely." He Xi said secretly in his heart.

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After.

He Xi raised the issue of education again, and He Xi's idea was very simple, Eastern Liaoning University of Technology, Lushun Navigation University, Yingkou University, Beijing Guozijian, and Wuxue. Outside of these five colleges of higher learning. Nanjing Guozijian and Taiping University of Science and Technology were added. Daming University of Taxation has just been established.

In addition, He Xi plans to establish normal universities in the north and south of Beijing.

A total of ten universities.

He Xi is not ready to add more academies. The simple reason is that there is not enough manpower.

Yes, four universities in the North, graduating one or two thousand people a year. It is not enough to put it in the imperial court, and it must be known that at this point, it must be used in the court and in the army. There are also some private companies that like to use it.

So talent is in demand.

Even if some resources are mobilized from all sides and many universities are formed, it is difficult to ensure quality for a while.

And it also creates hidden dangers for the future.

This is the rule of Chinese land for thousands of years. Although He Xi intends to emulate the schools of later generations, these colleges and universities are also fundamentally different. That is, 80 percent of the people who came out of these schools were going to be officials. Even if he is not an official, he still works in a place related to the government.

Sweep and sweep for private workers.

In other words, the number of students is almost equal to the number of officials. If it is said that in the future, college students will be unemployed after graduation, and the Ming court will encounter a very serious impact.

It will even shake the foundation.

Students are not the same as students. The Ming Dynasty college students were exquisite.

One day, universities will become part of basic education, but not now.

He Xi doesn't care about the future, but just makes sure that for now, these universities are enough. He Xi is not even willing to expand a few more schools if he can. It's just that it's not possible.

If nothing else, Zhu Xiongying will not allow it at all, and many people in the south will not allow it at all. If He Xi hadn't established a few universities in the south, most of the officials in the Ming court today had graduated from universities. So in this way, in the future, where will the southerners have a bright future in the imperial court, how can they be willing?

In order to balance the north and south, these schools were also to be built.