And Jiang Xinghuo is very particular about the timing of saying this.

If this was said when Jianwen was in the fourth year, then whether it was Hongwu Xunchen or Jingnan Xunchen, they would definitely shout and cut off Jiang Xinghuo's head; If it was in the first year of Yongle, then it is estimated that only half of the people shouted to cut off their heads; And now that the second year of Yongle is approaching the middle of the year, which lord dares to shout that he is afraid that he will be beheaded by his colleagues.

The reason is also very simple, on the one hand, Jiang Xinghuo's land policy on moderation of nobles and local magnates is not to return all the land of nobles, but only for the additional land occupied, as well as the farmers who are forced to not pay poor grain, if it is obtained through normal means and the land that pays grain normally, it is not listed; On the other hand, almost all the nobles now see the benefits of maritime trade.

At the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Di proposed that the royal family, the clan, and the nobles go to the West for the first time, when the sea trade was still in a state of painting, and the nobles only wanted to take care of the emperor's face, so each family paid money, and this money was actually thrown out with the mentality of "when it is a waste of water and I don't plan to come back".

But the "miracle" in the eyes of the nobles soon happened, Zheng He's fleet actually made money!

Moreover, with the establishment of the Jiangnan handicraft workshop area and the war against Annam, the overseas market for Ming goods expanded rapidly, coupled with the royal trade led by Zheng He's fleet, accompanied by a steady flow of wealth back to China, part of which was divided among these nobles who held "original shares".

The nobles soon discovered that the benefits to be derived from overseas trade began to far exceed the traditional taxes on land in kind.

Of course, if Jiang Xinghuo hits the idea to their land, then the Xungui Group will still resist, after all, the land as a carrier of wealth inheritance is still down-to-earth, and Xungui usually raises a big family, which means that the whole big family needs a lot of agricultural and livestock products to maintain daily consumption, which can be glimpsed from Jiang Xinghuo's "Dream of Red Mansions" in his previous life, Jiafu will get rents including agricultural products, livestock products, and various handicrafts from the grange every year, and it is these rents. Only then can Jiafu, which consumes a huge amount of money, be able to subsidize a large part of the consumption of daily life.

But as I said just now, what Jiang Xinghuo wants to move is only the part they illegally occupy, and it is not against Xungui alone, but all forces, including Xungui, and even the majority is not Xungui, but the local Haoqiang.

In fact, the illegal occupation of additional land property is actually very common in the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has always had such drawbacks since the founding of Hongwu.

From the perspective of the rural grassroots of the Ming Dynasty, the current land is basically a large family, that is, the landlord and the local tyrant own a large number of granges, and they can increase stable income by collecting rent every year, and part of the agricultural products of the farmland go to the public middle school, and part of the low-level officials and tax officials (the method is Jiang Xinghuo mentioned before), and the rest can be distributed to the pockets of ordinary tenant farmers.

Such a system certainly allows large households to have a strong monopoly, and ordinary tenant farmers are squeezed in the disaster year to not even have a subsistence income, now it is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the contradiction between man and land has not reached the point of irreconcilability, so it is not obvious, and this problem, over time, to the middle and late Ming Dynasty, became extremely serious.

And if you want to solve this problem by then, I'm afraid it's too late.

Because the relationship of interests will become intertwined, and in the historical line without Jiang Xinghuo's intervention, it is destined that the sea trade will not rise on a large scale, which means that they will have to compete for food in the stock plate of farmland, and at that time, even the interests of the princes of the clan and the hereditary relatives of these people will be completely irreconcilable with the interests of the Ming court, so even if the clan and the nobles are rich, the court will not be able to obtain taxes from them, and can only watch them make a lot of money and spend extravagantly, and even prefer to be tortured by Li Zicheng, and was unwilling to donate to the imperial court.

And what Jiang Xinghuo has to do is to prevent the slightest.

Taking advantage of the fact that the clan and the nobles have not illegally occupied many fields, this trend has been eliminated directly from the source, and there is a broad profit prospect of the maritime trade, so the nobles will not be able to think about it.

The first point is to use tax guards to go to the countryside to try to eliminate the phenomenon of filling private pockets in summer and autumn taxes; The second point is that in exchange for the return of the nobles for illegal occupation of land by the prospect of maritime trade, it is not difficult for the local tyrants to deal with it; The third point is the internal dismantling.

Why are the chiefs of these temples called together today? Of course, it is not to see them pass the buck to each other for the benefit of their own department.

To put it bluntly, it is to coordinate their contributions.

And Zhu Gaochi's coordination in the first round obviously hit a wall.

Jiang Xinghuo put forward two improvement suggestions on how to reduce waste and levy more taxes, which is undoubtedly very valuable, after all, the method proposed by Jiang Xinghuo can be practiced in the next taxation.

But this still does not change the root of the problem, that is, from the various ministries and temples, first coordinate a sum of money to maintain the huge expenses of the imperial court this year, so that the imperial court will not be suspended.

"What do you think? Or do you maintain the original opinion? ”

At this time, the military department Shangshu Ruyu stood up and said: "The national teacher intends to start with the next taxes, this is of course a good way, no matter what method is used, the imperial court must alleviate the financial difficulties as soon as possible, so that the temples of the various ministries can maintain their operations." I believe that as long as the money of the imperial court can increase rapidly, these problems can be solved. ”

"But."

Ru Yu's face was puzzled: "The money of the household department is the money of the household department, and the money of the military department is the money of the military department, and it cannot be embezzled casually, this is not appropriate, there is no precedent for the national dynasty." ”

"Then the big guy will watch the center stop functioning, and then wait for His Majesty's holy judgment."

Jin Zhong, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, leaned back on the seat and said.

Jin Zhong is Zhu Di's cronie, in fact, his abnormal attitude today has already explained some problems, if it is just once, it can be understood that he and Chen Shou, the left waiter of the Ministry of Works, do not deal with each other, but this is the second time.

Therefore, under this statement, Ru Yu also showed some hesitation.

"But now that the country's finances are tight, this precedent cannot be broken once."

Ru Yu successfully changed his face, but at this time, no one was in the mood to appreciate his face-changing trick, but Ru Yu's attitude changed on behalf of the military department, which had a considerable impact on the trend of the meeting.

Daming's fucked financial mechanism, Jiang Xinghuo wants to change it now, because this thing directly involves financial rights, not just the previous indirect procurement rights related to financial rights, if you want to move people's cakes, it is difficult without a suitable reason.

Therefore, although the ship is leaking, and the people on board have different thoughts, they can only try to be in the same boat through thick and thin, tearing down a board to make up for the leakage in the cabin in the east, and tying the sails with a rope in the west.

However, Zhu Gaochi's indecisive temperament in some aspects has not been changed, or he has too many concerns, and it is difficult to carry out any drastic reforms in the face of vested interest groups.

Therefore, this matter can only be done by Jiang Xinghuo.

And sometimes things are like this, if you can do what others can't do, then you can reap the prestige that others can't, and it is hard to gnaw hard bones, but if you gnaw them, you can eat the bone marrow.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't plan to grind with them, and directly started his own distribution plan.

"Guanglu Temple borrows 2/3 of the savings in the temple from the household department, and the household part is transferred back in three years, is it okay?"

Huang Ziwei's expression was a little hesitant, 2/3 is indeed a lot, but Guanglu Temple can still afford it.

In addition to being promoted by Jiang Xinghuo, Li Wei, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and Cheng Gaozhi of Guanglu Temple, were all promoted by Jiang Xinghuo himself, so the temple itself is still ironclad, and there are not too many objections.

The national teacher promoted you, and now you need to pay money to the national dynasty to tide over the difficulties, and it's not that you won't pay it back, can you refuse?

Anyway, Huang Ziwei couldn't refuse.

And there is another reason that has to be mentioned here, that is, Guanglu Temple is one of the largest departments of oil and water in the central temple, and not only the oil and water are large, but the "reasonable loss" of the account book is also very large, because Guanglu Temple is responsible for various banquets in the imperial court, any loss, or high procurement costs, are very reasonable, and the funds of Guanglu Temple are not only part of the funds allocated by the imperial court, but also part of the special funds of the political envoys, so it can be said that it is rich and oily, even if it is taken out 2/ 3. In fact, there is still a lot left.

"Okay!"

Huang Ziwei gritted his teeth, he couldn't hit the face of the national teacher at this time, he had to stand up.

You see, Xiao Huang can handle this person, and he is really good when there is something.

After getting Huang Ziwei done, Jiang Xinghuo looked at the several big eunuchs present.

"The palace's internal support point? A part of the Taicang silver allocated to the household department. ”

As I said before, the same is the inner court, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty are different, although the ownership of the inner money in the early Ming Dynasty is in the inner court, but the management power is actually in the household department, but this money is not spoken by the emperor, and the household department itself cannot be easily moved.

The great eunuchs of the inner court obviously got the emperor's will, and they were all very talkative at this time, and generously agreed to Jiang Xinghuo's request.

In this way, Guanglu Temple and the inner court are all done.

"This year is a year of continuous expansion of overseas trade, the order of the sea has been basically cleared, from the South Seas to the Daming coast is unimpeded, but the construction of the land trade road must not be stopped, otherwise the blood is not passed, the silt is borne by the Ministry of Industry 2/3 of the road repair costs, the remaining 1/3 of the special road construction bonds, mainly for Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen, the first Ningbo to Songjiang business road repair, how?"

Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, looked at Zhu Gaochi, and Zhu Gaochi was expressionless.

"Huang Shangshu, I think I can follow the words of the national teacher."

Jin Zhong spoke for the third time.

Huang Fu also knew that bargaining would not be able to negotiate anything, but he was petty, and at this time, he simply agreed to Jiang Xinghuo's plan on behalf of the Ministry of Industry.

In the end, only the military department and the Taifu Temple remained.

"Not much, in addition to these, the remaining expenditure gap this year will be made up by the Ministry of War and Taifu Temple, and it will also be allocated back in three years, how about it?"

For the amount promised by Guanglu Temple and the inner court, everyone is roughly aware of it, and then compare the estimated expenditure for this year, this gap hole is obviously not too big, therefore, in the last part, Ru Yu of the Ministry of War and Yu Qian of Taifu Temple agreed to discuss it.

It seems to be a very complicated matter, but under the coordination of Jiang Xinghuo, after the exchange of interests between various departments, it is basically successfully completed.

As for the expenditure, there is nothing to say, in fact, the main reason is that the military expenditure of more than 200,000 people in the three major battalions of the Beijing camp for the northern expedition is too large, otherwise if there is no war, in fact, the normal financial budget is sufficient.

But the war in the north is obviously going to be fought.

Not all the benefits and disadvantages of everything are measured by money, some homeland security issues, how much military spending must be dealt with, and if Yongle is dealt with in two years, there will be no need for future people to pay a huge price.

In short, life can go on if it is improvised, and it is the kind that is getting more and more hopeful.

The rest of the ministers talked for a while, and then took their leave.

Huang Ziwei followed Jiang Xinghuo and walked back to the president's law change affairs yamen.

"National Teacher, what did you think just now?" Entering the door, Huang Ziwei couldn't help but ask.

"Forbearance is for the country."

Jiang Xinghuo's magnanimity is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a kind of "the prime minister's belly can support the boat".

He didn't seem to care about the gains and losses of these factions in front of him.

Jiang Xinghuo poured Huang Ziwei a cup of tea, handed it to him, and poured a cup himself.

"I haven't seen anyone with such a mind."

"That's because they're looking too deeply at the portal."

Blowing the tea leaves floating on the teacup, Jiang Xinghuo smiled: "Since you have to do things, you can't ask others to have the same perspective as you, this kind of mutual exchange, on the contrary, is a common thing, if you have to use your own standards to ask others, not only can't do it, but also live a very tiring life." My student Yu Qian actually gave me a lot of inspiration in this regard, he is a child, but he has always been strict with himself and lenient with others, and sometimes it is ashamed to say that we adults are not as good as children in some things. ”

"I can make one piece, one piece."

Jiang Xinghuo opened a curtain covering the wall, and instead of a window, there was a blackboard behind it, on which were densely written about politics, military, ideology, science and technology, and other aspects, as well as the specific measures corresponding to these aspects.

And although this blackboard is large, although there is a lot of content on it, it is visible to the naked eye, and many things are marked with various other colors to show the progress.

"As for the content, it is the one that was talked about when I made a report at the beginning of the year, in addition to those, there are some ideological and technological things, but you don't look at the many things, but when you do one thing after another, there are really not many of them."

Huang Ziwei observed carefully for a moment and found that this was indeed the case.

For example, under inland trade, there are four national policies of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, commercial tax, point-to-point business road, and post office, and the national policy of heavy agriculture and business suppression has obviously evolved in public opinion and in fact, towards the four people, and commercial tax is in continuous advancement, point-to-point business is just beginning to advance, and the post office is to be promoted.

The same can be said for maritime trade and other matters.

Looking at this blackboard, an inexplicable sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously.

Standing at this time in the second year of Yongle, looking back on the road when I came, I found that I had come a long, long way.

At the beginning, everyone was questioning whether to change the law, and then Jiang Xinghuo and others used their actions all the way to break this doubt, but the next thing was not all smooth sailing, there were many challenges encountered day and night, several polemics, and countless workshops and workshops rose from the ground, and a large number of overseas markets were developed. I have experienced all these things before I know how difficult it is today.

In other words, no matter how difficult it is to change the law today, can it be more difficult than when there were all enemies and few supporters at the beginning?

Impossible.

So, since we have experienced so many storms and waves, what is the current financial crisis?

It's not that life can't go on, Zhu Gaochi is indecisive and refuses to distribute, then Jiang Xinghuo can do it himself, what is it to cut some of his own flesh, take a long-term view, now the overall economy of Daming is doing increments rather than stocks, extending the timeline to three or five years, these are not big numbers at all.

Moreover, Jiang Xinghuo also has a deep meaning, which is hidden.

"But I still think"

"Pain?"

Huang Ziwei shook his head and only said: "These Shangshu and waiters are a little selfish. ”

Jiang Xinghuo said lightly: "I think there is nothing wrong with their proposition, according to the convention, you really can't just embezzle the money of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, which is not conducive to the stability of the imperial court, and we are not robbers, we can't do that kind of thing, as for whether the current financial system is reasonable or not, how to change it in the future, that is a matter for the future." ”

Huang Ziwei hesitated: "But...... I'm still worried that the problem of the household department will affect the political situation in the court, after all, the total income of the Ming Dynasty is numbered, which is nothing more than the three major pieces of land tax and monopoly commodity tax and commercial tax, although it has been reformed for a long time, but the new deal cannot completely replace the old system after all, and the financial problem of the household department is difficult to completely solve. ”

"Hahahaha! You, you're in the picture. ”

Jiang Xinghuo finished drinking the tea, lit him and smiled, and only said, "You said that even if the household can't afford it, what will happen?" ”

Huang Ziwei was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this question.

In Huang Ziwei's subconscious, he only felt that this year's financial dismantling between various temples belonged to the demolition of the east wall to make up the west wall, and if he couldn't afford it, there would definitely be a problem, but he didn't think deeply about what the problem was.

Following this line of thought, Huang Ziwei thought about it.

yes, what if you really can't afford it next year?

Will the household department default? No, no, no.

Between the lightning and flint, Huang Ziwei suddenly figured out the truth behind the fog.

- Instead, we must increase the intensity of law change!

Yes, it doesn't sound very logical, why does the household department dismantle funds from other ministries and temples in order to maintain the reform, but it can't afford to promote the process of reform?

The reason is very simple, if you can't pay back the money, then the household department will not only become the uncle, but also the other ministries will have to support the household department's money plan in order to repay the household.

How can the household department make money? It is nothing more than the three pieces that Huang Ziwei said, increase the clean-up of the intermediate links of the summer and autumn taxes, increase the scale of domestic trade and maritime trade to collect more commercial taxes, and increase the clarification and traceability of monopoly commodities such as salt.

No matter which one it is, it is a positive promotion of law change!

Thinking of this, Huang Ziwei looked at Jiang Xinghuo who was drinking tea in surprise.

He finally understood why this national teacher was so reluctant to give in at today's financial meeting, not only forbearance for the country, but also a long way to go.

(End of chapter)