Chapter Ninety-Two: Ministers Are Ministers of the Lost Country
The names of the people, the arrangements one by one, even Zhu Youzhen, who is the emperor, can't help but be completely confused, no way, these contents are too detailed, so detailed that he feels extremely incredible.
Some of these names he knew, but some he didn't even know.
However, after the shock, Chongzhen quickly reacted.
"That, sir, the suspension of taxes in Shaanxi, where will the taxes of the imperial court come from!"
The words spoke with hesitation.
Although Zhu Youzhen's personal ability is a little worse, this ability is not his wisdom, but his execution.
This can be seen in the original trajectory, in the original trajectory, Chongzhen was very clear about many problems of the Ming Dynasty, such as the problem of the scholars, and also secretly mentioned the generals, it seems that he wants to improve the status of the generals to contain the Wenchen, but the result is useless.
His change of order and crazy behavior directly made the generals unable to trust him at all.
But all this is enough to prove his wisdom, and his vision is indeed okay.
Jiang Chen's description of all this is undoubtedly very beautiful, and Zhu Youzhen can even see that according to this method, Da Ming will definitely be able to turn the tide.
The key question, however, is where the money will come from.
Even if he obeyed Jiang Chen's method, he let the Liukou clean up the clan.
But let's not say that Daming's finances are already beyond their means, even if they can make some surpluses, the three salaries may not be enough.
Not to mention making this series electric.
You must know that no matter what kind of policy requires policy execution, and the execution is still money, even if it is the emperor, after all, you can't let the horse run and not let the horse eat grass.
But where does the money come from?
Even now, when he has just ascended the throne, money and food are still extremely scarce, although it has not yet reached the point of follow-up, it is not enough to support such a large-scale operation for him.
Not to mention the formation and training of the new army, it is Jiang Chen who said that he will set up the prime minister's national affairs yamen, recruit Europa, purchase and develop firearms, and improve the calendar, and he will most likely have no money.
Chongzhen's financial income in the first year was 3.26 million taels of silver, and the actual income after deducting the deficit of the previous year was 2 million taels of silver, while the military salary of Liaodong alone cost 3.27 million taels.
He had no money.
Well, there are not many emperors in the entire Ming Dynasty who are rich.
From Zhu Yuanzhang's loss of money to him, except that Zhu Di is better.
The other emperors were short of money.
This is also something that can't be helped, the first Ming Dynasty land tax is too low, only about 3%. The second is that the group that does not pay taxes is too large, mainly the gentry and the huge clan of the Ming Dynasty. The third is that there are very few commercial taxes, and they are all smuggling. The fourth is that the Ming Dynasty could have relied on the Weisuo Tuntian to increase taxes, but it was destroyed during the Yongle period. The fourth is to make money through the monopoly of the core business by eunuchs, and Chongzhen is gone.
However, the expenditure was very large, with peasant uprisings in the east, the Manchus occupying the northeast in the east, and the Mongols in the west.
In this way, the money is naturally even more insufficient.
Zhu Youzhen was very clear about this, so at this moment, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but speak.
"Money, it's not easy to solve!"
"Two ways, which do you want to hear?!"
Looking at Zhu Youzhen's heart in the chat group, Jiang Chen chuckled, and the text quickly typed out.
"Two ways?"
On the other side, Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up.
He didn't expect that Jiang Chen really had a way to solve the problem that had been bothering him, and there were two ways to solve it as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Please sir teach me!"
Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth with excitement and trembling.
"First, let Jinyiwei set off and copied all the officials above the third grade in the capital, Peng Sunyi wrote in the "Pingkou Zhi": The gold he received was about three out of ten in Houmen, three out of ten in the eunuch temple, two out of ten in a hundred officials, and two out of ten in Shangjia, a total of 70 million taels. The palace has been washed for a long time, and Huaizong has reduced food, cloth, and the gold and silver of wine and utensils are full of military salaries, and there are countless treasures inside. The proceeds of the punishment of the thief are threatened to be obtained, and those who know hate it. ”
"With this method, you said that the rest, getting seventy or eighty million taels is not a big problem, and you can solve all the money and food problems in an instant."
Jiang Chen opened his mouth slowly, and his words carried a deep coldness.
Although Chongzhen is a king who throws the pot, he is the king of the dead country, but he is not the king of the dead country as he said, but he is not wrong in the latter sentence, the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country.
The Wenchen of the Ming Dynasty are almost rotten to the roots.
After Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he didn't treat the magnates like Chongzhen begged them for some money, and pulled them to the front door one by one, and the big knife was directly put on his neck, whether he gave money or not, and he didn't click directly. If you have it, take it out, don't take a three-melon and two dates to send me, this time it directly scraped out 70 million taels, which is almost the income of the Ming Dynasty's treasury for 20 years, which is simply exaggerated to an unimaginable level.
And looked at the text displayed by Jiang Chen.
In the group, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be angry in an instant.
"Good, good, I really deserve to be a good courtier of my Zhu family!"
Zhu Yuanzhang directly smashed the teapot, and his face couldn't help but look angry.
70 million taels, a full 70 million taels, even during his Hongwu period, this is more than ten years of treasury revenue, and he has zero tolerance for corruption, such a result is simply unacceptable.
"Father!"
Prince Zhu Biao was a little puzzled and a little nervous.
But at this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's anger is still not gone, and his anger is still rising.
He didn't expect him to be so strict about politics, and this kind of situation still appeared in later generations.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is not the only one who is up and down at this moment.
Even Zhu Di, whose treasury income has skyrocketed at this moment, and Zhu Houxi couldn't help frowning.
At this moment, the treasury income during the Yongle period exceeded two billion taels of silver, and the time and space of Jiajing also reached seven or eight billion taels of silver, but seventy million taels of silver was still a large number, and it was even copied from the hands of officials.
Such a result, even they did not expect.
After all, even if large-scale maritime trade has begun in their era, the officials will definitely not be able to make up 70 million taels.
In the last years of the good guy dynasty, those civil officials made it up.
As for Zhu Youzhen, his eyes widened at the moment, and his expression was in disbelief.
He is not a fool, in a certain way, his insight is considered to be quite good among emperors, but he has never thought about what Jiang Chen said.
Those Wenchen, who cried poor in front of him every day, were able to have so much money, and even so much that his breathing couldn't help but be a little sluggish.
Seventy million taels.
Exactly 70 million taels.
How much silver is that?
"Goo-dong!"
Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and his face kept changing at this moment, flushed, excited, angry, and unspeakable.
(End of chapter)