"Shanxi Tianfu has a bucket, there are also eight liters, seven liters, and the slope is often set at five liters."

In the cold winter of the month, a table with a length of three zhang was placed in the Wuying Palace, and there were eight chairs on the left and right, which sat on the six books and the imperial history of the left and right of the Imperial Palace.

In terms of position, Yu Xin, the head of the household department, is reporting on the quota of acres of land in each province, which is related to the burden of the people in the provinces in the coming year.

During the Hongwu period, the quota of acres in this province was rarely changed, but it has been changed twice since Yongle.

One is the thirty-third year of Hongwu, and the other is now after a year.

The reason why the problem of changing the quota of land taxes arose was that Zhu Gaoxu found more problems about peasants' tax payments.

At present, the Ming Dynasty needs to restore production and the amount of cultivated land in the north during the Northern Song Dynasty, so the quota of land per mu in each province still has to be discussed.

On the golden platform, Zhu Di listened to Yu Xin's report, but his eyes looked at the music in his hand, and his brows were furrowed.

In winter, Wuliangha unexpectedly appeared in Zhaozhou and Quanning, but fortunately they were repelled by the Bohai and Daning cavalry.

Sitting below him was Zhu Gaoxu, who was listening to Yu Xin's narration intently at the moment.

To the left and right of the two of them stood Xie Jin, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, Yang Shiqi, Jin Youzi and other palace scholars.

"Zhejiang Tianfu has a bucket, eight liters of paddy field, five liters of slope, one bucket of Sichuan paddy field, six liters of slope."

"According to the quota of the imperial court, this year's quota is 35 million stones."

After Yu Xin finished talking about the general situation, he said the quota set by Zhu Gaoxu this year.

After he finished speaking, Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, got up and bowed to Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu in Jintai:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although Zhejiang has more than 46 million mu of land, it is mostly sloping land, and it should continue the old Hongwu system to pay taxes and grain."

"Of the 35 million quota, Zhejiang can afford 2.5 million."

"In addition, Nanzhili should also bear six million in accordance with the old Hongwu system."

As soon as Li Zhigang opened his mouth, he set a quota of 8.5 million, which was almost a quarter of the quota given by Damingtian.

Zhu Di still understands these two provinces, so when he saw that Zhu Gaoxu didn't speak, he bowed his head and said: "These two provinces are like this, what about the other provinces?" ”

Seeing Zhu Di inquiring about the situation in other provinces, Li Zhigang sat down unhurriedly, and Xie Jin, who was a scholar of the palace, also turned to Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

"Your Majesty, although Jiangxi has 40 million cultivated land, the annual quota of 2.6 million yuan is already a heavy burden, and it should not be increased ......."

"Bachelor Xie's words are wrong."

Before Xie Jin could speak, Zhu Gaoxu interrupted: "There are 40 million mu of cultivated land in Jiangxi, and how much slope land there is, Gu knows very well. ”

"In terms of slopes, will Jiangxi have more than Zhejiang?"

"Your Highness, Jiangxi does have more slopes than Zhejiang." Xie Jin responded, he knew that Zhu Gaoxu had not been to Jiangxi, and Zhu Di was the same.

Looking at Xie Jin's appearance, if Zhu Gaoxu didn't know what the situation in Jiangxi was, it would be really easy to be deceived by him.

As a person who works in a geological unit, what is the situation in the provinces, this is what he has to do every year to write statistical reports.

There are many slopes in Zhejiang's 40 million acres of cultivated land, and he believes that after all, Zhejiang in later generations will not be able to find 20 million acres of plain cultivated land, let alone now.

However, Jiangxi's plain cultivated land is definitely much more than that of Zhejiang, and Jiangxi's tax grain is only 100,000 stone higher than Zhejiang's.

"Just one Poyang Lake Plain is bigger than the Hangjiahu Plain in Zhejiang."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Xie Jin, and said without waiting for him to speak: "The quota in Jiangxi this year is three million. ”

"Your Highness, this move will only increase the burden on the people......" Xie Jinrong dissuaded, but Zhu Gaoxu chuckled:

"If there is really a burden, the household department can send the tax department to investigate, and you can also send the cavalry in Beijing to Jiangxi to investigate."

"This ......" Xie Jin is a typical scholar, hearing that Zhu Gaochu wants to mobilize the army and the tax department to picket the acres, and he is unwilling to let Zhu Gaochu send the tax department and the army, he immediately stopped talking.

At this time, the obese Yang Shiqi stood up and said: "Your Highness, the quota of three million is indeed too much, but the difficulties of the imperial court are also there, I believe that the people will understand the good intentions of the imperial court." ”

Compared with Xie Jin, Yang Shiqi is much more active, and he replied that the people would understand the intentions of the imperial court, if something happened in Jiangxi, it would be caused by the court's decision-making mistakes.

"If the people have grievances, they can report them to the Yamen, and the soldiers and horses in Beijing, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the officials of the Taxation Department will go to investigate."

Zhu Gaoxu's oil and salt are not entered, anyway, Jiangxi's quota of 3 million has been increased, and if something happens in Jiangxi, he can just take the opportunity to plant a secret hand in Jiangxi.

"Yes, the minister will convey His Highness's decree......"

Yang Shiqi saw that Zhu Gaoxu's oil and salt did not enter, and he had no choice but to respond hard, thinking about how to distribute the quota of 400,000 stones.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu say this, the six ministries and the cabinet opened their mouths separately.

"Huguang can have a quota of 2.2 million stones, and Henan ......"

"Henan has a quota of 1.5 million stones."

Zhu Gaoxu interrupted everyone's upward distraction, disrupting their rhythm and putting them in a dilemma.

Henan used to have a quota of 2 million stones, but now that it has been reduced by 500,000 stones, it means that other places have to add 500,000 stones, which makes them not know how to go up.

But while they were still thinking, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the ministry, spoke:

"Your Highness, the quota of Beizhili is four million stones, the quota of Shanxi is two million stones, the quota of Shaanxi is one and a half million stones, the quota of Sichuan is one and a half million stones, the quota of Guangdong is one million stones, and the quota of Guangxi is six hundred thousand stones."

Xia Yuanji opened his mouth and suggested that a quota for the five provinces of Beijing be set, and if the quota was set before, it would add up to 25.8 million stones.

His opening surprised everyone, after all, when he said this, there were only four provinces left: Fujian, Yunnan, Shandong, and Liaodong.

Among the four provinces, Fujian has little arable land, Liaodong is newly developed, and Yunnan has only a small amount of private land, which is obviously not enough to solve the remaining 9.2 million stones.

"Isn't Xia Yuanji from the East Palace? How can you put the burden on Shandong? ”

For a while, except for Yu Xin and Huang Fu, the rest of the ministers were surprised, and at the same time they also set their eyes on Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di.

Zhu Di also set his eyes on Zhu Gaoxu, wanting to know what his son wanted to do.

"Sichuan's quota is 2 million stones, and Guangxi Tusi has also gained a lot of arable land after it has been pacified, and 800,000 stones is the best."

Regarding Xia Yuanji's suggestion, Zhu Gaoxu only raised the quota of Guangxi and Sichuan, but even so, there is still a gap of 8.5 million.

"Fujian will cut a little, 800,000 stone is enough, Yunnan will set 200,000 stone, and Liaodong will be responsible for 2 million stone, and Shandong will be responsible for 5.5 million stone."

Zhu Gaoxu took the initiative to set the quota of land in the last four provinces, of which Shandong's 5.5 million stone is jaw-dropping, after all, Shandong used to be 2.8 million, but now it has almost doubled.

In such a situation, even Xie Jin, who thinks highly of himself, is worried: "Your Highness, such a quota, I am afraid that the people will ...... burden"

He was worried that such a high quota would provoke a civil uprising in Shandong, but Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently:

"Shandong and Liaodong are now implementing a new policy, abolishing the rest of the miscellaneous items except for the salt tea mine tax and commercial tax, and in addition, the land tax and commercial tax are changed to ten levies."

Zhu Gaoxu's words are equivalent to saying that the miscellaneous income of Shandong in the past has been abandoned, in exchange for the improvement of land endowment.

You must know that miscellaneous items are the bulk of the income of the servants and the lieutenant chief, the grain chief, and other helpers, and Zhu Gaoxu's move undoubtedly offended tens of thousands of helpers and thousands of servants in Shandong.

However, before the ministers could react, Zhu Gaoxu got up and said to Zhu Di:

"Father, the sons are ready to use Shandong and Liaodong as a pilot to implement administration, and once the new policy is successful, it can be fully promoted."

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Di put down the music in his hand, and showed a curious expression on his face.

Of course, all this is a disguise, because in the past month or so, Zhu Gaoxu has discussed all the details of the new deal with Zhu Di, and now he is just pretending not to know, so as to support Zhu Gaoxu.

Regardless of the success of the new policy, he can act as an intermediary to ease the relationship between the East Palace and the ministers, which is also what Zhu Gaoxu wants to see.

"From now on, the monthly salary of the officials in Shandong will be set as two stones, and the chief of the township and the chief of the grain will be appointed as the officials, and the officials will also have the opportunity to participate in the imperial examination and be promoted to officials."

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Xie Jin knew that what he had been worried about had happened.

"Your Highness, how many towns and villages are there in Shandong......

Li Zhigang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, inquired, but Zhu Gaoxu said without thinking: "There are three hundred and forty-five market towns and five thousand eight hundred and sixteen villages. ”

Zhu Gaoxu's answer caught Li Zhigang off guard, but he still calmed down: "If it is according to what His Highness said, then these towns need to have at least more than 12,300 people. ”

"No!" Zhu Gaoxu interrupted: "To be exact, it is 18,532 people, because the market town needs to have five chiefs and five grain chiefs. ”

"In addition, there are 620 officials in 89 counties in the six prefectures and 15 prefectures in Shandong, 5,200 officials in prefectures and counties, a total of 620 officials in Shandong, and 23,732 officials in prefectures, counties, townships and towns."

"Good ......" Li Zhigang was disrupted by Zhu Gaoxu, so he could only seize the opportunity to speak:

"According to the number said by His Royal Highness, plus the officials of the Tea and Salt Mine Division, there are at least twenty-four thousand."

"Dare to ask Your Highness, how old are these people?"

"The officials are 576,000 stones, and the officials are 124,000 stones, totaling 700,000 stones." Zhu Gaoxu reported what he needed without thinking, which made Li Zhigang speechless.

Without waiting for Li Zhigang to speak, Zhu Gaoxu continued: "According to this year's Shandong "Grain Book" and the taxation and commercial taxes of the three divisions, it is completely possible to pay 3.8 million stone to the imperial court and more than 400,000 yuan to the three divisions and commercial taxes while supporting the local officials and officials. ”

"But the chief secretary still needs to intercept ......," Li Zhigang was about to continue, but continued to be disrupted by Zhu Gaoxu.

"Since it is a new policy, it will naturally be changed, and the local interception will be fixed at 30% in the future, and the remaining 70% will be handed over to the imperial court."

Zhu Gaoxu said, and at the same time said to Zhu Di: "Your Majesty, the ministers know that the number of officials in the court has never exceeded 60,000, but time has passed, nothing is fixed, and the number of officials in the court is only more than 50,000, the reason is that at the beginning of the founding of the country, there were many wastes waiting to be rebuilt, and there were not enough scholars in the world. ”

"But now, the imperial court has held many imperial examinations, and there are thousands of Jinshi admitted alone, and the following lifters, showmen and children are tens or hundreds of thousands."

"It's much better to use these people as officials than to use people who don't know anything."

"What Erchen thinks is to take Shandong as a pilot, regardless of the situation of the field, and only collect 10% of the output."

After he said that, Xie Jin also grasped a point and walked out to him: "Your Highness, may I ask Your Highness, what if the people have complaints about such a high field endowment?" ”

"It is taken from the people and for the people, and the court takes so many taxes from the people, so naturally it must be used on the people." Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts were faster than Xie Jin's.

"The construction of official roads, township roads, bridges, Tangyan rivers, and piqu embankments all require manpower, and they can all be returned to the people through construction."

Zhu Gaochu said the concept of economic circulation, this concept has long been known to the ancients, and Xie Jin naturally understands it, so he asked Zhu Gaochu:

"There is a loss in grain transportation, and I am afraid that the loss is not small because of such a lot of effort."

"The imperial court collected gold, silver and copper coins from the southwest and overseas, which could be used to distribute them to the people." Zhu Gaoxu answered Xie Jin's inquiry and continued:

"Fuzhou County Yaju project and the people work, the imperial court issued copper money as wages, the people bought and sold grain with wages, and the losses were borne by the people."

What is the loss of grain transportation, Zhu Gaoxu can know better than Xie Jin.

Except for areas with difficult roads such as the southwest and northwest, as long as the transportation in most areas is not too far, the loss will not exceed the weight of the grain itself.

The grain of Shandong is stored in Shandong and used for the people, which is only a distance of dozens of miles for the people, and this loss is only a matter of a meal.

The existence of attrition is nothing more than an excuse for the greed of that group of officials and officials.

"If that's the case, then dare to ask Your Highness, what's the use of the imperial court still having conscription?"

Xie Jin had a kind expression of seeking solutions on the surface, but in his heart he was digging a pit for Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Gaoxu was not fooled: "You can do without conscription, but you can't do without it." ”

No one can predict what the consequences of abolishing conscription will be, but Zhu Gaoxu also chose to keep it, but it is up to the imperial court to decide whether or not to use conscription.

As long as the imperial court does not issue conscription, then conscription does not exist, so Zhu Gaoxu is ready to make strict restrictions on whether the prefectures and county officials in various parts of the world can issue conscription, and all conscription must be approved by the emperor.

"In that case, the minister has no objection......"

Xie Jin was very helpless, now that Zhu Gaoxu has soldiers, people and money, the resources he can use are not comparable to them at all.

Zhu Gaoxu did not directly implement the administration of the whole country, but only implemented it in Shandong, which shows that he knows that the cards in his hand are not enough to be put into the whole country.

However, when they are used in one province, even if the temple opposes it, it cannot be stopped.

Xie Jin was unwilling to retreat, but Yang Shiqi suddenly stood up and asked: "Your Highness, do so many officials want to raise money in Shandong or in the world?" ”

"I already have arrangements for the matter of the officials, so I don't have to worry about this matter." Zhu Gaoxu did not answer Yang Shiqi directly, but Yang Shiqi had already roughly guessed what kind of officials Zhu Gaoxu was transferring.

Xie Jin mentioned before that the East Palace has a wide range of official schools in Liaodong, including almost all the people of Liao.

Judging from Zhu Gaoxu's continuous transfer of thousands of officials and officials from outside the border in the past two years, I am afraid that Zhu Gaochu had already begun to deliberately cultivate his protégés when he was in Bohai.

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Shiqi felt Zhu Gaoxu's terribleness.

Liaodong's official school is a five-year system, and if Bohai is the same, it means that Zhu Gaoxu had already begun to train protégés as early as the twenty-eighth or ninth year of Hongwu, and he was just a Bohai county king at that time.

Doesn't this mean that he had long expected that Zhu Yunwen would cut the domain, and he had long been ready to rebel, so he spent so much resources to cultivate this group of students......

Yang Shiqi retreated from his position and did not speak again.

Seeing that he and Xie Jin didn't speak, Hu Guang and Hu Yan didn't speak.

"Since there is no objection, let's take Shandong as a pilot and implement the new policy."

Zhu Di looked at the scene of Zhu Gaoxu returning to Xie Jin, Li Zhigang and others, and his heart couldn't help but be happy.

Playing with literati is the last thing he wants to do, and he prefers to use discipline to solve this group of people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di also sank his eyes and looked at an official who had not spoken.

The man seemed to feel Zhu Di's gaze, and only after raising his head to make sure did he stand up and say:

"Your Majesty, Chen Ying, the minister of the Imperial History of the Left Capital, impeached the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, Yu Shiji, the Imperial History of the Left Capital, Yu Shiji, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Yuan Fu, the Imperial History Che Shu was greedy and tyrannical, formed a party for personal gain, hid Zhuangtian, deceived the people, and deceived the Holy Listening ......"

"Ridiculous!"

Chen Ying's sudden impeachment surprised the ministers, and one of the targets of impeachment, Shangshu Yu of the Criminal Department, refuted it on the spot.

It's just that after he refuted it, he reacted, it must have been his superiority to the emperor that caused the emperor's dissatisfaction, but now he was retaliated.

A few days ago, Zhu Di was dismissed, accusing him of employing people, thinking that the court should employ people both the old and the new, and Zhu Di only likes to use officials during the Yan Wangfu period, which is not a fair way.

What's more, since Zhu Di ascended the throne, he has repeatedly asked Guanglu Temple to set up banquets for the old ministers of Yanfu, resulting in an increase in the cost of the palace, which is not what the holy monarch should do.

These things are the most taboo things for Zhu Di, so a few days ago he showed the song to the ministers, and no one among the ministers echoed the emperor and angered the emperor, which made Zhu Di feel that he was harboring evil intentions.

As for the other people impeached by Chen Ying except for Yu Yan, they were basically the participants who spread Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu's remarks against the vassal king last time, and they were caught and impeached as a typical example, and it was also to set an example for the chickens.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggests sending officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate thoroughly!"

Chen Ying got Zhu Di's instructions, so he was naturally not afraid of revenge, and even he didn't think that he could survive today.

"Good ......" Zhu Di did not hide his dissatisfaction with Luo Yan, which made Luo Yan's face very ugly.

"Retire!" Seeing that the emperor didn't trust him, he didn't want to continue to stay and provoke Zhu Di's dislike, so he left Wuying Hall after saluting.

His behavior made Zhu Di even more annoyed, but at this time, Zhu Gaoxu said: "It's better to let the East Palace also participate in the thorough investigation." ”

"Huh?"

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochu in surprise, he didn't expect Zhu Gaochu to actually insert a bar, but in front of the ministers, he couldn't teach Zhu Gaochu a lesson, so he bowed his head and agreed.

Seeing Zhu Gaochu come out, Yu Xin immediately understood that Zhu Gaochu wanted to protect him, and immediately stood up:

"Your Majesty, the Municipal Department of Commerce also submitted a note on trade and taxation with Japan today."

"Read it." Zhu Di was obviously not very happy with Zhu Gaoxu's actions, so he asked Yu Xin to speak with a cold face.

Seeing this, Yu Xin didn't care, and took out the music and read it.

To put it simply, this year, the city shipping company conducted two trade with Japan, the first time was Zheng He's voyage to the East, and the second time was the seaborne goods after the success of the voyage to the East.

The cost of the second batch of goods is more than 600,000 guan, and if it is successfully sold, it will make a profit of nearly 3 million guan, but because the amount of goods that Zheng He went to the East is too large, the goods shipped to Yinqi have fallen into a unsalable situation, but this is also normal, after all, this batch of goods was originally guaranteed to be sold until June next year and prepared.

Overall, however, more than 2,964,000 kan were sold for the two shipments, of which 77,600 kan were transferred to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu by the city in the name of commercial tax.

77,600 guan is not much for the Ming Dynasty, but it is a big income for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, enough to support more than 30,000 ashiba.

Although Ashikaga Yoshimitsu still has to give half of it to the Kyogoku family, it can also be a big income, not to mention whether he really wants to give half to the Kyogoku family.

The current situation is undoubtedly that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the Kyogoku family united with the Ming Dynasty to harvest the Japanese nobles and guardians with economic trade, and the nobles and guardians used the proceeds of trade to harvest the domestic commoners.

In the short term, when there is still plenty of silver and copper coins in Japan, there will be no contradictions in Japan.

However, over time, the market trade will trigger an outflow of silver and copper coins from Japan.

It's just that the Kyogoku family is already using the Ming Dynasty's gunpowder and ash blowing techniques to mine Iwami silver ore, and the Ashikaga family can obtain a large amount of copper coins through the Hidden Ambiguity City Ship, and they are as vested interests in this drama of the Ming Dynasty's economic plundering of Japan's resources, and it is difficult to cut off in-depth exchanges with the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Japan will inevitably have a shortage of money due to long-term trade, and the local guardians will also be dissatisfied with the Ashikaga shogunate, which will lead to turmoil.

Zhu Gaoxu will not make a move soon, but will need Japan to be chaotic to a certain extent before he will take action to support the Ashikaga shogunate.

The Ashikaga shogunate could not fall, at least not until the Iwami silver mines and silver mining throughout Japan were exhausted.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also paid attention to reality.

Zhu Di and the ministers didn't know much about economic warfare, and at the moment they only knew that the Ming Dynasty had gained enough benefits from the Japanese market.

Excluding costs, this year, the Ming Dynasty earned nearly 1.9 million yuan worth of silver and copper coins from Japan through trade, and also squeezed more than 2 million yuan worth of goods.

Zhu Di also knows that scarcity is expensive, this year Daming has brought too many goods, then next year's Japan will definitely be weak in the market trade, next year may not be able to achieve this year's market results, but it doesn't matter, even if the market trade is only a few hundred thousand, it is a lot of income for Daming.

"Alright, you guys stand down."

After listening to what Yu Xin said about the trade situation with Japan, Zhu Di also opened his mouth and motioned for the ministers to retreat.

Seeing this situation, everyone knew that the emperor and the crown prince had something to say, and after making a salute, they walked out of the Wuying Hall one after another.

After they left completely, Zhu Di frowned and looked at Zhu Gaoxu: "I want to kill Yu Yan, what are you out to stir up?" ”

"Ming Taizong Record": "In December, Ding Chou, the quota of 35 million stones, the university scholar Xie Jin, Shangshu Li Zhigang wanted to fight, and the prince persuaded Shandong to try the new deal. ”

(End of chapter)