"It is a year of 81,625,000 more than 32 people, 6,220,000 acres of land, more than 72 acres and 6 cents, and 40 million stones of tax grain."

"Thirty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-two taels of gold, five cents of silver, more than one hundred and ninety-five thousand taels of silver, and more than two million six hundred and forty-three thousand pieces of copper."

"Miscellaneous, commercial taxes, mining taxes, salt, and tea are more than 2,73,000 times, and there are more than 1,350,000 colors of iron, lead, silk, silk, satin, cloth, cotton, and so on."

"It is an annual income of 40 million stones, and other types of folded colors have an annual income of more than 8,682,000."

In the sound of firecrackers, accompanied by the Fengtian Palace, Guo Zi, the head of the household who was wearing court clothes, reported the results, and the ministers wearing court clothes in the entire temple sighed in their hearts for the changes in the Ming Dynasty over the years.

From 60 million people and 4.52 million hectares in the 14th year of Hongwu to more than 80 million people and more than 6.2 million hectares in the 10th year of Yongle now.

Most of these populations and cultivated land were hidden in the middle and late Hongwu periods, but now they have been measured and checked by Zhu Gaoxu by means of school records.

However, there are only six political divisions in the Ming Dynasty, and there are only six political divisions in the new government, plus one Beizhili, but seven, not even half of the world.

If Zhu Gaoxu continues to demand that the new policies be implemented in the next political departments, it will be a frightening result.

Fortunately, judging from the information they have received, the implementation of the new policy seems to have reached its limit.

However, it is normal to think about it, although Zhu Gaoxu said what happened after the implementation of the new policy, but the reality is that the local fiscal expenditure is getting bigger and bigger, and it is now so large that it accounts for one-third of the finance.

"The Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies went to the year and had 17.6 million stones. There were more than 158,000 military horses and 365,000 horses. ”

"The annual military rations are 18 million stones, and the military salary is more than 340 yuan."

"This year, the imperial court needs to allocate 400,000 stone of military rations, 3.4 million yuan of military salaries, and 2 million stones of bean material from the imperial court."

Just when the ministers were thinking about the increasing financial expenditures, they didn't want Zhang Yu, the British duke of the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies, to stand up and speak.

His words stunned the ministers, after all, in the second year of Yongle, the Governor's Mansion still paid more than 27 million stone of military food and more than 2 million yuan of military salary.

But they don't want to think that now the military rations only need more than 18 million, but the military salaries have only increased by more than 1.4 million.

"Quasi-play!" Regarding Zhang Yu's opening, Zhu Di chose to agree without thinking.

At the same time, his gaze also swept over the ministers, as if he was a little provocative.

Standing under his golden platform, Zhu Gaoxu also chuckled and glanced at the ministers, and the pressure brought by the father and son made the ministers bow their heads one after another.

One of Zhu Gaoxu's New Policies was to abolish many health centers in the mainland and convert them to private households.

In recent years, in addition to the seven places where the new policy was implemented, there were also many guards along the coast, as well as the guards in Shaanxi, which were converted into private households, with the number of more than 700,000.

Of these more than 700,000 military households, the annual grain expenditure is only 9 million stone.

After they were eliminated, only the original soldiers were retained, with a number of nearly 240,000, including 70,000 of the navy, a total of 60 guards, and a strength of 336,000 troops.

In addition to these 60 professional guards, there are only 216 battle guards left, with a number of nearly 1.21 million, but nearly seventy percent of them are cantonment soldiers.

If these garrisons were converted into civilian households, the number of remaining soldiers would only be about 300,000, and the expenditure on military rations would drop from more than 1,400,000 to 6 million.

However, at the same time, the amount of seed grain in the military tun will also plummet to the extent that there are only 40 overseas tun guards and about 3 million stones.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's military food expenditure will be controlled at about 10 million stones, and the military salary will be 7 million yuan.

Despite the increase in spending, the quality of the army has improved.

Not only that, overseas such as Cochin, Jiugang, Luzon, and outside the border such as Daning, these places will also increase Tuntianwei one after another.

Zhu Yuanzhang's guard system can continue, but at that time, it will be a conquest of soldiers, and the garrison will be reclaimed, once the proportion of local Han people remains above fifty percent, the garrison will either be abolished for the people, or trained as an army, and will advance outward step by step.

Sanxuan Liuwei, Nanyang region, Nanzhou in the south, all parts of the Northeast and the Western Regions......

These are the places where the guard system shines, and there is no need for the interior anymore, and it is enough to keep 20,000 to 40,000 permanent soldiers in various places.

In addition, according to Zhu Gaoxu's system, the soldiers will also be rotated with the frontier every three years to ensure the combat strength of the inland soldiers.

"Your Majesty, the minister will return to the king in the matter, and there is something to play......"

Suddenly, an abrupt voice sounded in the Fengtian Temple, and everyone looked over, but saw a young official in his twenties, three, four, and twenty-four.

"Quasi-play!" Zhu Di wanted to see what this official was going to sell, and this Wang Hui continued;

"The implementation of the new policy should have been to tax all provinces in accordance with the method of ten taxes and one tax."

"Is it a bit inappropriate to implement it for many years, but the provinces still collect taxes according to the fixed amount......

After Wang Hui's words were finished, the entire temple could not stand.

Indeed, if the method announced by Zhu Gaoxu was followed, then the Ming Dynasty should cancel the quota of land taxes, and instead collect taxes according to the output of acres of land in various places.

However, after so many years of the implementation of the new policy, all localities still collect taxes according to the fixed amount, which is somewhat unreasonable.

How can these spirits in the temple not understand such a question?

But the problem is that no one is willing to pierce this layer, even Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di on the golden platform.

The reason why the hundred officials are reluctant to break it is very simple, because if the tax is really collected according to the ten endowments, it is equivalent to taking the initiative to ask the new policy to be implemented in Jiangnan.

After all, with the current number of officials in Jiangnan, it is simply not enough to implement the tax collection method of ten taxes and one tax.

Although they could accept the imperial court's new policy in Jiangnan, they would not take the initiative to ask for it.

As for Zhu Gaoxu's idea, it is also very simple, that is, the current Ming Dynasty is not financially sufficient to implement a new policy for the most densely populated Jiangnan region.

Given the current population of more than 30 million people in the south of the Yangtze River, the total number of teachers and officials required to implement the new policy is at least 500,000 in order to raise this tax revenue and popularize the government and education.

To maintain such a large number of officials and teachers, the money and food needed are beyond the reach of the Ming Dynasty today.

Only when Zheng He brought back the gold and silver obtained from this trip to the West could Zhu Gaoxu fully promote the New Deal in Jiangnan in one go.

As long as Jiangnan is solved, it will be much easier to implement Shaanxi, Liangguang, Yunnan, Huguang, and Fujian.

I have to say that the pressure on Zheng He's shoulders is really quite great now, not only to bear the flint pressure required by the army's northern expedition, but also to bear the financial pressure of the implementation of the Jiangnan New Deal.

If Zheng He knew all this, it was estimated that he would speed up and rush back to Daming, after all, he had already entered the Manraka Strait at this moment.

Not to mention his side, what needs to be solved urgently at the moment is mainly Wang Hui's matter.

Zhu Gaoxu remembers this person, he was born in Jilin City, Bohai Province, Shandong, which means that he is a real Bohai New Deal.

In his capacity, it is not difficult to see that the young and vigorous New Deal faction was very dissatisfied with the imperial court's practice of limiting the number of officials recruited in the past two years.

In their opinion, the Ming Dynasty needed more officials, and it was difficult for the children of their hometown to become officials, so they were left to take the road of officials.

Anyway, the Jiangnan gentry have always discriminated against them northerners, and now they are taking this opportunity to enter Jiangnan and clean up this group of guys.

Zhu Gaoxu can guarantee that once the New Deal is implemented in Jiangnan, even if he does not need to speak, the officials and officials of the New Deal faction will make every effort to investigate the officials from Jiangnan.

Whenever they have problems of principle, the New Deal will kill them.

The contradiction between the north and the south has always been a hurdle that cannot be crossed in the early Ming Dynasty, and thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu can't wait to pull out the emperors and scholars of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

A policy of "returning the southerners to the south and northerners to the north" has simply divided the north and the south for more than 200 years, not to mention the various operations that have ruined the people and the economy in the north.

Although he wanted Jiangnan officials to be suppressed, he didn't want Jiangnan officials to die.

If the Jiangnan officials are really killed, then the New Deal faction will be a bit of a dominant.

"If we use the means of ten taxes and one tax, if we have more than 6.2 million hectares of cultivated land today, we can harvest at least 70 or 80 million stone fields."

"According to the experience of the minister who participated in the implementation of the new policy in Sichuan, the level of the officials in the Hongwu period was low, and most of the fish and meat people invented the drenched kick hu, the library, the pu basket, the bamboo basket, and the mouthpiece...... and all kinds of methods that emerge in an endless stream to exploit the people. ”

"Relying on these means, they expropriated tens of millions of stone of grain, and although the imperial court set a quota of 32 million stones, the officials collected 60 or 70 million stones, thus pocketing most of them."

"In this way, the court has become a small head, but the officials have become a big head."

"Since the implementation of the new policy in Sichuan, we have collected taxes according to the method of ten taxes and one tax, and the people have reduced their burdens, and the amount of grain they receive every year far exceeds the quota set by the imperial court."

"It's just that due to quota restrictions, the grain collected can only be stored in the township warehouse."

"After a long time, I am like a micro-minister, and I can't help but be greedy......"

"Because of this, the minister wanted to ask His Majesty whether to implement the new policy of ten taxes and one tax, or still follow the quota during the Hongwu period."

Wang Hui called the grassroots officials in the Hongwu period Xu officials, and called the new policy officials officials, and his words were full of contempt for the former officials.

Everyone knows that he is a pawn pushed up by the officials of the New Deal, and if this thing succeeds, he will rise to the top.

If he fails, then it will be difficult for him to be killed, after all, he has the identity of Jilin City.

Everyone knows that today's East Palace takes care of officials and officials from Jilin City, and naturally does not think that the East Palace, which rarely kills on weekdays, will ask for the life of this king.

However, the ministers didn't want Zhu Gaoxu to really implement the new policy in Jiangnan now, after all, most of their cultivated land had not been sold.

"There's some truth to what you say."

When Zhu Gaoxu's words of approval came out, the faces of Xie Jin and the others in the temple changed.

"However, at present, the imperial court does not have extra money and grain to implement the new policy in Jiangnan, not to mention that there is still Shaanxi in the north that has not implemented the new policy, so it is not good to be in a hurry."

"Therefore, this year, we will first carry out the pilot of ten taxes and one in Shandong, Liaodong and Sichuan, where the new policy has been implemented, and Beizhili, Shanxi, Henan and Guizhou will wait for another year."

Logically speaking, except for Guizhou, which needs to rest after the war, the rest of Beizhili, Shanxi, and Henan should be able to pay taxes on the policy of ten taxes and one tax.

However, since Zhu Gaoxu has to suspend for a year, it is nothing.

"As for the provinces, let's wait for the spice sales in Xicang, and then go to the Western fleet to return and then promote the new deal."

"According to the time, Zheng He should arrive in the capital in April, but the current imperial court can't wait for him, so in the first half of this year, he will go all out to start the new policy of Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu."

For the New Deal, which is prone to dealing with millions of people, Shaanxi, with a population of just over 3 million at most, will not put little pressure on them.

In the first half of the year and six months, it was not difficult for them to make every effort to lay out the new deal in Shaanxi.

"Zhao Sheng, a member of the Ministry of Ministers, has something to do......"

An official in his thirties walked out, and he was also an official of the New Deal faction, and he was also the first batch to graduate, so Zhu Gaoxu took advantage of the loophole and promoted thousands of people to the official batch.

"Accurate!" Zhu Di opened his mouth without thinking, he also wanted to see what this group of new politicians wanted to do.

"The minister has just calculated by heart, and with the number of mouths in Shaanxi and Xingdu, about 20,000 officials need to be dispatched and 30,000 teachers need to be transferred."

Zhao Sheng didn't plan to be the first bird, he was just settling accounts.

"Since this is the case, we will select from the students who graduated at the end of last year, and the Shaanxi Dusi and Xingdu Si will cooperate."

After Zhu Di responded, he glanced around everyone, and after making sure that no one wanted to go up, he got up and walked to the back of the hall.

Zhu Gaoxu followed, and Honglu Siqing sang loudly when he saw this: "Scatter the dynasty!" ”

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live......"

Listening to the singing of the tsunami in the mountains, Zhu Di, who returned to the Fengtian Palace, changed into a crown dress and a plain dress under the service of the slaves and maids.

Zhu Gaoxu, like him, changed into plain clothes.

"The momentum of the New Deal is ferocious, you have to watch it."

Zhu Di, who changed his clothes and walked to the palace gate, explained to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu also nodded: "The new policy must be implemented, but they cannot be allowed to overthrow the traditional Confucianism, and the two sides must maintain a balance." ”

"The minister knows this, please relax my father."

"Hmm!" Zhu Di saw that Zhu Gaoxu said this, so he didn't say much, but explained:

"When Jiangnan wants to implement a new policy, you can find a way to clean up Ji Gang and Chen Ying."

As Zhu Di's white gloves, Ji Gang and Chen Ying can be said to have impeached and arrested a large number of officials who disobeyed Zhu Di for Zhu Di, and investigated many things about the vassal king.

Although Zhu Shangbing and Zhu Jixi were not targeted miserably as in history because of Zhu Gaoxu, they were also impeached by Ji Gang and Chen Ying.

Seeing this, the rest of the feudal clans also said that they would hand over the guards, but they were all rejected by Zhu Di.

The second mansion of Qin and Jin is because of his high seniority, so he needs to be vigilant, as for the other vassal kings, as long as they don't make too much trouble, Zhu Di will not deliberately target him.

It's just that compared to him, the reason why Zhu Gaoxu agreed to the vassal kings to keep the guards was that he was ready to arrange another change of title in a few decades.

At the beginning, he changed the title of these vassal kings to the southwest, in order to stabilize the situation in the southwest and make the court pay attention to the southwest.

Now that the Dongman in Hunan and the Tusi in Guizhou have been almost cleaned up by Mu Chun, Li Jinglong, and Gu Cheng, then when the Tusi in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Sichuan are also changed to the soil, then the vassals will be of no value in the southwest.

At that time, the Western Regions, Sanxuan and Six Comforts, and the southern part of Jiaozhi are their destinations.

As for Nanyang, Zhu Gaoxu will not easily canonize the vassal king, even if he wants to canonize it, he will also canonize his descendants, after all, it is easy for that place to take the initiative to secede when domestic turmoil breaks out.

However, if you want the feudal clans to be willing to go to Sanxuan and Six Comforts, you have to increase the development of Sanxuan and Six Comforts.

Among other things, the environment in which the migrants have long been suitable for living is the most important.

In an era when coal was not widely available, the best fuel was trees, and a family needed at least seven or eight towering trees to cut down firewood for a year.

If Zhu Gaoxu remembers correctly, the old leader of their unit in his previous life was born in the Yunnan frontier.

According to their words, they have never seen any miasma and malaria in their lives.

Even in the rain-rich places in southern Yunnan, the mountains were still bare in the sixties and seventies because the people needed firewood.

As for most of the trees they see when they go to travel now, they are actually trees that began to survive and grow slowly after the economy developed in the 90s and gas and electricity entered people's homes.

Before there was no gas and electricity, there was no shortage of people who cut down trees unless the price of coal was extremely cheap.

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's new policy to vigorously develop coal in Liaodong and Shanxi, the coal output in Suzhou and Xuzhou alone would not be enough for the local people to have a hot meal.

Coal from the north to the south and grain from the south to the north can be said to be a small policy under the New Deal, because of the lack of transportation capacity, it is also very difficult to transport coal from the north to the south.

But even so, the price of coal in Jiangnan has been pushed down a lot.

In addition, trees from Guizhou and Sichuan were also cut down in batches and sold along the Yangtze River to Jiangxi and Nanzhili.

Even sun-dried river firewood can be sold for a price of 25 wen per 100 catties.

Compared with the thirty-three wen per load during the Hongwu period, it is already visible to the naked eye, but for the people, the price is still too high.

Therefore, in the current Jiangnan area, there is never a shortage of farmers who eat cold rice.

"Gone."

Zhu Di's voice woke Zhu Gaochu up, and watching him sit down and walk away, Zhu Gaochu put his thoughts on Ji Gang and Chen Ying.

These two people have used their father to collect money over the years, and as white gloves, they should have done the last thing before dying.

The implementation of the new policy in Jiangnan will definitely be very difficult for the people, and they have to prepare as soon as possible.

After thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxu also sat on the foot and returned to the Chunhe Hall a quarter of an hour later.

When he returned here, he saw Guo Yan waiting here.

Since the death of Empress Xu, Guo Yan began to manage the harem for Zhu Di.

Although she is the crown princess, most of the women in the harem are in their twenties and thirties, and Zhu Di is now fifty years old.

Except for Zhu Gaoxu who knew that he could live for a long time, the other concubines did not know how long he could live, so in their opinion, it was the most important thing for them to do to tie up the East Palace.

Although Zhu Di was instructed by Zhu Gaoxu when he ascended the throne, he criticized Zhu Yunwen for forging the edict and burying Emperor Gao's concubines, but no one knows whether Zhu Gaoxu would learn from Zhu Yunwen and bury Emperor Daxing's concubines for the sake of the peace of the harem.

Only by making a good relationship with Zhu Gaoxu can they continue to live with peace of mind.

However, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't go to the harem, so the only object they knotted with was Guo Yan, the crown princess who was currently in charge of managing the harem.

"Why did you come to the Spring and Harmony Hall to find me today?"

It seems that it is because of the death of Queen Xu that Zhu Gaoxu has been touched, and he seems to have more feelings for Guo Yan, who accompanied him from the end of Weimo.

Zhu Gaoxu's changes were seen by Guo Yan, and she sighed to him while she was happy:

"Zhan Yan and Zhan Qi didn't go to the official school much last year, and they didn't take the exam."

"I didn't control them in the harem, and Zhang Fengyi couldn't control them."

"Huh?" Hearing that Zhu Zhanqi and Zhu Zhanqi were skipping school, Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly, and then looked at the eunuch on duty: "Isn't anyone optimistic about them?" ”

"Take care of it, but ......" The eunuch on duty hesitated, obviously not daring to take care of these two masters.

"In the future, let Yishiha help take care of it, and if they are disobedient, they will beat me hard on the ass."

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and ordered, and then said to Guo Yan: "After finding them, bring them to the Spring and Peace Palace." ”

"You won't ......" Guo Yan was afraid that Zhu Gaoxu would do something to Zhu Zhanyan, but Zhu Gaoxu interrupted: "I won't do it." ”

To tell the truth, Zhu Gaoxu really didn't dare to do anything to these two children, who knows if he would use too much force and beat his son to death.

"Yes......" Seeing Zhu Gaoxu say this, Guo Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then returned the salute and withdrew from the Chunhe Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu returned to his chair to deal with government affairs, and about two hours later, a noisy noise sounded from outside the hall.

"Too! You let go of me! ”

"I'm sorry for the emperor's grandson, Your Highness wants to see you."

"Second brother, what are you doing! If you have a lot of strength, you will clean up and be a big companion! ”

"I don't dare ......"

Zhu Zhanyu was noisily carried into the Chunhe Hall by Yi Shuha, and as soon as he entered here, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu, and he stopped abruptly, not daring to make a sound.

Zhu Zhanqi, who was behind him, followed Yi Shuha honestly, without the slightest act of escaping.

"Who are you going to clean up?!"

Zhu Gaoxu heard Zhu Zhanyan's words, and immediately questioned Zhu Zhanyan in a deep voice, Zhu Zhanyan was startled, and knelt on the ground while he let go of his hand.

"Dad, the sons are having fun......

Zhu Gaoxu was not going to clean up Zhu Zhanyu, but when he heard him say that he was also losing his temper.

He got up violently and walked towards Zhu Zhanyan, Yishaha was taken aback, and hurriedly protected Zhu Zhanyan.

Zhu Zhanqi and Zhu Zhanqi had never seen their father with such a cold face, and they were so frightened that they couldn't stand up.

"Daddy... Father... I was wrong......"

Zhu Zhanyan hurriedly admitted his mistake, after all, he had seen his father surrender the fierce horse in the backyard of the East Palace, and provoke three guards when he was playing with a lance.

If his father had given him a punch, he would have to confess here today.

"Lone tells you that Yishouha is Brother Paoze who has followed Lone from Jilin City to the present day."

"In the future, if I hear that you are disrespectful to him, you will no longer call Lone a father."

Holding back his temper, Zhu Gaoxu didn't start, but used the "lonely" he had rarely used for so many years as a self-title with a cold face, and verbally reprimanded Zhu Zhanyan.

Although he was only ten years old, as soon as Zhu Zhanyan heard his father call himself lonely, he was so frightened that he lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything.

"Get up and tell me why you skipped school with your dick!"

The eunuch on duty brought a chair to Zhu Gaoxu, and he sat down, ready to see what Zhu Zhanyu could say.

(End of chapter)