Xinshun 1730

Chapter 169 Why You Care About Coastal Defense

It is easy to remind people of the content of the "nonsense" knocking on Deng Wengu's letter at the beginning, and it is natural to think that there is something about Liu Yu in it.

This matter is bound to cause a big disturbance, Zhang Muzhi thought, this kid Liu Yu knows how to choose the time.

After one year of exemption, even if Bai Yunhang's official trial is successful, it will be two years later.If it is effective after two years, it may be promoted nationwide,

But at that time, it was basically necessary to suppress the rebellion of the Junggar tribe.At that time, when Liu Yu led the troops away, no matter how severe the turmoil was, the emperor would not be able to force the emperor to dismiss the generals on the front line.

What's the use of being impeached when the quasi-parties are finished fighting?
Thinking of this, Zhang Muzhi secretly laughed, thinking that Liu Yu's work would really make some big noises quietly.

Anyway, Pingjungar is a hurdle, if Liu Yu can't pass it, he will undoubtedly die.But if it has passed, no matter how many impeachments before, it would be fart, and the memorial of impeachment would be too hard to rub your buttocks.

Zhang Muzhi thought, what does it mean to be confident?This is called being confident.

But this Bai Yunhang is really courageous.

Is it true that those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black?Or was this Bai Yunhang just a daring one, and the two of them had similar tastes, so they met just like that?

Squinting his old eyes, he glanced at the emperor quietly, seeing the emperor's calm demeanor, he waited for everyone to speak.He thought that his attitude was not important at this time, so he said nothing, waiting for others to speak first.

"Your Majesty, I think that Liu Yu is a dragon ban and is also in charge of military training. But he interferes with local affairs. Does this mean that some dogs meddle in other people's business?"

"Once this matter becomes normal, if those who lead the army out of the town interfere with local affairs, there may be disasters for the town."

Zhang Muzhi opened his eyes slightly and said in a muffled voice, "This statement is wrong. Bai Yunhang made it clear that he had the heart, but he was short of manpower, so he had no choice but to borrow manpower. This is not forced by Liu Yu." How can this be called interfering in local affairs? Since Bai Yunhang is on the loose, what is the relationship with Liu Yu? Just because Liu Yu is training troops in Weihai, it cannot be said that he instigated this matter, right?"

Li Gan snorted, tasting the phrase "dogs and mice meddling in their own business", thinking that this is not meddling in their own business.

Everyone didn't know that Liu Yu frightened the emperor with such words as "breaking water transportation, opening imperial examinations, and supporting puppets", so they naturally didn't know about Li Gan's nightmare.

The nightmare of the enemy coming from the east, the fleet plunging straight into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and cutting off the water transportation to open the imperial examination has always lingered in Li Gan's heart.

Of course, a person is inherently mortal, but not necessarily so during his lifetime.

However, Li Gan's nightmare is more specific, and it is the evaluation of later history books such as "Shenzhou sinks again, starting from Taixing".

It's like the attitude Liu Yu has always shown: Junggar's mange disease, even if you don't need to train a new army, you can still win.The preparation and training of the new army is just to practice with Junggar, and the real threat is only the East China Sea.

Li Gan also believed that it was true.

Dashun's internal and external environment is far more relaxed than that of the previous dynasty, and it has far fewer problems than the Qing Dynasty in history.

If we compare the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, regardless of the Northeast and the Southwest, the Northwest in Dashun is more stable than the Manchus.

One is that Shaanxi is the birthplace of Dashun, and one-fifth of the troops of the Old Fifth Battalion are stationed near Xijing.

The second is the issue of religion. The situation in Dashun is completely different from that in the Qing Dynasty.

During the Great Uprising in Shaanxi at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were also many Muslims, many in the Dashun Army fought side by side, and there were also many Muslims among the Liangjiazi.

The Green Sect in the Northwest during the Ming Dynasty was the Hanafi Sect after the magic reform in China, which integrated Confucianism and Nestorianism before the Tang Dynasty, advocated "Confucianism and Buddhism", and began to translate scriptures into Chinese at the end of the Ming Dynasty.Many believers not only served as soldiers, but also participated in the imperial examination.

The Hanafi faction is indeed more tolerant in some respects, such as the tolerance of same-sex marriage between men and women.

Even after the magic reform in China, mourning the dead must wear filial piety and have the first seven.There are only patriarchs in the church, no judges, no religious law, and even intermarriages in the Han Dynasty. Private marriages are not allowed within the church. Parents' orders and matchmaker's words must be respected, and there is no requirement that the party in the intermarriage must convert.

In the original history, because of the great uprising at the end of Ming Dynasty, many Christian rebels followed Li Guo and retreated to Huguang, and Mi Layin and Ding Guodong rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and supported the "Zhu Shi adze".

Follow the story of Di Renjie supporting Li Xian, the king of Luling.

From the seniority of the name "Zhu Shizhi", it is easy to judge that this is the lineage of King Su: Zhanlu Gong Zhenbi, Jin Gentleman [Shi] Lie Zhong, Xi Hui Jin Dang Yun, Kai Admonishment Department Henglong.

This led to a wave of massacres by the Manchus against the Hanafi sect in the Northwest, undermining their original dominance.

The newly introduced Sufis quickly seized the opportunity and expanded aggressively.

When the Sophies were sent to China, they naturally went through the magic reform, but what they merged was some dross.

After the reformation, the Sufi sect learned a lot of dross. The believers knelt down to worship the leader. "Taoist" Ma Mingxin even said openly: Kowtow to me, I am the master, I am a saint!

When encountering three disasters and eight disasters, you have to burn incense and pray; sooner or later you have to offer incense to the patriarch; believers have to contribute money to the patriarch or the church... It seems to have become a feudal manor. right.Ma Mingxin's Zheherenye sect became an important factor in the chaos during the Tongzhi period.

But there was no such situation in Dashun, because Dashun did not break the dominance of the Hanafi faction, nor did it massacre the northwest, causing the Sufi faction to take the opportunity to occupy the vacancy.

After the magic reform, the Hanafi faction still occupies a dominant position, and local officials still control the judicial power. The family power of the leading figures in various regions comes from the government: either military officers, or good family sons, or imperial examination candidates. official.

The various eunuchs of the Sufi sect want to develop. These frontier soldiers, military officers, good family sons or imperial examination officials who have reformed the Hanafi sect with Confucianism and Buddhism, intermarried with gentry and soldiers, and delegated power from above, will not promise.

To engage in personality cult and feudal manor system, they will first be labeled as "evil sects" and use official power to suppress them.

Generally speaking, the Hanafi sect is relatively moderate and relatively easy to secularize.Especially the characteristic magic reform school that was introduced to China and integrated Confucianism, Nestorianism, etc.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court has been holding on to judicial power, and Dashun has continued.

Coupled with the special political status of Xijing, the Northwest, which is said to be a mess, is actually very stable in Dashun.

The Northeast is also very stable. The reform of the Southwest is a long process, but it is not a big problem. The Junggar in the Western Regions is not what it used to be. As long as the Snow Mountain region regains the Western Regions, it will be stable.

Dashun is a natural country with land power. However, if the new army is really capable of fighting against three, or even thousands of people, as Liu Yu said, and the Luocha Kingdom is thousands of miles away, it is temporarily unable to fight on a large scale. Too great a land threat.

Only when Dashun has no land threats will it consider coastal defense.

Therefore, in Li Gan's eyes, Liu Yu's prophecy about the "East China Sea Crisis" has become the most dangerous sharp edge hanging in his heart.

It was also for this reason that Li Gan cared so much after Liu Yu said those frightening words.If the threat on land is not eliminated, it is difficult to care about coastal defense.The northwest is the place where the frontier generals rush, and the west can enter, the north controls Mongolia, and the south enters Qinghai Snow Mountain. This place is stable and there is no chaos, so there is no great risk on land.

Li Gan once asked Liu Yu if there was a quick solution to the coastal defense issue?

Liu Yu's answer is also very simple:
In the United Kingdom, the tonnage of warships is 20 tons, and one ton is about two thousand catties.

As long as the tonnage of warships exceeds that of the United Kingdom, the East China Sea can be guaranteed.

According to the cost of Western countries, the average cost of a warship, one ton including cannons, is about 40 to 50 pounds, 150 taels.

20 tons, that is, 3000 million taels of silver.

20 tons of warships, let alone 40 navies, based on 500 taels of silver per person per year, plus officers' fees, maintenance fees, training fees, gunpowder consumption, and training consumption, the military salary is [-] million taels.

Therefore, as long as the emperor can spend 3000 million taels of silver and guarantee 500 million taels of military pay every year, he can guarantee that there will be no worries in the East China Sea for 30 years.

Indeed, in theory, it is easy to solve.

Just have money.

As long as the annual income of 8000 million taels can be guaranteed, this is not a problem.

When the emperor heard the words of 8000 million taels, he thought it was a fantasy, and Liu Yu couldn't tell him that in the year when the sixth anti-French alliance was formed, Britain's annual revenue was 1 million taels.

The problem of coastal defense, in the final analysis, is money.

Then Liu Yu helped to track down the farmland in Wendeng. To Li Gan, this is of course not meddling in other people's business, but his own responsibility.

If it is possible to check the acres of land across the country, not to mention the annual income of 8000 million, but it should not be a problem to increase it to 700 million.

Money doesn't come from strong winds, it has to be tricked here and squeezed out there.

With an extra 700 million a year, you can do a lot.

Even if half of it is used as the national inventory and cost, and the remaining 400 million is invested in the navy, Li Gan feels that it is better than throwing 10 taels of internal money into the navy by himself.

Want to solve the naval problem, itself lies in the money.

In other words, if you want to solve most of the domestic problems, as long as the money is in place, many problems can be solved easily.

Even if it is the catastrophe in Shandong this year, as long as you have enough money to buy rice from the south and transport it, how can there be such a severe disaster?
Shandong is not located in the northwest, with coasts on three sides. As long as you have money, it is not a problem at all.Even if Jiangnan rice is not enough, what about Vietnamese rice and Siamese rice?
As for these people's words that "the army intervenes in the local area, there may be disasters in the town", these are purely heart-breaking words.

Li Gan knew in his heart that Liu Yu's promise was to build and train an "organized army", and if he could be transferred away, the army could still fight, and the training would be considered a success.

This army is not Liu's army, but his emperor's army; those officers are not Liu Yu's direct descendants, but the emperor's disciples selected by the emperor from Wude Palace. How big of a brain is Liu Yu able to turn this army into a feudal town?

Even Li Gan knew very well in his heart that Liu Yu didn't care about the new army at all, and he didn't even want to seize military power in it. Even though he was far away in the capital, he knew exactly what Liu Yu did in training troops.

He knew that Liu Yu was doing this, but he just wanted to send him a signal: the correct usage of Wude Palace's students in the place is to airborne in groups of hundreds of people to check, not just scattered as officials to mix sand in the officialdom.

Li Gan thought to himself that I understood Liu Yu's meaning, but I'm afraid you haven't really understood it yet.

Baiyun Air Station came out and proposed to try out the allocation of land into the mu. This is just a continuation of Zhang Juzheng's reform of the previous dynasty. It is not that no one in the court has mentioned it.The point is that no one has figured out an effective way.

Difficulty in distributing the income to the mu is no longer taxation, nor is it implemented. Even speaking of this step, it is a matter of course to try it out in Wendeng.The number of acres has been checked, and the people who have benefited from disaster relief are the most trustworthy time. Even if someone incites them, they can only incite those people on the curve, and will not incite people at the bottom who do not know the truth.

If it's just those people above the curve, if it doesn't coerce and incite and deceive the bottom, will the imperial court be afraid of opposition from those people?
The real difficulty lies in the preparations before the implementation, checking the acres of land, determining the amount of tax and silver for each of the fields of different fertility according to local conditions, and ensuring that the policies of the imperial court can be interpreted in all villages and villages instead of being deliberately misinterpreted and causing turmoil.

Li Gan thought to himself, what you are worried about is the success of the trial, but what you should really worry about is how to complete the preparations before the trial.

He thought to himself: "Alright, it's just an opportunity to bring the topic to the policy itself. If all eyes are on the policy itself, then the real murderous intent will be hidden instead."

So, borrowing the voice of some people's objection just now, he said: "What I have considered in this matter is that it seems that it is indeed beneficial to the people. This per capita tax is no more than a glass of water for the rich, but not for the poor." It's a huge burden."

"Now we have to reclaim Mongolia, Nuergan, Liaodong, Taiwan and other places. If the tax is bound, it will affect the migration, and it will not be easy to collect taxes. Just talk about this method of dividing the land into the mu, do you think it is good? Woolen cloth?"

"As for Bai Yunhang's investigation of Yintian in Wendeng, it's just an accidental gain while saving the famine. I'm also aware of this matter, so there's no need to talk about it."

Several people in Tianyou Hall knew that there were two taboos about Bai Yunhang's matter.

Although it is abhorrent to spread the land into the mu, what really makes the gentry feel resentful is the investigation of the land.

"Your Majesty, I believe that there is another theory about the investigation of the fields."

"For one thing, the officials measure the land with a small scale for the sake of merit. There may be no hidden land at all, but he increases the amount of land in a county by tens of thousands of mu to increase taxes, thinking that it is an achievement for promotion."

"Secondly, for the sake of loving the people, the officials measure the land on a large scale. Originally, there might be [-] mu of land in a county, but after the measurement, only [-] mu are left. In this way, the tax is reduced and the people benefit. Officials’ love for the people has also been implemented.”

"Three things, even if the hidden fields are measured out, neither exaggerated nor reduced, are these hidden fields all cultivated by self-cultivating people? Presumably they are all tenants."

"In the past, the land was not taxed. Maybe one mu of grain was collected for one stone of grain, and the rent was six dou. Now that the land is taxed, the rent for one mu of land may become seven dou. In this way, the people will only be afraid of resentment. The world shook."

Hearing this, Li Gan frowned and said, "According to Qing, the more hidden fields the better? The more hidden fields, the lighter the burden on the people? But if they are all hidden fields, what should the court do with taxes? For example, this time in Shandong In a catastrophe, if I spared 200 million taels of silver to buy food from Jiangnan, Vietnam, Siam and other places, how could so many people starve to death in Shandong?"

The minister shook his head and said: "The minister is not saying that the more hidden fields the better, but that the investigation of the acres of land will treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, and instead pass the extra tax on to the tenants. The minister thinks that if you want to cure the root cause, you should restore the well fields! If it is impossible to recover, then checking the acres of land is nothing more than a palliative method. Like Zhang Taiyue's method, decades later, it will look like it used to. In the long run, it is of little significance."

(End of this chapter)