I am the king of the dead

Chapter 216 Your Majesty Has the Legacy of Taizu

At the last salt and iron meeting, Zhu Qiyu talked about a grain rent, high taxes, and private demands from the township department, that is, the composition of commodity prices is: grain rent, profit, and labor compensation.

Once the township department asks for it privately and makes the labor remuneration extremely low, immediately, the people will abandon their basics and chase after the waste, and more than half of the cultivated land will be abandoned.

Zhu Qiyu's current salt and iron meeting asked, what is the pricing of the labor remuneration of the people of Ming Dynasty?

Obviously, the courtiers here have never thought about this issue.

This is the corrupt financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and this is also the strength of the Ming Dynasty. Even with such corrupt financial affairs, the Ming Dynasty still lasted for more than 270 years.

For more than 200 years, Daming's financial affairs have been muddled, just a messy and bad debt, but Daming still lasted for so long.

Even in the first year of the Republic of China, when Sun Wen became the president, he immediately went to the Xiaoling Mausoleum of Ming Taizu and told Ming Taizu that the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty had succeeded!
Why is Ming Dynasty invincible?

Because Daming is truly invincible.

Zhu Qiyu sighed, and made the courtiers think for a while, before he said: "Young plants grow, but under the conditions of poor land and harsh climate, they will die soon."

"Xuanfu doesn't accept more than [-] people at night. They run amok in the desert and grassland, and they don't return until after the autumn burns. They brought a lot of information about Yibei, which made our lecture hall, five The military governor's mansion..."

"When formulating a combat plan, we have support and basis for where we can fight and how far we can fight."

Zhu Qiyu paused for a while when he talked about the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. He was especially distressed by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

The construction of the Ming Dynasty's political system is extremely complete. Except for financial affairs, which have inherited the unmanageable atmosphere of the Yuan Dynasty, the rest of the affairs are extremely complete.

But it failed, just like the Yumajian, Taipu Temple, and Yuanma Temple, it was systematically corrupted.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "I heard that in Mobei and Lin, a mother gave birth to twenty children, and only one child survived."

"Children from the Oirats can't even supplement the number of dead soldiers, but near the barracks, you can see countless children running like a flock of free-ranging sheep."

"These children, most of whom died under the age of four, died of poverty, and in many places were under the age of nine, and very few of them grew up to the age of 14, when they could ride horses and fight in battle."

In fact, Zhu Qiyu has been unable to understand a question.

That is the rather troublesome Wala woman, Mo Luo, the Wala woman brought back by Zhu Qizhen.

Why did Mo Luo have the guts to follow Zhu Qizhen back to the capital?
Even on the way back to Beijing, he was stronger and fearless than Zhu Qizhen.

It wasn't until Yebushou sent the news back that Zhu Qiyu knew that the environment in Mobei was so harsh.

Even if she returned to the Longtan and Tiger's Lair in the capital, she would have to fight hard to make the child live like a human being.

It's not that the face is full of pockmarks, and after years of not washing the face, the fingers and ears are covered with black ash. Maybe one day I will die and I don't know where it is.

Mo Luo made a calculation, the child is in the capital, and his chance of surviving is higher than that of Mobei.

Morrow was clearly betting right.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "Poverty will undoubtedly not encourage having children, but it cannot prevent having children, but it is obviously not conducive to raising children."

Zhu Qiyu raised a question again: "Do you know how many children in the nursing home have grown up?"

The Nursing House is one of the benevolent governments of the Ming Dynasty. Before Zhu Qiyu was outside the walls of the Taichang Temple, before hearing Tang Yunyan play and sing the Resentment of the Emperor Ji, he saw the servants of the Shuntian Mansion taking away the beggar who was freezing in the street.

The officials were silent again. This question was very sudden.

Your Majesty's question has nothing to do with the previous question. When talking about labor compensation, why did it suddenly involve the issue of the survival of the children in the nursing home?
They have no prep.

Yu Qian sat up straight and said confidently: "Three out of ten."

"A few years ago, when I returned to Beijing, I went to the Nursing Home and asked once. If there is enough firewood in winter, at least half of them can be grown."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "This is the good government of Ming Dynasty."

What Yu Qian said was right, the fault was not the outbreak of the epidemic, otherwise the survival rate of these children in the nursing home was much higher than that of the children on the grassland.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "Great labor remuneration can obtain more food, increase the physical strength of the people, improve the state of life, have expectations for the future, have enough food and clothing, and let children have hope for reading and writing."

"If the labor remuneration is sufficient, the people can significantly improve their support for their children, so that most children can grow up and provide more adults for the society."

"More adults will inevitably relax and expand the upper limit of Ming's national power. In other words, more people will have more wealth."

"Daming will be more prosperous."

Zhu Qiyu made a gesture, horizontal and vertical.

Hu Wei coughed and said: "Your Majesty means that the country is strong when the people are strong, the country is rich if the people are rich, and the country is safe if the people are safe. The people here are the people of the world."

His Majesty couldn't say what was stuck in his throat.

But what does Hu Ming do?

That must have been a matter of observation, and immediately turned over the allusion of Tai'an Palace, Guotai Min'an, and explained His Majesty's gestures, so that the officials could understand.

What is a professional?

Without this kind of ability and level, is he worthy of being the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty?
National Security.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said: "But not long ago, nearly a million people in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Nanzhili started from the fields, and the entire southeast was riddled with holes. , still in Anding Fujian, no class teacher, over 70 years old, fighting for the country."

"Fujian Chief Secretary Song Zhang and a group of people have already completed the investigation. Next year Tiqi will escort a group of criminals to Fujian and behead them for public display."

Daming has no financial affairs, and no one understands them, let alone studies them. Everyone is so muddled, how can they do politics well!

Jin Lian's scalp was a little numb. He always thought that the local rebellion was the fault of the local officials, but now it seems that this is the responsibility of the Ministry of Households, but not the full responsibility of the Ministry of Households.

He frowned, thinking about all the words His Majesty said.

The only measure of wealth and value is labor.

The labor is contributed by the adults. Only when there are more adults, the wealth will increase. If the wealth increases, the adults will have more. The more labor, the more wealth.

This is a positive cycle.

Da Ming is obviously in a positive cycle, and the number of adults is growing at a high speed. This is a basic fact, but the tax of the imperial court is still 3000 million shimiliang per year. After the discount, it is about 2000 million silver.

And there seems to be a bigger problem, that is, with the increase in population and wealth, the cost of raising children should be reduced.

But the scale of millions, no less than Huang Chao's great rebellion that started in Qianmo, has just ended in Fujian.

There is a problem in the middle link, that is, the extremely unreasonable labor remuneration.

It led to the displacement of the people, the abandonment of their roots, the barrenness of the cultivated land, the corruption of the horse government, and the great chaos in the southeast.

But Hu Min thought more.

It has been 24 years since Wen and Wu prospered, and it has been 24 years since Wu also prospered.

Xing Wen Xing what?Your Majesty is engaged in farm law, and the bachelors of the Imperial Academy are the most suitable to preach the decree, but will your Majesty dare to use it?Even if you use the group of commanders who have studied in the Confucian School of the Weisuo for a few days, you don't need the bachelors of the Imperial Academy.

Xingwenxing has a lot of problems, Xingwenxing has a group of Hanlin Academy bachelors who only know how to talk and talk, and avoid reality. They don't have much serious knowledge, and the set of virtual etiquette of being a teacher is getting more and more perfect.

Tou Wu did a great job. He gave the five army governors' mansion, Ma Zheng, and Beijing camp to him, and he was so out of breath that even Wala besieged the capital.

If we continue to develop culture and martial arts, how many years will the Ming Dynasty have for its national destiny?
Next time Wala comes, will you just broadcast it?

After His Majesty's lectures on the six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, the Chief Constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and all the ministers and ministers, they all became clear. The truth seems simple, but it is extremely difficult to figure it out.

There is a tall man behind His Majesty, he must be as tall as 99 feet!

Jin Lian opened his meeting minutes and asked earnestly, "Your Majesty, what standard is used to determine the compensation for labor? I am stupid."

It is not easy for Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, who has been an official in the local area and the imperial court for more than [-] years, fought in the southeast, and fought against Chen Mao to kill the enemy, to sincerely say the words "stupid minister" ?

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said: "I think that the common people must at least get twice the labor remuneration that guarantees a family's living expenses, so that they can afford to take care of their children."

"In fact, the wife in the family can earn from labor and can maintain her own needs."

"This is a bottom line, the most basic standard of remuneration, as long as it is lower than this bottom line, the death of a young child is inevitable."

"If you want to support your family, you should get a labor remuneration that is more than four times the family's living expenses for that income, so that you can read and write."

"A child who grows up like this is an adult, not a bandit."

The women of Ming Dynasty are not the ladies of everyone, and they basically have to work. Men farm and women weave, and women can weave to support themselves.

Then, the labor of a adult must be twice the living expenses of the family, so that they can afford to take care of the children. If they want to read and write, they need four times.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "If you want to encourage the prosperity of the population, the income of a population should be at least six times the cost of living, so as to have the energy to raise more offspring."

What are the living expenses?

Basic expenses such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, maintenance of the residence, and taking the children to see a doctor.

Zhu Qiyu has done calculations, and it is actually very low. Daming has a huge population and a lot of output, but Daming has no legal tender. Since Daming’s banknotes have been corrupted, Baoyuan Bureau has not fulfilled its function of issuing coins, and Daming has always been in a money shortage. In this state, money is expensive and goods are cheap, and the prices are not very high.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a good government and benefiting the people Pharmaceutical Bureau, which was affiliated to the Tai Hospital and was established in all prefectures and counties.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said: "If you want to give a figure, each household spends no more than seven stones and five buckets of rice every year, and it is only five taels of silver according to the capital discount."

Jingshi rice is expensive, but expensive is also limited.

Yu Qian said in a daze: "In the Gyeonggi area and Kyushu outside the mountains, one stone per mu can be harvested, and wheat, beams and beans can be harvested twice a year. Isn't this exactly the dimension of ten mu for farming?"

What Yu Qian was talking about was the standard of going down to the farm. If a family has ten mu of land, two crops a year, and after the old mu tax is deducted, there will be about fifteen shi of crops harvested.

It is just enough for the adult labor remuneration that His Majesty said, and the labor remuneration must be more than twice the living expenses in order to properly raise the children.

Going to the farms to raise two children is just enough to support them.

But if it is less than ten mu, you have to be a servant, but the income is meager, and you can barely maintain it.

Gradually, the peasants became lazy people, people who did not work, and finally turned into bandits and bandits, causing disasters.

Yu Qian took a deep breath. He finally understood why His Majesty wanted to implement the farm law. In Gyeonggi, Kyushu outside the mountains, and Fujian, because of military disasters, anger and grievances, if labor wages were not increased, how could the common people afford to raise children?
Only by restoring the population can the national strength after the war be completely restored.

This coincides with what Liu Ji said back then that ten thousand husbands are all powerful.

It really is the legacy of Taizu!
Both Yu Qian and Wang Wen have worked in the governor's area for more than ten years. They are well aware of the sufferings of the people. They know that something is wrong, but they don't have a practical solution to solve this problem.

Twice can live, four times can read, six times can be prosperous, His Majesty gave a very detailed system to explain how much is enough for the people.

　Ask for a ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)