I am the king of the dead

Yu Qian has never doubted His Majesty's wisdom, even if His Majesty has never caught a fish, even if His Majesty has no military talent, only firearms are accurate, but Yu Qian never thinks that His Majesty is not wise enough, on the contrary, Yu Qian has always been highly supportive Almost all decisions of His Majesty, at some point, have to be pulled by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to prevent Yu Qian from making too big strides.

This is already the 160th session of the Salt and Iron Conference, and even though His Majesty is on his own expedition and on his southern tour, he is still supplementing the theories related to Ming's financial affairs.

Today, His Majesty has thrown out two views, the first is that supply is demand, productivity is equal to purchasing power, and the second is the fallacy of breaking doors.

This fallacy exists widely and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even Yu Qian's talent in the system of the country, he has not understood this fallacy so thoroughly.

The vengeance that the pen is bragging about does not exist at all. Any natural or man-made disaster that damages productivity means damage to purchasing power.

Zhu Qiyu said quite accurately to Li Binyan: "Li Shilang, some people will say that as long as they are willing to think about it, no one will make such a mistake."

"However, the fallacy of breaking the door in various disguises is the most lingering in history, and now in Ming Dynasty, this fallacy is more prevalent than ever before."

"Nowadays, many people are repeating this fallacy in a serious way: such as the head of the business, the big boss, the pen Zheng of the Poetry Society, the doctor of Confucian classics from the Imperial Academy, the editor of the Imperial Academy of the Imperial Academy, and even the princes present here."

"These people control the right to speak. Some of them have talents and some have resources to disguise the fallacy of breaking the door and disguise them as various bloated appearances. They are all promoting huge acts of destruction in their own ways, positions, and fields of expertise. The benefits brought, and then doing destructive behavior with peace of mind."

"I would like to follow His Majesty's instructions." Li Binyan suddenly realized that he, the governor of Songjiang standing in the economic center of the Ming Dynasty, was almost deceived by this kind of false and prosperous words, let alone those people who don't understand these things. Students, they have lived in such an environment for a long time, and their inherent ideas will give birth to a kind of rightness that is taken for granted.

It's exactly the same as when Wang Fu was in Fengtian Hall, discussing with the emperor to fight for the interests of the people.

After Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, he continued to talk to Chen Yi, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Why can't we use the money method? Besides avoiding the immature financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty, because of some people's greed. , Another reason is that the banknote law is prone to another economic fallacy, that is, the court can have endless money without collecting taxes."

"Whether it's Yanyin or Daming banknotes, once the Bureau of Household Banknotes brushes them, these waste papers that can be used as money will become majestic money, which will eventually lead to the complete corruption of Daming's tax system."

After Shen Yi heard about it, he broke out in a cold sweat. The inextricable connection between Yanyin, Baochao and the tax system of Ming Dynasty was something that he, Minister of the Ministry of Households, had never thought of before!
And His Majesty, who is wise and wise, seems to have seen this issue clearly and clearly from the very beginning.

Zhu Qiyu went on to say: "A general bastard or a wrong court may put a country in a miserable situation under rough governance. For example, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong, Prime Minister Zhang Dunzhang said that he was a frivolous king and could not rule the world. , As expected, it became a prophecy, the Northern Song Dynasty fell into a tragic situation in his hands."

Song Huizong was King Duan before he ascended the throne, and Zhang Dun was extremely opposed to Song Huizong's ascension to the throne. As expected, Song Huizong Zhao Ji took the Great Song Dynasty into it.

"But in comparison, whether it is the imperial court or the people, the continuous improvement of the world's cognition and the constant efforts to improve themselves, Gou Rixin, day by day, and day by day, can promote the prosperity of the country to a greater extent. "

"If we open our thick history books, we will find an interesting thing. Although the court or the meat eaters, wanton squandering, imposing heavy taxes, absurd business regulations, judicial corruption, and catastrophic wars caused a total collapse. Bad times, rebellions, floods, droughts, locust disasters, dragons turning over, etc., are constantly destroying wealth, but this bad court seems to last for a long time."

"That's because the people of Ming Dynasty worked hard to create wealth faster."

"When the people of Ming Dynasty create wealth at a lower rate than the meat-eaters destroy it, or in other words, the meat-eaters destroy it faster than the people create wealth, then the dynasty is not far away."

"I really like Uncle Huang's words. He said, Daming is going to perish eventually, but our Daming will be tough tomorrow. At least we must be clear about how we died."

Daming's bones are inherently hard, because at the beginning of the establishment of this dynasty, it was established by people who refused to kneel before the Tartars. Yes, the most aggrieved.

The people in Zhongshushe took pens and wrote vigorously, wishing they could grow eight hands to record all the expressions of His Majesty's speech, and then refine and summarize them to become the viewpoints in "Jingtai Salt and Iron New Theory".

Li Binyan still has doubts about the auditing issue. He shared several cases one after another.

Li Binyan said with a serious expression: "The Ministry of Finance is in charge of auditing, but I have some questions, and I hope you all can learn from them."

"There seems to be an odd view now that spending by the Ming court is the panacea for all economic ills."

"The price of coal, coal and iron in the Ming Dynasty was chaotic, and the price of rain and snow skyrocketed. The panacea is the official factory. Now the washed coal is six cents a catty; the Hetao area lacks fertile land and irrigation, and 300 million silver is used to build Jingtai'an Minqu to solve people's livelihood; The sailors sailing thousands of miles are slowly decaying and sinking in the berths of the Longjiang Shipyard. They only need to spend again to revitalize the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty; Let this waterway become a thoroughfare; Guangxi lacks an outlet to the sea, and even the proposal of the Pinglu Canal, which should be opposed the most, has never opposed it."

"So, is court spending the panacea for all economic ills? Where is the limit of court spending?"

Shen Yi immediately said: "I object!"

"However, when it is said that Guangxi has no estuary to the sea, how do you ask me to object to such a plan for the livelihood of the people? The money taken by the court is given to the people. The people of Guangxi need this canal. With it, Guangxi is not the same The poisonous snake bared its teeth, the place of exile was filled with smoke, how can I object? I can’t object to the expectations of the people.”

"It's better for Xu Youzhen not to be corrupt, otherwise I will go to Guangxi even if I go, and I will kill him if I bite him!"

Shen Yi was very heartbroken about the extra expenditure of 100 million silver each year. As the Minister of the Household Department, he had the decision-making power second only to His Majesty in matters of money and food expenditure. His opinion directly affected His Majesty the Emperor. His power, it is his obligation to manage every penny well, and it has nothing to do with his hands being tight and not leaking a single penny.

But when he thought about the underdeveloped Guangxi, after having this canal, Shen Yi gritted his teeth and agreed.

Nian Fu was quite puzzled and said: "According to what Li Shilang said, it seems like this. It seems that all economic ills can be solved as long as the government spends money, but is there a panacea to cure ills in this world? I don't believe it."

Yu Qian nodded the table and said: "The panacea to cure economic ills and the law of immortality and immortality are equally absurd."

"Shandong Zuo Buzheng Pei Lun once wrote a letter about this issue, saying that the official roads and post roads on the ground in Shandong are leveled and hardened today, and the road will come again the next year. If it is true and strange, it cannot be approved.”

"Shaanxi Xingdusi, the former camp fortress was demolished and built, and it was demolished. Today, a new city is built, and there is no one there. Just leave it there, and finally use it for composting."

"What we should establish is the boundary, where is the boundary?"

Zhu Qiyu stopped writing and drawing in his hand, because all the ministers looked at His Majesty, the wise and natural emperor. When Daming encountered a problem that he didn't understand in financial affairs, he looked at His Majesty, and he had already formed a path dependence.

For the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, the aspect of financial affairs is really too weak. They may understand, but it is difficult to tell. The dumplings were poured into the teapot and could not be poured out.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Li Shilang's question is two questions."

"The first problem, the downturn in the workshops and the downturn in the industry, we use the government's expenditure to solve it; the unemployment problem, we also use the court's expenditure to solve it; the industrial chain of Ming Dynasty is not complete, and if there is a problem, the court's expenditure must be used to solve it , What is the imperial court? The omnipotent Emperor Zhenwu?"

"Thousands of people work together to be invincible in the world."

"The imperial court will naturally have to spend. This is a concrete manifestation of the imperial court's control over redistribution power, and it must dominate and play a guiding role."

The Ming court is obviously not the all-powerful Emperor Zhenwu.

In fact, the workshop industry is in a downturn, and the court expenditure cannot solve it;

Unemployment problem, the imperial government can solve part of the problem with work-for-work relief, but can it solve all of it?
There is a problem in the industrial chain, can the court really solve it?

The Ming Dynasty shipbuilding issue seems to have been settled by the imperial court, because the Ming Dynasty shipbuilding industry itself is very developed, building a castle in the air, other than wasting state money and stealing the country for personal gain, has little meaning.

Zhu Qiyu quoted Liu Bowen's "One Power, Invincible in the World" as a classic, and continued: "The chief executive of the commercial firm, the big head, the pen Zheng of the Poetry Club, the doctor of Confucian classics of the Imperial Academy, the editor of the Hanlin Academy of the Imperial Academy, and even all the people here. Gong, in all walks of life, in their respective fields of expertise, are very good at creating fallacies, and finally form a huge fallacy network."

"And the mother of the fallacies of Ming Dynasty's economy is four words, get something for nothing."

"As I said before, one of the reasons for not using the banknote law is that the imperial court can have endless money without collecting taxes. This is what the imperial court gets for nothing."

The mother of fallacies, or the branch of economic fallacies, are these four words, get something for nothing.

Zhu Qiyu knocked on the table and reminded: "We must clearly know that every penny we spend is a tax, and every penny spent by the court must be made up through taxation."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty levied three rates to fill the big hole in Liaodong. It was a typical case that every penny spent by the imperial court required taxation to make up for it.

"The money law, imperial silver coins and Jingtai Tongbao can ensure the expenditure of the Ming court, which must be covered by taxation. Where is the limit of the court's expenditure?" Zhu Qiyu asked a question and looked at everyone.

Forty or fifty ministers at the Salt and Iron Conference all looked up at His Majesty, waiting for an answer.

Zhu Qiyu didn't make a fool of himself, and said quite accurately: "In short, if everyone who pays taxes feels that the imperial court invests the tax money here, which is more valuable than not paying taxes and paying it out of their own pockets, then such expenditures, There's no problem."

"First, you can't spend money for construction and create something out of nothing. For example, the two examples recommended by Yu Shao are typical things that are created out of nothing. There is no demand, but there is a supply. The last silver coin has only one side, which adds to the laughing stock."

"Secondly, expenditures were made for work in lieu of relief. For example, the more than 400 million Xiang troops in the Song and Song Dynasties, the people who had no land became refugees, and the refugees gathered together to cause civil disturbances. In order to resettle these Xiang troops, we had to It is obviously completely unnecessary to spend a lot of court expenditure to resettle these refugees."

"Speaking of it this way, it is still a bit complicated. It is difficult to form a symbol in the debate on financial affairs. The boundary of the imperial court's expenditure is only eight characters, with clear priorities and priorities."

"Taking the Pinglu Canal as an example, do you guys think this is to build a spectacle to make me happy, or is the Pinglu Canal built because of the urgent needs of the people of Guangxi? Is the main purpose for charming Shang, or for the Antu herdsmen?"

"Obviously, the Pinglu Canal is for the Antu herdsmen. No matter how expensive or difficult it is, it must be built to give Guangxi an outlet to the sea."

Meishang’s spending is not without it. The two ministers of the household department of the Ming Dynasty cut down the 66 silver that Hu Bi gave to the emperor’s draft girl to [-] silver, and cut the [-]-gun salute to [-]. ring.

There is really only one wick in the lamps of the Tai'an Palace and the Ministry of Household Office.

Yu Qian savored these eight characters carefully, with clear priorities and priorities. Looking at the main purpose, it is the limit of the imperial court's expenditure, which is the limit of auditing.

"Your Majesty is holy!" Yu Qian bowed his head and said loudly.

"Your Majesty Shengming."

With the sound of mountains and seas, Zhu Qiyu can't even tell whether these courtiers are sincere or flattering. He has been in power for 15 years, and there is no voice of opposition in the court, so that Zhu Qiyu may even feel a little bit confused. Yes, is it wrong?
That's why he wanted to tour the south and see it with his own eyes, so that he could feel at ease.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Ran Ning handed over the memorial." Xing'an quietly handed a memorial to Zhu Qiyu. This is "Ode to Plain Questions" signed by Ran Siniang for the first time. , Many imperial physicians jointly signed a letter and submitted it to the imperial court.

Zhu Qiyu opened it and looked at it for a while, then called out, good guy!

The Ming Jieyuan Institute produced a panacea that can cure all diseases. To be precise, during the few months when Ran Siniang was not serving her bed, she produced a great Jiarui.

Xiangrui was meant to fool people, but obviously, Ran Siniang, Lu Zicai, Xin Kejing, and the imperial physicians of the Ming Dynasty were not fooling His Majesty the Emperor.

On July 14th of the 31th year of Jingtai, he went to Juxian Pavilion to review the discussion on salt and iron, and said three things.One is: supply and demand, production and consumption are two sides of one, the fallacy of breaking the door, rich but few essentials, labor and little merit, so police it; the second is: the people's livelihood and wealth, the wolves usurp, the more they rob, the more they rob, the people are exhausted and there is chaos .That's why the Son of Heaven patrols hunting on behalf of the heavens, surveys the rules of Kyushu, kills wolves, tigers and leopards to ensure the people's livelihood, and governs when the people's strength is prosperous; the third is: get what you don't work, the mother of all absurdities, the imperial court collects taxes, and uses them like mud Sha, you should distinguish the priority and the priority, understand the needs of all people, and be anxious about the urgency of all people. —— "Jingtai Salt and Iron New Theory Volume [-]"