Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 185

Xu Shiqi obviously thought about this issue seriously, facing Zhu Yihai's question, he immediately came up with a suggestion of his own.

"First of all, the salary should be reduced. Now that the country is in crisis, most of the imperial court's territory has been reduced. The frontline soldiers are not paid, and the soldiers in the imperial camp are paid half.

"The annual salary of the prince is ten thousand shi, if it is halved, it will be five thousand shi, and for the lieutenant of Fengguo, if it is two hundred shi, if it is halved, it will be a hundred shi." Zhu Yihai fanned himself with a cattail fan, "And how much is the salary of my Ming officials? The monthly salary of the first grade is 87 stones, from the first grade to the third grade, it is reduced to 35 stones, from the third grade to 26 stones, the fourth grade is 21 stones, the fifth grade is sixteen stones, the sixth grade is ten stones, from the seventh to the ninth grade, it is reduced by five buckets, and it ends at five stones .”

Zhu Yihai sighed.

"This is the official salary set during the Hongwu period, and it will be permanent after that. Over the years, officials have said that the salary is too low, but they have not changed it."

In the clan of the Ming Dynasty, the highest prince raised 44 shi Lumi a year, and the lowest was Feng Guo Lieutenant [-] shi a year.But an official of the first rank is only [-] shi Lumi a year, and a year from the ninth rank is only [-] shi, which is also true.

Although officials also have other incomes, but on the surface it is just that. Others are more gray incomes, and gray incomes are related to the power of the official position. It was once said that a county magistrate earns thousands of taels of silver a year.

And a governor's annual routine silver ranges from tens of thousands to more than 200,000 taels, which is related to the power in his hands. Generally, Zhengyin officials have high incomes, while ordinary officials do not have so much.Even if the governor-general’s 200,000 taels of bad regulation silver a year is not all in their own pockets, they have to support a very large private team, such as various masters, even bearers, cooks, servants, servants, book boys, etc. Even this money has to be used as office expenses, etc., and it also has to be greeted and sent, and managed everywhere.

But in any case, compared with the Lumi of the suzerains and vassals, there is still a big difference.

A high-ranking official of the first rank, already an extremely human minister, but only one-tenth of the prince.

Since Xu Shiqi mentioned this matter today, Zhu Yihai thinks that it is indeed time to start.

"My lord also said that now that the country is in crisis, the emperor's relatives and relatives should be more concerned with the country. The soldiers are paid half of their salary, but the soldiers are fighting with their lives. It's only four taels or five, and the temporary half payment is only more than two taels. The elder husband only pays one penny a day, and the half salary is only one tael a month. There are five thousand stones, too many."

"The imperial court is simply unable to support so much now. I think it will be halved according to the salary of a hundred officials."

"The prince compares with the first grade, the county king compares with the first grade, and the general of the town and the general of the auxiliary country are reduced accordingly. The prince's monthly salary is half of 87 stones, and 43 stones and a half,"

Zhu Yihai thought about it, 43 shi and a half is a few thousand catties, so he added, "First send half, make up the whole, the prince will be [-] shi meters a month."

Decrease ten times, then fold in half, then send half again, and wipe a zero.

Originally, it was 240 shilumi a year, but Zhu Yihai suffered a fracture and it became [-] shi.

Xu Shiqi was surprised by Zhu Yihai's discount.

"Your Highness, will it be a little less? The vassal has to support his family, and the population is large."

Zhu Yihai himself used to be a prince, so he didn't know this, "When the country is in crisis, don't worry about enjoying it. The servants and servants who should be dismissed should be dismissed and hired less, so that everyone can make a living by themselves. The soldiers on the front line still don’t have enough to eat!”

It's fine if you don't make a move. Since you want to make a move, it has to play a role.

Otherwise, the painless reduction of salary will not work, so what to do with the reduction.

Of course, the biggest problem for the vassals of the Ming Dynasty is not only the Lumi problem, but also the problem of land occupation in the local area, and the problem of not paying food and serving in their huge Wangzhuang.

So now Zhu Yihai plans to rectify this aspect as well.

"For all the land of the Zongfan farms that are still under the imperial court, all the clans are ordered to report on their own initiative, and give way to send censors and local officials to comprehensively measure and register. For the land under the name, half of it will be collected first and put into the special official land of the imperial court, which will be included in the name of the inner government.

"For the remaining half, the mother will collect one bucket and two imperial grains."

Xu Shiqi was shocked again.

Directly confiscate half of the land and put it into the inner government of the prison to support the imperial camp, and then the remaining half of the land will be collected for one bucket and two meters of imperial grain per mu.

How did this number come about? Is it more or less?
As an experienced high-ranking official, Xu Shiqi actually already had an account in his heart. After a brief look, he knew that although he didn't know how the Jianguo's mu levy came about, it was actually similar to the current burden of the common people.

The land tax on Daming's surface is very light, and it may be less than thirty tax one.

However, the land tax actually only accounts for a small part, because the burden of the common people includes summer grain, autumn grain, land mu silver and human silver, and even lijia, uniform corvee, post pass, military money, etc. Anyway, it is the sum of all items, which is the original orthodox tax. several times.

Anyway, if one mu of land is converted into grain, it will be about [-] to [-] catties, and in some places it may be even higher.

Wanli used a method of whipping, which was to fold all kinds of miscellaneous things into the fields, expropriate them once, and then not collect others. There are many new collections, in fact, many of them are things that have been merged and then collected again.

The burden on the people is heavy anyway.

However, the clan, relatives, and officials all took advantage of their privileges to not pay the burden, even though there was no such power in the law, they just refused to pay.Then many common people registered the fields under the names of the princes and dignitaries by donating, sending their names, etc., in order to avoid taxation and labor.

Zhu Yihai now refers to the farms of those vassals, regardless of whether you are really your own property, or someone else put your name in your name to escape from the military, anyway, I will give you a whip, and share with you, I don't tell you about this silver, that grain, that apportionment, just have all of them, and just name them as imperial grains.

The previous land tax, Dingyin and so on are still the same as before, free of charge, no charge.

But what I am collecting now is imperial rations, even if the country is in trouble, you, the relatives and relatives of the imperial family who have enjoyed the grace of the country for hundreds of years, should contribute, and a special tax will be collected from you. No matter how much tax is collected on the mu of land, other things are ignored, and there are no privileges or exemptions for this imperial grain.

One mu harvests one bucket and two liters.

Normally, one acre of land would almost yield one stone. In the better fields in the south, there were two or three stones, and in some places there were even intensive cultivation of four or five stones. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, many places used fertilizers for farming.

Even if the land is good or bad, it is now a special imperial grain, one mu, one bucket and two liters, which is still affordable.

(End of this chapter)