Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 222 Welfare
In Huang Jixiong's heart, there is no army or officer who can't deduct their salary these days.

There are ghosts only if you don't skimp.

But as long as the deduction is not too excessive, everyone can accept it. It is difficult to make a living in troubled times, and it is almost fine.

"Remember that this silver is not allowed to be scraped or damaged, it is not allowed to be weighed and used, and it is used at face value, otherwise others have the right to refuse to accept it, and the counter of the household bank will also depreciate the value. If you are not used to it, you can go to the household bank to exchange it for ordinary silver. , and no additional fees will be charged. But in the future, this kind of dragon silver will definitely be used more and more, after all, it is convenient and easy to use.”

The clerk still explained, but Huang Jixiong didn't take these words seriously, just like when Zhou Fugui deducted everyone's money in the past, he always found a high-sounding reason, even if everyone knew that the reason was actually shit, but he knew You still have to cooperate superficially.

Twenty pieces of dragon silver.

I gave him a few more coins.

One five-coin and four one-coins.

The money was packed in a small cloth bag, and there was a jingling sound. Huang Jixiong was so excited when he heard the sound. He even thought of the name of the child in his mind for a moment. He had ten children, five sons and five daughters, and the eldest son The second son is called Chengzong, and the third son is called Siye. The fourth son has not yet made up his mind...
25 silver coins, even if it is actually only a little more than 18 taels and a half, but this is wealth that he has never accumulated in his life, regardless of whether he can still get three coins and nine silver coins every month in the future, just the money now, It was enough for him to ask a matchmaker to find a girl to be his wife.

He even looked at the heads of a group of gentry from Yanzhou who belonged to a large family in the distance, thinking that it might be a good deal to find a matchmaker to find a maid from their house to be his wife. The rings are also affected. It is estimated that it will be much cheaper than usual to find a wife at this time.

Spend ten taels of silver and find someone who can give birth.

There was still more than eight taels of silver left, and he was thinking that he would have to take out some to give to Shangguan later, so he would definitely be able to keep five taels of silver. Five taels of silver can’t do much, but if it’s renting a room, it’s probably okay, or Take the money and go back to my hometown, and ask someone to renovate my old thatched cottage, and then I will have a home.

I have a wife, a house, and an errand in the imperial camp. No matter how much I can get in the future, it seems that I will be better than Zhou Fugui before. If I can get a tael of silver a month to go home, then raising children No problem.

One per year, two per three years...

If you are lucky and don't die in battle, then when you grow old and your children grow up, your life will be complete.

Thinking about it, Huang Jixiong even laughed out loud.

The scribe also laughed, and Huang Jixiong came back to his senses. He looked at the scribe, finally gritted his teeth, and took out the smallest silver coin from the money bag, which was worth one penny. He quietly handed it over with trembling hands. past.

"Take it back, don't hurt me."

The scribe didn't answer.

Huang Jixiong thought he thought it was too little, hesitated for a while, and finally found the five-dollar one,
"Take it back quickly. You just entered our imperial camp. You don't know that our imperial camp is the emperor's own army. The treatment is good, but the rules are also strict. Fang Guoan's subordinates embezzled money and food, and finally His Highness let those people's soldiers Stabbed those guys with a gun, and they died miserably, you should have heard of it."

"Don't dare to act recklessly. Now that I'm a scribe, my salary is not bad. It's two renminbi a day. This money is safe and enough."

Huang Jixiong pushed it a few times, seeing that this person really refused to accept it, he happily took the money back into the bag and hid it in his bosom.

The person who received the money did not forget the person who gave the money in the end.

With silver in their pockets, they sat under the banner of the Chinese army, and His Royal Highness Jian Guo in golden armor kowtowed in thanks and shouted long live.

Zhu Yihai was holding a silver dollar in his hand, listening to the continuous sound of thanks, his heart was also ups and downs.

Liangtai's hands-on ability is still good, and they rushed to mint a large number of silver dollars.

Although Zhu Yihai looked at these silver coins and felt that they were rough and not exquisite enough, it was already good to be able to do this in a short time.

"Isn't Your Highness distressed?" Huang Zongxi, who had just arrived in Zhejiang, asked.

"Take it from the people, use it for the people, the money is in circulation, and it is meaningful to use it where it should be used. If the money copied by these corrupt officials, treacherous people and evil gentry is alone, it will be all in your hands and not used." , that actually means that there is no such money.”

Although Huang Zongxi is about the same age as Zhu Yihai, he is a rare and knowledgeable scholar who has many unique insights into economics.

He deeply agrees with Zhu Yihai's words, but even more admires that as a gentleman, he has such insights.

"But it's amazing to send so much money all at once."

"There are so many people, but there is not much in everyone's hands!" Zhu Yihai has long been used to it, and he will come back after all the money is gone. Today, so much money was distributed, and hundreds of people were killed to sacrifice the flag. The effect is visible to the naked eye .

The soldiers' support for his prison country has gone a step further, and the officials and gentry who are watching the sentence have become a little more fearful.

At this moment, I'm afraid that no one will take Zhu Yihai's words as a deaf ear anymore, no one will think about how to discount, but start thinking about how to quickly fill in the pitfalls.

"The soldiers took so much money, isn't Your Highness afraid that they won't be interested in serving as soldiers?"

"How much is this? Besides, most of them are poor bachelors. How many of them can hold this money?" Zhu Yihai transferred the money lightly, "I plan to recycle the money from the soldiers."

Huang Zongxi was stunned.

"Your Highness, you can't, if you send and receive, you will feel resentful."

"Don't worry, am I the kind of person who repeats and does not believe me?" Zhu Yihai smiled and said some of his thoughts. The soldiers in the imperial camp are now relatively young and strong, and most of them are bachelors, so he plans to do the same as before. It was the same as in the time of Sanwu, the imperial camp came forward to help everyone buy brides.

Huang Zongxi didn't follow for a while.

Zhu Yihai's idea is for the government to go to some relatively backward and impoverished mountainous areas to find a bride, give a bride price to the bride's family, and marry the soldiers on a blind date.

"If the government comes forward to do this, it will definitely cost less for the dowry than they do by themselves, and they generally don't have the time now, so the army and the government will come forward. At that time, the military will hold a group wedding directly. How lively is the scene when everyone gets married together?"

"According to the previous practice, the military can also pay part of the dowry money for them."

In the end, when the soldiers married their wives, they still had to have a home, so Zhu Yihai planned to take some of the land confiscated this time and sell it to the soldiers at a cheaper price.

To marry a soldier, Zhu Yihai has to put money in it to earn nothing, but the land that has just been confiscated, and the fields that the Qing army has withdrawn from the army, can be sold to the soldiers, even if they are sold at a discount, the amount is large. Can sell for a lot of money.

According to the current market price, one mu of land in Yanzhou can be sold for four to five taels of silver. After this round of crackdown, Zhu Yihai will be able to clear about 40 million mu of official and military land.

The official land was originally the official land in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Later, there were returned official land, no official land, broken official land, school land, Huangzhuang, horse pasture, livestock land, garden tombs, princes and nobles, temples and beggars. , military and civilian merchants garrisoning fields and so on.

There are many names, and if they are all cleaned up, it is estimated that there are [-]% of them.

As for how to deal with so many official lands, some people suggested that the government rent out tenants to collect rent, others suggested that the land should be equalized and granted to soldiers, and some people proposed to sell some of them to the people to raise military expenses.

Huang Zongxi suggested that all the official land should be used as army farmland, some of which were stationed in the towns and towns, and some of them were rented out.

Soldiers who made meritorious service or were killed or disabled in battle can also be directly set aside for rewards or pensions, which also saves a lot of money and expenses.

For these fields designated as military settlements, an in-kind tax of [-] taxes is levied, and for the fields rewarded to soldiers, an in-kind tax of [-] taxes is also levied according to civilian land.

There is one tax for twenty for official land and one for ten for private land, and the collection of real estate, that is, what is collected for real estate, so as to avoid the burden of unified silver collection on the common people.

After all, there is no silver produced in the land, and the common people have to sell what they produce for silver when they pay taxes and use it for silver. In this process, they must be exploited again.

As for the adjustment of the tax rate, his reason is that the tax rate must be within a reasonable range, so as to meet the needs of the court without burdening the people, and it must be a fixed tax, which cannot be increased or decreased impermanently.

At the same time, because the fields are fat and thin, the tax should be different. After all, the price of private land varies by [-] times, and it is unfair if the tax is the same.

So he proposed another solution, which is to divide the fields into five grades according to the output of fat and thin, and then, the best fields are calculated in small acres, for example, 240 steps are one mu, and medium fields are 480 steps. For one mu, in the lower countries, 720 steps are taken as one mu, and 360 steps and [-] steps are added in the middle.

By adjusting the size of different fat and thin fields, the tax rates borne by them are actually consistent.

For example, one mu of upper field produces three grains and three grains, and one mu of lower field produces one grain. Now, by changing the size of the mu, one mu of upper field is actually three times larger than that of lower field, and the final output is also three grains per mu. Civil land is levied a tax of [-] per mu. , That is, three buckets per mu.

It turns out that if three buckets are levied per mu of lean land, the actual tax rate is 30.00%, which is a huge difference.

Divide the land directly and then set different tax rates, or adjust the size of the land through this kind of mu, and finally use a unified tax rate, each has its own advantages.

However, although Zhu Yihai also felt that Daming's land tax rate should be re-established, but the time is not ripe now, and he has to do things one by one. What he needs to do now is to share the land into the mu, fix the labor, and no longer allow local officials to do whatever they want. The science school, and even the imperial court adjusted the use, retention and use of taxes. The purpose of this step is to collect taxes first, especially to let the gentry and bureaucrats pay taxes.

Otherwise, no matter how you adjust the tax rate or something, it will be useless if you can’t collect it.

As for the official land that has been clarified, Zhu Yihai still prefers to sell it to the soldiers instead of distributing it to them. Firstly, the conditions for equalizing the land are not so good. ?Do the people want to be equal?

What's more, now that the court is poor, Arita is naturally the best seller.

The priority of selling to soldiers is that it can not only recover the soldiers’ salaries and rewards, but also give the soldiers peace of mind. Those who have permanent property have perseverance. Soldiers fight with their lives, and they have to give priority to their way out, not to mention getting promoted and making a fortune. What's the matter, let the soldiers marry wives and have a family, and let them have the opportunity to buy some land, then they will sincerely support Lu Jianguo and his new Ming Dynasty.

So from this point of view, selling land to soldiers is actually the same as sharing land to soldiers. In the end, it can have the same effect of winning people's hearts. You can even sell a lot of silver to subsidize military finances. Why not do it?
(End of this chapter)