Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 594 The Red Line
However, the inspector itself is still a foreigner who supervises the censor. Even if he is promoted to the fifth rank in the Shaotian Dynasty, he is still the supervisor of the censor.The order of their promotion actually has some rules.

Don't look at how powerful they are when they are patrolling abroad, but it doesn't mean that they are really on the same level as the governors.

Supervising censors are also moved according to the results of the assessment. Generally, they are moved to inspect the affairs. This is the third in command of the local inspector. All the roads are unified into sub-roads, and separate halls are set up.

Therefore, the patrols are promoted, and the most promoted are the local sub- patrols. This is a proof of ability and the greatest reward.

In addition, there were also those who were promoted to the deputy envoy of the procuratorate, or the prime minister of Dali Temple, the chief secretary, and even moved to the county magistrate (very few, and Ji County of Jing County).

Very few were promoted to inspector, chief secretary to participate in politics, eunuch Shaoqing, magistrate, general administration secretary to consult, and Guanglu Shaoqing.

There are also those who have been promoted to the censor of the capital, the judge of Dali Temple, and the prime minister of Taipu Temple.

In fact, each official position has a certain order and direction of promotion.

It is basically impossible for the patrol to be directly promoted to the governor.

Of course, the emperor's special decree is of course another matter, let alone this is a special period.

The emperor's employment may not follow the rules of selection and appointment of officials from the Ministry of Officials.

Zhang Huangyan is a hero of the Conglong Uprising. He served as a military officer in Ningshao and served as an inspector for two terms. He was promoted to the capital censor, and he is still in the capital procuratorate.

The next step for the censor of the capital is to be promoted to the censor of the capital or the minister of the six departments.

Now it is not unusual to be directly promoted to governor, or governor of Guangdong.

You know, the governor of Guangdong was directly served concurrently by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.

"I left He Tengjiao in the court, serving as the cabinet co-organizer of the bachelor, and the prime minister's office to help with military affairs. Qu Shixu was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Su Guansheng was the governor of Guangxi, Zhang Kentang was the governor of Fujian, Feng Jingdi was the governor of Fujian, you were the governor of Guangdong, and Taiwan set up three. The government, Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan are under the jurisdiction of Fujian, and there is only one Taiwan inspector, and Lu Daqi is assigned to inspect Taiwan."

Zheng Hongkui, the former governor of Fujian, was summoned by Zhu Yihai to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Zheng Zhibao, the former admiral of Fujian, was appointed as the deputy admiral of the imperial camp in Fujian, Shi Daxuan was appointed as the admiral of the Taiwan camp, and Zheng Cai was the deputy admiral.

Both Qu Shiqi and Zhang Kentang only served as governors and not governors, and several members of the Zheng family were also transferred to other positions, which is obviously a major adjustment of the emperor to these three provinces.

"Qu Shisi will be stationed in Nanning to stabilize the southwest, especially to control Guangxi chieftains, and to help suppress the rebellion in Yunnan."

"You are the governor of Guangdong, and you can develop with peace of mind. Guangdong not only has the big port of Guangzhou, which is conducive to maritime trade, but also the Pearl River system that connects Guangdong and Guangxi. What's more, it is also connected to Jiangxi, which can directly reach the Yangtze River through the Ganjiang River. Furthermore, Foshan Town has an iron smelting industry. If one hundred thousand is prosperous, we must continue to expand production.”

"Now the situation on the front line is gradually stabilizing, and the offensive and defensive situation is changing. We have also passed the most difficult first three years. Next, we need to slightly adjust the direction of development, especially Lingnan, which is the rear. The task of Guangdong is still economic development, and the Pearl River Delta. We have fertile soil and good land, but we can't just grow food.

We still have to take into account the economy. Now that the situation is improving, some economic planting can be appropriately relaxed. In addition to ensuring that Lingnan can be self-sufficient and can complete the supply to the imperial court, it can also develop cotton, hemp, mulberry, and tea planting.

At the same time, Lingnan's traditional mining, smelting, tool making, shipbuilding, and trade cannot be slack.

Ordinary people can at most fill their stomachs by farming, but oil, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, vinegar tea, clothes, socks, hats and shoes, reading and seeing a doctor, etc., all have to rely on other cash crops, or even part-time jobs.

At least men have to farm and women weave to be self-sufficient. If they develop some sideline businesses such as farming, they can have enough food and clothing and have a surplus.

Now we are opening up sea trade with these barbarians. Guangdong has unique conditions. We must seize this opportunity. Without agriculture, there is no stability, and without business, there is no wealth.

When you go back to serve as a governor, the party in charge must grasp the direction. People’s livelihood must be improved, but the economy must be developed more. Find ways to increase income for the people and increase taxes for the court.

You are in the rear, delivering food to the front lines, paying taxes and silver, and even building ships and guns, and providing copper and iron salt, which is the greatest contribution. "

Zhang Huangyan nodded repeatedly.

He was originally a scholar in eastern Zhejiang, and he had long been accustomed to the benefits of prosperity brought about by the development of industry and commerce.

In the past two years, because of the war and the famine, the emphasis has been on ensuring food planting and solving the famine. Therefore, it is required that the grain field should be planted first.

Significantly reduced cash crops.

In the past, the Jiangnan region around Taihu Lake used to be a land of fish and rice, a granary in the south of the Yangtze River, and even because of the development of the cotton spinning and weaving industry, almost every household grew cotton and mulberry trees, and their food was completely supplied by Huguang in Jiangxi.

Because the income from growing cotton and mulberry is higher, the demand for the developed silk and cotton spinning industries such as Suzhou and Hangzhou is too high, which naturally makes the people in the south of the Yangtze River not grow food.

Huguang and Jiangxi are also lands of fish and rice. Their industry, commerce, weaving and other industries are underdeveloped. The people are used to growing grain and then selling it to the south of the Yangtze River, which also makes a good profit.

The Tartars invaded and the Central Plains were in turmoil.

This previous model was forced to be interrupted. When everyone can't even eat, who cares about raising silkworms and weaving silk again.

Whether it is the Tartars or the Ming army, all fields are required to grow food to meet military needs and maintain the war.

However, Zhu Yihai is a time traveler after all, and he also clearly knows that if he only engages in agriculture and abolishes industry and commerce, the consequences will be very scary, and this kind of thing can only be done in the short term.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for the long term. After all, even if you only care about the military, you don't just need food, you also need various weapons and equipment.

Not to mention, fighting not only consumes food, but also consumes money.

Therefore, in the past two years, Zhu Yihai has also started to slowly release planting restrictions in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and constantly expand or restore the planting of cash crops. Although the release is more cautious, the release is a little bit, and food security is always required to be guaranteed.

But the general trend is good.

Guangdong, as the rear area, guarantees food self-sufficiency, and at the same time appropriately turns over the amount to the court, it is necessary to increase the restoration of industry and commerce, economic crops and even aquaculture.

A town in Foshan, Guangdong, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, had an astonishing ability to smelt ironware. In the past, Guangdong exported a lot of ironware. Only iron pots and iron pots became famous overseas. The foreign trade export volume was astonishing, creating huge Profits drive the development of a series of industries such as charcoal burning, coal mining, Pearl River transportation, and iron ore mining.

A simple algorithm.

Plant one acre of mulberry leaves and raise eight or nine baskets of silkworms. A woman can raise several crops after a busy year. These silkworms can reel about eight catties of silk and weave twenty bolts of silk.

If you grow wheat grains in a good field, you can harvest two or three stones per mu in a good year, but it is worth two or three taels of silver. If you grow mulberry leaves, you can harvest eight or nine catties of silkworms per mu, worth fifteen or six taels of silver.

If cotton is grown, the yield of seed cotton is about [-] catties per mu, and the market price is two or three taels of silver per hundred catties. match.

If tobacco is grown, the income is several times that of rice and wheat.

For those who grow mulberry and raise silkworms, when silk is expensive, one basket of silkworms can be regarded as the income of one mu of grain.

When the market price is good, the income from planting mulberry and silkworm is four to five times or even ten times that of rice planting.

Therefore, when the food problem is not so tense, it is necessary to relax restrictions and restore cash crops to the people, which not only increases income for the people, but also provides vitality to the market, and more taxes for the court.

Of course, there is always a degree here.

Since the late Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan area has been planted in disorder. For economic benefits, farmers will plant all the land with cash crops, and even buy their own rations.Suzhou, Songjiang, and Hangzhou, the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, have completely relied on food from other places such as Huguang and Jiangxi.

There is not even much food in the local area. Every time there is a slight flood or something, there is no food in the city, and the price of food will increase several times.

There was even famine.

This situation is obviously not acceptable.

So what Zhu Yihai is discussing with Zhang Huangyan now is that the red line still has to be drawn.People who have land have to set a certain ratio and relax it year by year.

For example, the issue of food is still relatively important now, so in the rear areas like Guangdong, with ten acres of land, two or three acres of cash crops can be planted, and the remaining seven or eight acres must be guaranteed to grow grain. Relax on an acre or two.

It is not possible to plant all commercial crops.

At the very least, food must be self-sufficient in the local area to ensure local supply, and then leave some leeway.

The rest of the land will be used to develop commercial crops.

The specific ratio should be adjusted depending on the number of fields and population in each region. Self-sufficiency in food must be ensured, and some surplus can be stored and handed over.

While giving benefits to the people for development, it is also necessary to appropriately collect taxes on these economic fields according to the actual situation.

For example, those who grow cotton, grow mulberry, grow tobacco, and grow medicinal herbs, according to the actual output income, according to the ratio of about ten to one in the grain field tax, some supplements will be made.

One acre of grain field is two buckets of land tax. If growing mulberry and cotton is several times the income of growing grain, then it must be properly levied. Cotton farming is highly profitable, and it also includes additional labor such as weaving. Therefore, a new tax rate for mulberry, cotton, tobacco, and other fields must be reasonable and must not hurt farmers.

"Guangdong is located at the southern end of Ming Dynasty. Although it has the convenience of sea transportation, it is inconvenient and expensive to transport grain from Lingnan to the north. Therefore, I still hope that Lingnan will vigorously develop industry, commerce and trade."

"The self-produced grain in the south of the Five Ridges, after the common people keep enough rations, will be collected and purchased in a unified way, and then there is no need to transport it northward. Just set up granaries in various prefectures and counties in the south of the ridge for direct storage. A small part is shipped to the surrounding Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Warehouses were built at the junction of Yunnan, Hunan and other provinces for storage.”

Zhu Yihai has also adjusted the water transportation system long ago. First, it mainly relies on sea transportation. Second, it no longer distributes Lumi to officials and so on. Instead, it only distributes a small amount for rations, and the rest is distributed in silver.

In this case, the burden of water transportation for the imperial court will be reduced.

The distribution of grain is mainly to establish a transshipment storage system along the coast, along the Yangtze River, canals, and along the main traffic arteries.

There is no need to store a large amount of grain in the two Beijing areas.

In those transportation hubs and regional central locations, large warehouses have been established, which is the same as Zhu Yihai used to shop online on JD.com because of his speed.And his speed is mainly because they have established storage centers in various places to deliver goods nearby.

So Zhu Yihai thinks that food can also be like this.

This was done in the Sui and Tang Dynasties before, and large granaries could store tens of millions of stones of grain.

The grain transportation in the Ming Dynasty transported millions of shi grains to Beijing every year, but the cost was at least twice that, and the cost was too high.

The transformation of grain grain into sea transportation, especially the establishment of warehouses for storage, transshipment and deployment in various places, improves efficiency and saves costs.

Even regions such as Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have to regain their advantages in industrial and commercial capital and provide more tax money for the court instead of growing grain.

This set of things, in fact, Ruan Dacheng, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, can understand it best. He was also the first person who suggested to the emperor that he should not only focus on grain seeds and completely give up the cultivation of cash crops. When he was the governor of Zhejiang, he did a good job in this area. The emperor Also strongly support him.

Therefore, Zhejiang's silk weaving industry and tea industry recovered the fastest, and the production of Husi silk recovered quickly. A lot of money was earned through foreign trade, and the court also received a lot of taxes.

Even the exchange of raw silk tea for battleships for cannons for mercenaries is hard currency.

(End of this chapter)