Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 337 Shocked officials, when did Daming become so rich?

5000 million taels of silver?
The bulk of this number mainly came from Shanxi Shanxi merchants, who copied their homes and obtained a large amount of gold and silver from the families of the eight major Shanxi merchants.

Of course, this is the overall valuation. Calligraphy, painting, land, and some real estate are all estimated at 2000 million taels of silver.

However, in fact, the silver and gold that were actually taken out together were 8000 million taels, but even so, this was a huge astronomical figure.

In addition, there is a bulk income.

That is the vassals and princes everywhere.

Now Zhu Youxiao not only stopped the official salaries of these princes, but also asked them to serve the court on the grounds of difficult state affairs. Now, it is not easy for the court to support you. How can you just watch The imperial court was shy.

A prince must spend 20 taels of silver a year.

A county king must spend 10 taels of silver a year.

What?Did you say you didn't?
Really?I don't believe it!
What do you do as the tax office, the statistics office, and the Jinyiwei office?It is to stare at you princes to ask for money.

If there is no 20 taels, the Jinyiwei yamen and the tax department yamen just came to ransack the house.

Directly ransacked the house, not too much, and took out 20 taels of silver.

If you don't have money, you just ransack the house. How can a majestic palace not even have 20 taels of silver?
At the end of this year, when it was time to pay taxes, the palaces of all the princes were in dire straits.

It's not that they haven't thought about rebelling.

However, they found that their servants and their guards seemed to have been bought off. This group of people was eager to make mistakes quickly, and then confiscate the land of the palace, so that they could carve up the prince's land a little bit.

This is a group of pigs, fat and strong. Except for their surname Zhu, Zhu Youxiao doesn't know their specific situation. He knows that they are rich and don't pay taxes.

This is the big head that the princes handed in.

In addition, after Wang Wenyan strengthened the Donglin Party's business last year, he directly expanded foreign trade this year, and this year's silk sales directly quadrupled.

Coupled with the opening of Nantong Port, it also quickly attracted a large number of overseas businessmen.

This year's trade in Nantong Port alone is close to 4 taels of silver.

Naturally, Wang Wenyan's ability is needless to say.

The second is to copy the house.

Han Yu's family, as well as the families of some Shanxi officials, have accumulated a lot of wealth over the years.

However, these things are still pediatrics.

The place where the real money is made is the Daming Banknote.

This is a pure white wolf with empty gloves. Zhang Haogu set up a commune and made clear regulations. If you want to buy grain, cloth, fine salt, etc. in the capital and Shandong, you must use Daming banknotes.

First change the silver in your hand into Daminbao banknotes and then start consumption.

In this way, worthless paper becomes a tool for making money.

Southerners want to do business in the north and buy top-quality northern cloth to sell to men. Mongolians also want to buy woolen sweaters, woolen sweaters, and cotton-padded clothes.

In this way, it became imperative to exchange the silver into Daming banknotes.

Of course, the most important thing is that the credibility of Daming Baochao has been established. At the beginning, people may still not trust it. However, after more than half a year, with the official credit as an endorsement, Daming Baochao started quickly became popular.

If it is expanded again, then this Daming Treasure Banknote will be exchanged for more real gold and silver.

This is nothing!
"That's not right!"

Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, suddenly said: "I still remember that I got 12 million silver from Shanxi merchants, why is it only 5000 million taels?"

"Back to the emperor!"

Lu Xiangsheng said slowly: "There is still 12 million taels of silver in the treasury, which is used to exchange banknotes, so it cannot be counted as this year's treasury income!"

This has also been discussed before.

Now, it is necessary to explain where the 12 taels of silver are placed. If someone doubts whether there is so much silver, it will be used by those who want to use it, I am afraid that it will damage the reputation of Daming Banknotes.

"So!" Zhu Youxiao laughed, and said slowly, "Is there still so much money in my treasury?"

"Exactly!" Lu Xiangsheng said with red face and heartbeat.

This guy was an honest kid back then, but now that he is by Zhang Haogu's side, he is getting worse and worse.

"This is 12 taels of silver!" Zhu Youxiao said, "I can sit back and relax!"

"Your Majesty, this silver is not allowed to be used at will. The common people use banknotes. With this silver, the common people can use the Daming banknotes with peace of mind. The imperial court must have credibility, and the treasure banknotes must also have credibility!" Lu Xiangsheng quickly He opened the mouth and said: "I think that the money should still be put in the bank, I implore the emperor to learn from it!"

"Okay, I got it!" Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Not to mention the 12 taels of silver, even the 5000 taels of silver is not a small amount. used!"

"Your majesty is wise!" Lu Xiangsheng said politely, "In addition, Shandong and the capital have expanded their arable land this year, and their grain production has also increased. The total income of the capital and Shandong has increased by 200 million taels of silver!"

"Okay!" Zhu Youxiao laughed: "It seems that the implementation of the New Deal will really benefit the country and the people. I am very relieved!"

At this moment, the ministers of Daming were excited.

How long has it been?
Why did the imperial court suddenly become so rich?
Last year it was 5000 million taels, but this year, it is even more abnormal, directly tripled.

In the past five or sixty years, when was the best time for the imperial court to collect taxes?
When Zhang Juzheng was doing the examination, at that time, Zhang Juzheng only earned 1000 million taels of silver a year, and now it has directly increased by fifteen times.

However, it is impossible to guarantee so much fiscal revenue all the time.

The current Daming is puffy, looks rich, but is actually a pile of fat.

In the past few years, so much money has been copied from the house, Zhu Youxiao forced the princes to pay, and a large number of businessmen and people exchanged silver for banknotes, and made money from overseas trade.

However, the copying of the house is to the end, and sooner or later the copying will be finished.

The princes will also be squeezed dry sooner or later.

Sooner or later, there will be no more silver on the market.

Then it is necessary to develop Ming's own economy, build bridges and pave roads, build water conservancy, start industrialization, and turn these fats into muscles. Only in this way can we truly enter a new era.

However, even so, the officials of the people were still extremely shocked. Since when did Daming become so rich?

(End of this chapter)