Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 341
"Bam—"

"Get out of here!"

"Get out of here!"

"roll!!!"

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the inner court, when the sound of smashing and smashing came out continuously, it was accompanied by Zhu Youxiao's furious roar.

A large group of eunuchs and maids crawled out, while in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Zhu You was trembling angrily, and Wang An, who was kneeling in front of him, was also sweating profusely.

"Long live, calm down... At least this account has been settled, and now we..."

"Quiet your anger?!"

Wei Zhongxian still wanted to show his loyalty, but Zhu Youxiao took the Beijing official's "official salary book" handed over by the Ministry of Households and scolded Wei Zhongxian with eyes wide open:

"They expropriated 6 taels of silver from the people in Wuqing County, and distributed 3 taels to the household department. The household department gave me 500 taels of internal money, and they themselves took 3 taels! It was even more than the household department took. Much more!"

"boom!!!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but grabbed the inkstone and smashed it at the door behind Wei Zhongxian. The sound of the inkstone colliding with the door made Wei Zhongxian tremble, and Wang An, Wang Tiqian, and Liu Ruoyu also reached a united front at this moment.

"Long live, you get angry when you get angry. What kind of horse are you shooting? Shooting a ***!"

It was rare for the three of them to scold Wei Zhongxian in unison in their hearts, and Wei Zhongxian was also taken aback, shaking his head and not daring to look up.

"It's against the sky! It's against the sky!"

"I rule Kyushu Wanfang, I am the Son of Heaven, the Emperor! Are they going to use these things to deceive me?!" Zhu Youxiao shook the document in his hand excitedly, and continued:
"It's a waste of time for the common people to receive twice the regular tax. They took the money and put it into their own pockets, but they want me and the court to bear the blame for them!"

"In the end, the common people complained to the imperial court, and the reputation of King Qi and Zhen's land was completely ruined by them!"

"King Qi... Where is King Qi?!"

Zhu Youxiao vented loudly, but Wang An had to bite the bullet and said:

"His Royal Highness King Qi has already traveled to Baoding. It is said that His Royal Highness needs to rest for a few days before going to Beijing."

"They made my younger brother tired and sick?!" Zhu Youxiao raised his hand and smashed the document on the table, making everyone tremble with a "bang".

"They took the money, turned around and said that the salary given by the court was not enough, they asked for a higher salary, and they needed my younger brother to wipe their buttocks for the stupid things they did! How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

Zhu Youxiao was trembling with anger, pointing to the four people who were kneeling, he said, "Copy...copy the house!"

"Copy! Gotta copy!" Wei Zhongxian quickly echoed, but just as soon as he echoed, Wang An jumped out and sang the opposite:

"Long live, don't copy!"

Without waiting for Zhu Youxiao to continue to get angry, Wang An continued:
"The big case of King Xing of Qi has punished hundreds of thousands of officials in the world, but there are severe droughts in all eight provinces of the world, and floods in Zhejiang and Nanzhili have not yet come to an end."

"Among the [-] provinces in the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, ten provinces suffered from drought. In addition, Jiaozhi had just been recovered, and the feudal vassals would soon be reunited. If there is another major case, the world will be in turmoil and everyone will be in danger... "

"It is important to know that there are corrupt officials in the world, not only officials and subordinates, but also Yanshan, as well as powerful gentry. Long live, think twice..."

Wang An's words gradually calmed Zhu Youxiao's anger, but this anger did not disappear, but was suppressed.

"You're right...There are so many things going on in the world, and I have internal and external troubles, so I really shouldn't go to war..."

Zhu Youxiao sat back on the dragon chair, regained some sanity, put his hands on the armrests, and quickly became calm:

He picked up the new booklet "Officials' Fixed Lu", which recorded the income stipulated by officials in the future.

From the point of view of Zhengyipin, Bi Ziyan stipulated that the regular salary of Zhengyipin was 3000 taels of silver, and the medical guarantee of the Imperial Hospital.

2000 taels for the second rank, 600 taels for the third rank, 200 taels for the fourth rank, 800 taels for the fifth rank, 500 taels for the sixth rank, 200 taels for the seventh rank, 100 taels for the eighth rank, and 50 taels for the ninth rank.

Congpin's salary is [-]% of that of authentic ones, but this system only exists for Bapin and above.

Nine grades are divided into positive nine grades, secondary nine grades, secondary nine grades and third grades.

The official ninth rank is 50 taels of salary, the subordinate ninth rank is 15 taels, and the second ninth rank is ten taels. Most of the Yanshan scribes will be subordinate to the ninth rank, and the soldiers and horses and government servants are the second ninth rank.

In addition, after the management quota this time, the subordinate staff had to take part in a new exam. Those who passed the exam would become officials of the second ninth grade, and those who failed the exam would continue to practice. They only had a salary of six taels of silver per year.

This is undoubtedly a big gamble. Once Daming's current 120 million subordinates pass the examination, then Daming will suddenly have an extra 800 million taels of salary expenditure.

With Daming's finances, it is obvious that it is impossible to spend so much money to pay salaries.

However, since it is a test, what is the test?When do you take the test?How to test?This is what Zhu Youjian said.

Bi Ziyan included a handwritten book in "Officials' Dinglu", and Zhu Youxiao also took it out and opened it to look at it.

In the handwriting, Bi Ziyan specifically said that this was a tactic to slow down the army. The number of people from the ninth rank that Daming really needed was only 60.

The number of the ninth rank is around 50.

If this implementation is followed, the final number of officials in the Ming Dynasty will reach 110 million, and the salary expenditure will reach about 500 million taels.

This looks very scary, because if the military salary is included, Daming's annual salary alone needs to reach 700 million taels of silver.

Twenty-seven million taels of silver, this basically accounted for 700% of the expenditure for Daming whose total income was 900 million taels after the grain discount this year.

And the premise is that the food price has to be kept at [-] Wen, otherwise once the food price drops, Daming's total income will be even lower.

However, if the severe drought is over and Ming can achieve 8000 million taels of silver, even if the price of grain falls back to 200 taels of silver, the land tax will still have 600 million taels of silver. [-] million taels.

Politics is actually an economic account, including the military.

Zhu Youxiao can still accept the amount of 700 million taels of civil and military salary.

"Since the official Dinglu has been ruled, let the King of Qi return to Beijing to make a decision. Once the decision is made, it will be implemented immediately!"

After all, Zhu Youxiao put the volume of "Officials' Dinglu" on the table, got up and walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Seeing this, Wang An and others followed, and according to Zhu Youxiao's words, this "Official Dinglu" was also sent to Baoding...

"Your Highness! Your Highness, I have been wronged!"

"Your Highness—"

Early the next morning, as hundreds of officials in Baoding County were tied up and shackled, Zhu Youjian, who was in the Baoding County Yamen, also got this "Official Dinglu".

He was flipping through the pages, while Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao couldn't help discussing after listening to the wailing of the officials who were escorted out:
"His Royal Highness has taken care of officials from nine counties on his return journey this time..."

"Anyway, there are plenty of people who want to be officials, so what do they do?" Cao Bianjiao snorted coldly, obviously he didn't like the officials in Yurou Township.

He glanced at Zhu Youjian in the meeting hall, then quickly withdrew his gaze.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian closed the book "Officials and Officials".

"Huh..." He breathed a sigh of relief, and the content in "Officials Dinglu" did not disappoint Zhu Youjian.

The experience of his previous life has long made him aware of the petty profits of grassroots officials, not to mention the fact that in the feudal dynasty, the means of making profits are basically the same.

After the Shaanxi incident broke out, he fully understood one thing. Even though Daming's officialdom has been rectified for many years, it is still so bad.

Officials in several provinces dared to embezzle relief funds and food, so it is not surprising that there are people who secretly raise taxes under the feet of the emperor.

What he thought was different from Zhu Youxiao, Bi Ziyan and others. What they thought was that the local government used "consumption envy" to exploit the people and make the court bear a bad name, but what Zhu Youjian wanted to do was to directly abolish the "consumption envy" envy".

Just canceling illegal income is not in line with Zhu Youjian's idea. What he wants is to completely eliminate consumption envy.

How to get consumption envy?This is very simple, but also difficult, because it involves the birth of an industry.

bank……

People in later generations know the existence of banks, and money houses similar to banks were actually developed in the Ming Dynasty.

In the feudal society and semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the long-standing multi-currency system and the mixed circulation of multiple currencies made currency exchange already exist in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The exchange business began to appear in the Western Han Dynasty and developed in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It began to be operated concurrently by gold and silver shops and cabinet shops.

Although the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties specialize in banknotes, the common people still use silver ingots and copper coins, and this has also led to the parallelization of silver, money, and banknotes, and a variety of public and private institutions have appeared on the market concurrently operating exchange business.

The banknotes of the Ming Dynasty have been manipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunqi, Zhu Di, Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Qizhen, and there is almost no degree of trust among the people. This is why Zhu Youjian does not pursue banknotes, but the reason for coins.

If he uses banknotes to distribute salaries, even if his intentions are good, the people, the army, and officials will feel that they are at a disadvantage and that they are being forced.

Once everyone feels that they are being coerced, the policy cannot be implemented. For example, after the depreciation of the banknotes during the orthodox years, the people simply ignored the strict orders of the court, and the court could only relax the people and cancel the ban on using silver.

In the next few generations, even though there were a lot of private money, copper coins of different weights and colors, none of the officials dared to mention the precious banknotes.

Without banknotes, it was inconvenient for people to exchange coins, so money houses began to rise, and this was the Ming version of the bank.

By the time of Zhu Youjian, the money houses in various parts of the Ming Dynasty had become independent financial organizations.

They not only participate in the exchange of gold and silver, but also contract lending, providing the convenience of issuing posts and withdrawing money.

The meeting bills originally remitted by joint accounts in the two places have also become banknote-like credit circulation tools issued by banks.

In addition, several small-scale money exchange shops and money rice shops are quite active in rural areas.

In other words, what Zhu Youjian wants to do is not to open up a new industry, but to seize a semi-mature market.

In the survey of Jinyiwei in the two capitals and seventeen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than [-] money houses in total. Zhu Youjian didn't know how much gold and silver these money houses occupied, but it was by no means a small sum.

It is not realistic to expect the imperial court to undertake the bank, and then people will come to deposit money in an endless stream.

A more realistic method is to start banks in some economically developed provinces, and then distribute coins to officials, employees of imperial stores, and the army to change the currency system.

Zhu Youjian is not very good at financial means, but Bi Ziyan, Li Changgeng, and Dong Yingju must know how to operate.

Zhu Youjian only needs to tell them the advantages of the currency system, as well as the rules of bank contracted lending and various national debts.

The issue of the currency system is not difficult. There were also gold and silver coins in ancient times, and the reasons why they were not in circulation are also more complicated. Generally speaking, it can be summarized into three points, and the first point is the large loss.

First of all, the ancient Central Plains dynasty had a vast territory and a large population, so the coins were cast in batches, and then polished in batches after forming.

For example, the square hole in the middle of the ancient copper coins is convenient for stringing the coins together to polish the round edges, because there are burrs on the round edges.

After being polished and circulated, the copper coins can be easily strung up with ropes to facilitate circulation, but if the same method is used for gold and silver coins, the loss will be too great.

The second point is that compared with the population size and area, the gold and silver reserves of the Central Plains Dynasty were relatively small.

With many people but little gold, more wolves and less meat, and more monks and less porridge, it is impossible to use a large number of gold and silver coins to exchange. However, the small western countries have only a few thousand people in total, which is equivalent to a village in the Central Plains Dynasty. Of course, gold coins can be exchanged. .

Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was a veritable international metropolis at that time, with a population of about 80, and more than 100 million in its heyday. At the same time, there were about 30 in Constantinople, only 5 in Rome, and only 2 in Paris. More than ten thousand people.

Among other things, the dynasty had to issue tens of millions of coins for this city alone.

As for the third point, the people are too poor, because land annexation led to a large gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times, and the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the nobles. Therefore, ordinary people were poor and could not use a large amount of gold and silver coins, so they could not be "circulated".

These three points are the situation where gold and silver coins cannot be circulated on a large scale, and Zhu Youjian's main target is not gold and silver coins, but silver and copper coins.

How to reduce the fire consumption of the local government, the first is to unify the currency system. After collecting all the coins, pure silver coins, copper silver coins, and pure copper coins are used to form a simple currency system.

The currency system cannot be approximated, and it is best not to change even the shape, which is convenient for the people to accept.

Therefore, the new currency in the round sky will become the mainstream currency of Ming Dynasty.

The implementation of the bank must be related to the mainstream currency, and its appearance is to avoid the government's own transportation of taxes and the excuse of a large amount of consumption.

The corruption of the officials is nothing more than taking advantage of loopholes in the rules, because they also know that direct corruption is tantamount to crime, and it is easy to leave people with excuses.

Since Baiguan is currently using consumption envy to generate a lot of illegal income, Zhu Youjian will slowly solve the consumption envy problem.

As long as the issue of consumption and envy is handed over to the bank, then this issue will change from a political issue to a game between the imperial court and the bank.

"Go pass on to Lu Wenzhao and ask him to bring the records of gold, silver and copper stockpiled by the Yumajian and the state treasury, as well as the quantity and production records of minerals from all over the world."

"Yes!" Hearing Zhu Youjian's words, Cao Bianjiao went to do it immediately, and Zhu Youjian also closed his eyes and waited.

The reason why he asked Lu Wenzhao to bring the documents and quantity of minerals was because he was about to carry out the next scale of economic governance.

Mining state-owned...

To mint coins and develop railways, a huge variety of minerals is bound to be needed. Iron mines can be jointly operated by the government and the people, but the three types of gold, silver and copper can only be operated by the government.

While Zhu Youjian was thinking this way, Lu Wenzhao also came with hasty footsteps, holding seven or eight books that had been prepared a long time ago.

"Your Highness..."

Entering the meeting hall, he saluted first, while Zhu Youjian signaled Cao Bianjiao and the others to take the document.

After receiving the document, he began to look through it, while Lu Wenzhao explained:
"Currently, there are 920 mines in Daming, of which the Old Port occupies more than [-]. Including the mines in the hands of the imperial court, there are more than [-] in total."

Lu Wenzhao gave a general explanation, while Zhu Youjian kept flipping through his hands, and saw a large amount of gold, silver, copper and iron ore in the hands of private businessmen.

"Among these miners, how many people have violated laws and disciplines and colluded with officials..."

Zhu Youjian asked absently, but Lu Wenzhao knew that His Royal Highness wanted to attack these people.

You must know that before the first year of Taichang, there were more than 600 mines in the hands of the imperial court, and now the old port is removed, and there are nearly 300 more gold, silver, copper, iron and coal mines in the Ming Dynasty, all due to the investigation of the local gentry.

When investigating corruption, the powerful gentry are always accurately involved. This is unavoidable, because Ming Dynasty is a society of personal connections.

No matter you are common people, merchants, gentry, powerful... In short, if you want to do business, you need to deal with the government.

As soon as these contacts are made, collusion between government and businessmen is inevitable, and even officials themselves encourage their family members to go into business.

These more than 300 gold, silver, copper, iron and coal mines were copied during the investigation of corruption.

If Zhu Youjian wants to deal with corrupt officials, he can also take the opportunity to nationalize a large amount of minerals while dealing with corrupt officials.

"The government receives more than 17 catties of gold, 170 catties of silver, 76 million catties of copper, more than [-] catties of iron, and [-] catties of coal..."

As Zhu Youjian said, he glanced at the various mineral data in the hands of the gentry and powerful, and the resulting amount was so small that it made people want to laugh.

"The folks' annual income is more than 79 catties of gold, [-] catties of silver, [-] catties of copper, more than [-] million catties of iron, and [-] million catties of coal... Ha!"

Zhu Youjian snorted slightly. Zhu Youjian was really annoyed at the fact that the number of these mines was more than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the annual output of the mine was reported to be less than one-fifth of the value of Daming.

Excluding coal and iron, the Yumajian can now earn nearly 500 million taels of silver from mines every year, while the powerful gentry who master more than 500 mines than the Yumajian can only earn less than 200 taels a year. Ten thousand taels of silver.

It's no wonder that the annual gold, silver, copper and iron classes in the Ming Dynasty can only make up one-third of the income during the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is less than 40 taels of silver.

A group of co-authors are concealing the real production, using the cover of local officials to avoid paying a lot of taxes...

Especially in the iron class, the official iron in the Northern Song Dynasty is not as good as that in Daming, but the iron mine tax in the Northern Song Dynasty can be 10,000+ taels, while Daming only has a pitiful 3 taels.

According to the proportion of Song and Ming Dynasties, only iron ore, calculated according to the 10,000-[-] tax of commercial tax, Daming can also collect [-]+ taels of silver, not to mention other things.

Zhu Youjian had never had hope for this group of gentry tyrants, but now that they concealed the true proportion of minerals, it was a bit convenient for Zhu Youjian.

"Keep an eye on them. When investigating corruption, focus on investigating officials related to them. After they are involved, the property will be confiscated!"

Zhu Youjian put the document on the table, and he roughly figured out in his mind how much the court would profit after all the gold, silver, copper, iron and coal mines in Daming were confiscated.

Just talking about gold, there are at least 10,000 to 500 jin per year, and an income of 400+ taels, while silver can earn [-] million taels of silver, copper can also have an income of [-] million taels, and the output of iron mines is completely enough. Reaching [-] million or even [-] million catties, not to mention coal.

It is a bit shabby when converted into tons, but if the detonators made of mercury fulminate are used, together with cement and steam pumps, the output should be increased by several percent.

Three hundred million catties of iron is equivalent to 18 tons of iron. If all of it is used for railway construction, the standard is lower, and at least three thousand kilometers of railway construction can be guaranteed...

It's just that if they were all used for construction, then the people of Ming Dynasty would not have thought about adding new ironware.

Therefore, guarantee [-] million catties, strive for [-] million catties upwards, and preferably reach [-] million catties of iron, so that Daming can build [-] kilometers of railways every year.

From the capital to Guangzhou, it is about four thousand miles, from the capital to Shuofang, then from Shuofang to Ningxia, and finally from Ningxia to Jiayuguan, this route is [-] miles...

In addition, there are railways from Beijing to Liaodong, from Beijing to Annan, from Beijing to Zhejiang, to Yunnan, and to Duogan.

If these railways are built at [-] miles each year, they can be completed in seven years, regardless of manpower and the environment.

If you consider these, then the time to build these railways may take decades...

But Zhu Youjian doesn't care, technology will continue to improve with time, and the time for infrastructure construction will continue to shorten as technology advances.

If the mine is state-run, then the imperial court only needs to pay for the cost and labor costs, and the labor costs and the source of workers are not a problem for Daming under the severe drought.

Corruption control-minerals-banks-big infrastructure (relief with work), these four points and one line will become what Zhu Youjian has to do, and these four points not only need to look at Zhu Youjian, but also need to look at the Military Armament Academy.

The steam engine is only a few steps away from Watt's version. Once these steps are passed, Ming can enter the first industrial revolution and release more people to recover the unrecovered territories.

The Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, Hanbei, Anxi, Beiting, and Mengchi of the Tang Dynasty, and the Three Xuans and Six Comforts of the Ming Dynasty...

Even as long as Zhu Youjian's face is black enough, he can use the banner of regaining the territory of the Yuan Dynasty to forcibly turn the Great Mongol Empire into the Yuan Dynasty, occupying the territories of the four major Khanates in name first, and then recovering them in reality.

Just because of the black face, Zhu Youjian is really dark enough...

"From today, all the gold, silver, copper and iron from the old port will be deposited in Tongzhou, and the iron materials from other places will continue to be supplied to the Ordnance Bureau."

Zhu Youjian wanted to accumulate iron to solve Daming's logistical pressure. As long as the logistical pressure was resolved, he would no longer have to use a large number of civilians to take risks on the battlefield.

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao bowed in response, then got up and said:
"Your Highness, the situation in the capital is not very good, and the "Officials' Dinglu" incident is raging. You may be able to stabilize the situation when you return to Beijing."

"Return?" Zhu Youjian narrowed his eyes and said, "No return..."

Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao showed embarrassment: "But if you don't go back, Long Live may not be able to maintain the situation, and the officials will always make trouble..."

"Let them make trouble..."

Zhu Youjian glanced contemptuously at the "Officials' Dinglu" document on the table, and said disdainfully:
"The more trouble they make, the easier it is for Gu to clean up, and the more people who can clean up..."

　There will be a meeting in the afternoon, and the update is estimated to be around six o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)