Daming: Distribution of Lingnan, you develop the Pearl River Delta?

Chapter 94: The Ming Dynasty’s ‘what goes up and what goes down’, the reasons for financial difficulties

No one would have thought that Xin Ying, who looked like a weak woman, had such strength.

Standing for three days and three nights?
This is also great!

However, in comparison, she fought with a group of men for three consecutive days and ended up winning more and less. This experience should be more legendary. Zhu Biao said with envy: "Second brother, you have such a guard. What a blessing.”

"What a blessing, she also learned bad things." Zhu Xi said helplessly: "I don't know who I learned it from. Now my mind is full of messy things. This time I will teach her a lesson."

"Brother-in-law, you don't need to criticize Sang and Huai like that, right?"

Xu Miaojin was a little unhappy and said, "Xin Ying is usually very close to me. Are you saying that she followed me and learned bad things?"

"You said it yourself."

Zhu Fang said: "Don't think that I don't know what it is like in the university now. Since I announced that freedom of speech is free, the atmosphere in the university has gradually changed. It's not that the atmosphere has become bad. On the contrary, in terms of atmosphere, because Speech has been opened up, so everyone dares to say it, and the atmosphere has become more positive. However, under the current background of Lingnan's comprehensive development, everyone has become a little profit-seeking. And you?"

"Didn't I just make you 1 taels from selling the car?" Xu Miaojin said angrily, "Should I give it back to you now?"

"Okay!"

Zhu Ping stretched out his hand.

"I won't give it! I also plan to buy a piece of land, build a house, and then move my sister and father out." Xu Miaojin regretted it.

When Zhu Xi heard this, he thought, "How can that be done?"
If you take Xu Da out to live, he has no objection.

Xu Miaoyun can't leave!
Having just said this, Zhu Xi said to Xu Da: "Wei Guogong, it will be April soon, and my father and the emperor have never issued an edict to tell you to go back. Now the emperor is also in Lingnan, otherwise you can simply How about you stay and help me lead the troops?"

"This……"

Xu Da hesitated.

To be honest, now he has been squeezed out by a group of ministers in the court.

This is why Xu Da has been in Lingnan for so long. He should have gone back after the Chinese New Year, but he has been taking action.

He was also tired of the intrigues and intrigues between the DPRK and China.

On the contrary, in Lingnan and here with Zhu Xi, what he saw was prosperity, and everyone was positive and moving towards a better life.

Here in Zhu Xi, there is no intrigue.

Officials are busy with official duties all day long, trying to get everything done.

Because there is an official evaluation system here in Zhucheng.

There is one person, Yao Guangxiao, who is good at conducting secret investigations and is very impartial, supervising.

Of course, if there is no Yao Guangxiao, there will be others.

Zhu Yu once said: "Everyone has selfishness, so the matter of supervising officials should be handed over to all the common people. In the past, it was very difficult for common people to meet higher-ranking officials, let alone sue! But now, With the development of science and technology, such things become easier and easier, so Yao Guangxiao's job is actually quite easy. In the future, when Ben Wang invents the telephone, it will be easier to supervise those officials."

Therefore, Xu Da believed that the future of the Ming Dynasty lay in Lingnan.

And the future of Lingnan lies in Zhu Ping!

What's more, the prince is now seriously ill.

The person Xu Da wanted to help may be gone.

For various reasons, Xu Da was naturally willing to stay.

However, Xu Da was also worried. He asked: "King Qin, I am afraid that the emperor will not agree."

"This is simple, I have a way!"

Zhu Xi chuckled.Zhu Biao asked: "Second brother, what can you do to keep Master Xu here?"

"Splash the money."

Zhu Fang smiled and said: "One million taels is not enough, so 100 million taels. Anyway, my father is short of money, but I have plenty of money! All the previous things were actually my throwing money at my father and making deals with him. For example, , various railway development rights across the country..."

Zhu Biao suddenly realized: "It turns out that since last year, every time when the Ministry of Household Affairs called for poverty, my father would come up with money. The money was given to my father by you, second brother... Second brother, if this is the case, then why do you Why don't we simply take over the household department and solve the financial difficulties of our Ming Dynasty?"

"Let me solve it?"

Zhu Xi said angrily: "You really dare to think about it, Prince, and you think beautifully! The people who messed up Ming Dynasty's finances are actually you officials, and then you asked me to wipe all of your butts by myself, do you think Am I free?"

"How can the second brother say that all officials in the court are the culprits of the Ming Dynasty's financial difficulties?" Zhu Biao obviously disagreed with this statement.

"It's not you, who is that?"

Zhu Ming asked: "Who is the one who gives excessive rewards, lavishly prints out the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, rewards the ministers, and forces the price of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes to drop again and again? And who is the one who can't boost the economy, but can only eat without food, all of them The country is in prison, but they still don’t know that the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty are caused by Baochao, and there is no solution? Which royal relatives, even princes, only want to enclose the land and exploit the people, making the people’s lives more and more difficult? , it’s difficult to pay taxes? And who is going to be an official with the salary from the court, but because the salary is low, he helps the gentry to enclose land everywhere, and then puts the land they encircled in his own name, so as to avoid paying taxes. Paying taxes will make the Ming Dynasty’s already stretched finances even worse?”

This series of questions left Zhu Biao speechless.

He is the prince.

Of course, he is very clear about the atmosphere in the DPRK.

First of all, for officials in the court, even those who have not yet entered the court, as long as they are promoted, there will be a large number of squires to curry favor with them.

why?
Just because, after winning the imperial examination, the court will exempt his family from corvee service, and their land will also be exempted from taxes.

In this way, many squires found loopholes.

Give a juren some money, put the land and property in the juren's name, and you won't have to pay taxes to the court.

This is true for the people who are elected, but among the officials in the DPRK, this trend is even more prevalent.

Almost no one in the entire court was spared.

However, when it comes to enclosure, the most ruthless ones are the royal family members.

Especially these princes.

For example, King of Han.

He hasn't even established a vassal state yet. I heard that his fiefdom has already encompassed tens of thousands of hectares of land.

Is it scary?

Terrible!
Even Zhu Biao himself circled some land...

There are also criticisms about Zhu Yuanzhang, which are also to the point.

Since the issuance of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes, Zhu Yuanzhang's happiest thing is to reward ministers.

Anyway, he paid for it himself, he can print it as he pleases, and spend it as he pleases!
So, he can give it to whoever he wants.

Who can refuse something so exciting?
and so……

The finances of the Ming Dynasty were in a hopeless state because of this kind of ups and downs.

Zhu Xi's meaning is very simple.

He is not going to wipe the mess caused by so many of you.

(End of this chapter)