The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 245 Discussing Finance with Yang Tinglin

Half an hour later, Yang Tinglin hurried to the military deployment office.

Seeing Zhu Linmei coming to the door, he hurriedly pulled up his clothes and knelt down, "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince."

Zhu Lin hurriedly helped him up, "Guange Yang has worked hard all the way."

"Where is it?" Yang Tinglin glanced around and saw that there was no one else except Shi Lin, so he turned his head and said, "Your Highness, I just went to meet the Holy Majesty and the Empress Dowager." He lowered his voice, "The Holy Majesty's dragon body It's not good, and the Queen Mother's spirit is not very good."

Julien nodded.

Yang Tinglin clasped his hands again and said, "Fortunately, His Royal Highness supported the overall situation so that Daming would not be overthrown. But I don't know when the emperor will wake up, and the country and society rest on His Highness's shoulders."

The meaning of these words is already very clear, but Zhu Linmi just smiled and said nothing.A few days ago, Huang Daozhou had told him about Yang Tinglin's secret letter to urge Chen Wang to take over the government, so he knew what Yang Tinglin thought.

But after he came to this time and space, his greatest wish was to rewrite the history of the tragedy of the Ming Dynasty and leave a more glorious China to future generations.Before this goal is achieved, he will not make any other plans.

History has proved that the decline of Ming Dynasty began with Xiao Qiang, and he will never let history repeat itself for his own sake.

When the two walked to the front of the hall, Yang Tinglin saw that the assistant king had not said a word, so he could only start talking about business, "Your Highness ordered Zhao Yinxuan to return to Yunnan."

What he didn't say was that when the 1000 Yunnan troops selected by Zhao Yin came to Jiangxi, they had only [-] sets of armor and less than [-] guns.When returning to Yunnan from Jiangxi, not only were they equipped with [-] pairs of cotton armor and more than [-] firecrackers, they even brought several cannons.

Yang Tinglin continued: "Leave Chenzhao's Guangxi soldiers and Guo Wei Jing Guo Shilang in Guangxin and Raozhou. Although their strength is slightly inferior to the Huizhou army, the rebel army in Chizhou is huge. Zhang Tianlu has no strength to deal with the rebel army on the west side. Bingnan criminals.

"His Royal Highness King Yongning has returned to Nancheng, and his troops are led by Deputy General Shao Jian to Jiujiang to assist Wang Yuanji in defense.

"Except for the temporary repair of the city wall, Nanchang City has basically recovered to its original state. The whole area of ​​Jiangxi can be called Dading."

Zhu Linmei also nodded in relief. When he first arrived in Jiangxi, half of the country fell and the Qing army was raging. After nearly a year, he finally returned to Daming completely.

"The Ministry of Yangge and Jiangxi have made great contributions, and I will definitely go to the imperial court to reward them."

Yang Tinglin hurriedly shook his head and said: "Your Highness is too famous. How can I not have such self-knowledge, if I hadn't been framed by Yang Sichang back then, I'm afraid I would never have anything to do with the battlefield in my life.

"This time His Highness appointed me the Ministry of Accounts, but I can still play a little bit."

When it came to the Household Department, Yang Tinglin immediately said more, "By the way, when I was still in Jiangxi, I heard that His Highness asked for three times the salary of officials. I foolishly thought that if this was the case, the pressure on the Household Department might be too great. It is the previous salary, this tax is not enough to pay..."

Zhu Lin said in her heart that the old man Yang was about to start planning for the household department before he took office.He laughed and said, "I'm afraid the Yangge department hasn't seen the account book of the household department yet?"

"The lower officials have heard about it, and it seems that the moon and the moon are short."

"Then I want to tell you that there are nearly 100 million taels of silver and more than 200 million taels of assets in the accounts of the account department?"

Yang Tinglin almost jumped up when he heard the words, "Your Highness is serious?!"

"When the Yangge Department takes over the household department, we will know when we open the warehouse."

Yang Tinglin was overjoyed. Since the Chongzhen Dynasty, when did the treasury have more than one million taels of reserves?
He is also quick-thinking, and immediately thought that these should be the property of the officials who had confiscated the enemy, and then frowned and said: "Your Highness, such a high salary, even if it is a million silver, it will not last for a long time. And at this time, the imperial court is only responsible for Jiangxi and Fujian. If the two places recover the north and south of the river in the future, the expenditure will be even greater.

"As far as I know, the people's taxes are already the highest since the Ming Dynasty, and there is no room for more..."

Yang Tinglin habitually believed that the only way to increase the revenue of the treasury was by raising taxes, but he didn't want Zhu Linmin to immediately wave his hands and say: "Of course not, how much money can the people at the bottom have? Even if they are drained, they will never be able to support the court." needed.

"Not only will I not raise taxes, but I will also significantly reduce the taxes on farmers and cancel all kinds of donations and donations. Oh, I call this a single tax."

Yang Tinglin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "On behalf of the people of the world, I would like to thank Your Highness for his compassion for the people! It's just that...the current revenue of the imperial court is already difficult to support, and His Highness raised officials to three times. How can the national treasury increase revenue and reduce expenditure? I'm afraid... ..."

Zhu Linmi simply threw the copy of "Daming Development Outline" on the desk to Yang Tinglin, and said with a smile: "Yang Butang can't always focus on the harvest of the peasants. Open source, can't become a way to increase the burden on farmers. Merchants, shipping, mining, The handicraft industry is a large household that can generate income, and they are the backbone of supporting the national treasury."

Yang Tinglin nodded as if he had realized something, and opened the booklet in his hand for a closer look.Seeing that there are so many development plans listed above, and the contents are extremely heterogeneous, he was dazzled by the sight, and hurriedly turned to the front to look at the general outline.

The first is agriculture.Yang Tinglin nodded secretly, the world is safe and sound.

I saw that after the agricultural item of the outline, there are mainly several sub-items such as "promoting potato and sweet potato planting", "accelerating chemical fertilizer research and large-scale production", "opening up wasteland and building water conservancy".

Among them, he only understands the construction of water conservancy, but he is a little disapproving of other projects, and then he thinks that the construction of water conservancy still needs a lot of money, and he can't help frowning even more.

He suppressed the doubts in his heart for a while, and looked down again.

[-]. Shipping and foreign trade.

1. Construct the national commercial fleet and the Daming Navy.

2. Newly build Shanghai, Zhoushan, Hong Kong, Xiamen and other maritime ports.

3. Improve the customs tariff system and intensify efforts to combat smuggling.

4. Escort and anti-piracy strategies for commercial fleets.

5. Occupation and construction of colonies, overseas colonial strategies.

Yang Tinglin was stunned again. Although the sea ban has been weakened since the Hongguang Dynasty, such a move to promote shipping is unprecedented. How can there be the word "sea ban" in the future?
He knew that overseas trade was lucrative, but he couldn't help but feel that it was heresy.It is extremely dangerous to go to sea by boat, and sailors often go out ten to five.

What's more, trade is often restricted by other countries. If you trade with you today, the port will be closed tomorrow. How can this be a long-term solution?
As for the colony, he didn't even know what it meant. He wanted to come or expand overseas.But overseas is poor and the roads are far and difficult to control. Is this really feasible?

The only thing he approves of is the fight against pirates. However, according to Daming's long-standing experience in fighting against the pirates, this is even more of a gold-swallowing behemoth.In addition, Jiangbei Jianlu is eyeing him like a tiger, so how can the imperial court spare no effort to take care of the pirates?
(End of this chapter)