Edo Traveler

Even if the Tokugawa family's mind is slow, but the words of the internal money, who do not know, who does not know? Although Tokugawa Jiading's expression did not change, his eyelids were obviously shaking constantly.

"..." The senior middle school left and right stopped talking.

The topic is more sensitive, Chuemon and Tokugawa must be brothers, they can say some things, others can't. Even Songping Qimin looked at his nose, his nose at his mouth, and his mouth at his heart. He held up his teacup and pretended not to hear.

Chuemon is very clear that during the Tokugawa Ikei era, the shogunate's finances suffered a serious deficit. But the shogunate's deficit does not mean that the generals are in deficit. The treasury of the Manchu court was depleted, could the Ministry of Internal Affairs be short of silver envoys?

Tens of millions of people starved to death in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and Jin Dynasties, preventing the Empress Dowager Cixi from building the Summer Palace? Both horizontal and vertical are the same principle, and all countries with feudal autocratic monarchies are the same.

As a general, the expenses are huge, and the income is definitely enough. Although there are definitely no tens of millions, but a few millions should not be a problem. In history, after the death of Tokugawa Jiading, Tokugawa Jiamo came to the throne, and it cost no less than one million taels of gold just for the wedding of Jiamo and the palace.

It's impossible for this money to fall from the sky, and the matter is so urgent, there must be cash to deal with it immediately. You have to take the time to scrape the ground three feet, how can you think of the reason to scrape the ground when something is imminent.

Therefore, although the private house money set by the Tokugawa family is not much, it is definitely not a lot. Before, Mrs. Atsuji also helped him vacate Dao, saving hundreds of thousands of palace expenses every year, and this money must also be stored in the cache. Mrs. Atsushi herself is not a person who likes luxury, and Dao's expenses are less than a quarter of the previous generation.

"Implement the loan-assistance method, lend money to the people without interest, and repay the loan in five to ten years, saving the people from the hands of the rich farmers and merchants." Zhongyouemon directly copied Ninomiya Zunde's idea.

After working in the shogunate for so many years, Chuemon was very clear that the shogunate actually relied heavily on industry and commerce in finance after the five-generation general Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. However, agriculture, which should be the foundation of the world and the cornerstone of the shogunate, gradually fell into decline and became a part that received less attention.

why? Because business makes money fast!

As long as the monopoly power is granted to the wealthy businessmen, the shogunate will wait to collect the money. And when there is no money, you can also ask the rich merchants to give filial piety. You can even borrow money from wealthy merchants. The old man of Shigeru Nara just received a tea bowl and lent the Tokugawa family 40,000 taels of gold.

Besides, business is all living money, and whoever does business doesn't leave any funds for activities. As soon as the shogunate and the general opened their mouths, the money could be sent in a rush, simple and easy.

On the contrary, it is agriculture, relying on the sky for food, and it is not uncommon for the entire Kanto to fail to harvest directly after a catastrophe. Moreover, most of the annual tribute is in kind, and the rice needs to be discounted, which is actually very inconvenient for the feudal government.

For example, Zhang Juzheng reformed and reformed, and most of the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were changed to currency collection. Of course, the real objects of the sect were still in the sect before the fall of the Ming Dynasty. There are many benefits of levying cash currency. Except for the peasants who suffer, basically everyone on the entire line can benefit.

However, Japan's national conditions are different. At the beginning of the establishment of the shogunate, the development level of each place was different, the currency in use was different, and the output of the territory was different. There is only rice, which is the general equivalent used throughout the country. So Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu unanimously chose Ishigao's system.

And to the new Meiji government in history, because of the development of the commodity economy. In a few years, the expropriation in kind was abandoned in favor of currency. Just like Zhang Juzheng's reform, the amount of money in the market is already sufficient and can be circulated.

But now, the shogunate is still collecting rice!

In addition, Nian Gongmi accounted for more than two-thirds of the shogunate's annual financial revenue. The shogunate enjoyed the Nian Gongmi collected by the Heavenly Landlord, while greatly disregarding the development of the countryside. Just because rice can't be cashed out quickly, it can't be easily spent.

It can no longer be spent, which is also a major item of the shogunate's fiscal revenue. Chuemon believes that this major item must be maintained and stabilized, so as to increase the income of this item and expand the tax base of the shogunate.

Now the first step is to prevent farmers from borrowing and going bankrupt. Ninomiya Zunde is obviously very clear about what feudal bureaucrats are. When he was experimenting before, he asked for interest-free loans, so that there was no profit at all, and some disgusting things happened.

Such "good governance" can only be done by a central government like the shogunate, and no one else can do it. And whether the shogunate can do it depends on whether the Tokugawa family is willing to pay for it.

"Other than that?" The Tokugawa family didn't agree or veto, just let Chuemon continue to speak.

"Open all the mountains, forests and swamps in the sky, as long as new fields are developed, the fields belong to the developing farmers!"

This is also the idea of ​​Zunde Nigong. Why did the farmers in the past not want to open up wasteland? The reason is very simple, the land in the world belongs to the generals and princes, and it may not belong to you if you open it. Moreover, in the past, when developing new fields, no matter how hard or difficult you are, you will get 60% of the annual tribute when you open up new fields.

Your new field development is not profitable at all. A single ordinary person is not enough, and the powerful merchants and farmers are unwilling to make wedding clothes for others. The final result is like this.

But let's take Japan as an example. After the end of World War II, there were millions of Japanese civilians repatriated from Northeast China, North Korea, Taiwan, Huatai and other places~www.readwn.com~ How to resettle so many people ?

At that time, the idea of ​​the Japanese government was to open up wasteland on the original state-owned land. As long as you open up the land, the land will belong to you completely, and it will be tax-free at the beginning, and you will not be charged any money, so that you have a surplus to settle down.

It happened that the five-star emperor MacArthur presided over the democratization reform of Japan and asked the Japanese government to support the homesteaders, and this policy was well promoted.

What enthusiasm did the Japanese peasants then explode? By 1952, Japan's agricultural production had surpassed all recorded historical levels. In 1956, the rice produced in Japan was not only a waste of food for the entire Japanese population, but even because of too much rice production, the price of rice began to fluctuate.

There were 80 million people in Japan at that time!

Who the **** is it that the Japanese can't even feed themselves with rice!

The reason why rice production plummeted later was because the Japan Agricultural Association, through the Japanese government, forcibly promoted "reduction of rice grains". All farmers' land was abandoned and farmers were prohibited from growing rice. Some farmers even went to jail for growing rice, which led to the subsequent rumors.