New Shun 1730

It is easy to associate it with the "nonsense" content of the drum-beating and report, and it is natural to associate it with Liu Yu's affairs.

This matter is bound to cause a big storm, Zhang Muzhi thought, Liu Yu is a good time picker.

After one year of exemption, even if Baiyunhang is successfully tested, it will be two years later. If it is effective after two years, it may be promoted nationwide,

But by then, the rebellion of the Junggar tribe will basically be quelled. When Liu Yu takes his troops away, no matter how serious the storm is, it will not force the emperor to dismiss the generals on the front line.

When the Junggar tribe is defeated and the military exploits are outstanding, what's the use of impeachment?

Thinking of this, Zhang Muzhi laughed in his heart, thinking that Liu Yu did things quietly and made some big noises.

Anyway, quelling the Junggar is a hurdle, and if Liu Yu can't get over it, he will definitely die. But if it is over, all the impeachments before are just farts, and the impeachment memorials are hard to wipe the butt.

Zhang Muzhi thought, what does it mean to be fearless? This is fearless.

But this Bai Yunhang is really brave.

Is it true that people get angry when they are close to red people? Or is this Bai Yunhang a bold person, and the two of them have similar tastes and just met by chance?

Squinting his old eyes, he secretly glanced at the emperor, and saw that the emperor was calm and waited for everyone to speak. He thought that his attitude was no longer important at this time, so he said nothing and waited for others to speak first.

"Your Majesty, I think Liu Yu is the Dragon Guard and is also responsible for training troops. But he interferes in local affairs. Isn't this a bit like a dog catching a rat and meddling in other people's business?"

"Once this becomes a normal situation, those who lead troops out of the town to interfere in local affairs may cause disasters for the vassal state."

He first put a big hat on him. Zhang Muzhi opened his eyes slightly and said in a muffled voice: "This is wrong. Bai Yunhang said clearly that he had the intention, but he was short of manpower and had to borrow manpower. Liu Yu didn't force Bai Yunhang to do this, so how can this be called interfering in local affairs? Since Bai Yunhang submitted a memorial, what is the relationship with Liu Yu? You can't say that Liu Yu instigated this matter just because he was training troops in Weihai?"

Li Gan snorted, savoring the sentence "a dog catching a rat and meddling in other people's business", thinking that this is not meddling in other people's business.

Everyone didn't know that Liu Yu had used "cut off the canal transport, open the imperial examination, and support puppets" to scare the emperor, so naturally they didn't know Li Gan's nightmare.

The nightmare of the enemy coming from the east, the fleet going straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the imperial examination being cut off, has always been lingering in Li Gan's heart.

Of course, everyone has to die, and it may not be like this during his lifetime.

However, Li Gan's nightmare is more specific, that is, "Shenzhou sinks again, starting from Taixing" such a comment in later history books.

It's like the attitude that Liu Yu has always shown: the Junggar scabies can be defeated even without training new troops. Training new troops is just training with Junggar, and the real threat is only the East China Sea.

Li Gan also thinks that this is true.

The internal and external environment of Dashun is far more relaxed than the previous dynasty, and there are far fewer problems than the Qing Dynasty in history.

If compared with the Qing Dynasty, regardless of the northeast and southwest, the northwest is more stable in Dashun than in the Qing Dynasty.

One is that Shaanxi is the birthplace of Dashun, and one-fifth of the troops of the old fifth battalion are stationed near Xijing.

The second is the religious issue. The situation of Dashun is completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty.

There were many Hui people in the Shaanxi uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty. There were many Hui people in the Dashun Army, and there were also many Hui people among the good family children.

The green sect in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty was the Hanafi sect after the magic change in China. It integrated the pre-Tang Confucianism and Nestorianism, advocated "Buddhism with Confucianism", and began to translate scriptures into Chinese in the late Ming Dynasty. Many believers not only served in the army, but also participated in the imperial examination.

The Hanafi sect was indeed more tolerant in some aspects, such as tolerance of male-male and female-female same-sex marriage.

Even after the magic change in China, mourning and the first seven days of mourning were required for the deceased. There were only priests in the church, no judges, and no religious laws. There was even intermarriage between Hui and Han people. It was not allowed to marry privately within the church. The parents' orders and matchmakers' words must be respected, and there was no requirement that one party of the intermarriage must convert.

Originally in history, because of the great uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many believers and volunteers followed Li Guo to retreat to Huguang, and the subsequent Milayin and Ding Guodong rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and supported "Zhu Shizhen".

We should follow the story of Di Renjie supporting Li Xian, the Prince of Luling.

From the generation of the name "Zhu Shiyi", it is easy to judge that this is the line of the Prince of Su: Zhanlu Gongzhenbi, Jinshen [Shi] Liezhong, Xihui Ji Dangyun, Kaijian Chu Henglong.

This led to a wave of massacres of the Hanafi sect in the northwest region of the Qing Dynasty, destroying the original ruling position.

The newly introduced Sufi sect quickly seized the opportunity and expanded vigorously.

When the Sufi sect came to China, it naturally underwent a magical transformation, but what they integrated was some dregs.

The Sufi sect after the magic transformation learned a lot of dregs. The believers knelt down to the leader, and the "Taoist Ancestor" Ma Mingxin even openly said: Kowtow to me, I am the Lord, I am the saint!

When encountering three disasters and eight difficulties, you have to burn incense and pray; you have to burn incense to the imam in the morning and evening; believers have to contribute money to the imam or the church... It has become a feudal manor, and the feudal lord has financial resources, manpower, people's hearts, internal judicial power, and administrative power. Ma Mingxin's Jahriyya sect became an important factor in the chaos during the Tongzhi period.

But this situation did not happen in the Dashun regime, because the Dashun regime did not break the monopoly of the Hanafi sect, nor did it massacre the northwest, allowing the Sufi sect to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy the vacant position.

After the reform, the Hanafi sect still occupies a dominant position, and local officials still control judicial power. The family power of the leading figures in the sect in each region comes from the government: they are military officers, sons of good families, or candidates for imperial examinations. official.

If various Sufi sects want to develop, these frontier soldiers, military officers, sons of good families or imperial examination officials who use Confucianism and Buddhism to transform the Hanafi sect, intermarry with the gentry and soldiers, and whose power is conferred from above, will not be able to do so in the first place. promise.

If you engage in personality worship and feudal manor system, you will first label it as an "evil sect" and use official power to suppress it.

In general, Hanafi sects are relatively moderate and relatively easy to secularize. Especially the characteristic Mo Reform sect that spread to China and integrated Confucianism, Nestorianism, etc.

The imperial court has been clinging to judicial power since the Ming Dynasty, and Dashun continued.

Coupled with the special political status of Xijing, the northwest, which is said to be a mess, is actually very stable on the Dashun side.

The Northeast is also very stable. The transformation of the Southwest into a land-governed country is a long process but it is not a big problem. Junggar in the Western Region is not the Oara it once was. As long as the Snow Mountain region regains the Western Region, it will be stable.

Dashun is a land-based country of course. However, if the New Army can really fight one against three, or even one thousand against ten thousand, as Liu Yu said, and the Rakshasa Kingdom is thousands of miles apart and is temporarily unable to fight on a large scale, then there is actually no Too big a land threat.

Only when Dashun has no land threats will it consider coastal defense.

Therefore, in Li Gan's eyes, Liu Yu's prophecy about the "East China Sea Crisis" became the most dangerous blade hanging in his heart.

It was precisely for this reason that Li Gan was so concerned after Liu Yu said those frightening words. If land threats are not eliminated, it will be difficult to care about coastal defense. The northwest is the place where the frontier generals will choke. It can advance to the west, control Mongolia in the north, and enter the Qinghai Snow Mountains in the south. This place is stable and there will be no chaos, so there will be no great risks on land.

Li Gan once asked Liu Yu if there was a quick solution to the coastal defense issue?

Liu Yu’s answer is also very simple:

The tonnage of British warships is 200,000 tons, and one ton is about two thousand kilograms.

As long as the tonnage of warships exceeds that of Britain, the East China Sea will be safe.

According to the cost of Western countries, the average cost of a warship per ton, including cannon, is about 40 to 50 pounds, or 150 taels.

200,000 tons, which is 30 million taels of silver.

A 200,000-ton warship, let alone a navy of 70,000 tons, is based on 40 taels of silver per person per year, plus officers', maintenance fees, training fees, gunpowder consumption, and training consumption, the military salary is 5 million taels.

Therefore, as long as the emperor can spend 30 million taels of silver and guarantee an annual military salary of 5 million taels, he can guarantee that there will be no worries about the East China Sea in 30 years.

Indeed, it is easy to solve in theory.

As long as there is money.

As long as the annual income of 80 million taels can be guaranteed, this will not be a problem.

When the emperor heard the words of 80 million annual income, he thought it was a fantasy. Liu Yu could not tell him that in the year when the Sixth Anti-French Alliance was formed, the British annual income was 160 million taels.

The problem with coastal defense boils down to money.

So Liu Yu helped track down the fields in Wendeng. For Li Gan, this was certainly not meddling, but his own responsibility.

If we could inventory acres across the country, it would not be a problem to increase the annual income to six to seven million, not to mention 80 million.

Money doesn't come by strong winds. It has to be squeezed out a little bit here and there.

If you earn an extra six to seven million a year, you can do a lot of things.

Even if half of it was used for national inventory and costs, there were still three to four million left to invest in the navy. Li Gan felt that it would be better than investing 100,000 taels of internal funds in the navy by himself.

Solving the naval problem itself depends on money.

In other words, if you want to solve most of the domestic problems, as long as the money is in place, many problems can be solved easily.

Even if there is a major disaster in Shandong this year, as long as you have enough money to buy rice from the south and transport it, how can there be such a severe disaster?

Shandong is not in the northwest, with coastal areas on three sides. As long as you have money, it is not a problem at all. Even if Jiangnan rice is not enough, what about Vietnamese rice and Siamese rice?

As for what these people said, "The military's intervention in local areas may cause disasters for vassal towns", this is purely heart-breaking remarks.

Li Gan knew in his heart that Liu Yu's promise was to train a "organized army". Only when he could be transferred out and the army could still fight would the training be truly successful.

This army is not the Liu family's army, but the emperor's army; those officers are not Liu Yu's direct descendants, but the emperor's disciples selected from the Wude Palace. How big of a head does Liu Yu have to turn this army into a vassal town?

Even Li Gan knew very well in his heart that Liu Yu didn't care about the New Army Army and didn't want to seize military power in it. Even though he was far away in the capital, he knew exactly what Liu Yu was doing in training.

He knew that Liu Yu was doing this, and he just wanted to send a signal to him: the correct use of Wude Palace students in the local area is to airborne an inspection in a group of hundreds, not just to spread sand in the officialdom.

Li Gan thought to himself that I understood Liu Yu's meaning, but I'm afraid you haven't really understood it yet.

Baiyun Airport came out to propose a trial of dividing people into acres. This is just a continuation of the reform of the previous dynasty Zhang Juzheng. It is not that no one in the DPRK has mentioned it. The key is that no one has found an effective way.

The difficulty of apportioning a small person into an acre is no longer taxed or implemented. Even at this point, it is a matter of course to try it out in Wendeng. The number of acres has been checked and disaster relief has benefited the people. This is the time when people trust the most. Even if someone incites it, it can only incite those on the curve, but not those at the bottom who don’t know the truth.

If it were just those people above the curve, if they did not use coercion and incitement to deceive the people at the bottom, would the court be afraid of opposition from those people?

The real difficulty lies in the preparation before implementation, which involves inventorying the acres, determining how much tax will be paid on acres of different fertility according to local conditions, and ensuring that the court's policy can be interpreted in each village and not be deliberately misinterpreted to cause unrest.

Li Gan thought to himself, what you are worried about is the success of the trial, but you don't know what you should really worry about is how the preparations before the trial were completed.

He thought to himself: "Okay, this is an opportunity to turn the topic to the policy of dividing one child into an equal share. If everyone focuses on the policy itself, then the real murderous intention will be hidden."

So he used someone's objection just now and said: "What I am considering in this matter is that it seems that it is indeed beneficial to the people. This small tax is not enough for the rich but a drop in the bucket for the poor." It’s a huge burden.”

"Now we have to cultivate Mongolia, Nurqian, Liaodong, Taiwan and other places. If we tie the Ding tax, it will affect migration and make it difficult to collect tax revenue. Just talk about this method of dividing Ding into acres. Do you think it is good? Woolen cloth?"

"As for Bai Yunhang's investigation of Hidden Fields in Wendeng, this is nothing more than an unexpected gain from famine relief. I am also aware of this matter and there is no need to talk about it."

Everyone in the Tianyou Hall knew that there were two taboos in this matter that Bai Yunhang was conducting.

Although it is abominable to spread people into acres, what really makes the gentry resentful is to check the acres.

"Your Majesty, I think there is another explanation for the matter of checking the fields."

"For one thing, an official may have used small rulers to measure the land for merit. There may not have been any hidden land at all, but he measured out tens of thousands of acres of land in a county to increase tax revenue in order to achieve promotion."

"Secondly, officials may use large scales to measure fields out of love for the people. Originally, a county may have 100,000 acres of land, but after the measurement, only 80,000 acres are left. In this way, taxes are reduced and the people benefit. Officials’ love for the people can also be carried out.”

"Thirdly, even if we measure all the hidden fields of the land, neither exaggerating nor reducing them, then are these hidden fields cultivated by the common people? They must all be tenant farmers."

"Originally, there was no tax on the land. Maybe one stone of grain per acre would be rented for six dou. Now that the land is taxed, the rent for one acre of land would be seven dou. This will only cause public resentment. The world was shocked."

When Li Gan heard this, he frowned and said: "According to your opinion, the more hidden fields, the better? The more hidden fields, the lighter the people's burden? But if they are all hidden fields, what will happen to the court's tax revenue? For example, this time in Shandong During the great disaster, if I had an extra two million taels of silver to buy grain from Jiangnan, Vietnam, Siam and other places, how could so many people starve to death in Shandong?"

The minister shook his head and said: "I'm not saying that the more hidden fields the better, but that inventorying the acres will treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Instead, the extra taxes will be passed on to the tenants. I think that if you want to cure the root cause, you should restore the well fields! But! If it cannot be restored, then checking the acres is just a temporary solution. If the situation is the same as it was after a few decades, it will not make much sense in the long run.”