"Your Majesty, this is the monthly salary standard for civil servants, officials and servants set by my grandson and other ministers after repeated discussions. Please have your Majesty's review."

Since Zhu Youdong was appointed as the supervisor of the country, Wanli has lived a very comfortable life in the past few years.

Although he has lost the power to directly manipulate the country, on the one hand, Wanli regarded this as a chore. On the other hand, no matter how many times Wanli said it, Zhu Youdong still sent various memorials to Qianqing Palace, every time. The minutes of the state affairs meeting were also submitted to Wanli for review as quickly as possible.

In short, His Majesty the Emperor does not feel the same sense of loss as ordinary retired officials.

And in recent years, under the leadership of Zhu Youdong, this country has clearly shown signs of revitalization.

The nationwide household registration census has been completed. Although the final figure of 103 million did not meet the psychological expectations of the grandson and grandson, Wanli knew clearly that his grandson, who looked radical but was actually extremely cautious, was here. In the first census, military households were not touched at all. And when faced with benchmarks with strong political significance, such as the Confucius family in Qufu, they were lightly let go.

If all these are clarified, the population of the Ming Dynasty must have exceeded 110 million. Compared with the 55 million counted in the yellow book in the 30th year of Wanli, it was directly doubled.

This involves the foundation of the country. Huangceku, which has been gradually out of control since the Xuande period, finally has hope of complete recovery.

And as long as the foundation of the country is repaired and the country continues to grow, it will no longer be a dream!

All of this was resolved during the Wanli years. There is no doubt that my posthumous name will definitely be good in the future!

Therefore, Emperor Wanli's mood in the past two years was generally good.

But when it comes to raising salaries for civil servants, Wanli is a little unhappy.

The emperor of the Zhu family had been stingy for hundreds of years, and suddenly an alien appeared who was lavish and lavish, and had money in his pocket without spending any money. Although under the leadership of this alien, the country had clearly seen signs of revitalization. But Wanli still Instinctively, I feel a bit reluctant to give up.

"Dong'er, grandpa knows that the court suddenly became rich by selling salt mines a few days ago. In addition, the income from salt tax will be much more than now. But... be prepared for danger in times of peace. It is easy to increase the salary. But if one day the court runs out of money, it will be too difficult to lower the price."

"Grandpa Huang, this is what my grandson thinks. From now on, the salt tax will be fixed at 12 million yuan every year. This alone is enough to increase the salaries of civil servants this time. Moreover, the amount of salt tax can be maintained for at least ten years. "

"What about ten years from now?"

"Hahaha, Grandpa Huang, in ten years' time, my grandson is going to reduce the salt tax quota by at least half, so that the people of Ming Dynasty can easily eat enough salt!"

"Huh? Are you trying to decide on land taxes and business taxes?"

"Yes, the Holy Ming has no fault, Grandpa Huang. Grandpa Huang, the national household registration census has been completed, and all preparations for the reconstruction of Huangceku have been completed. Starting next year, my grandson is going to spend two to three years rebuilding Huangceku. The next step is to revise the fish scale album. My grandson can guarantee that within five years, the country will receive at least 30 million from land tax and head tax every year. Twenty percent of the land tax will be fixed as gold and silver. According to the regulations, the Ministry of Household Affairs sends at least 6 million to the inner treasury every year. At present, the property under the grandson's hand, the annual dividends to the inner treasury of the emperor's grandfather have exceeded 3 million. Within five years, no matter how hard the grandson works, , strive to send 10 million silver dollars to Ouchi every year in the next five years."

"Hey..." He let out a long sigh, and Wanli said: "If the national treasury is full, why does grandpa's inner treasury need so much money? It's just Dong'er, since you promised grandpa that the money will continue to flow in the future.

, then, grandpa agreed to the salary increase for civil servants and officials this time. But, why do those servants still have to pay them? "

"Grandpa Huang, this is what my grandson thinks." When Zhu Youdong said this, he waved his sleeves and robes gently, and the eunuchs and maids around him quickly went out.

After there were only two people in the room, Zhu Youdong lowered his voice and said: "Corvee service is a double or even multiple harm to the people. Therefore, the grandson's plan is to wait until the reconstruction of the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Atlas is completed.

Later, my grandson reformed the land tax and implemented the method of apportioning one person into one mu!"

"Spread a small amount into an acre?"

"Yes, Grandpa Huang. There are too many types of taxes in our Ming Dynasty, and there are too many types of labor. Ordinary people can't distinguish between so many types of taxes and labor. In this way, no matter how the grandson rectifies it, the herdsmen below will

It is easy for officials and petty officials to get their hands on them. Therefore, Sun'er's idea is to use the ID card, yellow book and fish scale album as the basis to convert all the poll tax, corvee, etc. into the land. To simplify the complex.

, from now on the state will only look to landowners to collect land taxes."

"Hiss~~ Dong'er, you mean that those who are promoted to Jinshi must pay taxes as long as they have land in their name, right?"

"Yes, Grandpa Huang. With the establishment of the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, the minting rights have been completely restored. In this way, the Huohua area belongs to the state.

After all provinces across the country have bank branches this year, more than ten or twenty departments in the country are collecting taxes and building treasury. There is a basis for solving the problem. Within five years, Sun'er will gradually build banks to at least every bank.

In this way, there will be a unified purchasing and collection organization in all parts of the country. Then the grandson is going to divide the land into acres, and the officials and the gentry will work as errands and pay the grain. Of course, the grandson is not going to collect taxes in kind.

From now on, all taxes will be collected. If you don’t want to serve, just pay. Therefore, we must take advantage of this good opportunity to increase the salaries of civil servants and officials, and the civil servants will not object.

The budget for a piece of work is made.”

"Dong'er, Grandpa understands the matter of paying the police officers, and can agree to it. However, all of this will be levied on monetary taxes, but we must be careful of low grain prices hurting farmers, or food prices soaring after disasters."

"So my grandson must first build a bank, especially until at least every prefecture has a bank before reforming agricultural taxes. Grandpa Emperor, after we have a bank, we can specify the maximum and minimum prices for grain.

In a good harvest year, no matter how badly grain prices fall, we can buy grain at the lowest price to avoid low prices and hurt farmers. In disaster years, banks will sell grain at the highest price, but this highest price must be much lower than the market price.

.In this way, we can effectively protect the victims."

"Okay!" Wan Liteng, who had lost a lot of weight after recuperating for several years, suddenly stood up: "Dong'er, how did you come up with this idea? A bank can solve so many problems at once.

question!"

In fact, although there were no so-called "banks" in all dynasties of the Chinese Empire, the previous dynasties had economic regulatory agencies like the central bank. In order to control the officials, Lao Zhu, who did not know much about economics, controlled the accounts

The power of the Ministry of Finance was split up. As a result, the economy of the Ming Dynasty was always in an embarrassing situation where the private economy was developed, but the results of economic development were never able to benefit the country...

But there is no need to say more about these.

"Dong'er, what you said just now, Grandpa Huang is correct. You can go directly to Li En to seal it later."

"Yes, grandson, thank you, Grandpa Huang. Grandpa Huang, my grandson has a little something to report to Grandpa Huang."

"Huh? Hehe, you are now a prisoner of the country. You actually brought it up with grandpa seriously. It must not be a trivial matter. Talk about it."
Chapter completed!