Bang! Bang!

The morning bell of the Forbidden City awakens the silent world.

In early winter, a faint mist is always lingering in the Forbidden City. When the heavy palace gate opens, countless officials enter one after another with solemn faces according to their ranks.

Today is the Fengtian Palace Grand Court meeting, and officials above the sixth rank in Beijing attended the rare number of officials.

The civil and military ministers entered through the Meridian Gate and divided into two rows to stop in front of the Meridian Gate.

Then, the long morning bell in the Forbidden City turned into a shocking drum sound, and the civil and military ministers lined up to enter the palace from the small gates on both sides of the Meridian Gate, which was the armpit gate. Then, according to the rank, they were listed on both sides of the Fengtian Gate.

As the drum sounded, several flying fish suits and Jinyiwei pressed the embroidered spring sword in her hand and surrounded a red-clothed eunuch to Fengtian Gate.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The crisp sound of whips resounded throughout the palace, and then the officials of the Ministry of Rites sang in unison, "The Lord is here!"

"Long live my emperor!"

Inside and outside the hall were full of long live the sound of tsunami tsunami, and the ministers bowed respectfully.

Amid the sound of long live, Zhu Yunqiu, wearing a dragon robe, slowly walked out of the back hall, slightly carrying the hem of his dragon robe, and stepping onto the dragon throne on the alchemy steps.

The elixir steps are very long and the dragon throne is very high. Sitting on it, you can see all the ministers inside and outside the hall.

This means that the emperor can see the whole world, but after sitting on it, he realized that what he could see was actually just in front of him, while the farther place was still misty.

Similarly, the officials in the distance looked at the emperor on the dragon throne, and it was just a black spot.

"All my dear friends!" Zhu Yunxiu said softly.

Then, after repeated repetition by the eunuch and the ritual officer, the officials inside and outside the hall stood up.

"I, I will report to Your Majesty!"

The old Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Fu Youwen left the list tremblingly.

He is very old, so old that he is about to go home to retire. Although he still has the position of Shangshu, he has ignored the idle affairs. Only when such an important dynasty meeting will he be the chief official of the Ministry of Revenue.

Zhu Yunyu has always been a wealthy old minister, especially those ministers who have been valued since his father Zhu Biao was alive. Fu Youwen, the second-rank minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the first-rank prince Taibao, was one of the three ministers, and had a special honor to be a doctor.

But judging from these official positions, his honor is no less than that of the founding nobles, and even more so.

"Please tell me the old minister!" Zhu Yunxiu on the dragon throne said.

"This year's autumn harvest has been completed. Except for the disasters in Shaanxi, all of them are harvested. It is really a rare national peace and peace in a century."

"The summer tax revenue has a total of 4.712,900 stones of rice and wheat, and 288,400 pieces of silk. The silver is 308,900 ingots."

"The autumn grains get 27,842,450 stones of rice and 59,000 pieces of silk. The silver is obtained, and the other 30 ingots are obtained."

Both grain and silk are counted as one piece. The Ming Empire collected 3.06 million tons of grain this year. (The kilograms in the Ming Dynasty are different from now).

One ingot is twenty taels, which means that more than eight,950,000 taels of cash were collected.

The popular silver dollars among the people, while the imperial court collected only 20% of the silver. By doing this, more than 8 million can add 30% of the investment.

Zhu Yun's expression on the dragon throne did not see much joy, and this number did not increase much compared with previous years. If the implementation of the implementation of the diversion of the ditches was completely implemented, this number may increase significantly.

But now it seems that this number is already very good.

There are a lot of money added to a total of about 20 million yuan. According to the current land acres, there is 8.6 million hectares of arable land in the country, the money cannot be more. If it is more, it will involve the pocket issue of the people.

This is also the ancestral teaching set by the old man. The country needs money, but it cannot be taken from the pockets of the people.

However, these are all taxes, and there are salt taxes in Lianghuai, Yunchuan and other places, which are more than 10 million a year. However, those taxes are used for military expenditures and are not included in the grain tax.

Fu Youwen in the hall was still talking about various data happily, while Zhu Yun'e fell into deep thought.

Such taxes seem to be quite a lot, but for the huge imperial expenses, nothing is left in the end.

In general, the tax system of the Ming Dynasty was still too rigid. At that time, the old man thought that since the tax was enough, he should not make other names by chance. It was not that the old man did not want to collect taxes, but he was even more afraid of the officials below, and used the excuse of collecting taxes as an excuse for the country to impose violent taxes on the disabled.

However, such a healthy finance cannot be guaranteed every year. Nowadays, the country is prosperous and the people are in peace and the troops are strong. What can I do? This is how the Ming Dynasty in history was like this. When the land annexation in the middle and natural disasters and man-made disasters arise, it was too late to wake up.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

In history, after the Ming Dynasty collapsed with holes and holes, the emerging Qing Dynasty learned all the lessons of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Juzheng's whip method was replaced by the elite rulers of the Qing Dynasty and advanced drasticly, even though the scholars and officials complained about it and their heads were rolling.

In the early Qing Dynasty, the annual treasury input amount reached 40 million taels.

At the end of Yongzheng's remnants, the treasury had a surplus of 60 million taels, and even after Qianlong abdicated, the treasury still had a surplus of 19 million taels.

The cash bank is all cash bank!

You should know that from the time of Emperor Kangxi to Emperor Qianlong, there was a war of external expansion for seventy years. Especially during the Qianlong period, the Qing army once went wild in Central Asia. Fu Kang'an led his army to cross the Himalayas and beat the British officers who supported Nepal. Kazakhstan and other places submitted their statements for years and requested to be included.

What is the battle for seventy years of rapid expansion?

It is white silver and yellow gold.

Because of the war between mengu and xiyu, the conflict between the Qing Dynasty and Russia at that time continued to intensify, and the friction between the border became increasingly greater. Even because Russia hid Amursana, the grandson of Junggar Khanzewang Arabutan at that time, the Qing Dynasty once threatened to go to war with you if you didn't send anyone.

In the end, even though Amursana died of illness in Russia, he could not stand the military pressure from the Qing Dynasty, so Russia eventually had to send its body back.

Even later, when the Turkut tribe returned eastward, the Russian side made the case for the provisions that both sides were not allowed to hide the other party's fugitive in the Treaty of Nebchu. Qianlong directly told him Yekaterina, would you dare to chase him?

"If you wait for me, you will definitely not be able to fight you!"

Where did Qianlong get his confidence? He was still rich in silver and yellow gold. He was rich! Not only did he dare to say that he wanted to beat you up, he also imposed economic sanctions on Tsarist Russia with France.

When did the Russians suffer such losses from ancient times to the present? So much so that in his letter to Voltaire, the emperors of China were keen on annexation and expansion, so they didn’t know how to write the word “peace”?

Money is a hero's courage, and a person can walk sideways if he has money.

A country with money can even walk sideways.

Zhu Yunyu did not like the Qing Dynasty, but he must also admit that the better part of him than the Ming Dynasty was finance and a healthy finance.

It can be said that before the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Qing Dynasty's finances were extremely healthy. In 1891, the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue was 89 million taels, the fiscal expenditure was 79 million taels, and the surplus was 1 million taels. Among them, customs tariffs reached 180,000.

Even before the Qing Dynasty was about to fall, there were 30 million customs every year.

"You have to have money, you have money!"

Zhu Yunxiu said in his heart.

But how can we bring healthy and perfect finance to the Ming Dynasty?

Opening up the sea is on one hand, and tax law is on the other hand.

But when it comes to implementation, it must not be like Shang Yang's reforms.

Only basic living security is given to the people, and all other means of production belong to the court.

Because of the final result of this, the country will be rich and the people will be poor.

"In addition to the above-mentioned positive taxes, this year's commercial taxes..."

Suddenly, Zhu Yun's spirit was shocked.
Chapter completed!