Chapter 108 Discussion on going to the study room!
Chapter 108 The discussion in the study room!
"Your Majesty, my mother is a daughter of a scholarly family. She taught me when I was young that it is better to have no books than to believe in books. Therefore, I will habitually be a little suspicious of the contents of most books that record events.
, I read the history of the Ming Dynasty and found the Tumu Fortress Incident very interesting. Before that, the status of military officers and civil servants in the Ming Dynasty were roughly similar, and even the status of military officers was slightly higher than that of civil servants.
After Tumu Fortress, the military status of the Ming Dynasty plummeted, and even the generals of the second and third grades gradually had to grovel in front of the fifth and sixth grade civil servants and minor officials. At this point, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty also began to decline rapidly, and the land
Mergers are becoming more and more serious.
I have heard a saying: After an incident occurs, whoever benefits the most will be the party with the greatest suspicion!"
In the study room, as Jia Lian's words fell to the ground, after a short silence, Zhao Guogong Chen You, who had been silent among the five cabinet ministers, and the only distinguished minister among the cabinet ministers, spoke.
"Although it seems crude, what General Jia said is not unreasonable, Your Majesty."
Although this person is also a distinguished person, he does not belong to the only four princes and eight princes who founded the country. He had been suppressed by Jia Daishan before. It was not until Jia Daishan died that he was able to enter the cabinet and become the top military official.
Man, Jia Lian naturally understood that this person was not the same person as him, so he just smiled and nodded.
"It's just crude, but it's obviously nonsense. It's clear that Yu Shaobao is a Chinese hero who has sealed the coffin. How can we allow a kid with a yellow mouth to make up his story!"
"Hey~ Mr. Huang is really good at talking. I was just talking about the comparison of the status of the former Ming Dynasty military officers and civil servants before and after the Tumubao Incident. Why did it involve insulting Yu Qian?"
"..."
A cabinet minister in his 50s and 60s and a Wu Xun in his 16s and 17s were just talking to each other in the study, getting more and more excited, until Emperor Baode interrupted them both.
"That's enough! Today Jia Qing can help the court and stabilize grain prices, which has solved my major problem. I wonder how long it will take for the next batch of grain to arrive? Can the fleet be expanded as soon as possible?"
"Your Majesty, it only takes six to eight days to sail from Guangdong to Tianjin with a favorable wind, and about ten days with a headwind. The round trip takes about seventeen or eight days. And as long as there are ships, the scale of grain transportation can be expanded almost infinitely.
.Even the Jia family has no intention of monopolizing the waterway. As long as other ships can pay the Jia family and its ally the killer whale clan a total of 40% of the profits, anyone can follow the Jia family fleet."
"Four percent?"
"Boy Jia, you are too dark!"
"Old Duke, what's wrong with you? The killer whale family wants 30% of the profits. That's the condition of the covenant. My Jia family wants 10% of the profits. This is what my Jia family has opened with countless hardships, blood and tears in exchange for the channel!"
"Okay! Even if it is reasonable for your Jia family to charge waterway money, then why does Lao Shizi Killer Whale charge 30% of the profit?"
"Hehe~ Just because the killer whales will send at least one small team to escort our fleet every time it sails, to drive away other sea beasts, to detect the dangers of the route ahead of the fleet, and even in the event of a sea storm, the killer whales can save those
The people who fell into the water were all the work done by killer whales, and they only received 30% of the work. They are already the result of our Jia family’s efforts in communication.”
"Who will give the 30% of the profit? Shouldn't it be given to the Jia family? Boy Jia, please don't be greedy."
"It's only 30% profit. Old Duke, you really underestimate me. Did you know that the killer whale family that is allied with the Jia family now has tens of thousands of adult killer whales, but they have to be scattered across the endless ocean for food reasons.
Nomadic, I will invest the profits of the killer whale clan in the future to build livestock breeding in various places in Daqing and purchase the livestock of the barbarians on the grasslands. As long as there is enough food in the future, the tens of thousands of killer whales that are more than three feet tall will be my capital to travel across the ocean in Daqing!
That endless ocean is Daqing’s inexhaustible cornucopia! I don’t even bother to compete with the people for profit in the fields.”
"Okay, Mr. Jia is so ambitious. How can I, as a senior, not support him? The Chen family still has a small fleet in Jiangnan. From now on, I will follow you, Mr. Jia."
This old guy's face said, "I'm very optimistic about you, I'm willing to invest in you, please thank me." Jia Lian felt a little disgusted, but he still endured it in order to guide Daqing's great voyage. Turning around, Jia Lian started to fool Bao again.
Emperor De.
"Your Majesty, rest assured that all profits from my fleet will be taxed in accordance with the law. At the same time, I suggest that your Majesty can set up a special yamen in Tianjin Port to take charge of this matter, and the tax rate for sea trade can also be adjusted appropriately."
"Oh? This matter really needs to be discussed. Let the cabinet come up with a charter as soon as possible."
Emperor Baode was actually more interested in the tens of thousands of adult killer whales mentioned by Jia Lian, but firstly, he believed that the killer whales were giant beasts in the ocean and would not be of much help to his empire on land. Secondly, he too
He really can't afford it, and Jia Lian just mentioned that the Xungui family borrowed money from the treasury, and he is also having a headache now.
Therefore, Huang Zhongyu criticized Jia Lian and said that the government's business activities were in violation of the state's integrity. Emperor Baode said nothing because he did not want to agree with this statement!
Seeing that Emperor Baode seemed not very interested in overseas wealth, Jia Lian continued.
"Your Majesty, I also know that water transportation is a major policy and cannot be changed easily. Therefore, my suggestion is to first abolish half of the river transportation volume in the Beijing-Hangzhou section and transfer it to sea transportation manpower. The other water transportation parts involving land transportation will not be changed for the time being.
.The abolished water transport manpower, ministers and others can be responsible for recruiting and converting them into sea-going ships' attachés, which will never leave these people without a place. This move will also save a large number of people on both sides of the canal from hard labor. I'm afraid your Majesty doesn't know that although the court has
A small amount of money and food was allocated to the people who were drafted for corvee service, but the vast majority of the people had never seen this before. Almost all of them brought their own dry food and applied for the corvee service. This move greatly hurts the people's hearts!"
"Is this happening? Why did I never know, Liu Yiping, what is going on?"
Um, is this a friendly attack? This Master Liu is actually in charge of the household department? Jia Lian secretly felt ashamed.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue still has 21 million taels of silver on its books, but officials of all sizes in the capital have borrowed more than 12.7 million taels in total. We are preparing for the winter this year for all major military and officials at all levels.
It is estimated that 7 million taels of silver will be needed for payment. The Ministry of Revenue now has less than 2 million taels of silver left. I can only reduce the expenditures that all parties can reduce. Today, the subsidy for water transport corvees is indeed only 100,000 taels.
Two, after excluding the fire consumption, this little money is really a drop in the bucket for millions of water workers..."
Mr. Liu is worthy of being in charge of the household department. He knows every account book by heart, but Zhao Guogong and Jia Lian are a little embarrassed because they have not paid back the money they owe...
Come on! What else can Emperor Baode say? Whatever you say at this time is a mistake!
Jia Lian struck while the iron was hot.
"So, Your Majesty, the country has to open up its income. Set up a tax office at Tianjin Port, and I will help you manage it. No matter what, you can guarantee an income of one to two million taels of silver!"
Before Emperor Baode could make a move, Mr. Liu Yiping jumped up excitedly and grabbed Jia Lian's hand tightly.
"General Jia, are you serious about this?"
"Master Liu, what I said is that this tax bureau must be managed by me. Others will be in charge, so just pretend that I didn't say that."
Liu Yiping immediately turned his head and looked at Emperor Baode expectantly.
