The famous Emperor Dashun, after losing his wings, was actually killed by the militiamen in Jiugong Mountain!
Han Xin led the troops, the more the better.
However, the Hou Huaiyin, who had lost his power, was deceived into the palace by Empress Lu and stabbed to death!
A hero must be most afraid of losing his wings!
The third son's palace guards were all fired. He didn't have the shame to stay in the household department any longer, so he simply stayed behind closed doors.
Yuzhu openly fought against Lao San, but won a great victory. For a moment, the entire household was shocked.
To capture the thief, capture the king first!
So, without the troublesome third child above his head, Yuzhu easily took over the complete power of the Ministry of Household Affairs!
The Ministry of Household Affairs holds the power of fiscal revenue and expenditure throughout the world.
Yuzhu was the Minister of Household Affairs who concurrently served as a cabinet scholar. To put it bluntly, all the financial power of the Qing Dynasty was in Yuzhu's hands.
Since troops were deployed in the west, the old emperor had to meet with Yuzhu every day to discuss financial revenue and expenditure issues.
As the saying goes, once the cannon goes off, there is a thousand taels of gold!
As the war in the northwest continues, the treasury is also empty!
The old emperor asked Yuzhu: "Is there any way to increase the revenue of the treasury?"
Yuzhu really wanted to say, yes, it would be great if the fourth child of your family had a business that spreads across the entire property!
However, the painful lessons of Shang Yang being torn apart by a car and Zhang Juzheng's family being starved to death have made one truth clear: whoever dares to truly carry out reforms without the highest power will surely end badly!
Take the money out of the pockets of the powerful and give it to the old emperor to fight, unless Yuzhu's head is filled with water!
"Hui Khan Ama, I think that the financial problems of the imperial court are nothing more than the four words of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure." Yuzhu sighed softly and explained, "There are about 730 million acres of arable land in the world.
The arable land that the court can collect taxes on is pitifully small, less than 40%. The reason is that, for no other reason than the princes and gentry occupy a large amount of arable land that does not pay taxes."
In private, even in front of the old emperor, Yuzhu always dared to tell the truth.
The old emperor understood what Yuzhu meant. As long as he dared to attack the powerful, the Qing Dynasty would never be short of money!
However, no matter how powerful the old emperor was, as he grew older, his control over the entire empire was no longer what it used to be.
The Ba Ye Party has been beaten so many times, but it still remains loose, which explains the problem very much.
Yuzhu deliberately brought up the total area of arable land to make an argument. The purpose was not to collect taxes, but to tell the old emperor that nothing could be done on the arable land.
The old emperor thought for a while and said, "It seems that another commercial port is going to be opened?"
It must be admitted that the old emperor was not stupid, but was extremely smart. Just by being obedient, he knew what Yuzhu was thinking.
Yuzhu nodded and said: "Khan Ama Shengming. There is Guangdong Customs in Guangzhou and Tianjin Customs in Dagukou. It is impossible for the huge Qing Dynasty to have only these two trading ports."
"Go on, make everything clear so that I can make a decision!" The old emperor liked hearing Yuzhu settle accounts very much.
The characteristic of Yuzhu's accounting is that it is well organized and has clear sources.
Not only can the origin of the money be clearly stated, but the estimated tariffs are also astonishingly accurate...
"Khan Ama, I think that Dinghai County in Zhoushan, directly opposite Ningbo Prefecture, can serve as a major trade port to increase tax sources..." Yuzhu discussed the trade situation of this dynasty starting from the Mingzhou period, and the final conclusion was
, Dinghai in Zhoushan is already suitable for opening a port.
"Or should the Ministry of Internal Affairs send someone to take care of it?" When the old emperor asked, Yuzhu understood instantly and was obviously moved.
"That's natural. There is a lot of money in the South Treasury, so the Ministry of Finance will ask you to borrow money to spend it, instead of you asking the Ministry of Finance to borrow money to spend." Yuzhu's stance was very firm, and he always stood on the side of the old emperor.
The old emperor twisted his beard and smiled and said jokingly: "That's true. It's only been less than a month. You have already borrowed money from me three times. Tell me, when do you plan to pay it back?"
Yuzhu smiled lightly and said: "The current household bank is so poor that it can run away with rats. It must be unable to pay back the money. Alas, we can only wait for the Year of the Monkey and the Horse."
"What a monkey year and horse month, haha, okay, I'm right." The old emperor was very happy and took advantage of the situation to approve Zhoushan's opinion on opening a port.
The serious approach to foreign trade must be that all coastal areas can trade!
However, despite being proficient in all kinds of Western silver skills, the old emperor only recognized the self-contained approach of small-scale peasant economy.
why?
Firmly controlling the farmers on the land is the method of governance with the lowest cost and the greatest harvest.
Therefore*, starting from Kangxi, passing through Yongzheng, and then Qianlong, as long as there were no obvious external threats and the court had no shortage of money, the first thing to do was to ban the sea.
The drama of banning overseas trade was played by the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong.
Yuzhu's plan to open a port could continue to receive strong support from the old emperor. To put it bluntly, the root problem was that all the income from the monopoly business managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs went to the emperor's southern treasury.
The so-called Southern Treasury of the Emperor is the old emperor’s own small treasury!
Yuzhu is like a big spider. Usually, it just builds its web very patiently.
When the old emperor was short of money to spend, the jade pillars were like the pawns crossing the river in chess. One step forward will earn one step, and two steps forward will earn a pair.
In any case, when the Manchus ruled China, they were full of unconfidence. When there was a little bit of peaceful environment, they wanted to close the country.
With the country closed to the outside world, most of the ordinary people have become frogs in the well, and there are not so many colorful intestines.
As for Yuzhu, his purpose is actually very clear, to help the old emperor make money so that he can take the opportunity to expand the size of his seagoing ships.
The larger the ship, the more guns it has.
In the future, whether it is transporting troops and artillery to the capital or attacking to the south, it will be extremely convenient and fast.
To put it bluntly, what Yuzhu took advantage of was the information gap caused by different experiences. Under the guise of making money for the old emperor, he handled his own private affairs.
On the way out of the palace, Zhang Hongxu suddenly whispered: "Master Zhu, be careful, don't sprain your foot!"
Yuzhu glanced at Zhang Hongxu calmly and said to himself that the old emperor was getting older day by day, and even Zhang Hongxu had to find a life-saving supporter in advance.
Seeing that Yuzhu didn't seem to hear anything and kept silent, Zhang Hongxu secretly breathed a sigh of relief...