But the shortcomings are also obvious, the location is too remote.
I'm afraid we can only wait until the industrial age for development.
Today's Sakhalin's greatest resources are many salmon and wild animals, while oil and gold are only buried deep underground.
When it comes to resources, how can they come from Nanyang in abundance or with ease?
Zhu Yixi has divided the vassal states.
Only by occupying a good place and keeping it can you make plans for the future.
Sakhalin is so big, and the Heilongjiang Governor's Palace has not developed even one-tenth of the inland, so how can it take care of a bitterly cold place like Sakhalin.
It would be cost-effective to use half of Sakhalin as compensation to Vietnam and let it assist in development, preferably through large-scale immigration.
The King of Yue was very happy, and my father still cared about me.
Zhu Yixi asked about the Yue Kingdom again.
The King of Yue talked about his transactions with Japan, especially when it came to war horses, and he was even more careful.
The emperor didn't care about this at all: "The Japanese shogunate ruled the area and was called the king, but it was actually the leader of the country. The most important thing in setting up the cavalry was to suppress the vassal state and cause chaos, so there was no need to worry about the threat."
Just like in the future, the great powers sold weapons to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and they were not afraid of the Manchu Qing Dynasty rising up to fight back.
Japan has a population of 20 to 30 million people, which seems huge, but it is subdivided into 300 to 400 small vassal states, which can be described as very loose and powerful.
The carriage of the Tokugawa Shogunate, starting from the fourth shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, has been plagued by financial shortages.
Because the shogunate's finances basically relied on the Tokugawa family's 4 million Shi Tianling and the support of mines.
However, the outflow of gold and silver and the depletion of mines led to a continuous reduction in fiscal revenue, while the number of samurai classes continued to grow, resulting in increasing expenses.
The strange thing is that fires broke out in Edo almost every few years, and the repair of Edo Castle was the most important expenditure of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the middle and late period.
Just like the Ming Dynasty, it was hampered by financial problems and became a lame giant.
It can be said that as long as the current isolation order of the Tokugawa Shogunate is maintained, Vietnam will be fine within one or two hundred years.
"You are in the country of Yue, with Heilongjiang on the top, North Korea on the left, and Japan on the south. It is naturally possible to have both sides, but you must know that agriculture is the foundation."
Zhu Yixi said earnestly: "If there is not enough arable land, then build pastures and raise cattle and sheep. Without food, it will be unstable!"
"My son knows." The King of Yue nodded.
"I heard that it is bitterly cold in your country. How long can the fury of cutting down trees last?"
Zhu Yixi said casually: "Look for more coal mines. The heating problem has been solved. Are you still afraid that there will be no immigrants?"
"Besides, your second brother can find gold and copper mines, but you can't find them? When the time comes, you will be self-sufficient. Why are you so afraid?"
"My son, I understand." The King of Yue's eyes lit up.
He had always been stuck in the coastal plains and was afraid of the mountains, so he never thought of prospecting.
With a gold mine, how much money can you make from doing business? It’s still scary.
Soon the King of Yue talked about the lack of people.
This was a repeat of an old tune. Zhu Yixi said angrily: "Which vassal country is not short of people? Your second brother is almost getting angry. You have to take your time in this matter."
"Have I ever banned you from relocating the people? As long as you are willing to divide the land, there will be plenty of poor people in the world. It depends on whether you have the courage to eat them."
The King of Yue bowed his head and said nothing.
An immigrant family needs to be supported by the court for food, food and clothing in the past year, which costs an average of ten silver coins per year.
Relocating 10,000 households costs 100,000 yuan.
The remaining housing costs and land reclamation costs are even greater.
If wasteland is allocated, it will take one more year to grow.
Even then, there is no guarantee that anyone would be willing to come. After all, it is worth tens of thousands of dollars to break up one’s family, and it is difficult for people to accept leaving one’s hometown.
Only the poor who have suffered from famine and have nothing are willing to do so.
Difficult!
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Harvest in autumn and store in winter. During the harvest season, not only the people are busy, but the local government offices are also busy.
Winter wheat in the north is planted in September and harvested at the end of May the following year, which lasts for eight months. It is the main crop north of the Yellow River and south of the Great Wall.
Henan, Weihui Prefecture, Qi County, where the ancient Chaoge is located.
In the last years of Chongzhen in Henan, the three prefectures north of the Yellow River had the most preserved vitality: Weihui, Huaiqing, and Zhangde.
Likewise, as soon as the year of Shaowu came, the three prefectures quickly resumed production and then gradually moved to the hinterland of Henan.
The same is true, coupled with the immigrants from Hubei, the nine prefectures of Henan (which have been transformed from prefectures to prefectures) quickly recovered their vitality.
In the early years of Shaowu's reign, the province had only three million, but now it has reached nine million, which is extremely exaggerated.
Ranking fourth among all provinces in the Ming Dynasty, Shandong ranked first with 12 million people, Jiangsu with 11 million people, and Jiangxi with 10 million people.
When the Ding tax was not levied, the people stopped hiding it and reported the real figures one after another. This was also the case with the population increase in the Qing Dynasty.
If the court no longer collects land taxes, it can be expected that the number of acres of land will at least double.
"Master, are you still going to the countryside today?"
The woman was wearing a skirt and a silver hairpin. She was bending over and counting in the shoe cabinet. Her buttocks outlined an arc, which was very tempting.
Zhang Zhu was not interested. He slowly put on his soap clothes and said casually: "That's right."
"Isn't the wheat harvested once in June?"
The woman put down her walking boots and found a pair of pigskin boots with wooden soles, which were very resistant to dirt.
"Corn, or sorghum."
Zhang Zhu knew that his wife was a woman in the house, so he said casually: "Winter wheat is sown in September and harvested in May. The farmer has to plant another crop of corn, which has a higher yield."
"No time to spare!"
Sighing, he was dressed in red and black soap clothes, which made him look very majestic.
Unlike other yamen servants, he had a large word "tax" written on the white patch on his chest.
He is the tax collector of Qi County.
After walking out of Sanjin's house, he got on the carriage, arrived at the Tongpan Yamen, and walked in with a knife in his hand.
On the road, many petty officials in the same uniform saluted respectfully, just because they did not have the word "tax" on their chests, and they were just one of the hundreds of white servants in Qi County.
The Tongfan Yamen is slightly smaller than the County Yamen. It is also a front office and a back hall. It covers an area of about 30 acres and has 50 houses.
The huge Yamen is not exclusive to Tongsuan, but is actually divided into four parts.
The largest one is the trial hall, which as the name suggests is where cases are tried, including the judge's bedroom.
Next is the Tuiguan, known as the second master, who is responsible for judging the case. As long as it is not a murder case, he will judge it.
The third, of course, is the prison, which covers an area of more than ten acres.
Among them, there is a three-level prison system with a clear hierarchy, such as the "prison" where serious criminals are detained, the "prison shop" where minor criminals are detained, and the "station" where debtors are detained for redemption and hostages and witnesses.
Finally, there is the Commercial Taxation Bureau.
The Commercial Taxation Bureau was renamed from the former County Government Taxation Bureau, and is responsible for collecting taxes from merchants, slaughterhouses, miscellaneous markets, land and house sales tax deeds, and now agricultural taxes.
In other words, they took away the power of the county government office and took charge of all taxes in the county.
The Commercial and Taxation Bureau is managed by the general magistrate.
The responsibilities of trial cases, custody, tax collection, and passing judgment are not small.
By the time Zhang Zhu arrived at the Yamen, nearly sixty people had gathered in the compound of the Commercial and Taxation Bureau.
There are only five serious officials like him, and Bai Yi is nine times as many. In the county government, he is second only to the three-class police officers.
Officials have a staff and receive money and food from the court, while white servants eat from the county government. Once the county government runs out of money in a certain year, it will be in arrears and may be abolished at any time.
The biggest difference between tax collectors and ordinary government servants is that they can carry swords and even have horses and mules in the government offices, which is a huge deterrent and mobility.
Sometimes when encountering unruly people, the county government had to send tax collectors.
The clerk of the Commercial and Taxation Bureau was wearing an eighth-grade green robe and a black gauze hat on his head. He had a big belly and came to give him a favor.
He didn't hesitate, sat down on the chair on the steps, squinted his eyes and said:
"It's time for us to be busy. You all know the rules. It's better to collect more than to collect less. If you collect too much, you will lose your money. If you don't collect, you will use your family resources to make up for it, and the whole family will be exiled-"
A group of tax collectors below lowered their heads and said nothing, with calm expressions.
After the unification of agricultural taxes and commercial taxes, tax collection was no longer under local control. Although the Commercial Tax Bureau was supervised by the general magistrate, it was actually under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Finance.
Although the Ministry of Finance cannot select every official, it can remove important officials.
This dual jurisdiction puts a tightrope on the Department of Commercial and Taxation.
The practice of arbitrarily collecting miscellaneous taxes and creating new miscellaneous taxes to supplement expenses, as was done in the Ming Dynasty and other dynasties, simply does not work.
Xinming's main focus is control.
"Okay, there are exactly ten villages in the county, two for each person. The tax must be paid within seven days. It will be shipped to the capital at the end of October, so there can be no delay."
The officials immediately allocated quotas.
There are rich and poor people in each township. Under normal circumstances, one is rich and the other is poor. If the relationship with the officials is not good, then the two are poor. If the relationship is good, the two are rich.
The rich are in the plains and the poor are in the mountains.
It is obvious that Zhang Zhu is neither good nor bad, one is poor and the other is rich, Zhaojia Town, Zuohoubao.
In the stable, he brought a mule and two donkeys, and led ten white servants out of the city.
Only Zhang Zhu was riding a mule, and the remaining two donkeys were riding empty.
The large group of people attracted the attention of passers-by and they did not dare to say anything.
"Go to Zhaojiazhuang." When Bai Yi asked, Zhang Zhu said casually.
Zhaojiazhuang is located next to the official road, with convenient transportation and numerous plains, so it can be rich. However, Zuohoubao was built as a guard station and is located in an important place, but it is poorer.
When the group arrived in the town, the three village elders had already greeted them at the roadside.
After chatting for a while, they went to the restaurant to wait.
After having enough food and wine, before anyone could react, the village stuffed some local products into the waists of all the white servants.
No more, no less, ten silver coins.
When they arrived at Zhang Zhu's place, there were two silver notes worth one hundred silver dollars.
"This is a note from the World Bank, you can cash it at any time."
Holding the banknote, Zhang Zhu was noncommittal and squinted his eyes: "This is against the rules!"
In previous years, it was one hundred silver dollars, but now it has doubled, which is surprising.
He just looked directly at the mayor without any scruples about etiquette.
The village elders and policemen on the side wanted to speak, but were stopped by the township chief.
He was wearing a satin robe, and there was still a smile on his square face:
"The village has grown more corn in recent years, and most of it is on the mountains. This is not to make the servants travel less..."
In response to this, Zhang Zhu chuckled: "As far as I know, Erxiang has 37,000 acres of land, nearly 3,000 acres of paddy fields, 30,000 acres of dry land, and 3,000 to 4,000 acres of mountainous land."
"Last year, it was about 10,000 acres. How many acres are now planted with corn?"
"Twelve thousand acres," the mayor said.
"Don't think I don't know. Most of your villages have planted corn, at least 70%, that's 23,000 acres!"
As he said that, he stood up and said: "Henan is the central province, and the levy for an acre is two cents, which is 20 cents, so 23,000 acre is..."
"Two two makes four, two three makes six, that is 460,000 yuan, or 460 silver coins."
"I'm still short, only 70%. If it's 90%, that's incredible. It's six to seven hundred yuan!"
This does not include land not included in the yellow list.
Over the years, large households have spared their energy to cultivate land, while small households have gritted their teeth and used their savings to cultivate land, at least six to seven thousand acres of land have been concealed.
If that were all considered, a thousand silver dollars would have been lost.
It is normal to conceal information, and no one wants to collect more royal food.
Likewise, the imperial court did not spare any effort to find the land that had been concealed.
Let Zhang Zhu and the dozen or so people fight against the whole village, and they have to search for the ground, which is harder than heaven.
If you are not careful, you may easily be attacked by wild animals, which may put your life in danger.
"Then how much do you think it is?"
The mayor asked softly.
"Two hundred yuan is not enough. Three hundred yuan is required. In addition, the quantity must be reported as 20,000 acres."
Zhang Zhu said calmly: "The first master (the county magistrate) wants political achievements, and our second master (the judge) also wants political achievements."
This cutting of flesh made the third elder extremely painful.
The township chief gritted his teeth and said, "It can only be fifteen thousand acres."
It feels uncomfortable to give up an extra three thousand acres.
"OK!"
Zhang Zhu also knew what was appropriate and responded with a smile.
Seeing the ugly expression on the San Lao's face, he continued: "Although this money is in my hand, it can't all fall into my pocket. There are officials above me, and above me there is Master Tongpan. If I can get three melons and two dates, it will be good."
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"Although this money is in my hands, it is for your business!"
These words made the three elders relax a little.
As for commercial taxes, they are collected by the merchants in the town and are collected by the three elders. They are also an important source of money for the three elders.
There are dozens of shops and restaurants, as well as vegetable shops and meat shops, as well as grass markets and markets scattered in various villages.
In accordance with past rules, he paid business taxes for seven, eight, and nine months, totaling one hundred and fifty silver dollars.
Zhang Zhu couldn't tell how good his business was, so he could only follow the old routine and not increase or decrease it.
With that said, the banquet ended.
Immediately, the tax on 15,000 acres of land, which was three hundred silver dollars, was collected.
The white servants carried eggs or chickens and ducks, while Zhang Zhu's two donkeys carried a large amount of local products, which was a good harvest.
Bai Yayue's monthly salary is only half a piece of silver and half a stone of food, barely enough for food and clothing. These extra money are the basis of their nourishment.
The village even had to send people to help transfer the money to the county.
The three elders breathed a sigh of relief and immediately entertained the twenty-five village chiefs:
"I tried my best to prevent the tax collector from going to the countryside to investigate the hidden fields. However, this time we collected nearly 500 yuan. Each of you will contribute 20 yuan to each village."
Upon hearing the number five hundred, the village chiefs immediately started making a fuss.
"Isn't it three hundred in previous years? Why is there two hundred more?"
The Xiang Lao was a local and relied on the recommendation of each village. He looked embarrassed.
The township chief remained silent, and only the township police came forward: "Aren't there too many corn farmers? I'm not blind, so why don't I harvest more corn?"
"Each village will collect 90% of the land."
The village chiefs gave up and reluctantly took out the money.
Then there is the land tax.
Compared with the tax collectors, the three elders were much more lenient and allowed the villages to deliver the goods before the end of the month to maintain the feelings of relatives and friends, and the village chiefs' expressions became somewhat relieved.
When the village chief returned to the village, he said: "The whole village has to pay taxes, and Yintian can only pay half of it..."
The people were happy to pay half of the tax to protect hidden fields, improve their lives, and save more to survive famines and other disasters.
And this hidden field is the benefit divided among villages, townships and counties.
Due to financial pressure, the imperial power could not go to the countryside and had to compromise.
On the contrary, it is a commercial tax. The shops subject to the tax are fixed, but the customs duties are narrow and cannot be escaped at all.
ps: Many people say that agricultural taxes are low, but two cents and twenty cents are a lot of money. Trivia, and the three wages that force the people to rebel, add up to only one cent or two cents, and the Liao wages were only three and a half cents at the beginning.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the three rates were merged, and the monthly levy was divided into one to three points, so there were still six to seven thousand taels.