That day Yunxi stayed in Baoqin's dormitory. The next day Yunxi came out of Baoqin's dormitory and arrived at Dongnuan Pavilion. All the officials from the East Palace had already arrived. Although they had already paid their respects to each other on New Year's Eve, today
Happy New Year.
Then Yunxi began to take care of the government affairs again. In these years, Zhu's health was often not very good, so many matters were left to Yunxi to handle, and then he had the final say, so Yunxi was very busy.
Yunxi handed a handful of folds to Chen Xingshan and said, "Chen Qing, this is the fold I corrected yesterday. Can you see if there are any errors? If it is correct, send it to His Majesty." Chen Xingshan agreed.
One person laughed and said: "Your Highness is still so careful, he doesn't even want to make typos."
Yunxi looked up and saw that it was indeed Zuo Zanshan and Zhuojing. In the past two years, the subordinate officials in the East Palace had changed again. Qi Tai was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Husbandry, Lian Zining was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Guo Zhen was promoted to the fifth rank.
The Military Governor's Mansion worked for Governor Qian, and the wily Guo Ying resigned from his job due to poor health, so Guo Zhen was able to enter the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion.
When the old people go, new people have to come. Chen Xingshan was promoted to Zuo Shuzi. Originally, Lao Zhu wanted to transfer Chen Xingshan to the Ministry of Rites as a minister, but Yunxi felt that there was a position he envisaged that was particularly suitable for Chen Xingshan, so Lao Zhu promoted him
It was already the end of Hongwu's thirtieth year, so Yunxi politely refused.
Zhang Shu was promoted to You Shuzi, and Qin Song was promoted to You Yude. Zhuo Jing, who had appeared in the original household department six years ago, was appointed Zuo Zanshan. Although something went wrong at the time, Zhuo Jing was still very capable.
, and he was very decisive, and Yunxi transferred him to Zhan Shifu to serve as Zuo Zanshan.
And Zuo Yude is Yang Ren. Yang Ren once served as the magistrate of Jiangning County, and Yunxi also watched him try cases. He was an extremely upright man. Historically, he was originally going to be the magistrate of Yuanzhou. In this time and space, he was somehow changed by Lao Zhu.
I found it and stuffed it into the East Palace.
Unlike Chen Xingshan, who had only been in Beijing and was full of idealism, although Yang Ren was innocent, he had been in the position for a long time and his methods were sophisticated, even better than Lian Zining. This was why Lao Zhu sent him to the East Palace.
Yunxi said to Zhuo Jing: "How can you not be careful when dealing with national affairs? Maybe a typo caused the subordinates to misunderstand the meaning."
In the afternoon, Yunxi didn't have to deal with the issue. During the Chinese New Year, although Lao Zhu had repeatedly ordered not to take a private holiday, the central government was okay, after all, it was under Lao Zhu's nose; the local government anyway lived in the government office/county government office.
It's hard to catch them, and even ordinary people want to celebrate the New Year. So there aren't many discounts.
Yunxi stayed in his study and wrote. He looked up information while writing.
From then until the 17th day, it was like this, practicing martial arts in the morning, reviewing papers in the morning, writing or going out for a walk in the afternoon.
Since the 18th, there have been more government affairs, and Yunxi has become even busier. But it is not without good things. The accurate figures for last year's autumn tax have come out. Counting the summer tax, the total harvest of wheat was more than 4.7 million shi.
There are more than 24.7 million shi of rice, a total of more than 29.4 million shi of grain, and money, banknotes, silk, silk and other items worth more than 20 million guan, equivalent to about 5 million guan.
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These things, according to the purchasing power of silver in the late Ming Dynasty, are worth at least 18 million taels of silver. Yunxi is now very curious: he has not studied the economic issues of the Ming Dynasty in his previous life, so he does not understand how it evolved to the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The country can only collect four million taels of silver?
Even if there is not a penny in commercial tax and the agricultural tax can only be collected at 60%, there are still nine million taels of silver. Why can't it reach the point where it is only four million taels of silver?
However, because this was just an academic issue, Yunxi thought for a while but could not figure out the specific process. It was just a matter of knowing that the gentry group was responsible for it. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty under Yunxi's rule would not go back to the same old path.
However, because the taxes collected by Lao Zhu were too much, enough for the Ming Dynasty not to go to war and not have major disasters for ten years, and because the Yellow River burst affected the two provinces of Shandong and Shandong, he decided to exempt these two provinces from summer taxes. , although it only affected small parts of these two provinces.
Yunxi persuaded Lao Zhu to instead exempt the affected places from summer taxes. Yunxi was afraid that they would get used to the tax exemption, resulting in tax revenue not being raised. Yunxi's subsequent plans would cost a lot of money.
But generally speaking, the Ming Dynasty was very prosperous at this time, and Zhu Yuanzhang's ability was comparable to that of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty in the "Book of Tang". Historically, after just three years of civil war, Zhu Di was able to send Zheng He to the West. The compilation of the "Yongle Dadian", the ability to send hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Annan, and the ability to start dredging the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal were all Zhu Yuanzhang's contributions! They were all Zhu Yuanzhang's accumulation!
At the end of the first year, Japanese pirates harassed the coast of the Chongjiang River again. Yunxi became angry when he saw the seals, and almost ordered all the ships to be painted black and sailed to Edo or Kyoto.
However, he knew that Lao Zhu would definitely not agree, so he just wrote "What the guards have prepared". Fortunately, good news soon came back from the coast of Caojiang River. Ninghaiwei commander Tao Duo defeated the Japanese pirates and followed Yunxi's instructions. Ordered all prisoners to be sent to Liaodong.
Lao Zhu originally wanted to wait for the envoys from the 11th District to come and hand them over to the envoys from the 11th District. According to convention, these envoys from the 11th District would execute all the Japanese pirates after receiving them. Within the Ming Dynasty, Yunxi was exiled based on the principle of making full use of his labor force. Of course, some of the most heinous people were beaten to death by the local people.
At this time, the officials of the East Palace Department all used the term "Eleventh District" to refer to Japan. The reason was that Yunxi used the term "Eleventh District" when he mentioned Japan again. Lian Zining, who was still in Zhan Shifu at the time, curiously asked why Japan was called "Eleventh District". It's called District 11. Yunxi didn't know why. He just saw it from the anime. Although he knew it was a number, he didn't know how to number it. He hesitated and said nothing. But because Lian Zining had many friends, This vocabulary quickly became known to others.
Although most officials don't use this word, they all know what it means; people in the East Palace often use this word after getting used to it according to Yunxi's statement. Later, Lao Zhu also came to ask, but by this time Yunxi had already made up his rhetoric. , saying that he had numbered the surrounding vassal states and vassals, and numbered the countries or regions from one to ten: Korea, Nurgandusi, Beiyuan, Oara, Yilibali, Uszang, Siam, Annan, Luzon, Ryukyu.
On the afternoon of the first day of February, Yunxi came to Qianqing Palace to meet Lao Zhu. After seeing him, Lao Zhu said: "Didn't the discounts come today? Why are they here again now?"
Yunxi said: "Look what grandpa said, if you don't have children and grandchildren, you can't come to see grandpa?"
Lao Zhu said: "Is there anything else you think is very important to submit? Your appearance now is the same as when you asked for a share of the land five years ago."
Yunxi said: "Nothing can be hidden from Grandpa." Then he handed the memorial in his hand to Lao Zhu.
