However, the inspector itself is still a foreigner who supervises the censor. Even if he is promoted to the fifth rank in the Shaotian Dynasty, he is still a supervisor of the censor. In fact, there are some rules for their promotion order.
Even though they were extremely powerful when they were serving as governors, it does not mean that they were truly on the same level as the governors.
Supervisory censors were also moved based on their assessment results, usually to the censorship department. This was the third-in-command of the local censorship department. Later, it often became a concurrent title of the local sub-inspection department. The Shao Dynasty directly unified the sub-inspection department.
The various roads are unified into separate patrol roads, with separate halls.
Therefore, when it comes to promotions, the ones promoted the most are local sub-inspectors. This is proof of ability and the biggest reward.
In addition, there were also those who were promoted to deputy envoys, or to Dali Temple prime minister, to chief ministers and counselors, and even to county magistrates (a very small number, and they were in Ji County, Jingxian County).
A very small number of people were promoted to the rank of Inspector, Chief Secretary to participate in government affairs, Taipu Shaoqing, Magistrate, General Affairs Department Councilor, and Guanglu Shaoqing.
There are also those who have been promoted to censor of the capital, commentator on affairs in Dali Temple, and prime minister of Taipu Temple.
In fact, each official position has a certain order and direction of promotion.
It is basically impossible for a patrol officer to be directly promoted to governor.
Of course, the emperor's special decree is another matter, not to mention that this is a special period.
The emperor does not need to follow the personnel selection and appointment rules of the Ministry of Personnel when employing people.
Zhang Huangyan is a hero of the Conglong Uprising. He served as a military commander in Ningshao and served as a patrol magistrate for two terms. He has both qualifications and merits. Normally, it would be impossible for him to be moved to the county magistrate. If someone like Taipu Si Cheng was promoted normally, he would be promoted normally.
He was promoted to the imperial censor of Qiandu and is still in the imperial procuratorate.
The next step for the Censor of the Capital City is to be promoted to Deputy Censor of the Capital City or Minister of the Sixth Department.
Now he is directly promoted to governor, and he is still governor of Guangdong. This is unusual.
You know, the governor of Guangdong was directly held concurrently by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
"I have left He Tengjiao in the government as the co-organizer of the cabinet and a bachelor, and joined the Prime Minister's Office to help with military affairs. Qu Shichu was appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Su Guansheng was appointed governor of Guangxi, Zhang Kentang was appointed governor of Fujian, and Feng Jingdi was appointed governor of Fujian. You governor of Guangdong, and Taiwan has three governors.
The prefecture, Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan were placed under the jurisdiction of Fujian, and a single Taiwan patrol officer was appointed, and Lu Daqi was sent to patrol Taiwan."
Zheng Hongkui, the former governor of Fujian, was summoned to the court by Zhu Yihai and served as Minister of War.
The former Fujian Admiral Zheng Zhibao was appointed as the Deputy Admiral of the imperial camp in Fujian, Shi Daxuan was appointed as the Admiral of the Taiwan Operation, and Zheng Cai was appointed as the deputy admiral.
Both Qu Shishu and Zhang Kentang only served as governors but not governors, and several members of the Zheng family were also transferred to other posts. This was obviously a major adjustment by the emperor to these three provinces.
"Qu Shichu will be stationed in Nanning to stabilize the southwest, especially to facilitate the control of Guangxi chieftains, and to help suppress the Yunnan rebellion."
"You are the governor of Guangdong and can develop with peace of mind. Guangdong not only has the great port of Guangzhou, which is conducive to sea trade, but also has the Pearl River water system connecting the two Guangdong provinces. Not to mention it is connected to Jiangxi and can reach the Yangtze River directly through the Gan River. Furthermore, Foshan Town has its iron smelting industry
To prosper one hundred thousand, we must continue to expand production."
"Now that the situation on the frontline is gradually stabilizing, the offensive and defensive positions are changing, we have also passed the most difficult first three years. Next, we need to slightly adjust the direction of development, especially in Lingnan, which is the rear area. The task of Guangdong is still economic development, and the Pearl River Delta
You have fertile soil and good fields, but you can’t just grow food.
We still have to take the economy into consideration. Now that the situation is improving, we can appropriately relax some economic planting. In addition to ensuring that Lingnan is self-sufficient and can complete the supply to the court, we can also develop the cultivation of cotton, hemp, mulberry and tea.
At the same time, Lingnan’s traditional mining, smelting, tool making, shipbuilding, and trade industries cannot be slackened.
The common people can only feed themselves by farming, but for food, oil, salt, vinegar, sauce, tea, clothing, pants, stockings, hats and shoes, education and medical treatment, they have to rely on other cash crops and even work.
At least men must farm and women weave, in order to be self-sufficient. If we develop some sideline businesses, such as breeding, we can have enough food and clothing, and have a surplus.
Now we are opening up sea trade with these barbarians. Guangdong has unique conditions. We must seize this opportunity. Without farmers, we will not be stable, and without business, we will not be rich.
When you go back to serve as governor and take charge of the government, you must have a good grasp of the direction and improve people's livelihood, but the economy must also develop. You must find ways to increase income for the people and increase tax revenue for the court.
You are in the rear, transporting food to the front line, paying taxes and money, even building ships and cannons, and providing copper and iron salt, which is your greatest contribution."
Zhang Huangyan nodded repeatedly.
He was originally a scholar from eastern Zhejiang and had long been accustomed to the benefits of prosperity brought by developed industry and commerce.
In the past two years, because of the war and the famine, we have been emphasizing on ensuring food cultivation and solving the famine. Therefore, we require grain fields to be planted first.
Cash crops have been greatly reduced.
In the past, the Jiangnan area around Taihu Lake was once the land of plenty and the granary of Jiangnan. Even because of the development of the cotton spinning and weaving industry, almost every household planted cotton and mulberry trees, and all food was supplied by Jiangxi and Huguang.
Because cotton and mulberry farming are more profitable, and the developed silk and cotton spinning industries in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the demand is too great, so people in Jiangnan naturally stop growing grain.
Huguang and Jiangxi are also the land of plenty. Their industrial, commercial, weaving and other industries are underdeveloped. The people are accustomed to growing grain and then selling it to the south of the Yangtze River, which also makes good profits.
The Tatar invasion caused turmoil in the Central Plains.
The previous model was forced to discontinue. When everyone couldn't even eat, who could care about raising silkworms and weaving silk?
Both the Tatars and the Ming army required that the fields be grown to grow grain to meet military needs and maintain the war.
However, Zhu Yihai is a time traveler after all, and he also knows clearly that if he only engages in agriculture and abolishes industry and commerce, the consequences will be very scary, and this kind of thing can only be done in the short term.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to maintain it in the long term. After all, even if we only focus on the military, food is not enough. We also need various weapons and equipment, etc.
Not to mention, war not only consumes food, but also consumes money.
Therefore, in the past two years, Zhu Yihai has also begun to slowly relax planting restrictions in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, and continue to expand or resume the planting of cash crops. Although the liberalization is more cautious, he liberalizes little by little, always ensuring food security.
But the general trend is good.
As the rear area, Guangdong ensures food self-sufficiency, and while turning over appropriate amounts to the court, it is necessary to increase efforts to restore industry and commerce, economic crops and even breeding.
In the late Ming Dynasty, Foshan, a town in Guangdong, had an astonishing ability to smelt ironware. Guangdong exported a lot of ironware in the past, and its iron pots and kettles alone were famous overseas. The volume of foreign trade exports was astonishing, and the creation was huge.
Profits drive the development of a series of industries such as charcoal burning, coal mining, Pearl River transportation, and iron ore mining.
A simple algorithm.
Planting an acre of mulberry leaves and raising eight or nine baskets of silkworms, a woman can raise several crops if she is busy for a year. These silkworms can reel about eight pounds of silk and weave twenty bolts of silk.
If you grow wheat in fertile land, you can get two or three kilograms of silk per mu in a good year, but it is only worth two or three taels of silver. If you plant mulberry leaves, you can harvest eight or nine kilograms of water silk from each mu of leaves and raise silkworms, which is worth fifteen or six taels of silver.
If you grow cotton, the yield of seed cotton per mu is about 80 kilograms, and the market price of a hundred kilograms of silver is 23 taels. The income from cotton planting is also about 20 taels per mu. A woman can weave one piece of cotton cloth a day. If she adds midnight, a skilled person can weave two taels.
match.
If you grow tobacco, your income will be several times that of rice and wheat.
For those who grow mulberry and raise silkworms, when silk is expensive, one basket of silkworms can be used as the income of one acre of grain.
When the market price is good, the income from growing mulberry and raising silkworms is four to five times or even more than ten times that of growing rice.
Therefore, when the food problem is not so tense, we must relax restrictions and restore cash crops to the people. This will not only increase the income of the people, but also provide vitality to the market and earn more taxes for the court.
Of course, there is always a degree here.
Starting from the late Ming Dynasty, the Jiangnan area has been planted in disorder. In order to make economic gains, farmers will plant all the land with cash crops and even buy their own rations. Suzhou, Songjiang, and Hangzhou, the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, have completely relied on
Food from Huguang, Jiangxi and other places.
There is not even much food stored locally. Every time there is a flood or something, and there is no food shipped into the city, the price of food will rise several times.
There was even a famine.
This situation is obviously not possible.
So what Zhu Yihai and Zhang Huangyan are discussing now is that the red line still needs to be drawn. For people who have land, a proportion must be set and relaxed year by year.
For example, now, the food issue is still relatively important, so in areas like Guangdong, on ten acres of farmland, two or three acres of cash crops can be planted, and the remaining seven or eight acres must be guaranteed to grow grain. If the situation is good in the future, it can be more appropriate.
Broaden an acre or two.
You can’t just plant cash crops.
Food must at least be locally self-sufficient to ensure local supply, and then leave some leeway.
The remaining fields will be developed to grow cash crops.
The specific ratio will have to be adjusted depending on the number of fields, population, etc. in each place. It must ensure self-sufficiency in food and still have some surplus to store and turn over.
While providing benefits to the people for development, we must also levy appropriate taxes on these economic fields based on actual conditions.
For example, those who grow cotton, grow mulberries, grow tobacco, and those who grow medicinal herbs, according to the actual output and income, will receive a supplement based on the ratio of about one in ten grain fields.
An acre of grain land is taxed with two dou. If growing mulberry and cotton is several times the income of growing grain, then some additional tax must be appropriate. However, we must also consider that although the income of mulberry land is high, it actually requires the addition of sericulture.
Cotton cultivation is highly profitable and involves additional labor such as weaving. Therefore, a new tax rate for mulberry, cotton, tobacco and other fields must be reasonable and not harm farmers.
"Guangdong is located at the southern end of the Ming Dynasty. Although it is convenient for sea transportation, it is inconvenient and costly to transport grain from Lingnan to the north. Therefore, I still hope that Lingnan will vigorously develop industry, commerce, and trade."
"The grain produced in Lingnan is collected and purchased by the people after the people have enough rations. Then there is no need to transport it northward. Granaries are set up in various prefectures and counties in Lingnan for direct storage. A small part is shipped to the surrounding Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guizhou.
Warehouses are being built at the junctions of Yunnan, Hunan and other provinces.”
Zhu Yihai has already adjusted the water transportation system. Firstly, it mainly relies on sea transportation. Secondly, officials and officials are no longer given lumi, but only a small amount for food rations. The rest are given in exchange for silver.
In this case, the water transportation burden of the imperial court will be reduced.
Grain is allocated mainly along the coast, along the Yangtze River, canals, and along major transportation arteries. A transshipment and warehousing system is established. Grain is distributed and stored on these arterial lines. If there is demand in various places, it will be allocated nearby, and then replenished in the surrounding areas.
There is no need to store a large amount of food in the two Beijing areas.
Large warehouses have been established in those transportation hubs and regional hubs. This is just like Zhu Yihai used to like JD.com for online shopping because it is fast. The main reason for his fast speed is that they have established warehousing centers in various places and shipped goods nearby.
Therefore, Zhu Yihai believes that food can also be like this.
This was done in the past during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and large granaries could store tens of millions of stones of grain.
During the Ming Dynasty, millions of grains of grain were transported to Beijing each year, but the cost was at least twice as high. The cost was too high.
The transformation of grain transportation from land to sea, especially the establishment of warehouses, storage, transshipment and deployment in various places, improves efficiency and saves costs.
Even regions like Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang had to regain their advantages in industrial and commercial capital and provide more tax money for the court instead of growing grain.
In fact, Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of Household Affairs, understands this thing best. He was also the first person to suggest to the emperor that he should not just focus on grain crops and completely abandon the cultivation of cash crops. When he was the governor of Zhejiang, he did very well in this area. The emperor
He also strongly supports him.
Therefore, Zhejiang's silk and tea industries recovered the fastest, and the output of Lake silk recovered quickly. A lot of money was earned through foreign trade, and the court also received a lot of tax revenue.
Even raw silk tea leaves can be exchanged for battleships, cannons, and mercenaries, which are all hard currencies.