A thousand households need to make up six thousand taels of silver a year!
Wu Sangui's breathing became rapid... He finally had a chance to stop being an old man!
He has three hundred and thirty thousand households. If they all move to Anxi, the subsidy will be 1.98 million taels a year, and it will be nearly 39.6 million taels in 20 years... Even if the subsidy is halved after 20 years, one year There are also 990,000 taels of silver available every year.
This real-life immigration business can be done!
Zhu Cixiang looked at Wu Sangui's excited expression and said with a smile: "Uncle Chang, Pingxi Town's finances are independent, so Pingxi Town's feudal debts will not fall on Anxi Town... This Anxi Protector Your position will be hereditary from now on, and your descendants will rule Anxi forever from generation to generation!"
Get rich!
It’s time to get rich. Wealth for generations to come!
Wu Sangui almost cheered!
Zhu Cixiang's meaning is very clear. The vassal state in Pingxi Town will be withdrawn soon. The several million vassal debts can be obtained from Emperor Zhu in the future!
And after the Wu family threw away the deficit of Pingxi Fan, they could still get a feudal clan from Anxi Town. This was a high-quality feudal clan with no debts at all!
If Wu Sangui can bring all 330 thousand households in Pingxi Fan to Anxi, the subsidy will be nearly 2 million taels of silver a year...
These 330 thousand households account for 330,000 households, nearly 2 million people. But not all of them are military households. Most of them are civilian households that support military households. There are only 80,000 military households that need to bear military service. These are the ones that need subsidies. A supplement of 20 taels of silver per household is enough. If 80,000 households survive, it will be 1.6 million taels, and the remaining 400,000 taels will be the profit.
Moreover, Anxi Fan has a very large territory, starting from Hamiwei in the east, Tianshan Mountain in the north, and has no borders to the west or south. Although it is not a wealthy place, it is also a passage of the Silk Road in history. If you really take care of it, you can still dig out a lot of income.
If Anxi can really be held forever for generations to come, then the Wu family will be a rich and powerful family that lives with the country.
Seeing Wu Sangui beaming with joy, Zhu Cixiang was naturally happy too.
He is now the emperor, but his thinking is still relatively commercial, with special emphasis on "cash flow" and economic benefits.
This does not mean that "loss-making transactions" that cannot generate positive cash flow must not be done, but that we must live within our means to keep the cash flow of the entire Ming Empire positive - at least to the point where it can be maintained through financing and borrowing.
Otherwise, once the capital chain is broken, he will become the second Chongzhen.
Therefore, after he took over the Ming Dynasty, he adopted a series of stop-loss and contraction operations, and devoted his main efforts to operating the four rivers, two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong that could easily generate large amounts of income. In order to suppress possible resistance, Emperor Zhu also A large number of Northern troops were divided into various parties, so the previous two Northern Expeditions did not invest enough force.
Now, the four rivers, two lakes, Fujian and Guangdong have been able to contribute more than 100 million taels (stone) in taxes to Emperor Zhu, and there is also a financial market that can provide the Ming Dynasty with loans of 20 million taels per year.
So Zhu Cixi had enough financial resources to support the Northern Expedition and the Westward Expedition!
Of course, if you have some money, you can't spend it carelessly. You have to be careful where you should budget.
Therefore, he did not choose to use exiled officials to rule Anxi, but instead established a vassal town and asked Wu Sangui to take over the contract... He also used a subsidy of 2 million taels a year as bait to let Wu Sangui himself take over the 330 thousand households in Pingxi Town. Moving to Anxi is much more cost-effective than forced immigration.
The subsidy of 2 million taels a year seems to be a lot, but the actual expenditure of the Ming court was not that large. Because after Pingxi Town is moved, most of the nearly 20 million acres of land they occupy in Shaanxi Province (they will definitely be allowed to retain several million acres) will be handed over to the Military Tun Division and become military land. This part of the land alone can be rented for more than one million stones of flour a year, which is about more than one million taels.
Moreover, once the Anxi and Beiting vassals develop, the fine horses, camels, jade and other specialties from the Western Regions will be imported to the Central Plains through Shaanxi. The silk, porcelain, tea, and ironware from Jiangnan will also be exported to the Western Regions through Shaanxi. With the opening of the Silk Road, Shaanxi's business will prosper again.
Wu Sangui was not as good at settling accounts as Emperor Zhu, but he also knew that he would definitely make a profit in this transaction, so he was half shorter and wanted to kowtow to Emperor Zhu to thank him.
Zhu Cixiang quickly gave him a hand and said with a smile: "Uncle, please don't be in a hurry to thank me. I have other conditions!"
It turns out that money is not that easy to earn...
"Your Majesty, you can tell me whatever conditions you have. As long as Sangui can do it, I won't hesitate!"
Zhu Cixi laughed and said: "It's easy to handle, easy to handle... You have 330 thousand households, 330,000 households, and more than 2 million people. There are a lot of people, and they are still multiplying. There are many boys every year." Was it born and raised?"
"That's natural. Those people below me may have given birth. I don't know about the other thousand households. On average, each thousand households under my direct jurisdiction can give birth to three to four hundred children a year, and among them there are one hundred and eighty boys. Up and down, it’s okay now, but I’m afraid it will be troublesome in the future!”
On average, the 1,000 households in Wu Sangui have more than 7,000 children, and the birth rate of 50 per 1,000 is about 350. However, the mortality rate is also high these days. It would be a good achievement to have 200 out of 350 people grow up. However, with such a "growth rate", the population of 330 thousand households will still grow at a relatively fast rate.
Moreover, apart from serving as soldiers in the feudal town, these military households had no way of advancement. No matter how much the economy of the northwest develops, it will remain the same. Even if the Silk Road recovers a little, it will still be incomparable with the four rivers and two lakes of Fujian and Guangdong in the southeast.
As for the "Tai Xue Examination", there is even less hope... It's not that the military households in the northwest are not smart, but that primary and secondary education will soon be popularized in the southeast - the scholar-officials in the southeast are rich and willing to invest. In education, they just studied whatever was tested in the imperial examination, and the military households in the northwest couldn't compare.
But Emperor Zhu thought of a very special ascending channel.
"There are a lot of people!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "How about sending 1,500 10-year-old boys to me every year?"
"1,500 10-year-old boys?" Wu Sangui was stunned. "Your Majesty, what do you want so many boys to do? Not to be eunuchs, right?"
"Of course not..." Zhu Cixiang waved his hand, "There are only three hundred eunuchs in the palace now, so why are there so many candidates?"
He paused and said, "Let me tell you, I plan to recruit young people from Anxi, Beiting, Shuofang, Huaibei, Xuhai, Western Sichuan, Eastern Sichuan, Liaodong, Nanyang and other nine-border military towns. Then they will be educated by the Generalissimo's Mansion. For several years, during the reeducation period, they are not allowed to contact their families. After they reach 18 years old, they will select brave men to join the army.
The Jiubian Military Town each sends hundreds to a thousand or hundreds of troops each year, totaling more than 10,000 people. After a few years of training, most of them will be available. In the future, the court will have no shortage of elite soldiers... When they have more If you have achieved military merit, you can also be elected to a military academy and promoted to an official position. If they cannot embark on an official career, they can retire and serve as civilians at the age of 35. I will give them a share of property and let them marry, have children, and settle down in the southeast. "
This is a copy of the Ottoman Empire's Jenicheli Legion, which is about to train scouts!
Because the Ming Dynasty was now an ally with the Ottoman Empire, Emperor Zhu was also able to study the system of the Janissary Legion. After studying it, he found that this "scout" system did have merit. Recruiting soldiers who were educated by poor teenagers has a guaranteed combat effectiveness, and they can also become a source of fresh blood for the ruling group.
A ruling group without fresh blood will surely gradually decay! Even if Emperor Zhu established an elite education and military education system, it could only slow down their decay.
The elite among these nine-border youths can enter military academies like the aristocratic children, serve as officers, and then become civil servants and enter politics. Because there are no intertwined interest groups behind them, and they are relatively motivated, they can become the mainstay of the military and officialdom.
In addition, for the middle and lower classes of Jiubian Fan Town who are outside the core group of the Ming Dynasty, supplying scouts will also become a shortcut to advancement.
Even if only a few scouts can rise to prominence, it is still a hope for the military households in Jiubian.
With this hope, it will not be easy for the military leaders to incite them to oppose the central government.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Jiubian Army cannot exceed the Ming Dynasty version of the Yenicherry Army...
