"Reporting to Your Majesty, the cabinet has sent a copy of the title, stating that this year Taicang's estimated grain harvest will be over 30 million shi and over 5 million taels of silver!"
Han Xu answered immediately.
Zhu Youxiao laughed after hearing this: "Yes, the Ming Dynasty's treasury grain tax revenue has finally exceeded 30 million taels, and Taicang silver has also exceeded the threshold of 4 million taels."
"It's all because of your Majesty's ability to govern the country that we can achieve this prosperous age!"
Han Xu praised him, but said in his heart: "If you don't count the borrowed grain, it still hasn't exceeded 30 million. If it weren't for the government-run textile industry to tie up the participating merchants and impose tariffs, it would be difficult to collect more than 5 million taels." .”
"My ministers have also worked hard and passed on the decree. At the end of this year, all officials, sergeants, and servants will receive an increase of three salaries based on last year's salary! To repay their hard work!"
Zhu Youxiao replied with a smile.
"I would like to thank Your Majesty for your kindness!"
Han Xu was secretly glad that he did not say anything about borrowing food, and thought to himself: "If I had mentioned this, I would have lost the opportunity to receive an additional three salary bonus!"
Han Xu had to admit that it was beneficial to serve as an official for an emperor like His Majesty. At least the legal income was rising steadily, and he could support several foot-warming maids without having to collect any ice or charcoal silver.
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked: "How is the matter of clearing the father-in-law's land? How has it been completed?"
"Back to Your Majesty, according to Yuan Fu's report to the governors of various provinces, the current situation is that Henan, Shandong, Huguang, Beizhili, and Jiangxi have all been completed. Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Shanxi have completed most of the work. It is expected to be completed in the first half of next year. Qingzhang, Shaanxi, Liaodong, Yunnan, and Guizhou are expected to be completed by the end of next year.”
Han Xu continued to reply.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked again: "The execution of the work of spreading Ding into his mother's mother's house and Huo Hao returning to his father's house will also follow?"
"Yuan Fu reported it to the governors of various provinces and implemented it."
Han Xu replied.
Zhu Youxiao didn't say much after hearing this.
The method of apportioning people into acres is to transfer the head tax to the land. Instead of collecting ding silver according to the number of people, it will be levied according to the number of fields. This means that those with more land will have to pay more ding silver. This is considered the abolition of the poll tax. Conducive to population increase.
In order to increase the population and free more poor farmers and craftsmen from heavy corvee labor, rulers of the Ming Empire such as Zhu Youxiao and Fang Congzhe were able to become more free, mainly to become labor forces in government-run industries. , so this policy was implemented in advance, and was implemented during the process of land clearing, and Ding Yin was levied according to the land cleared again.
In addition, the return of fire consumption to the public means that the central court will uniformly set standards for the additional taxes arising from losses in addition to the regular tax, so that local officials do not have the power to independently determine the amount of fire consumption and additional taxes, and it also gives the gentry with a lot of land no chance to escape Fire consumption or paying less fire consumption, and this policy is also implemented in the process of land clearing, according to the land after clearing, and the West Factory levies a unified standard fire consumption silver according to the amount of land.
The above are also the reasons why Tianqi's resistance to the clearing of land is much greater than the resistance encountered in the early years of Wanli.
So much so that a governor was tortured to death by the feudal king, mainly because once the land was donated by the abbot, the feudal king would need to pay more taxes.
But what Zhu Youxiao himself did not expect was that in order to complete this domestic reform, he would actually use the method of "borrowing food" abroad to completely defeat domestic vested interests.
Naturally, he could achieve this goal by using force to take away the food from the nobles.
But Zhu Youxiao did not do this. He chose to use force to "borrow food" from abroad first.
Because Zhu Youxiao didn't want people in the country to think that he, the emperor, would take other people's legitimate assets without reason.
Zhu Youxiao would rather let people outside the country think that he was an overbearing emperor who would take away his country's interests without reason.
Before the explosion of productivity, Zhu Youxiao could not be a saint both internally and externally and make the people richer.
Fortunately, however, half of the domestic reforms such as the clearing of land ownership and the accompanying changes in this process, such as the allocation of land to the land and the return of fire to the public, have been implemented half way and are expected to be completely completed nationwide next year.
The empire's fiscal revenue increased significantly.
The prosperity of the early and middle Wanli period was reappeared again.
This is not only reflected in the increase in national income, but also in the increase in income of ordinary people.
Grain prices fell to prices even lower than those in the mid-Wanli period, allowing Hang Chunjiang, who was an ordinary hired worker, to have more surplus in his wages besides buying grain to invest in his children's education.
Du Shouchang, the owner of a ready-made clothing store, was very happy to see the price of food written on the water sign in the food shop: "One stone, three silver coins or three ounces of money".
He had great foresight and asked someone to help him buy 200 shi of grain when the price of grain was still two danqian per shi. As a result, he now made 20 yuan of silver coins all at once. He was one of the few people besides the imperial court who made money by bargain hunting. Merchant of silver.
Of course, Du Shouchang is even more happy that food prices have not risen sharply.
This is a fact, and he does not want food prices to rise sharply, because he knows that if food prices are ridiculously high, no one will have spare money to buy his carefully crafted garments.
But it's different now. Food prices are low. Driven by a large number of government-run industries that have raised workers' wages, many workers in private industries have also increased their wages. Therefore, more and more people with spare money come to buy their own clothes. More and more people are spending time at home making clothes instead of working hours.
Coupled with the emergence of new textile technology, domestic cotton and silk prices fell. His clothing costs not only did not increase due to the increase in labor costs, but also decreased because the prices of cotton and silk dropped even more.
Du Shouchang's business is getting better and better.
Therefore, he likes this era very much now. He has planned to open a few more stores, rent some good shops that originally belonged to the nobles and now controlled by the emperor, and expand his business. He feels that the price of food, cotton and other commodities If it goes any lower, there will definitely be more people coming to buy his ready-made clothes.
"This year is really getting better and better! Long live my emperor!"
On this day, Du Shouchang gathered with several of his employees. After studying for several years, he knew why the current situation was so good, so he raised his glass and shouted in the direction of Mochou Lake.
"Yes! Although there was a rebellion last year, it was almost safe. It was even better than before. I had never dared to think about spending money to sit in this flower boat and have a good meal with my boss. .”
Hang Chunjiang started talking.
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"It's really hard for people to live in these days. You can only support one opera troupe. In the past, I had fifteen opera troupes. You can listen to whichever troupe you want to listen to. Now you can only listen to one troupe. Wow! Home slave Ji I even dismissed half of my concubine, and the whole family can only eat three or four dishes per meal! I have lost weight!"
Zhu Guobi also found Gu Mingjiao, Tang Xingzuo and other nobles and cried on the Zhengdan Festival.
"Who is not? All the novice monks and nuns I raised have been dismissed, and the family temple is no longer available. If you want to burn incense in the first month, you have to go to the temple outside and queue up. Now when you go out, you can't even buy a decent horse. ! Ever since my eldest father, my Gu family has never had such a hard life. Is this still a distinguished family?!"
Gu Mingjiao, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, also complained.
"Stop talking, we are at least better than Mr. Dou. He is still in prison in Dongchang. However, everyone must pay their own bills for tonight's meal! I can't afford it. Besides, girl , you have to make yourselves scream, I won’t scream anymore, just let me take a look, I also have to save some silver coins to pay off my gambling debt!"
As Tang Xingzuo said that, he buried his head in his arm and started crying: "My life is so miserable!"
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"I'm so miserable!"
In the Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department Prison in Yingtian Mansion, Dou Ding shouted loudly with his mouth full of blood.
He is really miserable now because Dongchang is torturing him with all kinds of torture.
Wei Zhongxian's white powdered face smiled sinisterly and asked: "Then do you want to say it or not? As long as you say it, you won't be miserable!"
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