Originally, last year, the Southern Court had eliminated Fujian controlled by Zheng Zhilong and Yunnan controlled by Mu Tianbo, and had an annual income of 27 million taels of silver, while the Northern Court had an annual income of 78 million taels.
The two courts together amount to 105 million taels. A conservative estimate would increase this year to 110 million taels.
Based on the annual income growth of 5 million taels of silver, in another eight years, the lower limit of the small goal previously set by Emperor Haojing will be reached, which is an annual income of 150 million taels of silver.
Considering that after surviving the natural disasters, grain harvests have continued in various places, the discounted price of the harvested grains can be equal to more than 30 million taels of silver.
This means that the actual purchasing power of the total annual income has reached the benchmark of Emperor Haojing, but the cash part has not yet reached the standard.
With more than one million slave miners arriving in various mines for mining every year, the value created by these people alone can easily reach ten million taels of silver every year.
Coupled with the smooth development in all aspects and the overall improvement of the economy, the industry has played a locomotive role in attracting foreign allies, while continuously expanding its own territory, causing the export value to increase year after year.
Therefore, after the merger of the two courts, the annual income growth of the Ming Dynasty should exceed 15 million taels, and may be as high as 20 million taels.
Emperor Haojing's strategy is also very obvious. The entire Asia-Pacific region, except Caiguo, Waguo, Siam, India, and Annan, including the west coast of America and the entire Australia, is the Ming Dynasty's private territory.
Any outsider who wants to dump goods here must obtain the consent of the Ming Empire in advance, otherwise both people and goods will be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.
Those five countries are also the next destinations for Daming products. The entire Asia-Pacific region is the downstream market for Daming products.
Not counting the remote hinterlands, Emperor Haojing controlled at least a vast market of 350 to 400 million people.
Utilize a variety of products, focusing on local areas and radiating to surrounding areas.
This allowed the Ming Dynasty to achieve trade surpluses year after year and avoid large-scale outflows of gold and silver.
Even if foreign goods can come in, foreign businessmen will choose barter trade in order to make more profits.
Because after getting the money, if they want to purchase Daming products, they have to queue up, which is time-consuming and thankless.
Sustained surpluses will accumulate a large amount of money, raising the risk of an outbreak of inflation at any time.
But this is easy to solve. Emperor Haojing has been on guard against this aspect for a long time and has taken corresponding measures.
Due to the use of foreign troops in recent years and the purchase of armored ships to upgrade weapons and equipment for the king's division, the imperial court spent a lot of money every year.
Continuous mining of new mines, construction of railways and expansion of ports will also cost huge amounts of money, with military expenditures and infrastructure construction accounting for the bulk of annual expenditures.
The rest still has to pay salaries to officials, provide relief to flood-stricken people, support the Academy of Sciences and the development of education. Basically, the Ministry of Household Affairs does not have much money left.
As for the money in the hands of merchants, Emperor Haojing also had a way to get it, and he would not let them do whatever they wanted.
The method is also very simple, that is, borrowing!
If you want to be safe, just participate in the loan directly, with an interest rate of 5% a year.
Otherwise, shares in mines and other large companies, such as railroads, could be purchased.
If you have money and try to make trouble in the industry market, there will be an industry association to manage it.
The presidents and vice-presidents of various industries are registered with the Northern Capital and the governors of various places. If something happens, they can join forces with them to crack down on profiteers who do not abide by the rules.
Emperor Haojing believed that there were indeed law-abiding merchants, but most merchants did not behave themselves in private.
A certain outlaw Zhang San once said a wise saying - the ways to make big money are all written in the "Da Ming Law"!
Merchants spread their businesses across the country, and chain stores can be opened in all first- and second-tier cities.
But colluding with officials, passing off inferior goods as good goods, and buying and selling by force would have touched Emperor Haojing's bottom line.
Anyway, over the years, profiteers are indispensable at the execution site every autumn...
These guys are like moths, they will not repent until they are caught. Once they are caught, it will be too late!
Emperor Haojing has always been kind-hearted, and generally he would not kill everyone in his family. Basically, the main culprit and a small number of accomplices were exposed, and all his family members were sent to the mines to reform.
Wash it for ten years first and then it depends on the situation.
If it doesn’t wash well, then wash it for another ten years!
After a census, the registered population of Ming Dynasty was no less than 170 million.
If you add in the slave miners who mine for various reasons, the number will directly exceed 180 million!
Zhu Cihong never thought this was something embarrassing. This just proved that the Ming Empire was in a strong stage.
Not only will the number of slave miners not be reduced in the future, but slaves will continue to be purchased from overseas to mine.
Since you can make money by giving miners a shovel or pickaxe by digging the ground in the simplest way, why not do it?
The Ottoman Empire had already begun to follow the example of the Ming Dynasty and began to use a large number of slaves to mine.
The Sudan Canal was dug by slaves, thus saving a lot of costs.
According to the latest news, because its territory has expanded several times in a short period of time.
Louis XIV also planned to follow suit and let a large number of slaves mine or farm, thereby benefiting himself and the nobles.
Some people say that this is a historical retrogression, but Emperor Haojing does not think so.
Whether it is reversing depends on the level of technology and productivity.
In the future, if robots are built to produce or fight for humans, they will actually be slaves.
In the eyes of some southern scholars, the north under the control of Emperor Haojing is a history of the rise of barbarism!
He defeated the barbarians with barbaric methods similar to those of the barbarians, so he was despised and cast aside by them!
Zhu Cixiang has long been accustomed to this. Anyway, as long as it does not conform to the way they can accept, it is garbage.
It's just that they forgot that what was abandoned by history was 24K pure garbage!
After Huang Zongxi's introduction and explanation, the two elders from the south, Qu Xuanpin and Chen Yongji, basically accepted Beiting's operating model.
The slaves who mined in the mines were almost all prisoners, captives, and barbarians used to pay off debts. As long as there was no Ming Dynasty Liangmin, it was harmless.
These two people also went from being surprised to enjoying the work of the Military Aircraft Department. Even the Nanting Cabinet did not receive such generous treatment.
Cabinet members and ministers of various ministries take turns to be on duty at the military aircraft, and they can rest for at least two days a week.
Working days are from nine to eleven in the morning and from one to three in the afternoon.
If it rains or snows and it is inconvenient to go home, just start playing mahjong directly after three o'clock...
Being accompanied by a maid in the military aircraft department, you can eat, play, and sleep, which is a lot of fun.
The two of them couldn't believe that this was how the officials of the Beiting managed the affairs of the court.
Even so, there was no chaos in the court, and he could still earn more than 70 million taels of silver a year, which is incredible.
There is no other reason. Each government office and everything has established procedures and regulations. As long as the officials follow the steps, it will be fine.
If something goes wrong, it means someone is not following the rules and intends to cause harm or profit, otherwise it will definitely not make a big mistake.
The important thing is that rewards and punishments must be clear and strong, otherwise the problem will not be solved.
Even if the corruption problem cannot be cured, a group of people must be killed every year. We must not be lenient, let alone condone it.
Emperor Haojing once said more than once, if every official comes to get off work on time, works according to procedures, and receives monthly salary according to rules, where can there be so many problems?
After a problem arises, they still lie to him, pretend to be deaf and dumb, and even frame him and beat him up. Don't they all have no idea?
Emperor Haojing had basically seen all the tricks of the moths during his first year in the crown prince's supervision.
"Loyal and righteous" Yang Shicong!
"Steady" Wu Weiye!
"Not serving the second master" Xie Yijin!
"Just and Strict" Chen Biqian!
"Full sincerity" Wu Changshi!
"Family has four walls" Mr. Huang Dou!
Which category you belong to is up to you!
After all these years, among the factory guards and the Sanfa Department, there are only wrongly arrested people, not misplaced ones!
Due to years of "passing through the sieve", these five departments have also accumulated a lot of experience in handling cases.
Either you have flaws, or your relatives, friends, or fellow villagers have flaws.
Coupled with the help of the reporting method, as long as it is a moth, it will be dug out.
Cleaning it up once a year can make operations in various parts of the north much smoother.
Beidu took the lead, followed by Shuntian Prefecture, and Beizhili served as a model province.
Other places will follow suit, because borers are generally intertwined.
As long as one is caught, the others will no longer be able to hide. At that time, governors from various places will have to cooperate in handling the case.
If the local officials did not act, Emperor Haojing would directly send people to catch the moths.
Obstructing the handling of the case will be regarded as treason and will be arrested.
Emperor Haojing was very considerate of the suspects and had already ordered the expansion and construction of a large number of new cells.
The Beidu side can easily detain tens of thousands of people, and if that's not enough, even military camps can be vacated.
Whether it is the raging war or the Cathay Pacific Min'an, it will not delay the moths from making money.
As long as the Ming Dynasty exists, the moths will eat it.
If the Ming Dynasty fails, the moths will eat it until the next dynasty!
If the emperor does not understand the virtues of the moths, even if he achieves a revival, he will be eaten alive by the moths in the future.
In order for the Ming Dynasty to continue to be strong and prosperous, Emperor Haojing had to eat moths year after year.
In the past ten years, the total value of the borers dug out has reached as high as 10 million taels of silver.
In other words, on average, one million taels worth of moth property is confiscated every year.
If the amount is reduced in the future, it will either mean that the officials have begun to abide by the rules, or that the investigators have been bribed.
Qu Xuanpin and Chen Yongji are very disciplined. First, they are new here, and second, they no longer need to make money when they reach the position of elder.
Working at a military aircraft every day, enjoying massages from maids, tasting the skills of the royal chef at mealtimes, drinking high-end wine, and then getting off work tipsy, this is truly the highest state of Ming officials...
If Yan Song, Hai Rui, Zhang Juzheng and others were officials now, they would definitely be happy to death!
Beidu is bustling with people during the day, and at night it is full of entertainment and entertainment.
Some officials who came from Nanting felt that this place was more Jiangnan than Jiangnan, and they were very happy.
But Beidi is able to do a good job in the economy. It is so different from thirty years ago that they have to say it secretly.
Especially the new city is built like a garden, with neat streets and many buildings.
There are many telephone poles, billboards dotted here and there, and shops lined up in rows. Everything looks prosperous and orderly.
Even if the housing prices in the new city are more than twice as high as those in the old city, rich people are still willing to live in the new city.
The Supreme Emperor had thought about following suit in Nandu, but Nandu was on the riverside and surrounded by mountains, so it would be very difficult to expand.
In contrast, Beidu does not have so many terrain restrictions, and can be expanded from Xincheng to Tongzhou in the future.
This is not an extravagant hope, because the railway from Tianjin passes through Tongzhou.
Due to the convenience brought by the railway, the area from Tongzhou to Xincheng has been occupied by the people in a fancy way.
The housing prices at Tongzhou and Xincheng are naturally the highest, followed by the small station responsible for loading and unloading goods.
A large residential area has been formed around these sites, and they may be directly connected to form a large area in the next 30 to 50 years.
If there weren't garrisoned gun towers near the roadbed, and the garrison would patrol day and night, just these common people could steal all the supplies on the train.
Emperor Haojing can acquiesce to the welfare benefits brought by the people using the railway for free, but if he engages in the snitch business, it will definitely not work. Anyone caught will be killed!
The starting point of the eastern section of the railway is Tianjin, and the western section has been built to Bosten Lake.
In the future, it will also extend to Lake Balkhash and even further to the Ural Mountains.
Nanting was also busy building railways before. Unfortunately, after a survey, it was found that the cost of building bridges was actually higher than laying roadbed and rails!
Instead, Zheng Zhilong built two railways in Fujian and Qiongzhou under his control. The railway in Qiongzhou was used to transport ore dug from the gold mines.
Mu Tianbo in Yunnan also built a railway. Although the distance was very short, only from Kunming to Qujing, it was still much better than nothing at all.
If it can be connected to the railway from Guiyang to Anzhuangwei in Guizhou, it will be considered a small achievement.
Emperor Haojing also expressed support for local railway construction, but local governments had to find ways to fund it.
The imperial court will send surveyors from the Academy of Sciences to help survey the conditions along the way for free and choose the best route.
Roadbed and bridge engineers will also be dispatched to help local governments build bridges along the railway lines and guide the laying of roadbeds.
Finally, the entire vehicle, including the front end and compartment, is given away for free, so the local government does not have to spend money on this.
The difficult matter of land acquisition must be resolved by the local government, and the imperial court will not cause this trouble.
However, Emperor Haojing believed that common people and wealthy gentry everywhere would welcome the railway passing through their land, because it was a "big golden dragon".
Wherever railways are built, the economy will immediately improve. This is obvious, because building railways is equivalent to building roads.
As long as there are roads that can bring people and local products out, no matter how poor a place is, it will gradually become rich.
Although the Yunnan-Guizhou Railway is a branch railway that exists on its own, it is of great significance to the development of southwest China, especially in supporting Myanmar.
The two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou have also stated that they will connect their respective railways in the next ten years and strive to extend the western section of the railway to Myanmar.
