In the Gyeonggi area, one acre of every five or six acres of land is an imperial village.
Even though Zhu Yijun refused to admit it, he felt that it did sound a bit too much. Not only did he look slightly embarrassed, but he said angrily, "But after all, the ancestors obtained it by punishing traitors and traitors. I can't just take it." Let’s take a step back and say, give it to the people. Even if I give it to the people, whoever I give it to will be taken away by the powerful in the end.”
Of course there is a part of it, but that is really not the whole story, and it may not even be the bulk of it.
However, it was hard to say this in a pragmatic way, so he could only speak in a different way. While walking slowly with the emperor, he said, "Some time ago, Wei Chen happened to have a chat with Da Sinong about this matter. He said that it went well with him some time ago. There are eight prefectures and counties in the world, and there are 2,835 hectares of land including border herds, horse farming, and military villages. Each year, the amount is 6,920 taels of silver and 24 shi of grain. I also honor my relatives. There are more than 11,550 hectares of new and old farmland."
Da Sinong is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and people in the Ming Dynasty liked to use the ancient name.
Zhu Yijun was surprised when he heard this and said, "The nobles of the capital city have only cleared over 11,000 hectares of land and only have over one million acres of land."
"That's right, that's what Da Sinong said. Qingzhang of Beizhili only found a total of 5 million acres of hidden land, of which 1.15 million acres were occupied by nobles." Gao Pragmatic sighed, "By the way, Your Majesty, this After the Qing Dynasty, Weichen also discovered that there was actually a hidden field left in Sanshen Garden from unknown dynasties. It was about 20 hectares, about 2,000 acres. Now it has been listed in the Yellow Book again and has been painted. Got the fish scale drawing."
Of course, two thousand acres is not a small number, but a mere twenty hectares of land is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, not to mention that he has re-registered it, so Zhu Yijun didn't bother to ask, he just hesitated and said, "You are hiding in the land near Gyeonggi." I feel like this is really the only number.”
Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly and said, "How is that possible?"
"Are you sure?" Zhu Yijun frowned, "I just doubt you have any evidence?"
Gao pragmatically said, "I didn't check it myself, so how could there be any evidence? However, if you compare the data from other places, you will know that many Qingzhangs in Gyeonggi and even the whole of Beizhili must have missed the investigation."
Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What data?"
Gao pragmatically said, "For example, Huguang has only more than 36 million acres of land in the original Yellow Book and Fish Scale Atlas. In fact, after the Qing Dynasty, Huguang has nearly 92 million acres of land. There are actually more than 36 million acres of land in Huguang." Fifty-six million acres, almost twice the amount
There is also Shandong, which was originally listed as 80 million acres. After the Qing Dynasty, it was 116 million acres, which is an increase of 36 million acres, which is about half more than before.
And Sichuan, originally there were only about 13.5 million acres, but after the Qing Dynasty, it reached 40 million acres, an additional 26 million acres, which is also twice the amount."
Zhu Yijun was stunned for a long time and suddenly asked, "Where is Nanzhili?"
Gao Pragmatic chuckled, "Southern Zhili is even more powerful, even more powerful than Northern Zhili, with only over 3.3 million acres cleared."
Zhu Yijun's face suddenly turned ugly and he said angrily, "The sky is really high and the emperor is far away. I can't control them anymore."
Gao Pingshi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Actually, there are people more powerful than Honuki Yinda."
Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide and said, "There is something more powerful."
"The vassal king and the clan." Gao Jingshi also risked his life today, relying on the fact that Zhu Yijun would probably not kill him, and said solemnly, "Nowadays, there are more than 30 vassal kings in the country who have exterminated their heirs or eliminated their country for some reason, and the clan is as high as ten. More than 20,000. Among them, some of the distant branches and low-ranking nobles are fine, and there are not many fields. Some of them are even difficult to make ends meet. However, the princes and the high-ranking and near-ranking branches, in addition to the land granted by the original country, also have a large number of hidden fields and hidden fields. , this influence was even greater. During the Yongle period, the Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, the Southern Expedition to Annan, and the seven voyages to the West were spent far more than today, and there was even more spare capacity. Your Majesty, you can do it now."
Zhu Yijun stopped moving forward, and everyone fell silent, sighing, "That's why your imperial examination policy said that the biggest problem in the world today is poverty."
"Of course." Gao Pingshi said, "I also said that poor officials will lead to poverty, poor people will lead to thieves, poor military will lead to trouble, and poor countries will make them weak."
"I remember." Zhu Yijun sighed, "You said that if you want to make officials not greedy, you must first increase their salaries so that the common people will not steal. You must first increase their income so that the soldiers will not cause trouble. You must first increase their salaries so that the country will not be weak. Rich in its treasury.”
Gao pragmatically nodded, but said nothing. On this issue, what he should say has basically been said in the policy statement.
But Zhu Yijun was still frowning. At this time, they were walking to the edge of the Nansha River. Zhu Yijun took Gao Pragmatic and others for a walk along the river. After a while, he said, "But the method you gave in your policy, I think it is mainly for harvesting." Commercial taxes don’t talk about land.”
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, let's talk about the business tax. Although I will be scolded, I can still be saved. But if I talk about the land at the same time, I'm afraid it will be criticized by thousands of people and it will end without any problem."
Zhu Yijun laughed, then slowly stopped his smile, glanced sideways at Gao Pragmatic, and said, "So you should take this opportunity today to leave the problem to me."
Gao Pragmatic raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty has wronged Wei Chen. Wei Chen just followed the script. I'm afraid Wei Chen is not the only one to say these words today."
"You are not the only one who said it." Zhu Yijun nodded, but then said, "But you are the most shocking person to say it. They all like to describe it, like people in a certain place sell their sons and daughters, and change their sons. Cannibalism, but no one has explained the data so clearly. Just after comparing these data, I realized how serious the problem is."
Gao pragmatic just smiled but said nothing.
Zhu Yijun thought for a while, then frowned and asked, "In your opinion, the Qingzhang of the North and South Zhili should continue and even strengthen their efforts."
Gao pragmatically said, "There are only two reasons for poverty in the world. One is insufficient production and the other is poor scheduling. It depends on which step the emperor wants to solve first."
Zhu Yijun was surprised and said, "I can understand the lack of production, but what does poor scheduling mean?"
Gao Pragmatic said: In fact, it is difficult for you to fully understand the lack of production, but we can talk about that later. I originally planned to talk to you today mainly about this poor scheduling.
"Your Majesty, there are many types of ineffective dispatching." Gao Pragmatic said, "For example, if commerce is not prosperous, transportation is not available, distribution is unreasonable, etc., these are all ineffective dispatching."
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said, "I can understand that transportation is not adequate, just like water transportation is not as convenient as sea transportation. But there are other problems here, such as water transportation is related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of water workers, and sometimes people will die when sea transportation encounters storms, etc. , this is an old topic that has been debated by the imperial court for hundreds of years. But I don’t understand what this has to do with poor commerce and unreasonable distribution."
Gao Pragmatic smiled, "But Your Majesty, these two points are the real crux of Ming Dynasty's current situation."
