The military system of the guard station was able to cover part of the expenses by farming. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was even a surplus in addition to the food and salary for the guard.
Recruiting soldiers and paying them all depend on finance, professional soldiers.
Zhu Houcong called back everyone's attention: "I understand that each recruit needs to pay three to five taels of silver per year. Since they are elite soldiers in the Beijing camp, with 150,000 people, they need seven taels of silver per year. 150,000 taels. And the annual salary and silver for the soldiers recruited by each side is only more than 400,000 taels. However, within three years, this year we will reorganize the old armies such as the East and West Government Offices, and we can still save money after the indiscriminate dismantling. A lot of money and food will come. We will recruit 50,000 taels next year, and 50,000 taels the year after that. Within three years, the total additional expenditure on the salary of the Beijing camp will only be 1.25 million taels."
"As for the issue of annual revenue and expenditure after three years, it is a more important matter. The imperial edict mentioned many new policies related to land tax and salt tax, how to implement them to increase annual revenue, and how to implement them throughout the entire Ming Dynasty. Arranging and eliminating unnecessary expenditures more rationally is the basis for ensuring that our capital has a strong enough elite army."
Zhu Houcong said firmly: "Everything will be difficult, I know. But the capital camp cannot continue to be lax. I made it clear in my thank you note that the weather has changed, and the power of the northern barbarians will definitely become stronger and stronger." . If there is another large-scale invasion to the south, will we only rely on the already rotten border guard stations? This is not something that can be done, but something that should be done. In my opinion, this must be done!"
He opened his mouth and threw a heavier mountain over: "The guard station is in decay, and the proportion of soldiers recruited in border towns is getting higher and higher. You must be mentally prepared that the annual military pay will reach two million taels in twenty years. Our Ming Dynasty must have at least 400,000 elite soldiers capable of fighting. In order to protect the future situation, now is the time for the monarch and ministers to work together to gradually increase the annual income to eight million taels of real silver as the goal within ten years!"
After saying this long paragraph, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling breathed a sigh of relief: it seemed that they were not targeting them, but that they were really planning for the long term.
Guo Xun and others were stunned when they heard this, and their hearts beat wildly.
Just from the Beijing camp, 1.25 million taels will be taken away within three years!
Within twenty years, the annual military pay will reach two million taels!
Your Majesty is considering border troubles, and there will be war in the future.
Some people think that the opportunity to make meritorious deeds will come, and some people think that they will get more money.
For a moment, all the ministers and generals looked at the emperor with eager eyes - except Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling. Oh no, they are relatives of the country, not considered honorable ministers.
As for the fact that the annual real income will gradually increase to 8 million taels within ten years, which will make the scalps of the cabinet ministers and the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue Yang Tan suddenly go numb, they don't care.
Zhu Houcong looked at Yang Ting and them.
This is what Lao Qin said was the result of Zhang Juzheng's reforms.
In ten years, with him as the emperor personally promoting it, and under the circumstances that the land annexation is not as outrageous as it was more than fifty years later, it should be possible, right?
If we don't make this preparation now, we will have to face the embarrassing situation of war in the future, and additional side payments will soar to tens of millions.
Thanks to Houzhao, my cousin just beat up the little prince, so the border troubles are not that tense yet. Although the Jurchens have become arrogant and Japanese pirates have appeared, they have not reached the extremely serious stage.
But it's not far from that situation.
All the civil servants present were stunned.
Wang Qiong predicted that the emperor valued money very much, and even recommended Sun Jiao to be reinstated. However, as a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he did not expect that his majesty would have such a big appetite.
The annual real income will double within ten years, and corresponding to the 400,000 elite soldiers, there will naturally be food.
In the more than 100 years since the Ming Dynasty, has there ever been such a rapid increase in annual income?
Since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the total amount of taxes and grains has increased from less than 20 million shi to more than 32.97 million shi in the 26th year of Hongwu. For more than 100 years, the Ming Dynasty's taxes and grains have only been able to maintain at the level of 32.97 million shi. About thirty million stones.
Including various incomes, the annual real income is also stable at around 4 million taels.
It is stable! The reason why prices rose rapidly in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was because the war ended and the world became stable.
Yang Tinghe was under great pressure and couldn't help but mutter with a grimace: "It would be better to discuss how to earn eight million taels of real silver per year within ten years!"
A tone that sounds like a big injustice.
"That will be discussed later." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile, "Chen Qing previously suggested that the Xuanfu should pay one million taels, and each side should pay 500,000 taels, and the Xuanfu should pay 200,000 taels first. Please tell me that I have approved it. Why, why can’t the Beijing camp keep a total of 1.25 million taels? There is no need to make any additional payment expenditures for the Beijing camp in the past three years.”
Many people among the ministers sighed: Lao Chen is sensible, but his skills are too weak.
After all, we are only talking about the future. The proportion of recruiting soldiers is not high at the moment, and this time it is limited to the Beijing camp.
The smoke from the fire scene at the Rijing Gate of Qianqing Palace is still rising there and has not dispersed!
The emperor is now eager to run the Beijing camp well. Who agrees? Who objects?
All the ministers voted in favor - although they did not dare to express any more opinions.
Literary people have no objection - don't get mad, please.
The property of the two guilty ministers has entered into a discussion (argument) (quarrel) about the final distribution [in a low voice and in a friendly manner].
Discuss gently, don't anger the emperor.
Are you just trying to get money by taking the fire incident lightly? This is really asking for money at the cost of your "life"!
Not to be offended.
In addition to the 1.25 million taels prepared for the Beijing camp and the total of 1.8 million taels used to renovate the Nijing Gate, Qingning Palace, and Yangxin Palace, there are really too many people fighting for the remaining money, including the Ministry of War. The money for Jiubian's salary and the Ministry of Industry's construction of Emperor Zhengde's mausoleum, renovation of Prince Xingxian's mausoleum and other projects that will definitely be started.
The Qingning Palace does not need major modifications, it just needs some repairs, and it should be completed within two to three months, which does not cost much.
The Nijing Gate is just a door, and the half-south hood that was burned down didn't cost much.
The layout of Yangxin Hall has been greatly changed. Since it will have functions such as opening the Yan Dynasty and the emperor's bedroom in the future, the internal furnishings cannot be worse.
Fortunately, this is finally much less than what Yang Ting and the others worried about at first. It was originally expected that the two palaces would probably cost less than half of the total of more than ten million taels of silver.
As for whether the total of 1.8 million taels was enough, the emperor promised that if it was not enough, he would take the silver from the inner transport treasury.
Yang Tan from the Ministry of Household Affairs patted his chest again and said that if it was not enough, he would naturally list additional expenses from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The shots were loud.
So Zhu Houcong took the initiative and "fighted" for 3.1 million taels in advance for what he cared about most.
Because Yang Tan said that, we might as well set out an additional budget of fifty thousand taels.
It's only fifty thousand taels of silver. Give it to him so that all the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty can go home with peace of mind.
Now that he is starting to build the palace, Zhu Houcong also feels deeply about the troubles caused by Jiajing's palace construction in "The Ming Dynasty 1566" to the ministers.
If it weren't for the tens of millions of money confiscated from the house, if there wasn't the Qianqing Palace's fire, how could this matter be so happy?
He now has some idea of the purchasing power of one tael of silver. At this time, one tael of silver is equivalent to about six or seven hundred in his memory.
This time, two palaces are being renovated. One is just for minor repairs, and the other is just for changing the layout as much as possible to save money. This new project in the Forbidden City to keep the same materials and appearance will cost 7.8 billion yuan. .
Calculated this way, the Ming Dynasty's imperial court's annual real income was only two to three billion yuan a year, which was really a bit poor.
Of course, much of the wealth in this era is still mainly in kind, such as food, cloth and silk, which cannot be purely counted as silver.
Zhu Houcong occasionally thought about this while listening to their argument.
It is naturally impossible for the ministers to see the purpose of building the Yangxin Palace and setting up the Imperial Study Room.
In this way, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin have not decided what the final punishment will be, but their family property has been completely distributed.
In the end, Yang Ting and the others failed to get the idea of the secret treasury that was said to contain more than four million taels of silver.
"Now that it has been decided, the strategy for re-establishing the three major battalions will be drawn up according to the recruitment method." Zhu Houcong looked at the Xunchen, "How to abolish the rogues and reorganize the elite among them in the form of recruitment, this is a matter for the Ministry of War, the Five It is jointly organized by the Military Governor's Office and the Royal Horse Supervisor. Guo Xun, can you handle this well?"
"I will do my best!" Guo Xun was directly named, and he immediately left his seat and knelt down excitedly. Then he changed his words, "No! I will definitely be able to handle it!"
What could be more stimulating than the positive feedback of being reused just after showing some gestures? Guo Xun answered without hesitation.
Now it is about His Majesty's wealth and life. He is being treated like a humerus!
Can the humerus not be braced?
