At the last salt and iron meeting, Zhu Qiyu talked about a grain rent, taxation, and private request from the township, that is, the composition of commodity prices is: grain rent, profit, and labor remuneration.

Once the township seeks privately and the reward for labor becomes extremely low, immediately, the people will lose their roots and abandon more than half of the farmland.

Zhu Qiyu's current salt and iron conference asked, what is the price of labor remuneration for the people of the Ming Dynasty?

Obviously, the courtiers here have never thought about this issue.

This is the decay of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the strength of the Ming Dynasty. Even though the decay of the Ming Dynasty still lasted for more than 270 years, it was owed debts here, fishing out of the waters, and fighting in wars everywhere.

For more than two hundred years, the Ming Dynasty's financial affairs have been confused, just a mess and a bad debt, but the Ming Dynasty has still lasted for so long.

Even in the first year of the Republic of China, Sun Wen became the president and immediately ran to the Xiaozhu of Ming Taizu and told Ming Taizu that he had succeeded in resuming the Ming Dynasty!

Why is the Ming Dynasty invincible?

Because the Ming Dynasty is really invincible in the world.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and made the courtiers think for a while before he spoke: "Young plants grow, but they will die soon after they are barren in the land and the climate is harsh."

"The Xuanfu did not collect more than 2,000 people at night. They were rampant in the desert and grasslands. They would not return until the autumn burned the wasteland. They brought a lot of information about the north, so that our martial arts lecture hall, five

Military Governor's Office..."

"To formulate a combat plan, we have support and basis for wherever we can fight and wherever we fight."

When Zhu Qiyu talked about the Governor's Office of the Five Army, he paused for a moment. He was particularly sad that the Governor's Office of the Five Army, followed the Xingwen and Wu Wu, and Ma Fangnanshan, and finally he did not even discuss the Chang court's proposal.

The political system of the Ming Dynasty was very perfect. Except for the fact that it inherited the unmanagement style of the Yuan Dynasty in terms of financial affairs, the rest of the matter was extremely complete.

But it failed, just like the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Taipu Temple, and Yuanma Temple, it was systematically corrupted.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "I heard that in Mobei Helin, a mother gave birth to twenty children, and only one child could survive."

"The children of the Oirats cannot even replenish the number of dead soldiers, but near the barracks, you can see countless children running like free-range sheep."

"Most of these children, who are under four years old, die because of poverty. In many places, they are under nine years old. A very small number can grow to fourteen and ride horses to fight wars."

Zhu Qiyu has actually never understood a problem.

That was the very tricky Oirat woman, the Oirat woman Moro brought back by Zhu Qizhen.

Why is Moro so brave to follow Zhu Qizhen back to the capital?

Even on the way back to Beijing, he was stronger and fearless than Zhu Qizhen.

It was not until Ye Bucheng sent the news back that Zhu Qiyu realized that the environment in Mobei was so harsh.

Even if she returns to the capital's dragon pond and tiger den, she will have to fight for it and let the child survive like a person.

Instead of having numb spots on the face, not washing your face for years, your fingers and ears are covered with black and gray, and maybe you don’t know where you die one day.

Morrow calculated the account clearly. The child's chance of surviving in the capital was greater than that in Mobei.

Morrow obviously bet right.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "Poverty undoubtedly does not encourage having children, but it cannot stop having children, but it is obviously not conducive to the raising of children."

Zhu Qiyu once again raised a question: "Do you know how many children in the raising house are growing up?"

Yangjiyuan was one of the good policies of the Ming Dynasty. Before Zhu Qiyu heard Tang Yunyan singing the resentment of Emperor Ji outside the wall of Taichang Temple, he saw the yamen runners of Shuntian Mansion taking away the beggar who was frozen on the street.

The ministers were silent again, and this question was very sudden.

Your Majesty asked this question without any connection with the previous question. He talked about labor remuneration, but why did he suddenly get involved in the issue of the survival of children in the family?

They had never previewed it.

Yu Qian sat upright and said confidently: "Three out of ten."

"A few years ago, I went to the Yangjianyuan to go to the Yangjian Academy. I asked once that if I give enough firewood in winter, at least half of them can be born."

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "This is a good rule of the Ming Dynasty."

Yu Qian said it was right, not an outbreak of an epidemic. Otherwise, the survival rate of these children in the stewardship homes would be much higher than that of children on the grassland.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "A generous labor remuneration can obtain more food, increase the physical strength of the people, improve the state of life, have expectations for the future, have enough food and clothing, and let children read, write and live a life of reading, writing."

"If labor remuneration is sufficient, the people can significantly improve their support for their children, so that most children can grow up and provide more students to society."

"More generations will inevitably relax and expand the upper limit of the Ming Dynasty's national strength. In other words, more people will have more wealth."

"The Ming Dynasty will be more prosperous."

Zhu Qiyu gestured a gesture, horizontally and vertically.

Hu Yi coughed and said, "Your Majesty means that if the people are strong, the country will be strong; if the people are rich, the country will be rich; if the people are safe, the country will be prosperous. The people here are the people of the world."

His Majesty can't say anything stuck in his throat.

But what does Hu Yi do?

That must be to observe the words and expressions, and immediately turn over the allusion of the peace and prosperity of Tai'an Palace, explain the gestures of His Majesty, so that the ministers can understand.

What is professionalism?

Without this ability and level, he is worthy of being the Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty?

A peaceful country and a peaceful people.

Zhu Qiyu sighed and said, "But not long ago, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Nanzhili, nearly one million people, started from the fields and destroyed the entire southeast, and to this day, Chen Mao, Hou of Ningyang.

, still in peace in Fujian, I was unable to do anything. I was in my seventies and fought for the country.”

"The Fujian Provincial Administrator Song Zhang and others have completed the investigation and reimbursement. Next year, the Tiqi will escort a group of people to Fujian and behead them."

There is no financial affairs in the Ming Dynasty, no one understands it, and no one studies it. Everyone is so confused about life, how can they do politics well?

Jin Lian's scalp was a little numb. He always thought that local rebellion was the fault of local officials, but it seemed that it was the responsibility of the Ministry of Revenue, but it was not the entire responsibility of the Ministry of Revenue.

He frowned and thought about all the words His Majesty said.

The only measure of wealth and value is labor.

Labor is contributed by Cheng Ding. Only when the more generations of the people can the wealth increase. When the more wealth increases, the more generations of the people will be more. Then, more labor, more wealth.

This is a positive cycle.

It is obviously in a positive cycle, and the number of Citizens is growing rapidly, which is a basic fact, but the taxes of the court are still 30 million shi of rice and granite per year, and after the discount, it is about 20 million silver.

And it seems that there is a bigger problem, that is, the population has increased, wealth has increased, and the cost of raising children should be reduced.

But the scale of millions is no less than that of Huang Chao's great rebellion that originated in Qianmo, and just ended in Fujian.

There is a problem in the middle of this, that is, the labor remuneration is extremely unreasonable.

This led to the displacement of the people, the loss of the roots and the failure of the roots, the desolation of arable land, the corruption of the horse government, and the chaos in the southeast.

And Hu Yi thought more.

Xingwen and Wu, Xingwen has been prosperous for twenty-four years, and Wu has been prosperous for twenty-four years.

What did Xingwen Xing? Your Majesty is engaged in farm law, and the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy are most suitable to preach political orders, but does Your Majesty dare to use it? Even if you use the commanders who have been studying in the Confucian School for a few days, you don’t need the Hanlin Academy.

Bachelor of the

Xing Wenxing had a lot of problems. Xing Wenxing had a group of bachelors of the Hanlin Academy who only knew how to talk nonsense and avoided the truth. They didn’t have much serious knowledge, but their empty rituals were becoming more and more perfect.

The Wu Wu made a great deal of excitement. The Wu Wu defeated the Governor's Office, Ma Zheng, and the Beijing Camp, all of which made Wu Wu Wu breathless, and even the Ola besieged the capital.

If we continue to promote the civil and military affairs, how many years will the country destiny be left in the Ming Dynasty?

Next time the Oirat is coming, will it be directly relocated?

The six ministries, the general constitution of the Censorate, and all the ministers of the Central Committee and the Minister of the Secretariat were fully understood after His Majesty's lecture. This principle seems simple, but it is extremely difficult to make it clear.

If there is a master behind Your Majesty, he must be as high as ninety-nine feet!

Jin Lian opened his meeting note book and asked seriously: "Your Majesty, what standard is the basis for this labor remuneration? I am stupid."

It is not easy to let Jin Lian, the Minister of Revenue, a government official who has been an official in the local area and in the court for more than 30 years, fought in the southeast and fought against Chen Mao to kill the enemy. It is so difficult to say the three words "silence" with sincerity.

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Zhu Qiyu sat upright and said, "I think that the people must obtain labor remuneration at least twice the living expenses of a household, so that they can spare no effort to take care of their children."

"In fact, the wife at home can maintain her own needs."

"This is a bottom line, the most basic standard of remuneration. As long as it is below this bottom line, the death of a young child is inevitable."

"If you want to support your family, then a student should receive more than four times the family's living expenses, so that he can read and write."

"A child who grows up like this is a child, not a bandit."

Women in the Ming Dynasty were not ladies, and basically had to work. Men farmed and women weaved. It was already good for women to weave and support themselves.

Then a student's labor must be twice the living expenses required by the family to have the spare time to take care of the children. If you want to read and write, you need four times.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "If you want to encourage the prosperity of a population, the income of a student should be at least six times the living expenses, so that you can have the energy to raise your offspring."

What is the cost of living?

Basic expenses such as food, food, food, food, and maintenance of residence, taking children to see a doctor.

Zhu Qiyu calculated that it was really very low. The Ming Dynasty had a large population and produced a lot, but the Ming Dynasty did not have legal currency. Since the Ming Dynasty’s Baochao was in ruins and the Baoyuan Bureau did not perform its function of issuing coins, the Ming Dynasty has always been in a shortage of money.
To be continued...