Lu Zhong, as Tiqi and the head of the secret service, naturally had certain expectations for this powerful right-wing dog jumping over the wall. His Majesty's ability to send people to protect Yu Qian proved that the problem was not serious.

This is also true.

The Ming Dynasty ransacked the homes of the four Lingnan families at an extremely fast pace. The group was leaderless, and all their old nests were occupied. Some people who did not know destiny and could not understand the situation chose to burn everything. The final result was naturally that they hit the iron plate.

The weather in Guangzhou Prefecture has not been very good these days, with continuous rain, and the Tiqi naturally will not stop working on the case because of the rain. For more than ten days, at night, the streets of Guangzhou Prefecture are full of horse hooves.

There have been new developments in the case, and new criminals have been arrested.

After the weather cleared up and the sound of horse hooves disappeared, the people of Guangzhou Prefecture suddenly discovered that the walls of the houses were being demolished inside and outside Guangzhou Prefecture, which aroused the people's surprise.

This is naturally a decision from His Majesty.

At the end of June of the ninth year of Jingtai, the Ming Emperor issued an imperial edict:

The Guangzhou government was ordered to demolish the walls of the squares, leaving only the square gates as building signs. The squares were changed into streets and alleys. They also ordered that they were allowed to set up their own shop fronts. Stalls could be set up five steps in front of each house, and street trees were planted five steps outside for distinction.

Carriages and pedestrians.

Watchtowers were built in sections along the street, and people were assigned to keep watch in case of fire alarms, bandit police, etc. Watchmen, firemen, government officials, etc. were stationed in the watchtowers.

The curfew time is reduced, starting from Zi time and ending at Chen time.

The morning market, evening market and night market are open. Walking through the streets and alleys is allowed. Houses, teahouses, restaurants, food and cloth and other grocery stores are allowed to be set up along the streets. Various arts can be set up in open spaces to perform performances and reward rewards.

The Fangguo system is disappearing in Guangzhou. After sufficient experience is gained, in addition to military towns, the Fangwalls in other cities of the Ming Dynasty will also be gradually eliminated.

In the early days of the Fangguo system, it was to prevent people from committing crimes at night. However, as time went by, the Fangguo system gradually became a place where evil and evil people could hide evil and evil, and villains set up private checkpoints to take advantage of it. Instead, it encouraged the gray and black.

industry, then it becomes necessary to demolish the walls.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty came to Guangzhou Mansion, and the situation in Guangzhou Mansion was quietly changing. This was not a silent change, but an earth-shaking change.

In the countryside outside the city, many farms began to appear, and many of these farms had many commanders who traveled around and were disciples of the emperor. In the city, those yamen who used to be the acolytes of tigers and aided the tyrants in their evil deeds have also been cleared away.

Official government officials were stationed in the watchtower.

Urban and rural areas have undergone earth-shaking changes, and there are construction sites under construction everywhere. Among them, several official factories in Nantang have attracted countless homeless people who have lost their land and jobs.

"It's contrary! It's outrageous! They actually dare to charge so much money! One room costs two taels of silver per year! This is the price of two hundred kilograms of pork! Two pigs only cost two taels of silver!"

"This is all the court's money, all my money is thieves!" Zhu Qiyu looked at the accounts in his hands and said to Xing'an very angrily.

Because there is no household registration system in which Fangguo households are divided into ten equal parts and rural households are divided into five equal parts, the Ming Dynasty has no way to directly collect house tax numbers. However, the court does not collect it, which does not mean that these bandits do not collect it. The four families of Liang, Chen, Pan, and Lu

, the house tax number alone can collect as much as 500,000 yuan every year.

During the Zhengtong years, the amount of silver in Zhengfu was only 1.3 million taels of silver!

But just relying on the property tax number, the four families in Guangzhou can collect 500,000 taels of gold and silver a year.

Of course Zhu Qiyu understood that this is the difference between direct tax and indirect tax.

"If our Ming Dynasty can improve the household system, even if we collect house tax ID money, we will be able to collect more than 10 million yuan this year." Zhu Qiyu touched his chin, thinking about the possibility of collecting house tax ID money.

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Xing'an couldn't help but nodded and said: "More than that, this is just Guangzhou. Each of these millions of cities can collect 500,000 taels. Thirty-four million cities can collect 1,700 taels."

Ten thousand taels of silver."

Zhu Qiyu had to say with emotion: "It was right for the Song Dynasty to have money. It is strange that his court could be poor. It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty could not do this."

"Why can Liang Song collect this money?"

“Because the two Song dynasties did not establish a land system and did not suppress mergers, not only that, the two Song dynasties also sold official land, which led to the emergence of unimaginable landless peasants in the two Song dynasties.”

"These farmers can only go to the city to work as cows and horses in order to survive, but there are also some who have become rich. The reason why they can collect house tax numbers in this way in the past two years is because even if they take people away, there are still people in the city to buy them.

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"Da Ming can't accept it like this."

It is not completely cost-free for the sitting bandits to collect money. There are a lot of sitting bandits in the city who are not engaged in production. They have to spend a lot of money on eating, drinking and sleeping, and they have to pay for it. The yamen servants in this mansion also need to manage their relationships. In this yamen

All aspects of the relationship must be taken care of before you can be considered to have good hands and eyes. But if you want to manage relationships, you must have a way, right? In this case, you have to give a copy to the powerful and powerful.

The five hundred thousand taels shared by these four families is actually not too much.

If the imperial court really wants to collect this money, it will have to support so many people. How many of them can really go to Taicang?

In fact, it's not a good deal. It's better to tear down the walls of the village. If the court doesn't take it, then the bandits can't take it either.

"Your Majesty is wise." Xing'an also wants to remind Your Majesty that collecting property tax credits is a real struggle for profit with the people and a cruel expropriation. Especially in a bureaucratic system like the Ming Dynasty, this tax increase will eventually be necessary.

Put it on the heads of the common people.

"These days, if you want to increase revenue, it is more reliable to open the sea and collect tariffs separately." Zhu Qiyu said, pointing to the case file in front of him.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to set up a land system and suppress mergers, so the fifty-household system could not be established, and there would be no way to collect property tax accounts and money. In order to make so much profit in a year, it is better to open the sea. The moment I think of opening the sea, the world becomes wider.

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Zhu Qiyu picked up another memorial, which was written by Shen Buluo, Shen Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. In the memorial, he mentioned the problem of people's fertility. Zhu Qiyu read this memorial carefully and nodded repeatedly.

"At the beginning, I was worried that Shen Yi would not be able to do well as the Minister of Household Affairs. After all, Mu Yangbo, Jin Lian and Zhuyu were the first ones. Now it seems that he is still good. At least he has not left the grassroots level and fantasized out of thin air." Zhu Qiyu held it.

Zuoshu said to Xing'an.

Jin Lian had military exploits. He once served as Chen Mao's military governor and went to Fujian to quell the rebellion, and then served as the Minister of Household Affairs and cooperated well with the Ming Emperor. The Ming Dynasty's new monetary policy and maritime affairs were laid with the cooperation of the emperor and his ministers.

The foundation of the new financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty.

This memorial written by Shen Yi talks about encouraging childbirth.

In Shen Yi's view, the Ming Dynasty should not be afraid of having too many children and not being able to support them. They should have as many children as they can, and if they can't support them, they will move to other places. If they have enough children, they will survive.

The Ming Dynasty currently only has a population of ten million. If the Ming Dynasty had a population of fifty million, the Ming Dynasty's current output per mu would not be able to feed so many people.

what to do?

If the imperial court wants to adjust this contradiction, it must find a way to settle it. Then it cannot impose a sea ban again and must release all the people.

The powerful right-wingers are the first to bear the brunt. If they don't let the common people have enough to eat, they will have to knock their heads off and look for food from their granaries. Naturally, they will not block sea trade.

The Ministry of Household Affairs is a vested interest in the opening up of the Ming Dynasty. The national funds of the Ming Dynasty have never been so generous. Although there are still occasional embarrassments of borrowing internal funds and being scolded by His Majesty's emperor as a beggar, it is not easy to borrow His Majesty's money. Shameful.

What I gained from losing a little face to His Majesty was lizi, and the national funds were abundant. When facing the other six ministries, I spoke honestly. In the past, because I couldn't even pay out the salary, everyone could step on the household ministry. Never again!

In Shen Yi's view, now is the best time to encourage childbirth.

In the memorial, Shen Yi divided the cost of having a baby into three parts.

Part of that is the cost of marriage. As the Ming Dynasty imported a large number of women from Korea, Japan, Annan, Champa, Luzon and other places, the cost of marriage continued to decrease due to the impact of cheap foreign women.

The second part is the cost of childbearing. With the continuous advancement of medical technology in Jiecu Hospital, Daming Huimin Pharmacy, and the increase in medical practice in Daming, the risk of childbirth is decreasing, and the infant survival rate has been greatly improved.

The third part is the cost of raising children. In the Ming Dynasty, it is common for parents to go to work. The eldest child in the family looks after the second child, the second child looks after the third child, and the children look after the children. The cost will naturally be very low. It is also a culture where elder brothers are like fathers. social basis.

Life, the more people are born, the less able to stop the Ming Dynasty's maritime expansion; the more people are born, the less likely people are to die; the more children are born, the more virtuous people can be selected; the more children are born, the more capable people are. It forces social productivity to increase.

Having more children will relieve all worries.

How to encourage specifically?

"The rich have fields that are connected to each other, and the officials, gentry, and gentry are good enough to hide their people, but there are only a small number of poor people. The poor people have no standing, and the cunning people are entrusted as guests to avoid it, but there are many corvees. Ding Yin and Li Jia both work in the corvee When the four dregs of silver are left in a place and are not brought into the imperial court, the private purse will be enriched and the public purse will be depleted."

"Whenever the editors review someone who wants to increase the household registration of the Siwu Bo, he will ignore the sufferings of the people and seek to overflow his forehead. Therefore, those who should be deleted will not be deleted, and those who should not be added will be added. Even if the person is already dead, he will not be fired. When a son is born, he is responsible for registering him."

"The barren in the ditch is like a young man in the book, and the child with a yellow mouth is already a call for pursuit. At first, he promised compensation, and then he fled. It was inevitable."

"Gu: Breed people, never add talents." Zhu Qiyu looked at the memorial in his hand and finished reading the last paragraph of Shen Yi's words with emotion.

What Shen Yi is talking about is a common phenomenon: the rich have endless fields, while the poor have no place to stand.

The reason for this phenomenon is that the four different types of silver such as Ding Yin, Lijia, and corvee in the Ming Dynasty were collected by the local government and were not escorted to Beijing. They were all left to the local government.

The Ming Dynasty's four-challenged silver was all built on Dingkou. It would be fine if it were all kept as local public funds for local use. Most of it flowed into the private pockets of corrupt officials. It was probably that the squire's money was returned in full, and the common people The routine of dividing money into accounts three to seven.

Because this involves the pockets of local meat-eaters, whenever there is a review and editing of the pornographic book, in order to increase the number of young people, some officials will ignore the suffering of the people's livelihood and delete the dead people who should be deleted, and add the new ones who should not be added. Increase.

The rich, powerful and deceitful, had to escape from Dingcha, but the poor people in the valleys became Shangding Ding, with nine coins per person, and even the poor children were required to pay Ding Yin, so it became inevitable for the people to flee.

The phenomenon really exists. The question is how to alleviate this social contradiction and phenomenon. The analysis of the reasons is well-founded. Shen Yi is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and an affairs officer, not the political affairs officer of Wenyuan Pavilion, Hanlin Academy, or Ke Dao Yan Guan. He came up with his own solution.

Based on the population in the ninth year of Jingtai, from now on, no matter how many children are born, no additional tax will be added to the new population.

There is no need for local officials to go to great lengths to arrange it, and the people do not need to flee to avoid it. Ding Chai will calculate it based on the population of 100 million.

The head tax on newborn babies has been abolished since then!

After Xing'an heard this, he couldn't help but said with emotion: "It seems that the Ministry of Household Affairs is really not short of money recently. They even shouted that they will never increase their taxes for such a nurturing population."

"It's all over." Zhu Qiyu said with great conviction.

The Ministry of Household Affairs considers the actual interests of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The opening of the sea is in full swing at the moment. As long as the Shipping Department operates normally and taxes are collected in half on internal and state funds, the Ministry of Household Affairs will not fall into annual losses and deficits, including the salaries of Beijing officials. The dilemma of not being able to distribute the full amount.

In the past, the Ministry of Revenue was a pioneer in opposing the opening of the sea. For example, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue during the Yongle period, disobeyed Emperor Taizong Wen many times and demanded a sea ban.

Mainly due to the opening of the sea during the Yongle period, all the proceeds from the official ships were put into the internal funds, and not a penny of the national funds could be collected. They also had to maintain a huge fleet and provide goods for the fleet.

Now the Ministry of Household Affairs has become a solid supporter of opening the sea. The main reason is the tax internal funds of the Municipal Shipping Department, and the national funds are split in half. Your Majesty's internal funds are more like the reserves of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, the Ministry of Revenue has become a strong supporter of opening the sea. The biggest gainer.

There is naturally support from all over the household, and all day long the household has been thinking about how to maintain this open-sea model.
To be continued...