Beijing.

The King of Chuang of Dashun was inspecting the institution left by Manchuria. This court was also one of the three courts of the Manchurian Interior Government. However, before the Qing army entered the pass, it was called a military battle. It was a military institution dedicated to the production of ordnance and gunpowder in the former Ming Dynasty.

Lu Si remembered that the weapons and equipment of the Ming army before the late Ming Dynasty were in a mess. Not only were the workmanship of the weapons extremely rough, but the quality was even more inconsistent.

The bowstring breaks as soon as it is pulled, and the firecracker explodes as soon as it is released. The shield can be broken on the spot when it hits hard. It can be said that the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, including the mainland garrison, were completely failed in terms of weapons and equipment.

As a result, the generals leading the troops had to use the equipment they could use to arm the soldiers who could fight, and gradually evolved into servants, causing the national army to eventually become private soldiers of the generals, and then the so-called general groups were derived, further accelerating the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

The example in front of you is that the eight banners of the Han army in the Qing Dynasty originated from the General Group of the Ming Dynasty, and the Liaodong Group accounted for another 80%.

In Lu Si's opinion, the root of all problems is actually a matter of money.

The Ming Dynasty was actually very rich. Longqing opened its sea until the Ming Dynasty fell. The silver flowing into the Ming Dynasty alone reached hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

However, the treasury did not see this silver. The country had no money and the emperor had no money. How could the army have money? Without money, no matter how good the army was, it would rot step by step.

Where the money went is not something that can be explained in one or two sentences. If you really need to look at it carefully, Lu Si thinks that he might not be able to tell the story of a group of bachelors even if he organizes a group of bachelors to conduct a special research.

Even himself, he has only a little understanding.

The vague impression is nothing more than that the money is in the pockets of the gentry. The emperor is poor and the country is poor. In the end, the emperor will kowtow to his ministers and beg them to donate money, but no one will be donated.

After that, it will die.

At the deeper level, it must be the state system, or it means that there is something wrong with the tax system in North Korea.

Hiding rich people is a theory, and a country is a theory that strong people are also a theory.

The two are not contradictory.

But first of all, there must be a prerequisite, that is, the country is strong.

If the country is not strong, no matter how rich the people are, they will be the cattle and sheep of other people, waiting to be slaughtered.

Kuang Dashun is now poor and even has the embarrassment of relying on seized antiques, calligraphy and paintings to exchange money and food. In order to raise military funds, even the Confucius Forest in Qufu was moved.

If this Dashun scholar does not turn his head, Lu Si will designate him to be scolded by later intellectuals, saying that he destroys the land of sages and destroys Chinese civilization.

Although Lu Si never thought that Confucius Forest could represent China, the Confucius Temple could not withstand the inherent impression of more than two thousand years.

I don’t care about his name behind me for the time being, but the reality is to be done well.

It also enriches the country and the people, and it also strengthens the military. Now that China has not yet unified, even if Lu Si has 10,000 robberies and 10,000 international trade objects, he has to hold on to his temperament first and keep his inner peace.

Only a unified and solid China can lay the foundation for the prosperity and strength of the Chinese nation.

Dashun was built on the Ming Dynasty. If you want to not repeat the old path of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Si, the leader of Dashun, must find a way to change the bad policies of the Ming Dynasty.

After the establishment of Beijing, strengthening centralization, restoring local people's livelihood, and raising military salaries for Dashun are three major issues regarding whether Dashun can gain a foothold again, and all of these three major events involve the rectification of local finances.

The Ming Dynasty only collected a few million taels a year, and by the Qing Dynasty, more than 20 million a year, the tax increased several times. The son who added to Fulin was embarrassed to add more, so he "never add taxes", but everyone was praising the Qing Dynasty. The gentry and officials praised the goodness of the Qing Dynasty. Lu Si had to copy this advanced experience.

Yuan Youlong, the Henan governor who surrendered in the previous period, wrote a memorial a few days ago. The memorial said that in the Ming Dynasty, the rich had many fields, but there were few people, and the poor had no place to stand, so there were more corvee labor.

Yuan Youlong meant that the supervisor could investigate the people's conditions and the policies formulated by the central government in the future could be inclined to the poor, especially now that the population of Henan Province is only one million. If the levy of taxes continues as before, it is unlikely that peace will be achieved in the Central Plains.

This is probably a habitual "routine" of officials from ancient and modern times after the chaos of chaos. Although it is very effective, once dozens or hundreds of years pass, old problems in the past will appear again, forming a vicious cycle.

The book of Bo Wenyanjie, former Qufu master who was designated as the next Yanshenggong by Lu Sinei, is more constructive than Yuan Youlong's "routine".

When leaving Shandong, Lu Si gave Wen Yanjie a task, which was to spend a year traveling all over the countryside of Shandong, and conducting people's inspections in a realistic manner.

Why not let others go, but let a master visit? The reason is that Wen Yanjie is pragmatic and young, and does not have the "bureaucracy" of the former Ming Dynasty officials, and has a new atmosphere.

After receiving a document from Beijing that he and Shandong met with Chen Buping to Beijing to manage the government, Wen Yanjie wrote the results of his visits and investigations in Shandong this year into the "Shandong People's Tax Service Inspection Letter" and submitted it to the camp.

The book says: "Check old cases, the number of people is examined for five years, and it is divided into nine rules. The top is levy nine coins, and the bottom is levy one coins. The rich and poor family are the amount of silver. The newborns are added and the dead are expelled. This is the result."

The general idea is that the bank collection system in the Ming Dynasty seemed quite perfect in the past, but as the specific implementation ages were long, local departments may not pay attention to inspections, that is, they did not achieve a sub-population for five years and a major population plan for ten years. Officials were negligent in their administration and increased their household registration. So they ignored the public's pain and only took a pen to add to the yellow book when they took office.

As a result, one term after another, if there is actually 50,000 Dingkou in a certain place, after several terms, the Dingkou in the Ministry of Revenue may reach 70,000 to 80,000. Even dead people will not be given a name on the book, and the newly born babies will be given a tax on the book.

Lu Si read the Wenzhi report in Wuying Palace. After reading this passage, he specially drew a circle with a red stroke, and then said on the side: "This false report is exaggerated."

This is an act of officials who are negligent in their duties and seeking excellent performance. Among the people, gentry even deliberately conceals the privilege of tax exemption and reduction of taxes. Some cunning people in the countryside use "guest registration" to avoid taxes, or offer gentry to avoid taxes. However, the Ministry of Revenue still reports to the people in various places to collect taxes, and in the end, a large amount of taxes fell on the poor.

Wen Yanjie said that in Cao County, Shandong, "the powerful and powerful are all in trouble, and they can escape from the upper houses; the poor people in the lower houses have dozens of acres of land, and they will be promoted to the Mongolian households." As a result, "there are no inches of land in the family and the life is insufficient, and those who call them "Xu Tian" are all medium-sized households listed in the book."

Finally, Wen Yanjie pointed out incisively that "there are uneven griefs in the people, and the officials are ineffective in collecting, and the officials and the people are in trouble." He urged the state to pay attention to this matter and eliminate the old problems from the central government to the local government.

Lu Si gave this book to Gu Junen, saying that he had started from the farmer's family in Huaiyang and was well aware of the sufferings of the people, but he was particularly careful about the collection of money and grain from the government, for fear of disturbing the people.

"Since the day when Emperor Yongchang established Xinshun in Xiangyang in the 16th year of Chongzhen in the previous Ming Dynasty, Dashun has been the third year of Yongchang. Although tax cuts and the tax exemption period is uncertain, the foundation of the country is money and grain, and tax collection is inevitable as soon as the period reaches the end. How to collect taxes is important. As for the chaotic levy law as before, let local officials and gentry make profits. If I don't go to Coal Mountain, my descendants will also go to Coal Mountain!"

Lu Si asked Gu Junen whether he could set up a tax institution at the same level as the six ministries in the new central government structure, and put the taxes from the central and local governments into this organization to implement them, and extract the central government at a certain proportion and retain the local government to avoid local tax collection and various taxes.

It also said that in the future, agricultural tax will decrease year by year. Dashun will focus on developing commerce in the future and start trade with overseas trade, thereby reducing the burden on farmers by raising commercial taxes.

"At present, we have few people and many lands, and land issues are not big, but if we think about it, farming will be hard."

Lu Si always believed that letting the people live a good life without farming is what a time traveler should really do.

But obviously, I am afraid that this goal will not be achieved in his lifetime, or it will not be able to be fully achieved.

After all, times limit.

"The state, the governor of the county is the official who is close to the people and the foundation of the administration of officials. As for money and grain, the relationship is particularly important, and the slightest grain is the fat of the people. If one part is added, the people will suffer a part of the burden; if one part is reduced, the people will suffer a part of the burden."

It is definitely not possible to just express your own opinions, and Lu Si also needs to come up with effective solutions.

He had never eaten pork or seen pigs running. Considering that the country was actually money, he wrote down the four words "spread into a mu" and asked his nephew to give it to Gu Junen, who was studying the tax policy of the Dashun New Dynasty.

Gu Junen looked at these four words and thought deeply for a long time.

Lu Si was not in a hurry, Gu Junen immediately took out the rules of the four words. After lunch in Wuying Hall, he made a special trip to the Wubei Academy, which is the former Ming military battle.

It’s not about how much armour the Manchus left for him, but about preparing to restore the gunpowder production capacity of the military battle.

Although there were not many firearms after the start of the army, Lu Si knew very well that the times would eventually belong to gunpowder.

His Shun Army had limited ability to produce gunpowder by itself, so when he was up, he was devoted to the two largest gunpowder production bases in China, namely Beijing Military Bureau and Shengjing Gunpowder Bureau.

Lu Si didn't know how much gunpowder was produced annually in Shengjing, but in Beijing it produced annually in millions of kilograms during the Chongzhen period.

After the Qing army entered the pass, they blasted the Ming army everywhere with cannons. The city walls guarded by the Shun army benefited from their complete gunpowder production capacity.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Military Affairs Bureau was in charge of the Arsenal Bureau and the Jingying Yaoziku. The Yaoziku was in the Wanggong Factory in the inner city before, but a big explosion occurred during the Tianqi period, affecting Shunchengmen Street, Jingmen Street, and Pingzemen, causing more than 20,000 deaths and destruction of tens of thousands of houses.

"There are those who break their arms, those who break their feet, and countless people who break their heads, with corpses everywhere, and the foul air is so terrible that it is a mess."

What's even more bizarre is that the victims' clothes, money and utensils actually floated to the Xishan Changping Prefecture Teaching Site.

In short, this big explosion during the Apocalypse period was really bizarre. Even Lu Si's statement about this explosion in his previous life was diverse, making people wonder what the truth was.

The current Yaoziku is in the outer city. After the First Town entered the city, it took over the place. There were more than 200 craftsmen who were still in the Yaoziku, more than a dozen people in charge, and the rest were taken away by the Manchus.

However, there are not many gunpowder in stock, only a few hundred thousand kilograms, which is only one-tenth of the normal annual output.

When the Shunqing "peace agreement", if the Shunjun did not allow the Qing court to destroy it, the drug bank would have been blown up, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Therefore, Lu Si was also surprised. He asked the leftover medicine bank manager, the former Ming military battle eunuch Wang: "When Emperor Yongchang left Beijing, why didn't he blow up the medicine bank?"
Chapter completed!