Chapter 283 Zhengguoben (85th) Ministry of Government Meeting
Almost at the same time that these things happened in Dongnuang Pavilion, the Hubu Yamen was in a state of solemnity. In the big meeting hall, there were not only the Shangguan of Hubu Hall headed by Gao Jingshi, as well as Yiqianlangzhong, Yuanwailang, Tiji, Ambassador, etc., there were even
The senior officials from the Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of War, and Ministry of Works, etc.
The ceremonial guard of the Tianguan of the Ministry of Personnel usually does not meet the elders on the streets. The reason is the uniqueness of the Tianguan. The meeting official is one level higher. It would be embarrassing if he had a dispute with the elders.
However, in today's large meeting hall of the Ministry of Household Affairs, this phenomenon no longer exists. Chen Yubi, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, sits at the head of the high and pragmatic west side, and Song Yingchang, the Minister of the Ministry of War, sits on the east side. As for Shi Xing, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry,
He sat on the side of Chen Yubi's head, with a serious look on his face.
The six ministries each perform their duties. Logically speaking, this situation should not exist today. How can the Ministry of Households convene the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry to discuss matters? Even if this situation does occur, given the presence of the Heavenly Official, nothing can be done
It is the local official who should be in charge.
But it is obvious that Gao Pragmatic is not only the local official and household minister, he is also a cabinet bachelor. Everyone even knows another thing: he, the Wenhua Palace bachelor, will soon change his title to Zhong.
A great bachelor of the Imperial Palace.
"I think everyone already knows why I made an exception today to recruit all my colleagues to come to the Ministry of Revenue." Gao Pragmatic's face was solemn, and there was a deep worry in his eyebrows: "Within one day, the imperial court collected three points in a row to report the disaster:
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The first summary: Zhejiang Fu, according to reports, the five prefectures of Jin, Qu, Ning, Shao, and Taiwan suffered from rare white disasters (snow disasters and ice disasters) last winter, which affected millions of people. Only the currently known
, there are more than 9,000 damaged houses in various prefectures and counties, and there is no way to count them in the suburbs and countryside. We don’t know what the situation is, but I think it will be worse than in the city.
Therefore, the governor of Zhejiang suggested that Nanjing should be relieved of grain and silver taxes and reduce taxes and pay to alleviate the poverty of the people. The Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs did not dare to take matters into its own hands, so it has forwarded the proposal to our ministry and at the same time submitted it to the imperial court for a decision.
Arrange disaster relief matters. The ministry stated that Nanjing is ready to fully cooperate with the court's resolutions."
After a pause, Gao Pragmatic picked up another memorial and took a look at it, saying: "The second memorial: Jurong and other fifteen counties in Nanjing were also hit by white disasters. The Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs reported to the Ministry of Household Affairs and wanted to change the levy to those with severe disasters.
If there are minor differences, the original color will still be collected. The rice, beans, sesame and other items are for the purpose of offering sacrifices to the mausoleum and temple and cannot be changed. At the same time, the court is still requested to arrange disaster relief.
Third Shu: There was an earthquake on the same day as the thirty thousand, Liaohai, Tieling and other guards in Liaodong. Zhang Taizheng, the governor of Liaodong, was in Kaiyuan at that time (note: it can be understood as counting the number of troops, ordnance, food and wages, etc.), and it almost collapsed when the earthquake came.
They were buried alive in the warehouse. After the earthquake, an inventory showed that the losses were heavy, regardless of military camps or residential buildings. About 30% of the residences in Kaiyuan were destroyed, and the two guards lost more than 400 soldiers (note: 30,000 guards, Liaohai guards were all in Kaiyuan).
The number of casualties among the residents exceeded 2,000, and the remaining minor injuries were not counted.
The governor of Liaodong proposes that Kaiyuan and Tieling be exempted from Beijing's grain, silver and tax reductions, that the three guards be exempted from garrison rotation this year, and that corvee service be exempted in both places this year. The imperial court is also requested to decide and arrange disaster relief matters.
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After Gao Pingshi finished speaking, he let out a long sigh, put down the memorial in his hand, looked around at the crowd and said, "If you have any opinions, please tell me."
Everyone looked at each other, and finally focused their attention on the face of Chen Yubi, the Minister of Civil Affairs.
Chen Yubi said calmly: "The Ministry of Personnel is not in charge of disaster relief and other matters. The reason why our headquarters is here today is just to remind everyone - how well the matters agreed upon later are handled will be the focus of the Ministry of Personnel's inspection this year.
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When everyone heard this, their expressions suddenly became solemn, and everyone sat upright without squinting.
Officialdom has always been based on seniority, and the order of speeches is often based on seating. Gao Pragmatic was the presiding officer of the meeting. He asked everyone to speak, but naturally everyone did not dare to let him express his position first, so the second person to look at was Chen Yubi, the Minister of Civil Affairs. Chen Yu
After Your Majesty finished speaking, according to the ranking of the six departments and the current seating arrangement, everyone naturally looked towards Song Yingchang, the Minister of War.
"The first two chapters have nothing to do with the Ministry of War. It is inconvenient for me to say more, so let me talk about the third chapter." Song Yingchang pondered for a moment and said: "The three guards of Thirty Thousand, Liaohai and Tieling were in the previous battle to aid Korea.
It was quite creditable. More than half of the guards participated in defending the grain roads and transporting grain and wages. They also lost hundreds of people in the battle, which was truly called the king's dedication.
The places guarded by the three guards are Kaiyuan and Tieling, which were originally important towns in Liaodong. They are close to Yehe, Hada and Jianzhou. They are crucial places in Liaodong, so they have heavy responsibilities.
Now that North Korea has been included and the Jurchens have moved to town, there is a large amount of open space in the east and north of Kaiyuan Tieling. Originally, the Ministry of War was formulating a takeover plan, but at present, it seems that the implementation will be postponed and disaster relief will be the top priority.
Yuyi's two guards, Ding, can be exempted from taking turns to guard this year, and they can each provide disaster relief. As for the local people, please ask the elders to deploy them. Yuyi can order the Liaodong general, and the deputy general to mobilize all the guards in various places."
Shi Xing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was the most embarrassed among the participants today. He could be said to be a member of the Practical School, but later he was attracted by the Xin School for some reason and switched to work under Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue. However, he was not proud for long. Shen Shixing
When Wang Xijue and Wang Xijue were forced to retire at the same time, Shi Xing's life began to become difficult.
However, with the rise of Zhao Zhigao and Shen Guanyin, because Shi Xing was at least senior enough and in charge of a department, he was a force that the Xin School could not lose, so he was able to secure his position as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
But no matter what, he was blacklisted by the Real School, considered a traitor, and they refused to look at him. This is not the most difficult thing. The most difficult thing is that the power of the Ministry of Household Affairs has been seriously expanded, and the Ministry of Works has
Office funds must be approved by the Ministry of Accounts, and the "construction funds" that were originally controlled solely by the Ministry of Industry were also supervised by the Ministry of Accounts. He was not allowed to do anything independently, which made his work as a minister very boring.
He didn't want to come to this meeting today. Unfortunately, the six government offices were very close to each other, and the main entrances of the government offices of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue were so close that they were across the street. Therefore, when the Ministry of Revenue sent someone to invite him, he had no excuse at all, so he had to
He came holding his nose.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Now that Song Yingchang had finished speaking, it was his turn. He had no choice but to say: "The Ministry of Industry can mobilize a craftsman family in Liaodong to participate in the reconstruction of Kaiyuan,
Tieling corvee service is not inevitable.
Just in this way, if major construction is to be carried out in Liaodong this year, the number of corvees may not be enough. Moreover, although corvees can be used to mobilize craftsmen to rebuild the two places, even if corvees are used, it will still cost a lot of money.
...This is not something I, the Ministry of Works, have the final say on, it still depends on what Mr. Gao Ge decides.”
Gao Pragmatic looked around at the crowd and said: "Liaodong is more sparsely populated than other provinces in the Central Plains, and the number of people serving as corvees is also smaller. The cost required to participate in reconstruction is limited...Brother Yazhai, if you order 20,000 corvees for a period of three months,
How much should the Ministry of Accounts pay?”
Yazhai is the title of Hu Zhili, the right servant of the Ministry of Revenue. After hearing this, Hu Zhili calculated a little and said: "Corvees are not paid at all, and the expenses are rations and other items. Each person only has five or six cents per day. Based on six cents, the daily consumption of copper coins
One hundred and twenty thousand coins, that is, one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Based on one hundred and twenty days, it costs 14,400 taels of silver."
Fourteen thousand, four hundred taels of silver sounds like a small amount, but this "very few" is actually quite misleading. The real situation is that when Gao Pragmatic took office as the inspector of Guangxi, the entire province of Guangxi could only pay 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver a year.
, on the contrary, the imperial court spent nearly 200,000 taels of silver in Guangxi a year.
Of course, today's Guangxi is developing very rapidly thanks to the "planned economy" that Gao Pragmatism gave it at that time. It is no longer the same as it used to be.
Nowadays, timber, spices, sugar and shipbuilding industries have become the four pillars of Guangxi. In addition, there is a Qinzhou Port in hand, which can already pay more than 600,000 taels of various taxes to the court every year. It can be said that Guangxi not only gets rid of
Overcoming the embarrassment of the fiscal black hole that year, it was even able to squeeze into the middle ranks of the country.
Can a tax of more than 600,000 taels be squeezed into the middle of the country? Yes, because after the highly pragmatic fiscal reform, taxation has actually become the characteristics of "national tax" and "local tax" in later generations. In this way, Guangxi Province can
The proportion of tax revenue received is limited, and a large part will be collected directly by the Ministry of Household Affairs, without going through the local accounts of Guangxi at all.
Let’s put it this way, the taxes directly paid by Guangdong last year were only more than 1.8 million taels. Although it is still three times that of Guangxi, if you compare it with later generations... At that time, Guangdong’s GDP was more than five times that of Guangxi all year round.
Yes, not to mention financial contributions.
It has taken more than ten years for Guangxi to develop to this extent, which has made Gao Jingzhi's reputation and prestige in Guangxi unparalleled for a while. There are even many Gao pragmatic temples in the local area - yes, it is the thing that Eunuch Wei in the original history enjoyed all over the world.
, but now the local Gao pragmatic life temples in Guangxi are all built by private people, and there is no official statement.
In fact, it’s not that the officials didn’t want to show off. After the news that someone in the local area had built a shrine for Gao Jingshi, Guangxi officials wanted to take the opportunity to flatter him. Unexpectedly, as soon as the essay was published, it was stopped by Gao Jingshi, who was furious. Guangxi officials
Only then did the officialdom realize that flattery was slapped on the horse's leg, and they dared not mention it again from now on.
Closer to home, the cost of more than 14,000 taels of silver for a province does need to be decided by the Ministry of Household Affairs, especially Liaodong, which is quite special. It is not a normal "province", but is actually a "military control area"
”——This point has been specifically mentioned in the previous article of this book, so I won’t go into details here.
For this reason, Liaodong is actually the largest financial hole in the Ming Dynasty. The so-called finance in Liaodong is essentially a "military system". There are no specialized administrative officials such as prefects and county magistrates in various places, let alone provinces.
There are three divisions of the agency - Liaodong Division Three is represented by Shandong, but Shandong actually doesn't have much control over it.
Well, it's not that you refuse to take care of it. In fact, Liaodong itself is under military control. The prefects and counties have nothing. The officials in Shandong have black eyes. How can they take care of your civil affairs? Therefore, the so-called civil affairs in Liaodong are actually various
The supervisors of the guards are in charge of the guards, and if the superiors of each guard have certain civil power, they are actually at the governor and military level.
Over the years, the only governor and military commander of Liaodong who has seriously engaged in administrative management over the years is probably Gao Pragmatic. Thanks to a Gao Pragmatic who has been in charge for a period of time, the current Liaodong economy is much better than it was in history.
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There are several main industries that are developing well, including Liaonan salt industry, tussah silk industry, corn industry, cold-resistant rice industry, and the coal-iron military-industrial complex established by Jinghua near Anshan. However, although the industry has good development momentum, it is
Liaodong’s local fiscal revenue is very small.
The Liaonan Salt Farm was a joint venture between the emperor and Gao Pragmatic, under the banner of the royal family, and no one dared to collect taxes. Later, Gao Pragmatic said that this would "compete with the people", so he took the initiative to collect taxes according to the national unified standards.
Tax...but the salt tax is a national tax, and the locals still can't get a penny from it.
The tussah silk industry was initially led by Jinghua, but later Jinghua withdrew from the production department. After restructuring, it is now essentially a local joint-production contract, with almost all employees being private women, while Jinghua is only responsible for unified purchasing and marketing.
This tussah silk industry was developed by Gao Jingjing as a livelihood project, with the purpose of allowing local women to obtain a certain amount of income to subsidize their families. Therefore, Gao Jingshi deliberately set an extremely low tax rate a long time ago, which has led to the current development, although it is good,
, but the annual profits and taxes paid to the local area are less than 4,000 taels of silver - the profits and taxes of the entire industry are less than 4,000 taels.
Corn and cold-tolerant rice are said to be industries, but in fact they cannot form an industrial scale. They are essentially people's livelihood projects. After being promoted, the main beneficiaries are the private sector, because the court's taxation has not changed, and there are more of them.
The output of corn and cold-resistant rice immediately improved living conditions.
As for paying taxes, there is no such thing. The biggest benefit is that the official planting of Yuanmasi Temple in Liaodong [Note: Jin Fuhai builds troops and prepares roads] can provide some physical output. Unfortunately, this output has nothing to do with Liaodong officials.
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Although Jin Fuhai was an official subordinate to the governor of Liaodong, Yuanma Temple in Liaodong was not under the control of the governor of Liaodong, but directly managed by the imperial court. Therefore, even if the output of Yuanma Temple in Liaodong was to be used, it had to be specially approved by the imperial court.
Take Liaodong's account.
After such a calculation, there is only one area left to increase fiscal surplus in Liaodong, and that is Jinghua’s Anshan Industrial Park. This industrial park is basically built according to the Kaiping model, with coal mines, iron mines, coal washing plants, and steel
Factory, including farm implement factory, musket factory and artillery factory.
There are even some related factories, such as the elastic factory, steel ring factory, bearing factory under Jinghua Precision Industry, the cement factory under Jinghua Infrastructure, building materials factory, etc., to name a few.
To a certain extent, Liaodong has a "nearly complete industrial chain" related to war. Why add the word "nearly"? Because Gao Pragmatic did not build a gunpowder factory for Liaodong. If Liaodong wants gunpowder, it must come from within the pass.
delivery.
The reason here is very simple. First, it is to prevent the slightest change and prevent Liaodong from having the capital to separate itself by force. This idea is exactly the same as the highly pragmatic idea of controlling the military in southern Xinjiang; second, there are no good sulfur mines in the entire Liaodong—or even in the entire Northeast of China. The characteristic there is that the black soil is highly fertile and there is enough coal and iron, but there is no sulfur.
China's sulfur mines are mainly distributed in the southern provinces. Except for Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia in later generations, there are very few sulfur mines in the north. At present, the sulfur in the Ming Dynasty mainly relies on the import of Tumote, and domestic pragmatism does not allow it, so it is basically not dug casually; in southern Xinjiang The sulfur comes from Japan, specifically the Shimadzu family.
The main force that has boosted Liaodong's fiscal revenue in recent years has been the profits and taxes of Anshan Industrial Park. Last year, they paid a total of more than 113,000 taels. Gu Yangqian, the former governor of Liaodong, and Zhang Taizheng, the current governor, whenever they have to spend money, they both All eyes are staring at Anshan Industrial Park.
To exaggerate, Liaodong’s finances are now almost all directed at Beijing. Some people may ask, what about the original industry? Was there no tax at all? Yes, there is, but it is almost non-existent, because the major generals in Liaodong are the They are the main owners of the original industries in Liaodong, and they have many ways to pay less taxes.
This is something that even Gao Jingshi doesn't dare to touch easily - it's not that he can't do it. Now that the emperor's power is at its peak and Gao Jingshi has great authority, even if he does, they won't dare to rebel. It's just that the military reform has not been completed yet, so you can touch them. As a source of profit, they could not afford to support the army and would suffer from diarrhea during the war. This was something Gao Pragmatic could not tolerate.
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