Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (Xì5) Tailor-made Killing Knife
Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard this, and said in astonishment: "Although the land belongs to the imperial court, it refers to unowned land after all. As long as there is an owner's land, the imperial court cannot forcibly occupy it. In this way, the valuable land is in the hands of the original owner. , if the imperial court can get some pastures left by Mongolians who died in battle and fled, it would be good, but the rest is probably just desert Gobi. What is the use of such land, and who is willing to spend money to buy it?"
Gao pragmatic sighed and said: "Your Majesty, you should know that I spent more than ten years building a Dingnan city in southern Xinjiang, right?"
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Of course I know about this. It is said that the size of this city is second only to that of the Northern and Southern Capitals of the Ming Dynasty. Is it really yours... How much money did you spend on this city? Five million taels? Or? Ten million taels?”
Gao pragmatic replied seriously: "It depends on how the emperor wants to settle the account for his ministers."
"How do you say this?" Zhu Yijun said in surprise: "What you spend is what you spend. What does it have to do with settling accounts?"
"That's a big deal." Gao Pragmatic shrugged and said, "If the emperor only asked how much manpower, material and financial resources were spent to build this city, there is no doubt that it is a huge amount - 730,000 local people have been used. , the entire construction period lasted for more than ten years, and the total construction funding for the previous and later years can be equivalent to approximately 13.64 million taels of silver."
Zhu Yijun exclaimed: "Hey Gao Rixin, you are so rich! You spent so much money just to build a city? You must have bought a lot of antique pearls and jade to decorate your 'Dingnan Palace'" ?Why, the floor is paved with gold bricks and the walls are made of beautiful jade?”
Gao pragmatically said quickly: "Hey, Your Majesty, you are unjustly accused of that matter. This residence of Zhuo Jing in Dingnan City is the palace of the King of Siam, and it was built by the King of Siam himself. It's just that, The King of Siam usually lives in the palace in the small town of our capital, which is called the "Little Palace", so the Dingnan Palace is used on weekdays. Seeing that his minister Zhuo Jing and others have settled in Dingnan, he is grateful to Beijing for his return to the country. It is with great kindness that I lend this palace to my minister for temporary use..."
"Come on, as long as he openly hangs up a plaque for Prince Dingnan's mansion, you will be concerned about whose property this mansion belongs to." Wen Yamei waved her hands repeatedly and said, "You are just wondering why such a huge sum of money was spent."
It's no wonder that Zhu Yijun is right. After all, the construction costs reported are low and pragmatic. Except for the time when Cheng Zu moved the capital and built the Forbidden City, it is really difficult to find a seventh incomparable object. Even when Zhu Yuanzhang built Nanjing, the serious "financial expenditure" was less than That's the number. Of course, the other reason is that when the emperor uses manpower, he must pay wages. In some cases, he even pays rations - that's corvee service.
"Your Majesty, please be patient. When I decided to Ding Nancheng, I didn't mean to explain the land sale." Gao Pragmatic smiled and said, "Your Majesty still doesn't know that I spent 18.87 million taels of silver to build Ding Nancheng. , but does Your Majesty know that Ding Nancheng has made a lot of money for me?"
Zhu Yijun didn't understand it yet, but he still asked smoothly: "Why is that?"
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"Ah...yes, yes!" Zhu Yijun suddenly realized and patted his calf: "Those guys have sold cattle, sheep and horses for seventy years, and also sold many mines and salt lakes to him. They have already made a lot of money.
If it’s full, we’ll have to be stabbed hard that time!”
There is a way. No matter how small the impact of the Great Ice Age is on Xiao Ming's side, the impact is within the equator. In fact, the impact of the Great Ice Age on Xiao Ming's south is much greater than that on the north.
Zhu Yijun was stunned and said in surprise: "You can still understand the first type, but how is the seventh type possible? The junior officials sent by the imperial court were all floating officials, and their tenure lasted several years, and we don't have our own yamen.
Why spend huge sums of money to buy land and build a house if you want to live there?”
Wen Yamei frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Then I can guess. After all, there are not many Dingkou and many fields in Dingnancheng. I know it, but how can I guess? He will always guess what Dingnancheng is.
Can he pay less taxes than Suzhou?"
That's all, Gao Pragmatic also allocated two more sums of money, which were distributed to civilian husbands through the local nobles - in fact, we should say they are serfs: one is used to provide food and accommodation, and the other is used to provide clothing.
Of course, the housing is considered bad, but we can basically eat enough, and the shelter can protect us from wind and rain; the clothes are for daily use, but they are dried and broken and distributed before the construction period, so that we can go home in a more dignified manner.
Gao Pragmatic just laughed with me. Before Zhu Yijun laughed for a while, he suddenly stopped smiling and asked: "Doesn't he mean that in the future, we will build a new city in the Ili Valley and then sell the land?"
Get your money back, or even make another profit?”
But at this moment, Zhu Yijun's eyes widened, he was completely suspicious, and he stammered: "Damn, just by selling land in the city, he, he actually made seven million taels?"
"Because we need to show the dignity of our status and our status in the court and even behind the emperor." Gao pragmatically said: "That is valuable to us."
"How do you say that?" Zhu Yijun immediately asked.
Gao Pragmatic explained the situation of the Siamese nobles pawning their ancestral property in exchange for land, and then sighed: "Your Majesty, after all, you are a noble of the Four Sevenths. It seems that it is still difficult to view the value of those lands from an ordinary person's perspective.
Let's talk about it. Your Majesty must be building a new capital now, and you promised me to give priority to buying land around your palace. Even if the land is precious, I will blink at the price.——
The dignitaries who come here must be willing to spend less money to buy those lands from the ministers."
However, before Gao Pragmatic explained those things, Zhu Yijun could still understand and asked: "Even if he could mobilize local people to do corvee labor, those measures saved him so much money, why did he end up spending so much money?"
Where is this small amount of money? Besides, were we just discussing the sale of land in the Western Regions?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "Actually, in the early days, there were only two types of people who did not have such economic strength - one was the local powerful and powerful, and the other was the imperial faction.
A former watchman."
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In reality, since non-field land is valued, the price offered by Jinghua is also ridiculously high. The pragmatically low pawn price of "7.17 million taels" is even according to Xiao Ming's market price (which is actually low)
, I’m afraid it will have to be increased seven times, not to mention the income that can be brought once the development is completed.
"Yes, yes, I'm talking about the kind of guardsmen." Gao Pragmatic shook his head, and then said: "I'm talking about the guardsmen who moved westward from Tumut and Orshaosi.
——Your Majesty, please don’t forget that we are also appointed by the imperial court.”
In this way, Suzhou's annual tax is converted into silver, which is probably less than 2 million taels - again, it is emphasized that it is just one Suzhou government. To put it more complicated, the tax paid by one government is even less than that of some poor provinces.
Because some poor provinces can only provide taxes, they may even be "losing money" in total. [Note: Those who are not interested in the following can check the information by themselves, you just quoted it.]
Gao pragmatically nodded and said: "Of course." After a short pause, he added: "There is still no difference between selling land in Yili City and Dingnan. After all, there is no emperor's palace outside... We have to go to another place.
Find ways to lower land prices.”
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "Then we must first determine the target group and cater to them according to our needs."
Suzhou, the prefecture with the heaviest taxes in Xiaoming, is also the one with the lowest taxes. Although the tax has been somewhat different over the years, the land tax of Xiaoming has been between 2 million and 2.8 million shi of millet in a few years. The price of rice in Xiaoming
It is roughly 0.7-1 tael per stone in the north, and 0.5-1 tael per stone in the south. On average, it is considered to be 0.7 taels per stone.
With such a large and controllable grain output, Gao Jingjing was naturally willing to invest. However, I also expected at the time that the special people in Siam had never met such a kind-hearted master. Through that incident, he actually treated Gao Jingjing.
Be grateful - what, the master wants us to do things but he still takes care of the food? That's like the Buddha is still alive!
Although there are not many people outside the serfs who can build simple wooden houses, how to build a wooden house that is small enough, saves wood, and is strong and reliable requires professional guidance. Mining and reclamation are all over the sky in Jinghua, and some specializations have already been formed.
The method of building a simple wooden house. Based on the principle that each one uses local materials from the same area, there are not more than a dozen processing modes, and it will break down as long as you follow them.
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Wen Yamei was quite satisfied with that answer and said with a smile: "Since then, no one has said that he is the 'King of Kings' in the southern Xinjiang countries. Look at his behavior... That's it, that's it. If you lose money, you won't gain it."
Earning money is also a bad thing." When I said that, I shook my head involuntarily, and it seemed that I completely rejected the saying "no one talks about it".
Low pragmatism smiled and said to himself: This is the money he earned from "free trade". His majestic emperor cares about our legitimate income. It is really not too much.
"Your Majesty, the taxes in Dingnan City are collected by the King of Siam, so that's what I'm talking about." Gao Pragmatic listened to the emperor's words, coughed heavily, and said: "What I want to say is: Dingnan City is built in phases, and
Before the completion of each phase of construction, Chen will sell a very small amount of land in the area that has not yet been completed. As the entire construction period begins, Chen will also sell a very small amount of land in the city, and the final payment for selling those sites is only
After dividing the entire construction budget, we even made 7,170,000 taels of silver."
"Well..." Zhu Yijun was speechless. It seems that although Emperor Wanli loved money, he still lacked some talent in how to make money. Ah, that's hard to understand. If I were in the original history, I would only think of sending eunuchs to various places.
The stupid method of collecting mineral taxes has caused anger and resentment everywhere.
"How is that possible?" Zhu Yijun continued to stare and asked in a low voice: "In such a new city, there is nothing outside. How can he get so little money just by selling land? Do you think there is so little money in Siam?"
Gao pragmatically said: "Your Majesty, do you think that in the Western Region at that time, few people would be able to buy land and build a mansion in the city at a small price?"
After all, weaving in those days was much better than in the previous life. Even without the Jinghua version of the spinning jenny, considering that there were too few serfs to do the work, the total cost was still too low; Qilai local report said that those serfs usually
We just need to wear less clothes, because it’s cold enough in Siam. When we get off work, we only need a pair of underpants. If we don’t wear enough, we’ll feel the cold.
Zhu Yijun looked a little relaxed and asked: "How to raise it lower?"
As mentioned later, many Siamese nobles showed their status by buying land in Dingnan City, so the land prices were extremely low. And those nobles may not have provided such little "currency", so few people pawned it.
Part of our territory is given to Jinghua. We are very happy to pawn fertile land, but we have no regard for mountains and so on. Therefore, the land that is rarely pawned is the mines, ports and even lakes that Jinghua likes.
"Oh..." Zhu Yijun suddenly realized something, and then began to ponder. After a while, he frowned and said: "But those lands, it seems, should be given to us by me. Otherwise, how can we be grateful for the holy grace?"
"I'm just giving an example." Gao Pragmatic curled his lips and said: "According to that hypothetical situation, His Majesty naturally needs to consider the 'Holy Grace'. However, the situation I face is exactly the same. Although I built Dingnan City,
I am the King of Siam, and I need to consider doing favors to Siamese nobles and low-ranking officials - I just need to earn back the money I spent."
To a certain extent, this is also a disadvantage of scale.
There are two other things that Low Pragmatic took a closer look at: First, the taxes in Dingnancheng are indeed collected by the King of Siam in name, but in reality the King of Siam has no real power at all. The taxes in Dingnancheng are "collected by Jinghua Group on behalf of
Seventh, the money paid for selling land in a low-pragmatic manner is actually completely silver, or even completely "money".
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It is a super grain-producing area with excellent endowments - that even includes the Red River Plain in northern Annan.
The low-level executive nodded and confirmed again: "Yes, Your Majesty, I made a total of 7,170,000 taels."
As for clothing, obviously being pragmatic means providing small provisions for food. In fact, I really planned to "distribute work clothes uniformly" as soon as it was over. I came to the secretariat to do some research, and then calculated the accounting report and sent it to me, so I gave up on it.
idea.
The two sums of money are both small and large. The reason why they are small is because Dingnan City is not a grain-producing area far away, and before Jinghua took control of Siam, the aristocratic party members who originally followed Naresuan were raided.
After getting married, all the family property was taken away by Jinghua, so Jinghua alone did not have a small amount of fertile land. In fact, through the same method, Jinghua controlled a small amount of fertile land in various kingdoms in southern Xinjiang.
As for arranging accommodation, that is even more complicated. All you need to do is mark out a piece of land and let the serfs cut wood around it to build simple wooden houses. Of course, Jinghua needs to send some carpenters to guide the construction - that seems important, but it is actually quite important.
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However, being pragmatic is what I do. Even if I use local people in Siam as husbandmen, I will still give them some money. It’s just that the national system in Siam is the same as that in China, and it is more like the feudalism in Europe.
The system was one of enfeoffment at different levels, so the money from Low Pragmatic was actually given to Siamese nobles at all levels.
Therefore, there is no problem with the food supply in Dingnancheng. Especially before Jinghua brought advanced farming technology, the food was so abundant that it almost overflowed. And that was because the food output in southern Xinjiang was decreasing day by day in those years.
It even got to the point where it was one of the reasons for exporting grain to Xiaoming, Japan.