In the Gyeonggi region, one acre of every five or six acres of land is an imperial village?
Even though Zhu Yijun refused to admit it, he felt that it did sound a bit excessive. Not only did he look slightly embarrassed, but he said angrily: "But after all, the ancestors obtained it by punishing traitors and traitors, so I can't take it directly."
Come and distribute it to the people? Taking a step back, even if I am willing to distribute it, who will I distribute it to? Will it be taken away by the powerful in the end? "
Thefts? Of course there is a part of the stolen goods, but that is really not all of it, and it may not even be the bulk of it.
However, it was difficult to say this in a pragmatic way, so he could only speak in a different way. While walking slowly with the emperor, he said: "Some time ago, Wei Chen happened to be chatting with Da Sinong about this matter. He said that some time ago,
Shuntian and other eight prefectures and counties have a total of 2,835 hectares of land including border herds, horses, military villages, and other areas. Each year, the amount of silver collected is 6,920 taels, and grain is 24 shi. There are also honors.
Qi’s new and old villages have more than 11,550 hectares of farmland.”
Da Sinong is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and people in the Ming Dynasty liked to use the ancient name.
Zhu Yijun was surprised when he heard this and said: "The nobles in the capital have only cleared more than 11,000 hectares? Only more than one million acres of land?"
"That's right, that's what Da Sinong said. Qing Zhang of Beizhili only discovered a total of five million acres of hidden land, of which Xungui accounted for 1.15 million acres." Gao Pragmatic sighed: "By the way, Your Majesty,
After this time, Weichen also discovered that Chena Sanshen Garden actually had some hidden fields that had been left since the beginning of some dynasty. It was about twenty hectares, or about two thousand acres. Now it has been listed in the yellow list again.
Made a drawing of fish scales.”
Of course, two thousand acres is not a small number, but a mere twenty hectares of land is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, not to mention that he has re-registered it, so Zhu Yijun didn't bother to ask, but hesitantly said: "Honored nobles' hidden fields near the capital."
...Do you think this is really the only number?”
Gao pragmatic smiled bitterly and said: "How is that possible?"
"Are you sure?" Zhu Yijun frowned: "I just doubt... Do you have any evidence?"
Gao pragmatically said: "I didn't go to investigate in person, so how could there be evidence? However, if you compare the data from other places, you will know that many Qingzhangs in Gyeonggi and even the whole of Beizhili must have missed the investigation."
Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What data?"
Gao pragmatically said: "For example, in Huguang, there were only more than 36 million acres of land in the original Yellow Book and Fish Scale Atlas. In fact, after the Qing Dynasty, the number of fields in Huguang was close to 92 million acres. It was so much
56 million acres were allocated, almost doubling the amount!
There is also Shandong, which was originally listed as having 80 million acres. After the Qing Dynasty, it was 116 million acres, which is an increase of 36 million acres, which is about half more than before.
There is also Sichuan, which originally only had about 13.5 million acres, but after the Qing Dynasty it reached 40 million acres. An additional 26 million acres, also tripled!"
Zhu Yijun was stunned for a long time and suddenly asked: "Where is Nanzhili?"
Gao Pragmatic chuckled: "Southern Zhili is even more powerful, even more powerful than Northern Zhili. It only clears over 3.3 million acres."
Zhu Yijun's face suddenly turned ugly and he said angrily: "The sky is really high and the emperor is far away, I can't control them anymore!"
Gao Pingshi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Actually, there are people more powerful than Xungui Yintian."
Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide: "Is there anything more powerful?"
"The vassal king and the clan." Gao Jingshi also risked his life today, relying on the fact that Zhu Yijun would probably not kill him, and said solemnly: "Nowadays, the vassal kings in the country have removed their heirs, and there are still more than thirty people who have been removed from the country due to affairs, and the clan is as high as
More than 120,000. Among them, some of the distant branches and low-ranking nobles are fine, and there are not many fields. Some of them are even difficult to make ends meet. However, the princes and the high-ranking and near-ranking branches, in addition to the land granted by the original country, also have a large number of hidden fields.
"Shit, this has a huge impact... During the Yongle period, the Northern Expedition to the Yuan Dynasty, the Southern Expedition to Annan, and seven voyages to the Western Seas were carried out. The expenditures were much higher than today, and there was even more spare capacity. Your Majesty, can you do it now?"
Zhu Yijun stopped moving forward, and everyone fell silent, sighing: "Is that why you said in your palace examination policy that 'the biggest problem in the world today is poverty'?"
"Of course." Gao Pingshi said: "I also said: poor officials will lead to poverty, poor people will lead to thieves, poor military will lead to trouble, and poor countries will be weak."
"I remember." Zhu Yijun sighed: "You said that if you want to prevent officials from being greedy, you must first increase their salaries; if you want to prevent the common people from stealing, you must first enrich their income; if you want to prevent soldiers from causing trouble, you must first pay them enough; if you want to make the country
If you are not weak, you must first enrich your treasury.”
Gao pragmatic nodded, but said nothing. On this issue, what he should say has basically been said in the policy discussion.
But Zhu Yijun was still frowning. At this time, they were walking to the edge of the Nansha River. Zhu Yijun took Gao Pangshi and others for a walk along the river. After a while, he said: "But the method you gave in your policy, I think it is mainly
When collecting business taxes, there is no mention of land."
Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, if we talk about business taxation, although I will be scolded, I can still be saved. But if I talk about land at the same time, I'm afraid it will be criticized by thousands of people and it will end without any problem."
Zhu Yijun laughed, then slowly stopped his smile, glanced at Gao Pragmatic sideways, and said: "So you took this opportunity today to leave the problem to me?"
Gao Pragmatic raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty has wronged Wei Chen. Wei Chen just followed the script. I'm afraid Wei Chen is not the only one to say these words today."
"You are not the only one who said it." Zhu Yijun nodded, but then said: "But you are the most shocking person to say it - they all like to describe how people in a certain place sell their sons and daughters.
, Yi Zi cannibalizes, but no one has explained the data so clearly. Just after comparing these data, I realized that the problem is serious. "
Gao pragmatic just smiled but said nothing.
Zhu Yijun thought for a while, then frowned and asked: "In your opinion, the Qingzhang of the Northern and Southern Zhili will continue? Or even intensify the efforts?"
Gao pragmatically said: "There are only two reasons for the poverty in the world: one is insufficient production; the other is poor scheduling. It depends on which step the emperor wants to solve first."
Zhu Yijun said in surprise: "I can understand the lack of production, but what does poor scheduling mean?"
Gao Pinggong said sincerely: In fact, it may be difficult for you to fully understand the lack of production, but we can talk about that later. I originally planned to talk to you today mainly about this poor scheduling.
"Your Majesty, there are many types of ineffective dispatching." Gao pragmatically said: "For example, if commerce is not prosperous, transportation is underdeveloped, distribution is unreasonable, etc., these are all ineffective dispatching."
Zhu Yijun thought for a while and said: "I can understand that transportation is underdeveloped, just like water transportation is not as convenient as sea transportation. But there are other problems here. For example, water transportation is related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of water workers, and sometimes people die when sea transportation encounters storms, etc.
Wait, this is an old topic that has been debated by the imperial court for hundreds of years. But I don’t understand what this has to do with underdeveloped commerce and unreasonable distribution."
Gao pragmatic smiled: "But Your Majesty, these two points are the real crux of the Ming Dynasty."
