Chapter 72 Give him the money, I want to go home early
Chapter 72 Give him the money. Give him the money. I want to go home early.
The military system of the garrison was able to cover part of the expenses for the garrison. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was even a surplus besides the food and salary for the garrison.
Recruiting soldiers and paying them all depend on finance and professional soldiers.
Zhu Houcong called back everyone's attention: "I understand that each recruit needs to pay three to five taels of silver per year. Since they are elite soldiers in the Beijing camp, with 150,000 people, they need seven taels of silver per year.
150,000 taels. And the annual salary and silver for the troops recruited by each side is only more than 400,000 taels. However, within three years, this year we will reorganize the old armies such as the East and West Government Offices, and we can still save money after the indiscriminate dismantling.
A lot of money and food will come. We will recruit 50,000 taels next year and 50,000 taels the year after that. Within three years, the total additional expenditure for the Beijing camp’s salary will be only 1,250,000 taels."
"As for the issue of annual revenue and expenditure after three years, it is a more important matter. The imperial edict mentioned many new policies related to land tax and salt tax, how to implement them to increase annual revenue, and how to implement them throughout the entire Ming Dynasty.
Arranging and eliminating unnecessary expenditures more rationally is the basis for ensuring that our capital has a strong enough elite army."
Zhu Houcong said firmly: "Everything will be difficult, I know. But the capital camp cannot continue to be idle. I made it clear in my thank you note that the weather has changed, and the force of the Northern invaders will definitely become stronger and stronger."
.If there is another large-scale invasion to the south, will we only rely on the already rotten border guard stations? This is not a matter of whether we can do it, but whether we should do it. In my opinion, this matter must be done!"
He opened his mouth and threw a heavier mountain over: "The guard station is in decay, and the proportion of soldiers recruited in border towns is getting higher and higher. You must be mentally prepared that the annual military pay will total two million taels within twenty years.
Our Ming Dynasty must have at least 400,000 elite soldiers capable of fighting. In order to protect the future situation, now is the time for the monarch and ministers to work together to gradually increase the annual income to eight million taels of real silver as the goal within ten years!"
After saying this long paragraph, Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling breathed a sigh of relief: It seemed that they were not trying to take advantage of them, but that they were really planning for the long term.
Guo Xun and others were stunned when they heard this, and their hearts beat wildly.
The Beijing camp alone will have to take away 1.25 million taels within three years!
Many people among the ministers sighed: Lao Chen is sensible, but his skills are too weak.
Your Majesty is considering border troubles, and there will be war in the future.
The Qingning Palace does not require major changes, it just needs some repairs, and it should be completed within two to three months, which does not cost much.
"Now that it has been decided, the strategy for re-establishing the three major battalions will be drawn up according to the recruitment method." Zhu Houcong looked at the Xunchen, "How to abolish the rogues and reorganize the elite among them in the form of recruitment. This is a matter for the Ministry of War. Five
It is jointly organized by the Military Governor's Office and the Royal Horse Supervisor. Guo Xun, can you handle this well?"
He now has some idea of the purchasing power of one tael of silver. At this time, one tael of silver is equivalent to about six or seven hundred in his memory.
The shot made a loud bang.
"That will be discussed later." Zhu Houxuan said with a smile, "Chen Qing previously suggested that the Xuanfu should pay one million taels, and each party should be given 500,000 taels, and the Xuanfu should pay 200,000 taels first.
Please report to me and I have approved it. Why, why can’t the Beijing camp keep a total of 1.25 million taels? There is no need to make any additional payment expenditures for the Beijing camp in the past three years.”
The property of the two guilty ministers entered into a discussion (dispute) (quarrel) over the final distribution [in a low voice and in a friendly manner].
Discuss gently and don't anger the emperor.
It's stable! The reason why it rose so fast in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was because the war ended and the world became stable.
A tone that sounds like a big injustice.
Calculated in this way, the Ming Dynasty's imperial court's annual real income was only two to three billion yuan a year, which was really poor.
In the more than 100 years since the Ming Dynasty, has there ever been such a dramatic increase in annual income?
Since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the total amount of taxes and grains has increased from less than 20 million shi to more than 32.97 million shi in the 26th year of Hongwu. For more than 100 years, the Ming Dynasty's taxes and grains have only been able to maintain at the level of 32.97 million shi.
About 30 million stone.
Within twenty years, the annual military pay will reach two million taels!
Of course, in this era, a lot of wealth is still mainly in kind, such as food, cloth and silk, which cannot be purely counted as silver.
But it's not far from that situation.
All the civil servants present were stunned.
Naturally, it is now impossible for the ministers to understand the purpose of building the Yangxin Palace and setting up the Imperial Study Room.
Are you just trying to get money by taking the fire incident lightly? This is really asking for money at the cost of your life!
For a moment, all the honorary ministers and generals looked at the emperor with eager eyes - except Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling. Oh no, they are relatives of the state and are not counted as honorable ministers.
So Zhu Houcong took the initiative and "fighted" for 3.1 million taels in advance for what he cared about most.
In ten years, with him as the emperor personally promoting it, and under the circumstances that the land annexation is not as outrageous as it was more than fifty years later, it should be possible, right?
If we don't make this preparation now, we will have to face a war in the future, and the additional side payments will be in the embarrassing situation of tens of millions.
Now that he is starting to build the palace, Zhu Houcong also feels deeply about the troubles caused to the ministers by Jiajing's palace building in "The Ming Dynasty 1566".
Yang Tinghe was under great pressure and couldn't help but murmured with a grimace: "It would be better to discuss how to earn eight million taels of real silver per year within ten years!"
Wang Qiong predicted that the emperor attached great importance to money, and even recommended Sun Jiao to be reinstated. However, as a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he did not expect that his majesty would have such a big appetite.
As for whether the total of 1.8 million taels was enough, the emperor promised that if it was not enough, he would take the silver from the inner transport treasury.
It's only fifty thousand taels of silver. Give it to him so that all the civil and military officials of the previous dynasty can go home with peace of mind.
If it weren't for the tens of millions of money confiscated from the house, if there wasn't the Qianqing Palace's fire, how could this matter be so happy?
As for the gradual increase of the annual real income to 8 million taels within ten years, which makes the scalps of the cabinet ministers and the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue Yang Tan suddenly go numb, they don't care.
In the end, Yang Ting and others failed to get the idea of the secret treasury that was said to contain more than four million taels of silver.
In ten years, the annual real income will double, and corresponding to the 400,000 elite soldiers, there will naturally be food.
"I will do my best!" Guo Xun was directly named, and he immediately left his seat and knelt down excitedly. Then he changed his words, "No! I will definitely be able to handle it!"
What could be more stimulating than the positive feedback of being reused just after showing some gestures? Guo Xun answered without hesitation.
This is what Lao Qin said was the result of Zhang Juzheng's reforms.
Because Yang Tan said that, we might as well set out an additional budget of fifty thousand taels.
Zhu Houcong occasionally thought about this while listening to their argument.
The smoke from the fire scene at the Rijing Gate of Qianqing Palace is still rising there and has not dispersed!
Including various incomes, the annual real income is also stable at around 4 million taels.
In this way, Qian Ning and Jiang Bin have not decided what the final punishment will be, but their family property has been completely distributed.
Fortunately, this was finally much less than what Yang Ting and the others had originally worried about. Originally, the two palaces were expected to cost less than half of the total of more than ten million taels of silver.
Zhu Houcong looked at Yang Ting and them.
In addition to the 1.25 million taels prepared for the Beijing camp and the total of 1.8 million taels used to renovate the Nijing Gate, Qingning Palace, and Yangxin Palace, there are really too many people fighting for the remaining money, including the Ministry of War. The money given to Jiubian will be used by the Ministry of Industry to build the mausoleum of Emperor Zhengde, renovate the mausoleum of King Xingxian and other projects that will definitely be started.
After all, we are only talking about the future. The proportion of recruiting soldiers is not high at the moment, and this time it is limited to the Beijing camp.
This time, two palaces are being renovated. One is just for minor repairs, and the other is just to change the layout in a way that saves money. This new project in the Forbidden City will cost 7.8 billion yuan to keep the same materials and appearance. .
Yang Tan from the Household Department patted his chest again and said that if it was not enough, he would naturally list additional expenses from the Household Department.
Thanks to Houzhao, my cousin just beat up the little prince, so the border troubles are not that serious at the moment. Although the Jurchens also colluded with the Mongolian invaders during the Chenghua period, and Japanese pirates also appeared, they were not extremely serious in the end. when.
The layout of the Yangxin Hall has been greatly changed. Since it will have functions such as the Yan Dynasty and the emperor's bedroom in the future, the internal furnishings cannot be worse.
The Nijing Gate is just a door, and with the burned-out semi-southern room, it didn't cost much.
The emperor is now eager to run the Beijing camp well. Who is in favor? Who is against?
All the ministers voted in favor - although they did not dare to express any more opinions.
Some people think that the opportunity to make meritorious deeds will come, and some people think that they will get more money.
Can't afford to offend.
There is no objection from the literati—don’t get mad, please.
Now it is about His Majesty's wealth and life. He is being treated like a humerus!
Can the humerus not be braced?
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