The next day was the first day of the New Year in the third year of Hongxian in the Empire (1652). Shang Yi recruited a group of concubines in the harem and announced the plan for everyone. He established Lin Fengwu's concubine and gave Yalisandra as the virtuous concubine. ; Zhu Mai Yu was Shu Concubine, Chen Yuanyuan was Depin; Ming Shi Ji was Hui Concubine; Zhu Mai Jie was Zhao Rong; Zi Linglong was Zhao Yi, Korean princess Ben Shu'an, and Li Qingshu was waiting to be selected, so all the names of the harem were decided.
Of course, this is just telling everyone's names in advance. The formal enthronement ceremony will still have to wait until after the New Year, cast everyone's seal book, and then choose a good day to perform it.
However, this made everyone feel very happy, because everyone finally had a formal name, which was considered to be a bit like a royal concubine, and everyone had no objection to such a ban. , Jun felt very satisfied, and from then on, in the palace and in formal documents, everyone could be called by their honor. Of course, in private, Shang Yi still liked to call them by their names.
Shang Yi then proposed the idea of establishing the China Charity Federation, which also received unanimous support from everyone, and immediately started a positive discussion on how to carry out this China Charity Federation and how much money it will cost to contact those officials. The lady was in high spirits when she was waiting for the waiter.
Because most of Shang Yi's concubines were from civilian families, they were princesses like Zhu Mai and Zhu Maijie, and had a period of experience in life among the people with Shang Yi, so they also had a certain understanding of the lives of the people and the sufferings of the people. , are also very interested in organizing a charity organization to help poor people, orphans, orphans, widowed elderly people. After all, most Chinese people in this era still believe in the code of conduct of doing good and morality, and now all conditions are allow.
In addition, everyone has been moving into the palace for more than a year. Although the palace is large and magnificent, it has been almost used to it after living for more than a year. After the initial freshness has passed, the concubines have indeed I feel a little idle in normal times. Although most of the concubines have children and daughters, there are many people waiting for each person. A child has at least five or six people to take care of, but it doesn’t take much effort. Therefore, the concubines We do want to find something to do, but Shang Yi is rare to think carefully about them, and can accumulate virtue and have something to do, so naturally everyone is willing to do it.
As a result, in this New Year, in addition to attending routine celebrations, the concubines mostly discussed how to establish the China Charity Federation, including the celebrations held in the palace, which later became China Charity. The meeting was prepared for the conference, because the concubines in the harem were not all in the gates, and the embroidery of the bride of the two gates was not enough to be worn, even if Ye Yao was not given a grace, like Lin Fengwu and Yalisandra, Chen Yuanyuan, Akishiji, Zi Linglong and others all have considerable operational organization skills, but are actually not inferior to ordinary men. Therefore, during the New Year's days, they quickly came up with a general preliminary plan. .
On the second and third grades of the lunar calendar, the ministers' wives would go to the palace to visit the queen and the concubines. Ye Yao and others of course also told them about this and hoped that they would all participate. After the wives returned, they told their husbands, and so it quickly spread throughout Nanjing.
The ministers' reactions to the establishment of the China Charity Federation are also different, but they do not have much objection to the establishment of a charity. After all, doing good deeds is still very respected in this era. Although it is not ruled out that there is a stingy rooster,
Ordinary big businessmen and wealthy families will have some activities to do good deeds during festivals, or when there are weddings, funerals and other weddings at home, such as giving porridge and medicine, repairing bridges and roads, etc. Although it costs some money, it can
It is actually a good reputation for yourself.
What officials questioned is that the China Charity Federation was founded by famous counsel in the harem. Many people even have strong discrimination against women, believing that such things should not be done by women.
Of course, only a few people hold this view, and most people are relatively tolerant of this. After all, this is a act of doing good, not a harem interfering in politics. It doesn’t matter if women do it, and it can also reflect the royal family’s kindness.
To appease and stabilize people's hearts is not a bad thing for the country, so there is no way to stop it. Of course, it is impossible to stop it even if you want to stop it, because this is not a government act and you don't need to pass through Congress.
In addition, many officials understand that behind the empresses, there must be the support of the emperor. This is a rare opportunity to let your wife participate, which will not only bring a good reputation for doing good deeds, but also
You can have a good relationship with the queen and all the empresses, and maybe scandalize the way from the harem. Therefore, no matter whether you are willing or not, you will hurry to ask your wife to sign up for it, and repeatedly instruct you to be the queen you follow.
The arrangement of a queen.
However, there is another person who has another worry, that is, will the royal family use the founding of the China Charity Federation to accumulate wealth, which is not impossible. Bijing charity is a matter of spending money, the expenses of the palace
It's huge, how much money can you have to do to run charity, and the officials and businessmen are not keen on, so they naturally have to make some money. Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will add another two-one to five, which is also a good deal.
Just as everyone speculated, the New Year's holiday ended. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, institutions of the empire at all levels also began to re-operate. Shang Yi first proposed to the cabinet to formally establish the inner kuo, so that the cabinet would
Discuss the annual withdrawal of the royal family and the amount of land that is drawn to the royal family.
Regarding Shang Yi's proposal, cabinet members also believed that it was very appropriate, because there were internal treasurys in all dynasties, and the supply of royal expenses was of course no exception. Shang Yi also clearly stipulated that all royal expenses will be supplied by internal treasury in the future
, the treasury will no longer be used, which will also make the cabinet members feel relieved, because the royal expenses themselves are a bottomless pit. Because if you meet an emperor who likes luxury and luxury, then the treasury will not be able to fill in any amount of money, and from
Shang Yi formally determined the system of this dynasty, and the royal family was not allowed to use the national treasury, which saved a lot of trouble in the future. Therefore, the cabinet members once again felt that Shang Yi was indeed the wise king of a generation.
Because of this, the cabinet also seems to be more generous in terms of the amount of money to be issued to the royal family. Of course, the treasury is relatively abundant now and can pay for money, so the royal family cannot seem too shabby.
As a result, after the meeting and discussion of the Ministry of Finance, the cabinet proposed a plan to withdraw funds: the royal family's withdrawal ratio will be formulated in one period of twelve years, and a general scope will be formulated in each period, and three
The year is an example, that is, in three years, the funds will be withdrawn in a unified proportion. In the first twelve years, the treasury will be transferred from three to three percent of the fiscal revenue each year.
Between five, the first triennium, the royal fee is paid at a rate of four percent.
Last year, the empire's fiscal revenue was more than 560 million silver dollars. So according to this ratio, the royal family's withdrawal fee this year was more than 22 million silver dollars. Although this is a huge sum of money, the treasury is currently full, so it is still paid.
Affordable.
On the land that was drawn to the palace, the cabinet was also very generous. In the first phase, one million mu of land was distributed to the royal family and agreed that when agricultural production in the north was restored, the national land inventory would be completed.
After that, the royal land will be distributed at a certain proportion, and the total number will be between two thousandths and three thousandths of the total land in the country.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a national land inventory was conducted. The total land output in the country was about 800 million mu. During the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng implemented a method and also conducted a land inventory. The land output was found to be seven.
80 million mu, slightly less than in the Hongwu period. This is because Zhang Juzheng's investigation was not thorough, but at this time, the country's land area was less than 800 million mu. If calculated based on this number,
The area of land that the royal family will obtain will be between 160 and 2.4 million mu. Considering that in more than 200 years, a lot of new fields have been reclaimed across the country, so the royal family's land will definitely not be
Less than this number.
Even if the land that was now transferred to the royal family was a huge asset, it was of course all fertile land, and there was no need to pay taxes. The land rent was naturally more than ordinary land.
It is higher, so not only the value of the land itself, but also a large amount of land rent can be received every year.
The current food price in the south is between eight to ten silver dollars per stone. If the annual rent of a mu of land is five dou, the rent that can be received in a year is four to five hundred silver dollars. This is not considered the various investment income of the royal family.
,There are two main investments in the royal family, one is the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory, and the other is the China West India Company. It can earn about several million silver dollars a year, and the gifts given by various countries, so it accumulates, at least
Within these three years, the royal family's annual income will reach 30 million silver dollars.
After getting this result, Shang Yi was also shocked because the royal family's expenses are not large now. Even if the expenses of the Beijing Palace were added, the annual expenses were only about 10 million silver dollars, so this income was indeed
It is a huge asset.
However, Shang Yi thought that compared with other emperors, he was actually frugal. If others didn’t say it, he would just be compared with the Empress Dowager in another time and space. He would spend more than 10,000 taels of silver on a meal.
I spent more than 15 million taels of silver to build a Summer Palace. What is my income? I can save it if I can’t finish it. There will always be a time to use it in the future.
The royal family's withdrawal of money was submitted to the parliament by the cabinet. The two houses of the Senate and the House of Representatives held a discussion and passed with a relatively obvious advantage. The royal family's income was determined, and so
After a lot of money, Shang Yi's concubines in the harem also had enough confidence. The establishment of the China Charity Federation also entered a substantial stage.
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