Xinshun 1730

Chapter 852 A penny stumps the emperor ([-])
Dashun's foreign exchanges, the Royal Zoo is also one of the achievements.It is easy for Portugal to catch lions and ostriches in Mozambique. After finding out the difference between the emperor, the emperor and the king, Portugal has sent many exotic animals in recent years.

Catch up with the temptation of "distribution monopoly" and strive for it even more.

The name of ostrich was born in Tang Dynasty, and it continues now.This story of an ostrich mentality is the first time it has been spread in the land of Dashun.

After the emperor finished talking about this ostrich mentality, he used the topic to make full use of it, starting from the water transportation and raising it to the various policies of Dashun.

"If you cover your ears and steal the bell, the world laughs. When an ostrich buryes its head in the sand, people from other regions also laugh. However, just looking at the current and previous dynasties, how many things are there that cover your ears and steal the bell?"

"This rice is collected 500 million shi a year, but no one knows that 500 million shi is collected and transported to the capital. During the period of loss, embezzlement, accidents, and waste, it can reach 5000 million shi."

"The imperial court only said that one tax per thirty is a benevolent government."

"But the consumption and consumption are not included in the official tax of the imperial court, and are only apportioned by the local government. Is the local apportionment allocated to the gentry? Isn't it borne by the common people?"

"Both sides of the canal have suffered a lot, and even arranged lyrics, saying that Dashun and Daming are the same...I don't want to mention the latter, it's really ugly."

"The imperial court pretended not to know, but asked about the tax of 500 yuan in this dynasty. The vast area only collects [-] million shi of rice. With such a light tax, why are the people still dissatisfied?"

"What's more, I may feel that anyway, what I collect is [-]% of the tax. The lower-level increase is a matter for the lower-level, and has nothing to do with me. Is this considered deception and an ostrich mentality?"

"However, I am not an ostrich!"

These words were harsh, but Liu Yu just wanted to laugh in his heart.

Xindao said that if you are so tough, you have to have strength to dare to be tough.Before the navy did not win Southeast Asia and expel Western forces to ensure that there was no risk in shipping, I didn't see you dare to be so stubborn.

When the Jiangsu Jiedu envoy wrote a letter to abolish the water and change the sea, you faltered like mud, compared with the toughness now, it is really interesting.

"Duke Xingguo?"

After saying these tough words, the emperor directly called Liu Yu's name.

"The minister is here."

"Aiqing knows maritime affairs best. If I waste rice and replace it with silver tax, at the current market price, with you 600 million taels of silver, you may guarantee 500 million taels of rice in the capital every year?"

This is obviously intended to scare people. Even if the reforms are made, it is impossible to engage in such drastic actions.The lives of so many people on both sides of the canal and the attitude of the officials are the big problems. As for the matter of transporting rice to the capital, it is actually a trivial matter now.

Liu Yu thought to himself, if you give 600 million taels and ask someone to contract it, the threshold will be broken for you.

After buying some rice from Japan, Siam, or even India, and transporting it to the capital, there will be 600 million left over from the 200 million.

But what's the matter with rice?
But since the emperor asked this question, Liu Yu had no choice but to respond: "I... dare to guarantee."

I also thought, not only dare to guarantee, but if I really do this, I can still play flowers.

The distribution goes on, the order is booked, and a large group of people are guaranteed to run to Nanyang to open rice plantations.Even if you go to Taiwan, you can get acquainted a few times a year, and the manpower is cheap, so you can make a lot of money, and the annual return rate will definitely not be lower than 30%.

And give 10000 taels, and it is still 1 taels per year. It is required to guarantee 10000 shi rice per year, and a group of people will take the money to recruit refugees, sign slave labor, and go to Nanyang, Taiwan for reclamation.Invest in the early stage, get [-] to [-] mu of land in the later stage, and receive money every year. Is there a way to make money?
There have long been wealthy merchants in Japan who specialize in rice plantations. What's wrong with Dashun?Is it poor population or poor technology?
Moreover, capital contracting is also guaranteed.If you really can't get out of the plantation in a disaster, the court doesn't care, just buy it yourself.Can't buy it?Confiscate the house and confiscate the land.Monks who can run away can't run away from temples, so I'm really not afraid of those who engage in rice plantations.

If 600 million taels of hot money poured in every year, it would definitely become a "Nanyang Development", and a large amount of capital would be enriched in Songjiang, and the money earned would be invested in Songjiang.

However, what the emperor said now was mostly to scare people.

Besides, there is so much rice in the capital now.Liaodong has been developed very well in recent years, Dashun has no wicker edge, the population is increasing day by day, the land is reclaimed, and the annual grain is transported to the mouth of the Liaohe River via the Liaohe River, and it can go to Tianjin by big boat.

The large amount of soybeans has even led to the soybean futures trade in Songjiang Prefecture. The capital is backed by Liaodong, and Liaodong is still a large number of immigrants after Liting in Dashun. Will it be short of food?Indeed, with the barrier of the Songliao watershed, the current productivity is not enough to develop the black fertile soil, but the Liao land also produces grain.

A group of honorable ancestors from Laoshan, descendants of good families from Shaanxi and Henan veterans, do you like white noodles or rice?

I can't stop complaining in my heart, and I know that now that I have too many lice, I don't worry about it, and I don't pay for my debts. If the emperor offends someone, he has to find himself in the front.

Since the reputation is already rotten, then let's do it.

"Your Majesty, I believe that abolishing the water and changing the sea will benefit the country and the people."

"Now that Nanyang has fallen, although there are still Anglo-Guyrians, Spaniards, and Portuguese in Nanyang, they are not to be feared."

"A few years ago, the British Expeditionary Fleet moored at Lingdingyang. Their numbers and ships could be wiped out overnight if the Celestial Empire wanted to."

"The Japanese proclaimed their subjects, and the Japanese pirates did not dare to harass them. Even if there were two battleships and ten cruisers to escort them, only tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were allowed to ride in their small boats, and they were not allowed to get close. If two battleships and ten cruisers were robbed by pirates Now, from my ministers down, naval officials, big or small, can commit suicide as much as they want."

"Besides, now that the fleet has gone to Europe, the Southern Ocean, and the Blackwater Ocean to the capital, is it any different from a brave man who can lift a mountain and take a broken wheel?"

"If the method of buying and selling is used to order large merchants to contract, not only can the quantity of rice be guaranteed, but also countless people who lack land can go to Nanyang to make a living."

"If you don't buy rice, if you buy wheat, you can also reclaim countless large fields around Jinghai, Ezo and other places, and Liaodong Mongolia."

"If your Majesty abolishes the water transportation, I can guarantee with my head that there will be no shortage of food for the capital. The Tianjin Wei battleship group is still there, and there is no danger of the south not listening to the north."

"The people in the Jianghuai River can not only save apportionment, but also save the labor of transporting grain. It can also lay the foundation for future governance of the Yellow River and Huaihe River."

"Yes, my minister, I support the abolition of water and reform of the sea."

"My lord, I don't want to do that gentleman's job of staying away from the kitchen, squatting in the capital, as long as I don't see the suffering of the people in Huanghuai, I just pretend it doesn't exist."

A kind of official's behavior of firing cannons in Liu Yu's mouth is no surprise. If the heart is outrageous, Duke Xingguo also said, what is this?

Besides the original matter, the abolition of water transportation is closely related to the rise of the navy.The navy is not thriving, and the South Seas are not going down. What are you talking about abolishing the water and changing the sea?
The navy has a close relationship with you. In the future, it will be changed to sea transportation. The people who are popular and drink spicy food are all from your navy, or those big merchants in Songjiang Prefecture, and those who really go to develop Nanyang. We drink northwest wind?

An official from an official background said: "Your Majesty, Su Ziyun: My hair is innumerable, and the pores of my body are also innumerable. Pulling a hair makes the head move, and pulling a hair changes the body, but all the hair is on my head, and the pores on my body are also innumerable. The pores are all in my body. This is called pulling one hair and moving the whole body.”

"The amount of rice is not a problem. But the food and clothing of millions of waterworkers should not be lightly moved."

"The hair is all my head, and the pores are all my body. Aren't the millions of water workers the subjects of the imperial court? The palms and backs of their hands are all flesh!"

"Xing Guogong said that it is beneficial to merchants, but it has harmed millions of waterworkers; what we worry about is that it is beneficial to waterworkers, but it does not harm merchants."

This is very level.

It is said that Liu Yu's method is one benefit and one harm.

It is useless and harmless not to abolish water transportation.

Liu Yu's method killed the water workers, but the merchants benefited; and his own method, although the merchants did not benefit, did not harm the water workers, nor did the water workers.

One benefit, one harm; compared with no benefit, no harm.

It seems that it is better to be harmless.

Any change will touch the interests of some vested interests, so most of the time we choose a method that is neither beneficial nor harmful.

However, without waiting for Liu Yu's rebuttal, the water conservancy official who spoke uprightly just now and hoped to clarify the purpose of water control said angrily: "What your lord said is absolutely absurd!"

"The millions of people on both sides of the Huanghuai River, are they human? Are they the people of Dashun?"

"If they are not human beings and subjects of the imperial court, they will naturally be neither beneficial nor harmful. But if they are considered human beings and subjects of the imperial court, how can they be said to be neither beneficial nor harmful?"

"The loss of rice is all added to them; the hardship of corvee is several times that of the national tax."

"Although the national tax is light, the people suffer. Don't your lords really know these truths? Or is it as His Majesty said, deceiving the ears and stealing the bell?"

"Holding the "Da Shun Law" or the laws and regulations of the state all day long, they say that the taxation of this dynasty is light, which is comparable to the time when the early Han Dynasty was recuperating. Isn't this something that only nerds can say? My lords really don't like it. Cannibal fireworks?"

"Folk people's additional dispatch, fire consumption, corvee, and power silver are not national taxes, and they are not named as taxes, so they are not taxes? Tomorrow, if I change the name of a horse to a cow, it will not be a horse?"

"Aren't the millions of people on both sides of the Huanghuai River not even counted as human beings? Shouldn't their interests be taken into consideration?"

"If you don't just count the national tax, because the national tax is not enough. If you count all the additional labor and corvee as taxes, the country needs more than [-] million taels of tax a year. I have agreed to a whip and recruit labor, but has it really been done? People, do you count money?"

"Only a small part of the [-] million taels was added to the heads of the gentry, and the rest fell on the heads of the common people."

"Now the imperial court spreads the poll tax into the land, and puts all the taxes in the world on the self-cultivating farmers. In this way, it will not take long for the great harm of mergers to destroy the country and the country!"

"This is a big matter, and it is not appropriate to be radical. We can first solve the loss of tens of millions of stones of grain transported by water, and reduce the burden on the people on both sides of the Yellow River and Huaihe River. Isn't it okay?"

The waves of the Yellow River cannot conceal the righteousness of its words.

Hearing this, the emperor couldn't help but frowned.

He could hear the official's loyalty, but the problem was that it was not very good to say this on such an occasion.

Everyone understands the truth, but you don't have to listen to whoever has the truth to do things.This is the end of the matter, and we should not continue to lead to the national fiscal policy.

It's okay to say this in Tianyou Hall, and it's okay to talk about it in private discussions with Liu Yu and others. Even the emperor could symbolically talk about ostrich mentality, deceiving ears and stealing bells, etc. just now.

But in front of all the officials, saying this so clearly, isn't this forcing the emperor to express his opinion?

If there is no rush for this matter, you can beat these officials first, take your time, and change slowly. At least the money for Nanyang and Western trade is in place, and you can do something drastic when you have money.

It is useless to force the emperor to express his position now.

There is not so much money, and the words are so fierce, the emperor refuses to agree. Doesn't this mean that the emperor does not treat the millions of people on both sides of the Huanghuai River as human beings?

Promise, the rice transported by water is not a problem.The problem is that there are so many people on both sides of the canal, so many officials, so many water workers who point to the water transport to eat, and there are restaurants, carriage shops, businesses, hotels, traffickers, etc. How to arrange these people?

Qingkou now has a population of hundreds of thousands. If the water transport is abolished, this place will only be a city of 8 or [-] people at most.How many people are there in the bustling Amsterdam of Europa?A clear mouth, catch up with the population of three or four Amsterdam.

These have to be considered, and these require money to solve them.

Moreover, even if these are not considered, only water control is considered.Well, these water conservancy technical officials began to think about it a few years ago when the Jiangsu Jiedu Envoy submitted the letter, and they really agreed, and they snapped the proposal and asked for money.

Can you afford it now?

If you can't afford the money, won't it be a joke to all the officials who oppose the reform of water transportation?
While feeling depressed, he heard the sound of an urgent message coming from a distance, several post horses galloped towards this side, and the messenger with a small flag in his hand could be seen in the distance.

Many officials were taken aback, wondering if something happened in the capital?Could it be... Could it be that the prince of Jian Guo...

On the contrary, the emperor looked indifferent, since he dared to make a southern tour, it would be ridiculous if Xiaoqiang or the sand dunes rebellion happened during the southern tour.

Judging by the urgent report, or something happened in the Northwest?Either something happened to North Korea or Japan?Or snow mountain?Or Southwest Toast?
As long as the capital is fine, these are trivial matters.

As soon as he was ordered to be a general and lead [-] new troops, all of them were trampled.

Not long after, the messenger came to the front and said: "Your Majesty, the Duke of Qi has come to play urgently at Europa. The messenger can't wait for the monsoon, so he returned from Luocha Kingdom."

The emperor's heart moved, he didn't know whether it was joy or worry.

I hurriedly unfolded it and looked at it. I was very determined, and I secretly cried out, thinking that next year there will be an extra three to five million taels of spice money to spend!Seriously solve the urgent need!
Although he was happy in his heart, he remained calm on his face. In order to show that this was a foreign matter of the Western Yi, and it was not comparable to the important matter of millions of people discussed in front of him, he casually handed the letter to Liu Yu, and said casually: " As a rule, such small matters in Xiyi do not go to the Tianyou Hall of the Sixth Government, and Duke Qi of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not here, so Duke Xing needs to get a charter first."

Then, he put on a look of worrying about millions of people, as if he didn't care about the news just now.Compared with the affairs of the barbarians in the West, the people of the family are more important... At least, it seems so.

(End of this chapter)