Xinshun 1730

Chapter 960 The Dynasty’s Last Successful Reform ([-])
After being educated by the emperor, Liu Yu guessed that the emperor was going to gag him.

At least, don't use some of the tax reform experience in southern Jiangsu to take advantage of this time to implement it nationwide.Since you can't even guarantee that you can "control the destiny and use it" on the issue of currency exchange, how can you guarantee that you will do everything else?

I said not to be impatient, and said that those ministers also have the same fear of the unknown as you, but they also said that the reform of the salt administration and the reform of small banknotes are determined in this way, that is to say, it is limited to this for the time being. Expanded, including some reforms in southern Jiangsu that seem to be very beneficial but have no disadvantages, such as the one-whip law on mu tax, let's stop for a while.

Liu Yu thought to himself that he didn't expect to quickly promote some policies to the whole country. If you don't say it, I don't plan to do it.

Taking history as a mirror, Yanshan and Ningbo have done a good job of the young crop method. Isn't it a big deal to spread it to the whole country?

"Your Majesty's instruction, I will keep it in mind."

"Besides that, I have one more thing to say..."

Using the topic of reform, Liu Yu talked about the governance of the Huaihe River.After all, there is also a population problem of "Going to Nanyang" involved, and the materials are all shipped from the mouth of the Yangtze River.

So Liu Yu took advantage of this excuse and offered to help coordinate the collection and payment of the people in those counties.

This kind of large project cannot be counted on the local county magistrate at all, they don't understand such a large amount of work.Someone must come forward to coordinate.

The governor of Huanghuai is still the Xiang army, and can't take care of all local affairs.

It should be said that Liu Yu seems to be the perfect candidate for this job in terms of logistical transfer and status.

But after the emperor heard Liu Yu's "plan", he faintly felt that something was wrong.

Liu Yu's plan, if someone else said it, the emperor would not feel that there was anything wrong.

It is nothing more than the fact that the imperial power does not come down to the county, so the squires from all over the country have to take on the important task of organizing the people.

Then, a subcontracting system can be adopted, and each gentry is responsible for mobilizing the local population during the slack season, and contracting a certain range of river sections.

During this period, the imperial court distributed supplies, food, tools, etc. to the squires.In short, it is the gentry contract system.

This idea is normal in Dashun.

But when Liu Yu brought it up, it was quite abnormal.

The emperor knew a thing or two about Liu Yu's attitude towards the squire, not to mention hatred, at least distrust.

Moreover, the emperor also heard about the unhappiness between Liu Yu and those gentry about the Nanyang incident.

After the emperor heard it, he felt that something was wrong. He unconsciously glanced at the map of Huanghuai hanging beside him, and couldn't help but glance at Liu Yu again.

After looking at the map for a few more times, he couldn't help but say in his heart: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! I told him to read more books, and he actually read them. At least Zheng Boke's Duan Yuyan's method of luring snakes out of their holes really has some experience! "

"In this way, half of the people went to Nanyang, and half got the land. From then on, the Huai land will be worry-free!"

I screamed a few times in my heart, and fixed my eyes on the Huanghuai situation map on the side again. After thinking about it again and again, I coughed lightly and said: "I have to give you a few words about what Aiqing said."

"First of all, this major event in the Huai River governance is extraordinary."

"The imperial court invested tens of millions of dollars, which is the accumulation over the years. Since the leveling, there have been few wars, and the accumulation has been so far, so that this repair of the Huaihe River can be done."

"Although Aiqing claims to be ignorant of water conservancy, she also knows that the governance of the Huai River can only be done in winter."

"Once the river melts in summer and the water is huge, it can't be done anymore."

"But if we can't finish this year, and wait for the summer water to come, everything will be in vain. The Yellow River has burst and silted up many times, and the land is all loess. Once the water is flushed, it will be silted up and blocked. It can't be completed before summer. The thousands of dollars invested this year Throw it all away."

"Some things have to rely on the sky. Unless it is winter, you can't dig. Some things can be done in spring, summer, autumn and winter. This is different. Ai Qing must know."

The emperor didn't mention what Liu Yu's idea meant at all, but nodded to Liu Yu, first of all, he must ensure that the Huaihe River governance cannot be delayed.

Some things have to be done this winter.

Some things can be done in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there are always opportunities.

Of course, the best thing is to take the opportunity to do everything, but if you are not fully sure to get the best of both worlds, then you have to figure out the order.

Liu Yu repeatedly said yes, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise, I will keep this matter in mind."

"When I came here this time, I passed by Huai'an. I also looked at the trend of the river and asked people about water control issues. The previous court tried to build a waterway to divert the Huaihe River like a river, but due to insufficient investment, it was not completed at one time. The rainstorm will be in vain."

"I also know that once the Huai River governance project is invested, if there is no general flow of water this year, and if there is rain next summer, the tens of millions of taels of silver from the imperial court will be in vain."

"As Your Majesty said, there are some things that must be done in winter. I will keep this in mind. This is the first priority."

The emperor knew that Liu Yu was very aware of the seriousness, so here is just a reminder, don't lose the big because of the small.

Seeing Liu Yu's clarity, the emperor said again: "The second thing is that when Emperor Taizu entered Beijing in the past, he changed the plaque on the hall, with the word 'love the people'. Don't forget it."

"Although water control is beneficial to the people, it is also doing things for the court. The court still has some surplus, so the people should not be forced to work hungry."

"Daily food must be guaranteed. The money for service must also be paid in full."

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "I have written it down. I dare not forget the word love the people."

"To ensure everything is safe, I am also planning to mobilize merchants to deliver a batch of miscellaneous noodles such as corn and sorghum. In case of any accident, rice cannot be guaranteed, and these coarse grains can be used instead. It is guaranteed that the people confiscated will not starve."

"At the same time, we will also prepare a batch of inferior cotton. Although the price is cheap, it can also keep out the cold, in case of emergency."

The emperor nodded understandingly, and hummed to show encouragement.

But I thought in my heart, you are afraid that you will not be able to kill and destroy.

There must be corruption in the contracting of gentry.

Then you shipped another batch of cheap cornmeal and sorghum rice and put them in the market to wait.The food distributed by the imperial court is theoretically Nanyang rice.

Isn't that the same as putting salted fish in front of the cat, then waiting for the cat to eat the fish, and then beating the cat up?

That's all right.

You are preparing for Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan, but you have to consider that the first priority is to ensure that the river is repaired.

If only rice is given, there will be too much greed, and the people who repair the river will not have enough to eat.

Now that you replace them with cheap corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes and potatoes, the people of Xiuhe can at least have enough to eat, and you have also created opportunities for them to steal.

This can indeed kill two birds with one stone.

The emperor thought about it in his mind, if this matter is really going to happen, it will affect at least three counties.Moreover, the gentry in these three counties is estimated to be less than half.

The crime was ready-made: embezzlement of Chaotinghe's wages - Dashun's first-class first-class crime, which is different from ordinary embezzlement.

Men kill.The woman was sent to Ezo to be a daughter-in-law.The children were sent to the Western Regions for exile.

This case requires a lot of copying.

However, the emperor didn't feel much about it. Instead, he turned his gaze to the map, stood up and walked straight to the map.

Fingers follow the direction of the Yellow River and Hongze Lake, extending to the Huaihe waterway planned by Liao Hanhui.

It leads from Hongze Lake, crosses Huai'an, goes to Funing, and leads down to Sheyang and Huangsha Rivers, connecting them as one.Not only for the Huaihe River to flow into the sea, but also for irrigation.

The Yellow River is to the north.

To the south is Yancheng, and to the south is Yangzhou Mansion, Yangtze River Estuary, Nantong...that is the current money bag of the imperial court.

If it is not settled here, disasters will be frequent in the future, and if civil uprisings really break out...

Going north is unlikely to go north.

Firstly, the Yellow River blocked it, so it was not easy to cross the river.

Secondly, the poor in the north are also jingling, but not far to the south are Yancheng and Yangzhou. If there is a civil uprising or uprising, they must go to the south.

That directly threatened the court's pocketbook.

If it goes north and crosses the Yellow River, it will directly threaten the Huaibei Salt Field and directly affect the salt transportation in several provinces.

Even if the canal is to be abandoned, the two Huaihe Rivers must not be messed up.

The emperor probably knew the conditions for going to Nanyang.Even under such conditions, the local people are still scrambling to go to Nanyang. They are not even afraid of a few percent of the death rate in Nanyang. I am afraid that the local area is really on the verge of collapse.

The issue of the two Huaihe Rivers has been accumulated for a long time.

Water transportation, floods, two major disasters weighed on the heads of the people, and tens of thousands of taels of disaster relief funds were invested here every year for the sake of stability.

Once there is an incident in the local area, there is another unique condition: Fengyang Mansion is also in the Lianghuai area.When the time comes, turn the tide and restore the Ming, that will be a ready-made slogan.

Now Liu Yu is organizing Nanyang.

On the other side, Zheng Boke and Duan Yuyan's method is going to be used to completely solve the problem of northern Jiangsu south of the Yellow River.

If it is really successful, it means that the northern Jiangsu area south of the Yellow River, that is, the place that is close to the court's purse, will be stable for a long time.

Stability means division.

Even if the northern Jiangsu area north of the Yellow River is still poor and cannot be resolved for the time being, it can be guaranteed that if something happens to the north of the Yellow River, it will not cross the Yellow River and respond accordingly to the south.

Then, the Lianghuai area will be divided into several small squares.

If something happened, the entire Huaihe River and the Huaihe River would not gather to respond.

With the Yellow River as a ditch and old canals, it is easy to extinguish all kinds of civil uprisings.

Moreover, with the rise of shipping, as long as the south is not in chaos and the Yangzhou and Tongzhou governments are not threatened after the incident, it can be guaranteed that the imperial court will not be cut off from rice, grain and money.

In the old canal era, whenever there was a flood, the unspoken rule was to protect the north but not the south.

Now, it is necessary to keep the south as much as possible, because the canal is useless.

In addition to floods, civil uprisings are the same.As long as the money bags are not messed up, the imperial court can pull out troops to fight.

The emperor calculated that if Liu Yu did what he did, at least two-thirds of the gentry from Yancheng to Funing would be killed.

After ransacking the house, the land naturally returned to the imperial court.

Originally, it was difficult for the imperial court: the Huaihe River was repaired, and the original low-grade fields became irrigated fields. How should the money be calculated?How to charge?
It's all right now, after it is directly returned to the imperial court, it will be distributed to small farmers and their taxes will be collected directly.

Coupled with Liu Yu's South Seas policy, within three years, many problems can be solved in the northern Jiangsu area south of the Yellow River.

The imperial court not only saved the annual relief, but also received a full amount of taxes. By the way, it cleaned up the problem of the Lianghuai gentry that had been corrupted since the Southern Song Dynasty.

It ensured the safety of the flanks of the imperial court's money bag and ensured that there would be no large-scale civil uprisings in the Huainan area within a hundred years.

At the same time, it can also be guaranteed that those people who have acquired the land will remain loyal to the court within 30 to [-] years.

Once there is a civil uprising in the new era in the Qiandaizi area in the future, it can also be guaranteed that it will not become corrupted.

Moreover, the killing by the court is justified, as long as those people dare to move their minds.

Would those people be unconcerned?

The emperor thought about Liu Yu's poisonous plan, prepared cheap low-quality rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other coarse grains in advance, and let the squires contract to handle them, how could he not be indifferent?
The emperor looked back at Liu Yu, thinking that you have the means to make people think.On the merchant's side, you are enough to put people in, but after you are done, it is best to hide your name and go away.It is inconvenient for me to arrange someone to do this here, lest it would be ugly to be recognized by others in the future.

This matter, speaking out, does not seem to be pleasant to hear, it seems that the court is luring these people to commit crimes.

Others are easy to talk about, and it doesn't matter who does it.

As long as the land is granted in the future, it will be from my kindness.But I don't know how to praise or criticize this matter in future history books?
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