Daming primary school students

Chapter 554 Improvement Window Period
Master Feng was very disappointed, and complained to Qin Dewei in a low voice: "Is this a good place?"

Qin Dewei asked back: "Wang Situ's family is not good?"

Master Feng sighed softly, "This time when I met She and went back to court, I originally thought of wandering around for a few years to wash away my impetuousness. But you immediately dragged me into the whirlpool again, making people uncomfortable."

Qin Dewei suddenly turned pale with shock: "You can actually see through my motives! I have made great progress."

Master Feng shook his sleeves, and said calmly: "People can't help themselves in the temple. A person like me, who is destined to be famous in history, can't escape the shackles of cause and effect.

I don’t know if the peach blossoms in Jiaofangsi Hutong have faded, but tell me, what do you want me to do? "

After dealing with Qin Dewei a lot, Situ Wang Yiqi's psychological endurance has been greatly strengthened, so he just stood silently watching the negotiation between the two.

Qin Dewei patted Master Feng and greeted him, "Sit down first and then speak slowly! You don't have to be restrained in my uncle's house!"

The host and guest are seated formally and serve tea.

Situ Wang and Feng En were not familiar with each other, so it was still up to Qin Dewei to open his mouth.

"Master Feng, please explain to Wang Situ the changes in Liaodong in the past two years!" Qin Dewei guided.

Two years ago, in the 14th year of Jiajing, Qin Dewei played big chess in Liaodong, published "Five Years of Liaoshu", and proposed a bunch of reform policies with Liaodong as a pilot.

For example, gradually shifting to the recruitment system, implementing the mixed whip method, restoring the salt law and opening the Chinese law, and the unified purchase and marketing of grain, etc.

Most of the imperial court is accurate. In recent years, the Liaodong region has indeed collapsed, so let's try to improve it.

Most of these reform measures are related to the household department, and money, grain, salt, and taxes are all the affairs of the household department system.

Master Feng frowned and said, "There are a lot of clues, where do I start?"

Qin Dewei said: "Let's not talk about anything else, first let's talk about the situation of Liaodong's pilot project of resuming the opening of China and France. Two years have passed, and there must be some effect?"

The Kaizhong Law is the salt law enacted by the Ming Dynasty from the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Salt merchants must first transport grain to border towns before they can exchange for salt.

This is a very good system, which can greatly alleviate the shortage of materials in the frontier.

Moreover, in order to transport food to the nearest border towns, salt merchants would recruit people to farm in the border areas, which would greatly promote the economic development of the border areas.

However, due to various disharmonious reasons, starting from the Chenghua Dynasty, Kaizhongfa was a little bit broken.

Another 40 years ago, Ye Qi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in the Hongzhi Dynasty, changed the new method, changing the method of transporting grain to fold color.

That is to say, salt merchants can directly exchange silver for salt, and then sell the salt, without having to work hard to deliver grain to border towns.

Then this method of folding color and salt has been implemented to this day.

Master Feng was a little surprised when he heard that Qin Dewei only paid attention to the recovery of Kaizhong France in Liaodong, so he focused on the situation:
"The annual quota of 30,000 taels that the imperial court tried for Liaodong was exchanged for [-] taels of silver in exchange for Zhesei, but last year it was exchanged for [-] taels of grain.

In fact, in border towns, food is more important than money, and using food to recruit soldiers can also save money.

Moreover, with such a batch of grain input, the market grain price can indeed be stabilized. Last year, the price of grain in Liaodong was [-] yuan per shi, which was considered to be a drop compared to previous years. "

Qin Dewei communicated with Wang Yiqi while listening.

Feng En said almost everything he had mastered, so he stopped and picked up a teacup to quench his thirst.

Looking at Qin Dewei and Wang Da Situ, he always felt that it was not just as simple as listening to the results of Liaodong's reforms.

So he couldn't help but asked Qin Dewei: "What do you want to do? Is it possible that you still want to fully restore the nine side's opening method?"

Qin Dewei turned his head, nodded and replied: "Wang Situ and I do have this intention!"

Feng En almost shook the teacup in his hand, "Aren't you joking?"

Qin Dewei sighed with emotion: "The method of salt has changed from the method of opening the middle to the method of breaking the color. It is drinking poison to quench thirst. It is greedy for temporary benefits and destroys the foundation of eternal life! So it must be corrected!"

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there were various Northern Expeditions, so why was it not a problem to have supplies in border towns?
Although the reasons are complex and cannot be generalized, opening up the Chinese law must have played a huge role.

Kaizhongfa: The border town gets at least 700,000 shi of grain every year, and the grain price is stable.

Folding color method: The imperial court gets millions of cash silver every year, and then distributes several 100,000 taels of silver to border towns, and the price of food soars.

It can be seen from a comparison that the only advantage of the color folding method is that it can make the imperial treasury earn a few more 100,000 taels of silver every year.

This is what Qin Dewei called "drinking poison to quench thirst", but it caused huge damage to the economy of the border town.

For border towns that lack supplies, food is of course more important than silver.

Not to mention how much the commercial farming brought about by China and France has greatly promoted the economic development of border towns.

Originally in history, the collapse of Ming Dynasty was first of all a financial collapse.

There are many financial problems in Daming, especially in the border towns. If I really want to go into details, I can't finish several books and monographs.

However, the collapse of the border town's economy began with the abolition of the Chinese Opening Law, and then it became difficult to recover step by step.

Qin Dewei is not a god, so he can only try his best to improve it a little bit, let's start by restoring the method of opening Chinese.

Master Feng persuaded: "For such a big matter, you will have a higher official position in a few years, so it's not too late to push it forward."

Qin Dewei rarely showed a look of anxiety: "Now is the last chance. If you can't do it in the past few years, you won't be able to do it in five or six years."

Both Wang Yiqi and Master Feng didn't quite understand why Qin Dewei was in a hurry, but they didn't question it, because Qin Dewei had proved his magic too many times.

Only Qin Dewei knew in his heart that the restoration of the salt method from the color-folding method to the open-zhong method would be reflected in the financial books - the cash income of the imperial treasury temporarily decreased, while the supplies in the border towns increased and prices remained stable.

In the past few years, the finances of the Jiajing Dynasty can still be maintained. During the "painful period" of reform, the cash income of the treasury will decrease a little, and it will not collapse.

The key is that Emperor Jiajing himself still had the idea of ​​making great efforts to govern and boost the national strength.

After 21 years of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing himself gave up treatment and completely entered the mode of cultivating immortals, and the finances of the Jiajing Dynasty also began to suffer a large deficit.

At that time, don't think about restoring the Chinese law at all, that's impossible.

It is also impossible for the gods to reform and reduce cash income when the national treasury is short of hundreds of thousands or millions.

Qin Dewei thought brokenly: "If it doesn't work, start to implement a whip method to maintain the cash income of the treasury, so as not to have any objections from the emperor, but the multi-line operation is too difficult."

Master Feng asked suspiciously: "Then why are you telling me these things? I'm only aiming at wandering wild cranes, and I don't have the ability to help you."

Qin Dewei showed a standard smile showing eight teeth, "Master Feng, don't you want to be closer to home?
I see how you go to Yangzhou to be a patrolling censor?Uwairo, a member of the Ministry of household affairs, and a patrol salt censor!
Yangzhou is closer to your Songjiang River, just across the river, and it is extremely convenient to travel, even more convenient than Nanjing. "

Fog Grass!Master Feng subconsciously covered his beating heart.

Oops, it's another heartbeat feeling!

Qin Dewei asked Mr. Feng to adjust his mentality, and said to Wang Situ: "Master, you are the Secretary of the Ministry of Households, and you should take the lead in the reform of the salt law!"

Wang Yiqi thought for a while, then nodded solemnly.

Qin Dewei has already analyzed the pros and cons thoroughly, why not serve the country and the people?
Qin Dewei said confidently again: "There must be some people who object, uncle, you initiate and promote the reform of the salt law first, just to temper yourself.

I'll see who is against it first, and when the opportunity is right, I'll make a move and make a final decision!
It may not be possible to make things happen, but I am good at making people! "

(End of this chapter)