I want to be emperor

Chapter 353
On October [-]th, the army of Chu army had officially ended the large-scale purge activities in the city, and vacated all the houses in the north and east districts, that is, around Nanjing Palace City, for the follow-up Chu army and officials from various ministries to settle in. .

Except for the [-]st Guards Division, the soldiers of the [-]st Division and the [-]th Division went out of the city one after another, and stationed and rested in the former Ming Army Daxiaochang camp on the east side of Yuhuatai.

At the same time, the armed tax police who followed the army into the city also officially ended their tense confiscation operation!
As soon as the statistics were finished at noon, Chen Xingkai couldn't wait to take the report and went straight to Yuhua Mesa.

He wants to report this harvest to His Majesty as soon as possible!

The harvest this time was so great that it even far exceeded the taxation department's initial estimate, so that when Chen Xingkai saw Luo Zhixue, he directly yelled "get rich!"

Just like the face of a small man getting rich.

"We have simply collected and counted the money, food and materials in various official warehouses in the city, as well as the confiscated proceeds from many hypocritical dignitaries and stubborn gentry big households!"

While talking, Chen Xingkai handed Luo Zhixue a document.

"Just cash such as gold, silver, and copper coins is equivalent to a total of 600 million taels."

"In addition, there are a large number of calligraphy and paintings, antiques, jade and other curiosities."

"In addition, there are a large amount of grain, cloth, salt, livestock, iron, saltpeter and sulfur and other materials."

"There are a large number of deeds for all kinds of fixed assets, including many houses, shops and real estate in other places, cultivated land, and forests in the city, and their value is even more inestimable!"

"After selling all kinds of curiosities and some real estate and shops for cash, we can cash in at least 2000 million taels."

"Such a large amount of money, if we save it, it will be enough for us to spend for a year!"

Chen Xingkai became more and more excited as he talked, waving his hands at this time and said: "Before we waited until next year's summer harvest, our financial gap might reach tens of millions of taels, but with this amount of money, not only can we fill the gap, but we can wait until next year's summer tax. If it is collected, there will be at least tens of millions of taels more.”

Even if he was a minister of the tax department, the money he handled was usually hundreds of thousands to millions, but Chen Xingkai had never seen a mountain of gold and silver worth 600 million taels at one time.

That is really a mountain of gold and silver, which is extremely shocking to people's vision!

Otherwise, Chen Xingkai wouldn't be excited like a kid who won the lottery and became rich.

At this time, Luo Zhixue also opened the account book in his hand, which recorded all kinds of seizures in detail.

In the thick account book, there are not only gold and silver accounts, but also various messy materials are registered in the book.

With cash plus various curios and fixed assets that can be cashed out, the Great Chu Empire made at least 600 million taels.

This does not include a large number of fixed assets that cannot be realized, such as many large-scale mansions and courtyards and the most core asset, that is, land.

According to the old rules, these lands will be directly included in the management of official land, and then continue to be leased to those farmers. In order to maintain the lives of the bottom farmers, they will not cause too much turmoil, and will not even change the original land. tenant relationship.

For example, Duke Wei’s mansion has a farm in the suburbs, which is leased to a large number of local farmers for rent. After the Great Chu Empire confiscated these lands, it would continue to let the original farmers rent these lands. It will not be easy. Changing the tenancy relationship.

This is to ensure the survival of the bottom farmers!

As for the newly rented land for those landless and small-land farmers, it is generally the abandoned land that no one has cultivated or simply reclaimed new land.

Therefore, a large amount of land confiscated by the Great Chu Empire is all treated as official land, and will not be sold for cash.

After briefly flipping through the ledger, Luo Zhixue smiled, "Okay, well done!"

Although Luo Zhixue had predicted that he would make a fortune in Jinling City, he still didn't expect to get more than 3000 million taels of silver!

The wealth in the south of the Yangtze River is indeed well-deserved.

The wealth of Jinling's dignitaries is even more worthy of the name.

Just one Jinling City is enough to cover all the expenses of their Great Chu Empire's Eastern Expedition in recent months.

The Great Chu Empire made a fortune in Jinling City, and the news quickly spread among the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire.

In fact, everyone could have guessed that the gains in Jinling City would not be small, but they did not expect that the gains would be so great, so the heads of various departments found all kinds of excuses to meet Sheng up.

Even Guo Quanshu, who had been in charge of affairs in Wuchang before and arrived at Yuhuatai in Jinling City with a group of civil and military officials who had stayed in Wuchang in recent days, came directly to the door.

However, Guo Quanshu did not want more administrative funds for the Ministry of Officials under his direct management. Guo Quanshu now thinks highly of himself, not only as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but also as the chief minister of the Great Chu Empire.

Its concern is no longer limited to departmental disputes, but a broader field.

This time Guo Quanshu approached Luo Zhixue, hoping that Luo Zhixue could leave at least 300 million taels of silver from this windfall for post-war livelihood restoration funds in Jiangxi, Anlu, Jiangnan and other places.

Luo Zhixue is very pleased about this!

So many ministers came to ask for money, all of them were thinking of their own departments, or their own political achievements, and no one raised the post-war relief in front of Luo Zhixue.

And this matter is what Luo Zhixue pays more attention to.

Even if Guo Quanshu didn't mention it, Luo Zhixue was already ready to find someone to order him to go on.

Immediately he said to Guo Quanshu: "The post-war relief is a practical act, and the money and food will be in place one after another. Guo Aiqing, you have to make arrangements later."

Immediately afterwards, Luo Zhixue temporarily summoned the heads of many departments such as the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Industry, and the Police Department, and reiterated the importance and necessity of post-war relief.

"After this Eastern Expedition, the people's livelihood in the Pan-Jiangnan area will be more or less withered and the land will be abandoned. The Pan-Jiangnan area is the most important granary of our country, and it is also our country's money bag. All the capitals and local governments must work together. Restoring people's livelihood, especially agricultural production."

"Before we were in North Chu, and in South Chu, we quickly invested manpower and material resources after the war, implemented work-for-relief, repaired various local water conservancy facilities, provided jobs for local people who lacked rations in exchange for food, and also provided people with interest-free Borrow grain seeds and tools to help local people restore their livelihood."

"All these have achieved relatively good results. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry also reported earlier that the grain production in Chubei this year has already returned to the level of Chongzhen five years ago, and there will be a relatively large increase next year."

"Although a large-scale battle broke out in Chunan this year, a large number of rural areas have not been greatly affected. In addition, we have provided timely relief, so this year's food production in Chunan can also maintain the same level as last year."

"This shows the importance and necessity of post-war relief!"

"All Gyeonggi and local governments must attach great importance to it and strictly implement post-war relief work."

After Luo Zhixue made a long speech, it can be regarded as setting the tone for the post-war relief work in the Panjiangnan area.

On the spot, the ministers of counselors and co-coordinators of counselors negotiated intensely and finalized the post-war relief funds for the Pan-South region, which was estimated to be 350 million taels.

The follow-up funds will be gradually distributed through the special relief funds of factories, governors, prefectures and counties under the Ministry of Industry.

The main method of relief is still labor relief, building water conservancy facilities, borrowing grain seeds, farm tools, etc. free of interest.

As for giving money directly, the Great Chu Empire has never done such things.

Even for the elderly, weak, women and children among the refugees who have lost their homes, they all adopt the method of work-for-relief within their ability. If they can’t do physical work, they can wash clothes, clean up, and sew and mend.

Of course, for those who are about to starve to death, there will still be emergency porridge, but after the porridge is given out, the refugees are often arranged directly to provide relief with work, and it is still mandatory.

Relief with work, this publicity is only to help the people, but in fact there is a more important purpose, which is to control these refugees and prevent them from turning into rogues.

So, it's not that you can become a refugee if you want to, the Great Chu Empire won't let you...

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Relief after the war, this work is very important, so it was also the first to reserve a fund of up to 350 million taels of silver.

Immediately afterwards, Luo Zhixue and a group of ministers successively allocated funds to various institutions and various affairs according to their priorities.

If you get money and food, you should spend it, and it's useless to keep it in your hands...

The bulk of it is naturally military expenditures, and both the army and navy have received additional special funds.

The army's special funds are used to purchase new types of flintlock guns, that is, two-year-style quick-fire pistols and two-year-style quick-fire rifles.

At present, the production line of the Suifa pistol at the Hantian Armory has been initially produced, and the production line of the Suifa rifle has also been gradually completed in October. It is currently undergoing the final stage of debugging, and it is expected that a small production line will be carried out by November. scale trial production.

However, in order to be able to use the flintlock gun as the main battle equipment in time, the Great Chu Empire did not hesitate to spend a high cost, so that the current flintlock gun, which is still very high-end in terms of the industrial technology of the Great Chu Empire, can be directly mass-produced and sold. equipment.

As a result, the price will go up. The purchase price of the first batch of 18 Suifa rifles has reached 15 taels of silver, and the price of the second batch will be lower, but it is estimated to be [-] taels.

Because the flintlock gun is too expensive, it is also very painful for the military to purchase.

Therefore, this time, a sum of funds for the purchase of flintlock guns was specially approved for the military.

The navy has also received funding for the development and procurement of a batch of large-caliber naval guns.

Specifically, it is the procurement funds for the 24-jin naval gun, the research and development funds for the [-]-jin naval gun and the [-]-jin naval gun.

These large-caliber artillery are prepared for the subsequent establishment of a real navy and equipment for large sea battleships.

If the future navy does not have a batch of large-tonnage real warships at sea, and a batch of large-caliber naval guns, it will not be willing to go out of the Yangtze River Estuary to greet Zheng Zhilong's fleet...

If there is no big guy on hand, if you insist on going up to say hello, the parents who will be beaten by Zheng Zhilong's fleet probably won't recognize it...

Zheng Zhilong's fleet is still very powerful these days.

(End of this chapter)