Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 574 The crux of Daming

In the Gyeonggi area, one mu of every five or six mu of land is Huangzhuang?

Even though Zhu Yijun refused to admit it, he felt that this sounded a little too much. Not only did he look slightly embarrassed, he said resentfully: "But after all, it was obtained by the ancestors of the past generations by punishing the treacherous officials and traitors. I can't take it directly. Come and distribute it to the common people? Take ten thousand steps back, even if I am willing to distribute it, who will it be distributed to? Will it still be taken by the powerful in the end?"

Steal?Of course there is some stealing, but it's really not all, and maybe not even the bulk.

However, it’s hard to say these words are highly pragmatic, so I can only speak in a different way of thinking. While walking slowly with the emperor, he said: “Some time ago, Weichen happened to chat with Da Sinong about this matter. He said that some time ago Shuntian and other eight prefectures and counties have a total of 830 hectares, such as Zhang Chuguan Xun Beibian Muma Juntun and other places, with an annual amount of 920 taels of silver and 24 shi of grain. The new and old Zhuangtian of Xun Qi is 550 Yu Qing."

Da Si Nong is the Minister of the Household Department, and Ming people like to use the ancient name.

Zhu Yijun was surprised when he heard this, and said, "Only more than 100 hectares have been cleared by the nobles of the capital? Only more than [-] million mu of land?"

"That's right, that's what Da Si Nong said. Qingzhang in Beizhili only found 500 million mu of hidden fields, of which Xungui accounted for 110 million mu." Gao Wushi sighed: "By the way, your majesty, after Qingzhang this time , Weichen also discovered that Chenna Sanshen Garden actually had a hidden field that had been left since the beginning of unknown dynasty, about [-] hectares, about [-] mu, and now it has been re-listed, and fish scale drawings have also been drawn .”

Of course two thousand mu is not a small number, but a mere [-] hectares of land is nothing in the eyes of the emperor, not to mention that he has re-registered, so Zhu Yijun didn't even bother to ask, but hesitantly said: "Xungui Yintian near Jingji ...Do you think there is really only this number?"

Gao Wushi smiled wryly, "How is that possible?"

"Are you sure?" Zhu Yijun frowned: "I just suspect...do you have any evidence?"

Gao Wushi said: "The minister didn't investigate it himself, so how could there be evidence? However, as long as you compare the data in other places, you will know that Qingzhang in Gyeonggi and even the entire Northern Zhili must have missed a lot of investigations."

Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "What data?"

Gao Wushi said: "For example, Huguang, the original yellow book and fish scale booklet, only had more than 600 million mu of land. In fact, after Qingzhang, Huguang has nearly 9000 two million mu of land. Thousands of 600 million mu, almost doubled!
There is also Shandong, which was originally registered as 8000 million mu, but after Qingzhang was cleared, it was 600 million mu, an increase of 600 million, or about half of the original increase.

There is also Sichuan, which originally had only about 350 million mu, but after Qingzhang reached 4000 million mu, an increase of 600 million mu, which is also doubled! "

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a while, then suddenly asked, "Where's Nanzhili?"

Gao Wushi chuckled: "South Zhili is even more powerful, even more powerful than North Zhili, with only 330 million acres of clear land."

Zhu Yijun's complexion suddenly turned ugly, and he said angrily, "The sky is really high and the emperor is far away, so I can't control them!"

Gao Wushi was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Actually, there are people who are more powerful than Xungui Yintian."

Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide: "Is there something more powerful?"

"The feudal lord and the clan." Gao Wushi also went all out today, relying on Zhu Yijun probably not going to kill him, and said solemnly: "Now there are more than 30 feudal lords in the country who have removed their heirs and expelled the country due to incidents, and the clan has as many as 12 More than [-]. Among them, some of the distant branches and low nobles are okay. There are not many fields, and some are even difficult to make ends meet. This will have a huge impact... During the Yongle period, the Northern Expedition to Remnant Yuan, the Southern Expedition to Annan, and seven voyages to the Western Seas cost far more than today, and there is still room to spare. Your Majesty, can you do it now?"

Zhu Yijun stopped moving forward, and the people fell silent, sighing: "That's why you said in your palace examination policy that 'the biggest problem in the world today is poverty'?"

"Yes." Gao Wushi said: "The minister also said: officials who are poor will be arrogant, people who are poor will steal, soldiers who are poor will make trouble, and a country that is poor will be weak."

"I remember." Zhu Yijun sighed: "You said, if you want to keep officials from being greedy, you must first increase their salaries; if you want to keep ordinary people from stealing, you must first enrich them; Not weak, enrich its treasury first."

Gao Wushi nodded, but did not speak.On this issue, basically everything he should say has been said in policy theory.

But Zhu Yijun was still frowning. At this time they were walking to the Nansha River, Zhu Yijun took Gao Yushi and others for a walk along the river, and said after a while: "But the method you gave in your theory, I think it is mainly The business tax is collected, but there is no such thing as land property."

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said: "Your Majesty, if you talk about the business and taxation, although the subject will also be scolded, it is generally possible to save; but if you talk about the land property at the same time, I am afraid that you will be criticized by everyone, and you will die."

Zhu Yijun laughed, then slowly suppressed his smile, cast a sidelong glance at Gao Yushi, and said, "So you took this opportunity today to leave the question to me?"

Gao Wushi cupped his hands and said: "The emperor has wronged this minister, and this minister just followed the scriptures. I am afraid that I am not the only person who said these words today."

"You are not the only one who said it." Zhu Yijun nodded, but then said: "But you are the one who said it so shockingly - they all like to describe, what kind of people in a certain place sell their sons and daughters , Yizi Xiangeclipse, but no one has explained the data so clearly. I just compared these data, and I realized the seriousness of the problem."

Gao Wushi just smiled, but didn't speak.

Zhu Yijun thought for a while, then frowned and asked: "In your opinion, the Qingzhang in the northern and southern Zhili will continue? Or even strengthen it?"

Gao Wushi said: "There are two reasons for poverty in the world: one is insufficient production; the other is poor scheduling. It depends on which step the emperor wants to solve first."

Zhu Yijun was surprised: "I can understand the lack of production, what does poor scheduling mean?"

Gao Wu said honestly: In fact, it is difficult for you to fully understand the lack of production, but that can be discussed later. Today I planned to mainly talk to you about the lack of scheduling.

"Your Majesty, there are many types of ineffective dispatching." Gao Yushi said, "For example, underdeveloped commerce and trade, underdeveloped transportation, unreasonable distribution, etc., all belong to ineffective dispatching."

Zhu Yijun thought for a while, and said: "I can understand the underdeveloped transportation, as if water transportation is not as convenient as sea transportation. But there are other problems here, such as water transportation is related to the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of waterworkers, and sea transportation sometimes kills people in storms, etc. Wait, this is an old topic that has been debated by the imperial court for hundreds of years. But I don’t understand what it has to do with underdeveloped commerce and unreasonable distribution.”

Gao Wushi smiled: "But Your Majesty, these two points are the real sticking point of Daming at present."

(End of this chapter)