Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 168 Trivial matters of supervising the country
"Smash!"

bang——

On the same day, when Zhu Youjian knew that he had been cheated, with a loud cry, dozens of strong men swung their hammers and smashed them on a wooden stake.

The wooden stake was smashed into the recess, and the mechanism was triggered instantly. Dozens of iron gate knives weighing hundreds of catties flew out, cutting off rows of ropes in an instant.

With the disconnection of the last rope, a sudden "bang" sound appeared.

The fourteen big boats were not restrained, and they slid down the slide one after another, and finally fell into the river.

The splash caused by the warship plunged into the river made people feel shocked, and then everyone in the dock applauded after seeing that the fourteen ships were firmly parked in the middle of the river.

"Let people go up to steer these big ships, go to the wharf of the Three Guards of the Navy, and show the officers and men of the Three Guards of the Navy!"

A familiar voice sounded, it was Zhu Youjiao who was giving orders, and the dock craftsmen boarded fourteen cargo ships of different sizes according to his words.

However, although it is a cargo ship, if you look carefully, you can see that there are a small number of muzzles and forts on the left and right sides of the deck.

After all, it was the beginning of the seventeenth century, and there were quite a few pirates on the sea. Even though it was a merchant ship, it was still necessary to maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

However, since it was the day of launching, there was nothing equipped.

In the passing of time, fourteen merchant ships of different sizes began to sail out of the river, heading for the Sanwei Camp of the Navy ten miles away.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao also asked Wei Zhongxian to prepare a carriage, and then, escorted by a thousand dragon and tiger guard cavalry, he rushed to the south of the Navy Sanwei camp.

When they arrived at the camp of the three guards of the navy, they were released by the commander of the three guards who had known for a long time, and the soldiers of the three guards of the navy were already near the military port, and the water around the pier was blocked.

They looked at the sea, and fourteen merchant ships of different sizes were slowly approaching in the distance.

Zhu Youxiao got off the carriage, and the Commander of the Three Guards immediately came to salute, but he waved his hand to signal him not to use it.

"It's so cold..."

Holding the hand warmer in his hand, Zhu Youxiao felt his nose was a bit cold, but when he saw the [-] merchant ships getting closer, he also felt a sense of pride in his heart.

"Kebaba! Look, this is my design... Ahem! My brother and I designed a big ship!"

Zhu Youxiao just got off the carriage next to him, and Ke Shi, who was supported by Wei Zhongxian, was talking proudly, like a child who wants to be praised by his parents.

"Hehe..." Ke Shi smiled, even though he felt very uncomfortable coming to the beach in winter to blow the cold wind, he still complimented Zhu Youxiao:

"Long live the craftsmanship, this boat is naturally not bad."

"Haha!" Hearing this compliment, Zhu Youxiao smiled with his hands on his hips, quietly watching the dozen or so merchant ships enter the port that had been prepared for them earlier.

After stopping, Zhu Youxiao asked people to lower the ship ladder, and he boarded the largest merchant ship of 925 materials ([-] tons). While walking on the deck, the manager of the dock also stepped forward and said to him:

"Long live, this ship has four masts, the front two are hung with rail sails, and the rear two are hung with jib sails. The ship is eighteen feet long, six feet wide, has several decks, seven gun positions on the left and right, and one gun position on the front. Seven thousand stones."

Speaking of this, the manager smiled awkwardly: "But His Royal Highness King Qi said that the artillery used by merchant ships and future warships must be from the Yanshan Ordnance Institute, so there is no equipment..."

"However, His Royal Highness Qi said that the fifteen artillery positions will be equipped with twenty-jin cannons and ten-jin cannons."

Speaking of this, the director also explained the artillery system established by Zhu Youjian.

In this regard, Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, just nodded with a smile, and then said to the other boats: "Where are those small boats?"

"Long live back..." The manager glanced at the other merchant ships that Zhu Youxiao pointed out, and introduced them one by one.

The three merchant ships of two thousand materials are sixteen feet long, five feet and three feet wide, four six-jin cannons, eight four-jin cannons, and a load of five thousand stones.

A merchant ship of one thousand materials is ten feet long, three feet and three feet wide, four six-jin cannons, six four-jin cannons, and a load of [-] shi.

In other words, the current fourteen armed merchant ships can carry [-] shi.

This is just the cargo capacity. In fact, according to their artillery configuration, they are not at all inferior to the current training ships of the Navy's three guards.

Because of this, the soldiers of the three guards of the navy who looked at the fourteen armed merchant ships thought that these were their warships, and they didn't even know that these things were for logistics.

Zhu Youxiao, who knew the role of these boats, patted the fence, and then said to the master:
"I think the boat is doing well. If there is no problem after testing the water for three months, then you can continue to build the boat. The next batch..."

Zhu Youxiao rubbed his chin. He didn't know how much Ming Dynasty needed this ship, and he didn't know that Zhu Youjian had prepared it for immigrating to the Great Liuqiu. He thought it was for transporting food and troops to Liaodong.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and let him speak. If he said too little, he might be laughed at, so he raised his chin and said:
"Twenty large ships with three thousand materials, ten ships with four thousand materials, and four ships with five thousand materials will be built, and the money will be allocated from internal funds!"

"As for the wood, I will order Denglai Shipyard to transport the dry wood north to you!"

With a wave of Zhu Youxiao's hand, he directly ordered people to expand the [-]-material ship to twenty. In addition, the [-]-material and [-]-material ships that may not be built are also built without blinking an eye.

The tonnage of this second batch of shipbuilding reached an astonishing 4.9 tons, which was close to the [-] tons in the West at the same time.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know at all that according to the standards of the British Royal Navy a hundred years later, there would be twenty fifth-tier cruisers and fifteen third-tier battleships...

If this group of uncles is really brought out, then Spain in Luzon and the Netherlands in Southeast Asia are estimated to get married overnight.

But this thing... is a baggage ship.

"Long live……"

At this time, Wei Zhongxian suddenly said: "Should His Royal Highness King Qi decide what to do about the shipyard?"

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao frowned and said, "My brother told me in a letter before that if the shipbuilding is successful, we can continue to build larger cargo ships. After accumulating experience, we will use teak to build warships next year."

"I will decide this matter for my younger brother. The money will be allocated from internal funds. Anyway, it is only tens of thousands of taels of silver. At worst, it will be deducted from the big chef."

"Er..." Hearing that Zhu Youxiao wanted to deduct money from the dining place of the court officials, Wei Zhongxian obediently withdrew.

When he retreated, Cao Huachun, who was in a daze, also came to the three guards of the Navy.

He was sent by Zhu Youjian. He thought that no one would preside over the launch of the merchant ship, but he didn't expect that the emperor was not sick, and he sneaked to Tianjin.

For a moment, he thought of his majesty's deflated expression.

"Long live……"

Cao Huachun came from behind, and Zhu Youxiao smiled when he saw it: "Huachun, how about these boats?"

"Very powerful." Cao Huachun responded with compliments, and when Zhu Youxiao saw this, he told Cao Huachun about his request to build a ship, and finally asked, "How did my brother explain to you?"

Facing the emperor's inquiry, Cao Huachun responded:

"His Royal Highness said, if the merchant ships with [-] materials are no problem, then we will build [-] ships for use first, and then develop merchant ships with [-] materials, [-] materials, or even [-] materials."

"Haha! Sure enough, my brother thinks more than I do." Zhu Youxiao said to Wei Zhongxian with a smile:
"See, I'm still being stingy." After finishing speaking, he looked at the dock manager and said:
"According to my younger brother's words, build thirty ships for three thousand materials, and ten ships for four thousand materials, five thousand materials, and six thousand materials each."

"The officer obeys the decree..." The officer in charge bowed down when he heard the words, and when Zhu Youxiao saw that he responded, he also looked below the deck, where there were nearly [-] sailors, three guards and auxiliary soldiers neatly lined up on the port .

When Cao Huachun saw this scene, he knew that the emperor was watching the army, so he walked behind the emperor and said to all the commanders in the military port:
"Everyone, stand still!"

As soon as he said this, the three guards officers of the Navy Guard, Henghai Guard, and Longjiang Guard picked up the wooden whistle hanging around their necks and blew vigorously.

"Beep!"

Two quick wooden whistles sounded, and the sound spread, and all the soldiers stood still immediately.

Those who were far away didn't hear it, but when they saw the comrades beside them standing still, they also stood up one by one.

Although it looks a bit messy, in this era, it can be regarded as an immovable team.

At this time, it reflects the importance of running and standing.

"Welcome to the Son of Heaven!"

Cao Huachun shouted loudly, and the generals closest to him also shouted.

At this moment, some people lead other people. Although they have not experienced training, when everyone starts to shout, there is a sense of rhythm.

For a while, voices of long live came in an endless stream, and Zhu Youxiao nodded in satisfaction.

He just likes to watch this kind of scene. Compared with the intrigues and intrigues in the court, the atmosphere in the army is what he likes.

In other words, what he likes is the modern army trained by his younger brother.

"Hua Chun..."

Zhu Youxiao felt everything, and then called Cao Huachun, and Cao Huachun stepped forward to respond.

"As for the grain sale, how much grain has been raised right now? Is it enough for the Royal Horse Supervisor?"

"Going back to Wansui, it's enough. After all the grain is sold, and then buy Huguang and Sichuan grains and send them to Beizhili, there should be a few million taels in surplus." Cao Huachun replied respectfully, and Zhu Youxiao turned his head suddenly when he heard the words :

"A few million taels?"

"Yes, long live..." Cao Huachun responded with a smile: "Your Highness said, after the sale is over, transfer three million taels to the internal funds."

"Eh..." Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt a little dry.

He originally thought that his younger brother should have no money, so he wanted to take advantage of the tax revenue from the world to allocate money to his younger brother.

It turned out that it was better now, but the other party wanted to transfer three million taels of silver to himself.

You know, this year's internal money income is only about [-] million taels, which is equivalent to the Royal Horse Supervisor directly allocating more than half of the internal money income to himself.

"Ahem... Since it's my brother's wish, then I'll accept it."

Zhu Youxiao said bluffing, and then felt that his conscience was a little bit hard, so he said:

"Is my brother missing anything? Or is the imperial horse prison missing?"

"This..." Cao Huachun thought for a while, then said embarrassingly, "It seems that there is nothing missing."

De, Cao Huachun's words made Zhu Youxiao completely helpless, so he could only say:
"In this case, then you can go back to the capital and help me thank my brother."

"Slave going back?" Cao Huachun was stunned for a moment, then he bowed and said, "Won't Long Live go back?"

"No, no, no, I still want to review the army again in Tianjin, just temporarily..." Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to explain that he would go back tomorrow, but when he finally thought about the annoying things in the capital, he gritted his teeth and said directly:

"I'll go back on the [-]th day."

"Your maidservant takes orders..." Cao Huachun had no choice but to agree when he heard that the emperor would not return until four days later, and then he left the three guards of the navy and rushed back to the capital with his people.

On the contrary, Zhu Youxiao, after he left, wandered around Tianjin Beitang quite leisurely and elegantly.

He had a great time playing, but Zhu Youjian...

"This group of guys don't know how to increase revenue and reduce expenditure! Increase revenue and reduce expenditure! Open source and reduce expenditure?!"

The roar came from Xuqin Palace, Lu Wenzhao who was standing at the door shrunk his neck, looked at Lu Jianxing beside him, and Lu Jianxing also shrugged.

Apparently, His Royal Highness was very angry with these civil servants in the capital.

However, they still underestimated the degree of cerebral palsy of the civil servants of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian, who was sitting behind the desk, had more than [-] memorials piled up like a mountain in front of him.

These memorials are the result of processing more than [-] copies, and the root of everything is accumulated from Zhu Youxiao ten days ago.

In order to be able to feel comfortable after returning home, Zhu Youxiao put his younger brother to death.

At this moment, Zhu Youjian is like an old scalper who is working hard, getting angry, cursing, and having to deal with memorials at the same time.

"Guardian? Supervising the fart!"

Zhu Youjian, who was in the seat, uttered a swear word, and Wang Tigan, who was next to him, also looked helpless.

But speaking of it, His Royal Highness Qi Wang is relatively fast in processing memorials.

However, in two and a half hours, two hundred and twenty-three memorials have been processed, and it takes an average of half a stick of incense to process one.

Having dealt with so many memorials in such a short time, it is no wonder that he would burst into foul language again and again in anger.

He came across all the memorials on cerebral palsy that he had co-authored for ten days, and the most terrible thing was that [-] of them were impeachment.

The effect of this wave is directly full. It is estimated that even the officials, censors, civil servants, and generals who impeached him did not expect that their impeachment memorials would be seen and dealt with by the impeachment targets.

"Cracking crooked..."

Opening a memorial, Zhu Youjian saw another person who was scolding him, turned his head and saw, yo, it was actually an old acquaintance Yao Zongwen.

"Throw it away and burn the earth dragon!"

Zhu Youjian threw the memorial to the side, not bothering to read the memorial of Yao Zongwen, the keyboard man.

"Your Highness, why don't you take a rest, it's time for lunch."

Wang Tiqian picked up the memorial from the ground in shame, and comforted him carefully, but Zhu Youjian said:

"Let the Imperial Dining Room get me fresh shrimps with pepper and vinegar, mutton shanks, goose meat, plus a bowl of tofu soup and a bowl of rice."

"I'll just eat here and deal with it at the same time." Zhu Youjian said, then picked up the next memorial and continued to read it.

He has a general direction in his mind, the memorials of the Ministry of Industry, and the memorials of local officials who want to use government money to build water conservancy projects and repair city walls and roads.

The Ministry of Rites wanted all the memorials to be decorated with lanterns and festoons, but they all rejected them, and wrote down the approximate specific cost, indicating that so much money would not be used.

Zhu Youjian will directly approve the payment of the Ministry of War, ordnance and weapons, horse price and silver, etc., but at the end he added that the ordnance made by Yanshan Ordnance will be issued.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't trust the craftsmanship of the Ministry of Industry, and the border defense armament must be made by the Armor Factory and Yanshan Ordnance, so as not to get kickbacks from the Ministry of Industry.

As for the memorial of the Ministry of Officials asking for salary, Zhu Youjian did not prevaricate because he did not deal with the civil servants, but promised to pay the salary of last year and this year, a total of more than [-] taels in two years.

As for the memorials of the Ministry of Punishment, Zhu Youjian basically delineated the places of exile for the prisoners who needed to be exiled according to the region.

Prisoners from Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang and other places were all sent to Yongchang Mansion in Yunnan, which is the generation of Dehong and Baoshan in later generations.

Prisoners from the Central Plains and Northwest were all sent to Gansu by him, and those from the southeast, Shanxi, and North Zhili were all sent to Daning.

A total of more than [-] prisoners have contributed to the development of Ming Dynasty.

As for dealing with them, Zhu Youjian turned to deal with the memorials of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households.

The memorials from the Ministry of Officials are nothing but the promotion of personnel, and Zhu Youjian is quite interested in dealing with this.

He looked at the memorials from the Ministry of Officials, and tried his best to agree with those he didn't know well.

During the period, he also encountered several familiar names.

"Dong Yingju, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, this guy is good. It's a pity to be the young minister of Taichang Temple. Go to Shanxi to be the magistrate."

Thinking about it, Zhu Youjian swiped his pen and directly transferred him to the prefect of Datong and concurrently served as the military guard of Baoan Prefecture.

"Shandong Qian's Zhang Chun, this person is not bad, he should have regained Yongping in the Jisi Change, and he can be transferred to Gansu to accompany Mei Zhihuan."

Zhu Youjian once again swiped a big pen, and just like that, Zhang Chun, who was involved in Shandong, was transferred to Xining to serve as a soldier.

After these two people, Zhu Youjian also saw many familiar people, including some people whom Chongzhen was sorry for, such as Chen Xinjia.

These people, Zhu Youjian basically arranged them in suitable positions.

After he finished arranging these people, Chef Donggong also delivered stacks of dishes to the table.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian got up and grabbed five or six memorials, and walked to the dining table in the main hall. After sitting down, he ate while processing the memorials.

Unexpectedly, the memorials of the Ministry of Officials have been processed, and the rest belong to the Ministry of Households and local officials.

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened the first memorial, he saw that it was the year-end memorial sent by Wang Yingjiao, Shangshu of the Ministry of household affairs.

[At this age, the number of households with household registration and land tax in the world is [-] households, [-] households...]

Looking at the population report that has remained unchanged for ten thousand years, or even decreased, Zhu Youjian gave a blank look, lowered his head, buried a mouthful of food, and continued to look down.

[A total of [-] hectares and [-] acres of official and civilian land... [-] stones... [-] wheat Twelve stones, the Yumajian owes rice and wheat total [-] stones and seven buckets]

Looking at Daming's Tian Fu, Zhu Youjian nodded in satisfaction, but he just smiled at the debts owed by the Imperial Horse Supervisor at the end.

"This year's nearly [-] million shimimai, how much has been transported to Jingtong Second Warehouse?" Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Tiqian, and the other party bowed in response:
"Return to Your Highness, two capitals and thirteen provinces, two capitals and seven provinces have already arrived in Jingtong Ercang, and the remaining six provinces are Huguang, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi."

"There are more than [-] million shi of rice and wheat in the second warehouse of Jingtong, but after counting, [-] million shi of Liaodong Town and [-] million shi of the four northwest towns have to be escorted."

"So, there's not much left..." Zhu Youjian pouted, lowered his head and continued to look.

All kinds of banknotes, yarn, salt transportation, etc. make people's eyes blurred, but Zhu Youjian quickly added them together, and finally got an accurate data.

The income from the six ministries plus the five monasteries, as well as domestic funds, has received a total of 754 taels this year.

Adding these and the additional silver, the total is more than twelve million taels of silver.

"not bad……"

Looking at the tax, Zhu Youjian is very satisfied. Anyway, with this tax, it is estimated that Tianqi will not be in arrears for two years.

"How much silver and rice did I approve to go out just now?" Zhu Youjian looked sideways at Wang Tigan, and Wang Tigan responded with shame:

"I approved [-] taels of silver, and [-] shi of rice and wheat..."

"..." Hearing this, Zhu Youjian couldn't hold back anymore, and he was very happy to co-author the approval just now, but it turned out that Daming had already spent a lot of taxes this year.

"Ahem... In a few days, I will ask Cheng En to send three million taels of domestic money." With an embarrassing response, Zhu Youjian continued to bow his head to deal with the memorial.

While dealing with it, he went over Daming's situation in his mind.

Looking at it now, I have already approved the military pay for the four towns in the northwest next year, the food for the four towns and Liaodong Town, and the salaries owed by civil servants for two years.

What is still missing is next year's military pay for the Beijing camp, next year's military pay for Liaodong Town, next year's salary for the Jinyiwei, and next year's salary for civil servants.

How much do these add up to?

Zhu Youjian suddenly felt guilty, and after going through it in his mind, he probably calculated a sum.

[-] million taels, [-] million shi of grain...

"Is it time to abolish the Beijing camp..."

As soon as the amount to be spent was figured out, Hungry's idea came into play immediately.

But after thinking about it, he still thought it was okay.

It is a relatively cost-effective expenditure to temporarily stabilize Xungui with an annual expenditure of more than [-] taels.

At present, he has offended civil servants rather harshly, and the financial problem is also improving a little bit. Offending Xungui to death is a bit outweighed.

It will be much easier to deal with the Jingying and Tianxiawei after the matter on the Nine Sides is over.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian put down the memorandum after he finished his meal, pinched the center of his eyebrows, and felt a little dizzy.

Counting the Yumajian, the land tax of the Ming Dynasty this year should be [-] million shi, plus [-] million taels of silver in cash.

If you want to compare, if the land tax is divided into five hundred and one stone grains in Beizhili, the total should be [-] million taels, which is equivalent to the tax in the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi.

As far as the population in the [-]th year of Kangxi was concerned, including the hidden households, there would not be more than [-] million people, but the tax revenue reached more than [-] million taels.

Daming's current population, in terms of normal tax collection, should fluctuate between [-] million and [-] million taels.

The reason why the tax has now reached [-] million taels of silver is because the [-] million mu of military farmland harvested this autumn is collected according to the Sanqi method.

If this batch of military farmland is taxed according to the agricultural tax of [-] to [-], then the income will only be more than one million taels of silver.

The tax collection method of the Qing Dynasty is not advisable. If it is really collected according to that kind, the photos of the people in the late Qing Dynasty will look like the people of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

However, the agricultural land tax has been collected too much, and the burden on the people is too heavy.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian is planning to let the Ming Dynasty state-run salt and iron tea and wine, and even the future trade east of Malacca, will be Ming Dynasty state-run.

Private trade can be done, buy goods from Malacca, the price is 20% lower than that of people from other countries, and then go to the sea to the west of Malacca and run slowly.

Anyway, as long as these things are state-run, even if the people will be embarrassed by the state-run additional taxes on various commodities in the future, they will not starve to death.

What to do in the future can improve the lives and spirits of the people, and we still have to wait until that step is reached...

(End of this chapter)