Wanli Xinming

Chapter 127 Arguments
As expected by Zhang Juzheng, the emperor was not angry at all after Jia San went up to the memorial.On the contrary, he criticized the memorial and ordered the courtiers to discuss the affairs of the sea and water, "Anyone who is beneficial to state affairs can speak freely."

After Jia Sanjin's memorial was circulated, the already noisy imperial court was more like a ladle of water being poured into a hot oil pan. In a short period of time, anyone who felt that they were qualified to speak in the court would submit it.

Because Jia Sanjin "I think that there is a way for barbarians in the world, so I can take Jiuzhe Saka safely; people have Shenling and Jiang Gui to survive, why should I try to order Wufu to gou in case?" All cite this point of view to say that shipping is not feasible.For a time, Jia San was in the limelight.

However, there were also many insightful people in the court who realized the huge advantages of shipping.Therefore, when the emperor dismissed the memorial of the Ministry of Housing and asked it to be repeated, the voices supporting the shipping gradually increased.Although more than those who cannot support Hecao, it also has a lot of momentum.

In September of the third year of Wanli, Hanlin wrote a memorial of Luo Wanhua, which nearly refuted Jia San's body, and made the opponents of shipping up and down the court temporarily speechless.

Luo Wanhua's memorial does not have the gorgeous words of the former champion scroll, and the core content is three tables.The content of the first table is the statistics of the grain transported by sea by the Yuan court during the period from the Yuan Dynasty to the 20th year of the Yuan Dynasty to the 46th year of the second year of the Tianli calendar.

The table is divided into five columns, the first column is the year, the second column is the departure volume, the third column is the arrival volume, the fourth column is the loss volume, and the last column is the loss ratio.

The highest attrition rate was in the fourth year of Haicao. Due to typhoons, the attrition rate reached a quarter. In the rest of the years, the attrition rate was mostly below 5.00%.

From the second year of Yanyou to the first year of Tianli, due to the progress of the shipbuilding industry in the Yuan Dynasty, the ship became stronger and stronger, and the number of crew members was greatly reduced-the loss dropped to an astonishing one percent for more than ten consecutive years.

The lowest year was the second year of Zhizhi, when 320 shi were shipped, and it reached 140 shi, the loss was 320%!
In the memorial, Luo Wanhua calculated the average loss ratio of shipping in the 46 years of the Yuan Dynasty: [-]%.

After this table was drawn, Luo Wanhua listed a second table, which was about [-]-[-]% on average for the loss of grain transported by sea to Liaodong and Beijing in the early days of Taizu and Chengzu. It's really not good with the sea ships in the early days of Chengzu.

Luo Wanhua emphasized that the loss data of Wang Zongmu's trial of sea water in the six years of Longqing was also a slight nod by [-]% - at this time Wang Zongmu used a professional sea boat.

The third is the water transportation loss form for transporting grain by canal. The format is the same as the previous form, and it is also counted as shipment volume and arrival volume.This loss ratio-it's almost invisible.From the 14th year of Yongle to Wanli, the consumption of water transport in the river was about twice that of the arrival amount, that is, 400 million shi per year for water transport tasks, but the canal and the people on both sides of the bank had to eat 800 million shi!

Since there was a style of memorials, Luo Wanhua is probably the first time he has made a breakthrough, and he has drawn tables in the memorials.These three tables, together with a few words, easily pointed out a fact that everyone knew but ignored, and fully exposed the inefficiency of the Ming court's use of the river.

Luo Wanhua finally argued in the memorial: "Whoever sees these three tables does not need to discuss the use of the sea and the river."

"After becoming an ancestor, there were endless discussions about the resumption of shipping. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong, Qiu Jun entered the "Supplement to the Expansion of the Great Learning", saying that shipping would be beneficial for all ages. During the reign of Emperor Sejong, there were many fortunes, and the discussion of resuming shipping became vigorous. But why? Can’t be prosperous? When the government follows the old rules, I dare not break it and then stand up!”

"The first emperor's cave opened the customs because of the source of evil. It has been several years since Haiyan Boping. The pirates disappeared and the Japanese pirates were less. Hecao 12 shi per year is for emergency use, and the rest is all used for Haicao!"

This memorial that uses data to speak is too powerful, and the officials who fought against Haicao led by Jia Sanjin were defeated.

Immediately, just as Zhang Juzheng had expected, Jia Sanjin published a book titled "Reporting things in a table is beneficial to governance" at a lightning-quick speed. .

Jia Sanjin scolded himself in the memorial, and asked the emperor not to say the punishment. He also suggested to the emperor that in the future, all the ministries should report the memorial, and if they could explain it in a table, they would use a table-to flatter Luo Wanhua, saying that he was An example of implementing the emperor's "seeking truth from facts" policy program.

This coquettish operation almost broke the waists of the courtiers, and the impatient one almost rolled up his sleeves and beat him.And when Jia San met people, he said: "Knowing mistakes can be corrected, and doing good things is great."

Because Jia Sanjin's model memorial did not involve the issue of Caojun and Ding on both sides of the canal, so few objections focused on these two matters.

At this time, the opponents changed their focus again, and it was too late.Because the emperor has already criticized Jia Sanjin's memorial, he has generously forgave his disrespectful remarks before, and highly appreciates the view that "statement of affairs is beneficial to governance", and requires everyone to write memorials in the same way as Luo Wanhua. Use the form more than once.

This is of course true, but it is too late to investigate the living conditions of the Caojun, Tuentian and Yunding.Everyone was in a trance when Wang Guoguang from the cabinet came with another book.

This book is called "A Proclamation that the Provinces Involved in Cao Cao Set Up Their Own Customs to Collect Commercial Taxes to Supplement the People's Strength". The main meaning is this. My Wang Zongmu and Luo Wanhua agree with the proposal of reopening Hai Cao Cao, but the canal cannot be abolished. , which is a pity.

What to do?In the provinces involved in the canal, you will repair the canals within your jurisdiction, and then the imperial court will allow you to set customs taxes according to the tax rate set by the imperial court. This river crossing tax, the imperial court does not want a cent, and it is all at your own disposal to compensate for the exhaustion of the imperial court over the years. The provincial people's strength, and this cost is also used to ensure the daily maintenance of the canal.

After this book was uploaded, Zhu Yijun didn't delay for a day, and it was immediately published in the newspaper.Now the whole world is in turmoil.The political envoys and transport envoys from the provinces involved in Cao Cao immediately submitted their papers, and they all said that Comrade Wang Guoguang is good. He is the most lovely person in the cabinet.

All local officials involved in Cao can think that if the Hai Cao is changed, the days when the central subsidy can be obtained by opening the canal in the past will be gone forever.Nonetheless, as this dynasty's anti-corruption efforts are getting stronger and stronger, the risk of earning this black money with one's head is getting higher and higher. If there is a low-risk way to make money, who would use the old tricks?
These local officials were thinking about this when they saw the memorial of Wang Guoguang published in the Di Bao newspaper. Well, it was the former common comrade-in-arms Comrade Wang Guoguang, the most caring!

The provinces that are not involved in water transportation are also very interested.One after another, they asked me whether I would repair some water conservancy facilities in the country and then charge a toll.The court replied of course no, only the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal can charge.

Of course, the court has included the construction of infrastructure such as water conservancy facilities and road facilities into the focus of performance appraisal, and the ranking is above culture and education, and the weight is listed second, only behind people's livelihood security.If the local officials have repaired the roads and rivers in the territory, the performance evaluation can be counted. Needless to say.

With Luo Wanhua's first book and Jia San's recent rebellion against the water, Wang Guoguang's first book and three axes came down, and the momentum of opposing the shipping became somewhat untenable.

There are a few hard-headed officials in Shizhong and Beijing. After all, they brought up Cao Jun and Yun Ding to talk about the matter, and asked the imperial court what to do with the 30 Cao Jun and [-] Yun Ding on both sides of the canal?There are still a large number of peddlers and small people who open restaurants on granaries and wharfs and run tertiary industries.It adds up to millions!

Before waiting for the support of the Haitian faction to answer, Pan Jixun also uploaded the book at this time.

　Well, there's another update in an hour.As compensation for tonight's change.

　　In addition, I recommend a book by a friend who has a dream: "Take the Warehouse to the End of the Ming Dynasty", the author is a thousand miles away, and it is still free, you can go and read it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)