Can you live forever

Chapter 394 Equalizing the Land and Exempting Taxes, Eliminating Expansion
Donglin Lecture Hall.

Xu Jie watched more than 2000 students specially conduct exercises to welcome him, the "mountain leader". Officers, so they get started very quickly, and this drill is quite decent.

But Xu Jie's mind is not in the military academy.

After entering the era of hot weapons, war is basically a battle of national power. With the completion of Juntian, Xu Jie is not afraid to tell the new army the essence of the war.

For the common people, it is nothing more than a question of whether the land should be returned to the public or private.

Most people in Jiangnan have already obtained land, even if they bought it with a loan, but the land belongs to private individuals. In their concept, it can be passed down from generation to generation, and future generations will have food to eat.

As for the loan, there is no interest, so it is not a problem at all to repay it sooner or later.

But according to the equalization of land in the north, that is, the land is owned by the public, and the village community has the final say. do not know?
Even if he can live in peace for a while, can he live in peace for the rest of his life?
Once the officials are restored to their original state, will everyone still have their share in this field?Shouldn't the tenant be the tenant?

and so.

Under the propaganda of public opinion and awareness, the people in the south of the Yangtze River are unwilling to return their land to the public. In their view, this war is a war to protect their own homeland.

Thanks to Xu Jie's means and management, he finally got the actual support of Jiangnan on the surface, and he was able to start a civil war with the imperial court in an upright manner.

And since it is a war, it is a battle of national power.

The prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River is not comparable to that of the North. Rather, in the eyes of the gentry in the South of the Yangtze River, the North is a land that loses money. Otherwise, the Northern Song Dynasty would not have suffered the shame of Jingkang and sold the North.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang, he became the only founding king in history who succeeded in the Northern Expedition and ruled the world.

That's because by the time of the Song Dynasty, China's center of gravity had completely shifted to the Jiangnan generation, and the south had completely overwhelmed the north in terms of population, economy, knowledge and technology.

Daming has a population of 8000 million, half of which are in Jiangnan.

In a narrow sense, Jiangnan only has Nanzhili, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and more, including Huguang, which already has half the population of Ming Dynasty. In fact, the area controlled by Nanjing also includes Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Sichuan.

Nanjing actually holds [-]% or nearly [-]% of the population of Ming Dynasty.

The population in the north is mainly concentrated in the Central Plains and Shandong. Although the rest of the places are large, they are sparsely populated. Due to climate problems, the precipitation line is difficult to move. In the first generation of Guanzhong in Shanxi, the potential for population development is really limited. Although the population is larger than that in the Tang and Song Dynasties, this is already The limit of more than 100 years in Taiping has reached the limit. If the west is added up, it will be just over 2000 million.

The population is small, but there are long borders, and huge military expenditures must be maintained.

Therefore.

From Jiangnan's point of view, the north has always been a money-losing place, and it is economically the most cost-effective to throw it away, but due to geographical factors, half of the country in the south of the Yangtze River is difficult to defend.

Fortunately... In this war, there is no need to defend the long Yangtze River defense line, and there is no need to worry about defending the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, let alone going out of Kuimen from Sichuan and Shu, and don't need to worry about the same mediation tactics as Mongolia did back then. Earth attack.

Even if the Xu family lost their sea rights, Nanyang is now the court's final say, and there is no need to worry about the attack on Guangdong, Guangxi and Min.

The war was limited to the waters of Ryukyu, Fusang, and Korea, as well as the coast from Songjiang Prefecture to Wenzhou.

to this end.

Nanjing deliberately allowed the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas to move to the sea, and the people left the coast for [-] miles, but it was different from the Qing Dynasty's move to the sea, which immediately burned houses to drive people away, and massacred wantonly, so that more than half of the population in the southeast coast was lost.

The move to the sea led by Xu Jie allowed the coastal residents to be properly resettled, settled in the land, and subsidized the silver taels, but there was no complaint.

The capital and Nanjing also tacitly did not exchange fire during that time, waiting for the battlefield to vacate.

and so.

In this "Japanese Bandit Rebellion", the battlefields were mainly naval battles and offshore land battles. The navy spent more money than the army. Although the Wang family replaced the Xu family, their strength was far from enough. Zhoushan Shipyard.

If you can't capture Zhoushan as soon as possible, you can only sit and watch Nanjing become stronger and stronger.

The imperial court basically has no shipbuilding capabilities, especially sea-going ships. The Wang family has tried to operate shipyards over the years, but during the Yizhou battle, Xu Hai had already burned everything that should have been burned, and the Wang family only kept technicians and craftsmen.

It is very difficult to build a ship from scratch, and it would be nice to be able to guarantee the repair capability as soon as possible.

Therefore, it will be difficult for the Wang family to increase for a long time in the future, but Nanjing can continue to produce new ships.

From a strategic point of view.

The strength of Jiangnan is far from being comparable to that of the imperial court. The public deposits of the Nanjing Parliament have exceeded [-] million taels in recent years, although this batch of silver needs to be continuously invested to make money.

But at critical moments, it can always be used.

On the other side of the capital, Jiajing just finished fighting Annan, and the finances are not enough. They also need to train new troops, reform the military system, build railways, build roads, and invest in schools...

If not for the Royal Bank, there would be financial sovereignty.

The imperial court couldn't hold on for a long time, but the fiscal deficit was also horribly large.

Arguably.

Jiajing couldn't afford to fight the Civil War, but financial sovereignty is really easy to use...

At the end of the play, Xu Jie said to Zhan Ruoshui next to him when he was visiting the lecture hall, "This year, the imperial court's currency has exceeded 7000 million coins. Oh, it has been restructured now, and it is 700 billion treasure notes."

"It should have caused severe inflation, but due to the equalization of the land, the tax was exempted."

"Using the village community as a unit, update farm tools, overhaul houses, invest heavily in production, exchange more agricultural output for currency, and use currency to order agricultural machinery that has not yet been officially put into production."

"The currency has a reservoir, there are sufficient materials to trade in the market, and the industry has funds again."

"In fact, farmers have suffered losses, but prices have also stabilized."

"Because of economic means, the court's room for maneuvering is basically exhausted, but now through financial sovereignty, currency reform, and the pegging of banknotes to gold, silver has become scrap iron. Even if Jiangnan does not abandon silver for a while, silver will face a huge depreciation."

"One ebbs and another, the Civil War is not so easy to fight."

Zhan Ruoshui knew the power of currency hegemony, but he didn't think he could just sit back and wait. He asked, "The imperial court pegged precious banknotes to gold, and with so many precious banknotes on the market, it is impossible for the imperial court to have sufficient gold."

"We only need to run it to bankrupt the banknotes and lose their credibility."

Xu Jie sneered and said, "How do you treat the court's disobedience?"

Zhan Ruoshui said: "Isn't that just right? It means that the court did not believe what it said, so naturally no one will use the precious banknotes."

Xu Jie shook his head and said, "Whether gold, silver and copper are used as currency, or banknotes, what kind of anchor is used, in fact, in the final analysis, there is one thing, power."

"The anchor is chosen by the court. As long as the power and sovereignty are still there, the court has the ability to replace the anchor."

"To destroy money, essentially destroy his power."

"The imperial court can refuse large-scale gold exchanges by directly saying 'malicious run'. For private exchanges, it can be liberalized to ease the hearts of the people. If we organize a run, the facts will come first, and only the Jinyiwei will be dispatched. This large-scale organization , the evidence is conclusive, how can it shake the credibility?"

　One more chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)