I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 447 Follow-up
"Money~"

"It's all money..."

As for the more than 1000 officials who were so embarrassingly corrupt that Liu Sheng wanted to forgive him, Liu Sheng had no conscience at all.

How exaggerated are these people?
Take one of the most typical people as an example: the magistrate of a small county in Hanzhong County, whose surname is Qian.

At the very beginning, the reason why the magistrate of this small county was noticed by the court was that he held an annual salary of six hundred shi and supported dozens of people in the county government. As a result, he was an official for 17 years and bought a full seven Hundred acres of land!

You must know that the Han Dynasty has already left the era of Emperor Taizu Gao's era of "the price of cabbage per mu of land, if you are willing to plant it, you will have a field for you";

Now, if you want to buy three to five acres of land in the border of Guanzhong, if it is not a saline-alkali land that has been washed away, or a field that has been cultivated continuously for many years, resulting in loss of land fertility, you must need tens of thousands of dollars.

In some remote places, the price is lower, and the price per mu is about [-] to [-] yuan per mu;

With the Wei River as the boundary, the price of fields in the Weibei area doubled on this basis, and the Weinan area fluctuated in a small range on this basis.

As the geographical position gets closer to Chang'an, the land price will rise more and more, just like the capitals of Beijing and Magic in later generations.

Liu Sheng recently asked someone specifically: Now, within a hundred miles from Chang'an, the fertile land in Weibei has already been priced at more than [-] yuan per mu!

Understand the market conditions, and look at the small county magistrate in Hanzhong, who has accumulated [-] acres of land after more than ten years as an official. What kind of concept is this?
——Even in the corner of Kanto, the [-] mu of land is still worth millions of dollars!

In the past 17 years, what was the total salary of the county magistrate?

The annual salary is six hundred shi, and in 17 it is 17 shi. According to the average price of grain in Guanzhong in the past 80 years, it is worth about [-] yuan.

In this way, the cause of this person's death can be seen at a glance.

In the past 17 years, the total legal income of this county magistrate exceeded the value of the [-] acres of land;
The normal situation should be: the salary received in the past 17 years is probably only enough for the county magistrate to maintain the household and family expenses for about ten years, and the remaining seven years are vacancies. The county magistrate should have found elders or wives Relief.

Calculating inside and out, regardless of the extravagant spending of the county magistrate due to corruption, just looking at the difference between income, expenditure and surplus assets, the amount of corruption in the county magistrate in the past 17 years was as high as 200 million yuan above.

After mastering this information, Lang Zhong ordered the embroidered clothes envoy led by Zhou Ren to quickly dispatch to the county to find out the truth;

As a result, on the first day they arrived, before they even had time to arrange their accommodation—even before they got off their horses and had a hot meal, the embroidered clothes messengers had a piece of evidence that would kill the county magistrate's entire family.

--horse.

When the county magistrate went out, there were four tall horse-drawn carts.

According to the market price, these four horses are worth about 120 gold, which is worth more than 120 million yuan;

In the county government's list of public goods, there are no four horses that are specially responsible for pulling carts for the county magistrate.

In short: This civil servant who has received a total salary of 17 yuan in 80 years actually has 120 million yuan in spare money to buy private transportation.

Converted to future generations, this is roughly equivalent to a senior cadre who owns a supercar worth about 40 million at the age of about 500.

No one would say: well, this department-level cadre is fine, and his income can support him to have this level of spending power.

Everything that happened after that was like a flood breaking a bank, completely out of control.

——Cars and horses used for going out, mansions, houses, manors for living;
Shops, properties, and overt and secret properties distributed in the place of employment and hometown;
Copper coins, gold cakes, and even all kinds of valuable rare treasures can be found by flipping through them casually.

In the end, Tingwei came to a conclusion for this case: this is the biggest corruption among the corruption cases that Tingwei has handled since the Han Dynasty!
The total amount of corruption and bribery has reached a shocking 500 million yuan after a rough valuation, which is 100 million shi when converted into grain, and converted into this person's annual salary, which is the salary of this person for more than 600 years... ···
With this "the first huge corruption since the Han Dynasty" and "a model of small officials' huge corruption" to kick off this large-scale anti-corruption and anti-corruption, Ting Wei's follow-up actions naturally have a lot of confidence.

With Chang'an as the center and Guanzhong as the entire scope of governance, in just a few months, thousands of local county and county officials whose corruption levels reached "heinous" surfaced.

Among them, there are four county prefects, seven county captains, nearly a hundred local county magistrates, hundreds of local county magistrates and county lieutenants, and hundreds of hundred-shi and two-hundred-shi level assistant officials. .

With Liu Shengna's words of "kill without pardon" as his confidence, Zhao Yu also revealed his true qualities of a cruel official for the first time.

——From the prefect and captain of the county with two thousand shi, to the petty official with a hundred shi, no matter who came to intercede for them, Zhao Yu would just leave a sentence: You can go to His Majesty to intercede in person, and I will do it. no owner;

Must go~
Because whether you go or not, I will tell His Majesty: You have come to intercede for so-and-so.

In the beginning, someone did approach Liu Sheng.

Instead of interceding for those idiots, he put eye drops on Zhao Yu in front of Liu Sheng, saying that Zhao Yu was "favoured and delicate", which was a bit of a sycophantic attitude.

But after Liu Sheng mercilessly rewarded some of them with a board, these voices subsided.

Zhao Yu, who finally got relaxed working conditions, was fully fired, and the strictness of law enforcement was also tightened.

When the whole anti-corruption campaign came to an end, Zhao Yu submitted a list of nearly 2000 people to Liu Sheng.

According to Zhao Yu's suggestion, these nearly 2000 people are all extremely typical cases of 'the amount of corruption is particularly huge, the circumstances of the crime are particularly serious, and the social impact is particularly bad';

The judicial suggestion given by Zhao Yu is to hold a three-month "cutting in half festival" outside the two cities of Chang'an, from Xia Wuyue to autumn, and use their blood to dye the streets of Chang'an red, as officials of the world. Alarm bells ringing in my heart.

Because he was prepared for Zhao Yu's decisiveness, Liu Sheng was inevitably taken aback by Zhao Yu's suggestion, and hurriedly rejected Zhao Yu's proposal on the grounds that 'Chang'an Imperial Capital is so inappropriate'.

In the end, the 'Cut in Half Festival' that Zhao Yu originally scheduled to be held outside the two cities was downgraded to the Beheading Festival on the West Bank of Bashui.

More than 1000 heads mean the fragmentation of more than 1000 families and the vacancies of more than 1000 senior officials;
But what Liu Sheng saw was only money...

"These more than 1000 vacancies, no matter how they are filled, are not a small expense."

"As soon as the salary of the officials has been increased, it is necessary to spend money to appoint officials..."

"It's all money..."

"If you are not in charge of the family, you will not know that daily necessities are expensive..."

Feeling so emotional, Liu Sheng moved his gaze to the side, looking at the summary report submitted by the Shaofu.

In recent years, Liu Sheng has spent a lot of money.

Looking at the amount alone, Liu Sheng spent so much money after he succeeded to the throne that the two ancestors, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xian Xiaojing, would have blown their beards and stared at them and scolded Liu Sheng for being unfilial to their descendants.

But regardless of the amount, there is not a single amount of money that Liu Sheng spent over the years that should not be spent.

——The battle of Mayi, shouldn't it be fought?

The answer is obviously no.

Even without considering the strategic significance of the Battle of Mayi between the Han and Hungarians, the practical significance alone is necessary for Liu Sheng and the Han family.

Since it is necessary to fight, then the money is naturally necessary.

After the money for the war has been paid, the money after the war - providing for the widows, the disabled, and heroes, rewarding meritorious soldiers, etc. Of course, we can't be stingy.

Lin Lin finally calculated that the money spent on a Mayi battle was almost the sum of the necessary expenditures in the palace during the reigns of the first emperors Wen and Jing.

But this money, Liu Sheng can't save...
Besides, when it comes to the internal expenditure of the palace, Liu Sheng is not so extravagant compared with the two generations of previous emperors Wen Jing.

However, the funeral of the late emperor, and the dismissal of concubines from the late emperor's harem, also became a huge expense in Liu Shengyi's reign.

——In the past few years, Guantao princess Liu whoring has really put too many women beside the late emperor Liu Qi.

Liu Sheng didn't feel it in the early years, and it had nothing to do with him anyway.

But when the old man passed away and it was Liu Sheng's turn to pay for them, Liu Sheng reacted belatedly: not only did he get the old man's inheritance - the throne, but he also got something called responsibility.

And responsibility, in most cases, means greater expenses and expenses...
"I have to find a way to make more money..."

"Otherwise, Emperor Taizong and the former Emperor's rule of Wen Jing would not be able to hold me back like this..."

Muttering like this, Liu Sheng instinctively pressed the pad of his right index finger to the lower edge of his lower lip, rubbed it lightly, and then fell into thinking again.

Today's financial revenue structure of the Han Dynasty is very friendly to the people of the world;

But for the court itself, the era of taxation as the main fiscal revenue had already passed when Liu Sheng came to the throne, and even the first emperor Liu Qi succeeded to the throne.

What is the order of magnitude and proportion of taxes in the financial revenue of the central government of the Han Dynasty?
——Today, the total population of the Han Dynasty is about 700-600 million, with more than [-] million households;

Calculated on the basis of 6000 mu of land per household, an average yield of three shi per mu, an agricultural tax of [-] yuan, and an oral tax of [-] qian per person per year, the current agricultural tax and oral tax income of the Han Dynasty are [-] million shi for grain and rice, and five yuan for money. absolutely.

As for the proportion, Liu Sheng can only say: fortunately, he makes money well.

Because the 6000 million shi of grain and [-] million yuan in taxes are actually only enough for the Chang'an Central Committee to maintain the administrative operations of all parts of the world and the distribution of official salaries.

Especially under the premise that Liu Sheng decided to double the salaries of officials and increase the maintenance fund, and the Han family had entered the era of strategic attack, the taxation of the Han family could no longer afford the administrative operation and the salary expenditure of civil servants.

As early as the time of Prince Sheng, Liu Sheng began to deploy in the southeast coast, drying the sea to get salt in the Jiangdu country of the fifth brother Liu Fei.

Although the salt and iron official operation is still far away, at least with the large income of salt, the expenditure and income of the court treasury in the past few years have barely reached a balance.

In other words: After Liu Sheng succeeded to the throne, the huge savings accumulated by the two former emperors, Taizong and Xiaojing, for the decisive battle between Liu Sheng and the Huns did not actually decrease.

But for the emperor, having money in his pocket is a sense of security in his heart;
Not to mention a reduction - just a slowdown in the growth rate is enough to make a qualified emperor feel uncomfortable or even uneasy.

Especially now, the treasury of the Han family under the control of Liu Sheng is not just "slowing down the growth rate of treasury savings", but has almost completely stagnated!

Thinking of this, some things that Liu Sheng had been thinking about before, but never made up his mind, gradually surfaced...
"The Jiangdu country of the fifth brother can be used as the main distribution area of ​​salt fields, and it is specially used for drying and making salt."

"It's time for Yantie's official camp to be gradually laid out—at least Yantie needs to be government-run."

Liu Sheng has experience in this matter.

——Now the Han Dynasty, at least in the Guanzhong area, has basically achieved official grain management.

With this lesson learned or 'precedent' and 'experience', it is not too difficult to carry out the same official monopoly on salt, which is also a daily necessities of the people.

"As for iron, I'm afraid it will still be produced in the land of Bashu."

"But Bashu is the land of fish and rice, the world's granary. If Bashu is turned into a mess, I'm afraid there will be food problems..."

Today, the grain production areas of the Han Dynasty are mainly Bashu, Guanzhong and Weibei, and a few areas in the Kanto region.

Among them, the proportion of mass production in the Bashu region has reached a jaw-dropping [-]% or more.

——In the whole world, the Bashu area alone accounts for [-]% of the surplus grain that can be exported to other places after self-sufficiency!
Such an area - such a 'granary', Liu Sheng was really reluctant to let it be filled with the miasma of blast furnace ironmaking.

In other words: In order to promote the "iron" item in the Yantie official camp, the first thing Liu Sheng needs to do is to find a suitable iron and steel making base.

In this matter, Liu Sheng also focused on his elder brothers.

"Brother has been in Linjiang for these years, he seems to be a bit free;"

"Second brother is in Hejian, and he has had enough of his wife's addiction..."

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"The fourth brother became the king of Lu. He traveled around the mountains and rivers all day long, hunted and played games, and was very happy;"

"Although Sixth Brother's Changsha country is poor, the place is really not small..."

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"Zhao Guo, the seventh brother, may also consider using it;"

"As for the starlings, they are in Qidi..."

"The industry and commerce of Qidi..."

Thinking of the end, a word that didn't appear in Liu Sheng's mind very much before finally made Liu Sheng grin the corners of his mouth slightly.

"Business Tax..."

"Travel tax······"

···
"Ah;"

"Empress Lu's Jin Bulu..."

(End of this chapter)