Daming: Wanted to be a small landlord, but was forced to ascend the throne

Chapter 398
"Are you short of money? I have given you the keys to the things in the palace treasury. I will fully support what you want to do..."

When Zhu Youtang saw his son talking about money, his eyes were a little dazed, as if he was thinking about something, and he felt distressed, so he said it directly.

From the moment he discussed with Qin Shao about his early death, he had already transferred all the property of the palace to his son to take care of it, but his son didn't know anything about it now.

Although Zhu Youtang had been keeping himself out of it all these years, of course he knew about the situation in the Great Ming Dynasty Hall.

The national treasury is empty, the country supports a large number of clans, there are soldiers at the border, and there are all kinds of extravagant and wasteful expenses in the palace, all of which have caused the emptiness of the national treasury.

Not only is the emperor poor, but the imperial court is also poor.

It is not easy to change this situation.

"It's okay, don't worry, I don't need it for the time being. If the holes have to be filled with family money, no one will be enough!"

Qin Shao laughed.

"I want to eat!"

What else did Zhu Youjiu want to say, Zhu Zaihou came over with his fat calf, grabbed Qin Shao and yelled.

Qin Shao could only talk to his father after dinner, so he took his son to the hall to have the New Year's Eve dinner.

Today is the New Year's Eve, and it is basically necessary to watch the year. Qin Shao still has a bunch of things to do tomorrow.

So their New Year's Eve dinner was eaten early, and after eating, Han Jinrong took the children to stay in the manor, and Qin Shao had to rush back.

There is a big difference in diet between the north and the south.

Although Zhu Youzhu has lived in the capital for more than ten years, he has been a feudal clan since he was a teenager, and he has been in Huguang for decades, and his food has basically been regarded as a southern appetite.

The old concubine is a northerner's diet.

Qin Shao lived close to the north in his previous life, but he also went to work in the south for a period of time. As a young man, his diet is a blend of north and south.

As for Han Jinrong, although she is from the south, because of fleeing and living with Qin Shao for the past few years, her diet has become a blend of North and South.

Therefore, their New Year's Eve dinner is also a fusion of north and south. There are dumplings that the concubine likes to eat, and glutinous rice balls that Zhu Youzhu likes.

The New Year's Eve dinner was arranged by Han Jinrong. Before coming to the manor, the cook and servants had already made preparations.

I'd rather marry a maid from a rich family than a girl from a poor family!
In fact, it's not that people are bad, but in the final analysis, it's a matter of knowledge and doing things.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the old concubine took her maids and maids and children to watch the fireworks display, and Han Jinrong took the servants to pack their things.

Qin Shao and Zhu Youzhu went to the side study to talk.

"There is no money in the private treasury. After the new year, I will have to pay taxes in the first quarter, and then the temporary problem will naturally be resolved. At present, if you need it, you can use the money at home..."

Zhu Youtang thought that his son was worried about the lack of money in the private treasury.

"It's okay, don't worry, I still have money. It's not a matter of needing money at the moment. It's because there are too many people in the palace, and the cost is too high. It will take a while to reduce the number of people..."

Qin Shao didn't expect that Zhu Youzhu was still worried that he had no money to use.

This is the real father, who really contributes to things!

However, he will never use his own private money to fill those holes at will. The holes cannot be filled, and it will not solve the root cause of the problem.

Emperor Chongzhen used his own private treasury to subsidize the state treasury. As a result, the imperial court experienced a shortage of various kinds of money, and they all began to ask the emperor for it, which made Chongzhen a pauper!

The rules are there, and how much tax money to collect is naturally considered. If it is not enough, it will naturally be resolved internally.

As for the transition period, he would naturally not use the property left by Zhu Youzhu.

His own real private money is currently quite a lot.

As for the land of himself and the Wangfu, the current annual income is not small, as well as the sales of pickles in the shops and the salt land.

Now he invests in the Hongfu sea trade, this time the youngest son brought back a lot of bank notes!
Shipping really makes money!

This is also the reason why he wants to release Gu Dayong, of course not only because of money, of course it is for more plots in the follow-up.

"Have you checked the situation at the treasury, Xi'er, it's not that easy to be the king of a country. It's not that Xiaozong and Wuzong don't work hard, it's just that the Ming Dynasty..."

Zhu Youzhu's tone was heavy.

In fact, the moment Zhu Youzhao knew that his son was going to be the emperor, he was naturally happy at first, but then he was endlessly worried.

As a vassal, he naturally understands the various situations of the Ming Dynasty.

He witnessed the journey of his father, elder brother and nephew as emperor, and understood their mission and involuntary control.

Especially the final ending of my nephew...

Zhu Youzhu was very worried. At the beginning, he even had a son who didn't want to be the emperor. What's the harm in being the prince of Xiaoyao in Anlu Prefecture for a lifetime?

He, Zhu Youzhu, has only one child.

But he also knew his son's ambition and ability, even though he said at the beginning that he only wanted to be a happy little landlord, and even said that he wanted to travel all over the land of Ming Dynasty.

His ambition is not high, but his character and behavior are destined to not be a person who is content with the status quo and follows the rules.

His character is not suitable to be a law-abiding subject at all, his thoughts are too free, and to realize his free thoughts, unless he, like Tai Zu, masters the Great Ming Dynasty...

From the moment he planned to fake his death, Zhu Youzhu knew that his son was ambitious.

He sent the three clans of the Yang family to the guillotine, never to turn over, and the three elders of the cabinet fell in an instant. Zhu Youzhang had only seen this kind of method in the ancestors Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.

He was delighted, but of course he couldn't help worrying.

My son is still very young, so maybe he is good at fighting wars and moving those old guys down, but to manage the great Ming Dynasty well, he must seize the power of the economy.

Qin Shao nodded, indicating that he had seen the general situation.

After Qin Shao at the private treasury got to know it clearly, he also read the general information of the state treasury, and the situation was not optimistic.

In the seventh year of Zhengtong, after the emperor's private treasury was completely independent, the Ming treasury mainly consisted of five parts;

Taiku of the Ministry of Households;

Changying Library in Taipu Temple;
Jieshen Library of Guanglu Temple;
Bank of the household department in Nanjing.

The Taicang Warehouse is managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs. It consists of grain depots and silver depots. It is mainly located in Shangjing and Tongzhou. Today, there are more than [-] warehouses.

The main storage of the grain depot is of course grain, and the grain in Taicang warehouse is mainly for the capital to eat.

Every year, Huguang, Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi and other places will transport 400 shi of grain to Taicang warehouse for storage.

In the past, there were 500 million stones, but because of the riots and deserted houses in the past few years, it was reduced to 400 stones.

Qin Shao asked people to investigate and found that the Taicang granary has now accumulated a grain inventory of 1200 million shi.

When Zhang Cong and the others sent people to look at the warehouse, they found that a lot of grain had rotted, and there were many rats gathering in the granary, and the food waste was very serious.

When there is no food to eat in the local famine, a large amount of grain in the granary in the capital is spoiled and spoiled, and it is carried by rats, how ridiculous and sad!
Qin Shao understands that famines are frequent in this era, and the upper classes are worried about hunger. To keep the capital safe, it is normal for the capital to stockpile a large amount of food.

It's just a waste of a lot of storage, which is really a pity.

Later, in order to solve this problem, another whip method was used, which resulted in food shortage again.

If the problem of the Taicang grain depot is solved, this is also a problem that Qin Shao will face to solve.

As for the Taicang Bank, it can be regarded as the bulk of the treasury's income.

The main income of Taicang warehouse comes from summer tax, silver exchange for autumn grain, silver exchange for salt tax, household salt banknote, commercial tax, horse grass settlement, silver tax, etc.;

There are also other miscellaneous things, such as copying the property of officials' homes, and atonement money for prisoners.

Qin Shao was very surprised that there were two incomes from Taikuang.

One is a donation case, the name sounds a bit strange.

When Qin Shao looked at it, he thought it was a wealthy businessman who had money to donate to the court.

I lamented in my heart that the quality of the people of Ming Dynasty is high, high.

At that time, he still thought that it would be a great blessing for him to have such subjects!

After watching it carefully, I realized what was going on.

Grandma, isn't this selling officials to make money?
In Ming Dynasty's policies, it is possible to obtain family background and official position through payment of silver and grain openly and aboveboard.

Of course it didn't exist in Zhu Yuanzhang's time. This thing started to appear in the Chenghua period and has been used until now.

Students can enter the Imperial College through Nano.

Qin Shao also knew about this when he was taking the scientific examination, and felt that it was the same as paying a high price to go to school in his previous life.

It's just that this soldier and civilian can get a regular ninth-rank official by paying 250 shi. He really doesn't know about this.

After reading the policies and decrees, I found out that there are express regulations.

Especially nowadays, if you pay 1000 shi for food, you can donate a seventh-rank idle official!

Looking at those records, Qin Shao found that in Huguang and Jiangxi, there were really talented people who paid for food and finally became county magistrates.

Why!At any time, it is easy to do things with money, and money is really a good thing for him!

Qin Shao looked at the income that the imperial court obtained through the donation of officials from the following people to Taikuang last year, which actually reached 15 taels, which is really amazing.

There is also an income from Taikuang, which Qin Shao did not expect.

That is, if monks and Taoist priests preach, they must also have a certificate, which is the so-called qualification certificate. The price of this qualification is not cheap, and a qualification certificate costs five taels of silver.

Qin Shao asked Zhu Youzhu, and learned that he is now preaching under the pseudonym of a Taoist priest, and he also has to pay five taels of silver to obtain a professional qualification certificate.

Looking at Zhu Youzhao's flushed and emaciated face, Qin Shao couldn't laugh or cry.

In the 15th year of Zhengde, the annual income of Taicang was 145 million taels.

There are also several aspects of expenditure in Taiwarehouse.

The first is the annual regulations of Jiubian. In the 15th year of Zhengde, the annual regulations of Jiubian were 50 taels;

Followed by official salary and military pay.These are mainly the salaries of princes and uncles, civil officials in the capital, and soldiers guarding the capital inside and outside.

Zhengde spent 15 taels in 65 years!

The third is to supply the internal library.If the emperor has insufficient money, he will also apply for money from Taikuang.

In order to ask for money, Zhu Houzhao also entangled with the Taicang warehouse of the household department. Although the amount he wanted was not much, there were more than [-] taels.

In addition, it is disaster relief, the price of pigs in Taichang Temple, and rewards to some military officers and envoys from the vassal states.

After all the miscellaneous things, it's not bad to be able to pull the original in Taikuang!

If there is a war, the Nine Sides will provide even more money subsidies, and Taikuang will basically be unable to make ends meet.

The rest of the Jieshen Treasury of the Ministry of Industry, the Bank of Guanglu Temple, and the Bank of Nanjing Household Department seem to have income, but the huge expenses make these treasuries basically unable to make ends meet.

Sometimes there is not enough money, so several warehouses can only borrow money from each other.

You lend me and I lend you, almost becoming a messy account.

Although the several ministers are consistent in their major policies, they have not been pinched because of the problem of bank transfers.

On the contrary, the Chang Ying Treasury in Taipu Temple really lives up to its name. Chang Ying is really profitable. I don't spend much money, but there are quite a few treasuries, including the emperor's private treasury.

Qin Shao is very curious about Chang Yingku, what does this do?

After checking, I found out that Changyingku is an institution specializing in horse administration, which belongs to the Ministry of War.

The reason why Changyingku makes money is by managing the horse business, which is the so-called mutual market.

At the beginning, it was to conduct mutual trade with the Mongolian region and import horses from the Mongolian region into the territory of Daming.

The price of horses imported from Mongolia is relatively low. The top-grade horses only cost [-] taels of silver, the middle ones [-] taels, and the inferior ones even [-] taels.

And these horses are ordinary horses, and they sell for 20 taels of silver when they enter the folks.

The difference in price will naturally become the income of Changyingku.

Of course, in addition to this, because the cost of getting horses from outside is low, the imperial court no longer expropriates horses from horse farmers, and horse farmers only need to pay a discounted silver tael instead.

Therefore, Changyingku not only has the income from horse tax collection, but also earns the price difference from trade, and naturally becomes a relatively wealthy treasury.

It seems that one must be able to make money and be able to do business. Direct tax collection not only increases the burden on the people, but also makes them feel that the tax is heavy and life is difficult.

It's like expropriating grain. Farmers planted a season and handed over more than half of the grain. Although they handed over, they naturally didn't want it in their hearts.

Including some landlords, especially in the wealthy areas of the south of the Yangtze River, in order to pay less taxes, they use various opportunistic methods to evade taxes.

Even though Qin Shao didn't read the materials, he knew that Daming had a huge tax deficit.

You have to find a way!

"Don't be too hasty, let alone reckless! If you are too eager, it will easily cause their counterattack. At that time... the late emperor was too aggressive, and those people will be cruel. Don't think that Yang Tinghe has fallen, Jiang If Mian and the others go down, everything will be fine. Those people are all in a group, without them, there will be others who will come up, and to disintegrate them, you have to take it step by step..."

After all, Zhu Youtang is an old Jianghu, and his views on this aspect are actually consistent with Qin Shao's.

Qin Shao still admires this father, because he has previous life experience, and Zhu Youzhao has surpassed too many people with such insight.

Qin Shao reassured his father and reassured him that he could take care of the old concubine by taking care of his body. As for himself, he would naturally take care of it step by step.

"Father!"

Just as Qin Shao was about to explain to his father, he went back to arrange tomorrow's affairs when Wang Yin's voice sounded outside.

"came back!"

Qin Shao called Wang Yin to come over. There was some dust and grass clippings on his body, and he obviously came over just after he came back.

Han Jinrong also came over when she heard the noise, and asked someone to bring some tea and food over, and asked Wang Yin to talk to Qin Shao while eating and drinking.

"Master, the appearance of that woman and child was indeed premeditated!"

Wang Yin took a sip of hot water, took a breath and said.

"what?"

"The woman and the child heard from others that this is a royal manor. Recently, some nobles lived in the manor. They said it was related to the palace. They squatted there and waited for someone. Unexpectedly, they ran into us!"

"Is there any expert advice? What are they going to do?"

Qin Shao said coldly.

The news that the old concubine lived in the manor was not a secret, but only people in the palace knew about it. Now that it can be spread, this person should be familiar with the palace.

He looked at the woman, although she seemed to be different from ordinary peasant women, but she was able to pass by her carriage here, obviously she must have been instructed by an expert!
(End of this chapter)