Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 307 Indemnity Distribution Disputes
The ranks of military officers in the Ming Dynasty range from the first rank to the sixth rank, with a total of twelve ranks and 24 ranks.

Huang Laifu was originally the second-rank general soldier of Shanxi Town, and he was at the general level of Zhen Guo.After Pinghetao, although he was still the chief soldier, his qualifications have been promoted to general of Dingguo and awarded the rank of general of Fengguo.

When he came back from North Korea this time, Shanxi Town Commander-in-Chief, he was also named the Right Governor of the Governor's Mansion, and he was added the title of Prince Taibao. General, directly promoted to doctor Ronglu from the first rank.

According to Huang Laifu's current momentum, he will soon rise from Doctor Ronglu to Doctor Guanglu.

If you make great achievements like the Korean War, you will be awarded the title of a special Jin Ronglu doctor of the first rank.If you are lucky, if you go from Tejin Ronglu Doctor to Tejin Guanglu Doctor, the one waiting for Huang Laifu in the future will be Feng Bo, Marquis or even King.

Now the title on Huang Laifu's flag guard of honor is already "Granted to Doctor Ronglu, Commander of the Central Military Governor Yoududu Commander, Prime Minister Huang Laifu, Military Officer of Shanxi Township". Ten years ago, Huang Laifu was just a fifth-rank guard. Qianhu's military rank is only General Wude. Ten years have passed, and Huang Laifu has been in the high position of Doctor Ronglu of the first rank.

To achieve such an achievement in less than [-] years, naturally makes countless people envious and jealous.

In the current Ming Dynasty, even if the governor increases the bachelor's degree, it is only from the first rank, and the governor is only the second rank.If the governor adds the title of Imperial Envoy of Zuodu, he will be the first rank, and Huang Laifu is already on an equal footing with them.

Not only that, but Emperor Wanli will also order Wuzhaibao to set up a memorial archway for the Huang family, and those who have meritorious military service will also confer gifts to their grandparents, parents and wives.

According to the entitlement qualifications determined by Hong Wunian, a first-rank official can be granted a first-rank for three generations, and his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father are all granted duties according to their own experience and bestowed on the corresponding rank!His great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and wife were each granted the title of wife!
In this way, Huang Laifu's father Huang Sihao, mother Yang Shi, and wife Gu Yunniang all enjoy the treatment and title of Cong Yipin, that is, Huang Laifu's eldest son Huang Dalang, and when he becomes an adult, he can take up the post of commander of Jinyiwei.

This is what the ancient warriors most desired to confer their wives and sons, to honor their ancestors and honor their ancestors.

On May [-]th, shortly after the army of the Eastern Expedition returned to Beijing triumphantly, the rewards of each member of the Huang family came down. Father Huang Sihao and mother Yang Shi were personally announced into the palace as rewards. The reward was ordered, and from the same day, the Ministry of Rites and the envoys of the middle officials set out from Beijing to announce the award.

From this day on, the Huang Mansion in central Beijing is full of congratulators every day, the six officials and military generals in the town, as well as various unknown heroes and eunuchs in the capital all come one after another, which makes Huang Laifu's father and mother Huang Sihao Having fun with Mrs. Yang all day long, the old father Huang Sihao probably would never have imagined that when he just let his son go on a trip for a year, he would have such a great achievement after he came back, right?He can only attribute it to the blessings of his ancestors.

In addition, there are many storytellers in teahouses and restaurants in central Beijing who have written storytelling about the generals of the Eastern Expedition, especially Huang Laifu's deeds are more popular.How he reversed the defeat in the Battle of Ulsan, and how he commanded an army of [-] to invade the Wa Kingdom, to show the little Wa Kingdom a little bit of color, and there is also the romantic affair between Huang Laifu and the Japanese girl Yoon Fang, which is also interesting to talk about.

Of course, after returning from the great victory of the Eastern Expedition, many generals received very high rewards, especially Huang Laifu, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town. The extremely high praise given to him by Emperor Wanli has aroused criticism from many people, especially many civil servants. In addition to being jealous, he also became extremely vigilant towards Huang Laifu and other warriors.

However, this is also what Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun would like to see. For him, the power of civil servants is getting bigger and bigger, and even makes him feel powerless, which has aroused his resentment and disgust.Now it is necessary to introduce warrior forces to compete with literati.

Of course, what the Wanli Emperor needed was balance. The civil servants were too powerful and needed to be restrained by generals.If one day the power of warriors becomes too great, he will need to bring in literati to balance.

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With Huang Laifu's current ability and title, it seems that the position of the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town is just inappropriate. Especially, Emperor Wanli remembered the matter that Huang Laifu had mentioned to him before about managing the outside of the Great Wall and restoring Dongshengwei and other places, so he asked the cabinet to Discuss with the Ministry of War how to arrange it.

Waiting for the cabinet's decision to make arrangements, plus the time during which Emperor Wanli happily invited Huang Laifu to enter the palace for banquets every day, so Huang Laifu temporarily stayed in the capital for follow-up, and casually inspected his property in the capital .

With Qu Yuanrui in control, there is no need for Huang Laifu to worry about it. Whether it is supermarkets in various parts of Gyeonggi, or glass factories, cement factories, and Huangzhuang farms in various places, they are all quite prosperous.He just looked at the relevant account books, skipped these things, and turned his interest to other things.

During the two years when Huang Laifu went abroad, there was nothing major in Beijing. It was still those officials who attacked Emperor Wanli for mining and taxation. Every month, there seemed to be a few people who jumped out to show compassion, and Emperor Wanli stayed in China and refused to report. , and made them helpless.

Due to Huang Laifu's suggestion, the Mining Administration and the Taxation Administration have been included in the mining tax discussion this time, so the tax collection is more systematic.

In the eight years from the 25th year of Wanli to the 33rd year of Wanli, the mine tax envoys handed over to the emperor was only 50 million taels of mining tax silver, which was less than [-] taels a year, which was one tenth of their private income. one.

After the establishment of the General Administration of Mining Affairs and the General Administration of Taxation, the amount of commercial tax and mine tax silver levied at present is more than one million taels a year, and the actions of those extremely arrogant and domineering mine supervisors and tax envoys in history are also a little slow. After a while, most of the people's energies have turned to the real prospecting and mining activities, so that the local people will be less harassed.

Of course, even so, because the main body of the Wanli Emperor's mining tax was those big businessmen and big mine owners, so even if the money was collected for a year, they still received crazy opposition from them.Their spokespersons in the court, such as speech officials from all over the country, and Beijing officials, etc., have to prepare a large-scale letter every few months.

Of course, in the past, their power of public opinion was to dominate the world. Under their writing and propaganda, it seemed that they were on the side of justice.

But now there is Huang Laifu's "Wuzhaibao News" frantically singing praises of Emperor Wanli's policies in Beijing. This wonderful situation is gone forever.Because Huang Laifu avoided the literati market and only took the low-end route, his speeches were lively and lively, and he bought one and got one free, so the price of each newspaper was extremely low. The argument of "Wuzhaibao News" still has a market, at least among ordinary people and small people, which makes those civil officials hate themselves.

For "Wuzhaibao News", Huang Laifu specially allocated funds. Every reporter is well paid and does not seek profit. In addition, there are powerful thugs as guards in the museum, and there are various powerful eunuchs in Beijing, Jin Yiwei and others. Therefore, although many civil servants hated the "Wuzhaibao Newspaper", they had nothing to do with it.

Huang Laifu strongly supports Emperor Wanli's mining tax!Historically, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, commerce and mining were already very prosperous. The collection of commercial tax and mining tax should account for half of the Ming Dynasty’s tax revenue, instead of putting all the tax pressure on the pity ordinary people.

Huang Laifu's attitude is very clear. He would rather bully the businessmen and mine owners more than let ordinary farmers lose their most basic way of life and go to a dead end.Chinese history has been written very clearly. It has always been only the peasants who rebelled and caused the country to perish. I have never heard of a businessman who rebelled and caused the country to perish.

Moreover, the collection of commercial taxes and mine owners can be perfected to make the country more prosperous and powerful.

It is still necessary for the central government to maintain a strong financial core. Excessively hiding wealth from the people, especially the big merchants, will only be harvested by others after the country is subjugated. This kind of thing has been an obvious lesson for the Ming Dynasty.After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Qing soldiers only stole 20 taels of silver from an ordinary merchant's house in the south of the Yangtze River. But so what, these huge wealth were used to make wedding dresses for others.

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Regarding the mining tax, there has been an uproar among the officials of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, and there will still be disputes for many years to come.

However, regarding this dispute, it stopped for a while after the victory of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, because the officials turned their attention to another aspect.

It was the fact that Huang Laifu brought back the first batch of 1000 million taels of silver indemnity from Japan, and according to the "Wanli Tomorrow Goodwill and Friendship Treaty" signed by Daming and Japan on the tenth day of March, within the next 20 years, every year, Japan will Paying Daming 100 million taels of silver, plus interest, is more than that.

Moreover, according to the treaty, in the middle of next year, Japan will also pay 200 million taels of Iwami Ginzan redemption fee.

The departments of Ming Dynasty have been in poverty for a long time, so the officials fought fiercely about how to distribute the indemnity.Although it is said that many officials are quite dissatisfied with Huang Laifu's greed for money, they think that if they win, they will win, and they should not ask others for compensation.Moreover, he also sneered at the name of the treaty "Wanli Tomorrow Goodwill and Friendship Treaty" drawn up by Huang Laifu, thinking that this name is too indecent. If they came to choose the name of the treaty, it would definitely be more elegant than this.

Moreover, many officials were also worried in their hearts. Ming Dynasty had fought more wars. For the first time, not only could it get back the expenses it spent, but it also made a lot of money, which suddenly enriched the treasury.These days, the "Wuzhaibao News" in the capital has a long article, analyzing that war does not necessarily bring harm, but if used properly, it can actually make the country rich and powerful.

All the officials were worried, what if the Emperor Wanli knew how to eat from now on, and went to war?They didn't care about how much money Da Ming would spend on this, but they were worried that wars would be frequent from now on, and the status of warriors would be greatly improved.

Of course, no matter how much they scoff and worry, this is a matter for the future, and they are still scrambling for the money that should be fought.

Regarding the allocation of the first batch of 1000 million taels of silver indemnity, Emperor Wanli actually had his own inner arrangements. Huang Laifu issued nearly 400 million taels of Eastern Expedition bonds. Because of this money, the second Korean War had the basis for victory, so no matter what, The money must first be paid to Huang Laifu.In this case, Huang Aiqing will work hard for herself in the future, won't she?
In fact, regarding the Eastern Expedition Bonds, Emperor Wanli also knew that nearly 200 million silver was not required to repay the merchants' registered Eastern Expedition Bonds.However, Emperor Wanli still decided to allocate a full amount of 400 million taels of silver to Huang Laifu.

Huang Laifu worked hard to prepare his military salary, and also brought him back 200 million taels of silver indemnity for the victory. If he didn't give him the money himself, it would be unreasonable.

Regarding the 400 million taels that Huang Laifu got, the officials also knew that he deserved it, and the money would soon need to pay off the Eastern Expedition bonds bought by the people, even if Huang Laifu got it, he would not get much.

Although they talked with jealousy, they didn't say anything. Their eyes were all on the remaining 600 million taels of silver indemnity.In addition, Daming will receive a steady stream of compensation from Japan every year. The amount of this money is huge, and how to use it is what they are most concerned about.

(End of this chapter)