Chapter 126: The Martial Arts Department of a State within a State
Seeing that there were no stupid relatives to rebel, Zhu Houzhao temporarily turned his attention away from them.
The next step is to wait for them all to arrive in Beijing before they can transform the clan.
On the second day of July, Zhu Houzhao's attention shifted to what he had gained from Jin.
After a month of inventory, this time all the gains from Jin Land were finally accounted for.
A total of 11,357,682 taels of cash were obtained from corrupt officials.
Two million one million acres of farmland.
The value of houses and properties is about eight million taels.
From the vassal king, one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine-three thousand five hundred and sixteen taels of cash were obtained.
Thirty-two million acres of farmland.
The value of houses and properties is about thirteen million taels.
115,749,168 taels of cash were obtained from martial arts forces, bandits, landlords, businessmen, gentry, etc.
The farmland is 16.68 million acres.
The value of houses and properties is about 700 million taels of silver.
Seeing the total statistical results, Zhu Houzhao was happy at first, and then frowned, looking very unhappy.
After a while, the cabinet, six ministries and others who were summoned by him came.
Zhu Houzhao showed them this statistics.
Everyone who saw it changed their expressions.
Too many!
It was so much that they, the giants of the imperial court, felt frightened.
And from this statistics, they can all see huge problems.
The eyes of each pair met and they both became quiet. They didn't even dare to say anything to congratulate the imperial court on being truly rich.
Everyone lowered their gazes, not daring to say anything more.
At this time, this wealth, which is enough to make all countries in the world drool, seems to them to be a hot potato.
They didn't say anything, Zhu Houzhao looked at them and spoke.
The voice was a little low, "There are only hundreds of thousands of people, but they occupy so much wealth.
How do the people of Jin live?
All the people of the Ming Dynasty, I How are most of his children alive?"
Liu Jian lowered his head one by one, unable to speak.
“The imperial court is rich, but I don’t feel happy at all.
What about you? "Zhu Houzhao looked at the person below and asked seriously.
"I am guilty. "Liu Jian and others all knelt down.
"What's the point of asking you to apologize? Zhu Houzhao raised his voice and raised his brows, "What I want is to solve the problem. Get up and tell me what the problem is now." "
Everyone stood up, and after a few breaths of silence, under the eyes of everyone, Liu Jian had to speak first and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, let's not mention other issues for the time being. Jin has been in the land for more than a hundred years now. Of the accumulation, I am afraid that the imperial court has obtained nearly half of it this time.
This wealth must not be transported back to the capital, otherwise the development of Jin will really have big problems. ”
Zhu Houzhao's expression softened a bit and he said: "The fields and real estate are all in Jin.
In terms of business, the two ministers of the Ministry of Commerce went to Jin more than a month ago to take charge of the overall situation. I will not let these businesses come to a standstill and affect the people.
I will leave them 20 million taels to operate.
Other aspects..."
Paused. He continued: "After the reorganization of the army, military pay will be increased, and I will leave a batch of silver in Jin as military pay.
I will also order compensation for the innocent people who were harmed by this operation. "
Liu Jian nodded and said thoughtfully: "In this way, plus the official salary distribution, there should be more than 40 million taels of silver in Jin, which is enough. "
"Your Majesty, today's Jin Land is a blank slate. A group of officials with sufficient ability must be in charge to allow Jin Land to develop.
There are still many systems that may need to be reformulated.
Especially with so much land, tens of millions of people will be affected.
How to rent it to the people for farming? How to collect rent? How to collect taxes?
Etc. are all problems. "Li Dongyang said.
What affects the people the most is undoubtedly the fields.
The more than 22 million acres of fields are the biggest factor affecting the stability of the people of Jin.
“No one needs to think about these lands, they are all my royal estate.
I will rent it to all the people for farming and harvesting one-tenth of the food produced.
These people do not have to pay other taxes. "Zhu Houzhao said without a doubt.
Everyone looked a little helpless. They wanted to say something, but they couldn't.
Such a large amount of tax revenue is gone.
But the problem is These fields were confiscated, and they had no confidence to say anything
"However, I will pay taxes to the court, and pay a 5% tax on the grain produced." Zhu Houzhao added.
Everyone’s expressions changed again, with a hint of disbelief and horror.
It is unheard of that your Majesty’s land must also pay taxes.
Whose fields do not need to pay taxes?
As they thought deeply about it, they couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
Taxation of fields and businesses was the most untouchable taboo in the Ming Dynasty.
Because this is related to the two biggest interests.
But His Majesty seems to be touching.
The only thing that made them happy was that His Majesty had no intention of continuing on this point.
"Your Majesty and I think that we can clear the land of Jin, but for now we can only stop at Jin." Xie Qian spoke, his tone was very firm, and he still pointed to the core.
Everyone was shocked, but thinking about it, it was nothing now.
The land of Jin is like that, what can we do if we clear the land? Just stop at Jin. We cannot further stimulate all parties in the martial arts world.
One more thing, according to the records of the Ming Dynasty, there are now only more than 30 million acres of land in Jin.
The area inspected this time was about 22 million acres.
Nearly 20 million acres of it are not on record.
The problem is so big that they simply cannot ignore it.
If they didn't mention it, His Majesty would probably doubt them.
"It is to clear the land in Jin." Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then he said seriously: "I understand some things and cannot be anxious.
So, I will stop at Jin.
But from now on, Jin will be the country within the Ming Dynasty.
I want to experiment with all good policies in Shanxi.
Do you understand? ”
Liu Jian and others frowned.
I understand what His Majesty meant.
This is to carry out a thorough reform in Shanxi as an experiment.
What pleased them was that they stopped at Jin.
Anyway, the Jin region is like this, and there won’t be any serious problems no matter how reformed it is.
Your Majesty knows that it is a good thing not to be too hasty and to take things step by step.
What weighs heavily on them is that if the reform in Jin is very effective, then His Majesty may have to implement it to the entire Ming Dynasty.
When the time comes, the consequences will be unimaginable.
But they also understand that they cannot stop it, they can only persuade it.
"Your Majesty, I wonder what kind of policies we want to implement?" Liu Jian asked.
“Of course it is a policy that benefits the country and the people.” Zhu Houzhao said without hesitation.
Liu Jian and others were silent.
"By the way, most of the officials going to Jin will be Jinshi from Xinzhong.
They are new officials and have not yet been corrupted. I believe they can do better." Zhu Houzhao said firmly. road.
No one objected.
Although Xinzhong Jinshi are inexperienced, facing the blank Jin land, they have been watching the government for several months, and together with the guidance of senior officials, there should not be any big problems.
"Also, declare to the world that there will be another imperial examination at the end of February next year, focusing on current affairs." Zhu Houzhao said again.
"Your Majesty, is this a little too fast?" Zhang Sheng, the Minister of Rites, asked.
"Not fast, I'm worried that I can't keep up with the speed of the factory guards in catching corrupt officials." Zhu Houzhao said nonchalantly.
Everyone's hearts jumped, and they suddenly realized that the factory guard had made a huge gain this time.
And based on so much money, the development of factory guards will be faster than ever.
“Okay, let’s recruit the officials from Jin as soon as possible.
The left and right political envoys in Jin must be the best, so please retire. "Zhu Houzhao said solemnly.
"Yes, I will retire. "The ministers withdrew one by one with heavy thoughts.
There were too many important things, which made them all feel exhausted and under great pressure.
In the Palace of Qianqing, the ministers left Go, Zhu Houzhao sent orders to Jin.
After receiving Zhu Houzhao's order, Zhu Ye met a person.
"Brother Wang, I'll help you this time." Zhu Ye said solemnly.
The person opposite him was dressed in purple. Although he was middle-aged, he was still personable, natural and unrestrained, and had a prince-like demeanor.
"Brother, you're welcome. I've been cool for so many years. It's my duty to contribute to the Ming Dynasty." The purple-clothed figure said seriously.
“Okay, Your Majesty has placed high hopes on the Martial Arts Department. It is currently only established in Jin and supervises all martial arts forces in Jin.
What I can support you is to hand over to you all the overt and covert power of the Qinglong Society in Jin. "Zhu Ye said seriously.
"Well, don't worry, brother. "The purple-clothed figure nodded with a solemn expression.
July 5th.
The Jin Yiwei sent out the news that the imperial court established the Martial Arts Department in Jin.
From now on, Jin will Within the territory, all martial arts forces must be registered with the Martial Arts Department, including the number of forces and personal status, and no concealment is allowed
These include the escort agency and the martial arts family.
After one month, all martial arts forces that are not registered with the Martial Arts Department will be wiped out.
The person in charge of the Martial Arts Department is the famous Zi Yihou.
At this time, Zi Yihou was already the head of the Shanxi branch of the Martial Arts Department and a third-rank official of the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as the news spread, the remaining martial arts forces in Jin were shaken.
Is the imperial court not even sparing the righteous forces?
What exactly does the court want to do?
After the news spread to Jin, the martial arts forces in Ming Dynasty became even more unable to calm down.
Including the right path.
But before they could react, a group of righteous martial arts forces led by Wuzheng Villa registered with the Martial Arts Department.
There are also a group of righteous martial arts forces that have also registered with the Martial Arts Department.
At this time, more than a dozen evil martial arts forces who were not oppressing the people were released after verification.
Then these dozen evil martial arts forces registered with the Martial Arts Department.
Suddenly, the martial arts forces in Ming Dynasty, especially Zhengdao, were a little dumbfounded.
The traitor of Wuzheng Villa!
Although they don’t say it, many righteous forces think so.
Wu Zheng Villa and other righteous martial arts forces have registered so quickly and cooperatively, indicating that it is voluntary, who can say anything more?
(Chapter 2, thank you.)
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(End of this chapter)