Palace, Political Consultative Hall.

The Emperor's Palace was originally rebuilt by the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the Prosecutor's Hall was set up in the original Governor's Office.

There are temporary cabinets, six ministries and other central institutions outside the Political Affairs Hall. Since the establishment of the Yongli court, Emperor Yongli has met with the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet and the civil and military officials here. The emperor can discuss matters or the civil and military affairs above the third rank can be held, and it will not be done regularly.

In addition, there were no guards in the hall, and the etiquette was simple, so that the king and his subjects could speak the whole story. The Political Consultation Hall became the place where Zhu Youlang met with civil and military officials in daily life and listened to political affairs.

In the hall, Zhu Youlang sat high above the main seat, with the Sili Supervisor and the written and documentary sitting on both sides. Yang Shouchun was the supervisor of the imperial horse, and the seal of Pang Tianshou; Zhai Shihuo, the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace; Yan Qiheng, the Minister of Revenue; Zhu Tianlin, the Minister of Personnel; Chen Zizhuang, the Minister of War; Wu Zhenyu, the Minister of the Left Censor, and two internal ministers and five ministers.

“Since last year, the Ministry of Revenue has entered the treasury of gold, silver and copper coins in total, totaling about 7.43 million taels of silver, all of which are obtained from the plundering of criminals and evil gentry;

Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces have cancelled the whip method according to His Majesty's instructions and will no longer collect the color of the fold.

This summer tax collected a total of 1.23 million stones of wheat; more than 53,500 pieces of silk; more than 86,600 bundles of silk and grass; more than 15,000 stones of horse material;

According to the general plan, there were 218 civil and military officials in various provinces and court officials, and the salary of internal and external officials is expected to be paid in total for more than 58,600 taels of silver, more than 23,400 stones of grain, cotton, and silk.

The royal family and the great and relatives totaled 368 members, and the estimated payment was more than 24,500 taels, more than 8,300 stones, cotton and silk.

The rest are all used as the Imperial Camp. The cost of military equipment and food and wages of the wing camp is estimated to consume about five million taels of silver, about one and a half million shi of grain, and about 30,000 shi of horse materials.

The longitude branch is still available for the country, and there is a surplus, and the rice and wheat are short of more than 300,000 stones. I will return to Your Majesty and I will report it to you."

Qu Shili, wearing a big red court suit, bowed to Zhu Youlang and then returned to his seat.

After hearing this, Zhu Youlang nodded and frowned slightly. In his previous life, he was the top leader of local counties and towns. He knew that if he wanted to improve his internal affairs, he must know his family well.

After years of busy fighting, he is not very clear about the financial situation of the center. Although he knows that the central government will definitely be in short supply after only one corner of Lingnan left, Zhu Youlang felt very sad after hearing that series of shocking data.

Not counting the big heads obtained from the plunder, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Huguang provinces only collected 1.2 million s of grain, which was converted into silver only more than one million taels!

Although more than one million taels of silver is not a small number, the total income as a country's fiscal center is really pitifully small.

Although Zhu Youlang was not very clear about the financial details of ancient times, he also knew that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual income was 80 million jin per year. According to the price of 1:1.5, the silver accounted for 50 million jin, which was extremely rich.

Although the territory was several times smaller after the southward transition, it created an unprecedented miracle in economics. After the peace talks in Shaoxing, the wealth year-on-year surged from less than ten million at the beginning of crossing the river to more than 60 million yuan. During the Xiaozong period, the tax was more than 80 million yuan, and during the Tianxi period, the annual income reached 150 million yuan. Even if the inflation factor was taken into consideration, it was more than 80 million taels of silver.

The annual income of the Southern Song Dynasty was only the central government's fiscal revenue, which was different from the Northern Song Dynasty. Considering the sharp shrinkage of the Southern Song Dynasty, such an economic miracle was shocking.

It not only far away from the Tang Dynasty, which was still economically tolerant, but later the Ming Dynasty (in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the treasury was only 30 million taels per year, and after three wages were added to 16 million taels, it became a laughing stock of drinking poison to quench thirst and destroying the country and the family. After the Song Dynasty moved south for 30 years, the population was less than 20 million, which was one fifth of the late Ming Dynasty, and its territory was less than one-half of the Ming Dynasty, but it was nearly 30 times that of the Ming Dynasty. According to the unit population, it was more than 60 times.), and its economic strength was unprecedented.

The same remnants of the Southern Transportation regime, with a small territory and population, compared with the Southern Ming regime, one is a wealthy man with wealth, and the other is a poor beggar with pants!

Zhu Youlang was generally aware of the reason why the two sides had such a big gap. Whether it was the Northern Ming or the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty always collected agricultural taxes (summer and autumn taxes) and less commercial taxes. On the contrary, the Southern Song Dynasty's industrial and commercial taxes were ten times higher than agricultural taxes, which far exceeded the Ming and Qing dynasties!

In order to support soldiers, the Southern Song Dynasty was obvious to all, and it was the most criticized by later generations. However, the Southern Song Dynasty's land policy of not restraining land annexation greatly improved the efficiency of land use and vigorously promoted the urbanization process. The urban population reached nearly half of the total population. The Southern Song Dynasty encouraged the whole people to do business, resulting in a huge number of second and third industries and middle-class families. The middle-class households had a total of three to four thousand jins, totaling about two thousand taels of silver.

Therefore, the harsh taxes of the Southern Song Dynasty did not make it perish like the late Ming Dynasty, but instead became the only dynasty in Chinese history that did not have a national civil rebellion (the uprising of Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, the uprising of Green Forests and Red Eyebrows in the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turbans in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Huang Chao uprising of Tang Dynasty, the Li Zicheng uprising of the Ming Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Qing Dynasty, and the Fang La Songjiang uprising of the Northern Song Dynasty were all limited to the whole way.)

Obviously, the economic success of the Southern Song Dynasty was very referenceative for Zhu Youlang. From farming to farming to agriculture, industry and commerce, it will be the ultimate direction of the Ming Dynasty in the future!

"There is more than 300,000 stones of military ration in the shortage, but the Ministry of the Users' Department of the Ministry of Public Security can purchase it from the private sector. If there is not enough, a special person will be sent to take a sea boat from Guangdong to Annan, Chameng, Zhenla, Siam and other vassal states."

"What Your Majesty said is that the land of the Southeast Asian countries is fertile, ripe three times a year, and the rice is abundant, and the rice price is low. The minister believes that there is no problem in purchasing more than 300,000 stones of grain." Qu Shisi echoed.

Qu Shixi had frequent exchanges with the Western priest Ai Ruluo in his early years. Later, he was baptized and named him Duomo. He had some understanding of the customs and personalities of the countries of Nanyang and Obaro. He was a representative figure of the Western School with Xu Guangqi, Fang Yizhi and others. He was the first group of enlightened bureaucrats to open his eyes to the world in the late Ming Dynasty. It was also the potential internal reason why Zhu Youlang valued him and ordered him to be the chief minister of the cabinet.

There were many ministers with character and integrity in the late Ming Dynasty. Most of them were Taoist scholars who usually talked about their hearts and minds, and died in the face of difficulties, and were stubborn and stubborn.
Chapter completed!