Southern Song Dynasty, who earned tens of thousands of taels at the age of 430

After Emperor Jiajing carried out a series of personnel adjustments, all the six ministers and ministers were occupied. At this point, the official transfer seemed to come to an end. Those who were successful celebrated, while those who were frustrated silently licked their wounds.

On this day, Yin Shidan had something to do and asked for leave from the royal palace. Wei Guangde was responsible for handling all matters in the royal palace, while Zhang Juzheng went to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for the monthly salary of the royal palace in the past two months.

Yes, the court had no money again, not only the salaries of all officials were delayed, but the silver from Prince Yu's mansion was also owed.

What caused all this was naturally the sequelae of the King of Jing's vassal ceremony.

In order to send King Jing away as soon as possible, the Ministry of Revenue spent money like flowing, and all the money was allocated as long as it was not illegal.

"Shandai, are you here?"

In fact, there are not many things in the royal family, and most of them are still internal affairs, and Li Fang is taking care of them, so Wei Guangde took a break from his busy schedule to read books.

However, when Wei Guangde heard someone talking, he looked up and saw King Yu stepping into the house. He hurriedly got up and saluted, "Greetings to Your Highness."

"Where is uncle?"

King Yu went into the house and looked at it. Only Wei Guangde was in the house and did not see Zhang Juzheng, so he asked.

"Brother Uncle has gone to the Ministry of Revenue."

Wei Guangde replied with a wry smile.

"Oh, it's hard for Gao Yao."

Prince Yu naturally knew what was going on, and he could only write a note to Gao Yao in his heart.

However, the royal family still has to ask for money, otherwise he would have to privately seek the accumulated wealth.

Now King Yu attaches great importance to his small treasury. After all, after a period of difficult times, he already knows the importance of silver.

As he spoke, King Yu found a chair to sit down, and then signaled Wei Guangde to sit down.

"I don't know what your highness has to do to find the minister."

Wei Guangde sat down and asked.

After the little servant brought the tea, King Yu picked up the tea cup and gently pulled the tea leaves floating on the water with the tea lid and said, "I heard you give me some questions a few days ago, but I still didn't understand some problems. I'll tell you if I have nothing to do today.

Ask."

"Your Highness, it's okay to speak."

Wei Guangde hurriedly answered.

"Martial arts prospered when our Ming Dynasty was founded. Why is the border army unable to defeat the Tartars until now? What is the reason?"

The lesson Wei Guangde gave to King Yu before was from the Northern Expeditions of Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di. At that time, the Mongols were looking for teeth all over the ground and could only escape far away. But until now, the Ming army has no advantage in combat power.

King Yu naturally had to consider these things. When he was in the future, would he have another Gengxu change? He didn't want to lose that person?

Now, it is just the time to figure out the reason, so it will be easier to make some adjustments in the future to avoid being harassed by the Tartar soldiers in the capital, making him unable to sleep or eat.

"We are here, out of your mouth and into my ears."

King Yu looked at the door of the house and said, then said to Li Fang who was following behind him: "Go and guard outside, and no one is allowed to get close."

Wei Guangde felt a little bitter, and some things were hard to say. After all, the reason for the decline in combat power of the border army is to put it bluntly that it is actually not enough to pay.

When the founding of the country, there were also greedy people, but very few of them were not as good as now, and those who served in the army could get 30% and burn incense.

When you serve as a soldier, the money you get is to work hard. If you don’t have money, your combat power will naturally be low.

The military garrison system, in fact, those who served in the army were not only guarding the frontier, but also guarding their own homes. However, the military garrisons divided in the early Ming Dynasty had long been divided by powerful and military officers. To put it bluntly, those who served in the army could not support their families and defend their hometowns.

The slogan can no longer be shouted.

It would be strange if such a Ming army had combat power.

However, King Yu had already done this. Seeing Li Fang out of the door and guarding outside the door, Wei Guangde was hesitating, but he had to say something.

It is obviously not a whim that King Yu came here today. Yesterday, Yin Shidan asked for leave and arranged for Zhang Juzheng to go to the Ministry of Revenue to urge the silver. It seems that King Yu is not confused either.

While hesitating, Wei Guangde could only weigh the pros and cons and said, "It is an indisputable fact that the combat power has declined. The real reason is that the money is not given in place."

Wei Guangde has already made a statement now and plans to talk about some situations and seek some benefits for himself.

"From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the salary and salary of silver remained unchanged. Apart from the physical goods, they were money, and now they were mostly discounted and used to make money. However, if you give money, the losses of officials and soldiers were not large, and they could be replaced with money."

"Uh-huh."

When King Yu heard this, he nodded slightly and nodded softly twice, indicating that he understood.

Understanding is understanding, if you don’t want to achieve great things, there will probably be no change.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang has designated it as the ancestral system and needs to be changed

In fact, if it is beneficial to officials, no one will make any statement about the ancestral system, but if it is beneficial to officials, it will inevitably harm the interests of the court.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the imperial court has no money to make a fuss.

Wei Guangde understood, and King Yu naturally understood that he still had treasure money in his monthly salary, so he had too many that stuff, so he couldn't get it out.

As for Wei Guangde, he had not thought about the treasure money, but the key was that he had only a slight understanding of these things. If he had started to use paper money instead of gold and silver, he would have been afraid that he would accidentally destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Just kidding, I am afraid that it would be a matter of forcing others to rebel with paper for the gold and silver in the hands of the gentry.

However, after Wei Guangde finished speaking, King Yu also understood what he meant. He wanted to raise his salary, but he didn't dare to think about it. Nodding was money.

"That person was the general who transferred Guizhou to the last time."

King Yu suddenly said again.

"Yu Dayou."

Wei Guangde hurriedly answered.

"Yu Dayou, but he can win a battle by taking people out, or defeating the strong by the weak."

Wei Guangde said that the money paid for the soldiers was small, so he could not win the battle. Yu Dayou's soldiers were no different from other border troops, but he could win the battle. Isn't this a bit contradictory?

"At this stage, Datong soldiers are probably the best at fighting."

Wei Guangde did not deny it, but he also had to explain it, otherwise King Yu would easily go astray.

"Although the military pay in the Datong Army's past military pay was the same as other border troops, most of the captured soldiers in Bansheng were divided into the military pay. These people received military pay equivalent to several years of hard work, and the full amount was paid.

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Speaking of this, Wei Guangde thought about it and said: "The battle against Altan's pursuers later was simpler. If he lost all his efforts and won both fame and fortune, he would naturally fight to the death."

The seizures at Bansheng City were very rich, but the payout was limited, all because of Li Wenjin.

Well, the benefits are divided. Without the recognition of local civil servants, how could the generals and generals dare to directly distribute them like that time?

Li Wenjin was awarded the war and was promoted to Governor General Xuanda, while the Datong Army received silver from top to bottom. It was a great joy, but no one reported it to the capital.

Local civil and military affairs are all beneficial. Whoever is uncomfortable is in a border town.

The Beijing officials naturally knew that the twists and turns aside, but at this time they chose to turn a blind eye. After all, they won, so there was no need to grab food. They had the way to make money.

King Yu fell into silence, this is really hard to do.

Those who want to join the army to fight will have to pay silver, but the most lacking thing for the court is silver.

Wei Guangde only talks about money, so there is naturally a reason. First, he hopes that King Yu will ascend the throne in the future to see if he can increase his salary. He doesn't care, but it doesn't mean that everyone else is like this. There are too many poor officials in the capital.

If this wish is achieved in the future, and the news spreads, you will have a great favor.

Of course, his purpose is more than that, but he cannot be too anxious. He also depends on the opportunity. It is best to start the topic by King Yu.

"Are the strong soldiers in the world like this from ancient times to the present?"

King Yu frowned and asked, he was a little confused. This was not in line with Confucianism. Everything was money.

The emperor used Confucianism as a guise to make the people of the world believe in it, but the current situation is that the people do not believe in etiquette, righteousness, integrity, shame, loyalty and filial piety. What should we do?

"I'm not sure, but I think that's probably the case."

Wei Guangde replied.

"If you don't talk about it, just talk about the Yue family army in the previous dynasty. The Jin Kingdom said, "It's easy to shake the mountain, but it's difficult to shake the Yue family army." But how did the Yue family army get the combat power? It's not just piled up with money, and the generous military pay is rewarded.

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"Why is Emperor Song so rich?"

When King Yu heard Wei Guangde say about the Yue family army, he immediately thought of something and asked urgently.

When Wei Guangde heard about King Yu's question, hesitated and said: "Your Highness, according to the documents of the previous dynasty that I have investigated, the Song people valued business, and their huge fiscal revenue mainly comes from commercial taxes, accounting for about 70% of the total annual income.

Before Jingkang, the Song Dynasty earned about 70 million yuan per year, and then the annual income was more than 10 million yuan, which was entirely supported by commercial taxation."

Wei Guangde's family does not do business. Although he has a good relationship with Jiujiang merchants, he does not think that his behavior is to destroy the jobs of those merchants.

At this time, Western countries have begun to encourage the development of industry and commerce on a large scale and collect taxes, but have not seen any shrinkage due to the impact of business.

In this case, as long as the commercial tax is not heavy, it will not have any impact on business, and commercial tax is collected, the court can provide policy support for business.

Why was the fiscal revenue higher than that of the Northern Song Dynasty? It was not just that it encouraged commerce, especially that it did not restrict the development of maritime commerce. A large number of goods were sold to the West. Quanzhou and Guangzhou were the main trading ports at that time.

After hearing Wei Guangde's report of the number 70 million guan, King Yu's eyes began to shiny, and when he heard that the Southern Song Dynasty had entered the year, he was straightforward.
To be continued...