Chapter 20                                                                                                                             �

It took some time for Huang Jin to send someone to the Ministry of Rites to collect numbers.

Jiajing frowned and asked, "Mr. Zhou, can I have a solution?"

Zhou Mengchen immediately said, "I am ignorant and don't know how to start."

Jiajing looked at Zhou Mengchen with bright eyes. Zhou Mengchen could only kneel on the ground and dared not look up. Jiajing looked for a long time and said softly: "Slippery." Then he said: "Get up."

After being an emperor for so many years, many ministers could not hide the thoughts of Zhou Mengchen.

What's more, Zhou Mengchen.

How should we start to solve the problem of Lu Chong of the vassal king? It is nothing more than abolition.

No matter what you do, it is within this category.

This is to destroy the job of the vassal king, and maybe some big mess will be caused. Don’t say that Zhou Mengchen didn’t have a complete plan for a while. Even if he had a complete plan, would he tell him and let himself be a target?

This is why Emperor Jiajing said that Zhou Mengchen was sloppy. However, Emperor Jiajing did not want Zhou Mengchen to become a chess piece that charges and stolen into the battle. He said nonsense, if he charges in the court, he might be broken at any time, and sometimes even Jiajing didn't have time to save him.

What Jiajing valued most about Zhou Mengchen was his various wonderful ideas that could make up for his own words in pursuing the way of immortality. Of course, now he also regards Zhou Mengchen as a minister who has made achievements in some places. In any case, Emperor Jiajing did not want Zhou Mengchen to take charge of some dangerous affairs.

However, Jiajing secretly took the matter of the year of abolishing the vassal kings.

As for how to lay off, isn’t there Xia Yan?

Jiajing has no complaints about Xia Yan. Isn’t the reason why he keeps it all the time? Isn’t it because he wants to do things?

Jiajing said: "Let's go ahead and say, financial disorder."

Zhou Mengchen heard this and breathed a sigh of relief and said, "When I was in Jiangxia County, I worked in the county, and when the county was not in enough staff, I also had to help. I just felt that my Ming Dynasty's financial system was too chaotic, or there was no system at all?"

Zhou Mengchen started talking in a daze.

Speaking of which, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty is also strange. To be honest, the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was as high as 20 to 30 million yuan. However, the following is too dead. In each county, it is responsible for the military pay of a certain border, a certain place is responsible for the emperor's wood, and other things.

Therefore, the annual silver in the Ming Dynasty treasury is only 20 to 3 million yuan.

Please note that this income is actually not the overall income of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, the local taxes have been distributed layer by layer before they were distributed to the central government. Some of the two or three million silvers are salt taxes and some are silver-discounted in Jiangnan grain.

If the Bianguan Shangwei was in a state of self-sufficiency in the early Ming Dynasty, he could still live his life.

However, the garrison was corrupted, and the Ming Dynasty had a bottomless pit for military expenditure.

Starting from the orthodox, subsidies to the nine sides.

In orthodox, it is really a subsidy, but the military money is not enough, and the surplus money of the imperial court is informal. And now, the sanctions of the imperial court have become the main item of military expenditure. In this regard, the imperial court actually spent two times.

The large tracts of land allocated to the garrison were originally the military pay. The silver from the court was originally just a surplus. Because of the strange financial system of the Ming Dynasty, there was no silver to go to the capital first and then distributed it. The money was almost allocated before it even arrived in the capital. The silver from the capital was only to support all officials, emperors, and surplus.

Emperor Taizu's ideas are good.

Point-to-point payment, saving middlemen.

The problem is that the money is allocated before the capital, which certainly saves the amazing travel expenses for food and money to be transported to the capital, but it also greatly suppresses the financial potential of the Ming Dynasty.

In Zhou Mengchen's opinion, it was not that the Ming Dynasty had no money, but that the Ministry of Revenue had no money and the court had no money.

Not to mention that this system has caused amazing corruption. Without the central government to supervise it in the middle, everyone can do five points by point. The court doesn't know.

Just talking about the limitations on the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Many times, money means national strength, and having money can make money means being strong.

Under this system, the central government's financial power was restricted. Not only did it receive much money, but it was not even a high room for financial mobility. However, the abnormal expenses in the early Ming Dynasty were more and more, and the pressure from the central government became greater and greater.

After hearing this, Jiajing was silent for a while.

He never looked at the finances of the Ming Dynasty from this perspective. He just felt that he had no money and the court had no money. He cultivated a Taoist temple and sacrificed to heaven, and searched for him, not to mention that some ministers of the court even put their minds on the inner treasury.

Is this really outrageous?

It was just that the ancestral system of the court was the fundamental system of the Ming Dynasty, and even Jiajing did not speak more about it. In fact, with Jiajing's cleverness, he figured out what Taizu thought when he was legislating.

It is estimated that Taizu probably wanted to limit the money in the hands of his descendants, because the money he went to the court was all spent. Even if the descendants squandered it, it would not be hindered from the national affairs. Even if an emperor like Emperor Yang of Sui appeared among the descendants, it would not be possible to spend all the money in the court. This is really outrageous, and the emperors in later generations were guarded by the emperor.

Of course, this entry was a little conjecture by Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing said: "Continue."

Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said, "Please tell me your Majesty?"

Emperor Jiajing said: "Do you still want me to remind you of your article?"

Zhou Mengchen smiled and said with apologies: "This time, I only want to be a Jinshi and have nothing to ask for. The imperial examination has passed. The palace examination has not been reduced, so I am just talking nonsense. Please forgive me. I think Your Majesty will not watch it."

This is also Zhou Mengchen's confidence in doing this.

He has been in the palace for so long that he has made some rules clear.

Generally speaking, the emperor only looks at the top ten. Only when he is not satisfied with the top ten will he go to the following papers.

Zhou Mengchen naturally dared to stumble around.

Emperor Jiajing laughed and said, "So that's it. So that's it? No wonder you dare to speak so wildly." After laughing, Emperor Jiajing said, "Since that's the case, I won't ask you anymore. What's the matter I have given you?"

Zhou Mengchen heard Emperor Jiajing mention the music box project and said, "Your Majesty, I have prepared almost all of it. I will send it to Your Majesty in these few days." He paused slightly, as if he thought he should give the emperor a vaccination, and said, "Your Majesty, everything must be progressed step by step. Now I am just making it the same, and the internal organs inside need to be polished carefully before they can be made. Please give me some time."

Emperor Jiajing said, "That's natural. I won't urge you."

After talking about a few more things, Emperor Jiajing asked Zhou Mengchen to go back.

At this time, Huang Jin came over and asked carefully: "Your Majesty, do you really think Lord Zhou is talking nonsense?"

Emperor Jiajing said, "Mr. Zhou is a genius in the world, but he is not familiar with Confucianism and Taoism. How could he talk nonsense? It's just that the timing is wrong, so he can only talk nonsense." Emperor Jiajing sighed in his heart and said, "It would be great if I could hear such things during my great etiquette."

After the great etiquette, Emperor Jiajing devoted himself to reforming the laws and regulations in order to overcome Emperor Xiaozong and Emperor Wuzong to prove that he was right in the great etiquette.

When Zhang Cong was in power, he also made a lot of reforms. Although it cannot be compared with Zhang Juzheng's reforms. Many of Zhang Juzheng's reforms inherited Zhang Cong's ideas. It can be seen that Emperor Jiajing, who was in his twenties, was determined to seek innovation and change to win.

But twenty years have passed, and Jiajing's heart has also dissipated.

When he saw the same thing, he felt a headache, but he had no intention of changing a lot. His mind was all focused on seeking immortality. However, even if he wanted to seek immortality, he still had to deal with some imminent things.

He even avoided these problems, not wanting Zhou Mengchen to bother him with these problems.

Jiajing asked Huang Jin and said, "Did you bring the numbers from the Ministry of Rites?"

Huang Jin said, "It has been brought here. I have just summarized it. From the prince to the common people, there are 9,893 people, and from the princess, county lords, county lords, township lords, 9,782 people."

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he felt extremely heartbroken. Even if he doubled the ideal twenty years just now, the royal family men and women would probably be around 60,000 twenty years later.
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