Chapter 128                                                                                                                             

News of the victory in Nanyang soon spread throughout the capital.

The people in the capital were not very happy. After all, during the Zhengtong period, most of the people were a little numb to the victory after victory.

But this thing is different for some people.

After Han Yong learned the news, he was slightly stunned and knew in his heart that he was about to leave the position of Chief Supervisor of the Cabinet.

In fact, Han Yong's life has not been very good for the past six months.

Many people in the Ming Dynasty attributed the rebellion of King Ning because Han Yong was improperly dealt with. They wrote letters to impeach Han Yong.

You should know that the position of the chief minister is that any chief minister who does things is well-known and slandered. It is impossible to say that Han Yong has no objection.

However, Han Yong did not take these things seriously.

When implementing the new law, Han Yong had seen a much more serious storm than this, and did not take it seriously.

However, Han Yong also felt that he should bear certain responsibilities.

Nothing else, he is the chief minister.

If you resist the world's major events, the chief assistant has a responsibility for anything happening in the world.

So, Han Yong resigned again and again. After all, Zhu Qizhen had already given him a hint before, and it was already a foregone conclusion, so Han Yong naturally had no intention of attachment.

However, Zhu Qizhen repeatedly issued an order to keep him.

Once or twice, Han Yong thought Zhu Qizhen was going through the motions. After all, begging for bones requires three remarks.

But later Han Yong slowly understood.

No, Zhu Qizhen really saved him. But he retreated but it was not the time.

As for when will this opportunity come?

Han Yong vaguely made some guesses.

The opportunity for him to retreat was related to the migration of the vassal kings to the south.

Now this great victory in Nanyang has cleared many obstacles for the vassal kings to move south. Perhaps the time for him to retreat is about to come.

However, although Han Yong knew in his heart that he had not been in the cabinet for a long time, he still sorted out the things he should be responsible for one by one.

Han Yong does things at his own frequency.

He packed up the documents in his hand and then got up to go to Qianqing Palace.

As the chief minister, Han Yong had too many things to communicate with the emperor. He went to the Qianqing Palace almost once a day, and now he has just recovered from the laziness after the Lantern Festival.

In the past few days, Han Yong has been going there relatively frequently.

Just like people from later generations, they couldn't cheer up a few days before the New Year.

Zhu Qizhen was also very accustomed to Han Yong's arrival.

Zhu Qizhen asked Han Yong to sit down. After Han Yong performed his tribute, he began to report. He said: "Last year, natural disasters and man-made disasters have been exempted from grain taxes in Jiangxi, Huguang, Anhui, Jiangsu provinces, and more than a dozen prefectures and counties, totaling five million stones, and a total of three million stones of disaster relief funds were allocated. In addition, there were a total of six million taels of military forces in the Battle of Nanyang."

"There are still a total of 4 million taels of vassals for the establishment of the four kings of Hexi."

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

In fact, the general account of the year should have been in the hands of Zhu Qizhen before the Chinese New Year. However, last year was an unusual year, which can be described as a natural disaster.

The Yellow River is stable. Although the Huai River has not been managed on a large scale, Chen Yi has already started in many small places, and some small projects have already started.

Although there were floods in the Huaihe River during this flood, the impact was not great.

But Huguang has the greatest impact.

Or the Yangtze River Basin.

Huguang has a great drought. Huguang in this era is the collective name of Hunan and Hubei. Whether it is the Dongting Lake Plain, the Jianghan Plain, or the Poyang Lake Plain, they have severe droughts.

It would be easier to deal with a severe drought alone. After all, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, there can be said that there are famines every year.

The Ming officials had long had certain rules for disaster relief. As long as the money and food were in place, they could definitely be placed properly.

But the problem is that natural disasters still cause man-made disasters.

The rebellion of King Ning attracted great attention from the Ming government. When drought occurred, the Ming government did not focus on resisting drought, but on quelling the chaos.

It was only two or three months before the Ning King's Rebellion. Otherwise, the rebellion of King Ning was not yet settled, and refugees would have rebelled in the Yangtze River Basin.

even so.

It also created a big gap in the Ming Dynasty's finances. Millions of stones of food and grass were poured in.

Of course, this is not all about relief from drought, but also relief from military disasters on the Poyang Lake Plain.

When King Ning raised his army, he naturally ignored anything else. It can be said that he could use it for him, and he refused everyone, no matter whether he was a water bandit or a bandit.

The military discipline of the Ming army was not good, but under the constraints of the superiors, I dare not go too far.

But King Ning's army was simply bandits.

In a great war, King Ning did not cause any losses to the imperial army, but it caused a disaster to the Poyang Lake Plain centered on Nanchang.

A considerable portion of the money and grain allocated to Jiangxi.

Han Wen, the governor of Jiangxi, is not easy to be a good person.

After hearing this big expense, Zhu Qizhen immediately asked: "Is the court's expense enough?"

Han Yong said: "By Your Majesty's natural virtues and commercial tax strategies, these gaps have been offset by commercial taxes. Now, the taxes imposed by the court, such as salt, tea, cloth, silk, porcelain, iron, coal, sugar, wood, ships, etc., are as much as 30 million taels. It is enough to make up for the gap in the court, and there is even a lot of surplus. There may be more in the future."

"And the drought in Huguang is more affected by local treasury, but the imperial court's Taicang did not use much."

"Just." Han Yong said this slightly and said, "Sang Hongyang's strategy cannot last for a long time."

Sometimes, appropriate crises can actually promote the progress of some things.

For example, this time the Ningwang Rebellion that shocked the world, the Jiangnan area was panic and capital was disgusted with chaos. Under such circumstances, it was much easier to implement commercial taxes.

Although the Jiangnan area has centrifugal force for Beijing, more people still support the imperial court. Even the Jiangnan gentry chose Beijing between King Ning and Beijing.

Especially when King Ning raised his army, it was too late for the imperial court to allocate these military funds, so the more they used were the treasurys in Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

All of a sudden, the local people lost money, which promoted the promotion of commercial tax.

The commercial tax promoted by Zhu Qizhen may not be able to be leaked, but it is rooted in the industry and commerce that has flourished and developed over the years of Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that it has grasped the pulse of the times.

This has only increased so much, and it has not been fully expanded. After it has been fully expanded in the future, no matter how much the Ming Dynasty finances are inexhaustible, at least many things Zhu Qizhen can do.

However, Han Yong did not support this policy very much.

This is also normal.

Zhu Qizhen’s ideas are classified by contemporary people as Sang Hongyang’s techniques.

Sang Hongyang was the Minister of Finance of Emperor Wu of Han. He prepared a lot of military expenditure for Emperor Wu of Han to fight in the east, but a salt and iron meeting set Sang Hongyang on the pillar of shame.

In fact, after the Salt and Iron Conference, the then Minister Huo Guang did not abolish Sang Hongyang's policies, and even Sang Hongyang was killed later, not because of his political thoughts, but because he stood in the wrong team and stood on Shangguan Jie's side and was killed by Huo Guang.

Even many policies of Sang Hongyang were used by later generations, such as the sale of salt and iron by officials.

But as soon as the pen moved, it seemed that Sang Hongyang was at the salt and iron meeting, and was speechless.

And the ancestors of virtuous literature became victors.

Therefore, later generations of disciples and disciples always despised Sang Hongyang's financial thoughts.

Zhu Qizhen shifted the focus of tax collection to industry and commerce, which was clearly Sang Hongyang's financial thought: "Why do you need to use the farming of the country to enrich the country, and why do you need to have enough people to have a well-field field?"

Han Yong is a pragmatist and is not a loyal believer in the family's ideas, but he is a Confucian scholar after all, and the Confucian scholar's farm-oriented idea is even more deeply rooted in his bones.

Therefore, Han Yong was not happy and worried about the large-scale collection of commercial taxes.

I am worried that this kind of tax collection will cause adverse reactions.

There are many people's ideas about wealth and wealth in the world. However, it is not about officials, but about the people. However, if you don't mention the incremental growth of productivity development, this may not be wrong.

If the imperial court occupies too much, it will naturally leave less to the people.

It is likely to cause serious consequences. Therefore, Han Yong emphasized that this matter is an emergency measure and cannot be done for a long time.
Chapter completed!