Chapter Thirty-Four Letters
Chen Mu's National Bank is so touching, especially for Zhang Juzheng.
Just like a vassal king who was entrusted with foreign vassals and was heavily taxed, it was not allowed to be rejected.
Moreover, the benefits to the court are better than other proposals. At least it does not require the right time like the vassal kings and commercial taxes. This matter can be done immediately as long as it is properly planned.
The idea is very good. On the surface, it is a little more troublesome than the point-to-point tax input in the past, but this trouble has also been eliminated by simplified official banknotes, but in fact it can achieve the most important purpose - centralization and financial power.
In the past Ming Dynasty, except for the Beijing Transportation, all other taxes were delivered point-to-point. The Ministry of Revenue only had an account. In fact, the annual tax was 20 million taels or 30 million taels, and the final one was only one hundred thousand taels. It was precisely because before entering Taicang, the point-to-point transmission was completed.
The entire financial system, except for the last little change, has nothing to do with the central government.
There will be many cross-chaotic allocations, and the invalid taxes brought by corruption and card are different with the central bank, at least in name, but in fact, you can slowly draw them.
Chen Mu didn't say much, but Zhang Juzheng had a plan in mind. First, it was to regulate the nature of various taxes and silver prices of grain, cloth, etc. in each province, and the provincial capital banks were responsible for the purchase of the average price. This required some departments of each province to carefully plan and there was no difference.
Bank notes in various provinces first entered the capital, and then whether the tax was transferred to the capital or the retention area, the control rights of this money were in the capital. If silver was needed in other places, they had to apply for allocation from the capital to further concentrate their power.
When the government accepts it, the people can first try the bulk. For example, when maritime merchants and merchants get used to the national bank, credit will be erected again and paper money will be circulated throughout the world.
After discussing the bank, Zhang Juzheng stayed at Chen Mu for a long time. He asked him to send him a general plan and handed him the secret text of the special Beiyang Military Mansion, and gave him a small opportunity to show off before leaving.
Zhang Juzheng asked with a smile: "How did Jing Haibo's Qiqiao Linglong Heart have these thoughts?"
Chen Mu said: "Summary, explore, practice, and summarize!"
When Chen Mu said goodbye, Zhang Juzheng left the study and sent him a few steps. When he left the mansion, he moved to another room to change his clothes. He also had regular silk robes with crimson robes, and even the fabric was exactly the same. The difference was that the same scarlet jacquard patterns on the clothes were different, and they could not be seen without looking carefully.
When he entered the study again, he saw Wang Guoguang holding a small copper crystal magnifying glass squinting his eyes and looking at the chart. When the Minister of Revenue, whose hair and beard were white, raised his head, his thick bags of eyes drooped, and slowly said to Zhang Juzheng: "Chen Shuai is making a statement."
Zhang Juzheng waved his hand and took his seat and said to Wang Guoguang: "I don't care about Chen Shuai's words. If everyone in the world is like him, it may not be a bad thing to remember these horoscopes. But he is too young and so young that he stays in the country, he will be worried."
"Chen Shuaisheng also asked the State Council to go abroad at a good time. When the Beiyang business is finished, he will let him go overseas again."
Wang Guoguang said nothing while Chen Mu's stay and stay. He knew where the boundary between him and Zhang Juzheng was. He smiled with his beard and said with a smile: "We are rich and noble, poor and humble, and powerful, and unyielding. Chen Shuai can be a real man - only his mind is the only one who treats overseas countries, but not decent enough."
"What the prince said is extremely true!"
Zhang Juzheng raised his head and laughed as if he had heard a huge joke. After laughing, he bowed to Wang Guoguang and explained: "Shishuai Chen is not knowledgeable and cannot cultivate a noble spirit. Fortunately, he has a broad vision and has his own pattern. He can be said in a strange way. His mind is not bad for Chinese people."
"Master is strange in his way and asked him to edit textbooks for the emperor. He compiled a set of books called Tao Te Ching. There is no morality in the book. Only two points, steam firepower, and compiled the power unit. He called mechanics, summarizing human power, animal power, hydraulic power, firepower, and the rest were military weapons, ships, etc. Yes, he also formulated a standard word, calling various data of things parameters. At first, I was surprised by the title of the book, but although it had not changed, I did not understand the reason. I just thought it was randomly raised by Chen Shuai."
"I met Qi Shuai in Ji Town a few days ago. During a chat, he talked about something, saying that it was early spring when Shuai Chen came to Beijing. Shuai Qi went to greet him. Because he had given armor in his early years, Shuai Qi also gave him a pistol this year. Shuai Chen wanted to be arty but not as talented as that. Guess, what is the name he gave to the pistol?"
Zhang Juzheng raised his fingers and tapped him on the table with the documents. Wang Guoguang, who was puzzled, said, "The truth is he who calls his pistol the truth."
"It is very popular overseas." Zhang Juzheng's smile was quite helpless and said, "There is no need to know Chen Shuai at all. He is consistent in his words and knows his actions. It is easier to understand his heart when he looks at his actions. His morality is mechanics; his truth is this!"
Zhang Juzheng smiled and raised his sleeves, took action to make a pistol, and made a pistol look: "Except for China, the barbarians from all over the world do not know that the king is fierce and willful. The Portuguese attacks and destroys Manta Ka. The state dynasty is justified; the Western barbarians invade Luzon, and the sea ships go to Macau to scatter, and the reason is not reasonable."
"At first, I was also worried that the matter of going to sea to announce rituals should be made by well-educated and well-educated people to preach the etiquette of our country. He should send a minister like Zhang Ziwen to a polite person. But today, Chen Shuai's morality and principles are more feasible overseas. Others may not recognize etiquette, but they must recognize this principle."
"Portugal returned Malacca, Western barbarians entered Nanjing to sign a contract, and the countries in Southeast Asia were convinced by this principle."
Zhang Juzheng said, frowned, and after trying to summarize, explore, practice and summarize, he made a difficult conclusion and said, "About this time, Mr. Chen has made great achievements in governing the barbarians, and the evil people still need to be beaten by the evil people... I guess that Brother Shi Ting will not be bad if he takes office as the West this time."
This theory made Wang Guoguang want to laugh but couldn't. Zhang Juzheng's words were actually equivalent to sending these fierce and unreasonable people outside.
In the end, the old minister could only bow and say, "Shishou Chen is a man who is full of his talents."
After talking about the gossip, Zhang Juzheng then sat upright and said to Wang Guoguang with a serious look: "Ship Chen has another discussion, which has been suppressed by the lower house for more than two years. He mentioned several times that the royal family system is not good. There are rich people above and there are poor people below and there are hunger and food. He wants to transfer the royal family overseas. On the one hand, it is to underestimate the Lumi in the country, and on the other hand, it is to protect the foreign countries and reclaim the land."
"How many royal families are there in the state dynasty, and how much does it cost to spend every year?"
Speaking of serious matters, Wang Guoguang also cheered up. He had already memorized many data in the middle of the country, but after all, he was old. After thinking for a while, he opened the Wanli Accounting Record to verify it. This was how Zhang Juzheng said: "The royal family has accumulated a lot of problems, and the government has been reducing the wealth of rice. It is becoming more and more difficult to register jade certificates. The nobles are always noble, the poor are more and more, the wealth is squandering excessively, and the four people have no hope of their lives."
"The vassals of Zhou Mansion are the most capable of thriving. There are more than 40 princes and princes, and there are only 5,000 royal families. There are only 100 people with a salary, and the rest are unable to maintain food and clothing."
Wang Guoguang sighed a few words and shook his head and bowed his hand to report: "Now, the jade book contains less than 30,000 yuan, and the annual salary required is nearly 9 million stones, accounting for 30% of the land tax; in addition, there are royal families who are not in the jade book, which may be as many as hundreds of thousands."
"Thirty percent..."
Zhang Juzheng gritted his teeth slightly, he had to face this problem.
What is the difference between spending nine million stones of rice and saving nine million stones of rice and grain?
The most difficult part of this matter is not just the royal family with Lumi on the jade certificate, but it is more important to seek a way out for those royal family without Lumi on the jade certificate.
The reason why I have never listened to Chen Mu is that Chen Mu has no knowledge and has never come up with a practical plan for the royal family to go overseas. He just kept saying that he would enfeoff the vassal kings, but he didn't say how to enfeoff... Zhang Juzheng understood the country, but he didn't understand overseas.
Finally, Zhang Juzheng made up his mind and said, "I'll keep my mouth shut for this matter. I'll go to Nanyang and ask Gao Xinzheng."
As he said that, Zhang Juzheng showed an extremely uncomfortable expression again: "I don't know if he would like to reply to me."
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Chapter completed!