I'm really not the carpenter emperor

If the military household flees, the local government will go to the fleeing military household's home to arrest another young man, which is called filling the vacancy.

This has also led to the situation that it is difficult for the majority of military households to marry wives. Few women are willing to marry military households, because if you marry military households, you will ruin your whole family.

Some military households have indeed thought of a solution, which is to sacrifice themselves to free the entire clan from the sea of ​​suffering.

That is, they will never marry a wife and have no children. They think that once they die, their status as military households will end here.

But this is still not enough, Zhu Di also has regulations on this, if there is no one in the military household, it is impossible for the nine clans to have no one left.

The local government will still find one of the relatives of the military household who died without heirs to replace them, calling it the top shortage.

If the military households don't run away, and work honestly in the guards and work hard, they will be better when they retire, right?

Or not……

Zhu Youxiao also found it strange that Daming even thought of the placement of widowed and lonely elderly people, free welfare homes, and pharmacies, but he did not provide even any form of "retirement security" for military households.

To put it simply, even if there is a guarantee to provide for the rest of the world after retirement, it can give these poor people some hope in their miserable lives, right?

In the second year of Yongle, it was still Zhu Di who said that future emperors must obey, and the decree stipulated:

"Anyone who is over [-] years old, disabled, or young in the army will be ordered to farm for his own food."

To put it bluntly, you have been a military household all your life, working hard for the court and stationing troops, and when you are old and disabled, you have to fend for yourself.

well!What a miserable word!

So, from the moment Zhu Youxiao took over the throne, he has been planning to reform the guard so that the military households can live better.

Completely reform this system that has lasted for more than two hundred years and is outdated today!

As for Zhu Di's ancestral system, Zhu Youxiao didn't really care about it because it wasn't his ancestor at all.

Zhu Xieyuan took a deep breath when he heard the intensity of tax collection!

There are so few military settlements, even if there are a few military households who want to farm honestly, they are being exploited by guard officers and local dignitaries.

In the case of the lowest status of military households, a more severe military tax was levied than that of ordinary peasant households.

To put it bluntly, this means not wanting people to live and forcing them to rebel!

Hearing this, even the eyes of the military households below became dull, because they really couldn't see any hope from these days.

Zhu Xieyuan sighed. He really wanted to make a promise to these military households, but such matters as taxation were indeed beyond his control.

This is not asking for Shangfang's sword to kill a commander, taxation, only the current emperor can make a clear decision!

He exhaled and said:

"There are [-] hectares of military settlements and [-] military households, but such a high tax is levied. The governor will go to the capital tonight to ask for tax reduction for everyone!"

"What the governor is talking about is not the military tax of the west guards in your town, but the military tax of all the guards in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces!"

Until then, all the military households raised their eyes.

Reducing the military tax, this kind of good thing, they have been looking forward to day and night since the reduction of the field tax in the third year of the apocalypse.

But, can the emperor agree...?

Some people believe that since the emperor can reduce the farm tax, there must be hope for the military tax.

Some people are still desperate. They feel that it is impossible for Weisuo to involve the whole country and have the ancestral systems of Hongwu and Yongle dynasties.

Besides, the emperor is only in his twenties, how dare he go against the wishes of his ancestors?

Zhu Xieyuan frowned as he watched the discussions below, because he didn't hear much cheers as he expected.

What's more, they are silent and watching with cold eyes. There are very few people who believe that taxes will be lowered...

Chapter 625 Hidden Income

One afternoon, Zhu Youxiao fell asleep and returned to the Qianqing Palace for an afternoon nap. He fell asleep shortly after lying down.

Gong'e on the side looked at the emperor ecstatically, not knowing what she was secretly yearning for.

At this time, a reckless little eunuch ran to Qianqing Palace, shouting as he ran, "Quickly, the governor of Shanshan and Shanxi hastenly—"

These shouts made Zhu Youxiao, who had just fallen asleep, frown slightly, turned over on the couch, and then stretched his brows again.

The emperor just turned over, but the surrounding palace people were quite shocked.

Wang Chaofu stopped Xiao Yan and reprimanded him:

"Nonsense, this is the place, this is the Qianqing Palace! Is it a place where you can make noise? Why can't we wait until His Majesty wakes up in the afternoon to talk about it?"

The little eunuch was panting, obviously just ran from the front of the palace, and holding a rush note, he said:

"Grandpa, father-in-law, it is the urgent memorial of the Governor of Shanxi Province. Your Majesty once ordered that if Governor Zhu comes to the memorial, you must read it in time."

Hearing this, even Wang Chaofu was in trouble.

This, is it called or not...

Call, Your Majesty has just laid down after all, and has been exhausted for days, so it is so easy to rest for a while, I really can't bear to disturb you.

But if it is not called, what if the Shanshan newspaper reports a major event?

It's not good to delay important events.

After thinking for a while, under the nervous eyes of Xiao Xie, Wang Chaofu snatched the memorial and ordered:

"Go back, let's go talk to His Majesty."

Seeing this, Xiao Xie had no choice but to give up the opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor this time, and went back at every step.

But this is his villainous heart, Wang Chaofu has been with the king for a long time, and he doesn't care about this opportunity to show his face.

Waking up the sleeping emperor is not a good thing for this little eunuch.

Wang Chaofu came to the side of the imperial couch, and before he woke up, he saw Zhu Youxiao had opened his eyes, and nodded slightly to him:

"Bring it to me."

Wang Chaofu was taken aback for a moment, and then presented the memorial, and when Zhu Youxiao got up, he stuffed a soft pillow into the gap.

Zhu Youxiao leaned on the imperial couch, just turned over a page of memorials, and yawned several times in a row, which made Wang Chaofu very worried, and said:

"Master, if you are really sleepy, you can deal with this matter in the afternoon."

"You have a heart."

After Zhu Youxiao finished speaking casually, he didn't care about anything else, and flipped through Zhu Xieyuan's memorials page by page.

This time there was no sullenness, just sighed, closed the memorial and said:

"Call the Minister of the Household Department over here."

When Zhao Bingzhong, Shangshu of the household department, received the order, he was on duty in the Forbidden City, and he was at a loss at first.

But the emperor summoned him, there must be something important, but he really couldn't guess what it was.

There are indeed many major events happening in the capital today, but these so-called major events can only be said to be commonplace in a place like the capital where dragons and snakes are mixed.

Since he couldn't guess it, he didn't guess it anymore, he had a clear conscience.

Arriving at Qianqing Palace, outside the emperor's resting place, Zhao Bingzhong's previous thoughts were completely gone, only nervousness remained.

Wang Chaofu also stopped outside the palace tactfully, and shouted:

"Master, the Secretary of the Household Department has arrived."

After a while, a slightly tired voice came from inside: "Call him in."

Zhao Bingzhong hurried into the Qianqing Palace, not daring to raise his eyes to examine the surrounding layout, kneeling on the ground with his head bowed, cupping his hands and saying:

"Shangshu Zhao Bingzhong, Minister of the Household Department, please refer to Long live Your Majesty, Long live—!"

"Get up." Today, Zhu Youxiao has no feeling for these red tapes, holding a memorial in his hand, and said:

"I called you here today to ask you how the grain income of the national army was last year."

Zhao Bingzhong was stunned for a moment, wondering why the emperor suddenly remembered this matter, and earlier, the Ministry of Household Affairs had already drafted a memorial and submitted it.

The annual settlement memorial, the household department will draw up in detail every year, and then submit it to the Qianqing Palace.

According to the memorandum submitted by the Ministry of Households at the beginning of the fifth year of Tianqi, by the end of the fourth year of Tianqi, there were 180 million households in the Ming Dynasty, and 810 million households.

There are 640 million hectares of cultivated land, of which 290 million hectares are in the army, and the total amount of land in the country is 200 million hectares less than that in the last year of Jiajing.

Zhejiang and Nanzhili liberated and transported Beijing Taicang tea tax, 3205 million taels of silver, 100 million copper coins, and 400 million shi of bad grain.

Northern Zhili sent 120 million taels to the military department, and the other provinces sent 5308 million taels of silver to the recruits.

In addition, in the first year of Apocalypse, 620% of the Beijing-Hangzhou riverside tariff was added, and the supervising department released the emperor's internal funds of 600 million taels. The total silver income on the books of Tianqi in four years was about [-] million taels.

In addition, there are 140 shi of rice from Tianfu, 430 million shi of wheat, 130 million bolts of cloth brocade, and 30 jin of silk cotton.

The annual output is 590 jin of copper, 8 jin of iron, 80 jin of lead, 200 reams of 140 liang of cinnabar, 970 million jin of tea, [-] million jin of salt, and [-] million shi of grain in the army.

At this point, it is the focus of Zhu Youxiao's attention.

The guards are spread all over the country, and there are quite a few acres of military farms in the accounts, but the grains of the guards' military farms turned over to the imperial court are far less than half of the country's land tax.

This is because Apocalypse has lowered the national land tax since the third year, otherwise the gap will be even bigger.

So here comes the question, where did the food and taxes that should be handed over to the military guards that were supposed to be self-sufficient go?

Next, let's look at the expenditures. In the four years of Tianqi's various expenditures, silver alone has a huge amount of 270 million.

Where is it all used?

In the Ming Dynasty, the salaries of officials were not high at all. In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the salary expenditure of civil and military officials at all levels in the country was the highest in history, and it just exceeded 400 million taels.

I thought that the largest proportion of expenditure would be military expenditure.

In fact, the same is true. Military expenditures have always been the biggest part of the Apocalypse Dynasty. After all, bad luck, Zhu Youxiao had to maintain a large number of relatively elite frontier troops.

In the four years of the Apocalypse, the military pay of the nine towns of Liaodong, Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Gansu alone reached 8206 million taels.

Except for the Nine Frontiers, the remaining military expenditures in the Central Plains and Jiangnan are only 4 million taels.

This is still before the war, once the war is mobilized, the military expenditure will go up crazily every day, almost an astronomical figure!

That's why Zhu Youxiao almost ran out of money when he fought Chahar the year before last!

Fighting and raising soldiers is too expensive!

The military expenditure is already very high, but no one would have guessed that this is not the highest.

The highest is the consumption expenditure of the national royal family.

Even after the implementation of the law of restricting the salary of the imperial family in the first year of Tianqi, the consumption of the royal family in the whole country reached an astonishing [-] million taels in the fourth year of Tianqi!

What is this concept?Zhu Youxiao can use the expenses of these royal children to support two important towns on the nine borders!

No matter how bad it is, you can use this money to renovate the corrupt Central Plains army!

If he really had that strength, who would Da Ming be afraid of in field battles now?

In addition to military expenses and royal family expenses, the rest of the big money that is fixed every year is the investment in "scientific research" by the Military Weapons Department every year, and the maintenance costs of towns and government offices in various places.

The cost of the Armament Department is 180 million taels, and the expenses in the palace and the maintenance costs of local governments are 360 million taels, which are actually not high.

However, starting from the fourth year of Apocalypse, there has been a new expense, which is still a big one.

In the fourth year of Apocalypse, there was a great famine in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, and the imperial court gave relief many times, spending a total of 500 million taels of silver and more than [-] million shi of grain, and this was just the beginning.

From this point of view, the annual income is less than 2000 million taels, but the expenses are as high as more than 5000 million taels. The finances are still in collapse!

Actually otherwise, Zhu Youxiao didn't panic at all.

why?

Because of the high hidden income!

After Zhu Youxiao's tossing around for so many years, it is now past the time for Daming to live on the land tax and Jiangnan tea tax!

Others can't see the real income. The settlement income of the household department is only for some people to see.

Chapter 626 The Mountain and Shan Tun Tax

How high is it?

In addition to the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal tariff of more than [-] million taels per year, the income of the mining supervisors in the national mine veins and Dujian Mansion is as high as more than [-] million taels a year in four years of Tianqi.