Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

When Emperor Chongzhen first succeeded to the throne, the price of grain had already reached a high level of one tael of silver and one stone.

According to the third volume of "He Jian Zhi": "One man plows thirty to fifty mu of land, and the harvest of wheat per mu is more than one stone." The sum of summer wheat and autumn millet is two stones.

Calculated in this way, a family can get 30 taels of grain by farming 60 mu of land. In the Hongwu period, the income was about [-] taels, and in the early years of Chongzhen, it was already worth [-] taels.

One tael of silver is equivalent to RMB 668, and 60 taels of silver is equivalent to more than RMB 4. Before Emperor Chongzhen crossed, the salary in many second-tier cities was less than 4000 yuan per month.

The problem is that the price of goods in Ming Dynasty is appallingly low. According to the "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" written by Shen Bang in the Wanli Year, the price of a live fat chicken is [-] cents of silver.

The price of a live fat chicken is four cents silver, which is equivalent to 26 yuan, and the price of a catty of rice is less than three pennies, which is equivalent to only 1.75 yuan, which is roughly equivalent to the price of Emperor Chongzhen before his crossing.

Even during the reign of Chongzhen, prices rose, but before they could rise completely, they were suppressed by Emperor Chongzhen—the large amount of grain purchased through the vassal state directly caused the rich merchants who hoarded a large amount of grain to vomit blood.

If you look at it purely from the paper data, there is still room for suppression of this food price, at least it is not a big problem to suppress it from the current one or two silver per stone to five silver.

But if there is any time traveler who dares to do this, he is a real idiot.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen decided to take the people of the world, especially farmers, as the basic reason when he just crossed, there were many wealthy merchants in Ming Dynasty, land annexation was serious, and there were also many big landowners, but more still Ordinary people in their own land!

Expensive food hurts farmers, and cheap food hurts farmers even more!

Emperor Chongzhen could take action when natural disasters caused prices to rise, because food was expensive at this time, and a large number of ordinary people were hurt.

Ordinary people are not chaotic, and no matter how chaotic those people are, there will be no major troubles.

But the current situation is different from when Emperor Chongzhen first came to the throne.

The problem now is that with the good breeds from the Royal Academy and the large amount of grain purchased by foreign vassals, the price of grain has been suppressed to a low point, which is twice as low as when Emperor Chongzhen first came to the throne, and even lower than when Wanli lower.

Even so, the current commodity and food prices are still in the process of slowly decreasing—especially with Bushitu Khan and Zhuoli Ketu Khan, as well as the internal attachment of the Chahar Department, Liaodong and Nurgandu Division A large number of cattle and sheep began to pour into the market, and the reduction in meat prices further led to the reduction in food prices.

At this time, if we continue to suppress grain prices, it will no longer hurt the landlords and wealthy businessmen, but even the people who are actually farming.

What happens when food is worthless?

It's not that some people don't farm anymore, but that everyone no longer thinks about farming, or burns the crops grown to artificially raise the price of crops.

But no matter what kind of phenomenon appears, it is definitely not a good phenomenon for the current Daming.

The Ming Dynasty was not the celestial dynasty of the later generations, and did not have such a strong risk control ability. One mistake would turn the situation upside down, and the situation that Emperor Chongzhen had worked so hard to open was completely over.

It is not impossible to artificially suppress food prices and liberate a large number of people from the land to complete industrialization quickly, and two churches have done this.

The two churches that did this, one is called the Soviet Union, and the other is called the Flower Planter. Both of these two were pulled to the ground, but the Soviet Union did not carry it over, and they were ripped to death. The elders of the Flower Planter are more awesome. Still the waves flew up.

Facts have proved that the consequences of messing with eggs are very serious, especially when Daming does not have strong risk control capabilities, doing so is really deadly.

After pondering for a while, Emperor Chongzhen finally said: "The price of grain must not be suppressed anymore. It is not easy for the common people to cultivate. It is really unreasonable for the court to suppress it as the parents of the common people. It is better to think about what Wen Aiqing said just now. .”

Wen Tiren nodded and said: "Even if the imperial court does not take action to suppress grain prices, the purchase price of grain in Chongzhen's 14 years must be lowered a bit, and then find ways to increase the wages of the people to work outside to lure the people to leave the land."

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly turned his attention to Guo Yunhou: "If the budgets of the previous ministries are increased by another [-]%, can the treasury support it?"

Although he doesn't know what monsters Emperor Chongzhen will come up with, Guo Yunhou also knows in his heart that it is not the time to be stingy and save money: "Your Majesty Qizuo, if the increase is increased by 1000%, there will only be about [-] million taels left in the treasury." Once there is something, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with it.

However, if it is only increased by [-]% or [-]%, there will be some more money left in the treasury. "

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Then increase the wages of the common people to work, and increase it by [-]% on the original basis, so that the common people know that the income of going out to work is higher than that of farming.

The Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Communications, remember to order them to provide good road guides for these working people, and the local governments must not make things difficult for the people on the road guides.”

A light flashed in Shi Fenglai's already cloudy eyes, and he stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty, once the salaries of the various ministries of the imperial court have been raised, the private workshops will also raise their prices accordingly, otherwise they will not be able to recruit workers.

Under such a situation, apart from raising prices, those wealthy merchants and gentry had only one way to go. "

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said with a smile: "If it's just to raise some prices, then let them go. If some people don't open their eyes, then let them go."

Obviously, once the court pays higher wages, the rich merchants will face the situation that they cannot recruit manpower, and the gentry will face the situation that they cannot recruit tenants.

In this case, unless wages are raised or land rents are lowered, there are really only two ways left.

Either the production cost will be transferred to the price through a simultaneous price increase, or the rebellion will overthrow the Emperor Chongzhen who turned the table, and all problems will naturally cease to exist.

But would Emperor Chongzhen care about someone rebelling?

If the people were forced to rebel, then nothing to say, Emperor Chongzhen was more afraid than anyone else, and more anxious than anyone else, he must be thinking about how to quell the rebellion.

If the rebels were wealthy businessmen or gentry, then the Emperor Chongzhen could only hehe—to find out about copying the family and exterminating the clan?The national treasury and internal funds can have another income!

After laughing, Emperor Chongzhen changed the topic to another side: "The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Rituals should also think carefully about the enrollment of these common people's children, so that the children of these common people cannot be unable to study and have difficulty taking exams.

In addition, the pensions of the court princes can actually be reduced and implemented on these migrant workers, so that they don't have to worry about what to do when they get old.

In addition, the Huimin Pharmacy needs to be changed. These migrant workers are also the people of Ming Dynasty, so they can naturally enjoy the discounts offered by the Huimin Pharmacy. "

After Wen Tiren, Shi Fenglai and the others looked at each other, they all bowed in response.

Only then did Emperor Chongzhen point to the outside of the carriage: "Look, before you know it, you're almost at the capital."

Wen Tiren and the others glanced out of the car window, only to realize that they were already very close to the capital city - about seventy or eighty miles away to the capital city.

You know, Tianjin is more than 280 miles away from the capital.

A sweaty BMW of this level can run more than 200 miles a day, which is not a problem for the more than 100 miles from Beijing to Tianjin, but if it is replaced by other horses, it usually has to stop and rest after running more than [-] miles in a row.

In other words, if you don't take care of your horses, you can travel from Tianjin to Beijing in about an hour.

If you cherish the horsepower, it will take two hours at the fastest, and it will take about three hours including the rest time.

However, the train on this trip did not have this problem at all. It has maintained a speed from the beginning to now, and there is no problem of cherishing it or not.

What if it is updated again?What if the speed is increased?

No one is a fool, especially the bigwigs like Wen Tiren, who have an extremely vicious vision of seeing problems.

Just like Wen Tiren proposed to suppress food prices through the imperial court just now, did Wen Tiren really not see the disadvantages?

Gratitude comes from above!

This kind of thing that benefits the world, I can't do it as the chief assistant, and neither can other officials. I can only ask Emperor Chongzhen to bring it up and let Emperor Chongzhen be this good person.

It's the same now. Judging by this speed, it takes about two hours for the train to travel from Tianjin to Beijing, which is faster than the normal speed of riding a horse. In the future, this speed may be even faster-and the power of the train is stronger than that of the carriage. Too much.

This also means that in the future, the speed of communicating the availability of goods in various parts of Daming will be greatly increased. When the sea fish in Tianjin are transported to the capital, they may still be alive!

It's all white money!It's all taxes!

Must do!The railway must be repaired and overhauled!