Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

"Cough cough."

Wang Chengen, who was standing next to Zhu Youjian, saw that the emperor was silent for a long time, while Ni Yuanlu was still waiting for the emperor's reply.

He coughed hurriedly to remind the emperor.

Hearing the cough next to him, Zhu Youjian came back to his senses. He shook his head with a wry smile and waved to Ni Yuanlu:

"The Qing family is tired, please return to your posts."

"The minister obeys the order."

Ni Yuanlu bowed and returned to his class.

The report continued, and Chen Qiyu stood up.

Before the emperor left, he was ordered to inventory the total number of acres in the country.

In half a year, it was not too difficult to find out the number of acres of land plowed by Zhu Yujian in the hands of the wealthy gentry.

Especially when the evil-doing emperor's evildoing has been spread all over the world.

From last year to the present, because of the fight against Zhu Yujian, the heads of wealthy gentry in the world, and the endless destruction of families and powerful men, are still frightening everyone's nerves.

In this situation, no one dared to stop Chen Qiyu.

"Your Majesty, I am leading the students from the Royal University to conduct an inventory of the total number of fields in the world, with tax officials as the backbone, and in the name of signing supply and demand agreements with Handu merchant groups based on crop output in various places.

Ten days ago, I had initially sorted out the number of fields.

It does not include Nurqian, Liaodong and other places, it does not include Sanxuan and Liuwei and other places, it does not include Mongolia, Uszang and other places, it does not include Jiangnan and other places.

According to preliminary statistics, the total number of acres nationwide is 11 acres.

This data does not include military household fields, village fields, pastures, fish ponds, woodlands, etc. It only counts fields where food is grown.

This data includes mulberry fields in Huguang area. "

"I know."

Zhu Youjian nodded.

Nurqian and Liaodong are military reclamation areas and are not included in the farmland for agricultural tax collection.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is restricted in nature, and the cultivated land itself is pitiful.

As for the three announcements and six consolations, the Ming Dynasty has always implemented a tax farming system in these places.

The Ming Dynasty controlled these areas through canonization.

The leaders of Sanxuan and Liuwei need to turn in money every year.

("Tongzhi of Yunnan, Jisi Zhi", "Three Announcements and Six Comforts":

The Xuanwei envoy in the car was asked to pay a levy of 50 taels.

In the car, the Jing'an Propaganda and Comfort Envoy Division, the Mu State Military and Civilian Propaganda Envoy Division, collected one thousand and four hundred taels of silver.

Meng Yangxuanwei's envoy collected 750 taels of silver.

The amount of the levy for the Myanmar Propaganda and Comfort Envoys Department, the Babaidaidian Propaganda and Comfort Envoys Department, the Laos Propaganda and Comfort Envoys Department, the Mengmi Propaganda Department, and the Mengding Prefecture is 600 taels.

Menggen Mansion's levy amount is 16 taels and six cents.

Nandian Xuanfu Division collected 100 taels of silver.

Ganya Xuanfu Division collected 100 taels of silver.

The Xuanfu Division of Longchuan collected 400 taels of silver.

Weiyuan Prefecture levied an amount of 400 taels of silver.

Wandian Prefecture levied an amount of 150 taels of silver.

Zhenkangzhou collected 100 taels of silver.

Dahouzhou levied an amount of 200 taels of silver.

The amount of silver levied for the chief lawsuit of Bazhai and Meng Lian was 200 taels. )

In the early Ming Dynasty, the exchange ratio of gold and silver was about ten to one. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the influx of large amounts of silver, the exchange ratio was about eight to one.

However, the Ming Dynasty’s regulations for the Three Annals and Six Comforts were - the ratio of gold to silver was 4:1.

This is the "bad hair" decided by Zhu Yuanzhang!

Even until the end of the Yongli Dynasty when the Southern Ming Dynasty was about to perish, people were still sent into Sanxuan and Liuwei to collect taxes. There are even records of Burma expelling tax envoys from the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian's eyes flashed.

To be honest, the tax amount of Sanxuanliuwei, which is rich in gold and silver, is not high!

However, even if it is not high, it still needs to be compared with others!

Relative to——

In a certain coastal province, the annual commercial tax is less than six taels of silver...

The tea tax in a certain big tea-producing mansion is only six taels of silver every year...

Three announcements and six comforts - this is already the most heavy tax among heavy taxes!

What Chen Qiyu counted was the total number of acres of land owned by households in traditional Han Dynasty.

That is to say, the number of private acres of land, such as Zhuangtun, Junhu, Huangzhuang, and other state-owned land, is not counted.

To apply the understanding of later generations, it is the number of fields allocated to the people.

This data does not include Jiangnan regions such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui.

In other words, in the inland provinces of Ming Dynasty, the total number of private farmland exceeds 12 billion acres.

Zhu Youjian raised his eyebrows.

Just by looking at this data, he knew that Chen Qiyu's statistics were still incomplete!

Since the Song Dynasty, China's land has entered a mode of intensive farming.

The reason for entering intensive farming mode is that there is no wasteland left for cultivation!

As for land, no matter which dynasty it is, the land is there, and the total number of fields will never be less.

——In addition to being like "Wo Shengqing", they crazily create killings, massacre people, create large areas of no man's land in the interior, and use government violence as a means to force the land to become barren, thus reducing the area of ​​cultivated land.

There is a term in later generations called "18 billion acres of cultivated land red line."

In fact, the statistical peak is 22 billion acres of cultivated land.

As for the cultivated land in later generations, because urban agglomerations were almost universally built on plain areas that were easy to cultivate, in the Ming Dynasty when labor was abundant, the cultivated land area actually exceeded that in later generations.

but!

Even if calculated based on the number of acres of land in later generations - 1.7 million acres in Inner Mongolia and 4.5 million acres in Northeast China, after deducting these areas, the land in Guanzhong is nearly 16 billion acres.

But Chen Qiyu only counted 12 billion acres...

Four hundred million acres of land are missing!

Even if there are no statistics on Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, the total cultivated land in these three places is less than 1.9 million acres.

Calculated based on [-] million acres!

In other words, Chen Qiyu’s statistics still missed [-] million acres!

Zhu Youjian's fingers tapped lightly on the armrest of the dragon chair.

Although the technology in this era was not advanced, Chen Qiyu was leading young people in the university town who had not yet graduated.

These young people who have been educated (brainwashed) are eager to serve their country, and the data they collect cannot be wrong.

Zhu Youjian's fingers tapped gently, and every time they touched, the ministers' hearts beat...

The southwest territory of the Ming Dynasty was larger than that of later generations.

In other words, the actual missed land area is even larger!

but!

Even if it is calculated based on 12 billion acres of land and the tax revenue per acre is only ten copper coins!

Today's copper coins are less than [-], which can be exchanged for one tael of silver.

In other words, even with such a rough calculation, the Ming Dynasty's annual agricultural tax must be at least fifteen million taels of silver!

We only charge 10 copper coins per acre of land!

You can collect 1500 million taels of silver!

But the actual income from land tax is definitely more than that!

1两银子\u003d10钱\u003d100分\u003d1000厘。

In other words, 1 centimeter is equivalent to 0.8 copper coins.

When the Ming Dynasty increased the rate of three cents, there was a famous saying, "Nine cents of silver per mu", which is 7.2 copper coins.

For this "nine cents of silver" alone, 1080 million taels of silver should be collected!