leonardwarren Chapter 164
Chapter 164
However, although in many things, Yingchen is the kind of person who sets up a big policy and leaves the details to the ministers.
However, only in this matter, Yingchen must do it himself.
Because from ancient times to the present, the matter of collecting taxes is a major event related to the world and the rise and fall of this dynasty.
The biggest lesson here is the Ming Dynasty.
How did the Ming Dynasty die?
Taxes don't come up!
Let's put it this way.
Compare the Southern Song Dynasty with the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The same population is basically about 100 million people, and even the population of the Southern Song Dynasty should only be about 80 million, and the last years of the Ming Dynasty should basically reach 100 million!
Under such circumstances, the annual salt tax in the Southern Song Dynasty can basically reach more than 12 million yuan.
And at the end of the Ming Dynasty, even the king of Wanli, who was scolded in the history books as a faint king, and even sent eunuchs to Jiangnan in order to collect taxes, only collected more than 2 million taels of silver in salt tax at most in a year.
Relying on this means, Wanli was able to complete the three major expeditions of Wanli.
You must know that the population at the end of the Ming Dynasty was more than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Moreover, the price of salt at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually much higher than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Let's be more realistic, during the Northern Song Dynasty, a pound of salt was about 50 Wen.
In the Ming Dynasty, the price of a pound of salt was 300 Wen.
It is six times higher than that of the Song Dynasty.
150 In other words, as long as the salt tax can be collected at the end of the Ming Dynasty, then at least fifteen million taels of silver can be added.
With this level of treasury revenue, do Houjin and Li Zicheng dare to blow up?
You can kill them with money, okay?
Therefore, as we all know, the Ming Dynasty died on top of the government.
By the way, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the annual salt tax was 12 million taels.
And the salt of the Qing Dynasty was 20 wen a catty.
Also, during the Ming Dynasty to Chongzhen, the annual salt tax was only 200,000 taels.
You compare, so you know, why it is said that Emperor Chongzhen died at the moment of death, saying that everyone should be killed.
Nima, the salt tax of more than 10 million taels was only 200,000 taels to the national treasury in the end.
Really, this kind of thing, from ancient times to the present, only happened at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, if the Ming Dynasty does not die, it is simply impossible.
The imperial court has no money, how to provide disaster relief, how to quell the rebellion, how to operate?
In this case, it is no wonder that many soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, when they were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, their combat effectiveness was simply terrifyingly weak.
But when they attacked Nanming, their combat effectiveness was called a strong one.
Do you really think that hundreds of thousands of people in Houjin will be able to occupy the entire world on their own?
After Houjin entered the customs, the troops and soldiers who relied on them the most were those who had taken refuge in the north.
Then, these northern soldiers who have been ignored by Jiangnan and oppressed in various ways, when they arrived in Jiangnan, they naturally had revenge and revenge.
In many cases, many of the killings in the Jiangnan region were actually carried out by soldiers from the north who had surrendered to Houjin.
It can only be said that the way of heaven is reincarnated.
It's just that more than 100 million people in Daming were pitied, and in this kind of involution and internal friction, they were conquered by hundreds of thousands of people in Houjin.
In this case, it can only be said that those gentry in the Ming Dynasty basically deserve to be killed!
Therefore, the later Qing Dynasty learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty and called those gentry barbaric and rude.
As a result, there were a lot of killings, and these gentry really sang praises to the kings of the Qing Dynasty.
It can only be said that under Confucianism, these gentry are really indescribable!
The conversation turned to Yingchen's side.
Yingchen continued to speak: "So, in order to be able to collect taxes, this time, Gu is ready to measure the land of the whole world. "
"This matter, Lone is going to hand it over to Han Xin and Li You, the cabinet boys!"
As soon as these words came out, Li Si, Feng Quji, and Wang Jian Ke were stunned.
This kind of thing is an enemy of the nobles in the world, so they even wonder if someone will take a risk and intercept Han Xin and them halfway.
Seeing the worry in the eyes of these three important ministers, Ying Chen smiled: "Don't worry, they are all young and handsome people who are trusted by Lone, and the pillars of Great Qin will not let them risk their lives in the future." "
"This time, the Lone Society will let 10,000 back-to-back troops follow them!"
"I want to see if I want to see that by now, in the entire Great Qin, who else dares to go against the will of the Great Qin!"
"Don't worry, with Han Xin here, 10,000 back soldiers in hand, it is enough to level the world!"
This is Yingchen's absolute trust in the historical soldier immortal, Han Xin. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
The combination of Han Xin and the Beiwei Army was enough to burst out with a combat power comparable to that of an ordinary army of 200,000.
Coupled with Han Xin's talent for war, in the whole world, except for him Yingchen and Xiang Yu, who was far away in Goguryeo, no one would be his opponent.
This time, in the area north of the Yangtze River, Yingchen did not have any worries.
These places have basically become his basic plate.
This is especially true when the Beiwei army swept the three counties before.
Now it is mainly in the vast area south of the Yangtze River.
The people here may have recognized Daqin and respected him for winning the day.
But the nobility here did not get a blow.
In particular, this was originally the territory of the Chu State.
For the nobles of Chu State, although Chu has three households, the sentence that Qin will be Chu if he dies is engraved in their bones.
Once Yingchen makes a move on the land of the world, then the nobles of this place will definitely rebel.
Even, maybe the Confucians who were far away in Goguryeo will come back!
The alliance between Confucianism and these nobles of the Chu State was enough to make a lot of noise.
However, this is also an opportunity for Yingchen to directly wipe out the last part of the power of the nobles and Confucianism of the Chu State.
Once this is achieved, the world of Great Qin will be able to be completely stabilized.
The six countries of Kwantung will no longer have the forces that hinder Great Qin's unification of the world.
Those who are still waiting and watching will inevitably return to Great Qin.
However, when the time comes, Yingchen will not give the princes the status they have now.
One is submission and the other is surrender.
Naturally, the treatment will be different.
At the same time, measuring land is only the first step, followed by collecting taxes.
Great Qin will inevitably not be able to follow the old path of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, check the land of the world, once every ten years!
This kind of thing must run through the entire history of Great Qin.
In this way, the day's pilgrimage meeting finally came to an end.
When he walked out of the main hall, no matter which minister it was, even Li Si and Wang Jian were a little absent-minded.
They couldn't help but glance at the main hall behind them again, and at that moment, they seemed to see a divine man who held the entire Great Qin in the palm of his hand.
Vaguely, they could see that this figure was very similar to the prince of the Great Qin Prison State, Yingchen!.