Chapter 129: South-to-North Grain Transfer

"Since that's the case, I can only increase taxes." I don't know who mentioned this.

Increase taxes? Yang Jingwei was very afraid of this thing, fearing that more people would rebel if they increased taxes.

"The north was a big drought, how to increase taxes? Wouldn't it force people to rebel?"

"Then increase taxes in the south."

Yang Jing wanted to take down the disaster relief matter on his shoulders, but this could not be settled with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. It is likely to be the bottomless pit of millions of taels of silver every year. Even if Yang Jing makes every effort to provide disaster relief, he may not be able to get the hole. He either grits his teeth, makes up his mind, and just pushes it over.

Then I can only increase taxes. I remember that the taxes were indeed increased several times in the late Ming Dynasty. It is said that it was the main reason for the demise in the late Ming Dynasty. However, after reading many time travel novels, Yang Jingjing, I clearly remember that the peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was mainly concentrated in places with severe disasters in the north. If I only add taxes in the south, it might be fine.

"Then what is the tax situation in our dynasty? Will the tax be heavy? Can the people bear it?" Yang Jing asked these questions. Many people could answer this question, but not many people answered it very correctly.

"Report to Your Majesty, our dynasty has not had a heavy tax. Taizu has set up a plan to hide wealth for the people. Now that a major famine is coming, it is not an exaggeration to add some taxes to help the people. As long as Your Majesty does not increase taxes in the disaster-stricken north, it should not be a big problem."

"Is the tax tribute heavy? That family will explain to me the tax situation of our dynasty. How should we increase the tax? Pay attention to the exclusion of several northern provinces." Yang Jing, a time-traveling otaku, was confused about the tax issues of the Ming Dynasty. He had to ask questions on the spot before talking.

"Report to Your Majesty, my land tax is only a few liters per mu, and it is calculated as ten kilograms. If Your Majesty increases the tax by one cent, or a few cents, it is about 11 kilograms acres. It seems that the problem is not big. Of course, my Ming Dynasty is divided into grades, and the grain production in the north and south is different, and the tax rates are different, so the tax revenue is different. In the Ming Dynasty, I had nearly one billion mu of land, and a few cents per mu of tax, and I can collect about one million taels of land every year. Of course, if Your Majesty excludes the tax on the north, plus the fields exempted from the royal family, gentry, etc., the actual income may be about four or five million taels of silver. As a disaster relief, I think it is enough."

This minister is probably from the Ministry of Revenue and briefly introduced the situation of land tax in the Ming Dynasty.

If you add one cent of land tax in the south, you will get four or five million taels of silver. This seems to be OK! Yang Jing was moved and kept reminding himself not to increase taxes. He relaxed it. If you remember correctly, the south was always relatively stable in the late Ming Dynasty. I guess it would be not too much to collect more silver. In the north, especially in Shaanxi and Henan, there are not only no tax collection, but also tax exemption and disaster relief.

"As the Qing family said, it seems that this tax increase in the south is also feasible? Is there anything else that other Qing families want to say?" It would not cause a peasant uprising to get four or five million taels of silver. This seems feasible! Yang Jing could not withstand the temptation of four or five million taels of silver.

"I believe that the tax increase is only one point in the face of the situation, but there are actually various levies that have accompanies the various levies. The actual amount of the levies may be several times that of Your Majesty. It is very painful to promote the common people. Please think twice."

A wake-up call rang above Yang Jing's head, and Yang Jing was deafening! He remembered that the officials would drift, the officials would eat and get the money, and the local master would fight in big and small fights. Ideals are good, wealth on paper is good, but the actual operation is not so beautiful.

Yang Jing blamed himself secretly and had to forget himself. We really need to calculate this account carefully.

"Can you give me a good idea? There is no tax increase, and there is also money to provide disaster relief?" Yang Jingwei had no choice but to see if there were any capable people.

"I ask Your Majesty to issue the treasury to save the world."

"Puff" Yang Jie sprayed tea far away. Now there are still people staring at his own treasury and asking him to send the treasury to the world. I wonder what this person is thinking. Did he dig the silver from the treasury by himself? This natural disaster is so big that you let me bear it alone, you sincerely want to cheat me to death!

"I will allocate the treasury for disaster relief, but my treasury is not a mountain of gold and silver. How long do you think my treasury will be distributed for this decade? The Ministry of Revenue has saved my treasury, I guess you have a lot of money to kill this guy." Yang Jing really wanted to kill this guy. His own money is of great use. If you ask me to fill the bottomless pit like this, I can't do anything. Training the new army, navy, building ships, supporting the border, and reissue military pay. All this requires money. The silver in his own treasury was only transferred to the treasury and went out again. How much money do you think I have? The money in my treasury has reached the point where I have to make it out and put out the seal money. I am so pitiful that I can't let me go.

"Master Sun, according to your opinion, what should I do? But what are you good ideas?" Yang Jie had to ask his master Sun Chengzong again.

Sun Chengzong had been in a state of concentration for a long time. When he saw the emperor ask, he said, "Your Majesty, I think it is feasible to increase the tax on land. Even if there is a small yin plus the tax on land, no matter how much the tax on land is, even if the tax on land reaches 20 kilograms per mu, the south can still support it. The fields in the south have a high grain production. One or two shi can be collected from the land, and two or three shi can be collected from the land. Even if the small yin plus the tax on land, it is only one land tax. It can be done by barely. Your Majesty can send people to increase the punishment. I believe that it will not hurt the people too much."

Well, Sun Chengzong also supports tax increases. This is a bit surprising to Yang's reform.

"Master Sun, isn't the land tax in our dynasty very heavy? There is also a small amount of yin added, so there will be no problem?" Yang Jingwei was a little uncertain. In his impression, in textbooks, he said that the Ming Dynasty was levied heavily, which led to the destruction of the country? But now even Sun Chengzong also agrees to increase the land tax?

"Your Majesty, the tax on land in our court is not heavy, thirty taxes are one, and the tax is only 35 liters per mu of private land. So how can it be heavy? The official land is relatively high, between eight liters and one liter of one liter, and one liter of a mu is calculated as a whole. The land in the south generally has about two liters. How can it be calculated as heavy?" Sun Chengzong explained to Chongzhen again.

Yang Jing was confused. The tax rates of civil land and official land seem to be different! How much civil land is there? How much is the tax for the official land? Is it heavy to collect a dou of two stones of land? I don’t seem to remember how much it was levied in the 21st century later, and I don’t know how much it was collected at other times. The two stone grains were collected for one dou of grain, which seemed to be 5%. If you add a few cents or a cent to one dou, it would be literally not much. If you count two or three times the "yin harvest" and "disbursement", you will probably be able to achieve an actual harvest of four or five liters, which means that it accounts for 7.5% of the grain produced. It seems that it is OK. This is still collected according to the tax rate of official land. If it is civil land, it is even lower.

Now, it's Yang Jing's turn to worry about it. Should we raise taxes? Yang Jing's heart is moved. It is impossible to be unhurried to earn four or five million taels of silver every year.

"There is still something that Qing family has to say?" Yang Gui asked again, and he was always worried about whether the land tax was increased or not.

Everyone was silent for a while.

Xu Guangqi came out and said, "Your Majesty, I think it is feasible to increase the tax on land in the south. As long as the amount is limited, it is not a big problem. Didn't the god in Your Majesty's dream tell me that it was just a drought and famine in the north for several years? So, since that's the case, wouldn't it mean that the south is relatively peaceful? In that case, as long as the south is transferred to the north, it will be done?"

This?South-to-North Diversion? It seems that I have only heard of the South-to-North Diversion...

Yang Jing was still hesitating, and someone came out to report: "Report to Your Majesty, I think it is extremely difficult to transport food. I will eat most of the food on the way. I need to provide a large-scale disaster relief, which is effective to catch it!"

Someone objected.

Xu Guangqi argued: "Your Majesty, how did the capital transfer millions of stones of grain from the south every year?"

The man was not willing to be outdone and said, "Your Majesty, although the capital transfers millions of stones of grain every year, it depends on the benefits of the canal. However, the transportation capacity of the canal is exhausted and is often dry. If you want to increase the transportation capacity of millions of stones, I am afraid..."

Xu Guanqi quickly replied: "Since the river transportation cannot be transported, why doesn't Your Majesty transport it in the sea? The shipping ship is large, the shipping is more, the freight is cheaper, and the consumption is less."

The person who was arguing with Xu Guangqi just now hesitated for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Your Majesty, the storm on the sea is very strong and it is easy to capsize..."

Shipping grain? Yang Jing's heart was illuminated. It was indeed feasible. Shipping is much cheaper than river transportation, and the transportation volume was huge. As for the shipping ships that would capsize, Yang Jing believed that trains sometimes overturn and planes sometimes fall. If they are 100% safe, then don't do anything.

"Well, Master Xu is right. This shipping grain seems to be economically feasible. This needs to be considered." Once the shipping is carried out, it is necessary to build sea ships. With sea ships, there will be navies. This is a good thing that was won in one fell swoop. Yang Jing made up his mind that the grain would still leave the sea.

"Your Majesty, it is impossible to change the canal transportation to sea transportation! I think there are millions of people on the canal to survive by relying on the canal. Once your Majesty changes the sea transportation, how can these people who rely on the canal to survive?" A minister came out and said that he could not do sea transportation. If the sea transportation was carried out, the millions would be laid off. At that time, there would be more people rebel. In fact, there are too many benefits involved in this canal. Many people rely on the canal to make some oil. If the canal transportation is cut off, how many people's financial paths will be cut off! Cutting off people's wealth, such as killing parents, how can the canal transportation be changed to sea transportation be carried out?

After hearing this, Yang Jie had a headache. The grain transportation had already hijacked the country's grain transportation lifeline. If it was to be changed, what should you do if the survival of millions of people depends on you? You can only watch the direction step by step, until it collapses completely.

Xu Guangqi came out to share the worries of Yang Jing and said, "Your Majesty, it is not necessary to change the canal transport into sea transport, but the north will inevitably suffer from drought and disasters. It is not a place in Shaanxi. The south-to-north grain transfer has become a foregone conclusion. The demand for grain in the north will definitely expand, and the capacity of grain transport has reached its limit. Therefore, I think that some grain and disaster relief grain can be transported by sea. The original grain will still be transported by rivers. What does it have to do with millions of grain workers?"

Uh, Yang Jing felt that Xu Guangqi really had some tricks, so he immediately made this matter obedient.

But obviously, Yang Jing was a little happy too early. The minister stood up and said, "Report to Your Majesty, drought is happening in Shaanxi, so what if the disaster relief grain is transported to the capital? Should I transfer it to thousands of miles? Will it be transported to Shaanxi?"

Uh, this seems to be another problem! Yang Jingwei is in trouble again. Look at Xu Guangqi again.

Xu Guangqi said again: "Your Majesty, I just said that some of the disaster relief grains are transported by sea. If you want to suffer disasters in the north, the demand for food in the north will definitely increase. Since the water transportation has reached its limit, you must have to transport by sea. Shaanxi disaster relief can pass through the canal, go up the Yellow River, pass through Kaifeng, and go to Xi'an. Although it is gradually difficult to sail above Kaifeng, there is still a period of time to travel the ship every year. As long as you speed up the time to transport grains, you will be fine. Others can consider land transportation." Xu Guangqi seems to be very skilled in these things. He easily solved Yang Jing's things that were extremely troublesome to see.

"Good plan!" Yang Jingwei was very happy. He finally had some clues to dealing with the famine in the late Ming Dynasty.

However, there are many people who come out to pick on the tricks.

"Report to Your Majesty, even if you transport disaster relief grain by sea or by Yellow River, it will be very expensive to operate! Your Majesty, this..." The problem is here. Although it can be transported by Yellow River waterway, the transportation fee is also very expensive. The consumption of materials is even more terrifying. Of course, it is much better than land transportation. If it is entirely by land, then transporting grain is even more terrifying. It is impossible to transport a stone of grain on the road by artificially consuming it on the road.

"I've paid this money." Yang Jing was very generous. Thinking that he could help thousands of people, Yang Jing felt that he would take out some money. It's okay, and the money was gone, and he could make money again. Thinking of millions of people being displaced and Yizi ate, Yang Jing felt that he should do something for them when he came here.

"The wise and the wise and the merciful..." Seeing that the emperor paid the silver to subsidize the freight, the ministers immediately praised the emperor for his goodness.
Chapter completed!