Now that Luo Xin has said it clearly enough, even Emperor Jiajing knows in his heart that if this crisis cannot be passed, Da Ming may fall.

The Ming Dynasty fell, and Emperor Jiajing had no second way except for death, even Huang Jin and Liu Shouyou probably had no way to live. This is a matter involving the life of the family, and they can't help but be nervous.

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Luo Xin said in a deep voice: "Let's leave Goryeo aside, they can't cause us much loss." In half a year's time, at most we will lose one more military town. And within half a year, the grassland will not easily enter the Ming Dynasty, they need time to wait and see, and the possibility of the Japanese entering the Ming Dynasty is very small.

However, half a year later, once we are not able to solve the civil strife and start to attack Goryeo, I am afraid that the grassland will send troops, and the Japanese will also go ashore, and at that time, no one can save the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, we will only have half a year to resolve the civil strife.

There are three things we have to solve in this half year. The first is to exterminate the rogues. Second, disaster relief. The third is to solve the Ming finances, even if it is temporary. The only temporary solution to this problem was to prepare not only funds for disaster relief and the extermination of the pirates, but also a large amount of war funds for dealing with the northern Goryeo and southern Japanese invaders. Therefore, the preparatory amount is the most important of the three. This can't be solved, everything is a lie. ”

"How much do you need?" Emperor Jiajing's voice trembled.

Luo Xin calculated for a moment and said, "At least one and a half million taels are needed for disaster relief, and at least two million taels are needed to exterminate the rogues. To prepare for a major war between the north and the south, at least three million taels are needed. If you add the officials' salaries and other seven, seven, eight, and eight, it will cost 500,000 taels. That is to say, we need seven million taels. ”

"Seven million taels ......" Emperor Jiajing was stupid, and Liu Shouyou and Huang Jin also looked at each other.

"No, can you prepare it?"

"Your Majesty, let's not say whether we can prepare it or not. Even if we were able to prepare for it, the seven million taels of silver would be spent in a year from today. What should Daming do after that?

Without the City Division, where does Daming's financial resources come from?

Your Majesty, you also know that without the City Division, the main source of revenue of the Ming Dynasty is land taxes. But now only 20% of the land in the Ming Dynasty can be taxed, and the remaining 80% is in the hands of people with meritorious reputations, and they are exempt from taxes. Pointing to the tax revenue of 20% of the land, Daming's tax revenue has been received for 40 years, Daming is still full of holes, and the crisis has not been resolved. ”

"You're trying to change the law?" Emperor Jiajing's expression changed. Liu Shouyou and Huang Jin on the side also changed their faces.

Luo Xin shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, do you dare?" Even if you dare, the minister wouldn't dare. ”

"Huh......" Emperor Jiajing let out a long breath, his mood was inexplicably relieved, and then he looked at Luo Xin and said, "Then what can you do?" ”

"There is no fundamental solution, but there is a way to alleviate it. It can alleviate the Ming Dynasty's finances for five years. With these five years, we can solve the problem and reopen the city. Solve the Ming finances. ”

"Say, what's the solution?" Emperor Jiajing's spirits were lifted.

"Your Majesty......" Luo Xin's face showed bitterness and said, "After this incident, I am afraid that the minister will become the public enemy of the hundred officials." And it's not easy. ”

"Don't worry!" Emperor Jiajing said solemnly: "With me, even if I become the public enemy of a hundred officials, what will happen?" As for the difficulty, what do you need, just say. ”

Luo Xin secretly rolled his eyes, and secretly said in his heart, are you there? I'm afraid I'd be better off without you. However, he can't ignore the situation like Daming, if he sits and watches the situation, it is the people of Daming who suffer. So he said solemnly:

"A holy decree, I need to have the power to cut first and then play, no matter who it is for."

"Yes!" Emperor Jiajing immediately nodded: "What else do you want?" ”

"It's gone!"

"Gone?"

"Well, it's gone!"

Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin fixedly, and said in a half-loud voice: "A holy decree can let Daming survive the crisis?" ”

"Can't!" Luo Xin shook his head and said: "It's just that there is a great possibility that we will get through the first crisis, that is, within half a year, the disaster relief will be over, the encirclement and suppression of the Liukou will be over, and we will prepare for the Civil War, so that the next five years Daming will be able to barely survive without a city division to lay the foundation." ”

Emperor Jiajing's expression gradually became solemn, he didn't think that Luo Xin would be a decoration if he wanted a holy decree, I was afraid that Luo Xin was going to kill on a large scale, so he said in a deep voice:

"What do you want to do?"

"Leeks have grown like artemisia grass, it's time to cut them."

Emperor Jiajing's eyes froze: "What do you mean?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Ming treasury has no money, but it doesn't mean that those officials don't have money. The reason why those people are rich is because of corruption and bribery, and the Ming people also like to buy land. Therefore, in addition to their clever grabbing, they also bought a large amount of land, and it was precisely because of the large amount of land in their hands that the Ming Dynasty could not collect taxes, resulting in an empty treasury. There are four major benefits to killing them.

First, the confiscated cash and grain alone will probably be a lot, and this silver, grain and grass will be enough to support disaster relief and encirclement and suppression of the rogues.

Second, a large amount of land was confiscated, and the court could lease it to the peasants instead of auctioning it, so that the treasury would have an extra part of the tax revenue and ease the finances.

Third, there are too many officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there are too many people with meritorious reputations, and many meritorious people have ambitions but cannot be displayed, because the pit in front has not been poured out, and they need to be ranked by seniority. Therefore, the officialdom of Daming is like a pool of stagnant water, and now a batch of them has been cut, which also makes this pool of stagnant water flow.

Fourth, deterring those corrupt officials and waking up the Ming officials can be regarded as a bright and prosperous Ming officialdom. ”

"Okay, I'm done!" Emperor Jiajing pondered for a moment and nodded.

"Your Majesty, there is still silver in the inner treasury, right?"

Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin vigilantly, and Luo Xin smiled and said, "Your Majesty, lend it to the minister, and the minister will return you." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"If the minister wants to cut leeks, there must be leeks, right? It's hard to determine whose leeks are in a hurry, and His Majesty's private money will be taken out as an introduction, and it will be returned to His Majesty soon. ”

"Really?" Emperor Jiajing was a little reluctant.

"Your Majesty!" Luo Xin said with a smile: "When did you break your promise?" ”

Emperor Jiajing thought about it, and it was really. And he also thought that if Luo Xin couldn't solve the problem, Daming would have a big problem, at that time, not to mention his private money, even his life was in danger, so he nodded and said:

"I don't have much, only 700,000 taels."

Luo Xin couldn't help but curse in his heart, there are 700,000 taels, and he asked Xu Jie to use the treasury to build Yuxi Palace?

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