After the events of the Concert House and the Di Bao, Lin Xuwen and Liu Shidu talked about the situation of the household department and the salt and iron division.

In addition to the five counties of Chongzhou, other areas controlled by Huaidong have been merged into the household department, and the summer tax has been settled. In this way, we can get an approximate figure of how big the total plate of household income can be.

The core of the central financial work also lies in "living within the limits of income." If there is no relatively accurate judgment on the annual income of the household department, how can we arrange the military and civil affairs for the coming year?

The income of the household department is also the first thing Lin Jian needs to know when he returns to Jiangning.

"Since the salt control incident, after the salt sales in Huaidong have also been incorporated, the total number of salt catties accepted by the Salt and Iron Division has increased by about six times compared with the same period last year, but the price increase has been reduced to 11. The two Huai salt silver will be reduced by about forty percent this year," Liu Shidu said, "It will not exceed nine hundred thousand taels of silver." ”

"It's okay," Lin Jian nodded and said, "I didn't disappoint anyone too much. At present, the people's livelihood everywhere is miserable, and they are used to light food. The price of this salt will come down, and the total amount will gradually rise after two or three years of recuperation. ”

"Indeed, the soldiers are required to eat six catties of salt a year; In the past two years, under the rule of the lord, the counties of Huai'an have had a much better life than before, but it is rare for a family of farmers to have six catties of salt a year. According to common sense, a family of five should have 20 catties of salt a year to be appropriate. The total number of salt catties received by the Salt and Iron Division this year can increase by six times, one is the work of prohibiting private interests, the other is the work of reducing prices, and the other is the work of recovering eastern Fujian and Zhejiang," Liu Shidu said, "Waiting for the salt affairs in various places to be straightened out, the price of salt will not be reduced, and the price of salt can be further reduced." When the price of salt drops below 40 yuan, the private lord will be unprofitable, and the cost of the ban can also be reduced, whereas in the past, if you only had to maintain 20,000 yuan of salt, you would have to spend 450,000 taels of silver a year......"

Lin Jian nodded, after the large-scale promotion of the cooking method to the drying method, the price of salt in various places will drop to less than forty yuan, which is not an unrealizable dream. At that time, the profits of the smugglers will be sharply reduced, but the risk of beheading will increase a lot, and there will not be too many people to do this discounted business.

Although it is a fact that it is difficult to change the salt and silver reduction in the past three to five years, the rectification of the salt affair will be of great benefit to weakening the power of Weiyang Mansion headed by Shen Rong and weakening the potential support of salt merchants for Huaixi, and this loss is completely within the scope of bearability.

In addition, the boiling method is changed to the drying method, and the large grasslands around the salt field can be used for the reduced salt households and salt pawns to be reclaimed, and when the conditions are ripe, it will not be a problem to set up two or three new counties in the east of Yandu and Jianling.

"This year's salt and silver can have **100,000 taels, which is very unexpected to me, and I am already very content." Lin Xuwen said that he was worried that the price increase of salt catties would be reduced to eleven, which would cause all the salt and silver to be lost, but he didn't expect to keep so much.

In addition, the rectification of the salt incident, the confiscation of Mao Wenjing and other officials and businessmen's property and the confiscation of fines and businessmen amounted to more than 1 million taels of silver, and the number of acres of privately cultivated land that was cleared was close to the scale of 1 million mu, which could make up for the loss of salt and silver within three to five years.

"The summer tax should be settled," Lin Jian asked Lin Xuwen, "What's the situation?" ”

"The war in western Zhejiang, eastern Fujian and Xusi has just ended, and it is necessary to rest and recuperate, and the taxes of Hailing, Huai'an, Mingzhou, Yongjia and Taizhou have been merged into the household department, and the situation in Jiaxing has also improved. Even after subtracting one ding, the total amount of silver collected in the summer tax is more than three million taels, which is better than expected......

"Oh, Ming Zhe is doing a good job in Jiaxing, isn't he?" Lin Jian listened to Lin Xuwen take out Jiaxing alone and said that Chen Mingzhe's political achievements in Jiaxing should be prominent.

"The tiger father has no dog son, the son of Hua Zhanggong, he really won't insult the name of the champion, and the tax in Jiaxing's Naxia is even higher than before the war, which is more than two percent," Lin Xuwen said, "It's still the number after deducting one ding......

Chen Huazhang laughed, and was quite satisfied with Lin Xuwen's praise.

Jiaxing Mansion is located in the southeast coast of Taihu Lake, the area is equivalent to Pingjiang Mansion, before the war in the household number of 210,000 households, rich in rice, tea cotton silk. Jiaxing was disturbed by the East China Sea earlier, and after the luxury family occupied eastern Zhejiang, it was only separated from Jiaxing by a river. The luxury family was strong at that time, and the coastal and riverside of Jiaxing were almost equal to no fortification for the eastern Zhejiang water division, and the production was greatly damaged.

After Lin Tie attacked Mingzhou, Jiaxing was at the mercy of the interference of the war, became the hinterland of Hanghu Lake, and got the opportunity to recuperate.

During the war, a large number of people in Jiaxing left their hometowns and went to Pingjiang, Danyang and other places in the north to escape the scourge of war, and returned to their hometowns after the war. Chen Mingzhe took this opportunity to clean up the household registration of the fields, and to control the water, repair the embankments, build roads and cultivate fields, and the results were very great. When the taxes of Jiahang Lake were collected by Hanghu Lake before, Lin Jian could see that the situation in Jiaxing was getting better and better day by day, but he didn't know the number.

Although Chen Mingzhe has not expressed his position, but the household is controlled by Huaidong, the whole world knows, Chen Mingzhe presided over the affairs of Jiaxing Mansion, and the summer tax paid by Jiaxing Mansion this year is two percent higher than before the war, which can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence to the reality of Chen's surrender to Huaidong.

Lin Jian would not be so naïve that he really had to pull Chen Mingzhen to him and give him a soft face before letting him go.

"Ming Zhe's three-year term in Jiaxing has expired, do you recommend him to Hangzhou?" Lin Jian asked everyone.

"As it should be." Lin Mengde and others said.

Hangzhou Mansion and Weiyang Mansion have always been one level higher than other state capitals, and in the early years, they were also the locations of the two Zhejiang County Divisions. The Hanghu Army and Zhejiang and Fujian have long faced off on the front line of the West Lake in Hangzhou, and Fuyang, Linshui and other counties have fallen to the enemy for several years, and production has been greatly damaged. Since Chen Mingzhe has the talent to govern the government, using him as the prefect of Hangzhou is more reassuring than others.

The counties of Taihu Lake can really be called the essence of the world, the land of fish and rice.

Taking Pingjiang as an example, the fixed amount of grain in taxes amounted to 1.4 million stones; In addition, about 60% of the raw silk sold in Huaidong to the Haidong region is produced in Pingjiang. Silk tea cloth is not counted, and the annual tax grain of 1.4 million stone alone is difficult for other prefectures and counties to achieve.

Although such a high tax and grain quota is the result of three additional levies, on the other hand, it is still the result of land annexation and the phenomenon of hidden land deposits. As long as the household registration of the land is conscientiously cleaned up, the hidden fields of the registered households are cleared, the local gentry and wealthy are forced to bear more tax obligations, and the land annexation is suppressed, and the taxes of Pingjiang Prefecture can be greatly increased.

Before the war, there were 230,000 households in Jiaxing Prefecture, and after these years of devastation, Chen Mingzhe re-approved the number of households in Jiaxing, and instead of decreasing, there were more than 250,000 actual households. This is also the main reason why Jiaxing's summer tax can increase significantly compared with before the war.

Compared to Hangzhou, Huzhou is located on the inner side and is much less affected by the war. On the shores of Taihu Lake, only the four prefectures of Huzhou, Jiaxing, Danyang, and Pingjiang will contribute more than 50% of this year's household income.

If the extravagant family had sent out 20,000 elites at the beginning of the year, and sent Zheng Mingjing to lead his troops to attack the territory of Danyang and Pingjiang, this year's situation would have been more severe than now.

Lin Jian then asked about other tax revenues, habitually furrowed his brows, and said, "It seems that there are conditions for a long-term large-scale military confrontation on the periphery of Shangrao!" ”

"Next year, the money and grain for Huaixi will be reduced to 1.2 million taels of silver, Chizhou is a big burden, but it is only comparable to Huaixi, Jinghu and Tanzhou will supplement the military resources of 600,000 taels of silver, and the total will be 3 million taels," Lin Xuwen reported the accounts quickly, these figures were very familiar in his heart, "The expenses of the six departments of Zhujian Temple, Chuanyi, the Inner Government Administration, and the salaries of central officials will also be crossed out 4 million taels of silver, and what can be spent on the Privy Council next year will be 5 million taels of silver." If you can't hold on, you can postpone it for a year, and in the year after that, the income of the household should increase by 20%......"

100,000 soldiers and horses were scattered in central Zhejiang, western Zhejiang, Ningxi and other places, and the money and food consumed were completely different from those who gathered deep into the hinterland of western Zhejiang and eastern Jiangxi to try to besiege Shangrao for a long time.

Although it is said that raising 100,000 soldiers and horses only requires two million taels of silver a year, in addition to the huge consumption of requisitioning a large number of people to maintain the transportation of materials, the cost of besieging fortifications, armaments and armor, military merit rewards, and casualty pensions is the main one.

It is impossible for the luxury family to easily give up Shangrao, the eastern gateway of Jiangxi, and station elite heavy troops. It is impossible for Huaidong to suddenly capture Shangrao, and the use of superior forces to besiege Shangrao for a long time is the core of the Privy Council's use of troops after the autumn.

The so-called "victory with the right combination and the odd victory" means that at the beginning of the war, it is inevitable to carry out a military confrontation with regular soldiers, find the key point to change the balance in the confrontation, and then use strange tactics to achieve the final victory.

If you want to open the gateway to Jiangxi, you must be prepared to besiege Shanghuan for a year or even longer. If the troops were withdrawn due to lack of money and food, the gains would outweigh the losses. Next year, the money and grain invested in the Shangrao battlefield will probably exceed five million taels of silver or even more.

At the same time, the construction of the Xusi defense line and the Luyi defense line could not be stopped, and Xuzhou and Luzhou calculated that 100,000 new soldiers should be added as reserve soldiers. Coupled with the expenses of the Jiangning Forbidden Camp Army, the Haidong Camp Army, and the Mindong Camp Army, and the secret construction of a plank road in the Huai Mountains, the pressure next year will be extremely great.

In the past, there have been many wars in which both sides withdrew their troops, and in the final analysis, they were still trapped by money and food.

"I can't slow down," Lin Jian shook his head and said, "We can breathe a sigh of relief, and the luxury family can also breathe a sigh of relief in Jiangxi; It's not that I'm afraid of the luxury family, Yan Yu's movements are very fast, I'm afraid that the Cao family won't be able to hold on and give up Guanzhong first! When the time comes, if you are forced to play two lines, your eyes will be blinded. ”

After Lin Jian inspected Xuzhou, the Xuzhou side strengthened the contention and infiltration of the eastern front in the Yishan area, but including the second water battalion's attack on the coastal area of the Shandong Peninsula, the scale of the war was limited, and the resources consumed were not large, so it was impossible to talk about a two-front battle.

Whether it is facing Yan Hu, or facing a luxury family, or facing one alone, Lin Jian is not worried, he is afraid that he will face two families at the same time, and his eyes will really be blind at that time, and he will fall into complete passivity, and it will be difficult to regain the initiative. At present, we have to take advantage of the fact that Yan Hu's troops are still far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and we must rush to completely defeat the luxury family, or drag it down!

"What can the number of the Lijin Bureau and Chongguoyi enter next year?" Lin Xuwen asked, he still had palpitations about investing 100,000 troops in Shangrao at once. At the beginning, Li Zhuo led his troops to engage in a long-term tug-of-war with eastern Fujian, and the battle was very hard, and Jiangxi, Jiangdong, Liangzhejiang and other places were also miserable, and every year they had to provide four or five million taels of silver to the eastern Fujian army.

If it weren't for the support of these money and food, it would be difficult for the Eastern Fujian Army to become elite.

Lin Mengde said: "The five counties of Lijin and Chongzhou will be able to earn more than four million taels of silver next year, but if you cross out a large piece of iron yard and new school, you can allocate two and a half million taels of silver for war next year, which is not bad." ”

Lin Jian shook his head and smiled, and said, "This is resentment. ”

Everyone laughed, in terms of expenses, Lin Mengde always looked like he was holding his pockets tightly, but he met the master who was used to spending money on Lin Lian.

Lin Mengde said: "New learning is a matter of building a foundation, and if we haven't run schools all these years, we won't be able to spare so many people to be continuously distributed everywhere this year." We couldn't figure this out at first, but we were able to figure it out over time...... It's just that the iron yard can be postponed, and the comprehensive school, the Mingzhou place, can also be postponed, which can't be regarded as an urgent matter. These two things are slowed down, that is, seven or eight hundred thousand taels are squeezed out. ”

"What do you think is good?" Lin Jian said, "In addition to the two things of the shipyard and the iron yard, we must grasp it in our hands, and the weaving and dyeing, silk reeling and other workshops can be sold in shares to raise insufficient money." With the approval of the Mining Superintendent, private businessmen were allowed to hire people to dig the mountains to mine coal and iron. In addition, there is a machinery manufacturing department, which can raise shares from private traders to set up factories and manufacture civilian machinery for profit. Anyway, you can make up an extra three million taels of silver for me next year......"

At that time, the world was mainly based on farming, whether it was a gentry or a merchant or a farmer, saving money and buying land for rent was almost the most natural impulse - Lin Jian wanted to implement a new policy, curb mergers, reduce rents and levies, and should also give the local gentry a way out of the silver in their hands, and encouraging industry and commerce is the proper meaning of the question, otherwise it will be difficult to escape the endless cycle of thousands of years.

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were relatively enlightened, after all, the dense river network in the Yangtze River basin also promoted the concentrated development of commerce and trade and workshops in the Jianghuai region. Chen's ability to vote in Huaidong is, in the final analysis, also a set of identification with Lin Tie in Huaidong.

The only difference is that in the past, the gentry in Jiangnan grasped the workshops and commerce in their hands, and used the identity of the gentry to not only pay no taxes, but also participated in plundering local city taxes and taxes, and in the future, Lin Jian had to firmly grasp these in his hands.

Lin Mengde thought about it, and finally sighed: "It's really not good, I can only fight the idea of the money bank." ”G！ ~！