Then, when everything was ready the next day, Yang Shanlu began to take action, that is, to govern all the vassals in the four provinces together! Clear their fields! Collect their gold and silver! (Other provinces have special personnel in charge).
And his first cut was at the Fuwang Mansion... Anyway, the Toad Emperor has been so miserable by him, so just go to the end!
And the cleanup efforts this time are unprecedentedly strong! Not only must all the fields occupied by Fuwangfu be cleared out, including all the gold and silver accumulated over so many years, and the wealth of the enemy's country must also be confiscated!
Moreover, you must know that Fuwang Mansion has been rooted in Luoyang for many years, and was the most beloved son of the Wanli Emperor before, so the degree of wealth and the amount of money he has accumulated is really jaw-dropping! But now? It has become Yang Shanlu's small vault, which can be accessed at will! And no one can say anything!
Just like this time, Yang Shanlu took a group of people to ransack the house. At first, there were some doglegs from the palace, who wanted to stop it, but after showing the imperial decree, who else would dare to stop it
Including the officers and soldiers of the Second David Institute under the Fu Royal Mansion, they also did not move at all... The authority of the Royal Mansion originally came from the imperial power! But now that even this kind of support from the highest level has disappeared, what else can they have left? Is it just a tiger skin
So in this way, after I settled in the Fuwang Mansion and cleaned it up for two days, the cleanup was finally over, and the final figure is really amazing... A mere Fuwang Mansion occupied 5.6 million acres of fertile land! That is, almost the entire field in Luoyang belongs to his family! This level of predation...
But now... All so much land has worshipped him!
In addition, six million taels of gold and silver were copied from the five warehouses of Fuwang! What is the concept of six million taels of gold and silver? Daming's annual income is less than 20 million taels, which also includes a lot of natural qualities, but what about now? The accumulation of the Fuwang family is only one-third of Daming's income, which shows how rich this Fuwang is!
But now, all of this money is used for confiscating. It is just dead money in his hands to spend time and wine, but after the confiscated, there are more things that can be done, which can be used to develop production or build colleges. , Training talents, in a word, the Fan Pig, which has been raised for 300 years in the Ming Dynasty, is officially liquidated today!
Even such a move is very popular. The people in Luoyang City will spontaneously take to the streets to celebrate after learning about it! Even the firecrackers in the city were sold out of stock... Originally, the Fuwang Mansion was a big mountain on their heads, it was a domineering blessing, fish and meat people! But now
And we must also see that this is only the Fuwang Mansion family. In Henan alone, there are so many powerful vassals. For example, Yang Shanlu sent someone to investigate the King Zhou in Kaifeng.
And this king of Zhou is also a master of money, or “making money in a way”, and has accumulated a lot of money for making evil, just like in the original history, in the 14th year of Chongzhen Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, this king of Zhou is usually very stingy. However, in order to save his life, he immediately took out a million Kujin and recruited Minzhuang to kill the enemy. This shows how rich this person is! But now... I'm all vomiting out!
In a word, with the investigation and punishment of the prince’s mansion, the fat pigs that Daming had raised for three hundred years, including the family properties they had accumulated over the past three hundred years, were all copied by Yang Shanlu! It really was a word that the king fell and the Yang family was full.
Of course, the ill-gotten wealth that Yang Shanlu checked was not for self-enjoyment, but to produce the economy and improve people's livelihood. Of course, since it was all ill-gotten wealth, some of the needs can still be used appropriately.
Just like when Yang Shanlu was searching the Fuwang Mansion, many rare jewels were copied from it. Yang Shanlu took three of them and gave them to his wife.
It's like a string of ruby necklaces that are as big as cherries and red like agate. Rubies of this size are very rare if you don't enter them, and they can shine all over the room in a room! Such a treasure...
Another example is a pair of crimson agate bracelets, which are also superb. There is a saying in the jewelry industry that "agate is not red for a lifetime." But this bracelet is red like a charcoal fire, sprayed with light and heat, so this My baby... Even if Yang Shanlu now has a lot of treasures in his mansion, he still accepts it with laughter.
In addition, he also found another good thing, that is, a thousand-year-old ginseng. This ginseng has the thickness of a child's arm and has distinct facial features. The most important thing is that it weighs a full eight!
The so-called Qiliang is the ginseng, and the eighty-liang is the treasure. According to the judgment of some famous doctors, it is no problem for such a baby to live for ten or eight years after eating it! Therefore, Yang Shanlu laughed at such a baby.
Of course, what Yang Shanlu uses is only a small part. He will leave Chongzhen with more than 70% of his wealth. Anyway, the money is used for the development of people's livelihood no matter who is in the hands, so there is no need for it. The points are so clear.
Even this is only the investigation and punishment of the prince of a province in Henan, including such a large-scale investigation and punishment operation, which is carried out vigorously throughout the Central Plains!
In addition, for most of these, Yang Shanlu has sent a supervisory department to take care of it to prevent these illegitimate wealth from falling back into the hands of corrupt officials during the process of investigation, so in the end, in general , The result is still satisfactory. Nearly 95% of the ill-gotten wealth was collected in the bag.
Even after this number was finally summed up, even Yang Shanlu was taken aback. Excluding all kinds of rare and precious treasures that are not easily valued, and rare antiques, the entire amount of silver was copied out of 80 million taels, which is almost the same. Equal to the four years of Ming's revenue! So such a huge wealth...
Even after having so much money, Yang Shanlu is still very happy... Haha, although the impoverishment of the imperial court has fallen, it does not mean that the people are poor, but the money is concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. ! But now
After having so much money, he has the confidence to develop people's livelihood or promote education, he has sufficient funds!
After the final investigation result was submitted to Emperor Chongzhen, he was also shocked... Honestly speaking, the emperor who lived in the palace was not quite clear about the financial situation of his uncles and uncles at first. , Or think that life should not be easy... Because his uncles and uncles have been crying poorly to him...
In the past few years, due to the financial constraints of the imperial court, Lumi and other things have indeed been in arrears. So in his impression, he thought that their life should be a bit difficult, but what about now? Actually paid out a whole 80 million taels? Excluding those rare and exotic treasures? So Chongzhen knew that, as Yang Shanlu said, he has been deceived by these people, but now... Humph!
Then wait until the full 80 million taels of silver are escorted to his inner treasury (in fact, there is another part, which is not counted, because Yang Shanlu will raise at least one hundred thousand army in the future, so it will also need money) For the first time, Emperor Chongzhen can really breathe a sigh of relief. I am finally a rich man and can let go of his hands and feet and do something that I have always wanted to do.
The so-called money is easy to do things, it is true at all.
Just like the Emperor Chongzhen, there is a historical view of him that he levies a lot of taxes, Chongzhen is tantamount to're-levying'. In fact, objectively speaking, doesn't he know how to recuperate and be sympathetic to the people? Like he added taxes again and again before, what kind of levies and cuts, is it really to satisfy his own enjoyment? Or is it going to levy excessive charges? Actually, I have to...
But now, with so much money, the first thing that Emperor Chongzhen did was to order the exemption of three miscellaneous taxes. You must know that at this time, the so-called three-rates plus faction no longer exists. And now it is to further reduce taxes. After the news came out, the whole country was cheering, especially the people at the bottom, feeling relieved.
But this is not the case. Originally, Chongzhen and Yang Shanlu had negotiated to prepare a Beijing Normal University as a vane of new-style education.
However, originally it was only planned to build one, because such a university would have to enroll more than 1,000 students, and the construction cost would have to be more than 100,000 taels. Therefore, with the current home base, only one can be built at most, but now it is.
With so much silver, Emperor Chongzhen's steps have become much larger... Now that practice has proven that this new style of school is effective, is it possible to open more
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen had a big plan to implement this new type of education in a total of five provinces in the four provinces under Yang Shanlu's governance, together with the Shanxi province he previously governed!
That is to say, the first-level state city of every province must build such a university hall! Then calculate it like this, about 100 college halls can be built! With so many colleges, at least 20,000 talents will be cultivated every year by then! Then it can really help Daming take off!
You must know that the current talent training system of Daming, or the imperial examination system, is really pitiful. The problem is very big. It is a big Ming. Only two or three hundred scholars are admitted each time. The average is one. Less than a hundred people a year.
For example, there is a record of enrollment in one subject at most, and it was the second year of Yongle, which enrolled 472 people; and the largest one was only so many people, so you can imagine fewer, and Daming's entire bureaucracy needs many officials. What? Not counting the staff, a rough estimate of the positive seventh rank or above would require at least 10,000 people! In addition, those who take leave of absence every year and those who return from sickness, so the big gap in this one can be imagined.
Including the imperial court, there is no way to draw some people with worse stereotypes into the bureaucracy. This further reduces the level of officials and affects the operation of the entire country. But now
Including the time when Emperor Chongzhen was planning this way, at this time, there was a person outside the Wenhua Hall who came in, and this person was in a cloth, but he could come here. (End of this chapter)