Chapter 115 How to make money

Instead, everyone discussed about financial matters. Li Xin reported to Xiao Tianjian that they had raided the treasury of the household department, but after opening the treasury, they found that the current Daming treasury was already clean and could run away from the mouse. In the huge treasury, after the Dazhong army searched for a while, Less than 10,000 taels of silver have been found in the household treasury. Even if this money is only used to relieve the hungry people in the city, it is a drop in the bucket. Therefore, even if it is added hundreds of thousands of taels of silver extracted from the internal money, it is far from enough, so Li Xin is quite a headache.

After listening to Li Xin's complaint, Xiao Tianjian did not feel too annoyed this time. After the army entered the city, Li Xin immediately arranged the soldiers and horses to rush straight to the treasury of the household department, but he already knew that there would not be much money in the treasury of the Daming Household Department at all. I'm afraid that even in the Nanjing Household Department at the beginning. The amount of silver in the noodles is not as good as that. Although there are only less than 10,000 taels of silver left, he is not too disappointed.

After all, he traveled from later generations. Although he was not very clear about how much money Chongzhen's money Chongzhen would have before he entered Beijing, he clearly remembers that when Li Zicheng entered Beijing in history, he forced him to take property from the officials and people in Beijing in just one month. I took out 70 million taels of silver, and there were also countless gold and countless precious articles to play.

Therefore, although there is not much money in the palace and the household treasury that have been raided, he knows that there is still a large amount of wealth hidden in the capital.

Especially in the homes of those officials who are unkind to officials and a large number of Ming Dynasty relatives in the capital, there is a lot of money hidden. These people's wealth can be said to be the people's fat and people's ointment that have been searched from the people for so many years. Not to mention Li Zicheng is staring at these moths, even if it is Xiao Tianjian. I didn't think about letting go of these bastards at all.

However, unlike when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Xiao Tianjian has solved the big trouble of building slaves to enter the customs in Shanhaiguan before entering Beijing, so now that he controls Beijing, he doesn't have to worry about the sequelae of cleaning up these moths.

What's more, the difference between him and Li Zicheng is that he cleaned up these guys and confiscated their wealth. The fundamental purpose is to use these belongings to reorganize rivers and mountains in the future, instead of tapping the wealth just to satisfy the selfish desires of the civil and martial arts who started with Li Zicheng like Liu Zongmin, so he is moral. There is no sense of guilt.

Therefore, Cao Huachun and others who have been arrested in the past two days have drawn up a detailed list for him. There are about a thousand people on this list, all of whom are the relatives of the corpses in the capital and the officials who have been domineering among the people over the years, but they have been eliminated from the capital. Many officials who are honest officials and There are not many rich officials.

In Xiao Tianjian's opinion, even if it is robbed, it must be robbed openly and righteously. It should not only be robbed, but also robbed to win the hearts of the people, and not make the people's grievances in the capital.

After listening to Li Xin's cry, Xiao Tianjian smiled. He picked up a list from the dragon case, walked slowly to the crowd below, and handed the list to Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Mr. Lu knows a lot about the situation in Beijing compared with us. These are Cao Huachun and some big eunuchs. There is also a list drawn up by the Special Office. Lu Xiangsheng can see which of them may be wronged! If not, then follow this list! Compared with the confiscation of these people's property, we can solve the financial difficulties in a short time!"

Lu Xiangsheng bowed down and took the list from Xiao Tianjian. After unfolding it, he read it in detail from beginning to end. He couldn't help but applaud it secretly. Although he didn't know most people here, he also knew many people among them, which can basically be said to be the honor in the capital. Qi and some officials with a very poor reputation, of course, some of them rely on the backstage to bully the city in the capital. It is not an exaggeration to say that each of them should be killed.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was destroyed cannot be said to be the emperor's fault. These people can be said to be the main reason for the destruction of the Ming Dynasty. If Xiao Tianjian did not propose to deal with these people after entering Beijing, Lu Xiangsheng would also make suggestions to clean up these people and take the opportunity to take advantage of their wealth to collect their wealth. After all, Lu Xiangsheng is very clear about the financial treasury of China and North Korea. If he wants to re-establish a new order, it is necessary to completely smash the old things. Otherwise, these people have too many resources. There is no doubt that the financial resources they have in the future are likely to cause great trouble.

After reading this list, Lu Xiangsheng immediately shook his head and said, "Weichen dare not say that he knows all the people on this list, but he also knows some people. Since the emperor wants to deal with them, Weichen has nothing to say. Just listen to the instructions of the emperor!"

Xiao Tianjian has actually held this list for a long time. As the current lord of a country, he knows better than anyone that he needs money. Although he did not dare to mobilize too many troops in this Northern Expedition, he only used about 100,000 elites to carry out the Northern Expedition, it has already established the newly established finances of China and North Korea. It's a little unsuffiable. Originally, their foundation was very thin. Although through the southern and northern battles in the past few years, he accumulated some old capital by taking the property of people without money, with the expansion of the territory under his control, the army's strength continues to increase, and the consumption is also increasing. Although many territory takes over, it is short-term. During this period, due to the destruction of the war, most areas cannot produce in a short period of time. On the contrary, there is still a lot of investment to restore agriculture.

In addition, new or former arsenal factories in various places, in order to support this Northern Expedition, they are producing weapons and ammunition at full capacity. In addition to supporting the Northern Expedition, they also need to change the equipment of troops from all over the country. Whether it is smelting or manufacturing weapons, they have to spend money. In addition to getting military pay, craftsmen are not in vain. Therefore, those old bottoms accumulated in the past can be said to be spent like running water.

Fortunately, when he took Nanjing City, in addition to capturing a large amount of silver, he also obtained a batch of silver through the auction of confiscated real estate. Otherwise, in the past few months of the Northern Expedition, he would basically go bankrupt.

No one needs to make more money than him. He knows very well that the next step is to reorganize the rivers and mountains. The money he needs to spend is simply astronomical. Now it is impossible for him not to do anything to those worms of the Ming Dynasty.

Thirty million taels of silver! Li Zicheng went to Beijing to torture and scraped 70 million taels of silver in Beijing City for a month. It can be seen how rich this Beijing City is. Fortunately, he has now controlled Beijing City. Otherwise, once Jiannu controls Beijing City, even if he can finally expel Jiannu from the land of Yanyun, the money will probably be given by Jiannu. The about to the customs is undoubtedly a disaster for him.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian did not think of imitating Li Zicheng's method of scraping the ground three feet. For the civilians in Beijing, it is impossible for him to let people search for them. In addition, there are some smaller merchants, and he will not attack them, so he did not dare to pay 70 million taels of silver. Yes, but if you pick some key points, it will be at least 30 to 40 million taels of silver. If there is no accident, it is still very likely.

In this era, under the extreme greed of landlords and dignitaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty, not only a large amount of land was annexed, but social wealth was basically concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, which was also the root cause of the outbreak of social contradictions. Even without the influence of building slaves, civil strife in the Ming Dynasty was inevitable. This is the reality of the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible to persist for too long, so Jiannu is just an inducement, and the most fundamental reason is still within the Ming Dynasty.

Now he has established a new dynasty through rebellion. He just takes this opportunity to completely smash the shortcomings of the previous Ming Dynasty to complete a redistribution of property and land, and resolve this contradiction. This is probably also the reason for the continuous change of dynasties in China's thousands of years of history!

Thirty to 40 million taels of silver, Xiao Tianjian is drooling. You should know that the annual fiscal revenue in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty is only 10 million taels of silver, which is not bad, but in the hands of local bureaucrats and giants in Beijing, they have mastered several years of fiscal revenue. It can be seen that this Some money is not obtained by proper means at all.

Although the early Ming Dynasty punished corrupt officials very severely, but after the end of the Ming Dynasty, a set of unspoken rules had already been formed in the government from top to bottom, such as kicking, fire and silver consumption, etc., which made a large amount of private capital receive their pockets by these corrupt officials, coupled with the unlimited progress of the powerful. The land merger occupied a large number of good land but did not pay taxes, which made the Ming Dynasty court and the government have to put the burden on the ordinary people in order to meet the financial needs. How can the land be reduced? After more than 200 years of agricultural development, the land area of Daming has not increased due to pioneering, but has been reduced by nearly one-third. Although it is affected by the small ice age, the main reason is that the land was annexed by those relatives and officials and dignitaries, and the concealment of the land area.

Therefore, the amount of wealth held by the dignitaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not what ordinary people could imagine at all. After they acquired the wealth, they precipitated the money in their hands and buried it in their homes without reinvesting. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty became more and more financially difficult, and the economy began to lagging behind.

Now that Xiao Tianjian has taken Beijing, it is impossible for him to return to Baoshan empty-handed. Therefore, after asking Lu Xiangsheng, he got the support of Lu Xiangsheng. Therefore, the list was about to be issued, and Li Xin was the leader. The troops were transferred to take responsibility separately. Lu Xiangsheng and the gendarmerie were responsible for supervision and began to start in the capital. A large-scale house raid.

(Special thanks to an intoxicating brother for his unreciting reward!)