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Chapter 246: Eat Less Wine (Part 1)

The New Year's Eve dinner in the fourth year of Jianwen was much more lively than in previous years because of Zhu Yunwen. Almost all clan relatives, military honors, court officials, and those in Beijing were invited to Huagai Palace to celebrate with Zhu Yunwen.

There have been many things in the past four years of Jianwen, but in general, it has a stable landing and a large fiscal deficit. However, neither Yu Xin nor the stingy Xia Yuanji took this matter too seriously, because everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty finance will be extremely healthy next year, because the number of land and dits collected by various provinces is placed on the major case of their Ministry of Revenue.

"There are 8.35 million hectares of land for officials and civilians, 700,000 hectares of land for military households and 67.3 million people."

This is a total number, and there are certain details for each province. There is no doubt that this is a huge number that is jaw-dropping. The land of the government and civilian fields and military garrisons cannot be counted together because the taxes are different.

In front of us, the world paid the same food, and the same taxes on the fields of officials and civilians, that is, thirty taxes and one taxes, and the military households and garrisons did not have an accurate tax ratio, because the land was theoretically the court, and the military guards were responsible for farming and used food to pay the salary. Therefore, after the output of the food was deducted from the military guards, all the remaining food belonged to the court.

When this ratio is low, it may even reach three taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one taxes and one

After the 26th year of Hongwu, the people's land was only more than 4 million hectares, the number of official fields recorded was 1.3 million hectares, and 600,000 hectares of land in military households and garrisons. But now, more than 3 million hectares of land in government and civilian fields suddenly appeared, which is a total of 300 million acres of land!

Eighty-three-five million hectares, or 835 million acres, according to the discount on the cap, the per capita arable land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty would reach twelve acres of land, but the people of the Ming Dynasty obviously could not reach this level. In terms of the wealthy Nanzhili, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the per capita arable land area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was only six acres and four cents, while remote places could often reach more than ten acres or even twenty acres. More acres were concentrated in the hands of landlords, and these landlords often had dozens or hundreds of tenants in their families.

Of course, this number will not be all, because the rural level down is not within the first land acres. The Dingkou inventory plan. The rural level land dig count has been used as the combined number of Hongwu's 26 years of survey.

Moreover, remote provinces were not included in this investigation plan. The Ministry of Revenue is still unsure of how many people there are in Daming at the moment, and the emperor Zhu Yunwen, naturally, could not know all of them.

This basic work on people's livelihood has a large project volume, and it will not take a day, overnight or even ten or eight years of hard work. Zhu Yunwen cannot be too impressed and must check it out clearly. The number now has already made him very satisfied and the cabinet.

If the land is checked and the grain is paid together, the court's grain tax will reach a very high number. If the court cannot finish it, it will become moldy when it is left, which can reduce the burden on the people. When the land output in the Ming Dynasty reaches a quantity of more than 10 million hectares, it will be a precedent in all dynasties, and it is not impossible to get a 50-tax tax at a time.

"I will not talk about court affairs today, I will only talk about the elegance of the wind and the moon."

After drinking, Zhu Yunwen was already a little drunk and was enjoying the singing and dancing in the audience, graceful dance and Western style, which made people excited and the atmosphere was warm.

The entertainment activities in this era were monotonous and boring. The civil servant group led by the cabinet liked to recite poems and essays when they drank too much. The Zongxun Group was all rough and generous. She couldn't hear these elegant words, so she simply started to drink, and the mountains and sea whistles were still lively.

The better the atmosphere, the stronger the wine will be, and the more wine you drink, the better the atmosphere will be.

At the end of the drink, Zhu Yunwen even left the dragon throne, ran to the imperial stairs, and slept everywhere to drink. This was also the increasing improvement of his alcoholism in the past two years. He drank Zhu Di, Xu Huizu, Yang Shiqi and others, which naturally caused a lot of cheers and flattery.

"Come, drink with me and celebrate the New Year's Eve together."

With the sound of the New Year bells outside the Meridian Gate, Zizheng passed on the New Year's Eve of the fourth year of Jianwen, officially announcing the arrival of the fifth year of Jianwen.

Outside the hall, hundreds of fireworks that the Imperial Office had already purchased began to roar and burst into flames.

Although the fireworks these days are not as dazzling as the fireworks show in Zhu Yunwen’s memory, he still watched them happily, and hugged Zhu Zhi’s shoulder and shouted: “This scene is a congratulation.”

The moon is in the sky, and all things return to sleep.

Until the Huagai Palace was left with a mess, everyone in the hall, whether drunk or pretending to be drunk, went back to their own pleasure, or helped them with them, or had palace officials helping them to leave the palace.

"If you can't walk, just sleep here. There are many rooms here, so you can live there."

Zhu Yunwen was drunk and shouted to ask everyone to stay overnight, but he was drunk too much, and the double joy beside him was awake, so he had arranged for his subordinates to send these ministers back to their homes.

How could so many men be arranged to live in the palace? It would be too inappropriate if it was reported.

"Your Majesty, you are drunk."

On the way back to Qianqing Palace with Zhu Yunwen, Shuang smiled happily and said, "I have never seen Your Majesty as happy as today."

"I'm happy, do you know, happy!"

Zhu Yunwen felt dizzy and bent over and vomited out with a "wow". Fortunately, there were people supporting him on both sides, otherwise he would have fallen head-on on the filth he had spitted.

"This year is the fifth year of Jianwen, and there will be six, ten, one hundred, and one thousand years in the future! My Ming Dynasty will surely last for thousands of years. This land has been from me, Han people since four thousand years ago, and four thousand years later, it will always be from me, Han people, and will always be!"

Holding Shuangxi's sleeves, Zhu Yunwen sprayed the smell of alcohol on his body.

"If I can change the life of the Jianwen Dynasty, I can change the life of the Ming Dynasty."

Shuangxi couldn't understand what Zhu Yunwen meant, so he summarized all of these into drunkenness, and just expressed his words and agreed.

Before the group arrived at the Qianqing Gate, the ceremony was over with the fireworks. A group of palace maids and eunuchs were busy sending the women out of the palace. They happened to run into each other and they all hurriedly knelt on the ground to greet their wives.

He staggered through the beautiful women on both sides. With the bright moon's silver light, Zhu Yunwen finally did not fall. After pausing his body slightly, he tried hard to maintain his body and stagger through the Qianqing Gate.

After Zhu Yunwen and his party left, the group of women dared to get up and continued to walk along the palace road to leave, but several small eunuchs came over and stopped two of them.

"I have seen Princess Yan."

Xu Yihua frowned slightly and said unhappily: "What's the matter?"

Several eunuchs glanced at the pretty woman beside Xu Yihua and whispered: "Report to Princess Yan, Your Majesty is interested in summoning the one beside you to the Qianqing Palace."

Go to the Ganqing Palace!
Chapter completed!
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