Please ask me to be the emperor

"How about the money and food in Shaanxi?" When he learned that Shaanxi was in such a difficult situation, Zhang Shun quickly sent people to recruit Hong Chengchou, Ding Qirui, Zheng Chongjian, and his father-in-law Wang Shiqin.

Hong Chengchou once served as the governor of the three sides, and he was very familiar with it.

So he quickly introduced: "The actual amount of food for the Chief Envoy of Shaanxi Province is 1,988,000 shi, including 865,000 shi for Xi'an Prefecture and 420,000 shi for Yan'an Prefecture."

"Except Hanzhong Prefecture, which has 30,000 shi, and Lintao Prefecture, which has 44,000 shi, the other prefectures all have more than 100,000 shi."

"Wait!" When Zhang Shungang heard this, he couldn't help but turned to Lu Weiqi and asked, "Didn't you just say that Shaanxi's grain quota is only one million dan? How come it has doubled?"

"Your Majesty, King Shun!" Lu Weiqi couldn't help but explain quickly after hearing this, "These 1,988,000 stones are the true color."

"Among them, millions of stones were converted into silver, fodder, cloth and other materials. Therefore, the actual food collection did not amount to more than one million stones."

It turns out that when Lao Zhu started his army, he was no different from Zhang Shun now. Everything was based on having enough to eat, so taxation was based on grain.

However, as the situation gradually stabilized and daily necessities such as silver, cloth, and fodder increased significantly, part of the grain tax was converted into other materials for collection.

"Let's not show off, just collect food and grass!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wave his hand as he didn't understand what was going on.

"Xu Quan has five thousand men under his command. They can be used as soldiers with a little training. It just so happens that the army has returned now, and I will send it to you to help collect food!"

Just kidding, if you don’t have enough to eat, why do you care about cloth and silver?

The Xi'an Prefecture actually has 865,000 shi to levy, accounting for almost half of Shaanxi's grain tax. How can I endure this?

"It can't be collected, it can't be collected!" As soon as Zhang Shun finished speaking, Zheng Chongjian couldn't help but dissuade him, "Although the quota was originally like this, it has never been collected in full in at least the past ten years."

"If the King of Qin really levies the tax according to the number of times, it will definitely trigger a civil uprising!"

"Why is this?" Zhang Shun was not annoyed at all, but asked strangely.

Zheng Chongjian, the chief official, smiled bitterly and took out the fish scale book and smiled at Zhang Shun: "Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there have been fewer and fewer copies of this thing. It has long been inconsistent with its name!"

"After Mr. Zhang Ge's inventory, the situation was slightly better, but it has been 40 or 50 years since now. How can it remain unchanged?"

This is the advantage of being demoted. All the data can be clearly presented to you, and all problems can be analyzed clearly.

Isn’t this thing just land annexation?

Zhang Shun's textbook in his previous life had already mentioned it a million times, why didn't he understand?

Zhang Shun couldn't help but sneered: "That's great, it just cleans up in one shot!"

"Let's not talk about civilian land. It is better to start by cleaning up the royal family's land, official land and guard farmland."

"Anyone who dares to invade or mischievously send money, if they return it in full, forget about it and ignore it for the time being."

"If you try to push back in every possible way and forcefully resist, you will be punished with the law. If you dare to rebel, your leader will be killed, and both men and women will be sent to the border to guard the fields!"

"Okay, I will follow my orders now!" In fact, Lu Weiqi had already become angry during the food collection process.

It was just that the rebel army was in a tense war at that time, so he did not dare to act rashly.

Now that Zhang Shun has been authorized, is there any reason not to exhale and raise one's eyebrows?

"This" Hong Chengchou, Zhang Bojing, Ding Qirui and Zheng Chongjian couldn't help but look at me and me at you.

Anyway, everyone is not from Xi'an, let him kill him, but it has nothing to do with him and others.

Only the eyelids of Zhang Shun's father-in-law, Wang Shiqin, twitched twice, but he pressed them down again.

In fact, Zhang Shun's move was very similar to Sun Chuanting's original clean-up of military camps in history. He did not move the civilian fields, but first used the palace fields, official fields and guard fields with less resistance, in the hope of obtaining a certain amount of supplies in a short time to meet urgent needs.

However, at that time, Sun Chuanting could only use the Five Guards of Shaanxi Province, and he was told by the local gentry that he could not take care of himself.

But Zhang Shun is not like that. In addition to the Five Guards of Shaanxi, he will touch the fields of the Qin Palace and the official fields of the Ming Dynasty.

Anyone who dares to take action on these fields must be gentry, wealthy people, and powerful men who are not easy to deal with. How can there be any mistake in killing them?

And it happened that Zhang Shun had soldiers and generals under his command, and the Heluo nobles represented by Lu Weiqi had nothing to do with them in Xi'an, so they naturally had no scruples during the investigation.

Well, good job!

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but look at Zhang Shun with admiration. Don't look at this guy who has always been ruthless. In fact, he is also a person who "bullies the weak and fears the strong".

Otherwise, in history, he would not have left Sun Chuanting to gnaw on the hard problem of clearing farmland.

Originally, Hong Chengchou thought Zhang Shun was a little too weak, but he never thought that this guy was a tiger in sheep's clothing.

On the surface, he is laughing and joking, looking like a good old guy all day long and making everyone happy, but suddenly he is going to pounce on "eating people".

"Okay, Mr. Hong, please continue!" Zhang Shun calmly ordered after deciding the life and death of tens of thousands of people.

"This" Hong Chengchou was stunned. I've finished what I said, what else do you want me to continue?

However, fortunately, he has not been free of charge for so many years in Shaanxi.

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou continued: "There are more than 84,000 acres of farmland in Guyuan Town. Each year, we can harvest more than 310,000 dan of grain, more than 186,000 bunches of fodder, and more than 40,000 taels of silver per mu of land."

"The town of Gansu has 15 guards, more than 26,000 people in farmland, and 210,000 shi of annual grain, which is enough for military needs."

"Okay, this is good!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but said happily after finally hearing the good news.

You can support yourself, Zhang Yingchen, I am very optimistic about you.

"Ningxia Town has 150,000 yuan of farmland, a total of 164,000 shi of grain, and 1,280 acres of land." Hong Chengchou originally wanted to say something, but when he thought about it carefully, this was all Zhang Yingchen's business. , why should I say more?

"It's just that since Jiajing, the amount of river collapse and sand pressure has not been as high as before."

"After the Kuaibai Rebellion, the officers and soldiers diverted water to flood the city and destroyed a great deal of fertile farmland."

"Since then, Ningxia Town has lost its former success, so additional expansion is needed."

"Okay!" Zhang Shun sighed after hearing this. The officers and soldiers back then were really wicked.

But it's a good thing that this is the case. Otherwise, how could there be a mutiny in Ningxia Town, and how could he take advantage of it?

"In the early days of Yansui Town, there were more than 37,000 tons of farmland, more than 65,000 stones of grain collected, more than 43,000 bunches of fodder, and more than 1,000 taels of silver per acre." Hong Chengchou glanced at Wang Shiqin and continued.

"It's just that now all the farms are abandoned, and all the grain is given to the hinterland!"

"What?" Zhang Shunzheng was happy to hear this and couldn't help but stood up suddenly, "Everything is ruined and thrown into the hinterland?"

My father-in-law, Wang Shiqin, stood up quickly and said, "I am from Yulin. Men don't plow, women don't weave. All our utensils depend on food and wages!"

No, isn’t it the norm in an agricultural society for men to farm and women to weave?

And it’s just that you don’t farm or weave. What does that proud look mean?

Originally, following everyone's opinions, the author planned to write down a few chapters before opening a new volume. However, the publication error occurred and all the first three chapters were sent to the fifth volume. The author might as well just start counting the first three chapters together and start the fifth volume directly from chapter four.