Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 704 Daming's Armaments Have to Form a Generational Difference with Others

When Zhu Youjian learned about the situation of Zhang Dingyuan's family from Zhu Cihong, he couldn't help but smiled wryly.

I still lack a specific understanding of the current Ming Dynasty. Many policies are too generalized, and more detailed policies are not formulated according to the specific situation. As a result, the treasury revenue has skyrocketed, but many farmers have not shared the dividends of the reform.

Situations similar to Zhang Dingyuan's family should not be uncommon in Daming.

Five people, ten acres of land, and [-]% tax, this burden is too heavy for them.

After a little thought, Zhu Youjian issued a new order.

Since the 13th year of Chongzhen, the tax collection per capita is less than three mu per household, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, and will include all of them.

This policy will strongly guarantee the basic survival of many poor and weak families, which is equivalent to removing a mountain that weighs on them. From then on, they will breathe more smoothly, and the pressure of survival will suddenly disappear invisible.

Take Zhang Dingyuan's family as an example. The per capita tax starts at [-] mu, and there are five people in their family. They need to reach [-] mu before they will be taxed. Then pay the tax of one grain of rice to the court.

The main function of taxation is to adjust and balance, so that disadvantaged groups can enjoy the minimum right to survive.

The implementation of the gentry's unified payment of food is tantamount to making these rich and powerful families assume the obligations that the disadvantaged groups should enjoy,

Three to five hundred catties of grain or taxes of the same value are nothing to the big households, but if they fall on Zhang Dingyuan, they may be overwhelmed. Once an accident occurs, the Family opportunities collapse.

Didn't you come to this world just to make more fresh lives live better?

No big gentry family would dare to jump out and criticize themselves.

The shadow of the Nanjing incident will be permanently printed on their hearts.

As for cursing and swearing in private, feel free to do it anyway, and you can't hear it anyway.

Isn't there a famous saying in later generations?
There are so many people scolding me, who are you?

If you dare to scold in person, you will be cut.

As for Zhu Cihong's undisguised affection for Zhang Dingyuan, Zhu Youjian didn't care.

I am just a passer-by in this world, without abnormal psychology and behavior caused by greed for power.

The prince is 13 years old, he should have his own ideas and team, and being kind to others is also a normal means.

Isn't it just moving Zhang Dingyuan's family to Huangzhuang for resettlement?

Isn't it just to arrange an imperial doctor to treat his father?
Isn't it just to let Zhang Dingyuan study in the Imperial College?

These are all acts of kindness and commendable.

Zhu Cihong's actions were exactly what he hoped he could do.

Just a little effort.

No one can tell what Zhang Dingyuan's future will be like now.

But judging from Zhu Cihong's description, this son should do something in the future.

Every successful person needs three points of ability, six points of luck, and one point of noble support. With Zhu Cihong as a noble person, Zhang Dingyuan's life is destined to be extraordinary.

The so-called ordinary is often just the lack of a platform that is just right for you to play.

Isn't he the best example?
If it hadn't been for traveling to the seat above ten thousand people hundreds of years ago, the future self would live an extremely ordinary and miserable life like most people in his life.

With a low salary every month, I meet a woman who loves each other, marry her, and then have children. I often worry about car loans and mortgages, and often feel guilty because I can’t give my wife and children a better life. , will be sad because of the gradual aging of their parents.

When the child grows up, he (she) will lose his hair because of his (her) academic worries, and he (she) will go crazy because of his (her) tendency to fall in love with puppies.

And after the children grow up, they will repeat their own life trajectory in the future, and interpret their ordinary life again.

The details will vary, but the plot is largely the same.

In Zhu Youjian's plan, in another five years, that is, in the 17th year of Chongzhen, the land tax will be reduced to [-]. It can be regarded as a commemoration of the change in the original history that countless generations regretted. .

With the change of Jiashen, Shenzhou land sinks.

The emperor died for his country, and China suffered.

Just for the man with hair covering, bare left foot, red shoe on the right foot, no dragon robe, and only a blue uniform, for the man who left behind "I will die without a face and see my ancestors in the ground, go to my crown, Cover the face with hair, let the thieves split my corpse, don't hurt the common people." The sad emperor who said in his last words, Zhu Youjian also felt that he should pay tribute to him in some way.

That was an emperor, although he was not successful, but he was brave enough to die.

His regret has already been made up for by himself. His enemy is being chased by the Daming army like a lost dog. His old enemy has retreated to an extremely cold place, and he is in constant panic. The picturesque country still belongs to Daming.

As for the practice of completely canceling the agricultural tax, it is not realistic in the short term.

The agricultural tax in Ming Dynasty accounted for nearly [-]% of the total tax revenue. Now that industry and commerce have not achieved transcendental development, canceling the agricultural tax is tantamount to digging their own grave.

It is the end of July now, and by the end of the year, the entire tax statistics will be released. Zhu Youjian estimates that the proportion of agricultural tax will decrease, and industrial and commercial tax will have a larger increase than the original [-]% increase.

The position conversion of the main tax categories requires a long process and sufficient accumulation, so we must not be too anxious.

The current domestic situation is as stable as a rock, and no individual or group has the ability to change the overall positive trend of Daming.

Once a trend is formed, it will run along the proper track according to inertia. Any external force that wants to be applied to change its running direction will be futile in the end.

Just like in the original history, the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty began to turn from prosperity to decline after the Wanli Three Marches. This trend has been running for decades, and finally ended in a state of destruction.

It's time to turn our attention from home to the world.

The conquest of Manila will be the beginning of a new strategy. After occupying Manila, an extremely important supply point on the Maritime Silk Road, it is believed that a series of variables will be triggered in Europe, and then we can deal with it according to the specific situation.

The current armament of the Ming Dynasty's army is already ahead of Europe as a whole, but although there are advantages, there is no generation gap.

If there is no substitute, it will make other countries greedy, and they will provoke disputes because they covet the benefits obtained by Ming Dynasty.

In order to better maintain world peace in the future and protect the Ming mainland from foreign aggression, an overwhelming military advantage is a must-have hard power.

Developing industry and technology on this basis, and providing various products of Ming Dynasty to the people of all countries in the world, this is the most correct path of development.

Daming will never seek hegemony, but he will never allow others to seek hegemony either.

If anyone wants to dominate, let the Daming officers and soldiers teach him how to behave.

In the future, the giant ships of the Ming Dynasty will sail around the oceans day and night, deterring those who refuse to accept the king's transformation. As long as this kind of scene occurs, Zhu Youjian in the ground will happily call the ancestors over Let's have a drink together.

I don't know if he can drink more than Zhu Laosi. If he gets drunk, will Heitantou hit someone with his ancestor's identity?
(End of this chapter)