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It's no wonder that the emperor reacted like this. In fact, Li Huan mentioned the issue of the Ming taxation system with Zhu Houzhao more than once.

As a majestic emperor, Zhu Houzhao didn't know that there were extremely serious problems in the tax system of the Ming Dynasty. Although it seemed that the finances of the Ming Dynasty were only a little tight, this was obviously a symptom of a problem with the tax system.

If there is no way to reform it, it will inevitably endanger Daming Guozuo in the long run.This is not a joke. Looking at history, if it is not for the fact that Zhang Juzheng was born in the Ming Dynasty, and by relying on a whip to forcefully continue the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty might have really changed the dynasty in advance.

It's just that it is so simple to reform the tax system of Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Houzhao knows that a little carelessness may cause chaos in the world.

Not to mention other things, let's just talk about the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty above the court and the gentry tyrants entrenched in the local area. How could these people easily accept the Ming Dynasty's reform of the tax system, which touched their inherent interests.

It is said that taking money from people is like killing parents, reforming the tax system, one can imagine the difficulties and dangers involved.

Zhu Houzhao did not expect that Li Huan would suddenly mention tax reform at this time. This was obviously beyond the expectations of the emperor. According to the private discussions between monarchs and ministers on weekdays, tax reform must be found at the right time. A move must be carried out with decisive courage.

Li Huan's face was full of calm, as if he didn't feel the eyes of the people around him, he just bowed to the emperor and said: "The tax system of the Ming Dynasty has been around for a hundred years since the time of the Taizu, but now the tax system of the Ming Dynasty The situation we are facing is different from when Taizu founded the country, and the tax system formulated in the past is no longer suitable for the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Today, I present a memorial to Your Majesty to reform the tax system.”

Looking at the thick memorial that Li Huan took out from his cuff, all eyes fell on Li Huan's memorial.

Many officials frowned. Reforms have always touched the interests of a large number of old forces. They don't know what Li Huan's memorial is about, and how Li Huan's tax system reform will be carried out.

But no matter how you think about it, I am afraid that it will not be of any benefit to them. After all, for the current tax system of Ming Dynasty, they can definitely be regarded as beneficiaries.

Even a slight change will affect their interests.

When even an extremely radical official stepped forward, he stared at Li Huan as if he were an enemy and scolded loudly: "Bold Li Huan, don't you know that the laws of the ancestors are immutable, and how can you be the one who established the taxation system established by the Emperor Taizu?" This yellow-mouthed child can be beaked, but do you still have Emperor Taizu in your eyes?"

Another official pointed at Li Huan and scolded: "You female gangster, don't you know that the tax system is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and if there is a slight difference, it will shake the safety of our country. What exactly do you want?"

"Your Majesty impeached Li Huan with ulterior motives, please put him in prison, and strictly investigate and deal with it!"

Although there are only a dozen officials who stand up at this moment, just looking at the expressions and reactions of the other officials on the square, it is known that almost most of them are opposed to Li Huan's petition to reform the tax system.

Wang Ji, who was stroking his beard, also stared at Li Huan with a look of regret at this time: "Champion, you are a warrior and you don't know how to govern the country. The tax system is related to the safety of the Ming Dynasty, involving the Ming Dynasty, the mouth, the slaves, etc. , in all aspects, if you talk about all kinds of things in detail, you can’t finish talking in a day and a night, you don’t know the seriousness of it, but you still want to confuse Your Majesty and mess up my Daming country and society?”

"Yes, yes, a martial artist dares to talk about the way of governing the country. Could it be that the civil and martial arts of the Manchu Dynasty are not as good as you, a yellow-mouthed child?"

For a while, the ridicule and accusations against Li Huan can be said to be rampant.

Zhu Houzhao, who watched this scene condescendingly, couldn't help frowning, even if he knew that if he really wanted to reform the current tax system of Ming Dynasty, it would inevitably attract opposition from the officials, but Li Huan just spoke. Now, there are old and important ministers like Wang Jia who stand up and express their opposition. If the reform is really implemented, I really don't know what kind of storm will be caused.

Even if one is not careful, it is not impossible that the world will be in chaos.

Thinking of this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help looking at Li Huan. Zhu Houzhao didn't mean to blame Li Huan. After all, he also knew that the reason why Li Huan presented this memorial was for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Zhu Houzhao hesitated in his heart. Is now really the right time?Do you want to delay it for a while, and bring up this matter again when you find an opportunity in the future.

However, the moment Zhu Houzhao's eyes met Li Huan's, Zhu Houzhao knew that Li Huan had definitely made up his mind. Based on his understanding of Li Huan and the determination in Li Huan's eyes, Zhu Houzhao knew that Li Huan was not casual. This matter was mentioned casually, or it was used to test the reaction of all the officials in the court.

Seeing the firm look in Li Huan's eyes, Zhu Houzhao suddenly felt a surge of pride in his heart. Since Li Huan is so determined, how can he back down as the emperor? Could it be that he is not as good as Li Huan, or is it because the civil and military opposition of the Manchu Dynasty Well, he doesn't believe that all the officials above the court are against it, and they don't believe that the so-called ancestral law cannot be reformed if their monarchs and ministers are of one mind.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly to Gao Feng who was beside him and said, "Mate Gao, and I will read the Champion Hou Zuoshu to the public, so that all the lovers can hear how the Champion Hou intends to reform taxes."

Many officials couldn't help but change their faces after hearing what the emperor said. If the emperor directly objected, then that's fine, but now they ordered someone to read Li Huan's memorandum. What does it mean? As long as they are not fools It is clear that this is the emperor's intention to support Li Huan's reform of the tax system.

"Your Majesty, you can't, your Majesty is a sage king, how can you be deceived by a female official like Li Huan?"
An official knelt down on the ground and yelled, crying bitterly.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help snorting coldly and said: "Bold, how can you roar like this in the court of the court, come here, let me drag him down, and give him twenty sticks, so as to warn others."

Soon, some guards stepped forward and dragged the official down, and the official's shouts could be heard faintly from a distance, but the emperor's change of face made all the officials at the Great Court Assembly consciously shut their mouths.

And at this moment, Gao Feng has already taken over the memorial from Li Huan.

Looking at the memorial in his hand, Gao Feng couldn't help raising his brows, took a deep breath, and a sharp voice sounded on the square.

""Please Reform the Taxes" I have heard that taxation is the foundation of the country, and the country's solid foundation will ensure the safety of the country. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, all taxes have been Ding tax and land tax. I request that the Dingkou tax be abolished and merged into the field. Why are the taxes? It is a strategy to spread the income into the mu."

The eloquent and eloquent melodies of tax reform came out one by one in Gao Feng's mouth. Although the voice was not high, it sounded like thunder in the ears of all the officials present.

"Allotment goes to the mu, allotment goes to the mu, and the taxes are combined—."

Quite a few officials had a strange look in their eyes, and there was a hint of admiration and admiration in the eyes they looked at Li Huan.

However, there are also many officials looking at Li Huan with eyes full of incomparable hatred.

Li Huan's memorandum can be described as concise and to the point. With Li Huan's writing style, it is really difficult for him to write an elegant and colorful memorabilia, so his memorandum is almost equivalent to a vernacular article. Because of this, it seems so simple and straightforward.

It can be said that what Li Huan wanted to express was fully expressed in this memorial. The officials present only listened to this memorial and they already understood how Li Huan wanted to reform taxes.

The tax law of the Ming Dynasty is actually a continuation of the laws of the feudal dynasties for thousands of years. It can be described as the separation of taxes and taxes. People with a few mouths have to pay taxes according to the number of people. In addition, there are land taxes.

It can be imagined that under this tax system, even ordinary people without land have to pay a small tax. For ordinary people who do not even have land, it is already extremely difficult to survive, and the result is still To bear a poll tax, one can imagine the great pressure on the people.

As the saying goes: the rich have even fields, but there are few workers, and the poor have no land, so there are more corvees.It can be said that the Dingkou Tax has been full of disadvantages since the beginning. According to the old regulations, the Dingkou tax is divided into nine cases after five years of trial. For the amount of Dingyin, the newborns are added, and the dead are expelled. This is the law.However, if there is a secretary, he may not be able to pay attention to the inspection and follow the old habits. Every time he meets the editorial review, there is a name for the increase of the account number of the secretary. What's more, the person is dead and refuses to be expelled, the son is born and he is charged with registration, the barrenness in the ditch is still a book, and the son of Huangkou is already a call to chase. At the beginning, he promised to pay compensation, and then fled. inevitable.

It can be said that this kind of false reporting and exaggeration in the editorial review of household members exists in many areas.

However, officials and gentry took advantage of their privileges to hide their population, and cunning women entrusted them as customers to avoid them. However, the Dingyin project still existed, and the result fell on the poor peasants.Among them, in areas where the household registration and examination system is implemented, there has been a phenomenon of profiting from households and others to distribute wealth and poverty.

The tyrants do their best to cheat, and if they have to escape, they will escape; the poor households buy tens of acres of land, and open the newspaper honestly, but they are promoted to households. The middle-level households contained in it are also ".

In this way, on the one hand, the feudal government often exaggerated in the compilation and review in order to pursue the surplus; Suffering from "Denah" and "Indemnity".

Such a levy of Dingyin made class contradictions more intensified.As for the collection of Ding Fu, the result is that "the people complain of unequal bitterness and happiness, and the officials complain that the collection is ineffective, and the officials and the people are burdened."

However, Li Huan proposed to abolish the tax on the population, merge the poll tax into the land tax, and implement the method of apportioning the tax into the mu.

This move will naturally benefit those people who have no land or little land. Although this method still has drawbacks, compared with the previous heavy pressure on the people such as tax, land tax, and labor, it naturally greatly reduces the burden on the people. , It is naturally a good government for the country and the people.

It's just that this law benefits the people at the bottom, but it greatly damages the interests of local gentry and powerful people. You must know that the real owners of a large amount of land in the local area are the families of local gentry and powerful people. These people often own thousands of acres of land. However, a large amount of taxes are transferred to those landless people, and the least land taxes are paid by themselves.

Now if the reforms are carried out according to Li Huan's law, these local gentry and tyrants who own a large number of fields may be the first to jump out.

Just when all the officials were savoring the essence of Li Huan's method of "spreading into the mother's land", suddenly an official jumped out with red eyes and yelled at Li Huan: "Female traitor, you female traitor, you don't pay tax Tian Fu and Tian Fu have practiced this method in all dynasties. How can you, Li Huan, He De, try to change the law established by the sages? What is your intention to deceive the emperor... "

Anyone who is not a fool can clearly see the benefits to the country. Even if many officials at the scene objected in their hearts, they had to admit that the method proposed by Li Huan was better than the method of parallel taxation and land tax. There has been great progress, and if it can be implemented, taxes will inevitably increase and the treasury will be filled.

However, it is true that the method of distributing the land into the mu is beneficial to the country, but it is quite unfriendly to them. You must know that the families behind them all occupy a huge amount of land. If it is implemented, the families behind them interests will definitely be damaged.

Therefore, although the argument is good, it is harmful to them and should be opposed.

Immediately, one figure after another stood up, bluntly saying that Li Huan intended to change the law of the ancestors, deceive the emperor, and had ulterior motives, and asked the emperor to punish Li Huan severely.

Although it is said that many officials with a heart for the world stood up to support Li Huan, compared with the vast majority of officials, the voices of these officials, who accounted for only a small number of officials, seemed a bit insignificant.

So much so that at the Great Court Meeting, there were all shouts of beating and killing against Li Huan, which was even more powerful than the previous impeachment of Li Huan for the crime of dereliction of duty.

Seeing this situation, Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly, glanced at all the officials and said in a deep voice: "Several elders, champions, British princes, Cheng
The Duke of the State, the Six Departments, the Yushi of the Left and Right, and the Governor of the Five Armies stayed to discuss matters, and the rest retreated separately. "

After speaking, Zhu Houzhao got up directly, ignoring the cries of those officials at all, and went directly to the Luanjia and left.

Seeing the emperor's departure, many officials surrounded several court elders, the left and right censors, and several ministers, shouting that they absolutely disagree with the imperial court's implementation of the policy of distributing all the people to the mother.

As for Li Huan, surrounded by the Duke of England and others, he followed the emperor Luan and left. If he really stayed, wouldn't it be a source of madness?

Surrounded by a crowd of officials, Wang Jia stroked his beard and watched Li Huan and the others leave, with a slight smile on his lips, he said in a low voice, "It's just a child with a yellow mouth, after all, he's too young."

Wang Jia's muttering sound was heard in the ears of the officials beside him, and many people couldn't help but looked at Wang Jia suspiciously, but they were full of puzzlement. Why is Wang Jia not in a hurry after slashing with a knife?

With such doubts, several officials asked Wang Jia.

Wang Jia smiled mysteriously when he heard the words, and whispered a few words to these officials, but the crowd were stunned for a moment when they heard Wang Jia's words, and soon they reacted, with a bit of surprise and surprise on their faces.

Some officials even couldn't help laughing and said: "Haha, as the old man said, Li Huan is too young, don't you know that although his method of spreading money into the mother is good, it can't move me, etc. In the slightest, I really want to see what Li Huan's expression will be like if he knows that his method of spreading everything into the mother has not harmed us in the slightest."

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