Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 214: Let's use the knife at home first!
to be honest

This is no longer the Zhang family in my memory.

This scale is also...too big.

This house has obviously been renovated. It occupies a large area and houses, at least twenty or thirty times the size of the previous one.

My father is really...

Zhang Haogu really couldn't find any adjectives to describe his father.

Tianqi left in two years, and Tianqi returned in four years.

In more than two years, the family has expanded so many times.

Zhang Shoucai received Zhang Haogu very warmly. When father and son meet each other, at least they should be warm in face.

And Zhang Shoucai also found that his son had changed.

In the past, he used to play with birds in cages, but now he has started to be gentle and polite. He actually saluted himself, and what he said couldn't be translated into words, and there was some truth to it. How could he see the appearance of that bastard back then?
"Heaven has eyes, it's different after becoming an official!" Zhang Shoucai sighed in his heart.

into the inner house
After dinner, Zhang Haogu started chatting with his father.

Last year, Zhang Haogu reminded his father. Taking advantage of the skyrocketing grain price, Zhang Shoucai quickly made a move and cashed out five times as high, earning a net profit of 30 taels of silver.

Zhang Shoucai also talked endlessly with Zhang Haogu about the next plan, continue to buy land, continue to annex land, strive hard, let our Zhang family rely on the efforts of one generation to surpass the land accumulated by the 64 generations of the Kong family .

Good guy!
Zhang Haogu did not expect that his father had such ambitions.

Afterwards, Zhang Haogu directly denied his father's idea, and chatted slowly about the fact that the gentry pays the grain and works as a errand.

Zhang Shoucai: "Or donate the land?"

Zhang Haogu nodded: "Yes!"

Zhang Shoucai: "Or just pay 90.00% of the tax honestly?"

Zhang Haogu nodded again: "Yes!"

Zhang Shoucai: "Then you are an official for nothing?"

Zhang Haogu: "..."

There is really nothing wrong with what you said. The Ming Dynasty is really like this today. When you become an official, your family will start to annex the land.

Look at Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng.

For example, Yang Lian, who is above the imperial court, is an upright official, right? He is really clean and honest. It is true that he did not take a tael of silver, and he was not greedy for a tael of silver. few.

This was not swallowed by Yang Lian on his own initiative, but a gift from someone else.

I gave it to you, not because I really admire Yang Lian's reputation of incorruptibility, but because there is something wrong with Daming's system.

From Zhu Yuanzhang to Jiajing, the Ming court gave more and more preferential treatment to gentry, from itself to Dingshu, from corvee to land rent and corvee.Coupled with the corruption of officials and the flaws in the design of its own system, a large number of self-cultivating farmers could not bear the exploitation and became slaves to big bureaucrats.Then, you can only continue to exploit other yeoman farmers.

This is a vicious circle.

After Fan Jinzhongju, why did some people take the initiative to sell themselves as slaves, and some took the initiative to give away land?

Juren is valuable not because he can be an official, but because he has the qualifications to be an official, but if he is not admitted to the Jinshi, even if he fills the vacancy, he will only be a deputy official like a county magistrate.

The really powerful thing is that Juren can exempt dozens of people from tax and corvee. If you are a rich peasant, you have to pay 1 cent of tax to the court, and you have to repair river embankments in winter. Paying 5% to the Juren Lord every year, the tax is less, and you don't have to go to work. This privilege is a real economic benefit.

However, scholars can only be exempted from taxation for two people. From a scholar to a scholar, it is a qualitative change caused by a quantitative change. Only this privilege is needed to completely break away from labor production and become the ruling class.

In the past, Zhang Shoucai put himself under the name of Juren Lord, but later he gradually became bigger and began to hide his land. He colluded with local officials and couldn't find him, thus fulfilling the purpose of tax evasion. After becoming a fourth-rank bachelor's attendant, the nature is different.

What was illegal before is now legal.

Zhang Shoucai's courage soared dozens of times in an instant, and it can be said that he swallowed it.

If you don't get rid of your father, this new policy is really hard to carry out.

To carry out the New Deal by oneself, it is natural to take the lead and set an example.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty abolished all preferential tax exemptions for official households, gentry, juren, and scholars. Has the treatment of paid subordinates in the yamen been halved?

Guess who gave this suggestion to Emperor Chongzhen?
emissary

They put forward this suggestion, which is almost equivalent to Buffett's request that the Great America increase its tax revenue.

Everything is fine except it doesn't work.

When Zhang Haogu makes a move, he needs an iron fist, and must carry it out.

However, there is also a catch.

The biggest problem is that it's better to let your father voluntarily, and you can't make your father angry, otherwise, you will definitely bear the name of being unfilial.

Once the reputation of being unfilial hangs on his head, and someone tells Zhu Youxiao the allusion of Yi Ya killing his son, Zhu Youxiao may not doubt himself, but it is still a hidden danger after all.

"Grand Ye!"

Zhang Haogu shouted.

Then, Zhang Haolong came to Zhang Shouchu with a smile: "Uncle!"

Zhang Haogu waved his hand and said: "Good dragon, show father, our income in the capital, and... take out the monosodium glutamate, and show father too!"

"okay!"

Zhang Haolong smiled, and immediately took out an account book, and placed it in front of Zhang Shouchu: "Please look, uncle, this is our income in the capital!"

Zhang Shouchu frowned, looked carefully, and then his eyes almost popped out: "This, this, is this money?"

Haolonglou in the capital actually earns 2 taels a month. This is gradually coming to the off-season, and it will increase by three or four times during the peak season.

This money was divided between Zhang Haogu and the dog emperor, but after a year, this income is much more than the income from the field.

"And this!" Zhang Haolong chuckled, took out a small porcelain bottle from his pocket, and said with a smile: "Second Uncle, try this!"

This is the monosodium glutamate that Zhang Haogu has been researching for a long time, and finally came up with it. It is mainly monosodium glutamate obtained from grain as a material through microbial fermentation, extraction, and refining.

This thing cannot be said to have exploded in sales, because, at the level of this era, it is not easy to produce, but Zhang Haogu can also sell him at a very high price.

For example, such a small bottle in Zhang Haolong's hand would cost 100 taels of silver.

Zhang Shouchu smacked his lips and couldn't help saying, "It's delicious!"

"Specially for cooking, a bottle of 100 taels!" Zhang Haolong chuckled: "In the capital, I sold 4000 taels of silver in two months. If this is expanded, in one year, at least I will earn him 10,000+ taels of silver." , that’s much more profitable than farming!”

"father!"

Zhang Haogu said bluntly: "Now, son, I am the minister of law enforcement in the imperial court, so many pairs of eyes are staring at me. Now, the imperial court is overwhelming, and even the emperor puts his own Huangzhuang is divided, and our family's land is the same!"

"There are more profitable businesses. This monosodium glutamate can be sold in Beijing, Jiangnan, or even overseas. The future profits will definitely not be small. However, the land at home must be dealt with, or 90.00% of the tax, Either split out, this is the general trend, no one can stop it!"

(End of this chapter)