Chongzhen's open life

Chapter 52
Withdrawing the messy thoughts in his mind, Zhu Youjian refocused on the court.

Seeing that at this moment, because of the conversation between Huang Liji and himself just now, all the courtiers were either stunned or thinking, but no one came out to make trouble.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian cleared his throat.

"Cough! Cough!"

Since you have nothing to say, let me say it!

Zhu Youjian's coughing immediately drew the thoughts of all the officials back, and they all turned their eyes back to Zhu Youjian, wanting to see what the new king had to say.

After clearing his throat and attracting the eyes of all the officials, Zhu Youjian said loudly: "You don't have anything to say now, do you? Since you don't have anything, it's my turn. I'm going to say it today one thing."

As he said that, Zhu Youjian flirted with Wang Chengen who was on the side. Wang Chengen immediately understood, reached into his arms and took out a copy of the imperial decree that had been written long ago, and handed it to the officials of Honglu Temple.

The officials of Nahonghe Temple were taken aback at first, but after receiving the imperial decree, they opened it with doubts and read it, and then their expressions changed drastically, and then they looked at Zhu Youjian hesitantly to confirm whether the matter was true or not.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, affirming the matter, and the officials of Nahonglu Temple nodded heavily after a change of expression, restored a serious expression, and began to read the imperial decree in their hands!
"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said: I will inherit the great career with the age, it is the ancestor's merits and virtues, and I will obey the laws and regulations; the government of the people is difficult, and I will seek flexibility. I am young. It is wonderful, however, I have heard that the ancient sage kings ruled the world, the people did not add gifts, and the sea was full of abundance. Although I am not sensitive, I still yearn for it. It is ordered that all the officials and yamen in the world have divisions. One day, no more gifts!"

boom!
All officials were shocked!

Xungui shook!

Even the big Han general who was guarding the gate outside the gate couldn't help showing a shocked expression on his face when he heard it!
Never pay!

These four words are easy to say, but to the common people, these four words are as heavy as Mount Tai!

What is endowment?
In layman's terms, tax is poll tax, and the poll tax paid to the emperor is internal money.

The number of males the common people have has to pay as much tax every year!
Since the implementation of Zhang Juzheng's whip law in the Wanli period, the head tax and corvee of the Ming Dynasty have been evenly distributed to the fields.

Originally, this was a good thing. According to the method of measuring land and counting rations at that time, the silver of a state and county was distributed to the rations of the state and county.When compiling and expropriating, take into account the land property and labor force status of households for expropriation.

(Service silver: corvee and poll tax are the combination of Ding Yin.)
The farmers were divided into upper, middle and lower households.

Those who have rations but no food will be regarded as lower households, and they will still receive dinning silver; those who have rations and grain will be classified as middle households, and those who have more rations will be registered as upper households, and they will receive all according to rations.

What does this mean?

That is to say, from now on, corvee service, poll tax and land tax will be combined, collected on the basis of prefectures and counties, and the people will be checked and divided into three types of farm households according to those who have no land, those who have land, and those who have land more than others. The third class, more money will be paid more, and less money will be paid less.

In this way, the common people will change the tragedy of their families being ruined and their families being forced to pay land taxes even though they have no land in the past.

Let the people reduce unnecessary burdens.

But this kind of policy has affected the economic interests of the local officials, gentry and landlords. They originally relied on their rights to put their own land on the heads of the landless and landed people, and let them pay taxes and serve for themselves. In the end, the people were forced to be unable to afford it, and then took the opportunity to seize their land and property at a low price or by robbing them, forcing them to sell themselves as slaves, thereby annexing a large number of lands, and even throwing the blame on the emperor!

You see, you are forced to be like this because the emperor wants to collect taxes, so you can't blame me. If you want to blame, blame the emperor!

A whip method would lead to the shattering of their method, so they blocked the implementation of a whip method openly and secretly, but at that time Zhang Ju was in power, and he severely punished these people with harsh methods. They had no choice but to accept this policy.

However, after Zhang Juzheng passed away, the descendants died, and these landlords became old again. Up to now, the whip method has almost existed in name only.

However, once Zhu Youjian's will never add taxes, it means that all future taxes will be collected according to the current number of people, and the people will not have to pay more money if they add more people to their families. This will bring great benefits to the people of the world. Great burden relief.

However, this undoubtedly affects the interests of some officials and gentry. The burden of the common people is small. How can they force them to be unable to afford it, so their families are ruined and sold the land to themselves? How to throw the pot on the emperor's head?
Isn't this stealing your own money?
Therefore, Zhu Youjian's decree is a benevolent government in the eyes of officials with justice in their hearts!Great benevolence!
But in the eyes of officials who have interests in participating, this is undoubtedly a great tyranny!

Although this gift belongs to your emperor, it has nothing to do with us if you don't want it or not, but if it affects our annexation of land and throwing the blame on you, it's your fault!

How can you do this?You don't let us annex the land, you don't let us throw the pot away!You stupid king!tyrant!
So after the officials of Honglu Temple finished reading this decree, the expressions and attitudes of the officials below were polarized.

With a happy face without hands and feet inside, he knelt down and shouted that Your Majesty is wise, comparable to the ancient sage!
Those with interests inside had gloomy faces, standing on the ground with ugly expressions.

Zhu Youjian swept his eyes over these people one by one, and sneered secretly in his heart when he saw their unpredictable faces!

Wait, you guys, now that I have just ascended the throne, it is not appropriate to do large-scale operations. After I am stabilized, I will see how I ransacked all the moths that gnawed on Ming Dynasty, so that you can also experience the people who were forced by you to ruin their families. What a taste!

No!This is too cheap for you guys!

When the time comes, I will not only ransack your homes, but also ruin your homes!
I'm going to throw you all to mine and squeeze out your surplus value!
If you eat Daming's, you and your family will pay back for the rest of your life!

After waving his hands to calm down those excited officials, Zhu Youjian began to talk about his next purpose for going to court today, which is also the most important purpose!
"Masters, since the Taizu's rebellion against the Yuan dynasty, to the Chengzu's five expeditions to the grasslands, the Beijing camp has been the most powerful guarantee of our Ming's force, because the heroic battles of these soldiers have made our Ming's great reputation spread throughout the world. Only then did I have the grand occasion of my great Ming and all nations coming to court!

But now, the Tartars in the border areas have become a major threat to the north of our Ming Dynasty from the first rebellion, causing the people in the whole north to be in a state of anxiety all day long. How can I bear this?

Therefore, I want to inspect the Beijing camp in three days to see if my great army of the Wuzheng Grassland in the Ming Dynasty still has the mighty military power of the past!
What do you think? "

"Ah! This..."

As soon as Zhu Youjian said this, all the officials were just shocked, wondering why the new king suddenly thought of inspecting the Beijing camp, but the nobles who were at the forefront of the courtiers all changed their faces after hearing this!
Because the current Beijing camp is in their hands, and no one knows better than them what the current Beijing camp is like.

Once Xinjun finds out that Jingying has become what it is today, he will be furious!
What should they do?

Zhu Youjian's decision made all the nobles extremely embarrassed, but they didn't know how to refuse.

ps. When I originally wrote this chapter, I only planned to write briefly on the tax side according to who was the tyrant in the Ming Dynasty, but after checking the information, I suddenly found that Zhang Juzheng’s whip method actually has something about this tax The reform, and it looks good, makes me think it is much better than Kang Mazi's policy, so I spent a lot of time explaining it, but there may be some places where the understanding is not very clear, and there may be some errors. I hope everyone will forgive me .

If anyone is interested in this aspect, you can check it out. My Ming Dynasty is actually much better than the Qing Dynasty. After seeing a method of whipping, I feel that Kang Mazi's method is completely copied!And the copy is not complete!After a few years of implementation, it will be completely the same as nothing.

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