Daming: Let you do your best to manage, do you go to health?

Chapter 57 Say no to tax, I will cut you off!

"If you want to reform the current tax system to achieve the situation that my grandson mentioned before, you must first explain why my current tax system cannot meet this requirement."

"At present, the current tax system in our dynasty mainly comes from the two tax laws of the Tang and Song dynasties. Although there are some differences, they are basically the same, that is, it is based on the basis that everyone pays taxes except for some special tax-exempt groups. And people The method of individual taxation seems to be quite fair at first glance. For the expenditure of the court, every commoner pays taxes through corvee, food, and silver, but to put it bluntly, it is still the survival of the fittest. "

"Like a poll tax."

"In addition to paying the taxes required by the court, each commoner lives according to his own ability. If he has the ability, he eats and drinks more. If he has no ability, he has to go hungry. It seems fair, but it is not. Because the common people are not beasts, we The territory of the Ming Dynasty is not a grassland where the weak prey on the strong, and there are various classes in our dynasty."

"The same tael of silver may be put on some people with a higher class.

"Under such circumstances, Sun'er really can't think of how to prevent those poor people from starving to death, because there is no solution to this matter."

"And if we want to achieve people who don't starve to death, we must subvert the original tax system of 'everyone pays taxes' and change it fundamentally!"

"And there is only one way to change."

Following Zhu Zhanji's very detailed explanation and analysis, although Zhu Di believed that Zhu Zhanji could not come up with any good solutions from the beginning, he still couldn't help but immerse himself in Zhu Zhanji's thoughts.

Although Zhu Zhanji has not come up with any substantive solutions so far, the principles he analyzed before are real and reasonable, which cannot be argued.

For example, he proposed the general direction of innovation, to achieve the goal that the reformed current taxation system will not cause any pressure from the taxation system to those people who have no source of livelihood, which Zhu Di agrees with very much.

Originally, those poor people had no money, no food, and had to pay taxes. They would definitely starve to death.

Don't even think about it, it's definitely true.

At the same time, it is also reasonable to analyze the head tax in the current tax system. If we want to achieve the intended innovation direction, this kind of tax payment that is not based on the actual situation of each citizen must be completely abandoned, otherwise everything will be empty talk.

Zhu Di still has such a simple logical analysis, so he was attracted by Zhu Zhanji's words.

It's just that Zhu Di was a little annoyed when he saw the big grandson in front of him playing tricks and keeping quiet for a long time. At this moment, he really couldn't wait to hear what substantive innovative methods this kid could come up with.

"Stop what, say it!"

Seeing that the old man was in a hurry, and his expression no longer had the previous pointing look, Zhu Zhanji suddenly chuckled, and continued: "It's very simple, just cancel the poll tax."

Hearing this, Zhu Di was furious: "Little bastard, don't play tricks on grandpa. If the poll tax is abolished, the people will definitely not have the pressure to pay taxes. If there is no tax, there will be no pressure. But who will guard the frontier and what the soldiers will eat? What do court officials eat, disasters come from heaven, what does the court provide for disaster relief, and what do you spend on the canonization ceremony? You just let your grandfather abdicate, and we will not do it in the Ming Dynasty."

Seeing the old man's fierce reaction, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help laughing, but seeing the old man's increasingly ugly face, Zhu Zhanji accepted it as soon as he saw it, and hurriedly suppressed his smile and said, "Okay, okay , the grandson stopped laughing, and stopped joking."

After calming down his emotions, Zhu Zhanji took the initiative to continue talking: "Actually, the method grandson said just now is not all a joke. If you want to achieve the effect grandson said, you must completely abandon this kind of payment that everyone needs to pay." poll tax."

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhanji saw the old man's face began to change again, and hurriedly said before he spoke: "But!"

As the words came out, the old man's expression eased a little.

"but."

Zhu Zhanji repeated "but" to prevent the old man from drawing his sword, while organizing his words: "As grandpa said, officials need to eat and drink, the court needs to be maintained, frontier soldiers need to eat and drink, etc. We have to worry about it, so the total amount of taxes received by the imperial court every year must not be reduced."

"Since my great-grandfather, the tax has always been very low, even reaching the level of [-]-[-] tax. In this way, although the life of the common people is better, it is difficult for the court. The salaries of officials are also the lowest in all dynasties. Almost They can’t meet the daily expenses of officials. In addition, since the establishment of our dynasty, we have rarely issued coins, and various policies to suppress merchants have reduced the collection of a lot of commercial taxes, which has led to the lack of financial resources of the imperial court itself. Happening."

"It can be said that the imperial court is already in a difficult situation. If the tax on the head tax is further reduced, the imperial court will really have no money to use."

Listening to Zhu Zhanji's later words, the old man's face completely improved a lot: "I still have a little conscience, I know how much benefits your great-grandfather and your grandfather have given to the people, if you just dared to say no If you collect taxes, grandpa will definitely chop you off today, you little bastard."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhanji could only comfort the old man with a smiling face, seeing that the old man was still a little upset.

Then he continued: "Since it is not feasible to completely abandon this part of the tax, and it is not feasible to continue to collect taxes, there is only one way."

"That is to transfer the shortfall of the canceled poll tax to other places while canceling the poll tax!"

After Zhu Zhanji finished speaking, Zhu Di, who was listening quietly to the side, suddenly had a flash of light in his eyes!
Shift the pressure of the poll tax elsewhere
Such an idea has never existed in the past dynasties. Although the feasibility is still unknown, Zhu Di's years of experience have made him keenly aware that this idea is not simple!
However, Zhu Di did not interrupt, but continued to listen to Zhu Zhanji's narration.

"In this way, those poor people who have no income will not have any pressure to pay taxes, and the total tax revenue of the court will not decrease, and will not affect the normal maintenance of the court."

(End of this chapter)