After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 99
"Of course, Yongzheng had no choice but to choose to implement the New Deal in Jiangsu at that time. Because Nian Genyao in the northwest was fighting a war and needed money urgently, the whole country was serving the war in the Northwest. That's why he chose to implement the New Deal in the prosperous Jiangsu, because The money came quickly. Later, Li Wei seized the house of the gentry Cao Xueqin and directly collected the wages of the Northwest Army."

"This also shows how rich the gentry was at that time, and the country was poor and the people were rich. Once again, it proves that the aristocratic clan is the bane of the dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma did not know this history, and they were confused.But they still understood the key point.That is, if the court implements the new policy, it is best to start from the place where there is little resistance.

We chose to implement it in a wealthy place because we were eager for success.

"If it is not a last resort, the imperial court will generally not take the initiative to implement the new policy. The reforms of the past dynasties and dynasties were carried out when social contradictions were intensified to the point that they could not be reconciled." Qin Yudao.

"Once it is launched, it is eager to achieve success. It is quick to implement in rich areas, and slow to implement in remote areas. This is why the reforms of all dynasties did not start in remote areas."

"Starting from the remote southwest of the New Deal, the power of the landlord class in the southwest is not as strong as that in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Now coupled with the weakening of them by bandits, the landlord class can be easily defeated. After the southwest is rich, it will be gradually extended to the prosperous provinces. , this is the same principle as the countryside encircling the city. In addition, those peasants who went up to the mountains to become bandits are also brave warriors and highly conscious, so they just used it for the imperial court.”

"That's why I said that the southwest, where bandits are rampant, is the biggest opportunity for the new dynasty."

"Makes sense!" The two nodded repeatedly.

No one has ever seen this.Because those prominent politicians, all thinking about how to build and restore wealthy areas, did not pay attention to the poor southwest.

Poor provinces, they don't pay attention at all.

Moreover, the social contradictions have not reached a certain level, and no one will think about taking the initiative to implement the New Deal.

Therefore, the southwest region has been forgotten by the feudal dynasties.

"Mr. Qin, what kind of new policy do you mean when you say that the stalls are divided into acres, and the gentry is on duty as a messenger and pays grain together?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help asking.

"Let's talk about how to put a stall in an acre. When a stall enters an acre, the poll tax is abolished and the land tax is levied." Qin Yudao.

Abolish poll tax and levy land tax!When Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma heard this, they were shocked.

The poll tax has been used for thousands of years in successive dynasties.And Qin Yu actually proposed to cancel the poll tax and levy the land tax.

This is breaking the rules for thousands of years!
Definitely an earth-shattering move!

"In the past dynasties, the imperial court mainly levied the poll tax. However, the poll tax has great drawbacks. The more people the more people collect, the more tax. This tax system makes the people miserable, and they dare not dare to have children. The landlord class and the feudal aristocratic class have no influence, they will flourish. Over time, the landowner class will gradually grow to form aristocratic clans, behemoths, and the peasant class will gradually be weakened.”

"The number of people in the exploiting class is increasing, but the number of the exploited has not increased, and the imperial court will inevitably be in chaos. In the past, in order to encourage the people to have children and increase the number of the exploited, the imperial court issued a series of policies to encourage childbirth. For example, if you don’t get married when you reach your age, you will be fined, or even the government will issue a wife, and so on, but all of them are temporary solutions.”

"If you want to cure the root cause, you must cancel the poll tax, so that people can dare to live, not be afraid of life, and even actively give birth."

"If the imperial court abolished the poll tax, the people would have no worries and would have the courage to have children. The more the population, the stronger the imperial court. Population is the foundation of the country, people can cultivate the land, and young adults can go to war... So Population has always been an important indicator of whether a dynasty is strong or not."

"Not bad!" Queen Ma said.People are the most important at all times.

"Of course, increasing the population of the common people is not the essential meaning of piling people into an acre." Qin Yu continued, "The essence of piling into an acre is to bring benefits to the people and suppress the landlord class."

"The landlord class is the owner of a large amount of land, and they will pay a lot of taxes according to the land tax, and their strength will be greatly weakened. If the landlord class is weak, they cannot divide the power of the imperial court, and the rule of the feudal dynasty will be more stable."

"And the landlord class will continue to annex land. The longer the time is, the more serious the land annexation will be, and the more dangerous the imperial court will be. And the tax is paid according to the amount of land, which will greatly slow down the speed of their annexation of land."

"It can be said that the entry of stalls into the mu is to consolidate the rule of the feudal dynasty from the root!"

"In addition, the 'one whip law' proposed by Zhang Juzheng is also a passive move to alleviate social conflicts.

Consolidate the rule of the dynasty from its roots?After Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma heard it, they were shocked again.

"How much tax is levied on the land, will those landlord classes agree?" After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang asked a little unconfidently.No imperial court has ever done this kind of thing in the past, nor dare to do it, once it is implemented, it will be a big shame in the world.

"Of course they won't agree, because this has touched their core interests." Qin Yudao, "Once it is implemented, it will inevitably be strongly opposed by the feudal nobles. If it is not handled properly, the imperial court will be in danger of overturning."

"That's why I just said that this reform needs to start from the southwest region where there is little resistance."

"And there are very few officials from the southwest who are officials in the court. If the emperor proposes a new policy, the pressure will be less. If it is implemented in Jiangsu and Zhejiang from the beginning, most of the court is officials from these two places, and they will collectively stand up strongly. If they oppose it, the emperor will also be devastated by them. During the Yongzheng period, hundreds of officials of the imperial court threatened to resign them collectively to oppose the new policy. Tian Wenjing and Li Wei, who were responsible for the implementation of these two new policies, were also targeted by all officials, and the new policy was implemented. The only thing was that they were struggling, and these two were almost exhausted."

"It is conceivable how difficult it is to implement the New Deal in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

"Yeah!" Zhu Yuanzhang heard it and expressed his deep sympathy.In the present courtroom, almost all officials from Huaixi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.

If the court implemented the New Deal in the southwest, their core interests would not have been touched, and their opposition would not have been so strong.

After all, if the knife didn't cut itself, it wouldn't hurt.

If their core interests are touched, they are likely to fight to the death, and it will be very difficult for the court to implement it.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang had the courage and ability to use violence to implement the New Deal, using violence was not a good thing after all.

(End of this chapter)