Nanming: I can build wonders

The next day, the headlines on the front pages of various newspapers were all reporting the news that Xiao Wu was returning home with gold, accompanied by illustrations, which showed the picture of Xiao Wu getting off the boat covered in gold ornaments.

As soon as the news came out, a gold rush was quickly set off in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

This is the beginning of the great development of Yinzhou. The merchant ships of Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants launched into the sea one after another, rushing towards the unknown and huge continent.

Because it was too far away from Daming, many merchants of Ming Dynasty chose to camp in Shanghai area as a transit place for merchant ships, which further made Shanghai even busier.

"Have you heard? Someone brought back a blue fruit, sweet and sour."

"It's just blueberries!"

"The price of this thing is very high, and it is the favorite of dignitaries. It is said that the Xiao family who first discovered this thing made a fortune. Now it is said that blueberries can also be grown in Yunnan!"

"Blueberries are small additions, the key is gold mines!"

The brocade guards in charge of guarding the official gate chatted with each other.

"Good girl, come on, pass the ball to Daddy."

In the imperial garden, Zhu Kezang played football with his eldest son Zhu Yiming and daughter Zhu Pingan with great interest.

If you look closely, the picture is a bit weird.

Prince Zhu Yiming was guarding the goal with a face of reluctance.

The little princess staggered and passed the ball to Zhu Kezang, Xiong's father.

Zhu Kezang shot with one kick, and the seven-year-old little prince Zhu Yiming had already formed muscle memory for this, and lowered his head to protect his crotch!
Immediately afterwards, the ball crashed into the net.

Empress Concubine Chen couldn't stand it anymore, she walked over and pinched Zhu Kezang.

"My lord, you are cheating on two little dolls again!"

"Queen, I'm wronged! Didn't you always say that I was too busy to play with the children, and I took time to accompany them today!"

"You are with me like this!"

Look at how the prince has been harmed by him!
"Queen, you are pregnant, this side of the court is too dangerous, go and take a rest!"

Zhu Kezang knew he was wrong, so he hurriedly tried to fool Concubine Chen away.

"If the concubines don't come and see, they don't even know how young they are."

"Queen, this statement is wrong, I am training them!"

The two have a small difference in parenting philosophy.

But the queen always can't say enough about Zhu Kezang, Zhu Kezang is better than the gentle queen in terms of lip service.

"Don't be poor with you, didn't you call my father and the others to discuss matters, he is waiting for you in the imperial study!"

"Good good!"

The brush was spinning at Zhu Kezang's fingertips.

Chen Yonghua and Yang Ying looked at each other in blank dismay.

"You two think about whether it is feasible for officials and gentry to pay food together."

Both Chen Yonghua and Yang Ying were in a dilemma. Isn't this the follow-up policy of Zhang Juzheng's whipping method?

"Actually, the so-called "unity of government and gentry pays food" refers to the contradiction between the court, officials and gentry, and the common people in tax payment and food, which mainly lies in the "non-judge gentry". The power in the hands of judges and gentry forces them to work as errands and pay food like ordinary people."

Hearing this sentence, Chen Yonghua, who was still a little worried at first, twirled his three long beards, and his complexion suddenly became strange.

What is "not a judge and gentleman"?

What is "legal officials and gentry"?

Isn't this thing in the emperor's mind?

However, Chen Yonghua felt that the government and gentry should pay the grain together, otherwise the new Ming Dynasty would soon become corrupt.

The gentry and officials of the former Ming Dynasty colluded with each other, engaged in unspoken rules, concealed a large amount of land and population, and refused to pay taxes.

During the reign of Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, there were many imperial fields in the Gyeonggi area, and these fields belonging to the emperor had to pay the land tax on time every year, which meant that the emperor had to pay taxes according to law.

As a result, after the death of Ming Chengzu, Huangtian stopped paying grain, and the officials and nobles under the emperor also followed suit.

All the taxes and taxes of the imperial court were transferred to ordinary people, and all kinds of apportionments, miscellaneous taxes, and miscellaneous labors were also thrown on the common people.

Some landlords even colluded with officials to secretly allocate their land to ordinary people and let them pay taxes for them.

The officials and gentry also tried their best to create many privileges and misinterpreted the court's policies. In the end, some people even did not pay taxes and did not work as errands. They owned hundreds of thousands of acres of land, but they did not pay taxes!

Rumor has it that a conscientious official or an official who has become an official has voluntarily handed in the land tax, and the local magistrate is so frightened that he takes the initiative to send the land tax back to the official's home.
In order to escape the heavy taxation, the common people had to "contribute" their land to the officials and gentry, that is, sell the land to the officials and gentry for free or at a very low price, and then the two parties agreed that the piece of land In the future, it will belong to the officials and gentry, but at the same time, it will also be the permanent tenant land of farmers, which can be planted all the time, and the land rent can be paid regularly.

Peasants completed the transformation from self-cultivated farmers to tenant households, attached to officials and gentry to escape a series of apportioned taxes, and some directly became slaves to escape the small tax.

In order to make the implementation of this policy more legal and reasonable, Zhu Kezang specially asked the Ministry of Households to conduct research.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Households of the New Daming Dynasty, about 857 million hectares of land were registered in the early Ming Dynasty!

However, after mergers and contributions by powerful landlords, by the 15th year of Hongzhi, only 422 million hectares of endowed land were left in the Ming Dynasty, which was more than half of the original!

And a lot of land here was donated to the officials and gentry by the common people.

Is there any silver in Qianming?

Yes, and there are many more, but the emperor and the court just don't have it!
If this is not restricted, the new Daming is likely to follow the old path.

If it's not exactly the same old road, it could be a very new old road
At present, the new Ming Dynasty actually has the conditions to implement the integration of officials and gentry to pay food and errands.

First of all, grassroots civil servants spread all over the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial power has been successfully sent to the countryside.

This point is quite critical. If the imperial power does not go to the countryside, who will collect taxes for him and who will manage the grassroots for him?
If there is no management at the grassroots level, the officials and gentry have the final say.

The second is that the national taxation agency of the Ming Empire has been completely established. This huge taxation system is enough to guarantee the manpower problem!

"Your Majesty, but once implemented, will there be a backlash?"

Zhu Kezang knocked on the table, "I'm not worried about the actions of officials and gentry, if I dare to make moves, I just don't deserve the title of judge and gentry."

"It's raw recruits, these reserve recruits may be instigated."

The students are actually the most vulnerable link of the officials and gentry.

Because the students are the same as ordinary people in terms of identity, but they are different.

The difference is that they have a bright future.

And because the general age of the students is not particularly old, it is easy to be taken into the ditch when they read dead books, and most of the people around them are teachers and classmates, and most of them are people from the official class.

Therefore, it is easy to be induced by others, to be the spearhead, to be the vanguard.

And once these reading seeds make trouble, the impact is usually relatively bad.

Chen Yonghua thought of something, "Your Majesty, I have an idea."

(End of this chapter)