Nanming: I can build wonders

After the troublemakers were shot, the Li Family's Yuci Archway finally calmed down.

As a result, the Shaanxi Branch of the Tax Administration of the Ming Empire formally began to collect grain taxes in Xi'an in accordance with the new policy of government and gentry paying grain and doing errands together.

Li Nianci's family was the first to be called in.

"What a crime! What a crime! When did my Li family pay so much land tax!"

"Mr. Li, paying taxes is an honor, this is the responsibility of every Ming Empire people!"

Xu Xianwen, who has been promoted to the director of the Shaanxi Branch of the Imperial Taxation Bureau, said so.

His elder brother Xu Xianwu was very successful in the army, and even brought him into the limelight.

This is chicken and dog ascending to heaven.

Now, Li Nianci could only watch the new food from his family being shipped out, and cried because of it.

For Li Nianci, paying so much grain to the imperial court was indeed a heart-wrenching pain, but he did not dare to resist at all.

The government and gentry in Xi'an prefectural government and gentry pay food and errands together to implement it fairly smoothly.

Although the officials and gentry had a lot of resentment, they didn't dare to fight fiercely because of the majesty of the emperor.

In fact, for the officials and gentry to pay grain and errands together, the officials and gentry just paid an extra amount of corvee silver and preferential food tax than before, and the loss was not great.

Because the land tax in the new Ming Dynasty was not high, the officials and gentry with many acres of land would not actually affect their rich life because they did not have preferential treatment.

But the benefits this brings to the court are not just more land tax income.

Besides.

The combination of government and gentry paying food and errands also restrained land annexation.

Because officials and gentry do not have the privilege of exempting land tax, officials and gentry are no longer willing to accept contributions from common people and landlords. After all, if common people and landlords donate, they still pay the land tax for the donated land, which is equivalent to just helping the court collect taxes Therefore, officials and gentry are naturally unwilling.

Therefore, next, it is impossible for the officials and gentry to get the common people and landlords to actively contribute without annexing the land by means of extortion.

However, those who have already contributed are difficult to dissolve the dependency relationship. Therefore, these officials and gentry now have to pay land taxes for them because they accepted the contributions of some villagers.

In this way, it gave the Ming court a lot of convenience.

After all, it is very troublesome to collect taxes if they are really scattered into small households of common people, and the tax bureau will have to increase a lot of manpower.

However, there is a shortcoming of the official and gentry paying grain together, that is, when the officials and gentry hand over the rent collected in the donated fields to the imperial court as a land tax, and even pay some back, after all, the common people and landlords are willing to contribute, it must be because of the officials The land rent collected by the gentry was lower than the imperial tax.

After that, in order to make up for their losses, the officials and gentry will definitely charge more land rent.

The landlords of the common people who originally offered their fields to the families of the officials and gentry were willing to become tenants to avoid taxation and corvee.

In addition, officials and gentry are all powerful and powerful. These guys who appear to be tenant farmers but are actually common landlords cannot resist the rent increase demands of officials and gentry.

For a time, those officials and gentry who wanted to evade taxes and donate their fields as tenant farmers have now become the people who have lost the most benefits.

"The Li family is in charge. I waited for the contribution to save more money and food. Why are you suddenly increasing the land rent? According to the current rent, what is the difference between not contributing?"

"Don't discuss the imperial court indiscriminately! Now you can either increase the rent or withdraw the land. I give you two choices."

There are two official characters, and when all classes are extremely unwilling, the reform of the integration of officials and gentry is barely implemented relying on the strong prestige of the emperor.

On the other hand, Zhu Kezang learned from the lessons learned from the fall of the Jinshan Governor's District that Ming's military force was still not strong enough, and it had to be ahead of the Westerners' military equipment.

So, he spent 80 points from the system to exchange for the blueprint of a new cannon.

As the saying goes, truth is only within the range of cannons, and there is nothing that cannons cannot solve.

After confirming that the new Daming Industry can handle the breech air-holding and gunpowder percussion technology, Zhu Kezang exchanged and decided on the Krupp 73 artillery.

This artillery is a rear-loading rifled gun developed by the German Krupp company in the 70s. It can be said to be the prototype of modern artillery.

Soon after it was developed, it was widely used in the Franco-Prussian War. Like the breech-loading rifle, it laid the foundation for Prussia's victory.

The Krupp 73 artillery is made of steel, loaded at the rear of the gun body, and the barrel is engraved with rifling. It can launch pointed-shaped explosive shells and shrapnel shells. The explosive shells use trigger fuzes. The maximum rate of fire is three shots per minute, and the maximum range 1 meters, depending on the caliber, the weight of the gun body ranges from one thousand catties to three thousand catties.

In terms of rate of fire, range and weight, it is far superior to the bronze and cast iron guns of this era.

The range of 6000 meters is enough to defeat all the armies of this era.

The most important thing is that this kind of artillery can launch explosive bombs that trigger the fuze. This kind of bomb can explode at a distance when it hits the ground. The killing radius can reach 6 to 10 meters. If it encounters a dense formation, it will really blow up a large area.

Coupled with Daming's smokeless gunpowder, it's stable!
And another advantage of the Krupp artillery is its light weight.

It is made of steel. On the premise of ensuring the strength, the weight of the gun body is reduced. After the wheels are installed, the mobility is increased.

Take the heaviest [-]-jin cannon as an example. With wheels installed, two horses can easily pull it around.

In addition, as long as Ming can successfully manufacture Krupp artillery, it means that as long as Zhu Kezang is willing, the era of breech-loading guns in Ming will also come.

However, Zhu Kezang considered that the current button-type Minie rifle is sufficient, so he would not make a breech-loading gun for now.

Zhu Kezang always felt that guns are different from cannons. Guns are easy to fall into the hands of the enemy, but cannons are not.

The time came to the spring of 1693, that is, March.

It took half a year, and under the leadership of Su Laocheng, the General Manufacturing Bureau of the Ming Dynasty finally solved various technical problems of the Krupp artillery, and the Krupp artillery that was successfully manufactured soon left the factory.

They pulled the artillery to Jiangjun Mountain for the first shooting test.

This is the place where Yue Fei fought against the gold, so it was named General Mountain, and now it has become a test site for new weapons of the Ming Dynasty.

The first test results were not bad. Although the maximum range reached 6000 meters, but without modern mechanical sighting equipment, such a long range is basically unnecessary.

However, with the use of high-power telescopes and the professional ranging technicians of the Ming Artillery, the accuracy of the 4000-meter distance is still guaranteed.

The Krupp artillery is of little use if it falls into the hands of other countries. First, they don't have high-power telescopes, and second, they don't have professional ranging talents.

Everyone in the Ming Artillery has to study mathematics, and their professionalism is extraordinary.

"Let's build fifty doors first, I can't afford to keep more!" (End of this chapter)