I became a mysterious person in textbooks after being pushed by the emperors

Chapter 105 On how to save the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Houcong, Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty: "Hahaha, it seems that you are very smart, boy, and you don't even plan to spend this money randomly!"

Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty: "That's true. It's best to ask Mr.

Words flashed one after another.

21st century.

Lan Xing and Jiang Chen also quickly noticed the movement among the emperors, and when he opened his subconscious, he couldn't help but reveal a curve at the corner of his mouth.

My goodness, the scenario interpretation has reached a deeper level.

The two newcomers to the group blended in perfectly.

Zhu Youjian's plot follows his method of getting money from the feudal king.

They even started asking him what to do next.

I have to say that with this sense of immersion alone, Jiang Chen feels that these guys are simply wasting their talents if they don't act.

At least he wouldn't be able to bring in such a perfect situation and interpret the plot. If he were to do it, it would be difficult to justify it halfway through.

But it's incredible how well these guys can blend together.

Admiration appeared, and laughter mingled with it.

Jiang Chen looked at Zhu Youjian's text.

He pondered for a moment, and then started beating quickly.

"How to act is very simple, just grasp the fundamental problem of Ming Dynasty."

"As we all know, the Ming Dynasty had many problems, but there were only a few fundamental problems or factors that led to the country's subjugation. The arrival of the first Little Ice Age. The "Little Ice Age" caused the earth's temperature to drop significantly, causing a significant reduction in global food production. This triggered violent social unrest and a sharp decline in population.”

"The Little Ice Age not only brought disaster to agricultural society, but even became the trigger for the outbreak of war. For example, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, affected by the Little Ice Age, low temperatures, droughts, and grassland degradation continued in the north. In order to improve the situation, a few people in the north The nation frequently moved south, and widespread wars and famines destroyed the Ming Dynasty regime."

"This is a natural disaster that is almost irreversible. The only way is to move south. This can basically be solved as long as the Ming Dynasty shifts its focus from the north to Southeast Asia."

"The second problem is taxation. The Ming Dynasty's taxes are extremely unreasonable. This is also the main reason for the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the later period. I have said before that 90.00% of the people in the Ming Dynasty only have one percent of the land, but they want Pay 100% of the tax, or even 120% of the tax, repay the money of the wealthy gentry in full, and divide the money of the common people [-]-[-], isn’t this nonsense? Only if there is no problem in the Ming Dynasty, there will be ghosts.”

Jiang Chen couldn't help but complain as he typed out the words line after line.

Each dynasty has its own problems, but the problem of the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly the most obvious and direct.

It is also the most difficult to understand.

Although every dynasty has land annexation, bullying and concealment, and the majority satisfying the minority.

But the problem is too obvious in this scene.

The lords who occupied a large amount of land did not need to pay taxes, and the gentry who occupied a large amount of land did not need to pay taxes. However, many common people did not even have land, but they had to bear expensive taxes.

And such incidents did not even occur in the last years of the dynasty, but had existed since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Under such pressure, it is a miracle that the Ming Dynasty could last until 270 years before completely collapsing.On the other side, he looked at Jiang Chen's lines of text.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, Ming Shizong Zhu Houcong all frowned.

This was not the first time Jiang Chen had raised the issue of taxation, but they had never thought that this issue would reach such an extent.

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Sir, how come our Ming Dynasty's taxation is like this? Didn't we stipulate ordinary taxes, and take one out of thirty, and those who exceed the tax will be considered as violating the order? How can it be like this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's words were not echoed by others.

Zhu Di looked a little embarrassed, and Zhu Houcong opened his mouth.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu did implement the "Thirty Taxes and One", but it was soon broken and became twenty taxes and one, and ten taxes and one. Due to some special reasons, some places were particularly exaggerated. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, , a total of 2900 million shi of tax and grain was levied from the whole country, and more than 270 million shi was levied from Zhejiang Province. However, Suzhou Prefecture, located in Jiangsu Province, was levied by Lao Zhu with more than 280 million shi of tax and grain. "

And if Suzhou is just an exception, as Zhu Di began his northern expedition, this kind of taxation was also destroyed, reaching who knows what extent in the later period.

"Thirty taxes per one, haha, when has this been implemented?"

"Two years after Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he issued an order to reduce the tax on small farmers from the "3.33-year tax" in the Liu Bang and Empress Lu eras to "120-year tax", that is, the personal tax was reduced to [-]%; ten years later , Liu Heng ordered the country to exempt the "agricultural tax" within ten years, and the "oral tax" was also reduced from [-] yuan to [-] yuan. However, only the common people know how much he actually collected. How much Lao Zhu collected also only The people know it.”

"And so what if there is a tax of thirty per cent? How much land was there in the Ming Dynasty? How many vassal kings were there in the early Ming Dynasty? How many great families were there? After 200 years of development, how many great families there were in the Ming Dynasty? How many vassal princes there were? Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated People with meritorious status do not have to pay taxes. This has led to a large number of people to surrender their land to these talented people. Now the court can receive as many people as possible. If there are fewer people to receive, it can only share more. , the results can be imagined.”

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's reply, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sneer.

Thirty taxes to one, this ratio is indeed very low, that is, the personal income tax is reduced to 3.33%, but in fact, even Huang Lao, a big man who rules by doing nothing, cannot do this at all.

It is even more impossible for Ming Dynasty to maintain the official thirty-one tax.

Of course, this is not a problem of the Ming Dynasty, nor is it a problem of the Han Dynasty. After all, such a thing would be difficult to do even in later generations.

But if you can't do it, you have to know something in your mind.

The Han Dynasty obviously still has points, while the Ming Dynasty, at least the emperors behind the Ming Dynasty, obviously have no points.

So much so that they continued to tax people who were still under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

The consequences of raising taxes again and again are undoubtedly tragic.

These families that could barely support themselves went bankrupt one after another, had to sell their land, became landless refugees, or took refuge with others. Anyway, the court could no longer collect taxes from him.

This undoubtedly led to a further reduction in the tax population that the court could collect.

This will undoubtedly necessitate yet another further increase in taxes, which will lead to further bankruptcies.

Under such circumstances, a vicious cycle gradually formed.

Under this vicious cycle, Ming Dynasty gradually moved towards the abyss, towards an abyss that was completely insurmountable.

(End of this chapter)