Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 64 Who gives new year’s money to whom?

At this time, Zhu Ming felt extremely regretful. He clearly knew that there is a saying that wealth should not be revealed, but why was he so careless?
It turns out that before Zhang Juzheng, the Ming Dynasty implemented the Two Taxes Law, which changed the rent tax law that mainly collected grain, cloth and other physical goods to mainly collect money, and levied taxes twice a year, in summer and autumn.

It was not until the Zhang Juzheng period that a whip law was introduced, which combined the land tax, corvee and other miscellaneous levies in various states and counties into one, combined the collection of silver tael, converted and paid per mu, and collected it once a year.

Now that it's November, even Zhu Zhen himself has relied on the system to make his second harvest from the tax system. It's also time to pay taxes to the court.

"But I am a vassal king, and I am also a vassal king guarding the border. My father never said that we, the vassal king, should also pay taxes," Zhu Zhen argued with reason.

As the vassal king, he knew that he did not need to pay taxes.

Although he also knew that this was not good, it was precisely because the princes of the Ming Dynasty had too many privileges and did not have to pay taxes. Some of them used their privileges to compete with the people for profit, even the princes' relatives. For example, the wife's natal family will devour the land.

If most of the destruction in the late Ming Dynasty was due to natural disasters, then a small part of the reasons were also caused by man-made disasters.

Of course, the princes have responsibilities, and the responsibility of the Donglin Party is not small. They are also wolves that eat people without spitting out bones.

After all, they are all of the same kind, they all like to eat the flesh and blood of the common people.

But Zhu Zhen naturally had his own ideas and reasons. He was almost ready to prepare for a rebellion. The money he gave to the court now would probably become arrows hitting him in the future.

That is absolutely not possible.

"But Your Highness, the money I sent you before also included local taxes. You don't need to pay taxes yourself, but even if Dali is your territory, you still have to pay taxes," Li Shuran reminded.

The vassal king himself does not need to pay taxes, but if he does not even have to pay taxes on the vassal king's land, then what's the point?
Zhu Yuanzhang had 25 sons who were all granted the title of king. If they were all granted the title of land, would it be okay if 25 provinces would not need to pay taxes?

Can this court still survive?
Besides, if the taxes on the land belong to the feudal lord, is it still the land of the imperial court?Is it still the territory of the Ming Dynasty?

"Isn't that the money given to me?" Zhu Min said stiffly.

Li Shuran smiled bitterly: "As a border guard prince, Your Highness's salary is [-] dan of rice a year, [-] guan of money, [-] pounds of salt, [-] pounds of tea, [-] pieces of silk, and [-] piece of yarn and Luo. One hundred horses, five hundred horses of silk, one thousand horses each of winter and summer cloth. There is also fifty horse fodder per month."

I have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang is really interested in his own son, and the princes' annual salary is really generous and generous.

Even the King of Jingjiang, Zhu Shouqian, although he was neither a biological son nor a biological grandson, had an annual salary of [-] shi and [-] guan. Other things were half that of the prince, and he had twenty horses and fodder per month.

Although there was no specific mention of how much silver it cost, it was still worth a lot of money.

For example, Zhu Chu's twenty-five thousand thousand coins actually means copper coins.

In fact, there were banknotes in ancient China, which can be traced back to Jiaozi in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, there were also Ming Dynasty banknotes, and there were [-] Wen, [-] Wen, [-] Wen, [-] Wen, [-] Wen and Consistently wait for six denominations.

A consistent denomination is also called a consistent banknote.

Based on this calculation, one thousand copper coins is one thousand copper coins, so how much is twenty-five thousand copper coins?

Converted into silver, this is really valuable.

Not to mention that as a border guard prince, he could not receive his annual salary directly from the court, so Zhu Zhen could prepare it on his own within the fiefdom.

In other words, he can exchange it for silver and pay for himself.

If converted into silver, this amount of money would actually be about the same even if it were not 10 taels of silver.

But Li Shuran said bravely: "Even if it is converted into silver as your annual salary for Your Highness, there should still be a lot left over. These must be sent to Xiping Hou Muying as soon as possible and turned over to the court together with the entire Yundi tax. Not to mention Your Highness. You are a vassal king but you do business privately. Putting aside the system issues, have you paid taxes?"

It turns out that the Ming Dynasty already had commercial taxes, but now the two-tax law continues, so the long-standing tax rate of [-]/[-] is maintained, which is [-]%.

Zhu Ming frowned, calculated secretly, and slammed the table: "Do I have to pay 4000 taels of silver?" He had to sell 40 yuan of glass to earn it back.

Li Shuran curled his lips, "Thirty-one tax, you pay so much, it is enough to show that you earn more."

"Your Highness, the world's wealth should be provided to the capital every year," Li Shuran persuaded him hard.

Zhu Ming snorted coldly: "Damn it, I haven't asked the old man for New Year's money, but I still want me to give him New Year's money? How is it decent? There is no such reason. I am only 12 years old. No, I have to give it to my father. write a letter."

While talking, Zhu Zhen actually found a pen and paper and quickly started writing on the case.

Wang Fu, relying on being his personal bodyguard, took a closer look and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.

I saw that the first sentence of Zhu Ming's article was actually: "Father, my sons and ministers are suffering."

Are you still suffering?I just earned 12 taels of silver, and I feel miserable when I hear that I have to pay 4000 taels in taxes?
Your Highness, please be more careful.

Zhu Chu didn't care about that. He knew that no matter how much money he gave to Lao Zhu, even if he handed over all the money he earned, it would be useless. Lao Zhu would not let him become the prince.

So why should he do something thankless?

He wanted to learn from his fourth brother, secretly develop his own, and then rise up immediately after Lao Zhu died and start the battle of Jingnan.

Now that I have made up my mind, I simply don’t want to give a penny.

So Zhu Ming began to show off, crying and complaining about how hard he was, and said that he had finally made some money in business, but it was still not much, so he would not respect him. He also said that the people were suffering too, and he could not bear to tax him.

Li Shuran also glanced secretly and curled his lips. You can't bear to collect taxes, but I've already collected them. Aren't they all in your little treasury?
You can't bear it?It is true that you are not willing to give it to the court.

Zhu Ming buried his head and made up random things without hesitation, and even said: "Father, those chieftains are not obedient. They want to bully their ministers when they are young, and some even want to rebel."

By the end of the writing, even Zhu Zhen himself almost believed it.

But Wang Fu couldn't stand it anymore and reminded him: "Your Highness, even the three largest chieftains in Yunnan are following you. What's more, if Your Majesty believes it is true and questions the Marquis of Xiping, wouldn't everything be revealed?"

Is it really okay for you to lie like that?
What's more, isn't there someone who is the biggest informant of Emperor Hongwu right in front of you?
Wang Fu was almost shocked. It was the first time he saw a vassal king who let himself go so freely, and could even be said to be so bold that he was frantically testing on the verge of death.

Zhu Ming raised his head, glanced at Wang Fu, coughed slightly and asked tentatively: "How about asking Uncle Mu De to cooperate in a rebellion or something?"

Please spare Mu's life.

Wang Fu was about to persuade.

But suddenly, Zhu Ming stood up abruptly, his face a little panicked, but also filled with a little joy and expectation.

"No need," Zhu Xi said with wide eyes, "here comes the work."

"what?"

Wang Fu and Li Shuran both looked at Zhu Ming blankly, wondering what kind of trouble he was going to make.

Only Zhu Chu himself could see that the alarm from the system, which had not made any sound for a long time, had issued a warning again.

"Silunfa and Aziz are attacking Dingbian? Wang Fu, gather your troops quickly and follow me to support Dingbian," Zhu Ming shouted excitedly.

But Li Shuran's face changed drastically and he shouted: "Your Highness, if Silunfa really rebels, I'm afraid he has 30 troops?"

30?
(End of this chapter)