Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 229 229 Tax collection is a top priority

Zhu Biao's mouth twitched. He never expected that Wang Buli would ask him if he made sense?

That makes so damn sense!

After answering the prince's question, Wang Buli stood up and took a walk.

I haven’t seen my little potato for a long time, so I’m going to take a quick look.

Since there is no way to avoid paying birthday wishes to Zhu Yuanzhang during the holidays, we simply take advantage of the palace and make a birthday cake.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had it, so naturally it’s in the name of my own little potatoes.

So Wang Buli strolled around and asked to see Queen Ma with his waist badge.

"My mother-in-law looks very good recently."

Wang Buli's first sentence was to coax his mother-in-law.

"Yeah."

"I?"

Queen Ma has been practicing Baduanjin recently.

Zhu Mingxiu nodded lightly. She had never been to the princess's palace. She could not move out of the palace until her wedding day.

Wang Buli immediately stood up and took Zhu Mingxiu away.

Of course, Empress Ma mainly wanted to think about her husband, hoping to get some magical tips from her son-in-law.

Is it okay to lose weight after drinking porridge recently?
"This is also thanks to you."

Wang Buli thought for a while:
"Mother-in-law, how about I give you a set of toys for your leisure time? You can exercise your intelligence and pass the time. You can also play with other sisters, enhance friendship, and help to relax your body and mind. In this way, your brain can be exercised and it will not be easy. Forget things.”

Queen Ma quickly moved away to avoid being embarrassed by him.

Queen Ma motioned for the two of them to go for a walk in the garden and there was no need to accompany her here.

Zhu Mingxiu smiled so hard that his dimples appeared.

Queen Ma was very interested in Wang Buli's proposal, maybe it was some kind of fairyland play.

After all, my son-in-law is quite capable of peeling off the cocoon and solving the case.

This shows that it really works!
The owner is certified!
Empress Ma had a smile on her face and eyes. In this way, she could make Chongba feel more at ease and not have to worry about his health all the time.

The two of them walked out of the door one after the other and walked side by side in the corridor.

If it can be spread among the people, it will always be good.

"It's your father's birthday, and your eldest brother wants me to celebrate his birthday with you as soon as we enter the palace, so have you prepared any gifts for your father?"

You are a family medicine practitioner, and you also know that when people are happy, they are less likely to get sick and their complexion will naturally improve. "

Wang Buli looked a little stunned, what does this have to do with me.

"OK."

Wang Buli responded repeatedly. He didn't know about this kind of thing.

"No."

Some women at this age have already been buried in the ground.

This kind of puzzle game is loved by people from all over the world.

Empress Ma knew she had made a mistake and laughed a few times:
"Buli, the better your son-in-law behaves, how can I be unhappy?

"How do you like it?"

"I like it. I have never lived in such a big house."

"I went to see the Princess Mansion, which was very gorgeous. I also sent someone to order a shower system from Prince Yan's Mansion.

Chongba has obviously lost weight these days.

"That's great!"

At this time, when she heard Wang Buli, the rightful owner, say that she was getting better, she was even happier than ordinary people praising her.

Especially looking at the state of Queen Ma at this age, compared with the state of ordinary women at this age, it is simply incomparable.

While talking, Zhu Mingxiu arrived.

Wang Buli thought that he would ask the craftsmen to carve a set of mahjong and give it to Queen Ma.

Zhu Mingxiu tilted his head and looked up at Wang Buli, waiting for his answer:

She bowed to her mother first, and then she sat next to Wang Buli.

Although I won’t use it in winter, I’ll leave it alone for now. The winter in Nanjing isn’t too cold anyway. "

The fire bubbles in the mouth always just go down, and then grow back again.

But there is a certain truth to it, especially if you don’t have to worry about survival, you can live a beautiful life.

After all, a little leakage can solve most of the worries of mortals.

"Buli, it's just that I'm getting older. Sometimes I can't remember things. I think maybe I used to use my brain too much in the past and become confused when I get older. I'm mainly worried about Chongba, he's very tired."

Zhu Mingxiu followed Wang Buli step by step:

"On my father's birthday, I have to accept congratulations from my ministers during the day, and there will be a family dinner in the evening for everyone to have a meal together."

"Well, let's do it this way. You are about to leave the government. Before you leave the government, I will give your father a birthday gift as a token of my love."

Wang Buli whispered his thoughts to Zhu Mingxiu.

"Go to your home."

"Ok?"

Zhu Mingxiu seemed a bit obsessed with money: "I have asked several sisters-in-law, and the palace has to support many people and spend a lot of money.

Since the birthday cake Wang Lang mentioned is a secret recipe, it can also be sold among the people in the future, which will increase our family's income. "

"Good good."

Wang Buli thought it would be better to go to his own home, but transportation would take a little more effort and more ice cubes would be used.

Especially this still needs to be tested.

The ladies of the Ming Dynasty actually didn't have many playthings, so Zhu Mingxiu asked the maid to bring the kite over and fly the kite together.

Zhu Yuanzhang heard the report that Wang Buli went to see Queen Ma and took a walk with the princess in the garden.

He strode to his son's office area and said:

"Biao'er, does he have a way?"

"My brother-in-law told me a simple solution, which made me speechless."

"Ok?"

"He said that if there were no eunuchs to exercise power in the Ming Dynasty, just don't use eunuchs, once and for all."

Zhu Biao spread his hands. He was really speechless and didn't know how to refute Wang Buli.

Hearing this answer was really beyond Zhu Yuanzhang's expectation.

Because he wants to be in the wild, and there is no such way as Wang Buli said!
No need, there are no eunuchs in the world, then there will be no eunuchs to exercise power.

But eunuchs are an extension of imperial power, and some eunuchs must be needed to do things on behalf of the emperor.

"We remember that the Eight Tigers around Zhengde are all eunuchs who have served them since childhood. We should not assign eunuchs to serve the prince since he was a child, so as not to use them easily. When they become emperor, the status of the eunuchs they serve will also rise. "

"Dad, if there are no more eunuchs, how about using more elderly maids in the palace?"

"Have you forgotten that Jiajing was assassinated by a group of maids?"

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to believe anyone. But there are only men and women in the world. Is it possible that you don't use either of them?

Obviously it is impossible.

The father and son fell into silence again.

To put it bluntly, the group of eunuchs serve the emperor.

Where there is demand, there will be a market.

Unless the emperor no longer has this need, the eunuch group will naturally cease to exist.

In ancient times, if people wanted strong animals to be obedient and work honestly, they almost always castrated the animals.

The existence of eunuchs was also a "big beast" in the palace, and they could prevent other men except the emperor from getting cholera in the harem.

The reason why the Kunlun slaves of the Tang Dynasty did not reproduce in the Central Plains was that except for the merchants who wanted to choke them (new slaves could be sold every year), they were all castrated to avoid future troubles.

What's more, which noble family in the Tang Dynasty could like the Kunlun slave?
In other people's class concepts, they are two species. Do Kunlun slaves deserve to be called human beings?
The father and son talked for a long time, but they didn't have the courage to really cancel the idea of ​​eunuchs, but they were still thinking about how to fill this loophole.

"Look back, talk to Wang Buli. Eunuchs are the emperor's servants and cannot be easily abolished. Ask him to think again. I always think he has a better way, but I just don't want to say it."

Zhu Biao said he had kept it in mind and would wait until the right opportunity to talk about it.

Queen Ma heard her daughter say that she wanted to go to Wang Buli's house to make some new noodles some other day, and she agreed to give her father a gift on his birthday.

Her daughter will eventually grow up, and she also believes that Wang Buli will not do anything outrageous.

After all, for the princess, she has not yet made any noise about her official marriage, so she is afraid of the negative impact.

Queen Ma will naturally arrange for grandma to go with her, so that everyone can feel at ease.

After Wang Buli left the palace, he met some officials on duty.

Everyone is very happy that Wang Buli came to the palace today and did not go to the six departments.

Otherwise, it would be really frightening to see whoever gets caught out again.

Wang Buli's reputation in the Sixth Department is more "prestigious" than that of the school inspector!
Who made him the son-in-law of the emperor?

But what reassures everyone is that Wang Buli is just a classic, and His Majesty also thinks he is young and has no intention of promoting him.

In this way, there is no need to become colleagues with Wang Buli, and there is no need to worry about one's future all the time. Tax collection has begun recently, and Zhu Yuanzhang implemented a two-tax system.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang set a tax of 10%, currently the tax is not collected at this rate, but is heavily taxed in some places.

Then this year, for some unknown reason, Lao Zhu changed the way he paid taxes.

Wang Buli looked at Lao Zhu's notice to the county government, ordering the people to lose money in silver, banknotes, money, and silk. One tael of silver, one thousand coins of money, and one pound of banknotes, all at the cost of one meter or one stone.

For wheat, one stone is worth eight qian of grain and silver, 800 qian of money or 800 qian of banknote.

One piece of linen, four buckets of rice and five buckets of wheat.

It seems that the Ministry of Revenue has collected enough grain in the past two years and has focused on linen to make military uniforms.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang actually agreeing to receive treasure banknotes at equal value, Wang Buli was quite surprised.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang, who had always been naughty, recycle the treasure banknotes?

Did he really make a lot of money?
Especially under the banner of floods this year, I know that the people will not have a good harvest, so I leave the food to the people. I cannot let the people go hungry.

Such a high-sounding reason actually made Wang Buli feel that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to clear his name.

However, the county magistrate Wu Wei gave an explanation:
"The fielding has been successful, and the army's food supply is safe. The capital's food reserves are enough for two years. Therefore, His Majesty has allowed many chief secretaries in the south to collect food at the same time, and there is no need to focus on food."

"understood."

Wang Buli ordered people to print out the emperor's proclamation immediately and sent people to spread it throughout the villages in Jiangning County.

Tax collection is a top priority.

The entire county government has to serve this matter.

This year's summer grain has been exempted in Jiangning County, and the people were also given treasure notes as rewards by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the collection of autumn grain cannot exceed February of next year.

Especially in Jing County, you have to finish it early.

Because according to the regulations, it cannot exceed November. Anyone who violates the rules will be killed.

Those hours are reserved for provincial capitals far away from Nanjing.

Wang Buli took the notice out of the city to announce it, which was also Dian Shi's duty.

If you don't do well, you will be implicated.

The criminal law of "sitting to death" is very serious, and all relatives and friends related to it will be implicated and die.

In fact, as long as the war is over, it will be great for ordinary people.

Because Lao Zhu stipulates that if people flee to other places, as long as you clear up wasteland and cultivate it maturely, the land will be yours. Just register it with the government.

You will become a small landowner in Ming Dynasty.

At this time, there are more people and less land. Whoever has the ability to open up wasteland will occupy more land and have higher initial shares.

The most important thing is that if you go to the northwest border to farm, well, the Ming Dynasty will never collect taxes from you on the land you reclaim.

So a large number of people went to the three sides of Shaanxi to open up wasteland for thousands of miles, just to avoid paying taxes.

But there is a huge risk, that is, we must always be on guard against the Mongols coming to burn, kill, and loot.

Of course, you can't compare with the amount of land ownership that Lao Zhu gave to the nobles with a wave of his hand.

However, after Zhu Yuanzhang killed Lan Yu, a large number of nobles took the initiative to leave their fields to show their loyalty.

Shangyuan County not only has private land, but also a lot of government land.

For example, the fields divided for Wang Buli and the official fields left over from the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties.

These are almost all mature fields of the previous dynasty that were given to upper-class Uyghur figures, government offices, inns, etc. by the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and they were all owned by the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not give away all these official lands.

After all, these fields are the best fields, and they all go to the national treasury.

Nowadays, Zhu Yuanzhang has not yet made a foolish move to adopt preferential and tax exemption policies for all strata.

There is no minimum tax threshold for poor people with little land, and in addition, dignitaries are given preferential rights and exemptions from land tax.

This was an accelerator for the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's land tax system.

In order to avoid land taxes, common people landowners without fame often gave their land to nobles and gentry, thus causing chaos in land registration.

This phenomenon became more and more serious, so much so that in the late Ming Dynasty, taxes could no longer be collected.

Wang Buli rode Xiao Heizi for a walk in the countryside. The autumn food mainly consisted of rice (skin). The people around him were not seriously affected by the disaster, unlike the city where waterlogging was prone to occur.

The hard-working people braved the rain to drain the fields in order to avoid losing the harvest at home.

Now this group of people were listening to Wang Buli reciting the emperor's proclamation. It was a lie to say that they were not grateful.

Now the family has more food, and they can also pay the "reduced price" treasure notes to the government as taxes. No matter how much they take advantage of the emperor!

Wang Buli listened to the people singing praises to Zhu Yuanzhang, but it was actually quite monotonous because they couldn't think of too many words.

In short, Emperor Zhu is a good emperor now.

After all, the summer grain was confiscated, and the autumn grain gave them a big advantage.

But in addition to the summer and autumn taxes, the people also have to bear another tax, and that is fodder.

This must be paid.

After all, Lao Zhu was ready to fight the remnants of Tibet. There was enough food for the people, and the horses could not eat less.

The grass is mainly straw.

The main ingredients are soybeans and black beans, which are used to supply the government and the army to raise livestock and war horses.

Yingtian Ningguo and other six prefectures (closer to Nanjing) each transported fodder, and each heavy rented land was one hectare and sixteen bunches, and the light rented land was doubled.

Therefore, even Wang Buli's little Heizi eats official fodder, and there is no need to pay for the horses themselves.

Wang Buli looked at the river flowing in the distance. It won't be long before this place will get busy.

Most of the food consumed by the royal family, bureaucrats, and soldiers in the capital came from the prefectures in southern Zhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang and other places. In order to prevent farmers from spending all their food on the road, they all used waterways.

Especially around Nanjing, Lao Zhu built a large number of granaries to store grain.

During the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties, during the half-century war between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols, food was often transferred from here to the border troops.

When Zhu Di conquered Oara for the second time, he mobilized more than 200,000 civilians, 300,000 donkeys, and transported nearly 400,000 shi of grain to the outside of the Great Wall to support the war.

Wang Buli lightly knocked on the horse's belly and touched the big black horse that followed him to eat the royal food.

In order to support the Liaodong war in the early stage, Lao Zhu wanted to transport grain by sea from Nanjing to Zhigu (Tianjin, renamed after Zhu Di succeeded). As a result, he encountered a storm and the ship came back to Zhenjiang.

Lao Zhu did not give up and sent people to transport grain again. As a result, there was a storm this time. More than forty ships capsized and nearly a thousand people died. Then he gave up shipping completely and turned to water transportation.

However, the terrain of Nanwang in the north of Jining is higher, and the water injected from the north does not flow, but causes backflow. There is often no water in the Nanwang area in winter and spring, and the canal cannot flow smoothly.

Only waterways can be used, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.

Regarding the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Wang Buli is not sure and needs to investigate.

But if you want to avoid storms in shipping, then don’t you have to choose the time?

This can effectively prevent the ship from being destroyed.

But for now, it seems that not many people in the upper echelons of Ming Dynasty understand this knowledge, and naturally no one tells Lao Zhu what to do.

Wing On Village.

Wang Buli finally arrived at his final destination under the pretext of a business trip.

This time I was visiting the newly moved family of craftsmen, and seeing if they had finished making iron stoves or anything like that.

When winter comes, it will be easier to sell to the imperial court. It will be a good time to turn this processing plant into a business, which can be regarded as creating some industry for Zhu Mingxiu.

"Prince-in-law, you control your eyes."

The head craftsman Fu Jiale took out the iron stove and asked Wang Buli to take a look.

Everything was made according to the Prince Consort's drawings, especially after being used and burned.

"Ah."

Wang Buli just took a look. This thing is actually not difficult. If there is a machine, it will be a stamped part.

However, it is all done artificially.

"If the temperature of the coal is higher, it won't melt the stove, right?"

"No, no." Craftsman Fu Jiale quickly assured:

"Unless it's the kind of fine coal that burns continuously, it can soften the furnace."

Wang Buli nodded slightly, Ming Dynasty didn't need any good coal, so he simply stood up:
"Tell the brothers to work harder and their skills must be passable. We pay dividends on a piece-by-piece basis. If there are problems later, we will be held accountable."

"Prince-in-law, please just watch. We will never dare to ruin the reputation of our consort, otherwise we won't be able to live comfortably in our new house."

"it is good."

Wang Buli patted his dusty hands: "When I am not busy, I will go to the Imperial College to find someone to come here to teach our children. This stove will come in handy."

"Hey."

Fu Jiale had a smile on his face, and a group of craftsmen also had smiles on his face.

The prince-in-law doesn’t dislike us, that’s great.

Wang Buli went to the field again to take a look at the villagers' harvests, which were mostly good.

These grains also have their share.

Sure enough, all the empty granaries in the princess's palace can be used. The craftsmen who serve the royal family are very understanding.

The people in the fields were also smiling.

After all, this is a duty-free zone.

(End of this chapter)