Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 298
Glancing at Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "It seems that there is something else going on!"

"Your Highness, there is a letter from the capital." Liu Jin came to Zhu Houzhao's side, not daring to neglect him, and quickly handed Zhu Houzhao a letter in his hand, and said respectfully.

A letter from Beijing?This made Zhu Houzhao hesitate, who in the capital would write to him?I took it over and took a look at Zhu Houzhao and found that it was actually written by my father.This made Zhu Houzhao even more surprised, why didn't the imperial edict come?It was just a letter?Tear open the envelope, take out the letter paper from inside and take a look, Zhu Houzhao found that the old man wrote a lot.

After a few glances, Zhu Houzhao showed a smile. This is really a letter from the family. It is not a correspondence between the monarch and his ministers, or it is written by the father to the son.

Unfolding the letter, Zhu Houzhao read it slowly. In the first half of the letter, the father mentioned matters in the court, mainly about paying the farmland tax. Basically, the tax department has completed the registration of the farmland, and there are naturally some Those who cheat, use the same routine as the civil servants, play to hide Zhuangtian, and those who are found out are also severely punished.

If it is not found out, then there is no other way, but reading the meaning in the letter, the father is still very happy, because paying the farmland tax can increase the court's tax by more than [-]%.

This number surprised everyone, including Zhu Houzhao, so it's no wonder Dad was so happy.Of course, this is not to say that Zhuangtian occupies one-third of Daming's land, but that Daming's taxes are seriously insufficient.The big head is not in Zhuangtian at all, but in other places, that is, in the hands of the gentry.

They are too familiar with such things as hiding fields, throwing money at them, and filling fields with fields. If all people's land were taxed, Daming's land taxes would be far more than what they see.

Although there is no specific figure, Zhu Houzhao can compare it with that of the later Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty completed the distribution of land and silver. The Qing Dynasty could collect more than 4000 million taels, but the Ming Dynasty Woolen cloth?Adding the farmland tax and various items collected in the tax this time, it is converted into silver, but it is only about 500 million taels.

Is the land of the Ming Dynasty in this era different from that of the Qing Dynasty?Zhu Houzhao didn't think so. He even felt that Daming's land reclamation was more thorough.

After paying the farmland tax, there is still a gap of nearly three times. Where did the money go?All of them were swallowed up by the gentry, and a policy of preferential treatment for the gentry was directly developed into a means of making a fortune by them.Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was naturally good, to give the scholars a certain amount of tax-free land so that they could study hard. Many people explained that the salary of the acting officials was low, but is this part of the tax-free land counted?
However, this policy was directly pried open, the land was hidden, and the land was invested, and even the local officials did not collect taxes from the scholars directly. Where did the country get the taxes.

The self-cultivating farmers' ability to resist natural disasters and man-made disasters is too poor, and if they are not careful, they will go bankrupt, and even have to borrow money to live on a serious illness, but how to repay it?If you don't own the land, it will belong to the gentry, and the main body of paying taxes will only become smaller and smaller.The hateful thing about the Donglin Party is that all kinds of tax exemptions are for their own personal gain, and the slogans are loud, but they only want to put money in their own pockets.

The three rates and various additional levies made the self-cultivating farmers miserable, so they could only sell their land to the gentry, and then turned themselves into tenants. The main body of taxation became smaller and smaller, and the court was even more unable to make ends meet.

But they wantonly lent money and acquired land wantonly, and their words were not high-sounding. These people should be killed, and they deserve to be killed.

As long as the government and gentry are integrated to pay food, then the national power of Ming Dynasty must be unprecedentedly strong, but these people will prevent you from implementing it, and Zhang Juzheng dare not touch this one.Zhang Juzheng's teacher, Xu Jie, has tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. The so-called heirs of farming and reading, which ones are not relentless in collecting land, talking about poetry and etiquette, and not being merciless when they are behind the scenes.

Zhu Houzhao doesn't have any good feelings for these people. It's just that businessmen have no country.

After feeling ruthless in his heart, Zhu Houzhao picked up the letter again, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. He believed that after this incident, he was promoting the government and gentry to pay for food together, and the resistance on the father's side would definitely be much less.In this case, Zhu Houzhao is happy to see the success. When the north is cleaned up, he should start to clean up the south.

"I don't know if there will be a Civil War." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on his face and a casual tone, but there was a stern look in his eyes.

But Zhu Houzhao also knew that in this era of Ming Dynasty, those gentry might not have the guts to do so, and they might have to engage in a big case by then.After traveling to Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao realized the true meaning of those major cases. What matters is not the case itself, nor what those people did, but their standpoint.

The big case seemed huge, with tens of thousands of deaths, but Zhu Houzhao realized that this was the easiest, quickest and least lossy way.

For example, in Wei Zhongxian's time, if he dared to engage in a big case in Jiangnan and directly implicated all the gentry in Jiangnan, or implicated all the gentry in the Donglin Party, then the Donglin Party would definitely be wiped out.As for implicating family members, because you do not implicate family members, then the soil of these people will still exist, killing dozens or hundreds of people is meaningless.

A case of fraud in the Jiangnan examination room directly swept across the entire Jiangnan and uprooted some people. Although blood would flow into rivers, Jiangnan would be wiped out.

Fighting in the court will only be one after another, lasting for more than ten years, or even decades. The harm caused by party disputes is definitely much greater and far-reaching than a major case.

"Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang." Zhu Houzhao smiled again, and read out such a name, a founding emperor who was criticized for killing, perhaps this was the only stain in his life, the stain that was criticized by others.But now Zhu Hou's light is clear, he really needs to clean up those people, why is Xu Da not implicated?The stuff here is thought-provoking.

"Perhaps those nobles have degenerated too quickly. After fighting the country, they just think about how to enjoy it, and they don't care about the harm. But they never thought that the country they are harming now belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang."

Looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Liu Jin had already quietly retreated far away. He didn't dare to listen to these words, which Liu Jin knew well.

In addition to the matter of paying the farmland tax, there is also a big thing written in this letter, that is, choosing a concubine for myself, and now I have started to make arrangements, and my father is also urging me to finish the matter of Liaodong as soon as possible, so that I can go back when the time comes get married.

(End of this chapter)