The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son

It seems that many places where food cannot be self-sufficient are often barren mountains and wilderness, which is very remote. Once the court wants to transport food, the loss of the road is huge.

Now that the Yunnan disaster, the court had to adjust the grain.

This year, although the imperial court was in a good year, if we had to adjust the grain, we would have to recruit a large number of civilian husbands. The consumption among them is really amazing.

Emperor Hongzhi sighed and said: "Hurry to adjust the grain, don't delay it."

But Liu Jian thought for a while and hesitated.

After a long silence, Liu Jian said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a word."

Emperor Hongzhi stared at Liu Jian.

Liu Jiandao said: "After Fang Duwei presented sweet potatoes and potatoes, it was a great merit. In these years, the court began to promote his potatoes and sweet potatoes, but ... Chen Chen found that because of the large-scale harvest, the price of cereals This led to a plunge. Many gentry thought that the grain was too cheap, and renting seeds in their own fields might not be able to get the income they deserved. Therefore, many fields were deserted, making many young and strong, Unable to rent land, he had to leave his hometown to become a migrant. Fortunately, these migrants did not have no place to resettle. There are hundreds of thousands of migrants in Xishan. "

"But ... it is fearful that it will not last forever. Let's just say that this year, although a lot of grain has been collected, the land that can be abandoned is amazing. There are even a lot of gentry who heard that it is profitable to raise mulberry and raise silkworms. So the large-scale conversion of his own land into grain, His Majesty, this world, there is no instability in agriculture, not to mention, in today ’s court, more than 70% of the grain is derived from Jiangnan, but Jiangnan, therefore, the land was abandoned and reformed Grain is mulberry, but it is the most serious. The imperial court must rely on the collected grain to help alleviate the disaster, but also need to adjust the grain and transport it to the southwest and eastern Liaodong in a large amount. This is not the way to go on. "

Emperor Hongzhi nodded slowly. He looked at Fang Jifan: "What do you think of Fang Qing's family?"

Fang Jifan said: "The gentry did nothing wrong, and the sons thought it was a hidden danger. Liu Gong said well, there was no farming instability, but the sons thought that no business was not rich. Jiangnan's food pressure It ’s especially big. What ’s more terrifying is that in Jiangnan, gentry who really occupy a lot of land, they are almost out of ten, because of their merits, they rarely need to pay taxes, and ordinary people have only a few acres of thin fields and courts. Almost all of their food is imposed on them. "

"In the past, the price of grain was fairly stable. These small farmers can still rely on some fields to maintain their livelihoods. But now, because the grains have plummeted, the gentry's big business is just a matter of harvest. But for these small farmers , But it was the disaster of extinction. The children thought that there might not be a shortage of food in the world, but the food collected by the imperial court was reduced year by year. What is the root cause? "

Fang Jifan thought about it for a while: "Children and officials have the courage to say that the root cause is that the people who have food in their hands can't collect their food levies from the court. Instead, the small farmers who depend on the food for their livelihood are extremely taxed. The problem of the gentry receiving food in one package is the real solution. Even if a large amount of land is abandoned, the treasury's food is enough to solve the current problem. "

The gentry pays in one ...

The monarchs and ministers looked at Fang Jifan in horror.

This guy really dare to say.

Gentlemen are big and small landlords all over the world. Their children have merits. They are local, they are powerful, and even the government is not necessarily offended. Their privilege is that they can use various methods to avoid taxes. Your Fang Jifan, it really is ... The language is amazing and endless.

Emperor Hongzhi smiled bitterly and glanced at Liu Jian and others.

Li Dongyang couldn't help but cough.

Fang Jifan's innocent look: "Why, isn't it right? Shouldn't people who have food and silver in the land have to pay?"

"This ..." Liu Jian glanced at Li Dongyang.

Li Dongyang no longer knows whether Fang Jifan is really silly or silly.

In fact, Daming has always given preferential treatment to gentry, for example, they can be exempted from tax. At the same time, because the officials appointed by the court only reached the county level, and below the county, almost all depended on these gentry to maintain.

Just like paying taxes, Daming is almost everywhere. .

For example, in this township, how much food does the court need, but how to collect it?

Under normal circumstances, most people think that there will be special tax collectors to collect it.

But in fact, this is not the case, because there are not so many people in the county to take charge of these things, and if everything is done by the government, the cost is too high.

During the period of Emperor Taizugao, it was even stricter that the officials should not go to the countryside at random, because at the time, Emperor Taizugao believed that the officers were fierce and fierce. Nausea.

Therefore, the government often delegates the tax collection to the local gentry, as long as you can help collect the food that is applied for today, as to how to collect it, who will receive it ... I can open one eye and close one eye.

In the middle and late Ming dynasty, large-scale land mergers and intensifications originated from this. The merits, abilities, and government officials pushed the cup and actively participated in each other's affairs. At the same time, there were gentlemen who assisted government officials in collecting taxes. It is almost self-evident to be pressed on whom.

Li Dongyang said patiently: "Fang Duwei, the gentry paying for food together, this ... is a kind of good governance. In fact, Xuanzong Huang had such a thought when Huang De was there, but do you know why it cannot be carried out? Even ... Did anyone mention it? "

Li Dongyang smiled. He is a clerk from the Hube Department, so he would like to give this naive captain a lesson: "The court is in the place, rather than relying on counties and counties everywhere, it is better to rely on these countless gentry , Once the gentry is paid together, this gentry ... oh ... "

He sighed. In fact, he didn't say another sentence. He ... There are Liu Gong, Li Gong, and even the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. Which one is not a gentry?

When they are in office, they return to their hometowns. They are different. They are gentry, their children and grandchildren, aren't they?

Fang Jifan thought, of course, I understand that today, the emperor can only rely on the bureaucrats, and behind the bureaucrats, there are innumerable and tangled gentry. Unless the emperor is lively and crooked, otherwise, how can it offend thousands of millions Gentry.

It does not solve this problem.

The taxation of the imperial court was always insufficient, and the poorest people in the localities had to pay heavy taxes. Those old fortunes and gentry were rich and oily, but they were stubborn.

It wouldn't make sense to end this way.

If our Fang Jifan didn't have a brain disorder, for the sake of these tens of thousands of people, I would like to turn it back.

Fang Jifan said with a smile: "There is a lot of resistance, this is for sure, but if you do nothing, let it go, the final result ... what will happen? Therefore, the minister suggested that it is better to find a prefecture and a county to try If you dare not even try, how do you know if it can be carried out? "

Fang Jifan looked at Emperor Hongzhi and then looked at Liu Jian and Li Dongyang and others.

Fang Jifan knew that although these princes were all representatives of vested interests criticized by later generations, they still had some feelings in their hearts.

Fang Jifan said: "I said something that I shouldn't say, your majesty and the princes, which one does not know the suffering of the small people, how can they bear the heart and do nothing? I am relying on these millions of small people to stand up Yes, Your Majesty ’s Jinyiyushi, and the prince ’s salaries, which are not from their blood and sweat, may we try it, think, come, in this world, there are always people who understand the righteousness, it ’s better, first Starting from a house ... how? "

The emperor Hongzhi was moved.

But he couldn't make up his mind.

This matter is going to be spread out, how do you jump around?

Give it a try first?

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Liu Jian and others.

Liu Jian's first reaction was that Fang Jifan wanted to make any ideas. He didn't spit out bones. Is it really kind, or ...

Liu Jian's heart was extremely complicated. From his standpoint, he refused to accept the food of the gentry. Your uncle, I am a gentry.

But he has been an official for many years ~ www.readwn.com ~ knows that the fundamental drawback of Daming lies here.

He can even imagine that if time goes on, let this go on like this, the world of the Ming Dynasty, nine out of ten, will die here.

Xiaomin's tax was heavy and he had to go bankrupt, and the gentry didn't need to pay for food. He had already taken advantage of countless advantages. In addition, his land income was much higher than that of Xiaomin. Naturally, he unscrupulously acquired land.

Finally, there are fewer and fewer people paying taxes. There is no need to pay tax gentry. With more and more land, how can the treasury be maintained, the problem of migrants can be solved, but who can solve the financial problem?

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang and Xie Qian glanced silently at each other.

All three fell silent.

This is too difficult.

Even if this is a precedent, they will put them under tremendous pressure.

Emperor Hongzhi was hesitant when he saw the three people, and he said with emotion: "Are the three Qing families ... all stunned?"

Fang Jifan gritted his teeth and said: "When fairness is calculated every day how to save food, but what is the use of saving, people who occupy most of the land in the world do not need to pay food, the treasury's money, how much can be done. I Fang Jifan, such a person, still agrees with the payment of food. Are all the fathers self-proclaimed that they are saints, are they so afraid? "

Eh……

Liu Jian raised his head and sighed, and fell to the ground: "The old minister is not abandoned by His Majesty. Fang Duwei said, it is not unreasonable. The old man is a scholar of the first auxiliary cabinet of the cabinet. There is a determination, the old minister is willing to use his majesty to look forward, even if he is crushing his bones, he is not hesitating. "

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian glanced at each other, and in shock, Liu Gong ... actually agreed.

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