Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 677 Imperial Meeting (1)

The core of spreading the income into the mu is to abolish the most controversial and extremely disadvantageous personal tax under the centralized feudal dynasty, so as to attack the privileged groups, use the power or connections in their hands, and use various means And forms, to form the established tax evasion, and even the status quo of tax evasion.

This is a major reform of the tax and service system of the feudal dynasty.

The compilation and collection of the population tax has disadvantages from the very beginning. After all, there is a large room for flexibility in the increase or decrease of the population. It is extremely unrealistic to just want to accurately count the population size. There is no comparison with the convenient communication facilities of later generations.

No matter what period you are in, you must do things that match the period you are in.

The financial foundation and economic foundation of the feudal dynasty were built around land output. As long as we can do a good job in tax collection at this level, we can ensure the financial bottom line every year.

The collection of taxes is to take from the people and use them to the people.

However, with the existence of the population tax, there is a huge scope for black-box operations. If you are not careful, there will be exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which will transfer the tax pressure. This makes the privileged groups have no burden, but the burden of the bottom-level groups. heavy.

Once sudden factors such as disasters and wars occur in a certain place, the lower-level groups cannot bear these burdens with difficulty, and chaos in that place is inevitable.

Emperor Chongzhen clearly understood that the current period of the Ming Dynasty was still dominated by agricultural production, and industrial production was just a seedling.

This point is different from that of Wen Tiren and others who raised objections.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Reform has never been an easy task. There are too many things and levels involved behind it.

Emperor Chongzhen flashed coldly, looked at the officials who were arguing, and shouted loudly: "When you quarrel, when you quarrel, what you want to emphasize is nothing more than one thing. What Sun Chuanting did was wrong and violated the public opinion of Ming Dynasty. , It is provoking my Ming law, it is violating my Ming ancestral system.

Once the agricultural tax can be completely abolished, it will be unrealistic in a sense for the groups at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty to want to rebel.

It will take at least 20 years, 30 years, or even longer to transition to completely abolishing the "agricultural tax" and then reducing the burden on the bottom groups in a real sense.

People like Xu Guangqi and Bi Ziyan have all seen the essence of sharing a small household with an acre. If this can be successfully tried in Henan and gradually implemented in other regions, it will have a profound impact on Daming’s financial revenue. It can even solve part of the financial pressure.

Xu Guangqi, Wen Tiren, Bi Ziyan, Huang Liji, Han Jisi and other ministers showed different expressions, you look at me, I look at you, and they are also divided into two groups when dealing with Sun Chuanting's trial in Henan. There are two factions, one for it and one against it.

Among them, Huang Liji, Han Jisi and others who objected were worried that if this matter was implemented, it would have a serious impact on Daming, and then threaten the stability of Daming.

But whenever interests are touched, various things will happen.

If the matter concerning the tax reform can be done well in Ming Dynasty, class conflicts can be greatly eased, the burden of landless and landless peasants can be alleviated, population growth can be promoted, the bottom working class can have relative personal freedom, and the development of the private economy can be promoted. Overall development, to ensure a simplified tax and service system, the local government may increase tax items arbitrarily...

The hall was extremely quiet.

Then Daming must at least monopolize the entire Nanyang region, and at the same time form a certain influence on Tianzhu and other places, and also build a stable financial system, and then support the decision to abolish the agricultural tax.

Would like to see the full repeal of the 'farm tax'.

"enough!"

Emperor Chongzhen lifted up the sleeves of his robe, and continued: "You are more or less clear about the situation of the population tax that is urged to be collected every year.

Inside the Qianqing Palace.

The ass decides the head.

Let me ask you a question, what do people without land use to pay this population tax?What do groups with less land use to pay the population tax? "

There are indeed many benefits, but it is a long way to go to promote this matter.

Do you think this population tax is reasonable?
The lower-class groups without land, the lower-class groups with less land, and the groups with more land pay the same population tax. Don't Zhu Qing think that there will be some problems behind this?

"Sun Chuanting's trial in Henan is to distribute the tax to the farmland. I think it is good. Don't forget, this is a trial. Let's see if the distribution of the tax to the farmland is good or bad for the country."

Emperor Chongzhen leaned on the dragon chair, watching the Cabinet, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and other ministers arguing with each other, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

Is it really wrong to spread all your money?
Isn't this a further improvement of my Daming's tax and service system?

Haven't you thought about it a little bit?

Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip method in the Wanli Dynasty, which has affected the taxation and service system of our Ming Dynasty, especially the item of color and silver, should I be asked to clarify each item? "

Sun Chuanting respected the secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen, and tried to spread the land into acres in Henan, just like Monkey King who made a big fuss in the sky, piercing holes in the sky, which had a great impact.

People like Wen Tiren, Huang Liji, and Han Jisi also saw the essence of this matter, and it was precisely because they saw it that, out of various considerations and scruples, they more or less opposed the implementation of this matter.

After all, at that time, Ming's tax collectors had fundamentally changed.

It involves a wide range of aspects, not only the simple abolition of the population tax, but also the reduction of the burden on the bottom groups, the inventory and measurement of farmland, the clarification of the standard of taxation, and the encouragement of population surplus.

Bi Ziyan stepped forward and bowed: "Actually, Zhang Taiyue proposed a whipping method, which is to reduce the burden on the bottom group, curb the severe land annexation in the local area, and improve the plight of the taxation and service system of the state.

In Chen's opinion, the item of dividing the income into the mu is an effective solution.

If it is possible to explore and sum up the corresponding experience during the trial period in Henan, summarize all the problems encountered during the period, and solve these problems in a targeted manner, it will be of great benefit to Guochao . "

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, especially when it comes to money. The rules formulated by the ancients are actually the most effective solution in that period. In any period, do things that suit the period. It has already proved how powerful the wisdom of the ancients is.

(End of this chapter)