Daming: Let you do your best to manage, do you go to health?

Chapter 59

This time, Zhu Zhanji didn't hold back anymore, but finished these words in one breath.

By explaining to the old man whether Daming is rich or not, he also stated the goal of transferring the deficit.

But after Zhu Zhanji stopped, the old man Zhu Di couldn't recover for a long time, and was stunned in place.

No one could feel how shocked Zhu Di was at this moment.

If it weren't for what Zhu Zhanji said today, he wouldn't know anything about it!
Of course, what he didn't know was not the question of whether the eldest grandson was rich or not just now, nor did he not know the so-called principles of hiding wealth among the people, etc. He might not be able to explain these things clearly, but his ruling experience over the years can be Not for nothing.

He understands the truth!
But what really shocked him and made him feel unbelievable were the few real examples just given by the eldest grandson.

In his decades of emperor career, he always thought that the people under his rule lived the best life in the whole ancient history under his low tax system.

Including his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has loved the people for decades, but paid by mistake!
This feeling is as if the child I have raised all my life has been taken away by wolves.

The key is that I thought those children would thank him for being kind to them.Don't you know, the people at this time are afraid that they can't wait to peel off his skin and gnaw his bones!

This feeling of being teased, fooled, and ignorant made Zhu Di's anger soaring crazily at this moment.

As the emperor, he is very clear about what policies the current court is implementing. The tax exemption for the gentry, the tax exemption for nobles, and the tax exemption for the royal relatives are all in recognition of their contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

The second is to promote these talented people to serve the country.

Third, the same sentence, the distribution of benefits, those who follow the old man to conquer the world, and those who follow themselves to settle down, the rewards are all benefits under the distribution.

In fact, there is no problem with these policies and orders. The imperial court also issued policies on the basis of knowing that part of the tax revenue will be reduced, because this kind of thing is not only the case in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of policy has existed since ancient times.

However, he has never heard anyone mention that under such an order, there will be such a serious impact!
Never even heard a word from any of the ministers.

It doesn't matter if it's just the benefits that are distributed, they are all rewards given to them by the imperial court, which is within the acceptable range of the imperial court.

However, this tax-free power has been infinitely magnified by them.

Taking advantage of this policy loophole, he frantically stole the interests of the court and plundered the livelihood of the people.

The greed and profit-seeking nature of these people, without any investigation, Zhu Di can imagine how profound the influence has been behind it.

How many benefits were looted by them.

Immediately, a killing intent also spread out from this seemingly ordinary old man.

Looking at the state of the old man at the moment, Zhu Zhanji sighed in his heart.

After all, my grandfather is still the emperor who has spent his whole life on horseback. When he is really angry, his aura alone is enough to shock the world.

Although Zhu Zhanji really doesn't want to see the old man angry, there is no way, these are the reality.

Not only that, but Zhu Zhanji continued: "Actually, if it's just these things, it's fine. At most, some people have taken away the interests that should belong to the court and the people. Just like what grandpa said, the world is prosperous, It’s all about profit. Everything in the world is about profit. After all, it’s human nature to seek profit.”

"However, the most important issue now is that when all the wealth is gathered in the hands of those gentry, when the court wants to do something important and needs to increase taxes, these increases must be borne by the common people. Besides , the head tax is even more so, people with a good annual income, and many children in the family, cannot bring any substantial benefits to the family before the children grow up."

"But the child's parents still need to consume more food for the child's growth. In addition, the loss of the child's mother when she is pregnant with the child and cannot perform any labor is simply not something that ordinary people can afford, which leads to many People are afraid to have children anymore. They even have to sell their land to those gentry in order to have children.”

"One after another, the number of people born in the Ming Dynasty will decrease, and the number of people who died will not decrease, which will lead to a deviation in the total population of our dynasty, and at the same time, the phenomenon of land annexation will become more and more serious. And the reason why the population of our dynasty has not yet The obvious gap is because those gentry families are increasing their children crazily after solving the food crisis."

"It also led to the emergence of a situation. Although the population will not decrease significantly, the actual labor force is constantly decreasing. There are fewer people working and more people enjoying their benefits. When this ratio reaches an extreme level, those people People who cannot bear the oppression will rebel, just like the uprisings in various places at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, just because of the flooding of two rivers, it led to chaos in the world, and the world was overturned."

"Think about the subversion of past dynasties in the history books. Isn't it because of this reason that it was put in Grandpa's profit distribution theory? Isn't this a disaster caused by the uneven distribution of benefits?"

Zhu Zhanji's words completely ignited the anger in Zhu Di's heart.

If those so-called gentry were just a few people, I'm afraid Zhu Di couldn't bear it at this time and raised his knife to chop.

But this gentry is not one person, let alone a few people, but a whole class.

The most important thing is that even though Zhu Di was full of anger at this moment, when he thought about it carefully, he found that he couldn't find any way to deal with them!
The land was bought and sold according to the normal method, and the tax exemption was also the power given to them by the court. Even if their existence and actions might lead to the overthrow of the entire Ming Dynasty, as the emperor, he had nothing to do with them.

For a moment, one can imagine the depression in Zhu Di's heart.

Looking left and right, he couldn't find a way to vent his anger. Zhu Di could only stare at Zhu Zhanji, holding back his strength and said, "You mean to transfer the shortfall from the abolition of poll tax to these gentry?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded: "Exactly, they are the only ones who are rich in the entire Ming Dynasty, and they are the richest. If you don't look for them, look for someone."

After getting Zhu Zhanji's approval, Zhu Di no longer suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Grandpa will make an order now!"

Zhu Zhanji was stunned when he heard Zhu Di's words: "Grandpa, now you make an order, what name do you plan to ask them to increase taxes?"

Zhu Zhanji's words also woke up Zhu Di.

I was so confused just now, I even forgot such a simple thing.

(End of this chapter)