Daming heir

Chapter 180

As a rule, the Japanese never raided the southeast coast of Daming in winter.

They were all in small boats, and their shipbuilding skills were not as superb as that of Daming, and the sea in winter was so bitingly cold.

The Japanese came to rob goods, not to freeze into dogs at sea.

The thieves on the southeast coast did not have such worries. They only need to quietly board a ship from the land, go around into the sea, return to the place where they want to plunder and land, and they can get a lot of wealth.

These wealth will be returned by them from the sea, so it seems to be laundered in the sea.

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely angry at the moment.

He is not angry because God will send such a heavy snow to the south of the Yangtze River, which will cause a snow disaster in Zhejiang Province, and the people will fall into the disaster.

He was angry at the inaction of the local government in Zhejiang Province, and angry at the thieves in Zhejiang Province. Qiao pretended to be a Japanese and took advantage of the fire to rob.

Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "You should be killed! Everyone should be killed!"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Jiang Yu, who came to report the snow disaster and Japanese plague in Zhejiang Province, and said in a deep voice: "Grandpa, the court still needs to know the details of Zhejiang Province. At this time, the world is icy and snowy, and the people are destroying their homes. The court also has to supervise Zhejiang Road provides disaster relief, rescues the people, and stabilizes the place.”

Logically speaking, it is impossible for Zhejiang Road to have such a thing as a snow disaster.

Even though it is colder in the south of the Yangtze River, there will be no snow disasters in its geographical location.

But Zhu Yunxi knew very well that all of this was just because Daming was unfortunately in a stage of major climate change in the world.

In the future, disasters of all kinds will happen one after another.

In the end, the courage on the shoulders of this empire was increased step by step, and it was crushed step by step.

At this time, Jiang Yu reported in a low voice: "Zhejiang Metropolitan Commander has dispatched officers and soldiers from Hangzhou Prefecture Guard Station to Ningbo Prefecture to clean up the Japanese invaders, and issued a letter to all localities to prevent civil uprisings from aggravating, and urge the local government to suppress civil uprisings as soon as possible."

"Incompetent! Incompetent in disaster relief, are they going to kill the people of Ming Dynasty now!" Zhu Yuanzhang cursed unceremoniously, and then waved his hand: "Call people, call people from the imperial court to enter the palace."

With a gloomy expression, Jiang Yu led the decree out of the hall.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was still full of anger, his chest heaving violently.

The prince Zhu Biao at the side turned the wheelchair and arrived here, wanting to pour a cup of tea for the old man.

Zhu Yunxi came back to his senses, hurriedly took over the action of the old man, and bought a cup of tea for the old man.

"Grandpa, drink your tea slowly."

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, picked up the tea and drank it down.

Zhu Biao sat on the side with his hands together: "The snow disaster in Zhejiang has never been experienced by the local government. Who would have thought that there was no disaster in Zhili, but Zhejiang suffered a snow disaster. I didn't notice it for a while, but now I still have to clear it up first." Fake Japanese, the purpose is to help the common people."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was very solemn, and his brows were full of frowns: "If we didn't know the truth, whether it is disaster relief or the suppression of fake Japanese, we need the people from Zhejiang Province to do things. We will let Jiang Yu detain them and return them to Beijing now."

At this time, the emperor of Ming Dynasty really wanted to kill people, but faced with the disaster and civil upheaval, he was helpless.

It is very simple to kill people, but local affairs need to be handled by people.

If at this time all the officials of Zhejiang Province were taken away and unfamiliar North Korean officials were sent, it would only aggravate the local situation and develop in a worse direction.

Zhu Yunxi looked at the worried faces of the old man and the old man.

He thought for a while, and said in a low voice: "Grandpa, father, Zhejiang Road has always been divided into seven parts of mountains and three parts of land, and the people take up a lot of them for planting mulberry and silkworms. The people around the city are rich in their families, and it is precisely because of their talents It intensified the greed of some disobedient thieves, and they often pretended to be Japanese invaders in times of crisis, which brought peace to my Ming Dynasty."

Those merchants and gentry are just white-eyed wolves who can't fill their stomachs.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to say?"

Zhu Yunxi looked up at the old man: "The grandson wants to say that the imperial court should pay more attention to local merchants and gentry..."

Probably because of Zhu Yuanzhang's background, since the early years of Hongwu, most of the energy of the imperial court was involved in the Northern Expedition and farming by farmers.

Zhu Yuanzhang has always paid little attention to business affairs.In order to promote local stability and development, the taxes on merchants are also set extremely low. Under the circumstances of unfavorable supervision, merchants and gentry have various methods to avoid the court to collect taxes.

Compared with the former Song Dynasty, which only occupied half of the country, the Ming Dynasty, which ruled the entire Central Plains, was less than one-twelfth of the former Song Dynasty in terms of business taxes.

You must know that the commercial tax of the former Song Dynasty basically accounted for more than half of the country's annual revenue.

"Merchants and gentlemen... merchants and gentlemen..." Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and read in a low voice, his tone gradually darkened: "They pretend we don't know, they are merchants when they are away, and they are gentlemen when they return home. Everyone in the local area They took advantage of all the benefits!"

Zhu Yunxi said at the right time: "That's why my grandson thinks that this time the snow disaster in Zhejiang Province and the people's upheaval, coupled with the fake Japanese rebellion, may be a rare opportunity for the imperial court."

Zhu Biao coughed lightly: "Speak up if you have something to say, it's very important to hide it and sell it."

Zhu Yunxie immediately said: "The stalls are paid for by the mu, the government and the gentry pay the grain together, and the business tax collection is strictly investigated! My grandson has often thought about it recently, and I have some immature ideas. It is most suitable to look at the situation in Zhejiang Province..."

He said it in one word, although they were all nouns that had never existed before, but only based on the literal meaning, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao understood the meaning.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned several times before he said slowly, "Tell me in detail, don't worry, just talk to grandpa about how you plan to handle these things."

Zhu Yunxi nodded, licked his lips, poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his throat, and then continued: "Zhejiang has many mountains and little land, and most of the people work to survive. The imperial court's per capita tax seems a bit out of date.

It is better for the imperial court to try it out in Zhejiang Province. The imperial court will check the acres of land and set rules according to the number of acres of fields to collect taxes.In addition, according to the number of acres, the levels can be divided, and those who are less pay less, and those who have more pay more.

But now that Zhejiang Province is not doing well in disaster relief, the imperial court can use this to punish the local government of Zhejiang Province. Regardless of the common people, officials and gentry, they should be treated as one, and taxes and taxes should be paid. "

After observing the reactions of the old man and the old man, Zhu Yunxi continued: "Furthermore, my grandson observes the Zhejiang Road, and there are workshops all over the place, and most of the common people are attached to the city walls, working for the local gentry and merchants.

Although the imperial court has commercial taxes in recent years, the collection is unfavorable. From now on, Zhejiang Province should also strictly investigate the taxation of merchants and guard them strictly, so as to increase the imperial court's financial resources.

It's not like these merchants are well-clothed and well-fed, but the people of our court are not clothed and food is not enough. "

Zhu Yunxi's voice had fallen, but there was silence in the hall.

Zhu Yuanzhang never let go of his frown, looking at the expectant grandson from time to time.

Finally, he looked at the prince next to him: "Prince, what do you think of what Yunxi said?"

At this moment, Zhu Biao is still thinking about the reform of the integration of government and gentry, which his son said.

At this time the old man asked, Zhu Biao hesitated and whispered: "Is the father going to reduce the preferential treatment for officials and gentry?"

In the Ming Dynasty, although it was not as good as the former Song Dynasty, it shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.

Zhu Yuanzhang also hated those corrupt officials the most, but it has to be said that he also respected those scholars the most.

For those who studied hard and were famous in the imperial examination, the imperial court would give these families various preferential treatment and privileges in accordance with the rules set in the early years of Hongwu.

Since the beginning of Xiucai, tax relief will be gradually given to these families.There are also invisible privileges such as seeing officials and not worshiping them, so that these people are invisible above the common people.

This promoted the court to have a steady stream of talents for selection, but it also increased the burden on the court.

Zhu Yunxi saw that the old man was still hesitating, so he immediately said again: "Grandpa, local officials and gentry, whenever they have fame and official positions, there are always countless people throwing land to avoid taxation.

And these gentry clans have countless money and food in their families, and they will buy up land in every disaster year.

One ebbs and another, how can the imperial court have enough tax revenue in the future?In the end, the people will only become poorer and poorer, and only the officials and gentry will be fatter. "

(End of this chapter)