Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 309 The imperial court must receive taxes all the time!

"what did he say?"

"Son of the sea? What the hell name. Ask him if he was kicked out by the Spaniards?"

"It's really Spanish!"

Emperor Ka is now standing on an iron boat with a dazed expression on his face.

The brain is completely unable to function.

He escaped in a boat sent by people from the Middle Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, within a few days of escaping, they ran into the fleet of the Middle Kingdom head-on.

From the flags they hung, Emperor Kada confirmed their identities.

But when he boarded the boat, he was dumbfounded.

Iron, which is more expensive than gold, actually made such a big ship!
Oh.
These people should also be from the Middle Kingdom, right?

Their chief is the Son of Heaven.

I am the son of the sea, and everyone is a son, so I don't know if the other party can give me a little help.

At this time, Cai Qian and Zheng Xiaoyi were most concerned about where the Spaniards had gone.

It is not easy to find an island in the vast sea that only exists on the chart.

Now meet a guy at sea who claims to be some kind of king of the world.

I don't know if his world is Hawaii?

"It must be the Spaniards, we can't let them occupy Hawaii! This seems to be the right time!"

Cai Qian took a deep breath and said.

"Send a reconnaissance ship to see the Spaniard's arrangement first, they should have already occupied the island"

Zheng Xiaoyi said.

three days later.

After the two got the situation in Hawaii, they couldn't help frowning.

"The Spaniards have transformed the island into a fortress. If they try to land forcibly, there will probably be many casualties." Cai Qian frowned and said, "What should we do now? Are we going back to China and asking the army to take action?"

At present, the Ming Navy does not have a special force for landing operations, nor does it have any marine corps.

And let the precious sailors raise their muskets to do the job of landing on the beach.
Cai Qian estimated that when this battle was won, he would have to move his head.

After all, there is no shortage of soldiers in the army of the Ming Dynasty.

But the Navy is different.

Experienced sailors who can go to sea are too precious.

It's impossible to spend it like this
"Let's go back first, getting such a Hawaiian king is a great achievement!"

Zheng Xiaoyi said regretfully.

"And I guess the Spaniards will go back to rescue soldiers, we have to hurry up!"

The power of the Ming Empire began to extend to the west coast of America and the Hawaiian Islands.

However, the battle between Ming Dynasty, Spain, the United States, and Britain for the Americas could not be won overnight, and there was no basis for a big war between the two sides.

This is bound to be quite a Manchester City process.

But in Daming.

The matter about the Sichuan Chengdu Gongyuan has been put on the desk of Ming Emperor Zhu Daohua.

"Your Majesty, eight leaders have been arrested this time. These eight leaders have been praised by many local newspapers in Sichuan as the Eight Gentlemen of the Gongyuan. But they are all young people in their 20s, and they are just too hot-blooded. You "Look" is the Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty, Luo Fangbo, who is speaking.

Naturally, he didn't want to be overly involved in the Gongyuan incident.

"Take the lead in resisting the imperial examination policy, illegal assembly, and punish according to the etiquette! How are the debts in the eight southeastern provinces handled?"

Emperor Zhu didn't have much affection for these scholars who like to do something out of the ordinary to gain fame.

So directly ordered the Sichuan side to "punish according to etiquette".

Decide on this.

This Sichuan Eight Gentleman must be in trouble.

Two or three years of confinement are considered light.

"The arrears in all provinces are being dealt with in an orderly manner, and most wealthy households in various places have paid all their arrears in the past."

Hearing Prime Minister Luo's words, Emperor Zhu, who was flipping through the local land tax situation, showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

"It's really good. Most of the properties of these wealthy households with tens of thousands of acres belong to the lower fields and middle fields, but the upper fields are all in the hands of small families."

Hearing Emperor Zhu's words, Luo Fangbo had a wry smile on his face.

How did he not know this was going to happen?
Daming's fields will be divided into upper, middle and lower according to the quality of the cultivated land.

The upper field tax is more, and the lower field tax is less.

Those rich and powerful families are quite powerful in the local area. Of course, they can use various means to change their own fields into lower fields, and let other self-cultivating farmers' fields become upper fields.
"Your Majesty, the wealthy households in this area have intertwined local relations, and it is not easy to solve them. And they didn't pay taxes before."

Yes.

Did not pay taxes before.

Now pay a Shimoda tax.

It's already a huge improvement.

There was an intriguing smile on Emperor Zhu's mouth.

"Luo Xiang, is it possible to collect taxes according to the amount of heaven and earth? No or no tax for those with less land, and more for those with more land, how about it?"

Hearing this, Luo Fangbo shook his head and said: "There is a way, but there are countermeasures at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and there will definitely be loopholes to exploit. For example, if the land is divided, even the land tax will be collected. not come up."

Dividing the fields means spreading the fields over the heads of tenant farmers, but in fact the fields still belong to wealthy households.

As long as local rich households occupy far more resources than poor people, it will be difficult to really shake the interests of local wealthy households in any case by tinkering with them.

Emperor Zhu nodded.

"Everything in the world is for profit, and this matter in the local area is still a word of profit after all."

He stood up.

"However, the scholar-bureaucrats in our country are ashamed to talk about profit, but they strive for profit everywhere. Even when they go to the field or go to the field, they have to fiddle with it. Most of the fields in the world are in the hands of wealthy households."

Luo Fangbo remained silent.

This has been the case since ancient times.

How do small people fight against wealthy households?

This Confucian scholar and scholar-bureaucrat talked about benevolence, righteousness and morality.

But in fact, it accounts for the biggest interest.

"Your Majesty, it is better to cancel the division of upper, middle and lower fields, and collect taxes at a uniform rate," Luo Fangbo suggested.

This is certainly a way.

However, Emperor Zhu thought for a while and said: "This method is not bad, but it is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. After a long time, new profit patterns and loopholes will definitely form in the localities!"

"From my point of view, the demise of all dynasties is nothing more than the exhaustion of tax revenue and the collapse of finances, so that they all died of controlling the army and localities."

Of course, Emperor Zhu did not feel sorry for the people who paid more taxes, but was worried that one day the court would be deceived by the local government and would not be able to collect taxes.

Of course, this aspect also needs to be guaranteed by the system.

"Your Majesty, as long as the court's politics are clear and there are wise kings and ministers in charge, the local ghosts and monsters will not be so easy to cause trouble." Luo Fangbo said.

"Mingjun Xianchen." Zhu Daohua shook his head.

"There are not many emperors who are as shrewd as I am. Although Xiaopang doesn't look stupid, he certainly doesn't know about those things in the local area. He will definitely be deceived in the future."

"Therefore... there must be a way to ensure that the court can collect taxes no matter what the circumstances!"

(End of this chapter)