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Chapter 543 Tax Farming System and Enfeoffment System

After half a month, Zhang Guangsi quickly set about stabilizing the rule of cities and villages without being disturbed.

"There are no landlords here?" Zhang Guangsi was quite surprised.

Geng Shouyi nodded: "Yes, there are no landlords here, not only in the cities and villages we occupied, but also in almost all the land in Bangladesh. All land nominally belongs to the Mughal Emperor."

Zhang Guangsi was in disbelief: "Then who were those people we killed before?"

Geng Shouyi said: "Those are Chaimindars. They are equivalent to the aristocratic bureaucrats sent by the emperor to the local areas to collect taxes for the emperor. These Chamindars do not own land ownership, but they enjoy the hereditary right to collect taxes."

Zhang Guangsi was stunned and blurted out: "Tax farming system?"

Geng Shouyi said: "It can be understood that more than half of the land in Bangladesh is managed by this group of Chamindars under the tax farming system. As for the rest, it belongs to another aristocratic group - Jagir. These Jagir nobles can also be understood as princes. They own land ownership. In addition to paying taxes and performing military service for the emperor, even the emperor cannot directly interfere in the internal affairs of the territory. Moreover, these Jagir nobles also belong to different classes. Although each class has They are divided into high and low, but they are not subordinate to each other, which is similar to the enfeoffment in the pre-Qin period."

Zhang Guangsi was almost speechless: "With the tax farming system and the enfeoffment of princes, how to manage the world, isn't the Mughal emperor afraid that the noble princes will rebel with their troops?"

Geng Shouyi shook his head: "It's useless to be afraid. Even the enfeoffment system adopted by the Mughals was probably to counter the Chaiminda here. But in this place in Tianzhu, the caste system is the core of all rule. It seems to be extremely chaotic. In fact, the internal division of labor has already been clearly defined. Even in every small village, dishwashers and laundry workers are naturally determined. If any caste wants to cross-class, it will encounter resistance from the corresponding class and even everyone, and even It may arouse rebellion. Therefore, it is difficult for outsiders to intervene, and today's Mughals have actually enjoyed the benefits of this system. Although the Mughal court in Delhi has been in decline, Bengal still A large amount of taxes must be provided to support the emperor and their court. The Maratha Empire south of Tianzhu is different. That country is completely different from the Mughals in terms of religion and governance model. According to the British, It’s more like Japan’s shogunate system.”

Zhang Guangsi pondered for a moment and then said: "In that case, first allocate the village land to the soldiers according to their merit. All the original Chaimindars can be killed. As for the caste division of labor within the village, they will not be touched for the time being and everything will remain as it is. , we can make our people the new Chai Mindar. Supervisor Geng, what do you think?"

Geng Shouyi nodded: "I think so too."

The caste system in India is so sophisticated that it seems to be just for invaders... No, maybe it is really tailor-made. Once the local rulers cannot defeat outsiders, they will use the caste system to assimilate them and win them over, and then everyone will work together to oppress the Indian people at the bottom.

It can be said that the Indians were very successful. Almost all foreign invading forces, even the Mughal Empire established by the Mongols, were successfully assimilated by this system.

Because it's so comfortable, I tied up my hands and feet, and then waited to be enslaved and oppressed by you.

Zhang Guangsi and Geng Shouyi discussed for a long time and finally decided not to move anything, and there was no way to move it.

Once moved, it would be easy to provoke a popular uprising.

Historically, it was not until the 19th century that the British changed India's Chamindar from a tax farming system to a land ownership system, that is, it evolved to landlord ownership.

Then, the British levied 90% of the land tax on these Chaiminda landowners. Such an outrageously high tax almost filled the land.

In this way, those Indians did not rebel.

It can only be said that this is self-domestication that has penetrated deep into the bone marrow and is difficult to cure.

It took another half a month to sort out the cities and villages, and then Zhang Guangsi resumed his troops and went south to completely occupy all the plain areas on the north bank of the Ganges River.

At this point, the northern territory of Bengal no longer bordered the Mughal Empire.

As for the news from India and Bangladesh, Zhu Yijiong doesn't know yet. Even if he knows, he won't care too much.

At least in the past one or two years, Ming Dynasty is unlikely to invest too much energy in India. That is to say, Bangladesh is relatively close and will pay a little attention.

Most of the land in India is actually not worthy of direct territorial rule and can only be treated as a colony, just like Japan. Otherwise, the cost of governance would be too high. Ming Dynasty did not have so much manpower, material resources and energy to reform India, and it would almost be unable to spare manpower for world colonization alone. On the contrary, it is colonial dumping, which can capture a large amount of wealth and profits for the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time, and can also further weaken India's strength and potential.

By the way, India needs to be split up. It cannot be like the British who forcibly merged India into one country just to save trouble.

Although the India created in this way has many internal contradictions, no matter how great the contradictions are, it is still a whole. Even if it cannot defeat you, it will still make you feel disgusted every day.

It would be better to turn it directly into countless small states and let them rule each other separately. Even if the Ming Dynasty weakens in the later period, it cannot be controlled. These small kingdoms were already in trouble just by fighting each other internally, so they had no energy left to cause chaos to the Ming Dynasty.

However, Bangladesh must swallow it all. The strategic position here, the fertile and fertile land, and the maritime trade port make it impossible for it to be truly independent.

When the Ming Dynasty frees up a little bit, immigration will definitely continue here, and in addition to immigrating the common people, some scholars, Taoist priests, and monks will also be immigrated to impact the original religion and education system.

Not to mention completely destroying the caste system here, at least the Han people who immigrated here must not be corrupted by the caste system, otherwise it will be another Mughal Empire.

……

At the same time Zhang Guangsi and Geng Shouyi established their foothold in Bangladesh.

Nanjing City.

This year's new subject examination has also been successfully concluded. With the last warm-up test, the candidates for this subject are already familiar with the newly adopted imperial examination score system.

Moreover, judging from the top ten volumes alone, the scores of calendar astronomy and overseas vassals have significantly improved. This means that scholars all over the world, even if they are only serving as officials to cope with the exams, are paying more and more attention to overseas vassal affairs and calendar science.

This is a good sign!

However, as the imperial examinations are held again and again, the promotion channels for those officials will become increasingly difficult in the future.

This is unavoidable, because those who pass the imperial examination must be awarded a rank officer. Even if the rank awarded by each level of the examination decreases, no matter how low it is, it will still be higher than that of officials without rank.

Moreover, every imperial examination will also contribute a large number of new scholars. Hundreds of Jinshis will be awarded high-ranking officials, and more candidates will compete for official positions. In addition, as the difficulty of the imperial examinations increases year by year, the new scholars who stand out are generally no longer the kind of silver-tongued people, but simply lack practical experience.

After these people become officials, as long as they have a little experience in observing politics, they will generally be promoted faster than the officials.

The Ming Dynasty has now been established for more than ten years. Even the prince is eleven years old this year. It has only been a few years since he was crowned. Even in Sichuan, southwest and other places, the number of officials is almost full.

If the imperial court had not been engaged in foreign expansion and expansion of territory, I am afraid that if there are a few more rounds of imperial examinations, there will be almost no vacancies for new scholars to arrange official positions.

After all, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are generally young people from top to bottom. Even the cabinet has two ministers who are young people, and two ministers who are also in their prime. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are young and powerful. .

With so many young officials, it is almost difficult for them to retire in a short time as long as they do not commit corruption and crimes.

Moreover, Zhu Yijiong is also interested in cultivating the official school and Imperial College system. Although he will not immediately establish a compulsory education and civil service examination system, he is also beginning to gradually occupy the share of officials.

Times are changing, not only the world structure, but also the education system.

(End of this chapter)