Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 50

Although Zhu Houzhao said it very casually and his tone was very relaxed, Zhu Youtang still heard the murderous intent in these words, it was simply murderous.Take it off, easy to say, how to take it?These people will be willing to let you take it away?This is simply impossible, and if you want to remove it, you have to use a knife.

In fact, what Zhu Houzhao said is nothing new. Many emperors in Ming Dynasty did this.

For example, Zhu Houzhao in history, how did he do it?Support Liu Jin!Otherwise, where did Zhu Houzhao get the money to train soldiers, and where did he get the money to suppress the rebellion? It was not Liu Jin who searched for it.

The other one who did this was Emperor Tianqi, the famous carpenter emperor, how did he do it?Support Wei Zhongxian!When Emperor Tianqi was in power, did Liaodong not burn money?Burn the same, where did the money come from?Wei Zhongxian didn't get it, where did Wei Zhongxian get it?

Didn't it come from these gentry, how did it happen?That method may not be so clever, and there is no way to elaborate on this matter.

As for Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian getting money from ordinary people, Zhu Houzhao doesn't believe it. How much are these people's bones and scum worth?This is why when Wei Zhongxian was there, there were not so many uprisings in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, because the people's lives were relatively easy, and the court even had money to provide disaster relief.

But when it came to Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian fell, and the life of the court was sad. Liaodong could not support it, and the court had no money to relieve the disaster.

The idea given by the incorruptible Donglin Party is to increase the levy and set up a three-payment. As of the 48th year of Wanli, except for a few areas such as Guizhou, the average land levy was 520% per mu of land, which was 62 taels. Levy and discuss Guanxing salt and other miscellaneous silver taels.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the field tax was increased from nine per cent to one cent and two cents, and the amount of silver was 660 million taels, which was an increase of one third. In addition to the exemption of 520 million taels of silver, additional tariffs, salt tax and A total of 740 taels of silver was collected for miscellaneous items, and the total amount of 290 million taels for suppressing peasant uprisings was mainly collected from the land.

The original plan was to only levy for one year. In fact, it was forced to stop from the 13th year of Chongzhen until the 12th year. In the 730th year of Chongzhen, according to Yang Sichang's proposal, the name of the levy was to train "frontier soldiers" to strengthen the defense forces of the towns on the nine sides. In fact, In order to deal with peasant uprisings, a total of more than [-] million taels of silver was levied for this payment, of which the land tax plus one point per mu accounted for more than half of the total.

From this tax collection track, it can be seen that all the salary increases during the Chongzhen administration came from the fields of the common people.

But natural disasters were frequent in the late Ming Dynasty, where did the common people get their money?You must know that the money comes from the self-cultivating farmers, and the gentry who are officials do not pay food.The self-cultivating farmers went bankrupt, and there was no food for natural disasters, and refugees naturally formed.Under such circumstances, it is surprising not to rebel, and there have been more and more suppressions.

What is the Donglin Party doing at the same time?Exemption of tea tax, mining tax and other taxes made them even fatter.

Those who say that Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian are corrupt, they are not corrupt, can the money go to the hands of ordinary people?Impossible, the common people are still suffering and cannot afford to eat, capital needs to drink blood, this has never changed.Besides, so what if the embezzlement is in the hands of Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, the emperor will kill all the money, and all the money will have a place to go.

If the government is clean and the people live well, then the eunuchs will become a malignant tumor and must be cut down. The problem is not!

What should I do if the court cannot collect taxes?What can you do besides using eunuchs?Kill all officials?Then who will work for you?How many cabinet scholars and ministers Chongzhen killed, is it useful?As it turned out, it didn't work.This is a group problem, not one person's problem, nor a few people's problem.

Although Zhu Youtang didn't know that Zhu Houzhao was thinking so far, Zhu Youtang could also see that behind his son's smile was a serious murderous intention.

"Father, you can think about the old things in Hanwu!" Seeing his father looking at him, Zhu Houzhao smiled and brought up a topic without saying a word.

After hearing his son's words, Zhu Youtang's pupils shrank suddenly, and the expression on his face was a little exciting. What happened to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?Of course Zhu Youtang knew about it. Zhu Youtang had read a lot, and the matter of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was naturally the top priority of his research.In the second year of Yuanshou, King Hunxie of the Huns surrendered. When he had no money to show off, the merchants in Chang'an did not give him money.

In the third year of Yuanshou, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were about to conquer the Xiongnu, but the treasury was not enough to support the war. Liu Che once again asked the rich people in the world to donate their wealth, and each rich family should donate 5.00% to [-]% of their property , which is historically known as "Shun Ling"

However, only one shepherd named "Pu Shi" was willing to donate 20 yuan in the past year. Liu Che confiscated the 20 yuan, made Pu Shi a Zhonglang, gave him 400 corvees, and announced Pu Shi's deeds The world, I hope the rich people in the world can use this as an example.However, until the end of the four-year decisive battle in Yuanshou, Liu Che only received this donation.Rich people all over the world are scrambling to hide their wealth, lest they reveal their wealth.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, who was in a hurry, thought of a method that is almost unimaginable today. He issued a "reporting order" to implement the "reporting order": if you report on the hidden property, you can get half of the other party's property, and the other half. Confiscated by the Empire.

As soon as this order came out, everyone in the empire was crazy about it, and it completely changed the trajectory of wealth production. If wealth could be obtained through fraud, who would be willing to create wealth?The warning order did allow the empire to "get hundreds of millions of people's wealth", but the empire's plundering hands spread to every corner, and the wealthy families were almost wiped out.

Regarding this matter, how could Zhu Youtang not know about it, and the look at his son would naturally be unattractive: "You don't want to learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, do you?"

"How is this possible!" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "I just want to say one thing when I mentioned the old things of Han and Wu, that is, merchants have no country. Scholars have a country, destroy their families to relieve difficulties, and are willing to throw their heads and blood for the country. , but how many of these people standing in the hall are businessmen? How many are scholars?"

"For example, the Ye family, on the surface, is a scholar, but in private, he is a businessman. Is he a businessman or a scholar? Does he have a state or no state?"

Zhu Houzhao's words were very light, but they seemed to hit Zhu Youtang's heart, because he didn't know how to answer his son's question.

"How was the businessman during the time of Emperor Taizu?" Zhu Houzhao picked up the teapot in front of his father and poured himself a cup, then took a sip from the teacup, then looked up at his father, and said such a sentence.

How were merchants in Taizu's time?After listening to his son's words, Zhu Youtang looked at him with strange eyes.

(End of this chapter)