I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 84
The household reform law was implemented steadily, and Li Tian had nothing to ask. After a few words of encouragement to Huang Zhun, he turned to look at Yang Rong:
"Zirong, how is Tiangongyuan doing recently? What's the trouble?"

Yang Rong has been running to the construction site of Fucaifang from time to time recently, his face darkened a bit, when he heard Li Tian's question, he quickly got up and saluted:

"Your Majesty is concerned. The construction of the Tiangongyuan has been planned for three days, and more than a quarter of the construction period has been completed. At most, in ten days, your majesty can go to the Tiangongyuan to drink tea. As for the trouble, except for some old scholars who spend all day in Tiangongyuan It's no big deal to shout and scold outside the engineering institute."

"Okay, okay." Li Tian nodded again and again, and asked with a smile:
"I heard from Wang Fu that many craftsmen in the city spontaneously went to help, is there such a thing?"

"That's true. Many craftsmen in the city heard that His Majesty is going to open up a way for craftsmen to become officials, and they all brought their own tools to the construction site to help. If it weren't for their help, the Tiangongyuan would not have been built so quickly."

Slightly nodding his head, motioning Yang Rong to sit down and talk, Li Tian was going to discuss another important matter while the four cabinet scholars were all present today.

"A few days ago, I asked the Ministry of Industry to find the address in the city. You all know it."

Li Tian said it lightly, but Yang Shiqi and the others knew that the emperor would not target indiscriminately, so he straightened his body, nodded his head and listened quietly.

After taking a sip of tea, Li Tian narrowed his eyes and looked at the expressions of Yang Shiqi and others, and said quietly:

"That's what I think, although my uncles guard the frontier for me, each of them has tens of thousands of troops in their hands.
Of course, I am not afraid of their rebellion.I just heard that every vassal king’s fief has tens of thousands of people who donate real estate to avoid taxes and corvees. They are all my people. Tell me, whether I should take care of this matter or not. "

As Ge elders, Yang Shiqi and others naturally don't just look at the surface when thinking about things.

It is the ancestral system left by Taizu that the vassal kings guard the frontier, so that the vassal kings from all over the country can come to Beijing to rescue them when necessary.

As for people donating real estate, this is not a new thing. The Ming Dynasty has never imposed taxes and corvees on the royal family and court officials. Many people will donate their real estate to these people in order to make a living.

Not to mention the vassal kings from all over the country, even in the hometown of Yang Shiqi and others who are sitting here, many people put their real estate in their names in order to avoid various taxes and fees and harsh corvees.

Thinking about the emperor's thoughts, Yang Shiqi and others couldn't figure out why. Only Huang Zhun dared to ask:
"Your Majesty wants to change the tax system?"

As soon as Huang Zhun said this, Yang Shiqi and the others all changed their expressions slightly.

The reason why there are not many oppositions to the household reform law and the Tiangongyuan is because it does not touch the key interests of the officials, gentry and gentry, but if the tax system is changed, chaos in the court and in the world is inevitable.

After pondering for a while, without waiting for the emperor to reply, Yang Shiqi hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, the tax system cannot be changed for the time being."

Seeing that Yang Shiqi was so nervous, Li Tian was a little surprised, but immediately understood what Yang Shiqi was worried about. He smiled and said dumbly: "Shiqi is worried too much. I have no intention of changing the tax system, at least not right now."

Having tasted the sweetness of the reform, Huang Zhun didn't think so. He apologized to Yang Shiqi, then turned to look at Li Tian and said in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty, in fact, my Ming's tax system is not reasonable."

Li Tian naturally knew that the tax system of the Ming Dynasty was unreasonable. After all, there were too many unreasonable things in the Ming Dynasty, and the tax system could only be regarded as one of them.

For example, the financial system of the Ming Dynasty can be called incredible.

Every year, the local state government not only pays taxes and taxes to the treasury of the Ministry of Households, but also pays some to the Guangji Treasury of the Ministry of Industry, some to the Military Supplies Treasury of the Ministry of War, and some to the Forest Garden Bureau of Guanglu Temple.

It is extremely chaotic, and the annual financial books are basically muddled.

And this is not the most nonsense, the most nonsense is that the government at the county level has the right to keep the two taxes for itself.

What is the right to self-retention?

That is, if the county collects grain money, it can retain the materials it will use next year.When it is sent to the state capital, the government office of the state government will also intercept it once. When it is sent to the household department at the provincial government level, the tax and tax have already been reduced by more than half.

In general, half of the 500 million taels of silver taxed and taxed in the whole country can reach the Ministry of Household Xia Yuanji's hands, which is not counted as the distribution of silver to the Nanjing Household Department.

But even at this level of nonsense, Li Tian didn't dare to make any changes.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. All reforms involving money and food must be a lot of people.The party who pays less will not be grateful to him, but the party who pays more must want his life in his dreams.

As long as the law of household reform is not implemented in the whole country, and the 26th Guards Army does not become a division of tigers and wolves, Li Tian will not consider reforming the tax system for a day.

In some reforms, the four characters of Xu Xutu can be said to be unmistakable.

Instructing Huang Zhun to sit down honestly, Li Tian stopped being impatient and said in a deep voice:

"As for the tax system, I will move sooner or later, but not now, so you don't have to think about it.

What I want you to think about is how to return the land in the hands of the feudal lords to the common people, with money, food and soldiers. I don’t want Ming Dynasty to appear as a country within a country. "

It turned out that they wanted to become a vassal king, Yang Shiqi and the others suddenly let out a long breath.

But being a vassal is closely related to the tax system, and the people are not stupid. If the government did not impose too many taxes, they would not seek skin from a tiger and dedicate their land to the vassal.

After pondering for a while, Yang Shiqi immediately had a countermeasure in his mind, and cupped his hands and said:
"Your Majesty, it is not easy to change the tax system right now, but if your Majesty just wants the people to no longer contribute real estate, it would be fine to exempt the people from the feudal lands of the feudal lords from all over the country from paying taxes."

I wipe, is there such a way to play?Li Tian was a little surprised.

Seeing the astonishment on Li Tian's face, Yang Shiqi smiled and explained aloud:
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be surprised. There are disasters in state capitals every year in the world. It is normal for the imperial court to exempt the disaster area from taxes. Most of the fiefdoms of vassal kings in various places are in the frontiers. Drought, ice disaster, flood disaster, wind disaster, there will always be one every year."

After Yang Shiqi finished speaking, Li Tian fell into deep thought.

He originally planned to lure the vassal princes from all over the world into Beijing by enjoying the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and then build two Prince Streets in Qingqingfang to keep them in captivity in Beijing.

But this kind of thing is actually quite risky. The vassal princes stationed on the frontier are different from the hair-shedding pigs like Zhu Jixi.

Not only do they have fiefdoms and real power, but they also have soldiers under their command. If the trouble is ugly, their subordinates are likely to rebel.

Weighing the pros and cons of the two methods, Li Tian simply stated his plan truthfully.

Yang Shiqi and the others didn't expect the emperor to be so ruthless, and wanted to raise the vassal kings from all over the country in the capital like pigs, but they felt that the emperor's method seemed to be feasible.

Ren Jin bowed his hands, looked at Yang Shiqi and the others and said:

"Although Lord Yuanfu's law is safe, His Majesty's law can be done once and for all. According to my humble opinion, it is better to issue a few tax exemption orders first, and see how the fiefdoms of the vassals will work.

If the vassal kings honestly return the property to the common people, I think that there is no need to force them to stay in Beijing, if the vassal kings from all over the country treat the court like nothing."

(End of this chapter)