Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 8
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, after packing up, Zhu Biao walked out of the gate of the palace with the three treasures.

Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di followed Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Li to the east of the city.

Zhu Biao bought two moon cakes with a moon palace toad painted on them, and gave one to the three treasures, and ate them as he walked, and came to the center of the city not long after.

Tomorrow, I will go to Daying with Lao Zhu and Zhu Di to see Xu Da, Lan Yu and Chang Yuchun.

Coming out today, Zhu Biao intends to buy some things for the soldiers as gifts for tomorrow.

No matter which era it is, some human relations are indispensable, and it is good to buy something for the soldiers.

"Moon cakes, freshly baked moon cakes!"

"Guess the lantern riddles, there is a big gift if you guess right."

"Damn ghost, peeping at the woman again."

Zhu Biao turned his head and saw a woman in front of a portrait of Chang'e, grabbing the man's ear and leaving with curses.

On the street, there are row upon row of pavilions, moon cakes are placed on both sides of the street, there are shouts one after another, people's heads are surging, it is very lively.

In the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival, melon and fruit snacks for worshiping the moon, fruit cakes and joss sticks for offering sacrifices to the moon can be seen everywhere.

At the door of many stores, there are moon palace talismans hanging. On the talisman paper, a rabbit stands on it like a person, with its claws clasped in fists.

Zhu Biao turned outside a shop and stopped.

"Dai Chunlin?"

During the reign of Chongzhen, Dai Chunlin opened a powder shop in Gengzi Street, Yangzhou.

The original method of stewing dizang, wine source water leaching, wood steaming and concentration, etc. are used to extract and process natural herbs, plants and minerals. The powder is very popular with those concubines, and I am not less influenced by powder gas.

This incense powder shop will still be Daming's palace powder from now on, there are a few men who look like literati and scholars standing inside, picking something, the business is so hot that it makes people afraid.

In the future, the business of the Ming Dynasty will develop unprecedentedly, but the tax rate of this business is extremely low, which is not the mainstream of taxation in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Biao sighed.

The amount of agricultural tax is much larger than that of commercial tax. The tax is mainly land tax.

Liao pay: Jiajing 29 years began to levy, began to deal with Tatar offenders.After 44 years of Wanli, gold rose, and Nurhachi announced the "seven major hatreds" crusade.

The number of Liaoxiang continues to increase, and the final quota is 520 million taels per year.

Suppression of wages: Chongzhen received 13 million taels per year from Chongzhen for 280 years in order to suppress the taxes imposed by Li Zicheng and other peasant uprisings.

Training salary: It is an additional levy for the military salary needed for military expansion and training. Chongzhen collected 12 million taels in 730 years.

These three tax increases are all in addition to the normal tax burden, which really increased the burden on the people in the late Ming Dynasty.

The bureaucratic gentry, relatives of the emperor and other privileged classes do not have to pay taxes.

In order to evade taxes, many farmers pay less than tax money to those who do not pay taxes, so that their own property is hung in the names of these people.

These businessmen who do business have more brains.

It subsidizes talented scholars to take the imperial examination and become an official. In the end, officials and businessmen in Ming Dynasty colluded to evade paying taxes.Later, they simply pushed Zhu Biao's Ming Dynasty to reduce or exempt commercial taxes.

At that time, many civil servants in the Donglin Party, the Zhejiang Party, and other cliques were the spokespersons for the interests of these big businessmen.

In order to find a way, I also collected additional business taxes. As a result, most of the civil servants in the court enlisted themselves to "compete with the people for profit."

Originally, the handicraft industry and commodity economy were prosperous in later generations, and overseas trade was also very developed.

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the territory and population are much larger than those of the Southern Song Dynasty.But the annual fiscal revenue is far lower than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Explain that there is a problem with taxes!

There are problems in the tax system, which makes the country's finances difficult, and it is difficult to deal with natural disasters and wars that endanger the stability of the country.

The peasants who could not survive joined the ranks of the rebel army one after another, and the original body in the previous life continued to increase taxes in order to suppress the rebel army, falling into a vicious circle.

But this is only part of the reason.

During the Wanli period, the taxation system was almost over.He sent eunuchs to collect taxes and was resisted.Not only resisted taxes, but also succeeded in resisting taxes.

Zhu Biao knew that the Daming banknotes were mainly used in the early Ming Dynasty.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was silver, and they hoarded nearly two-thirds of the world's silver, but they didn't know how to spend it.

If you have money, you can raise soldiers, use it to support sailing, and do more things.

Only in my previous life did I know that the original Chongzhen did not actually control as many troops as Wu Sangui's servants.

After the Tumubao Incident, the only emperor in the Ming Dynasty who actually controlled the army was Zhengde.

But Zhengde ended up falling into the water and dying.

The eunuchs sent by the factory guards were beaten to death by the local forces as the last knife, and they could only kill individual civil servants.

Facing those big interest groups, there is no deterrence at all.

At that time, the financial crisis was due to the fact that the Ming Dynasty and the common people had no money.Merchants, officials, gentry, etc. are all very wealthy.The emperor was worried about millions of taels of silver every year.

But after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he was directly tortured and beaten, and easily seized 7000 million taels of silver from officials.

In contrast, shocking.

In his previous life, when he crossed over to be Chongzhen, the group of Donglin Party moved out all kinds of confrontations with him, such as showing their ambitions with death, bumping into pillars and stone lions, and they all gritted their teeth.

Seeing Dai Chunlin, these problems at the end of the Ming Dynasty were vivid again, thinking of the effort he had expended at that time, Zhu Biao felt angry.

If you want to change the status quo at the end of the Ming Dynasty, you have to start bit by bit from now, or set a small goal to cultivate the great Ming...

The store is full of rouge and gouache, exuding a faint herbal aroma, and there are notes hanging on the rouge and gouache boxes, which are lantern riddles for Mid-Autumn Festival.

The boss raised his beard, took out some loose coins from his pocket, handed them to the little waiter in the store, and said slowly:
"You, go and buy me a five-spice steamed goose from the south of the city for my master, and ask the cook to chop the meat finer, and then a drunken roast chicken with crispy flesh and bones. .As for this wine... just ask for his family's old wine, business is good today."

"Okay! Master wait a moment, the boy will be back soon." The waiter weighed the money in his hand and ran out.

Zhu Biao's eyes swept over the counter, which was full of rouge and gouache, and after seeing the people inside, Zhu Biao came out.

Dai Chunlin is a typical popular commercial store. I didn't expect this store to open now in the early Ming Dynasty.

Condolences and rewards to the soldiers, it is impossible to buy some cosmetics for them, which is too inappropriate.

Zhu Biao and Zheng Sanbao bought some good scabbards and some necessities for men.

I also bought some traditional Chinese medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and the soldiers were training and fighting all day long. These injuries often occurred, so I bought some medicinal materials and ground them into powder as a reserve.

The life of soldiers who have fought for a long time is very difficult, and they will go north to attack Hu Yuan in October or so.

Considering the climate and environment in the Northland, Zhu Biao asked Sanbao to buy altar wine and come back.

This is something that Lao Zhu specially instructed himself, saying that he will have a drink with his brother tomorrow during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

It took the two of them several hours, and they walked towards the palace when the sun was setting.

Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Li went back early because they wanted to make some mooncakes for Xu Da and the others.

After Zhu Biao returned home, he asked Sanbao and Jin'er Yuer to come over to help, and went to study the carriage by himself.

　Everyone count the votes, the bosses beat me to death with the votes
　　
　
(End of this chapter)