Chapter 65 Chen Han whets his appetite!The worries of Lao Zhu and his son! When Chen Han said this, Ling Han and the others were very excited.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, father and son, were also thinking about what kind of methods Chen Han could tell so that the Ming Dynasty could implement specific operations.
Perhaps the descendants of future generations have already solved the problem. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty banknotes devalued, the people lost trust in the Ming Dynasty banknotes and had to use silver as currency, thus starting the poisoning method.
If this problem can be solved, the Ming Dynasty may issue a credit currency like Chen Han's, which can be supported by the strong national power of the Ming Dynasty.
Then it forced other countries to recognize the Ming Dynasty's currency, thereby harvesting the goods of other countries.
This is the path that the Ming Dynasty should take.
Zhu Yuanzhang also had such ambitions.
But how this tool should be invented and how this tool should be used all exist in Chen Han's mind.
Chen Han couldn't see, and he didn't understand how important every word he said was to Zhu Yuanzhang and his son.
He is just innocent now. He mentioned a regret after the Ming Dynasty was poisoned by silver, and he couldn't calm down.
Thinking of the past few hundred years, my country has spent nearly 400 years struggling with the pain of silver as the standard currency.
When I think about the fact that all the property I have owned for so many years has been cheapened by those people who were enemies in the circumstances at that time, I feel even more upset and extremely resentful.
He is just venting helplessly now.
Ling Han was also extremely excited at this time, and Zhu Youwei was even more concerned.
If Chen Han can help the Ming Dynasty solve this problem, he will be the true benefactor of the Ming Dynasty.
It is estimated that his grandpa Huang will be able to realize how important Chen Han is, so he does not dare to treat Chen Han in the slightest. In this way, Chen Han's safety problem should be solved.
Ling Han asked excitedly: "Teacher Xiao Chen, after you have said so much, there should be a solution.
Since the Ming Dynasty can issue a currency, what should it do? What is the method? "
Chen Han was silent at this time. He took a sip of water and said slowly: "So far, I haven't conceived of the specific steps in my mind for this method. If you ask me now, I'm just talking nonsense and bits and pieces." significance.
How about you give me a few days to calm down and think about this issue in my mind.
Having said so much today, I am really tired. "
Chen Han's sudden appetite made Zhu Yuanzhang and his son a little disappointed, but it didn't matter if they just waited for a day or two. They couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
The father and son immediately waved and then quietly went out.
Ling Han also knew that Chen Han's talking so much today was indeed a bit exhausting, so he pretended to tell Zhu Youwei that he would take good care of Chen Han and then went out.
After the emperor, ministers and scholars arrived at the Jiazhu Pavilion, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the farmland under the Jiaqiao Pavilion with his hands behind his back, and his mood was ups and downs.
After coming to Chen Han today, at least one problem was solved.
That is the chaotic tax system of the Ming Dynasty, which can be solved by using the whip method proposed by later generations or by dividing the land into an area.
But the premise is that there must be a stable currency that is recognized by the people and has credibility to implement it.
Integrate all miscellaneous taxes into one line and collect them according to the amount of land and population.
Instead of asking the people to pay in kind again.
What Chen Han mentioned about the method of whipping and spreading people into their own land was actually that after the imperial government collected money, all the servants and office workers in the government were hired from the private sector through money.
In this way, people will not be bound by free labor.
This is the most effective method I've heard so Yuanzhang clasped his hands behind his back and thought for a while, "Boss, what do you think of a whipping method and sharing the family?"
Zhu Biao commented unceremoniously, "It is actually a strategy for governing the country."
Zhu Biao was always calm, and his words were resounding. He agreed with both options.
Moreover, it was an idea that Zhu Biao had thought about before.
Although he did not propose such a specific plan, as the prince of the state, he presided over many imperial examinations.
Zhu Biao knew very well what they were thinking in many cases.
These heirs, who grew up from ordinary peasant families at the bottom, may not have the ambition to serve the country in their hearts. They just want to cross the class through the imperial examination and become a privileged class with tax exemption.
After such people become officials and have these privileges and exemptions, they consider themselves to be superiors.
Encouraged by this trend, a large number of scholars can indeed emerge, and a group of scholars can indeed be selected for the imperial court.
But the people at the bottom will soon find that when there are more and more scholars and more and more people enjoy tax exemptions and exemptions, the fixed amount of taxes will not be less, so who will bear it? Already? Just ordinary people.
And this is also the type of people Xia Yuanji talks about who take advantage of their privileges and reduce taxes.
The more such people there are, the more they will usurp the royal court's taxes.
If things go on like this, there will be fewer and fewer people paying land tax.
As for what Chen Han mentioned, Zhu Biao strongly agrees with the concept of sharing the land between the peasants and the officials and gentry working together as errands to pay the grain, which was used in later generations.
Only by allowing those privileged classes to pay land taxes together can the wealth of the imperial court be guaranteed, and the ordinary people in the world who do not have much land receive real fairness.
Although Ling Han was an official in the Ministry of Rites, he didn't know much about taxation.
But Chen Han spoke in an easy-to-understand manner, and he understood.
When I think about what Chen Han said, if the Ming Dynasty really used silver as its standard currency, it might cause silver poisoning in the past 400 years.
It was possible that the Han people, after nearly 400 years of hard work, would end up with nothing but a dream. Ling Han felt that he now had the responsibility to stop such a thing. occur.
That night, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and his son inspected the cabinet's handling of the memorial.
After repeatedly watching the memorial and the handling opinions of Xia Yuanji and others, Zhu Yuanzhang and his son were still satisfied.
Although these people have not been exposed to real national affairs, they are very good at handling the matters reported to the Sixth Department from the local level.
Especially several prefects, they are even more comprehensive.
It can be seen from this that because local officials, especially prefects, as heads of a government, they have to deal with all aspects, they have relatively sufficient experience, and they can handle matters in a clear and logical manner.
From this point of view, the cabinet can definitely handle small matters.
But the only thing that the father and son worried about was that in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the king had enough energy to repeatedly demonstrate and check the handling of memorials by cabinet officials, and he had his own judgment.
But as Chen Han said, after three generations, the emperors who grew up in deep palaces had no local experience, and they might not even know the specific things listed in the memorial.
How can you make a correct judgment if you don't understand it yourself? This is what makes the father and son both happy and worried now...
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