Chapter 79: Taking advantage of people’s lives means carving out some people’s flesh! Shen Liqian, who was scolded as a sycophant, was not angry at all. Instead, he asked directly: "Once the diviation of land and land is implemented, it will not only cancel the heavy capitation tax on the people, but also allow the people who have no land or less land to live." Reducing the burden is a great national policy.
But some people, because of their own power or the numerous properties in their families, are anxious when they hear that they have to take out more money from their own pockets to pay taxes.
I think these people are the real traitors. "
After Shen Liqian said this, the officials who had been jumping to their feet and cursing just now all turned red with anger, but they were unable to say anything to refute.
What Shen Liqian said is right.
They occupied a house and a lot of land at home, and annexed a lot of land through various means.
And through being an official at home, and cultivating candidates, scholars, and scholars in the family, all these lands have been turned into land that does not need to pay taxes.
As long as you spend some grain every year to hire some tenant farmers to help you work, you can live there for a lifetime. Once the grain is resold, you can make a lot of money.
It is a wonderful thing to use this income to annex land again and again.
This is also their biggest gain when they are officials.
Even though the salaries of officials are not high, they can still live a comfortable life by relying on the land at home to support themselves.
As long as you can still be an official, as long as you are influential in the official career, you can continue to train the children of your family to enter the officialdom, and then repeat this cycle, and the family can last for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Since the birth of the imperial examination system, all officials have used this method to pave the way for future generations. This is a common thing.
And now if the imperial court really implements the system of dividing one person into an acre, then how can those tenant farmers who have no land and do not need to pay so much tax be allowed to have their own fish and meat? They don't have to pay such heavy taxes, so why are they willing to lower their heads and work for themselves?How can you accept the situation and accept it?How can I enslave them? Thinking of this makes me feel sick.
After Shen Liqian finished speaking, he glanced at everyone. Although his position was not high and he was only a magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, he had seen too many examples of scholar-bureaucrats taking advantage of their privileges to annex land and tie up the people.
Even though they are not used as slaves, their nature is essentially the same.
Once allotment is implemented, these people will be greatly liberated. There will be no heavy capitation tax on their heads, no heavy servants, and 's equivalent to liberation.
But this has completely affected the interests of many people.
Zhu Biao has not directly said that the officials and gentry will be responsible for paying the food. If he did, these people would be even more excited and cursed.
But just as Zhu Biao and the others thought just now, even if the reform of the share-sharing system affects their interests, they first accepted the benefits of the increase in salary given by His Highness the Crown Prince, and now immediately regret it. , that’s outrageous.
Second, as the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang was patrolling around with a pair of knife-like eyes at this time. He did not speak, but it did not represent these policies. There was no discussion between the father and son. The father and son had already cooperated perfectly. One is a good person, the other is a bad person.
The quarrel hasn't started yet, so Lao Zhu didn't say much. Once the quarrel breaks out, the knife in his hand will be swung down, and everyone will have to finish the game.
So even if some people want to resist, they calm down when they think of the consequences of resisting.
After Shen Liqian refuted many officials who objected, he fell to his knees with a plop in his arms.
“Your Majesty is wise, His Highness is wise, and the people at the bottom will be the happiest people once implemented.
And those powerful landowners who occupy houses and lie on the ground and own large amounts of land can pay more taxes than they can extract from the poor Mr. Lu said would reduce the court's taxes, but in the eyes of the lower officials, it was the complete opposite.
The people who work on the farm collect taxes from the rich, so they have more to draw from. On the contrary, it is the poor people who sell their houses, land, and even their children and daughters. However, the court's taxes still do not increase much. , isn’t this enough to explain the problem? "
Xia Yuanji also fell to the ground holding the wat board: "Wei Chen seconded the proposal."
The dozen or so officials in the cabinet were all selected from the bottom, and their character and ability had been screened. When they heard about such a good national policy, they immediately stood up and knelt down behind Xia Yuanji and Shen Liqian holding the wat board.
"Wei Chen agrees!"
Then Ling Han also stepped forward and hugged the wat board. Instead of kneeling down, he bowed and saluted: "Ling Han, the right minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, seconded the proposal."
Then I saw the Ministers of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishments all standing up to second their opinions.
Each of these ministers will indeed compete for power and profit in their respective departments, but it should be said that officials at their level have no interest in corruption.
What they want more to do is to be famous forever and leave a good reputation. This is the ultimate goal for them.
The bosses of the six departments stood up and agreed together. The left and right ministers, the heads of each department, and the six departments all stood up and agreed.
Lu Ben's people were a little depressed after seeing the true situation.
After Zhu Biao saw this situation, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's spread it out. Now that my dear friends have agreed, we will choose a place to try it out. If the effect is good, we will promote it all over the world.
The next third reform is that the officials and gentry will work as errands to pay the grain! ! "
As soon as these words were spoken, a huge earthquake was immediately caused.
The imperial examinations that were popular during the Tang and Song Dynasties also gave scholars certain privileges, but they were all exempted from their own land tax, corvee labor, or ding labor.
But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, in order to win over scholars from all over the world at the beginning of the founding of the country, and because the north had been in the hands of the Hu people for a long time, in order to win over the people of the world, the Ming Dynasty introduced a policy of giving more preferential treatment to scholars.
In addition to being exempted from taxes and corvee, the scholar himself can also be exempted from corvée, dingfu and land tax for some relatives.
The number of people exempted depends on your rank after becoming an official.
Generally speaking, the highest level is the first and second grades. The specific number of people exempted depends first on your contribution, which is usually about one to five relatives.
This number may not seem large, but once the number of officials in the world increases, there will be more relatives.
The reason why many landowners are willing to cultivate scholars at home is that they can exempt their relatives from taxes.
In this way, once the sons of landlords are admitted to be a scholar, a scholar, or a scholar, they can be exempted from the land tax, labor service, servant service, etc. of one or two relatives...
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