Chapter 80 Zhu Yuanzhang: Seeing your performance, I really want to kill someone! Then the large amount of land in the family does not need to pay taxes, and the people in the family do not need to perform corvee or errands.
This is the biggest exemption for readers.
So why even if a scholar comes out in the village, everyone will fawn over him, call him Master Xiucai, and even give him gifts and treat guests.
Not only because he might become an official in the future, but also because if he passed the exam and became a scholar, he would gain fame and be exempt from taxes for himself and a relative.
As for relatives, as long as the relationship is accommodating, anyone can be replaced. Anyway, there is only a quota. Of course, there are landlords pretending to be relatives.
The landowners put their land in the name of the scholar, exempted them from taxes every year, and gave a certain amount back to the scholar.
Then the lives of the scholars will be nourished one by one.
This is the most important reason that really stimulates people all over the world to immerse themselves in books.
Even if you are not an official, once you gain fame, the environment at home will be greatly improved.
It is precisely because of this system that after the middle and late Ming Dynasty, a large number of officials with preferential exemptions and their relatives occupied a large amount of land without paying taxes, and the court's tax sources were greatly reduced.
However, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince proposes that officials and gentry work together as errands to pay the rations, it will hit a large number of officials.
This is a matter of vital interest to all officials.
So when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that the officials and gentry would be responsible for paying the rations, almost all the officials stood up to oppose it.
Many people say that this is a rule since ancient times, that this is a way to win over scholars, and that this is the only way for scholars to be loyal to the imperial court.
In fact, no matter how much I say it, once this policy is implemented, it will only hit our own interests.
Even some honest officials hesitated.
After hearing this, Xia Yuanji and Shen Liqian's instinctive reaction was that a big storm was coming.
It doesn't matter to them, since they are already ready for complete reforms.
But almost all the officials were whispering, with heavy expressions on their faces.
Everyone felt a deep crisis at this moment.
No one is relaxed at this time, and many people even think that His Highness the Crown Prince is talking crazy? It's just a matter of dividing the land into acres. At most, there is no way to let go of the people who have lost their land and have to bear heavy land taxes and taxes.
I have earned enough now. As long as I use the money to hire people to farm for my family, I will be like a beggar.
But after the officials and gentry became one of the errands and paid the rations, that was no longer the case.
That means that with so much land in your home, you have to pay a lot of taxes.
How can they bear it once they have to pay so much tax? We are officials, why should we pay taxes? Shouldn't it be the people who have suffered a lot?
How can we, the scholar-bureaucrats, be made to pay taxes?
Since the establishment of the scholar-official class, we have never heard of the scholar-officials having to pay taxes.
We are the superior ones, and we should have been fed by [-]% of the common people, like us, the scholar-bureaucrat class. We eat meat and drink soup, and they can't even chew the bones. That's how it should be.
Since ancient times, the scholar-bureaucrat class has been exploiting the people.
The people should serve us.
Why should we give them freedom now?
We can tolerate the sharing of land and property, but it is absolutely intolerable for the officials and gentry to work as errands and pay taxes.
Therefore, officials came forward one by one and told them that if this policy is implemented, it will cause riots in the world and so on.
After Zhu Yuanzhang listened to these words, he looked at the small boards that Jiang Yu handed over while the civil and military officials were discussing below. After opening them one by one, he felt confident.
So Zhu Yuanzhang slowly stood just stood up and left the dragon chair, and the chaotic discussion below stopped abruptly.
They dared to talk when facing His Highness the Crown Prince.
But when facing Zhu Yuanzhang, they did not dare to speak loudly, and everyone was trembling.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and began to walk slowly on both sides of Danbi.
As he stepped forward, there were more than a dozen small boards in his hands. The officials who were closer got chills down their spines when they saw the pictures drawn on them.
It was a unique drawing board used by Jinyiwei to collect intelligence. It would vividly record all the expressions of people at that time.
This is the greatest skill of Zhu Yuanzhang's Jin Yiwei.
Officials trembled when they heard about the reputation of Jinyiwei because these people were so pervasive.
It is estimated that after listening to the two policies just now, the various expressions on his face have been recorded.
So even Lu Ben, the father-in-law of His Highness the Crown Prince, saw Zhu Yuanzhang not speaking on top of the Dan Emperor, but just walking back and forth... tak... tak... with the little board in his hand. Cutting back and forth like playing cards, I felt my legs starting to get weak, not to mention the other officials.
Some officials were even pale and trembling all over. They felt remorseful and so excited that they even forgot to hide their expressions.
If the anger he expressed when he heard that Tan Ding entered his mother-in-law was recorded by Jin Yiwei, wouldn't it be the best evidence? No interrogation is needed, and the emperor only needs to take out the board and show it in front of him, and he will have everything confession.
On the huge Fengtian Temple Square, there were hundreds of civil and military officials, and everyone began to sweat on their foreheads and became as quiet as a chill.
You could hear a needle drop on the court, and you could only hear the sound of Zhu Yuanzhang walking and the sound of small wooden boards rubbing back and forth on Zhu Yuanzhang's hands.
Just like the sickle raised by the god of death.
It's like there's always a knife hanging on your forehead.
The chilling atmosphere was like a strong wind blowing up sand and dust. Needless to say, it filled the air with low pressure.
They all seemed to have forgotten His Majesty the Emperor's murderous methods, and they also forgot that even if His Majesty the Emperor did not speak, the policies were all tacitly approved.
Above the entire square, the air pressure dropped instantly.
After walking back and forth two or three times, Zhu Yuanzhang stood at the most central position on Danbi.
Then he held a stack of small wooden boards behind his back and stared at the officials below with a smile.
There was a crash, as if there was boundless sea water, drowning all the officials.
Everyone felt like their chests were being pressed against a huge stone, making them unable to breathe.
This is the power of this mighty emperor.
Then, under the shocked eyes of all the officials, Zhu Yuanzhang stood on a high place, flicked his hand, and more than a dozen small pieces of wood fell from the air, clattering to the ground.
Everyone was confused by His Majesty the Emperor's move. Even Zhu Biao didn't know what his father was going to do.
After throwing away the small pieces of wood, Zhu Yuanzhang still clasped his hands behind his back and said in a calm voice: "I can't help but feel the intention to kill after looking at the content on the board..."
boom! !
As soon as these words came out, several officials were so frightened that they fell to their knees on the ground.
It was as if the muscles and bones had been pulled out, and it became soft.
The officials next to me are pretty much the same now...
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