Qiming 1158

Chapter 832 Get out of this weird circle

For a family as big as the Kong family, it is not enough to just manage the farmland and not be able to satisfy the appetite of such a Kong family.

So it's still a quick business to make money.

Moreover, through the title of Duke Yan Sheng of the Kong family, the business income is basically pure profit without the necessary expenses, and the people of Jin Guo did not ask them to pay this part of the tax.

Therefore, after entering the Ming Dynasty, they continued their traditional arts and performed some operations on this matter. They made a lot of money by undertaking some businesses, and they made a lot of money.

This money is basically provided to the master family of Kong, allowing them to maintain a superior and even luxurious life.

Moreover, the Kong family has many families, many branches, and huge expenses. They also have to spend money to manage many places. Without this income, it is really difficult for them to maintain their family status.

If it is placed in Jin Guo, this is of course nothing. Even if Wanyan Liang knows about it, she probably will turn a blind eye and ignore it.

However, the current emperor is Su Yonglin.

It was Su Yonglin who was about to lift the table and start a great revolution in Shandong.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was a plan to levy commercial tax, but due to the lack of manpower, the main goal was still on agricultural tax. For commercial tax, there are laws to be followed but there is a lack of manpower to implement it.

Su Yonglin attached great importance to the commercial tax, and learned the lessons of the Zhu Ming Dynasty. From the beginning, he did not intend to ignore the commercial tax and attach importance to the agricultural tax. The Southern Song Dynasty was able to rely on the huge scale of the commercial tax and salt tax. It is enough to withstand the explosion for decades, which is enough to show the huge potential of commercial tax.

Su Yonglin's Ming Kingdom chose not to earn the common people's salt money, but he did not intend to treat businessmen preferentially.

He not only set different levels of tax standards for businessmen's business income, but also imposed strict restrictions on businessmen's operation of land.

Su Yonglin clearly stipulated in the Ming law that the land system of the Ming Dynasty is state-owned, and there is no king's land in the world, and the way farmers own land is that the Ming Dynasty contracted the farmers to cultivate.

The agricultural tax paid by farmers is equivalent to the contracting fee. The ownership of the land is still owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty protects the qualifications of farmers to contract land for cultivation.

Therefore, from a legal point of view, land sales within the boundaries of the Ming Dynasty can only be operated by the Chief Minister of the Ministry of Finance, who received the imperial order. The farmers who enjoyed the benefits of the Ming Dynasty land reform can only cultivate the land, and have no qualifications to sell the land.

Similarly, no private person can buy land from farmers, otherwise it is a violation of the law, even if it is just an inch of land, it is illegal and should be severely punished.

When the Ming Empire distributed land, merchants' homes were not qualified to acquire land. After the promulgation of the Ming Law, merchants were not allowed to directly purchase land through money, which changed the loose land regulations of the Jin and Song Dynasties.

While restricting purchases, while restricting sales, the land regulations of the Ming Empire were tightened across the board.

When the Ming Law was promulgated before, many ministers expressed their objections because of this law.

But it was of no use, because Su Yonglin controlled the entire judicial and legislative organs, so he had no intention of compromising with the old forces on this matter.

How to decide how to decide, there is nothing to discuss on this matter.

Su Yonglin knew the real reason for those ministers' objections. Don't look at their big reason that doing so would be detrimental to the stability of the country. In fact, he found that this decree restricted their way of merging land through commercial white gloves.

Su Yonglin slashed their flesh with a knife.

Although it has not really been implemented yet, as long as it is implemented, this decree will definitely hit them hard, and no matter when it starts to be implemented, it will be a huge hidden danger for them.

If they are not allowed to accumulate wealth to buy land, what else can they buy?
Luxury?
Luxury service?

Or something else?
A minister said very interestingly, saying that Su Yonglin restricts those who have money to buy land, so their money has nowhere to spend, either save it, or can only use it to do things that violate the law and discipline.

Depositing it will naturally affect the currency circulation in the market and affect economic development, and the so-called violations of law and discipline are of course not just ordinary violations of law and discipline.

He didn't say everything, but Su Yonglin felt that he was implying to himself that if people with money were not allowed to buy land, then they could only use money to recruit troops.

They can only use their wealth to obtain force and further their political and economic rights.

Su Yonglin sneered and kept these performances in the list, and then everyone who submitted the list was recorded and prepared to settle accounts in the autumn.

One of these people listed above is a bastard, and they are all spokespersons for interest groups and old ideas. How can they do a good job of politics with this group of worms?

If you are not allowed to buy land, don't you know how to organize a fleet to go to sea?
Don't you know that you go to other places to plunder resources and cheap labor and come back to complete the original accumulation for the industrial revolution?
I have not banned the sea!

Su Yonglin was very unhappy with the narrow-minded vision of these people.

Of course, it's not impossible for them to recruit troops, at least they are giving all the money they have accumulated to Su Yonglin, so that Su Yonglin can quickly accumulate original capital and provide a lot of funds for the development of science and technology.

All in all, the establishment of this law is only good for Su Yonglin, not bad.

Su Yonglin has been thinking about changing the phenomenon that the old and wealthy landlords only know how to use the money to annex the land without knowing what else to do, so no matter what, he can't allow such a thing to happen again under his rule.

In line with Su Yonglin's plan to promote technological innovation in the future, it is necessary for these guys not to use all the accumulated wealth to annex land.

Su Yonglin must change the general situation of the traditional land economy, otherwise this strange circle of [accumulation of wealth - annexation of land - collapse of order - rebuilding of order - accumulation of wealth] will not be able to break through no matter what.

The legal restrictions are true, but the important thing is to carry out ideological reforms. The thinking cannot be reformed, and the strategy of “going out” cannot be determined as a national strategy. After all, we must go back to the old way.

Therefore, Confucianism, a powerful tool to maintain the ultra-stable social structure in ancient China, must take a back seat and can exist, but it cannot continue to exist as an official guiding ideology.

As the representative of Confucianism, the Kong family has become the target that Su Yonglin will definitely attack.

In the past, Su Yonglin needed the existence of the Kong family to take the blame for him and let him show his tenderness, so that the scholars in the world could be a little more peaceful and have some expectations for the Ming Empire he built.

But now, when Su Yonglin was about to lift the table, the Kong family was the most ugly decoration on the table, and it was also very heavy, which would affect Su Yonglin's lifting of the table.

So Su Yonglin ordered without hesitation, ready to blast the Kong family.

In order to achieve this goal, Su Yonglin also deliberately went to Qufu from Jinan to the south, and came to this piece of land that had been separated for several years, to relive the glorious years of that year.

I remember when he was not very powerful, he once came here and attacked Qufu County under the banner of Zhao Kaishan, forcing Kong to follow the Restoration Army and rebel with them as a political offensive against the Jin Kingdom.

At the beginning, in order to protect the family, the Kong family launched Kong Yu, the younger brother of the patriarch Kong Zheng, who was appointed as the magistrate of Qufu, as a political symbol of Kong's obedience to the Restoration Army.

However, Kong Zheng still maintained the status of Duke Yansheng as a supporter of the Kong family.

At that time, Su Yonglin did not force Kong to give up everything.

However, it was precisely because he took a step back, so later, in exchange for Su Yonglin's understanding, so as to gain a firm foothold in the Ming court, the Kong family led Shandong scholars and old landlords to donate money to the court, which was almost entirely undertaken. Materials and money needed for the Liaodong resettlement plan.

Only in this way did the Shandong clique enter the Ming court as a wall-riding faction, gaining political power and continuing their political status.

It can be said that everything originated from Kong, and now, the end of everything will also start from Kong.

Su Yonglin arrived in Qufu County on May [-]. One day before that, Chai Yang personally led a thousand soldiers to Qufu County, took over the defense inside and outside Qufu County, began to screen those who entered Qufu, and did not allow the county seat. Anyone going out.

The Kong family was very frightened by this, especially when they learned that the reason why the army blocked the county seat of Qufu was that His Majesty the Emperor was about to arrive in Qufu.

Good guy, why is the emperor here?

Kong Yu, the magistrate of Qufu who stayed behind in Qufu, suddenly remembered the unforgettable scene of that year, the scene of the knife lying across his neck and his incompetence.

It was almost a nightmare for him.

Although they were blessed by misfortune afterward, from the time when they became the magistrate of Qufu until Su Yonglin conquered the Central Capital, Kong Yu always regarded himself as a dead person, and every day was regarded as the last day.

No one can stand it for such a long period of time.

After that, Kong Yu indulged himself for a while, and Kong Zheng also intentionally compensated him, letting him do whatever he wanted for a while, and at least he was relieved.

Qufu county magistrate continued to do so, and continued to enjoy the glory and wealth of the Confucius children.

He originally thought that his life would be spent slowly in such days, slowly ending his own life.

But he never imagined that the man who had caused him a nightmare would come to him so quickly again, and he even brought troops to take over the defense of Qufu, in a bad manner.

What is he doing?
Did Kong break the law?

Is he going to teach the Kong family a lesson?

Kong Yu didn't eat anything all day, drank a few sips of water, and didn't fall asleep at night. The next day, he stood at the gate of the city with dark circles under his eyes for two hours, until Su Yonglin arrived.

(End of this chapter)