Heaven's Martial Fate

Chapter 880 Low-key development
At this time, the Daqian Dynasty was still in its heyday.

Generally, in such a dynastic period, there are many talents and heroes.

The fact is indeed the case, there are definitely not a few capable people and powerful characters in the court.

Moreover, as long as one is truly capable and capable, the royal family does not place too much emphasis on one's origin, which is especially rare.

In the story of the Red Chamber, Prince Teng almost entered the cabinet and became one of the most powerful men in the entire Daqian Dynasty.

It's a pity that the interests of the four major families in Jinling are basically weak, and they fell apart early on.

Wang Ziteng was unable to support himself alone, and also encountered a strong rebound from the civil servants group, and died outside the capital for unknown reasons.

He is not a serious imperial examination background, but a veritable honorable official.

Of course, his defeat was not just caused by the lack of strength of the four major families in Jinling, but the overall retreat of the Xungui Group.

At that time, even the position of Minister of the Ministry of War was taken away by Jia Yucun, which shows that the Xungui Group suffered heavy losses.

Since there are many heroes in the court, it is natural to see the problems in the court.

The biggest problem, of course, is the lack of financial revenue.

Of course, it is much stronger than the former Ming Dynasty, but compared with the wealthy Song Dynasty, Dagan's treasury income is far behind.

Comparing the two, there is a considerable gap between the Song Dynasty and Dagan in terms of population, territory and other aspects.

But in terms of financial income, the two Song Dynasty's annual income exceeded ten million taels.

The biggest difference is definitely the income gap above the commercial tax.

Of course, at this time, there was a lot of trouble in the court because of tax collection, so it was obviously not a good time to raise business taxes.

But if you want to increase the revenue of the treasury, there are other ways to think about.

One whip!
Although the Great Ming Dynasty in this world collapsed suddenly after the Tumu Fortress Change, naturally there is no such great person as Zhang Juzheng.

But the whip law is not an incomprehensible policy. In fact, Zhang Juzheng did not propose it in official history. It was just implemented smoothly under his presidency and lasted for decades in the Ming Dynasty.

Now that there is a desire to increase the revenue of the treasury, some ministers naturally proposed a whip method to fill the treasury.

Quite a coincidence, the minister who proposed this policy happened to be named Zhang.

One stone caused a thousand waves!

How should I put it, a whipping law does not touch the interests of officials, but an optimization method to simplify the tax payment of the people at the bottom.

In the past, land taxes included not only silver and copper coins, but also miscellaneous objects, such as rice, cloth and silk.

The one-whip rule is to allow the common people to exchange their physical objects into silver to pay taxes, which is much more convenient and simpler.

It seems that there is not much help to the treasury revenue, but it is not.

In-kind taxation, there are too many hands and feet that can be moved.

Not to mention that the price can be manipulated artificially, so that the people who pay the tax will suffer a lot of losses. The loss alone, the silver that can be saved every year is in units of one million taels.

Cough cough, a whip actually affects the interests of low-level officials and village elders who are responsible for collecting taxes.

But the problem is that most court officials don't want to change the tax system much.

Changes mean that there may be changes in interests, and what is more likely is a change in the distribution of powers and responsibilities in the court.

If the imperial court implements a whip law, will the existence of presiding over the implementation become more powerful, and even have the possibility of attacking the chief minister of the cabinet?

As for the chief assistant of the cabinet, it is absolutely impossible to preside over a tax reform such as a whip, unless the current brain is flooded.

The powers and responsibilities of the cabinet chiefs have changed, and the officials in the court will naturally have a lot of power changes.

This is something that is difficult for those who are looking for stability to accept.

No one knows whether today will take the opportunity to strengthen the penetration and control of the cabinet?

In addition, although the whip method only touched the interests of low-level officials and village elders, the impact was not small.

Why do the local gentry dominate the local area and command the government's yamen to help pursue the best interests?
Isn't it just that among taxes, there is a lot of room for manipulation?
Only by allowing the low-level officials in the yamen and the village elders to have enough benefits and benefits to reap, can the local gentry better control the place without losing their own interests?
However, if a whip method is implemented, it will definitely increase the cost of local gentry's plundering, and the local restraint will not be as strict as before.

After all, it would cost a lot to buy low-level officials in the yamen, as well as village clan elders.

The interests of the local gentry may be affected, how can the officials in the court easily agree?

He has shown considerable interest today, and he is interested in any method that can increase the revenue of the treasury at the moment.

A whip method suits his appetite very much, it does not move the interests of the officials and the powerful class, at least there is not much resistance from the upper class if he wants to carry it out.

He also understood that the real resistance was below.

But today he doesn't care much, as long as he doesn't confront him directly, the resistance from below will naturally be resolved by the courtiers who are willing to come forward.

No, the minister surnamed Zhang took the initiative to ask, willing to preside over the implementation of a whipping law.

Although they intend to agree to it today, the cabinet leaders collectively stated that such tax reform matters still need to be treated with caution, and they can only be temporarily abandoned.

Because of the sudden change in the court, it made the previous turmoil of southern gentry's resistance to taxes less acute.

But in fact, the contradiction is only temporarily let go, and no one thinks that today will really compromise and give up directly.

Again, the emperor's face is not so easy to hit.

It can only be said that the southern gentry at that time, especially the southern gentry headed by the Donglin Party, acted too violently.

The turmoil in the court hall had little impact on Ningrong Second Mansion.

Ningrong Second Mansion is qualified to go to the court, Master She and Jia Rong don't show up very much, while the Second Master Zheng is out of character, and he dare not speak easily at all.

As a result, Ning Rong's Second House hardly had any right to speak in the court.

Of course, in this way, many turmoil in the court would hardly affect the Ningrong Second Mansion.

For such a state, Jia Rong is naturally dissatisfied.

According to his mind, it is fine not to speak in the court, but others should not underestimate the influence and deterrence of the Ningrong Second Mansion, otherwise it would be too shameful if any cat or dog dared to show their presence on the Ningrong Second Mansion .

No, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the weather was getting colder, Jia Rong suddenly rushed to the coast of Jinmen quietly, doing things to improve the voice of the Ningrong Second Mansion...

(End of this chapter)