Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 285 If you can talk, you are all good comrades
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yunfu hadn't made any moves yet, but Yan Zhenzhi, who had just taken office as a new official, embarked on the road back to Zhejiang with great contentment.

Now he has changed, from Zhejiang grain chief to Si Cheng of the Tax Law Reform Research Department of the Ministry of Households.

As for whether the Ministry of Households has such a research department?

The young master said yes, so there is!

Zhejiang Zuo Buzheng Wang Dun used to work in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and was a protégé of Shao Zhi. After the Guo Huan case, all the officials in Zhejiang were killed. Wang Dun was sent to Zhejiang at that time to serve as a procurator Make.

In the first year of Yongle, at the cabinet personnel appointment meeting, he was elected as the Zuobu Political Envoy of Zhejiang Province, and he naturally joined the Chen Party with Yan Zhenzhi.

"Congratulations on shaking straight."

Outside the city of Hangzhou, Yan Zhen never expected that Wang Dun would actually meet him in person, he was surprised and delighted at the same time, he stepped forward to greet him and saluted him.

"We are both under the disciples of the young master. Zhenzhi will not call you Fantai, but see outsiders. When there are no outsiders, you can talk to my brother."

Yan Zhen hit the snake on the stick, cupped his hands and said: "Since that's the case, I have seen brother Zijun."

"Haha." Wang Dun smiled loudly, took Yan Zhenzhi's hand and boarded his carriage: "That's right, Zhenzhi has fallen into the eyes of the young master this time, and he will have a bright future in the future. It's when you get closer."

Yan Zhen couldn't help but lose his mind for a while.

In the past, I was short of breath even when I saw the magistrate of Hangzhou, but now Wang Dun, the governor of a province, wants to take the initiative to make friends with himself.

At this time, Yan Zhen couldn't help but think, if Chen Yunfu's secretary Yang Shiqi came to the place, then Wang Dun would probably be more humble.

"Zhenzhi's entry into Beijing this time is probably because of the merger of the two volumes."

Sitting in the carriage, Yan Zhen was stunned by Wang Dun's words: "Brother Zijun already knows?"

Wang Dun nodded with a smile: "A few days ago, a copy of the residence report of the Minister of General Affairs was sent to Zhejiang. It was a warm-up for Zhenzhi's appointment. During this time, there were too many voices in Zhejiang, and it was also very noisy. , Brother, but I'm bored to death."

Yan Zhenzhi also laughed: "Zhejiang has always been a country with Dingkou and a large province of land taxation. This time the merger of the two volumes and the reform of the tax law, no one knows the inside story, so it is inevitable that some people will not sit still."

Wang Dun said: "That's right, so I have waited so much for my brother, it can be regarded as waiting for you back. Regarding this reform of the tax law, what advice does the young master have?"

The reforms of all dynasties and dynasties all have one thing in common, that is, to sacrifice the interests of some people and fulfill the interests of others.

So, this time the cabinet is going for real, merging the two volumes, and reforming the tax law. Whose interests will be harmed and whose interests will be fulfilled has become the key point.

Wang Dun also wants to know, which part of himself is he, and whether his "interests" are being hurt or fulfilled.

Yan Zhenzhi didn't hide it. He came to Zhejiang to conduct research before the tax reform, and naturally he had to coordinate with many parties. If he couldn't get the support of Wang Dun, the Zuobu political envoy, it was obviously impossible to succeed.

At the moment, he talked eloquently, conveying the spirit of Chen Yunfu's instructions on the merger of the two volumes and the reform of the tax law.

"Shaoshi has already pointed out that if we want to develop finances, we must focus on opening up financial resources. Blindly reducing fiscal expenditures through contraction and control cannot solve financial difficulties. Buying land and releasing tenants and tenants will benefit thousands of years.

Whether it is the imperial court itself or the third-level yamen of the local provinces and counties, they must reach a consensus on this point, and they should not be restrained by the immediate suffering, otherwise, the financial difficulties will only become more and more difficult. "

Wang Dun nodded again and again: "Yes, the young master instructed you to build a strategic plan. Zhejiang is a large tax province with a population of tens of millions and an annual tax approaching tens of millions. However, the land tax revenue in the past two years has stagnated. Why? ?

Because of the saturation, in recent years, more and more students in Zhejiang have been admitted for fame, and more and more private lands have been sent. If such mergers continue, Zhejiang will become a tax-free province in a hundred years.

It is imperative to dismantle households and divide land, and we should really make preparations early. "

After listening to it, Wang Dun didn't realize that Chen Yunfu had plans to collect taxes from the bureaucracy, nor did he find that Chen Yunfu planned to cancel the tax-free land and offset the land. Come out and turn tenants and tenants into owner farmers.

In this way, the impact on the bureaucracy is not great.

Moreover, Yan Zhenzhi also said that after the imperial court's financial situation improves, the imperial court will increase the salaries of their officials, so it is even more necessary to raise their hands in favor.

Relying on this, Chen Yunfu won the support of the bureaucratic class.

It was Chen Yunfu's intention to attack the landlords with bureaucrats first.

He can't offend both sides to death, otherwise, the bureaucrats will form a group with the landlords, and the policies of the central government will become a piece of waste paper when they are implemented at the local level.

First cut off the power of the landlords and the clan class, release a large amount of means of production and social and economic vitality, wait until the country and the social economy improve, and more common people come out of the peasants, and then use this group to launch a counterattack against the bureaucratic class.

This is a two-move game. What Chen Yunfu has to do now is to play the first step, and it will take ten years for this one step alone.

Ten years is enough.

Wang Dun didn't know the inside story, and Yan Zhenzhi didn't know either. What they saw and what they were going to do now was to reform the tax law honestly according to Chen Yunfu's arrangements and instructions.

The latter brought people back to Zhejiang to hold interviews with the food chiefs of various prefectures in Zhejiang.

These grain chiefs in Zhejiang are all big landlords.

Who doesn't have tens of thousands of acres of land?

Because of this, when Yan Zhenzhi threw out the tax ratio of five taxes to one in the Zhejiang chief envoy's office, everyone jumped up.

"Five taxes and one tax? Doesn't that mean that our annual output, excluding the food and drink and the share of the rent to the tenants, will be handed over to the court? The dynasties and dynasties have never been so harsh."

The person who spoke was the food chief of Shaoxing Prefecture, who was considered a big landlord. His family had [-] to [-] mu of land and tens of thousands of tenants.

"If you divide the land, don't you have to pay such a high tax?"

Yan Zhen was indifferent, and took a sip of tea in his spare time: "There are too many lands. If you really can't divide them, then sell them. Didn't the imperial court say anything? The imperial court will come forward to buy it, and it will be calculated according to the market price. It will last for ten years, and it will be sold every year." Give back the interest money of Baiwu."

"What if the court doesn't repay the debt?"

The credibility of the ancient imperial court is somewhat difficult to say.

The county magistrate of Pojia and the prefect of Miemen.

Who knows that one day when an official is in a bad mood, he will be pulled out and beheaded after putting a bandit accomplice on the big guy's head, and occupying the family property?
"If the imperial court intends to take advantage of it, it will not send this official to talk to you."

Yan Zhenzhi said seriously: "Besides, my Yan family's 13 mu of land was sold to the Ministry of Households at one time this time. If you want to say that I am afraid, it is Yan who is most afraid of me. I am not even afraid of me. You are afraid what?"

This is the reason, but when it comes time to choose, who can really feel at ease.

The local food chief in Hangzhou pondered for a while: "Brother Zhenzhi, it's not that the brothers don't believe you, it's that they don't believe in the court. You also know that seven years ago, there were a lot of people killed in Zhejiang.

The child of the third elder brother's family had just passed the exam and got a job as a bookkeeper in the county. He had his head chopped off before he knew who was in the yamen. They are all killed, how dare they give the whole land to the imperial court. "

"It's not a gift, it's a sale."

Yan Zhenzhi corrected a sentence: "Yes, the year seven years ago was really unbearable, but it is different now, Lord Hongwu moved his respect to the Supreme Being, and now the person on the head has always been based on benevolence and righteousness, this is well known in the world thing.

What's more, the young master is dedicated to serving the people, and his words and deeds must be resolute, which is obvious to all. Everyone should have heard of the situation in Shandong.

This is the case with all kings and relatives, so what are you afraid of. "

Seeing the silence in the hall, Yan Zhen ate his teacup: "If you still have concerns or don't want to, then there is nothing to talk about, five taxes and one tax, everyone wait to pay the tax!"

Talk if you can, fight if you can't!

Hangzhou Liangchang sighed, and finally fought for a sentence: "Brother Zhenzhi, this is the army of the brothers, no matter, you can sell it, but the court should at least give you a clear letter, let's give you a deed, so that the big guy can feel at ease. , we don’t ask for anything else, the great seal of Mr. Shao and his elders and the cabinet must be affixed!"

Yan Zhen showed a smile on his face, nodded and said.

"It's natural."

As long as he is willing to hand over the land, let alone a big seal, Chen Yunfu can do it himself!

They are all good comrades who can talk.

(End of this chapter)