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Chapter 452 Amazing Tax

It can be imagined that under this kind of mentality, no one needs to be encouraged. I don't know how many tyrants and gentry in Jiangnan have a resentment in their hearts.

Capital
The office of the Ministry of Households is still very busy. It is really the summer tax season, and it is the first time that the law of sharing the land into the mu and the government and the gentry paying the grain are implemented for the first time. Previous years have been much busier.

Wang Yangming, who was in charge of the household department himself, had a look of joy on his face at the moment, and just by looking at Wang Yangming's expression, he knew it must be a good thing.

There was a sound of footsteps, and a figure came in from the outside, but everyone who saw the person couldn't help but bow to the person.

The person who came was none other than Li Huan.

These days, although Li Huan said that he did not come to the Ministry of Household Affairs every day, he still came here from time to time. After all, it was related to the implementation of the new law, and Li Huan was very caring.

How about the new law, not to mention anything else, at least one can see it from the summer tax this time.

If the local new law is progressing smoothly, then it can be clearly shown from the amount of the summer tax collection, so it is not surprising that Li Huan is concerned about the progress of the summer tax collection this time.

When Li Huan walked into the hall, he immediately saw the smile on Wang Yangming's face sitting there.

To be honest, Li Huan really rarely saw such a happy expression on Wang Yangming's face. After all, Wang Yangming's temperament has always been extremely calm, and he dare not say that Mount Tai will collapse without changing his face. At least there are not many things that can make him feel happy. moving.

Now Wang Yangming's face was filled with such joy, Li Huan couldn't help laughing and said: "Mr. seems to be in a very good mood, could it be that there is some great joy?"

Wang Yangming was no stranger to Li Huan's footsteps, he had already noticed Li Huan when Li Huan came in, not to mention those officials saluted Li Huan one by one, it would be strange if Wang Yangming didn't notice.

Looking up at Li Huan, the smile on Wang Yangming's face restrained a bit, and he handed a book in his hand that was clearly compiled not long ago to Li Huan and said, "The champion might as well take a look at this document."

Although Li Huan said that he had some guesses about the document Wang Yangming handed over, he still reached out to take it.

With a glance, Li Huan couldn't help but a strange look flashed in his eyes. As expected, this is a statistical table about the specific collection of the summer tax this time.

Looking at the statistics above, Li Huan couldn't help but said: "The summer tax collected for summer grain totals more than [-] million shi!"

Wang Yangming nodded slightly, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "That's right, it's exactly thirty-five million stones."

Speaking of which, Wang Yangming seemed unable to suppress the joy in his heart and said, "The champion Hou Kezhi, how much was my Daming summer tax in previous years?"

Since Li Huan wants to reform the taxation, it is naturally impossible for him not to understand the taxation geometry of Daming. It is precisely because of understanding that Li Huan can understand Wang Yangming's mood at the moment.

Taking a deep breath, Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and said, "If I remember correctly, my Daming collected a total of more than [-] million shi for the summer tax last year!"

Wang Yangming nodded, looked at Li Huan and said slowly: "From 200 million shi directly to 500 million shi, this has tripled. If we add the future autumn tax, then I The tax that the Ming Dynasty can collect in a year is as large as 7000 million stones!"

As he spoke, Wang Yangming's eyes shone brightly and he said: "Last year, my annual income in Ming Dynasty was only 300 million shi. Compared with that, it is simply unbelievable."

Compared to Wang Yangming's shock, Li Huan was not surprised at all. Daming now has a population of more than [-] million, and the number of acres of land is even more than one billion acres. Under normal circumstances, it is normal to tax tens of millions of shi.

It’s just that the Ming Dynasty’s land mergers have been serious all along, and a large number of acres have been occupied by officials, gentry, local tyrants and other forces, so that a large amount of taxes cannot be collected, and those that can really be collected are the fields controlled by ordinary people. .

However, less than half of the land is really in the hands of the common people. One can imagine how much tax the huge Ming Dynasty can collect.

Now that the annual tax has tripled, in Li Huan's opinion, it is not the limit. Li Huan is sure that there must be tax evasion in some places, and there are even some places where the fields are still hidden. .After all, now that the new law has just been implemented, there must still be many omissions. If these funnels are completely blocked in the future, it is not impossible to add more taxes of tens of millions of stones.

You must know that after the great turmoil in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, a large number of acres were abandoned and the population was lost. In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty that inherited the Ming Dynasty, the annual tax was about 4000 million shi.

It can be seen that after a hundred years of Ming Dynasty, there are already many evils, a large number of land mergers, serious tax evasion, and serious tax evasion, which have seriously affected the country of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing the shocked expression on Wang Yangming's face, Li Huan smiled and said, "It seems that the implementation of the new law by you and I is really beneficial to the country."

Wang Yangming couldn't help laughing and said: "Not only is it beneficial to the country, it is actually beneficial to the country and the people. With so many taxes and money, the imperial treasury has money, so it can better benefit the people of the world. Policies that cannot be implemented due to insufficient financial resources of the imperial court can be implemented, whether it is to build local water conservancy, or to relieve local disasters, and so on, only when the imperial court users have enough money and food can the real stability of the world be guaranteed."

Anyone who is not a fool knows that if you want peace in the world, you must let the people have food and clothing, and as long as the court has sufficient finances, then there will be no major disturbances in the world. Enough confidence to set things right.

Li Huan nodded and said, "What you said is very true."

As he said that, Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and said, "I don't know if the money and food have already entered the local treasury?"

Wang Yangming nodded and said: "According to the reports from various local and state governments, except for the money and food that needs to be kept in the local area, the rest will go to the treasury of each local government."

Li Huan raised his brows, looked at Wang Yangming and said, "Have you ever mobilized grain and fodder according to what Li said?"

Glancing at Li Huan, Wang Yangming said indifferently: "Just don't worry, the Champion. People from Jin Yiwei will watch over this matter. After at least a month's work, all the food will be properly arranged."

Hearing this, Li Huan nodded slightly and said, "So everything is safe!"

Looking at the statistics of the summer tax in his hand, Li Huan looked at Wang Yangming and said with a smile: "Sir, I would like to accompany Li into the palace to congratulate His Majesty."

Wang Yangming couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately shook his head with a smile and said, "I'll trouble the champion with this matter, there are too many things here, I'm afraid I won't be able to get away."

If it were any other official, such a good thing of showing his face in front of the emperor would definitely rush forward, but based on Li Huan's understanding of Wang Yangming, it is not surprising that Wang Yangming refused.

Li Huan smiled at Wang Yangming and said, "Since that's the case, I will ask His Majesty for credit for my husband."

At this moment, Wang Yangming, who had already buried his head among a pile of files, just waved his hand at Li Huan when he heard the words, with a look of indifference.

Imperial City
At this time, the Son of Heaven was teasing a pink baby, and Empress Xia looked at the Son of Heaven with a smile on her face.

With a sound of wow, the little prince seemed a little impatient with being teased by the emperor, and he grinned and burst into tears.

Empress Xia, who was looking at the father and son, hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the little prince in her arms, while comforting him, she gave the emperor a look and said, "Your Majesty, look at you, and you made the prince cry again." .”

Looking at the little guy who was held in the arms of the queen and stopped crying immediately, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help smiling wryly. This little guy is full of spirituality.

At this moment, Qiu Ju trotted over and said, "Your Majesty, the champion is here."

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said: "Oh, Li Qing is here now, I think there is something to do, hurry up and announce!"

Seeing this, Empress Xia, who was busy nursing the child, said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, since the champion is here to see you, then the concubine will step down first."

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly.

Empress Xia took the little prince away, and soon saw Li Huan coming over, and bowed to the emperor: "I pay homage to Your Majesty."

Zhu Houzhao waved his hands and said with a light smile, "Looking at how happy Li Qing is, could something good happen?"

Li Huan said with a smile: "Chen Te came to congratulate His Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but looked at Li Huan in surprise, and said with some curiosity: "Oh, what Li Qing said, I don't know where I am so happy?"

From his cuff, Li Huan took out the accounting book of the summer tax collected by the Ministry of Households, and handed it to the emperor respectfully, "Your Majesty will know just by looking at it."

Zhu Houzhao reached out to take it, glanced at it, and quickly turned it over carefully. When Zhu Houzhao turned to the end and saw the astonishing set of numbers, even if he was the emperor, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help it. He kept showing a look of astonishment.

If someone observes carefully, they will find that the hand of the emperor holding the account book is slightly trembling, and one can imagine how excited the emperor is at the moment.

Suppressing the turmoil in his heart, the emperor took a deep breath and looked at Li Huan, his eyes were full of excitement and tremblingly said: "Li Qing, are all the numbers above true?"

Since Li Huan dared to show him this account book, it must be true, but Zhu Houzhao was a little unacceptable for a while.

Li Huan nodded solemnly and said: "This is calculated by Mr. Wang Yangmingge and the household department himself. I think there is no mistake."

After hearing Li Huan's words, Zhu Houzhao let out a sigh of relief, and finally couldn't hold back the joy in his heart and couldn't help laughing loudly: "Okay, okay, it's really great!"

The emperor suddenly lost his composure and laughed loudly, applauding again and again, and the servants and maids serving all around showed surprise.

Although they serve the Son of Heaven, they have some understanding of the Son of Heaven's temperament, and know that the Son of Heaven is a man of temperament, but such gaffes are rare.

But the fool can also see that the emperor is in a very good mood at the moment. Although he doesn't know what Li Huan said to the emperor, but seeing the happy appearance of the emperor, everyone knows that Li Huan must have brought something good information.

Many people looked at Li Huan in front of the emperor with envious eyes. Apart from other things, it was only because Li Huan could make the emperor so happy, it was no wonder that the emperor trusted Li Huan so much.

Looking at the account book in his hand again, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help sighing: "I really didn't expect that after the implementation of the New Deal, the tax revenue would soar so much at once."

According to Zhu Houzhao's previous expectations, after the implementation of the New Deal, he would not dare to think that the tax would double, even if it could increase by [-]% or [-]%, he would be extremely content.

But now the fact is that it has tripled, which is far beyond his expectations.

Li Huan looked at the excited look of the emperor, but now he suddenly said seriously: "Your Majesty can imagine who has fallen into the hands of this extra tax in the past."

Hearing what Li Huan said, Zhu Houzhao's complexion suddenly changed, and a cold light flashed in his eyes and said: "I know that the local tyrants and gentry colluded to annex land and tax evasion, but I didn't expect them to do so much. "

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on Li Huan and said: "Thanks to Li Qing's implementation of the New Deal, these taxes were collected. Otherwise, in the long run, a large number of gentry evade taxes, while the taxes and corvees borne by the people are increasing. The heavier it gets, I, Daming, will die because of it in the future."

Li Huan nodded slightly. What Zhu Houzhao said was correct. The Ming Dynasty will perish in the future, and it will indeed be due to financial exhaustion.

Regardless of whether it was natural disasters, man-made disasters, official corruption, etc., in the final analysis, it was the exhaustion of finances that led to the demise of Ming Dynasty.Numerous officials, gentry, dignitaries, dignitaries, powerful clans sucked up the huge Ming Empire like voracious vampires.

Looking at the emperor, Li Huan said with a sneer at the corner of his mouth: "Your Majesty said that these taxes were usually taken by those officials and tyrants, but now we have taken them back from them abruptly." , This is tantamount to snatching food from a tiger's mouth, does His Majesty say they will really be willing?"

After Li Huan finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao narrowed his eyes, suddenly looked up at Li Huan and said, "Could it be that Li Qing has received some news?"

While speaking, an awe-inspiring murderous intent arose spontaneously, permeating from the emperor.

Li Huan was in charge of Jinyiwei. If Li Huan discovered anything, the emperor would not be surprised at all. Besides, it was just like what Li Huan said.

The implementation of the New Deal is to move the cake of a large number of vested interests. The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world is for profit. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, which has been the case since ancient times.It would be really weird if these people didn't react at all.

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