Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chapter 139 Those with Fame and Fame Are Exempt from Taxes?Another scam!

"Actually, I don't think there is any need to worry about things like going to the venue..."

Slightly on the bumpy carriage, Chu Ze was half-kidnapped by the two brothers Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen, and successfully got into their stolen carriage.

Seeing the two brothers Zhu Di who were in high spirits, even a little over excited, Chu Ze reached out and pressed his stomach silently.

"You two bastards, why don't you wait for me to have a meal?"

Chu Ze, who hadn't eaten dinner yet, had already started to growl in his stomach.

However, Zhu Di just patted him on the shoulder indifferently.

"It's just that we missed a meal. It's not a big problem. The sixth child and I haven't eaten all this afternoon. Let's go for a walk. We're going to the gate of the city soon. The road after leaving the city may be difficult."

Chu Ze, who was already in a depressed mood, immediately wanted to kill these two bastards after hearing Zhu Di's words.

You haven't eaten, can't you let me eat first?

After the carriage left the gate of Nanjing City, Chu Ze really realized what Zhu Di meant when he said that it was difficult to walk.

On the uneven road, the carriage had to jump at least four or five times for every meter it advanced.

Several times, Chu Ze, who was sitting on the plywood of the carriage, was almost thrown off due to the bumps.

When he finally arrived at the place, Chu Ze felt as if his whole body was about to fall apart.

"Next time I won't come out with you guys again, even if I kill you guys, I won't come out..."

As soon as he arrived, Chu Ze got off the carriage and sat down on the grass.

Because of the excessive jolting of the muscles all over his body, he felt sore all over his body when he moved casually.

"You are not in good health! You see, we all came here in a carriage together. There is nothing wrong with Lao Liu."

"How about this, go to the military camp with me tomorrow to train, at most half a month, your body will definitely be much stronger than now. How about it, are you going or not?"

"roll"

Looking at Zhu Di who was gloating all over his face after jumping off the carriage, Chu Ze grabbed the clod beside him and threw it towards him.

But it's a pity that his whole body hurts at this time, as if he ran ten kilometers in one breath.

The soil clod thrown from his hand was completely harmless, and Zhu Di easily dodged it.

"Okay, okay, the place that Lao Liu and I chose is a little ahead, and someone cleaned up a place there, and made roast leg of lamb in advance. Let's go there and eat first."

"You still have a bit of conscience, you know how to give me something to eat."

After being supported by Zhu Di from the ground, the crowd walked forward with a large number of guards, and Chu Ze also observed the surroundings.

There are huge exposed stones everywhere on the ground, and the surrounding weeds look a bit withered and yellow.

You can tell it's malnourished just by looking at it.

This place is indeed not suitable for growing food land.

And the surrounding terrain is still barely flat, and it doesn't take much effort to lay a solid foundation.

Compared with the surrounding area, the terrain here is also higher. If the river tide rises, this location is not easy to be submerged.

After looking around, Chu Ze couldn't help but nodded.

It is not impossible to build a bullet manufacturing plant here.

After all, only boilers and stamping equipment need to be erected here.

It is close to the river, and the water flow of this river seems to be not small.

You only need to build a drainage truck to replace manpower with water power.

"How about it, is the location we chose suitable? Today, Lao Liu and I have traveled all over the upstream and downstream of this area. Only this place is the most suitable, and have you seen the mountain next to it?"

"That mountain is full of poisonous salt mine veins. The places where poisonous salt mines exist are basically not suitable for growing crops, so if we build an ammunition production plant in this place, it will basically not disturb the people's farming! "

“This place was literally made for us.”

After Zhu Di noticed Chu Ze nodding his head from time to time, he also started to brag about his great achievements.

Although this guy was a bit embarrassed when he spoke, I have to say that the place he chose is really good.

But compared to the venue they chose, Chu Ze was more curious about the poisonous salt mine that Zhu Di was talking about.

"You mean the mountains over there are all salt mines?"

After seeing Chu Ze pointing to a hill not far from the site they chose, Zhu Di also looked in the direction of his finger.

Then he turned around and nodded firmly.

"We've had people go to a rough survey, and there are only a few shrubs like ferns and duckweeds growing around the hill, and they are still sick. In this situation, you can tell that it is a poisonous salt area. mine."

But after hearing Zhu Di's affirmative words, Chu Ze's eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Mineral salt veins!
How did he forget this thing
"When you set up the venue, take down that piece of mountain bag as well."

"No. You don't want to tell me that you want to sell those poisonous salts as table salt!"

"No, this matter is absolutely not acceptable. If the emperor and the eldest brother know, the fourth brother and I will not be able to walk around."

When he heard that Chu Ze wanted them to take down the poisonous salt mine, Zhu Di looked at Chu Ze in horror, frowning to make sure if he said something wrong.

And Zhu Zhen who was at the side shook his head frantically at this moment.

He formed a caravan in private, and if his father found out, he would be beaten at best.

But if he dared to sell this deadly poisonous salt as table salt.

If his father found out, maybe he would be beaten to death in a fit of anger!

So this is absolutely impossible.

In particular, if the poisonous salt is sold as table salt, the common people are not stupid.

You can tell the difference in flavor just by tasting it.

Doing this kind of thing is completely thankless and stupid.

He doesn't do it.

"This thing is a treasure mountain. The reason why you call it poisonous salt is because you don't know how to operate it."

"This mineral salt is a good thing. There is such a small salt mine that is almost open-air... This is simply a gold mountain, okay?"

"Have someone go get a few pieces and bring them back. I'll teach you how to do it later."

"If I had known that there was a salt mine here."

Chu Ze originally wanted to say that if he had known that there was a salt mine here, Zhu Di would not have to worry about money anymore, and he would directly take down the salt mine, and then directly mine the salt mine to exchange for money.

Not to mention one ammunition field, even ten can be built!

But halfway through his words, he found that it seemed a bit inappropriate to say such words at this time.

After all, Zhu Zhen has already entered the game. Saying this at a time like this is not purely disgusting to him, is it?
So after Chu Ze spoke halfway, he hurriedly forcibly reversed what he said later.

"If I had known there was a salt mine here, I would have asked your elder brother to get some back for me in advance so that I could get the salt out."

"At that time, there will be mineral salt as economic income, and the funds at my test site will not be gradually strained!"

After changing the subject, Chu Ze still glanced at Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen beside him.

"By the way, hasn't the Ming Dynasty resumed production all the time? Why is your elder brother's finances still tight? Although I have indeed spent a lot of money these days. But it's not enough to support my consumption, right?"

After hearing Chu Ze's question about these tax matters, Zhu Di directly spread his hands.

It was useless to ask him such a thing.

He himself is not interested in these things, so naturally he seldom cares about them.

And Zhu Zhen on the side is a little more reliable than Zhu Di who is full of wars.

After hesitating for a moment, he spoke.

"The main reason is that my father wants to encourage scholars to obtain fame, so that all the students in the world can be used by my Ming Dynasty. So I set up a rule, as long as anyone who has fame and fame can not pay taxes or do corvee."

"It was nothing at first, but in recent years, the imperial court's taxation has shown a clear downward trend. Although it is small, it is very obvious."

"And in recent years, there have been many disasters in various places, and the treasury is basically busy distributing money for disaster relief. This caused the big brother to become a little nervous."

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After Chu Ze finished listening to Zhu Zhen's words, he was speechless for a moment.

Those who have fame and fame can be exempted from taxes and corvee.
He actually forgot about this!
After being mentioned by Zhu Zhen in this way, he remembered Lao Zhu's rules of making people dead.

Those who have fame and fame can be exempted from taxes.

This privilege of a scholar can be said to be completely a matter of nonsense.

especially during the Ming Dynasty
The imperial court vigorously encouraged poor folks to take the imperial examination.

Then, after these people obtained their fame, the first major life event they need to experience is to be robbed of their son-in-law!

That's right, it's a robbery.

Literally grab.

Many wealthy businessmen and gentry will arrange for people to wait at the place where the rankings are released. Once they know who has achieved the fame, they will snatch this person home as soon as possible, and then marry him.

The root cause of this phenomenon is not how favored and sought after by rich people are those who have achieved fame.

It's because, if there is a son-in-law with a reputation in the family, a large amount of land can be attributed to his name.

Thereby legally and reasonably exempting these lands from taxation.

So this also caused the birth of two problems.

The first type is that because of the importance and plunder of these wealthy businessmen and powerful people, the identity and status of those who use fame and fame are gradually touted higher and higher.

It is almost completely above other occupations too much.

The second problem is that with the passage of time, more and more land has been merged into the names of these famous people.

More and more taxes are exempted, and the tax that the court can collect is less and less.

Once the imperial treasury is empty, the most likely thing to happen is to increase taxes.

And these increased taxes were apportioned to those who originally paid taxes honestly.

Once these people find out that farming for one year is not even enough time to pay taxes.

The land will be sold at a low price, and then reduced to tenants.

And these lands, of course, eventually fell into the hands of those who themselves did not have to pay taxes.

After doing this, the government can collect less and less tax, but the real people are getting poorer and poorer.
This is also one of the reasons why in the end, the emperor of Ming Dynasty even had to kneel down to the ministers, begging them to provide money to support the Ming army.

Because the land and money eventually fell into the hands of these people.

"Chu Ze, did you remember something again?"

Seeing Chu Ze's frown getting tighter and tighter, Zhu Di seemed to have noticed something.

Quickly asked a question.

And his question interrupted Chu Ze's train of thought.

"It's nothing, eat first, and then look around. I'll take a look at how to design the hydraulic system here. Then let's go back first."

Seeing that Chu Ze didn't say anything, Zhu Di didn't have the interest to continue asking.

Because he knew that it was useless to tell him some things, but it would only increase troubles.

Since Chu Ze didn't say anything, it meant that he couldn't handle this matter.

Today's Zhu Di can be said to have let himself go.

He doesn't worry about things in Daming territory.

Anyway, his father was watching, and his elder brother and Chu Ze were worrying.

He's totally out of touch.

The only thing Zhu Di needs to consider at this time is how to fight after he arrives in the fief, and how to do it as quickly as possible so that his fief can improve.

Let those brothers who have not yet been entrusted envy and envy.

After a simple meal, the brothers Zhu Di and Chu Ze carefully observed the surrounding environment.

And Chu Ze took out the drawing board and the pencil that he carried with him directly from the carriage.

While looking at it, I didn't forget to draw a sketch.

The whole process is still pretty fast.

Before the sky was completely dark, all the work was basically finished.

Of course, this is the original sketch.

After that, how to set up the waterwheel and convert the hydraulic power into controllable power will require some effort.

After the reconnaissance work was basically completed, Chu Ze stepped into the carriage which he regarded as a nightmare again.

Two bumps back and forth nearly killed him
It was originally agreed that after returning home, he would teach Zhu Di how to make mineral salt into an edible state, and how to extract plant essential oil by distillation.

As soon as he got off the carriage, he immediately changed his mind.

After driving away the two brothers who still wanted to hang on with a dark face.

Only then did Chu Ze drag his exhausted body back home.

He originally wanted to take a hot bath to relieve his fatigue, but after soaking in it, he fell asleep directly in the tub in a drowsy state.

This night, Chu Ze always felt very tired.
It was as if something was holding him down.

However, in a daze, he didn't bother to care about these.

However, he had a pretty good dream.

(End of this chapter)