Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Like some small tax customs, whether the imperial court supports it or not, it is really embarrassing. www>

But for some tax customs, the annual income is only a few dozen taels, which sounds like a joke, more like black humor.

In the Ming Dynasty, the commercial tax ranged from [-] tax one to the current [-] tax one, or even one hundred tax one. The imperial court could not collect money for iron, tea, etc., which should have been strictly controlled and obtained great benefits. However, the tax supervisors sent by Wanli to Suzhou and Yunnan could be beaten to death or burned to death. The emperor had no choice but to resort to hunger strikes.

When Ming Taizu designed the system, he didn’t regard merchants as human beings. As a result, merchants have now become a huge interest group. Large grain merchants, salt merchants, Shanghai merchants and officials colluded to share power and benefits with each other. Under this interest group , the imperial power has hit a wall, and there is no way to do it, so the people are getting richer and richer, but the court is getting poorer and poorer.

In the later years of Wanli, calculate the income. [

Grain is divided into summer tax and autumn tax. As a result, when calculated in the 30th year of Wanli, the summer tax rice was 90 shi less than the Hongwu year, and the autumn tax wheat was more than 200 million shi less than the Hongwu year.

This is still in advance of the fact that the population has increased by at least ten times compared to the Hongwu period, and the cultivated land area has also greatly increased!

During the Hongwu period, the arable land was 200 million mu, and the annual tax revenue of Mimai was 700 million shi. In the Wanli period, it dropped to [-] million shi.

The average tax rate per mu of cultivated land is only [-]%!

Later generations explained that the emperor was extremely extravagant and the tax rate was astonishing, which is actually complete nonsense.Even if all the fees for the miscellaneous post stations are added, the average tax rate per mu of land is only 5.00%[-], which is far lower than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

This is also the reason why the imperial court had to increase taxes several times from Wanli to Chongzhen. Even if there were three tax increases, the tax rate was still not high.

People are living in a difficult life. The Northwest and Henan suffered natural disasters. In addition, under the tragic system of the Ming Dynasty, there were no disaster relief measures, and there was no relief afterwards. Another reason is that after the land was merged, the landlords exploited the tenant farmers.

The Qing Dynasty was established, and the tax rate after the Ming Dynasty was still used. There was no tax reduction at all. It was only under the propaganda of some imperial literati that it seemed that the Qing Dynasty had really reduced taxes. In fact, the Qing Dynasty entered the customs until the Kangxi period. , the war is endless, if it is really tax-free, how can it have the money to support it for decades?

The Qing Dynasty was lucky. Around [-], the Little Ice Age ended, the weather warmed up, and there was rain and snow in winter. In this way, farmers in the north obtained the soil to survive, and drought-resistant crops such as corn and sweet potatoes were introduced. , The luck of the Qing Dynasty is really good.

The agricultural tax is so low, not to mention the commercial tax that Ming Taizu didn't like at all.

In the Song Dynasty, the income from ocean trade was several million guan a year, and the income from tea, salt, wine, and iron was more than [-] million guan a year!

In the Ming Dynasty, everything was empty.

By the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the squeeze of China by the Yuan Dynasty, the wealth accumulated in China for thousands of years was almost robbed, and the reserves of copper coins, gold and silver were extremely scarce, not even one-tenth of that of the Song Dynasty.

Without gold, silver and copper, commerce was basically destroyed, so Ming Taizu felt that since this is the case, merchants are also bad people anyway, so there is no need for commercial circulation at all. The government mainly collects taxes in kind, and basically pays salaries in kind. Corvée and so on are also in kind.