Wanli 1592

Chapter 946 Yuan Huang is not a saint
Who are the people who make the court unable to collect taxes?

This question is actually very debatable, but if you ask Yuan Huang now, he will definitely give a generalized concept.

"Corrupt officials are exploiting layers upon layers!"

The answer Yuan Huang gave is a politically correct standard answer, and most literati in this era will answer this way, no matter whether they have embezzled state funds or not, no matter whether they have done anything wrong, they will definitely say this.

So Xiao Ruxun laughed, a bit mockingly.

"Yuan Gong, by now you should know why I didn't tell you anything and kept it from you, right?"

Yuan Huang was very puzzled.

"What do you mean?"

"It's not the corrupt officials who make the court unable to collect taxes, but all the Jinshi and the emperor's relatives and relatives Wu Xun. It is our entire bureaucratic group except the emperor. In other words, it is the foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty! Including Yuan Gong Inside! The officials of the entire Ming Dynasty are all rotten!"

Yuan Huang was stunned.

"Gen... base? Including me?"

"Since Emperor Taizu stipulated that officials in the dynasty, including scholars and above, can enjoy a certain limit of land tax exemption policy, the seeds of what happened today have been planted. It became the foundation for maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that it was this foundation that extinguished the vitality of the Ming Dynasty.

There have been such rules in all dynasties, but such rules in all dynasties were limited to the officials of the current dynasty. Only the Ming Dynasty delegated such benefits to juren. In the Song Dynasty, juren were exempted from military service. The Ming Dynasty is good, not only for officials, but also for officials. Even Juren can be exempted from taxes. "

Yuan Huang hurriedly said: "But there is a certain amount of tax exemption for tax-exempt officials!"

"There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Mr. Yuan, since ancient times, many decisions made by the central government were originally for the benefit of the people, but they were often biased in their implementation. Among other things, Wang Anshi's young crop law was originally intended to use Low-interest loans help farmers survive famine years, and prevent farmers from selling their land to big households for a grain of grain in famine years.

But how about implementing it?But it turned into the high-interest loan that Wang Anshi hated most, and benefiting the people became harmful to the people. This is the deviation in implementation. The Taizu stipulated the amount, but how many people followed it?Spend some money to open up the relationship with the government, and these taxes can be exempted directly, and the unavoidable ones will be spread to the common people, since they do not pay taxes anyway.

They own the vast majority of the arable land and the vast majority of the food, not only that, but also hide a large number of people, so that the court cannot control the food and population of the arable land, making the court poor, but they are rich. "

Xiao Ruxun's words silenced Yuan Huang.

"Before the Song Dynasty, tax exemption was limited to the officials of the current dynasty, and the number of people would not be too many, but the Ming Dynasty unprecedentedly delegated this qualification to Juren. How many Juren? How many officials are Jinshi? The number has increased several times!
There have been many natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, but farmers depend on the weather for food, and the weather is good. Once disasters happen, they have no ability to resist disasters. Once disasters happen, what options do they have?Either borrow money and food from big families, or sell the land directly, and borrow high-interest loans.

When the famine year is over, it is time to repay the loan. What do poor farmers have to pay back?You can only take your own land. This is still a major war that the court has never encountered. Once a major war occurs and the court's finances are tight, some people with impure thoughts will propose tax increases.

The burden on the people is already heavy. Once the tax is increased, the local officials will impose excessively. From then on, it has nothing to do with the court, and the land has nothing to do with the court.

More importantly, these people have nothing to do with the imperial court since then. They have directly become hidden household registrations and will not be counted in the imperial court household registration. They are still alive, eating and living, but they are gone. The Ming Dynasty has no statistics arrive!
In such a vicious cycle, the court can receive less and less tax, the treasury is getting more and more empty, and there are fewer and fewer things to do. There is no money for war, no money for disaster relief, no money for construction, continue to increase taxes, more and more Less, the more people pay taxes, the fewer people will pay. In the end, the treasury is empty and the court has no money. What should I do? "

Yuan Huang finally understood that Xiao Ruxun pointed his sword directly at the bureaucratic tax-free privileged class that clings to the Ming government to suck blood and eat meat, so he massacred the gentry in the three southeastern provinces!

He is digging out the lifeblood of all the gentry!

This is unprecedented, this is the first time in history.

That's why he said that the gentry should become history and that they would cease to exist.

I thought this was crazy talk before, but it turned out to be a long-planned actual action, and it has achieved initial victory. In the foreseeable future, no one can stop Xiao Ruxun. Looking around the world, there is no one!
Japan was conquered, the Japanese pirate rebellion was gone, 30 northern captives were killed, and they fled away and never dared to come again. The Dongwu country in the south was also killed. The whole Nanyang did not dare to challenge the power of Ming Dynasty.

No one can stop Xiao Ruxun.

Ask yourself, as an official, his family's land does not need to pay taxes. Because of this preferential policy, his life is not bad, but if one day the court says that his family's land will have to pay taxes.

is he happy

Yuan Huang is not a saint, he will be unhappy.

He is a person who has read sage books, why should he pay taxes with ordinary people with mud legs?
In fact, this is also a common concept among scholars. In the era when reading and literacy was a privilege, anyone who has knowledge and does not have knowledge is different. One is in the sky and the other is on the ground, and even the taxation is different.

It turned out to be the case.

Thinking about it this way, Yuan Huang understood that Xiao Ruxun had long planned to implement such a policy.

He also knew that the gentry would strongly backlash, so before the implementation of the policy, kill people first, get rid of the hindering force, and then implement his own policy. Those who have no resistance have no other choice but to accept it.

"But even so, after you get rid of the gentry, what do you want to do? If you want to build an eternal dynasty, can you just eliminate the gentry?"

Yuan Huang couldn't imagine such a future.

"Of course it's not just that. I will make sure that the land is owned by the state and prohibit buying and selling. Farmers cannot buy and sell their own land at will. All of this is in the hands of the central government."

"This... Isn't this what Wang Mang did? Don't you know what happened to Wang Mang afterwards?"

Yuan Huang was taken aback.

"I know, I know, that's why I acted first and killed the gentry in the three southeastern provinces. Later, I will attack other provinces. None of them can escape. Either hand over the extra land to surrender to me, or die, and I will control the land of the whole world."

Xiao Ruxun spread his hands expressionlessly: "Wang Mang's mistake is that he didn't recognize the foundation of his rule. The Taizu of the Ming Dynasty regarded the scholars who made their fortunes through the imperial examinations as his foundation, and hoped that these people could finally maintain his dynasty. So he was at ease killing the heroes.

After he killed the heroes, the imperial examination officials would rule the world for him, and the world would not be chaotic, but Wang Mang didn't know that the local tyrants were already very powerful in the late Han Dynasty, and the foundation of his dynasty was actually those landlords.

By doing this, he was against the powers of the whole world and against his own foundation, so he was overthrown, and Liu Xiu, the leader of the powers, came to power and established the Later Han. "

(End of this chapter)