The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 302 Dilemma and Turnaround (Second Update)
Although Xie Shen was not a sociologist in his previous life, he still had his own analysis of the predicament in the late Ming Dynasty.

In his view, the core issue of the Ming dynasty is the land issue.Little glaciers, natural disasters, Houjin, and the Peasant Army are not the key to the situation.

What's more, the reason why the peasant army has formed a momentum to sweep the world is not that the land annexation has reached the point where ordinary farmers are not alive.

Peasant uprisings in all Chinese dynasties all started after being driven to a dead end.

Most Chinese people are obedient people, but if there is still a chance to survive, they will never put their heads on their belts to do rebellious things.

The father is the father, the father is the father, and the father is behind.

But if the ruler abandons his people, the people will naturally have to find a way to beg for food.

If you dig deeper, you will find that there is a great connection between land annexation and the imperial examination system.

Scholars in the Ming Dynasty enjoyed many privileges, and they did not have to pay taxes and serve in the military if they were admitted to the scholar.

And once a scholar wins the exam, he will successfully enter the country gentry class.

Even if you can't go further and pass the Jinshi examination, you can still live a good life in your hometown by virtue of your status as a Juren.

There is no need for Master Juren to say too much, clansmen and farmers from all over the world will scramble to entrust their land in the name of Master Juren, so as to achieve the benefit of tax exemption.

Of course, the scholar Xianggong can also be exempted from tax.However, there are many scholars with little dominance, so it is safer to choose Juren with a more noble status.

Therefore, most clan and peasant households will choose to raise people to donate their land.

You should know that although there is a guarantor as the middleman, and both parties understand each other, farmers only need to pay very little rent to Juren.But after all, these lands belong to the master Juren in name.

Once the Juren Lord repents (although this possibility is very low), or the Juren Lord is raised in rent, the small farmers have no place to reason.

Go to the government to sue Master Juren for land occupation?The land deed clearly stated that the land has been transferred!

This in itself is a kind of unspoken rule, which is in a gray area and is not protected by the Great Ming Law. The blame can only be blamed on those farmers who want to make a small profit, but they cheated themselves.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, 90.00% of the elite held [-]% of the land, and land annexation had reached a heinous level.

For example, Xu Jie and Xu Ge are always famous ministers of the prime minister.But how many people know that in his hometown Songjiang Mansion, more than two-thirds of the land is under the name of Xu Jie.

Of course, in Xu Jie's capacity, he might not really do such an ugly thing like reneging on debts and encroaching on land, but it is undeniable that this is indeed a big stain on a generation of famous officials.

Sometimes it's not you who want to annex the land, it's the clansmen who donate it.They would rather feed these scholar-bureaucrats than the emperor and the court, which directly led to the deformed structure of Ming Dynasty in which the officials were rich and the country was poor.

To solve this chronic disease, it is not reliable to simply rely on brute force to kill big households.This will not only provoke a backlash, but may also shake the foundation of the country.

It is undoubtedly a very ingenious way to transfer conflicts.

As long as you can keep winning battles, you can hide ugly things.

And once the Ming court controls the Western Regions, it can imitate the heyday of the Tang Dynasty and move Jianer into the Western Regions to reclaim land.

The land in the Central Plains is tight, but the land in the Western Regions is not.

As long as you are willing to endure hardships, it is not difficult to make a fortune.

Of course, this is only an expedient measure, but at least it can give Daming more than a hundred years of Guozuo and buy time for reform.

Speaking of reform, Xie Shen still highly respects Zhang Juzheng's one whip method of reform.

This policy of inheriting the two-tax system of the Tang Dynasty and starting from the Qing Dynasty’s apportionment to the mu has eased the contradiction to a certain extent.

Although due to various reasons, this national policy has not been well implemented locally, but it raises a possibility.

Zhang Juzheng is definitely a political strongman with enough skills. If he were replaced by an idealist like Fan Zhongyan, he might be another "Qingli New Deal" that died prematurely.

Politicians must not be idealists, because politics is full of games and compromises.The reason why Wang Anshi's Xining reform was relatively successful was because he absorbed people like Cai Jing?
Politics is not playing poker, and it cannot be done casually.

Leaders must first have the ability to know people, know people and make good use of them, use the right people, and make good use of them.

Is someone like Cai Jing useless?Is it possible that someone who can be used is only as bright as Bao Zheng and Hai Run?

Sometimes Xie Shen is also thinking about this issue.In the end is Qingliu better or Nengchen better.

Nengchen can do practical things, but Qingliu is often a talkative party.

In Daming, anyone who wants to be in the top position has to go through the stage of Qingliu.But it would be a bit too shameless if you still position yourself as a talker when you are in the top position.

Food for the king, loyalty to the king.

If everyone turned into a mouthpiece for the sake of gaining prestige, wouldn't the Ming court be in chaos?

Of course, this is not to say that strength of character is not important, but to achieve a balance.

The more you climb up, the more people and things you see, the more different your perception will be.

Calling a county magistrate and the magistrate to talk about the government will definitely be different, and the magistrate and the governor will be different.

Xie Shen's advantage lies in his insight of more than 500 years ahead of the times and his asymmetric information advantage.

But these are not very effective in handling government affairs.That is to say, Xie Shen is not only not as good as these old-fashioned officials in politics, but even has a long way to go to catch up.

The road has to be walked step by step, and the meal has to be eaten bite by bite.It's useless to think about these things now, let's do the things right now.

The envoys from Turpan came to the capital to meet the emperor, and the emperor would hold a court meeting as usual.

Although a sixth-rank official like Xie Shen is also eligible to participate, his position must be extremely low, and he can't see it if he wants to watch the excitement.

The process of the court meeting was very fixed. It was nothing more than Turpan envoys offering gifts, the emperor lecturing, and all officials worshiping the mountain and calling long live.

But this has a very different meaning to Xie Shen.

This is the first court meeting he will attend after coming to Daming.

Although it is not Wanbang coming to the court, the scene is bound to be big.As a passionate man, he has always had a great country complex.

It is absolutely indescribable that I can see the envoys of the Fan Kingdom prostrate to the great Ming Dynasty with their own eyes.

It is said that the strong man prospered in the Tang Dynasty, so why couldn't the Ming Dynasty ask Fanyi to come and bow down.

Thinking of this, Xie Shen said with a smile: "This matter is all rushed together. Anyway, I would like to see what tribute this Turpan envoy will bring."

In my impression, isn't the specialty of Turpan grapes?
However, the method of making wine has long been known. If the Turpan envoy really brought some wine, it would not be able to arouse people's interest at all.

"Hey, I heard that all the girls in Turpan look like gods, maybe this time the envoys of the Fan Kingdom brought some peerless beauties."

Wang Shouwen threw a grape into his mouth and smiled slyly.

(End of this chapter)