Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 424 Give a Sweet Jujube
More than 1 scholars had just entered the barracks, and began to learn to be a soldier under the sticks of the instructors. Yang Chao set off for Suzhou.

Meet with the Gu family who is known as the first school of the rich family in Suzhou, the Lu family of the imperial physician family, the Wu family known as the first family in Wuzhong, and the local wealthy families such as the Wang family, the Qian family, and the Peng family, and invite these wealthy families to live in Suzhou. The government office discusses.

"Abolish Ding Yin! The governor does not want poll tax!"

Yang Chao said to the nobles in high spirits.

This is the sweet date Yang Chao gave.

The taxation system of the Ming Dynasty was inherited from the rent and mediocrity system implemented in the Tang Dynasty. There are two major bases for tax collection. The first is land, and the second is population. ), so it is called the two-tax law.

Household tax collection is also different. The Ming Dynasty divided household registration into upper, middle and lower classes. Obviously, most of these wealthy families are upper-class households, but they may be middle-class or even lower-class households on the roster. Of course, this is because they have means.

However, these first-class wealthy families invited by Yang Chao obviously cannot be low-class and middle-class anyway, because that is too obvious, and each of them is a big family, and the Dingyin they have to pay is also a fortune. small fortune.

Therefore, this sweet date is still very sweet, which can save everyone from paying at least [-]% of the tax. In addition to exempting the three rates, the wealthy family found that even if they registered the hidden land in the register, they would not pay more tax than before.

But this is not Yang Chao's real purpose. Yang Chao's real purpose is to shoulder the responsibility of the poorest people. He does not force everyone to be well-off, but you have to keep everyone from starving to death.

Many poor people, perhaps because their ancestors were well-off in a certain generation, were then designated as upper-class households, and they will start to bear heavy taxes. If they can't bear it, they will run away or sell themselves into slaves from wealthy households, and then their descendants will hide their identities and become black households.

A large number of hidden population is even more serious than hidden fields, because the fields are always there, and the population is alive and can be hidden. Therefore, after the Kangxi of the later generations entered the mu, a large number of people emerged. After a long period of war , the population suddenly soared by more than half, which was more than the population at the peak of the Ming Dynasty, which was considered to be the embodiment of the prosperity of Kangxi.

Now Suzhou Prefecture has a registered population of more than 200 million, and Suzhou City alone has nearly 100 million. In an era when most people live in rural areas, it is obviously impossible for Suzhou Prefecture to have such a small population. Most of the hired laborers are black households.

No one wants to become a black household. These big families would rather pay the Dingkou silver and register their children, because without a household registration, they cannot take the imperial examination. The hope of turning over.

Although the rich families do not hide their children, the hidden population has the greatest relationship with them. The vast majority of the hidden population are servants, servants and long-term workers of the big family. If the small income tax is exempted, these hidden population can be enthroned. It is not impossible to double the population of Suzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, the biggest beneficiaries of the reduction or exemption of the population tax are the poor.

But this sweet date is not enough.

"The governor plans to reduce the grain tax in the south of the Yangtze River by half in three years!"

This is the big sweet date.

Yang Chao has no intention of plundering the land. Clearing up the land is just a means of adjustment. It is to transfer part of the taxes borne by the poor to the rich. Therefore, Yang Chao actually used this method to put the benefits of the reduction and exemption on the bottom, the largest number of people, and the most resentful people.

"Dudu Yang is sympathetic to the people, and we thank the Dudu on behalf of the people."

When the nobles heard that they would be able to pay half of the tax in three years, they immediately praised Yang Chao, but their eyes were full of suspicion. Who would believe that the government would not search for it.

"Based on the amount of fish scales per acre in the Qingzhang this time, next year's summer and autumn grain will be immediately reduced by [-]%."

Yang Chao made it clear that the reduction will start next year, and this year's summer and autumn grains have already been taxed, so it is equivalent to a direct tax cut. Nanzhili's 700 million dans of taxed grains are reduced by one-third, which is more than 200 million dans. With such a large piece, Yang Chao couldn't afford to support so many soldiers.

Therefore, Yang Chao still needs the consent of these wealthy families: "However, the governor wants to levy business taxes, and I believe that the gentry and people will actively cooperate."

It's strange that these wealthy families' reaction to Yang Chao's business tax increase is much lower than the grain tax increase. Don't they know that Yang Chao's business tax increase may be very high, but they still think that the land is the root.

And the gentry also put forward a request, that is, the various tax-free departments hope that Yang Chao can act according to the law.

As long as a wealthy scholar in the Ming Dynasty has a reputation, even if he is just a scholar, he will have two hundred acres of tax-free land.

However, which of these powerful families does not have land properties of tens of thousands or even more than [-] mu? A kind of preferential treatment, but for these wealthy families, it is simply not worth mentioning, but they value this tax-free privilege very much.

This privilege was valued more than commercial taxation.

Yang Chao doesn't understand this kind of thinking, but he thinks it's not a bad thing, at least the resistance he encounters will be less.

The most likely understanding is that these powerful families are out of face, just like those powerful people in later generations who would rather pay a higher price to gain connections than follow the formal procedures to pay violation fines. This shows a kind of privilege. It symbolizes the status of being superior to others, and perhaps this kind of thing is the most valued by the rich.

After staying in Suzhou for three days, I had friendly exchanges with various gentry, and the atmosphere was considered harmonious. This kind of personal communication gave the wealthy family some face, and the rebound was calmed down.

With Yang Chao holding a big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other hand, the Suzhou problem was quickly resolved. Then Songjiang Mansion, Songjiang Mansion also had a large number of scholars arrested, implicating most of the wealthy families, so they cooperated quite well. In addition, Yang Chao and the wealthy families After talking cordially, the land in Songjiang was also cleared in one month, which also doubled, from [-] hectares to [-] hectares, [-] hectares more than in Zhu Yuanzhang's era.

After the Qingzhang of the richest Songjiang was finished, Yang Chao returned to Nanjing, and the rest of the work was handed over to Huangfeng Mansion, who asked Huangfeng Mansion to clear all the land in Nanzhili before the summer harvest.

Ten thousand scholars were exiled into the army, and Yang Chao knew that even if he came out to appease the wealthy family, even if he exempted the wealthy family from paying taxes, this beam was still formed. To make the wealthy family truly unite with him, the only way for them to find out that following Yang Chao can achieve greater success Benefits, this can only be changed after a few years when they find that they have paid less tax and realized that they have gained more benefits. It is just to appease them in a short period of time, and it is impossible for them to be united with Yang Chao.

But Yang Chao is looking for stability now. What he lacks is time. Yang Chao is confident that in ten years, he will kill the backward regime of the Qing court to the ground.

Scholars are very disobedient in the military camp. They are more disobedient than the recruited civilians. The reason is not that they can bear the board better. Neither will be swollen.

The problem is psychological. They look down on these instructors from the bottom of their hearts. Nine out of ten of these instructors who come from poor backgrounds do not know how to read, so why teach them?Just joking and fighting by this kind of stop-and-go?Going around like this?

I have to say that people who read a lot have complicated brains. When Yang Chao taught Wang Pu and them, they never thought about the relationship between walking around every day and fighting. These scholars disdain this very much, isn’t it just fighting? , They haven't read many military books, and they rely on strategy to fight!

Is war really based on strategy?
Really not, war is a fight of blood and bravery, and strategy is only an auxiliary means to gain an advantage in fighting. Scholars, raise your wisdom up.

They have wisdom, but they have no courage, so they naturally promote the importance of wisdom, just like workers always emphasize the importance of labor, while capitalists emphasize the importance of capital, in fact, they are all important, but people stand on their own point of view, will To magnify one's own advantages and belittle the advantages of others in order to gain the upper hand.

Intellectuals and the poor are like this. Intellectuals emphasize the importance of knowledge, while farmers must talk about the value of labor. Unfortunately, in most of China's era, the right to speak is in the hands of scholars, so the whole society has been brainwashed. They all accepted the saying that wisdom comes first.

Look at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the passages about strategy far exceed the passages about fighting.

For a long time, such a culture has been formed, that is, opportunistic, unwilling to risk their lives to fight hard, but hope to use a little trick to make a big difference, such as playing a straw boat to borrow arrows, such as setting fire to a company and so on.

Although Yang Chao doesn't despise strategy, but too much emphasis on strategy becomes a kind of speculative psychology, which is unacceptable.

But at this time, Yang Chao didn't need to reason with the scholars, let them learn about war in the war, and cultivate their blood in the rain of swords, guns and swords.

Just as the ruling class has no blood, the whole country will behave cowardly. There is no doubt about this truth.

These scholars will be the real ruling class of the country in the future. Yang Chao doesn't want them to be too cowardly. Before promoting them to the position of managers and officials of the country, Yang Chao needs to temper their brave spirit.

Of course, there will be a lot of sacrifices to send scholars to the battlefield, maybe half of them will have to sacrifice, but this is the price they have to pay. They have lost the courage of thousands of years, and they need to be cultivated in a short period of time without paying the price of blood. is impossible.

Yang Chao is also very reluctant to let these cultural elites cultivated by the Ming education system die in battle, but sending them to the position of managing the country submissively is irresponsible to the entire country.

And in other words, everyone is equal before life, and everyone is responsible for defending their home and country, regardless of whether they are illiterate or talented.

(End of this chapter)