Chapter 96 A grain of sand from the times falls on the heads of the people of Ming Dynasty and it becomes a mountain!

It’s not the same as in history.

Originally a large number of Qi Party, Zhejiang Party and Chu Party took refuge with Wei Zhongxian and then formed the powerful Eunuch Party.

However, because of Zhang Haogu's emergence.

These people have a new choice.

Everyone can see it.

Now that the emperor is re-employing Zhang Haogu, and now he wants to enact a new law, it is obvious that Zhang Haogu will be the main one to implement the reform. So it is obviously much better to take refuge with Zhang Haogu than to take refuge with Wei Zhongxian.

Zhang Haogu is at least a scholar and one of his own people.

And Wei Zhongxian is just a dead eunuch.

The number of officials who took refuge with Zhang Haogu and thought about sending money to Zhang Haogu every day was not a small number. However, basically, Zhang Haogu did not receive even a tael of silver.

It is easy to give someone a hand by taking money.

Furthermore, my family is not short of land. This is not a question of whether I have money or not, but that my family is very rich.

Can't do it.

Zhang Haogu also has his own judgment on people who want to seek refuge with him.

Whether you have talents, whether they can be used, and how much you were greedy before, let’s not talk about it. In the future, the court will give you money to raise integrity, can you not be greedy, and are there any benefits behind it?

The development of the Ming Dynasty has become very complicated.

Now it's just a waste of envy to return to the public and raise honest money.

Will they continue to support me when the other vendors come into their own?

After all, it is your own interests that are being damaged.

Therefore, if you want to be your own party member, you must carefully select someone like Zhang Ruitu. Although his family has land, they are not particularly wealthy.

And there is Choi Cheng-soo.

It doesn't matter if they are shameless or shameless, as long as they can do something, they are worthy of being reused.

After handling the government affairs, Zhang Haogu went to Yongding County again.

The main issue is preparing for conscription.

Although the Dog Emperor still did not agree to divide his fields.

However, preparations still need to be made.

At the very least, you still have to come up with a reasonable plan.

The total population is 80,000, and the Dog Emperor’s land is at least 800,000 acres.

On average, one person has ten acres.

However, according to the current productivity, if one person can cultivate five acres of land, it is considered a great achievement.

Zhang Haogu took out another map of the surrounding areas and calculated Zhu Youxiao's land in the Gyeonggi area. The land that the Dog Emperor had appropriated was definitely not wasteland but fertile land.

However, just dividing the fields is certainly not enough.

One is oxen, the other is iron plow, and the other is water conservancy.

Distribute the land, temporarily publicize other means of production, establish a farm cooperative, and let the farm cooperative pay usage fees.

Next is taxes.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the two-tax law since the Tang and Song Dynasties was basically followed. The summer tax was called summer tax and was due in August of that year; the autumn tax was called autumn grain and was paid in February of the following year. Generally, taxes were paid in kind, except for rice.

In addition to wheat, etc., you can also convert money, banknotes, gold, silver, etc.

Later, Zhang Juzheng began to implement the "One Whip Method", the main content of which was to spread some of the labor into the fields, and combine various land taxes, corvees, and miscellaneous taxes into one, all of which were paid in silver. The government hired people with silver to serve as servants.

Then we need to establish rural cooperatives and let them pay taxes uniformly.

However, this tax cannot be too high, otherwise it will damage the enthusiasm of farmers.

In fact, strictly speaking, the agricultural tax in Ming Dynasty is really not very high.

During the Han Dynasty, agricultural taxes ranged from 30% to 15% (6.7%); in the Tang Dynasty, it was about 10%; in the Song Dynasty, it was 9%; in the Ming Dynasty, 4%; in the Qing Dynasty, 7%; in the Republic of China, 15%.

, we must rely on agriculture to subsidize industry, higher, until agricultural taxes are completely abolished.

However, this is a positive tax.

There is another chronic problem in the Ming Dynasty, which is showdown, that is to say, miscellaneous taxes.

This is the most immoral part. Ming Dynasty took "sharing" to the extreme.

Sharing has been around since ancient times, but the Ming Dynasty forcefully created a flower for you.

What is apportionment? It means collecting a portion of the funds spent on temporary projects in addition to regular taxes.

It may be a military operation, it may be river control, it may be some project, it may be some big national celebration, in any case, taxes must be increased.

In theory, the additional payment was temporary. The most famous assessment was Chongzhen's three-rate payment. After further suffering for the people, the Ming Dynasty was finally wiped out.

This extra bonus is temporary.

Theoretically, if the country is safe this year, then the finances will be just enough, or even a slight surplus.

But it is impossible for the country to be safe every year, so a showdown is inevitable. The question is, how do you know how much it will cost to solve this problem?

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty creatively adopted the method of "eating at the same time and eating at the same time".

Taking Chongzhen as an example, a lot of money was spent on three salaries this year. It will be calculated at the end of the year and then allocated to the provincial and county capitals and health offices, and more money will be sent next year.

In this way, a group of clever little clever guys will find that the deficit this year can be made up next year.

However, if Liaodong has not been resolved, the peasant uprising has not been resolved, and military training has not been completed, but more troubles occur, what should we do?

Or what should we do if next year’s additional allocations are not received and the court is still in deficit?

A group of smart people said that this problem is easy to solve. If it is not solved this year, it will continue to be owed first next year, and the increase will continue to be increased the year after.

If the deficit cannot be resolved the year after next, isn’t there still another year after tomorrow?

What if it can’t be solved in the next year?

It doesn't matter, Ming Dynasty's taxes will continue to increase.

Taxes can continue to be added, and they can even be collected hundreds of years later, which is 2022 in the fucking Western calendar.

If the land annexation is a little more serious, if these bureaucrats are a little greedy, while paying taxes to the court, they can also take a little more into their own pockets.

Well, for the people of the Ming Dynasty, the picture was simply not too beautiful.

It doesn't seem like it's increasing much each time.

However, when a grain of sand falls on everyone's head, it becomes a mountain.

Then, the farmers discovered that, damn, they couldn’t survive.

According to this collection method, the government will take away the money before the banker in the field collects it.

A considerable number of peasants even took the initiative to hand over their land to the gentry in order to avoid taxes from the court.

Because although Mr. Huang is exploiting you, compared to the taxes allocated, you will find that although Huang Silang wants to take away the bulk of his own money, at least he seems to be able to eat.

The official tax cannot be too high, but it cannot be too low either.

Zhang Haogu pondered for a moment.

The tax was set at 15%, all miscellaneous taxes were abolished, showdowns were stopped, and corvee payments were required.

After thinking about it, Zhang Haogu crossed out the money required for corvee work again.

For large-scale national projects, large-scale corvee labor must be paid to train professional workers.

Local governments don't have enough money to build water conservancy projects, so they should be free of charge. They should learn to mobilize the masses and let them understand that building water conservancy projects is to make their fields better for cultivation.

In addition, never endow

Zhang Haogu temporarily set a rule.

This number also refers to the number of the Qing Dynasty.

The official tax rate of the Qing Dynasty was 7%, but in the future, people were divided into acres, and the gentry all paid the grain and worked as errands. The actual tax was similar to the one set by themselves.

In fact, the most outrageous thing is that the Qing Dynasty also collected Liao pay.

He received Liao's salary and went to fight Li Dingguo.

The official tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty was much greater than that of the Ming Dynasty and even any dynasty in history, so there was a steady stream of support for the expansion of the frontiers.

Kangxi had the confidence to say that he would never increase taxes because the taxes were already very high.

If the official tax rate is really as low as that of Dameng, you can see if it can give you a permanent tax.

It can be said that the Qing Dynasty tried its best to avoid all the thunder that the Ming Dynasty could avoid.

Although Zhang Haogu did not like the Qing Dynasty, he did not mind taking over some of the excellent political systems of the Qing Dynasty.

"master!"

As soon as Zhang Haogu stopped writing, Zhu Youxiao got in.

Zhang Haogu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, why are you here?"

"I was a little bored staying in the palace and had nothing to do, so I came here!!"

Zhu Youxiao was a little worried, and he was obviously still hesitating whether to divide his imperial village. When he saw Zhang Haogu and asked, he was a little cautious.

One side does not want to separate, but the other side also understands that it is impossible to feed more and more people if we do not separate.

Zhang Haogu smiled and did not mention the land allocation. He just smiled and said: "Your Majesty, shall we go for a walk?"
Chapter completed!