Chapter 283 The reason why a noble family is a noble family!
Chapter 283 The reason why a noble family is a noble family!
Author: Wei Mowen
Chapter 283 The reason why a noble family is a noble family!
"Buddhism?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned.
So why is it related to Buddhism again?
Aren't those great monks free from the secular world and not concerned with any affairs in this world?
Hmm.
In the impression of outsiders, Buddhist people are not like that.
They live in the mountains, eat fast and chant Buddha's name, transcend the world, and interact with the legendary Buddha and Bodhisattvas.
It is not easy for people in the world to meet them.
He is a monk, so what bad intentions can he have?
All kinds of things.
In such a package, there is no doubt that Buddhism is a decent person.
But no!
"Do we know whether Buddhists don't need to pay taxes?"
Xu Yi opened his mouth and said.
"ah?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling looked confused.
Then they really don't know.
"Can you tell me, does Buddhism need to pay taxes?"
Xu Ziling replied weakly. He didn't know why, but he seemed to have a very good impression of Buddhism, so he defended Buddhism instinctively.
Xu Yi glanced at him and said.
"Normally speaking, it's true. Those Buddhist people don't engage in production, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with paying taxes, but no..."
"He gives an example and we will know."
"Outside Chang'an City, there is a temple called Jingnian Chanyuan. In that temple, there is a main hall made of pure brass."
"We heard it right, it's pure brass! Even copper coins are not pure!"
"That brass palace is conservatively estimated to weigh millions of kilograms, which is almost equivalent to a million taels of silver!"
"The imperial court's annual tax revenue is only 10 million taels of red silver, so a main hall in the Jing Nian Monastery is equivalent to one million taels of silver. Do we think where their wealth comes from?"
A house worth one million taels of silver!
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were both dumbfounded.
They never imagined that a house could be so luxurious!
"Even if it's not the legendary imperial palace, it's still not as good as the house in Jing Nian Zen Monastery, right?"
Kou Zhong smacked his lips. Even if he didn't understand, he still knew that the imperial court with an annual tax revenue of only ten million taels of red silver could not spend one million taels to build a palace.
Even if all the palaces in the entire palace are put together, it is hard to say whether they are worth one million taels.
And the Jing Nian Temple, which they had never heard of, had a house worth one million taels of silver.
Do you have to be rich to do that kind of thing?
Even Xu Ziling, who had an inexplicable fondness for Buddhism for some unknown reason, fell silent after hearing that number.
In the face of hard facts, any gorgeous explanation is useless.
While I was telling him that all four things were in vain, it turned out that I turned around and built a million-dollar palace. Does that mean that all four of my things were in vain?
Does that mean that all four are empty? In my eyes, money cannot be counted. Is money wrong?
"Boss Xu, how did the Buddhist sect make so much money?"
Kou Zhong asked curiously.
Compared to the aristocratic families, is it really hard for him to imagine how the Buddhists can earn so much money?
Xu Yi didn't hide it and explained directly.
"Two reasons, one is that their believers either voluntarily or are voluntarily 'donated', and the other is... Let's put it this way, there are thousands of hectares of fertile land at the foot of Jing Nian Temple to the east, do they all belong to them?
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"And in the entire Tiandong, the number of peasant laborers belonging to the east of Buddhism definitely exceeds one million!"
"That way, can we understand it?"
"Understandable."
Both of them nodded.
In the explanation just now, they have perfectly understood what labor force is equal to the production of wealth.
Buddhism, which controls millions of laborers, is undoubtedly equivalent to controlling the wealth produced by those millions of laborers.
Plus they don’t have to pay taxes...
"Aren't they the same blood-sucking insects as the nobles of the aristocratic families?"
Kou Zhong said with disdain.
After Xu Yi's training, he now has no good feelings at all against those blood-sucking citizens who made the people of Tiandong live in such misery.
Xu Yi glanced at him lightly.
Please tell me about blood-sucking insects. I, Kou Zhong, and Xu Ziling are also not one of them.
The definition of blood-sucking insects is actually very simple. If an individual does not produce any economic value, or the economic value produced is not as good as the wealth captured, then it is not a blood-sucking insect.
Are all major aristocratic families free of blood-sucking insects?
Are the corrupt officials in the world blood-sucking worms?
Buddhism, which claims to be empty of all four elements, is not a vampire.
A little bastard with no value at all is naturally not a vampire!
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, as of now, they have not produced any economic value in that world.
They rely on deceit and deceit to steal other people's wealth to support themselves.
Of course, that is not what they want.
They are orphans themselves, and they are under the control of the gangster leader, Boss Yan, who forces them to cheat, steal, and rob!
If the target cannot be achieved, he will be beaten severely at every turn.
No, they don’t want to contribute to that world. Lord, that damn world doesn’t give them a chance to choose!
Xu Ziling asked with a complicated expression.
"Boss Xu, do you mean that Buddhism shouldn't exist?"
"Of course not."
Xu Yi shook his head.
"Buddhism, including members of aristocratic families, although they are not vampires, he has never said that he wants them to be completely eliminated."
After two lives and two emperors, although Dong refused to delegate power in most cases, he also had a lot of understanding of how to govern the country.
Governing a country is not simply about fighting and killing.
Beating and killing can only cure the symptoms, but not the root cause.
Just like the development of history, the aristocratic families disappeared and the gentry emerged; the gentry disappeared and the plutocrats emerged again...
If the large-scale forces that are superior to ordinary people can be completely exterminated, they will continue to exist in another form.
Even in this world, where Xu Yi single-handedly suppressed the entire world, various forces still inevitably appeared in Didong.
What he needs to do is not to completely kill them, but how to manage them so that they can be used by him or contribute to the country and Tiandong!
"For this reason, because they are not blood-sucking insects, they are not harmful."
"But they just want to make them harmless, or even beneficial, and that's fine."
"They are not a part of Tiandong. They blindly suppress Tiandong excessively. It is also harmful to Tiandong."
Xu Yi said with an upright face.
Xu Ziling's eyes were bright. Xu Yi's statement won his heart. He was kind-hearted and did not want to cause too much killing.
At that moment, Xu Yi's whole body seemed to be glowing in his eyes!
"Then Boss Xu, how should they turn them into useful ones?"
"It's very simple. Why do they become blood-sucking insects?"
"Because...not paying taxes?"
"That's right!"
Xu Yi looked at Xu Ziling approvingly.
"Because they don't pay taxes, they don't make any contribution to Tiandong, so they are blood-sucking insects!"
"But if we ask them to pay taxes and contribute to Tiandong, then they will naturally stop denying blood-sucking insects!"
What is the biggest problem of the family family?
Raising private soldiers? Land annexation? Forced buying and selling?
No!
None of those.
The biggest problem for family members is that they don’t pay taxes!
None of the things mentioned here are illegal, and there are other ways to deal with them.
The only one who doesn’t pay taxes is not given by the court and is it legal!
That is equivalent to the imperial court directly distributing a large part of the wealth to them. Of course, in the eyes of emperors of all dynasties, Ke Ke denied only a small part of the wealth.
After all, most of the land in that world is owned by the state or farmers. Even if they don't have to pay taxes, they won't lose much money.
But what they don’t know is that because of the legal benefit of ‘no tax’, major aristocratic families have taken advantage of it to the extreme through various illegal methods!
The wealth they draw from it every year can even be several times the tax revenue of the imperial court, completely exceeding the imagination of the original dynasties when they formulated that policy.
It is estimated that the founding emperors could not have imagined that the policies and laws they enacted if they did not win over the gentry class would have such serious consequences in the past.
"No! Can't we just ask them to pay taxes?"
Xu Ziling looked happy, feeling that he had found a bright direction.
Kou Zhong on the side curled his lips and said.
"Xiao Ling, I'm so naive! How can they pay taxes obediently?"
"Um?"
Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Xu Yi again.
"Boss Xu, is Xiao Zhong right...?"
"Xiao Zhong is right."
Xu Yi nodded and gave him the cruel answer without any pause.
Will major aristocratic families pay taxes obediently?
Of course that’s not possible!
Is that the most fundamental reason why they can become a noble family?
Many people say that it is because they have knowledge that has been passed down for thousands of years. There is some truth in that statement, but it is not absolutely wrong.
At least at that time, the knowledge they possessed was not enough to distinguish them from others and become a noble family that even the emperor was afraid of.
The real reason why they make the emperor fearful, call them a noble family, and even have Coco replace the emperor at any time is that they control the labor force!
Whether a country is strong or not depends on its gross national product.
In later generations, the reason why the United States was so powerful and the only superpower in the world was because their GDP ranked first in the world!
Although the population of the United States is far less than that of China, at that time, due to industrialization and technological revolution, the average personal GDP of the United States was extremely high.
If Chinese people can produce an average economic value of two hundred yuan per day, then Americans who have mastered high technology can produce an average economic value of at least one thousand or even two thousand yuan per day!
In that era, the difference in the value of individual labor was not that big, and with the blessing of technology and knowledge, a reversal could be achieved.
But during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, that agricultural society was far from entering the industrial era, and the gross national product could basically be equated to the labor force population.
Whoever controls a larger labor force will have stronger national power.
(PS: National strength there does not entirely represent military strength. It involves more complex issues such as wealth distribution rate, wealth utilization rate, etc., so I won’t go into details here.)
Why is it that when Tiandong is in chaos, all the great families can often ride on the wind and move forward to the only throne of the emperor?
Is it because you don’t have to pay taxes!
By relying on the law of no taxation, they quietly controlled the labor force of millions.
To a certain extent, it is no exaggeration to call them a country within a country!
Just like the vassal states, although those aristocratic families do not have substantial territory, they control a substantial population!
Does re-demanding population mean re-seeking territory?
Li Tang's family history tells them that they secretly selected soldiers from among their own private farmers, rebelled against the banner, and easily took over the entire Taiyuan.
Because those farmers had never paid taxes to Li Tang and did not recognize Li Tang as their master, it was equivalent to recruiting soldiers in their own country.
Of course, no problems were encountered.
Is this the case for other aristocratic families? They recruit peasants from their own land as soldiers, completely becoming their own guards!
In summary.
The "no tax" policy seems to be an ordinary way for the family members to make money, but in fact it is their biggest foundation!
Once that foundation is missing, it will not be that easy for them to rebel or recruit soldiers in the future.
Because everyone in that land paid taxes to the court, they naturally felt a sense of identity in their hearts.
He paid all the money!
That country has his share!
Don't underestimate the little difference, it is the biggest difference between yourself and others.
Like the Li and Tang royal family, although they later recruited many soldiers, the ones they trusted the most and worked the hardest on the battlefield were always Taiyuan veterans!
The policy of "no taxation" was so important that it became clear that all the major aristocratic families would not agree to abolish it.
Just like the abolition of feudalism.
My request deprived him of his throne!
Then he doesn't want to fight with me?
"So, if they want to turn those blood-sucking insects into beneficial insects, they first have to ask to kill them all."
"Beat them until they are crippled! Beat them until they kneel down and beg for mercy! They will naturally agree with their new policy!"
Xu Yi said calmly.
In the first two worlds, he didn't do it like that. He just did it a little bit cruelly and wiped out all the noble families.
In that world, Xu Yi, who had clearly understood the nature of governing a country, decided to make some improvements and not be so ruthless.
Just cripple those aristocratic families!
"Crippled?"
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling shuddered.
They thought of the Zhuhua Gang, and that war had just ended not long ago.
Their noses could still breathe the smell of blood in the air. The strong smell of blood reminded them of how tragic that battle was!
The Zhuhua Gang, which originally had over a thousand people, now only had less than 300 people left, and more than 70% of them died in that battle.
Boss Xu...won't he intend to pay the family members by mistake in the same way, right?
