Chapter: 98

Moreover, many things are not required throughout the year, but only at a specific time.

For example, the households, subsidized households, patrols, and scribes needed for tax collection in summer and autumn are only routinely needed when taxes are collected in summer and autumn, and it is usually impossible to support so many people.

For another example, the folkmen and firewood workers needed in winter, the gatekeepers, dammen, and shallow husbandmen needed when the river thaws in spring, are even a small number of manpower needed in specific seasons, and sometimes they are not even needed in specific seasons. For example, there is enough firewood for warmth in winter. , or there is too little snowmelt in spring, and the dam does not need extra manpower to guard it.

Based on the above, prostitution and self-cultivation of farmers is actually the best policy solution for the current imperial court.

Zhu Gaochi added: "In addition to corvee, there is another aspect of food that is paid as tax. There are too many ways to do it. Big buckets go in and small buckets go out, and big scales go in and small scales go out. These are the most basic... ...In addition to this, there are granary fires, unqualified grain quality and other dirty methods, which often make the actual farmers bear much more than expected actual taxes. The difference is divided up by local corrupt officials and landlords. .”

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Di's face, and added: "The court can't control it at all, and it can't be solved by killing people."

And as Zhu Gaochi in the secret room came to a conclusion, Li Jinglong outside the wall also came up with a similar answer.

Li Jinglong replied: "The first is the corvee, which is the most tormenting person, and it is easy to delay farming; the second is the grain paid, which is also easy to be tampered with. Self-cultivating farmers have no ability to redress their grievances. They can only knock out their teeth and swallow their blood." "Finally, there are farm cattle and seeds, which cannot be purchased by the family, and when they are not harvested or are unlucky, they have to borrow money from the landlord."

"You're right."

Jiang Xinghuo affirmed it, and immediately said: "There is a principle in the formulation of public management policies called 'be anxious about what the people are anxious about, and think about what the people think'. The root cause of the solution to the Ming Dynasty's land system lies in the three points you mentioned. .”

"It is the three points of corvee, grain, cattle and seeds that hinder the self-cultivating farmers from paying taxes to the court."

"It is precisely these three points that have become the main means of land annexation by the landlord class. If you think about it carefully, don't you?"

Li Jinglong suddenly realized something.

For a moment, he felt as if he was enlightened, and he was really enlightened.

Li Jinglong said fiercely: "So as long as we start from these three points, we can reasonably design a new land and taxation system, and then suppress the proportion of the landlord class, so as to stabilize the tax base of the dynasty and extend the life of the dynasty."

After saying these words, Li Jinglong was stunned for a moment.

Li Jinglong seemed to understand how Zhu Gaoxu suddenly became smart.

Jiang Xinghuo, he was born to teach!

Before I knew it, I was guiding myself to the right answer.

Moreover, it seemed that he had come up with it independently under his guidance, not something Jiang Xinghuo forced on him.

In the secret room.

Zhu Gaochi slapped the armrest viciously, and his fat palm instantly turned a liver color and turned a little purple.

But Zhu Gaochi didn't feel it at all, as if it was not enough to vent the excitement in his heart.

Zhu Gaochi patted the other hand again, and the severe pain just calmed him down from his excitement.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't sit still any longer, and Ji Gang quickly helped him up.

"Father, my son originally thought that Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi were the top civil servants in the world, and if they went up, they would be the existence of seeking saints like Master Daoyan... But today I heard what Mr. Jiang said Fang feels that there are people beyond people, and there is a sky beyond the sky, and it is my son who watched the sky from the well before!" Zhu Gaochi turned and said to Zhu Di very solemnly.

Zhu Di heard the words, heard that Zhu Gaochi changed Jiang Xinghuo's address, and asked with his hands behind his back with a smile.

"So, do you believe it? Believe what I said before, Jiang Xinghuo will definitely have a better countermeasure?"

"I believe it!"

Zhu Gaochi bowed his head in shame, and said: "Mr. Jiang, from the evolution of the land system in the past dynasties, summed up the law that the land determines the tax, the proportion determines the tax base, and the tax base determines the life expectancy. Based on this law, according to the current Ming Dynasty. The problems faced by mergers led Li Jinglong to summarize the three points of corvee, grain, cattle and seeds."