Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Li Shugen squatted under the poplar tree, took out a pack of Xiangyang cigarettes, and was about to stuff it into his mouth.

Li Shugen, who has become rich and has no shortage of money, has given up dry cigarettes, and even smokes hard boxes containing eighteen copper coins a pack.

This is a famous cigarette known as Xiaohuazi, and only those at the shopkeeper level can afford it.

The fact that Li Shugen was able to smoke this shows how much profit this guy who quit his job as a mason and switched to trucking has made.

Of course, this was all controlled by Zhu Youjian.

With military as the core, he condensed the interests of all those who revolved around the military into a whole.

From the lower-level workers in various construction sites and workshops, to generals, nobles, clans, and royal families, they are all part of this network.

Zhu Youjian used various systems of the New Ming Dynasty to form an earth-shaking network.

The outermost part of this network is the farmers.

With food export as the form of expression and compliance with the tax system as the inner core, they have become this network, the endless tentacles rooted in the earth.

In turn, as long as this network exists, it will protect these most humble people.

The internal maintenance system of this network - a tax audit system that is not only independent but also linked to individual performance, will become a tool to protect people from being persecuted by corrupt officials.

The food produced by the land is precisely the key support for maintaining this network.

On the other hand, the existence of this network must open up new territories - and it will naturally provide endless new land for the people!

To describe it simply, this network is the "farming and commercial system" modified by Zhu Youjian.

In Zhu Youjian's plan, these three will support and rely on each other, and eventually reach a state of being mutually beneficial.

Although the land was developed, the top beneficiaries were the royal family and nobles.

But, again, the same thing applies - land needs to be cultivated.

No matter who takes away the tax revenue, the land will eventually be given to farmers for cultivation.

Thirty tax one, which is a tax of 3.33% - with such a low tax, how can the farmers at the bottom not support this network?

The existence of the tax system and the fact that the royal family controls most of the workshops can naturally ensure that business taxes are paid according to 10% of gross profits.

The normal operation of the tax system is enough to ensure the complete operation of this system!

To be honest, the taxes set by Zhu Youjian have been very low throughout history.

Of course, it cannot be compared with Daming.

Because the official agricultural tax is only 3.1%.

Excluding the late Ming Dynasty of Chongzhen Dynasty, it is only 1.97%.

Even if Chongzhen's three rates were added, the agricultural tax rate levied by Chongzhen towards the central government did not exceed 3.5% of the land output.

Even if the labor exchange for silver is added, it still does not exceed 4% of the land output.

The commercial tax is even more disappointingly low. Adding up all taxes on salt, iron, wood, banknotes, taxation departments, customs... all circulation links, it accounts for less than 1% of the sea trade share, or even Below 0.5%!

If we use the Ming Dynasty commercial tax to compare the national commercial market, it is only one thousandth, or even less than that!

(Note: The source of the above data is Mr. Huang Renyu, PhD in history from the University of Michigan, "Finance and Taxation in Ming Dynasty China in the Sixteenth Century")

Of course, this is a tax on the surface.

In other words, this is the tax collected by the Zhu family royal family!

What about the people?

Having been robbed of the initiative, there is still good fruit for the people to eat?

When the emperor looked at the Ming Dynasty, they were all the foundation of the Zhu family's rule, and they were all the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Remember this "child"!

But the officials and gentry looked at the Ming Dynasty...

What the hell!

It's all fat!

You know, the gentry and bureaucracy used various means to seize the Ming Dynasty land, and the price of the land leased by the people was completely paid according to the special expenditures for Zhuanghutian and military household fields!

The private land that was taken away was paid according to the special land use...

The payment share of the land robbed by the wealthy gentry, compared with the output, is as high as [-]%, or even more than [-]%!

People are profit-seeking.

They even killed a dozen and a half emperors, and yet they still talk about benevolence and righteousness to you common people?

Benevolence and righteousness - this is for the emperor!

Benevolence and righteousness are written in books!

Benevolence and righteousness are on the lips, but the hands are full of blood!

This is why Zhu Youjian ordered the tax ratio to be painted on the walls and allowed the people to fight with guns!

Comparing the two, there is no need to explain how to choose.

People are not fools and will vote with their feet!

Zhu Youjian understands that in the early stages of starting a business, you can rely on like-minded people to persuade (fool) a group of people to follow him without reservation.

However, this kind of relationship cannot last forever...

In other words, such people are in the minority after all!

The strongest relationship in the world is interest!

Just imagine--

In the past, if a poor family wanted to be an official, they had to marry someone else's girl and get someone else's label. Even the tax-free land had to be owned by someone else. Every step they took, there was one more master. Every time they took the exam, there were more. An old man managed to become an official by betraying his personality and himself. Even his master and senior attendants were appointed by his benefactor. Even if he did not want to be corrupt, there would still be a group of old men who used their own name to take bribes and pervert the law. I still can’t take care of it, I don’t dare to take care of it…

This is the truth that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were easily soluble in water, and that conscientious officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty were easily killed in battle and easily dismissed from power!

If you block someone else's way of making money, who will die if you don't?

today……

To be an official in the new Ming Dynasty, you only need to be capable and willing to endure hardships. Even if you fail the imperial examination, you can still take the path of officialdom!

And officials...

Ha ha!

When these people begin to transform and rise to the official level, they will suddenly find that they can no longer lead the group of officials who actually do practical things!

Zhu Youjian's strategy of dividing the government between officials and officials interrupted the tentacles of officials' manipulation of real power!

Under the circumstances of generous salaries, under the supervision of tax inspections, and under the circumstances where officials only have coordination power but no actual control power...

Does it mean that officials and officials have other choices?

——As long as you have enough food and clothing, no one wants to leave a name in history!

What's more, their children are given priority to be admitted to the Ming Dynasty Royal University City.

——If you can make money standing up, no one wants to kneel down!

What breeds corrupt officials is the environment...

Just imagine--

In the past, the craftsmen were obviously very skilled, and the money allocated by the emperor was enough, but when it came to me, I didn't even get [-]% of it. However, if something happened, I would still be the one to top the cylinder...

I was about to squander my money, waste my time, and help the imperial court with manufacturing, but it emptied my family fortune, and my head was still cut off...

For example: Xu Guangqi and his party had the capital to sell the artillery produced by the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty at a high price in the name of "Ocean Current".

For example: Wang Zheng doesn’t have much capital, but he is obviously a master of steam engines, but he has lived a mediocre life...