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

Of course, this is the research of later generations, and all the land is calculated.

出现在史书上的民田数字——从洪武14年（1381年）的3.66亿亩，增至万历六年（1578年）的5.1亿亩左右。（一说8.5亿亩。）

Even if according to this statistics, the cultivated land area doubles, and the tax rate remains unchanged...

Will the imperial tax revenue need to be increased accordingly?

During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, they could collect more than 3000 million shi. Even if the price of grain remained unchanged, they should have collected 7000 million shi of grain!

Even if the national average is 0.3 taels of silver per stone of grain... (This value is definitely much lower than the national average! In Jiangnan, where food is the cheapest, it is 0.26 taels of silver per stone in good years.)

Then we should collect 2000 million taels of silver!

This is the source of the Ming Dynasty's annual income of 2200 million taels of silver after the so-called one-whip method.

By the way, this is also recorded in "Wanli Accounting Records".

but!

You, Lao Zhang, have good intentions, but nothing can stop you from traveling all over the country to collect taxes!

Approval of taxes and reconciliation of taxes in the capital, these are two concepts!

For example, the so-called golden mask of Tutakamon is worth US$10 trillion...

Ha ha!

How many can be sold?

Is the deal done?

Just looking at the bid value, opening an online store and picking up a toothpick from the trash can, you can bid up to [-] trillion US dollars!

Right?

The actual transaction counts!

The same goes for a whip method——

Approval of taxes?

fart useless!

It is real when it is sent to the capital.

Lao Zhang has verified so many things, but it’s useless!

If you, Mr. Zhang, want to leave a name in history, why don't you take action on us?

Do you want to seize the food from the tiger's mouth?

Look how I am playing with you!

You, Lao Zhang, want to get more tax revenue for the Zhu family?

Whoops!

If it increases, then the Zhu family will not have the capital to seize power!

It’s okay, just watch what I do!

They used a series of dazzling methods to change Zhang Juzheng's whipping method of "converting taxes in kind into silver."

From then on, Ming Dynasty taxation entered the era of several million taels.

At first glance, it looks good!

Anyway, the amount of food in this era is only about 0.26 taels per stone.

A few million taels can buy a lot of food...

It's tens of millions of stones, and the Zhu family can't eat so much even if they die!

but--

You see, these common people are farming and growing food, but they can’t make any money.

Right?

After that whipping method broke the silver, the people wanted to pay taxes——

We can only sell the grain from the gentry at low prices, exchange it for silver, and then hand it over to the government.

If the emperor wanted to exchange his silver for grain, he had to buy the grain back from the gentry.

Hey~~!

Take out the pork from the refrigerator, pour it over, and your hands are still full of oil!

This discounted silver...

One plus one does not equal two!

Convert silver and collect taxes...

There are two problems facing us:

[-]: What is the conversion ratio between grain and silver?

Who has the final say?

It’s not just someone’s mouth!

After all - now in charge!

[-]: Land output varies from place to place. What is the standard for converting a mu into a standard mu in each place?

Who has the final say?

Or someone else!

……

The silver-to-silver ratio - the room for operation is so big!

In some places, the conversion of grain into silver is calculated as 1.9 taels per stone. (Northern and remote mountainous areas)

What?

You don’t produce millet?

nonsense!

If you produce millet, then the price will be lower, right?

What you want is for people like you who can’t get rice, so I’ll give you rice and collect taxes!

In some places, the local grain equivalent to silver is only 0.26 taels... (Jiangnan rice-producing area)

Of course, whether you can get this price depends on how many officials you have here!

The young official who came out...

——I live in a remote area and have no knowledge of culture and education, so I folded the wheat... It's still more than one or two!

Then this is a national statistics. If the details go to each government—

In the same area, some people's land is calculated as one standard expropriated mu (1.5 acres), and some are 2 acres, 3 acres, 5 acres...

Even - 8 acres! 10 acres!

As for how many acres of high-yielding paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, equivalent to the output of one acres of dry land in the north, are used to collect taxes from your family?

It just depends - your relationship...

Hard or not!

Of course, if it’s tougher, it won’t be on the tax roll!

As for the common people who don’t care...

Ah!

It doesn't matter - your family's land is Zhuang's land!

That means paying a tax of 70% of the land output!

For the second uncle, third uncle, and seventh uncle of the eldest boss... After all the discounts, this quota is not enough, so of course you have to shoulder the burden!

Let the bullets fly, then the tax in Goose City, is this art?

Do not!

This is realism!

This is the reality that Chao Xiao said!

History is far more magical than fiction!

By the way, I think your daughter is very chic...

Sell ​​it!

Your family hasn’t paid miscellaneous taxes yet!

The money for selling your daughter must be paid first!

As for the tax collector’s fee...

You are so bold and cunning, you dare to hide an old hen in your home!

Confiscated!

What?

Complain?

Ah!

"Who is this person in the hall, and why are you suing my servant?"

What?

Are you going to file a complaint at the Chief Secretary's Yamen?

Ah!

"Who in the hall is suing my second son?"

What?

Going to Beijing to sue the imperial court?

Ah!

In addition to causing trouble for the Zhu family emperor, do you think he can enter Jing Zhaoyin?

The emperor is drowning in water, let alone your little Guizhou head!

……

This is the difference in tax payment for land owned by different households in the same district.

So what should we do if some places have more officials and some places have fewer officials?

Where we have many officials, we don’t want to be on the same level as them!

fine!

The old man could still choke himself to death with urine!

You see - Zhejiang, such a prosperous place, has a commercial tax of only 5.8 taels! (Sixth year of Wanli) ("Finance and Taxation in Ming Dynasty China in the Sixteenth Century" said it was less than 7 taels)

This is still a quota!

A quota is a set tax standard.

As for actual collection...

When officials collect it, they have to discount it!

This discount, for places with young officials, is usually [-]%.

And in places with many officials, you can even get a [-]% discount!

In other words, a certain province that claims to have heavy commercial taxes actually collects only a little over one tael in commercial taxes!

And when paying the beggar's tax to the court, not only was he usually only paying a small half, but 40% of the banknotes were used to offset this small half!

In other words, the quota is as high as 5.8 taels of silver, which is equivalent to a huge sum of 5800 copper coins.

Even if they are not corrupt!

When it arrived at the treasury, there were only more than 1000 copper coins!

wrong!

There is a huge business tax that is not worth a thousand copper coins in a certain place, and people still have to operate it!

For example, the so-called: "in arrears," "due to be paid," "already paid," "still owed," "disappeared as usual"...

And this is the truth about the heavy taxes in Jiangnan that have been clamored for countless years!