The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

In fact, Yan Song already had a vague idea in his heart.

A few years ago, something happened. In a certain place in the south of the Yangtze River, the income from growing mulberry trees was much higher than that from growing grain. Therefore, the local landlord class, powerful and powerful, joined forces with the county government to carry out a very special operation-breaking the embankment.

Digging the dams, allowing the river to flow backwards, submerged tens of thousands of mu of fertile land, and causing the people to lose their homes and be displaced in the torrent.

The land after the flood is ownerless, and then it can return to the hands of the powerful and landlords...

(I forgot the previous chapters, I wrote about this plot.)

Yan Song thought of this story, and felt that this method could be modified. He simply used this peasant uprising to promote Daming's land reform, and let Daming completely cut off the "three to five zeros" of "landlords and powerful" + "land annexation" for the future. The development of capitalism and the removal of obstacles in the land system.

Land system reform is a necessary condition for an industrial revolution, similar to sheep cannibalism in Europe.

The formation of a modern land system that is "healthy and orderly, reasonable in circulation, smooth in price, and restraining monopoly" is the only way for the economies of countries such as Great Britain and the United States to truly flourish.Why can't the modern Three Kingdoms develop for a long time and catch up with the Huaxia Kingdom?It is because there is no such system.

But Yan Song knew very well that under normal circumstances, the feudal dynasty could not attack the malignant landlord class.

Because the landlord class, especially the big landlords who monopolize tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, have various methods, no tax or grain!

Every dynasty has a tax exemption system, but it is basically formulated for these big landlords. For example, the "Fame Tax Exemption System" in this dynasty, if you pass the exam, you will be exempted from taxes on 300 acres of land under your name, and you will be admitted to Jinshi , Even more awesome, 300 hectares of land are not taxed.

This is why many children of landlords have the task of a lifetime to be a Jinshi, right?

Passing the Jinshi exam is equivalent to a small walking treasury.

Some families have five Jinshi in one discipline!

That's 1500 yuan of good land, no tax.

There are 400 Jinshi in the imperial examination every three years, hundreds of Juren in each province, and tens of thousands of Juren in the whole country.

As long as these people are alive and breathing, they will not pay taxes.

This is still a legal method, and there are more illegal methods.

Such as royal.

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was very thoughtful for his descendants, and he has considered it for generations to come.He stipulated that the land of the descendants of the royal family surnamed Zhu will not be taxed.

Lao Zhu felt that he was right.

This world belongs to my old Zhu family. If the royal family pays taxes to the emperor, but the left hand is handed over to the right hand, taking off their pants and farting, it is unnecessary. (Zhu Yuanzhang has a lot of [anti-pants-off-farting policies], but they all turn out to be rubbish policies, the most rubbish of which is taxation.)

But it turns out that Lao Zhu is too naive.

In this way, Daming's already rubbish taxation system opened another hole for not paying taxes.

The land of members of the royal family, such as the enfeoffment of princes in various places, can be grandiose, annexing the land, and not paying a penny of tax to the country.

What's more, there will be countless small peasants who voluntarily hold the land deeds and send them to various palaces to seek asylum.

As long as the benefit fee collected by the royal family is a little less than the exorbitant taxes paid to the state, the small peasants will earn money.

As a result, the land under the names of those clan princes expanded even more rapidly.

According to Yan Song's investigation, the Fu Wang, Zhu Houxun, who was entrusted in Luoyang City alone, owns 10,000+ hectares of the best land by the Yellow River!

In the whole of Henan, there are only a few hundred thousand hectares of land, and one-third of it is controlled by a Fu Wang!

Who is Zhu Houxun?

Zhu Houxun is Zhu Houcong's cousin. After the death of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, he had no heirs. Yang Tinghe and other ministers inspected several princes who were close relatives. When they were looking for the next emperor, Zhu Houxun was on the inspection list!

It can be seen how high Zhu Houxun's status is!

That is the man who almost became the emperor.

(The story of this person will be told later. It is just a chestnut to see how rich and rich the royal landlord is.)

In short, the land annexation of the Ming Dynasty has long been deeply rooted...

The land in the world is actually a fixed number.Although there is an increase every year, due to the long time of reclamation, the entire core area of ​​Daming has basically been developed to the limit, and even people are planting crops in the river.

Contrary to the continuous mergers of these local tyrants who do not pay taxes, those law-abiding small farmers and small landlords will pay more and more taxes.

Because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty needed to practice Taoism, the inner court needed money, the imperial court needed money, the army needed military pay, and the Great Wall needed to be refurbished. These are indispensable expenses.

Those small landlords and peasants who cannot evade taxes will have more and more burdens on their shoulders, and finally reach the point where they have worked hard for a year without enough to eat, and they will donate their land to powerful landlords who have the means to avoid paying taxes , become serfs, or simply go into exile...

When Daming reached that point, the world would be turned upside down.

If this cancer is not removed in time, sooner or later, Ming Dynasty will perish in the hands of these big landlords and local tyrants.

Yan Song had various thoughts in his heart.

How much land does the country have in total?

Many wise and promising emperors realized that land annexation was the "cancer" of the imperial economy and the root cause of the empire's demise, such as Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and even until Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, etc. Both have promulgated countless decrees to suppress land annexation and not allow the landlord class 1.3 to deprive small farmers of their last chance of survival.

Ran and egg.

No matter how wise the emperor was, he could not defeat these feudal landlords.

What about Mao?

Because they are the most powerful group of people in the country besides the emperor.

Princes, ministers, officials, gentlemen...