Every Red Mansion dungeon must play the ending of Long Aotian

A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.

This sentence may not be useful to strong-willed adults, but it is difficult to say its power to children.It is the prince who firmly believes that he is not wrong, but there are always people around him whispering, and he will become suspicious if he talks too much.

Although the prince is young, he was raised by the queen alone. Since he has something in his heart, he dare not go to the emperor. It is common for him to go to the queen and ask the queen to help him solve his doubts.Therefore, this day, when he came to give the empress a morning and night sleep, he purposely stayed for a while longer.

Naturally, the queen broke it apart and crushed it for him, told him carefully, and guided him to think deeply.

It has to be said that the crown prince is really young, and he grew up in the court since he was a child. Many things are told to him directly, and he may not be able to think of them at the first time.

The prince hesitated and said: "Mother, is the 300 million person tax a lot?"

Only then did the queen realize that something was wrong.

The prince is too young, even if he directly told him 300 million taels of silver, he would not realize how much money it was, because he had no concept of money at all.

The queen immediately ordered someone to move the copper coins and the box, and then counted out ten copper coins and placed them in front of the prince.

The queen said: "This dynasty follows the previous dynasty, and the per capita tax in each province is different. The per capita tax in Gyeonggi is the lowest, with an average of ten cash per man per day, and [-] cash a year is enough. That's three, two, six. A hundred dollars."

Three piles of money were placed in front of the young prince. The first pile was not a pile at all. There were only a few ten coins. They were arranged in two rows and placed in front of the prince. The middle pile was three coins plus one hundred cents. There are six strings of money in a string, compared with the ten copper coins next to it, this pile of money looks like a pile of hills.

As for the third pile, there are three silver melon seeds weighing one or two plus six strings of money. It is not as shocking as the middle pile, but it is much more than the first pile.

The queen compared the second and third piles, and said, "The price of these two piles is the same. Prince, can you imagine how much three million taels of silver is?"

The prince shook his head blankly.

The queen signaled the palace staff to bring up a money box containing 500 taels of silver, and asked the prince to see how big a box of 500 taels of silver was, and then piled up money boxes of similar size in the center of the hall.Six thousand boxes were stacked up one by one, like a hill, filling the entire main hall to the brim.

Although these boxes were basically empty, they still intuitively engraved how much money 300 million taels of silver was in the prince's heart.

Seeing that the prince understood, the queen ordered the empty boxes to be removed, and then signaled the prince to pay attention to the first pile of ten copper coins: "The capital is the most prosperous place in the world, and not every commoner can earn money every day." Ten pennies."

This was the second shot, which directly stunned the prince.

It took him a while to understand what the empress meant: "Mother, empress, this, is this true? Then, does that mean that the people in the world can't afford to pay the birth tax?"

The queen said: "That's right. Most people can't afford to pay the person tax. From the previous dynasty, no, from a longer time, there has been a situation where the person tax cannot be collected. Maybe you often hear that the world's tax is 24% After leaving the south of the Yangtze River, my mother can tell you that even with the wealth of the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, there are still situations where taxes cannot be collected. Take Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province as an example. Suzhou Prefecture has more than 170 towns, and the tax rate is Twenty renminbi a day, seven or two hundred renminbi a year, the tax rate is twice that of Gyeonggi, and the annual per capita tax is 1000, two hundred taels. But in fact, the annual per capita tax that Suzhou Prefecture can pay is only Up to 20. Not only in Suzhou, but also in the whole world."

The prince was dumbfounded.

He can still compare 1707 million taels of silver and less than 20.

He murmured: "This, nine, one-ninth?"

"Yes. When your imperial grandfather was in power, he reduced or exempted taxes several times. After your father took office, he also reduced or exempted taxes. However, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The rich have money, but they don't pay much tax. As for the poor , can only flee famine in a year of good weather, because if they do not flee, they will be confiscated into slaves. This situation has existed since the Song Dynasty. This is also the reason why the people in the south of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty generally did not have children. It's not because you don't like your son, but because you have to pay taxes after giving birth to a son. Ordinary people can't pay the tax, so they can only throw away their sons."

This is what the imperial court is most worried about now.Whether it is the Supreme Emperor or the emperor, they are afraid that the people will not give birth, so they can only let the provinces continue to default on the birth tax.

Vicious circle.

The problem of taxation has made this country full of holes, and Miaoyu is the key to solving this problem.

This is the reason why the Supreme Emperor hated Miaoyu so much that he gritted his teeth but didn't do anything but protected her and didn't allow others to do anything to her.Whether it is the emperor or the Supreme Emperor, they all know the significance of Miaoyu to the whole country.

"Mother, in this dynasty, is there such a thing as giving birth to a child?"

"Yes. Some areas still exist." The queen said firmly, "This is why your father thinks highly of your sister. Your sister has many farms in Shanxi and Shanxi. Even higher than Jiangnan, as high as [-] taels per year, even women only pay half, still higher than Gyeonggi. However, the poll tax for males can’t be collected everywhere, and your imperial sister’s men can’t even collect poll tax for women How can those officials who have a vegetarian meal with their corpses tolerate your imperial sister."

Wouldn't keeping her make them even more incompetent?

The prince nodded silently.

"Besides, there are still some officials with great eyesight and low abilities who have little ambition and talent. They think that your imperial sister is just buying farms and encouraging textiles, and they think they can do it too. However, your imperial grandfather and your father think highly of your imperial sister. As long as your imperial sister is gone, your imperial grandfather and your imperial father will be able to see them. I don’t even think about how wise Zhang Juzheng was in the previous dynasty. Isn’t there no way? How many ministers and virtuous ministers have there been throughout the ages, but How many of them have collected the whole country's population tax?!"

Although the queen is in the deep palace, it does not mean that she is a pure deep palace woman, who only sees clothes, jewelry, and pomp every day.On the contrary, she also knows everything about the outside world.

The prince said: "Then what is Wang Shaofu's intention of taking the emperor's sister as an example?"

"Wang Shaofu took your imperial sister as an example. First, I hope you can pay attention to your imperial sister, and pay attention to your imperial sister's ability to use ordinary means to do things that ordinary people cannot do; second, because Wang Shaofu is also curious about it. inevitable."

"inevitable?"

"That's right. Although Wang Shaofu's surname is Wang, the queen mother said that he is closer to Sima Wenzheng. However, Xiao Liu, no matter how famous Wang Shaofu is, he is your young master, and he is only a young master. You are the prince, and what he said , you can listen, but you can't obey everything. Do you understand?"

"Yes, mother."

After the prince left, the queen sat for a long time without speaking.

Lady Shangyi waited for all the boxes in the main hall to be moved out and the order was restored, and then she said cautiously: "Your Majesty, His Highness the Crown Prince is still young. Is it too early for Your Majesty to tell His Highness the Prince?"

The queen said: "It's because the prince is young that I need to talk about it. If you are taught to be wrong, telling him these things will only be counterproductive."

The prince is the crown prince, and although the prince Shaofu is the prince's teacher, he is a subject after all.A king is a king, and a minister is a minister. Different positions determine different thinking modes.If the crown prince is completely in the way of thinking of his subordinates, then in the near future, there will be problems in the country; if the king governs the country with the way of thinking of his subordinates, then the country will not be far away from subjugation.

The king may not be a good person, and the king may even be self-willed, but the king must not be humble, or even have the ability to think independently.

A king should look like a king.

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