[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

What Xia Anran is writing at this moment is not the text, but the manuscript. A certain amount of manuscripts will be distributed along with the papers for each exam, so that the candidates can use them as drafts, and these draft papers will be handed in at the end.

You are wrong if you say that there is no need to draft drafts in the theory of liberal arts exams. For this kind of situation where one exam determines life, every article needs to be written down. After repeated revisions, it is copied. Put it on the draft, and the draft will also be used as a demonstration of whether you have cheated in this exam... A clear thinking thread can avoid certain troubles.

...The idea is good, but generally adopts a policy of preferring to be wrong, so it is actually useless.

But in many cases, when the imperial court posted the answer sheets, drafts would also flow out. It can be said that the drafts of the champions and second place candidates are more informative than the final answer sheets.

Xia Anran didn't intend to write about saving money, although saving money is really easier than opening up, but how to write it?When writing about the emperor, you should save more, lower your father’s treatment, marry fewer wives, don’t be so tolerant even to old ministers, collect money when you need it, and copy your house if you need it... It won’t take long to write like this Xia kitten will become a cat skin.

He estimated that more than half of the candidates present would be the same as him, choosing to increase income and cutting expenditure would probably be ignored.

How to open source, the easiest way is to increase taxes.

Since the founding of the country, the country has been prosperous and the people have been safe and healthy. However, the tax has not been increased for several years. It is still a very low amount. The main reason is that the base is low. The founding emperor of this dynasty was born with mud legs. The reason for the addition is that the emperor "sympathized with the people's sentiments". Didn't this compassion make his son miserable?

The father is still there, can the son come out and say that the no tax increase that my father said is outdated, should I increase it?

The other is business tax, but to be honest, as far as he and Xue Pan learned during the chat, the dynasty adopts a policy of neither agreeing nor opposing business, but the tax imposed on merchants is not light.

The commercial tax on modern daily necessities in our country is almost between six and eleven. Unless it is some sensitive goods, there will be tax rebates for import and export depending on the situation. There is no need to mention the import tax of luxury goods, after all, they are not just needed. .

This is because our country still encourages commercial circulation.

How long did it take China to replace agricultural tax with commercial tax?

——From the founding of the People's Republic of China to [-], it was completed in the process of modern high-speed development and the process of China's GDP increasing year by year.

Naturally, all of this is not easy to accomplish. Agriculture does not have to pay taxes because of mechanization, high-yield crops, and the popularization of chemical fertilizers. Since the founding of our country, the strategy of farmers feeding the towns and industries has been used to feed the farmers after the towns grow. With the import of agricultural products, the advancement of mechanization, the start of commerce and the start of industry, step by step, the pressure of taxation has been removed from farmers and placed on other industries.

In the end, the peasants who have been in the state of nurturing the country since the concept of the country in China can finally become an industry that is fed back by industry and commerce.

Taking this step, China has traveled for thousands of years.

But as far as this era is concerned, it took our country decades to complete the road that the West took hundreds of years to complete. Among them, countless problems have erupted. From 00 to 06, we have experienced countless trials and tribulations. , Protests, and even riots broke out. In the end, it really opened a new chapter of feeding back agriculture.

But who is the biggest enemy of tax increase?Not a business group, but a bureaucracy.

Because this dynasty is a brand new dynasty, the power of the aristocratic family has not been fully developed, but the situation in the Qing Dynasty in history is completely different. Does the emperor not understand the benefits of banning the sea?Don't want to dig a piece of meat from the business tax?

Of course not, it was just dismissed.

Once the sea ban was lifted, the interests of those bureaucrats who originally smuggled in the coastal areas were damaged.When the business tax is increased, the bureaucratic interests behind the business will be damaged.

Even the emperor dared not easily touch this huge chain of interests.

So, what if the sea ban is opened to support business in this dynasty?

Do more harm than good.

China has a vast land and abundant resources, but you have to admit that some places are really just a feast for God.For example, in coastal areas, such as areas with Shenzhen and Hong Kong waters, once the sea ban is lifted, business there will develop rapidly and capital will accumulate rapidly.

Soon there will be maritime merchant families and capitalist families. With a large amount of money and wealth, they will naturally be able to support a large number of scholars.

At the same time, when big families have money, they will naturally buy land, and land mergers will appear.One of the reasons for the hardships of the people in the late Ming Dynasty was not because of land annexation?To put it simply, land annexation means that farmers become wages for others to farm, or temporary wages.The big landlords never lost money, and the peasants became the exploited parties.In order to avoid going the old way, New China simply state-owned all the land, cutting off the way for the chaebols to buy land.

Finally, with this force, although the country has gained a certain amount of wealth due to taxation in a short period of time, how can this force be broken?

Is there no way around it?some.That is, everything is nationalized.

It is up to the state to carry out maritime trade and combat smuggling.

Just like the official merchants that appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, they were not merchants, but officials, and they did business by order.

This is a monopoly industry that is completely contrary to the market economy.

But to achieve this level, the country first needs to be very strong. The leaders of each generation can continue to be strong, calm, and sober enough to become the helmsman who manipulates the country. This can be done in modern times, but in ancient times, you can count on every dynasty. Are all emperors talented?It's good enough to have two or three amazing talents, and it's God's life to continue the dynasty if there are four or five.

Even the Ming Dynasty, which manipulated maritime trade well at the beginning, didn't pirates run rampant and smuggle repeatedly prohibited at the end of the period?

Why does every dynasty target merchants?

Because businessmen are the occupations that can accumulate capital the fastest and are good at teaming up.

With money, there will be power, and the combination of money and power will become the confidant of the dynasty.

The gap between the rich and the poor between the North and the South, and the gap between the East and the West, are problems that modern society has not been able to solve, let alone this dynasty?

Xia Anran didn't plan to answer the questions from business.

He doesn't have the ability or the guts to make a move in this field.

He writes about agriculture.

How powerful was ancient Chinese agriculture?Before entering the modern society, China was a big agricultural country, but how powerful is this big agricultural country? The land area suitable for farming in China only accounts for half of the country's area.

Concentrated in the southern hilly area of ​​the eastern plain, compared with India, where almost the whole country is suitable for farming, most of the European countries are suitable for farming. Since ancient times, my country has used half of the land area to feed the people of the whole country.

So until modern times, we often say that China can feed its own people without causing trouble to the World Food Organization, which is our best effort. In fact, until the emergence of super rice and genetically modified crops, China has just solved the problem. Food self-sufficiency is no longer dependent on the task of imports.

Xia Anran planned to start with agriculture.

He slowly wrote down the concepts of machinery, agricultural fertilizers, complementary plants, and breeding on the manuscript.

The machinery is naturally agricultural machinery, including plows, threshing machines, and irrigation measures.

Agricultural fertilizer is naturally a more scientific use of fertilizer.In fact, people in this world already have the awareness of using fertilizers, but the method of decomposing and fertilizing technology is not yet mastered, especially the limitation of knowledge dissemination.As a result, only some farmers know the method, while others do not.

If it is proved to be unusable in a certain place, it is still used in other places, and if it is proved to be usable, it is not known in other places.This is the huge defect brought about by the lack of information flow.

Complementary plants are a concept that did not exist before. Some farmers may inadvertently discover it, but it has not been popularized.

For example, if soybeans and corn are planted together, both yields can be increased.

For example, when planting plants that are easy to attract aphids, you can plant onions next to them. The smell of onions will have a certain effect on repelling aphids. Similar combinations include green onions and cotton.

Naturally, he would not write these in the article, but left them on the manuscript paper.

Maybe someone will see it?

It doesn't matter even if no one sees it, he is very big-hearted, he will tell the teacher to experiment slowly after he is great.

The ink-stained pen fell on the manuscript paper, and he wrote down one example after another, and he even took some sketches for his argument.

In stark contrast, every word written on his examination paper was well-regulated, and every dot was slightly brushed over. At first glance, it seemed that there was something to it, but in fact there was nothing written.

This is the "false big empty" policy that Lin Ruhai suggested he write.

It's not that Lin Ruhai wants to harm his students, but he knows very well that he has experienced the scientific examination. There is no need to write too detailed articles during the scientific examination. For the palace examination, Chun Wei is better off seeking stability.

Xia Anran finished all the papers on the second day. He closed the papers and wrote one argument after another on the manuscript with great interest.He wasn't afraid that someone would see it and take credit for it or use it for himself. He knew a lot of this kind of knowledge in his head, and even if he took it away, he could still come up with a lot.

What's more, if someone uses it, it means that it will definitely benefit a group of people.

It doesn't matter if it can benefit the Chinese people.

After the third session of Chun Wei ended, Xia Anran was not surrounded by candidates this time, but was surrounded by several yamen servants.

Xia Anran, who was used to being surrounded every time the exam was over, was a little frightened, and he couldn't help laughing when he heard the very fierce-looking yamen servant in the lead faltering and asking where he bought his food.

Xia Anran, who once again sold Amway from Xue's shop, was in a great mood. He got into the Lin's carriage and tugged at his sleeves.

Chunwei, even if it is over.

He breathed a sigh of relief.In the regular shaking of the carriage, he fell asleep in a daze.

The students at one end were liberated, and the marking officers at the other end were busy.

They copied the examination papers one by one, sealed them and put them aside, and the whole process was inspected by the inspectors.

The room was very quiet, filled with the sound of pens being written. Naturally, they did not need to study ink. There would be servants bringing in ink from outside, and the yamen servants would add ink to each master.

The whole process is mechanical and regular.

At the same time, a sitting teacher who was sorting out the manuscripts let out a light snort, breaking the silence in the room.

"Mr. Xu?" An official looked up at his colleague, smiled interestedly and said, "But did you see the beautiful poems?"

As for the draft, some students write the context seriously, but there are also students who mischievously write irrelevant things. There was once a student who wrote a travelogue.

There are also students who wrote food notes. In fact, the one who wrote the travel notes is the president who checked the papers this time.

"It's not a beautiful poem." The teacher stood up, holding the manuscript paper in his hand, and walked in front of his colleagues, "Look at Qingyu, this...is this candidate's handwriting or..."

The grader who was called Qingyu took it over, and after a rough look, his expression was a little serious, "Mr. Xu, put this aside first. We will grade the paper first. After you finish, you might as well hand this over to the President. If this scholar writes It is true, we should submit the holy hearing as soon as possible, and the spring plowing will start soon, so there is no delay."

"What Qingyu said is reasonable." The middle-aged official holding the manuscript paper took a deep breath, calmed down his excitement, pressed the manuscript paper aside, and continued his work patiently.

That night, the president sent this manuscript to the Minister of Industry.