"Your Majesty, I have indeed seen it." The representatives of the landowners and gentry replied.
"No one can guarantee that a prodigal will never appear in his offspring. But everyone who is doing this is unwilling to have a prodigal in his offspring.
I have a suggestion again. I would like to share it with you for your reference. What do you think?
The biggest waste of money is gambling.
So I want to establish a national fund. If any of you have extra money at home, you can put it into this fund.
At that time, the court will issue you a clause. With this clause, you can deposit the same amount as an interest-free loan when you encounter difficulties in business.
If you die one day, the money will be divided into two parts, and half of it can be withdrawn by your descendants for business or use with proof of trust and identity, plus a password, and a month in advance. He uses.
The remaining half can be used as a spare. If the descendants do not live up to expectations, the family will be wiped out. The remaining money will be given to your unsatisfied descendants every month according to Ming Dynasty's minimum wage.
Until it is completely spent.
Everyone has their own agenda. These landlords and gentry want to pursue greater interests.
Zhu Youjian's goal is to consolidate the country forever, so that the Han people will never be bullied again.
If we want to maintain our country forever, we must strictly treat those with vested interests. Otherwise, sooner or later, those vested interests will hollow out the country.
It is necessary to crack down on the illegal gains of those with vested interests, but the same cannot be done against the legitimate income of the other party.
But people are different. Although they don't want to admit it, under the same conditions, those geniuses. Correct update @ Or maybe the choices and results made by people with extremely good luck are not necessarily exactly the same as those of ordinary people.
Even if everyone abides by the law. For landowners and gentry with wider connections and resources, wealth will continue to accumulate in their hands.
If there is no redistribution by the government. It would be great if ordinary people can ensure that their wealth does not shrink now.
An important reason for the collapse of previous dynasties is that the government did not redistribute wealth at all, but chose to rob the poor and give to the rich, which ultimately led to a point of no return.
"What your Majesty said is true, but in recent years, the expenses of ordinary people's families have increased a lot, and the land in Jiaba has been allocated to the branches. Now we are just barely making ends meet." The representative of the local gentry said,
It's not that they are really short of money, but they are afraid that Zhu Youjian will keep an eye on their money.
Although the imperial court collected the taxes that their family had owed for hundreds of years, causing their mother's family property to shrink significantly, the accumulation of more than 200 years by local powerful people cannot be underestimated. ..
At best, the government's tax collection is a bit of a pain in the butt, but it's not fatal at all.
The Han people have developed a sense of storage over thousands of years. In addition, except for natural and man-made disasters, prices have basically remained unchanged for thousands of years. The savings of local powerful families are still considerable.
Not to mention other things, as long as one's descendants don't show up as prodigal sons, it won't be a problem to support them for 100 years with their family property.
"If you don't want to, forget it. I won't force you. If you have any other ideas, just tell me. I want to hear the truth. As long as you all tell the truth, I can understand what you really want.
Otherwise, if everyone is doing charades, how can I have time to guess charades for you? "
Seeing that the other party was unwilling, Zhu Youjian stopped forcing it. We can only collect the inheritance tax then. .
509 Public opinion of the landowners and gentry 5
