Latest website: Human nature is inherently selfish, and there are truly selfless people, but they are very few.
In Ming Dynasty, everyone is willing to contribute.
Why?
Because there are benefits!
After the donation, there is no need to pay taxes or perform corvee. It is definitely a huge benefit to ordinary people.
Donating to the master's house is not something you just want to do. Most people kneel down and offer at the house, but they won't accept it.
If nobles or officials want land, they don't need to seize it by force. They can just let their servants spread the word - if they take the servants, people will immediately line up to offer their land, and each offer can cost hundreds, thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres. mu.
But don’t think that after you donate the land, the land really becomes the owner’s family. That’s nonsense. In fact, you are giving the owner’s share of the money and grain that should be given to the country.
In order to avoid this situation, the Ming Dynasty stipulated different tax-free fields for different officials. Generally speaking, the higher the official position. The more fields are tax exempt.
Even if you are ranked first-class, the tax-free land is only a thousand acres. Wei Guogong's family only has 10,000 acres of tax-free land.
But officials protect each other.
Even if everyone knows it, how many officials dare to collect taxes from these officials?
Over time, there are fewer and fewer fields to pay taxes, and the country's tax revenue is getting less and less. In order to maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure, it can only increase taxes on ordinary people.
Real ordinary people only earn so much a year. Continuous tax increases will only greatly reduce people's ability to cope with disasters.
If there is a disaster and the court fails to provide disaster relief, then the dynasty will come to an end.
Zhu Youjian's new policy and the inspection of fields are tantamount to directly cutting off the financial resources of these people.
Cutting off someone's financial path is like killing one's parents. Zhu You's decision to cut off so many people's financial paths will naturally make everyone unhappy.
Some landlords and wealthy people with small backgrounds do not have the courage.
There are 400,000 elites around the capital, and the nobles in the capital don't even dare to fart.
Nanjing, as the representative of the nobles, and the Kong family, as the representative of the officials, would naturally test Zhu Youjian's bottom line first.
Conspiracies are always carried out in the dark.
"We definitely can't do it alone, we have to mobilize the people!"
"There are also tenants from various families. As long as these tens or hundreds of thousands of people are moving and public opinion is boiling, I won't believe it. That little emperor still dares to investigate!"
"But how to encourage the people? In order to win over the untouchables, the little emperor exempted each family from 3 acres of land tax? I heard from my housekeeper that farmers in some villages are preparing to build shrines to the little emperor."
"You're so stupid. You don't know how to spread rumors! Just say that the imperial court is going to take over all the fields."
"But, will anyone believe it?"
"Do we need people to believe us? As long as we gather the people in front of the government, it will be a civil commotion or a civil commotion!"
A cold voice came from the driver's seat.
"By the way, find some local ruffians to do it. After it's done, like this."
As he spoke, the person sitting on the main seat made a gesture of touching his neck.
"clear!"
"When the time comes, the emperor will take advantage of this idea and give those untouchables and worthless landowners a hard beating to let them know who is in charge in Southern Zhili."
They used people's grievances to resist the decree, and they didn't do it once or twice.
Which one of the Suzhou uprising and Wuchang uprising was not seeking personal gain for themselves under the banner of the uprising?
These civil uprisings, the taxes collected by the emperor from the rich, have anything to do with ordinary people?
Where do the people get their grievances from?
It was clearly these people. Of course, there are also thousands of big shots standing behind and saying nothing, full of resentment.
This time Zhu Youjian broke a rule that had been established for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this rule was not set by the emperor, but it was a mature tradition agreed upon by their ancestors for hundreds of years.
No one has ever thought of breaking this tradition.
Doesn’t anyone see the harm this kind of rule does to the country?
No?
There are so many smart people in the world, how is it possible that no one has noticed?
Just like Hai Rui back then.
On February 1, the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Hai Rui bought a coffin in a coffin shop and entrusted his family to a friend.
Later, he submitted the "Public Security Shu" to Ming Shizong, criticizing Shizong for his superstitious witchcraft, luxurious life, and neglect of government affairs.
You must be brave enough.
But I dare not break this rule.
We can only use some means to give people a way out.
There is no one else, because behind these rules stand all the nobles of Ming Dynasty.
Offending the emperor would result in the confiscation of the family and the annihilation of the entire clan.
If you offend these nobles, it will really be over.
"Anyway, it's the same thing. We've made a big deal here. Someone will naturally step forward to solve the problem."
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Zhang San is an ordinary citizen outside Nanjing. His family only has three acres of thin farmland, which is not enough.
They had to rely on women reeling and weaving silk to eke out a living.
But if they were to leave the few acres of land they had rented for generations, the whole family would probably starve to death.
In fact, like many people in Jiangnan, his life has not been very good in recent years.
Although there were no famines in Jiangnan, the imperial court's salary, plus the three-year salary to pay filial piety to the landlords and their old wealth, meant that the family did not have much food left over the course of a year.
In total, the lives of ordinary people in Jiangnan are slightly better than those in the north.
Fortunately, there were no disasters, otherwise selling sons and daughters would be the norm.
These years, everyone's life has been difficult, unfortunately, in the past two years, I have finally opened my eyes and met a good emperor.
His Majesty Shengming exempted me from three wages, and this year's life is slightly better than in previous years.
On this day, as usual, he took the silk woven by his wife to the silk shop in the city. The silk was sold here for money. Just when he was thinking about what to buy, he was celebrating His Majesty's three acres of tax-free tax next year. .
I heard someone over there talking about the court clearing land and inspecting the land.
What does Qingtian's land investigation have to do with him?
It should be those gentlemen who should be worried. Just when this thought came to mind, someone said on the other side of Ukanshu www.uknsh.net.
"...Have you heard? This is a great victory for the court, but the court has no money to pay out rewards. This time the government cleared the fields and inspected them to seize all the fields, saying that they would be used as rewards for those military households."
"What? Give the fields to those Qiu Ba? But what does this have to do with me? The fields in my family are inherited from my ancestors. Can the court force them to take them?"
"The imperial court even inspects the fields of those officials. How can it still be afraid of ordinary people like us?"
"Then, what should we do?"
"That's right, if the fields are given to those soldiers, how can we live?"
"Oh no, Jin Yiwei is here, run!"
Before he could say anything to me, I saw a group of uniformed guards running towards me quickly. The crowd that had gathered together just now dispersed in an instant.
The leader just now took the opportunity to shout: "Let's go to the county government office to find an explanation from the county magistrate later." Mobile phone users please browse and read, it is more convenient to read on the palm of your hand.
