Corrupt officials in the two governments and their white gloves gained about 4.3 billion yuan from confiscating homes.
This is only the proceeds from the prosecution on charges of corruption and rebellion. It does not include the landlords, powerful businessmen and wealthy businessmen who are not involved for the time being, nor does it include other state capitals.
Su Yonglin silently estimated that if all the corrupt officials and their white-glove workers in Shandong were confiscated, the total amount of property they would get would be enough to rebuild three new Yellow Rivers and make them rich.
If all the powerful landlords in Shandong were reformed, the proceeds would be enough to rebuild seven or eight Yellow River channels. Brand-new Yellow River channels would not require the treasury to spend even a penny, and would be equivalent to the current financial expenditure of the entire Ming Empire for about three years. income.
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What a huge fortune is this?
Su Yonglin laughed out loud at the statistical table.
The most interesting phenomenon of the feudal dynasty is that wherever the population is and the land is, the taxes collected by the court become less and less, and in the end they were even unable to collect taxes at all.
So where did the taxes that could be collected go?
Where did the wealth produced by so many people and land go?
The answer is here.
Money doesn't grow wings and fly away. It's obvious that it was taken away by some people very consciously.
Su Yonglin didn't expect that he would make up his mind to fight and get such huge benefits from the first confrontation. Maybe Lin Jingchun would be very happy after learning this news, right?
He might lose a few hairs.
But at the same time, Su Yonglin was also deeply aware of the importance of cracking down on the landlords and gentry for the country's stability and development.
He began to feel that the intensity of tax collection in the past was a bit weak, and the deterrent force against these powerful landowners was not strong enough, so that they always wanted to eat more and did not want to vomit it out at all.
When it comes to tax collection, it is really a test of the governor's ability to govern.
A good ruler must have strong tax collection capabilities, and can concentrate tax revenue from all social strata in his hands, and do what a ruler should do well. This is Su Yonglin's goal.
But sometimes Su Yonglin also admires those villains who collect taxes in various ways.
The most representative of these are the warlords of the old era and the country of the beacon of freedom.
Even though the warlords of the old era were evil, they always came up with many new tricks when it came to collecting taxes from the poor. They could tax the poor until ninety years later, making the feudal rulers hang their heads in shame.
Although the Free Beacon is evil, it can make the people say "the two things that can never be separated are death and paying taxes", which shows that they also have merits.
In comparison, the tax collection capacity at the end of the feudal dynasty was simply unparalleled.
Therefore, Su Yonglin decided to use the methods and execution determination of the old warlords and lighthouse countries to collect taxes from the poor, revise the Ming Dynasty's tax law, and levy the Ming Dynasty's rich tax on the basis of implementing the method of apportioning one person into one mu.
He wants to customize many exclusive tax points for people with a lot of wealth. Only the upper class can enjoy it. The poor are not worthy of such special treatment.
Since the superior people always strive to be superior to the poor and feel that they are nobler than the poor, then they must become noble in all aspects.
Since they pursue privileges so much, of course they must also embody the principle of superiority when it comes to taxation, and the tax system must also formulate special privilege tax laws for them.
What is a poor man?
They are not worthy of paying so many exorbitant taxes to the Ming Dynasty. Their money is too dirty and not worthy of the Ming Dynasty to use it!
Only the money of the best has no smell, is fragrant, and is most suitable for use by the court!
So Su Yonglin prepared to equip the tax department with violent machines to make the tax department stronger.
Su Yonglin is not sure that he can fully achieve his goal, nor does he think that he can completely eliminate the polarization between the poor and the rich in his lifetime, nor does he think that he can eliminate all the superior people.
The best people will always show up.
It was only a few years since he started his business that something like this happened. It was hard for him to make a conclusion about what would happen after his death.
Death and death are one of the possible options.
In this case, let's leave a system that future generations will be willing to inherit.
For example, a strong tax department and tax system.
Don't always make money from the poor. Instead of earning the money from the superior people, you have to earn the money from the poor?
Let us learn from the generations of emperors of the Western Han Dynasty. They were not only ruthless to the common people, causing the domestic household registration to be halved, but they were also merciless to the rich.
They really treated the wealthy households like leeks, migrating to Guanzhong in droves and cutting them off one after another. They had no choice but to cry and call their father and contribute all their money to fight the disease. The Huns went.
It belongs to the beacon of freedom in the feudal era.
Su Yonglin's many thoughts burst out in his heart, which made him very excited. He was originally worried and angry because many revival members were dismissed, but he had already made up his mind that even if he died, he would not make the upper class people live better.
Before he died, he must toss in a series of laws and regulations for them. If they continue to operate smoothly, they must at least form a political inertia. Even if he dies, these rules can continue to operate smoothly and bring them more troubles.
And I have to live as many decades as possible. The longer I live, the longer this set of rules runs, the greater the inertia will be. Even if some malicious guys appear in the future and want to change the road back to the feudal state, I'm afraid it's not that easy.
The stronger the ability to tax the upper class, the longer the Ming Dynasty will be, and the longer your career will be able to last until it all comes to an end.
Time has entered mid-May, and several state capitals along the Yellow River Project have been purged twice by Su Yonglin. The first time was for corruption criminals who were exposed, and the second time was for Deep Water Wolf who tried to hide but failed and was revealed.
The one who was hidden the most was actually involved in the trial himself. He was finally revealed by Zhu Wenxian, the governor of Dizhou, and was taken down on the spot and joined the interrogated team. The whole process took less than a quarter of an hour.
So the trial was full of black humor from beginning to end.
Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that after the two purges, the governments along the Yellow River Project provided Su Yonglin with more than 10 billion yuan in proceeds from the confiscation of his property.
Together, the prisoners and the wealthy landlords and businessmen who helped them digest public funds provided the Ming Dynasty with proceeds estimated at 10 billion in property proceeds.
After this news was secretly transmitted to the Ministry of Finance of Zhongdu, Lin Jingchun, the Minister of Finance, was so excited that he immediately set off for Shandong like a dying desert traveler finally seeing an oasis, no matter how crazy his hair was while rushing. How much was blown away by the strong wind.
For him, it was pure ecstasy.
Although this has never been Su Yonglin's goal, he would rather see that there is no corrupt official. Even if he wants to confiscate his house, he can't.
But when an extremely large amount of gold and silver treasures were placed in front of him, he knew that his idea would not become a reality after all.
However, Su Yonglin also figured out that instead of feeling sorry for himself and feeling defeated, he should move forward bravely and fight hard. If he falls, he will be his enemy. If he perseveres, he will be his family. It's that simple.
The knife across his neck cannot be a decoration after all.
The outbreak of crimes in various states along the Yellow River has caused a chain reaction. The impact of what they committed cannot be limited to the local area, and the perpetrators cannot be limited to the local area. Otherwise, there is no reason for prices in Tai'an Prefecture to rise further.
Therefore, landlords, wealthy businessmen and officials in Yanzhou, Weizhou, Tai'an, Mizhou, Juzhou and other places were also implicated.
The embezzled public funds and building materials were digested, sold and flowed into the market through various channels locally and in the southern state capitals, driving up local prices and then laundered and returned to the hands of those officials.
In this process, the white gloves responsible for the operation also made a lot of profits and were very happy making money.
This was originally their traditional art. When the Jin Kingdom was still there, whenever there were any local projects, this was how they operated it.
Anyway, as long as the project looks good, it doesn't matter if all the materials used become defective or even defective products. It doesn't matter when the project was destroyed or what crimes the people committed.
When we were lucky, the money for the project had just been allocated to start construction, but the Kingdom of Jin over there was killed by the Kingdom of Ming Dynasty and replaced it.
Hey! Isn’t this a headless case? !
It's a bloody profit.
However, as the saying goes, retribution is not good in the cycle of natural law. No matter how good the profit was before, the loss will be miserable now.
The Ming Dynasty started to make a list.
Whatever you earned before, you can spit it out to me now. Moreover, Su Yonglin decided to carry forward the excellent tax collection tradition of the warlords and create a retrospective account - not to mention the debts of the Ming Dynasty, you also need to pay back the debts of the Jin Dynasty. !
What, the Ming Dynasty does not collect the debts of the Jin Kingdom?
If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will count the debts of the Northern Song Dynasty to you!
All in all, they are trying every possible means to confiscate their families and exterminate their families.
In the first wave of state capitals such as Dongping Prefecture, the homes of hundreds of officials, landlords, and wealthy businessmen had been confiscated. Su Yonglin's appetite was far from being filled, so he pointed the finger at the state capitals in southern Shandong.
The first among them is Yanzhou.
The first among them in Yanzhou is of course the protagonist among the protagonists - the Kong family.
After interrogation, Cui Zhi, a fellow magistrate of Yidu Prefecture, honestly confessed that he had conspired with a branch of the Kong family to dispose of a batch of building materials without telling Shangguan.
This branch of the Kong family is mainly engaged in this area of business. It is a tool branch of the Kong family that goes out to do business to make money to maintain the luxurious life of the main family.
There are many such branches in the Kong family, and they are basically the common branches that are not paid attention to in the inheritance process.
After all, a family cannot be made up of all the superiors who just sit back and enjoy the benefits. There must be some people who can do some dirty work, otherwise the Kong family's foundation would have been emptied long ago.
