In the secret room, Yan Ling patted Yan Ya's shoulder gently, looked at his dejected look and said comfortingly:
"There's no need to be discouraged. You still have a lot to learn."
"This problem of doctors has been around for a long time. The biggest reason is that doctors' income is not proportional to their low status."
Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, medicine is an industry, theoretically one level higher than business. However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was still a large-scale "abandonment of Confucianism and entry into business". The reason was that businessmen were too profitable, while doctors were relatively He can only support his family.
"First of all, we need to improve the treatment of doctors. Money is very attractive. As long as you have money, you won't have to worry about no one wanting to be a doctor."
"I made a rule before. In addition to the money earned by treating diseases and saving lives, I will give doctors in each town an extra one, two or five yuan of silver every month. But now it seems that the salary I set before is not enough, so I will increase it. !
"Later, go and tell the person in charge that the monthly salary will be increased to four taels, and the apprentice will also have one tael of silver, and then find someone to quietly publicize it in the town."
Hearing this, Yan Ya's face showed joy: "With such a high salary, why worry about the people not being tempted!"
At that time, ordinary farmers only had a few taels of money a year, which could barely make ends meet.
Yan Ling was writing and drawing on a piece of paper, and after a while he picked it up and showed it to Yan Ya.
I saw a few words written on it:
"Cure a disease and save a patient, the merit is immeasurable."
"The kindness of saving a life should be repaid with a spring of water, and the kindness of a doctor treating people is as heavy as a mountain."
"Write a few more pictures in this style and post them in the streets and alleys." Yan Ling said.
"Dad, what are you doing?" Yan Ya was a little confused.
"If you see these things praising doctors wherever you go every day, telling you that what doctors do is actually equivalent to saving lives, then slowly, will you start to feel that doctors are not that humble? This is fundamental. solve the problem."
Yan Ling saw Yan Ya nodded thoughtfully, so he continued:
"In addition, you can build something similar to a school and invite famous doctors to teach medical skills and compile medical books. Just like a private school for scholars, you can increase the number of doctors and standardize the practice of medicine."
Sometimes we can't blame the common people. Some people call themselves doctors after reading two medical books. As a result, the treatment of athlete's foot leads to amputation, and the treatment of colds leads to death. It is reasonable for them to be unpopular.
Yan Ya nodded, indicating that he remembered. Yan Ling could only provide him with suggestions behind the scenes, and it was up to him to implement them.
"By the way, I see that the clan's income has been poor recently." After talking about spending money, Yan Ling naturally thought of the clan's current financial situation.
Upon hearing this, Yan Ya immediately poured out his bitterness:
"Dad, you don't know. I just looked at the account books a few days ago and found out that our treasury was basically empty during this period. The third uncle acted according to your instructions and spent all the money he earned. .”
"The rent for our land is only 50% of that of other landlords. The income is too little! Since the sea trade has stopped, we basically rely on the income from the shops in the city. It was enough originally, but in the past few years, It’s not only building houses for those tribesmen, but also sending those children to private schools, so it’s not a loss at all.”
"Dad, I think we are too kind to those people. Even our tribesmen have obeyed. Dad, why do you have to... let's raise the rent a little, or charge a little more for those houses. This is worth three It would be too..."
"Shut up!" Yan Ling shouted loudly: "I have taught you many times that water can carry or overturn a boat! Your father and I rely on our family's ships and the swords of our clan soldiers to gain our power. It’s a matter of swordsmanship. If I hadn’t been so kind to them, how could they support me so much?”
"We must gather wealth, but we must not exploit our tribe and people! We are a family. What we seek is continuation and prosperity. Money is only the help and way to achieve all this!"
Yan Ya lowered his head after scolding him. Yan Ling saw the shame on his face and knew that he had listened, so he continued:
"We can't relax about the construction of the family, but the ones that cost more money are about to end. I think I can save some money in the next few years. You can send someone to inspect the fertile land." Wait until the sea ban is relaxed later, and you can continue Great catch.
Not only that, after those powerful emperors, the government's management was relaxed, and the people surrendered their land to the gentry, the Yan family would definitely be the first choice.
Small profits but quick turnover. When the rent of the Yan family is low and the people take action, they will naturally be given priority. Although each family is small, the total number will be considerable, and those are young and middle-aged farmers. When necessary, they can...
Collecting less rent now is related to a century-old plan.
The Ming Dynasty's taxation system was very chaotic. When the early emperors were around, they relied on their ability to suppress it. As soon as they died, the dodging of taxes and taxation began immediately.
In fact, the Ming Dynasty never provided for exemption from land tax, and there was no need to exempt certain groups.
Thirty taxes per one, it was nothing more than this during the Wenjing period.
There are many well-educated gentry who are in arrears with money and food, but the tax exemption allowed by law does not exist.
The real reason why a large amount of land in the Ming Dynasty was annexed by the gentry class was that officials had the privilege of being exempted from corvee, and even their relatives were exempted.
The corvées in the Ming Dynasty were calculated based on the land and were divided into regular servants and miscellaneous servants. The miscellaneous servants were the part that officials were exempted from, while the regular servants could be exempted by paying money.
In the early to mid-Ming Dynasty, government affairs were relatively clear. Although there were some small moves at the bottom, the officials and gentry were generally well-behaved.
But in the middle and later period, the gentry colluded with the officials and simply escaped with the servants. Now the last threshold was gone, and there was no need to pay the servants' money.
So a large number of peasants began to work on the land, and under the hands of the gentry, they no longer had to do corvee labor.
Seven aunts and eight aunts, there are a few missing at first.
There are some more smart-minded people, and there are a few less.
Then, with so many people refusing to do corvee service, someone has to manage the Yellow River, repair the roads, and the official’s sedan chair cannot be carried by someone, right?
All was passed on to the common people.
If you can't stand it anymore, run away.
This is how the refugees got up.
They left, so the landlords took possession of the land and no longer had to perform corvee labor.
The remaining civilians suffered even more.
Just like the interest rate, it just rolled up.
Coupled with natural and man-made disasters, a large number of refugees came from this in the late Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, a whip method simply transformed the corvee into silver, leading to the result of "there is service among the taxes, and there is wealth among the labors". As a result, due to the collusion between officials and gentry, not only corvees but also land taxes began to fail to be collected.
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PS: Regarding the issue of taxation in the Ming Dynasty, I checked some information on the Internet and concluded these, which are not necessarily correct. I welcome your corrections.
