"Xiao Fugui, have you seen it, let's throw out this plan, Yang Yiqing's face has changed color!" Zhu Houxi is not without pride, he can make the old fox look confused, this achievement is too proud.

Dare to attack the Marquis of Wuding, this is called courage, and being able to deal with the Guo family's industry is the embodiment of wisdom, and these two things together are called success!

And this is also something that Wang Yue and Zhu Houxi have been brewing for a long time, and they have been discussing it together since about last winter. As the Son of Heaven, he must be ahead of ordinary people, long before Yang Tinghe fell, they had already planned their next move, and they would implement it immediately when the time was right.

It can be said that Guo Xun, Marquis of Wuding, just hit the muzzle of the gun, and he deserved to be unlucky.

Taking the Guo family's land and distributing it directly to the displaced people is something that will not work at all...... The first thing to understand is that these lands are not wasteland, but are being cultivated.

They were either slaves of the Guo family, tenant farmers, or simply sacrificed to the Guo family...... If it is simply handed over to the homeless, it may solve the livelihood of 50,000 homeless people, but at the same time, it will create 50,000 homeless people, wouldn't it be like a heavy carry.

If this reform continues, it is estimated that if Shuntianfu cannot be found, Zhu Houxi and Wang Yue will fall. I wonder if there will be a postman leading people into the palace and cutting off their heads.

Therefore, we must be wise enough to deal with these fields.

Wang Yue and Zhu Houxi, after careful analysis, why do the common people donate land to large households? The short answer is that the taxes are heavy and have to be avoided.

Then someone has to ask, is the Tian Fu of the Ming Dynasty very high? If you look at the historical materials, you will find that it is really not high.

At the beginning of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the tax per mu of official land was five liters and five spoons, the private land was reduced by two liters, the heavy lease land was eight liters and five in five spoons, and there was no official land and one bucket and two liters...... One stone is equal to ten buckets, and one bucket is equal to ten liters.

Based on the land production of the Ming Dynasty, even if a very conservative figure is used, one stone per mu of land is calculated, the land tax rate of the Ming Dynasty is only 3 to 5 percent.

Of course, in addition to the field endowment, there is also a ding tax, and there is also a levy ...... However, no matter how you calculate it, the burden of the people of the Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the country is not very heavy, and it can even be said that it is very easy to pay a light tax.

In this case, why is there still a problem of heavy taxes?

This brings us to the more critical question of how to collect taxes!

A history writer once said that any law is perfect if it is not considered to be implemented.

What is the situation when considering implementation?

In order to collect taxes, Zhu Yuanzhang once spent a lot of effort to check the acres of people's fields, and obtained the yellow book and the fish scale book, the yellow book is the standard for collecting the Ding tax, and the fish scale book is the standard for collecting the field tax.

Moreover, according to this, tax collection standards were formulated for various political envoys, prefectures, prefectures, and counties.

Among them, taking counties as an example, below 30,000 stone is a low-class county, 30,000 to 60,000 stone is a medium county, and 60,000 to 100,000 stone is an upper-class county.

Each county has a fixed amount of taxation.

Presumably many friends have already understood that if the yellow book and the fish scale book remain unchanged, the tax amount remains the same, and the two cooperate perfectly, there will be no problems.

However, there was a group of gentry who could exempt them from taxes and forced labor, and these people took advantage of their privileges to annex acres of land...... As a result, there is less land to be paid, and it is much less.

However, the imperial court could not afford to recount the population and compile a new yellow book and fish scale book, so that the tax amount would not change.

The total amount of taxes remains the same, and the number of acres of land that pays taxes decreases, and the result is that the land tax per acre of land has increased dramatically!

And it's doubled!

Take the Henan Political Envoy as an example, at the beginning of the country, there were 1.4 million hectares of cultivated land, but now there are less than 400,000 hectares left, and the tax amount remains unchanged, and the land on the heads of the common people has increased by three or four times, not counting the same increase in forced labor.

It turns out that the well-to-do people will go hungry, and those who were originally hungry will directly become homeless.

In order to survive, they had to put the acres of land in the names of those nobles who could be exempt from taxes.

Taking Suncheon and other places as an example, the land rent is about 30% to 50%, that is, the common people have to hand over about half to the noble gentry.

In other words, the land endowment, plus the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, is more than half of the land output...... After all, no one will do a loss-making business.

Wang Yue and Zhu Houxi spent several months using Jinyiwei and Dongchang people to consult various materials and files, and also asked Yang Minggong and Yang Yiqing, and for the sake of many people, they settled this account clearly.

And after understanding this, how to dispose of the Guo family's land and property will become extremely easy.

The first step is to take out 100,000 mu as a reward for meritorious soldiers.

If you want to reform and change the law, without strong armed support, you have no chance of winning.

Especially the death of Zhu Houzhao and the explosion of Wang Gongchang, which stimulated Zhu Houxi, civil officials will turn their faces and lift the table, how can the emperor not have the capital to lift the table!

The personnel rewarded this time were mainly to quell the rebellion of King Ning and go north to fight against the Tartars.

Since last year, Yang Ming Gong has rectified the forbidden army and promoted a group of new people, and they are one of them.

The official position has gone up, the number of lulu has increased, and coupled with the land reward, these people have become Zhu Houxi's hardcore supporters, and they are absolutely loyal and reliable.

The entire Shenji Battalion, as well as a considerable part of the Fifth Army Battalion, under the direct control of Zhu Houxi, has about 20,000 people, which seems to be a small number, but don't forget, when the Beijing Battalion was reviewed before, the entire Beijing Battalion was only more than 30,000 people, less than 40,000. Although the number has increased greatly now, the 20,000 elite soldiers still give Zhu Houxi great confidence.

This is also the confidence that he dared to overthrow Yang Tinghe and dare to attack Xungui.

But then again, if you take away 100,000 acres of land, what will happen to the original tenant farmers? They lost their land and won't they make trouble?

I'm sorry, it really won't, because Tian Fu has fallen!

Take the old farmer Zhang San as an example, he originally rented 30 acres of land, worked tirelessly, and harvested 60 stone of grain, but of the 60 stone grain, 40 stone had to be handed over to the Guo family, and he could only have 20 stone left. It's barely enough for a family of five to eat and drink.

Now, ten acres were taken away, only twenty acres of land remained, and the output became forty stones, but the tax rate was changed, and it was changed to the tax system of Hongwu year, one acre of land was paid three liters and three, and all the fields were added up, and one stone of tax grain could not be paid, and a family could have more than thirty-nine stones left, this time not only to be full, but also to buy some meat and eat a good meal during the New Year's Festival. If you tighten your belt, you can even send your child to school.

"Your Majesty, this is not the most important thing, think about it, it turns out that cultivating thirty acres, Zhang San needs to work all year round, busy at home, working day and night. But now that he has ten acres of land less, he has free time, what does His Majesty think he will do? ”

"Rest! You can't always cultivate immortals, right? ”

Wang Yue rolled his eyelids, and said in his heart that the common people are not the same way of living as you, and they are not yet extravagant enough to pursue the satisfaction of the spiritual world.

"Your Majesty, I judge that they will come out to work...... Will even buy a ploughing cow. If Zhang San has a ploughing ox, he can complete the cultivation and harvest in the shortest time, and the rest of the farm work will be handed over to Zhang San's daughter-in-law to bear the burden. Then Zhang San can spare more than half a year to work to make money, as long as he can earn money, no matter how hard the work is, he will be willing. ”

Zhu Houxi looked suspicious, "I said Xiao Fugui, do you think Zhang San is a cow?" He doesn't want to have an easy time? Don't work day and night? ”

"Your Majesty, Zhang San is moving forward with a load! He has to fight for his family! Zhang San will definitely try his best to make more money, buy more land, and then become a landlord and make money by collecting rent! ”

Zhu Houxi's head suddenly became bigger, "Xiao Fugui, if Zhang San does this, won't I get rid of Zhang San again after many years?" ”

"So there is a limit to the maximum amount of land that can be held...... And Your Majesty can rest assured, as long as the land is no longer exempted, without the preferential treatment of exemption from military service and exemption, Zhang San will not be able to expand the land property indefinitely, it really can't work, Your Majesty can also levy progressive land taxes, the more land, the more taxes! ”

Zhu Houxi rolled his eyes, "It makes sense...... However, it was not easy to get the gentry to pay the land tax, and Taizu exempted them from taxes back then. There are also those nobles, their land and property were also given by the grandfather back then, and the ancestral system is like a mountain! ”

Zhu Houxi sighed, Ancestor, how can you make trouble for me?