North Korea surrendered.

There is no dead king, and there is no princess who scolds 140,000 people for having no men, but there are many scholars whose water is too cold. Especially that Jin Huan shouted in front of him to fight to the point of a soldier and a pawn, the Central Plains of the Prancing Horse, turned his head and surrendered, and became the lackey of the Ming Dynasty.

That's it, he also rode his horse on his toes and returned to Seoul to meet Park Youfang.

"Lord Pu, Shangguo Fuguo asked the lower officials to bring you a message, hurry up and seal the treasury and hand over the money and grain to Daming. If it's late, people will go into the city to pick it up. ”

Park Youfang looked at Jin Huan, who was triumphant and dragged 2580,000 yuan, and was so angry that he almost fainted.

"Lord Kim, you've changed a lot in a few days!"

Jin Huan didn't care, and smiled happily: "The gentleman leopard has changed, that's it!" Master Park, you really should read more books about Shangguo! It's so broad and profound, like the deep sea! ”

Park Youfang rolled her eyes, but she also cried out in vain, who let this thief take the lead!

Damn it!

Choi Shilin easily took the treasury of North Korea.

Although this product is unreliable, he won't do anything to put the big head in his pocket, and he won't even keep a small amount for himself. Because he knows that if so many things are sent back, there will definitely be chaos in the country.

Zhu Houxi is definitely going to go crazy, and the ministers will definitely make a fool of themselves, it's a lot of excitement that can't be bought by any amount of money!

"What's going on? You and others are all pretending to be a belly of truth, claiming to be familiar with the changes of the past and the present, understanding the rise and fall of chaos, and assisting me, creating a prosperous dynasty, and rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty. It's easier said than done, and everything boils down to money! Why are the Ming Dynasty's finances and taxes so weak, is it because my people are too lazy, or because the Ming Dynasty's products are limited, or because my officials are too wasteful? You have to tell me what the cause is, right? ”

At this point, Xi Shu had been forced into a corner, his back was soaked, his face was pale, and his lips were even trembling.

"Your Majesty, it's true that the officials below are incompetent. The ministers and others are bound to urge the magistrates to hand over the arrears of the past years as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Houxi woke up like a dream, "Yes, there are still debts!" In other words, Daming's tax is not high, but it can't be collected, isn't it ridiculous? ”

When asked about this, no one can pretend to be stupid.

Finally, Zhang Fujing stood up.

"Your Majesty, the minister has indeed done some exploration in the past few years, and I have an experience, and I want to play Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houxi said in a deep voice: "Speak! ”

"Your Majesty, take North Korea as an example, according to the minister's understanding, the tax rate in North Korea can reach more than 30%."

"What?" Zhu Houxi was shocked, "How can it be so high?" ”

Zhang Fujing smiled bitterly, "In fact, there is a higher one, that is, the Wa Kingdom, they can exceed half!" ”

"Impossible!" Zhu Houxi shook his head resolutely, "I don't believe it, no matter what, I don't believe it either." If half of the tax is levied, and there are some servitudes, the people of the Japanese kingdom should be miserable, and the smoke is everywhere, how can they maintain it? ”

Zhang Fujing smiled and said: "Your Majesty, if you speculate based on the situation of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese State is indeed exploited to the extreme, which is simply angry and resentful. But if you look at the Ming Dynasty from the Wa Kingdom, there may be another interpretation. ”

"Speak!" Zhu Houxi's eyes widened, and he looked curious.

"Your Majesty, more than half of the land endowment in the Wa Kingdom is generally handed over to the local feudal lord Haoqiang." Zhang Fujing not only worked his own, but also communicated with his master Wang Yue and even his senior brother Cui Shilin...... There were very few yeoman farmers in the Wa Kingdom, and almost all the land was in the hands of the daimyos, who rented the land to the common people for cultivation and then collected more than 50% of the land rent.

Is there a problem?

Doesn't look like so!

Even if we take the Ming Dynasty as an example, the land rent in the north is generally more than 30 percent, and in the south of the Yangtze River, there is even 70 percent of the land rent.

Therefore, under the agricultural conditions of male ploughing and female weaving, there may be differences in the degree of industriousness of the people and the amount of local products, but they will never be exaggerated to the point of incomprehension.

The situation in the Wa Kingdom was basically serfdom...... Daimyo...... Shogun 3rd rank.

The daimyo is equivalent to the local tyrant, and the territory they manage is not as large as a prefecture of the daimyo , so of course the pressure to collect land taxes is not great.

Why don't you go to all parts of Daming and ask, which big family can't collect land rent?

As for the shogun...... They did not directly control the place, but relied on strong force to deter the daimyo. To put it bluntly, he is a leading big brother.

If you are strong and can hold it, you will naturally be able to get taxes, but if you can't control it, then start fighting!

This situation continued until the Meiji Restoration.

Although the local daimyo was gone, the fiscal and taxation system was still the same, and the state could levy high taxes to support them in building a navy, cultivating industries, and even gambling on the fortunes of the country.

If we measure it purely from a financial point of view, before the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty was a "small country", and the funds that could be used for the war were less than one-third of that of the Japanese state...... If you can't concentrate the financial, material and human resources of the whole country, it's no wonder if you are undefeated!

After figuring out the situation of the Wa Kingdom, looking back at Da Ming, I have to sigh, Da Ming is too complicated!

Take peasant households as an example, there are quite a lot of yeoman farmers in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also many rich peasants, even if they are tenant farmers, not all of them rent land, for example, a certain family has five acres of land, and feels that it is not enough, so they rent ten acres from the landlord to plant, how should this tax be collected?

Moreover, there were also widespread hidden households in the Ming Dynasty, these people did not exist in the yellow books of the imperial court, they cultivated the land of large households, paid rent to large households, and were completely outside the state system.

I don't know if they can be counted as people of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the situation is generally like this, if you don't change the law, just raise taxes, and levy taxes like the Wa Kingdom, the Ming Dynasty will be chaotic in a moment, and it will definitely not work. This is also the reason why the minister has always hoped to implement the Qingzhang, as long as the Qingzhang is gone, the hidden households are gone, the land of the giant family is recovered, and the people who have no land and less land get the acres of land, and the fields of the big guys are almost the same. At this time, the imperial court not only made it easy to collect taxes, but could even raise some taxes, and it was completely okay to pay ten taxes. ”

"With more money in the court, it will be easier to do things. As it is now, concentrate your forces, destroy the Mongols, attack Korea, and crusade against the Japanese ...... Every time the army is used, the court can have a profit, so that the Ming can fight more and more, and fight stronger and stronger. Zhang Fujing sighed deeply: "After all, we have dozens of times the number of people, a hundred times the vast territory, and the tea, silk, and porcelain produced are even more marketed...... In this case, our annual income is only a few times that of Siyi, and we can't say anything! ”

"It is really a top priority to eradicate the Haoqiang, eliminate the giant room, and abolish these tax-exempt gentry and bureaucrats in the middle! Your Majesty, Shuntian Qingzhang has achieved results, continue to promote, it is urgent to delay, please Your Majesty's permission! ”

After Zhang Fujing finished speaking, he knelt on the ground, and immediately after, Jia Yong also knelt down, "Your Majesty, the cabinet thinks that governing the country must be fair, and finance and taxation must be reasonable. If it is just a good thing, the other people will be dissatisfied and will be in chaos, since it is the right thing, don't hesitate! ”

"The minister agrees too!"

The official Shangshu Gui Cao stood up, followed by Fang Xianfu, Yan Song, and Xia Yan, all of whom agreed.

In the end, the big guy's eyes fell on Xi Shu.

As the head of the household, Qingzhang has a very big relationship with the household, what is his attitude?

"Your Majesty, the household department, the household department of course, support Qingzhang, but, it's just that the household department has limited manpower, and the household department has not interfered with the local yamen, if the following is doing nonsense, taking the opportunity of Qingzhang, bullying the people, filling private pockets, how should this account be calculated?"

"It's up to the Cabinet!"

Zhang Fujing said: "Allocate manpower from the Thirteen Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households to assist the local Qingzhang, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will send the imperial history to be responsible for supervision. The Ministry of Officials should evaluate the performance of local officials in the Qingzhang, and the cabinet should take charge of the Qingzhang affairs. There are meritorious rewards, and there are punishments! First of all, Shandong and Henan, from north to south, do not achieve the goal, never give up! ”

With Zhang Fujing's statement, the great Ming Dynasty finally moved in an all-round way.

All the Shandong magistrates were called to the capital, and Zhang Fujing personally gave them a lecture, explained the essentials of Qingzhang, assigned tasks, and came up with the evaluation standards from the officials.

Before them, Jinyiwei's people went down, and as for whether the East Factory moved, only Huang Jin knew.

If you don't take action, you won't even be as good as North Korea, and you'll really have no face to live.

Daming is tossing here, Wang Yue is quite idle, all he does now is to raise bears and tease his daughter-in-law by the way.

Wang Yue naturally didn't have a physical problem, he just felt that two strangers, from not knowing each other at all, to spending their lives together, always needed a familiar process of understanding, and it was only a few months of hard work, which was nothing at all.

It's just that in Sun Yu's opinion, he is sick!

Totally sick!

"Sir, do you like the bear very much?"

"Well, what a cute little thing, cute and cute! Especially if you picked it up, it's our son! ”

"Really?" Sun Yu raised his eyebrows, and suddenly asked, "You have a bear son, don't you want to kiss your son?" ”

"My son? How can there be? ”

Wang Yue was still making a fool, Sun Yu's two fingers had already poked his head, and he said viciously: "If you are still confused, you will not have a son in this life!" ”

Wang Yue is embarrassed, am I being despised by my daughter-in-law?

Where is the husband!