The wastes in Zhang Tao's mouth are actually very wronged, Daming has not designed a new ship for a long time, although the Western warship has been seen, but I don't know the structure inside, in fact, even if I know, it's useless, because that thing doesn't even have a water storage tank, in terms of sinking resistance, it is not as good as Daming's civilian merchant ships. There is a real problem at the moment, that is, Jiang Tian doesn't understand what the sail battleship of this era is all about. The sporadic knowledge he gained from some novels and popular science programs in later generations could not make him a ship designer.

Jiang Tian's private school was quiet at the moment, with each student's desk being distanced and screens set up between the seats, all because of the final exams going on. Jiang Tian still habitually took the exam at the end of June, and then the students knew that they were going to face a two-month summer vacation, which was simply a considerate benevolence for students like perverts. But for Zhang Huan, a person who can't wait to live in Jiang's Mansion, the pain is unbearable. But there is no way, the Academy of Sciences has already spread the news that Jiang Tian will go to Dagu Shipyard to guide the work in the past two months, so even if you don't want to take the exam, this semester is officially over.

Different people naturally have different understandings of this appointment from different perspectives. From the point of view of the technical personnel, this order is not surprising at all, the imperial court suffers from the lack of a useful naval army, so as early as the Southern Ming Dynasty, it has begun to build a new fleet, but at that time the war was in full swing, and there was no spare money to invest in this bottomless pit. Now that I have made a preliminary decision today, thinking back to the old things of the former Ming Dynasty, if it wasn't for Zhu Yuanzhang who laid a good foundation for his descendants, how could there be Zheng He's seven trips to the West. Zhang Tao, who has always admired the Great Voyage, naturally can't let a panacea figure like Jiang Tian be idle in the capital. The old fritters in the officialdom smelled a hint of danger, and it was obvious that Zhang Tao transferred Jiang Tian away to prevent this new bureaucratic benchmark from getting involved in certain things, regardless of whether those old guards really intended to pull Jiang Tian into the water, at least it showed that the emperor was on guard against this. Besides, the reform of the imperial court has entered the stage of fighting in full swing, before the big guys did not find those well-made silver coins hidden by the killer tricks, the imperial court stipulates that the use of silver coins to pay taxes without fire consumption, which is equivalent to the gray income of those officials below, because whether it is a small people or landlords, are trying their best to exchange the silver in their hands for silver coins, even if they suffer a little loss in the folding, because the local fire consumption can often reach as much as fifty percent of the tax, that is, the fire consumption is more than the regular tax. Otherwise, how could a Qing prefect amass 100,000 snowflakes of silver in three years?

How can a new currency be implemented in a society without a national banking system? The solution is simple: national procurement. Just as the summer grain harvest was abundant, the imperial court clearly stipulated that if the grain was sold to the local garrison, it could enjoy the convenience of settling in Singapore currency! Naturally, the peasants were more willing to sell their grain to the army and then pay their taxes with shiny silver coins. And the barracks, which were directly loyal to the emperor, were piled up with grain pockets of various shapes. For this reason, many military camps even vacate the barracks to pile up food, anyway, it will not be long before these things will be transported to the north in a steady stream. This is really going to kill the lifeline of those wealthy families, although the previous Ming Dynasty continued to have natural disasters, but man-made disasters are the root cause of the country's demise, ironically the Ming Dynasty sat on a vast land, but because the people could not eat enough and rose up, and finally forced Chongzhen to commit suicide. Is it true that there is no food? In fact, it is not, it is just that the grain is monopolized by those big landlords and wealthy families, these guys artificially expand the disaster, raise the price of grain and lower the price of land, not only take advantage of the bankrupt homesteaders, but also let the economy of the Ming Dynasty collapse, plus the rule of the Ming Dynasty is that those who have a meritorious body do not have to pay taxes, which leads to a group of fearless moths gradually draining the blood of the country.

In the past, those traditional forces in the court have always been staring at these privileges of the literati, so whenever Zhang Tao wants to move their vested interests, he always dismantles the stage and fights against them openly and secretly. But they didn't expect this little silver coin to capsize their boat in the gutter. The imperial court has begun to rectify the rule of officials, and the former officials who did not enter the stream ushered in the opportunity to turn positive, and naturally there was some disobedience to the original boss, although Zhang Tao ordered the fire consumption to return to the public, but there was also a buffer period, and the magistrates thought that they could make another sum of money in the end, which Cheng wanted to use the new silver coin without paying the fire consumption. At first, they weren't too worried about it. First, it takes time to mint coins, and I am afraid that this summer grain will not be able to catch up, even if a few banks pay taxes on commercial silver coins, it will not affect the total income. Besides, they are the same as the local emperor, even if the common people look at the imperial list, they are sure to use all kinds of dirty means to squeeze the oil and water of the small people, but then they found out that this new emperor is indeed more than just an expert in war.

After receiving the secret order from the military department, the garrisons in various places did not dare to slack off, and actively organized officers and soldiers to devote themselves to the action of helping the common people to harvest in the summer; anyway, Zhang Tao's new army was completely a people's army born out of another time and space, and after many years of contact, the common people knew that this army was highly disciplined and was their own team. In addition to using silver coins not to pay for fire, they also explained in simple terms the apportionment of the land and the newly formulated industrial and commercial tax law. For a while, in the fields north and south of the river, I would always see a group of fellow villagers listening carefully to the lectures around a few talkative soldiers, and from time to time they would discuss in depth the topics they were interested in. Originally, those officials who were accustomed to oppressing the people could only stare dryly, not saying that the army did not spread rumors, and every sentence was to the point, even if there was something untrue, no one dared to touch this tiger's whiskers. If you dare to persecute the small people as before, in case the other party complains to the barracks, although the soldier may not be able to judge himself, but he can see that it is a critical period to become a regular, and if this kind of thing happens, your dream of official establishment will be over. Even if you can buy it from overseas, it will take time to transport it, and the task of paying taxes will not allow the imperial court enough time to stabilize prices, and not only will these big landlords be happy to watch the yeoman farmers being squeezed with no way out, and finally they will have to sell their land to themselves.

Knowing what kind of virtue these people are, Zhang Tao of course thought of a countermeasure, at the beginning seemed to compromise he promised to let the gentry of the former Ming Dynasty still retain the privilege of not paying grain when they were alive, many people also celebrated this, thinking that he Zhang Tao also had a soft time, and later after reading the commercial tax method, I knew that people just promised not to collect agricultural tax, but in business they have to pay taxes equally, and this tax is not paid by year, it is calculated on a monthly basisand even more so to take advantage of local unspoken rules to engage in monopoly operations. But now that the good days are over, the magistrate who can't collect agricultural taxes and has no fire consumption can only rely on commercial taxes to brush up his political achievements, even if some shops are the property of a certain big person, the new law stipulates the amount you have to pay, as long as you dare not pay, he can close the shop. This not only promoted the confrontation between the local officials and the local forces, but also made those who planned to lower the price of grain and bankrupt the peasants retreat. People who don't have industry and commerce at home can say that they just watch the excitement. But those who run shops or workshops have a headache, and their profits have plummeted, and they are even more confused by the various new terms, such as value-added tax, fixed tax, and consumption tax...... In short, the best bookkeepers can be depressed, and the only thing they can figure out is that they will have to pay taxes when doing business in the future. Larger merchants have to pay business tax, those who walk the streets have to pay a fixed amount tax, and there is VAT on your profits, and there is also consumption tax attached to each item. What's worse is that the tax silver here also has to be collected for fire, if you don't want to pay for it, you have to pay the silver coins, if not, then you have to sell the grain to the army.

Now the landlords who hoarded grain had no choice, as long as they had industrial and commercial industries under their names, they could not let the price of grain continue to plummet, and they also hoped to sell more silver coins, otherwise the money from selling grain would not be enough to subsidize the commercial ones. However, we should not increase prices excessively and artificially create food shortages, because the army now has a huge amount of grain reserves in its hands, and it can sell and suppress grain prices at any time. Under this series of schemes, some people have already shouted ten thousand taxes and ten thousand taxes to the new dynasty in private...... However, the real businessman soon discovered that although there were many kinds of taxes, the amount of each collection was not only well-documented and did not affect his own expansion of business, but also the subdivision of the new dynasty could be found in the new dynasty's tax cleverness, which seemed to pay taxes on everything, but each of them did not pay much, not at all more than the previous dynasty. There is a basis for saying this, because in addition to the members of certain guilds, as well as the industries under the name of the capital bosses, the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty seems to be extremely low, but it is often eaten for nothing by the imperial court, and the small households have no background background, once they are forced to be the emperor, it is not far from bankruptcy, under the seemingly prosperous market in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, in fact, it is the same as the land situation, those trusts who control the market and monopoly management, in fact, have not handed over any money to the national treasury, and the annual commercial tax is completed by exploiting small and medium-sized businessmen. Do you think the Ming Dynasty can not be starved to death by itself? Now there are no such concerns, one of the major characteristics of the agricultural society is to rely on grain to stabilize prices, which is also the same in later generations, although people at this time do not understand what CPI is, but they can also understand the significance of the imperial court spending great efforts to control food. Only by maintaining a reasonable and stable food price can we completely liberate the pockets of the common people and promote consumption. This truth will be understood by everyone in the future generations, but it will be unfathomable in this time and space. So those guys who had planned to curb the New Deal in tandem some time ago were depressed to find that they had been calculated that there was no possibility of victory. If you give up industry and commerce, you will give up your greatest source of wealth, and if you don't give up, you have to compete with people in a proper manner, even if it is a once powerful guild, with the example of salt merchants in front of you, who can fight against the whole country? The imperial court just asked the army to build a few more salt drying plants, and the original salt industry was completely impacted. Such a bloody lesson is enough to make many ambitious people abandon unrealistic ideas.

So when the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty gradually woke up, a rumor quietly arose, that is, the initiator who planned such a roundabout and lacked virtue and smoke, and designed to make the big guy fooled, was Jiang Tian, who was preparing to leave Beijing on a business trip! In fact, Jiang Tian was really wronged this time, at least partially. He just made a bunch of machines, and then let the silver coins flow to the whole country at a very low cost and at a very high speed, at most, it accelerated the process, and the real black hand was Zhang Tao himself. With the historical insight of outwitting the black-hearted capitalists in Shanghai during the founding of the country in his previous life, and the experience of a failed planned economy, Zhang Tao is much more mature and ruthless than Jiang Tian in terms of financial reform, especially under the feudal court, which is basically not controlled by the so-called public opinion, as long as he is willing, it is not impossible to copy the public-private partnership system. But he was reminded and enlightened by Jiang Tian and decided not to repeat this old road, as long as heavy industry and food production are in his hands, he is not afraid that those capitalists can turn the sky upside down, so that you can hold the land for a few years less tax, anyway, you want to make a fortune by farming, plus the north has absorbed a certain amount of tenant loss, and even labor disputes do not have to worry about happening. Unless the landlords are sure that they can cultivate thousands of acres of farmland on their own, they can only try to retain the farmers who are ready to relocate, which will further increase the cost of planting and reduce their incomes. But if you go all out to start a business, the land must be sold to the state first, and the pricing power is also in the hands of the imperial court.

"This system looks a little familiar!" Jiang Tian made no secret of his shock: "It seems to be something that our hometown did in a certain era." ”

Zhang Tao shook his head: "There is still a difference, just because you don't cooperate, otherwise I would have started the land reform a long time ago!" ”

His Majesty's strategy is like a hodgepodge of China's reforms across the ages, removing some compromises and adding some cross-era policies, and whether this is really useful will only be judged by time. Jiang Tian has always had the feeling that doing so will pull out the seedlings and help them grow, but Zhang Tao has made up his mind, and they have also designed an insurance to prevent the Jiangnan gentry from rebounding, so Jiang Tian did not stop him. However, when these policies were announced one by one, they still aroused quite strong opposition from the north and south of the country. The first is that in the future, all kinds of readers will no longer have privileges, even if you can memorize a few books of the Four Books and Five Classics and the like, no one will think that you are superior. This is simply tearing off the faces of those literati and throwing them into the garbage heap in public. Immediately afterwards, it was announced that the privilege of Qiē was cancelled, not to mention that the official did not kneel, and he did not pay food, but the rice he had given before was gone. You say that if there is no benefit to the reader, then who will still read? At this time, Jiang Tian's private school opened, and it was at this time that next year's scientific examination proposition was also announced, followed by the implementation of the new tax law, and the announcement that immigrants to the north could enjoy extra points for the imperial examination...... At this time, everyone knew that the emperor was playing a big game of chess, a game of chess against all the scholars in the world, and the key was that the emperor currently had the upper hand.

At this time, unlike the end of the Qing Dynasty, the people's understanding of science was basically none, and there was no unified understanding of the improvement of the social system. In such an environment, unless you started with a mass movement in the first place, even people in your own camp will not support the fight against local tyrants and divide the land. Historically, it was precisely because Yongzheng had improved the system of taxation and fire consumption that the landlord class intensified its exploitation of tenants, otherwise they would not have been able to accumulate more wealth under the policy of apportioning the land to the mu. In other words, even if land reform is still needed in the end, it will be a hundred years later.

Jiang Tian, who was still thinking about discussing state affairs with the emperor, completely forgot that he was invigilating, or that the students thought that he had forgotten to invigilate. Because Jiang Tian was standing by the window of the classroom at this time, staring at the sky in the distance and standing with his hands in his hands, if God could cooperate and blow a little breeze, it was indeed very mastery. It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, and the dark clouds are gloomy like a quilt on top of his head. But no matter how deep the shape is, how to invigilate the exam with your back to the student? After tentatively stretching his neck and confirming that Jiang Tian had indeed fallen into a certain state of thinking, Liu Baokai cautiously stretched his head to the table next to him. On his right hand is the talented girl Xinyue in this class, and she doesn't know what to do with this pervert's blatant plagiarism, so she has to pretend that she didn't notice it and continue to do her own test papers.

Jiang Tian, who had been in a state of thinking, suddenly spoke without looking back: "Yijian, do you want to cram until the beginning of the next semester during the summer vacation?" ”

A small sneer erupted in the classroom, and the pervert was shocked by Jiang Tian's ability to have long eyes behind him, and it was also thanks to Zhang Huan sitting in front of him that he didn't see the strange expression of this prospective duke, otherwise he would definitely be classified as a waste in his heart. With this little episode, no one dares to cheat anymore, because no one knows how Jiang Tian spies on them. Only Xinyue pursed her lips and smiled slightly because of the angle, and she happened to see that the open window glass reflected Jiang Tian's playful expression. It wasn't until a rider led the horse into the alley that the smile on Jiang Tian's face gradually disappeared, and the residents here had long been accustomed to the army messengers asking Jiang Mansion where the alley was, so he didn't wait for him to open his mouth and directly pointed to the gate of the Red Mansion, but the man looked in the direction and happened to see Jiang Tian who was looking at him. From the horse, the man untied an arm-thick bamboo tube, which was a special container used in the army to hold maps, but this time there was no map inside, but a simple drawing of the shape of a ship.

"Alas......" Jiang Tian sighed, the arrival of this messenger meant that he was about to leave for Tianjin, so he raised his head and said to Liu Baokai, who couldn't copy the answer and scratched his ears and cheeks: "Yijian intends to plagiarize in the exam, so I punish you for entering Tianjin with me!" ”

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