Although Zhu Houzhao said it very casually and his tone was very relaxed, Zhu Youzhu still heard the murderous aura in his words, which was simply murderous. Take it off, to say it's light, how to take it? Will these people willingly let you take it out? It's simply impossible, and if you want to get rid of it, you have to use a knife.

In fact, what Zhu Houzhao said is not a new thing, and many emperors of the Ming Dynasty did this.

For example, Zhu Houzhao in history, how did he do it? Support Liu Jin! Otherwise, where did Zhu Houzhao get the money to train the troops, and where did he get the money to quell the rebellion, it was not Liu Jin who looted it.

The other one who did this was the Emperor of the Apocalypse, the famous carpenter emperor, how did he do it? Support Wei Zhongxian! When the Emperor of the Apocalypse was in power, Liaodong didn't burn money? Burn the same, where does the money come from? It wasn't Wei Zhongxian who got it, where did Wei Zhongxian get it?

It wasn't from these gentry, how did you do it? That means are not very clever, and I can't go into details.

As for Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian getting money from ordinary people, Zhu Houzhao doesn't believe it, how much is it worth to sell the bones and scum of these people? This is why when Wei Zhongxian was there, there were not so many uprisings in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, because the life of the people was still good, and the imperial court even had money for disaster relief.

But when it came to Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian fell, and the life of the imperial court was sad, Liaodong could not support it, and the imperial court had no money for disaster relief.

By the end of the 48th year of Wanli, except for a few areas such as Guizhou, an average of 9 cents of silver per mu of land would be levied on 5.2 million and 62 taels of silver, and at the time of the Apocalypse, it would also levy salt and other miscellaneous silver taels.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he raised the field tax from 9 cents to 1 cent and 2 cents, and distributed more than 6,670,000 taels of silver, an increase of one-third, except for the soldiers and famines, more than 5,220,000 taels of silver were exempted, and a total of 7,488,298 taels of silver was levied in addition to customs duties, salt taxes and miscellaneous items, and the total cost of suppressing the peasant uprising was 2,800,000 taels, mainly from the land.

The original proposal was only levied for one year, in fact, from the tenth year of Chongzhen, until the thirteenth year was forced to stop, the training salary was in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, according to Yang Sichang's proposal, the name was to train "border soldiers" to strengthen the defense of the towns on the nine sides, in fact, it was to deal with the peasant uprising, this salary was levied a total of more than 7.3 million taels of silver, of which the field tax was added to one cent per mu, accounting for more than half of the total.

From this tax trajectory, it can be seen that all the salaries during Chongzhen's reign came from the people's fields, and to put it bluntly, they asked for money from the people's fields.

But natural disasters were frequent at the end of the Ming Dynasty, where did the people get the money? You must know that all this money comes from homesteaders, and the gentry who are officials do not pay grain. The yeoman farmers went bankrupt and had no food to eat due to natural disasters, so they naturally formed displaced people. Under such circumstances, it is surprising that there is no rebellion, and there is a situation where the suppression is invincible and the suppression is increasing.

What is the Donglin Party doing in the meantime? Tea tax, mining tax and other taxes were exempted, which made them even more fat.

said that Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian were corrupt, they were not corrupt, and the money could reach the hands of the common people? No way, the common people are still hardship, they can't afford to eat, and capital has to drink blood, which has never changed. Besides, what if the corruption goes into the hands of Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, the emperor will stab, and the money will have a place.

If the officials rule Qingqing and the people live a prosperous life, at this time the eunuch party will become a cancer and must be cut down, the problem is not it!

What should I do if the imperial court can't collect taxes? What can you do other than use the eunuchs? Kill all the officials? So who's going to work for you? How many cabinet scholars and ministers did Chongzhen kill, is it useful? As it turned out, it didn't work. This is a problem of a group, not of one person, nor of a few.

Although Zhu Youzhu didn't know that Zhu Houzhao was thinking so far, Zhu Youzhu could also see that there was a heavy murderous intent hidden behind his son's smile.

"Father, you can think about the old things of Han Wu!" Zhu Houzhao saw his father looking at him, and he didn't speak, so he smiled and mentioned a conversation.

Listening to his son's words, Zhu Youjiao's pupils suddenly shrank, and the expression on his face was a little exciting, what is the old thing about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? Zhu Youzhu naturally knew, Zhu Youzhu read a lot, and the matter of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was naturally the top priority of research. In the second year of Yuanzhen, the evil king of the Huns surrendered, and when he had no money to put on music, the merchants of Chang'an did not give him money.

In the third year of Yuanzhen, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were about to conquer the Xiongnu, but the treasury was not enough to support the war, Liu Che once again asked the rich people in the world to donate their wealth, and each rich family should donate three to five percent of their property, which was called "Counting Order" in history

However, in the past year, only one shepherd named "Pu Shi" was willing to donate 200,000 yuan, and Liu Che collected the 200,000 yuan, named Pu Shi as Zhonglang, gave him 400 servants, and announced Pu Shi's deeds to the world, hoping that the rich people in the world could take this as an example. However, until the end of the four-year decisive battle of Yuanzhen, Liu Che only received this donation. The rich people in the world are scrambling to hide their own property, lest they reveal their wealth.

Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was in a hurry, thought of a method that seems simply unbelievable to people today, and issued a "Confession Order" for the implementation of the "Reckoning Order": those who denounce and conceal their property can get half of the other party's property, and the other half will be confiscated by the empire.

As soon as this decree came out, everyone in the empire went crazy, and it also completely changed the trajectory of wealth production. The edict did allow the empire to "gain hundreds of millions of people's wealth", but the empire's plundering hand spread to every corner, and the wealthy families were almost swept away.

For this matter, how could Zhu Youzhu not know, looking at his son naturally not good-looking: "You don't want to learn from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, right?" ”

"How is this possible!" Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Erchen only wanted to say one thing when he mentioned the old things of Han Wu, that is, merchants have no country. Scholars have a country, destroy their homes and relieve difficulties, and are willing to throw their heads and spill their blood for the country, but how many of these people standing in the court are businessmen? How many are scholars? ”

"For example, the Ye family, on the surface, is a scholar, but in private he is a businessman, is he a businessman or a scholar? Does he have a country or no country? ”

Zhu Houzhao's words were very light, but they seemed to hit Zhu Youzhang's heart, because he didn't know how to answer his son's question.

"When Emperor Taizu was the emperor, how was the merchant?" Zhu Houzhao picked up the teapot in front of his father and poured himself a cup, then picked up the teacup and took a sip, then raised his head to look at his father and said such a sentence.

What was the merchant like in the time of Taizu? Zhu Youzhu listened to his son's words and looked at his son, his eyes were quite weird.