Zhu Shun and the crown prince Zhu Cihong, who were sitting in the pavilion, used a yang plot to weaken the power of the Donglin Party in Shanhaiguan, and they were in a good mood and brought a pot of good wine.

A plate of fennel beans, a plate of small yellow croaker.

There are only two simple dishes, but Zhu Shun and the crown prince Zhu Cihong drank this meal with relish, and it felt much more delicious than the banquet set up by the Donglin Party with dozens of dishes.

It didn't take long for Gu Yanwu, who had tanned a lot, to come over with a fish scale book, and with his current relationship with the crown prince Zhu Cihong, he could sit in the pavilion and drink directly.

From this incident, it can be seen that Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi are completely different, if Huang Zongxi was here, he would sit directly on the stone table in the pavilion without being greeted by the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

Drink to your own and drink with relish.

Gu Yanwu is different, the crown prince Zhu Cihong took the initiative to let him in to drink, Gu Yanwu still stood respectfully outside the pavilion, watching Zhu Shun and the prince Zhu Cihong drinking the best rice wine there.

This bottle of rice wine was brought by Gu Yanwu from Liuquanju in the capital, Gu Yanwu also had a soft taste for Liuquanju rice wine, and heard that Zhu Yu liked to drink this wine, so he gave Zhu Yu all the remaining Liuquanju rice wine.

Unexpectedly, the Liuquanju rice wine he brought went around and around, and finally landed on the wine table of Zhu Shun and the crown prince Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Shun and the crown prince Zhu Cihong sat in the pavilion, Gu Yanwu stood outside the pavilion, and the three of them began to formally discuss the last thing of land reform in Miyun County, which was also the result of withdrawal.

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The crown prince Zhu Cihong personally poured a glass of wine for Zhu Shun, put down the wine jug, and looked at Gu Yanwu outside the pavilion: "How is the tax collected in the Ming Dynasty, Ning Ren will introduce it first." ”

Gu Yanwu nodded, and began to introduce the methods of collecting taxes in Daming counties like a few treasures, so many of them made many three-class and six-room households ashamed.

Gu Yanwu tidied up his appearance, and began to introduce it with a solemn face: "Daming's taxes have been collected twice, namely summer tax and autumn grain. ”

"There are three kinds of taxes collected each time, the first is positive payment, the second is rice consumption, and the third is private expenses."

"This positive endowment is the official tax collected by the county government of each county, and the amount of tax collected varies from county to county, just take Miyun County in the past."

"Zhengfu is three buckets with one stone, which means that for every 100 catties of grain, the people have to hand over 30 catties of grain."

Three buckets with one stone!

Before Gu Yanwu told about the taxation of the Ming Dynasty, the crown prince Zhu Cihong already had an expectation in his heart, and it was already great to kill two birds with one stone.

Unexpectedly, this gang of corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Miyun County would collect Zhengfu so high, reaching an astonishing three buckets with one stone.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong is not ignorant of anything now, why not eat minced meat, he has personally participated in farming during this period of time, and knows how high the cost of ordinary people can grow a hundred catties of grain.

Leasing cattle and breeding breeds, etc., all add up, and there is at least a cost of 20 catties of grain in 100 catties of grain, and the corrupt officials in Miyun County actually received 30 catties of Zhengfu.

In other words, not counting the consumption of rice and private expenses, the grain that the people have worked hard to grow all year round has suddenly lost fifty percent.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong suddenly had a feeling that there were fewer corrupt officials in the county government, and it would not be too much to kill twice as much.

Gu Yanwu had been paying attention to the expression on the face of the crown prince Zhu Cihong when he was talking about Zhengfu, although the prince Zhu Cihong had no expression, but judging from his action of stopping drinking, it should have aroused the killing intent of the corrupt officials in various counties.

After talking about this positive endowment, the next step is to introduce the rice consumption: "This rice consumption, as the name suggests, is the loss of grain in the transportation to the granaries of various places. ”

"After all, there are regulations on the taxable grain in the granary, and the tax on one hundred catties of grain must be one hundred catties when it is put into storage."

"If only 100 catties of grain are collected from the people, and people eat and chew in the process of transportation, there will obviously be no 100 catties when they arrive at the granary."

"The loss in this process is called rice consumption, and it is generally counted on the heads of the bureaucrats and gentry."

"How could the bureaucrats and gentry who never refused to suffer losses count the rice consumption on their own heads, and continued to count it on the heads of the common people in the name of collecting rice consumption."

The crown prince Zhu Cihong suddenly interjected: "How much rice is consumed in Miyun County." ”

Gu Yanwu replied: "One stone, one bucket." ”

When the crown prince Zhu Zhu Cihong heard the consumption of rice with one stone and one bucket, his breathing stopped, and he almost didn't drop the wine glass in his hand to the ground.

This is not to transport grain from the capital to Shanhaiguan, a thousand miles away, how can the loss in the process reach 10 percent, it is just to transport the granaries of various state capitals at most 100 miles away.

In the process of loss, one pound of grain for a hundred pounds is not bad, the bureaucrats and squires levied ten catties from the common people, and the remaining nine catties were undoubtedly greedy for ink by them.

Nine catties of grain doesn't look like much, but this is nine catties of one hundred catties, which means that the bureaucrats and squires once again snatched away one percent of the grain from the common people.

Only four percent are left in the hands of the common people.

This is not over, Gu Yanwu continued: "After the collection of Zhengfu and rice consumption, there is still a private fee. ”

"This is the blatant embezzlement of grain by the bureaucrats and gentry, and this private expense is a benefit to put it bluntly, that is to say, the bureaucrats and gentry cannot work in vain after they are busy collecting grain."

"The advantage of not being able to do it in vain is obviously that I don't dare to ask the court for it, after all, the court will give them a fortune every month."

"I don't dare to ask the court for benefits, but I am looking for the people to stretch out my hand, which is the so-called private expense."

The crown prince Zhu Cihong interjected again: "How much is the private fee in Miyun County." ”

Gu Yanwu said a shocking number: "One stone and one bucket." ”

When the crown prince Zhu Cihong heard this, he couldn't hold back any longer, and the wine glass in his hand fell directly to the ground and shattered.

Even if he broke the wine glass, it couldn't calm the anger in the heart of the crown prince Zhu Cihong: "This also has to be a stone and a fight, and the people still want to live." ”

The crown prince Zhu Cihong said this sentence whether the people want to live or not, not to exaggerate the suffering of the people, but to tell the truth based on his own personal experience.

If the private expenses are also a bucket, the food in the hands of the common people will be left with three percent, and they will have to feed the family and reserve a certain amount of food to prepare for famine.

After all, the current Daming disasters are frequent, and if you don't reserve a little food to eat in the famine year, the family will definitely not be able to survive the famine year.

But with such a small amount of thirty percent of the food, the family usually does not have enough to eat, where is there any surplus grain to prepare for the famine.

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