Glancing at Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "It seems that there is something else going on!" ”

"Your Highness, there is a letter from the capital." Liu Jin came to Zhu Houzhao's side, did not dare to be the slightest slack, and hurriedly handed a letter in his hand to Zhu Houzhao, and said respectfully.

A letter from the capital? This made Zhu Houzhao hesitate a little, who in this capital would write a letter to himself? I took it and took a look at Zhu Houzhao, and found that it was actually written by my father. This made Zhu Houzhao even more surprised, why didn't he come to the holy decree? Just a letter? Tearing the envelope open, taking out the letter paper from it and taking a look, Zhu Houzhao found that his father had written a lot.

After looking at it a few times, Zhu Houzhao smiled, this is really a letter from home, not a correspondence between monarchs and ministers, or a letter written by a father to his son.

Unfolded the letter, Zhu Houzhao looked at it slowly, in the first half of the letter, the father mentioned the matter of the court, mainly the matter of paying the Zhuangtian tax, basically the tax department has completed the registration of the Zhuangtian, among which there are naturally frauds, the same routine as the civil officials, playing the hidden Zhuangtian, and those who are found out have been severely punished.

If you don't find out, then there is no way, but reading the meaning of the letter, my father is still very happy, because paying the Zhuangtian tax can increase the tax of the imperial court by more than fifty percent.

This number made everyone unexpected, including Zhu Houzhao, so it is no wonder that Dad is so happy. Of course, this is not to say that Zhuangtian occupies one-third of Daming's land, but that Daming's taxes are seriously insufficient. The big head was not here in Zhuang Tian at all, but in other places, that is, in the hands of the gentry.

Hiding the fields, casting cash, and filling the fields with the fields, they are too familiar with such things, if all the people's land is taxed, the land of the Ming Dynasty is far more than what is in front of them.

Although there is no specific number, but Zhu Houzhao can be compared with the later Qing Dynasty, in the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty completed the apportionment into the mu, just the land of silver, the Qing Dynasty can collect more than 40 million taels, but what about the Ming Dynasty? In addition to the various items collected in the village tax and tax this time, it was converted into silver, but about fifteen million taels.

Is the land of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty different in this era? Zhu Houzhao didn't see it that way, he even felt that the land reclamation of the Ming Dynasty was more thorough.

There is a nearly three-fold gap after the tax on farmland, where does all this money go? All of them were swallowed up by the gentry, and a policy of preferential treatment of the gentry was directly developed by them into a means of making a fortune. Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention is naturally good, to give scholars a certain amount of tax-free fields, so that they can study well, many people explain that the salaries of acting officials are low, but is this part of the tax-free fields counted?

However, this policy was directly pried open, hiding the land, investing in cash, and even the magistrates directly did not collect taxes from scholars, where did the state get the taxes.

The ability of yeoman farmers to resist natural disasters is too poor, and the slightest carelessness will bankrupt their families, and even a serious illness will have to borrow money to live, but how to pay it back? Before the land is up, it will belong to the gentry, and the subject of tax payment will only get smaller and smaller. The hateful thing about the Donglin Party is that it has all kinds of tax exemptions for its own personal gain, and its slogans are loud and loud, but they only think about putting money in their own pockets.

The three salaries and various levies, the yeoman farmers were miserable, they could only sell their land to the gentry, and then they turned into tenants, the main body of taxation became smaller and smaller, and the imperial court was even more unable to make ends meet.

But they lent money wantonly, recklessly collected land, and what they said was not high-sounding, these people are the goods that should be killed, with a knife.

As long as the official gentry is implemented to pay grain as a whole, then the national strength of the Ming Dynasty will be unprecedentedly strong, but these people will prevent you from implementing it, and Zhang Juzheng will not dare to touch this piece. Zhang Juzheng's teacher Xu Jie, that is tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, the so-called cultivation and reading heirlooms, which one is not wantonly collecting land, talking about poetry and etiquette, but the black hands behind the back are not soft at all.

Zhu Houzhao doesn't have a good impression of these people at all, businessmen have no country, you people talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and are full of loyalty and patriotism, but you are not as good as businessmen.

After being ruthless in his heart, Zhu Houzhao picked up the letter again, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he believed that after this incident, he was pushing the officials and gentry to pay for food together, and there would definitely be a lot less resistance from Dad's side. In this case, Zhu Houzhao is happy to see it, and when he finishes cleaning up the north, he should start cleaning up the south.

"I don't know if there will be a Civil War." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on his face, and said in a relaxed and casual tone, but there was ruthlessness in his eyes.

However, Zhu Houzhao also knows that in the Ming Dynasty of this era, those gentry are afraid that they don't have the courage, and they may have to commit a big case when the time comes. After crossing over to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao knew the true meaning of those big cases, and the important thing was not the case itself, nor what those people did, but their position.

The big case seems to be very big, with tens of thousands of deaths, but Zhu Houzhao understands that this is the simplest, fastest and least loss-making method.

For example, when Wei Zhongxian was in power, if he dared to make a big case in Jiangnan and directly implicate all the gentry in Jiangnan, or implicate all the gentry of the entire Donglin Party, then he would inevitably be able to cleanse the Donglin Party. As for implicating family members, because you don't implicate family members, then the soil of these people will still exist, and it is pointless to kill dozens or hundreds of people.

Engaging in a case of fraud in the Jiangnan Science Field will directly sweep the entire Jiangnan and uproot some people, although it will be a river of blood, but Jiangnan will also be cleansed.

In the court fight, it will only go forward and follow, lasting for more than ten years, or even decades, and the damage caused by party struggle is definitely much bigger and far-reaching than a big case.

"Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang." Zhu Houzhao smiled again and pronounced out such a name, a founding emperor who was criticized for killing, perhaps this was the only stain in his life, the stain of being attacked. But now that Zhu Houzhao understands, he really needs to purge those people, why hasn't Xu Da been implicated? It's food for thought.

"Maybe those nobles have fallen too fast, and they think about how to enjoy the country after they finish fighting, and they don't care about the scourge, but they didn't think that the country they are harming now is Zhu Yuanzhang's."

Looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of his own family, Liu Jin had already quietly withdrawn far away, he didn't dare to listen to these words, Liu Jin had a good psychology.

In addition to the matter of Nazhuang Tiantax, there is also a big thing written in this letter, that is, to choose a concubine for himself, and now he has begun to make a statement, and his father is also urging himself to finish the affairs of Liaodong as soon as possible, so that he can go back and complete the marriage when the time comes.