Gu Yanwu sighed, there were some things he didn't want to say, but he had to say them so that the crown prince Zhu Cihong could recognize the true face of the bureaucratic squire: "Actually, the taxes in Miyun County are not too heavy, they can only be regarded as average. ”

"In some states and counties, the tax is as high as four buckets just for the positive tax, not to mention the remaining two items of rice consumption and private expenses."

The crown prince Zhu Cihong used to always hear the words "officials forcing the people to rebel", and after hearing it too much, he thought that it was just an excuse for the people to rebel.

What he didn't expect was where this was an excuse, but a fact.

The bureaucrats and squires in the world used the power given to them by the Ming Dynasty to dig the corners of the Ming Dynasty instead, so that the Ming Dynasty was now crumbling and was about to collapse.

The bureaucratic gentry is not only in the aspect of oppressing the common people, but also in the aspect of making people angry.

Gu Yanwu is going to talk about all these things today, and he will finish talking about how the bureaucrats and gentry squeeze the common people, and how they loot the grain in the hands of the common people in the name of collecting taxes.

Next is the issue of land, which is the real big head of the bureaucratic squires digging the corners of the Ming Dynasty.

Gu Yanwu handed the fish scale book in his hand to the crown prince Zhu Cihong: "Your Highness, please see, this is the number of acres of land reported to the imperial court in Miyun County in the past. ”

Prince Zhu Cihong took it, it stands to reason that Prince Zhu Cihong's knowledge can be ranked in the entire Ming Dynasty, after all, as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, he has been in contact with the best teachers since he was a child.

But I know every word in this fish scale book, but when these words are gathered together, I don't understand it.

If you don't understand, you don't understand, the prince Zhu Cihong also knows the doorway here, which should be one of the means used for hereditary cases in various counties.

If everyone can understand the fish scale book, as long as the fish scale book in the hands of the household is snatched, everyone can be the household master.

This hereditary word hereditary lies in the skill of checking the fish scale book, which can only be understood by the family members in charge of the household, and can be hereditary.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong turned to the end and understood the fish scale book, but he didn't understand it.

Instead, Gu Yanwu made an annotation at the end of the fish scale book, clearly annotating the number of all acres of fields such as high-grade watered fields, middle fields, lower fields, and dry land recorded in the fish scale book.

The total is about 20,000 acres.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong is quite satisfied with the number of 20,000 mu, and those upper and middle fields are used to grow 1,000 catties of hybrid rice, and the lower fields and dry land are used to grow potatoes, and the grain collected every year is definitely a large amount.

However, the crown prince Zhu Cihong's satisfaction did not last long, and his satisfaction turned into great anger, and even the face that was accustomed to or was not allowed to show any expression at Zhu Shun's request turned iron blue.

After Gu Yanwu handed over the previous fish scale book to the crown prince Zhu Cihong, he took out another new fish scale book, which was the result of his past month.

Rigorous to the point of meticulous measurement of all the land in Miyun County, recorded in the book, all on this thin account book.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong's face was so ugly, because of this thin account book, that is, the number of acres measured by Gu Yanwu.

Twenty one million one hundred twenty acres.

It's more than twice as much as a fraction of 240,000.

Zhu Shun saw the face of the crown prince Zhu Cihong Tieqing, and was really worried that he would be angry, so he walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "There is a long way to go." ”

Hearing this sentence, there is a long way to go, and the crown prince Zhu Cihong's mood gradually eased, and was replaced by a kind of happiness that he had never had.

If he hadn't met Mr., he would have become a step-by-step emperor like the emperors of the past in accordance with the teachings of the Donglin Party.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong will never know how bitter the common people are, and he will never know how many fields there are in a county in Daming, and he will always think that the worldview instilled in him by the Donglin Party is right.

But now it's good, with a teacher, with an industrial school, and with the industrial revolution.

With this land reform, which made the crown prince Zhu Cihong feel most excited and happy, the world view has been completely different, and it is a new world view standing on the shoulders of the giant of Maoist thought.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong eased his emotions and sighed deeply: "Go on." ”

Gu Yanwu nodded and continued: "If it weren't for this land reform, the minister didn't expect that the bureaucrats and squires would have concealed and deceited the fields to reach such a point. ”

"It's just shocking and outrageous."

"The more than 240,000 acres of land in Miyun County have been sent by the bureaucrats and gentry for generations, and in the end only more than 20,000 acres remain, and it is no wonder that the state treasury is so empty that it is impossible to pay food."

Gu Yanwu's voice paused when he said this, and he began to talk about his true purpose this time.

It is also the reason why he handed over the past fish scale book to the prince Zhu Cihong before handing over the number of fields he measured to the crown prince.

Gu Yanwu didn't know what kind of impact he would have on his career if he said these words, and it was very likely that he would lose Jian Zaidi's heart.

But if he doesn't say it, it's not him Gu Yanwu.

Knowing that it would affect his future career, he still decided to ask for the people's life: "Your Highness, Taizu established a tax law when the country was founded. ”

"One stone, one stone."

Gu Yanwu won't talk about it here, although he said that he prepared a whole set of tirades before coming, but it's not good to talk too much about this kind of thing.

It's better to express your meaning directly, and let the crown prince Zhu Cihong handle the rest, after all, no matter how much you say, you can't be the master.

How much this new tax is has to be decided by the crown prince Zhu Cihong, and the only thing that makes Gu Yanwu feel at ease is that.

Industrial Hou Zhu Shun is here.

Prince Zhu Cihong's reaction was beyond Gu Yanwu's expectations, it was actually a good aspect, not a bad aspect.

When the crown prince Zhu Cihong heard Gu Yanwu say one stone and one stone, he immediately understood what he meant, this is to restore the tax law when Taizu founded the country.

Remove all the so-called positive endowments, rice consumption, and private expenses, and leave only a unified stone, and the tax bureau will collect and pay taxes according to this standard in the future.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong suddenly stood up, looked at Gu Yanwu seriously and said, "Ning Ren's idea is very much in line with Gu's heart. ”

"The new tax law will be done according to the will of the Ning people, and no matter when, taxation will always be one stone with one stone."

Gu Yanwu was stunned for a moment, he never thought that the crown prince Zhu Cihong would really agree, let alone that he would agree so quickly and decisively.

Gu Yanwu took two steps forward and bent down deeply.

Deeply implicated.