The lack of land is a problem in the current Ming Dynasty, but it will definitely not be a problem in the future.

Xiucai's matter is not a problem in the current Ming Dynasty, but it will definitely be a big problem in the future.

The root is still in the population base of the Ming Dynasty - the population of the Ming Dynasty at this time is nearly 10,000,000, that is to say, the population unit after the Ming Dynasty will be calculated with 100 million.

At this time, there is no such thing as hybrid rice, and the low yield per mu is outrageous.

Otherwise, the so-called dynastic rotation would not have occurred when the land was not enough to feed the population.

Because there is so much land, the population is slowly increasing. Later, the Central Plains Dynasty, which learned to "ask for face", or was deceived and lame, did not think about getting more land, and the final result was that the per capita food distribution was not enough to eat, and people would inevitably starve to death.

What if you are unwilling to wait for death?

Then only the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning.

As for the reincarnation of the five elements and the corruption of officials, they are just superficial phenomena that are used to fool people.

The land is easy to manage, but this person, especially after these talents come out, is really a headache.

Although they all say that they are poor and talented, are they really poor?

In Daming, if you want to become a showman, you must at least become a child after passing the second-level examination of the county government, and then you can become a showman after passing the annual examination.

Xiucai is divided into three classes, according to the grades, the best is called "endowment", followed by "hyperplasia", and then epiphytic.

The so-called students are those who have passed the annual examination and the scientific examination with excellent results. The Ming court gave the food every month. and are eligible to be elected as tribute students.

The so-called Gongsheng is a student who is recommended to the imperial court by local governments such as counties, prefectures, prefectures, and even provinces, and who have been selected by the school and government and have particularly excellent grades to become the students of the Guozijian. But unlike other Guozijian students, Gongsheng came out of the right way, that is, he was not bought with money.

"Growth" is also a show, but the Ming court no longer gives food.

As for the "epistudent", it is the attached student who has just entered the school, and it is not as good as the birth and proliferation.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, just a showman, he began to enjoy the benefits of being exempted from forced labor and exempting from taxes of 80 acres.

How much grain can be produced on 80 acres of land? And you don't have to pay taxes.

If a Xiucai himself is a poor man, and suddenly he flies on the branch and becomes a Xiucai, so there is no land at home, it doesn't matter, someone will naturally send it when the time comes.

When natural disasters and the imperial court increased taxes, many peasants could not afford to pay taxes due to poor harvests, so they would give their fields to Xiucai or Juren and live in their names, which is the so-called contribution.

And the purpose is also very simple, because as long as they are dedicated to the name of the Xiucai master or the lifting master, from now on, they do not need to pay taxes, they only need to pay some to the Xiucai or the lifting master.

In other words, as a showman, he can at least enjoy the income of 80 acres of land.

This is still the benefits enjoyed by this show is a real poor talent, who has no connections and does not hide the benefits he enjoys under the condition of underreporting.

If you have a little way, and you know more officials or something, it is normal for 200 acres to become 80 acres.

Moreover, after becoming a showman, this is the class that belongs to the "scholar", and from then on, he has a meritorious name, and not kneeling when he sees an official is the first welfare treatment he enjoys.

And the invisible benefit is that even if a showman commits a crime, the county order can't directly shout: "Fight hard with this county!" ”

Because if you want to punish a Xiucai, at least you have to often mention the academic official, that is, the academic administration, and it is okay to get rid of the fame of this Xiucai first.

Secondly, if you win Xiucai, everyone will call you a Xiucai Gong, which is in an ordinary township and county, a Xiucai is basically a celebrity, and you can mix with the squire class.

Even if there is no Zhongju person in the back, at least this Xiucai can be regarded as having a certain reputation in the local area, at least he can be a local gentleman, or go to the yamen to be a small official.

So the so-called poor show is really poor?

In the training base of later generations, there are tens of thousands of street writers who make a living by code words, and none of them have the nourishment of the talented masters.

However, what is even more terrifying now is that this kind of Xiucai Gong is about to appear in large quantities, and in a few years at most, it is estimated that there will be hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions of Xiucai masters.

When the time comes, the entire Ming Dynasty will be dedicated to them!

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen doesn't worry about the land, there is no way to grab it, and when it is not enough to really snatch the whole world back, he will either aim at the sea of stars, or he will have a good birth.

Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen didn't have to worry about this in his lifetime, even his son and grandson.

Even if the common people can live again, the land of the world is not enough?

What's more, those guys led by Chen Zuqi in the Royal Academy are thinking about grain seeds every day, what if these guys get high-yield hybrid rice?

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Each Xiucai can be exempted from taxes of eighty acres, and now there are nearly two million social school children, even if there is one Xiucai among hundreds of people, it is more than 10,000 new Xiucai every year."

If everyone is exempt from 80 acres, how much can I collect from my Ming taxes? ”

Wen Tiren and Meng Shaoyu also began to have headaches.

What Emperor Chongzhen said is the truth.

Originally, social studies were almost deserted, so although there are many talents, there will not be more than 10,000 new people every year.

But now that social studies have been re-established by Emperor Chongzhen, and it is called the ancestral system, this is a headache.

At the very least, the emergence of more than 10,000 talents every year is likely to occur.

Looking at Wen Tiren and Meng Shaoyu's headaches, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but smile in his heart.

In fact, it is very simple to solve this problem, just increase the difficulty of the exam.

Just like the college entrance examination in later generations, the difficulty of the questions has increased, and the number of people admitted to universities has not been artificially controlled?

But Wen Tiren and Meng Shaoyu's thinking was limited, and they didn't think about increasing the difficulty of the exam at all, but thought about how to solve this problem.

In fact, Wen Tiren and Meng Shaoyu are not to blame, because if it is said that the difficulty of the exam is artificially increased to achieve the purpose of sweeping the sand, at least there is a problem in front of us.

Will the candidates be willing?

What was the difficulty of the exam like before? What's the difficulty like now?

It doesn't matter if you're new to the exam, but don't forget that there are a lot of kids who have failed the test before.

These people have a rough idea of the level of difficulty between exams after going through one exam.

Disgruntled is for sure.

This sentiment then spreads among the new test takers, and the end result is likely to be chaos.

And then what? Kill them all?

Or is it another north-south list?

The problem is that the north-south list is to solve the difference in literary style between the north and the south, what about the difference in difficulty between the old and the new?

Isn't it to get a new and old list?

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the two were still thinking about how to solve this problem, so he didn't bother at the moment, and let the two of them think quietly.

After a long time, Wen Tiren simply bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, if you directly change the eighty acres of taxable land to fifty acres?" ”

Wen Tiren felt that he had put forward this suggestion very well.

At least one person saves 30 acres, and 100 people are 300 acres. What about 10,000 people?

There are 30,000 acres.

30,000 acres are saved every year, which is a considerable number.

But Emperor Chongzhen obviously didn't think so.

How many fucking years can this last? When the time comes, won't Lao Tzu still have to collect a penny of taxes?

If the endowment is gone, it will be forgotten, but the tax is gone, and an old man like Guo Yunhou must not come to me to cry poor and ask me for the money?

The problem is, there were natural disasters every year in the following decades, and the Royal Academy still asked for all kinds of money, and it also cost money to compensate the soldiers who died in battle.

Since there is a cure for the root cause, I don't care about reciting more infamy.

After thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen simply spoke: "Wen Aiqing's proposal is good, it is only solved for a while, but it can't be solved for a lifetime." As the number of workers increased, so did the number of tax-exempt land.

In the end, it was only at night that the taxes would not be collected. What I mean by this is to solve this problem once and for all. ”

Solving this problem once and for all is very simple, just remove the tax-free fields.

As for the talented masters in the future, they have the privilege of not kneeling when they see officials, and it is almost the same to be respected wherever they are.

Of course, Wen Tiren also knew that this was a solution, but in this way, it really offended all the scholars in the world.

And between offending the world's scholars and offending the Chongzhen Emperor in front of him, Wen Tiren wisely chose the scholars who offended the world.

Anyway, I've been offended, and I'm not afraid of being offended more thoroughly.

And Emperor Chongzhen is right in front of him, this is the most fatal.

After a basic discussion, Wen Tiren simply bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can be exempted from the preferential treatment of tax exemption for Xiucai, and the preferential treatment of exemption from forced labor can be retained." ”

Emperor Chongzhen was delighted, and said with a smile: "Wen Aiqing is really loyal to the country and dedicated to the king's affairs.

In addition, there is also the problem of lifting people in general, there are more talents, and there will inevitably be more people to lift, and these preferential treatment enjoyed by lifting people are much more than those of Xiucai.

In this way, Wen Aiqing went back and discussed with the cabinet ministers, and then wrote a book to me together. ”

Wen Tiren was already secretly grateful to Emperor Chongzhen in his heart at this time.

It is certain that he will carry the black pot, but now Emperor Chongzhen's words have pulled the other ministers of the cabinet into the water together.

Anyway, the decision is such a decision, and no one can change it.

But it was the entire cabinet that signed the concert, and it was not my own business to pass it on.

There is infamy, and everyone bears it together.

Wen Tiren, who was secretly grateful, thanked Emperor Chongzhen for his kindness at the moment, and returned to the Wenhua Hall where the cabinet was located with Meng Shaoyu.

After Wen Tiren retreated, Emperor Chongzhen happily went to Queen Zhou to see his precious daughter.

It's really worth being happy today, although the scene at the beginning was a bit anticlimactic, which made people not very happy, but what I discussed with Wen Tiren later was how to make people want to be happy.

Regardless of the outcome of Wen Tiren's deliberations on the Juren, even if they still retain the tax-free privileges of some land, as long as the tax-free privileges of Xiucai are removed, it will be great news.

After all, lifting people is not so easy to test. And it is even more difficult to go from lifting people to taking the Jinshi exam.

Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen's decision was to only need 300 jinshi every year, and no more.

Of course, these three hundred refer to the Jinshi of the Eight Classics of the Eight Classics, excluding the Jinshi of the three subjects of Gewuke, Minglu and Mingsu.

The more of these three subjects, the better.

The flow of talents is not only upward, but also downward, that is, the so-called knowledge is diffusion from top to bottom.

There are only so many people that the court can use, is the rest really mixed and waiting to die?

Obviously unlikely.

At that time, there will inevitably be a large number of surplus talents, especially those from the Ming Calculation and Gewu Departments, who will flow into the people.

Whether these people want to be a bookkeeper, or a master, or do something else, at least they have to start much higher than Xiucai.

In the same way, the treatment received by the people will be much better.

After these people taste the sweetness, they will drive more people in the folk to take the exams of Ming Arithmetic, Ming Law and Gewu.

This is the deepest hidden purpose of Emperor Chongzhen.

Since there are not enough people who take the initiative to learn Gewu and arithmetic, then do something and force them to make changes from the top down.

What's more, this change is benign, and as long as it happens, it will be difficult to take it back.

Emperor Chongzhen's troublesome matter was solved, but the showmen and gentlemen in the capital began to make trouble.

The debate between Shen Hao and Wang Yongzhong was originally rumored, but the final result was that the two groups of people cut off their robes and broke their righteousness, and they did not get along with each other.

And the news that came out later was even more terrifying.

Eighty acres of preferential land to be canceled?

Only 50 acres are given to the lifter, and it is strictly forbidden to contribute?

His mother, Lao Tzu has been cold for ten years, and his pants have been taken off, so you will show Lao Tzu this?

But as the old saying goes.

Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out for ten years.

In addition, it is not possible to raise people and jinshi.

Not to mention that these people don't have the courage to rebel yet.

And what is even more immoral is that just a few days later, this matter became official news.

The Ming Semi-monthly newspaper officially published an article, and wrote a special book about the preferential treatment of the field, as if the preferential field was not canceled, and the disaster of the country was not far away.

Today's Daming semi-monthly newspaper is not what it was when it first came out, and it was seen by people all over the world as an after-dinner pleasure.

Now I basically know what is going on with this Ming semi-monthly report, and who is the real big boss behind the scenes.

Now in the eyes of the people of the world, the Ming Half Moon is the same as the imperial court's newspaper, which belongs to the official mouthpiece.

It's just that Di Bao belongs to the official version, while Daming Semi-monthly Bao is in the nature of a teaser.

Anyway, it's all Emperor Chongzhen's.