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In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the total tax land of the Ming Dynasty was 700 million mu, and the total land endowment was 26.69 million stones. In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, because of the increase in the three salaries, more taxes were collected. Even according to the figures of the 15th year of Wanli and the grain price of the 14th year of Chongzhen, the total annual tax revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty was at least 66.72 million taels of silver.

This figure seems to be very staggering, and it seems that the Ming Dynasty recruited soldiers and horses to quell thieves and slaves, but the reality is that not all of these levies were paid into the national treasury.

The fields in various parts of the Ming Dynasty can be divided into two categories; First, shipment; Second, survival. "Provincial silver grain, although the name is different, about the field endowment, the average two items, do not leave the solution, save the two paragraphs." The so-called "departure" refers to the part that is transported to the central government or other provincial governments, prefectures, counties, border towns, metropolitan departments, health posts and other military areas. Retention is the portion that is set aside for local expenses.

The large amount of tax collected by the local government is directly supplied to the health guards, the capital divisions, and the local yamen, and only a small part of them are actually handed over to the state treasury, only a few million taels a year. For example, in the 28th year of Jiajing, the annual income of the "Tai Warehouse" of the state treasury was only 3.95 million taels. Because of this, Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, is so short of money that he has to constantly increase taxes on silver.

But for Li Zhi, who collects taxes locally, this huge tax base is a good thing. If he increases the Ninarita Fu a little, he will be able to get a lot of benefits.

After increasing the Erchengtian Fu, Li Zhi could get an extra 315,000 taels of silver and 63,000 stones of true color Tianfu every year. At the current market price of grain, 63,000 stone of natural wheat is equivalent to 157,000 taels of silver. With the addition of discounted colors, Li Zhi could earn 472,000 taels of silver a year from Tianjin's new tax system. Even if the expenses of more than 1,000 tax officers are removed, there is still a net profit of 400,000 taels.

Li Zhi was very happy to learn that his tax collection method could earn him more than 400,000 taels of silver.

Li Zhi happily took Xie Liangyou and two hundred guards to the house of the gentleman surnamed Cao Jin to collect the first tax silver under the new tax system.

The gentleman surnamed Cao had no intention of rebelling against Li Zhi. Li Zhi went on a killing spree in Tianjin and killed so many officials, where did the landlords in Tianjin dare to oppose Li Zhi? Although paying taxes is likely to cause the traitors to leave with the fields they have sacrificed. But after all, the silver two fields are outside the body, and at this time, they still obey Xingguobo's new tax system and save their lives.

Cao surnamed Jinshen's family has 1,731 acres of dry land, and now Li Zhijun has flat fields, and he has to pay seven liters of land per mu every year, and more than 1,000 acres of land pay a total of 123 stone wheat.

The gentleman surnamed Cao obediently took out more than 100 stones of wheat from the granary and handed it to Li Zhi's tax officer.

Li Zhi successfully collected the first amount of land endowment, and was about to leave the house of the gentleman surnamed Cao, when he suddenly saw a personal guard running over and said loudly: "Uncle, there are hundreds of peasants gathered outside, and they don't know what to do, so they all kneel on both sides of the road one by one!" ”

Li Zhi was stunned and looked out the door.

Xie Liangyou sneered and said: "Could it be that the aftermath of Lu Hualin's instigation of the peasants is still there, and the peasants heard that the uncle was coming and wanted to make trouble?" ”

Li Zhi thought for a while and said with a smile: "Go out and have a look." ”

Xie Liangyou grabbed Li Zhi and said, "Uncle's golden body, don't risk your life!" ”

Li Zhi helplessly stretched out his hand to the guards and shouted, "Bring the armor and put it on!" ”

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Boss Kong is a thirty-two-year-old farmer.

He has three generations of single transmission and is the only male in the Kong family. His family has 20 acres of dry land in Zhaojia Village, which is a thin field handed down from his ancestors. It stands to reason that it is not bad for the family to have twenty acres of land, but Boss Kong and his daughter-in-law live a hungry and full life.

Boss Kong's hard life was all due to his weak strength and being bullied by the officials.

Boss Kong has few relatives and doesn't know any relationship. In addition, he has a boring personality, he can't say a word for a long time, and he is alone in Zhaojia Village, and other villagers surnamed Zhao don't pay much attention to him.

When Kong Lao Da was twenty-five years old, he married a woman with a weak head in the next village as his daughter-in-law.

On weekdays, Boss Kong and his stupid daughter-in-law can be said to be lonely people in Zhaojia Village, and they are humiliated by the officials in the city. Those officials added all the fields to the fields of Boss Kong, what "depreciation", what "rice", what "paste stocks and silver", in short, there are all kinds of indescribable eyes, and they insisted on adding Boss Kong's field endowment to two buckets and five liters per mu. Coupled with the "fire consumption" of two coins of silver per two folds, in the end, Boss Kong actually had to pay three buckets of land for each mu of land.

Boss Kong also thought about resisting, but every time Boss Kong defaulted on the field payment, those officials sent people with shackles to arrest Boss Kong. Boss Kong has no relatives, and he doesn't dare to make trouble even if he is bullied, so in the end he can only be bullied by the officials again and again, and twenty acres of thin land are paid six stones of land every year.

These 20 acres of dry land are already thin, and there is no water source for irrigation, so they can produce 15 stone of grain a year by carrying water from a small river a mile away. Cutting off one bucket of three liters of seeds per mu and three buckets of fields per mu, Boss Kong can only harvest three buckets of wheat per acre, and only has a pitiful income of six stones a year.

Six stones of wheat are ground into rice and flour, and two people must be fed. Every year, when there is no harvest, Boss Kong and his daughter-in-law have to go hungry. Boss Kong is thirty-two years old, and his stupid daughter-in-law is also twenty-nine, and now he has no children under his knees.

They had a son and a daughter, all of whom were sick from hunger, and they were sick and died.

It's not that Boss Kong didn't think about taking the land to donate, but as soon as those gentlemen heard that Boss Kong paid such a high field endowment, they knew that Boss Kong was the target of oppression by the officials. Accepting Boss Kong as a servant will make the officials have no one to exploit, and it is to offend those officials.

In the end, none of the gentry were willing to accept the contribution of Boss Kong.

Boss Kong and his daughter-in-law live a hopeless life day after day, year after year, struggling with food and clothing. Maybe when there is a famine in one year, Boss Kong and his daughter-in-law will starve to death. Every time Boss Kong heard from the scholars in the village about King Chuang, Boss Kong secretly hoped that King Chuang would come to Tianjin.

It's better to have a fight with a thief than to live a hopeless life.

However, just when Boss Kong was living this numb life day by day, he heard an astonishing news.

Scholars are spreading that Xingguobo wants to raise taxes on Tianjin's fields. Not only did the gentry who did not pay taxes increase their taxes, but even Boss Kong, who was struggling with food and clothing, also had to increase their taxes.

When Boss Kong heard the news at that time, he felt that the sky was about to fall. If you have to increase taxes in such a situation as your own family, what will you and your daughter-in-law eat? Xingguobo wants to force people like himself to death?

But when he went home and thought about it calmly, this time, Boss Kong didn't believe the words of the reader.

The matter of Xingguobo, Boss Kong has heard about it countless times. Xingguobo built water conservancy facilities in various counties, developed new fields, and recruited tenant farmers to farm. Xingguo Bo gave each tenant farmer 20 acres of good land, divided cattle, and only collected 30% of the land rent, so that the tenant farmers were rich. Not only that, but Xingguobo also recruited tenant farmers to develop Xiaoliuqiu, where it is said that the tenant farmers were more affluent.

The peasants in Tianjin all sharpened their heads and wanted to join the Xingguo Bomen, even if they abandoned their family ancestral business.

Boss Kong didn't believe that Xingguobo, who benefited the people in this way, would raise taxes on the poor peasants who were so poor that they couldn't have enough to eat!

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Xingguobo's tax collector to come to the countryside and say that Xingguobo was going to reduce taxes for the poor, and only collect seven liters and one hehe per mu of land. The rumors spread by those who read books are self-defeating.

This tax rate is only a quarter of the land endowment that Boss Kong now bears!