Chapter 382: Written

Sun Dan's idea actually comes from the three points of the economic reform in the Yongzheng year of the Qing Dynasty: apportionment into the mu, fire consumption to the public, and the gentry to pay grain and errands.

Although the times are different, the specific situation is also different.

However, in terms of the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, there are many similarities compared with the so-called prosperous Kangqian era.

The same is that the national strength is strong, the same domestic leveling, and the same is that the central government has made a big mistake and is in a strong crisis.

It's just that the national financial crisis in Yongzheng was because of Kangxi's great achievements and extreme desire for luxury, so that a rotten treasury could not be more rotten was handed over to Yongzheng. Yongzheng had no choice but to vigorously promote reforms and reverse the decline of the state's finances in one fell swoop. The current emptiness of the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is a different story, Emperor Wuzong uses troops every year, and the central government's tax policy is chaotic. If the financial crisis of the Qing Dynasty was due to man-made disasters, then the Ming Dynasty's was due to the fact that the old fiscal system was not suitable for the budding of the new capitalism.

Each has its own differences, and there are also things that can be learned from each other.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty's fire consumption was based on the silver standard, and the state tax revenue had been thoroughly monetized.

Today, the Ming Dynasty is still implementing taxes in kind, and the monetized tax system is only just emerging.

The reason why Sun Dan raised such a point is that even without the vigorous implementation of the central 'government', some people in the local 'government' realized that it was too troublesome and inconvenient to separate the collection of land taxes, taxes in kind, and forced labor, and it was easy to fall into chaos and waste. For example, if you levy a tax in kind in the south, you levy a crazy orange, which is worth no more than a penny of silver, but by the time it is put into storage, the transportation and labor costs have greatly exceeded one penny. The excess had to be compensated by the local "government", and the oranges in the warehouse had rotted because of the long delay on the road. The country spent such a high cost, but ended up with a rotten orange, such a result has to make people speechless.

Therefore, in fact, some local government envoys, especially at the level of political envoys, have clearly stipulated that when the officials below pay taxes in kind, if they encounter the kind that is not easy to keep, they will directly discount the silver.

From this point of view, a whip law proposed by Sun Dan a few years ago has actually been secretly implemented at the local level, and this is a historical choice. Even if Sun Dan doesn't bring it up, there will be Li Dan and Zhang Dan in the future. There will be Zhang Juzheng in Wanli, even if there is no Zhang Juzheng, there will be Li Juzheng.

The inevitability of history cannot be resisted by human beings.

But all that was collected in the localities was loose pieces of silver, which had to be melted down again when it was handed over to the treasury and cast into fifty taels of silver or ingots, and in the process it was necessary to lose its weight. Therefore, when the government levied the silver, it deliberately levied an additional two cents of loss from the people as a fire consumption. This has invisibly increased the burden on the people and the workload of officials. After all, there were not many corrupt officials like bastards among the officials in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and many officials still had a temperate "fuck", and they were not very willing to do this kind of thing that disturbed the people. As a result, the magistrates were not much interested in the monetized tax reform proposed by Sun Dan.

The question that Sun Dan wrote in the examination room now is to the effect that if the cash silver tax is levied, this part of the fire consumption will be borne by the state, and it will be included as the cost of cash collection, and the magistrate will arrange it himself, and the excess part will be used as the magistrate's incorruptible silver.

After calculation, in a county, the annual summer tax and autumn tax add up to at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, and in terms of two cents of loss, there are also two or three hundred taels, and the cumulative amount at the prefectural and provincial levels is even more.

This should be enough money for officials to cover their expenses for a year.

In this way, the officials saw the real benefits, and naturally had a positive "nature" for the collection of cash taxes, and the tax reform of Sun Dan and the emperor could be carried out smoothly.

In addition, with this amount of money to maintain integrity, the officials have food and clothing, and the ground is much gentler when they are scraped. Isn't the problem of government governance easily solved?

Sun Dan learned dialectical materialism, and he did not think that this was a good solution to the problems of government and finance, but for the time being, it was the most suitable.

From the time Sun Dan began to compose, the emperor stood beside him and watched word for word, looking straight into it.

He also had a violent shock in his heart, in general, although Emperor Jiajing was very bad in historical records, he was still a British lord. At least in terms of political wisdom, it is not inferior to Taizu and Chengzu, otherwise it would be impossible to have a prosperous era in the later Wanli years. It's just that the Ming Dynasty died in the Qing Dynasty, and the historians of the Qing Dynasty naturally wanted to vigorously smear the emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, in the two or three hundred years of the Huanghuang Ming Dynasty, more than ten generations of monarchs, there was not a single good person--- they were all written as harlequins by Kang Yongnian's scholars Zhang Tingyu, Liu Luoguo, and Ji Yun. ---- this is also a frustrating thing.

The emperor only glanced at Sun Dan's article a few times, and immediately realized the meaning of this.

Sun Dan used fire and silver as bait, ostensibly to give officials cheap money, but in fact to implement a new tax law. Moreover, through this, the imperial court can also win the hearts of officials in the world, which is also very beneficial to stabilizing his position as the new monarch.

"Sure enough, he is a conspirator, this Sun Dan really counts people's hearts to the extreme!" While Emperor Jiajing took a breath of cold air, he felt excited in his heart. As long as he can win the hearts of the bureaucrats all over the world, there should not be much resistance to his father's imperial examination, right?

Sun Dan is really the person I can use the most!

At this moment, the emperor only wanted to immediately hand over this article to Yang Ge Lao to read it.

The emperor stood beside Sun Dan and looked at the words written by Sun Dan motionlessly, and all the candidates in the audience were also respectful and awe-inspiring, and some people even thought that even the emperor was attracted by Sun Jingyuan's article, this Sun Dan was really not a wasted person, no wonder he took the first place in the exam. It seems that he is the champion of today's science palace examination. Other candidates can only compete for the eyes and flowers.

Fortunately, Sun Dan finished the article quickly.

Sun Dan's strategy and arguments are very coherent, but they are only more than 600 words, and they have been written in a moment.

Because the emperor was standing beside him, Sun Dan was not presumptuous, so he only gently put the pen on the pen holder, got up and handed over the volume.

Looking at the table again, the candle that the emperor himself handed him was only a length of his fingernails.

The sky outside the Bohol Hall was still dark and unbright, and it was about five o'clock in the morning in the afterlife.

Sun Dan only took half an hour to finish the exam questions.

Seeing that he handed in the paper so quickly, and the emperor was satisfied, everyone was moved: a celebrity is a celebrity, and an exam like the palace exam is like writing and writing on weekdays for him, so casually and calmly?

Even Yang Tinghe, who was old and dignified, stood up in surprise.