Who are the people who make it impossible for the court to collect taxes?

This question is actually very debatable, but if you ask Yuan Huang now, he will definitely give a big idea.

"Corrupt officials and corrupt officials exploit layer by layer!"

Yuan Huang is a politically correct standard answer, and most literati and writers in this era will answer like this, whether they have embezzled state funds or not, whether they have done bad things or not, they will definitely say so.

So Xiao Ruxun laughed, and the smile was quite sarcastic.

"Yuan Gong, now you should know why I didn't tell you anything and kept it from you, right?"

Yuan Huang was puzzled.

"What do you mean?"

"It is not the corrupt officials who make the court unable to collect taxes, but all the people who raise people and relatives of the emperor, and the relatives of the emperor, and the entire bureaucratic group except the emperor, in other words, the foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty! Including Yuan Gong! The entire group of officials of the Ming Dynasty is all rotten! ”

Yuan Huang was stunned.

"Root...... Base? Including me? ”

"Since Emperor Taizu stipulated that officials of the current dynasty, including those who are famous and famous, can enjoy a certain limit of land tax exemption, the seeds of what is happening today have been planted, Emperor Taizu wanted to turn the civil bureaucracy that started by the imperial examination into the foundation for maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that it was this foundation that killed the vitality of the Ming Dynasty.

All dynasties and dynasties have such rules, but such rules in all dynasties are limited to officials in the current dynasty, only the Ming Dynasty has delegated such benefits to the lifting of people, the Song Dynasty can only be exempted from Ding service, the Ming Dynasty is good, not only officials, even lifting people can be exempt from taxes. ”

Yuan Huang hurriedly said: "But there is a certain amount of tax exemption for people and officials!" ”

"There are policies and countermeasures, Yuan Gong, since ancient times, many decisions made by the central court were originally beneficial to the people, but the implementation is always biased, not to mention anything else, Wang Anshi's green seedling law, originally wanted to use low-interest loans to help farmers survive the famine year, so that farmers would not sell their land to large households for a mouthful of grain in the famine year.

But what about implementation? But it became Wang Anshi's most hated high-interest loan, and the benefit of the people became the harm to the people, this is the deviation in implementation, Taizu is stipulating the amount, but how many people do it? Spend some money to get through the relationship between the government and the government, and you can directly exempt these taxes, and if you can't avoid it, you will spread it to the people, and they don't pay taxes anyway.

They occupy the vast majority of the cultivated land, the vast majority of the grain, not only that, but also hide a large number of people, so that the imperial court can not control the arable land grain and population, so that the imperial court is so poor that they are rich. ”

Xiao Ruxun's words silenced Yuan Huang.

"Before the Song Dynasty, the tax exemption was limited to the officials of the current dynasty, and the number of people was not too many, but the Ming Dynasty delegated this qualification to the lifting of people for the first time in history, how many people were lifted? How many officials are there who are from Jinshi? The number of people has increased several times!

In recent years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, but farmers rely on the sky for food, the wind and rain are good, once they suffer a disaster, they have no ability to resist disasters, once a disaster encounters a disaster, what way do they have to go? Either they borrowed money and food from large families to get by, or they simply sold their land and borrowed high-interest loans.

When the famine year is over, it's time to repay the loan, and what will the destitute peasants pay? can only take their own land, this is still a big war that the imperial court has not encountered, once a big war occurs, the imperial court's finances are tight, and there are impure people who propose to raise taxes.

The burden of the common people is already heavy, once the tax is raised, the local officials levy and expropriate, they can't bear it at all, either the family is ruined, or the whole family is thrown into the local gentry's house, the land is given to them, become tenants, pay taxes to them, and the taxes they pay have nothing to do with the imperial court, and the land has nothing to do with the imperial court.

What's more, these people have nothing to do with the imperial court from now on, they directly become hidden household registrations, and they will not be counted in the household registration of the imperial court at all, they are still alive and still eating, but they are gone, and the Ming Dynasty can't count them at all!

In such a vicious circle, the imperial court can receive less and less taxes, the treasury is becoming more and more empty, there are fewer and fewer things that can be done, there is no money for wars, no money for disaster relief, no money for projects, continue to increase taxes, the more less they will increase, the fewer people will pay taxes, and in the end, the treasury will be empty, and the court will have no money, what should I do? ”

Yuan Huang understood that Xiao Ruxun pointed his sword directly at the entire bureaucratic tax-free privileged class that clinged to the Ming government and sucked blood and ate meat, so he killed the gentry in the three southeastern provinces!

He's digging up the lifeblood of all the gentry!

This is unprecedented, for the first time in history.

That's why he said that he wanted to make the gentry history, so that they would cease to exist.

I thought this was crazy before, but it turned out that this was a long-planned actual action, and it had already achieved a preliminary victory, in the foreseeable future, no one could stop Xiao Ruxun, looking at the four seas, no!

Japan was subdued, the Japanese rebellion was gone, 300,000 Beiyu were killed, and they fled and never dared to come again, and the Dongwu Kingdom in the south was also killed, and the entire Nanyang did not dare to challenge the power of the Ming Dynasty.

No one can stop Xiao Ruxun.

Ask yourself, as an official, his family's land is not taxed, because of this preferential policy, so his life is okay, but if one day the court says that his family's land will be taxed.

Is he happy?

Yuan Huang is not a saint, and he will be unhappy.

He is a man who has read the books of the sages, so why should he pay taxes with the common people with mud legs?

In fact, this is also the common concept of readers, in that era when reading and reading is a privilege, anyone who has knowledge and does not have knowledge is different, one in heaven and one on earth, and even taxes are different.

I see.

Thinking about it this way, Yuan Huang understood that Xiao Ruxun had long planned to implement such a policy.

He also knew that the gentry would have a strong backlash, so they killed people before the policy was implemented, removed the forces that stood in the way, and then pursued their own policies, and those who did not have the power to resist had no other way to go but to accept.

"But even so, what do you want to do after you get rid of the gentry? If you want to build a dynasty for all ages, can you just eliminate the gentry? ”

Yuan Huang could not have imagined such a future.

"Of course, not only that, I will make sure that the land is state-owned, it is forbidden to buy and sell, and farmers cannot buy and sell their land at will, all of this is in the hands of the central government."

"This ...... Isn't this something Wang Mang has done? Don't you know what happened to Wang Mang? ”

Yuan Huang was taken aback.

"I know, I know, so I took the lead and killed the gentry of the three southeastern provinces, and in the future, I will also do it to other provinces, none of them can escape, either hand over the excess land and surrender to me, or die, and I will control the land of the whole world."

Xiao Ruxun spread his hands expressionlessly: "Wang Mang's mistake is that he didn't recognize what the foundation of his rule is, the Ming Taizu regards the scholars who rely on the imperial examination as his foundation, and hopes that these people can finally maintain his dynasty, so he is relieved to kill the heroes."

After he killed the heroes, there were imperial examination officials to govern the world for him, and the world could not be chaotic, but Wang Mang did not know that in the late Han Dynasty, the local powerful forces were already very strong, and the foundation of his dynasty was actually those landlords.

He did this to oppose the powerful of the whole world and his own foundation, so he was overthrown, and Liu Xiu, the leader of the powerful people, ascended to the throne and established the Later Han Dynasty. ”