"The imperial court has no money, but whether it is to prepare for war or disaster relief, the most direct way to increase the revenue of the treasury is to raise taxes, but after the tax increase, the social problems of the entire Ming Dynasty will worsen, this vicious circle can even be imagined by me, and the historical Emperor Chongzhen must not have thought of this. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Xiao Mu thought in his heart, and then he discovered a desperate fact - that is, according to his understanding, the historical Chongzhen Emperor finally raised taxes.

Xiao Mu only vaguely knows a general outline, but it is true, in the original history of Chongzhen, there were three additional taxes in addition to the regular tax, namely Liaoyu, Xuanjiao and Lianyu, which are the famous "three salaries and salaries".

Obviously, the original historical Emperor Chongzhen knew that raising taxes would cause greater problems on the premise that he had to raise taxes, and there may be only one reason for this, that is, if he didn't raise taxes, he might not even be able to survive the immediate difficulties, and if the immediate difficulties could not be passed, then there would be no point in thinking about the future, which was the only explanation for Emperor Chongzhen in the original history who knew that the wine was poisonous and still drank it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Mu felt very pessimistic about his future, Xiao Mu always thought that the original Chongzhen Emperor in history was indisputably stronger than himself in all levels of ability, and even he couldn't solve the problem, what should he do?

After discussing with Lai Zongdao for a few days, except for "throttling" methods such as "careful saving" and "eliminating waste", Xiao Mu did not get a good idea of "open source" other than raising taxes.

Seeing that they couldn't come up with any good ideas to increase the revenue of the treasury for themselves, Xiao Mu had no choice but to give up his hopes on them and began to think in the direction of some "crooked ideas" - for example, the kind he had asked the eunuchs in the palace to sell exam questions on the street.

It's just that Xiao Mu thought about it, and he didn't come up with any good way, after all, the "crooked ideas" in the past were all failures under normal thinking, and now Xiao Mu deliberately thinks crookedly, but it is not easy to think of it.

I had the heart to go to Lin Ye to discuss it with her, and think about whether there were any other good ideas, but in a blink of an eye, I thought that Lin Ye didn't seem to welcome him, Xiao Mu retreated again, and some didn't dare to make Lin Ye unhappy.

But in the blink of an eye, he had clearly said that he would tell Lin Yi about his privacy and thoughts, and now this situation of "there is no way to increase the treasury revenue except for raising taxes" is also a result of the "must find a way to increase the treasury revenue" that he discussed with Lin Ye before, even if it is only from the perspective of the future of the two people as the traverser, Xiao Mu needs to explain the current situation to Lin Yi - in short, convincing himself is always so simple, Xiao Mu unconsciously found a reason for himself to go to see Lin Ye.

After meeting Lin Yi, Xiao Mu briefly told her about the dilemma in front of her—that is, although everyone knew that increasing the revenue of the treasury was an urgent matter, there was no effective solution.

"What did they say when they came to Zongdao?" Lin Yi understood the general predicament at hand, and then asked rhetorically, "Don't they know what kind of impact the tax hike will bring?" ”

"What they are talking about is also a theoretical situation, what 'three centimeters and five millimeters of silver per mu', it is only two or three catties of rice, and it will not bring a serious burden to the people," Xiao Mu replied.

"But actually?" Lin Yi continued to ask.

"In fact, you and I must understand that if the tax is really raised, then in the end, the peasants will have to pay, far more than the figure of two or three catties of rice per mu, to exaggerate, it is not impossible to become two or three hundred catties per mu in the end." Xiao Mu replied, "The so-called 'harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes' are like this, the imperial court has made a will to increase taxes, local officials, knife and pen officials, head catchers and fast catchers, all the public people who can have a little relationship with tax collection naturally want to fake the tiger, and then the will of the court to scavenge a sum of money, and finally what the court can really get, compared with what the people actually pay, it is simply a drop in the bucket." ”

"Don't they know about these sects?" Lin Yi asked again.

Xiao Mu replied, "Of course they know, but apart from this, they can't think of any way to increase the revenue of the treasury, after all, the source of the treasury income of the entire Ming Dynasty is the taxes paid by the people every year for the output of farming." ”

"This method of raising taxes 'three centimeters and five millimeters per mu, but only two or three catties of rice' reminds me of a daydream that everyone has had." Lin Yi suddenly changed his conversation and moved on to other topics.

"What daydream?" Xiao Mu also asked curiously.

"I'm sure everyone has done this daydream, and you're certainly no exception." "Even I used to think that if everyone in the whole country gave me a dollar, it wouldn't have any obvious impact on them, but I could directly become a billionaire with a net worth of more than a billion......

Xiao Mu had to admit that Lin Yi's example was really vivid, "That's right, I've often had this kind of dream since I was a child......"

"But it's simply impossible." In the blink of an eye, Lin Yi destroyed this unrealistic "daydream" with his own hands, and then continued, "And the imperial court's method of raising taxes to increase the revenue of the treasury is not much better than this daydream from the perspective of feasibility. ”

"I think so too." Xiao Mu and Lin Yi reached an unprecedented agreement on the issue of raising taxes, but in the next second, Xiao Mu returned to his previous pessimistic look, "But the original Chongzhen Emperor in history knew that it was not feasible to do this, so he did it anyway, which is the most desperate." ”

"Yes, it can be seen from this that Emperor Chongzhen is facing what kind of mess." Lin Yi also nodded, and said heavily, "If you don't experience many things personally, you will never be able to understand the difficulties faced by the parties, and hindsight is the easiest." ”

"So, what else do we have to do now?" Xiao Mu finally asked the most critical point of the whole question.

"Since traditional methods can no longer solve the problem, we can only think of some innovative ideas." Lin Yi replied, "In other words, at this time, it is not impossible to try some 'crooked ways' methods. ”