Just when Ma Xiaosan and others began to practice martial arts part-time, at the end of the month.

The first batch of nearly 10,000 draft girls in Beijing have arrived one after another. Along with them arrived, along with their families. The reason why this is the case is because Zhu Zilong issued an edict that the girl would enter the palace alone, and the family would help the palace to repair the new palace, and of course pay the salary.

This strange rule is also intoxicating!

put other people's daughters into the harem, and ask other people's families to repair the palace where their daughters live.

Well, being the emperor TM is cool!

Among this group of show girls, 80% came from several provinces in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, 20% are from Jiangnan and coastal areas.

For example, if there is a discerning person here, you will find that in a good carriage, the beautiful woman who just looked through the window to see the scenery is the famous prostitute Wang Wei of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Wei, the word Xiuwei, the number of grass pen Taoist, the late Ming Dynasty Yangzhou famous prostitute.

Her father died when she was seven years old, and her widowed family had no choice but to sell her into a brothel.

Wang Wei has high expectations for himself. But since childhood, the shadow of her humble background and the sensitivity derived from it have accompanied her for the rest of her life, developing her self-esteem and sensitive character, which led to the failure of her first marriage.

This time, I heard that the emperor's draft girl entered the palace, and there was no restriction on the requirements, so in line with the idea of fighting, she came voluntarily.

Also riding in the carriage was a good sister of hers, Yang Wantong.

Yang Wantong is also a famous prostitute, and she is one of the best characters in poetry, talent, and appearance, and she thinks very highly of herself. Because when they looked at the carriage in front of them, their eyes were hostile.

Because in the carriage in front of them sat a better woman, who was their main competitor this time.

She is Wang Yue!

Wang Yue (also known as Wang Yuesheng) is a microwave and is a famous Ji in Zhu (Zhu) City. Good at regular script, painting orchid bamboo narcissus, Wu song, good tea.

"Yue You Huiyan, good at self-grooming, jade body, bright teeth and bright eyes, abnormal bewitching, famous and moving." (Quoted from Yu Huai's "Banqiao Miscellaneous") This paragraph can be seen that Wang Yue is smart, good at dressing up, slender, and very beautiful, and is very famous among the powerful.

In addition to her outstanding appearance, Wang Yue's talent is not inferior to Qin Huai Bayan a few years later, or even better.

It is said that a big businessman in Jiangnan invited more than ten Ji girls from Nanqu to gather, and saw Wang Yue sitting on the terrace, leaning on the railing and staring at her, and the group of Ji in the song suddenly lost their momentum and ran to other rooms to avoid it.

The next day, the talents of Jiangnan also gave something to commemorate this event, and the author Yu Huaifu who attended the meeting at that time "The king of fairies in the moon, the first Chang'e and the first incense".

Therefore, Wang Yue is known as the current period, around 1626 in the Ming Dynasty, the existence of Chang'e in the world.

In the original history, Wang Yue married Cai Ruxing in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. And the ransom of 3,000 gold is higher than Kou Baimen's hundreds of gold, and it is also higher than Chen Yuanyuan's 2,000 gold.

The reason why it appears here now is because of the planning of the prefect of Jiangnan.

When the prefect received the official letter of the emperor's draft, he became excited that day, and he saw his opportunity.

Although there is an old saying that there are beauties from the south of the Yangtze River, he believes that the Wang Yue he has seen is definitely one of the best beauties in the world, as long as the palace is released, it must be a concubine even if she is not a queen.

Even if it's just a concubine, she will definitely be able to be taken care of, as long as you think that your official career is not all the way up?

This kind of opportunity to run for election regardless of whether a virgin or a married woman is available, but it is rare to see it in a hundred years, so it can be let go, so Wang Yue sent it to the capital. The prefect embezzled the tax NNN money to help her redeem herself, just to curry favor with the emperor. (If Zhu Zilong knew afterwards, it is estimated that this prefect would be worse than dying!) ）

Just when all the beauties entered the palace one after another, Zhu Zilong possessed the emperor and came in a clone.

This time he came firstly to see the beauties, and secondly, to review the final treasury and taxation of the autumn harvest.

Since Xia Qi ascended the throne, the merchant Tang and Xia, and the king of Wu have been taxed in all dynasties. The country cannot govern the country without taxes, however, several dynasties are overturned, and all disadvantages are taxation. The tax is heavy, and the people have no way to live, so they rebel. There was such a time, the first place in taxation, the highest in ancient and modern times, what is it? Answer: Da Ming also!

It is said that the tax is too low, and it is difficult for everyone to believe it. Since childhood, Mongolian education has been yes, in the Ming Dynasty, the people were not able to make a living, the emperor was brutal and lewd, tyrannical and expropriatory, knocking out the bones and sucking the marrow, and the people were heavily taxed, which was unprecedented. Even Ming died in the face of heavy taxes, and the people were embarrassed to bear the burden, so they rose up and resisted.

The textbooks say so, and so do the writings of a few people who call themselves historians. But is that really the case?

In the Ming Dynasty, the average yield per mu of land was 1.2 stones, and the yield per mu in the south was very high, and the yield was slightly lower in the north.

The cultivated land area in the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty was about 850 million mu, and the cultivated land area should be about 1.1 billion mu in the Wanli period.

According to this estimate, the total agricultural output during the Hongwu period was about 1.02 billion stone (60,384,000 tons), while the total agricultural output of the country in the late Ming Dynasty was at least 1.32 billion stone (78,144,000 tons)!

However, what about the actual situation?

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, "the income from the field reached 32,278,900 stone (1,910,910.88 tons)", and after the Ming Dynasty, "the annual planned income remained at about 27 million stone (1,598,400 tons)"!

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the average tax rate was 1/36 per cent (3.16%), and the average tax rate in the late Ming Dynasty was about 1.97% per 100, which shows that the average agricultural tax rate was less than 1/30 in both the early and late Ming Dynasty and even less than 1/50 in the late Ming Dynasty (excluding the Chongzhen period).

Therefore, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was definitely an emperor of conscience to the people.

Why, then, did the country's tax revenue decrease year by year, and the emperor became poorer and poorer, and even later did not dare to make new clothes?

Well, don't talk about Zhu Zilong, a copycat of the Ming Dynasty emperor, he is a perverted case.

The reason for this lies in one of the biggest reasons.

Although the agricultural tax is low, whether it is 4% or 2% (from the perspective of the government's actual collection), it is eventually collected, but the commercial tax exists in name only.

Even if we can collect a little bit now, it is the result of hard work, and it is not a national pass.

Emperor Hongwu decreed, "All commercial taxes, thirty and take one, the one who passes is regarded as violating the order."

However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the annual levy was levied in March, that is, the quota was completed (the so-called quota was naturally handed down in the past), that is, the low tax rate was divided by four, and the thirty took one became one hundred and twenty. In some provinces, the taxation of the certificate is determined by the merchant, and it is more or less convenient.

Zhu Zilong crossed over, and he felt very deeply in his heart.

Woohoo, if the taxes of this dynasty are the same as those of the Tang and Song dynasties, how can there be any trouble of thieves? If you take taxes from business, and build slaves outside the imperial palace, you will have the tragedy of Jiashen's national disaster, the sorrow of Emperor Ming's martyrdom, and the pain of China's demise?

The border pass is critical, in the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), a new tax fell on every subject of the Ming Dynasty, its name is "Liao", and the special funds are dedicated to Fuliao, Pingliao, Dingliao, Liao, and Liao. This tax is mainly levied on the acres of land, and on the basis of the original tax amount, nine cents of silver per mu, also known as "nine cents of silver". This tax was initially levied at 5.2 million taels, and later increased to 9 million taels, and later became more than 10 million taels per year.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the land had been seriously annexed to a considerable extent by various types of royal fields, official fields, and the fields of the wealthy people. In the case of the powerful and powerful being transferred to the landless and landless peasants, such a burden is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

Therefore, Zhu Zilong wants to check if there are any good loopholes that can increase commercial taxes without hurting the muscles and bones.

At present, because he has copied several princes' homes and taken over Lao Jiu's property, Zhu Zilong has been very happy recently, but it is impossible for the prince to raid his house every day. Alas! -

(To be continued.) )