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Hou Shanping shook his head and said with a slightly wry smile: "I'm not afraid of the imperial court, I'm worried that we will provoke too many and too powerful opponents at once, and we can't bear it." Fighting a war is like eating, you can't eat too much at once. If you eat too much, you will have diarrhea. ”

Peng Bo shouted arrogantly: "Afraid of a bird!" Come a thousand, let's kill him a thousand! Come on 10,000, let's kill him 10,000! Come 100,000 and kill him 100,000! How many people are there? I don't believe that there are more officers and soldiers than we are! There are thousands of people in our Fushan Place! Laizhou Mansion doesn't have so many soldiers! ”

Young people like Liu Hang, Wang Mingyu, and Peng Feizai don't have a high level of education, and they may not even know half of the big characters. However, it is precisely because of this that they do not have so many scruples, and they will not look ahead and backward, and suffer from gains and losses. Now that you've embarked on this path, let's go straight to the end. To be honest, it was their blessing that they met Zhang Zhun.

If there is no clever person to lead the way, the consequences of their brutal work like this are unimaginable, and it is impossible to achieve any decent results. However, if they are guided by science, their spirit of hard work can exert great results. Especially Liu Hang and Wang Mingyu, they are born to do things. The only thing lacking is vision, which is theory. As long as they make up for this, they can cope with many things.

Peng Feizai is similar to Yang Qianqiang, Yang Zhiyuan, Hao Linyong and other characters, brave and unscrupulous, and enthusiastic. If such a young man has no one to show him the way forward, he may also be hit by a bloody head, but he will never find a way forward. However, if someone gives him advice, his drive will be invaluable. His bravery will be a great inspiration to the soldiers around him. Gao Yingxiang is nicknamed the king, isn't this how he broke out?

Hou Shanping shook his head wordlessly, and said with a wry smile: "You Peng Fat Boy, don't top the bar, okay?" You must not have read the copy, and you have not pondered the relevant information. Although the number of rebel troops in Shaanxi was quite large, and after entering Henan, they were even more known as one million, but there was still a gap between their combat effectiveness and that of officers and men. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's troops are very strong in combat, and now there is another Lu Xiangsheng, who is also good at fighting. Zhang Xianzhong was in Xunyang Mansion, and he suffered a big loss from Lu Xiangsheng. In case the imperial court sent them to beat us, it was no joke. ”

Liu Hang said with some consternation: "Lu Xiangsheng? I've heard the name of this guy! Isn't he in the Daimyo's Mansion? How did you get to Xunyang Mansion? ”

Hou Shanping said: "The evil copy says that Lu Xiangsheng has been transferred to Xunyang Mansion to deal with the rebels. ”

Liu Hang wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhang Zhun nodded and said quietly: "Sanyuan is very reasonable, we really want to prevent the worst from happening. But it is precisely because we want to prevent the worst from happening that we need to redistribute the land. We want every military household to have the determination to fight to the death, and without tangible benefits, it will definitely not work. We have no floating wealth, no official position, and all we can provide is the most primitive land. ”

Hou Shanping said: "I am actually in favor of redistributing land. Apart from this measure, we really have no other way to tie everyone together. Whatever Wenxiang teaches to share floating wealth equally, share blessings and difficulties, can only stimulate the people for a while. Once the fresh energy disappears, the common people will disperse again, which is also the key to the repeated failures of the Wenxiang Sect. Only the land lasts the most. ”

Liu Hang and Wang Mingyu both nodded in agreement.

In the feudal period, whether it was a military household or a civilian household, the desire for land was indescribable to outsiders. The land is the lifeblood of everyone. Especially after losing the land for so long, everyone feels the preciousness of the land. For the sake of their own land, the military families are willing to do anything, including going to the battlefield!

On the contrary, all the more than 30,000 acres of land in Fushan have been encroached upon by officers at all levels and other officials, and as long as these lands are taken back, they can be redistributed.

Zhang Zhun took the opportunity to put forward the slogan of "Juntian is exempt from endowment".

In a few years, this slogan will be put forward by Li Zicheng, which will win the support of countless poor people, and finally create Li Zicheng's glory. Of course, Zhang Zhun had to plagiarize this very attractive and inflammatory slogan in advance. In the social background at that time, these four words were really big killers!

Liu Hang thought for a while and said cautiously: "Yulin, I don't agree with the statement of exemption. Juntian is already a very good policy, and there is no need to be exempt. Otherwise, where will the future military spending come from? Without the protection of the army, how can Junda proceed? ”

When Zhang Zhun heard this, he valued Liu Hang a little more.

Liu Hang is enthusiastic and calm, and he is really a rare good seedling.

Wang Mingyu also said: "I agree with Liu Hang's opinion, Juntian is enough, and it is not feasible to avoid endowment." In my opinion, it should be completely okay to implement the original tax rate and levy two buckets of grain per mu. ”

Hou Shanping also agrees with such a suggestion.

Peng Feizai tilted his head and said, "If you can be exempted, it will be better." ”

That's right, the slogan of Juntian is indeed very attractive, land is the dream of every poor family, even if Juntian is not exempt, the attraction is enough. Of course, people's ** is endless, and the same is true for poor people. It's even better if you don't have to pay taxes. However, in a feudal society, where did the state's tax revenue come from if agricultural taxes were not collected?

Zhang Zhun said methodically: "Liu Hang, have you studied commercial tax and industrial tax? For example, let's talk about the mining tax. In fact, there were many mines in the Ming Dynasty, which could actually be taxed. The current situation is that there is no way to collect these taxes, and they are all taken by others. ”

Liu Hang said: "I'm sorry, I'm just a little learned, and I don't know much about commercial tax and industrial tax. Don't know if they understand? ”

Wang Mingyu shook his head, saying that he didn't quite understand.

Hou Shanping also shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand.

Zhang Zhun had no choice but to explain in detail: "It's not your fault. In fact, commercial and industrial taxes are the main sources of state tax revenue...... I don't know if you know the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, in fact, in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, agricultural taxes accounted for only a small part, and most of the country's fiscal revenue actually came from commercial taxes and industrial taxes...... Our commercial trade and industrial trade in the Ming Dynasty were also very developed, and if taxes were levied, they would definitely not be less than those of the Southern Song Dynasty......"

In fact, since the opening of the sea ban in Longqing, the commercial trade of the Ming Dynasty was actually very developed, and the route from the southeast coast to Manila was a route with large merchant ships shuttling back and forth. The merchant ships heading south were loaded with large quantities of porcelain, silk, tea, medicinal herbs, raw silk and other goods, while the merchant ships heading north carried large quantities of silver. As a result, large quantities of silver flowed into China from overseas. According to the most conservative estimates, there should be more than 300 million taels of silver in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and it may even reach 500 million taels.

The commercial trade of the Ming Dynasty was so developed, but the commercial tax was very small, and the annual tea trade in Fujian was as high as millions of taels of silver, but the tea tax was only thirty taels of silver, which was simply a freak. At the beginning, the commercial tax set by Zhu Yuanzhang was 30 taxes and 1, which is basically equivalent to tax exemption. In fact, it was completely tax-free, and the merchant became the one who had the most wealth in society, but did not have to bear any tax burden.

There are also various mines, which can also be taxed. Although the tax supervisors sent by the Wanli Emperor were fiercely attacked for various reasons, to a certain extent, they still increased the state's fiscal revenue. Otherwise, how could he support such a big consumption of the three major expeditions of Wanli? That's not entirely Zhang Juzheng's credit.

However, there is a big difference between the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty. The Chongzhen Dynasty was dominated by the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party itself was the representative of the big business owners, so of course it was impossible for them to take the initiative to pay taxes, and even did not hesitate to block any motion to pay taxes to industry and commerce. As a result, Chongzhen could only distribute all the increased taxes to the poor peasants, causing the civil strife to become more and more violent, and eventually leading to irreparable consequences.

With Chongzhen's lesson in front of him, Zhang Zhun certainly couldn't have the idea of fighting agricultural taxes. In fact, there is another fact that Liu Hang and others do not know, the end of the Ming Dynasty was the period of the Xiaoice River, the climate was capricious, disaster weather frequently appeared, one moment drought, one moment flood, one moment locust plague, the cycle repeated, there was no time to stop, resulting in serious agricultural failure, the output was less than the original three-tenth.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible to continue to levy high agricultural taxes, and the peasants simply cannot afford them. If it's just a symbolic levy of the surname, then it's better not to levy it. Facts have shown that the process of collecting agricultural taxes is very costly, and if the agricultural taxes collected are not enough to consume, they will simply be exempted. It can be regarded as a one-step step for the benefit of the people.

Of course, the premise of exemption from agricultural taxes is that you can earn enough silver to cover military expenses for the army and provide money for those who are out of work. For this point, Zhang Zhun still has a plan. In addition to the refined salt business, he also planned other businesses.

Liu Hang listened to Zhang Zhun's explanation, had no objections, nodded and said: "Since Yulin has a solution to the financial resources, it is best to exempt Juntian from taxation." ”

Wang Mingyu and Peng Feizai both admired Zhang Zhun's courage.

It can be seen that Zhang Zhun is not just talking about Juntian's exemption, he has quite a lot of research, and he is definitely not exaggerating. Whatever the purpose of Zhang Zhun to make such a proposal, it is an epoch-making progress.

Hou Shanping was still a little worried, and said cautiously: "Yulin, taxing merchants, will they agree?" Merchants who do business elsewhere do not need to pay taxes, but we have to pay taxes here, will there be merchants coming? Also, if there is a tax to be levied on the excavation of mines, then who else will open the mines? ”

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