More than 10,000 Xiucai had just entered the barracks, and began to learn to be a soldier under the stick of the instructor, and Yang Chao set off for Suzhou.

Meet with the Gu family, who is known as the first wealthy family in Suzhou, the Lu family, the Lu family, the Wu family, which is known as the first in Wuzhong, as well as the Wang, Qian, Peng and other local wealthy families, and invite these wealthy families to negotiate in Suzhou Mansion.

"Abolish Ding Yin! The Governor doesn't want a poll tax! ”

Yang Chao said to the wealthy people in high spirits.

This is the sweet jujube given by Yang Chao.

The Ming tax system is inherited from the rent regulation implemented in the Tang Dynasty, and there are two major bases for tax collection, the first is land, the second is people, and the tax is divided into land tax (field tax) and population tax (household tax), so it is called the two tax laws.

The household tax is also different, the Ming Dynasty divided the household registration into upper, middle and lower three classes, it is obvious that most of these wealthy families are upper class households, but on the roster they may be middle households or even lower households, of course, this is because they have the means.

However, these first-class wealthy families invited by Yang Chao obviously can't be inferior or medium in any case, because it is too obvious, and each of them is a big family, and the Ding Yin to be paid is also a lot of money.

Therefore, this sweet jujube is still very sweet, which can make everyone pay at least 10% less tax silver, plus the exemption of three salaries, the wealthy families found that even if they registered the hidden land in the register, the tax they paid would not be more than before.

But this is not Yang Chao's real purpose, Yang Chao's real purpose is to shoulder those who are the poorest, not to force everyone to be well-off, but you have to make everyone starving.

Many poor people, perhaps because a certain generation of ancestors were developed, and then were designated as high-class households, will begin to bear heavy taxes and silver, and if they can't bear it, they will flee or sell themselves into slavery from large households, and then their descendants will hide their identities and become black households.

A large number of hidden people are even more serious than hidden acres, because the fields are always where they are, and the population is alive and can be hidden, so after the later generations of Kangxi were spread into the acres. A large number of people emerged, and after a long period of war, the population suddenly increased by more than half, more than the population at the peak of the Ming Dynasty. It is considered to be the embodiment of the prosperity of Kangxi.

Now the registered population of Suzhou is more than 2 million, and the city of Suzhou alone is nearly 1 million, in the era when most people live in the countryside, it is obvious that Suzhou Mansion cannot be such a small number of people, it can be said that those in Suzhou City only rely on the wage labor to make a living. Most of them are black households.

No one wants to become a black household, these big families would rather pay Ding Kou silver and give their children a household registration, because without a household registration, they can't take the imperial examination, and only the poor people who can't get by will rather give up the imperial examination, the only hope that they can turn over.

Although the large families themselves do not hide their children, but the hidden population is the most related to them, the vast majority of the hidden population are the large families, servants and long-term workers, if the Ding Kou tax is exempted, these hidden people can ascend the throne, and it is not impossible for the population of Suzhou to double.

Therefore, the biggest beneficiaries of the tax reduction are the poor at large.

But this sweet date is not enough.

"The Governor plans to spend three years. Reduce the grain endowment in Jiangnan by half! ”

This is the big sweet date.

Yang Chao has no intention of looting the land, Qingzhang land is just a means of adjustment, is to transfer part of the taxes borne by the poor to the wealthy family, in fact, after the reduction and exemption of the Ding Kou tax and the three salaries, the Hao family does not pay much tax, so Yang Chao is actually in this way, the part of the benefits of the reduction and exemption are put on the people at the bottom, the largest number of people, and the most dissatisfied.

"Governor Yang is sympathetic to the people, and we thank the governor for the people."

As soon as the wealthy families heard that they would be able to pay half of the tax less in three years, they immediately praised Yang Chao. But his eyes were full of suspicion, who would believe that the government would not loot it.

"Based on the fish scales of the acres of Qingzhang this time, next year's summer and autumn grains will be immediately reduced by three percent."

Yang Chao made it clear that it will start to decrease next year. And this year's summer grain and autumn grain have already been taxed, so it is equivalent to a direct tax cut, Nanzhili 7 million quintals of tax grain, a reduction of one-third is more than 2 million quintals, less than such a large piece, Yang Chao can not afford to raise so many soldiers.

Therefore, Yang Chao also needs the promise of these wealthy families: "But the governor will levy a commercial tax." I believe that all the gentlemen will actively cooperate. ”

It's strange that these wealthy families reacted much lower to Yang Chao's business tax than the grain tax, don't they know that Yang Chao's business tax may be very high, but they still feel that land is fundamental.

And the gentry also put forward a request, that is, the duty-free departments hope that Yang Chao can act in accordance with the law.

In the Ming Dynasty, as long as they have a meritorious reputation, even if they are just a showman, they will have 200 acres of tax-free land.

But which of these powerful families is not tens of thousands of acres or even more than 100,000 acres of land, even if each family has talents, the number of taxes that can be exempted is limited, 200 acres of tax-free land, for small and medium-sized landlords, may be regarded as a kind of preferential treatment, but for these wealthy families, it is simply not enough to worry about, but they value this tax-free privilege very much.

This privilege is valued more than the commercial tax.

Yang Chao didn't understand this kind of idea, but he felt that it was not a bad thing, at least the resistance he encountered would be smaller.

The most likely understanding is that these wealthy families are for the sake of face, just like those powerful people in later generations, who would rather pay a higher price to go to the relationship than pay a fine for violation in accordance with the regular procedure, which shows a kind of privilege and symbolizes the status of superiority, perhaps this kind of thing is what the wealthy family values the most.

After staying in Suzhou for three days, I had friendly exchanges with various gentry, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Under Yang Chao's big stick and sweet dates, the Suzhou problem was quickly solved, and then Songjiang Mansion, Songjiang Mansion also had a large number of Xiucai arrested, implicated the vast majority of wealthy families, so it was also quite cooperative, plus Yang Chao had a cordial conversation with the wealthy family, and the land in Songjiang was cleared out in a month, which was also doubled, from 30,000 hectares to 60,000 hectares, 10,000 hectares more than in Zhu Yuanzhang's era.

After the richest Songjiang Qingzhang was finished, Yang Chao returned to Nanjing, and the rest of the work was handed over to Huangfengfu, requiring Huangfengfu to clear all the land of Nanzhili before summer grain.

There are 10,000 Xiucai to be confiscated into the army, Yang Chao knows that even if he comes forward to appease, even if he exempts the Hao family, this Liang Zi is still knotted, to let the Hao family really have one heart with him, only let them find that they can achieve greater benefits by following Yang Chao, which can only wait for a few years later when they find that the tax paid is less, and they find that the benefits are large, they will slowly change, and it is just to appease them in a short time, and it is impossible for them to have the same heart as Yang Chao.

But Yang Chao is now seeking stability, what he lacks is time, Yang Chao is confident that he will use ten years to bombard the backward regime of the Qing court to the scum.

The Xiucai were very disobedient in the barracks, and they were more disobedient than the recruited civilians, not because they were more able to be beaten with boards, and the same boards could bleed when they were hit, and they might not be swollen if they were hit on a peasant family.

The problem is psychological, they look down on these instructors from the bottom of their hearts, these instructors from poor backgrounds, nine out of ten can't read big characters, why teach them? Just kidding and fighting a war with this kind of stop-and-go? Going around like this?

I have to say that the brains of people who read a lot are complicated, when Yang Chao taught Wang Pu them, they didn't think about what walking around every day had to do with fighting, and these talents were very disdainful of this, isn't it just war, they haven't read a few military books, and fighting depends on strategy!

Is it really a strategy to fight a war?

It's really not, war is a fight of blood and bravery, strategy is just an auxiliary means to gain an advantage in fighting, what really determines the outcome is the fight, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, this is the eternal truth, but this group of scholars who lack courage has raised their wisdom.

They have wisdom, but they don't have the courage, so they naturally preach the importance of wisdom, just as workers always emphasize the importance of labor, while capitalists emphasize the importance of capital, in fact, they are all very important, but people are standing in their own perspective, magnifying their own advantages, and belittling the advantages of others, so as to gain the upper hand.

This is the case with intellectuals and the poor class, intellectuals emphasize the importance of knowledge, and peasants must say the value of labor, unfortunately, in most of China's era, the right to speak is in the hands of scholars, so the whole society has been brainwashed and has accepted the saying that wisdom comes first.

Take a look at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which the passages about strategy far exceed the passages about fighting.

For a long time, such a culture has been formed, that is, opportunistic, unwilling to risk their lives to fight, but hoping to use a little trick to make a small profit, such as playing a straw boat to borrow arrows, such as burning down the company camp, and so on.

Although Yang Chao does not despise strategy, if he emphasizes strategy too much, it becomes a kind of speculative psychology, which is unacceptable.

But at this time, Yang Chao didn't need to reason with the talents, just let them learn war in the war and cultivate their bloody nature in the rain of swords, guns and swords.

Just as the ruling class has no blood, the whole country will behave cowardly, there is no doubt about this truth.

These talents will be the real ruling class of the country in the future, and Yang Chao does not want them to be too weak and cowardly, and Yang Chao needs to temper their brave spirit before promoting them to the position of administrators and officials of the country.

Of course, there will be a lot of sacrifice before sending the show to the battlefield, maybe half of them will have to be sacrificed, but this is the price they need to pay, lacking thousands of years of courage, it is impossible to cultivate it in a short period of time without paying the price of blood.

Yang Chao is also very reluctant to let these cultural elites who have been cultivated by the Ming education system die on the battlefield, but it is not responsible for the whole country to send them to the position of managing the country only if they are submissively sent to the position of managing the country.

And in other words, everyone is equal in front of life, and everyone has a responsibility to protect the family and defend the country, regardless of illiteracy or talent. (To be continued.) )