readx;?“ What's the difficulty? Zhu Changyuan frowned slightly, if even a ruthless person like Hong Chengchou said that it was difficult to govern Taiwan according to his own methods, then it would indeed be difficult. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Hong Chengchou arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty asked the minister to go to Taiwan, and the minister will never give up, but if you want to complete the task that Your Majesty said, it is tantamount to ascending to the sky." Your Majesty, imagine that those indigenous landlords have a lot of land in their hands, but those lands are nominally legal, and even the imperial court cannot use them for no reason, otherwise, the country will not be a country, and the law will be lawless! ”

What Hong Chengchou said is also true, Zhu Changyuan's current situation is very different from that of Grandpa Mao, and he wants to get back the land in the hands of the landlords and kings, but he lacks a convincing reason.

It's okay to use strong nature, but that's the last step.

"Lord Hong!" Zhu Changyuan personally pulled out a chair for Hong Chengchou, but Hong Chengchou said he didn't dare.

"I know the difficulty of this, to be honest, if it wasn't difficult, I wouldn't use you Hong Chengchou!" This sentence raised Hong Chengchou very high.

Hong Chengchou was inexplicably excited, and almost blurted out that he agreed to Zhu Changyuan's request.

"When you were Emperor Chongzhen's minister, I have a question for you!" Zhu Changyuan's eyes were unusually bright, he looked at Hong Chengchou seriously, and said slowly: "You say, in the Ming Dynasty, why did you have so many armies in your hands, why did you defeat the Manchus repeatedly?" Whether it is national strength, political power, public opinion power or cultural power, the Ming Dynasty is pressing the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the death, why can't it win? ”

Hong Chengchou was silent in thought.

Zhu Changyuan continued: "Is it that the combat effectiveness of my Ming army is weak? Obviously not, I remember that during the period of Li Rusong, Li Rubai, and Li Chengliang, the Ming army was invincible and no one could stop it. ”

"But why did everything change during the Chongzhen period?"

Hong Chengchou remained silent.

Zhu Changyuan asked a more direct question, "In the Battle of Songjin, you had 400,000 troops in your hands, why did you lose to Jianqing, who only had 100,000 troops, have you ever thought about it afterwards?" ”

Hong Chengchou spoke this time, and first sighed. Then he said: "It's not that the combat effectiveness of my Ming sergeant is not as good as Jianyu, and the minister's choice at that time was not wrong, but there was no salary and no food in the army, and there was no silver in the court." The minister did not know how to fight. ”

"If you had enough money at that time, would you be sure to win that battle?" Zhu Changyuan asked again.

"Naturally, the minister is completely sure that if there is money in the army, there will be no mutiny in the army. The 400,000 army only needs to defend Liaodong, and within a year, the captives will be chaotic, and the whole Liao can be restored in three years! Hong Chengchou is full of confidence.

"Yes, that's what I thought!"

Zhu Changyuan's tone suddenly became sharp, "During the period of Emperor Taizu, the annual tax of the state was as much as 40 million stones, but in the last years of Chongzhen, the annual tax was only 4 million taels of silver, less than one-twentieth of the period of Emperor Taizu, do you know why?" ”

"The last years of Chongzhen. In fact, there is not a lot of taxes, but they just can't be collected! "Hong Chengchou is a high-ranking official of the Ming Empire, and he knows these things well.

"Why can't you collect it?" Zhu Changyuan asked again.

"The peasants are seriously bankrupt, and there is no surplus food at home to support their wives and the elderly, how can they bear the taxes of the imperial court?" Hong Chengchou is telling the truth.

The taxation system of the Ming Dynasty, following the style of previous dynasties, did not collect taxes according to the land area of the whole country, but according to the head of the person.

For example, a farmer has 100 acres of land and eight people in his family.

Then the standard for him to pay taxes is not a hundred acres. It's a group of eight. He had to pay not a tax on a hundred acres of land, but a tax for eight people.

Is there a problem with this?

Of course, there is a problem, if every peasant has land, there will be no problem, but if one family goes bankrupt. The family sold all 100 acres of land, and since then there is no income, but they still have to pay taxes for eight people, which is problematic.

On the other hand, those big landlords, such as the Kang family in Henan. It often occupies an area of eighteen counties, but how many people can they have in their family? Count you in on a hundred.

But isn't it a joke that eighteen counties pay taxes on 100 people?

No, it's a real fact.

This was before the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Later, Zhang Juzheng reformed and changed the capitation tax to a double tax on the capitation and land, and the country's finances temporarily improved, but the final result was a reversal.

Because according to the regulations, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty did not have to pay taxes.

As a result, many peasants or small and medium-sized landlords deposited their land in the name of the vassal king to avoid paying taxes, and then only needed to give the vassal king a certain amount of benefits.

All this has led to the repeated shrinkage of the national tax, and the national tax revenue is less than one-twentieth of the early days of the Ming Dynasty.

"If this plan of mine is implemented throughout the country, does Lord Hong think that this situation will occur in my Ming Dynasty in the future?" Zhu Changyuan took a deep breath and said to Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou's body moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered a terrible fact.

It occurred to him that if the land was distributed according to the population, if the land was forbidden to be bought and sold! As a result, there will be no landlords, no land annexation, and no reduction or shrinkage of state taxes.

In this way, as long as the system is established and legislation is legislated in the name of the state, as long as Zhu Changyuan's descendants do not die by themselves, it seems that the Ming Empire can be glorious and immortal.

Hong Chengchou only felt the alternation of the rise and fall of the Chinese dynasties, and was really broken by Zhu Changyuan.

"Stand up!" Zhu Changyuan's voice suddenly raised: "I can send 20,000 elite soldiers to Taiwan with you, break the old order, and rebuild the new Ming Empire from Taiwan!" ”

"I have entrusted you with full authority to handle Taiwan's affairs, and you can kill anyone who dares to resist me!" Zhu Changyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said something that made Hong Chengchou shudder: "You don't need to report to me if you kill 10,000 people!" ”

"Whew!" Hong Chengchou felt short of breath, this kind of right can almost be compared to Zhu Changyuan who was in Liaodong at the beginning.

"This decree is given to you!" Zhu Changyuan took out a scroll of holy decrees that had been prepared long ago from the table, handed it to Hong Chengchou and said, "Take a look!" ”

Hong Chengchou opened the holy decree, only glanced at it, and his breath was short again.

It is clearly written that he is the Marquis of Dinghai, and he is on par with the first product of the current dynasty, and his descendants will rest with the country for all generations.

The only thing that made Hong Chengchou wonder was that the later payment of the holy decree was June 30 in the second year of Taizheng!

Isn't this the first year of Taizheng? How is it the second year of Taizheng?

Zhu Changyuan quickly answered Hong Chengchou's question: "It is even more difficult to go to the old and innovate, not to mention that this kind of innovation that is conducive to my Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations, if it is successful, it is equivalent to opening up the territory and sealing the marquis and the king, and I will not hesitate." ”

"At the end of next year, if you can measure the land of the whole of Taiwan and distribute it to the people, this edict will be regarded as my reward to you, if you can't complete it, you will burn it!"

"Yes!" Hong Chengchou stood in front of the Son of Heaven and felt slightly depressed, the sealing of the marquis was originally a thing that made him very glorious, but what happened to him today, he felt that this holy decree was like a mountain pressing on his back.

"It's just, what's the reason for this?" Hong Chengchou asked.

It is possible to reform land policy, but it is necessary to give a convincing reason.

Zhu Changyuan shook his head and said, "That's your business, I won't give you any reason, you don't need to report to me for killing 10,000 people, if you can't finish it, I have nothing to say." ”

"Yes!" Hong Chengchou broke out in a cold sweat, and said tremblingly: "The minister tries not to stain the blood with his sword!" ”

"It's okay!" Zhu Changyuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said loudly: "For the sake of innovation, for the great cause of the Ming Empire, even if there are many bones in the sword mountain, fire and sea, I will not hesitate to do it." ”

What is murder?

In the future, when I open up the four seas and slaughter the whole world, I don't know how many people will die under my butcher's knife!

Hong Chengchou finally went to Taiwan, with 20,000 elite divisions, more than 100 capable officials, 1 million taels of start-up capital, and Zhu Changyuan's ardent expectations.

A few days after Hong Chengchou left, Zhu Changyuan received another piece of good news.

The governor of Shaanxi reported that the construction of Chang'an University of Science and Technology has been completed.

This is a major event that Zhu Changyuan had instructed local officials in Shaanxi to do before, and the place where Chang'an University of Science and Technology is located was originally a concentration area of several large mansions in Chang'an City.

Shaanxi is Zhu Changyuan's rear, and it is also the place with the highest support for Zhu Changyuan.

Moreover, there are no landlords in this place, because Zhu Changyuan had distributed all the fertile land to the local peasants as early as two years ago, and he only needed to issue an order in Shaanxi: prohibiting the private sale of land.

The land reform here and in eastern Liaoning was the fastest, most thorough, and the first to be completed, and with the completion of land reform, Shaanxi and eastern Liaodong also became the main sources of taxation.

In return, the limited fertilizer resources in Zhu Changyuan's hands naturally leaned towards these two places infinitely.

Of course, to get back to the point, another purpose of establishing Chang'an University of Science and Technology is to house those half-baked scientists and inventors on Sun Moon Island.

It's not that Sun Moon Island is uninhabitable, but for a long time to come, the Ming Empire and the European countries in the west are likely to become hostile countries in battle, and Zhu Changyuan doesn't want those old Maozi scientists under his command to stab him in the back at that time, or return to Europe with science and technology.

It would be better to take them out of Sun Moon Island and then lock them up in Chang'an City, when the time comes, on the one hand, they will not know any information about their home country, and secondly, even if they do, the thousands of miles of land in depth are no better than the ocean, and they can't run if they want to.

Zhu Changyuan naturally will not treat those people badly, there is no shortage of good food, drink and fun, and he is in humanized care, and he has brought most of the people's families to Riyue Island a long time ago. (To be continued.) )