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Although Xu Chongguang is the first assistant of the cabinet, which is equivalent to the status of the previous chief assistant, but even the first assistant does not dare to challenge the "basic rights and interests" of this official, what can he do?

In fact, if the officials and gentry had paid the grain in one piece, the treasury in previous years would not have been so "frugal". Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info was the most powerful period of redundant officials at that time, and there were many Yulu, and some Jilu officials had no officials, so they had to take money and silver to buy land and hire people to farm, so as to collect some tenant rent. Because they are officials, they naturally don't have to pay taxes on this land. Tenant farmers only need to pay tenant rent, they do not need to pay an extra agricultural tax, their incomes are higher, and some landless tenants are happy to work for them.

The tenants were happy, and the officials were also happy, but the court was suffering. There are more and more officials in the court, and the expenses are getting bigger and bigger. As a result, the fertile land gradually fell into the hands of these officials and became "tax-free fields", and the national treasury naturally became more and more tight, which almost became an endless circle.

In a good year, the national treasury can still live with a belt of trousers; If there is a famine, it will be miserable. Take the Yellow River breach two years ago as an example, the state treasury allocated millions of yuan at once, and suddenly fell into an embarrassing situation, and it was impossible to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall. So what to do? You can only start with the resources that the imperial court has mastered, what resources does the imperial court have, and what are the most coveted resources? Naturally, it is an official position, and through the way of Nasu, some people who aspire to be officials can become petty officials. Of course, this is also a last resort.

These people themselves are not small landlords, and once they become officials, they do not have to pay taxes on their land. In this way, the cycle is even more serious. If Xu Chongguang knew the history of another time and space, he would definitely know that this was exactly the same as the situation of the Ming Dynasty. The difference is that there are many officials in Dashun and few officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the salt tax in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to a fictitious one. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty court did not spend much, and it was still able to maintain one or two. But Dashun is different, the treasury expenditure far exceeds the revenue, the fiscal deficit is very serious, and there is no way to sell the official beard......

Fortunately, Lu Chengqi relied on this incident to overthrow Yang Taishi, and after taking power in person, he started the commercial tax, and finally relieved himself. But this little emperor didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, so he set the agricultural tax at 1 out of 10 at once. With such a low agricultural tax, no matter how much commercial tax there is, what can it withstand!

Xu Chongguang is a stubborn old man, and in his eyes, only farming is the foundation of the country's stability. Any businessman who disturbs social order should be killed! There is a folk proverb, "cars, boats, shops, feet, teeth, innocent should be killed", this car refers to the coachman, at that time the coachman often did some **** work, so he was not welcome. Boats, like cars, often come to you in the middle of the river to cut noodles. The shop refers to the shop Xiaoer, who belongs to the person who sees the wind and makes the rudder. Foot refers to the foot shop, that is, the roadside shop, maybe a pack of anesthetic will overturn you, rob the money, and make adult meat buns. Tooth refers to the tooth line, also called tooth discipline, human traffickers, and matchmakers all belong to this category. These people may become rich overnight, or they may go bankrupt overnight, they only focus on profits, ignore morality, provoke the anger of people and gods, and naturally "deserve to be killed". And these people all belong to "businessmen", for Xu Chongguang, of course, the fewer these people, the better. It's a pity that now Dashun has embarked on a "wrong path" and is too dependent on business, Xu Chongguang believes that this is going to destroy the country and the dynasty!

Thinking of this, the little old man was not calm, took out a notebook, dipped it in ink, and wrote it. Xu Chongguang himself is talented and learned, and he has also done a household book, this pen is like a god, and he reprimanded the bad "businessman" on the paper with one pen, and he couldn't stop for a while.

He wrote happily, but unfortunately he missed the topic. Lu Chengqi asked him to develop Jiangnan, but he didn't arrange businessmen, didn't he ruin his own job?

Xu Chongguang can be the first assistant of the cabinet, so naturally he will not be so short-sighted. It's a pity that he doesn't vomit unpleasantly, and he has to take this breath overnight. Without him, as the head of the cabinet, he couldn't even realize his ambitions, and Xu Chongguang was really a little faceless. It stands to reason that Xu Chongguang's ambition is also very simple, nothing more than that the world is peaceful, there is no war outside, there are no traitors inside, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are people who take care of birth, old age, sickness and death...... It's not just him, as long as it's an aspiring official, most of the people in their hearts are in the Datong society.

It's just that Lu Chengqi has more than a thousand years of knowledge than them, and he knows that this so-called Datong society is simply impossible. Not to mention anything else, Mencius's article "Born in Sorrow and Died in Peace" is a good interpretation of this truth. The Chinese are too fond of fighting, and if there is no hostile country, they will fight in their nests, and there is no way to talk about peace in the world. Even if it is Taiping, it is just a whitewashed Taiping, just like the Xuanhe Year of the Northern Song Dynasty. There is no way to talk about the absence of war, the Central Plains has always been the land that the grassland people desire, since the Xiongnu, how many nomads want to conquer the Central Plains? The current Khitan is also sharpening its knives, but the Liao State has just experienced the rebellion of the imperial uncle Yelu Chongyuan, and the vitality is greatly damaged, and the Murwei and Jurchen are in turmoil, so they have no time to look south for a while.

Xu Chongguang didn't think about it so much, he wrote this letter just to express his political opinions. Maybe the blind cat meets a dead mouse, and the little emperor is bewitched by him, so he agrees if he can't say it. In this way, the position of the landlord class was stabilized, and the merchants were again suppressed......

"Alas!"

Xu Chongguang looked at the candle that was about to burn out, knowing that this was just his own wishful thinking. If the little emperor was so easy to bewitch, he would have said that the little emperor would not know the east, west, north and south. "That's it, let's write about Jiangnan......"

Putting this letter aside, Xu Chongguang slowly sorted out his thoughts and wrote a "feasibility plan" for the development of Jiangnan. Of course, the text is all written in the same way, which is still considering that Lu Chengqi's "culture" level is not high, and he does not dare to quote scriptures. If the first emperor had been replaced, Xu Chongguang would have been on the sidelines to make a lot of arguments, and then come to the conclusion that this is to be done.

Xu Chongguang already has a draft of this recital, but he has to write it more rigorously, and the speed is not as fast as the previous one. After he finished writing this letter, he had already changed two candles, and the night had come to the third watch.

After checking it carefully again, he felt that there was no major problem, so Xu Chongguang carefully put it down.

Picking up the candle on the table and lighting the lantern, he blew out the half-lit candle and prepared to rest.

At this time, unlike in later generations, the third watch only slept in the third watch, which can be regarded as an all-nighter. Because it was less than three hours away. Tomorrow is still a regular dynasty, and as the head of the cabinet, he must attend.

It's not easy to be an official!

Xu Chongguang shook the lantern and slowly disappeared into the night. At this time, the autumn mood was already thick, and the cold wind was blowing, Xu Chongguang couldn't help but tighten his clothes......