The elder of the two dynasties, the prestige of Xu Huating, in the field for two years, the family road was defeated, although no one died, but the three sons were assigned to the north and south of the world, and the family moved, which greatly shocked the gentry in the southeast, and no one dared to take the words of the court as a joke. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Strike while the iron is hot, Zhang Juzheng will not care about the scolding, not to mention that there is Tang Yi's support behind him, he just has to let it go.

At this moment, Zhang Juzheng thinks that it is not bad to be the first assistant, at least he doesn't have to bear the pressure from all sides, he wants to scold, he wants to make trouble, you go to Tang Yi, Lao Tzu doesn't care.

Zhang Juzheng started from Songjiang and Suzhou, and strictly investigated the incumbent officials at all levels, as well as the Jinshi Juren, and how many acres of land there were at home, and they must be truthfully reported.

Forcibly annexed, or surrendered by all parties, must be returned to the owner, and if it really belongs to the official's family property, the number must also be verified, from the first grade or less, 20 people are exempted from grain and 20 people are exempted from military service, and many people are often tens of thousands of mu, hundreds of thousands of mu, and the amount of reduction and exemption has long been exceeded, but no one dared to check it in the past.

This time, Zhang Juzheng not only investigated, but also wrote a letter requesting that the preferential measures of exemption from food and labor be abolished.

Zhang Juzheng believes that the law is simple and strict, and there can be no loopholes in the back door, and how many acres of land can be converted into 20 stone fields, the situation is different in different places, and the upper and lower fields are also different, and it is very difficult to operate, so they are simply exempted.

Anyway, there are few poor people in the official family, and they don't care about that little bit of land.

He wrote a letter of 10,000 words and sent it to the cabinet.

Now Tang Ruji is inspecting the nine sides and rectifying the military system, Zhang Siwei is studying commercial taxation in Tianjin, and there are only four cabinet elders left.

After getting Zhang Juzheng's recital, Gao Gong was overjoyed, and there was only one sentence in the whole recital: The official gentry pays the grain in one!

Gao Gong has studied finance for many years, of course, he knows the reason for the emptiness of the Ming Treasury, the two hundred years since the founding of the country, Dingkou has multiplied several times, the fields that can be cultivated in the world have been cultivated, and commerce and trade have prospered, hundreds of times that of the early Ming Dynasty.

It stands to reason that the finances should have multiplied, but the result is that it is not as good as before, and the poverty is extreme.

Wherever the problem is, most of it lies in the gentry.

The gentry did not pay food, carried goods, and did not have to pay taxes, which was originally just the preferential treatment given by Lao Zhu to the scholars, but the gentry continued to expand it, and they completely lost the original intention of preferential treatment, and became a means for them to make huge profits, exploit the people, and steal the treasury.

Gao Gong was deeply disgusted, and he rushed to find Tang Yi.

"Yuanfu, no matter what, you have to promise, as long as this is done, the household department will definitely be ten times as good as before, and you don't have to worry about the exhaustion of national resources from now on."

It's amazing, what the hell is the solution?

Tang Yi took it curiously, and after only half of it, a cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

My God, Zhang Taiyue, Gao Suqing, you two bastards, you will really find trouble for me, you hate me for not dying!

The official gentry paid for food, isn't that the good thing that the "fourth master" who was surrounded by a group of beautiful women did it?

Yongzheng is hated by many readers, even if the text prison is so powerful, it is still arranged all over the world Yongzheng, what Lu Siniang stabbed Yongzheng, the emperor is embarrassed!

Frankly speaking, among the more than a dozen emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is hardly one that Tang Yi can look at, except Yongzheng, who is divided into acres, who returns fire consumption to the public, officials and gentry who pay grain as an errand and errand, and who change the land and return to the stream, etc......

Although he has not been in power for a long time, he is much better than the shameless "Holy Ancestor", and the even more shameless "Perfect Old Man".

It was indeed a very good policy for the officials and gentry to pay grain in one piece, which directly caused the annual income of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to skyrocket from 7 million taels to more than 30 million taels.

At present, the financial embarrassment, using this method, can indeed solve the problem, and it is not difficult to understand that Gao Gong is so excited.

But Tang Yi quickly thought about it, and felt that it was inappropriate.

How much resistance did Yong Laosi encounter when he did these things? It's almost desperate! Don't forget that he is the emperor, and the power still comes from the Eight Banners noble group, and he almost failed to fight against the gentry group.

Tang Yi, Gao Gong and others, in terms of status, are not as stable as the emperor, and they are from the gentry group, so they have to count on the support of the gentry. Once the officials and gentry are engaged in the integration of food, it is bound to boil and the world will be in chaos!

Just won the Xu Jie, and if there is such a big movement, can the cabinet withstand it?

Tang Yi thought for a long time, slowly put down Zhang Juzheng's recital, and shook his head.

"Zhongxuan Gong, Taiyue's idea is very good, but it may not be suitable at this time!"

Gao Gong's face was gloomy, and he said in a muffled voice: "Yuanfu, with all due respect to the old man, if you don't do it, there will never be a suitable time." ”

"Alas!" Tang Yi smiled bitterly, "I also understand, but it's too hateful, I'm really afraid that if the news is thrown out, the world will be in chaos immediately, and when the time comes, you and I won't be able to sit in our chairs." I'm not greedy for power, but the burden on my shoulders is too heavy for us to fail. ”

Gao Gong nodded, the two of them were silent, at this time, Chen Yiqin walked in from outside, he had just gone to see Zhao Zhenji, the old master was so angry that he asked for sick leave because of the miserable fate of the Xu family, and he was recuperating at home! Tang Yi had no choice but to let fellow villager Chen Yiqin go to visit the old master, don't let him follow and coax, otherwise the Xu Party's gang will take the opportunity to make trouble, and the court will be chaotic again.

"Dazhou Gong still takes care of the overall situation, he just blames himself." Chen Yiqin said with a wry smile: "Zhang Taiyue's performance, if you really follow his method, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos, and I don't disagree." The change is already too fast and too urgent, and if you are rash again, I am afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Even Chen Yiqin said so, Gao Gong lost his sharpness at the beginning, and after sitting for a while, he got up to leave.

"Zhongxuangong, you wait a minute."

Tang Yi's eyes lit up, and he seemed to have an idea, and Gao Gong and Chen Yiqin were full of expectations.

"That's the case, free food and free labor is a rule set by the grandfather, we can't change it, but as Zhang Taiyue said, twenty stone grain, how many acres of land to be converted, the situation is different in different places, it is very inconvenient to operate, I think it is better to change the method, according to the official grade, one product is twenty stones, two products are eighteen stones, and so on, let's send the field down first and return it to the officials, what do you two think?"

Chen Yiqin was stunned for a moment, "Yuanfu, is there any difference between the first and the last?" ”

He didn't understand it, but Gao Gong slapped his thigh excitedly, laughing with joy, and even tears came out.

"I said yes, you are really a master of the masters, I am high!"

If it weren't for the cabinet, Gao Gong would have wanted to kneel down and shout three times Long live the wise.

Tang Yi's move was obviously not moving, but in fact, he was really cutting down the knife.

Once the officials accepted the tax grain returned by the imperial court, it was equivalent to saying that their family's acres of land needed to be taxed according to the normal law.

As for those super large households with hundreds of thousands of acres of land and tens of thousands of acres, they only got a few dozen stones of grain, but they had to pay the land taxes normally, which was undoubtedly a big loss, and the loss was so bad that they vomited blood.

To make it clear, the return of grain according to grade can be regarded as an allowance other than that of a salary, and if the allowance is taken, the preferential treatment of free grain will be gone.

Isn't this exactly a matter of twilight and twilight, using officials as monkeys, will they agree?

Chen Yiqin raised a huge question mark, since the last time the Golden Palace debated a whip method, many people have learned the trick of sand table deduction.

Chen Yiqin immediately calculated based on the situation of his own family, he was from a first-class pavilion elder, who could exempt 20 stones of grain, calculated from Sichuan's private land, the mu tax is more than 3 liters, plus other miscellaneous things, one mu of land tax is more than 5 liters, one stone is ten buckets, one bucket is ten liters, and 20 stones is about equivalent to 400 mu of field tax.

So how many fields does Chen Yiqin have? It is a shame to say that although the Chen family has been cultivating and studying heirlooms for generations, they are extremely honest, and the family's land is only more than 380 acres.

In this way, Chen Yiqin not only did not suffer losses, but also made a little profit.

Gao Gong smiled slightly, "Actually, you have made a lot of money." ”

"Why?"

"It's not simple, I will return you twenty stones of grain, which will be sent in the capital, and the land endowment of your family will be in Sichuan, I ask you, can the price of grain in Sichuan's hometown be the same as in the capital?"

"Of course it's different, at most, it's three or four times worse!"

Chen Yiqin finally realized that Tang Yi's idea was probably not just as simple as going to the third and fourth days, but also had a lot of knowledge in it.

Gao Gong's brain is very fast, he is in Xinzheng's hometown, almost has more than 800 acres of land, if according to Tang Yi's method, he needs to pay about forty stone of land tax, but the capital returned him twenty stones, converted into silver, he will not suffer.

Really counted, the north, including Huguang, Jiangxi, and even Sichuan and other places, the annexation is not the most serious, even if it is the home of the official gentry, it can exceed several thousand acres, and there are not many tens of thousands of acres of land.

If he were a poor ghost like Hai Rui, his family only had a few acres of land, but as a third-grade official, he could get sixteen stones of grain to return, and his income would be even greater.

Only the gentry in Nanzhili, Shandong, Zhejiang, and other places who are really shaken by this method will be strongly impacted by those big clans who are prone to tens of thousands of mu or more than 100,000 mu, and the rest of the officials may be able to make a small profit. According to this method, although it is necessary to take out hundreds of thousands of stone grain every year, it can increase the income of millions of stones, one in and one out, how much difference there is, Gao Gong is the clearest.

Gao Beard admired Zhang Juzheng's courage and courage, but he also knew that according to Zhang Juzheng's methods, he would only offend the gentry of the world and oppose the entire bureaucracy, and the end would definitely not be good.

But when things came to Tang Yi, Gao Gong was refreshing.

If the weight is light, the target of the attack will be reduced by several times, and the ancestral system will be retained, without violating Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention of treating scholars, and the results will be amazing if he changes the method in operation slightly.

What is the talent of Zaifu, this is the real talent of governing the country!

Gao Gong finally lowered his head high, completely impressed by Tang Yi's whimsy.

"Zhongxuan Gong, you go to Zhang Shouzhi for this matter, discuss it, and come up with a plan, in addition, prices have soared in recent years, but the court's fortune has not changed, they all say that the people are not happy, and many Beijing officials are also living very difficult, just take this opportunity to give everyone a little subsidy, and live a decent life, so that you can be a good official, do you say?"

If you want to take the lead, Shousuke-sama is really a master of business!

Gao Gong happily accepted the order, "The old man will do it." (To be continued.) )