Zhu Youxiao's daily handling of government affairs only deals with those important things. The rest of the pieces are basically not read. The same was true on this day, a large stack of concerts, Zhu Youxiao handled less than one-thirtieth of the piece, and it was already announced that it was completed.

Zhang Yan and Concubine Liang were both a little incredulous, and reached out to hold the pile of music in front of them and read it.

What surprised them was that these recitals were basically against the taxation of the tax bureau, or the recitals reflected the Huangzhuang occupation of people's land, or the recitals opposed to the three-clan joint sitting system of the factory guards.

Looking at the stacks of high movements, it's all these things over and over. I don't know why, I thought the world was going to be in chaos!

Zhang Yan and Wang Qingzhi took a cursory look at these movements, and they were very worried. After all, they have little experience, so naturally they don't know the core issues.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are now opposing the collection of commercial taxes and the encroachment of the emperor's land, so I am afraid that this is not a solution." Zhang Yan thought for a while and said to Zhu Youxiaojian, "It's better to discuss with the ministers." ”

"Baozhu, do you think I look like an unreasonable person?" Zhu Youxiao asked seriously, Zhang Yan immediately shook his head, the emperor has an easy-going personality and is still very reasonable.

"That's right, if it's really something that brings disaster to the country and the people, I can't do it. This commercial tax must be collected, and the land is wasteland. Those landlords and magnates don't care about it on weekdays, and they jump out when the Huangzhuang is about to open up the wasteland. Zhu Youxiao explained, and then used commercial taxation as an example to introduce Zhang Yan and Wang Qingzhi to the financial problems and class antagonism of the Ming Dynasty.

The class contradictions at the end of the Ming Dynasty were already very strict.

For example, if a rich person has a big house to live in, and the poor also want to live in a big house, they will work hard to make themselves rich, and this is the driving force for contradictions.

Appropriate contradictions are still beneficial to social development.

However, when the contradictions develop to the extreme, the poor no longer see hope, and when they are forced to not even have enough to eat and cannot live, they will start to use violence to solve the problem, so they will make a revolution and rebel. shouted: Eat his mother and drink his mother, King Chuang will not pay for food! Then he lifted the rod and rose up.

The huge gap between the rich and the poor has caused strict class contradictions, and the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty have begun to be restless at this time.

About 30 years ago, the natural economy of the countryside in Daming was still good. Farmers can be self-sufficient and multiply in the countryside, and although their lives are poor, they are also stable and healthy.

In the twenty years of about 1604~1624, the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty became more and more flooded, the rural natural economy was impacted, and the rural economic chain was washed away, and the peasants could only be forced to change the mode of production and sell agricultural products to the cities and towns in exchange for daily necessities. This also gave birth to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty in the previous 20 years, with very low prices and extremely prosperous economies. However, behind this phenomenon is that the transformed peasants are exploited by businessmen and still cannot make money, which leads to the bankruptcy of a large number of peasants.

Bankrupt peasants were forced into the towns, similar to the peasant workers of later generations. In cities and towns, these migrant workers (displaced people) cannot be guaranteed in terms of housing, food, and labor intensity. Not only is it difficult to stabilize the dìng, but the health of the body is greatly damaged. What's even more terrifying is that the peasant workers in this year are not like the peasant workers of later generations, who will not be able to mix in the city and can return to the countryside, after all, the land of the later generations is not for sale, although it is less, but it is enough not to starve to death.

However, these years are different, and the peasant workers who cannot get along in the cities and towns cannot go back to the countryside. They can only form slums in the cities, just like the poor people of India and South America in later generations.

Why does the impact of the commodity economy on the rural natural economy have such terrible consequences?

For example, a tenant farmer rents ten acres of land. Then these ten acres of land will not only be used to pay tenant rents and food needed by the family, but also to grow one acre of cotton, and then men and women will weave. By weaving homespun cloth, housewives can not only provide cloth for their families, but also increase their income.

However, as soon as the commodity economy developed, the cloth produced by the textile factories in Songjiang and other prefectures hit the countryside, and the homespun cloth of housewives could not be sold, or it was worthless.

At the same time, in the past, the commodities needed by the peasants in the rural areas were generally produced and traded through a simple division of labor within the rural areas, and money was circulated within the natural economic circles of the rural areas. But under the impact of a large number of goods, the money went to the towns. When there is no money in the natural economic circle of the countryside, if the peasants want to continue to obtain the necessities of life, they must sell their agricultural products to the towns, instead of continuing to live the self-sufficient life of the past.

If you don't change your production model, you may not be able to afford salt, clothes, sacrificial wine, sugar and other daily necessities.

Gradually, agricultural products were commercialized, and the commercialized agricultural products were often of a single variety, so that the industrial division of labor was carried out, and the peasants were exploited very strictly. Just like the farmers of later generations, many fruits cannot be sold at the price of 1 catty and 1 yuan in the production area, but they can be transported to big cities, and the price directly soars to more than 5 yuan. What's more, in this era, the transportation conditions are much worse, and the peasants are even more exploited. Moreover, agricultural products are prone to unsalable, and once agricultural products are unsalable, farmers will go bankrupt in large areas.

During the Wanli period, prices were so low, mainly because there was no money in the countryside, there was a greater demand for currency, and under the competition with each other, agricultural products could not be sold at a good price. However, in the midst of competition, a large number of peasants went bankrupt, and bankrupt peasants entered the cities and towns to expand their demand for agricultural products, while the scale of agricultural production began to shrink, and then prices began to rise.

Against this background, if the collection of agricultural taxes is increased, it will be simply self-defeating, and commercial taxes can only be considered in terms of tax collection.

In the face of these bankrupt farmers, there are basically only two options. One was to follow the line of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which regarded the containment of the commodity economy as a basic national policy, and implemented this policy during the Cixi period. The other is to use the market method to solve the problem, participate in the development of the commodity economy, and guide it.

Zhu Youxiao is now taking the second route, which is to develop royal capital first and make money from the commodity economy, so as to improve the treatment of workers and stabilize the production of peasants, and the core is to increase employment.

"The collection of commercial tax cannot be rushed, and now the scale of collection is the North Zhili area, which can suspend expansion and prevent businessmen from rebounding." Zhu Youxiao saw that there were indeed a lot of concerts opposing the imposition of commercial taxes, so he had to consider temporarily reining in.

Don't think those businessmen won't huddle.

In these years, officials and scholars, their pens and mouthpieces control public opinion, as long as they all howl in two voices, even businessmen in Guangzhou and Hainan will worry about whether the emperor will pay commercial taxes to them.

Therefore, at this time, Zhu Youxiao could not express that he was too anxious, and even had to express that he had to stop in moderation, so that other businessmen thought that he would only collect commercial taxes in Beizhili, and develop monopoly commerce in Beizhili, so as to divide the merchants in various provinces. PS: In the past few days, there have been some posts in the book review area that Yan zhòng has lowered the IQ of others, and most of the thoughts stay at the level of elementary school students who are either beaten or killed, which is very extreme. You explain to him the more advanced things, don't say them if you don't understand them, and even if you do, you have to argue endlessly with crooked reasoning, trying to belittle others to set off your own wisdom. All right! The author really doesn't have the time to accompany these elementary school students to pretend to be B, and he has no obligation to save their morality, and the author might as well write two more chapters to give back to normal readers, so he doesn't understand it. If the post is excessive, the author will delete it directly.