When Cheng Zhong saw Hai Rui again, Hai Rui was measuring acres of land in the field, his cyan official uniform was crumpled and wrapped around his body, and it was covered with a little mud. The official boots were neatly placed on the ridges, and because he was afraid of getting dirty, there was nowhere to change them, so Hai Rui ran around barefoot, and his big soles were full of calluses.

The errand officer who followed Hai Jui was gone, and only an old scribe and the local Lizheng remained.

"Lao Liu, you put the pen in your hand and help me pull the rope." Hai Jui used a stick tied to the soil to hold the rope in place. But because the ground here is too soft, although it is inserted deeply, but with a slight pull, the rope comes off, and it is impossible to measure it at all. Therefore, Hai Rui asked the scribe Lao Liu to stop recording and help him pull the rope.

Lao Liu was originally serving Hai Rui's father, he was already in his old age, his body was weak, and he even had some back ears, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one, Hai Rui would not have worked for him anymore.

In the past, when Lao Liu was asked to help with something, Lao Liu was always slow, and sometimes he could only hear it after calling it several times. But this time, "Lao Liu" quickly pulled the rope. Hai Rui pulled the other end of the rope and stepped back, but slowly, he felt that something was wrong, and when he raised his head, Lao Liu was still standing there upright, and it was his student Cheng Zhong who pulled the rope!

"Why are you here?" Hai Rui sat down on the ridge casually, patted the mud on his hands, and asked very casually.

Looking at Hai Rui, who was quite a bit of a wolf in front of him, Cheng Zhong's heart was sour. The dignified Huating Zhixian actually fell to Cheng Dù, who had to measure the acres of land by himself, what did the third-class officials of the county government do?

"Teacher, what the hell is going on?" Cheng Zhong asked: "The sage said that if a disciple does something, how can the teacher put the student out of the matter and let the student bear the infamy of unfilial piety?" ”

Hai Rui waved his hand and said with a smile: "I have been farming since I was a teacher, and I also want to see if these tricks of serving the dealer have fallen." But you, almost never went to the field, right? Don't look at your youth, if you really want to work as a banker, I'm afraid it's better to be a teacher of this shriveled old man. ”

Hai Rui said with a pretended relaxed smile.

But Cheng Zhong didn't say anything, let alone be fooled by him, but looked at Hai Rui with blazing eyes, it was obvious that if Hai Rui didn't give up a qiē and pan today, Cheng Zhong would definitely not give up.

Hai Rui also knows that this student of his own, I'm afraid he is not so easy to fool.

"Well, things have come to this point, and there is nothing to hide for the teacher." Hai Rui spread his hands, stood up and said, "Cheng Zhong, do you know how much my Ming Dynasty's taxes are a year? ”

Cheng Zhong shook his head and said in his heart: How do I know. At this time, there was no open and transparent system of fiscal revenue, and except for a small number of people, ordinary people had no way of knowing the government's income and expenditure information.

"You don't know and don't blame you, my Ming Dynasty has set a system since my grandfather, agricultural tax is 1 out of 40, and commercial tax is 1 out of 30, so I have a population of nearly 60 million in the Ming Dynasty, but the tax tax in a year is only 4 million taels. If the wind and rain are smooth and the world is peaceful, it will be fine. But if there is a natural disaster, or if a war is ignited, these silver taels will not last much at all. Hai Rui said.

Cheng Zhong heard this little news for the first time, and he couldn't help but be quite surprised. The Ming government's annual tax revenue is only four million taels of silver, which is too little, right? What Cheng Zhong didn't know was that the Ming Dynasty should be regarded as the dynasty with the lightest taxes in history.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the tax ratio, except for a brief increase during the Zhu Di period, successive emperors have only lowered the tax collection ratio, and rarely increased the tax collection ratio.

"The dignified Ming Dynasty, a year's tax revenue. There were only four million of them. It's simply appalling," Hai Rui's voice suddenly raised and said, "Grandpa Tai did this just to make the people rich and let the people live a good life. ”

In order to reduce financial expenditures, the Ming Dynasty government streamlined and abolished the office, and even when it came to the Chongzhen period to fight against Li Chuang and the Qing soldiers, the military salary was lacking, and the dignified emperor actually had to go around like a beggar to collect military salaries.

But what I never expected was that the money saved by the state did not reach the hands of the people at all, but was exploited and corrupted by the central and local officials. In this way, the tax of one tael of silver will become nine taels or even ten taels when it reaches the heads of the people, and the people will be miserable. This has created an embarrassing and bizarre situation in which the state has no money, and the people have no money. Hai Rui said indignantly.

Cheng Zhong has also seen these contents of Hai Rui in later film and television programs, what kind of fire consumption, food consumption, and many names, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful, and one tael of silver was apportioned to the people and turned into nine or ten taels, which is really appalling.

But Cheng Zhong immediately wondered again, why did Hai Rui tell him this? It stands to reason that this kind of thing should have been worried about the high-ranking emperor and the ministers of the cabinet, Hai Rui is just a small Qipinzhi County in Huating County, what does this matter to him?

As if seeing Cheng Zhong's doubts, Hai Rui said: "Zhong'er, do you know how the magistrate came to be? ”

"How?" Cheng Zhong wondered, what did Hai Rui mean by this?

Hai Rui smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Being a teacher is just a small person, the original teachings of Qiongshan are already the emperor's grace, but from the teachings to become a wealthy county parent official, this is undesirable for many Jinshi and first." Isn't it too unreasonable to be a teacher but be able to get it lightly? ”

"No, no." Cheng Zhong hurriedly said: "The imperial court should use its strengths in employing people, the sages read well, and the sages understand a lot of principles, but they can't necessarily govern the place." Besides, the teacher didn't have a junior high, so he just didn't want to take the exam. Cheng Zhong said this, obviously wanting to comfort and comfort Hai Rui.

Hai Rui is an outstanding figure in the small Qiongshan, but it is not good to be in the country, and it is already very good to be able to lift people.

Hai Rui laughed and said: "Cheng Zhong, you don't have to put gold on the face of the teacher, what kind of Cheng Dù am I, I know it in my heart." But you have a sentence that is very right, the sages know a lot of truths, but they are not necessarily able to govern the place, and the reason why I, Hai Rui, was put in Huating, is to implement a whip law in the southeast half of the wall! ”

A whiplash? Cheng Zhong was surprised, what kind of law is this? The name is too strange, right?

After Hai Jui's explanation, Cheng Zhong understood that this so-called whip method is, in Hai Jui's words, simply put, "to sum up the service of a county, measure the land, count the ding, levy all the silver, the official is decomposed, and the hired servant should deal with it." ”，

Cheng Zhong traveled from the afterlife, and of course he was well aware of the benefits of doing so. The land endowment, forced labor, and other miscellaneous levies of each prefecture and county shall be combined into one article, and the silver taels shall be collected together and paid according to the conversion per mu. This will greatly simplify the collection process while making it difficult for local officials to cheat. The implementation of this method has enabled the landless peasants to be relieved of their labor burdens, and the peasants who have land have been able to spend more time cultivating the land, which has played a certain role in the development of agricultural production. At the same time, the change of forced labor to the levy of silver taels allowed the peasants to gain greater personal freedom and leave the land more easily, which provided more sources of labor for the urban handicraft industry. Industrialists and merchants who do not have land can not pay for silver, which also has a positive effect on the exhibition of industry and commerce.

A whip law was vigorously promoted after Zhang Juzheng served as a cabinet assistant, and it was only promoted to the whole country in the ninth year of Wanli, so later generations tied a whip law and Zhang Juzheng's reform together, but what they didn't know was that as early as the Xuande period, a similar levy law had appeared in Jiangnan, and then the rat tail book appeared in Jiangxi during the orthodox years of Yingzong, the ten sections of the brocade law that appeared in the southeast after Yingzong Tianshun, the average level silver that appeared in Zhejiang and Guangdong during the Chenghua period, and the Gangyin law that appeared in Fujian during the Hongzhi period, all have some attempts, but for various reasons, It's just limited to a few places, and it hasn't spread to the whole country.

What Hai Jui is currently doing is testing the waters of a whip law, which, according to Cheng Zhong's understanding, should be the concept of a special economic zone in later generations. But the danger of doing so is also obvious, and Hai Jui is actually taking a dangerous path.

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