Chapter 391: The Gentry Pay Taxes as One
Since those big capitalist businessmen in the south instigated riots, then they should trouble their political forces.
Anyway, it is pressed down one level at a time, and Chinese officialdom has always been like this.
Lao Tzu doesn't care what method you use, you solve the matter for Lao Tzu, and if you can't solve it, you will roll up and get out. This model is simple and crude, but it often solves the problem.
Now the imperial court is using this method to suppress the group of bureaucrats in the Nanjing ******, and if they can't solve the problem of riots, they will roll up the cover and get out of the way, and replace the officials of the Han Emperor Party.
It is obviously not worth sacrificing political power for the sake of this kind of riot.
If you are unwilling to quell the rebellion and want to keep your political power, then the only way is to rebel, and the imperial court has mobilized several garrison brigades into Nanzhili, with the obvious intention of preventing local rebellions.
After the decree was issued, the officials of the six ministries of the Nanjing system had different attitudes, and great differences soon appeared.
Some officials from small and medium-sized capitalist families have already shown some attitudes inclined to reform, while those from large capitalist families are opposed to reform, and at the same time, most of the officials from small and medium-sized capitalist families support it, forming a bureaucratic power group.
This bureaucratic group used to be the Donglin Party, but with the reputation of the Donglin Party being stinked by the emperor, no one now calls itself the Donglin Party, that is, a matter of changing vests.
Regarding the imperial decree requiring them to suppress the riot, although the officials of the six departments in Nanjing were somewhat divided on the fundamental issue, they finally reached a consensus on the issue of suppressing the riot, that is, suppression.
The bureaucratic capital clique in the south had little military force at this time, and the rebellion was difficult to succeed. This is a fact that most people can recognize.
At the same time, internal forces began to split. Some officials are leaning towards reform. If you rebel, you can't unite and you won't succeed.
The only way to rebel is to start suppressing the riot.
Under the actions of these local snakes, the riots in the Jiangnan area were quickly suppressed, no new riots were generated, and the scapegoats of the previous riots were also selected, and the more than 100,000 yuan in cash that was robbed was also recovered.
Actually, this money. It is impossible to chase all of them back, they are all put on the back by those big capital businessmen, just to appease the anger of the imperial court.
After some operation, the riot was quelled.
When the officials of the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing were busy suppressing the riots, the imperial court also began to take action, first of all, to activate the public opinion propaganda machine to comprehensively publicize the benefits of the New Deal's measures to the people at the bottom and small and medium-sized businessmen, and to blame the large-scale unemployment of the people in Jiangnan was those Jiangnan big capitalist businessmen and some large landlord class who opposed the New Deal.
At the same time, Zhu Youxiao ordered to provide basic living security for the unemployed people in Jiangnan, while providing protection for the unemployed workers. On the one hand, we will increase the publicity of recruitment and immigration.
The Jiangnan region has a well-developed culture, and the people at the bottom also have more literate groups. More and more newspapers controlled by state-owned capital consortia are distributed in Jiangnan, especially after the appearance of the telegraph, with the laying of the telegraph system in Jiangnan, the time difference between the north and the south of many newspapers has been very small.
These newspapers publicized the new policy every day, which made many Jiangnan people begin to wake up.
After the implementation of the new policy in the north, the changes were not insignificant, the poor water conservancy facilities were improved, agricultural production was revitalized, and the output value began to rise rapidly. At the same time, the changes in the tax system have greatly reduced the burden on the people at the bottom, there is no income and no burden, and there is also the guarantee of the imperial court, and those with high income pay more taxes, and those with less income pay less taxes.
This makes the people of Jiangnan very envious, at this time because there is no reform in the Jiangnan area, the tax burden of the people at the bottom is still relatively heavy, and the unfair tax system and wealth distribution system have made the etiquette and law in the Jiangnan area rapidly corrupted, and money worship is popular.
A lot of people want change, and the New Deal in the North gave them hope. It's just that the New Deal has not been extended to the southern provinces for a long time, and after the northern provinces were included in the New Deal reform, the imperial court has not expanded the scope of reform for two consecutive years.
More and more small and medium-sized capital businessmen in Jiangnan began to realize the benefits of the New Deal, and most of the small and medium-sized businessmen who were able to stand out in the Jiangnan area had no background and relied on their brains and hard work. And in the New Deal system, it is often such people who benefit the most.
However, these small and medium-sized businessmen are unwilling to flow their wealth to the people at the bottom because of the control of the market by those big-capital businessmen, so the market is not so active.
Shortly after the riots in the Jiangnan area were suppressed, a sensational news appeared in the "Daming Daily".
At the same time, the cabinet carried out legislation to officially implement the separation of the finances of the imperial family and the imperial court, stipulating that the treasury would pay 100,000 yuan to the emperor every year.
At the same time, the cabinet legislated that officials and civil servants in the New Deal areas were not allowed to engage in commercial operations, and the children of businessmen were allowed to participate in politics, but they and their families must stop business after participating in politics. If the clan has not been divided, the entire clan is not allowed to do business.
Only the royal family has the privilege of running business, and if the royal family's business income exceeds 100,000 yuan, the treasury does not pay wages to the royal family.
Zhu Youxiao also made a remark in the "Daming Daily".
"At the beginning of my ascension to the throne, the imperial court's finances could not make ends meet, and the war was defeated for many years. After pondering the reasons for this, it is nothing more than the increasing annexation of land by princes and nobles, landlords, and business tycoons, coupled with bureaucratic corruption and collusion with capital, so that the wealth of the world is in their hands and they do not pay taxes, and the people are becoming more and more miserable. The finances of the imperial court were dwindling day by day, and the water conservancy in the provinces was in disrepair. Every time there is a catastrophe, the people have no water conservancy preparations, and the profiteers hoard grain, and the places are full of sorrow and hunger, and even sell their wives and children, and cannibalize each other.
The inherent system of the imperial court is unable to adapt to the current situation, and in the long run, chaos is coming, and the world will be ruined. I learned from the pain and decided to reform and implement the new policy. Today, the new policy has been implemented in the northern and newly established provinces, and the results have been remarkable. In the land of the New Deal, industry and commerce prospered, people's livelihood improved, the people had no worries about food and clothing, and the treasury was becoming more and more abundant.
Reform has become the trend of the times and the will of the people. From now on, the upper and lower Son of Heaven, and the lower people, whether they are princes and nobles, or farmers and industrialists, all pay taxes as one. The tax paid shall be taken from the people and used by the people. The world is not the world of one person, nor the world of princes and nobles, but the world of the people of the world. The avenue is inward, and there is nothing out. The system of the New Deal does not have the privilege of paying taxes......"
Even the emperor began to pay taxes, and as soon as this issue of "Daming Daily" was issued, it caused a sensation throughout Daming. (To be continued.) )