1632 in the Gregorian calendar, the winter of 1852 in the first emperor's calendar, Shaanxi.

At this moment, the sky and the earth are already covered in silver, and all the qiē has been painted pure white by nature. It's just that compared to last year, it is a warm winter for most people in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Baoning Province in Sichuan.

It is not yet possible to popularize every household, but the people in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Baoning can buy a certain amount of cheap cotton cloth at a low price with their resident certificates. The price of these fabrics is 30% of the normal fabric, and the other 70% is paid by the government.

Originally, the price of cloth in the Qin State was not high, but if it was reduced to thirty percent, even if it was a slightly more bitter family, it could buy some new cotton clothes. In addition, the government is also actively building kang for the people, and poor families in Boryeong Province and Shanxi Province can also subsidize part of the fuel, so heating in winter is not a problem.

State-owned farms and farms may have little to do with the output of the people, but the wages are real, and now factories are opening everywhere, and people are required to work everywhere.

Naturally, their income has also made other people blush, and those who want to work in the city next year will further increase. Unless it is those older generations who are really reluctant to let go of the land, the young people with active minds, even if they can resist once, will choose to give up the land after the second or third time, right?

As long as all the land is empty, the government will find a way to recycle it, and the recycling price given is very high, and the people will not suffer. These lands will not be sold again, according to Zhang Hongbin's intentions, the contract system is adopted, and the people are contracted to cultivate or use it for other purposes on a voluntary basis, and at the same time a certain contract fee is charged every year, and this so-called fee is almost equivalent to the previous land rent, the difference is that this cost is much lower than the ground rent.

The people have money, and when they buy New Year's goods at the end of the year, they become bold. It is said that the people are stingy, but in fact, they are still forced out by life. There is a lot of money left in his hand, so naturally he will not be stingy with so much money. As a result, the merchants were happy that the amount of goods they sold was more than double that of last year, that is, the profit was double that of last year.

People of insight may finally understand what it means to 'hide wealth from the people', and low agricultural taxes will reduce agricultural tax revenues, but at the same time, commercial tax revenues will be doubled. In Daqin, the commercial tax is very reasonable, not high or low, due to the increase in commercial transaction volume this year, the commercial tax has also doubled, if the chamber of commerce handed over last year can only be described as considerable, this year's commercial tax is rich to describe.

At the end of the year, after verification, the tax revenue of Shaanxi is equivalent to the tax revenue of the two provinces of Daming, and this figure still has a lot of room for growth. Commercial tax occupies a large share of the tax, but in the Ming Dynasty, the commercial tax only occupies a small share.

"The ancestors all valued the land, and the object of collection in all dynasties was also agricultural tax...... Now it seems that it is suffering for the common people of the world. Xu Guangqi attended the year-end summary meeting for the first time, and after seeing other people's reports, he showed a painful expression.

"Xu Lao, you are wrong, according to the available historical data, the Song Dynasty focused on commercial taxation, so the land area is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, but the commercial tax is more than three times that of the Ming Dynasty. Even in the Southern Song Dynasty, only a little land south of the Yangtze River, the treasury revenue was still much more than that of today's Ming Dynasty. Li Dingguo gave a rare reminder.

As the supreme military commander, age is not an issue, and his status qualifies for such a meeting.

"Let's not talk about the Great Song Dynasty, do you think those elites in the Ming Dynasty don't know that commerce and trade are taxed quickly? Not to mention the others, sea trade is a big head, the money earned by sea trade in a year is more than three times that of the national trade, and if taxes are generated, it is also astronomical. It's just that the Ming Dynasty forbids the sea, in fact, it is that the country has no excuse to levy a penny of maritime trade tax, and other commercial taxes are always moved out of one way or another reason not to raise taxes, in fact, who doesn't know that behind the Donglin Party is standing, that is, the maritime merchants and merchant families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang? He Ling also put forward his own opinions.

"Okay, don't discuss it, it's useless to discuss. One is that Chongzhen can't control the Donglin Party, and the other is that he can't change the current tax collection model of the Ming Dynasty. If he really intends to change it forcefully, perhaps it will not be the tax model that will be changed at that time, but he, the emperor himself. You don't want to think about it, how did Zhu Changluo die, how did Zhu Youxiao die? Death from nature, is it possible?! Zhang Hongbin made a summary.

Zhu Changluo was determined to reform, offended many people, and finally took the red pill and died, which is the most famous red pill case in the Ming Dynasty; Zhu Youxiao may not have done anything, but his right-hand man Wei Zhongxian has made a lot of achievements, and he was forced to fall into the water and get sick when he was in a hurry, and he died after a short time, which is normal?

When the rights and abilities of the courtiers reach a certain level, the life of the emperor will be in the shadow of death. The courtiers further they must take a step back, otherwise they will be in danger of being murdered by the courtiers. But what is it in the end, maybe it is the so-called bourgeois revolution?

At that time, I am afraid that the profession of emperor will also be completely canceled. After all, the cabinet can handle political affairs well, so what's the point of this emperor or not? There is always someone on top of his head who is pressing himself, and he is uncomfortable no matter how he thinks about it. The imperial system has not been abolished, and it is still the Confucian program of monarchs and ministers who are often troubled, and it is precisely because of this that Chinese capitalism has been unable to develop and grow for a long time.

"Okay, let's break up the meeting if there's nothing to do......" Zhang Hongbin saw that there was nothing to say, so he announced the adjournment.

Everyone left with a smile and a smile, only Xu Guangqi walked behind him slowly, he had no power himself, after all, he should retire at this age. was able to come to the auditorium, mainly because Zhang Hongbin allowed him in. It's just that after a meeting, he knows a lot, and he also discovers a lot of things that he didn't find before or that he doesn't want to admit, but at the moment he walks with a complicated expression, or a little pain in his heart, and finally is helped into the carriage by his eldest son and returns home.

As for Zhang Hongbin, he also returned to his home directly, but he didn't want the whole house to be lively.

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Zhang Hongbin came to the hall, but everyone surrounded Xu Hui.

"Are you embarrassed to ask? You, the King of Qin, work day and night on government affairs, and you don't care about your wife and children......" Zhang Huang saw Zhang Hongbin, but said angrily.

It is said that she, the old lady who dotes on her son, usually doesn't say that, so there must be something important in that sentence that cannot be ignored.

"Hui'er, you have it?" Zhang Hongbin soon realized a key word: 'wife and children'.

"Well, I've been a little unwell lately, nausea and want to vomit, and today my mother-in-law found out, so I immediately called the imperial doctor...... As a result, it was found that he had been in the body for two months. Xu Hui was also very embarrassed to answer.

Got pregnant, gave birth to a child, and became a daddy...... These words flashed in Zhang Hongbin's mind in an instant.

"I'm going to be a dad?" Zhang Hongbin is really excited at the moment, he is a man in two lives, and he is going to be a father for the first time.