Collecting taxes is a big problem, and whoever dares to use taxes to open the knife is even more uncomfortable.

In fact, there were many officials in the Ming Dynasty who made a knife on taxes, but they all coincidentally apportioned, that is, they adopted various methods to increase taxes, such as the loss of gold and silver, such as various miscellaneous taxes when collecting grain, and so on.

However, a large-scale tax cut is unheard of, and if it is reduced so much at once, what can be used to fill this gap?

Of course, the new governor's approach was to use the mulberry tax to offset the grain tax, which seemed appropriate, but when you think about it, it is a bit ridiculous.

First of all, what the imperial court wants is grain, although it will also be discounted with gold and silver, but Zhejiang's grain is the focus of the imperial court, and the imperial court also relies on Zhejiang's grain to relieve disasters, or go to Liaodong and Xuanfu to raise soldiers.

This is only one of them, the key problem lies in the second point, the grain is often grown by small households, you reduce people's taxes, although these people are grateful to you, after all, those ordinary farmers who only have three or five acres of land, the grain grown every year is only so big, they are said to be two out of ten, in fact, the real grain tax paid is much higher than this, some places are even five out of ten, although many people have a few acres of thin fields, it seems that life can go on, in fact, most people are eaten for half a year of fine grain, and the next half a year is to eat coarse grain, In the last few months, you have to mix some wild vegetables to barely satisfy your stomach, and if there is a large tax cut, then it will no longer be a problem for these people to fill their stomachs.

The biggest problem is the mulberry tax, now the mulberry growers are all large households in Zhejiang, which of these families is not fertile land? Some of them are people in the court, and some are extremely prestigious gentry in Zhejiang, who have a lot of land and a lot of mulberry fields. The governor has increased the mulberry tax several times, and if a large household pays the tax, I am afraid that it will be hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver, and if you plant more, I am afraid that it is not impossible to plant a few thousand taels, will these people agree?

In peacetime, many of the government's policies were to favor these gentry as much as possible. In order to appease them, it is better now, the governor not only did not appease these people, but first attacked them.

This......

Zhao Ming, the political envoy, had a good impression of Xu Qian, on the one hand, he was a disciple of Wang Xue. On the other hand, Xu Qian led his troops south to save everyone from fire and water, so he couldn't help but persuade: "My lord, if this is the case, I am afraid that the big families are dissatisfied, and if they want to make trouble." It's not fun, and ...... then."

Xu Qian smiled slightly and said, "It's okay to do this, sue them." Tomorrow night, please come to the governor's yamen, and if you have any dissatisfaction, you can come to the official to complain. Naturally, the official will explain it clearly to them, Lord Zhao. We must do our best to carry out this new policy, and we must immediately issue it and let all prefectures and counties handle it in accordance with this article, and immediately post a notice and make it known to the world. ”

Zhao Ming sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but think, this new governor, after all, is from Qingliu, and he takes it for granted, but the strategy is a good strategy, and he does have a love for the people...... After all, this is just a wish, and no matter how good the wish is, it is nonsense.

However, Zhao Ming is not worried, Xu Qian's so-called decree is probably just a hot idea that has just taken office, and when the time comes to meet resistance, he will naturally change his course, now it is better to follow him first, and then abolish it after encountering difficulties.

A meeting ended quickly, the governor and the political envoy naturally announced, Zhejiang provinces and counties, this decree down, but many people secretly nodded, Zhejiang's taxes are heavy, now the governor of the tax reduction, can be said to risk the world's disapproval, but this fist love the people is on the paper.

The villagers have always believed that Xu Qian is a qu star, and now he will reduce taxes as soon as he takes office, which is extraordinary.

In addition, Ming Pao and the current periodicals, Xu Qian's intentions of the tax system and many chapters of the tax system were published one by one, what kind of people do not have to pay the grain tax, and what kind of people pay the grain tax of 30 draws, how to collect the mulberry tax, and then if there are officials to increase taxes, where to sue, if the prefect and the county refuse to handle it according to the regulations, how will they be severely punished, there are all kinds of things, the genuine newspaper has 100,000 words, and it is to encourage the students to supervise, saying that it is a family affair, a national affair, a world affair, and a scholar needs to care about everything, Wang Xue pays attention to the unity of knowledge and action, You should report everything you see and hear.

That is to say, Ming Pao is here, calling on the provincial students to supervise the collection of taxes from the government, if there are officials who are illegal, they can report to the governor's yamen or Ming Pao, and then the governor's yamen must be handled according to the regulations, and will also give certain rewards to the students, such as in the school, the vacancy of the birth, the increase in life, and the quota of the township examination, etc., no longer only to examine the knowledge, but also to examine the conduct, picket the illegality of the officials also belongs to the category of moral inspection, in short, if it is reported, and then the report is true, in terms of study, it will be given a certain tilt.

For the students, they are proud to come, and now the governor yamen has delegated power and let them picket lawlessness, and the students are naturally welcomed, and when they see the officials in the future, their waists are straighter. Not only that, but there is also a sense of justice, and there are actually benefits, and the students and talents in the townships have taken the Ming Pao, and they have begun to make up their minds at this time.

However, Zhou Chang also got the Ming Pao, and after reading it, his eyebrows fluttered, and he had a hunch that Xu Qian was dying. At first, I thought it was just Xu Futai dangling a shot and shouting slogans, which is not uncommon in officialdom, but whether the specific implementation is not implemented is another matter, who knows that this Futai Lord ate lard and was blinded, and he actually moved seriously, and even Ming Pao made a noise for him. These people are all local emperors, and their interests are damaged, which is equivalent to increasing their taxes to make up for the shortcomings of those ordinary small households, Zhou Chang decided to wait a little longer, wait for those big households to make trouble, and then make some chapters in it, and at that time, and see how the governor comes to power.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chang was in a good mood, and couldn't help humming a little song, which was very happy.

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Zhejiang's big households, especially Qingtian's Liu family is the most noble, owning the most land, the status of the Liu family in Zhejiang, can be far more powerful than the previous merchants, and the merchants later engaged in smuggling, the land is not much, but the Liu family is different, almost half of the land in Qingtian County is owned by the Liu family.

The ancestor of the Liu family is the famous Liu Bowen, who was named the sincerity uncle, Liu Bowen's eldest son Liu Diao hereditary sincerity uncle, and the doctor Guanglu, and the official is a good product. Although he has no real power, he is really prominent, but his father was killed, and Liu Qian had no intention of ruling the government, so he simply returned to his hometown in the name of guarding the tomb of his relatives and lived in the township.

Since then, the Liu family has ancestral training, and children and grandchildren are not allowed to be officials, so everyone has the name of sincerity, living in the township, operating for several generations, and the last bit of influence of the Liu family in Beijing has disappeared, but they are in Zhejiang, but they belong to the famous family.

The descendants of the Liu family, passed to modern times is the third sincerity of the Bo Liu Yu, Liu Yu is more than half a hundred years old, the imperial court has invited him to Beijing as an official many times, he refuses to accept it, only studying at home, plus Zhengde eighteen years, the imperial court and Liu Ji (Bowen) as the master, the name is set to become, the edict is down, it is necessary to rebury the corpse of the ancestor, after all, the status is different, the mausoleum should be relocated with a higher standard, Liu Yu in this name, still in Qingtian County at home idle.

The land of the Liu family is thousands of hectares, because a few years ago, a large number of merchants bought silk, and many families changed their grain to mulberry, and the Liu family saw this, and also changed the vast majority of the land to mulberry fields with this trend, but at this time, the problem came out, and the new governor actually wanted to raise taxes. If it is just a little or two points, it is fine, but now it is obviously not as simple as one or two points, but several times the increase, the Liu family has a lot of land, if it is according to the current tax rate, I am afraid that it will have to pay more than 1,000 loads of raw silk every year. At the current market price, the tattoo silver is at least tens of thousands.

Tens of thousands of silver, this is simply a robbery. The Ming Dynasty, have you ever heard of paying so much raw silk and so much silver?

Liu Yu has a good impression of Xu Qian, after all, this guy has stabilized Zhejiang, and Yu Liu's family is also kind, but who knows, this guy has just come to power, and the first board is on the Liu family.

Liu Yu was very angry, in his study, he called the big households in Qingtian County, these big households, naturally tried their best to encourage the Liu family to stand up first, and then everyone made a fuss together, either instructing people to resist taxes, or simply mobilizing people to impeach this guy, all in all, ten percent of the tax is something they absolutely can't afford, planting mulberry is needed, a large number of people are needed to collect cocoons, and irrigation and insect removal are needed, so calculated, maybe the income of a large piece of land is not as high as the tax levied by the government, The government collected 1,000 quintals of silk, and the remaining net profit of the family may only be seven or eight hundred.

In the words of later generations, this is simply an organized and purposeful robbery, is this like words?

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