Zhai Luan trembled lightly and said: "When Yang Shoufu was in the court, he convened all the important ministers to discuss the policy of land, and said that His Majesty intends to impose a heavy tax on land...... How to teach? ”

Zhu Houwei said in a humming voice: "The stubborn disease of the land, if it is not changed, it is not enough to prosper the world for 10,000 years, if you want to curb land annexation, you must make all those who have gained great benefits in land annexation think that land is unprofitable!"

In the year of natural disasters, these local heroes can be said to do everything in order to annex land, how many disaster victims were forced to destroy their homes, how many ordinary people were displaced, and finally bankrupted and became slaves?

In their eyes, only the interests of their own families, for the interests of their own families, they will not care about the life and death of the people, let alone the rise and fall of the country!

For such wealthy families, I have nothing to be polite to, yes, in addition to the two of the two of the apportionment of the acres and the payment of grain by the gentry, the third point of my life is the heavy tax on land! ”

"Heavy ...... Heavy Taxation ...... How much ...... weigh" Zhai Luan swallowed.

"Any family of three generations of direct lineage, the children of their clan all land to 2,000 acres as the upper limit, that is to say, within 2,000 acres of clan land, then according to the normal tax amount to collect taxes, if more than 2,000 acres, assuming 3,000 acres, then the excess land, each mu plus 50% of the tax, more than 3,000 mu less than 4,000 mu, the excess part of the tax is doubled, 4,000 mu to 5,000 mu, the excess is charged by two times, more than 5,000 mu is five times, more than 10,000 mu ten times!"

Zhai Luan was dumbfounded......

According to the current land tax amount, the tax on one mu of land is eight buckets, which is almost equivalent to three to four percent of the land output, and with the popularization of hybrid rice, this amount can even be reduced to one percent!

But in fact, this is not the case at all, in fact, the amount of tax paid by the people on land is much higher than the official rated tax, and the local government has tricks to make the people pay more, and the maximum can even reach six to seventy percent!

The people worked hard for a year, and finally harvested, and after paying the taxes, the remaining grain could barely make ends meet at best, and the large number of people in the family could not support them directly, which is why so many poor people gave birth to children, and chose to sell or even kill them directly after knowing that they could not support them.

The biggest problem in this situation is not that the population cannot be fed, but that ordinary people do not have the slightest ability to resist disasters!

In the event of a disaster year, if there is no harvest in the field, and the imperial court has no tax exemption policy, the people still have to pay taxes and cannot afford to pay them? Grab it and torture it first!

A beating does not mean that you are exempt from taxes, ordinary people want not to pay taxes, that is typical is a dream!

Robbing your wife and children, robbing your land, and arresting people as coolies, the government has so many methods that I don't know which one to use!

The people who had no choice but to borrow money from the gentry clan, so the situation was even worse, they couldn't afford to live, where there was still money to repay the loan, and the loan would only roll bigger and bigger like a snowball, until finally the creditor began to annex the land......

These are the usual tricks of the wealthy family, and they have been tried and tested repeatedly!

Since the emergence of Daming Qianzhuang, the low interest rate and the time limit for loan repayment have almost shattered the foundation of the survival of private lending, and also made the gentry resentful.

But the gentry clan was helpless, they didn't dare to offend the powerful Jiajing Emperor at all, because everyone knew that it was looking for death!

The emergence of the Qianzhuang Bank has inhibited the momentum of land annexation to a certain extent, but it is also a symptom rather than a cure, and the purpose of annexation cannot be achieved through borrowing, and the interest strata will always seek other methods, and there are certainly not two methods.

One of the essences of land annexation lies in taxes, because even if the wealthy gentry own more land, it is also exempt from tax, and they have a vested income of one acre for one acre, even if the gentry pay grain in one piece, after all, even if they pay taxes, it is very cost-effective compared with the output of land......

But now the emperor is good, and directly taxes the excess land!

Which wealthy family, which family does not have tens of thousands of acres of land, and even tens of thousands of acres of land, is embarrassed to say that it is a large household that annexes land?

Ten times the heavy tax of more than 10,000 acres!

It's tingling on my scalp just thinking about it!

Even according to the harvest of hybrid rice, each mu of land can reach six stones of grain, and then according to the minimum tax payment standard, eight buckets of grain per mu of land, how much is ten times?

Eight stones!

The taxes to be paid are even more than the output of the land itself, and who wants the land?

Isn't this land the root of the ruin, one acre of land loses two stones, more than 10,000 acres will lose 20,000 stones, and 100,000 acres will lose 200,000 stones!

Which family can withstand such a loss, if you really want to do this, the land is a hot potato in your hand, and the wealthy family is estimated to find ways to sell the land, which will cause the price of land to plummet!

It's almost a sure thing!

Ruthless, really ruthless!

Zhai Luan was already impressed by the emperor's methods at this moment, but as the chief minister, he couldn't help but raise his worries, so he said: "The family of the wealthy family has deep roots, and Your Majesty's move is only afraid that it will provoke a strong backlash?"

"And then?" Zhu Houwei sneered.

Zhai Luan was stunned, yes, and then what?

What about the rebound of the Hao? Since the emperor did this and dared to change it like this, didn't he consider the backlash of the interest class?

It must have been considered, and there must have been a countermeasure, and sure enough......

"In troubled times, we must use heavy canons, how can there be reform without bloodshed?" Zhu Houwei snorted and said: "The Jiajing Dynasty has changed so much, but for the people of the world, I am still too merciful after all, if the world wants to be stable for a long time, what if it is a river of blood?"

"The turmoil in the society is not the work of Mingjun!" Zhai Luan suddenly seemed to have changed his temperament, looking at the posture was planning to fight with Zhu Houwei on the basis of reason, after all, he is now the first minister, such a big move, if the Jiajing Dynasty completes such an earth-shattering majestic reform that offends all the interests in the world, it will be strange that he is not hated to death.

"Does Zhai Aiqing think I am the kind of emperor who cares if he is a Ming Jun or a Faint King?" Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "Zhai Aiqing's scruples are well known, Aiqing is now the speaker of the parliament, so he should brainstorm and make decisions that are beneficial to Daming, and share the gains and losses of the major political concepts among the ministers, and go back to discuss and return to me!"

"Minister......" Zhai Luan was just about to retire, when he heard the emperor continue: "Great companion......"

"The slave is here."

"I now hand over the camp to you to cooperate with Speaker Zhai to implement the land reform policy, you know what to do!"

Ren Xing's face was extremely solemn and said, "The slave knows!"

Zhai Luan couldn't help but shudder!

"Zhai Aiqing, Commander Yan and I have reported some news before, about taxation, Zhai Aiqing is my staff officer?"

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