Chapter 602: Where to go
"The tax exemption of scholars' land is the virtue of the dynasty, how can it be said that it will be abolished!" After all, there are still people who are not convinced.
"Dezheng?" Zhang Xuan laughed and said: "In order to encourage scholars, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the government promulgated the policy of land restriction and tax exemption for scholars, which can indeed be regarded as a moral policy, but it is a pity...... How did the scholars treat the grace of the imperial court, a mere person can only enjoy the right to tax exemption of 400 acres of land at most, and the land under the name of the person can be less than 1,000 acres!
Those extra lands, people have taken the initiative to pay a penny in taxes! No! As a Confucian scholar, when you know that etiquette, righteousness and shame are gone, you dare to say that you are a disciple of a saint!
The scholars took advantage of the country with peace of mind, and tried every means to take advantage of more, but in the end?
The final result is that the annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty is getting less and less, in order to ensure the financial use, the imperial court can only increase the tax, and impose the tax that should be paid by the scholars on the heads of the people, so the life of the people is becoming more and more difficult, but the scholars will not care about these......
Scholars don't care whether they are civilians or not, when scholars have fame, they will feel at ease that they are superior to others, and look down on ordinary people who used to be the same as themselves, what is this called? That's forgetting your roots!
Tax exemption is a virtue of encouragement, but those scholars who want to do everything to seek personal gain, and who can harm the country and enrich themselves with peace of mind, have the qualifications and face to enjoy this virtue and politics! ”
"Zhang Xuan! You are also a Confucian scholar, and now you say such things......"
"So what!" Without waiting for others to finish, Zhang Xuan shouted angrily: "It is true that this official is a Confucian scholar, but this official is a minister of the Ming Dynasty and an official of the people, and this official is more sober than you!" Today, there are many schools like carp crossing a river, and new students have sprung up one after another.
This world has already changed with the trend, it is no longer the monopoly of Confucianism, and there are countless officials who have entered the official career without passing the imperial examination, as a Confucian minister, not only does not have the slightest sense of crisis, but is still complacent and complacent, how stupid!
Confucian scholars read the books of the sages, full of moral articles, and the sage classics of the brain, and should know what is the worry of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world.
Forgetting his own ideas, forgetting his ambitions before he became a leader, and even more annihilating the righteousness in his chest, he has completely become a moth of the country, and this official wants to ask, these officials, these Confucian scholars are worthy of the country's virtue and politics! ”
"What a sound! Zhang Zhang, you know how much fertile land you have in your own home that is tax-free! ”
"Knowing your mistakes can make a difference." Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "After hearing about this policy more than a month ago, this official sent people back to his hometown, and only 2,000 acres of land were left in the clan, and all the extra land has been sold!"
The top of the hall is cleared again, ruthless!
Zhang Xuan was so decisive!
You must know that as a non-commissioned officer, he has the right to tax exemption of 2,000 mu of land in Daming, and the new land policy will increase the tax if it exceeds 2,000 mu, which means that when the new land policy has not been determined, Zhang Xuan has already made a decisive decision!
Respond to the emperor's call for a new deal with practical actions!
What does this mean? It shows that Zhang Xuan, as the vice speaker, has already expected that even if the parliament is noisy, even if all the tax-free classes in the world are united, it will be impossible to resist the emperor's new land reform policy!
Looking at the speakers and vice-speakers of this parliament, in the past month or so, except for Zhang Xuan's fierce words today, what opinions have the rest of them expressed?
No!
They've already confessed! And the clamoring parliamentarians in the hall may be clowns jumping off the beam in their eyes, and they may also become sacrifices on the road to the new land reform in the future!
At the thought of this, the clamoring councillors were already cold, and many of their bodies even began to tremble slightly.
Does it make sense? Is it valuable?
People are selfish, they all hope that their friends will not die and they will not die poorly, they all have the luck psychology of not being responsible for the public, and they all know what it is to shoot a bird with a bow!
The integrated taxation of the official gentry has indeed touched the core interests of all the tax-exempt classes in the world, so they are unwilling, do not want to give in, want to resist, want to coerce public opinion, want to cause the world to be turbulent, and want to turn things around with the general trend!
But all of this has to be premised on the premise that everyone is working together!
However, in retrospect, working together is a joke......
Although only Zhang Xuan spoke out of the seven deputy speakers, the silence of the other six has actually indicated their attitudes, and above the court, the high-ranking and powerful bigwigs seem to have chosen to compromise, so how can they play!
It's hard to die!
If the death advice is useful, it will be counted, but will it be useful? Look at Lu Wan, who has become a laughing stock......
Zhai Luan looked at this scene coldly, he felt inexplicably sad for the members of this palace!
Scholars are exempt from taxation, to put it bluntly, Confucian scholars are exempt from taxation, as for the huge tax-exempt groups in the past, there are clans and nobles, what about now?
More than seventy percent of the clan nobles were taken overseas, and the rest couldn't stay long in Daming at all, and the family went overseas, so could it be that Daming's land could still be taken away?
Therefore, the biggest resistance to the land reform policy has long been gone, and there is still a Confucian......
Confucianism, how many pure Confucians are there now?
The new imperial examination system is based on Confucianism and supplemented by miscellaneous, but what it actually is, all the people in the world know it.
Ordinary scholars can't resist the general trend, so they can only conform, and the end of compliance is that the position that they originally intended to stick to was torn apart a little bit, and the basic plate of Confucianism was eaten up a little bit......
How many of the six or seven officials of the Ming Dynasty are pure Confucians, and are there any Confucians under the seven grades!
What about decades from now?
Confucianist...... Is there still pure Confucianism?
Don't forget, even if you are a new student, you don't enjoy tax exemption even if you enter the official career!
If the emperor chooses to do more in a few years, what will happen at that time?
Brothers are united, their strength is broken, and the world is united, but the sea and rivers can be turned upside down, but how can people's hearts be united......
The reason why Zhai Luan feels sad is that he feels the stupidity of Confucianism, and feels that they are facing the general trend, knowing that they can't do it, but they still want to do it, if they are facing the righteousness of the family and country, then even if they are generous to righteousness, it can still be regarded as iron-clad and can go down in history, but what is it now?
If you damage the country for selfish gain, and eventually die, even if you die, you will only be crucified to the pillar of shame in the end, and you will never be able to turn over.
How simple, what a simple truth, but these people don't understand, how sad......
On the other hand, it is because of Zhang Xuan.
It is impossible to hide everything in the parliament from the emperor's eyes and ears, so what Zhang Xuan does today is the cornerstone of stepping on the top of the people and ministers in the future!
Where does he go from here?
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