Thinking of this, after all, Zhu Di has been an emperor for many years, although he will be affected by a moment of anger, but he is still very rational after calming down.

After thinking about it, he said, "Then what do you mean by being a kid?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Zhanji showed a fox-like cunning look on his face, and replied: "If Grandpa directly orders those people to pay more taxes, with their characteristics, it will definitely arouse dissatisfaction, and even officials from all over the country will write to Grandpa and ask Grandpa to withdraw the holy order." That's all they can say at that time. ”

Zhu Di listened to Zhu Zhanji's words, and he also agreed very much in his heart, and he Zhu Di was not unclear about the character of these readers.

"If we target them so obviously, we can't do it, but what if we do it another way? Like what..... Increase taxes on land? ”

Looking at the cunning look on Zhu Zhanji's face, Zhu Di really didn't understand what he meant at first, but as he thought about it carefully, he gradually tasted it, and a smile gradually appeared on his originally gloomy face.

This Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji sat together, like two foxes, one old and one young.

Zhu Di smiled while pointing to Zhu Zhanji beside him and said, "Stinky boy, your brain is really good." ”

For the old man's praise, Zhu Zhanji accepted it unceremoniously.

After all, this trick is really a bit insidious.

If it is not directly aimed at a certain interest group, then it will not cause revolt and radical change.

But things still went according to plan, and the goal was indeed achieved.

By what means did these gentry encroach on their interests?

It's land!

So I am not directly targeting your gentry class, but by increasing the land use tax, and transferring the deficit after the abolition of the poll tax to the land use tax, in fact, it is still aimed at those landlords and gentry class, but on the surface, it will not cause such a direct and strong resistance.

At the very least, it will not be as blatant as a direct increase in taxes on the gentry.

It is a subtle means.

As a result, the tax burden on the poor people who had no land and whose land was annexed was transferred to those who owned the land.

The taxes received by the imperial court will not be reduced, and the landless people will no longer starve to death by the pressure of taxation.

And those landed people will not be afraid to have children because of the increase in the poll tax for having children, and at the same time, the taxes they need to pay have not changed in any way, but they have been integrated from the original messy tax items into one.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the taxes themselves were not high, and these landed people were enough to live, and they could even accumulate a lot of family funds.

Let the land power remain in the hands of the common people, and take back what should have belonged to the imperial court, and at the same time greatly increase the growth rate of the population.

This can be seen from the explosion of the population of as many as 300 million or 400 million in the three generations of Kangqian.

Just imagine, when the 50 million people of the Ming Dynasty exploded to 3 or 400 million in just a few decades, how terrifying the productivity growth brought about by these population growth would be.

At that time, even if the degree of a casual tax of the imperial court is exactly the same as today, the total amount of tax that can be brought by it will be seven or eight times that of today!

The financial mediocrity is seven or eight times more, which means that the Ming Dynasty can build seven or eight more canals, seven or eight more northern expeditions, seven or eight more capital moves, seven or eight more Yongle ceremonies, and send seven or eight times more ships to the West on the basis of the old man's current situation......

All the expenditures of the imperial court can be increased by seven or eight times now!

This is just the direct impact of the imperial court's finances, and there are countless invisible benefits.

Of course, there was still a lot to be done before that, and although the means used for this reform of the tax system for landowners were subtle, it only gave the court a fair and honest reason, as if to fight a war to be famous.

And those vested interest groups are not stupid, they are smart.

They will understand the meaning of this decree in a very short time.

By that time, there will be countless resistances across the country.

Even these resistances came from within the imperial court.

Zhu Zhanji still has self-knowledge about these.

In fact, everything he just said to the old man came from the 'one whip law' of Zhang Juzheng, the famous cabinet chief assistant in later generations, and the policy of apportioning the land into the mu proposed by Kangxi.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Juzheng's method of tax reform, 'one whip method', is actually a simplified version of the apportionment into the mu.

But even a simplified version saved the Ming Dynasty from fire and water, and had a far-reaching impact on the history of the Ming Dynasty.

But even Zhang Juzheng did not escape the end of being liquidated.

After his death, Emperor Wanli ordered Zhang Juzheng to open the coffin and kill the corpse, and raided Zhang Juzheng's home, but the result was not as rumored by the outside world that the Zhang family had accumulated millions of dollars.

In order to force the Zhang family to come up with a million silver, the officials who raided the house even did not hesitate to lock the Zhang family in their own house and cut off water and food to them, so that when the door finally opened, dozens of people in the Zhang family had starved to death, and the corpses even turned into food for wild dogs.

Those who were alive were also exiled.

Although there are factors such as Zhang Juzheng's arrogance and disrespect for Emperor Wanli during his lifetime, it is not because Emperor Wanli was forced to make a compromise under the pressure of various forces.

Including in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi's power during his reign can be said to have reached the peak of centralized development.

But even so, Kangxi did not dare to take too many measures when he was old, and it was not until Yongzheng succeeded to the throne that a thorough restructuring began. Even so, the resistance encountered is unimaginable.

But these are not what he Zhu Zhanji should worry about, he is just an idea, and there is an old man above him.

And the old man on the side was thinking hard at this time.

Zhu Zhanji's method was unprecedented for him at this time, and following Zhu Zhanji's method to understand, Zhu Di suddenly found that this tax policy order that was changed from the bottom can really solve many drawbacks that cannot be changed in the current implementation of the two tax systems.

Just as Zhu Zhanji said, once this policy is really implemented, it will not only benefit the poor, but will also be able to reduce the burden of those who have no land and have little land, which will be conducive to the development of production, and at the same time, it will also reduce a lot of workload when collecting taxes.

On the contrary, even if this reformed tax policy was implemented, the annual tax paid by the imperial court would not decrease.

It can be said that it is beneficial and harmless.

If there is only one drawback, it is that the issuance of this decree is likely to cause damage to the interests of some Tada.

Zhu Di is also aware of this.

It is not easy to completely change, but is he Zhu Di an emperor who is afraid of the resistance below?