A widely circulated sentence in the user department said: Under the "luxury" expenses of His Majesty Emperor Guang'an, there is basically no "New Year" money and food in the treasury of the household department.

The money of that year was basically spent back then.

Therefore, the current prosperity of the Ming Dynasty is probably also the strongest prosperity in history, the prosperity of other people's families, the copper money strings in the treasury will be piled up to mold, and the twine will also decay, but the money in the Ming treasury is basically every year.

It's easy to say that it is also very strange that a Ming dynasty who is constantly fighting foreign wars can still have the current prosperous scenery.

Zhu Jianji laughed, "In the final analysis, there is still less tax, so the household department has no confidence, but have you ever thought about why a dynasty's taxes will slowly decrease in the middle and late stages, and in the last years of the dynasty, the treasury is even so poor?" Would you like to dig deeper into the reasons for this?"

As soon as these words came out, the hall was silent.

Everyone finally understands.

It turns out that His Majesty Emperor Guang'an is waiting for everyone here.

Your Majesty is testing everyone's attitude towards land reform: there is actually only one reason why any dynasty, except for the Great Song Dynasty, will become poorer in the future.

Land annexation.

The land of the state was annexed to the hands of the magnates and gentry who did not have to pay taxes.

But the people who needed to pay taxes did not have land, so they had to rent their crops.

Most of the grain grown was obtained by the magnates and gentry as tenant rents, in other words, they were the wool of the country and the country, so since the imperial examination was popular, scholars flocked to it.

As long as you have fame, even if you can't be ranked first or second, as long as you are a lifter, you can be rich and prosperous for the rest of your life.

Even if you come from a poor background, you can change your life in one fell swoop.

Because the landlords had too much land in their hands, in order to pay less taxes, they would go to the local scholars who were promoted and put the land in their names to avoid taxes.

And the scholars and celebrities of the new middle school can hang a lot of fields.

Of course, not in vain.

The landlord also needs to pay a little price, such as sending money to the people, or taking out a part of the annual rent collection to pay the people, so that everyone can win.

And with the quota of lifting people, the landlord can continue to buy and grab more land in his hands, so it is becoming more and more intense, and the land annexation is becoming more and more serious.

In the end, it belongs to the people, and there is less and less land available for the state to collect taxes.

Under these manipulations, it is no wonder that the treasury can receive money.

The ministers' hearts were bright.

A few years ago, not long after His Majesty ascended the throne, he revealed the intention of land reform - the so-called land reform actually solved the problem of land annexation, so as to enrich the national treasury.

But everyone didn't expect His Majesty to really put it into action.

This is no ordinary industrial reform.

It is a major matter that involves the vested interests of the entire Ming interest group, in other words, His Majesty wants one person to oppose the entire Ming superstructure, even as the Son of Heaven, it will be very difficult.

Well, not the whole superstructure either.

At least the relatives of the Hang family and the Bai family are already the relatives of the Lu family, plus the relatives of the Wu family in the line of the Empress Dowager Wu, in this matter, they should support His Majesty Emperor Guang'an.

Especially Hang's relatives.

After all, when His Majesty Emperor Guang'an had no money, Hang Min and Hang Yu father and son even sold their fields and real estate to support, and now Hang will naturally continue to support His Majesty, after all, Hang has joined forces with His Majesty to form Hang's Construction Company, and the loss of interests in the field can be made up for through Hang's Construction Company.

The same is true of the relatives of the Lu family and the relatives of the Bai family, both of whom have a share of His Majesty's imperial merchant enterprises.

The crowd was silent.

It's a bit cold.

Hang Min saw that it was time for him to come forward, coughed dryly, and said, "The reason is so simple, in fact, after counting the past dynasties, except for the Great Song Dynasty, which died because of the nomads of Mobei, most of the fatal deaths of the rest of the dynasties were caused by land annexation, and it is no exaggeration to say that this was originally an unsolvable difficulty

The question is a difficult situation that any dynasty will face in the later stages, and no matter how powerful a king is, it will be difficult to fundamentally solve this problem, does Your Majesty have any ideas?"

This is to cooperate with Zhu Jianji, raise questions, and solve problems.

It can be said that there is a very tacit understanding.

Bai Gui got up and said: "This problem really has to be considered, although my Ming Dynasty is now prosperous, but the various systems after Taizu set the country, all allow the magnates and landlords to have the possibility of occupying a large amount of land, and this is also a necessary form of social development, rich and powerful magnates, rich and powerful, squires, their wealth is not just put on the land and real estate, this is what the people say about the richer the richer, so the previous cycle continues, the wealth of the people will be concentrated in the hands of this group of people, and the country will slowly run out of money."

The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Officials expressed their support!

There is a lack of Lu Yuan.

However, Lu Yuan, as the father-in-law of the country, has a status inferior to Bai Gui, and now he does not serve in Gyeonggi, and went to the local area to serve as the political envoy of Zuobu, who is the political envoy of the political envoy of the state, and the official of the feudal territory.

But his son, Lu Chunjing, is the direct person in charge of His Majesty's Daming Royal Power Company.

It is also highly reused.

In such a situation, Lu Yuan will definitely support Zhu Jianji.

Sure enough.

Among the members of the Lu clan, a person who served as a young secretary in Taichang Temple stood up and chimed in: "To be alarmist, if I don't solve this problem quickly in the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid that in a hundred and ten years, the household department will be even more stretched than today, and then the country will have no money for recuperation and development, and the reforms in education, medical care, and agriculture that Your Majesty implemented before will probably be wasted. I am afraid that I will starve for thousands of miles, and the people will not be able to survive, so how can the country survive, and the water can carry the boat or overturn the boat!"

That makes a lot of sense!

The ministers didn't know how to argue for a while, because this is the future that is visible to the naked eye, and if the state does not solve the problem of land annexation, then sooner or later such a situation will arise.

Zhu Jianji bowed slightly, "What the three Qing families said makes sense, so this is a problem related to the long-term stability of the country and the Ming Dynasty, no king can solve this problem before, because in the previous dynasties, all the treasury income, the income of the people and the magnates were firmly bound to the land, but now, under the promotion of the Ming Dynasty, the way for the people and the rich and powerful families to make money is not limited to the land, all kinds of industrial industries, has been a maritime trade firm, In such a situation, for the long-term peace and stability of the country, and for the long-term struggle for a better future for the family, the powerful, the rich, the family, and the scholars can make a little sacrifice and return the land to the people, which seems to be a feasible plan, what do you think?"