Zhu Gaoxu also said that Fang Xiaoru was also taken care of by the King of Shu who was also lost in Sichuan back then, and Song He, the governor of Najiading Prefecture, also praised Uncle Eleven.

Uncle Eleventh respects literati students, has noble morals, and outstanding talents, compared to those uncles who don't know a few big characters, Gao Xu admires him the most.

Lao Zhu himself should not be able to read a few words, but he attaches great importance to readers, so he is also very concerned about the study of his children and grandchildren, of course, most of them have not studied hard, that is, Zhu Gaoxu prefers his father Zhu Di to study in Beijing, and often teases Li Jinglong, and his mind is not on studying.

Zhu Chun's heart is still beautiful when he listens, after all, among Lao Zhu's sons, he thinks he is the most talented.

In the "Collection of Xianyuan Rui", a number of documents written by Zhu Chun to Chen Nanbin are included, Chen Nanbin is a great Confucian at that time, and Zhu Chun can write to him, it must be a bit level.

But Zhu Chun also faintly heard the meaning of Zhu Gaoxu's words, outstanding talent is in the back, and noble character is in the front.

Of course, Zhu Chun also felt that he had a good moral character, after all, the people who befriended him were all bachelors and Confucians, or famous generals like Qu Neng.

The two chatted for a while, but they didn't mention this uprising, and after a while, Zhu Chun opened his mouth to invite the three of them to a banquet and let them stay for dinner.

Zhu Gaoxu said about eating, and then I will talk about it alone.

Yes, when business came, Zhu Chun glanced at him quietly, and then got up slowly.

He took Zhu Gaoxu to a house in the side hall, and before they entered, Zhou Hu took the soldiers and horses to check again.

Zhu Chun's expression was a little unsightly at this time, did he not trust him?

But thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxu now has hundreds of thousands of troops and is fighting for the world, so it is normal to be careful.

The uncle and nephew each found a place to sit down, and there were only two people in the room.

In fact, before this meeting, the two had not met a few times, they had met before, and they had hardly said anything, Zhu Gaoxu was still young at that time, and at most he called him Uncle Eleven.

But for some reason, when Zhu Chun saw Zhu Gaochu this time, he still felt a little cordial, and he could talk a lot with Zhu Gaoxu.

He quickly understood why, it was this nephew who was not simple and could speak well.

"Gao Xu, you say, do you want to ask Uncle Eleven for help?" Zhu Chun said casually, while thinking to himself, if he asked the signature to support him to overthrow Zhu Di, how should I refuse?

Zhu Chun thought that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do this.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said slowly: "During the Hongwu period, the Ming clan was fifty-seven people, and the imperial grandfather divided fifty or sixty vassal kings and built fifty palaces. ”

Zhu Chun didn't know what was going on, but he listened quietly.

"Up to now, Zhu Di is in power, there are nearly 100 clans in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be more and more in the future, at this rate, two or three hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty will have at least hundreds of thousands of clans."

Zhu Chun thought about it for a while, nodded and smiled: "It's this reason, as long as I am in the Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations, there will definitely be more and more of the Ming Clan." ”

"Horn" Zhu Gaoxu patted his thigh and said with a smile: "So Gao Xu said that the eleventh uncle who has read books and is talented is different from other uncles and uncles, and he can be reasonable." ”

“。” Zhu Chun thought to himself, don't put a high hat on me, just say whatever you want.

"How much land does Taizu give to Uncle Eleven?" Zhu Gaoxu's tone changed suddenly.

“。” Zhu Chun was stunned for a while, and then said: "When I became a vassal, I gave 20,000 hectares, and then I gave some more one after another, and when my father Wang ascended the throne, I rewarded some more, and Uncle Eleven bought some himself." ”

The Ming Dynasty had a habit that when the new emperor ascended the throne, he would reward the clans of the world with a batch, and the clans had more and more land and wealth, so this habit would definitely be changed by Zhu Gaoxu in the future.

"And now?" Zhu Gaoxu asked quietly.

"More than 33,000 hectares." Zhu Chun said quietly.

Ni Niang's, Zhu Gaoxu secretly scolded, more than 3 million acres.

"You don't have to pay taxes." Zhu Gaoxu asked.

The more Zhu Chun listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, because he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to talk to him about these things.

But Zhu Gaochu said that he was of noble character, and Zhu Chun had to endure it and deal with it slowly, and he estimated that Zhu Gaochu would soon talk about the subject: "Huangzhuang has never been taxed. He reminded him that this was the Imperial Village.

Zhu Gaoxu sighed: "I heard that Taizu also set the commercial tax of the Chengdu Tax Division as a large amount of daily income for the Shu Palace. ”

This income has even affected people's livelihoods. In the 2nd year of Hongzhi (1489), Sichuan suffered a famine, and the imperial court persuaded the Shu Wangfu to "deduct land interest and tax for one year".

Zhu Chun's face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "It's not much." ”

But it didn't count.

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Among the kings, the income of the eleventh uncle can be the crown, and the wealth accumulated over the years will not be used up in a few lifetimes. ”

“。。” Zhu Chun thought to himself, could it be that this dog thing wants to beat my silver idea? He paid for the sergeants and officials, and there was no money?

At this time, he became vigilant and did not respond to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu continued: "Now at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, everyone can't see it. ”

"Dozens of hundreds of years later, the world is full of clans, clans have so many fields and wealth, and the common people have to pay heavy taxes, at that time, the imperial court may not be able to collect much tax, and the operation of the entire Ming Dynasty is a problem."

"Uncle Eleven is a knowledgeable person, I don't know if I can think of the future scene?"

Zhu Chun remained silent, and said lightly: "Dozens of years later, hundreds of years later, who can know, Gao Xu has been thinking for a long time." ”

Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu's next sentence shocked him.

"If Gao Xue becomes the emperor, he will have to restrict the clan in the future, Gao Xu's sons and daughters will no longer have so much land and wealth, and they will be guaranteed to live a better life than ordinary people, Gao Xu will feel that it is enough."

"Hiss" Zhu Chun gasped and looked at him with an incredulous expression, you haven't been an emperor yet, you dare to say such a big thing.

Of course Zhu Chun didn't believe it.

Your father and King Ning said that they would divide the world equally, and of course I didn't believe a word of your father and son.

He already roughly knew what Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do, his face was blue and very ugly.

"Gao Xu, you are a smart person, just say what you have." Zhu Chun said at this time: "Uncle Eleven is still willing to be reasonable. ”

He thought to himself, if Zhu Gaoxu is not too excessive, there are some things that can be discussed.

"Gao Xu wants to collect taxes on all the fields in the world, whether it is the imperial village or the feudal king, or the officials."

"Whoa" Zhu Chun stood up suddenly, stared at Zhu Gaoxu incredulously, and after a while, he quickly sat down again: "How do you want to collect Gaoxu?" He asked in a deep voice.

"Take the household as a unit, like the Shu Wangfu, even if it is one household, if the prince divides other places, another household."

"Households under 10 acres are exempt from tax."

"If the household is more than 10 acres to 20 acres, the tax is half percent."

"If the household is more than 20 acres to 100 acres, the tax will be 10%."

"More than 100 acres to 500 acres, the tax is half a percent."

"More than 500 acres to 1,000 acres, the tax is 20%."

"More than 1,000 mu to 10,000 mu, the tax is 30%."

"More than 10,000 acres, the tax is sixty percent."

Hey, Zhu Chun gasped again, you're robbing money.

Zhu Chun's millions of acres of land, according to Zhu Gaoxu's meaning, have to harvest sixty percent.

That's still a fart field, what's the use of him asking for so many fields.

Because the tenants who farm will have a part, and then pay sixty percent of the tax, he Zhu Chun is gone.

You just grabbed it, and if you change it to another vassal king, you will be scolded.

But Zhu Chun is a noble character and a cultural person, and he thinks that he wants to reason with Zhu Gaoxu and persuade him.

"The imperial court gives preferential treatment to officials and students, and if you do this, all the officials in the world will oppose you." How can you fight for the world?

Zhu Gaoxu said lightly: "The maximum exemption of the imperial court is only a few dozen stones, and I will double the officials, far exceeding this tax." ”

According to the imperial court's preferential exemption example, the Beijing officials were exempted from military service for a first-class basis with 30 stones, the number of people was 30 ding, and the number of foreign officials was halved, while Zhu Gaoxu doubled their salary, which was nearly 1,000 stones.

So these exemptions are negligible.

Zhu Chun was anxious, and said: "If you do this, the clan of the world, your uncles and brothers, who will support you?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said lightly: "I double the salary of the officials in the world, and add five dollars in silver to the millions of troops, who else do I need support?" ”

Zhu Chun said angrily: "Aren't you using your uncle's and uncle's money to buy people's hearts? ”

Why are you worse than your father, we are all relatives, Zhu Chun is very angry.

Zhu Gaoxu continued: "In the future, when the new emperor ascends the throne, he will not reward the clans. ”

"The emperor's sons and daughters, except for the crown prince, will each have only 1,000 acres of land, and they will never be added again."

"The prince's clan also has to pay taxes and return the land to the people, this is the truth of the Ming Dynasty and thousands of generations."

Zhu Gaoxu later set a thousand acres for each vassal king of the Ming clan.

1,000 acres is enough for a family to live well.

What's more, there is another Yulu.

Zhu Gaoxu believed that it was best to collect heavy taxes in the early Ming Dynasty, because by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the landlord class had merged with the officials of the imperial court, and their interests were linked, and it was already very difficult to move them, unless they were killed like the Manchus.

Now the status of businessmen is still very low, and the interests of officials and landlords are not tied together, Lao Zhu and Zhu Di both like to move people, and move the rich people and businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River to other places.

Therefore, at this time, the resistance to heavy taxation will be very small, or even none.

The only obstacle is these clans with huge lands.

Bang, Zhu Chun shot the case at this time: "I still care about the Ming Dynasty, I only care about the present, I don't pay taxes, what do you want to do?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu also stood up at this time and said, "Not only do you have to pay taxes, but you also have to give back the commercial taxes to the local political envoys." ”

"Hahaha." Zhu Chun laughed: "Do you have the ability to send troops to rob it?" ”

He didn't believe that Zhu Gaochu dared to make a move against him, there are so many vassal kings in the world, Zhu Gaochu wants to do this, and everyone will rise up against him.

Isn't this just another 'rebellion of the eight kings', no, it's a rebellion of dozens of kings.

"Uncle Eleven, don't be angry, let's go, let's go back." Zhu Gaoxu smiled, and then followed Zhu Chun back to the hall just now.

There were many people in the hall, and everyone was obviously very angry when they saw Zhu Chun's expression, and it was estimated that the two should not have talked about it.

Zhu Gaoxu said at this time: "Call all the civil and military officials of Chengdu Prefecture." ”

"Hmph" Zhu Chun snorted coldly, he was not afraid of him, so many officials were here, Zhu Gaoxu didn't dare to do anything with him.

So, in about half an hour, all the civil and military officials in Chengdu, including the three divisions of Sichuan, arrived at the scene.

(End of chapter)