The emperor wants to reform the tax, of course they know, but there are other people who operate this matter, and most of the people on the scene are not involved, I heard that it is mainly the household department and the Jinyi guard who are doing it.

Xia Yuanji was energetic at this time, and immediately stood up, and his voice was extremely loud.

"According to Your Majesty's distinction, there are four main types of taxes in the country: agricultural tax, real estate tax, commercial tax, and customs tariff."

"There are three types of tax in Beijing: agricultural tax, commercial tax, and real estate tax."

"At present, there are 1.28 million mu of grain land in Jingshi."

At this time, the size of Nanjing City was about 400,000 mu, but many nobles had fields outside the city, including other counties in the eight counties of Yingtianfu.

"I'm interrupted." Zhu Gaoxu suddenly thought of something.

Xia Yuanji was stunned, but he didn't say anything, waiting for him.

"I only have 10,000 acres of grain fields now, except for the 10,000 acres of Huangzhuang's fields, all the other Huangzhuang official fields have been rewarded and sealed, and when the new 'Daming Field Land Certificate' is done, the grain fields of the whole country will belong, and the dust will settle."

The emperor told them that he had set an example and had only left 10,000 acres of land, and that there would be no land to be given to the new vassal king and his children in the future.

"According to His Majesty's tax system, all grain fields must be taxed, and the people under five acres are exempt from tax."

"Based on an annual output of two stones, a tax of 380,000 stones can be collected throughout the year."

The ministers were shocked.

This is the first time that the Ming Dynasty has received so much tax and grain in Beijing.

In the past, the fields of the Jingshi were basically owned by nobles, and they were either feudal officials or official fields, including school fields, etc., and they could not collect any taxes at all.

"Some time ago, by the joint investigation of Jinyiwei and the Ministry of Households, the statistics of shops large and small in Beijing that need to pay taxes are 2,162."

Xia Yuanji looked up at everyone at this time: "Blocking Dang and the Red Mansion are not among them." ”

"The annual tax shall be 157,68 taels."

The big taxpayers here are all shops that sell silk and flannel cloth, high-end restaurants, white sugar and refined salt, etc.

Like some blacksmiths, butchers, etc., they collect very little tax.

Anyway, the more profitable the shop, the more taxes it collects.

The grain tax and commercial tax were not much, and the ministers did not think so.

But when I turn my head and think about it, this is just a city in Yingtianfu, and all the cities and counties in the Ming Dynasty have been put away?

"There are also two kinds of red mansion tax, one is the license fee."

Xia Yuan Jidao, His Majesty held an auction at the beginning of the month, ten licenses, a total of 9.42 million taels.

"Ahh

Some officials were listless before, probably feeling that as a high-ranking official of the imperial court, they were working under the kind of flies and dogs that negotiated with the merchants, and they did not understand it very much.

Now when they suddenly heard this money, everyone's eyes widened and their expressions were incredulous.

"Of course, this is a ten-year royalty, which is equivalent to more than 900,000 per year."

"It's the taxes that matter." Xia Yuanji said with a smile: "For the time being, everyone who has taken a license has already reported the scale and size to the Department of Literature and Art of the Ministry of Households. ”

"Preliminary estimates."

"Ten licenses, 300,000 taels of silver less per year."

"In this area, the imperial court is in Beijing, and the annual income can reach more than one million taels."

Xia Yuanji's eyebrows fluttered now, and his hands danced: "According to Your Majesty's push--wide, if the entire Ming Dynasty can do a good job in this matter, plus the commercial tax, then the annual income of the whole country will -——。 ”

"If you add the sea trade tariffs, tsk, this is terrible."

Xia Yuanji was extremely excited, and now he finally had money.

Zhu Gaoxu was proud: "This is just a tentative estimate, how much can be collected, it will be clear in a few years, the top priority is to speed up legislation and promotion, as long as taxes can be collected in all places, the imperial court will have money." ”

"If the court has money, it can do things with confidence, and it can also give more bonuses to the ministers."

When the ministers heard the last sentence, they couldn't help but laugh.

"Song Li." Zhu Gaoxu said suddenly.

"The minister is here." Song Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, hurriedly stepped forward.

"The imperial court has been making a little money lately, and I want to dredge the river." Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do what Zhu Di did in the original history, dredge the canal, and open up the transportation from Jiangnan to Beiping.

"What?" Xia Yuanji's face darkened when he heard this, and he was smiling just now, and his face darkened in an instant.

"Your Majesty, rest and recuperate." Xia Yuanji called directly.

Now he doesn't call it no money, he calls it recuperation.

The original history was done by Zhu Di, and Song Li was also responsible, and the "History of Song Li in the Ming Dynasty" recorded: "Where the people of Shandong and Xuzhou, Yingtian, and Zhenjiang are 300,000, and the rent is 1.1 million stones, and the project is 20 years."

At that time, the river was mainly widened and the riverbed was deepened by three feet. Dams are built in the north and south directions of Nanwang to store and discharge water in a timely manner. It solves the problem of "seventy-two shallow" from Nanwang to Xuzhou.

And set up a "water tank" along the river, that is, today's reservoir, built a sluice gate and a dam, effectively regulate the water volume of the canal, the Ming and Qing dynasties will pass the river has been kept unimpeded, and the reservoir is very related to the dispensing.

In the thirteenth year of Yongle, Chen Xuan supervised the dredging and management of the Huai River, and began to dig the Qingjiangpu project.

Therefore, in the last period of time, Zhu Gaoxu still has to follow some of Zhu Di's old paths, and the Northern Expedition can be suspended and recuperate, but dredging the river and cleaning up the Jiangpu will not only be conducive to Cao Yun, but also conducive to military transportation, and can also increase the risk of coping with disasters in various places, and prevent floods and droughts.

And under the condition that Daming is now the strongest sailor and wants to continue to develop stronger, Zhu Gaoxu must give priority to doing this.

Xia Yuanji said again: "Suzhou is building water conservancy, can you wait for Suzhou to finish the work before doing it?"

"The affairs of Suzhou are all left to the businessmen, and the imperial court does not have to bother." Zhu Gaoxu said: "I didn't let me do it immediately, the household department and the Ministry of Industry did a good job of research together, well, it is to investigate first, how many people, how many craftsmen, how many grains and stones, how many silver taels, and how much time to use." ”

"The imperial court pays the people's wages and encourages the local people to sign up and get it first, which is not a disturbance to the people, and it does not conflict with the recuperation business." Zhu Gaoxu said: "The two of you will make joint preparations first, and then start working in the spring next year." ”

Zhu Gaoxu finally made a final decision, and he would definitely do this.

Xia Yuanji's face was still dark, but he didn't say anything.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu said angrily and funny: "Xia Butang, this is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people. ”

"Obey." Xia Yuanji had no choice but to say.

Of course, Xia Yuanji knew that dredging the canal and repairing Jiangpu was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but he was really reluctant to go out again when he had just arrived and had not yet covered his pockets with hot food and silver.

Today, Zhu Gaoxu and his ministers discussed a lot of things, and the main discussion was that the tax collection would be carried out throughout the country one after another, and if all of them could be done according to the model of the Beijing Division, the counties, prefectures, and prefectures of the Ming Dynasty would add up to more than 1,400, and the average tax collection of each county and prefecture would be 50,000 yuan, and at least 70 million yuan would be collected.

At that time, the ministers were stunned by this number.

But the number is only a temporary illusion, and how much can really be collected depends on the actual situation, and the main ones at present are the red mansion tax and commercial tax, as well as the blockage tax to be collected in the future.

In the future, Zhu Gaoxu also plans to block the stalls in various places and auction special licenses in the same auction house style.

In thousands of years of Chinese history, only the annual income of the two Song Dynasty reached more than 100 million yuan, and the commercial tax revenue exceeded the agricultural tax, and only at the end of the Qing Dynasty did the industrial and commercial tax exceed the agricultural tax.

All the other dynasties were dominated by the oppression of peasants and agricultural taxes.

Therefore, if Zhu Gaoxu continues to do this, plus customs duties, etc., it will not take a few years to make the income from commercial taxes exceed agricultural taxes.

This is a milestone in progress.

Zhu Gaoxu gave an order on the spot, when the officials who faithfully implemented the policies of the imperial court should be reused, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Jinyiwei went to the counties to evaluate and investigate, and all officials who violated the yang and refused to carry out the orders of the imperial court were beheaded and their families were exiled.

Zhu Gaochu didn't kill anyone after entering the Beijing Division, and everyone said that they were benevolent at first, but in the end, after killing Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, in Fengtian Palace, everyone knew that Zhu Gaochu was not easy to mess with, and he was not as merciful as expected.

Now that Zhu Gaoxu has released cruel words, the officials present certainly understand what they mean.

The emperor's determination to reform was very strong, and whoever stood in the way of his new policy was the enemy.

But this is not over, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the ministers, and said slowly: "I know that the preferential exemption for scholars has been canceled recently, and many scholars have opinions about the imperial court and me, and the officials are all scholars, teachers, classmates, and even relatives, so we must let them be vigilant, stay sober, and don't do things that I am disappointed in." ”

"Everyone must first understand that only by collecting all kinds of taxes can there be money to run the country and give everyone a high salary."

"Whoever stands in the way of collecting taxes will block the way of my and your wealth."

"But some of the ministers may be richer and don't care about the money."

"I'll put it another way, everyone may not be happy to hear it, but I still have to say ugly things in the front."

"When the Guo Heng case, one of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, occurred, Emperor Taizu Gao killed all the officials below the six squires in one go, and killed more than 10,000 officials before and after, and there were less than 20,000 officials in the entire Ming Dynasty at that time, and the civil officials were almost killed."

Hey, among the ministers, the younger ones may not know, but some of the older ones have experienced the events of the past, and their faces have changed greatly.

"So, this Da Ming, without anyone, is running the same."

"The world's scholars and civil officials have been killed, do you think Daming will die? Can I sit firmly? ”

The last sentence shocked the surroundings, and everyone felt the emperor's determination to reform.

Xia Yuanji didn't say a word, and took the lead in kneeling: "Minister, obey Your Majesty's will." ”

"Long live Your Majesty." The ministers knelt down one after another and expressed their support.

Huang Huai knelt on the ground, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and finally remembered what Yang Rong said to him before he left the Jingshi: "The King of Han is not friendly to scholars. ”

When Zhu Gaoxu first entered Beijing, he was gentle everywhere, and after he gradually sat down in his position in the past two years, he finally showed his ferocious fangs.

But Zhu's worries are not unnecessary.

In ancient times, because communication was not developed, it was not uncommon to deceive the upper and lower, the emperor was in the deep palace, and usually knew nothing about the outside, so there was also the fact that the emperor thought that eating mutton once really cost a hundred taels of silver, and he did not even know the ordinary price.