"Daddy."

"Huh?"

"Are you done with your business?"

"Nope. There is no end to government affairs."

"Oh, then I didn't finish my homework. Because you can't finish your homework."

me.

Zhu Youzhen wanted to beat people.

In his hand, he also sped up his movements and quickly assembled the floor fan.

"Come on, come on, Wang Companion, send the floor fan to the prince's study!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I'll send someone to send it."

"You go yourself, carry it!"

Let your old boy just laugh at me.

finally sent Zhu Cihong away, Zhu Youzhen rubbed his head and sat on the chair.

I don't know if it was influenced by him, and I was exposed to too many new things that didn't belong to this era. Zhu Cihong, who is only more than five years old this year, has become a problem baby. I can't go on like this, and I'll send him to elementary school next year.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head, put this happy worry behind him, and began to deal with the backlog of notes in the past two days.

The current Ming Dynasty has a very large territory, and it looks unprecedentedly strong, but in fact there are many things.

Widespread disasters continue and continue to spread southward.

Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places have experienced drought to varying degrees. In the past few years, Zhu Youjian has been asking the Ministry of Industry to build water conservancy projects. Dredging of rivers, construction of irrigation equipment, and drilling of wells in densely populated areas. The effect is naturally there, but in the face of the power of nature, it can only be said that I tried my best.

Fortunately, in recent years, the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes has been promoted well under his strong pressure, coupled with the fact that the spread of land into acres has slowed down the speed of land annexation, and the most important thing is that Zhu Youzhen now has money and grain in his hands, and the capital flow of the global system is quite huge, and grain from Luzon, Taiwan and other places has been continuously shipped to the mainland.

It gives him the ability to continue to build infrastructure and factories everywhere. On the one hand, it can be regarded as a cash-for-work grant, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as laying a good foundation for the future living environment.

Therefore, the living environment of the common people is much stronger than before, if it is said that there are no starving to death and freezing to death, it is certainly impossible, but it is not so that the vast majority of people will not survive and rebel recklessly.

Speaking of taxation, Li Zicheng, director of the State Administration of Revenue, made a very hateful proposal last year.

The core of apportionment into mu is to only collect taxes according to the acres of land, but Director Li believes that this is unreasonable. So when he returned to Beijing, he found His Majesty the Emperor.

Here's what it looked like:

"Your Majesty, in the process of collecting taxes in the countryside, the minister found that collecting taxes according to the acres of land seems reasonable, but in fact it is not very fair."

"Oh? What kind of unfair law? Isn't it fair to pay as much tax as you have as much land as you have?"

"Your Majesty, when I went to the localities to inspect the taxes, I found that those who did not pay taxes in the past were often the local gentry. These people relied on their fame and fortune to seize one acre of fertile land. Just like the wang clan of a prefecture in Shandong, people give the nickname "Ding Yi County". This means that he owns more land than any county.

A person like this who pays taxes by the mu seems fair, but it just makes him a little more painful. The top county is still the top county, and it can't hurt the roots. But the people who should have no land still have no land in their hands, and although they have no land and do not pay taxes, they also cannot eat.

Therefore the minister said, "This is not fair."

Although Li Zicheng is the deputy director of the Daming State Taxation Bureau, he is still a peasant class at his roots, and his short career as an official has not yet allowed him to fully integrate into the landlord class of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, his thinking is still stuck in the opposite side of the landlord class. Always trying to scrape something off them, now it seems that the tax alone is no longer enough to satisfy his appetite.

"But the land they own may be the accumulation of three or five generations, or even more than ten generations. I can't take back all their land and give it to the people, can I?"

"That's natural, and that's what the minister thinks. For this reason, the minister pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a good idea."

"Tell me about it."

"If the minister is wrong,

Your Majesty will make atonement for your sins."

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"We can do a ladder of taxation."

"Tiered Tax?" Zhu Youzhen's head immediately buzzed, and his eyes were different when he saw Li Zicheng.

You can't be a book buddy, right?

Can you come up with this trick?

Li Zicheng saw that Zhu Youzhen did not react, thinking that he did not understand the meaning of ladder taxation, so he continued to explain it to him.

"The so-called ladder taxation is based on the number of acres of land owned. For example, if the Zhang family owns five acres of land, it will be levied according to the ordinary tax amount. However, the Li family has 150 acres of land, so it cannot be levied according to the ordinary tax amount, and it must be raised by one to two percent on the original basis.

Generally speaking, the more land you own, the higher the proportion of taxes you pay, so that the price of the land can be lowered! Only those who have no land to plant can hope to buy back their fields."

"What if there were 10,000 acres of land?"

"At least 50% of the harvest!"

"What if it's 100,000 acres of land?"

"At least sixty percent."

"Li Zicheng."

"Huh?"

"My Imperial Village, remove the tenant farmers, remove seeds, phone bills and other expenses, and calculate it all year round, I'm afraid the planting will not be enough to pay taxes for you, right?"

"This—" Li Zicheng was stunned.

He forgot that this guy in front of him was the biggest landlord in Daming!

"Your Majesty is angry, and the minister is not thoughtful."

"I'm not angry, you can think of this idea, and you can think of it as wholeheartedly working for the welfare of the people. It's just that it will be very difficult to implement it at this time, so don't leave now, I will call a few ministers over, and you can tell them what you think."

！！！

Li Zicheng was taken aback.

This is to make him carry the pot on his back, and whether he can implement it or not at that time, he is definitely scolded by the landlord class in this world.

It is estimated that his family's ancestral grave will not be able to be saved.

He looked at Zhu Youzhen with an almost pleading gaze, hoping that he would change his mind, but Zhu Youzhen was indifferent and drank tea and watched the twists and turns.

Two quarters of an hour later, several auxiliary ministers of the cabinet arrived.

"Your Majesty, the generals and others have been summoned together, but what is the important matter to discuss?" After finishing the salute, Fan Jingwen saw that Zhu Youzhen didn't mean to open his mouth, so he took the lead in asking.

[In view of the general environment,

"It doesn't matter. Director Li just had an idea for me, and I think it's interesting. I'd like to hear what you think. Li Qing, you tell them a few words."

Li Zicheng's palms were already so nervous that he was sweating.

Say a few words to a few top elders, that's what I said.

"Xia Guan has seen a few elders. And so it is, this is the thing..."

"What!? Tiered tax payment?"

Before Li Zicheng's words were finished, several people shouted with glaring eyes.

They felt that Li Zicheng's words didn't need to be finished, after all, as long as it involved taxes, they should be ready.

It's already been implemented to spread the land into the mu, and it's not ruthless enough? What else do you want?

"Ahem~"

Outsider Zhu Youzhen coughed lightly, and only a few people realized that they were in some tenses, and then their tone of voice softened.

"Dare to ask Director Li, what is the explanation for the ladder tax you mentioned?"

"That is, those who have more land will receive more, and those who have less land will receive less."

"How much more is overcharged?"

"According to Li Qing's meaning, it is a lot more than before. If the land at home exceeds 10,000 acres, you have to pay 50% of the tax." Zhu Youzhen saw that Li Zicheng couldn't get to the point, and couldn't help but interject. "Fan Qing, how much land does your family have?"

"This, the minister's family doesn't have much land, but there are still seven or eight hundred acres." Fan Jingwen hesitated for a moment and told the truth.

"Seven or eight hundred, it's not enough, but according to Li Zicheng's ladder to pay taxes, your taxes will have to be two out of ten. But it's a lot."

Fan Jingwen didn't speak, it stands to reason that if you have any plans, you have to give me a breath in advance, right? What should I say about a surprise attack?

More or not more?

"But the most bitter thing is me. My Huangzhuang calculates, removing labor and chemical fertilizers, it is equivalent to working in vain all year round. But the treasury is indeed more abundant, and you can tell me, is this a good thing or a bad thing?"