Zhu Jingyuan faced his grandfather Zhu Zhongliang's question, and replied as a matter of course:

This is actually the same as simplifying words and vernacular Chinese, which is to break the monopoly of knowledge and rules.

"In order to reduce the difficulty of the lower class people to acquire knowledge, and reduce the difficulty of the lower class people to understand and master the rules of society.

"These plans, like the substitution of titles, the collection of gift taxes, inheritance taxes, and progressive income taxes, are all aimed at slowing down the rate of class solidification and increasing the circulation of people between different classes.

"Avoid dividing society into a few classes that have no contact with each other.

To put it bluntly, it gives people at the bottom the opportunity and possibility to become people at the top through hard work, so that they believe that they can also greatly change their situation within the existing rules.

"And thus avoid the possibility of them turning to violent resistance......

"The ultimate goal is to maintain long-term social stability, which should actually be the highest goal of the Ming royal family."

When Zhu Zhongliang heard this explanation, he couldn't help but nod again and again:

"It's good that you have this awareness, but since you have this awareness, the current planning is not thorough enough.

"The rules of your imperial solar calendar are still too complicated.

"The setting of spring, summer, autumn, and winter in a separate column, as well as the setting that is used as a single decade for these days, actually has no meaning for real ordinary people, but increases the complexity.

"Workers in the city are not too sensitive to changes in solar terms, and they don't need to farm for a long time."

Zhu Jingyuan was obviously stunned for a moment, and then suddenly said:

"I understand that although I am trying to avoid it, I still unconsciously show the hypocrisy of intellectuals.

"The solar calendar for the city and the workers should be more simple and crude.

"Directly divide the year into four quarters, one quarter is divided into nineties, and one tenth is fixed as ten days.

"Thirty-six months are a total of three hundred and sixty days, and the remaining five days of the year are the New Year's holiday, and the leap year is one more day of annual leave.

"And, for the average person, it only takes a leap every four years to be announced.

"The setting of 128 years without leap only needs to be explained in middle school history class.

"Ordinary people may not be able to experience a hundred and twenty-eight leap in their lifetime.

"When it appears, it will inevitably appear in various newspapers and broadcasts.

"Months can still be kept, but the month is fixed at thirty days.

"So exactly one quarter is three months, and one month is exactly thirty years.

"In daily life, we can talk about a certain month of the imperial calendar, and all kinds of plans of the imperial court and government-run manufacturers are mainly formulated by quarter and ten, and the month is only used as an auxiliary parameter to facilitate the positioning of the time of the year.

At the same time, the system of two days off every ten years was introduced, so that the new calendar could quickly spread with more holidays.

"If intellectuals want to show their superiority, they only need to calculate and introduce the solar terms in their daily lives.

"The imperial court also continued to publish the standard calendar for each year, marking the solar terms and festivals for easy reference."

Zhu Zhongliang listened and nodded again:

"Yes, if you want to make knowledge and rules as accessible as possible, you need to make them as simple and easy to understand as possible.

"If you want a new thing to be rolled out quickly, you have to make it profitable for the target group.

"You write out all these thoughts, compile them into a report and send them to your father.

"If he wants to get involved, he will do it in the past few years, and if he doesn't want to mix, he will leave it to you to toss."

Zhu Jingyuan casually agreed, and continued to chat with his grandfather to discuss the details of various ideas.

The next day, Zhu Jingyuan spent a day writing down his ideas and sending them to his father.

Zhu Jianyan received and checked his son's report during the afternoon of work, and then he was directly stunned.

In Zhu Jianyan's opinion, these things mentioned by this kid are too outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that his father also coaxed him.

The grandfather and grandson unanimously agreed to build several halls more than 200 meters high.

Yes, several, not one, because in the entire Forbidden City system, there are several important palaces of different natures.

Fengtian Temple is the place where major ceremonies are held, Taimiao is the place where ancestors are worshipped, and there is also the Great Hall of Enjoyment of the Temple of Heaven.

Unlike the church towers of the Taixi people, which are all tied together, the traditional buildings of Shenzhou are separated.

Zhu Jianyan just wanted to throw away this report.

Why build more than 200 meters in these places that can't be used a few times a year......

And then there is even more outrageous should be Tianfu, overthrowing and rebuilding the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, as well as simultaneously repairing the general history.

After Zhu Jianyan finished reading it all, he finally couldn't help but throw it on the table.

"This pile, one by one, all reveal a great joy, or you kid do it yourself......"

After chattering in his heart for a while, Zhu Jianyan picked up the report again.

Patiently, I read the above assumptions and purposes again.

"Parenting......"

After Zhu Jianyan was silent for a long time, he asked his secretary to draft an order for him and issued a series of orders.

The first is to prepare for the southern tour of Tianfu.

This time I didn't go to see it, but it was more formal, and I was going to live in Yingtianfu for a while.

It is necessary to bring the Minister of Jiuqing, as well as the General Administration Department and other direct officials.

Let Ying Tianfu also prepare.

The preparation time is relatively wide, and the departure will not be set off until two months later.

Then it was to notify the Qin Tianjian, the Ministry of Construction, and the royal consortium to explore the Laoshan area in the north of the Yingtianfu River.

Prepare to invest in the construction of a new royal palace.

The higher the height of the main hall, the better......

Much like later generations, the built-up areas of Yingtianfu are mainly concentrated in the areas east and south of the Yangtze River.

Because Nanjing often served as the capital of the southern secession regime.

Since it is a southern regime, it means that the north has been lost, and those who come from the north are enemies.

If the city is placed in Jiangbei, unless it can launch the effect of a backwater battle, it is waiting for the army from the north to attack.

Therefore, for a long time, the city of Nanjing was located south of the Yangtze River.

Even in the dynasty of the great unification of the north and the south, the urban area located in the south of the city was a ready-made built-up area, and the historical inertia was difficult to reverse.

Moreover, Jiangnan is also more prosperous than Jiangbei.

At present, there are only two county towns in the north and west of the Yangtze River, Jiangpu and Liuhe.

Although placed in other places, these two counties are also quite wealthy, but they are far worse than the prefecture city, the provincial capital, and the capital.

The new official palace that Zhu Jingyuan planned to build was to be placed in Jiangpu County, west of the Yangtze River, which corresponds to Yingtianfu City, under the Laoshan Forest Convention in the jurisdiction of Pukou District of Nanjing.

In the future, the new Central Government Building, which will be the administrative center of the Ming Central Court, will be placed outside the palace, and of course it will also be placed in Jiangpu County, west of the Yangtze River.

The purpose is simple, to separate the administrative center and the economic and cultural center by referring to the old and new cities of Suncheonbo.

However, unlike Beijing, even if the administrative center is located in the northwest of the Yangtze River, it is impossible to restrict the construction of various civilian facilities in the Jiangbei area, and at most a certain area is set aside.

The existence of this administrative center can actually drive the development and construction of the surrounding areas, just pulling the Jiangbei region of Jianghuai Province.

Finally, a separate order was issued to begin the design of a new central court office area.

The height of the building was relaxed to 80 meters.

The political logic of the Ming Dynasty is still open, and most of the affairs flow according to specific rules.

Especially after Emperor Sejo, the scope of the newspaper was expanded again.

Unless there is a real need for confidentiality, it will basically be announced to the world on a regular basis.

Although it is only a general explanation and will not be too detailed, it will let people who follow politics know what is going on.

What's more, what Zhu Jianyan is doing is to publicize it widely and deliberately cause a sensation.

Therefore, the order was directly and publicly issued to the relevant departments.

The central court of the Ming Dynasty was in an uproar.

The "the higher, the better" palace and the eighty-meter-high imperial office building, these news are really too exciting.

Then the reaction of these officials is just like Zhu Zhongliang's analysis.

Although they were all surprised, no one immediately jumped out to oppose it, but some people began to inquire about the technology of building high-rise buildings.

The value of architectural design and engineering construction personnel has begun to rise invariably.

Then there are the building materials, from reinforced concrete to paint and wood, and the market prices are also starting to rise slowly.

Basically, no one thought that Zhu Jianyan might have to return to Tianfu.

It's just a natural guess that Zhu Jianyan will retire in a few years, probably because he wants to go to Yingtianfu to retire.

Now I started to build a palace in the old mountain of Jiangbei, and I can use it when I retire.

Now that he is touring the south, he may want to go and see it in advance, and he is also like the Emperor Taishang, who wants to see his son.

Everything is very logically reasonable.

As a result, the private housing prices and land prices in major cities in Daming have risen by a cut.

It's just that the current land and real estate, which are mainly operated by the royal family and government-run manufacturers, are stuck by the ticket and purchase restriction system.

So there was no massive rise.

However, the relevant new public opinion has also quickly suppressed the heat of tax reform.

Some people even suspect that Zhu Jianyan wants to collect taxes just to repair the garden.

In this complex and chaotic atmosphere, the discussion of tax reform entered the next stage before Zhu Jianyan went south.

Zhu Jianyan controlled the forces of all parties in the court and completed a new round of compromise and compromise.

As Zhu Zhongliang expected, the basic general tax exemption condition was changed from no illegal record at all to no criminal record, and at the same time, no tax evasion record was required.

The retrospective time has also been changed from lifetime before the time of occurrence to within the last 10 years.

However, since it is a compromise, it is impossible for only one side to make concessions.

The terms of tax exemption have become more relaxed, and the amount of tax exemption has been reduced at the same time.

The general duty-free point was lowered from 250,000 to 50,000 silver bills.

Fifty thousand silver banknotes are equivalent to five million yuan in later generations, and professional treasurers and senior managers will be able to save these properties

It is equivalent to reducing the inheritance tax from pure to nobles and proprietors to the category of senior white-collar workers.

In this way, the revised scheme is that the inheritance below 50,000 silver bills, as long as both the heir and the decedent have no criminal record in the past ten years and no record of tax evasion, they do not need to pay taxes.

The portion above 50,000 silver bills will be reduced by half.

The tax rate is 5% for the portion between 50,000 and 250,000 silver notes.

The tax rate is 10 percent for the portion between 250,000 and 1,000,000 silver notes.

The portion between one million and five million silver notes is taxed at fifteen percent.

For the portion above 5,000,000 banknotes, the tax rate is 20%.

And the part of this general reduction and exemption has been changed from paying first and then returning to direct exemption.

In order to avoid the trouble of paying taxes on loans in the current year and repaying taxes in the second year.

Because this part of the proportion is also fixed, and the conditions are also rigid, it will not affect if it is not levied directly.

For the rest, the tax refund specially approved by the political envoy, the Ministry of Rites, and the emperor still has to be paid first and then refunded.

The relevant provisions of the payment plan also directly refer to the advice of the Emperor.

For equity-type estates, the shares can be surrendered directly in proportion.

At the same time, Daming Bank specially opened inheritance tax loans to provide loans to heirs who do not have sufficient liquidity.

There is also the capital push order proposed by Zhu Zhongliang.

If the inheritance is divided equally among five or more heirs, the inheritance tax shall be calculated at 75% of the amount of the inheritance.

If the estate is divided equally among more than 10 heirs, the inheritance tax shall be calculated according to 50% of the amount of the estate.

Finally, new additional exemptions have been added.

If the heir does not have a house in his or her name, the only house acquired by inheritance is not subject to tax.

If an ordinary person already lives in a house in the name of his parents, the situation that the children will be evicted if they cannot pay the inheritance tax after the death of the parents is avoided by this provision.

In terms of gift tax, the conditions for basic general tax exemption were revised at the same time as the inheritance tax, from no criminal record for life to no criminal record and tax evasion record within the last year.

The basic universal exemption node has also been reduced from 10,000 silver banknotes to 1,000 silver banknotes.

For those who qualify, the gift tax of less than 1,000 silver bills is exempted.

Gifts of less than 1,000 silver bills per year are originally tax-exempt.

Therefore, unless large amounts of assets are regularly donated to others, this general exemption for those who meet the requirements has little impact on the significance of the tax threshold.

It is also because the corresponding conditions are low enough, and within three years is enough.

For gifts of more than 1,000 silver bills, the tax rate is also reduced by half.

Between 1,000 and 10,000 silver notes, the effective tax rate is 5%.

The tax rate is 10% for the portion between 10,000 and 100,000 silver notes.

The tax rate is 20 percent for the portion between 100,000 silver notes and 1 million.

The payment method is still the donor's payment.

Since you have the ability to give large assets to others, you have the ability to prepare the corresponding taxes in advance, otherwise don't toss around.

Other provisions of the gift tax have also been similarly adjusted to the inheritance tax.

However, the plan proposed by Zhu Jingyuan when he first discussed with Zhu Zhongliang was added.

Ordinary people can choose to pass on part of their assets to their children before their deaths under the impartiality of the imperial court notary office.

This part of the tax is not levied according to the gift tax rate, but according to the inheritance tax.

However, once the gift is completed, it cannot be refunded again, otherwise a gift tax will be levied.

Moreover, any person and his or her specific heir will only have one chance to inherit during their lifetime.

In other words, parents can only share the property of each child once while he is alive.

Otherwise, they will have to pay gift tax, or make a will before their death, and the child will be able to take another copy according to the will after his death.

(End of chapter)