Emperor Wanli, who was the most greedy for money, let the Royal Printing Company desperately take business and do business desperately.

As long as you pay, you can print any book. It is said that even the propaganda materials for the rebellion of the Wenxiang Sect were printed by the Royal Press.

People have given money, this professional ethics and business reputation, this confusing review, is really quite touching.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's "Daming Forum" is not troublesome, and even makes a small profit.

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The emperor is really diligent, is the emperor going crazy? If you resign, you will be approved, and there will be no overnight stay.

The emperor is a little careful, these resignations are all Donglin princes, righteous men and gentlemen, and occasionally look at the wrong person, and the small punishment and the big admonition are enough.

The emperor is really wise, it's time for our five parties to gain power, and the Donglin Party should get out!

The tide and shock caused by Li Sancai's corruption case caused some people to be happy and some to be sad, some people to regret and some people to applaud.

But the emperor's employment is intriguing, there is no use of people from the three or five parties, and they are not from Hanlin, but directly promoted Tao Langxian and Li Qiyuan from the local governors to the cabinet, which can be described as extremely rare.

Tao Lang has no party first, if he is hard to score, he is good friends with Xiong Tingbi, and he can barely be regarded as a Chu party!

Li Qiyuan really has no party, and most of the time he serves as a foreign official, Henan, Shaanxi, and Nanjing have his work footprints, and he rarely works in the Beijing court.

Sun Chengzong is sympathetic to Donglin, but he is neutral; Yuan Keli is the same, although he is heavy and strong, and he is also known for his outspokenness, he opposes party fighting.

As for Yuan Shizhen and Lu Shanji, two fourth-grade foreign officials, who are proficient in professionalism, there is nothing to speculate.

"In the court, there are not Donglin, that is, the five parties, and there are very few people who have no party or are neutral. If the Holy One wants to abandon the party strife, I am afraid that there are not many people available! ”

"Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Fang Zhenru and others are not Donglin, and they are all entrusted with the important responsibilities of foreign officials."

"Looking down, the saint doesn't have to abandon Donglin, but he admires honest and loyal officials."

"Makes sense, makes sense. The saint hated greed very much, and the punishment of Li Sancai was an example. ”

"The saint is also very disgusted with profiteers, and the Tongzhou businessmen who are implicated with Li Sancai strictly punish the crime of bribery and tax evasion, and they are all severely punished, and they are all crying!"

"No business, no treachery, heavy agriculture over business, solid country."

In the teahouse, Gongshi was talking and analyzing. It is related to the palace examination, and even affects the obedience and disobedience in the officialdom in the future, which is very concerned.

"Brother Liu." Wen Anzhi took a sip of tea and asked Liu Lishun, who had just put down the newspaper, "Why are you so attentive to the Holy Shangqing Imperial Estate?" ”

Liu Lishun smiled and said, "I only think that the method of retreat of the Holy Lord is very profound, I don't know what the effect will be if it is pushed to the whole country?" ”

After a pause, Liu Lishun sighed and said: "In Henan, the land is mostly concentrated in the rich gentry and landlords, and the people who have no land or rent land are very miserable!" ”

Zhu Youxiao's retreat from Huangzhuang was based on some methods of later generations, all of which were aimed at landless peasant households, and the tax was paid in kind, or silver.

For the peasant households in the territory, the tax is collected according to "five points for the people and five points for the officials", and the land will be returned to the peasant households after five years. At first glance, the government is really dark, and the taxes are really heavy, but it is actually half a cent.

But there is a supplement later, this tax includes Ding Yin, Licha, Yao Gong and so on. In other words, the peasant households in the territory only pay half of the harvest and complete the work, and all other messy and exorbitant taxes are not collected.

According to the research of later generations, the agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty was not high, and the highest was not more than one-tenth of the output of the land, and it may even be only one-twentieth or one-thirtieth.

But why did the peasants live so hard at the end of the Ming Dynasty until they had to rise up in order to eat?

There are many reasons, and the frequent disasters of the Xiaoice River are the main ones, but man-made disasters cannot be ignored.

For example, this Ding silver is a poll tax. You have land or not, and you can't run away from the harvest. The larger the family, the heavier the burden.

Especially the peasants, whose income is not high, and the burden of a large family can be imagined; As for the rich gentry and landlords, that little tax is just a drop in the bucket for them.

Moreover, Ding Yin, as an important financial revenue, was allocated to local officials by the Ming court.

There is a lot of room for maneuver, and the magistrates can underreport the population and directly embezzle. The other is to accept bribes from the rich, so that their differences are reduced or even exempted, and passed on to the people.

Let's talk about the physical conversion of silver in a whip law implemented by Zhang Juzheng, that is, all taxes are converted into currency collection.

Judging from the course of history, this is, of course, of progressive significance. However, in the process of implementation, it did not bring convenience and benefits to farmers, nor did it increase the income of the state.

For example, when the tax period comes, the peasants have to turn the grain in their hands into money in order to pay the taxes!

However, the price of grain in the market will basically fall in response, that is, the silver is expensive and the grain is cheap, and the peasants will always have to sell a lot of grain to make up for it. Three months later, food prices were almost back to normal.

This is not a normal fluctuation in grain prices, but a joint effort by grain merchants and bureaucrats to bring down prices.

But the state has received a lot of money, so it shouldn't suffer, right?

In fact, if the government had taken the tax that the peasants had paid for 100 koku of grain to cover their expenses, the price of grain would have mostly returned to its normal level, and it would only be possible to buy 60 koku of grain in the market.

In this way, the time difference in grain prices will cause the burden on the peasants to increase, and the government revenue will not increase, or even decrease, as a result. It is only the businessmen and the bureaucrats who really profit from it.

Of course, it's not all bad. The loss of grain transportation is large, and it is far less convenient than the delivery of silver to the state treasury.

But for ordinary people, it is understandable to scold a whip law as "a whip for the remnants of the people".

Another long-lasting problem brought about by a whip is the problem of fire consumption. Because it is necessary to pay taxes on silver, it is inevitable that broken silver will be melted and cast, and it will inevitably be lost.

As a result, fire consumption has become an ingenious means of local accumulation, and it has also been transferred to the people and has become a heavy burden.

It is undeniable that Zhang Juzheng's reform has been fruitful, and the whip law is also advanced.

However, Zhu Youxiao's reform will not be copied and applied, but will be more advanced. Of course, this is only a small step, and it is very experimental and investigative.

First of all, the policy of Huangzhuang's retreat contains the meaning of "apportioning Ding into the mu", that is, Ding Yin is included in the total tax, so that Ding Yin's income is included in the central finance;

Second, after paying taxes for five years, the land will be returned to the peasant households, and there will be the shadow of "public land release", increasing the number of yeoman farmers.

Of course, there are also taxes based on the average of the local five-year harvest, so that the officials can reduce the room for operation, and so on.