Zhu Biao pondered for a while, and then said in a smug tone: "My father's military household policy can raise millions of soldiers without costing the people a grain of rice, and my father is often proud of this idea!" Isn't this military salary saved? ”

"Hey, what does it look like?" Zhu Biao touched his chin and suddenly muttered to himself again.

He also admitted that the policy of military households and tuntian was full of drawbacks in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, but it did play a huge role in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which is undeniable.

Fang Jin didn't dare to veto Zhu Yuanzhang's policy, so he said: "Your Highness, Your Majesty's policy, whether it is to encourage the people to reclaim the famine, or to cultivate the fields of military households, it is all a merit. However......"

"And yet what?"

"But neither the people nor the military households, the land in their hands is not static. As for them, they can only eat and wear, and they don't have more wealth to annex other people's lands, but the dignitaries are different. ”

"They will marry many concubines, have many children, and when the children become adults, they will get married and have children, and the people will become more and more prosperous, but their land is not enough, but they are not willing to reduce the quality of life, so they can only take advantage of it and annex the land that the people have worked so hard to cultivate."

Zhu Biao pretended to deduce it, Mu Ran nodded, and muttered, "It seems that this is indeed the case." The more dynasties went on, the more land the dignitaries owned, and the more landless the people were. ”

"This is the imbalance in the distribution of wealth!" Fang Jin said categorically, "But this is not the main problem, after all, the common people can still be tenants if they lose their land, as long as they do not encounter natural disasters, they will not starve to death, but the life of the imperial court is not easy." ”

"Because those dignitaries don't pay taxes on the land in their names?" Zhu Biao seemed to understand at the same time, and said "thoughtfully".

"That's right! Moreover, in Daming, even if it is a scholar who has obtained fame, he can also get a certain amount of tax exemption, and I heard that Xiucai has 80 acres without paying tax. This talent is not a lifter, let alone a jinshi, and it is not difficult to take the test, the emperor really treats scholars too well. Fang Jin sighed helplessly, "How many talents are there in this Ming Dynasty, it seems that there are at least millions of acres of land that do not have to pay taxes." ”

"I understand what you mean, the more people who get fame, the more difficult it is to collect court taxes."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he scolded in his heart.

This guy is cunning enough, he only mentions Xiucai, but he doesn't mention people, and there are Jinshi, but every sentence is lifting people and Jinshi according to his fingers.

After all, in the Ming Dynasty, you can be a petty official if you raise a person, and a jinshi can be a big official in the imperial court.

Juren has a tax-free quota of 400 acres of land, and Jinshi has more than 2,000 acres.

One acre is 666 square meters in later generations, and as long as there is one jinshi in the family, there is 1,332,000 square meters of tax-free land.

In the south of the Yangtze River is a rich place, and the atmosphere of people here to study is quite prevalent, many people are aiming to get merit, hundreds of years of accumulation, the number of jinshi, lifting people, can be imagined.

But the Jiangnan area is every inch of land, and a local jinshi owns 1,332,000 square meters of land, and his wealth can simply beat the two horses of later generations.

However, this is only the lower limit of Jinshi, and the wealth of those who have been promoted to high-ranking officials in the imperial court is even more jaw-dropping.

Coupled with the clans and nobles, their land tax exemption quota will only be higher, plus the imperial court has to release the fortunes, the richest group of people in the world have all gathered in the Ming Dynasty, as for the ordinary people, the poor can't even afford to gnaw on the nest.

How did this Ming last for 276 years?

In the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, the emperor could at least rely on the butcher's knife of the Eight Banners to receive a large amount of taxes from the Han gentry bureaucracy to support those bannermen.

Fang Jin listened to Zhu Biaodi's answer, and was also very satisfied, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is an ancient, he has a flexible brain and turns quickly, and he is not like Zhu Yunwen who was fooled and lame by civil officials.

"Your Highness, think about it, now that our Ming Dynasty has saved a lot of money because of the military household system."

"And then?" Zhu Biao raised his eyebrows.

"When the emperor is in power, the dignitaries and dignitaries will definitely not dare, and they will definitely not dare when you reign in the future, and when your son reigns in the future, most of them will not dare, but when your grandson reigns in the future, maybe they will be bold and will stretch their hands into the land of the military household."

"They dare!"

Zhu Biao's face was gloomy, as if he had really seen this scene.

Fang Jin glanced at Zhu Biao's face, smiled smugly in his heart, knowing that his goal had been achieved, and continued: "After His Highness's great-grandson reigns, they will be even more emboldened, and they will annex a large number of military lands. In this way, if the imperial court does not pay the soldiers, it will not be able to keep those soldiers. ”

This is what happened in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, when land annexation intensified, a large number of military households fled and went bankrupt, and the imperial court had to use military salaries to hire soldiers, but often in arrears of wages.

As the saying goes, the Ming army is not satisfied, and it is invincible.

You have to give at least one of you enough food or silver, and people will give you your life.

"Your Highness, this is just a speculation about the future of the minister, maybe the minister is too pessimistic." After Fang Jin finished saying his opinion, he added.

Little slippery head, your last sentence is pure nonsense to clear responsibility!

Zhu Biao scolded secretly.

"Lao Fang, what you said is a bit similar to my mother!" He smiled, a look of appreciation on his face.

"The Queen?" Fang Jin was a little confused, in fact, he didn't know much about this queen.

There are few records of Queen Ma in history except for praising her as a virtuous queen through the ages.

But just imagine, when Zhu Yuanzhang had not yet made a career, she ignored the opposition of her father-in-law Guo Zixing, followed him, gave birth to children, raised the prince, and handled the harem in an orderly manner, and respected Lao Zhu for a lifetime.

After Lao Zhu became the emperor, his majesty became more and more prosperous, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were trembling, and only Queen Ma could persuade him.

It can even be said that in the whole world, only Queen Ma is not afraid of this emperor.

Her intelligence and emotional intelligence may not be as good as Lao Zhu.

"My queen mother said, the most unpredictable thing in the world is the future. For example......" Zhu Biao paused, "What a figure the First Emperor is, sweeping away the eight desolations and swallowing the Liuhe, and unifying the six countries, but how could he have thought that only three years after his death, Great Qin would collapse violently." ”

"And Emperor Wu of Han trusts Huo Guang so much, can he think of what will happen in the future?"

"This is all taught to me by the queen mother!"

"Old Fang, does it make sense for you to say this?"

Zhu Biao spoke calmly.

"Of course the queen has a point!" Fang Jin replied.

Taking history as a mirror, the ancients were not stupid.

"So my father's military household tuntian policy seems to be perfect, but no one knows what the future will be, and it is not impossible for you to say that kind of situation."

It seems that this Queen Ma is even more powerful than I imagined.

Fang Jin said secretly in his heart.