Last time, it was said that Emperor Chongzhen, who was in that time and space, made an exception at the "court meeting" and appointed Lu Hongchun, a minor official of the sixth grade, as the "Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry", which immediately detonated the entire court.

"Lu Aiqing, let me ask you for the time being, how to ensure that I am full of vitality in a very short period of time, so that I have no worries when I go out to fight?" Emperor Chongzhen said.

"Emperor Mingjian!" Lu Hongchun, the newly appointed "Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry", walked quickly from the end of the arrangement to the feet of the Son of Heaven and bowed: "The so-called 'three fires for new officials to take office'. Since the emperor loves Weichen, what if Weichen is blocked? After Lu Hongchun bowed three times and bowed nine times, he got up and said:

"Now my Ming Dynasty's national strength is not as good as before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, as long as the camel is fed and drunk, it will be able to recover its physical strength and endurance in a very short time, that is, it consumes and consumes ordinary horses, which is suitable for logistics and transportation to fight a protracted war, but it cannot be used to charge into battle, after all, it is not flexible enough."

"Lu Hongchun, what a boldness!" "A mere six-grade petty official, how dare he talk about the government? "Yes, yes, you dare to compare my 'Great Tomorrow Dynasty' to a skinny camel? Where is the intention! "Emperor Mingjian, please treat him for a 'big disrespect' crime!" "Evil words confuse the public, and their hearts can be punished! The ministers shouted.

"Colleagues, this is a bad statement! This official is also at the same level as Er, but he is not a sixth-grade petty official, don't want to take advantage of the situation to oppress people! Lu Hongchun was also short-tempered, and immediately scolded the surrounding "Lord Shangshu" and other high-ranking and powerful people in front of the emperor Lao Tzu, without mercy!

"Haha, Lu Shangshu, if you have any lofty opinions, you might as well continue to talk about it, and I will listen to you." Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and the concubines sat in a high position, watching the ministers below fight with each other and fight for red ears and ears, but there is a feeling of "watching monkeys", and at the same time, there is a feeling of "everything is under control".

"The emperor is wise!" Lu Hongchun bowed to Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair on the jade steps, and said: "The so-called 'Shen Zhen uses fierce medicine, and troubled times use heavy codes'!" The 'first fire' of Weichen's tenure was to ask the emperor to reduce taxes for the people of the world, because the people are too bitter, and even if the 'Ding Fu' is exempted, the burden is still very heavy! As soon as the words fell, there was an uproar in the hall, and colleagues accused Lu Hongchun of talking nonsense and confusing the public, but the facts were as follows.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the great Confucian Gu Yanwu recorded in the "Daily Knowledge" that "Zhending Mansion" has 5 states and 27 counties, and "Suzhou Mansion" has 1 state and 7 counties, whether it is the area of jurisdiction or the number of states and counties, "Zhending Mansion" is almost 5 times that of "Suzhou Mansion", but the annual amount of land endowment borne by "Suzhou Mansion" is as high as 2,038,000 stones! In contrast, the "Zhending Mansion" only bears 106,000 stones, which means that the tax amount of the "Suzhou Mansion" is 20 times that of the "Zhending Mansion"!

"Zhending has jurisdiction over five states and twenty-seven counties, and Suzhou has jurisdiction over one state and seven counties, regardless of its jurisdiction, that is, the number of its wide wheels, Zhending has been the fifth of Suzhou, and Suzhou grain is 238,000 stones, and Zhending is 106,000 stones." Since the Ming Dynasty's "two capitals and thirteen provinces" had a total of 140 prefectures, the Ming Dynasty's prefectures had a larger jurisdiction than the "prefecture-level cities" in later generations, and they were roughly divided according to comprehensive "indicators" such as different regions, population distribution, and ethnic composition.

The difference between the tax amount of "Suzhou Mansion" and "Zhending Mansion" is so big that Gu Yanwu said that he couldn't understand it. So, Gu Yanwu asked, wondering if it was the geographical location of "Suzhou Mansion" and "Zhending Mansion" that caused the difference between the north and the south, and the baby's presence caused the huge difference in their taxes?

After comparative analysis, Gu Yanwu found that the answer was not like this, because in the same northern region, after comparing the "Hejian Mansion" with 2 states and 16 counties and the "Dengzhou Mansion" with only 1 state and 7 counties, he found that the wealth of "Hejian Mansion" was far greater than that of "Dengzhou Mansion", but the tax borne by "Hejian Mansion" was only 61,000 stones, while "Dengzhou Mansion" had to bear 235,000 stones! What's going on here? Gu Yanwu guessed that it would be because of the differences between provinces?

At that time, the Ming Dynasty had 2 "Zhili Jingshi" in the north and south, plus 13 "political envoys", which was equivalent to 15 provincial-level units. In the same province, the rich "Hanzhong Mansion" has 2 states and 14 counties, and the poor "Lintao Mansion" has 2 prefectures and 3 counties, but the tax of "Hanzhong Mansion" is only 30,000 stones, while the "Lintao Mansion" has to bear 44,000 stones! Therefore, Gu Yanwu continued to guess that maybe it was not in the same "Dao" dating back to the Tang Dynasty, because of historical reasons?

However, after analysis, it was found that "Sungyeong" and "Boryeong" were historically in the same "Dao", but the tax of "Sungyeong" was as high as 75,000 stones, while "Boryeong" only bore 20,000 stones! At this moment, Gu Yanwu said that he was completely confused. Later, the more Gu Yanwu studied the taxation in Jiangnan, the more shocking he felt. He himself said that as early as the Tang Dynasty, the great poet and writer Han Yu once said, "The world pays taxes, and Jiangnan accounts for nine-tenths!" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the five prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang (including Shanghai), Changzhou (including Wuxi), Jiaxing, and Huzhou accounted for nine-tenths of the taxes paid by Jiangnan.

Of course, this is an exaggeration. The real situation of Suzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou is that in the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, the total annual tax under the world was 29.43 million stones, of which 2.89 million stone was paid by "Suzhou Mansion", 1.21 million stone by "Songjiang Mansion" and 550,000 stone by "Changzhou Mansion", and the taxes paid by the three feudal prefectures accounted for 15.8% of the national taxes. "Its land rent is heavier than that of the world, and its grain is more than that of the world." This is a historical fact.

Among them, "Suzhou" has a total of 96,500 hectares of land in 1 prefecture and 7 counties, accounting for 1.1% of the country's total land of 8.496 million hectares, but the taxes and grains borne by the country are nearly 10% of the total taxes paid in the country. In other words, Suzhou is nearly 10 times higher than the national average. "The weight of its scientific levy and the exhaustion of the people's strength can be known."

Gu Yanwu couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder I, a Kunshan person, am so thin and ......" so I wondered if the taxes of Suzhou Mansion have been so heavy since ancient times?

For this reason, Gu Yanwu studied the historical materials more deeply and carefully, and found that the tax situation in Suzhou was not like this at all before the Ming Dynasty!

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Jiangnan tax amount levied by Wu Yueguo was 3 buckets per mu. After Zhao Guangyi annexed Wu Yue Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty, he found that the taxes in Jiangnan were too heavy, so he abolished a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and reduced the land tax in Jiangnan to 1 dou per mu.

Why was the Song Dynasty's Tian Fu in Jiangnan so low? Because the commerce of the Song Dynasty was very developed! Basically, they don't rely on land to survive. Only the beggar-born monk Zhu (Zhu Yuanzhang) desperately squeezed the peasants. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were even fewer fields to be paid, "three liters per mu tax in Shangtian, two and a half liters in Zhongtian, two liters in Xiatian, and five liters in paddy fields." "The Tian Fu in Jiangnan is actually half lower than the two songs! Could it be that the rulers of the Mengyuan Dynasty did not like to eat rice and ......?

After studying this place, Gu Yanwu's impression of Meng Yuanzhi suddenly improved a lot. However, after Monk Zhu became the dynasty, Gu Yanwu couldn't help but secretly scolded Ma Ma Pi, although the land tax in other parts of the country was only slightly higher than that of the Yuan Dynasty, but only for the people of "Suzhou Mansion" and "Songjiang Mansion", heavy taxes were imposed on the people, and the land endowment of "Suzhou" and "Songjiang" reached "four or five buckets per mu, seven or eight buckets, to more than one stone", and the tax burden per mu reached nearly 10 times that of the country!

As a result, in this area, "if the tax supply is insufficient, children and daughters will be sold", and even "the people of Su and Song will be displaced due to heavy burdens." "Ordinary people have been displaced in large numbers in order to evade taxes, and even in one place, "half of them have fled." It can be seen that under the crazy squeeze of Monk Zhu, the people in the "Suzhou" and "Songjiang" areas at that time were really "miserable"! So, Lu Hongchun couldn't help but tell all this truthfully, and then stunned everyone!

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