"What did he say?"

"Children of the sea? What a ghost name. Ask him if he was kicked out by the Spaniards? ”

"It's really Spaniard!"

Emperor Kada was now standing on an iron ship with a bewildered expression.

The head is completely out of action.

He escaped in a small boat sent by the people of the Central Country.

Unexpectedly, a few days after escaping, he ran into the fleet of the Central Country.

From the flags they hung, the Great Card confirmed their identities.

And when he got on the boat, he was dumbfounded.

Iron, which is more expensive than gold, actually made such a big ship!

Oh.

These people must also be from the Central Country, right?

Their chief is a son of heaven.

I am the son of the sea, everyone is a son, and I don't know if the other party can give me a little help.

At this time, Cai Lian and Zheng Xiaoyi were most concerned about where the Spaniards went.

It's not easy to find an island in the middle of the sea that only exists on a chart.

Now meet a guy who claims to be the king of the world at sea.

I wonder if his world is Hawaii?

"It's definitely the Spaniards, you can't let them take Hawaii! This will seem to be the right time! ”

Cai Lian took a deep breath and said.

"Send a reconnaissance ship to see what the Spaniards have set up, they should have already occupied the island"

Zheng Xiaoyi said.

Three days later.

After the two of them got the situation in Hawaii, their brows couldn't help but wrinkle.

"The Spaniards have turned the island into a fortress, and if they want to force a landing, I'm afraid there will be a lot of casualties." Cai Lian frowned and said, "What now?" Do you want to go back to China and ask the army to help? ”

At present, the Ming Navy does not have a special unit responsible for landing operations, and there are no marines.

And let the precious sailors carry muskets to do the work of grabbing the beach and landing.

Cai Lian estimated that when this battle was won, it was estimated that he would have to move his head.

After all, there is no shortage of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty Army.

The Navy is different.

Experienced sailors who can go to sea are too precious.

It is impossible to use it for such consumption

"Let's go back first, it's a great achievement to get such a Hawaiian king!"

Zheng Xiaoyi said regretfully.

"And I guess the Spaniards will go back to bring in the rescuers, we have to hurry!"

The power of the Ming Empire began to extend to the west coast of America and the Hawaiian Islands.

However, the Ming Dynasty, Spain, the United States, and Britain competed for the Americas, and the victory and defeat could not be determined overnight, and there was no basis for a major war between the two sides.

It's bound to be quite a Manchester City process.

And in the Ming Dynasty.

The matter about the Gongyuan in Chengdu, Sichuan has been put on the desk of Zhu Daohua, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, this time I caught eight leaders, and these eight leaders were touted by many newspapers in Sichuan as the Eight Gentlemen of the Tribute Academy. It's just some young people in their twenties, but the blood is too much, you see" is talking to Luo Fangbo, Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, he didn't want the impact of this Gongyuan incident to be too implicated.

"Take the lead in resisting the imperial examination policy, assemble illegally, and punish according to etiquette! How has the arrears of the eight southeastern provinces been handled? ”

Emperor Zhu didn't have much affection for these scholars who liked to do something out of the ordinary to gain fame.

Therefore, he directly ordered the Sichuan side to "punish according to etiquette".

This is a decision.

This Sichuan Eight Gentlemen is definitely going to be unlucky.

Closing for two or three years is considered light.

"The arrears in various provinces are being dealt with in an orderly manner, and most of the wealthy households in various places have paid all the arrears in the past."

Hearing Prime Minister Luo's words, a sneer appeared on the corner of Emperor Zhu's mouth, who was looking through the local land tax situation.

"It's really good, most of the fields of these wealthy households with thousands of acres and acres are in the lower fields and middle fields, and the upper fields are all in the hands of small families."

Hearing Emperor Zhu's words, Luo Fangbo had a wry smile on his face.

How did he not know that this would happen?

The fields of the Ming Dynasty will be divided into upper, middle and lower grades according to the quality of the cultivated land.

There is more tax on the field and less tax on the field.

Those wealthy families are quite powerful in the local area, and of course they can change their own fields to lower fields through various means, so that the fields of other yeoman farmers can be turned into upper fields

"Your Majesty, the local wealthy families have intertwined relationships in the local area, and it is not easy to solve them. And they didn't pay taxes before. ”

Oh, yes.

No taxes were paid before.

Now pay the Shimoda field tax.

It's a big step forward.

The corners of Emperor Zhu's mouth showed a hint of an intriguing smile.

"Luo Xiang, can taxes be collected according to the number of heaven and earth? If there is less land, it will not be collected or exempted, and if there is more land, how about it? ”

When Luo Fangbo heard this, he shook his head and said: "The way is okay, but there are countermeasures at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and there will definitely be loopholes to drill below." For example, if the land is divided, the land tax will not be collected at that time. ”

The division of the land is to spread the land on the heads of the tenant farmers, but in fact the land still belongs to the wealthy households.

As long as the local wealthy households occupy far more resources than the poor, it will be difficult for the above tinkering to really shake the interests of the local wealthy households in any case.

Emperor Zhu nodded.

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and this little thing in the local area is still a good word."

He stood up.

"However, our domestic scholars are ashamed of their words, but they are fighting for profits everywhere, and even on the stage and in the fields, they have to use their hands and feet, so that the small people can receive the taxes of the fields and pay the fields themselves, but in fact, most of the fields in the world are in the hands of wealthy families."

Luo Fangbo was silent.

This has been the case since ancient times.

How do small people fight with wealthy households?

This Confucian scholar opened his mouth and closed his mouth about benevolence, righteousness and morality.

But in fact, it is the one who accounts for the largest profits.

"Your Majesty, it's better to cancel the division of upper, middle and lower fields, and collect taxes at a flat rate," Luo Fangbo suggested.

That's certainly the way to do it.

However, Emperor Zhu thought about it and said: "This method is good, but it is also a symptom rather than a cure, and after a long time, a new pattern of interests and loopholes will definitely be formed in the local area!" ”

"The death of all dynasties is nothing more than the depletion of tax revenues and the collapse of finances by the imperial court, so that they are nothing more than controlling the army and the local government."

Of course, Emperor Zhu was not distressed that the people would pay more taxes, but he was worried that one day the imperial court would be blinded by the local government and would not be able to collect taxes.

Of course, this aspect also needs to be guaranteed by the system.

"Your Majesty, as long as the court is politically clear, and there are Ming monarchs and virtuous ministers in the court, it will not be so easy for the local ghosts to cause chaos." Luo Fangbo said.

"Ming Jun Xianchen." Zhu Daohua shook his head.

"There aren't many emperors as shrewd as me, and although Chubby doesn't look stupid, he definitely doesn't know about those things in the place. It's certain to be cheated in the future. ”

"So. There has to be a way to ensure that the imperial court can collect taxes no matter what the circumstances! ”

(End of chapter)