Zhu Gaochi listened to Zhu Song's words, sat there and reacted for a long time, what Zhu Song said was too appalling.

The ancients paid the most attention to the fact that they could not modify the will of their ancestors, especially the rules of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, which could not be changed.

Zhu Song didn't care about the expression on the face of the prince's eyes that were about to fall out, and he continued.

"Although the officials' salaries have been raised, the intensity of supervision should be greater, and corruption cannot be eradicated at one time and cannot be eradicated, so the imperial court can only normalize the thorough investigation of corruption, and you can't think of it, and if you can't think of it, you can't check it."

"And now the taxes are collected according to the population, those who farm the land are bitter, haha, if one person has an acre of land, then it is cheap, but what if five people have an acre of land? The normal method of taxation in the state should not be collected per capitation, but according to the amount of land owned by the individual, and the same is true for the merchant, how much silver did he earn in a year? The more he earns, the more he pays, and if he doesn't earn any silver this year, but loses a lot, does the court still force people to hand over the silver again? ”

"In this way, the life of the people will be much better, although those businessmen they pay more, but the same court will be more supportive of businessmen, and the attitude towards businessmen will be better, don't think that businessmen do not create value, and transport a thing that is very common in the local area to a very uncommon place, which is also a kind of labor payment, but some people pay strength, and some people pay capital."

"And the merchants, officials, and relatives of the emperor that I mentioned before do not have to pay taxes, which is also a very serious problem, why? Because once the common people have a natural or man-made disaster and need to take out the silver, they can only sell the land if they can't take it out, and if they sell the land, they can only become tenants. ”

"Have you seen a few tenant farmers who farm land for others and grow rich, barely making ends meet all year round, and who are those who have the money to collect land? They are all merchants and scholars, doctors and relatives of the emperor. ”

"Relying on the capitation of taxes, the people sell the land, and if they have no income and become tenants, they will not have to pay taxes, and the state will lose part of the taxes, and the land will be transferred to the hands of merchants, scholars, doctors, etc., and the state still does not collect taxes, and disappears for no reason.

The crown prince was shocked when he heard this, and he thought carefully about what Zhu Song said, it was simply too right, this land is still land, but because of the wrong way of collecting taxes, in the end, all the value of the output of this land was owned by individuals, and the state lost so many taxes for no reason.

"Uncle Twenty is so right! If the Ming Dynasty comes for more than ten years, decades, hundreds of years, such a problem will become more and more difficult and serious, and then the tax will not come up, and the people will not have land to plant, and in the end they can only let those people fill their pockets. ”

Zhu Song nodded: "That's what it means, I still have a military household in Daming, and the military household can't earn much silver all year round, and when it comes to wartime, I have to put on armor and go into battle, although the pension is still rich, but it is not better than when people are still alive." ”

"The army must also be reformed, you can't just pick a sheep, you can recruit soldiers, as long as the country has the money to give the soldiers the money to be able to raise it, not afraid that no one will come to serve the country, not to mention that there are so many hot-blooded men, what they value is not these silver, what they want to do is to serve the country! But they all put the conscription on the body of the military household, and the military household died, and let the son of the military household be on top, which is a bit biased. ”

"Let's talk again, the cost of the Ming Dynasty to form a treasure fleet is very high, but the same can flexibly use the capital power of the people, this capital refers to those merchants, in the south of the Yangtze River to the north, the price can be doubled, if it is sold in other countries, it will have to be multiplied several times!"

"In the same way, you can buy local specialties from abroad, and you can turn them over several times when you bring them back to China. The more money they earned, wouldn't the salt tax they pay to the imperial court higher? These merchants who traded with the ships alone were enough to feed the treasure fleet. ”

"But the crux of the problem now is that the treasure fleet can open up sea routes when it goes to sea, and I will have a maritime Silk Road, but can Daming trade with neighboring countries on an equal footing? Even if we think it's okay, those adults in the court are afraid that it's not so easy to nod. ”

"Put the tax on the businessman, even if the businessman is unwilling, but now the status of the merchant is low, there will never be too large-scale resistance, there may be a small resistance for a while, and in the end it is found that it is useless, and he has to pay obediently."

"The trouble is the officials, those officials we can also collect taxes according to the land, otherwise, the land in their hands is not still a loss to the state, so they have to pay taxes, the court can give them a tax without tax, but as long as the personal land grows grain, they have to pay taxes, they lose their interests, if there is a trouble, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military twisted into a rope, even your father has to avoid three points."

"And above Dr. Shilin, there are also royal relatives, such as me, the royal relatives who are in the red, I alone have a full 20,000 yuan a year, and the land in my hands is more than 10,000 hectares! How much silver do I have to lose to the court in a year? ”

"Not to mention that your grandfather has twenty-six sons, and twenty-six of them, except for a few who died young, have all been crowned princes, and the prince has a fortune of 10,000 stone a year, and a thousand hectares of land in his hands, which is also a lot of money."

"Let's come back again, your father has few children, girls are not counted for the time being, there are only three of you as sons, you are the prince and the prince of the country, but the king of Han and the king of Zhao are also princes, and the court is responsible for two more."

"But although you are the prince, do you only have one child in your life? No, you have to have more children in the future, and you have to have five or six sons, and among these five or six sons, there will be five or six princes. ”

"When he arrives at Junki, he can't have only one son, he also has several sons, and he also has several princes, so how many princes is this?"

"After saying that, you are the prince, the emperor, and let's talk about us as princes, my other children are also county kings, and the county king's annual income is also a lot, and the son of the county king has to be named a Zhenguo general, and the Zhenguo general's Yulu is better than more than half of the officials in the imperial court!"

"Just think about so many people, so many princes, so many county kings, how much silver does the court have to spend in a year? This is only now, the days will grow in the future, and the princes will only increase, if it is two or three hundred years later, there will be more and more royal children in this world, everywhere, and more than half of the country's annual income will have to be spent on them! ”