Chu Zhen knew that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't just say cruel words, he was really good at killing people.

However, the distribution of the land into the mu and the official gentry to pay the grain in one body will not be successfully implemented because of this.

Li Qingzhao thought thoughtfully: "The merger of the conscription law and the Fangtian average tax law is about to be apportioned into the mu...... Banshan Gong's change is useful after all. ”

"Yes!" Chu Zhen said: "From the development of the Tang Dynasty's rent and commission regulation to the two tax laws, to the Great Song Dynasty's conscription, Fangtian, and then to a whip law, and finally to apportionment into the mu, the overall development trend of taxation is to replace physical goods with money, from a variety of taxes, levies, and miscellaneous labor to simply collect taxes according to the acres of land.

The ultimate goal is to make the rich households who hide their acres pay taxes so that the poor can live, which is simply understood as killing the rich and helping the poor. ”

The sentence of killing the rich and helping the poor made the three people present look sideways.

Lin Daiyu touched her white neck with her slender hand, and it was cold.

Although she has not read these miscellaneous books, she also knows that bandits like Uncle Chu who shout slogans such as robbing the rich and helping the poor and doing the right thing for heaven love to kill her as an official eunuch and rob her as an official lady to be a ......

Daiyu couldn't help but glance at him, only to feel that this bandit was not fierce at all, but warm like a spring breeze, like an immortal.

"What Chu Langjun said is so good!"

Li Qingzhao smiled at Chu Zhen.

Lin Daiyu also thinks it's good.

"How can I not know that it is better to collect money than to collect grain?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly, "But I'm afraid you don't know, when taxes are collected in summer and autumn, how many people will have to go bankrupt if they exchange rice, grain, silk and silk for silver?" ”

Before the Tang Dynasty, the people paid taxes in kind.

After the Tang Dynasty, sometimes in kind and sometimes in money, even in modern times, the previous agricultural taxes were paid directly to grain.

But modern transportation of grain is cheap, and it is not the same as in ancient times.

"Paying taxes in silver is lighter than paying taxes in kind, and it can reduce forced labor."

Chu Zhen said, "A whip method and apportionment into the mu is a development trend, people can run, the land can not run, after the apportionment into the mu, the state can obtain a relatively stable tax from the field, from the clan and the gentry and landlords to recover the tax."

Moreover, the apportionment into the mu can promote population growth and fill the vacancy in the north of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"The clan does not directly collect taxes on land, but the officials collect it and then give it to them."

Zhu Yuanzhang corrected Chu Zhen's statement.

"Needless to say taxes, just say that the ancestral precepts of hereditary recklessness have not changed, and it is useless for you to spread the land into the mu to play with flowers, and there is no way to talk about the integration of the official gentry to pay grain."

Chu Zhen looked at Hu Weiyong's policy, there was no restriction on the clan in it, in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, his children and grandchildren were his counter-scales.

Sure enough, as soon as he mentioned his son and grandson, Zhu Yuanzhang darkened his face and said: "The country I have laid down can't guarantee the wealth of future generations?!" How can that be true? ”

"Is it the country you laid down?"

"It's not me, is it still you?"

"It's not me, it's not you, it's the people of China who picked up their hoes and sickles, followed behind the rebels from all walks of life, and together with you Zhu Yuanzhang, they drove Meng Yuan back to the north! Because you have strong means and can fight, all the heroes have defected, and the people follow you, so you can be the lord of the world! ”

Without looking at his expression, Chu Zhen said again: "It is true that you led the uprising and sat in the country, but the people of the world also have merit!" ”

"How have I ever treated the people badly?! Is it a fake?! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked coldly.

Lin Daiyu opened her mouth to speak, she had read the history books and knew Ming Taizu's methods.

"But your hereditary recklessness is to ask the people of the world to support your Zhu family in two hundred years! But you have to know that water can carry boats and capsize boats, and the people of the world can support the Zhu family, and when your Ming Dynasty falls, they can also kill your Zhu family!! ”

Chu Zhen did not have the slightest politeness, and poked Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, liver and lungs.

The hereditary replacement of children and grandchildren is the most sensitive place in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart except for the queen and the prince.

What's more, now Chu Zhen said bluntly, kill his descendants of the Zhu family!

In the Ming Dynasty, anyone who dared to say this would definitely die.

Even here, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and his dark and dignified face was red.

Li Qingzhao's heart was raised to his throat.

In the Great Song Dynasty, who dared to make the officials so angry?

What's more, what Chu Langjun is angry with now is the male lord who has recovered the sixteen states of Youyun, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty.

"Of course, you don't have to be angry about the killing of the descendants of the Zhu family." Chu Zhen said.

"How can I not be angry?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang almost wanted to point at his nose and scold.

"When the dynasty is shattered, which clan is not slaughtered?"

“……”

Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to say about it.

Chu Zhen said again: "You are hereditary, let all the descendants of the Zhu family receive silver for generations, and when the dynasty collapses, they will suffer this unjustified disaster, you know, the court has long been out of silver to send them!" ”

"I have harmed my children and grandchildren?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily.

"In a way, yes."

Chu Zhen glanced at him calmly, "You divide the feudal domains and let them lead the troops to guard the frontier, which is right." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned slightly pale.

"But you didn't think about it later."

Chu Zhen said: "You are the emperor, and the vassal kings are all your sons, of course you can rest assured." But what about after that?

I won't talk about Zhu Yunwen, I won't talk about Zhu Biao, just say that any emperor after the fifth term of the Ming Dynasty, after he became the emperor, in the face of a group of relatives who didn't know how to shout, watched them hold heavy troops in the frontier, 'control the soldiers and horses along the border', 'Ninety in the city, 80,000 with armor, 6,000 leather carts', and the court also gave them taxes and used money to help them raise soldiers.

Which emperor was not afraid to see it, and could resist the idea of cutting the domain? ”

"How do you call a relative who doesn't know how to shout? They are all descendants of my Zhu family! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang retorted again.

"That's your descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, not the descendant of the five generations of emperors."

Chu Zhen took a sip of tea, "Think about it yourself, the great-grandson of your father's grandfather's third uncle, who has 100,000 troops on the frontier of your Ming Dynasty, you haven't seen him since you were a child, oh, you've met once, that is, when you ascended the throne, you can put your mind at ease and hand over the army to him?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang: "......"

He was speechless.

After thinking about it for a long time, he asked, "How did Zhu Yunwen cut the domain?" ”

"He reduced your son to a commoner."

"Fuck."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have the strength to scold if he wanted to.

He gave his son the title of vassal king, so that they would be hereditary, and their descendants would enjoy glory and wealth.

As a result, the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty he elected when he came up demoted his son to a commoner.

This is only the second emperor, and he doesn't dare to think about what the Ming Emperor will do to the vassal king in the future.

"So!"

Chu Zhen concluded: "It is not unreasonable for the old saying that the gentleman's Ze will be beheaded in the fifth generation. ”

"Speaking out of Mencius, leaving Lou~" Li Qingzhao added to Chu Zhen with a smile.

This sentence was not quite used correctly, but of course she would not say it.

"My sister is really knowledgeable."

Lin Daiyu said with a smile, Li Qingzhao smiled at her, didn't go to her side, and continued to stay by Chu Zhen's side.

After the two girls finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a while before asking:

"The million clan population you said is false, right? How can there be so many? ”

“……”

Chu Zhen gave him a speechless look, "You really should learn mathematics, that is, arithmetic, arithmetic, a generation has an average of five children, ten generations later, you count how many princes, county kings, plus various town and auxiliary generals." I don't even count the twenty-four princes you have crowned. ”

"I have twenty-five sons?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't need to count, he knew that he couldn't do it, so he cared that he would have seven sons born.

Lin Daiyu wanted to do the math, but found that her son gave birth to a son, and her grandson gave birth to a son, and all of them were named generals from generation to generation, and the number of them was far beyond her mental arithmetic ability.

"I can't figure it out." Li Qingzhao also gave up.

"That's the easiest."

Chu Zhen said: "Roughly calculated, the Ming Dynasty had a total of sixty princes, one thousand county kings, plus 500,000 clans, according to the lieutenant of the town state, how much grain would be spent every year. ”

“……”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously: "Are there really so many clans?!" ”

500,000 clans can't afford to give 100 stone of grain every year, let alone 500 grains.

The exact number is unknown, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the money given to the clan became a fixed amount, because it was really impossible to support.

And because of the ancestral training, and was cut by Zhu Di, they couldn't go to work, they could only be poor.

Many poor children of the Zhu family can only go to ask for food, or defect to Mongolia, or take the initiative to steal, because they have a bite to eat when they enter the prison cell, so that the Zhu family clan burns the treasure money to Emperor Taizu every New Year's Festival, and scolds while burning, so that Taizu spends the treasure money in the underworld. ”

"Stop scolding, I... Change!! ”

Chu Zhen's spicy and sarcastic words made Zhu Yuanzhang feel cold on his back, as if he was being scolded by the descendants of the Zhu family in later generations while burning paper money, so he could only grit his teeth and make a decision quickly to stop Chu Zhen from talking about those things in the history books.

Change, must change, change hereditary replacement!