Next, the implementation of the joint efforts of officials and gentry in Guide Mansion was quite smooth.

Although the officials and gentry were very resentful, they did not dare to confront each other fiercely due to the authority of the emperor.

From beginning to end, only a few students lost their heads, and then Hou Fangyu, the prince of the Hou Mansion, became the dead soul of the Xichang Banner School because he was young and did not know the pros and cons.

In fact, for officials and gentry to pay grain as a whole, they only paid more corvee labor silver and exemption of grain taxes than before, and the losses were not large.

Because the land tax in the Ming Dynasty was not high, the numerous officials and gentry who had land would not affect their wealth and honorary life because they were not exempted from excellence.

But the benefit this brought to the court was not just more than more land tax income.

More importantly, with the increasing number of gentry in the Ming Dynasty and the increasing number of gentry, the imperial court no longer had to reduce the income from land tax due to the increase in the number of gentry and the exemption.

Because the number of land acres in the Ming Dynasty was basically fixed, even if there were people reclamation, the speed of land reclamation was not the speed of population growth or the speed of the number of gentry growth.

Therefore, if Youdui always exists, then waiting for the future to increase more gentry. In a certain amount of land, the increase in the number of gentry will undoubtedly lead to the court collecting less land taxes.

besides.

The joint efforts of officials and gentry also curbed land annexation.

Because officials and gentry do not have the privilege of exempting land tax, officials and gentry are unwilling to accept the contributions of common people and landlords. After all, if common people and landlords contribute, they will still pay the land tax to contribute to the land, which is equivalent to just helping the court collect taxes, so the officials and gentry are naturally unwilling to do so.

Therefore, next, it is impossible for officials and gentry to make the common people and landlords take the initiative to contribute without acquiring land through clever and plunder.

However, it is difficult for those who have already contributed to the relationship. Therefore, these officials and gentry now have to pay land taxes for them because they have accepted the contributions from some villagers.

This will save the government the trouble of collecting taxes.

After all, it is really troublesome to collect taxes if it is really scattered into small households of common people. All officials have to increase their taxes.

Of course, when officials and gentry hand over the rent collected for the land to the court as land tax, and even pay some more, after all, the common landlords are willing to contribute, it must be because the land rent collected by officials and gentry is lower than the tax of the court, and they will also increase the land rent to make up for their losses.

The common landlords who originally offered land to the families of officials and gentry but were willing to serve as tenants to evade taxes and corvee labor were naturally unwilling, and thus the conflicts with officials and gentry increased.

However, the laws of the Ming Dynasty protected the landlords and did not protect the tenants.

Not to mention that officials and gentry as landlords are all powerful and powerful.

Therefore, the tenant farmers naturally could not resist the officials and gentry's request for rent increase.

For a time, those who wanted to evade taxes and devoted land to the land, who were tenants who were tenants who were now the ones who lost the most profit.

"We wanted to keep more money and food, but why do you suddenly want to increase the rent? Why? Didn't you say that you are a tenant farmer for the Yuan family, which is richer than the private household? But now, according to this rent, what's the difference between not investing? Not investing can make your children study and take the Wenquxing exam."

Zhong Junshan, the tenant of the Yuan family, protested against the manager of the Yuan family.

Yuan Keli's son Yuan Shu came here at this time: "If you don't accept the extra rent, then you will withdraw the land. You will take your own land deeds and go to the county government to re-organize households! Now the court wants officials and gentry to pay food together as a member of the officials and gentry. There is no exemption for us, even if you donate land to our Yuan Mansion, we still have to pay the same land tax for the donation. Haven't the manager told you?!"

"I said that this is a rent increase and it is too sudden. Also, why did the court do this? Shouldn't it be treated with a family of officials like the Yuan Mansion? Why is it not exempt? What kind of court is this?"

Zhong Junshan started talking.

"Don't discuss the court in a vain way! Now you either increase the rent or withdraw the land, giving you two choices."

Yuan Shu taught Zhong Junshan a lesson and then said.

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"The government and gentry paid food as a whole and worked as a servant in Guide Prefecture was quite smooth, and it was being implemented in other Henan prefectures. The main problem at present is that officials and gentry increased their rents to tenants, which caused many disputes. There were more and more resentful voices from the court, not only limited to gentry, but also tenant farmers. The common landlords did not complain, mainly because they had little to do with them."

Fang Congzhe reported to Zhu Youxiao the specific situation of the official and gentry paying food together.

"It's still relevant. When officials and gentry pay the food together and work as a whole, they will be able to directly reduce taxes and pay less taxes when agricultural progress is made in the future. After all, once the privilege of officials and gentry is cancelled, and then the taxes and taxes will be reduced, it will benefit common landlords."

Zhu Youxiao replied.

"What your Majesty said."

Fang Congzhe replied, but his heart couldn't help but sink. Therefore, he guessed that Emperor Zhu Youxiao still attached great importance to agriculture, and to promote agricultural development, he had to reduce land taxes. In this case, the main source of treasury income of the Ming Dynasty in the future would inevitably turn to commercial taxes.

Although Fang Congzhe did not care which was the main source of taxation or agricultural tax, the people under him were mainly officials of the business gentry class, so he naturally hoped that the commercial tax would not be raised.

Zhu Youxiao indeed attaches great importance to agriculture because he knows that agriculture is the foundation of industry.

But because of this, agriculture must be controlled by the court, mainly because the food must be controlled by the court.

From the past, when the land was cleared, the land of the princes and nobles was redeemed, and the current officials and gentry paid food together to serve, his purpose was to make the Ming Dynasty's arable land in the hands of common people, that is, the farming farmers, so as to ensure that the court will control the grain in the hands of the court through land tax collection.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "After the implementation of the integrated grain service of officials and gentry in Henan, the work will start in northern Zhili."

"yes!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

Although the matter of paying food and serving as a member of officials and gentry was of great benefit to the court, it did harm the interests of the gentry and many devoted tenants.

Moreover, these gentry and tenants are actually relatives, friends and neighbors. After all, when gentry has taxes, service and privileges, they must be relatives, friends and neighbors who have a relationship with the gentry, otherwise, others will not have this opportunity.

Therefore, these gentry and the devoted tenants could easily unite.

These tenants are generally called village heroes.

Next, because the matter of paying food as one official and gentry as a whole was being promoted in Henan, it soon spread to Beizhili.

Many gentry and village heroes in Northern Zhili could also hear the wind.

Naturally, these gentry did not dare to object openly, but many of them secretly encouraged the village heroes to go to the government to demonstrate.

At this time, a large group of township warriors came to Wanping County Government, with no less than 10,000 people surrounding the county government and began to demonstrate and shout slogans.

However, the slogans shouted by these local heroes were particularly surprising.

Because they actually asked the emperor to respect scholars.

"Treat the gentlemen of Wenquxing well! Don't treat them like common people!"

"Stop promoting the implementation of the joint efforts of officials and gentry to pay food. Scholars are the Wen Quxing in the sky. They come down to earth to assist the emperor and control the people. They are not those who work hard labor and pay taxes like us!"

"God will punish Master Wenquxing if you don't treat Master Wenquxing well! You can't treat Master Wenquxing like this!"
Chapter completed!