How to increase revenue? How to reduce expenditure?

Zhu Xiang had a look of confusion on his face, with vertical wrinkles between his brows, his eyes were slightly narrowed, his pupils were slightly constricted, his body was leaning forward slightly, and his behavior revealed a look of hesitation and confusion.

"It's too difficult." Zhu Xiangzhen's head hurt thinking about it, "Zhang Tianshi, I can't do it!"

Zhu Xiangshi didn’t think of any of them.

Zhang Feng is not in a hurry. These are to be brought to Zhu Biao through Zhu Xi, so Zhu Xi must understand them thoroughly.

"Your Highness, there is no need to rush, take your time." Zhang Feng smiled slightly, "Let's go back to the problem itself. Why did you propose to 'cancel the land tax and never start the science' last time?"

Zhu Xi blurted out: "Land annexation!"

He remembers this very clearly. Land annexation caused farmers to lose their land. In the end, no one had anything, so they had no choice but to rebel.

Zhang Feng nodded and said: "Yes, it is land annexation. This land annexation is a result. Any result is caused by a certain reason. There is no 'effect without cause'; conversely, this land annexation will also become a result."

Reason, any reason will inevitably lead to a certain result, there is no 'cause without effect'."

"When we observe all this through thinking, the first thing that appears before our eyes is a picture endlessly intertwined with various connections and interactions."

Zhang Feng took a sip of tea and continued: "After understanding this, we can start to use the causal relationship to deduce. From the resulting land annexation to the land tax issue, we can break this issue apart. If

Peasants still have to pay land taxes, but what about people with merit?"

Hearing Zhang Feng's question, Zhu Xi responded naturally: "Of course people with fame don't have to pay taxes."

Hongwu stipulates that officials are exempted from corvee service, and those who have achieved imperial examinations are exempt from tax. This policy is still temporary, but through the efforts of later literati, it will naturally become temporary and long-term. The literati are eager to have such a good policy printed in the court

on the pillar.

"Your Highness, if you think that they can not pay taxes as a matter of course, then this policy will definitely be carried forward by them." Zhang Feng raised his head slightly and said: "People with honors do not have to pay taxes. The other part of the officials and gentry without fame, see

People like them will also have red eyes, and the two parties will soon collude together and not pay taxes together."

"In order to avoid paying taxes from the court, many people would donate their land to the families of officials and gentry who did not pay taxes. As a result, in the long run, there will be fewer and fewer self-cultivators and more and more tenant farmers."

"With fewer and fewer self-cultivating farmers, the imperial court could collect fewer and fewer taxes. While it abolished the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue, it also promoted land annexation in disguise."

Zhu Xi understood after hearing this.

It turns out that there was another reason why Zhang Feng proposed "abolition of land taxes" at that time. Those who had a good reputation had already canceled the tax, but if other farmers did not cancel it, they would change from self-cultivators to tenant farmers.

Zhu Xi said with some fear: "Master Zhang, this is what my father decided, is it really going to be like this?"

"Oh, that's natural. You don't need to pay taxes. Why don't you just enclose the land to death?" Zhang Feng asked back, and then said: "The money earned from farming is all his own. At most, he will give a small part to the tenant farmers." , in the later stage of development, some even refuse to give it at all, and keep it all in their own pockets."

After listening to what Zhang Feng said, Zhu Xi suddenly realized that the culprit was his father!

Zhu Xi said happily: "It turns out that my father is so stupid. If Zhang Tianshi hadn't made it clear, I would have thought he was so wise, but it turns out he is nothing more than that!"

……

Zhu Biao and Zhu Di both stopped writing, not daring to remember Zhu Ping's last words.

The imprinted atmosphere is creepy.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Di glanced at each other quietly, not daring to breathe loudly, and beads of sweat as big as beans continued to fall from their foreheads.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, the veins on his forehead were beating wildly, and his chest was rising and falling. He was obviously very angry at Zhu Xi's words.

"Little bastard, when we come out, we will let you know whether I am stupid or not."

Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his dissatisfaction with Zhu Ping and said: "We really neglected what Zhang Tianshi mentioned, and it actually led to land annexation. Now we know that we must make timely adjustments to prevent such a thing from happening."

In addition to making the literati feel that they have lost their preferential treatment and no special care, there are no other disadvantages.

……

Zhang Feng drank tea while listening to Zhu Ping's complaints.

After a while, Zhu Xi came over and poured tea and asked: "Zhang Tianshi, how did you come up with this? I have a headache just thinking about the connection."

After pouring the tea, Zhu Xiang touched his head. If he really wanted to make him think about these things, it would be better for him to never be released from prison.

Zhang Feng closed his eyes and felt the aroma of tea.

"In addition to the causal relationship, you can analyze these problems as long as you grasp the connection between necessity and chance."

Zhang Feng continued to explain: "Necessity and chance are a pair of categories that reveal different trends in the emergence, development and decline of things; there is no necessity that is separated from chance, and there is no chance that is separated from necessity, and the two can be converted into each other."

Zhu Xiang shook his head vigorously. He was confused about the cause and effect. If he considered the inevitability and contingency of things, his life would be shortened by at least thirty years.

Zhang Feng was very patient this time, even if Zhu Xi was a pig, he still had to let him climb the tree.

"This is actually not difficult." Zhang Feng said: "Your Highness, you can understand it this way. Our analysis of 'income is settled' is to use the method of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure. To increase revenue is to find more channels for income, and to reduce expenditure is to stop some useless things." Expenditures, by extension, can be found in policies, which ones allow us to increase revenue, and which ones allow us to reduce expenditures."

"Giving privileges to those with fame and not paying taxes will, in turn, stop a wrong policy and help us reduce our losses."

Zhu Feng nodded repeatedly after hearing this. After Zhang Feng's analysis, he also understood a little bit.

Zhu Xi smiled brightly and said: "Master Zhang, I understand!"

"The only way to secure the income is to cancel the policy of not paying taxes for those with meritorious status, so that officials, gentry and literati do not have the privileges of land tax, but they also have to pay taxes together!"

Zhu Xi stood up as he spoke and waved his hands.

Zhang Feng turned over the silver, but he still had to go deeper, otherwise Zhu Xi would have thought this was the answer.

"As I said before, I'm not giving you the answer, I'm giving you the method to analyze the answer." Zhang Feng emphasized: "Even if the no-tax policy is cancelled, it will be a drop in the bucket for the temporary land tax. I

I just gave this example so that His Highness can understand from here how to analyze these issues!"

Zhu Fang said aggrievedly: "Ah, I still have to analyze the problem. I thought this was the answer."

Zhu Feng looked confused. The causal relationship mentioned by Zhang Feng must be accidental. He really couldn't deduce it like Zhang Feng did.
Chapter completed!