Chapter 309 The court must receive taxes at all times!

Author: Mr Mumumu

Chapter 309 The court must receive taxes at all times!

"What did he say?"

"Son of the Sea? What the hell is it? Ask him if he was driven out by the Spanish?"

"It's really Spanish!"

Emperor Ka is now standing on an iron ship with a confused look on his face.

My head is completely out of service.

He fled in a boat sent by the people of the Central Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, after a few days of escape, I met the fleet of the Central Kingdom.

From the flags they hung, Kath Emperor confirmed their identities.

And after he got on the boat, he was stunned.

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

oh.

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

Their chief is the son of heaven.

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

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

It is not easy to find an island that only exists on the chart in the vast ocean.

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

I don’t know if his world is Hawaii?

"It must be the Spanish. You can't let them occupy Hawaii! It seems that this is the right thing to do!"

Cai Qian took a deep breath and said.

"Send a reconnaissance boat first to see the arrangements of the Spaniards, they should have 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 frown.

"The Spaniards have transformed the island into a fortress. If they want to land forcibly, there will probably be a lot of casualties." Cai Qian frowned and said, "What should I do now? Should I go back to China and ask the army to take action?"

Now the Ming Navy does not have a special force responsible for landing operations, nor does it have any Marines.

And let the precious sailors hold muskets to do the work of rushing to land on the beach.

Cai Qian estimated that when he won this battle, he would probably have to move.

After all, the big-headed soldiers of the Ming Dynasty army are not short of sources.

And the navy is different.

Experienced sailors who can go out to sea and ocean are so precious.

It's impossible to consume this

"Go back first. Getting such a Hawaiian king is a great achievement!"

Zheng Xiaoyi said regretfully.

"And I guess the Spaniards will go back to bring reinforcements, so we have to hurry up!"

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

However, the battle between the Ming Dynasty, Spain, the United States, and Britain over the Americas cannot be decided overnight, and there is no basis for a war between the two sides.

This is destined to be a very Manchester City process.

And in the Ming Dynasty.

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

"Your Majesty, this time I have captured eight leaders. These eight leaders have been praised by many newspapers in Sichuan as eight gentlemen in the tribute court. However, they are all young people in their twenties, but they are just too passionate. Look, "The person who is speaking is Luo Fangbo, the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Naturally, he did not want the impact of this Gongyuan incident to be too much.

"Take the lead in resisting the imperial examination policy, illegal gatherings, and punishing according to etiquette! How have the arrears and arrears handled in the eight southeastern provinces?"

Emperor Zhu didn't have much favor to these scholars who like to do something extraordinary and gain fame.

Therefore, Sichuan directly ordered "punishment according to etiquette".

Let's make a decision.

This eight gentlemen in Sichuan must be in trouble.

It's considered light to be locked up for two or three years.

"The accumulated debts in various provinces are being processed in an orderly manner, and most of the wealthy households in various places have paid all the accumulated debts in the past."

Hearing Prime Minister Luo's words, Emperor Zhu, who was flirting with the local land tax situation, showed a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

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

Hearing Emperor Zhu's words, Luo Fangbo showed a bitter smile on his face.

How did he not know that this would happen?

The fields in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three grades according to the quality of arable land.

There is a lot of tax on the upper field, but there is a little tax on the lower field.

Those wealthy families are quite powerful in the local area, so of course they can change their own fields into lower fields through various means, so that other self-cultivated farmers can turn the fields of upper fields.

"Your Majesty, the rich families in this place have a mixed relationship with each other, so it is not easy to solve the problem. And they have not paid taxes before."

yes.

No tax was paid before.

Now pay the tax on lower fields.

It has been a huge progress.

A thoughtful smile appeared on the corner of Emperor Zhu's mouth.

"Can Luo Xiang collect taxes according to the amount of heaven and earth? If there are fewer fields, they will not be collected or exempted, and if there are more fields, they will be collected more, how about it?"

When Luo Fangbo heard this, he shook his head and said, "The solution is OK, but there are countermeasures from the top and the bottom, and the bottom will definitely find loopholes to exploit. For example, if you divide the fields, you will not even be able to collect the tax on the fields at that time."

Dividing the land means spreading the land on the tenant farmers' heads, but in fact the land still belongs to the rich households.

As long as local wealthy households occupy far more resources than poor people, it is difficult to truly shake the interests of local wealthy households in any case.

Emperor Zhu nodded.

"The world is full of money and profit. This is a word of profit in the local area."

He stood up.

"But our domestic literati are ashamed to speak out for profit, but they are fighting for profit everywhere. Even if they go upstairs and go downstairs, they have to make moves to let the common people receive taxes on the fields and pay them downstairs by themselves. However, in fact, most of the fields in the world are in the hands of wealthy households."

Luo Fangbo remained silent.

This has been the case since ancient times.

How do ordinary people fight with wealthy families?

This Confucian scholar and official spoke benevolence, righteousness and morality.

But in fact, it accounts for the biggest profit.

"Your Majesty, it is better to cancel the division between upper, middle and lower fields and collect taxes according to a unified tax rate," Luo Fangbo suggested.

This is of course a solution.

However, Emperor Zhu thought about it and said, "This method is good, but it is also a treatment for symptoms but not the root cause. After a long time, new interest patterns and loopholes will definitely be formed in the local area!"

"I see that the demise of dynasties in all dynasties was nothing more than the destruction of taxes and finances in the court, and even the death of controlling the army and the local government."

Of course, Emperor Zhu did not feel sorry for the common people to pay more taxes, but was worried that one day the court would be deceived by the local government and would not be able to collect taxes.

Of course, this aspect also requires a system to ensure it.

"Emperor, as long as the court's politics is clear and there are wise monarchs and wise ministers in the court, the local ghosts and monsters will not be so easy to cause trouble." Luo Fangbo said.

"A wise ruler and wise minister." Zhu Daohua shook his head.

"There are not many emperors as smart as me. Although Xiaopang doesn't look stupid, he definitely doesn't know the things in the local area. It's certain that he will be deceived in the future."

"So there must be a way to ensure that the court can collect taxes under any circumstances!"
Chapter completed!