8mi Chapter 363: Resistance To Abolishing The Policy Of Exempting Land From Taxation And Preferential Tr
Chapter 363: Resistance To Abolishing The Policy Of Exempting Land From Taxation And Preferential Tr
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, looked at his sons.
You and he talked about the disadvantages and harms of the Ming Dynasty's preferential policy of exempting land and acres of tax for scholars, candidates, Jinshi, officials and subordinates, as well as royal family members. You can't help but feel a little embarrassed on your face. .
To be honest, he really did not expect that the policy of exempting land and acres of tax for scholars, candidates, Jinshi, officials, subordinates, and royal family members would be so harmful and harmful, and it would even be enough to lead to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the future! !!
After all, from the beginning, he never thought that things like land donation or putting his own land under the name of others would happen in the preferential treatment policy of exempting land from land tax that he formulated.
Because he severely cracks down on and prohibits things like donating land, or putting your own land in the name of others!!!
According to the original history, it benefited from the "Fish Scale Atlas" compiled by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang, or the Ming court, had a relatively clear grasp of the land and acres of the world's officials, gentry, wealthy households, and common people.
Therefore, things like donating land, or attaching one's land to someone else's name, are not easy to happen, and they don't happen often.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang really did not think that the Ming Dynasty's policy of exempting land and acres of tax for scholars, scholars, Jinshi, officials, subordinates, and royal family members would have any serious disadvantages and harmful consequences, let alone lead to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in the future. .
After all, he only talked about the number of acres of land that were exempted, but in fact, the number of acres that these scholars, scholars, Jinshi, officials, subordinates, and royal family members really owned, all of them should not be exempted. Up to the upper limit of exemption.
Therefore, although it has an impact on Ming Dynasty's land taxation, it will not have such a serious impact!!
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang cannot be entirely blamed for the formulation of the preferential treatment policy of exempting scholars, civil servants, Jinshi, officials and subordinates, as well as members of the royal family from land tax.
After all, it is still the same sentence. This policy was normal and no problem during Zhu Yuanzhang's administration.
As long as the emperor of tomorrow and the imperial court who succeed to the throne can continue to closely control the land and acres of the world's officials, gentry, wealthy households, and common people!
So things like donating land, or naming one's own land in the name of others to evade court taxes, will naturally not happen frequently and on a large scale!!
And as long as things like donating land or putting one's own land under other people's names do not happen frequently and on a large scale, then the court will naturally not be unable to receive enough and needed gifts!!!
As long as the imperial court can normally receive enough and needed taxes for the various expenses and operations of the imperial court, then the imperial court will naturally not need to collect additional taxes from the people!
As long as taxes are not increased from the people, the people will naturally not become refugees or fugitives due to excessive taxes, or they will become serfs and tenants of those officials, gentry, and wealthy households!!
Not to mention that they would not revolt and overthrow the Ming Dynasty because they could not survive!!!
This link follows one after another, which can be said to be interlocking.
It's just that the emperors of later generations of the Ming Dynasty were not at the level of Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di per capita.
After Zhu Yuanzhang, or in other words, after Zhu Di, the later emperors of Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty gradually lost specific control over the land and acres owned by the officials, gentry, wealthy households, and common people in the world.
And after the first link of controlling the land of officials, gentry, wealthy households, and common people in the world collapsed, then naturally all the subsequent links collapsed!!!
In the end, there was a series of reactions, which ultimately led to the risk of the Ming Dynasty's collapse in the future due to the preferential treatment policy of exempting land and acres of taxes for scholars, candidates, Jinshi, officials, subordinates, and royal family members!!!
This is the so-called policy that is good, but as time goes by, if future generations cannot continue to implement the policy perfectly, then the original good government will naturally turn into a bad policy.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little angry when he thought that he had planted another evil policy for the Ming Dynasty for no reason. In addition, the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes behaved in a way that was embarrassing to him, and he immediately became angry. road:
"good""!"
"We were wrong!!"
"We shouldn't give you the preferential treatment of being exempted from land tax!!!"
"After we go back today, we will appoint scholars! Promoted people! Jinshi! Officials and subordinates!!!!"
"And you princes and vassals are entitled to the preferential treatment of being exempted from the land tax. Every one of you is one of them. We will waste them all with the pigs!!!!"
"From now on, you princes and vassals will pay us as much land tax as you have in your name!!!"
"As long as there is a penny less in land tax, you are just waiting for Lao'zi to hang you up by the waistband of your trousers and whip you!!!"
"From now on, no one from the royal family to the scholar will be exempted from the land tax!!!"
After knowing that the preferential treatment policy of exempting from land tax may bring about the danger of national subjugation in the future of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very decisive.
Since the preferential policy of exempting land from taxation gave those wealthy officials and gentry the opportunity to exploit loopholes, he simply cut off the possibility of exploiting loopholes and exploiting loopholes directly from the explicit policies and laws.
After that, if anyone is caught by him for tax evasion, tax evasion or tax avoidance, he will directly drag them out and kill them, and then confiscate their property and acres!!!
Hearing his father Zhu Yuanzhang's somewhat angry but serious words, Chu King Zhu Zhen couldn't help but frown and said:
“I’m afraid it’s not that easy to abolish the policy of exempting land and acres of tax for scholars, civil servants, officials and subordinates, as well as relatives of the royal family, etc.?!”
"I'm afraid once it is brought up, there will be strong resistance from all the civil and military officials on the spot, right?!!"
Chu King Zhu Zhen saw clearly that if he wanted to abolish the preferential treatment policy of exempting land from tax, the biggest resistance would be the civil and military officials from the country.
Because of this preferential policy of exempting land and acres from taxes, the people who benefited the most were the civil and military officials in the imperial court.
Once he wants to abolish this policy, I am afraid that even the Huaixi noble group who followed his father to conquer the world will secretly voice their dissatisfaction.
As for scholars, candidates, and scholars, the resistance will not be too great. After all, from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the full implementation of the imperial examination has only been three years.
No matter whether it is a scholar, a scholar, or a scholar, the number is not very large.
Therefore, even if they want to abolish the preferential treatment policy of exempting land and acres of tax, these scholars, candidates, and scholars will not make much protest, and even these protests will not reach the temple.
As for the protests and dissatisfaction of the royal family members, strictly speaking, the seven brothers present now are enough to represent the entire royal family group of the Ming Dynasty!
As long as the seven brothers have no objections, then at least the current clan members of the Ming Dynasty royal family will not have any different opinions!!!
Even if there were, the seven brothers were enough to suppress these dissatisfied voices, so that these dissatisfied voices could not even leave their respective palaces!!!
And would the seven brothers have any objections?!!
No, because this one-size-fits-all policy is good for the emperor of Ming Dynasty and the continuation of Ming Dynasty in the future.
Except for the fifth brother Zhu Xi, who had no intention of becoming the emperor, the other six brothers were all expected to succeed to the throne of the emperor.
In other words, policies that are good for the emperor of Ming Dynasty and the future continuation of Ming Dynasty are likely to be good for their future! Especially!
As a result, they would naturally not protest against their father's policy of abolishing the exemption of land tax for royal clan members.
Because they now look at these issues from the perspective of the emperor, they naturally give priority to policy decisions that are good for the emperor and the continuation of the Ming Dynasty!!!
As for the interests of the royal family and clans that they suffered, or the interests of the princes and vassals?!!
Let's wait until they fail in the competition for the emperor and are completely reduced to ordinary princes and vassals.
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