ebookslot Chapter 361: On The Surface, Zhu Yuanzhang Is Generous, But In Fact He Is A Bit Stingy [Please Subsc
Chapter 361: On The Surface, Zhu Yuanzhang Is Generous, But In Fact He Is A Bit Stingy [Please Subsc
After answering the questions of Jin King Zhu Fan, Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Di and other princes, and continued to ask:
"Does anyone else have any other questions?!!"
Upon hearing this, Chu King Zhu Zhen immediately raised his hand and asked:
"Just now, Mr. Meng mentioned that even if the monthly subsidy for scholars is increased, the land tax exemption system for scholars must be abolished. I don't know why?!!"
Zhu Zhen always felt that there should be other deep meanings behind this action, but his knowledge was shallow and he could not figure out the deep meaning.
So when Yan Changqing opened his mouth to let them ask questions, Yi Zhen immediately raised his own questions.
Yan Changqing looked over following the voice, and his slightly surprised eyes fell on Chu King Zhu Zhen. He did not expect that anyone would notice such a subtle point.
But now that he saw Chu King Zhu Zhen asking, he didn't mind giving a brief explanation.
"Since His Highness King Chu asked about it, I will simply say "four or five zero"."
"In fact, I think that not only the preferential treatment of land tax exemption for scholars should be abolished, but also the policy of land tax exemption for candidates, officials, and even members of the royal family should be completely abolished!!!"
As soon as Yan Changqing said this, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all frowned unconsciously, because as lords of vassals, they also have preferential tax treatment policies in Tutian City.
But now Yan Changqing has opened his mouth to abolish not only the talent tax exemption for scholars, but also the land tax exemption for them as princes and vassals!
This naturally made Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes frown, because from a certain perspective, this also harmed their interests.
However, they all know that Yan Changqing is not without purpose. Since Yan Changqing said this, there must be Yan Changqing's reasons and reasons, so Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes are quietly waiting for Yan Changqing of the following.
"The original intention of the policy of exempting the land tax from the land should be a gift to the intellectuals, civil servants, officials, and royal family members. The original intention was just to reduce the land tax in the homes of these intellectuals, civil servants, officials, and royal family members."
"The original intention is good, and there is nothing wrong with it."
"But exempting land from taxation will lead to two problems. One is land donation and name registration, and the other is the loss of taxes on the country's acres of land!!!"
"For example, a Linshan student among the scholars can be exempted from the land tax of about 20 acres."
"But does this Lin Shansheng have these twenty acres of land?!!"
“Most scholars’ families have less than 20 acres of farmland in total!!!”
"Then what situation will this lead to?!!"
"That is other wealthy gentry and landlords who own large amounts of land. They will donate or name the fields they own to these talented students to evade the land tax they should pay. "
"The scholars and students of Linshan received a considerable part of the tax-free commission, and they had an extra income without having to work.'
"And after reaching the level of Juren, the amount of land tax that can be exempted will reach one hundred to two hundred acres!!!"
"Similarly, most Juren families do not have one or two hundred acres of farmland, so more wealthy gentry and landlords who own large amounts of land will choose to donate their fields or name them to these Juren body, in order to avoid paying the land tax they should pay.”
"By analogy, we also include Jinshi, hundreds of civil and military officials in the country, tens of thousands of local officials and subordinates, as well as royal family members, etc.
"In the end, how many acres of land will be exempted from taxes in the entire world?!!"
“And how many acres of land are registered in the Ming Dynasty now in the entire world?!!”
"After throwing away those acres of land that are exempt from taxes, how many acres of land will the Ming Dynasty receive in taxes in the end?!!"
Yan Changqing's eyes slowly fell on Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, and he spoke in a calm and leisurely tone.
The policy of exempting scholars, civil servants, Jinshi, officials, royal family members, etc. from land tax [Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention at the beginning of the 10th century should be simply to exempt these personnel from the current land tax in their own names.
Just like a scholar named Linshan, the imperial court exempted him from taxes on his twenty acres of land.
But does he have twenty acres of land?!!
No!!!
Maybe a scholar's family only has three or five acres of fields, or maybe seven or eight acres of fields.
Therefore, the imperial court's final exemption from tax on his land should only exempt three or five acres of land from tax, or perhaps seven or eight acres of land.
Similarly, for those who are exempted from taxes on one or two hundred acres of land, or for those officials in the government who are exempted from taxes on hundreds, thousands, or thousands of acres of land, do their families have so many acres of land in their names? !!
No!!!
The number of acres that really belong to them is at most one hundred and eighty acres, or maybe a few hundred acres.
Therefore, the imperial court finally exempted them from the tax on the acres. In fact, it should only exempt the 180 acres or a few hundred acres that they actually owned from the tax.
In this way, they are exempted from the actual land tax and given corresponding preferential treatment.
On the other hand, it also demonstrated the great kindness of the imperial court and let the people of the world know the vastness of God's grace.
After all, the imperial court gave them a tax-free quota for the acres of land that far exceeded what they owned!!!
It's just that the number of acres they own is small. Even if they are exempted from tax, they will not be able to reach the upper limit of the land tax exemption given by the court.
This kind of approach looks very grand on the surface, but in fact it is a little stingy.
It can be said that it is very consistent with Zhu Yuanzhang's comprehensive and complex personal character of being a beggar in the first half of his life and a refugee in the second half of his life.
It's just that any policy that is not one-size-fits-all will inevitably have room for flexible application!!!
And if there is room for flexible and flexible applications, then there must be places where loopholes can be exploited!!!
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, looked faintly green at the moment.
Land donation, registered registration?!!
After hearing Yan Changqing point it out, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for a moment and determined that such a thing would definitely happen as time goes by!!!
He does not support things like land donation and registered registration, and even severely cracks down and prohibits them!!!
For example, the reason why he was preparing to launch the "Li Zheng System" was to facilitate the subsequent verification of the land in the world!
The purpose of verifying the acres of land in the world is to compile a land book - the "Fish Scale Atlas"!!
The purpose of compiling the "Fish Scale Atlas" is to crack down on those wealthy officials, gentry, and tax evaders who evade taxes on their land!!!
For example, wealthy households in Jiangsu and Zhejiang came up with many ways to avoid taxes and servitude.
One of them is to divide the property under one's name and then put it in someone else's name, thereby lowering the household status.
This method also has a special name, called "iron-footed trick sending", and even formed the local custom of "Tongtian trick sending".
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew about such things. Even the reason why he wanted to re-check Tianxia Tianmu was largely due to these things.
As a result, Yan Changqing told him at this moment, you are cracking down on tax evasion and tax evasion by the wealthy officials and gentry, but you have opened a hole for the wealthy officials and gentry to evade and evade taxes!!!
In this way, it would be strange for Zhu Yuanzhang to have a good-looking complexion!!!
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