Daming: Teach the prince about dragon slaying skills at the beginning

"But in essence, the imperial court has no idea how much taxes are actually collected from the people in various places every year."

"No one or any department knows this number, or is able to grasp the total amount, let alone determine its increase or decrease."

"So on the surface, the imperial court said that the tax is one for thirty, but in fact, the amount of tax collected in various places in Ming Dynasty is really one for thirty?!!

"Still 28 tax one?!"

"Or 25 tax one?!!!"

"It's even twenty tax one?!!"

"I don't know, and neither does His Majesty, and even the people in charge of collection in various places don't necessarily know it all. It can be said that no one knows."

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was as gloomy as water.

After Yan Changqing told the truth about this matter, he was basically sure that such a thing was true.

And the reason is very simple, because Zhu Yuanzhang used to be a commoner, and he also faced those subordinate officials who collected taxes, and basically knew the various tricks those subordinate officials used when collecting taxes.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang has not personally experienced all kinds of big fights, small fights, or other shortfalls, false claims, etc., he has basically seen them all.

So as long as you substitute what Yan Changqing said with your own experience when you were young, then Zhu Yuanzhang can be sure that those tax bureaucrats must have done this! ! !

The King of Chu, Zhu Zhen, who was on the side, said viciously:

"These dog officials are full of their own pockets, and they still want to blame the imperial court, saying that the imperial court wants to collect food taxes from the people after they have increased them layer by layer!!!"

"Isn't this his aunt trying to harm the court and consume the credibility of the court?!"

"It really deserves to be killed!!!"

After being taught by Yan Changqing, Zhu Zhen now has a clear and clear understanding of the importance of credibility.  …

So after hearing what Yan Changqing said, his first reaction was that the court's accumulated and hard-to-establish credibility was consumed because of these dog officials! ! !

Prince Zhu Biao frowned, a little puzzled and said:

"Hasn't the imperial court announced the land tax decree that charges [-]% of the tax to the people?!"

"So the people of the Ming Dynasty should know exactly how much tax and food the imperial court will collect from them."

"If those county magistrates and subordinates increase their burden layer by layer, the tax collected from the people will eventually exceed [-]% of the tax."

"Will those people not question, or even refuse to pay the excess tax?!"

Yan Changqing shook his head lightly and said:

"The imperial court has indeed announced the land tax decree of levying [-] taxes and [-] tax, and announced it to all people in the world."

"However, if the county magistrate and subordinate officials in charge of collecting land taxes told them that the imperial court later changed the land tax quota, changing the land tax from 25 to [-], or even [-] to [-]."

"Then what does His Royal Highness think those people can do?!"

"After all, the common people have no way to verify the authenticity of what those county magistrates said."

"So there are only two choices left for them. Either swallow their anger, grit their teeth, and hand in the land tax according to the amount of land tax that the county magistrate and subordinate officials said."

"Either they don't believe the words of the county magistrate who represents the imperial court and is responsible for governing them, and directly choose to refuse to pay the excess taxes."

"The former will make life more difficult for them, but they will still be able to survive."

"But if it's the latter, the county magistrate and subordinate officials only need 0.3 to find a few random reasons, and they can arrest those people who refuse to pay excessive taxes and put them in prison for a few days of sobriety."

"If you're lucky, you might recognize the reality after a severe beating, and obediently pay the excess taxes."

"If you are unlucky, it is not impossible to refuse to pay taxes and die directly in the prison."

"Even if we can get them out of the prison alive, we only need to keep an eye on the common people who refuse to pay excessive taxes, and make troubles for him every day, and even instigate rogues to interfere with the livelihood of the common people."

"It won't take long for the common people to either pay more taxes than the previous excess taxes, and this will be the end of the matter."

"Or be forced to commit suicide!!!"

"It's easy for Hades, but it's hard for little ghosts, so it's them who are talking about."

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Chapter 192: The fundamental drawback of high salary and honesty is the greed of the people [Please subscribe, please order in full]

"Isn't this [representing Shangyi], [distorting Shangyi]?!"

Yan Wang Zhu Di frowned.

The local county magistrate and subordinate officials responsible for collecting taxes changed the amount of taxes collected without authorization, and said that it was the imperial court's act of modifying the amount of taxes.

In Zhu Di's view, it is the "representing Shangyi" and "distorting Shangyi" that Yan Changqing taught them before.

Local county magistrates "representing" the imperial court told the people under the rule that the amount of taxes levied had changed, which represented Shangyi!

However, the imperial court clearly only needs to collect 1 stone land taxes, but the local county magistrate and subordinate officials have to collect an additional "retained" land tax. This is a misinterpretation of the meaning!

"It can be said that."

Yan Changqing nodded and replied.

Representing Shangyi and misinterpreting Shangyi are basically the basic operations of local county magistrates.

"Although the common people can't fight against the local county magistrate's subordinates, the local county magistrate's subordinates are so difficult and oppressive to the people."

"Those common people have never thought of going to the state and the government to sue and report the illegal behavior of those local magistrates and subordinates, and ask the state and government officials to uphold justice for them?!!!"

Qin Wang Zhu Xi looked at Yan Changqing with a puzzled expression.

In his opinion, although those local county magistrates are as difficult to deal with as little ghosts, as long as the behavior of these "little ghosts" is reported to the "King of Hell", that is, the officials of various states and prefectures are above the local county magistrates and subordinates.

At that time, the superior 06 officials of those states and governments will personally inspect and verify, as long as the inspection verifies that what the people say is true.

Then, with the power controlled by the higher-level officials of the states and governments, it is nothing more than a slap in the face to kill those local magistrates and subordinates who have committed crimes.

Before Yan Changqing opened his mouth to answer, Jin Wang Zhu Yan, who was sitting next to King Qin Zhu Yu, was already looking at the void with sarcasm, as if he was looking at those county magistrates who were doing evil, and said:

"Justice?!!"

"Whose justice is upheld?!!"

"Are you presiding over the justice of the local county magistrates?!"

"Mr. Yan also said before that the 'retained' collection is not all left in the county, but also the amount that needs to be retained at the state or prefectural level."

"In other words, the excessive collection of land taxes by local county magistrates and subordinate officials has been acquiesced by the states and governments!!!"

"The local people went to the state, the government to sue, and reported the local county magistrate and subordinate officials. Wouldn't it become 'who under the hall, sue this official'?!"

"At that time, those people who dare to go to the state or the government to sue and report to the local county magistrate will either not be able to leave the court of the state or the government, or will be forcibly sent back to the original county by the state and government officials."

"Those people who were finally sent back to the original county to accuse and report, I'm afraid it won't be long before they will be covered in bruises all over their bodies, and finally 'felt guilty and committed suicide'."

In the view of Jin Wang Zhu Yan, when the retained taxes are also shared by state and government officials, then this matter cannot be resolved by going to the state or government to sue and report.

The states and governments themselves are the equal beneficiaries of the benefits of the retained taxes, so the governors of the states and governments are unlikely to be willing to harm their own interests for the sake of the justice of the people.

Want to solve the problem of excessive collection of land taxes received by local people.

Unless the local people can overcome the obstruction of the local magistrates and subordinate officials, the obstruction of the state and government officials, and even the obstruction of the civil and military officials of the capital.

It is possible to solve it only when you really walk in front of the princes and emperors.

Because the local county magistrates and subordinates, as well as the states and governments dared to add a retained tax to the land tax collected by the imperial court. If no one in the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew about such a thing.

Then I look down on the civil and military officials of the dynasty too much! ! !

But the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty still didn't say anything, and even chose to cover up and cover up faintly.

There is only one reason, that is, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are very likely to be the beneficiaries of this retained tax! ! !

Therefore, it is necessary for the local people to really find one and not benefit from this retained tax benefit.

And I am also willing to go to the local county magistrates and subordinates, officials from various states and prefectures, and even the civil and military officials of the capital to seek justice from high-ranking and powerful people for the sake of the common people!

And such a person, apart from these princes and their father, the emperor, there is no one else who meets the requirements.

But the common people in one place want to cross the distance of thousands of miles and thousands of miles, and overcome the resistance of local county magistrates, officials of various prefectures and prefectures, and all civil and military officials in the capital.

How difficult is it to finally walk in front of these princes and emperors? ! !

If these princes and sons of heaven are heaven, then it will be difficult for local people to go to the sky if they want to see them! ! !

[However, although no local people have come to express their feelings in front of them in such a matter, Mr. Yan still said this matter in front of them after all. 】

[With the character of the father, the emperor will definitely not watch such things continue to exist. This time, the local county magistrates, officials from various states and prefectures, and even all the civil and military officials in the capital may all be killed. 】

[However, such a matter cannot be solved by killing a word. 】

[The fundamental reason for such things to happen is that in order to maintain their rich and decent lives, those officials have not enough salaries to spend, so they have to find ways to earn money in other ways. 】

[As long as the problem of "low" officials' salaries is not solved, then even if the local county magistrates and subordinate officials who overcharge taxes are used now, all state and government officials will be killed. 】

[It won’t be long before those local county magistrates, state officials, and government officials will find other ways to continue to get money from the people in order to maintain their own rich and decent life. 】

[The so-called "things that have been done will be done again in the future, and things that have been done will be done in the future" is exactly like this! ! ! 】

Thinking of this, Zhu Yan's understanding of the sixteen-character mantra that Yan Changqing said before, "What has been done, will be done again in the future, and what has been done, will be done in the future."

"Is it possible that the salaries of officials must be increased, so that we can avoid those local magistrates and subordinates, and state and government officials continue to find excuses to over-levy land taxes and oppress the people?!"

King Zhu of Zhou frowned and said with an unswerving expression.

Yan Wang Zhu Di shook his head, expressing his disapproval of this plan:

"Increasing the salaries of officials is nothing more than treating the symptoms but not the root cause."

"Even this method, on the contrary, will encourage the arrogance of officials!"

"After all, the salary given by the imperial court, or the emperor's father, is obviously enough to cover the expenses of those officials and their families."

"The main reason for the lack of their own salaries is that those officials spend too much on their private lives."

"But it is impossible for the court to pay for the private expenses of these officials!!!"

"Even if the imperial court can temporarily meet the private life expenses of those officials by increasing the temporary salaries of officials."

"But after that?!!"

"When the private life expenses of those officials increase their salaries and become more, will the court have to increase the officials' salaries again to meet their private life expenses?!"

"If this is the case, it turns out that officials used to squeeze the people to meet their private life expenses. Wouldn't it become an official who squeezed the imperial treasury to meet his private life expenses in disguise?!"

"If this is the case, sooner or later the imperial treasury will be eaten up by the salaries of these officials."

"Promoting honesty with high salaries will only produce more and more corrupt officials!!!"

"Because it is impossible to truly satisfy the human heart."

In Zhu Di497's view, there is almost no solution to the problem of official oppression.

Because the root cause of this problem lies in the greed of the human heart! ! !

Officials want more money and salary income to meet their increasingly extravagant private life expenses.

Then there are only two ways, either squeeze the imperial treasury and force the imperial court to adopt a system of "high salary to support honesty" to support them.

Either squeeze the people's money, and they go to the people to forcibly get money from the people to meet their private living expenses.

In other words, the imperial court or the common people will always be squeezed by them voluntarily or involuntarily, so they will not squeeze the other.

But would the court, or their father, be willing to let those officials squeeze the treasury? ! !

Don't even think about it! ! !

Their father and emperor will only kill all the officials of the nine clans who want to squeeze the treasury, so as to make an example of others! ! !

Faced with this situation, those officials will naturally focus on those weak and deceitful people, and turn to oppressing the people.

Therefore, the problem of human greed is unsolvable in his view.

But putting it on Yan Changqing is not necessarily unsolvable, at least Zhu Di thinks so.

【After all, Mr. Yan is a saint! ! ! 】

【Since Mr. Yan has exposed the hat-trick of local county magistrates and subordinate officials, state and government officials, then Mr. Yan must have thought of a corresponding solution, right? ! ! 】

[If not, you will have the wisdom of a sage who has failed Mr. Yan! ! ! 】