I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

Commander Song, "Emperor Yang of Sui had cattle for food storage, but what about Emperor Chongzhen? He couldn't even pay the soldiers. The treasury was empty, so how can you say he had the most silver!"

"The Ming Dynasty lasted for more than 200 years, and it can be said that all nations came to pay tribute. After the Song Dynasty, there was a lot of international trade in the south. Basically, the Ming Dynasty was selling goods, such as tea, silk and porcelain!

Collect silver from foreigners!

At that time, the limited maritime order turned these transactions into smuggling, and the country did not collect any taxes.

The money is in the hands of big businessmen and big landowners, not in the country!

After Li Zicheng captured the city of Sijiu, he did something that is famous in history books as "roasting the officials' salaries". He arrested the ministers and beat them!

Force them to pay!

There are two records in history books. One is that he obtained more than 6000 million taels of silver from officials in the capital!

The other one is 8000 million taels of silver!

This shows that at that time, the ministers in the court had at least 6000 million taels of silver in their homes!

During the Chongzhen period, the richest place was not the capital in the north but the south!

Emperor Tianqi was able to collect a large amount of tax revenue from Jiangnan by using Wei Zhongxian, but Chongzhen could not!

This only shows that Jiangnan is rich and Chongzhen is stupid. He doesn't have Wei Zhongxian on his side, so he deserves to be poor.

Chongzhen emptied the imperial palace and only had three thousand taels of silver, but his father-in-law alone had more than three million taels of silver, not to mention other things!

Therefore, it was not that the Chongzhen Dynasty had no money, but that Chongzhen himself had no money. His court officials alone had at least 6000 million taels of silver!

It’s enough for him to send troops as many times as he wants!

What an army you can raise!

Wanli was able to carry out the "Three Great Expeditions", but Chongzhen was unable to do so. The key was that there was no Wei Zhongxian, let alone Zhang Juzheng!

The South has more money, at least 200 million taels of silver!

Being an official makes a lot of money! The salary in the Ming Dynasty was very low! Where did they get their money from?

One is to be rich but not pay taxes, thus going against the national tax policy!

Is it wrong to bury both types of people?

Chongzhen didn't dare to do it, or he didn't know! No matter which one, he was really useless!

If it were Emperor Yang of Sui, the ruthless man who was cruel to everything, or Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, try it!

It would be strange if we didn't kill all these people!

Having no money is just a joke!

My evaluation of Emperor Yang of Sui and Chongzhen is that Emperor Yang of Sui was defeated by the aristocratic family that was at its peak at that time and not by anything else!

Emperor Yang of Sui was awesome! He was very tough!

Same as Mark Country!

It's not that I'm not good enough! It's that my opponent is too strong!

Even if it were the First Emperor, it wouldn’t work!

Chongzhen was cowardly when facing the civil service group at its peak and was defeated by himself!

It's really useless!

It has nothing to do with money or food!"

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"You are dissatisfied with the work point system. Why do you want to abolish it?" Aunt Wei asked Cao Dongfang.

"One is to increase supplies for the country, the other is to increase farmers' income!

Let them have enough food and warm clothes!

Farmers have been growing crops for thousands of years, facing the earth and working with their backs to the sky!

When will we go to work like the workers and go to the brigade to work, and what will we do?" Cao Dongfang asked everyone.

"You can take care of the crops!" replied Mr. Wei.

"In the past, when there was no work for thousands of years, did the farmers just ignore their crops? They couldn't grow any crops, and there was no harvest!

Your reason is also a brainless one, not as good as that of an old farmer!

It's just a waste of farmers' time. The reason is that it has to be public and everyone has to work together. No other explanation makes sense!

The biggest problem with this policy is that it is too rigid, tying farmers to a few acres of land!

The work that used to be completed in one or two hours a day now takes a whole day, otherwise there will be no work points!

No work points means no income!

"Mr. Wei, when you were a division commander in a war, did you command ordinary soldiers?" Cao Dongfang asked Mr. Wei.

"Alas! You can't command the soldiers. I understand what you mean!" Old Wei also understood the problem.

"It's not my idea, but the idea of ​​the founder. It's all arranged to give full play to 'subjective initiative'. How to give full play to it?

With so many big hats thrown at us, who dares to move? How can we exercise our "subjective initiative" if we don't move?

Who is wrong?

I just want the country to loosen the shackles on farmers and let them do other things during the slack season and with some surplus labor!

It can not only increase their income, but at least increase the amount of agricultural and sideline products in the country!

You can eat one more bite of meat and one less bite of rice, but meat is not to be lacking!

The country is now so short of materials, why not let the farmers do it!

Only they really have the people, time and place to do it!

It’s not enough for the state to build factories alone; the cost is too high!

It also includes current wages and prices, which are low!

too low!

Everyone suffers!

Big mistake!

This matter needs to be handled slowly. There are too many things to do and too many things to be involved. It cannot be done in a short time! Solve it step by step! "

Aunt Wei, "Farmers have time now, how can they increase their income?"

"Why do you say that wages and incomes are low now? That's totally wrong!" Commander Song didn't understand again.

“Aunt Wei and Commander Song’s questions can be answered together. One sentence cannot truly reflect the value of people and objects!

A lot of data!

For example, the purchase price of a pig is 42 cents per pound. Has the government ever thought about how much it costs to raise a pig from a piglet to an adult?

Is there any profit in this? If not, who would be willing to raise pigs!

It takes money to raise a child!

Don’t we need to raise pigs and chickens?

There are also labor costs here!

As for what farmers can do, for example, the simpler ones are raising pigs, raising chickens, and growing some vegetables that do not occupy good farmland, sweet potatoes, etc.!

Fruit trees, medicinal herbs and fast-growing timber are planted in places with mountains to provide raw materials for the national papermaking industry.

Ducks can be raised wherever there is water! The meat can be made into roast duck, and the duck down and duck feathers can be made into cotton-padded clothes. The demand for them is huge!

One near the sea is farming seafood, and the other is going out to sea to fish!

The offshore fishing industry of a small country is much more developed than ours! Fishermen earn more! Why don’t we do it?

Rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to eat the water!

I know that there are more people in the country, so you can imagine it, especially the locals!

They know better than us!

After they finish their work, except for paying taxes to the state, everything else belongs to them!

This way they can truly increase their income!

The national grain prices are too low!

Cao Dongfang proposed a bunch of solutions.

"This is indeed a method. There are so many things farmers can do! Earn some money!" Aunt Wei nodded in agreement.

Mr. Wei said, "If we make too much money, there will be a gap between the rich and the poor in society. It's not good if it's too big!"

"That's right!" Commander Song also nodded in agreement!

"Dongfang, how do we solve this problem?" Aunt Wei asked.

“We don’t need to solve it now, the government can solve it with a tax in the future, it’s too simple!

Mr. Wei and Commander Song are both soldiers. Let me not talk about the gap between the rich and the poor between us and ordinary people!

Just talking about farmers!

Farmers don’t make much money by doing these things. As I said before, prices are too low. There is a cost issue, so they don’t make much money!

Let me give you a very simple example, raising pigs!

It takes about a year for a pig to grow from a piglet to a market. If a pig weighs 200 kilograms, the state purchase price is only cents per kilogram.

A 200-pound pig can only be sold for 84 yuan!

If you let it go completely free, one person will earn more than 84 yuan a year, plus taxes!

It’s impossible to recover the cost of pig feed, and farmers can’t afford to raise pigs!

You can only let it roam free, but if a person uses the free-range method to raise pigs, he can raise several pigs!

Can you surpass five pigs?

Even if the income from 5 pigs is only 420 yuan! Without tax, his annual income is not as high as my monthly salary!

Piglets are free, right? It’s impossible to let them roam free all year round, there will be costs!

This does not include personal labor costs!

So I think that it is already too much for a pig to make a net profit of twenty yuan. How can it be rich?

You can't even compare to our income, so your worries are unnecessary!" Cao Dongfang explained.

"Oh, I don't know much about economics. Dongfang means that we are also rich people. If there are too many rich people in the country, how can we solve the problem?" asked Mr. Wei.

"It's normal that you don't understand economics since you are a soldier. Those who are in charge of economics should understand it!" Aunt Wei expressed her opinion.

"This is too simple. In the Sui Dynasty 1300 years ago, there was a law in my country called 'the rules for transferring nationality' or 'the law for transferring nationality'!"

The people across the country are divided into upper households, middle households, and lower households based on a comprehensive assessment of their property, including the number of male adults, the amount of land, the number of livestock, etc.!

Higher-income households are taxed more, while middle- and lower-income households are taxed less!

Not even taxed!

This is the world's first true "rob the rich to help the poor" law!

Emperor Wen of Sui robbed people at that time!

In order to deal with the 'aristocratic families' at that time!

Is it possible that people 1300 years ago could do it but cannot do it now?

It's just a matter of changing the things from the Sui Dynasty and making them our laws today!

Is this difficult?