"One errand, one grain" or "one gentry on errands, one grain"

This policy meant that both commoners and official landlords had to pay taxes, i.e., that is, their privileges of exemption from taxation were to be abolished.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the great shortage of scholars, in order to encourage people to read, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the introduction of many preferential policies for scholars, in other words, to give scholars privileges.

For example, if a person is involved in a case, if he is an ordinary civilian, the official lord will generally beat him up in order to obtain a confession, but if he is a showman, the government cannot torture him to extract a confession as soon as he comes up, and he must be sure that he has really violated the law, and he can only be punished after reporting and dismissing his reputation.

Another example is that Xiucai also has special clothes, which can only be worn by people with meritorious reputation, which is different from ordinary people. To put it bluntly, it is to give readers a chance to pretend to be forced.

There are also people with meritorious names who can see officials without kneeling, but only by giving their hands. They also don't have to serve servitude, don't have to pay food and taxes, etc., but the most enviable thing is that people with merit can also use slaves and maids, that is to say, they can take concubines at will and enjoy the blessings of all people, which is not available to ordinary people.

Due to the many benefits of reading, another term has emerged called dedication.

What is a contribution? Isn't it true that scholars don't have to pay field taxes? Therefore, as long as someone passes the examination, someone will take the initiative to put their fields in the name of this person, so that these fields do not need to be handed over to the imperial court.

Since there are so many benefits, many people have sharpened their heads to read, to the end of the Ming Dynasty, after nearly three hundred years of development, the number of people who read has become more and more, to the apocalypse, at least eighty percent of the land in the world fell into the hands of the gentry and landlords, and occupy ninety percent of the population of the whole world but only own two percent of the land, the most terrible thing is that the people who own the eighty percent of the land and wealth still do not have to pay taxes and food, try to ask how the world is not chaotic.

Yang Feng's proposal of one errand and one grain payment is to redistribute wealth, pay more for those who have more money, and pay less for those who have less money, so as to crack down on land annexation and collect more taxes to kill two birds with one stone.

After being silent for a while, Zhu Youxiao asked: "Yang Aiqing, as early as two years ago, Aiqing proposed the idea of one errand and one food, which also caused an uproar in the court.

At that time, in order to avoid angering the Donglin Party too much, I asked Aiqing to conduct a trial trial in Fujian, but I don't know what the results are now? ”

"Not bad!"

Yang Feng smiled, took out a fold from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Youxiao.

"With the cooperation of Fujian Governor Xia Dayan and others, two years ago, the minister lifted the sea ban in Fujian, and tried to implement the policy of paying grain as one errand and one person, which has already had obvious results, and as of October this year, Fujian alone has paid 500,000 stone of grain this year alone, and this amount is only a step less than that of Huguang. As for the silver, not to mention, His Majesty knows this better than Wei Chen, isn't that enough to explain the problem? ”

Zhu Youxiao took the fold and put it on the table, closed his eyes for a while before he opened his eyes and sighed: "It seems that Da Ming is really hard to return, and it won't work if you don't take strong medicine, Sandezi!" ”

"The slave is here!"

Sandezi, who had been waiting at the door, hurriedly walked in.

"You go to Wenyuan Pavilion...... Let Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen, and Han Yi come over together. ”

"Whoa!"

When Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen and Han Yi came to the imperial study together, they saw Yang Feng and Zhu Youxiao sitting opposite each other, eating and drinking while talking, and Zhu Youxiao, who was not very good, was already a little red from drinking.

Although they were dumbfounded, the etiquette still couldn't be abolished, and the three of them bowed down together: "Sun Chengzong, Zhu Guozhen, and Han Yi, the first assistants of the minister's cabinet, knock to see Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "Aiqing is flat, get up!" Sandezi, let someone bring a few stools, and let the three Aiqing eat together. ”

Looking at the tone of this guy, it was like an ordinary family was eating, and suddenly a few guests came, and the host warmly invited the guests to sit down and eat together.

Sun Chengzong was about to speak, but Han Yi, who had always been known for his outspokenness, couldn't help but raise his voice and said: "Your Majesty, as a great emperor, you should lead by example, how can you be so unhonored!" ”

"Not good!"

Sun Chengzong and Zhu Guozhen sighed in their hearts, and they wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

"Disgraced?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned by Han Yi's words, Lao Tzu was drinking and eating, I provoked you, and I actually said that I was disrespectful?

He was about to speak, but Yang Feng's face on the side had already sunk.

He put down his chopsticks and said lightly: "Elder Han Ge, you accuse Your Majesty of losing your honor, I don't know how Your Majesty lost your honor?" ”

"How not to lose the honor!"

Seeing Zhu Youxiao with a calm face, Han Yi also knew that what he said just now was a bit excessive, but now that the words had been spoken, he could only continue to speak hard.

"Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, but he sits at the same table with his courtiers, pushing cups and changing lamps. But he lost the royal prestige, as a courtier, the Marquis of Jiang Ning, but he drank at the same table with His Majesty regardless of dignity and inferiority, do you still have respect and humility etiquette in your eyes? How is this not a loss of honor? ”

"Bang!"

It turned out that Yang Feng slapped the table and made a loud noise.

"You fart!"

Yang Feng, who was not angry, stood up and pointed at Han Yi and shouted: "Han Yi, Lao Tzu has endured you for a long time, if it weren't for the face of Gu Ge Lao and Sun Ge Lao, Lao Tzu would have taught you a lesson." I never thought that I would give you back your face, and you have to take care of even having a drink with Your Majesty, believe it or not, Lao Tzu let you come in vertically and go out horizontally today? ”

Yang Feng's anger and momentum were immediately released, and the murderous aura that he had cultivated on the battlefield over the years unabashedly rushed towards Han Yi.

"Jiang Ninghou, stop!"

Seeing that Yang Feng was about to make a move if he didn't agree with each other, Sun Chengzong hurriedly stepped forward and shouted in front of the two.

"Marquis Jiang Ning, how dare you be rude in front of Your Majesty? If you insist on doing it, let's beat the old man first! ”

After Gu Bingqian returned to his hometown last month, Sun Chengzong was appointed by Zhu Youxiao as the first assistant of the cabinet, and it was another friendship that carried a gun, Yang Feng didn't want to lose his temper with him, so he could only glare at Han Yi, "Count yourself lucky today, otherwise...... Hmph......"

Yang Feng didn't speak, but everyone present understood that if he really wanted to annoy Jiang Ninghou, he would really beat people. And it is estimated that it will be in vain to fight, who made him so short-sighted that he even dared to sweep the emperor's face.

Seeing Yang Feng sit down again, Sun Chengzong breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Zhu Youxiao: "Your Majesty, since you summoned the three ministers over, I don't know if you want to invite the three ministers to drink or have something important to discuss?" ”