The eighteenth day of the first month of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a good day, double eighteen!

For the talented people of the Ming Dynasty gathered in Nanjing, today is a good day for them to participate in the Enke Competition.

If you pass the exam, it will be Tian Shelang in the court, and you will be able to be an official in the twilight prince's hall! It's so fun to think about!

Among the more than 10,000 lifters gathered in Nanjing, there were some particularly happy lifters. For example, Songjiang genius Luo Dagong - he is most likely the first and second place in this subject, if he does a little better in the exam, it is possible to be the top student in high school! It's not the champion, it's the leader! Glory to the ancestors! How many generations of the old Luo family's poetry heirloom has been, and there is no one who is stunned, this time not only to be a jinshi, but also to be the top leader, and he will definitely be able to become a Luo Ge guy in the future......

So during this time, Grand Duke Luo was really proud! Although the science field is not yet proud, but the love field has already been harvested, and Li Yulin, who has been chasing the Suzhou girls' school book for a long time, has already agreed to marry - just wait for Luo Dacai to become the champion or the leader, and enter his room!

This little lady Li is a talented and beautiful woman, and she is glamorous Qin Huai!

The title of the gold list, the flower candle in the cave room, double happiness is coming......

"Resisting the capture and protecting the religion requires the use of soldiers, but the soldiers and generals all rely on the gathering, and the commercial tax is the basis of the financial endowment, how to make the commercial tax abundant and the military sufficient? What's going on? ”

"It's a strategy!"

"How do you test the strategy in the first session? Isn't that the third time to get the test? ”

"Did you misplace the topic?"

"Who is the examiner of this course? How did you come up with such a question? Is this a test of the ability to gather and collect......"

Just when Luo Dagong was extremely proud in his heart, there was already a lot of discussion in the examination booth of Jiangnan Gongyuan. It turned out that the exam questions for the first exam had been released on the Mingyuan Tower-Mingyuan Tower was the tallest building in the Jiangnan Gong Courtyard. According to the usual practice, before each exam, the examiner should write the questions of the on-the-spot exam on a wooden card, hold it high on the Mingyuan Tower, and hold up the card for the candidates to copy.

The content of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was set by Zhu Yuanzhang in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, and it has not been changed in history by the Ming Dynasty.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, there were three examinations in the imperial examination.

In the first session, there are four books and three questions, each with more than 200 words. There are four ways of righteousness in the Five Classics, each with more than 300 words.

In the second session, the essay is more than 300 words. Five sentences. Confess the internal medicine department.

The third game, the five ways of trying to test the history of the times.

The question of how to collect business tax is a current policy, and it should be placed in the third field for re-examination, but now it is only the first one, why did it come out?

Also, that's not the right question...... How can there be a direct question about how to collect business tax? How do you do this? There is no answer on the "General Examination of Literature" and "Daming Hall" - this strategy was originally to test the candidate's ability to understand the past and the present, and the candidate needs to read through the history books and the political books of the dynasty. However, people who don't hear what is going on outside the window and have no practical work experience often can't do a good job. Therefore, later, the candidates only read the "General Examination of Literature" and "Daming Huidian", two works, one ancient and one modern, to cope with the exam.

In addition, although there were three imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty. But the real decisive significance is actually the first one, that is, the "Four Books of Righteousness" and the "Five Classics of Righteousness".

After reading through the Four Books and the Five Classics (you don't have to read all the Five Classics, you can choose one of them as the key study of this scripture), and do a good job of the Eight Strands of Articles, the possibility of high school is very great. As for the later judgments, edicts, edicts, and tables, they are just writing some official documents, which is not a big deal. As for the strategy, the worse is to cope, and the better one is bragging.

Under normal circumstances, the policy theory is not taken seriously in the provincial examination, and it is okay. Only when it comes to the palace examination, the quality of the strategy will become the key to determining the ranking of the Jinshi - Emperor Chongzhen is the favorite of this kind of braggart articles, and he will read each one carefully. If you find that you blow it well, you will be promoted and reused by some great sage......

No matter how much attention is paid to it, you can't put the strategy in front of the Four Books and the Five Classics, let alone a strategy on how to make money!

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How is business tax charged?

Should this topic be done well?

In the examination room, the right hand of the Songjiang genius Luo Dagong holding the brush trembled!

It's because of excitement, but also because of fear!

The reason why he was excited was that he thought that Huang Zongxi would probably not do this question well - Huang Zongxi, that is a loyal minister and orphan who resolutely fights against the eunuchs! Will he be in favor of a strict commercial tax and compete with the people for profit? That's impossible...... Since Huang Zongxi won't take the exam well, then he will be the champion of today's subject!

As for being afraid...... The champion's article will definitely be widely circulated! If you write an article on how to levy strict business taxes, will you become a public enemy of Southeast Shilin?

On one side is the champion, and on the other side is the southeast Shilin...... What to do!

Grand Duke Luo was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he was in a hurry, so he was in a hurry.

When it comes to collecting taxes, the most feared thing is injustice, the powerful do not pay, and the powerless will be knocked out of the bones. In the long run, the powerless businessmen will be wiped out, and only the powerful and powerful will be left who do not pay taxes!

Therefore, if the imperial court wants to levy strict commercial taxes, it must start with the magnates, close ministers, and officials, and must pay taxes all together - of course, this cannot be done! Since it can't be done, then it is natural for the southeastern gentry to evade taxes......

How clever! Dagong Luo sighed, already admiring himself - according to this line of thought, the champion can be deceived, and Jiangnan Shilin can also explain it!

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"Collect business tax, hehe......"

At the same time, Huang Zongxi, the champion of Enke's internal determination this time, was sneering in his examination booth in a low voice.

The topic is difficult, but it is difficult for Huang Zongxi! It is impossible for Huang to give up the champion...... When he worshiped his ancestors on the first day of the Lunar New Year, he had already reported the good news in front of his father Huang Zunsu's tablet. How could he be such a filial son in front of his deceased father's spiritual throne? The deceased father will be sad under the nine springs, Confucianism pays the most attention to filial piety, if the father under the nine springs is allowed to disagree, can he still be regarded as a human being?

And what a good brain!

The best of both worlds has been figured out! It is to advocate "industry and commerce" and "tax and taxation". The former is to attach importance to industry and commerce, develop industry and commerce, and obtain a larger tax base through development.

The latter is a combination of local taxation and imperial examination quotas - where more taxes are paid, there should be more places to raise people and jinshi. In places where taxes are less, the quota of lifters and jinshi should be deducted.

In addition, Huang Zongxi also advocated rectifying the rule of officials by using the three methods of "wide entry," "strict management," and "maintaining honesty." In this way, the officials of the Ming Dynasty can be effective, and the government affairs are efficient, whether it is taxation or promoting industry and commerce, it will have twice the result with half the effort.