Chapter 398 The people's hearts are profit-oriented, and they are harsh on taxes and miscellaneous taxes
"Uncle, the meal is ready, can you serve it now?"
At this time, a person leaned out of the door, and Fang Xing smiled: "Get more, let's eat together today." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
At this time, the status of the family members was not as high as it was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the family members at that time and the Lord would eat together, and they would eat whatever the Lord would eat.
It's just that when it comes to the battlefield, these preferential treatments need to be guaranteed with their lives.
After setting up the meal, Fang Xing pointed to the dried fish of various methods and said, "Come, everyone try it, and see if there is a future for going inland." ā
Braised hairtail, fried jumping fish......
Seeing that everyone was eating heartily, Fang Xing didn't care about the rules of eating and not saying anything, and said: "If you want the people to believe in you, the tough way can't last, so today I first proposed to let them do it themselves, and then buy it in a unified way, but then you all saw it." ā
The knife swallowed a piece of hairtail, "Master, you have set a trap for them!" ā
"So to speak."
Fang Xing said unabashedly: "This kind of canned food has relatively high requirements for conditions, if it is scattered in various households to process, the final things are uneven, not big, and not good." ā
Fang Wu's eyes lit up, and he said: "Master, then you just lure them with profits, make them excited, and then use Mr. Xu's appearance to end up, just to convince those people." ā
Fang Xing nodded slightly and said, "If it is not tempting, the people will not be tempted." If you don't lay it out, no one will pay attention to you, this is the human heart. ā
Xu Fangda said ignorantly: "But teacher, why does the disciple think that those baskets of copper coins still play the biggest role?" ā
"Exactly." Fang Xing nodded and said: "Seeing is believing, hearing is false, who will listen to you if it's no good!" ā
Seeing a few people thinking, Fang Xing was thinking about another question.
After eating, Fang Xing returned to the study to write a letter, not only to his family, but also to Zhu Zhanji and others.
In the letter, Fang Xing talked about the origin of the Japanese and the situation of the coastal people, and the last sentence was: If you don't purge the low-level officials, the Japanese will not stop!
At the back, Fang Xing attached the content of the fish tax levied by the local government.
The fish in the coastal area is divided into natural color and folded color, and in recent years, due to the war, there are more natural colors, that is, things like swim bladders.
However, the local government not only collected its true colors, but also demanded other miscellaneous taxes.
Lever solution, water foot, consumption ......
These miscellaneous taxes add up, and the fishermen are really miserable, and many of them have abandoned their jobs. There are even those who take risks and go directly to the sea to find the pirates, and they become pirates from fishermen.
"Uncle, in the past few years, fortunately, it has been taxed in its true colors, otherwise it will be even more bitter!"
The taxation of the Ming Dynasty is divided into true color and folded color, the true color is your own output, and the folded color means that you have to pay money or buy things required by the government to pay taxes.
The tax on the color of the discount made the local government have more miscellaneous tax items, and the people were more difficult.
Huang Zhong sighed: "In the next few days, I have traveled many places, and found that the local officials are like wolves and tigers, and they have set up clever names to loot the people's wealth. ā
Fang Xing took Huang Zhong's record book, looked at the miscellaneous taxes collected by various names, and all kinds of supernumerary miscellaneous labor......
"Car foot money, food money, bamboo basket money, money along the river gods and Buddhas......"
"Hah!"
Fang Xing raised his head, exhaled depressedly, shook his head and said: "People's hearts are greedy, how many corrupt officials has Emperor Taizu Gao killed?" How many more have His Majesty killed today? Kill endlessly, go forward and follow! ā
Thinking of the long 'forward and successive' in the future, Fang Xing smiled bitterly: "This is a chronic disease, and it is impossible for it to disappear in any era, at most, it is just to put more effort into supervision." ā
In fact, Fang Xing's words in his heart are: not only to supervise, but also to form a situation of national supervision, so as to slow down the spread of grassroots rot.
Huang Zhong remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthlessness in killing corrupt officials, and couldn't help but shake his head speechlessly.
Fang Xing rewrote a letter, sealed it, handed it to Xin Laoqi, and then said, "Send it quickly." ā
The army has its own channels, and according to Fang Xing's level, it is natural to ask for faster transmission.
The two were sighing, and the knife came in and said, "Master, someone followed when Mr. Huang came back." ā
Huang Zhong was stunned and said, "It's just a lonely person below, why are they following?" ā
"Go, follow the man, and see whose handiwork."
Fang Xing explained, and after the knife left, he sneered: "It seems that Fang Mou has touched the interests of some people when he comes here!" They are scared! ā
Huang Zhong thought about it for a while, and also understood the reason for the matter.
Fang Xing's methods of dealing with the Japanese and the Tongyu people were terrifying, and he had no sign of leaving the Taizhou Mansion for the time being, and those people were probably worried that this Taisun's teacher had come down with some kind of purpose.
Fang woke up, looked at the golden yellow sprinkled on the courtyard outside, and said with his hand: "The heart is selfless, the world is wide, and there are no ghosts in the heart, why do you do such a sneaky thing, I want to see what these people are afraid of!" ā
The next day, the knife brought the news of the stalker.
"Sir, that man ended up in the tax department."
"A tax collector would never dare to do this in private!"
Fang Xing remembered the strange tax policy of the Ming Dynasty, and the commercial tax was set at thirty taxes by Zhu Yuanzhang, which was to restore the business that had been hit hard by the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
But in the Yongle period, Zhu Di did not dare to change his Lao Tzu's policy, and it was still an ultra-low tax rate.
"They all rely on farmers to support this huge country, if there is a natural and man-made disaster, what about the Ming Dynasty?"
Fang Xing sighed: "The same is true for the City Division, prohibiting private trade, only paying tribute trade, the key is that no taxes are collected, O god of the forehead!" Let's take a look at the commercial tax of the former Song Dynasty! ā
Huang Zhongjiu was in Suzhou Mansion, so he naturally knew these drawbacks, and he persuaded: "Uncle, these have to be done slowly, after all, ...... Your Highness is still young! ā
Fang Xing glanced at Huang Zhong in surprise, nodded and said, "Yes, we are both young, but I can't ignore this matter!" ā
After being silent for a while, Huang Zhong bowed down and said, "Uncle, don't worry, you also have a mind below!" ā
Huang Zhong suddenly showed his heart just now, Fang Xing only responded vaguely, this time he couldn't do this anymore, otherwise Huang Zhong would inevitably be centrifuged.
After looking at Huang Zhong for a moment, Fang Xing said slowly: "This road is not a small risk, you can't do it unless you are persevering, you can't be a person who is not like a stone, can you think clearly?" ā
Huang Zhong solemnly arched his hand and said, "Uncle, I don't regret it!" ā
Fang Xing's eyes suddenly became sharp, and he stabbed at Huang Zhong like a knife: "Bolu, do you know the consequences of this words?" Once you have a change, Fang has a thousand ways to make you die silently! ā
Huang Zhong said calmly: "If that's the case, let the uncle deal with it!" ā
Fang Xing nodded, and then said, "Okay, you can come to my study from now on." ā
Fang Xing's study is a forbidden place in the Fang family, unless he asks you to go, anyone who approaches it will be regarded as a spy by the family.
During the time that Huang Zhong was in the Fang family, he had seen Fang Xing's actions. From Zhu Zhanji's sober attitude to the content taught in the school, it all shows a meaning......
-- We are not Confucians!