And more people think that after the implementation of a whip law, the people only paid silver as a tax, which is actually wrong-

It is recorded in the twelfth volume of the records of Xizong: In the first year of the Apocalypse, there were 30,000 households, 51.65 million mouths, 7.43 million hectares of land, 21.49 million stones of rice and 4.3 million stones of wheat. Zhejiang, Nanzhili Liberation and Beijing Taicang 3.25 million taels of silver, copper coins of 30,000 10,000 wen, and 4 million stones of grain, Beizhili and Shandong Sanfu sent 1.2 million taels of silver to the military department, and the other provinces sent 5.38 million taels of silver to the recruits.

It can be seen that taxes in kind still account for a large proportion of the overall tax revenue.

And the silver alone is close to 10 million taels, which is still the income before the three salaries.

So why is there a widely circulated saying that the Ming Dynasty's tax revenue was four million taels of silver a year at its peak? This led many people to think that the Ming Dynasty's tax collection capacity had been worse than one-fortieth of that of the Northern Song Dynasty and one-twentieth of that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In fact, this statement is not wrong, these four million taels only refer to the silver in the tax, and it is the silver that was transported to Beijing into Taicang.

The vast majority of the remaining tax revenue is retained in the local government, and this large part, except for some necessary local expenditures, the rest is divided among officials at all levels.

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"Get out of the way, get out of the way! Get out of the way! Suddenly, there was a violent shout from outside the crowd, followed by the sound of whips tearing through the air and exploding, and the crowd was in a commotion, making way for both sides.

Su Shaoyou, the eldest son of the Su family, walked proudly in the forefront, carrying a horsewhip in his hand, and he was followed by seven or eight strong men from the family, carrying tables and chairs in his hands, and containers such as buckets, and came over arrogantly. A common man hid a little slower, and Su Shaoyou's face immediately flashed a trace of anger, kicked him down with one kick, and whipped him down fiercely with a whip.

As soon as the whip fell, the thin clothes of the people were immediately torn open, and blood oozed out.

The people didn't dare to fight back, but just knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands and screamed loudly, and one wail after another came. His mother-in-law knelt beside her and kowtowed vigorously and begged for mercy, bursting into tears. The people around looked numbly, lowered their heads and did not speak.

On the contrary, Su Shaoyou became even more temperamental, and the whip in his hand kept stopping, until the people were whipped and rolled on the ground in pain before he stopped.

He took the whip, indulging in wine, and his body that had already been hollowed out was sweating profusely because of the action just now, Su Gongzi's golden body was very tiring to beat people.

His eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw the man's mother-in-law kneeling beside him.

This woman is about thirty years old, although her skin is a little rough because of the long-term heavy farm work, but she can still see that she looks very beautiful, especially the big peach blossom eyes, which are even more seductive. The pear blossoms crying there brought rain, which made Su Shaoyou's careful liver tremble.

Especially the chest is bulging, I don't know how big it is.

Su Shaoyou's eyes were like nails staring at the woman's face and chest, and when the surrounding thugs saw their son-in-law's expression, they knew his plan, and they all gathered around, smiling lewdly.

The woman looked around in a panic, and she seemed to feel a little bit of the calculation of the stocky young master in front of her.

Su Shaoyou laughed twice and rubbed his fingers: "Little lady, I still lack one at home, why don't you go back with your master?" I will give you three taels of silver a month......"

The young woman was very alarmed at first, but when she heard the three taels of silver, her eyes lit up, and her heart struggled.

The man next to him grabbed her and whispered viciously, "What should it be.? Get out of the house for me! ”

"You bastard, looking for death!"

Su Shaoyou scolded viciously, and the whip in his hand was about to be whipped down again.

In the distance, Su Yimo coughed lightly, Su Shaoyou's body froze, and he scolded fiercely in a low voice: "You wait for Lao Tzu!" ”

looked at the young woman who bowed her head and didn't dare to speak, but there was a squinting smile on her face: "Little lady, think about it!" Three taels of silver a month! ”

After saying that, he shook his body and left.

Seeing that he had gone far away, the man who had been whipped just now suddenly jumped up, and slapped his mother-in-law in the face with a fierce slap, and he used great force, and five red fingerprints appeared on the young woman's face. He scolded hatefully: "You slut, hook up with other men in front of me, look how I clean you up when I go back!" ”

The young woman seemed stunned, covered her face and lowered her head, and sobbed softly.

Strode to the front of his father's shed, and whispered, "Father." ”

"Hmm." Su Yimo nodded and pointed outside: "It's almost the same, let's start!" ”

"Yes!"

Su Shaoyou commanded a few family members to set up the table, two tables, one in front of the left and one in front of the right, about ten steps apart, each erected a sign. The two housekeepers confessed to Su Yimo, sat down behind the chairs, and each took five or six family members who were ready to crush the people.

Su Shaoyou stood in the middle with a lively spirit, and first pointed to the one on the right and said, "This is selling grain." ”

Then he pointed to the one on his left: "This is the one who pays the tax." ”

He clapped his hands: "Let's start now!" ”

This is the end of his work, so he looked back at his father, but he didn't expect Su Yimo to take out a roster and point at him: "This time, you preside." ”

"Huh?" Su Shaoyou was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed, knowing that this father was interested in cultivating himself, he said respectfully: "Thank you, father." ”

Then he went to Su Yimo to get the register, turned the first page, and said loudly: "The first one, Yangjiazhuang grain household, Yang Heiwang, the head of the family, and the inferior middle household, should pay silver, two taels and four cents." Every two plus fire costs three dollars, which should be paid two taels and seven dollars and eight cents. ”

"Yes, Childe!" The head of Yangjiazhuang, who was standing on the side, hurriedly responded with a smile and said loudly: "Yang Heiwang, come out quickly, pay the tax." ”

The Lijia system is roughly the same as the armor protection system implemented by Dong Ce, with a total of 110 households.

There is a mile long, and ten armor heads.

Their responsibility is to cooperate with the grain Long March tax, and in Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention, these chiefs and grain chiefs are in a relationship of supervision and cooperation to avoid corruption and poisoning the people. But now, the chief of the lieutenant has basically become a subordinate of the grain chief. In particular, the grain chiefs are basically local wealthy families, and where can they be compared with these small landlords?

After the mayor of Yangjiazhuang shouted, a response sounded in the crowd: "Yes, yes!" I'm coming. ”

A stout man in ragged clothes in his forties stepped out of the crowd, followed by two young men in their twenties, presumably his son, all three pushing a small cart full of grain bales.

It is much more troublesome to pay taxes in the north than in the south, because the rivers in the south are criss-crossed, the river network is dense, and the grain chiefs usually set up a place to collect taxes at a local wharf, and then people go by boat, which is very convenient, and a boat can transport the grain of many households.

Northland can only be transported by cart.

That Yang Heiwang glanced at the place where the tax was paid, and said to the chief with a bitter face: "Third uncle, I don't have any money!" ”

The chief looked about the same age as him, but he didn't expect that the two were still a lifetime apart, and he was about to speak, when Su Shaoyou, who felt that he was being neglected, had already strode over with a gloomy face. The headless and brainless whip in his hand was drawn: "Are you stupid? Idiot, won't you go there and sell it if you don't have money? ”

"Yes, yes!" Yang Heiwang hurriedly answered twice, and the father and son didn't dare to dodge the whip, so they pushed the small cart and went over there.

The butler impatiently pointed to a huge container erected in front of the table, and said, "It's a bunch when it's full, hurry up!" How can the lord have time to serve you? ”

This huge container is a stone. Ten buckets in one bucket, ten liters in one bucket. There are about two kinds of shape regulations, one is round, which is very similar to the urn used at home, and the other is the one in front of you, which is large at the bottom and small at the top, and the four sides are isosceles trapezoids.

"It's too big, isn't it?" Yang Heiwang muttered secretly, but he didn't dare to make a sound.

Urging over there, he didn't dare to slack off, and quickly untied the grain bag, untied the mouth of the bag, and poured the grain into the Hu with the bag.

After pouring two bags, he couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart.

He weighed it before he came, two bags are a stone, not bad at all, he looked inside the Hu, and it was far from full!

He walked in front of the butler with a smile, and the butler hurriedly waved his hand: "Stay away, stay away, what kind of smell is this?" ”

"Sir!" Yang Heiwang hurriedly took two steps back: "This Hu, isn't it a little ......?"

"What's wrong?" The steward's eyes glared: "If you are told to fall, you will fall, and you don't want to sell it!" You pickled people, our lord is willing to collect your grain for seven dollars, how much of your creation? I don't know how to lift, do I? ”

The family behind him also knocked the whistle stick in his hand on the ground, and sneered.

Yang Heiwang didn't dare to speak anymore, and hurriedly poured food into it again.

poured one stone and six buckets, and this Hu was full.

The steward said, "Hey, don't stop, keep pouring!" That's not all! You've got to hang on to it! ”

Yang Heiwang had to hold his breath and pour it up, until the food was full of hanging a tip, and then it had to be poured down, and the housekeeper let him stop.

In this way, according to the standards of the Su family, this Hu is seven buckets with one stone.

"One piece of grain, give seven points of silver!"

The steward raised his voice and made a note in the books.

The family behind him poured the grain into the hemp bag on the side, sealed it, and emptied it.

Then Yang Heiwang and his son fell into it again. In the end, the three small carts in Yang Heiwang's house, which were full of five stone of grain, were sold here for two taels and one dollars of silver. The so-called big bucket in and small bucket out is nothing more than that.

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