Chapter 578: Peasant Association, epoch-making, the first good governance throughout the ages!
"What Your Majesty said is that they were once the emperor Yulin, and they were bloody. Although they could not wait for justice, they could not swallow their anger after all!"
Lu Xiangsheng, who was born in the Guards, said with tears in his eyes.
Zhu Youxiao nodded very seriously.
At this time, Bi Ziyan also echoed: "It is true that the retired soldiers of Kashima dared to fight for it, and finally became known to His Majesty because of the extreme situation!"
"However, the old ministers have visited the world these days and found that when people in the world encounter unfair things, they often swallow their anger and seek to survive. However, this is also a common human nature and cannot be blamed. However, if we Han people have blood, it is better than numbness!"
"It is because the arrogance of the powerful and the people are tolerant, so they are lucky and try the bottom line again and again! Otherwise, many things will not be able to reach the heavens."
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"The bloody nature cannot be found overnight. The skills of weak people have been practiced for thousands of years. The doctrine of the mean has been implanted into the bone marrow of our Chinese. How can we change it suddenly? We can only hope that after the implementation of the new education of the whole nation, we can make our Han family full of bloody nature! But looking at it today, our Han family is lucky to have the courage to be the first in the world! Just like Bi Aiqing, an old horse who is in the stable, is still worried about the affairs of the world, and dares to tell the disadvantages of the world."
Zhu Youxiao said at this time.
"The old minister is ashamed!"
Bi Ziyan replied with a touching sentence.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao continued: "But just as Bi Aiqing said, we cannot seek completeness to the people, but we should go deep into the people and mobilize the people. We those who hold power must learn to cooperate with the people!"
"So, whether it is restricting land rent too high or land transactions at will, there must be a special organization to do this. It is not possible to rely on the government alone!"
"In this way, the cabinet has drafted an order to grant farmer workers all over the world and set up a farmer association to resist the landlord's arbitrary increase in rent and to seize real estate. The government shall not prevent the establishment of the farmer association from being established, but should support it. Otherwise, once it is found out, the officials will be strictly handled, but what is done below? The will of the court center can be shown. I believe that there are always those who have the country and are willing to practice this will!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately started talking about it and put forward the concept of "farmers' association".
Farmers' Association?
After hearing this, the assistant ministers present felt novel, but after thinking about it, they suddenly realized that his Majesty was encouraging the people to fight together with the literati.
The auxiliary ministers couldn't help but nodded. They naturally did not oppose the emperor's actions. After all, this was indeed helpful to avoid the landlords' excessive exploitation of the people, and even colluded with the government and excessively the people, which was conducive to the people's cooperation with the court, supervising the government and controlling the powerful.
Zhu Youxiao continued: "In addition, the court can also organize a group of aspiring people to try to organize farmers' associations, mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, summarize some experiences, and cultivate talents in this area in the future, and use them for the court!"
After saying that, Zhu Youxiao asked Bi Ziyan, who understands economics: "Bi Aiqing, what do you think about this?"
Bi Ziyan said: "All of them are good strategies."
Then, Bi Ziyan said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that the court can also start with tax affairs. In the view of the old minister, whether all industries in the world are prosperous is the root of the consumption of the people. Therefore, the consumption of the people, that is, the consumption of producers, should be the main consumption of the world. If the main consumption grows, all industries will flourish. If the growth of consumption is not the main consumption, it is just the extravagant consumption of the palace nobles, landlords and gentry, then all industries will be depressed, which will only enable the skillful craftsmen who can create rare treasures to become rich, and cannot revitalize all industries!"
"Therefore, since we must increase the main consumption, we should continue to reduce the burden on the people, just as Your Majesty had exempted the world from labor service before, and made the world far better than the previous dynasty!"
"For today's people, they still enjoy the convenience of wealth growth through politics, so that although they are hard, they can still have surplus wealth. If they are a little frugal, they can go from poverty to wealth and wealth."
"However, today, the people have gradually accumulated wealth from the world to the wealthy family, and gradually changed from improved consumption to frugal consumption, which slowed down the industrial growth of the Ming Dynasty and the wind of annexation of land has risen again, and fewer people are willing to invest in building factories!"
"So, it is better to continue to reduce the burden so that the people's wealth will grow faster and increase their main consumption. People do not have to do too frugal things to accumulate wealth. They should dare to spend money to improve their lives and even to entertain entertainment, so that all industries in the world can continue to flourish, so that the country's fortune can prosper for a long time."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded: "After all, it's Bi Aiqing. If you can see the way of money thoroughly, you can be my teacher!"
"I now know that this consumption matter depends on what consumption is. If it is luxury consumption, it is superficial prosperity. If it is the consumption of the public to improve their lives, it is real prosperity, which is conducive to the growth of industry and the progress of civilization!"
"The Han, Tang, Song and others all had a prosperous time. Why did the country and the family go down later? It was because when it was prosperous, the luxury consumption did not become the consumption of the people! Kings, nobles, and bureaucrats became more and more extravagant, while the lives of the people became tighter and tighter. This is indeed important to note."
As he said that, Zhu Youxiao asked, "In your opinion, how should we increase the wealth of the people in tax affairs? Do you want me to completely exempt the land tax?"
"Your Majesty's wise!"
Bi Ziyan immediately replied, quite excited. He didn't expect that His Majesty also thought of this and couldn't help but sigh: "This emperor of this dynasty has already had a bold idea in this regard?! Such courage can be said to be hard to see in the ages!"
Liu Hongxun, Zhu Xieyuan, Wen Tiren, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others were also shocked after hearing this.
Because of the exemption of corvee labor in the world, the cap tax is epoch-making enough.
If the land tax is completely exempted, then the entire Ming Dynasty ruling system will really change completely!
"In this case, the light taxes and taxes of all dynasties are completely incomparable to the good policies of our emperor! It is difficult for the kings of later generations to get the word "kind"!"
Liu Hongxun couldn't help but say something.
"Indeed, but if you really do this, it will be the best policy for all ages. Is it possible?"
Zhu Xieyuan asked.
"Yes, it is not just for the people of the world to be exempted from the world, but for all those who have land in the world, but for the benefit of the court, and officials cannot make a name for the land tax, but also make money and even blackmail."
Wen Tiren also said excitedly.
"It is feasible. Lao I and my students have calculated that the current official treasury in the court mainly comes from the official property, the income from commercial taxes, tariff income, and overseas colonial income. The latter two are even increasing sharply, and the proportion of land tax is already very small. If the court raises the luxury tax a little more, with the current trend of increasing luxury consumption, even if it increases by 10%, it will be worth the income from land tax, and this will continue to increase."
Bi Ziyan replied.
"Your Majesty, from the perspective of my ministers, land tax can be exempted, but it is best to be limited to the inner city, so as to ensure the agricultural advantages of our central empire! In addition, many overseas official funds still rely on agricultural taxes. For example, in areas already occupied by India, and even the total land tax there is gradually catching up with the income from land taxes in our country!"
Lu Xiangsheng said.
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Authentication! I have drawn up an imperial edict to the whole world. Starting next year, the provinces in the pass will no longer collect land taxes! In addition, Liaodong, Chahar, Anton, Gansu, Turpan, and Yarkand will promote the agricultural cultivation of these places. The extravagance tax will be increased by 20%. If 20% is not enough, 50% will be directly used. Since some wealthy families are very rich, then share their fortune with me every time they buy a luxury item!"
Chapter completed!