Early the next morning, Chongzhen, who had gotten up from Tian Xiuying's quilt, returned to the Ganqing Palace.

The little eunuchs were cleaning the Qing Palace, where Wang Chengen was guarding him.

Maybe he was stimulated by the previous few days, or maybe he was in a much better mood, Chongzhen suddenly asked someone to draft an imperial edict.

What imperial edict?

Free tax exemption from Shaanxi for five years!

In other words, Shaanxi will not need to pay taxes for five years.

As soon as this imperial edict was on the way, Chongzhen sucked the imperial edict again and directly abolished the cap tax.

As a result, the ministers of the six ministries and nine ministers were all furious.

Originally, everyone was fighting for the recent quota of magistrates in Shuntian Prefecture. The censors from both sides wrote memorials to fight each other to death. For this reason, the people from both sides even fought each other on the road. It is said that several officials were lying at home because of the beating.

But now the emperor's two imperial edicts instantly brought his attention to it.

Damn! Emperor, you are crazy!

Or have you forgotten to take medicine today?

Even Zhou Yanru, who is best at thinking about the mind of the saints and heaven, was a little confused for a moment!

What is this operation?

There is a drought in Shaanxi, and it is reasonable to exempt five years of taxes.

Your Majesty, you have now abolished the captive tax with an imperial edict. Isn’t it a bit too much to play?

It is reasonable and understandable for the ministers to have this idea.

If you know the agricultural tax structure of the Ming Dynasty, you will probably scold Chongzhen for being so stupid.

What exactly was the agricultural tax in the Ming Dynasty like?

It is divided into two parts: one is the cap tax, which, as the name implies, is to collect taxes according to the number of people in the family; the other is the land tax, which is to collect taxes according to how much land it is.

Poll tax is a kind of tax that is comparable to the price of the money.

In ancient times, I had to have a baby, and I had to pay more taxes after giving birth.

For example, you are strong and have better luck. Your wife has twins three times in a row and has six babies in a few years, which means you will have to pay six additional count taxes every year in the future.

Moreover, there is also a tax on land.

The land tax in the Ming Dynasty was actually relatively low. The land tax was about 0.035 stone per mu, and about 120 kilograms per stone, which means that only 4.2 kilograms per mu were charged.

But in the eyes of extra sects, all kinds of extra sects are exhausting.

The two taxes combined together will make the people unable to bear it.

What should I do after I can't stand it?

The first is to sell the land.

The second is to rent landlords’ house.

Because you don’t need to pay tax on renting a land, and you don’t need to pay the cap tax, it’s relatively comfortable than having land yourself.

This is also an important factor in the serious land annexation in the Ming Dynasty.

Not finished yet!

The Ming Dynasty implemented the Jiali system.

Each ten households are one A. If someone fled, others have to pay the taxes of the fled families. This is the rule.

Some A finally ran away with only one household, so this household had to pay taxes of ten households, and in the end they had to choose to escape.

This further led to the low sales of land, the increase in tenants and serfs.

In addition, the landlords and gentry tried every means to blackmail farmers. By the time of Chongzhen, the problem of land annexation had become so serious that it was distorted.

Zhang Juzheng sent people to measure the land that year, but in the end, he measured 600 million mu of mu. Zhang Juzheng died before the measurement was completed, and the matter stopped. But in fact, there were 850 million mu of land in the Ming Dynasty.

For this reason, many people in Zhang Juzheng gritted their teeth with hatred, and countless people cursed him to die sooner every day.

Since the current Ming Dynasty is like this, why do you still need to impose a poll tax?

Do you force more ordinary people to be serfs and tenants?

Will more people be forced to rebel?

So just cancel it!

From now on, it will be collected according to the number of fields.

Chongzhen knew that if the amount of land was collected, the amount of land would be collected even less.

However, according to historical records, after the first year of Chongzhen, the taxes collected were getting smaller and smaller every year. Since this is the case, the source of finance should not be expected to be taxed for the time being.

And he knew that even if the imperial edict was released from the abolition of the head tax, it would probably be charged privately by the local officials because it was all money!

With the virtues of the Ming Dynasty officials, don’t you rob the money if you have money?

But why did Chongzhen issue this imperial edict?

The imperial edict is issued first, I will say hello to you first, you should do whatever you want.

When my army is well trained, will there be an excuse to cut people?

Is it called reform to reform the tax system and not pile up people as high as a mountain?

Anyway, my imperial edict is here first.

That's the reason!

After the imperial edict to cancel the counting tax was promulgated, the ministers had already knelt in front of the palace and demanded to face the saint.

Everyone thinks that the emperor will kill himself if he plays like this.

But Chongzhen doesn’t care. I’m just like this bird now, and I still expect the little tax?

If you can reduce the number of rebellions, you can reduce the number of rebellions!

After promulgating the cancellation of the population tax, Chongzhen felt that it was not enough, so he simply issued another imperial edict.

When the third imperial edict came out, everyone shouted: Crazy! Crazy!

What is the third imperial edict?

Never give in!

After the Ming Dynasty, the extra school was familiar with the way from top to bottom.

The agricultural tax is indeed low, but it is often added. For example, the imperial court is going to fight recently, and the emperor is going to build a palace recently.

For example, the county magistrate is going to marry a little wife recently!

Anyway, there are so many things to make a name by chance.

Now I simply issue an imperial edict to the whole world: I won’t send additional posts in the future!

The imperial edict is here. Whoever sends additional edicts in the future will violate the imperial edict. If I find one, I will cut down the other one.

The same principle is to establish the rules first, and implementation is a matter of the future.

After sending three imperial edicts in one breath, Chongzhen felt much more happy.

Next, we will continue to make money and wait for the birth of the new army.

Just when Chongzhen was happy, a good news came, making Chongzhen even happier.

What good news?

A great man is here.

who?

Yuan Keli.

He came to the capital.

He finally came to the capital.

Who is Yuan Keli?

There were only two people who entered the Manchu blacklist, one was Yuan Keli and the other was Yue Fei.

What did Yuan Keli do?

He instigated Nurhaci's son-in-law, and not only that, he also developed a naval army in Denglai during the Tianqi period and took down the Liaodong Peninsula (Dalian area).

It was these magical actions that made Jiannu grit his teeth at him. If Eunuch Wei had not been afraid of him and recalled him later, the situation in Liaodong would be a hundred times more optimistic than now.

"As old minister, please see your Majesty."

Without even wearing Chongzhen's shoes, he ran out.

In fact, he wore shoes and took them off on purpose, so it was definitely necessary to make a political show.

Still at the gate of Huangji Palace, Chongzhen rushed over and helped Yuan Keli up: "I'm calm."

Wang Chengen chased after him with his shoes in the back: "Your Majesty, your shoes, Your Majesty!"

When Yuan Keli saw it, he was so moved that he burst into tears. The emperor didn't even wear shoes and came out to greet him in person.

He said in tears: "Your Majesty, long live your Majesty!"

"Come on, Mr. Yuan doesn't have to be polite. Come with me and have a good chat."

Yuan Keli is 67 years old this year. Since he was dismissed and returned home, he has been depressed and has lost weight. According to historical records, his family died of depression in the sixth year of Chongzhen.

The situation in Liaodong is complicated and cannot be like Emperor Chongzhen in history who all counts on Yuan Chonghuan.

A mature leader will know that putting strategy in only one direction is a gambler.

Denglai needed to set up another governor, re-embark on the Liaodong Peninsula, form a three-sided attack with the Liaoxi Corridor and Dongjiang Town, lengthen Huang Taiji's front line, and return Huang Taiji's attention from Mongolia to ensure the stability of the situation in the northern grassland.
Chapter completed!