The problem of workers and farmers' incomes in the Ming Dynasty society that emerged at present are lower than the average development level, which is an inevitable challenge facing a society in a period of rapid development and progress.

Because capital is growing, and capital growth will inevitably exploit the interests of workers and squeeze out the social dividends enjoyed by farmers.

If you expect capitalists to consider it for workers and peasants, it would be a fantasy, and only the court can consider it.

In fact, some officials of the Ming Dynasty even feel that this issue is not necessary to consider.

Although the income of workers and farmers is lower than the average development level of the entire country, that is just a comparison of growth rates and has nothing to do with the actual quality of life.

In the 42nd year of the Emperor Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty, except for those in remote areas, the three major areas of the people's life were more comfortable.

Eating a meal with meat and fishy meat for three days is not a stressful life. A family of four is full every meal, and changing four or five new clothes a year is not a stressful life.

Life has been like this, what else can you be insatiable?

If you throw this quality of life twenty years ago, ask the people in the world, they will never dare to dream of being so outrageous.

The court has done enough for the people, so there is nothing to worry about about this matter, it is completely unnecessary.

The human heart is not enough and the snake swallows the elephant.

There are not many officials who think this way, but they still account for a portion of the matter. The reason why they think so is actually normal, because as the quality of life of the people is getting higher, their demands for other aspects are also increasing.

When they were hungry, they felt that the country could make them full, and that the saints would be alive, which was enough for the people to shout long live and kowtow to burn incense.

When they are full, the common people see wealthy businessmen and their families eat meat, and they also want to eat it.

Their standards for their longing for their lives are constantly increasing, and they will not satisfy the status quo.

We require the government to become more and more honest, and the public staff to become more and more poor, and at least we must live the same life as them. If we live a more comfortable life, people's hearts will not be balanced.

This is how the social proactive appeals appeared, which became an urgent problem to be resolved before the case of Zhu Yunwen and the cabinet.

Of course, the people of older age will not be so insatiable, because they have survived the hard days, but what about their next generation?

The population is multiplied, and newborns are constantly emerging.

These children did not survive the Hongwu Dynasty, and it was even more impossible for them to have seen the war in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The court really had no reason to ask this generation of young people to understand what it means to suffer and be content.

If these young people cannot be resolved, social conflicts will inevitably arise, affecting the prestige of the court and the country in the hearts of the people.

Therefore, the people who scold the court are often generation after generation of young people. They always feel that this country is not good or that is not good, and few mature middle-aged and elderly people will continue to insult and slander them.

Xu Buji raised this problem at the conference now, precisely in the context of this era, because the newborn born after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne has become a new force in this country after more than 20 years of growth, and has begun to enter various fields of society, either becoming a public member, a farmer, a worker, a soldier, and a waiter in the service industry.

The new generation has the thoughts and appeals of the new generation. How to solve and satisfy the problems is not only the thousands of officials attending the meeting, but also Zhu Yunwen is thinking.

"The Ministry of Commerce is responsible for the economy. Now that this problem is thrown out, so many officials who study economics and engage in economics cannot come up with a solution?"

Seeing the conference was in a cold situation, Xu Buji snorted a little dissatisfied: "A few days ago, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue had already raised this question. It has been a few days since I couldn't even come up with the initial idea?"

The Ministry of Commerce went down from the Minister of State and Minister of State, and dozens of people were sweating in cold sweat.

At this time, Yan Zhen spoke straight.

This is an active member of the Ming Dynasty political arena for more than 20 years. She was the last cabinet minister during the Yang Shiqi cabinet period. She was the chief of the Zhejiang grain department and now the minister of the Federation of Industry and Commerce.

"Add the fu."

A sentence of adding fu caused an uproar.

There was a whisper in the venue, and Zhu Yunwen frowned in an instant.

The income of workers and farmers is already below the average level of social development. Based on this situation, do you need to increase your taxes?

However, out of trust or respect for Yan Zhenzhi, Zhu Yunwen still gave Yan Zhenzhi a chance to explain.

"Now my agricultural tax in Ming Dynasty is thirty-one taxes. I personally recommend levying 10 taxes. Workers do not have to pay taxes. Now they are also levied part of the taxes, and the proportion is 10 taxes."

In this matter, Yan Zhenzhi did not dare to keep it in hiding, and threw out all his thoughts behind the podium table.

"The tax increase in the agricultural field is to encourage the central grain depot to increase the food guidance price."

"Is that different reason?"

Questions quickly sounded: "The people paid more grain than before. Even if the food prices rose, the money they received was still the same. Instead of scrapping this force, it would be better to simply abolish the agricultural tax."

"How can it be the same?"

Yan Zhen gave an example: "Let's assume that a farmer has ten acres of land, two acres of ripe a year, and the output is 6,000 kilograms, and the grain tuition that needs to be paid is 200 kilograms, so the grain in the central grain warehouse is 200 kilograms, and the farmers have 5,800 kilograms in their hands.

According to the food guide price of 2 cents per kilogram, the total value of the grain in the hands of farmers is 11,600 cents. Then the market needs to digest these 6,000 kilograms of grain and pay 12,000 cents.

Now that thirty taxes are changed to ten taxes, the total amount of grain remains unchanged, and it is still 6,000 kilograms, but the farmers only have 5,400 kilograms left, and 600 kilograms have entered the central grain warehouse.

We increase the price of grain from two cents to ten cents and four kilograms, which is two cents and a half per kilogram, so the value of the 5,400 kilograms in the hands of farmers will rise to 13,500 kilograms. If the market needs to digest these six thousand kilograms, it will have to pay 15,000 kilograms, and the difference between inside and outside is 3,000 kilograms.

So who will pay for the deal for these three thousand documents? Naturally, the buyers in the market will pay for the deal.

The farmers earned 1,900 more people, and the court earned 1,100 more people. However, the court serves the people. We can give up the more people. I personally suggest that we do not directly give subsidies to money, but leave them as a special fund.

The purpose of this special fund is to make insurance.

The main risks a farmer faces are nothing more than two points: one is the famine caused by natural disasters, and the other is the land famine caused by man-made disasters.

Famine is a waste of yield caused by natural disasters, which leads to no harvest for a year. Land famine means farmers' death, disability, illness in the elderly, and the land is abandoned. People often choose to sell such land, and those who buy land will take the opportunity to lower the price and damage the interests of the original farmers.

When this situation occurs, the purpose of this special fund can be used.

If it is caused by a natural disaster, the court will come forward and pay in full based on the total grain output of the land that the people suffered from the disaster in the previous year, using half of the grain and half of the cash.

If it is caused by man-made disasters, such as death, disability, old age, and old age, and unwilling to continue to cultivate land, and their children are unwilling to continue to be farmers, then the court will come forward to collect the land at the market price and pay the farmers one-time compensation for the next ten years. The total compensation is the total output of the land acres in the previous year. The proportion is 30% of the grain plus 70% of the cash.

If the farmer dies, the money will be given to the widow and offspring. If there are no widows and offspring, they will be close relatives. If there are no close relatives, the money will be donated to the local school in the name of the farmer.

This is the reason why I plan to increase agricultural taxes. A little humble opinion is submitted to His Majesty and the General Assembly for deliberation."

Improve taxes and establish a social security system.

I have to say that at this moment, Zhu Yunwen's eyes lit up.
Chapter completed!