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- As Xie Qian¡¯s words fell, the entire Jinluan Palace became silent. At this point, everyone with a discerning eye knew that regarding the issue of taxation, the opinions of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s senior officials were very unanimous.
???????????? It¡¯s useless no matter how much the fourth- and fifth-grade officials below you beep. Even Xie Qian, who was born in Jiangnan and has always firmly opposed the levy of commercial taxes, can¡¯t stand up and oppose it because the situation is like this.
"Hmm~"
Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly, glanced around the ministers, focused on Gao Yuanlong, Qian Qi and others and said, "Do you have anything else to say?"
"Your Majesty, all the sage kings in the past dynasties have done light corvee and paid little tax, and have rested on the people. The imperial court imposed excessive taxes and expropriations, which will definitely lead to disasters. This is not what a wise king calls for!"
Gao Yuanlong was very stubborn and still insisted on his own opinions. He just pointed his nose and called Emperor Hongzhi a coward.
"Yes, Your Majesty~"
牺如 tianlaixsw.com 牺如。"The imperial tax is enough That¡¯s good, there is no need to levy too many taxes. In the past year, the court¡¯s tax money was only three hundred taels of silver, and the Ming Dynasty was still prospering."
"Now the imperial court's annual tax revenue exceeds 500 million taels of silver, and all expenditures are very huge. You must know that the money and materials used by the imperial court are all the people's wealth collected from the people."
"As the saying goes, water can carry a boat or capsize it. If the court continues to do this, the people may not be able to bear the heavy taxes in the future, and wars will be everywhere."
Qian Qi also followed up and said, it seemed as if he was really thinking about the Ming Empire and the Emperor. Those who didn't know better would think that Emperor Hongzhi was really trying to plunder the people's wealth and enslave the common people at all costs. Woolen cloth.
"Your Majesty, this is complete nonsense~"
The minister of household affairs, Ji Zhong, couldn't help but stand up.
¡°If the tax bureau and the new tax system were abolished, he, the Minister of Household Affairs, would not be able to continue his job.
You must know that the current expenditure of the imperial court is very huge. Not to mention anything else, the salary and remuneration of officials alone has been rising again and again, several times more than before.
Calculated based on the income of seventh-rank officials, in the past, the annual salary of seventh-rank officials was only 90 shi meters, which is about 6,400 kilograms of rice. Even though the price of rice was relatively expensive in the Ming Dynasty, it was calculated as five yuan. One pound of money, based on current prices, is actually an income of 30,000 yuan this year.
A seventh-grade official is almost equivalent to the main person in charge at the county level in later generations, with an income of about 30,000 yuan a year, and no other income other than that.
What¡¯s even more frightening is that about 40% of the rice was not available to officials at all, and was converted into silk, cotton and other bits and pieces by the emperor.
? ?????? .com?? It¡¯s nice to have something. Sometimes I just give you a treasure banknote. Everyone knows that the treasure banknote is just a pile of paper, and no one has much purchasing power at all.
This shows how low the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was. If you become an official and you are not greedy and no one respects you, you will have trouble supporting your own family.
However, since the tax reform and the establishment of the tax yamen, the court's tax revenue has increased significantly. Under Liu Jin's initiative, officials' salaries have also been adjusted and increased many times.
Those who were supposed to make rice in the past continued to make rice. Now, the seventh-grade county magistrate can get 500 shi of rice a year. Moreover, because of the bumper harvests in recent years, the food is extremely abundant, and the food harvested by the court is very sufficient, so this part Rice is distributed in full.
In addition to rice, there are also many physical items such as cloth, silk, tea, etc. Officials of the seventh grade can receive 20 pieces of cloth, 30 pieces of silk, 500 kilograms of tea and other physical items every year.
Thanks to the prosperous development of the Ming Dynasty and the development of capitalism and overseas colonization, these can be distributed in full. Cloth and other things are actually not valuable now. The market price of a piece of cloth is more than 100 yuan.
In addition to these physical objects, the most important thing is of course money.
If in the past, the imperial court basically had no money to distribute to officials, it would be a good idea to give out some treasure money.
But now, treasure banknotes have long been withdrawn from the market, the emperor no longer prints treasure banknotes, the market has eliminated treasure banknotes, and the silver standard has been basically established.
Officials of the seventh rank can now receive an annual salary of five hundred taels a year. This income can be said to be quite high, and now that the court has money, it can pay it in full, and the money is paid by the First Bank of the Ming Dynasty. Issued silver dollars or banknotes.
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Another example is grain merchants, cloth merchants and tea merchants. Because Jiangnan is the most important grain, cloth and tea producing area in the Ming Dynasty, they, the great gentry and big businessmen in the Jiangnan area, will be engaged in business in related fields.
There is no need to pay taxes, and they can join forces to form a monopoly, and everyone will become rich.
But since the tax reform was implemented, commercial taxes were levied, and tax bureaus were established to force tax collection, their good days have come to an end.
The salt merchants were completely wiped out and were completely wiped out by the Changlu Salt Farm under Liu Jin. In the past, these black-hearted salt merchants could sell a pound of salt for tens of yuan per pound. The key was their incomparably different salt. A pound of salt can soak in half a pound of sand.
Nowadays, the salt from Changlu Salt Field only costs a few cents per pound, and it is still the best snow salt. How can the salt merchants in Jiangnan compete?
As for grain merchants, tea merchants, cloth merchants, etc., commercial taxes were levied, and profits plummeted. At the same time, with the large-scale rise of factories and workshops in the Beijing-Tianjin area, cloth prices plummeted, and grains from Liaodong, Nanyang and other places flowed in on a large scale. Prices plummeted and so on.
Mi He Mi. All of this suddenly made it difficult for the gentry, businessmen, and big families in the Jiangnan area, and they naturally opposed it
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