Chapter 537: The Empress Dowager Wants to Abolish the Emperor (15)
“Why is your understanding so poor?
You must have the title of the world's number one talented woman, you must have it yourself. I mean, you need to understand the deep meaning of this sentence. The deep meaning of "Shengmien Fighting Miqi" is that once you get used to doing something, others will take it for granted.
Today, you allocated 100,000 kilograms of grain from the Shaofu for disaster relief, and replaced the Ministry of Revenue to do this. Do you believe it or not, in a few months, there will be droughts or floods in other places. The Ministry of Revenue will cry to you and ask you to transfer grain from the Shaofu.
The reason why Emperor Gaozu wanted to incorporate the royal private property into Shaofu and separate the private treasury from the national treasury.
It is to clarify responsibilities and relationships.
Shaofu is the royal private housekeeper, and the things in Shaofu are the royal things. Royal things can be donated in the form of donations, and they can be donated in the name of the emperor or yourself.
However, it is absolutely impossible to replace the Ministry of Revenue to provide disaster relief.
You clearly destroyed the distinction between public and private affairs.
Do you get me?"
Qiao Mu was saying this seriously at this time because this matter was indeed very serious.
This matter is just the beginning, but some things just cannot have a beginning. Once there is a beginning, there will be endless troubles in the future.
Disaster relief is the responsibility of the Ministry of Revenue and is also a purpose of national taxation. It is not said that taxes are not used to do this, but instead requires the emperor to pay for it himself. Since the emperor has not taken a penny from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Revenue should not use the emperor's penny.
This is the most basic distinction between public and private.
Once destroyed, does it mean that the two can call each other? This is obviously not possible.
Once such a thing is set in the forefront, the money of the Ministry of Revenue will be even more difficult to determine, and tax problems will inevitably increase. Some officials may become more and more greedy. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if they are more greedy. There will always be a guarantee for the Shaofu.
Just want to get money from Shaofu.
This is a meeting with a kind emperor.
If you encounter a fool or greedy for pleasure, it may cause another situation, that is, the Shaofu’s money is used up and he will take national taxes from the treasury for his royal expenses.
No matter which of these two situations.
All are extremely bad things.
"No, the Ministry of Revenue won't do this..."
Wen Renlian himself was a little hesitant.
“Don’t you say that civil servants are shameless?
Since you don’t want to have a face anymore, what’s so strange about doing such a thing? It’s normal.
You must stick to the bottom line in this matter.
Once you can't defend it, it will be like a flood breaking through the dam and it will be out of control from now on."
Qiao Mu has experienced many worlds and has been emperors in several worlds, so he is very clear about the virtues of many literati and the unspoken rules in the officialdom. What she said at this time can be regarded as famous sayings.
"I see.
It seems that I am still far from those old foxes. Uh, ancestors, I am not saying you are cunning, I mean them, you are called wit."
Wen Renlian thought for a while, first sighed, but then she found that what she said was ambiguous, so she quickly explained to Qiao Mu.
"It's okay, it's not been a day or two for you anyway. The Ai family has been used to it. Now you have enough food and drink, and you have already told me about it. You can go back!
The Ai family wants to listen to a show at night.
I won't keep you."
Qiaomu looked at the sky and found that it was about six o'clock and nearly seven o'clock. He yawned first, and then began to say that he would see the guests off.
"Hey, my ancestor, I have something to do.
I also want to ask about land annexation and national taxation. Recently, I have been reading history books, and I have also read land records and tax records reported from various places, and found a very strange problem.
Then, since the founding of the country, the country's population has been increasing year by year, but the land has only increased for a period of time in the early days of the founding of the country, and then it has become less and less, and the same is true for taxation.
About twenty years after the founding of the country, the national tax revenue rose to a record high, and the tax of 80 million taels of silver could be collected a year. After Emperor Taizu passed away, the tax revenue became less and less.
By this year, the combined summer and autumn taxes were less than 30 million taels of silver. This gap was too big. The land was nearly half less than the land at its peak. Even the population changes were very strange. In the early days of the founding of the country, the country's population doubled almost every ten years. However, in the past century, the population has not only not increased, but has declined.
All this is abnormal!"
Many times, if you take out the data for one or two years, you can’t see any gap at all, but if you take out the data for one or two hundred years, you can compare it.
You can see the obvious gap.
Wen Renlian had never had any experience in taking charge of the government affairs before, so she couldn't help but want to work harder, do more and learn more. Therefore, she recalled all the data from the country in the past few hundred years to check it out. This investigation led to some obvious problems.
All data show that some are emptiing the country's economy and some are damaging the public and private.
“So what are you trying to ask?
Want to ask the reason or the solution?”
Qiaomu asked helplessly yawning.
“I want to ask for the solution.
I don’t know who to ask about this matter, and I feel that everyone is a stakeholder. I even found that even my father, my brother and my sister-in-law have concealed the number of land acres and population to a certain extent.”
Wen Renlian said a little depressedly.
Although some things are known to everyone, when it comes to your own interests, your butt will inevitably sit tilted.
It is obviously like this when paying taxes and other things.
“There are solutions, but do you dare?
This is not something you can handle now.
If you don’t have enough officials to call at any time, don’t have enough soldiers across the country at any time, and don’t have any officials who accurately convey all your orders, then you should not want to complete this matter. This kind of thing cannot be solved by saying a few words and issuing one or two orders.
This is destined to require bloodshed.
It’s useless to tell you now. You can’t do it even if you tell me. You’re just worried. It’s better to do what you can do now, become emperor first, and then talk about it after you have the power of military power.”
Qiao Mu has solved this kind of thing many times before, and there are only two solutions, one is a little softer and the other is a little tougher.
A softer thing is to try to develop the economy as much as possible, to get rid of the vast majority of people from land, and to impose step-by-step taxation on people with more land. The more land, the larger the tax amount, and tax exemption is adopted for ordinary people with no land. In this way, the problem will be solved naturally.
Of course, even softer.
The process is also indispensable for the suppression of force.
As for toughness, there are many ways.
The best way is to find the mistakes of the big landlords, then copy their homes, collect their land, and then nationalize all the land and become common lands, and rent them to ordinary people at relatively low prices to cultivate grain.
As for the error not found?
In this world, most of the landlords are not bought by saving money. These days, they can never occupy so much land by saving money by saving money by themselves. Which landlord or even a wealthy family has nothing to do with it?
Ordinary middle-aged farmers who have more than a hundred acres of land at home may have saved up by generations of people, but their families have thousands, tens of thousands of acres of land, even dozens of hectares of hectares and tens of hectares of hectares of land at home, and they are said to have saved up by saving for money.
Is it possible?
Do their family eat gold and drink pearls?
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