Hearing that Kong Yuqi called himself a slave, Kang Mazi was also stunned and asked Kong Yuqi: "Holy Duke, I don't remember you raising the flag, how come you call yourself a slave?"

In the Qing Dynasty, it was not an honor for ordinary ministers to confidently call themselves slaves in front of the emperor! They had to be in the banner, and they had to be bannermen or slaves. If other people wanted to call themselves slaves, it would be a bit of a shame.

Overstepped.

Kong Yuqi hurriedly kowtowed and said: "If you want to return to the emperor, I submitted a petition to raise the flag the year before last... This is my biggest wish, and I hope that I can fulfill it."

His words were sincere. Kangxi nodded slightly after hearing this, seeming to be quite approving of them. However, it was still a bit inappropriate to allow the direct descendants of the most holy master to be slaves. Besides, Kangxi now carried Kong Yuqi to the Great Lama of the Snowy Land.

At about the same status... Kangxi worshiped the great lama as his master. It is impossible for a master to call himself a slave when he meets his apprentice, right?

Thinking of this, Kangxi smiled and said: "There is no need for a slave... My wish is to become a holy master who can unify the world and make the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment, and you are now a Confucian holy prince who assists me.

, we are about the same age, so we might as well become brothers with different surnames. From now on, you can call me your royal brother and your minister brother."

"Slave, I thank you for your kindness." Kong Yuqi kowtowed to Kangxi again.

Kangxi said again: "Brother Shenggong, don't go back to Qufu in the future. I will reward you with Tongzhou City as the seat of the Confucian altar."

Tongzhou City was originally the terminus of the Grand Canal and a transportation hub in the east of Beijing. However, after the water transportation to the southeast was interrupted, Tongzhou declined sharply. After the Beijing Incident last year, a large number of Cao workers and Cao workers living in Tongzhou

The Gong family members ran away with Yang Qilong again. Those who did not follow Yang Qilong were also afraid of the Qing army massacre, and they all disappeared, so Tongzhou was left empty.

Of course Kong Yuqi knew that Kangxi's purpose of transferring him to Tongzhou was to strengthen his control, so he did not dare to refuse. He immediately said: "Brother, I will move all the family members in Qufu to Tongzhou."

Kangxi shook his head and said with a smile: "That's not necessary. Kong Lin always needs someone to watch over him. Just move all his direct descendants to Tongzhou."

"My dear brother, thank you for your kindness." Kong Yuqi thanked him and kowtowed. Today he is almost turning into a kowtowing bug, but he will continue to live like this in the future! When he arrives in Tongzhou, he will be held in the palm of Kangxi's hand.

If you are here, you still have to go to Beijing to kowtow every now and then?

Thinking of this, Kong Yuqi gritted his teeth and held out the copy of the inscription requesting for more troops and conscripts, "Brother, the false grandson of Zhu San is now destroying true Confucianism in the southeast, promoting false Confucianism, claiming to be a saint, and misinterpreting the meaning of the scriptures in an attempt to annihilate Confucianism.

I am Confucian!

As a descendant of the Most Holy Saint, I should not hesitate to stand up and call out. However, I have the intention to kill the enemy, but I have no power to kill the enemy. I can only represent the world's Confucian scholars and implore the Emperor to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River to defeat the puppets.

Confucianism, kill the false saints, and ban the false scriptures... I also know that the world is uneasy, the four sides are not peaceful, and the military expenditure is difficult. Therefore, I request the emperor to express his deep hatred to the world for the false Confucian and false saints.

The money sent to protect Confucianism and religion is used to recruit troops and horses to protect religion and the country!"

After listening to Kong Yuqi's words, Kangxi quickly suppressed his joy, frowned and asked: "Are we going to increase the levy? Will it hurt the people?"

Kong Yuqi quickly kowtowed and said: "Brother Emperor, if the pseudo-Confucianism and Apocrypha are allowed to continue to develop and grow, the people will really have no way to survive! I beg the Emperor to think of the common people in the world and increase the number of levies and troops!"

As soon as the younger brother Shenggong took the lead, all the ministers in the South Study immediately knelt down and all said in unison: "Please consider the common people in the world and send more troops as soon as possible!"

When Kangxi saw everyone saying this, he had no choice but to sigh: "Then...how much should be added?"

The question of how much to add has of course been studied a long time ago. Kangxi’s principle is not to add more, but if you want to add, add enough!

Over the past few days, he has carefully studied the three rates and increases in the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties, and he came to the conclusion that the addition was correct, but the mistake was that the addition was too late and the "adding fuel and increase" was not done in one step.

After Kangxi, the holy master, used the method of "hindsight" to conduct research, he came to the conclusion that the best time to increase Liao's pay was actually after the Battle of Korea. In the Battle of Korea, the Liaodong Ming Army suffered heavy losses, and Li Chengliang spent many years

All the elites who had been operating were lost. If the Wanli court could decisively increase Liao's salary at this time, instead of increasing it more, and give a few million taels to Liao Town so that they could make up for the losses in the Korean War, there would be no future.

Because all the warriors under Nurhachi went to work as soldiers for the Ming Dynasty to earn money, what else could he use to rebel?

Of course, now Kangxi has lost the best opportunity to send more troops, so he can no longer be picky about reforming and expanding the New Army... This is also the case with a group of ministers in charge of the Eight Banners New Army.

The unanimous opinion of the ministers of Nanshufang!

At this time, Tu Hai, the chief scholar, reported: "Long live my lord, after Wu Yingqi, the King of Pingxi, entered Shaanxi, the accounts of the five provinces directly under the imperial court, including Henan, Shandong, Huaibei, Zhili, and Shanxi, were not included in Guanwai, Saibei, and Gansu.

There are more than 200 million acres of land. If you pay an additional three cents of silver per acre, you can have six million taels... The slave suggested that the positive amount of the tax package be set at three cents, plus the small tax package.

The tax should be several million, so that the imperial court can collect 17 to 8 million every year from the land and Ding taxes alone.

In addition, the imperial court can also set up tax cards at major intersections in various provinces and state capitals, and use the method of plucking feathers of geese to collect taxes... It should not be difficult to collect three to four million a year. Again.

Adding in salt tax, customs tax, mining tax and other taxes, the imperial court's revenue can be maintained at 22 to 3 million!

With this income, the imperial court can build flint-fired muskets, forge mighty cannons, recruit Mongolian warriors, and train them rigorously... In less than two years, three hundred thousand new troops can be completed.

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Kangxi still seemed hesitant, "Is the tax of six cents per acre too heavy?"

"It's not important," Tuhai said. "Today, there are only two to three million households in the five provinces under the direct jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty. If the 200 million acres of land are spread out, one household can have an average of 100 acres of land... If

Based on one hundred acres, six cents per acre is only six taels of silver in total, which is almost the price of six shi of wheat. The annual output of one hundred acres of land is only tens of shi, so how can paying six shi of wheat be considered too much?"

Kangxi nodded and said: "It is indeed not much. If I give them a little more, I will use a hundred acres of six stones of wheat and a hundred acres of six taels of silver as the tax amount. The people below can choose to pay either grain or silver."

In addition, the local government cannot charge any more!"

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

The ministers below had known this result for a long time, and now they are all pretending to be called Shengming.

But having said that, the tax rate of six cents of silver per acre is actually not too heavy. In the early days of a dynasty, when the population was small, the land per capita was relatively large, and the administration was relatively clear, it was completely bearable.

And when the population increases, per capita decreases, land annexation increases, and farmers are forced to bear heavier land rents and usurious interest rates, not to mention a tax of a few cents of silver, even a tax of a few cents of silver will deprive some of the lowest level people.

Forced to a dead end.

Of course, as the population increases, industry and commerce tend to develop. If the country can collect enough industrial and commercial taxes, it will also have enough financial resources to maintain its rule. However, it is more difficult to collect industrial and commercial taxes, not as easy to collect as land taxes.

However, the population of the Ming, Qing, and Zhou dynasties in the land of China is not large. Except for the Ming Dynasty, the industry and commerce of the other two dynasties are not developed and they cannot collect too much money. Therefore, what really determines who rules the world among the three dynasties is

Which of the three of them can improve agricultural taxation?

In this regard, Emperor Kangxi took a shortcut by using the tax collector method to get money and food in the shortest time.

As for Wu Zhou, because there was enough land to distribute, the advancement of land equalization was very smooth. It was nothing more than distributing land in Sichuan to the people who had no land and little land. As long as the land in Sichuan was not exhausted, Wu Zhou could

Add a little more tax below.
Chapter completed!