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Hou Shanping shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I'm not afraid of the court, I'm worried that we will provoke too many opponents at once and are too strong and can't bear it. Fighting is like eating, and you can't eat too much at once. Eating too much will cause diarrhea."

Peng Bo shouted angrily: "I'm afraid of a bird! If you come, we will kill him one thousand! If you come, we will kill him one thousand! If you come, we will kill him one thousand! If you come, we will kill him one thousand! If you come, we will kill him one hundred thousand! How many people are there? I don't believe that the number of officers and soldiers can be more than us! There are thousands of people in our Fushan District! There are not so many soldiers in Laizhou Prefecture!"

It seems that young people like Liu Hang, Wang Mingyu, and Peng Feizai cannot say that their cultural level is very high, and they may not even recognize half of the big words. However, it is precisely because of this that they do not have so many concerns, will not be concerned about the past and worry about gains and losses. Since they have embarked on this path, then go straight to the end. To be honest, it is their blessing to meet Zhang Zhun.

If there is no skilled person leading the way, the consequences will be unimaginable and it is impossible to achieve any decent results. However, if they receive scientific guidance and their practical spirit can achieve great results. Especially Liu Hang and Wang Mingyu, they are born with materials for doing things. The only thing they lack is vision and theory. As long as they make up for this, they can handle many things.

Peng Feizai is a person like Yang Qianqiang, Yang Zhiyuan, and Hao Linyong. He is brave but not wise and passionate. If no one is guiding such a young man, he may be bleeding, but he will never find the direction to move forward. However, if someone gives advice, his spirit of adventure will be very precious. His courage will greatly inspire the soldiers around him. Gao Yingxiang's nickname of King of Transformation, isn't that what happened?

Hou Shanping shook his head silently and said with a wry smile: "You fat boy Peng, don't squad? You must have never read the evil copy or thought about the relevant information. Although there are many rebel soldiers in Shaanxi, they are even known as one million after entering Henan, but their combat effectiveness is still far from that of the officers and soldiers. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's troops are all very strong in combat. Now there is another Lu Xiangsheng, who is also good at fighting. Zhang Xianzhong suffered a great loss from Lu Xiangsheng in Xunyang Mansion. If the court sends them to fight us, it is not a joke."

Liu Hang said in amazement: "Lu Xiangsheng? I have heard of this person's name! Isn't he in Daming Mansion? Why did he arrive at Xunyang Mansion?"

Hou Shanping said: "The above said that Lu Xiangsheng has been transferred to Xunyang Mansion to deal with the rebel army."

Liu Hang wanted to speak but stopped.

Zhang Zhun nodded and said quietly: "Sanyuan is very reasonable. We do need to prevent the worst things. However, it is precisely because we need to prevent the worst things that we need to redistribute the land. We must have every military household to fight to the death. Without real interests, it is definitely not possible. We have no money or official positions. What we can provide is the most primitive land."

Hou Shanping said: "I actually agree with reallocation of land. Apart from this measure, we really have no other way to connect everyone together. What is the equal distribution of wealth, blessings and difficulties in the Scented Sect can only stimulate the people for a while. Once the fresh momentum disappears, the people will disperse again. This is also the key to the repeated failures of the Scented Sect. Only land is the longest."

Liu Hang and Wang Mingyu both nodded in agreement.

During the feudal period, both military households and civilian households had a desire for land that outsiders could not describe. Land was the lifeblood of everyone. Especially after losing the land for so long, everyone felt the preciousness of land. For the sake of their own land, military households were willing to do anything, including going to the battlefield!

The Fushan Institute is not without land. On the contrary, all the more than 30,000 acres of land in Fushan were occupied by officers at all levels and other officials. As long as the land is taken back, it can be redistributed.

Zhang Zhun took the opportunity to put forward the slogan of "equal land and exemption from taxes".

This slogan will be proposed by Li Zicheng several years later, thus winning the support of countless poor people and ultimately creating Li Zicheng's glory. Of course, Zhang Zhun had to plagiarize this extremely attractive and inflammatory slogan in advance. In the social context at that time, these four words were truly a killer!

Liu Hang thought for a while and said cautiously: "Yulin, I do not agree with the statement of exemption from taxes. The equalization of taxes is already a good policy, and there is no need to exempt taxes. Otherwise, where will the future military expenditure come from? Without the protection of the army, how can the equalization of taxes be carried out?"

When Zhang Zhun heard this, he valued Liu Hang a little more.

Liu Hang is enthusiastic and calm, and is indeed a rare good seedling.

Wang Mingyu also said: "I agree with Liu Hang's opinion. Equalizing the land is enough, and exempting taxes is not feasible. I think it is absolutely possible to implement the original tax rate and collect two dou of grain per mu."

Hou Shanping also agreed with such suggestions.

Peng Feizai tilted his head and said, "If you can avoid the tuition, it will be better."

That's right, the slogan of equalizing land and exemption from tuition is indeed very attractive. Land is the dream of every poor family. Even if equalizing land and tuition is inevitable, the attraction is enough. Of course, people's desires are endless, and the same is true for poor people. If there is no need to pay taxes, it would be even better. However, in feudal society, if agricultural taxes are not collected, where does the state's tax come from?

Zhang Zhun said in an orderly manner: "Liu Hang, have you studied commercial tax and industrial tax? For example, let's talk about mining tax. In fact, there were many mines in the Ming Dynasty, and they were actually taxable. The current situation is that these taxes cannot be collected and were taken away by others."

Liu Hang said: "I'm sorry, I'm a little ignorant and don't know much about business tax and industrial tax. I wonder if they understand it?"

Wang Mingyu shook his head, saying that he didn't understand very much.

Hou Shanping also shook his head, saying that he didn't understand either.

Zhang Zhun had to explain in detail: "It's not your fault. In fact, commercial tax and industrial tax are the main sources of national tax revenue... I wonder if you know the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty. In fact, in the Southern Song Dynasty, agricultural tax accounted for a very small part, and most of the country's fiscal revenue actually came from commercial tax and industrial tax... Our commercial trade and industrial trade in the Ming Dynasty were also very developed. If taxes were imposed, they would definitely not be less than those in the Southern Song Dynasty..."

In fact, since Longqing opened the sea ban, the commercial trade of the Ming Dynasty was actually very developed. Large merchant ships shuttled back and forth from the southeast coast to Manila. The merchant ships heading south were loaded with a large amount of porcelain, silk, tea, medicinal materials, raw silk and other goods, while the merchant ships heading north carried a large amount of silver. As a result, a large amount of silver flowed into China from overseas. According to the most conservative estimate, the silver in the Ming Dynasty should be more than 300 million taels, or even 500 million taels.

The commercial trade in the Ming Dynasty was so developed, but the commercial tax was very small. Fujian's tea trade reached millions of taels of silver every year, but the tea tax was only thirty taels of silver, which was simply a freak. The commercial tax set by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning was thirty tax one, which was basically equivalent to tax exemption. In fact, it was indeed completely exempted later. Merchants became the person with the most social wealth, but did not have to bear any tax burden.

There are also various mines that can be taxed. Although the tax prison sent by Emperor Wanli was severely criticized for various reasons, it still increased the country's fiscal revenue to a certain extent. Otherwise, how could he support such a large amount of consumption in the three major levies in Wanli? That was not entirely Zhang Juzheng's credit.

However, there was a big difference between the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Wanli Dynasty. The Chongzhen Dynasty was in charge of the Donglin Party, and the Donglin Party itself was the representative of the big merchants and landlords. Of course, they could not take the initiative to pay taxes, or even ban any motions to pay taxes to industry and commerce without hesitation. As a result, Chongzhen could only allocate all the increased taxes to the poor farmers, resulting in increasingly fierce civil strife and eventually causing irreparable consequences.

With Chongzhen's lesson first, Zhang Zhun certainly could not have even made an idea of ​​agricultural tax. In fact, there is another fact that Liu Hang and others didn't know. The late Ming Dynasty was the Little Ice River Age, with capricious climate and frequent disasters, droughts, floods, and locust plagues. The cycle was repeated, and there was no time to calm down, resulting in serious agricultural harvests and less than 30% of the original output.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously impossible to continue to impose high agricultural taxes and farmers cannot afford them at all. If it is just a symbolic collection, it is better not to impose them. Facts show that the process of collecting agricultural taxes itself is very expensive. If the agricultural tax collected is not enough, it is better to waive it. It can be considered as one step to benefit the people.

Of course, the prerequisite for exempting agricultural tax is to earn enough money, provide military expenditures for the army, and provide salary for full-time personnel. Zhang Zhun still had plans for this. In addition to the salt business, he also planned other businesses.

After hearing Zhang Zhun's explanation, Liu Hang nodded and said, "Since Yulin has a solution to the financial resources, it is best to have equal land and exempt taxes."

Wang Mingyu and Peng Feizai both admire Zhang Zhun's courage very much.

It can be seen that Zhang Zhun’s remittance of taxes is not only verbally, but has done considerable research, and is definitely not a big deal. No matter what purpose Zhang Zhun made, making such suggestions is an epoch-making progress.

Hou Shanping was still a little worried and said cautiously: "Yulin, will they agree to collect taxes from merchants? Merchants do not need to pay taxes when doing business in other places, but we have to pay taxes. Will there be merchants coming? Also, if you want to collect taxes from mining, who else will be mined?"
Chapter completed!