As Chongzhen's uncle and the prince of the Ming Dynasty, King Fu had competed for the emperor with Chongzhen's father. Although he failed later, Wanli still did not treat his son badly. When he was in the vassal state, he almost divided half of the land in Henan.

If you give it to the Fu Palace, you naturally don’t have to pay a penny of tax to the Ming Dynasty.

Not only that, the taxes collected by the Henan Provincial Administrators should also be transferred to the capital after satisfying the salary of the royal palaces such as Fu. However, now, even the taxes collected by the Henan Provincial Administrators have been given to the vassal kings.

As a salary, it is still not enough.

In this situation where you don’t have to worry about eating or drinking, the Fuwangfu family naturally planted whatever they want to make money by planting something. For example, planting some economic crops such as cotton can be sold to wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan. The profit is far more than planting

Grain earns much more.

Later generations have studied and explained that the taxes of the dynasty were the lowest in all dynasties, and the land tax rate was even less than 3%. But it should be noted that the algorithm of these people is based on the total number of taxes received by the court.

Compared with the total number of land acres in the world.

Among them, there is no consideration of the military fields allocated to the Tianxia Guards, the land allocated to the Zhu royal family, such as princes and princes at all levels, as well as the gentry and bureaucrats in the world who do not have to pay taxes, if the acres occupied by these people are removed

, then the taxes on the whole world are less than one-tenth of the land, and the taxes of the people suddenly rise to more than 30%.

But even so, among the people who need to pay taxes, some people still use various means to evade taxes and transfer taxes. For example, according to the general understanding, whoever has money and whoever has land will go to whom he or she has land.

Taxation was imposed, but this one didn't work in the late Ming Dynasty.

Because some people are forced to go desperately and sell all the land under their name to large households, but large households only buy your land, but do not bear the taxes that need to be paid on the land. In other words, although you have no land under your name

But you still have to pay the tax on this field every year.

You will become a tenant later, but after becoming a tenant, it will be even worse because you not only have to bear taxes on nearly half of the output, but also have to bear nearly half of the land rent on nearly half of the output.

In the end, the people could not hold on and could only go far away to become refugees, or sell themselves as slaves, and feed others. It was these people who became the continuous reserve troops of the rebel army. It was these people, the rebel army.

Even if we were wiped out a hundred times, we could still make a comeback.

Feng Kebin didn't understand these social problems very much, but his intuition told him that if this continues, there will be a big problem in the world. If all the fields are deserted and used to plant some crops that can be sold for money but cannot be eaten,

Then the people of Henan will starve to death, and the world will become more and more chaotic.

Feng Kebin had no choice but to order his spies to strengthen their vigilance, advance quickly, and pass this wasteland that disturbed him as soon as possible.

Ruzhoucheng is a small town. The blue-gray walls are not tall, with mottled walls and large pieces of wall clothes falling off, and a layer of tender green moss is attached below.

Maybe it has been heard that the northwest Shanzhou was broken, and the city gates of Ruzhou were closed, and the city gates were only opened for one hour every day for the common people in the city to enter and exit Ruzhou, go outside the city to chop firewood, carry water, etc. to maintain it.

Daily life.

On the city wall, there were sparsely standing a row of Min Zhuang wearing gray cloth and holding spears. These Min Zhuang should have been temporarily summoned, and their faces were filled with the honest smile of being a farmer.

The spears in my hand were obviously stocked up in the city that had been accumulated for a long time.

I don’t know which dynasty or which generation it produced. Due to poor maintenance, all the red tassels on the gun fell off, leaving behind a bare gun head. Most of the gun heads had already rotted, and there were reddish-brown everywhere.

Rust, but after being far away, it can scare a few thieves who are not open to their eyes.

In front of the city tower directly above the city gate, a small official wearing a green official robe pulled a thick man in a civilian dress, not knowing what he was saying. From the man's face, it can be seen that

The conversation between the two was not that pleasant.

Until the end, the sturdy man knelt down and kowtowed to the minor official again and then the minor official was willing to let him go, snorted at him contemptuously, and glanced outside the city wall.

After nothing unusual happened, he left the man behind and slowly went down the city tower and disappeared.

After the little official walked away, the sturdy man stood up, his face looked extremely ugly, and he opened his mouth as if cursing something. After a while, he left the city and disappeared.

After both of them left, the atmosphere on the city building was obviously relaxed. Originally, behind the female wall, he stood upright to monitor the Minzhuang outside the city, and he was not standing there. He gathered together in groups of three or three, with a relaxed expression.

chat.

Everything that happened on the city was clearly seen by Feng Kebin, who was ambushing outside the city. Although he was a little far away, he could not see what the people on the city were talking about, but their actions had already

The relationship between them was fully expressed. Feng Kebin lowered his head and had an idea in his mind.

Looking back, he waved to the twelve soldiers under his command, and then several of them bent down at the same time and slowly retreated behind him. When they arrived at a safe place, Feng Kebin gathered the team of spies again.

Feng Kebin said to his opponent: "Have you seen the situation on the city wall?"

"I saw it, I saw it." Everyone said together.

"On the top of the city, most of them are a group of newly gathered people. It is very likely that they have only put down their hoes for a few days. These people do not understand orders, military orders, or guard the city. At this moment, it is us who have made achievements to make achievements.

At that time, tonight, we will take advantage of the unpreparedness and enter Ruzhou and take down Ruzhou in one fell swoop. Do you dare to work with me to achieve such a great achievement?"

Take down Ruzhou? Just by these few of us, a group of spies claim to be brave and dare to go in and out of the tiger's den, but they are still shocked by Feng Kebin's remarks. Ruzhou's achievements are considered

No matter how small it is, it is a city, and it is a city that has been prepared for a long time. There are only a few people, how could it take down Ruzhou, which is defending?

Seeing Japan looking at each other, I didn't dare to make up for a moment. I stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"Why, don't you dare?" Feng Kebin deliberately mocked.

"Mr. Feng, what are you talking about? Everyone present is a man with a seed. His head is poured out and he is just a big scar. Why don't you dare?" Sure enough, he was used to being so arrogant by Feng Kebin.

How could a rough man bear such humiliation? He stood up and said that he was still a man and he was not a coward.

"Why, when I asked you if you dare to break into Ruzhou with me, none of you replied to me? Since that's the case, I'll ask again, do you dare to break into Ruzhou with me and make this world unparalleled?

What is the merit?" Feng Kebin continued to use the method of aggressiveness.

The spies were forced to the corner, and the birds were facing the sky. If they didn't die for ten thousand years, they could be a hero in the 18th year. However, they were said to be greedy and afraid of death and cowardly and incompetent people, so they spoke in unison.

He said, "Why don't you dare? Lord Feng underestimates us too much. We are willing to take down Ruzhou with Lord Feng."

"Okay, okay, all brothers are all good. When we enter Ruzhou, I will personally apologize to you brothers. Since that's the case, Ma Feng, go and find General Liu Changle and tell him to ask him to go south to support as soon as possible.

We, the rest, have a good rest, and we will set off at midnight tonight."
Chapter completed!