Chapter 1800: Counterattack In the old days, as long as the gentry or local officials were willing to provide protection, they could sit and have large sums of gold and silver from merchants.
This is a bit of a matter of the imperial court's preference for scholars, so for scholars with meritorious reputation, a certain degree of tax exemption is often carried out.
In this way, as long as there is a meritorious scholar, as long as he becomes a talent and a person, he may not have any land at all, but because of the special treatment of scholars, countless people will bring their own fields to his hands.
Why because of tax avoidance.
Instead of handing over the grain tax to the state, it is better to give it to the scholars, who only need to make a contract, and after the transfer of ownership, the land is exempt from taxation, and as long as a part of the grain is given to these scholars every year, they can also take the opportunity to be exempted from forced labor.
It is precisely because of all kinds of privileges that the scholars almost have great rights in the local area, and the merchants have a lowly status, unable to gain a foothold, and if they do not find a master to take refuge, it is very likely that within a few days, they will break down and destroy their families, and their properties will be swallowed up.
Now the court taxed them, and it seemed that the merchants had suffered a loss, but in fact, it was equivalent to some kind of protection, which made the merchants willing to give the tax to the court, but they were no longer willing to give benefits to the local gentry.
But for many gentry, the family only knows how to read, are nerds, this claims to be a poetry and book heirloom, the vast majority of them, may not know how to manage, let alone good management, originally relied on privileges to live, such as for the imperial court tax, a place needs to pay how much grain, the magistrate can not personally collect, just hand over to the local gentry, gentry, take people to collect taxes, you can take this opportunity to profit.
Or, someone sent land for nothing, just to avoid taxes, which is equivalent to giving the grain tax of the court to these gentry for nothing.
For many gentry, the biggest oil and water is the merchants, because the merchants have a low status, so they need to take refuge in them, so they need to send countless profits to their mansions every once in a while, and when they go out to operate, they can dredge up the relationship with their name cards.
It is said that when the town and state government had just risen, many merchants sold goods, but they were all under the brand of a certain Shangshu, a certain waiter, and a certain political envoy, and stood on the bow of the ship, so that these countless official ships could be unimpeded on the canal, and no one dared to check and interrogate.
This is a book of great profits, lying down to collect the silver, not only can people trample under their feet, but also just sit idle at home, these lowly merchants will kneel and send the silver, in order to ask you a refuge, so that his ship, hang your official card, a small official card, is a mountain of gold and silver.
As a result, this good day is gone, because of the New Deal.
This is related to the livelihood of many people, can you bear it?
This Manchu Dynasty civil and military was a beneficiary in the past, and the scholars in the world were also profiteers in the past, but after the emergence of the New Deal, although there were always policies and countermeasures, but after all, the wind direction changed, and many businessmen became bolder, and they began to pay less attention to you.
This is only light, more terrible is the shaking of the foundation, if the merchant's contribution is just extra money, then the land is the foundation of the gentry, now the Beijing division is also related to a large number of foreign workers, everywhere is recruiting manpower, so that the people in the countryside, many people have moved out with their families, the tenants run away, scattered, but who to farm you want to keep people, you have to let the tenants live a better life, but the tenants have more rations, the gentry have to eat less, gather sand into a tower, accumulate a lot, this income can be greatly reduced.
Moreover, because there is a new way to live, many small farmers simply abandon the land, and bring their families to the city, which is also a very serious matter, there are many people who throw land, but there are not many people who buy land in the market, the price of land is decreasing day by day, the land is cheap, who is the most disadvantaged After all, it's still the gentry.
On the one hand, his economic foundation has been shaken, and he is almost gone, and even his style is no longer what it used to be.
On the other hand, the businessmen who seemed to him to be extremely inferior in the past have gradually stood in the same position as themselves.
Under this kind of stimulation, how can you endure it Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, today, Yang Yiqing jumped out, and his party members also jumped out.
This is obviously a fuse, and those who have already accumulated too much dissatisfaction in their hearts will suddenly become sad and angry, so more and more people will stand up.
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty Before today's court meeting began, Wang Hua had thought that someone might cause some damage today, but he never imagined that Yang Yiqing would make such a fuss today, let alone that it would come to such a point.
Looking at the people who stood up to support Yang Yiqing one after another, Wang Hua's heart became heavier and heavier.
In fact, he didn't know that the New Deal would cause many people to resent him, and he forcibly promoted the New Deal, which was also a helpless method, he knew that the gentry would suffer, but after all, the New Deal was a century-old foundation and a long-term plan, at least the benefits of the Guanwai had been proven.
Moreover, the New Deal does have its benefits for the most ordinary people, because there is a place to work, so many people have an extra way to make a living, because the land price is low, some poor peasants have accumulated some money, and they can also buy a few acres of thin land to live in peace.
Because of the large exodus of people from the countryside, the gentry had to reduce rents in order to retain the tenant farmers, and because of the taxation of merchants, the court was no longer as struggling to make ends meet as before.
No matter how you look at it, this is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, although there will indeed be a lot of sequelae, but it will always develop on the good side, but Wang Hua's new policy shook the fundamentals of the scholars and gentry, and now it is finally their turn to fight back.
I saw more and more people standing up, some people were angry, and some people seemed very calm, but they just slowly stood up in the class and expressed their positions.
As the number of people increased, Wang Hua began to feel cold, although he had already known that this new policy had touched the interests of many people, but he never expected that these people were so hostile now, so that Seeing that among the hundreds of officials, more than half of the people who stood up were actually more than half, and in the class, there seemed to be some people who were hesitating.
At this time, there was Jiang Mian who was still standing in the class, and his face was very ugly at this time.
He didn't expect Yang Yiqing to come out to oppose the new policy, Yang Yiqing didn't leak the slightest rumor to him in advance, but in his heart, he hoped that the prince would be able to overcome the unification, after all, His Royal Highness the prince is the prince, and he consciously couldn't accept Yang Yiqing's behavior. aa2705221: