"How much tax was collected in Tianjin last year?"
Zhu Youxiao asked Hua Yuncheng, the governor of Tianjin, at this time.Hua Yuncheng replied truthfully: "Your Majesty, last year we collected more than 3.72 million yuan in silver coins. ”"So much, it is far more than the salt tax, and even more than the Taicang of the imperial court before the Apocalypse Dynasty collected cash in a year!
When did Tianjin become so rich?
”Xiong Tingbi was shocked when he heard this, and began to think in his heart, if he collected it like this in Jiangnan, how much would it be.Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly: "The implementation of the new tax policy in Tianjin really did not disappoint me!"
”Zhu Youxiao did let Bi Ziyan and Hua Yuncheng build a new city in Tianjin, and when a large number of manufacturing industries were moved to Tianjin New Town to increase employment, he asked Bi Ziyan and Hua Yuncheng to try out a new tax policy in Tianjin.The new tax policy is mainly to levy new commercial taxes.According to the new tax policy, the transactions that occur in Tianjin City are not taxed according to the old tax policy of 30 taxes and 1 tax, but are taxed according to 30 taxes and 6 taxes for general sales and 20 taxes and 1 for small and micro transactions.Therefore, the commercial tax in Tianjin is higher than that in other places.But because now the advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the emperor, and the emperor only puts these manufacturing industries with advanced technology in Tianjin, and now the purchase of industrial products in Tianjin is basically the official industry and various official offices.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao implemented a new tax policy in Tianjin, and the manufacturing workshops in Tianjin and the government-owned enterprises and government offices in various places could only comply with them.In fact, it is only equivalent to Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, who divided a part of the industrial profits of Tianjin City to the imperial court through taxation and used it for public utilities.Therefore, the new tax policy that has been tried out in Tianjin is easy to implement, and there is no resistance.It's just that what didn't disappoint Zhu Youxiao was that the consequences of the trial of the new tax policy in Tianjin brought a lot of tax revenue to the imperial court.......
"Call Lao Tzu!"
Fight to the death!
Damn, let you run!
”At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who had just left Tianjin accompanied by Hua Yuncheng and others, saw a group of people beating several people, among them, a gentry wearing a brocade robe with copper coin patterns was holding a cane and shouting orders to the beaten people.In addition to a few young people, there were also old people and children, and it was obvious that they were a family.And the group of men who were beating them were dressed in all soap-colored shorts, and it was obvious that they were the high-ranking slaves raised by the gentry, and they all beckoned to these people with sticks.Some of the beaten people had already cried out: "Spare your life!
Spare your life!
Master!
”The gentry did not spare the lives of these people, but continued to shout: "Spare you!
Spare you, how can Lao Tzu stand up!
I will definitely kill you today, so that other tenants who want to escape to Tianjin City to work have a longer memory, and if they dare to escape from my Zhuangzi, the only way to do so is death!
”This gentry's name is Feng Shengshi, he is a man in the area of Tianjin, and his father Feng Jinglun once served as a squire in the Nanjing Military Department, which is a relatively famous official gentry family in Tianjin Weili.In the Ming Dynasty, it was common for local gentry to kill their own slaves and tenants without authorization, because they were equivalent to the grassroots emperors, and they did not care about the consciousness of the royal court law at all, and killed and robbed the tenants and domestic slaves in their own clans, and even formulated their own laws and regulations.At this time, this Feng Shengshi wanted to beat these tenants to death because they wanted to flee from his Zhuangzi.Zhu Youxiao had already seen a common man beaten off by this Feng family's slave, and for a while, he commanded with a cold face: "Wei Zhongxian, you let people stop it and arrest all these people!"
”"Slave obeys!"
Wei Zhongxian replied."
This kind of phenomenon of powerful people disregarding people's lives is common in this area?"
Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Hua Yuncheng again.Hua Yuncheng hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, it is true, because in Tianjin City, even the labor income of the newly compiled displaced people is much higher than that of the nearby tenants and the low-level domestic slaves of some powerful families, so many tenants and domestic slaves will take the initiative to flee to Tianjin City and become the new households of Tianjin City, and these powerful families naturally refuse, but whenever there are tenants and domestic slaves who want to escape from the Zhuangtian of these powerful families, they will be beaten to death by these powerful families!"
Some powerful clans have also set up a 'fugitive law' township covenant, and some people who flee without permission and are unwilling to be slaves or rent the fields of powerful clans will either be immersed in pig cages like adultery, or they will be burned to death or directly beaten to death!
”After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao looked at the prisoner Feng Shengshi with a serious face.In Zhu Youxiao's memory, in history, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, they promulgated the "Fugitive Law".Because the Manchu nobles occupied a large number of Han lands in the Central Plains, and then forced a large number of Han people to become Baoyi and farm land for them, however, these Han people who became Manchu nobles were exploited and oppressed very seriously, therefore, many Han people took the initiative to flee elsewhere, and the Manchu court promulgated the "Fugitive Law" in order to prevent the Han people from escaping, and implemented a harsh system of joint sitting.Now, Zhu Youxiao found that because the new production model in Tianjin attracted more labor, the local gentry in this area even engaged in the 'fugitive law' like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, forcibly restricting the freedom of tenants and domestic slaves, so that they would always become their own domestic slaves."
Can a squire establish a law on his own?
Whose world is my Daming?
”Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.At this time, there was already a group of people from Feng Shengshi, who was beating these people, and there was already Jinyi Wei Chao."
Stop!"
Jinyi Wei Baihu Gu Lou also stopped drinking.The slaves under Feng Shengshi's command stopped their hands and looked at Feng Shengshi.Feng Shengshi had also noticed Zhu Youxiao and his party before this, but he didn't expect Zhu Youxiao and his party to actually take care of this matter.Because Zhu Youxiao and the Jinyi guards were all wearing civilian clothes, Feng Shengshi was not afraid, but shouted loudly: "Keep beating Lao Tzu!"
Who told you to stop!
”Saying that, Feng Shengshi looked at Gu Lou and the others: "What are you doing, Lao Tzu wants to kill his own tenants, what are you doing!"
”"Grab it!"
Gu Lou didn't bother to say much to Feng Shengshi, so he directly waved his hand and gave a shout.Then, the brocade guard beside Gu Lou immediately ran over, directly drew his knife, and then grabbed Feng Shengshi and the others.Feng Shengshi felt quite frightened because of this, and couldn't help but shout: "Who are you and what are you going to do!"
Lao Tzu killed his own tenants, what kind of are you doing!
”At this time, Feng Shengshi had already been escorted to Zhu Youxiao.Zhu Youxiao said coldly: "Who gave you dog guts to beat people at will?"
The Da Ming Law does not say that employers can wantonly beat tenants!
”"You're funny, but you're famous?
My father was a squire in the Nanjing Military Department, and he was born with filial piety, what's wrong with killing the tenants, why should you meddle with things!
”Feng Shengshi asked with a sneer.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only said to Hua Yuncheng: "Hua Aiqing, you are the governor here, this matter is entrusted to you, and it should be treated as a typical example, and in addition, I told the world to order all clans in the world to immediately stop the act of establishing the law of the township covenant on their own, and if it is found out who is privately establishing the township covenant and escaping the law, they will all be punished for the crime of treason!"
”"Obey the order!"
Hua Yuncheng replied.Feng Shengshi heard Zhu Youxiao call Hua Yuncheng Hua Aiqing, and he also felt a little wrong, and couldn't help but look shocked.