After the exchange of opinions with Shao Zhi in the side hall, Chen Yunfu felt very confident. When the cabinet meeting resumed, Chen Yunfu first put forward his ideas.

"With the stepped tax law as the first transitional policy, local tenants and tenants will rent instead of buying, and the difference will be made up by the imperial officials."

Chen Yunfu's proposal made many people breathe a sigh of relief.

Everyone is afraid that Chen Yunfu will take a big step and directly restore the well-field system or Wang Mang's royal field system and nationalize all the land in the world. Then the world will be in chaos and rebels everywhere.

Although the stepped tax law is quite harsh, it is not unprecedented in history. For example, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, land was divided into koufentian and yongye field. In addition, there was tax-free land unique to the official class. Whether it was yongye field or tax-free land, both

There is a specific numerical limit, and any portion exceeding the limit will also be taxed.

This is the original prototype of the stepped tax law.

The collection of unequal proportions of land tax based on quantity and scale is a form of macro-policy to inhibit land annexation, and it is far less radical than Wang Mang's royal land system.

From a long-term perspective, Wang Mang's Wang Tian system is obviously the best policy, but the prerequisites are very stringent.

That is, Comrade Wang Mang must have enough ability to kill all the nobles, gentry, and landlords in the world, and at the same time, he must ensure that his subordinate officials and generals are also selfless proletarians.

If you fail to do these two things, the world will inevitably be in chaos and everyone will attack.

Chen Yunfu doesn't dare to do what Lao Wang dares to do now, and he doesn't want to destroy the current harmonious and stable situation of the Ming Dynasty.

"Our Ming Dynasty's household registration and land acres are still in use in two volumes. The household registration is called the Yellow Book, and the land acres are called the Fish Scale Book. Both the Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book are reviewed every ten years. Whether it is the small corvee or the annual two taxes, they all follow the Tang Dynasty rules.

Under the two-tax system, the grain chief system was also supplemented to subsidize fire consumption.

Today, I have specially invited for you a grain chief who is the most proficient in land taxation, that is Yan Zhenzhi, the Zhejiang grain chief. Shiqi, please ask Yan Liang Chief to come over."

Yang Shiqi responded and stepped out of the Wenhua Hall. After a short while, he walked in with a middle-aged man in his thirties.

Everyone couldn't help but look at it.

Who doesn’t know the name Yan Zhenzhi?

Especially Shao Zhi, he is more familiar with it.

The Weng Junbo case, followed by the Guo Huan case and the Kongyin case, were only exposed through the brave prosecution and exposure of this Yan Zhen Zhi Yan grain manager.

"Caomin Yan Zhenzhi, see the young master and all the pavilion elders."

Yan Zhenzhi stood up in white and met a group of central government officials. He immediately raised his robe and bowed down, but his expression and posture were not nervous in any aspect, and he had the air of a general.

"Please get up quickly."

Chen Yunfu raised his hand to avoid the ceremony, and at the same time said to Yang Shiqi: "Give Chief Yan Liang a seat."

Yan Zhen thanked him straight away and sat down about five steps away from the cabinet round table, looking upright and serious.

"Zhejiang is the province with the most Ding population in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the province with the highest land tax in the Ming Dynasty. When we talk about the Ding Tian tax law, we are convinced that the Zhejiang grain chief has the most say. Therefore, Benfu has long ago

I discussed with Zhenzhi that before Benfu returned to Beijing from Shandong this time, he had already sent someone to invite Zhenzhi from Zhejiang."

Sure enough, Chen Yunfu had already planned to move the land.

Everyone understood, and knew that what Chen Yunfu did today was not unfounded, but that he had been prepared for it.

"Next, let's all listen to what Zhenzhi has to say."

Yan Zhen stood up straight, bowed and bowed before speaking loudly.

"Nowadays, the corvee tax laws of the country are all determined according to the yellow book and the fish scale book.

Ding corvee system: If a household has two dings, one ding will be a corvee; if a household has three dings or more, one ding will be a corvee, and one ding will form a military household.

Tax legal system: Farmers are taxed thirty-one acres, employees are tax-free for eighty acres, officials are tax-free for two hundred acres, and tenants and tenants are required to pay twenty-one acres in addition to rent and tax.

With such two systems, there is often a practice among the people of the people to leave their stepchildren in the fields.

As for the tenants and tenants, the taxes and corvee were heavy and miserable.

The annual land tax is brought to Beijing, and the wastage on the road is borne by the grain chiefs of each province. Anyone who owns more than 10,000 acres of land in each county will have a grain chief. If there is no one who owns 10,000 acres of land, there will be no grain chief, and the wastage will be borne by the grain chief.

It is the responsibility of the provincial grain director.

The grass-roots people are the grain chiefs of Zhejiang. In short, in Zhejiang province, in all counties without county-level grain chiefs, all wastage will be accounted for by the grass-roots people.

Therefore, those who owned more than 10,000 acres of land in each county, in order not to be regarded as grain chiefs, dispersed their land and divided it up, or handed over the land to farmers in the same county. This was called flying.

Posting and flying are all behaviors derived from local tax avoidance."

At this point, Yan Zhenzhi stopped talking.

Chen Yunfu looked around at the cabinet ministers and said, "Do you all understand?"

In the vernacular, all the meanings came out clearly on the paper, and there was no unintelligible truth. Everyone nodded.

"At the beginning of the year, we re-counted Dingkou and Tianmu. Why we need to count it is just for today. Now it is clear at a glance how many people and how many acres of land each province has. Everyone can see clearly and clearly, and naturally they will know every year.

The invisible losses of the country, the so-called 'reasonable tax avoidance', the escaped land tax, and the number of ding corvees."

Chen Yunfu turned the jade ring on his little finger, lowered his eyes and said: "Posting, flying, adopting, the common people, gentry, and landlords have tried every means in order not to do corvee work and not pay taxes. The court will not give any more

If we find a way, in the next fifty or one hundred years, I am afraid that the Ministry of Revenue will not be able to uncover the pot."

After saying this, Chen Yunfu looked at Qi De, who was in charge of the household department. At this time, it was Qi De who should say a few words.

Qi De felt unhappy with Yan Zhenzhi.

You say that you are a dignified grain chief of Zhejiang, and that you are as rich as the enemy may be an exaggeration, but you are definitely from a wealthy family. Why are you getting together with a "class traitor" like Chen Yunfu?

What do you mean by "spreading" or "posting"? I, Qi De, don't understand it at all. Where did you make up these terms?

"Although Yan Zhenzhi is the chief grain officer of Zhejiang, he is a white man after all. What he says is probably based on rumors. Today is the Cabinet Office meeting. In such a serious place, it is too childish for a white man to write a letter and talk nonsense."

Chen Yunfu raised his eyebrows and suddenly asked: "How much land does Mr. Qi Ge have under his name?"

Zide opened his mouth and made a mistake.

Yang Shiqi, who was behind him, said, "Young Master, the record left by the General Affairs Office is thirty-five hectares."

Chen Yunfu exclaimed: "That's 3,500 acres. That's not right. I remember that when Mr. Qi Ge just won the title of Jieyuan, not to mention that his family was poor, but he didn't have much ancestral property. His Majesty was still the crown prince at that time.

At that time, I left Mr. Qi Ge to live in the East Palace for a long time.

Mr. Qi Ge, in just a few years of being an official, you have 3,500 acres of land. You are really a good hand in running the household."

Sweat began to appear on Zi De's forehead.

"Shiqi, let me tell everyone here how much land I have under my name."

Yang Shiqi said proudly: "You elders, the young master does not have an acre of land under your name!"

Zid suddenly cursed in his heart.

Of course you don't. Your annual salary is more than 1,000 dan, and you also have 5,000 dan from the Duke. You need a lot of land.

It really hurts my back to stand and talk.

"Young Master's high integrity and integrity are really a role model for us officials." Shao Zhi followed directly, and then looked sideways at Qi De: "Mr. Qi Ge has owned 3,500 acres of land in just a few years.

I don’t know how many of these are mailing fields.”

There was a sudden silence in the Wenhua Hall.
Chapter completed!