As long as the commercial laws are formulated and promulgated, there will be no problem. No businessman will dare to object. Then a tax bureau can be established to conduct thorough investigations and collect taxes.
The difficulty lies in land taxation. The implementation of the land tax system is still quite difficult. From then on, the Ming Dynasty levied taxes based on land ownership, not per capita.
This has many advantages. Local taxation has nothing to do with population, and the people can be freed from farming and allowed to work outside the home, or to be concentrated in large cities. This has many advantages.
By paying taxes based on land, there will not be a huge gap between the rich and the poor. You will pay as much as your family owns land, which will reduce the burden on ordinary people.
Of course, there is a problem here. The gentry will pass this part on to the tenants, which involves another problem - population mobility.
Zhu Youxiao needed to expand the scale of business, recruit more workers, open more workshops, and allow ordinary people to work instead of being tenants, so that they could have a way to make a living.
Only in this way can the landlords improve their treatment of tenants and allow more people to leave the land and survive.
In addition to the equalization of land tax, there was another provision, which was that officials and gentry all paid taxes together. To put it bluntly, this meant abolishing the benefits Zhu Yuanzhang had given to scholars and making everyone pay taxes together, with no exceptions.
Zhu Yuanzhang's policy was to give preferential treatment to scholars, allowing poor scholars to study properly. However, this policy was eventually exploited by civil officials, who then resorted to refusing to pay taxes, causing public outrage.
Furthermore, the civil servants used their wisdom to come up with a policy that made this policy even more unpopular. Fewer and fewer people paid taxes, and ordinary people also took advantage of this policy to gain a lot of benefits.
The country was the one that suffered the most, because ordinary people gave their land to scholars and only paid a rent that was less than the country's taxes. This way, they could earn a little more, and the scholars could still collect rent; it was just that the country could not collect taxes.
They divided the country's tax revenue, giving part to themselves and part to these scholars. This is the truth about the tribute.
Scholars and common people all did this. If Zhu Youxiao wanted to pay taxes, ordinary people might not support it, and it might easily cause chaos.
We need to put more effort into paying taxes.
However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care. Reform was imperative and it was not a matter of money.
In addition to this, there is the reform of the military, which is actually not that difficult. In fact, many military households now do not like to be military households.
Now that Zhu Youxiao has the current equipment, he can completely demote them and distribute the army's farmland to them, allowing them to settle down and become ordinary people.
As for the remaining elite soldiers, we should switch to a conscription system. With elite equipment, we can maintain fewer troops. Besides, in this era, if you have no money, you can rob or do business. Anyway, we need to expand trade routes.
If too many workshops are created, a market will be needed, and the domestic market is part of it, and of course the international market is also part of it.
Next, in addition to fighting, we need to expand the market.
The first things to do are to occupy Japan, Liaodong, and Korea.
Sitting up from the couch, Zhu Youxiao stretched his muscles.
With so much money invested this time, we need to equip everything we need. We can deploy rear-mounted cannons, mortars, and metal shells. We also need to invest in the necessary weapons. In short, we need to get everything we need.
At the same time, the research and development of steam engines can be accelerated. With money, anything can be done.
"Your Majesty, Lord Han is outside asking for a meeting." Wei Chao came to Zhu Youxiao and said respectfully.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao was stunned.
You know, I haven't met anyone these days. It's obvious that I'm just resting, so no ministers come to disturb me.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Han Yu has always been very sensible. Why did he come at this time?
It seems something is going on.
Zhu Youxiao said with all his strength, "Let him in."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wei Chao quickly agreed respectfully, then turned around and went outside to greet Han Yu.
Not long after, Han Yu walked in from outside.
Upon seeing Zhu Youxiao, Han Yu quickly bowed respectfully and said, "Your Majesty, I am Han Yu."
"Alright, forget about the formalities." Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "Let's not bother with those empty formalities."
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