Cannon Fodder Is King

Arc 3.29

The more Meng Zezhi thought about it, the happier he became. He waved his hand and gave four wills in succession.

One is to canonize Qian Boyu as Jing Haibo and Liu Wenshan (the one who wiped out Japanese pirates) as Ping Haibo.

The second is to reward the army soldiers with a thousand taels of gold and 10,000 taels of silver, which will be distributed by Qian Boyu.

The third is to charge those gold and silver into the national treasury, and all the remaining things are included in the domestic money.

The fourth is to exempt this year’s land tax and encourage wasteland reclamation. It is stipulated that the reclaimed wasteland shall be exempted from land tax within ten years.

Upon hearing that Emperor Ning Wu wanted to exempt Tian Fu, all the officials were shocked. To know that the annual fiscal revenue of the Dayang Dynasty, Tian Fu accounted for 70%. The most important thing is to avoid Tian Fu, won't the envy that they can receive behind the scenes will be greatly reduced.

When even someone stood up and objected: "Long live, this is absolutely impossible. The royal government spends five million taels of silver every year on the three items of official salaries, military salaries, and river labor."

The Dayang dynasty raises one million soldiers, but the annual military expenditure is less than two million taels. The main reason is that the Dayang dynasty implements the military system, that is, the land is allocated to the army for planting. Basically, the soldiers stationed on the border are all To support themselves, only the navy and some of the city guards need to pay the military salary from the Ministry of Households

"If there are celebrations or natural disasters again, it will cost tens of millions of silver a year, and the annual tax revenue of the country is only 8 million taels. Now it is already gracious. If the land tax is exempted, the national treasury will probably not make ends meet. , Please long live to think twice!"

"Long live your ministers, please think twice."

"It's okay not to say Aiqing." Meng Zezhi twisted his expression: "What you said reminds me of something."

"Because of Meng Yuan's violence and inaction, civilian commerce suffered predatory destruction. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the country, Emperor Taizu, in order to restore commerce, Zeng Xiaoyu, military and civilian weddings and funeral sacrifices, boats, cars, silk cloth, etc., are all tax-free. It is also decided that all commercial taxes shall be one at thirty."

You know, Emperor Guangde has repeatedly reduced and exempted agricultural taxes, but it was only as low as 25%. The peasants were poor and couldn't get enough to eat, but the merchants and local officials colluded with them, and the wealth was too rich.

Meng Ze knows this very well, otherwise, how did he get the extra money (matches, soap) of more than 200,000 taels of silver a month?

"Now, more than 30 years have passed, business has generally recovered, and it is time to collect taxes on merchants again. From now on, the business tax will be one out of ten."

One out of ten? How much do you have to pay this year?

All civil and military officials are passionate: "Never mind, not to mention that the ancestral motto is not to be violated, to rashly increase business taxes, compete with the people for profit, and spread it out. How do people in the world feel..."

"Competing for profit with the people?" Meng Zezhi said in a bad tone: "Still fighting for profit with the officials?"

The ministers choked.