Having said that, how could the ministers agree? Who in each of them has tens of thousands of acres or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land affiliated with?

These lands, including relatives and friends, clan members, and disciples, are not recorded. If they are all settled according to Wang Yangming's wishes, wouldn't they all be taken back to the country these days?

This is simply cutting off their flesh!

Usually, these officials cut off the country's flesh and suck the blood of the people. Now it's their turn to cut the flesh, how can they agree?

"Your Majesty, never!" Someone said with a worried look on his face, "The value of robbing the land of the people is a trivial matter, I am afraid it will cause unrest and damage the foundation of the country!" It means that if you steal the land of the people, how can the people not fight against you?

Unfortunately, these tax evasions are not ordinary people.

Where do ordinary people get hundreds of land? Thousands of acres of land are affiliated with others?

Most of the scholars who were affiliated with those who came out were merchants. In the Ming Dynasty, merchants could not participate in the imperial examination, but the business tax was particularly small, so the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were rich and had countless money. These people were not exempted from taxes, so they attached their land to the scholars to evade taxes.

What's more, the land was given to officials in the name of affiliation, and bribery was colluded with officials and businessmen.

Ye Jun watched these guys perform coldly.

Wang Yangming sneered: "My lords, the search for tax evasion is to increase tax revenue for the country and increase the country's land. This is a good thing. How can it hurt the foundation of the country? Could it be that you have also hidden the land, afraid of being found out?!"

“Bad talk!”

"Bloody blowjob!"

"We are innocent and loyal, so how can you let you frame it? Wang Yangming, I want to write a book on you!"

The ministers were angry and cursed.

Wang Yangming sneered: "Since you have not hidden the land, it's just right. From the investigation by the officials, I only have twenty acres of land in my family. Please send someone to check it. My lords, please report the number of land in my family!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the audience was silent!

What a joke? How do you report the number of land acres? In their names, there are as few as tens of thousands of acres of land, hundreds of thousands of acres, or even millions of acres, but do they dare to report it truthfully? Where can they get so much land with their salary?

madman!

The ministers cursed Wang Yangming in their hearts.

But at this time, there was no other way, so I could only bite the bullet and go.

The emperor is waiting for him!

Chen Rusong, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, saw sweat on his forehead, he hesitated for a while, and said, "I am honest and have only one hundred acres of fertile land in my family. Please be careful and don't ignore the villain's slander!"

One hundred acres! All the ministers were stunned, but they didn't expect that this old guy was so cruel.

Ye Jun nodded as if it were true and said, "Of course I believe Chen Aiqing's words. You taught me to study back then, but I said that scholars do not love money. Don't worry, I will never allow anyone to slander your reputation! Chen Aiqing only has 100 acres of fertile land. How honest is this. It is truly an example of literati in the world. It should be vigorously promoted so that everyone in the world knows that Chen Aiqing is as famous as his name and as honest as pine."

Chen Rusong breathed a sigh of relief, but the emperor almost made him sit on the ground with his next sentence.

Ye Jun smiled and said, "Yangming, have you heard that Chen Aiqing's family only has 100 acres of land. As for the others, most of them are framed. In order to give Lord Chen an innocence, I order you to severely investigate and punish those unknown land and confiscate them all. You must never let these things ruin Lord Chen's reputation."

This is to copy all Chen Rusong’s property!

Chen Rusong didn't breathe and almost fainted. Although he left him one hundred acres of land, it was no different from raiding a house! It was really hard for decades, and only one hundred acres of land was left!

Ye Jun waved his hand and asked someone to drag Chen Rusong, who was lying on the ground, turned to look at the others with a smile, and said, "I wonder what kind of fertile land you have in your home?"

The ministers seemed to see a tiger, a robber holding a knife around his neck, and asked with a smile how much money his family has, whether it is money or death?

The ministers were hesitant and couldn't speak. They felt heartbroken if they said less. If they said too much, you have more property than a dignified Grand Secretary? Are you greedy?

Ye Jun was too lazy to argue with these people, waved his hand and said, "Wang Yangming, you will be fully responsible for this matter and check the number of land in the world. Anyone who evades taxes should be compensated, and those who have no names will be confiscated. Remember to explain clearly to the people that we are not trying to seize the land of the people. The land obtained from the search will be distributed to the people's tenants in the name of state-owned, and the tax will be collected by one tenth!"

Nowadays, the rent of tenants in the world is 30%, and even 40% is 40% or 50%. The emperor distributed the land seized to the people and paid one-tenth of the rent, which was almost equivalent to giving the land to them. As for why they didn't directly distribute it to the people, they were also worried that these people would sell the land. After all, the people originally had land, but they were slowly robbed by the gentry and sold them all, and in the end they could only become tenants of the gentry. Now, the land belongs to the country, and the people farm for the country, so the gentry dare not take it by mistake!

After all, Wang Yangming was a young man and full of energy. Although he knew that the investigation of the land was the most offensive to others, he still took it without hesitation.

If the emperor hadn't spoken, he was still in the mountains in Guizhou. The emperor asked him to return to the court and gave him such an important task, how could he not fight desperately?

You treat me with my country's soldiers and I will repay you with my country's soldiers.

After processing the land tax, the next step is the commercial tax.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a farmer and did not understand business, so he set the commercial tax very low. Of course, there was another reason for this, because the Yuan Dynasty had too much damage to commercial business, so in order to promote business development, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately exempted a lot of commercial taxes.

However, gradually, later, the commercial taxes in the Ming Dynasty were almost useless. This led to the merchants becoming rich and the court was poor and the court was in poverty.

Commercial taxation is the top priority in any era.

When Ye Jun proposed to regain business tax revenue, no one in the court opposed it.

It is not yet the late Ming Dynasty, nor is it when the Donglin Party occupied the imperial court.

Nowadays, most of the officials in the court are northerners, and the areas with developed commerce are in the south. The collection of commercial taxes does not have much conflict of interest for these officials.

Besides, they have suffered losses now, so they are naturally happy to see others suffer losses.

Next, Ye Jun announced something, and the most important thing today:

"Open the sea!"

When the ministers heard this, their expressions changed wildly!
Chapter completed!