In fact, Zhou Rou knew in her heart that the source of everything was because the official did not have to pay taxes!

What's even more outrageous is that they also annexed most of the most fertile land!

In this way, how can the country’s finances be supported?

Naturally, the burden can only be shifted to small farmers who are unable to resist.

This is not over yet, because the wealthy families have monopolized the grassroots bureaucracy, the state's taxation has also become a tool for them to make money.

All kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed one after another, and then the money of the common people was divided into quarters, and the money of the wealthy gentry was returned in full.

Exploiting people from both ends, the result is that the country and the people are getting poorer and poorer, but the vampires in the middle are so fat that their mouths are full of oil!

But are they satisfied?

No, not really!

Since they have a monopoly on land and do not have to pay taxes, they have hoarded a huge amount of food in their hands, while the common people have no food for their families due to the burden of various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The two sides are not at the same level of risk resistance.

Therefore, the tycoons only need to cut off the flow of food and spread some rumors to artificially create crisis and panic, raising food prices several times or even dozens of times in a short period of time!

So, famine took shape...

However, for the common people, the great famine, which was about to exchange children for food, was a terrible famine, but for the gentry, it was a gluttonous feast!

As the crisis swept through, countless small farmers and even small landowners went bankrupt, and large landowners in Tianlianqianmo were able to annex land unscrupulously, gradually developing into wealthy families across counties, counties, and even states!

And those who have nothing, don’t worry, you still have the most important thing, personal freedom!

Although Damin explicitly prohibits slave-holding, as long as you sign this IOU that you will never be able to repay in your lifetime with a compound interest rate, you will get a bag of moldy and rotten food, which is enough to make your family's most miserable family.

A healthy and strong workforce survives!

As for the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled...

A worthless thing will die when it dies. The gentlemen will not waste precious food for such trivial things!

Anyway, these mud-legged weeds are like weeds in the ground. They die this year and will pop up again in a few years.

In fact, in times of good weather, there was no such thing as famine. It was just a way for the big landowners to periodically harvest the people.

This pattern has been repeated in every dynasty over the past tens of thousands of years, from small quarrels at the beginning to large-scale famines in counties and states, which became more and more serious...

To this day, the entire empire is in a critical situation of life and death, and these greedy landlords have no intention of stopping. Instead, they have intensified their efforts to plunder the people's wealth and drain the country's blood!

Don’t they know that all their privileges are based on the existence of the country?

There are no eggs left behind when the nest is overturned!

The country is about to perish, so what's the use of collecting more wealth?

He didn't notice Zhou Rou's angry eyes. If Zhao Yinshun knew what she was thinking, he would definitely tell her the truth.

The only lesson mankind has learned from history is that mankind cannot learn any lessons from history.

No matter which world it is, the confusing operations of the ruling class at the end of the dynasty can make people simply incomprehensible!

Compared with the outrageous magical behaviors in his previous life during the late Song Dynasty, the late Ming Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty, the current Damin is simply too normal, and he has not done anything so ruthless that even Zhao Yinshun called him a good guy!

However, perhaps the premise of all this currently is based on the [Emperor].

Once she falls, the demons and monsters below will probably start to make peace with themselves...

In other words, with the decline of the [Emperor], they have begun to make ends meet!

The man-made disaster behind this natural disaster may not be without their contribution...

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Yinshun weighed the pros and cons in his mind and made a decision.

"Give me the order."

"The navy went out to eliminate pirates on the northern route from Taiping Bay to Yangzhou."

"[The Ministry of Agriculture] mobilized all the old grain in the county and sent it to Yangzhou for disaster relief in the name of the eldest princess!"

With a shock all over her body, Zhou Rou woke up from her grief and anger and quickly took out her notebook to record.

"Follow the order!"

But Zhao Yinshun hesitated for a moment and shook his head helplessly.

"Forget it, Cen Xing's status can't suppress the local gangster, I'd better go there myself."

"In addition, the military transport ships alone are definitely not enough. You can coordinate the logistics at home and organize private merchant ships to help transport food."

After carefully writing down Zhao Yinshun's request, Zhou Rou formed a rough plan framework in just a few seconds.

"yes!"

"Note, this time is nominally for disaster relief, but in fact I want to help those people who can't survive. The landlords and bureaucrats don't treat them as human beings, so it's better to bring them to the feudal country. We are very short of labor now.

"

With his five fingers tapping rhythmically on the table, Zhao Yinshun spoke frankly to his confidants without reservation.

Unlike those landlords who would rather leave their land uncultivated than let mud-legged people cultivate it, Zhao Yinshun knew that population is the most important foundation of a modern country!

They are an endless source of troops in wartime, and the market they form in peacetime is the most solid foundation for a country!

Why could the Chinese dynasty trade the market for technology in previous lives?

Isn’t it because everyone is coveting this huge market of more than one billion people!

Later, when the Celestial Empire developed, it could even start an internal cycle. Under the most difficult scenario, it could be completely isolated from the outside world and survive independently!

This crazy capability scares the West even more than nuclear weapons!

Because this means that you are not afraid of blockades or sanctions. One country is the world!

The premise for all this is to have a large enough population!

Zhao Yinshun didn’t want to see the insects destroying the country’s most precious wealth—the people!

In the reactionary and backward thinking of the insects, mud-legged insects are like weeds that never die and are reborn again when the spring breeze blows.

Such ants and mustard-like things are not considered human beings. They are roughly equivalent to two-legged beasts. They do not need to be cherished at all and can be consumed at will. Only their masters who have read poetry and books are worthy of being called "people".

Therefore, the country cannot compete with the "people" for profit, which means that it cannot collect taxes from them. If it wants to collect taxes, it can only collect them from those mud-legged people!

As for the mud-legged people who cannot survive and are forced to rebel, that is none of your business. It is all your [Emperor]’s unkindness in politics!

I don’t care whether your country is destroyed or not, but you can’t touch my interests anyway!

"By the way, in order to prevent food from being exploited at all levels, our own people will be responsible for the entire disaster relief operation. You can organize the elite cadres of [Dragon]. The more the better."

"yes!"

"Oh, and also, mobilize the army to join me in disaster relief! Now that the [Dragon Guards] in each county have taken shape, the regular army must gradually transfer the defense and suppression tasks to the local area!"

"yes!"

After carefully writing down Zhao Yinshun's order, Zhou Rou hurriedly left, and the war machine of "Liu Yin Fengguo" began to operate rapidly.

"Are you going out again?"

Turning her head, Oakley Yani, who was hidden under the information barrier, looked at Zhao Yinshun leisurely.

"Well, I really can't stand it. I can save every one of them."

Looking out the window at the white snow, the handsome young man sighed helplessly.

"Besides, we are really short of people now. Not only is the industry short of labor, but agriculture has huge potential being wasted."

Speaking of this, Zhao Yinshun smacked his lips without saying anything.

"Did you know that the former landowners in Linbo County were really outrageous? Although there was a rich and fertile plain, they actually only developed one-fifth of the cultivated land, and the remaining 80% of the arable land was completely unused..."

"Capitalism can improve efficiency and squeeze out surplus value to the maximum extent, but they don't even understand exploitation! Pure cerebral palsy!"

The more he talked, the angrier he became, and the boy in white couldn't help but slam the table hard.

It doesn't matter if it's bad, the key point is that you are stupid enough to lie on the golden mountain and beg for food!

This kind of bad and stupid cerebral palsy stuff is everywhere in the government and the public. If the country is not in decline, there will be ghosts!

"Is it possible that these sites cannot be developed because of demons and monsters occupying them?"

"There are reasons for this, but not many."

Zhao Yinshun shook his head and sighed tiredly.

"After this period of measurement and statistics, the general situation of Linbo County has been revealed. The land area is about 1.1 million square kilometers. Not counting the ghosts and monsters created by Japanese pirates in the past few decades, the territory occupied by traditional demons and monsters is scattered here and there.

Accounting for less than one-tenth, most of them are in inaccessible areas..."

"So, there is some impact in this area, but it's not big."

"There are many reasons that really affect development. Apart from their own greed, I think the most important reason is to obstruct nuclear fields."

The emperor is not a fool. Even if there are "thieves" in the court who deceive and distort the knowledge, but she really cannot collect taxes, she will still find a way to find out what is going on.

If the real data were put in front of the emperor at this time, something big would happen!

This is how the reforms in the past dynasties came about!
To be continued...