The changes in the Ming Dynasty were becoming more and more obvious, and even the people at the bottom felt the changes, from the changes around them.

Newspapers, banks, postals, libraries, Shaoyingyuan, Shanlaotang...Money circulation, road transportation, cultural education...new terms, new things always involve the lives of the people themselves.

The Shean rebels were destroyed. It is said that several local corpses joined forces to surrender anyway, and led the Ming army to attack the village and capture the city, capture and kill the leaders of An Yi and other people.

Liaodong has been calmed for more than half a year. I heard that several Mongolian tribes have naturalized into the Ming Dynasty. The overseas Mekong Province is still recruiting immigrants, which is a good place to get familiar with each other every year...

These are all major events, and their impact on the people is only to be able to enjoy peace and peace. There are also many that are related to oneself or one's own family.

A school is opened in the village, but it is still free. Anyone who has a child who can pass the primary school graduation exam will be exempted from the tax.

The so-called D tax, also known as the cap tax, is the most important tax in the feudal dynasties in previous dynasties besides the land tax.

During the Han Dynasty, a complete tax system was established. Taxes were paid at the age of seven, and at the age of fifteen, they paid as much tax as adults. They were not exempted until they were fifty-six.

Considering the ancient health and medical level and average life expectancy, the tax on the tax was almost paid until death.

By the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, the D tax system was loose. But in fact, Zhang Juzheng's whip method tied the head tax and the field tax together, and disagged it into silver, and included it in the field tax and collected it together, which was not really abolished.

For the emperor, he had been trying to implement the "spreading the quota to earn acres". However, after repeated thinking and research, he found that the so-called "never increase the quota" in the Qing Dynasty was just a cover.

However, the "radical levy and violent taxes" in the late Ming Dynasty in history had practical difficulties and helplessness, but to the bottom of it, it was a problem of "harsh agriculture and lenient commerce" and administration.

In history, Ming Dynasty officials took pride in boycotting and relied on tax resistance to capture the hearts of the people and cultivated reputation. Especially in the Jiangnan region, no matter how heavy the tax faction was, they were discounted.

For Ming Dynasty officials, the risk of tax resistance was too low. At worst, they could dismiss the office and go home. However, they became famous overnight and became popular, which was even better than the hype in later generations.

Officials colluded with the rich and gentry, colluded with each other, resisted taxes, and defaulted on arrears became common methods, and instead harmed public and private wealth, they became good officials who disobeyed the people.

But starting from the third year of the Tianqi period, these accumulated problems that began during the Xuande period were gradually eliminated by the emperor's thunder methods.

If you are interested, you can calculate how many officials and gentry have been severely punished and enforced in the past few years?

From the first and second ranks in the court to the smallest landlords and gentry in the countryside, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are killing people in the first one or two years.

Taxes can be collected in full, the encroachment of hidden land has been cleared out, the "harsh agriculture and lenient commerce" policy has been gradually reversed, and the national finances have been relaxed.

The more this happened, the emperor was not in a hurry to implement the "spreading the stakes into the acres". In his mind, the amazing move of abolishing the capitation tax began to be planned.

However, before the abolition, the exemption of the D tax was used as a means to encourage the people to receive education, but it still had great value.

The Liao salary will no longer be collected, and the salary will be trained, and the salary will be suppressed.

The most important thing is that under severe torture and law, the administration has become much clearer and clearer. The burden on the people is not heavy. The emperor also thought not to put kindness in place at once, and always left some space.
Chapter completed!