Chapter 821: family meeting
Chapter 821 Family meeting
Arriving at the Hall of Mental Cultivation, seeing Lin Jinxiao sitting next to the book pavilion looking thoughtfully at the messy pile of booklets in front of him, Chu Nanzhi walked forward slowly, and only glanced roughly, and guessed He was worrying about Yin and Ji's affairs.
"Although the whole country has implemented the land equalization policy, many gentry and gentry have no choice but to follow the government's rent reduction in order to compete with the government's leased land, but this is still profitable, especially the royal family is taking advantage of the tax exemption. Even if there is no Fang Qingyue's impeachment, His Majesty will still have to deal with this chaos."
Chu Nanzhi said straight to the point: "Since they like to enclose land, Your Majesty might as well turn a blind eye and cancel the policy of exempting the clan's children from taxation, and then change the fief and food city into a salary Mainly, it is selected according to the grade and distributed every month. As for the public land rewarded to clan officials, strict regulations must be made, registered and checked every year, and the land that is not in the book will be taxed according to the amount of land, and the growth will be stepped. , the more land you own, the tax you pay will gradually increase.”
According to the taxation method of personal income tax in his own world, Chu Nanzhi explained the idea in his heart in detail, and Lin Jinxiao immediately showed joy when he heard it: "This is a good method that has never been seen before, I want to see it If things go on like this, what else can they do with that much land in their hands."
After the words fell, Haida immediately started to draft the imperial edict.
According to the new rules proposed by Chu Nanzhi, the maximum annual salary of princes and princesses in the imperial court is 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 hu of lumi, and the total number of servants in the palace should not exceed 200;
For the first-class duke, the salary is 5,000 taels of silver and 5,000 hu of lumi, and there are a total of forty guards and servants. The rest of the officials will be lowered accordingly. , up to 50%.
In this way, there is no need to worry about the rich and noble families continuing to enclose land.
Just a few days after the edict was promulgated, it attracted opposition from many dignitaries.
At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, when the palace was full of preparations for the marriage of the two new eldest princesses and Chu Nanxiang, almost all members of the Ji family arrived in Jingling City and gathered in the banquet hall of the Ji mansion.
"The emperor is really ungrateful. He crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and didn't leave us a way out. Under the New Deal, everyone is in danger. If things go on like this, all members of my Ji family will have to drink the northwest wind."
In front of the clansmen, Ji Muzhuo, the leader of Erfang, rebuked angrily first.
"That's right, elder brother, I still have to rely on you to enter the palace and talk to the ancestors. Now that His Majesty has ascended to the throne, it seems that he has forgotten our clansmen and started to worship a group of outsiders."
The old lady of the second room, Yu Wenshi, glanced at the old patriarch Ji Muzhou, and agreed.
Ji Muzhou silently glanced at his son Ji Huaishu, grandson Ji Cen'an, Lin Jinshu and his wife who were sitting under his eyes, but did not answer immediately.
"Your Majesty promised the Queen's own sister to the Yin family, and his adoptive father's daughter, Princess Jinyun, to the nouveau riche Zhang Yu, but he promised Lin Ting, the head of the Lin clan in Luyan Port, who was a little-known clan after the unpopular clan. Zhen's daughter was assigned to our Rong Heng, and it was the marriage that our ancestors reluctantly bestowed upon our Ji family because of their sympathy. The eldest princess is obviously just pretending to perfunctory our Ji family, and now many people make fun of our Ji family."
Yuwen's eloquent venting immediately aroused Lin Jinshu's dissatisfaction:
"The second uncle is not afraid of chilling the hearts of the emperor's grandmother and the emperor's brother. That Jinhui has always been the person who the queen cares about the most, and the emperor's brother has always regarded her as his own sister. In terms of closeness, what does Jinhui say?" They are all dear to the emperor's brother and sister-in-law, at home even Aunt Zhou and the old uncle dare not make decisions about her marriage, now that she is willing to marry into the Ji family, why is Second Uncle dissatisfied?"
Ji Rongheng was grateful from the bottom of his heart for the marriage gift from his ancestors and the emperor.
I offended the emperor and empress before, not only did they not care about it, but they also entrusted me with a heavy responsibility to be stationed in Qinghe Sanzhou, and now they even give me a marriage. Apart from being grateful, I also took Lin Jinshu's words and said:
"Grandfather and grandmother's remarks today are really outrageous. My grandson is very satisfied with this marriage. Don't criticize me any more. I have weathered many storms and it is indeed time to reform the old system. Grandfather and grandmother Living in the capital, I don't know what's going on outside, but my grandson has seen a lot of hardships in people's lives in Qingyang City these days. Most of the land in Qinghe Three Prefectures is in the hands of aristocratic families, and the displacement of people can be seen everywhere. As a minister, I should be Your Majesty Share worries and benefit the common people, don't always worry about your own self-interest."
Paused, he said in a deep and vigilant tone: "Your Majesty has a saying that my grandson agrees with very much. The country comes first, and the family comes first. If there is no imperial court, our Ji family will not be able to preserve it no matter how powerful it is."
"Well, Rong Heng's words really please me."
Ji Muzhou stroked his beard and nodded heavily: "Since Rong Heng himself is willing to accept this marriage, and the old ancestor has already granted the marriage, let's stop picking bones and not knowing what is good."
After a long silence, he looked at Lin Jinshu again with serious eyes: "Jinshu, it's not that my grandfather deliberately disobeyed the holy will. The Ji family's property was accumulated by the ancestors for generations, but now His Majesty has come to make such a move." I am afraid that not only our Ji family, but other major families will not willingly accept this edict."
"Speaking of this, my daughter-in-law would like to ask everyone here."
Lin Jinshu blinked and gradually revealed a gloomy look: "The grandson and husband have been fighting outside for these years, and the whole house has been taken care of by father-in-law and aunt when they were alive. The grandson-in-law would like to ask, does our Ji family also have Do people imitate the Tang family's occupation of people's fields and use their power for personal gain?"
Standing up slowly, she glanced sharply at everyone in the hall: "It is said that the Tang and Yang parties were inspected this time. It is said that the Tang family alone has hundreds of thousands of land, and the accounts that can be inspected total That's all, I don't believe that the folk rumors are groundless,
Furthermore, the granddaughter-in-law inspected the accounts of the Ji family a few days ago and found that the salary allocated to the servants of the various villages amounted to more than 200,000 taels a year. , Is this a servant or a private army? "
Ji Cen'an couldn't help but frowned: "Father and the two grandfathers should abolish this matter earlier. Your Majesty's new policies and regulations clearly stipulate that even the Prince's Mansion has no more than two hundred guards and servants. Our Ji family is only from the earl's family, even with the kindness of the princess and eldest princess, we dare not do such disobedient things."
When mentioning this matter, Ji Muzhuo became even more angry: "Let's not mention Huai Shu, but juniors like Jin Shu, Cen An and Rong Heng have made outstanding achievements in helping His Majesty put down the chaos this time, but I heard that our Ji family's It's not in the award list, which is really chilling, because of Yan Jun's matter, even Huai Li's An Guogong title can no longer be awarded the title, this is simply not paying attention to my Ji family."
Hearing this, Ji Wanying, who had been indifferent all this time, finally couldn't help crying hysterically: "It's the granddaughter and mother who implicated the Ji family, but the granddaughter knows in her heart that the emperor's grandmother and emperor's brother must remember our Ji family's kindness." , just because the crimes committed by the granddaughter have kept the Queen in her heart, so she doesn't want to see the emperor's brother reward our Ji family, and now only the death of the granddaughter can save the Ji family."
(end of this chapter)