"Young Master Fang, if those people really do this, aren't you afraid that their own land will be embezzled directly?"

Old Li thought about it and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, their purpose is just for a little profit, but if the gentry and nobles directly invade their land, wouldn't they be useless to lose their wives and lose their troops?"

"There is no free advantage in the world. They should be worried about this, right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask.

It is true that the purpose of both the common people and the gentry is to pull the wool from the court.

Since it is to pull the wool from the court, it is naturally impossible to get the protection of the court, and it is natural that it is possible to eat black and black.

"As the saying goes, "A man is old and old, and Ma is old and slippery, this is what you two are describing!"

"What you said makes sense. When this wind blows all over the Ming Dynasty, black eating and black will indeed appear."

Fang Shiyu slowly returned and agreed with Lao Li and Zhu Yuanzhang's views.

In short, it means that the common people take their own property to be slaves to the gentry and family.

Therefore, the transfer of property will inevitably lead to the local prefecture.

Otherwise, no matter how high the social status of the gentry and family members was, they would not point to the land for no reason and say that it belonged to his family.

These slaves, in addition to their land and property, have become gentry and family, and even people have become others.

This also requires the process to allow the local prefecture to go through the procedures.

In this way, those contributors will naturally bear certain risks.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, after the offering, the land belongs to the gentry and family. As for whether you will share the share, it depends on whether the gentry and family have a conscience.

Not only will you lose your property, but you have become someone else's slave, so you will naturally lose your qualifications to negotiate terms.

So if the gentry and family you have no conscience, then your property will be completely his.

In fact, this phenomenon of black eating and black eating did occur from time to time in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

There have even been many life lawsuits.

"Sir, this risk is not proportional to the benefit. It seems that the gain is not worth the loss. It is really not worth taking such a big risk for a mere 20% tax!"

"Yes, boy Fang, everyone is not a fool. No one dares to take the risk too much, right?"

"My uncle is right with the fourth brother!"

Zhu Di, Lan Yu and Chang Mao immediately asked.

"There are risks, but this will definitely become a trend because you have ignored two points!"

"First, gentry and family are not fools. Although black people cannot be avoided, most gentry and family will not go to this point. They know better than anyone else that fishing in a dry pond is not advisable, and the truth is the long flow of water."

"What's more, as gentry families, the reason why they can get to this position is that they have achieved the hard work of several generations, as many as dozens of generations, and they will still take into account their face."

"Secondly, people have a lucky mentality. Black eating black is a low-probability event, so everyone thinks they are the chosen ones. Lucky ones, it won't be his turn to eat black eating black."

Fang Shiyu explained slowly.

What’s more special about the Ming Dynasty was that the gentry and family had a small base, so most of the people who were exempted from taxes and corvee were scholars!

Compared with those royal nobles, these people are basically hypocritical hypocrites. They are all good at face-saving projects and dare not do too much. After all, they still have to spend time with Shilin in the local area!

Another extremely important thing is that they are different from those royal nobles. Their privileges are only their own and cannot be inherited!

As long as future generations do not pass the exam, this privilege will be invalidated.

If they dare to do too much, the consequences will be unimaginable. Descendants who fail to pass the exam will definitely be retaliated by the locals!

If a few of the people who offended passed the exam and their descendants failed, then what awaited them would be a catastrophe!

Therefore, due to some current situations that have to be considered, they are quite kind to the people who contribute and basically do things like black and eat black that harm others and are not beneficial to themselves.

Of course, as the saying goes, hooligans should not be scary, they are afraid that hooligans are educated!

There are always exceptions in everything.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, those top tycoons who were below one person and above ten thousand people and were at the top of the temple would be much more unscrupulous.

They don’t need to come forward and experience it themselves. Their distant relatives can do everything they can’t do or shameless!

As long as something goes wrong, it will instantly turn into a temporary accident in the Ming Dynasty!

What's more, the civil servants sitting in that position basically presided over the scientific examination.

There are countless disciples and old officials.

Even if he dies, his descendants can be a lying salted fish with the connections he has accumulated.

The one who reached the peak of the Ming Dynasty at this point was Xu Jie!

Xu Jie was not only the chief minister of the cabinet during the Jiajing period, but also the chief minister of the cabinet during the Longqing period. Even Yan Song, a world-famous treacherous minister, was killed by him.

In the second year of Jiajing, Xu Jie passed the Tanhua examination and was awarded the editor-in-chief of Hanlin Academy. At that time, the land of the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture was only only fifty acres.

By the second year of Longqing, Xu Jie had already been ranked as the chief minister of the cabinet, and had at least the chief rank of the prince, the Minister of Personnel, and the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall.

When Xu Jie was sending his scholars, the Xu family's land had already changed from fifty acres at the beginning to as much as 400,000 acres!

This official directly made the Xu family's land property more than 8,000 times!

The entire Songjiang Prefecture land has basically become the Xu family, and even the Suzhou Prefecture land has become the Xu family.

Look at the treacherous minister Yan Song, Xu Jie's old rival, was ordered to be confiscated. The land of the Yan family in Jiangxi was only 40,000 mu, only one-tenth of the Xu family!

What is the concept of 400,000 acres?

It is obviously unlikely to rely solely on the people's contributions. The Xu family's tricks and robberies are obviously impossible to escape!

Not only the people, but also the land of many local scholars was seized by the Xu family based on Xu Jie's identity.

At that time, the city was full of storms, and many people went directly to Peking and Jinling (after Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Peiping, Jinling still retained a complete set of imperial departments and operated normally) to file a lawsuit.

Originally, as Xu Jie's status, I couldn't make any waves.

But unfortunately, Xu Jie met Hai Rui, the most awesome clean official in the Ming Dynasty. What’s more coincidental is that Hai Rui happened to take over as the governor of Yingtian Prefecture, Jinling with the position of right assistant censor of the Censorate!

Therefore, when Hai Rui received the report, no matter how awesome you, Xu Jie, started to investigate the case of Xu's possession of land.

At this time, Xu Jie had already retired and returned home. After knowing about this, he was immediately panicked.

If there is a different person to investigate, Xu Jie is confident that he can settle it!

But this person is Hai Rui, who is a master who cannot get into the air!

If Hai Rui investigated this matter to the end and confirmed that Xu Jie's occupation of land, he would not have been in vain for all his efforts over the years, and he would probably not have to take advantage of it!

In order to settle this matter, Xu Jie spent a lot of money and directly spent millions of silver to make some money.

As the saying goes, money can make the devil push the mill. The Ministry of Personnel gave Dai Fengxiang the minister and collected 30,000 taels of gold from the Xu family and immediately took the lead in impeachment of Hai Rui.

Xu Jie also began to calm down the matter by relying on the connections he had accumulated in the past.

At this time, the chief minister of the cabinet was the greatest reformer of the Ming Dynasty, Mr. Zhang Juzheng, the largest, most luxurious and luxurious man. Zhang Juzheng also has an identity, that is Xu Jie's disciple.

The teacher asked for his head, but he didn't care. So Zhang Juzheng waved his pen and Hai Rui was directly demoted from the position of governor of Yingtian Prefecture in Jinling to the grain storage of Yingtian Prefecture in Jinling.

Since then, no one in the Ming Dynasty dared to investigate Xu Jie anymore.

Therefore, Xu Jie was able to live in peace and make the entire Xu family live to the Chongzhen period.

Look, just one Xu Jie, the Ming Dynasty had been unable to collect one cent taxes from the two richest prefectures of Songjiang and Suzhou, the Ming Dynasty!

How terrifying this is!

"Mr. Fang, can you have a solution?"

Liu Bowen frowned and asked when he heard this.

"Didn't this young master tell you the solution? That is to treat everyone equally, abolish all privileges, and let all the people of the Ming Dynasty, like the people, pay taxes and serve in a unified manner regardless of class."

Fang Shiyu returned lightly.

"Boy Fang, I just said that your method won't work. If you do this, who will be willing to fight for the Ming Dynasty in the future?"

Lan Yu retorted again.

"Yes, Mr. Fang, most of the soldiers are vulgar people. It doesn't make sense to reason. Only the money you get is the hard truth!"

Chang Mao finally didn't say that my uncle was right, but expressed his point of view in a real way.

Although Chang Mao didn't marches and wars, Lan Yu had been fighting on the front line all year round, so he naturally knew the soldiers' ideas.

Everyone put their heads on their belts to cut down the Tartars for the sake of the country. In addition to serving the country, they naturally want to get some positions and money!

If Your Majesty really uses this kid's method, the soldiers will be nothing!

If you meet Tartars in the future, just act like a show. Go up and work hard, isn’t that stupid?

There is no benefit to chop well, but if you can't chop well, you will lose your life!

"That's right, sir, the royal family must pay taxes and serve like the poor, so how can the royal family remain?"

Seeing that he was about to become a leek under the sickle, Zhu Di couldn't help but refute it.
To be continued...