During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhu Biao took Sanbao out of the palace gate and said:

"Wait for me to come back in the yard."

Yu'er and Jin'er nodded, and without asking any more questions, they obediently entered the door.

Zhu Biao bought two moon cakes, and the moon palace toad was painted on the cake. He gave three treasures one piece and ate them while walking. He came to the center of the city soon.

"Mooncakes, freshly baked mooncakes!"

"Guess riddles, there is a big gift."

"Damn, peeking at the woman again."

Zhu Biao turned his head and saw a portrait of Chang'e. The woman grabbed the man's ear and left cursed.

On the street, there are towers lined up, and mooncakes are placed on both sides of the street. Shocking sounds are coming one after another, and people are surging, making it very lively.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs, fruit and melons and desserts for worshiping the moon, fruit cakes and incense can be seen everywhere.

There are moon palace talismans hanging at the doors of many shops. Rabbits stand on the talisman paper like people, holding their claws and fists.

Zhu Biao moved to a gouache shop and stopped.

"Dai Chunlin?"

During the Chongzhen period, Dai Chunlin opened a fragrant noodle shop on Gengzi Street, Yangzhou.

The original method of stewing Ksitigarbha, the method of stewing wine water, steaming and enriching wood, etc., extracting and processing natural herbs and plants and minerals. The fragrant powder is deeply loved by those concubines, and I am very influenced by the powder energy.

The fragrant noodle shop was still the Ming Dynasty's palace powder. There were several men who looked like scholars standing inside and choosing something. The business was so popular that it was scary.

In the future, the business of the Ming Dynasty was unprecedentedly developed, but the commercial tax rate was extremely low, and it was not the mainstream of tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Biao sighed softly.

The amount of agricultural tax was much more than that of commercial tax, and the tax was mainly land tax. In the late Ming Dynasty, in addition to nine cents of silver per mu, there were also Liao levies, suppression and training.

Liao guarantor: The collection began in the 29th year of Jiajing, and began to deal with the Tatars' invasion of the border. After the rise of the Jin Dynasty in the 44th year of Wanli, Nurhaci announced the "Seven Hate" to attack.

The number of Liaoxiang continues to increase, and the final quota is 5.2 million taels per year.

Suppression of the salary: In order to suppress the taxes raised by peasant uprising troops such as Li Zicheng, Chongzhen received 2.8 million taels per year from the 13th year of Chongzhen.

Pay for training: It is an additional fee for the military pay required for expanding the military training. In the 12th year of Chongzhen, 7.3 million taels were collected.

These three tax increases, which are not only normal tax burdens, have indeed increased the burden on the people in the late Ming Dynasty.

The privileged classes such as bureaucrats and gentry, royal relatives and other royal relatives do not have to pay taxes.

In order to evade taxes, many farmers pay less than taxes to those who do not pay taxes, so that their own industries are under the names of these people.

These businessmen are more intelligent.

Subsidize scholars with outstanding talents to take the imperial examinations and become officials. In the end, the Ming Dynasty colluded to avoid tax payments. Later, they simply promoted Zhu Biao's Ming Dynasty to reduce and exempt business taxes.

I have been confronting these civil servants a lot in my previous life.

At that time, many civil officials from the Donglin Party, Zhejiang Party and other cliques were the spokespersons for the interests of these big businessmen.

In order to find a way, I also charged commercial taxes, but as a result, most of the civil servants in charge "compete with the people for profit."

Originally, handicrafts and commodity economy were prosperous in later generations, and overseas trade was also very developed.

Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, the territory and population were much larger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty. However, the annual fiscal revenue was much lower than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

It means there is something wrong with the tax!

Problems in the tax system have made the country financial difficulties and it is difficult to deal with natural disasters and wars that endanger national stability.

The peasants who could not survive joined the ranks of the rebel army. In the previous life, their original body continued to increase taxes to suppress the rebel army and fell into a vicious cycle.

But that's only part of the reason.

During the Wanli period, the tax collection system was almost over. Eunuchs were sent to collect taxes and were resistant to taxes. Not only did they resist taxes, but they also successfully resisted taxes.

To solve problems, we have to rely on taxation. To collect taxes, we have to have soldiers.

It’s just that there is money and soldiers!

He is rich and can support soldiers.

You can collect money if you have soldiers.

I only realized in my previous life that the army that Chongzhen, the original body, actually controlled was not as many as Wu Sangui's servants.

After the Tumu Fort Incident, the only emperor who actually controlled the army in the Ming Dynasty was Zhengde.

But Zhengde ended up dying after falling into the water.

As the last knife, the eunuch sent by the factory guards was beaten to death by local forces and could only kill some civil servants.

Facing those big interest groups, there is no deterrent power at all.

At that time, the financial crisis was that the Ming Dynasty and the civilians had no money. Merchants, officials, gentry, etc. were all very wealthy. The emperor was worried about the fact that he was old for millions of taels of silver every year.

But after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he directly tortured and easily plundered 70 million taels of silver from the officials.

In contrast, it is shocking.

During the last life, when he traveled through time, the Donglin Party moved out to fight against him, and made many people who wanted to show their ambitions to death. They all gritted their teeth.

Seeing Dai Chunlin, these problems in the late Ming Dynasty were vivid in my mind. When Zhu Biao thought of the efforts he had spent at that time, he felt angry.

If you want to change the current situation in the late Ming Dynasty, you have to start bit by bit from now on, and you may set a small goal and cultivate the Ming Dynasty...

Holding the fire and Sanbao entered Dai Chunlin.

The store has a wide range of rouge and water powder, emitting a faint herbal aroma. Notes are hung on the rouge and water powder box, which are the riddles of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The boss raised his beard and took out some scattered silver money from his arms, handed it to the little jogging man in the store, and said slowly:

"You go and buy a five-spice steamed goose from the south of the city for me, and ask the chef to cut the meat into finer, and then a dumpling chicken with crispy bones and meat. It will be hot enough to be out of the pot, and it will not be crispy when it is cold. As for this wine... it will be good for his old wine, and business is good today."

"Okay! Master, wait, the boy will be back soon." The runner weighed the money in his hand and ran out.

Zhu Biao's eyes swept across the counter, and it was covered with rouge and water.

Duck egg powder, goose egg powder, flower pollen, mung bean mica powder, head oil, sachet, scent bag, scent beads, skewers, skewers, scent bracelets, scented bracelets, scented sticks, scented sticks.

At that time, these were not used by ordinary people, and the quality was very good. They were considered luxury goods stores of this era.

"Shopkeeper, is there any discount for this rouge powder?"

Zhu Biao glanced at Sanbao, and Sanbao immediately understood and knocked his fingers on the wooden cabinet and asked.

Several people next to him laughed, and the shopkeeper stepped forward respectfully and said, "Yes, but today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the money is so cheesy. If you guess this riddle, guess it."

The store owner pointed to the note hanging under the rouge powder and said with a smile: "If you guess one, I will give it to you for nothing. The Mid-Autumn Festival rules."

This rule was found by Boss Dai Chunlin, who was a man of art and elegance, but was very popular among those literati and corrupt scholars and wives in the late Ming Dynasty.

Many people come to buy fragrant powder. Apart from buying Dai Chunlin’s brand, the rest is the so-called tune that you can play with.

The riddles, in the eyes of these people who have a little ink in their belly, seem to be a supreme honor. They bought Dai Chunlin's rouge powder and took it back to show off.

Zhu Biao wanted to buy pieces for Ma's family, and was about to take out his pocket money, when he heard the store say this, his hand shrank back.

If you guess it, don't have to pay.

It makes me happy for nothing!
Chapter completed!