In order to stop the world from talking about Youyou, the Kong family spent a small amount of money to buy it, which was almost like a gift.

Of course the people are not stupid, it is profitable.

The Kong family enjoys tax-free rights. If the land is in the name of the Kong family, there is no need to pay taxes to the court.

The land tax collected by the Confucius family was only 60% of that of the imperial court.

This means that as long as the fields are donated to the Kong family, the people only need to hand over a small amount of grain to the Kong family every year.

This is also the reason why the people hated Guo Rong with gnashing of teeth after Guo Rong revoked the Kong family's tax exemption qualification.

As long as the people live a good life, they don't care about any big principles.

If the Kong family collects less taxes, then the Kong family is doing well.

Guo Rong's new policies caused the people to lose their land and have to pay more taxes. This is naturally Guo Rong's problem.

This kind of behavior of the Kong family is taking advantage of the legal loopholes, exchanging the interests of the court for their own interests and buying people's hearts.

Luo Youdu thought of the Ming Dynasty in later generations.

How did the Ming Dynasty fall?

There are many reasons, among which Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's preferential treatment of scholars and literati is one of the reasons.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were sympathetic to the poverty of scholars and provided them with various tax exemptions.

As a result, a huge group of literati and gentry was unintentionally raised. They sucked the blood of the country, controlled the power of the country, fed themselves, but harmed the country...

As a result, more than half of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty focused on fighting against the literati group.

Because the emperor had no money, everything went into the pockets of the literati.

The same is true for the Kong family.

If there were more people like the Kong family, wouldn't it be the same as the Ming Dynasty?

Luo Youdu said: "We have already occupied 70% of the land in Qufu, and the remaining 30% should belong to the wealthy gentry! If you don't have the ability to occupy it, and you still have to pay taxes, are you trying to cross the border?"

What he said is absolutely correct. Historically, the Kong family began to reach out to the fields in neighboring Jining and Caozhou since the Song Dynasty.

This situation of the Kong family confirms a saying: The hooligans are not to be feared, but the hooligans are literate.

Did what the Kong family did violate the law?

No!

Not only did they not break the law, but every move they made won the hearts of the people and was loved by everyone in Qufu.

Similarly, they also forgot their original intention. Everyone in Qufu was surrounded by interests. Except for the Kong family, few people valued reading.

Most of the scholars coming and going in Qufu are from outside, and there are very few local scholars.

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Chapter completed!