The old rules were that as long as gentry or local officials were willing to provide protection, they could sit down and receive a large amount of gold and silver donated by merchants.

This is a bit like the imperial court's intention to treat scholars preferentially, so scholars with fame often provide a certain degree of tax exemption.

In this way, as long as a scholar who has fame and fortune becomes a scholar or a juren, there may not be any land at all, but because of the special treatment of scholars, countless people will bring their own fields to him.

Why? Because of tax avoidance.

Instead of giving the grain tax to the state, it is better to give it to scholars. Just sign a contract and after transferring the property, the land will be exempted from tax. As long as you give part of the grain to these scholars every year, you can take this opportunity to exempt corvee.

It is precisely because of all kinds of privileges that scholars have almost great power in the local area. The merchants have a low status and cannot gain a foothold. If they don’t find a master to surrender, it is very likely that they will destroy their families within a few days, and their family’s industries will be swallowed up.

Now that the court imposed taxes on them, it seemed that the merchants suffered a loss, but in fact, it was equivalent to some kind of protection, which made the merchants willing to hand over the tax to the court, but no longer were willing to give benefits to local gentry.

But for many gentry, the whole family only knows how to read and are nerds, so they claim to be a heirloom of poetry and books. Most of them may not know how to manage and are not good at managing. They were originally born on privileges, such as keeping taxes for the court. For example, if the local officials cannot collect the amount of grain in person, they will hand it over to these gentry and gentry in the local area. If they take people to collect taxes, they can take this opportunity to make profits. Or, some people send land for free just to avoid taxes, which is equivalent to giving the court's grain tax to these gentry for free.

For many gentry, the most profitable one is merchants. Because the merchants have low status, they need to rely on them and send countless profits to their mansions every now and then. When they go out to operate, they can clear the relationship with their famous posts.

Just say that when Zhenguo Mansion just got up, many merchants sold goods, but they were holding the signs of the Secretary of State, the Minister of State, and the Minister of State, and put them on the bow of the ship. In this way, these countless "official ships" could be unobstructed on the canal, and no one dared to investigate and inquire.

This is a huge profit. The silver you collect while lying down can not only trample people under your feet, but also just sit at home. These lowly merchants will kneel down and send the silver. In order to ask you for protection and let your official plaque hang on his boat, a small official plaque is a mountain of gold and silver.

As a result, these good days are gone because of the new policy.

This is related to the livelihood of many people. Can you bear it?

The civil and military officials of the court used to be beneficiaries, and scholars all over the world used to be profitable. However, after the new policy emerged, although there were always policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom, in the end, the direction of the wind changed, and many merchants became more courageous and began to ignore you.

This is just light, and what is even more terrifying is the wavering of the foundation. If the contribution of merchants is just extra money, then the land is the foundation of the gentry. Now there are a large number of labor outside the capital, recruiting people everywhere, so that many people in the countryside will move out with their families. The tenants will run away and scatter. But who will farm? If you want to keep people, you have to let the tenants live a better life. However, the tenants have more food, so the gentry will have to eat less, gather sand to form a tower, accumulate little, and accumulate little, which will greatly reduce the income.

Furthermore, because of a new way of life, many small farmers simply threw their land and took their families to the city. This is also a very serious matter. There are many people throwing land, but not many people buying land on the market. The land price is declining and the land is cheap. Who is the person who suffers the most?

After all, it's still a gentry.

On the one hand, my economic foundation was shaken, and extra money was gone, and even my gentleness was no longer the same as before.

On the other hand, the merchants who seemed extremely low in their eyes in the past gradually stood on the same position as themselves.

How can I bear this stimulation?

The ice is three feet long and colder is not a day long. Today, Yang Yiqing jumped out, and his party members also jumped out.

This was obviously a fuse. Those who had already accumulated too much dissatisfaction in their hearts suddenly became sad and angry, and more and more people stood up. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty...

Before today's court discussion began, Wang Hua had thought that someone might cause some damage today, but he never thought that Yang Yiqing would make such a fuss today, let alone that he would reach such a point.

Seeing the people who stood up one after another to support Yang Yiqing, Wang Hua's heart became heavier and heavier.

In fact, he didn't know that the new policy would arouse many people's disgust? It was a helpless way for him to force the new policy. He knew that the gentry would suffer, but the new policy was a century-long foundation after all, and a long-term plan. At least its benefits have been proved outside the pass.

Moreover, the new policy does have its benefits for the most ordinary people. Because there is a place to work, many people have an extra way out for a living. Because the land prices are low, some poor peasants can save some money and buy a few acres of thin land to make a living. Because a large number of people flow out of the countryside, the gentry had to reduce rent in order to retain the tenant farmers, because taxes were imposed on merchants, and the court no longer spent as much as before.

No matter how you look at it, these are all good things that benefit the country and the people. Although there are indeed many sequelae, they always develop on the better side, but...

Wang Hua's new policy has shaken the foundation of the literati and gentry. Now it is finally their turn to backfire.

I saw more and more people standing up, some people were angry, some seemed very calm, but they just stood up slowly to express their positions.

As the number of people increased, Wang Hua began to feel heartbroken. Although he had known that the new policy had touched the interests of many people, he never expected that these people were so hating now that...

Seeing that among the officials, more than half of the people stood up, and there seemed to be some people in the class hesitating.

At this time, Jiang Mian was still standing in the class. His face was very bad at this time.

He could not have expected that Yang Yiqing would come out to oppose the new policy. Yang Yiqing did not reveal any news to him in advance, but in his heart, he hoped that the prince could succeed the throne. After all, His Highness the Crown Prince is the crown prince. He consciously could not accept Yang Yiqing's behavior.
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