"Huh? Aren't you confident? Why haven't you started writing yet?"

Ji Boying's voice suddenly became a few degrees colder.

"Master Immortal, I was wrong."

Emperor Xuande put down his paper and pen, stood up first, bowed his head, and admitted his mistake.

Bada.

Immediately afterwards, Yongle Fatty Xiao Zhu, Jianwen Fatty, Hongxi Zhu Zhanji, and the last three Zhu Di also put down their pens and stood up one by one, with shame on their faces.

"Master Immortal, I was wrong."

"Master Immortal, I was wrong."

"Master Immortal, I..."

"…………"

One by one, they bowed and admitted their mistakes.

The emperors and princes in the second period were all peeking at these ancestors admitting their mistakes, and they took a warning in their hearts.

You can do whatever you want from now on, but you must not copy your homework. You really can’t hide anything from the immortal master!

"Volume 2 of the Biography, three times for each person."

Ji Boying spoke calmly and looked away.

"Class begins now."

After saying this, his eyes fell on Abiao.

"Jia Er, let me tell you your answer."

"Well, let's say it in the simplest way."

Ji Boying took a rough look at the homework handed in by A Biao. It was too long and lengthy, and he could quote a lot of scriptures for an insignificant point of view. It was simply worse than a handwritten book called "Monsters Are Not Tasty".

Although some of the views are good, most of them are irrelevant and too limited to the times.

"Yes!"

Xuebabiao stood up, took a deep breath, and said.

"I think the main reason for the financial collapse of a dynasty is taxation."

As soon as the words came out, the first batch of students nodded their heads, after all, they had all seen the answers.

And we can also know this from history books. In the last years of a dynasty, it was often because taxes could not be collected and the country had no money, so it could not maintain normal operations and eventually collapsed.

The emperors and princes in the second period were silent one after another. Their main task in this period was to adapt to the class, and the immortal master would not ask them questions.

"And taxes..."

When A Biao was about to recite what he had written, Ji Boying stood up, pressed his hand, and motioned for A Biao to sit down.

If I really asked A Biao to finish everything, I guess this class wouldn’t be enough.

"Good answer."

Regarding the financial collapse of a dynasty, we need to think about it from a historical perspective. It is meaningless to ask too many questions.

"Then let me ask you, where does a country's main tax revenue come from?"

After scanning the crowd of emperors and princes, Ji Boying turned around and picked up the pen from the pen holder next to the rice paper.

This stand was specially made according to the height of the announcement board. Ji Boying specially asked Lianxiang to order it to be made last night. It was only during the break just now that it was finally built and put up immediately.

After all, Lianxiang is a classroom stenographer, so she must listen to the class very attentively so that she can record all the knowledge points in the class and then give them to the emperor and prince to take back for review and formulation of corresponding institutional strategies.

Going back and forth to the podium to deliver pens is really a waste of time.

The stroke of the pen is over, and two characters appear on the rice paper.

"Land"

All the emperors and princes looked at these two words and nodded secretly.

There are many types of taxes, but in the feudal dynasty, even in the Song Dynasty when commerce was the most prosperous, the annual agricultural tax accounted for more than 70% of the national tax revenue.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Qing Dynasty when the country was first opened, the land of Kyushu was all a small-scale peasant economy.

The most precious asset of a dynasty that maintained the operation of the entire feudal dynasty was undoubtedly two words in the era of small peasant economy: land!

The pen in Ji Boying's hand was not put back into the pen holder. Instead, after "land", he wrote the word "annexation".

"Land merger"

This is a chronic disease of the dynasty that has been mentioned many times in previous classes, but has never been discussed in depth, a fatal curse that no dynasty can escape.

Among the emperor's princes in the second period, Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youtang, and Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

The moment the three of them saw these four words, their hearts skipped a beat, and they quickly lowered their heads, hoping that no one would notice them.

Land annexation in the Ming Dynasty also occurred before Zichenghua, but the court was particularly aggressive in cracking down. The powerful did not dare to blatantly do so, and it was still within a controllable range.

However, when it came to Chenghua Dynasty.

Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen took back Cao Jixiang's land and designated it as Huangzhuang.

This is tantamount to the emperor taking the lead in annexing land. Seeing this, the powerful people below will naturally follow suit and start to take action.

But one thing is that these powerful people got it wrong, or deliberately confused this concept.

The emperor's establishment of the imperial estate was essentially transferring the money that should be handed over to the treasury to his own inner treasury. From this perspective, the emperor could not be counted among the land annexers.

After all, in the era of family and world, the whole world is not the land of kings.

What's wrong is that when the powerful people below began to merge blatantly, the emperor saw it without stopping it, or even encouraged it.

During the Chenghua Dynasty, although Zhu Jianshen opened Huangzhuang, he did not sit back and watch the mergers and acquisitions by powerful people, but controlled them.

In the Hongzhi Dynasty, although Zhu Youtang himself did not add many royal estates, he frantically granted land to his relatives and clan members. This encouraged the trend of annexation. The land owned by the relatives of the Zhang family alone exceeded the terrifying figure of 100,000 hectares.

The trend of mergers and acquisitions flourished in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

During the Zhengde Dynasty, although Zhu Houzhao tripled the area of ​​the imperial village, he suppressed the powerful and powerful from annexing land from the beginning of his accession to the throne, slowing down the pace of land annexation.

Therefore, there is such a saying about the land annexation in the Ming Dynasty.

Land annexation began in Chenghua in the mid-Ming Dynasty, and then became popular in Hongzhi. Later Zhengde tried his best to suppress the speed of land annexation, but in the end it could not stop the rolling wheel of history.

"There is a set of numbers. Listen carefully."

"In the year of Hongwu, the population was more than 50 million, and the annual tax and grain was 30 million dan. Two hundred years later, the registered population was not much different, but the actual population should be two to three times that of the Hongwu period, but the annual tax and grain was only 2

Fourteen million stones."

"That's why."

The words fell.

Xiao Zhusi nodded.

"Yes, why?"

Ji Boying glanced at Xiao Zhu Si, who grinned.

"If you want to know why, use your brain and find out."

The words fell.

These emperors and princes are already very familiar with entering the illusion.

But this time.

"Attention, this is a newly upgraded fairyland, everyone has a good time experiencing it."

The moment Ji Boying's voice fell into the ears of the emperors and princes, everyone was startled.

‘New upgrade?!’

This time, they discovered that it was not a change in the surrounding environment as before, but a change in front of their eyes, as if their souls had gone to another world.

"What, what's going on?!"

Lao Zhu's voice sounded.

Lao Zhu subconsciously looked at his Zhu family members and found that they had all disappeared. Instead, there was a group of farmers that Lao Zhu had never seen before, wearing coarse linen and linen clothes, lining up in a formal manner.

This is a large mansion.

There is a table in the middle of the house, and a master in a long gown is sitting in front of the table, drawing from time to time with a brush in his hand.

Moreover, Lao Zhu can also perceive another kind of mood, which is the voice of the original owner of this body.

‘Fortunately, this newly promoted Juren master is willing to accept my land. God bless, God bless, I can finally get through this winter.’

Not only Lao Zhu was like this, but Lao Zhu Di and other emperors and princes were also like this. They were all shocked when they heard this voice.

This kind of experience is extremely realistic.

No, it can’t be said to be realistic, this is absolutely real!
To be continued...