Chapter 49 Salted Fish Eating Melon 21
Although I know that the emperor may be keeping an eye on my family, some people can't help it if the family has money and they don't use it. Then they may not know who uses it and the emperor discovers it. Yes, these people's homes will be confiscated again.
Since the emperor is keeping an eye on these families, Linlang doesn’t have to keep an eye on them. Sometimes when she is bored, she will collect information about which family in the capital is richer, and then see if they have done anything illegal or criminal. , Fortunately, when the court needed money, this fat sheep was slaughtered to solve the court's crisis, so that nothing would happen to the court and the world would not be in chaos, which would affect her living environment.
It must be said that after the dynasty has been running for more than a hundred years, some families in the court have accumulated a lot of money in the long-term peaceful environment. Although it is not as much as Wang Xi's, the whole family has There are more than one family with a net worth of several million, which shows how wealthy these families are.
Of course, most of this money was obtained illegally.
This is also normal, because if you get it through normal channels, how can you save so quickly? You have to know the prices of this era. A family can live a very good life with twenty taels of silver. The purchasing power of several million can almost It’s similar to tens of billions in some modern worlds. Just rely on normal channels, and it’s not like Wang Xi who knows how to make a living. Meaning (Actually, Wang Xi doesn’t know how to do business, but because he has modern technology and relies on others not to do it. Only he can do it, and the money he makes from monopoly is otherwise. If he really knows how to do business, why can’t he do it in modern times? (make money), how can you save so much? After all, you must know that every big family lives an extremely luxurious life.
With so much expenditure every year, you can still save millions. How can you save it without resorting to illegal means? Just like the former officials who retired due to illness, the reason why millions of dollars of property suddenly appeared in their families, Didn't he get it by copying the Wang family?
The nature of these families is the same as that of retired officials and other sick people. They all saved their money through some illegal means, including but not limited to expropriation of large profits and the seizure of private land.
Especially the seizure of people's fields. Many big families in Beijing have done this.
This is also normal, because the big families in Beijing are rich and cannot buy land like ordinary people, buying it one acre. They often buy hundreds or thousands of acres and then transfer a large piece of land to it. The fields were fenced and turned into a village, with tenant farmers and other types of laborers set up inside to facilitate management.
However, how can there be so many acres of land in the world for you to buy? Generally, the acres of land are owned by one owner, or they belong to the same owner, or they belong to many common people.
Those with the same owner are usually somewhat powerful, otherwise they would not be able to get the vast tracts of land. To buy theirs, unless they use force to force others, how else can they take away all their hard work? sell you a piece of land? Unless you offer a very high price to make up for the painstaking cost of collecting the land, those people may be willing to sell, but those from big families are not willing to spend more, so they simply use force to force others.
If it is not the same owner, but many common people, it will be even more difficult. After all, it is easy to negotiate with one person, but there are always thorns in the side of a group of people, and they are unwilling to sell. , at this time, we can only use force to force others.
No matter which one it is, it is all about occupying people's land.
There is no other way. Without seizing people's fields, it is basically impossible for them to buy large tracts of land. They can only use force to pressure others and force them to hand over their fields.
Especially if you want to buy a field not far from the capital - after all, it is too far away to manage, and it will be troublesome to transport things into the capital at the end of the year - if you don't use your power to pressure others, it will be impossible to buy it. After all, who doesn't know how far away from the capital it is? The nearby fields are a good thing, and everyone wants to buy them, so there won’t be any spare ones for you.
In order to seize people's land, these people have killed countless people, so when the court needs money, they report them and confiscate their homes, and use the money to provide disaster relief or do other things, which can be regarded as paying back money to the people. And take revenge on those who suffered.
Thinking like this, Linlang waited for the opportunity to slaughter these fat sheep. Now the emperor has received more than 100 million taels of silver. Due to the recent water conservancy repairs and the beating of the barbarians at the border, the barbarians have not come to trouble this year. The court's expenses have been much smaller, so the emperor has exempted the world for another year. Tax.
Originally I wanted to reduce taxes, collect less a year, and then implement this policy for a few more years to recuperate with the people, but I thought what some ministers said was good, even if he said Take less. The lower-level officials below still don’t know how to implement it. They may not know. On the surface, they said they would collect less, but they collected almost the same amount as in previous years, and then only handed over a small amount, and the rest went into the pockets of the low-level officials, so they simply did not collect it. This will tell the world, and all ordinary people will know that those If officials can't find a reason to accept it, the benefits will really fall into the hands of the people.
In response, Linlang nodded, thinking that since the emperor knew this, it would be good to exempt him directly from tax.
The imperial court had been in operation for more than a hundred years, and the trend of land annexation became more and more fierce. Some places could no longer afford it, resulting in various uprisings from time to time.
In the hands of the current emperor, because he plundered the Wang family and the houses of these officials, he became rich and gave tax exemptions to the people, and then spent money to build water conservancy projects. This was not the kind of levy on the people in vain, but The work-for-relief program has allowed many people to get some money for helping to repair water conservancy projects, and their lives have become much better.
After all, if you don’t pay taxes, you can still work and make money. One in and one out is equivalent to getting two pieces of money. Naturally, life will be much better, and there will be fewer uprisings.
That’s right, what those big businessmen are plundering is the people’s wealth and the people’s anointing. They rob them and distribute the money to everyone in the world. Even if they can’t make everyone in the world rich, at least they can live a little better. This is called taking it from People, use it for the people.
Therefore, many times when the world is in chaos, it is caused by lack of money. With money, the emperor feels comfortable, the people can also feel comfortable, and even the borders can be much quieter.
Of course, this also requires a good emperor. If it is a faint emperor, no matter how much money comes into their hands, they will not use it for the people, they will only use it for themselves. This is why Linlang will not help the faint emperor. The reason is that Linlang will help anyone who can bring benefits to the people. This is why Linlang goes to various ancient worlds, unless there is a faint king above, otherwise he can make the people of that ancient world live a better life than before.
The people in those worlds have probably never thought that there is actually an invisible hand helping them in their own world.
But it was said that Wang Xi passed away after lying in bed for five years.
However, he was eighty years old before. At such an advanced age, he could continue to live for five years after being paralyzed and with poor food. I have to say that his vitality is really quite good. Tenacious.
Is Wang Xi reborn? Have you put it back on? No, this time he died, he was really dead, and all his hopes and plans could not be realized.
(End of this chapter)