1747th: Tax System

Sun Lan said, "I have also discussed with Rong Li. This matter involves a lot. It is inconvenient to follow a clear path, so we can only follow a secret path."

If you go through the Ming road, there will be many people who come into contact with this book, and you can't hide the news.

If it is delivered in a secret form, only the confidants and the lord can see the contents inside.

Compared with the former, the confidentiality of the latter is much higher.

Chang Sheng couldn't help but frowned, "If it's just for sister Jinghui's test, then there's no need to do this."

If one is not good, it is enough to make countless enemies, and if you are afraid, you will be killed.

Feng Yi said, "At first it was because of this, but after the secret book was written, I found that the meaning is more than that."

Changsheng was a little anxious, but he still held back and listened to Fengyi's explanation.

Feng Yi said, "I remember, before Alan and I joined the army, the last lesson the master of the academy taught was 'Causes of Troubled Times'. The master asked us to explore the root causes of the troubled times. If I remember correctly, the master will also explain this compiled into a book..."

Changsheng nodded.

She is also a senior student, and the content she studies is closer to the current situation and politics, and she has taken similar courses.

Feng Yi continued, "This question, I remember that many students said that the royal family was greedy for money and extorted money, and because of their fault, the world was in chaos. It is said that natural disasters and man-made disasters are frequent, and the common people become mobs. Dongqing is like this, and Nansheng is like this, but the answer to this question is really so superficial and simple?"

Chang Sheng said, "Of course not, these are only part of the reasons, but not the main reason."

Coincidentally, Changsheng also took the same class a while ago.

She asked her grandfather to start a small stove, and learned a lot from this wise old man.

What leads to the demise of a country cannot be local factors, but factors related to the whole.

Feng Yi said, "I think so too. After entering the barracks, I consulted with several military advisors and got different opinions. Military advisor Qi Guan once talked about the treasury problem in the last years of Dongqing. , but it cannot conceal the fact that the treasury’s income has been decreasing year after year. The money is still not enough to satisfy the royal family’s squandering, how can there be spare money to equip military supplies? The problem is, according to the latest population inspection, before Dongqing’s destruction of the country, the population did not decrease but increased, but the treasury tax The silver didn’t increase but decreased. Where is the problem in this place? Just because someone embezzled the tax money and enriched their own pockets? How can it be so simple..."

Chang Sheng said, "Brother Rong Li, it's not like I haven't thought about these things, but no one dares to move."

Changsheng naturally thought about what Fengyi said, and under the guidance of her grandfather, she also analyzed a lot of the content.

Even if the understanding is not as deep as Fengyi, but the general direction is correct.

Because the five kingdoms of the world were all divided by the Great Xia Dynasty, the taxation and service systems of each country are similar on the whole, only the details are different.

The so-called tax refers to land as the object of collection, while servitude refers to the collection of human heads, which can be in kind or human power.

Taking Dongqing as an example, Dongqing's tax and service system is quite complicated, and it still follows the template of the Great Xia Dynasty as a whole.

There are not only many but also heavy tasks for young and middle-aged people to serve. If they don’t want to serve, they need to pay a certain amount of money and food per head. Even if they don’t serve, they still have to pay a certain amount of head tax. There are not so many names of taxation, but it is also very cheating.

The land tax is based on a certain percentage of the average output of the land quota.

What is Occupation of Land?

The average area occupied by a family.

For example, Papa Ma has one billion yuan, poor man A has zero yuan, and the average savings of the two is 500 million yuan.

It is easier to understand the achievement of the yield per mu. The output of one mu of land is 100%, and the government takes 50%. This ratio is relatively low. For a while, it even reached 80%. In other words, the government would take away 50% to 80% of the farmers' hard work for a year, and the remaining 20% ​​would be given to the common people. The family's poll tax and other miscellaneous tax items would be deducted from the 20%.

I can't even eat enough rice grains.

Not to mention that it will be handed over to the government to exempt from heavy corvee.

If corvee is conscripted to your family, then obediently send it out.

Of course, these pointers are for ordinary people, nobles and nobles have privileges, tax reduction and exemption from labor, and a little rain can be dealt with.

In the early days of the founding of Dongqing, ordinary people did have a lot of good land in their hands, and the amount of land occupied was not too outrageous, but natural disasters and man-made disasters were not predictable by humans, and many fields were resold by the common people to the gentry at low prices. High-ranking officials such as the gentry obtained more land from the common people to achieve the purpose of mergers. The land in the hands of the common people became less and less, but the tax collected based on the amount of land occupied was not very small.

In layman's terms, the income is low, but the taxes paid are not low, which means that the people get less money.

As time went on, the people were overwhelmed, and more and more people sold themselves to the gentry as serfs or farm laborers in order to fight for a way out.

After the land annexation, more and more fields were in the hands of the gentry, but as the privileged class, the actual number of fields owned by them was much larger than the theoretical amount of land occupied, which meant that the more fields they had, the more tax-free fields. The more, the higher the income.

Not only that, the gentry can also use their own privileges to reduce or exempt low taxes.

The poor people are getting poorer, and the rich gentry are getting richer.

Fewer people pay taxes, and the number of nobles who pay taxes does not increase, so the overall treasury revenue will naturally decrease.

Coupled with the corruption of tax money by various local governments, it is no wonder that the treasury revenue can be so high.

The national treasury has no money, and it is so poor that it can't even pay officials' salaries. This country is taking jujube pills.

The situation in Dongqing was not that bad, but the royal family couldn't help being too profligate, so they killed themselves by writing.

Changsheng remembers the words of Mr. Cheng Jing, the master of the academy - taxation is the foundation of a country.

Those prudish people who say money is dung should eat dung.

Not to mention the distant ones, the rise and fall of the dynasties of several countries in recent times shows the importance of treasury taxation.

If this area is to be moved, the conflict between Jiang Pengji and the gentry will become more intense.

Whether it's the east wind over the west wind, or the west wind over the east wind, the bastards who proposed tax reform will be dragged out to worship God.

Changsheng looked at Fengyi with struggles in his eyes.

"Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion." Fengyi knew that Changsheng was worried, and said gently, "My lord will not be ignorant of the stakes. She is also an elder who watched me grow up. And Alan, two brats who are not dry."

To put it bluntly, he and Sun Lan were bundled together, but the weight was still not enough.

If you really want to reform, most of the time it will be to plot against some unlucky gentry, and use the whole family to sacrifice to heaven to reward the gods.

This time seems to be very risky, but if the fight is right, Fengyi can save twenty years of struggle.

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