…

Before knowing Cai Shang, Cai Jian in Zhao Ding's heart was a rebellious young man (Zhao Ding is now thirty-four, and his sons are all about the same age as Cai Shang). Otherwise, how could Cai Jian do the ridiculous thing of abandoning literature and martial arts?

After a brief contact with Cai Jian, Zhao Ding felt that Cai Jian was still a young man and even his superiors dared to criticize him.

But after having a deep conversation with Cai Shen, Zhao Ding realized that he was wrong, and that Cai Shenzhi was probably much better than anyone he knew, including himself!

“…Lelecting the control of scarce resources and allowing them to trade freely in the competitive market is undoubtedly the most effective way to optimize resource allocation.

The land policy opened by this dynasty did promote economic development to a large extent. Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the grain output of this dynasty was greatly improved. The reasons are, first, the court's recognition of land ownership and encouragement of land reclamation prompted farmers to reclaim wasteland in large quantities, and the area of ​​arable land surged; second, the competition among land owners has led to the continuous creation and adoption of advanced production technologies; third, the improvement of the tenancy system has enabled small farmers to obtain means of production at a lower cost, and their ability to bear risks has also been improved. In short, the owners of means of production actively expanded production and updated technology for their own interests, which resulted in the increase of the entire social wealth and the development of science and technology. The court continued to indirectly push the dynasty to the pinnacle of material prosperity.

The positive impact of the land policy of this dynasty is not only reflected in agricultural production. The prevalence of land annexation and the improvement of production technology have caused many farmers to lose their land and a large number of surplus labor has emerged. In order to solve this problem, the court actively developed industries such as industry and commerce, mining, textiles, and processing industries, which further led to the prosperity of the commodity economy.

However, land annexation is often the cause of the outbreak of peasant riots, so the annexation phenomenon has been vigorously curbed in all dynasties. This dynasty has produced many outstanding people. The policies they formulated have alleviated the social conflicts caused by land annexation to a certain extent. But this only eases, not completely resolves this contradiction, so this contradiction will sooner or later break out. In fact, now this contradiction should have reached the brink of outbreak. The riots of Song Jiang and his group are signals..."

In order to convince Zhao Ding, Cai still did his best. Not only did he tell Zhao Ding a lot of insights beyond this era, but he also took out the fundamental problems and fundamental contradictions of the Northern Song Dynasty to analyze them for Zhao Ding.

This made Zhao Ding fascinated, and many problems that he had been puzzled before were solved easily.

Zhao Ding asked in a tone of advice: "I wonder if I can solve the problems caused by land annexation?"

Cai Shen said: "There is no complete solution. It should be said that such conditions are not met at present. I have some solutions to alleviate them."

"Some?"

Zhao Ding was solemnly respectful!

He only had a vague idea, but Cai still had some. The gap was too big!

Cai still said: "Today is limited, so I will only tell you three... The first one is to promulgate new laws to clear the land, expand the scope of collection, and make the tax relatively even. And unify taxes and service, restrict harshness, and make the tax stable. At the same time, the amount of money collected is calculated, and the official settlement is concluded, making the collection method more complete..."

The first method that Cai Shen mentioned was the one-whip method proposed by Gui E in the tenth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, and then promoted by Zhang Juzheng in the ninth year of Wanli to the whole country.

The One Whip Method is an epoch-making event in the history of China's tax service system. It changed the collection form parallel to "fu" and "fu" in previous dynasties, unified the service law, simplified the tax service system, and marked the transformation of tax from physical objects to currency, and the types of collection from complex to simple, and also hit the landlords who own a large amount of land.

After hearing Cai Shen's whip technique, Zhao Ding, who knew the goods, secretly applauded, and he thought to himself: "This method is amazing. If you can change it according to this method, you can definitely create another prosperous era!"

After Zhao Dingzai carefully asked Cai Jian for a whip method, Cai Jian said: "This second method is stipulated by the court that the number of people is a fixed number for levying the tax on the tax. In the future, the population will be raised and the tax will never be added. The cap tax for the new population will be abolished. Then, the tax on the tax will be distributed to the acres, and the fixed tax on the tax will be distributed evenly into the land tax. The unified land tax will be collected, and the tax on the tax will no longer be levied on people..."

The second method Cai still mentioned was a tax system for the Qing government to incorporate the silver from previous dynasties into land tax collection, that is, the tax system that spreads the dime into the acres, also known as the dime into the land, and the land and dime into the unity.

This is an important reform of the tax and service system in the later period of China's feudal society. It truly abolished the cap tax (district tax) for more than two thousand years. The implementation of this system can greatly reduce the economic burden of farmers without land and with little land and promote population growth. After workers have greater freedom of life, it is also conducive to the development of the society and economy. In addition, the simplification of tax rules reduces the possibility of governments sloppy and arbitrarily increasing taxes.

After hearing Cai Shen's stall Ding Jimu, Zhao Ding felt a little jealousy in his heart, especially when he saw Cai Shen's extremely young face, he thought to himself: "There is such a genius in this world!"

Zhao Ding quickly suppressed his jealousy, and then carefully asked Cai Shen for details about the stall Ding Rumu.

After Zhao Ding squeezed out what Cai Shen knew about the method of diving into acres, Cai Shen took the initiative to say: "The third method is to change taxes."

Zhao Ding asked, "Change taxes? How to change them?"

Cai still said: "This is a long story and time is limited. I will simply tell you two tax laws... The first one is stamp duty. This tax is a tax levied on contracts, vouchers, documents, books, and rights licenses... "

How smart Zhao Ding is. Before Cai Gan finished speaking, he slapped his thigh and said, "The businessman is willing to do so, the tax period is wide, the cost is low, and he kills three birds with one stone. Brother Cai is really a peerless genius!"

Cai is still impressing Zhao Ding now and is preparing to take Zhao Ding for his own use in the future. How can he be humble?

He also said: "This second tax is inheritance tax. It is a tax levied on the heirs and legatees of the inheritance. Through the adjustment of the inheritance and the donated property, it prevents excessive disparity between the rich and the poor..."

After listening carefully, Zhao Dingzai could no longer feel jealous of Cai.

Zhao Ding quickly figured out the cleverness of this inheritance tax. It can not only effectively regulate the gap between the rich and the poor, but also complement the stamp tax. If these two taxes are used well, they will definitely make the court richer.

Zhao Dingxin said, "Everyone says that Grand Master Cai is the God of Wealth, that's because Cai Zi has not yet shown his talent, otherwise the name of the God of Wealth will never fall on Grand Master Cai."

Thinking of this, Zhao Ding still bowed solemnly to Cai, and said sincerely: "I really have the talent of the prime minister!"

As soon as Zhao Ding said this, before Cai Jian could react, the eyes of a beauty in the distance who had heard Cai Jian and Zhao Ding talk for a long time lit up. Then she gave a few instructions to the close maid beside her, and the maid walked straight towards Cai Jian...

...
Chapter completed!