Ye Yuran counted on his fingers and told Zhu San that infrastructure construction cost the most money, and the yamen could not do anything without money.

But once the yamen has money, there are many things it can do.

If these infrastructures are improved, the happiness index of the people will naturally increase.

"This is a virtuous circle!" Ye Yuran stared at Zhu San with bright eyes, congratulating him for being the first county magistrate in the Yan Dynasty to attach importance to the existence of merchants, and the first to revitalize the local economy.

If local people want to live a good life, it is definitely not just as simple as planting the land well. They need supplements from all aspects. And these "supplements" cannot lack the role of businessmen.

"From south to north, no place can produce the world's goods. Only merchants, who run around with their caravans, can bring the world's goods to various places and revitalize the entire market."

Ye Yuran's words opened a new door for Zhu San.

For the first time, he knew what "revitalizing the market" meant, and for the first time he realized what businessmen meant to the people of the world.

Businessmen are definitely not just profit-seeking profiteers.

Perhaps, businessmen do have a disadvantage, but at the same time, their existence also facilitates people all over the world.

Ye Yuran said: "Throughout the ages, people have disliked businessmen because they were worried that when people all over the world found out that businessmen could make money, they would run to do business instead of farming. However, if there were no people to farm, they would not even be able to fill their stomachs. Businessmen would

How can I travel all over the world?"

"There is another saying called 'things are expensive'. When food production decreases, the price of food will definitely rise. So shouldn't the people who are responsible for farming should have more money? But why are the people not rich? There are even some

The common people can’t even fill their bellies?”

Ye Yuran stared into Zhu San's eyes and said, "Because the land does not belong to them."

Taxation is just the straw that breaks the common people's back. What really breaks their back is "land annexation", where land is taken away by a small number of people.

The land they farm no longer belongs to them, but to the "landowner".

Common people who only have a few acres of thin farmland have to pay taxes, but meritorious nobles who own large amounts of land do not have to pay taxes. What does this mean?

The answer is self-evident.

Zhu San had never thought about such a profound question before, and he started a cold war: "Mom, you didn't say this to anyone, did you?"

Ye Yuran shook his head: "What should I tell outsiders? If you weren't my son, I wouldn't tell you. I'm just analyzing the fundamental problem with you. I want you to understand that it's not the businessmen who make the people poor.

Of course, some businessmen are really hateful, committing crimes and committing acts of profiteers... Such businessmen who break laws and disciplines will naturally be punished and controlled by the court and the Yamen. If control is lost, it will be a disaster."

Zhu San was slightly relieved, but he couldn't help but want to ask, since the root cause of his people's "poverty" lies in that, is there any way to solve it?

Could it be that we can only watch the people all over the world suffer from this predicament?

Ye Yuran sighed: "Alas... there is no absolute solution, but there is a method that can be regarded as a solution, but this method is too difficult to implement."

"What can I do?"

"Court Ownership of Land."

Zhu San has a question mark face.

Ye Yuran said: "Who in the world is the only one who will seek benefits for the people of the world? That is the imperial court. The people can carry the boat or capsize it. What is the purpose of the imperial court? It is to manage the people of the world and keep this big boat going.

Move forward... Anyone can seek personal gain, but the largest group, the imperial court, will not."

Of course, what Ye Yuran didn't say was that if the court became a tool for one person's benefit, such a thing could happen.

It's just that there is no concept of "state-owned" yet, and she can't say it directly, so she changed "state-owned" to the imperial court, which is relatively close.

When the land is owned by the court, then all the land in the world belongs to the court, not to a certain individual or a certain class.

Then everyone who uses the land needs to pay taxes.

In order to encourage common people all over the world to cultivate land, only common people are exempt from tax when cultivating land. Any other class must pay taxes when cultivating land. The richer the class, the better the tax they pay.

It’s called the “rob from the rich and give to the poor” tax.

“Only by robbing the rich and giving to the poor can the contradictions caused by the gap between the rich and the poor be alleviated.”

Ye Yuran's strategy is very simple. If you don't want to encourage anything, you charge heavy taxes; if you want to encourage something, charge very little tax. If conditions permit, use other taxes to "subsidize" and raise this animal.

Sections you want to encourage.

"It is a good attempt to ask you to use the heavy taxes on real estate speculation to subsidize the people's immediate needs. When Qingyuan County develops well and the commercial tax is sufficient, you can also use these taxes to subsidize the people who farm the land."

"How to make up for it?"

"It means to distribute grain seeds for free, rent farm tools for free, hire special personnel to study farming, and teach the people in the jurisdiction for free...Reward farmers who do better in farming, give them various awards, publicize it in the jurisdiction, and let everyone learn about it.

He learns. In short, you have to tell everyone through various channels that as long as you plant your land well, you can live a good life."

Once the people have enough food and clothing through farming, and can buy things from all over the country through merchants, won't they live the life they dream of?

As for the problem that modern people have already lived such a life, but their happiness level has never been raised, Ye Yuran did not mention it.

Modern society has its own problems, but in this era, what is important is to fill our stomachs and broaden the horizons of officials so that they can think in a different way.

If it really doesn't work, let them pilot it on a small scale and try to find their own way.

Ye Yuran's ideas gave Zhu San a great inspiration. He put some things that could fit into the paper and put them on paper, and kept those that didn't work in his mind and thought about them over and over again.

He didn't know why his mother had so many novel ideas, but he knew that his mother was not without purpose.

The Zhu family has come to what it is today because of his mother's "foresight".

He can't solve all the problems of the land court, but he can first solve the current problem of people not being able to fill their stomachs. As long as they can fill their stomachs, have extra money in their hands, and will not sell their land or their sons and daughters, then the land will be

It will not fall into the hands of a few people.

If someone really can't survive...

Zhu Sanwei narrowed his eyes, maybe he could ask Qingyuan County to pilot it, sell it first by the Yamen, and "rent" it to the people. They don't need to pay rent, as long as they pay the "tax" honestly.

Also, the "tax" is indeed a bit high.

Therefore, no matter which village has a scholar, all relatives will find ways to put their fields in the name of the scholar to avoid tax. Scholars may also earn a certain amount of money in this way.

Zhu San felt that instead of letting the people always want to put the land in other people's names tax-free, he might as well find a way to earn more "commercial tax" and get more rebates to the people.

Of course, there is no tax rebate for the land owned by meritorious nobles like Xiucai.

In this way, it can also prevent ordinary people from wanting to take advantage of the imperial court by putting land in the name of a scholar and at the same time trying to get tax rebates.

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