Sima Yan was happy after hearing this and asked: "I also know that there are quite a few, but can any of you tell me how many vassal states there are?"

"This..." Everyone only knew to welcome the emperor, but when asked about the specific number, they all looked at each other, and no one knew.

Sima Yan asked twice and was a little unhappy when he saw that no one could answer. At this time, he saw Shu Yan standing far away among the ministers. He knew that although Shu Yan had not been a minister for a long time, he was very diligent.

The ministers at the Chancellery were familiar with all matters, so they called Shu Yan to come closer and asked, "Do you know how many countries from all the barbarians are paying tribute?"

Shu Yan was on duty every time. Not only did he concentrate on completing real-time tasks, he was also very interested in studying previous information. Of course he knew. "Your Majesty, among the four barbarians of Dongyi, Xirong, Nanman, and Beidi, Dongyi

Among those who paid tribute were Fu Yu and Ma

Han, Chenhan, Bianhan, Wo, etc.; Xirong has Tuyuhun, Yanqi, Qiuci, Dayuan, Kangju, Daqin, etc.; Nanman has Linyi, Funan, etc.; Beidi has Xiongnu, Xianbei and other tribes. Four.

A total of twenty-three countries paid tribute to the barbarians."

Sima Yan was extremely happy after hearing this, and felt a little elated. Seeing that the emperor was happy, Shu Yan thought: Why not take advantage of the emperor's happiness and tell the emperor something about the people's plight in his heart?

It turned out that Shu Yan often corresponded with Han Ruoxin and Xia Tingzhang in his hometown in his spare time. Although he was in Luoyang, he cared about Han Ruoxin all the time and often said words of encouragement in his letters. As for Ruoxin, she also kept talking about herself.

Please rest assured that Shu Yan will be well. But yesterday, Shu Yan received a letter from Chief Xia Ting.

The director said in the letter that Ruoxin was serving as a teaching assistant at Shujiazhuang Xiangxu School. Ruyin still did not pay his salary and was still doing his responsibilities. He only relied on the few acres of Susukaku farmland that the villagers helped him to make a living. Moreover, Ruoxin has been ten years old this year.

At the age of six, he paid twice as much tax as before. Shu Yan read the letter and felt melancholy about these two things.

The first thing to do in Xiangxue was because she was responsible for the establishment of Xiangxue. Ruoxin volunteered to be a teaching assistant on her own initiative. However, it has been a year since the preparations for the establishment of Xiangxue were started, and the Ruyin Kingdom has not paid salaries to the teaching assistants.

!If Shujiazhuang Xiangxue has not distributed it, then the other Xiangxue probably has not distributed it either. If this is the case, then there will be many people involved, and if it is not done properly, it will affect the success or failure of Xiangxue in the hometown.

Compared with the matter of Xiang Xue's teaching assistant, the matter of Ruoxin having to pay double the tax at a young age involves more people and is common across the country. So Shu Yan wanted to take advantage of Sima Yan's happiness today and tell the story about

He made a bold suggestion to the emperor about taxation. Although he had a good vision in his heart, in fact he overestimated the strength of a humble family. Fighting with other wealthy families was no different than ants shaking a big tree.

Let’s talk about the taxes of the Jin Dynasty first. Court taxes were divided into land taxes levied based on acres of land, oral taxes levied based on population, and miscellaneous taxes such as deed taxes and market transactions. Among them, land taxes and oral taxes were the main types of taxes. During the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty,

, population migration, wealthy families took the opportunity to occupy land, many landless peasants were unable to survive, and could only rely on local wealthy families.

A large amount of land also needs these people to cultivate. Gradually, the population of these wealthy families is increasing. In order to avoid the population tax, the wealthy families often conceal the number of tenants they own. These wealthy families themselves have immunity and do not have to pay taxes.

A large number of civilians who should have paid taxes were hidden, which resulted in a large loss of tax revenue for the court.

In order to increase tax revenue, Sima Yan implemented the land occupation system and household modulation after unifying the country. The land occupation system stipulated the limit of land occupation by officials according to their grades. The maximum land occupation for the first grade was fifty hectares, and the maximum land occupation for the second grade was forty five hectares.

The tenants of the third estate cannot exceed fifteen hectares. The third estate can occupy up to forty hectares of land, and the tenant households cannot exceed ten households. By analogy, the ninth estate can occupy up to ten hectares of land, and the tenants can only have one household. In this way, a large amount of land and

The common people were liberated from the hands of the wealthy.

After the liberation of the common people, the imperial court encouraged farmers to reclaim wasteland and expand production. It stipulated that each male male could occupy 70 acres of land, of which 50 acres belonged to the class field, which was the field that required paying land tax, and the remaining 2 acres belonged to the class field.

There is no need to pay taxes for ten acres of land; Ding women can occupy thirty acres of land, of which 20 acres are class fields, and the remaining ten acres do not need to pay taxes. The tax standard for Ding men's fifty acres of class fields is Dendrobium millet, Ding.

The standard for a woman to have twenty acres of farmland is

One dendrobium and six dou, that is, the combined tax of eight liters per mu. Men of the second tier, that is, half-adult men, paid two husks of dendrobium, but women of the second tier did not pay. In Cao Cao's time, the tax of four liters of millet per mu was not only more than that of the Jin Dynasty

In addition, there is an unreasonable rule: regardless of whether men and women occupy a sufficient amount of land, they must pay land tax according to the standard of fifty acres or twenty acres. In this way, the land tax income of the Jin Dynasty increased greatly.

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With the land-occupancy system, it laid the foundation for the household tax. The land-occupancy system corresponds to land tax, and the household tax corresponds to the oral tax. The household tax is to levy taxes on a household basis. Before the Jin Dynasty, especially during wars, warlords would

outside of formal taxation

Various materials were collected in various names based on the number of people. Due to population migration, after Cao Cao unified the north, he changed the tax calculation unit from a single population to a family household.

It is easier to obtain a household than to count the population

There are many, so it is relatively simple to calculate levy on a household basis. In the Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan inherited this practice and officially promulgated the household modulation. The household modulation regulations: the household of Ding male, that is, the adult male is

The head of the household needs

Pay a household tax of three bolts of silk and three pounds of cotton to the court; for households with Ding women and sub-Ding men, that is, households with only adult women or semi-adult men as heads of households without adult men, the tax will be reduced by half; for more remote areas, the tax will be reduced by half.

Two-thirds to one-third are levied.

Fifty acres of farmland receives four dendrobiums of millet, and each household receives three pieces of silk - two feet and two inches wide, one piece of four feet long, and three pounds of cotton. This is a basic tax standard. Based on this benchmark data, each county and county meeting

According to the fertility of the land, family members, etc., the farmers under the jurisdiction are divided into nine grades.

The taxes that need to be paid will also fluctuate around this benchmark data. Some households will pay more and some households will pay less. The final overall data will be equal to the sum of land tax and oral tax calculated based on the benchmark data. They

It constituted the vast majority of national taxes in the era of agricultural civilization.

According to Han Ruoxin's family situation, there is only one person, so he should be exempted from the household tax. Shu Yan didn't know what standard the tax officials in his hometown had set for Ruoxin, and whether he had received a reduction or exemption, but one thing was certain.

That is, when he turns sixteen this year, he must pay double the amount of millet, silk, and cotton according to adult standards compared to last year. This is a huge burden for many orphans like Ruoxin.

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Shu Yan was also an orphan himself. He was well aware of the difficulties he had experienced in his life. Due to his natural optimism and open-mindedness, he often regarded various hardships as a process of training himself. Although he lost his parents when he was young, no one could see him.

There was no trace of sadness or sadness in him. His spirit also infected Ruoxin, who admired his character even more.

Although Shu Yan is optimistic, he sympathizes with orphans like him in his heart. He often feels that it is unreasonable to use sixteen years old as the standard for adulthood. However, due to the imperial decree, he does not dare to express it easily.

But today, given the opportunity, he would give it a try no matter what. He would stretch out his arms and be like a mantis blocking the car.

"Your Majesty, although the number of tributary countries that have pledged themselves to the Jin Dynasty has increased a lot, the vassal countries are still vassal countries after all. They are still far behind the Jin Dynasty's own people. If Your Majesty knew how much his own people had increased,

, I will definitely be happier.”

"Well, that's natural. No matter how many subordinate countries there are, they will never be as good as my own people in Dajin. I know that you have always been good at performance. I think you must keep the number of households in the world in mind. Please tell me quickly."

Shu Yan first whetted the emperor's appetite. Seeing that the emperor was happy, the ministers below also waited to hear Shu Yan talk about his political achievements. Shu Yan really had these data at his fingertips. He took his time and kept his family treasures in mind: "Back to your majesty,

At the beginning of the unification of the Jin Dynasty, when the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu were in power, the total number of households in the three kingdoms was 1,473,433, with a total population of 7,672,000.

One thousand eight hundred and eighty-one people. At that time, all armies

It was a time when the feudal clans were fighting, the world was in the most chaos, and the people were suffering the most. Later, the former emperors Xuan, Jing, and Wen wiped out all the princes, and through the Taishi Revolution led by His Majesty, he proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of Wei, destroyed the Rong and Di in the north, and pacified the east in the south.

Wu, four

After the sea was restored to unification, it began to live and recuperate with the people. In just twenty years, the number of households in our country has reached 2,459,840, and the population has soared to 1,616

Thirty-eight hundred and sixty-three people.”

Sima Yan was shocked when he heard this: "Is it true? In just twenty years, the number of households in our court has increased by 70%, and the population has more than doubled?" Although he felt a little surprised, he absolutely trusted Shu Yan.

And in his heart, he was very willing to believe that these numbers were true.

The ministers who were related to the households, such as Sikong, Da Sinong, Min Cao Shangshu, etc., although they all knew something about the matter, they could not accurately state the specific figures. They listened.

The emperor's doubts - of course they knew that the emperor's doubts came out of inner joy, and they were full of hope that there were no false doubts, so they all said: "What Shangshu Lang said is true, although I don't remember it.

There are specific numbers, but the general data is correct.”

Shi Chong, the attendant, was the best at flattering people. He said: "The population has more than doubled in twenty years. This is an unprecedented event in the history of the dynasties. I think that although the increase in population is large, when I think about it, there are only two sources.

, and it is all due to His Majesty: First, the world is now at peace

, those refugees who used to hide in hiding from the war have come back one after another; secondly, now that the people have enough food and clothing, and live and work in peace and contentment, there will naturally be more things like marriage between men and women, and reproduction and reproduction. Taken together, the population has increased so much

It’s only natural that it’s so fast.”

After listening to Shi Chong's words, Shi Hui smiled and said to Shi Chong: "I would like to add to Shi Shizhong that the rapid increase in the population of our Jin Dynasty is also related to one of His Majesty's decrees, that is, no unmarried people over the age of seventeen are allowed among the people.

woman, woman over seventeen years old

Marriage must be forced by the county chiefs. This is just like the land occupation and household transfer system enacted by His Majesty to encourage more cultivation of land. Women are like fields. Only by marrying early and without a girl to be married can we marry early.

To increase the number of children in our country."

Everyone laughed after hearing Shi Hui's words. Only Shi Chong kept a straight face and showed no expression. He thought to himself: Shi Hui's words were superficially about political affairs, but looking at him, he seemed to be talking about political affairs.

I said that because I have a girl over seventeen years old

But he happens to have a twenty-year-old son. Does he want to get married to me? His son is very smart and handsome. If we can get married, he would be a good match for my goddaughter. But my wife regards her goddaughter as her daughter.
Chapter completed!