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Wei Zheng stumbled for a moment and murmured, "I don't know these situations--"

"Ha!" Li Mu interrupted Wei Zheng and said, "I don't know? Why don't you know? Because you don't care, you don't know! The kingly way and benevolent way in your eyes are the way in the books of sages, not the way in reality. I don't know these things, but I care, I can investigate them. I dare not deceive you. These things are all things Changsun Chong and a few of his classmates personally visited the villages near Chang'an City and asked them from the people! If you want to know, you can ask anytime, but you don't have that time. You are all people who do big things, so you have to let my students do this little thing!"

"Check old rules, the principle of the counting tax is to add new people and expel dead people. However, whenever the editor is interviewed, some officials will add more household registrations to the name of adding more household registration, regardless of the suffering of the people, and they will definitely overtake the forehead. Those who should be deleted will not be deleted, and those who should not be increased will be increased. Even if the person is dead, they will refuse to expel them, and they will be blamed for their registration when they are born. The extra counting tax will be distributed equally to the people. There are also cunning people who bribe the stock and conceal their household registration, which will also fall on the poor peasants. All kinds of bad habits are endless!"

"It is better for people not to farm land than to farm, because if they have not enough land to pay taxes, their life is not enough. In a good year, there are many people with wealthy income, while in poor people, there are very few incomes. Once in a bad year, they have no land and property. The strong are displaced all over the world, and the elderly and weak die in gullies! If the herdsmen can love the good and take less, the people will gradually become rich. If they are harsh, how can the small people make a living?"

Wei Zheng was speechless. Although he did not investigate in-depth investigations about what Li Mu said, he also knew that since Li Mu could explain it, there must be detailed evidence, and it was definitely not groundless. Thinking of these things, he knew nothing about it, Wei Zheng felt ashamed and no longer wanted to argue with Li Mu.

Li Shimin sighed and said, "What Li Mu said makes sense and is deafening. I must reflect on it. The current situation in the Tang Dynasty has reached a time to change. Li Mu, since you say there is a way, let's talk about it. Everyone gathers their ideas and checks for shortcomings and fills in the gaps, and make sure that people's lives improve."

"Your Majesty, I have listed the various disadvantages of the count tax, and I want to express one thing. Your Majesty, the count tax is for counting troubles, and the other hand, there are countless disadvantages. It is time to cancel it!"

"Cancel, cancel?" Li Shimin widened his eyes and thought to himself, why did I shoot my foot with a supporting actor? Before he could speak, the Minister of Civil Affairs and Li Mu's cheap stepfather Tang Jian stood up and shouted, "No, must not be cancelled!"

Li Mu looked at Tang Jian, but Tang Jian did not avoid it, saying, "Li Mu, do you know that the cap tax is an important tax of the court, accounting for at least 30% to 40%, millions of chunks. If such a large sum of money is exempted, the court will not be able to continue. This is not a joke!"

Li Mu said seriously, "The cancellation of the cap tax will not reduce the total number of taxes, but will increase due to the accuracy of statistics!"

Li Shimin wondered, "What does this mean?"

"Your Majesty, there are many difficulties in counting the count of the capitation tax, but the statistics of the fields do not have this concern. Because the fields are there, it is still moving. How many fields are there in a certain place can be accurate. The disadvantages of the capitation tax mentioned just now seem to be unsolvable, but if you change your thinking and change the tax on collecting people to tax on collecting land, and spread the quota into a mu, all problems will be solved!"

"Stacking the dimes into the acres?" Everyone chewed these four words, and Wei Zheng seemed to have some understanding, but he couldn't figure it out yet, and asked, "What does it mean in detail?"

"Simply put, it means levying the head tax onto the fields. Suppose there are 100 people, 100 acres of land, and each acre of land, and bear the head tax on one person. If these 100 acres of land are cultivated by one person, then he will have to bear the tax on one hundred heads. Those who bear more taxes will have more land cultivated, and those who have less land will have less taxes. This is fair!"

"Wait!" Wei Zheng suddenly thought of a joint and interrupted Li Mu. "There are loopholes in this policy. It seems reasonable to spread the taxes into the acres, but the population is increasing and decreasing year by year. How to determine the tax?"

"I thought of this too." Li Mu faced Li Shimin and said, "So in order to ensure that this can be implemented and to make the people light taxes and taxes less, I ask Your Majesty to set another rule. Based on the population in the five years of Zhenguan, the population will be raised in the future and will never be increased! No matter how large the population is, the tax will not be increased, so that the burden on the people will be reduced!"

"Never add tuition!" Li Shimin was shocked. What happens every year is unpredictable. No one can confirm how much money it will cost every year. The promise of never adding tuition is a double-edged sword. It can gain reputation, but it is also a shackle. If you can't say it, no matter how much reputation it is, it will be destroyed!

Li Shimin is not an indecisive person, but when facing such a big thing, he must think twice and act cautiously. He murmured, "I have to think about it, I have to think about it."

"Your Majesty is worried that if you never increase your taxes, will the court's tax revenue not be enough?"

"That's right, I'm not going to burden the people, but no one can be sure of what the future will be like. If a war starts and no taxes are added, how can the court continue?"

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. I promise that your Majesty will never increase the tax and will definitely receive more taxes!"

Changsun Wuji listened for a long time, but he really couldn't understand it. He said, "Li Mu, where will the money come from without adding money?"

"Commercial tax!" Li Mu smiled and said, "Has you all forgotten that there is another tax? Commercial tax is the only tax that can be superimposed on quantity but does not bear the people. Because the emergence of commercial tax is in transactions. If a transaction is paid once, the more transactions occur, the more taxes there will be."

Tang Jian wondered, "What does it matter if this priest never adds a tribute?"

"Why is that okay!" Li Mu said with great difficulty, "You guys think, if the court requires less taxes, the people will have more money. If the people have more money, what will they do? Of course, it will be spent! When they don't have money, they will wear linen cloth. When they have money, they will want to wear silk. What should they do if they want silk? Of course, they will buy it! Buy it! The court can collect taxes!"

"For vendors, they are actually willing to pay taxes. Why? Because if they produce goods, no one buys them and are worthless. Only by selling them can they make money. The more tax they pay, the more they earn and the more the court collects!"

Everyone looked at each other, and they all saw it in each other's eyes and were puzzled.

Li Mu sighed and said, "So you guys don't know why I can make money now? Money cannot be saved, and you have to spend it. I have to buy sheep! I took out a hundred stakes to buy sheep, the sheep dealer made money, the sheep dealer bought sheep from the sheepherders, the sheep dealer also made money, the sheep dealer got money to buy rice, the rice dealer made money... The same hundred stakes have raised how many people have they supported! But if you piled this money in the warehouse, the sheep dealer, the sheep dealer, and the rice dealer, you can't make money. Why don't you understand such a simple truth?"
Chapter completed!