After using the meal, Emperor Longxing left Zhao Jing and summoned several other confidant ministers from the cabinet.

Then, they began to discuss an extremely important and serious issue.

This matter involves the rise and fall of the dynasty.

That is, the tax reform.

The collapse of the dynasty often begins with no money.

In the ancient times of Lin Zhibai's previous life, due to insufficient productivity, there was a law of dynasty cycle.

That is, after a dynasty founded, about two or three hundred years, as the population increases and land annexes intensify, more and more people will lose their land and lose their food due to the exploitation of landlords and natural disasters.

The central dynasty also concealed the land and population by the landlord class, and the tax revenue collected continued to decrease. The treasury was unable to allocate funds to provide disaster relief and improve people's livelihood, so it could only allow these displaced people to fend for themselves.

At this time, more and more people will be unable to survive, and a peasant uprising will be launched.

They will destroy the inherent order and exhaust all the power of the unified dynasty.

In the end, someone will come out to clean up the world, rebuild order, and complete the dynasty.

Or there may be great men among the royal rulers, clearing out all the rebels, completing the means of production is the redistribution of land, regaining the ability to dominate the entire country's territory, and receiving enough taxes to maintain rule.

In this way, the so-called rejuvenation of the dynasty was completed.

In this process, whether it is the rebels winning or the royal family winning.

Because the excess population is consumed in the turmoil, and the land is redistributed in this process, it can always maintain a relatively peaceful and stable unified time for hundreds of years.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, it will continue to be in chaos and is in turmoil.

In this way, the population has been in a downturn, and the dynasty cycle rules will never come.

But in contrast, because civilization is weak in overall strength, it is easy to be destroyed by other disasters such as natural disasters and foreign invasions.

In modern times, because of the development of technology.

High-yield crops, fertilizers, a large number of water conservancy projects, and mechanized agriculture ensures the abundant food, and uses agriculture and service industries as the secondary and tertiary industries to absorb excess agricultural population to maintain social stability.

In this way, the increase in productivity finally broke the past dynasty cycle laws and the population began to show explosive growth.

The entire human civilization has also ushered in an unprecedented peaceful and prosperous life, and has even begun to explore towards the deep space.

...

The laws of the dynasty cycle are the same in this world, and the existence of martial arts has not changed this.

After all, martial arts increases individual combat power, and may be very useful in the tribal era when hunting for food.

However, in this farming society, most of the warriors are the ruling class. They do not work in production and do not increase the overall productivity of civilization.

On the contrary, because of the huge consumption brought by practicing martial arts, everyone has a huge appetite, which is a burden for the entire society.

With the productivity of the feudal dynasty, even too many officials who did not work for production could not support them, let alone these warriors whose appetite was many times larger than that of ordinary people.

Because of this, the number of warriors belongs to a minority group after all compared to the entire society.

They will also get sick, be tired, and be overwhelmed by the military formation.

Although their power is strong, it is much weaker than the force held by the Dahua royal family itself, and it cannot reach the fundamental threat.

The fundamental reason why the Great Wah Dynasty came to its current predicament is that it cannot raise taxes.

The state dynasty implemented the D-mouth tax, which means collecting taxes on the people of the entire dynasty based on the population.

Then, these taxes were used to maintain the operation of the government, pay salaries from officials and troops, and complete the construction of water conservancy, disaster relief, guarding borders, and extermination of enemy enemies.

Although the children of the royal family and the aristocratic families need to pay taxes, for their own interests and to give themselves enough resources to practice martial arts, these people conceal a large number of population land and exploit the common people to support themselves.

Countless lands were annexed, and countless ordinary farmers became slaves as tenants.

But these landlord classes also have strong military power, which makes the lower-class civilians unable to resist at all, making them more and more scruples when exploiting them.

These land annexes have caused countless families to be destroyed. In addition, natural disasters in recent years have defeated countless farmers, turning them into homeless refugees, while the court has no money to provide relief to the victims.

In order to survive, these refugees spontaneously began to rebel and revolt.

They did not dare to attack the landlord class with powerful force, so they waved their butcher knife to the small landlords, self-cultivated farmers and other civilians who were obedient.

Just like locusts, it threatens more people to fall into a disorderly state, unable to farm, and tax sources are further destroyed.

In order to maintain its own rule and life, the imperial court must send large troops to suppress it. The large army needs a lot of money and food to dispatch it. Without a source of tax, it can only be collected from those people who have not been hidden by the aristocratic families.

According to Lin Zhibai's understanding, many farmers' taxes have been received for two Jiazi, and the annual output of the land and the value of the land itself are not even as good as the taxes that need to be paid.

Many middle-level landlords who have warriors at home and who have strong military power cannot stand this kind of exploitation and cannot survive.

As a result, these people also became refugees and joined the rebellion ranks.

Under this circumstance, the tax sources of the central dynasty shrank and entered a complete vicious cycle.

The money, food, prestige and people's hearts that the dynasty maintains its rule continued to decrease and decrease in the process, which was equivalent to constant bloodletting.

Countless ambitious families from royal families and aristocratic families have joined the thief team to promote the fire in order to obtain more resources to practice martial arts or to gain higher power, making these ordinary bandits more lethal.

In this way, the rule of the entire Dahua Dynasty was gradually shaken.

If it weren't for the snow salt income created by Lin Zhibai, he would have lost a lot of blood to the sick giant of the Dahua Dynasty, which made him breathe a sigh of relief and all the raging rebels and bandits.

If the development continues according to the previous trajectory, the power of the royal family will become weaker and weaker, and the power of ambitious people will become stronger and stronger.

When the critical point is broken and the ambition furniture has overwhelming strength, a dynasty changes will happen.

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Emperor Longxing, who aims to become the emperor of the ages, does not understand the laws of the dynasty cycle.

But he knew very well that he was short of money.

Xueyan's income can only support him to stabilize the country's reign and increase his power.

But it is impossible for him to achieve the goal of the eternal emperor.

After cleaning up the bandits and rebels, the next thing we need to do is to re-invest the hidden population and land in Dahua territory, collect more taxes to increase central fiscal revenue.

Only in this way can we ensure sufficient logistical power.

At that time, expeditions outside the border and expanding territory can become truly feasible proposals.
Chapter completed!