On the day after the martial arts competition ended, King Li Yan of Jianning issued an order in the name of the King of Jianning and the Governor of Guazhou, announcing the start of a mass survey in Guazhou to count the acres and dingkou.
As soon as this order came out, the whole Guazhou was in an uproar, and the people of Guazhou had different reactions.
The older people are still afraid of the big Suo Maung Yue during the Kaiyuan period. The last big Suo Maung Yue really upset the people.
The officials who were responsible for counting the land in Maung Yue colluded with the big households in the countryside to pass on the rent to ordinary people. In the end, the big tax in Maung Yue that was supposed to be counted to balance the land tax was instead imposed by the court to increase taxes. Many people originally
The peasants who could still maintain their livelihood went bankrupt, sold their land and became tenants of large households or even slaves.
But the young people are full of expectations for King Jianning. The last speech at the execution ground made King Jianning's image very tall in the minds of the people. They believe that King Jianning can complete the Dasuo Mao Yue fairly!
On the 12th, Li Yan ordered the players to post notices in the city, announcing the establishment of a "District Inspection Office" in the Governor's Mansion. Any wealthy households who concealed underreported fields and Dingkou could voluntarily surrender to the Governor's Mansion.
For the wealthy households who surrendered, King Jianning said that he would not repay the past responsibilities and would not recover the rents accumulated in the past. However, he would re-register the land registers and Ding registers and register the hidden land and Dingkou.
If you fail to surrender within seven days, the hidden land and Dingkou found in the Da Suo Mao Yue will be levied on the previously underpaid rent!
As soon as this order came out, the people naturally clapped their hands and applauded. It has long been a secret known to everyone in Guazhou that these large households have invaded the fields and hidden Dingkou.
Even a powerful family like An Changgui, who occupies thousands of miles of fertile land and has a prosperous family, pays an astonishingly small amount of Spring and Autumn Taxes every year.
However, the governor's office had to complete the tax collection task of Longyou Road, and the rents evaded by the big families were passed on to the ordinary people.
Naturally, the common people hated these big families, but the big families in Guazhou were all powerful, and the people had nothing to do with them.
However, the notice posted by King Jianning did not cause any disturbance.
The seven-day deadline will soon pass, and no one has come forward to surrender.
At this time, in the An family's mansion in Guazhou City, more than a dozen heads of wealthy clans wearing silks and satins were meeting in secret.
The player Zhou Hao is sitting in an inconspicuous corner. In the past few days, he has been attending banquets organized by An Changgui every day, and has been successfully introduced into the inner circle by An Changgui.
Now Zhou Hao is hiding in the corner. As long as he records the meeting process, he can exchange contribution points from Li Yan.
This task is too simple. Zhou Hao is hiding in the corner. He only needs to record the names and appearances of the participants, and then write down their speeches.
This mission is simply to give you contribution points, but after Cui Tao learned about Zhou Hao's mission, he became extremely jealous every day. Why couldn't he trigger such a good mission?
Zhou Hao was hiding in the corner, while An Changgui and other local powerful men were not worried at all about the King of Jianning suing Maung Yue. Instead, they were actively trying to gain benefits from it.
For this reason, these powerful people even brought in a large amount of grain and silk from Shazhou, intending to use these to buy ordinary people's fields at low prices.
The tax system implemented in the Tang Dynasty was tax-yong modulation.
In the Tang Dynasty, the main tasks were to collect grain, cloth or serve the court. This was a tax system based on the implementation of the equal land system.
This system stipulates that all households with equal land must pay a fixed amount of tax and perform a certain amount of corvee according to Ding. This is Ding Yong, which is the number of adult males in the family. They pay taxes and perform corvee for the court every year.
If you achieve military merit or become an official of the Tang Dynasty, the court will grant you Yongye Field. Yongye Field does not need to pay land tax and can be passed on to your descendants.
The land owned by ordinary people will be taken back to the government after the death of the head of the household, and then divided equally among the adult men. This is called land granting.
Every year in the spring and autumn seasons, the court would collect grain and cloth according to the area of land allocated. This is the spring and autumn field tax.
Ding Yong added the land tax, and this was the rent collected by the Tang Dynasty court, which was also the main income of the Tang Dynasty court.
However, the Tang Dynasty treated its officials very favorably. After becoming an official, the court would grant a considerable amount of permanent land. The wars in the Tang Dynasty also created a large number of nobles with military merit. These people did not want to pay land taxes on their permanent land.
There are more and more permanent fields, resulting in less and less land that can be cultivated.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the "Field Order" promulgated by Emperor Gaozu stipulated that in a place like Guazhou with few people and plenty of land, each household should be granted one hundred acres of land.
But in fact, during the Kaiyuan period, when the males of each household came of age, Guazhou could only be granted ten acres of land, which was less than one-tenth of the amount stipulated in the "Tian Order".
There are more and more Yongye fields, and ordinary people can get fewer and fewer fields. The prosperous age of Kaiyuan has caused population expansion, which has led to fewer and fewer fields for newcomers.
However, the expenses of the entire imperial court continued to increase, and the assessment of the Spring and Autumn Taxes for local governors and county magistrates became increasingly strict.
The land taxes exempted by the officials, gentry, and monks, and the Ding Yong hidden by the local tycoons, were borne by the ordinary peasants. This also led to the situation of the three masters of the Dashuixia village. Even though their father and brother died in battle, they were still taxed by the local people.
A situation in which a subordinate official collects the rent and the family is ruined.
An Changgui said to the heads of the big families: "King Jianning's big request this time should be the same as the emperor's, in order to recover the money and grain owed by Guazhou."
"The imperial court is in danger, and we also need to help the imperial court. These purchased grains and cloth are ready to be handed over to the imperial court!"
Yang Shizhong, the patriarch of the Yang family, continued: "This time for the big search, we will definitely mobilize people from the governor's office. I have already said hello to the officials of the various departments. No matter who clears your land, they will not
It’s embarrassing for everyone.”
Everyone laughed happily, and Yang Shizhong said again:
"But we can't let King Jianning work in vain. The folk customs in our Guazhou are not good, the people are cunning, and there are many unscrupulous people who hide their fields and houses."
"This time, the focus of the inspection is still on these treacherous people! The court is short of money now, so let's suffer the people first and accuse us of being the Governor!"
An Changgui added: "As long as the rent paid can satisfy His Highness, this time Dasuo Maoyue will have merit! We can all pass the test!"
An Changgui said: "The grains we brought are used to 'help' those unruly people when they cannot make up for the rent."
Yang Shizhong said: "At that time, we can use food to buy people's land at a low price. If there is really no land to sell, we can still sell our resources into slavery!"
The patriarchs present laughed one after another, but Zhou Hao, who was hiding in the corner, smiled slightly. He was afraid that the local powerful's wishful thinking would come to nothing.