Several prime ministers were sitting on high-legged chairs, divided into two rows, with three people in each row. The emperor sat in the first place in the middle. In front of the emperor, there was a long table.
This is new furniture that was just purchased this year. It cannot be summed up in terms of comfort, it should be very comfortable.
The emperor doesn't know how other people feel. At least, now the prime ministers don't have to worry about leg cramps when dealing with things in the political hall.
But now, no prime minister cares about the problem of leg cramps. They all fell into silence because of a piece of paper given by the emperor.
What is written on the paper is that every one of them can be divided into acres.
These four simple words have completely overturned the poll tax from ancient times to the present.
The Tang Dynasty now has a "renting system", which is essentially a poll tax.
What is rent?
The land rent is two shi of millet per ding per year.
Quite reasonable, right?
But you have to know that once there is a natural disaster and there is no food, the people can only sell their fields and then hide under the landlords or aristocratic families and become black households!
When the time comes, where will the court go to ask for money?
As for the transfer, that is, each person pays two feet of silk and three liang of cotton every year, or two feet and five feet of cloth and three pounds of linen.
When you see every ding every year, you should know that this is a poll tax.
Yong, that is, corvee, or how long each person has to serve every year, which can be regarded as a different kind of poll tax.
The biggest disadvantage of this kind of tax is the land issue.
For example, a landlord's family only has five members, two men and three women, but it owns a thousand acres of land. According to the rules of the court, the family's head tax is paid.
So the question is, what does this little money mean to the landlord’s family?
Similarly, there are five members in a poor peasant family, two men and three women. They have to pay the same head tax as a landlord's family. Can the income of a poor peasant be comparable to that of a landlord?
If things continue like this, how will the people survive once some kind of disaster occurs?
At that time, the late emperor ascended the throne and with a wave of his hand, he instituted a rent and transfer system, emphasizing that it was based on "people". Regardless of the amount of land or property, everyone would pay a "capitation" tax.
In other words, no matter rich or poor, everyone pays taxes according to their own head.
The aristocratic family laughed and the common people cried like dogs.
The Tang Dynasty has only been established for more than ten years. The land equalization system is in good condition. The court has plenty of land. The population of the people has been greatly reduced due to the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty. Therefore, everything can remain stable. Even aristocratic families now dare not annex land wantonly. Everything is stable.
Very smooth.
But what about twenty or thirty years later?
Leave this hidden danger to future generations to solve?
Do you believe in the wisdom of future generations?
Why are future generations so unlucky that they do not share in the good deeds and only leave them with a mess?
Moreover, Li Zhiyun knew very well that he could only enforce this thing, otherwise the kings of future generations would not have the confidence and strength to engage in sharing the same family.
Because they don’t have that ability!
To put it harshly, whether it is killing the aristocratic family or setting up a family, apart from him and the late emperor, the monarchs of future generations, unless they are the kind of awesome people with high IQs, otherwise once they engage in this thing, he will only
Caused the family to rebel.
Throughout history, how many masters of ZTE have there been?
Maybe, some people will think that there are still many ZTE masters.
But in Li Zhiyun's view, it was just a return to glory. It could only extend the life of the dynasty for a few decades, but it could not completely change the decline of the dynasty.
That's not called ZTE, that's called lingering on.
According to the feudal dynasty curve theory, from the establishment of the dynasty to about a hundred years ago, this stage is generally uphill. In other words, at this stage, the dynasty is prosperous and getting stronger. That is, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the government is harmonious and harmonious.
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The few mentally retarded dynasties are not counted, only normal dynasties are counted here.
After a hundred years, it will begin to decline. Some dynasties will decline more slowly, while others will plummet instantly.
At this time, when the ZTE Master appears, there will be a small rebound curve on the downward slope, but it will soon fall sharply again.
If there is no ZTE Master, they will directly touch the ground and die suddenly.
In history, there is a saying that the decline of the Tang Dynasty began with the rule of Zhenguan. Is it true?
I don’t know, so here are just some of my opinions.
The first is the rent adjustment system.
Do you think this was Li Yuan’s first creation?
wrong!
This thing is just a deformation of the rent modulation system in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It has not changed much at all. It is just to cooperate with the implementation of the equal land system.
And Li Yuan and Li Shimin, two generations of emperors, had huge power. With their knowledge, couldn't they understand the problem of the rent-meeting system?
Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, you must pay a fixed tax.
Even a normal person can tell from this sentence. Doesn’t this benefit those wealthy families and local landlords?
Can't Li Shimin and Li Yuan see it?
No.
The Old Li family is from a noble family and is a member of Guanlong. Who knows the twists and turns of this better than the Old Li family?
How did the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, and even the Sui Dynasty fall? With Li Shimin’s vision and political sense, does he really not understand?
If you really think so, then you are simply looking down on Li Shimin.
Then why doesn't he change?
Li Zhiyun thinks there are two reasons.
First of all, he may not be able to think of the method of dividing a small family into a small family. Perhaps, he can think of it, but he cannot execute it.
Why can't it be executed?
This is the secondary reason, aristocratic family!
If you think of the Tang Dynasty as a pyramid-shaped plan, you will see that the emperor is at the top of the tower.
The one who is half a shoulder shorter than the royal family is the aristocratic family.
At the bottom are the common people.
Who will react the most once a property is spread out?
Still need to ask?
Who else could it be but the aristocratic family?
What does it mean to spread a small amount of money into an acre?
Those with more land will receive more, those with less land will receive less, and those without land will not.
In the Tang Dynasty, who had more land?
A wealthy family.
Not to mention the Guanlong nobles, the Shandong aristocratic saying "farming and reading is heirloom" does not refer to the small-scale peasant economy of one household.
Once Li Shimin was thrown out of history, the first people to turn their backs on him were the Guanlong nobles, and then the Shandong aristocratic family who didn't like him in the first place.
When the time comes, follow Yang Guang’s old path.
Datang GG.
This is not alarmist, but fact.
Land annexation, aristocratic families annexed common people's land.
Now, when Li Zhiyun came up with this, he naturally considered the reaction of the aristocratic family. But he was not afraid, because his vision was never limited to the land inherent in the Central Plains.
In order for the aristocratic family to accept the shareholding, Datang must continue to expand externally and provide the aristocratic family with new sources of income.
This involves innovation in production technology.
Coincidentally, this is Li Zhiyun's purpose.
When these two years pass, the Tang Dynasty's chariots will roar and expand crazily toward Goguryeo, the Western Regions, and even overseas.
At that time, the aristocratic families must be involved. Only by sharing a piece of their pie can they be made obedient.
Just like Li Zhiyun let many famous families sell soap and wool as agents.
Having said that, are there any disadvantages to sharing the property?
Yes, the population will increase year by year, and a large amount of land will be reclaimed. Once it reaches a certain limit, landless people will flee everywhere.
However, isn’t this the best opportunity for the rise of capitalism to recruit workers into the city?
Of course, this was fifty years later.
Now, it is impossible for Li Zhiyun to implement the shareholding system nationwide, because it is simply unrealistic.
The root cause is the family.
As long as the family is clean and tidy, it will be impossible for this system to be fully promoted.
But the problem is that the current Tang Dynasty was built on the back of aristocratic families.
The most intuitive feeling is that 80% of court officials come from aristocratic families, and the remaining 20% are closely related to aristocratic families.
Even the newly promoted soldiers, who had meritorious service and a large amount of land, could not accept this system.
Therefore, Li Zhiyun can only conduct pilot projects now and cannot promote it on a large scale.
As for the pilot site, he also had a choice.
Right now, he has to convince the prime ministers to cooperate with him.