Chapter 61: The King of Wu Worrying about Resenting the Immortal Family (1)
"Human beings, the most precious wealth and the source of the world's tax revenue, are imprisoned in small areas, and the wealth they create can only make a living. This is simply a serious waste."
"Nowadays, many factories are being built and need people; many commercial banks are to be opened and need people; many ships are being built and launched, and people are needed... The entire Song Dynasty needs enough people to create wealth and make the country strong and the people rich. However,
The most precious people are imprisoned there."
Having said this, Zhao Si's gaze became sharp, like a sharp sword, sweeping across the faces of everyone with different expressions.
"So we need to abolish the poll tax and add it to the salt tax; we improve the recruitment law and strive to completely eliminate corvee; we need to improve the household registration and ID system to ensure that people can move freely..."
After hearing this, the expressions of many smart students changed. Li Guang couldn't help but raise his hand and stood up and asked: "Your Majesty, compared with the hardship of farming, industry and commerce have made huge profits. If we don't directly collect the head tax and cannot help the movement of people, I'm afraid the people will
What should we do if people swarm into the city and enter factories and businesses, and then there will be no one to farm?"
Zhao Si shook his head and replied solemnly: "Do you think it is easy to make money by entering a factory? Do you think it is easy for a business to travel all over the country? It is never easy to support a family. If you want to earn a living from your employer, no matter what
It’s not easy for industry, agriculture and business.”
"Our government does not prohibit land transactions, that is, land annexation. During the tax reform debate, some people proposed that land annexation should be strictly prohibited to protect the people, especially farmers who use a few acres of thin land to support their families. But this
Is it useful? It’s useless.”
"The value of the fields is there. If legal means don't work, you can always get the fields by using other means. With this kind of secret and illegal means, the people are afraid that even the last bit of money they get from selling the fields will be hacked."
Zhao Si looked around at the crowd and asked a question: "Have you ever thought about what would happen if people were imprisoned in their place of origin by various means? Even if there are a few acres of thin land, it may be sold due to natural disasters.
I lost it, and in the end I had no choice but to work as a tenant to a big owner."
"If you want to go out to make a living, you are not allowed to do so. You can only work as a tenant in the village and be exploited by others. Therefore, the land is noble and the people are cheap, and the land is valuable. The big families are doing everything they can to acquire more land. The people are cheap, the common people are cheap, and the tenants are cheap, and they suffer
Wouldn't it be even more miserable to be exploited but have nowhere to escape?"
Zhao Si was a little excited. He turned to the blackboard and wrote a big word "live".
"What will happen if we let individuals go and no longer imprison the common people? If the big households exploit too much, the tenants will say, I'm a thief, so I won't work anymore. I'd rather go to a factory or a business to work hard to make money. I can always find it."
A way of living! If this continues, the land will be cheap and the people will be expensive."
"Why is the land so cheap? When big families try their best to acquire land from their families, they have to think carefully about whether they can find enough people to farm it. Even if they can barely find people, they have to be careful and improve their treatment to win over these people.
Tenants, help you farm and earn money."
Hearing this, the students below looked at each other. Is there such a way of playing the official game? However, this aroused their interest more and more, and they listened more attentively.
"Some people say that I have so much land and no one is planting it, so I can just stop planting it. It's really not possible. How can the court sit back and watch you waste these good cultivated fields? The calculation method of field tax is a property tax base plus the production number
.This output number is calculated in proportion based on the level of grain production per mu that year."
"Even if you don't plant, you still have to pay taxes according to the base of the land tax. One year if you don't plant, you will pay for one year, and five years if you don't plant, you will pay for five years. But if you don't plant in the sixth year, the government will fine you a lot of money.
, urging you to farm quickly. If you can't pay the fine, then you have to deduct the money from your land auction. Haha, how could the government let you take advantage of such a big loophole!"
Having said this, Zhao Si turned his head and looked into the distance, as if he was looking at Kaifeng City, the Central Plains, and the thousands of poor people in the land of the Song Dynasty.
"Do you know why the poor people are so embarrassed and desperate? Because they have no choice. If they don't cultivate the land, they will starve to death, so they can only swallow their anger and let the powerful bullies bully them. No matter how many benevolent policies the court and officials preach, the interests of this
If the relationship does not change, the poor people will always be bullied by the big families and landlords."
"So, we need to invigorate the people and give the people an extra way to live. If they are bullied by big companies, we will go to factories; if factory owners bully us, we will go to business houses; if the business houses are not good, we will go to transportation companies... We must let those employers
Understand that people are the basis for creating wealth, and people themselves are the most precious wealth."
"The more people a company gathers, the more wealth it can create and the more money it can earn. So they must put aside their previous status and come up with better conditions than others in order to retain people. So,
It is still not easy for ordinary people to live, but at least they have one more movable type. One more way to live, one more choice. One more choice, one more dignity."
There was silence in the conference hall, and Zhao Si's words were like drums in the evening and bells in the morning, deafening and enlightening.
In the past dynasties, no matter how much benevolent government has been said, how many people who love the people have said it, and how many reforms have been made, none of them can be as clear as what the officials said today.
In the corner of the conference room, Fan Chunren stood up tremblingly to listen.
Tears filled his face, and he said in a trembling voice: "Today, after listening to your Majesty's words, I truly understand that your Majesty is indeed the co-owner of the world, because in your heart, you not only pretend to be a scholar-official, but also pretend to be all the people of the world. With such a wise king, I
Good luck to you, good luck to the Song Dynasty!"
Fan Chunren's voice was not loud, with a bit of hoarseness and nasality, but it was hot and hot.
He spoke out what everyone was thinking.
"Your Majesty is so wise, I am so lucky! I am so lucky to the Song Dynasty!" Everyone stood up, bowed their hands, and said respectfully.
Zhao Si looked at these ministers and young men, pursed his lips slightly and remained silent. The sunlight came from the window and shone on his face, glowing with golden light.
At the same time, at Prince Wu's Mansion, the Chinese painting exchange and evaluation conference held by Zhao Ji was coming to an end.
Li Gonglin, Mi Fu, Huang Tingjian, Wang Shen and others were chatting happily there, discussing the several young painters who had emerged at the conference, as well as new painting methods and techniques. They were very happy in their words and felt that the painting world of the Song Dynasty was flourishing.
About to enter a new level.
Listening to these words, Zhao Ji suddenly felt bored. When no one noticed him, he slowly walked to the pavilion next to him and sat down.
Zheng Juzhong and Wang Fu hurriedly came over, serving tea and helping to wipe away sweat, leaving Li Yan and Tan Zhen on the side with nothing to do.
"Your Highness, you seem uncomfortable? Is there something missing in this conference? I'm not doing my job well, so please punish me severely."
Wang Fu pretended to be heartbroken and said seriously.
Zheng Juzhong, unwilling to lag behind others, rolled his eyes and guessed.
"Is it because Your Highness did not invite many of you to come?"
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