If we say that the previous agricultural tax exemption of 10% of the 30% tax for farmers is not as attractive as imagined.
After Li Yunze directly exempted the children from the oral tax and exempted the gangsters from the calculated tax, the impact was no less than throwing down a poached egg.
You must know the price level of the Han Dynasty at this time. One stone of wheat and millet only cost 200 yuan.
Because of decades of peace, the population of the Han people has increased significantly.
It is common for a family to have more than ten people.
If everyone pays the suufu, it means that they have to pay one or two cents each year just for the suufu.
For farmers, the annual tax payment is one or two cents, which can be said to be heavy.
After all, although the income of farmers is not low, usually one acre of land produces about two or three shi, which is more than two hundred kilograms when converted to modern measurement units.
Corn costs more than 200 per stone, and an average family could own dozens or even hundreds of acres of farmland before large-scale land annexation began.
Calculating it this way, several thousand or even more than ten thousand kilograms of grain a year seems not too small.
That's not how the account is calculated.
There are many people in the family, and everyone needs to eat, which consumes a large amount of grain, and enough grain must be set aside.
After all, ‘my parents will starve to death without eating the food they grow’.
When the remaining grain is sold to profiteers, the average price is less than 200 yuan per stone.
The life of a farmer requires more than just food.
You can rely on yourself to grow hemp, raise mulberries and weave cloth to wear clothes, but what about salt? Where are farm tools? When you are sick, what about seeing a doctor and taking medicine? What about eating meat or drinking wine? What about red and white matters?
One after another, which one is free of charge?
By the way, there is also corvee labor.
The common people had to perform corvées every year. Not only did they have to pay for food and clothing themselves, but they also had to have money to survive while doing corvées.
Taking into account all these expenses, it is extremely important that Li Yunze is exempted from the oral tax and the calculated tax of the gangsters.
With household registration, children from black households can work openly, join the army, and work in the fields without having to worry about being caught by the government officials in the middle of the night.
It is precisely because of this that when Li Yunze increased the conditions for surrendering land, more people could no longer bear it and took the initiative to go to the Yamen to apply for surrender documents.
This is not that the emperor directly snatched away the people's land, but only owned it in name to prevent land annexation.
Because the land is nominally the emperor's land, if you want to annex it, you are trying to take away what belongs to the emperor.
Strictly speaking, it is a great rebellion!
Some unwilling people spread rumors among the people, saying that the emperor wanted to take away the people's fields, which indeed caused a lot of turmoil and trouble.
However, Zhang Tang never gets used to this, and since he is busy outside, Zhang Tang is temporarily in charge of the Criminal Department.
People from the Criminal Department arrested people everywhere, and after they were caught, they were interrogated in the former Tingwei Yamen, and now in the prison of the Criminal Department. Once interrogated, a series of people and families would be involved.
When it comes to killing powerful men, Zhang Tang's hands are definitely no weaker than those of Zhi Du.
Once the killing begins, even bird nests, egg yolks, earthworms, chickens and dogs will not be spared.
As for why these big households objected, it was naturally because they wanted to annex land.
As for why land annexation is necessary, of course it is because land is the most important means of production in the agricultural era.
If you have land, you will have tenants. If you have land and tenants, you can become a local emperor and wait for the right time.
As for the loss of the emperor and the court, will the world be in chaos? These powerful people are eager for the world to be in chaos, so that they can have a chance.
Food is never enough.
Due to the lack of meat and fat supplements, it is common for ordinary people to eat one pound of carbohydrates in one meal in this era.
As for why not go hunting...
Haha, all the mountains, rivers, lakes and woods in the world belong to the Emperor, and naturally those animals also belong to the Emperor.
Going hunting without the emperor's permission...
In fact, Li Yunze is already preparing to open this ban as a means of encouragement for the next round.
Li Yunze doesn't care about anything else. Only land annexation is a Pandora's box that cannot be opened at any cost.
Once the land annexation begins, it means that the dynasty has entered a countdown to its demise.
History shows that there were many emperors who understood this, but they were unable to resist the opposition of powerful interest groups. Even if the reform was successful temporarily, they would still be overthrown after their death.
Only time-travelers like Li Yunze have the ability and perseverance to carry this matter through to the end.
Of course, another very important reason is that he, Li Yunze, is not afraid of being 'dissolved in water'.
The usual tactic of throwing insults at others by the civil service clique was ineffective against the thick-skinned Li Yunze.
Li Yunze is powerful but not afraid of anything like using dirty tricks to dissolve in water.
Now that Li Yunze is in Han Dynasty, basically no one can control him.
If Empress Dowager Dou is still alive, or if Jia Ji is still alive, then there will be room for maneuver. After all, the Han Dynasty governs the country with filial piety.
It's a pity that everyone is dead. We can't rush into the mausoleum and carry them out to suppress Li Yunze.
After the autumn harvest, Li Yunze took people out to inspect the autumn harvest.
When he came to inspect the autumn harvest near Balingyi, people sent by Zhang Tang caught up with Li Yunze and said they had something important to report.
"What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo is crying injustice in prison."
Liu Dingguo was escorted to Chang'an City in advance. As soon as he arrived in Chang'an City, Li Yunze issued an order to revoke his title as King of Yan.
The current Liu Dingguo is just the traitor Liu Dingguo, and is no longer the King of Yan Liu Dingguo.
"Crying injustice?" Li Yunze on horseback was a little confused. "Why is he being wronged?"
Zhang Tang's envoy hurriedly responded, "Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo said that he was bewitched by Liu Ling, the daughter of Liu An, and did the wrong things. He said that it was all Liu Ling's fault and that he was just bewitched..."
"Ah."
Li Yunze was no longer too lazy to say anything, and directly waved his hand, "Tell Zhang Tang to handle it according to law."
According to the law, Liu Dingguo's treasonous act of colluding with the Huns should be punished by being broken into pieces.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, Li Yunze was kind and abolished torture and only required beheading.
In fact, according to Liu Dingguo's status as King of Yan, Bai Ling Poison Wine could have left his body intact, but Li Yunze was unwilling to give him this dignity.
This time the Xiongnu invaded and caused great harm to the Yan State. Countless people died tragically and tens of thousands were taken prisoner.
Just beheading him was enough to save him face.
After sending away the envoy, Li Yunze simply dismounted and led a group of officials and palace guards into the nearby village on foot.
The village is not big, only about a hundred households.
At this time, the autumn harvest has passed, and the yards of every household are filled with grain in sacks.
Seeing such a rich harvest, Li Yunze also smiled.
In fact, the grain output of the Han Dynasty is not low in this era.
First of all, the mothers of the Han Dynasty are different from those of later generations. Only about 70% of the mothers of later generations are small mothers.
Moreover, he also knows how to use retting fertilizer, coupled with intensive farming, he can basically maintain the average yield per mu at more than 200 kilograms.
You must know that in the Roman Empire at this time, except for Italy, which had fertile land, the grain output in other places was not even 100 kilograms per mu.
It's just that food, in the face of a rapidly growing population, will never be enough.
"Three agricultural fertilizers, retting fertilizer can only be regarded as a weakened version of nitrogen fertilizer, and it still lacks the other two fertilizers."
"Plant ash can be used as a weakened version of potassium fertilizer, but what about phosphate fertilizer?"
Li Yunze knew about phosphate fertilizers. One of the important reasons why the output of paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, known as the land of fish and rice, exceeds that in the north is that there are many fish and shrimps in the paddy fields.
Fish and shrimp are typical organic phosphate fertilizers.
It is precisely because there are many fish and shrimps in the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River that the local fields have high yields.
But where did the bones and meat of so many fish, shrimp and animals come from in the north?
Unless natural phosphate rock can be found...
Li Yunze frowned and pondered, thinking of ways to help the big man's agriculture, when he was awakened by the sound of quarrels coming from the threshing floor of the village.
I didn’t say anything, just go over and see what’s going on.
"One stone of corn costs one hundred and eighty-five cents, not a cent more."
On the threshing floor, the merchants who were surrounded by many villagers stood on the cart and shouted loudly, "If you are willing to sell, bring the grain. If you are not willing, please don't say anything."
"How come it's so cheap?" Some villagers shouted angrily, "Last year it was still 210 yuan per stone."
"Last year was last year." The grain merchant who led the team responded in a neutral tone. "This year is this year. The grain harvest is bumper this year. There are people selling grain everywhere, so the price is naturally low. The emperor will not collect your field tax. It is everywhere."
If you want to sell grain, where can you get it from? I don’t want to
If you want to sell grain, then you will die at home."
Some villagers were shouting, "Other people charge more than 200 yuan for grain..."
"Then you go find someone else to sell grain." The grain merchant looked impatient and said, "Shall I leave?"
The villagers were angry, but there was nothing they could do.
There are many places where people need to spend money in life. After gradually bidding farewell to the era of barter, the value of money is increasingly reflected.
In this case, the villagers can only use their main harvest to exchange for currency and then buy other commodities.
The price difference between selling and buying has become a good opportunity for many merchants to make a fortune.
This is what the saying "The price of grain hurts the farmers, and the price of rice hurts the people".
Grain merchants who control the purchasing channels can suppress prices without any scruples, thereby earning more profits.
As a businessman, you can really give up anything in order to make money, and naturally there will be no conscience.
Seeing the aggrieved villagers, the grain merchant standing on the cart felt extremely proud.
‘The emperor doesn’t collect land taxes, it’s an advantage for me.’
Li Yunze does not collect grain taxes, but the Shaofu does have a large area of imperial estates. The grain produced by these imperial estates is enough to supply the salaries of officials and the food needs of the army.
Moreover, Li Yunze is also innovating government affairs. In the future, officials' salaries will gradually be transferred from food and other materials to money, reducing the demand for food.
The output of the Imperial Manor will be mainly used by the army in the future and used to feed those large livestock.
I just didn't expect that, originally with good intentions, grain merchants seized the opportunity to significantly lower prices.
"You can't leave."
Li Yunze's cold voice came, carrying cold murderous intent.