For other things, even if Duan Ye cannot change his course, he will make some adjustments in moderation. The purpose is actually to give people face, because Duan Ye himself knows deeply that people often care about it.
That feeling of being valued
But this time it won't work. There is no room for concessions in this matter.
Population actually truly represents productivity. Theoretically, the more people, the better the economy and the richer it is. There are more people and more power. This is definitely the truth, especially in this era, there are also large areas of land, large space, and large amounts of
Resources, don't worry about population explosion
Duan Ye wants to survey the population, but instinctively many people think that they want to take the opportunity to collect intensive taxes and then expand their army. So these gentry and elders came to the governor's house to ask for a meeting, hoping that Duan Ye will take it back and become a life.
Duan Ye was helpless, but these people were not allowed to see each other. Although Duan Ye really wanted to completely penetrate the rule at the grassroots level, that was an idea after all. It has not been completed yet. Since it has not been completed, these people still control the grassroots level.
It is not convenient for Duanye to offend the real power
Speaking of which, although there is always a way to collect taxes, let these people transfer the actual burden to the people, it is impossible to complete the transfer. How many boards will still hit them
There is still a need to deal with it. As soon as Duan Ye became angry, he clearly told these gentry representatives that even if the census was in the census, Duan Ye would swear that he would never increase taxes or even increase them at all!
Now, everyone is relieved. You sir, you have made a statement and swear to God. Of course we believe it.
Everything else is false. If you don’t increase taxes, whether you have to count the population, pigs, cows, and sheep, we can’t control it if you want to count the population.
Of course, some people are worried, so I asked specifically, is it not to increase the tax rate or the tax amount?
This problem is very critical, because the difference is huge. Duan Ye waved his hand with a bold move and said, "The total tax amount collected this year is enough. Unless there is a new industry that does not exist now, then tax is required, as long as it is now
Taxes are being collected, and not even a penny is charged!"
Now everyone was relieved, completely relieved. Duan Ye specially printed a large number of tax manuals in order to standardize tax collection. For those situations, taxes were required, and those situations were not needed. They all said clearly.
Unless there are a few extremely smart people, they should not think of a way to avoid taxes in the short term
The industry said it very clearly. These gentry were originally big taxpayers, so of course they didn't dare to neglect them. They took this book back and studied it carefully
Since the governor said that if there are no old taxes, and new industries, there is no sign of the eight characters. What are you afraid of? Besides, even if there are new industries, if we don’t do it, wouldn’t it be over? Those new industries,
Is it unreliable? It's better to have land and shops
So the gentry left happily
Liu Muzhi said worriedly at this time: "Sir... you seem to be a little fucked."
"Oh?" Duan Ye rubbed the corners of his eyes. He was a little tired because it was too much to face these people. Although these people were all well-dressed, Duan Ye really wanted to call them scum, but it was not because they did it.
What, but they bargained for their own interests but were hypocritical and used the people as shields everywhere, making Duan Ye feel very hypocritical
"Sir" Liu Muzhi admitted, "Now the arsenal has gradually gotten on track according to the plan of the adult. In this year alone, there are thirteen weapons to be put into production. In addition, the old-fashioned teams are being developed.
, These R&Ds are very expensive, and the adults also said that they are all responsible for their funds. Every time they come to Beizhi to pay for money, Beizhi feels a little lenient. Although we are not short of money now,
The adults are purging the land everywhere and giving so much subsidies to the people. Our money has always been just enough. This is a light tax and a low tax. Of course, it is not a good thing, but it is too light."
"Do you think it's too light?" Duan Ye asked
"Yes!" Liu Muzhi said calmly, "Liangzhou's land tax is only 30 per cent, while the commercial tax is only 20 per cent. It is too light. Although Jiangnan is rich, the land tax is 15 per cent, and the commercial tax is even more
It reaches one tenth, otherwise the Sima family would not have lasted for so long.”
"But you also see that these farmers and herdsmen live a hard life. Don't they work hard? No, they work all year round, and the tax we collect is not high, but why do they earn a year?
You can only barely make a living?"
Liu Muzhi was silent about what Duan Ye said, it was the truth. He had followed Duan Ye to the grassroots level several times. Some farmers lived a hard life. Almost the whole family had only one pair of pants, and girls could not go out.
Liu Muzhi couldn't help but feel sad when he saw the scene of snuggling in bed
"I tell you," Duan Ye said, "Although the tax we collect is not high, they have a heavy burden. Why? It is these landlords and gentry who try their best to make money from them. How can they be poor?"
"But... I've done this for thousands of years." Although Liu Muzhi felt that there must be something wrong with this, he still said
"Is this right for thousands of years?" Duan Ye sighed, "Daohe, I have decided to do a few big things."
"Sir, you said, Liu Muzhi will definitely support you!"
"Okay!" Duan Ye said happily, "The first thing I have to do is to cancel the corvee service from now on!"
"Ah?" Liu Muzhi's mouth was so wide that he could almost hold a few eggs.
The so-called corvee service refers to the unpaid labor that rulers forced civilians to engage in, including labor service, man-made service, military service, etc. In this era, all labor activities carried out by the state to recruit people of all classes of people free of charge were called corvee service, including labor service and military service.
The two parts of corvee labor originated very early, and were found during the Zhou Dynasty, and even more advanced by the Qin and Han Dynasties. One of the big factors that made Qin stand out among the six countries was that it collected corvee labor on a large scale, providing strong force for the army.
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This successful experience was later turned into a law by the rulers. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the age for adult men to start serving the government and military service was 17 years old in the Qin and 20 years old in the Western Han dynasties.
Change to 23 years old; the age for exemption from corvee is 56 years old
There are three types of regular soldiers, including border guards and new soldiers, for 2 years. In 1 year, they work as infantry, cavalry or tower ships in the county, receive military training and are responsible for local security; in 1 year, they go to Kyoto as guards, responsible for defending the capital and guarding the city.
Imperial palaces, magistrates, or serving government officials, adult men under 56 years old who are under 2 years old can be exempted from military service after serving for two years. However, in the case of government needs, they can still be recruited and served at any time. They cannot resist their duties, namely, guarding the border, guarding the border.
Also known as corvette or garrison, that is, to go to the border to engage in "guarding and riding the barriers". Han law stipulates that each person must guard the border for one year in his life. If there is an emergency in border defense, he must remain at home for 6 months.
Of course, these rules are mainly aimed at ordinary people. As for the government, they naturally have their own solutions. Children of wealthy officials can pay for their employees to serve on their behalf.
As for the new soldiers, each Fuji man must serve in the county for one month without compensation for civil engineering, building bridges and roads, and managing rivers and canals.
Transferring laborers such as Caogu have taken turns to serve, so they are called "Geng". The servants are called "Gengzu". Those who do not want to serve or cannot serve in person can pay 300 yuan to hire people for service, or the government does not require them to serve in person and order them.
He paid for the service of the service, saying "Gongju". This service of the service was called "Gengfu". Some people were exempted from service due to special circumstances. Those who were called "refuse" included: royal family, nobles, bureaucrats with high titles and their relatives, counties
, the three elders in the village and those who were selected as filial piety and brotherly power fields; doctoral disciples, other disciples who were proficient in the scriptures and those who were specially granted the right to be eliminated; or those who had children and mourned were temporarily eliminated due to natural disasters and wars;
The people who pass through the He Yougong or the emperor's patrols will be temporarily exempted from service, etc.
In addition, it is also stipulated that those who have obtained "no promotion" titles from Level 1 to Level 4 can be exempted from service 4 years in advance; those who have a title of "five doctors" at Level 9 may not be engaged in corvee service without meritorious service, and those who can pay for the title of "Princes" and buy the title of "Princes".
You can get grain, money, slaves, and buy ranks to level 9 or above to be exempted from servitude. In this way, the obligation of corvee labor in the Han Dynasty actually fell on ordinary people.
Of course, there was also corvee labor in Liangzhou. Duan Ye didn't notice it at first, but later, after seizing Guzang and when he wanted to repair the city wall, Duan Ye didn't think much about it and left it to Liu Muzhi to do it. As a result, Liu Muzhi
The solution is to collect corvee labor as usual
Duan Ye realized the seriousness of the problem, so he decided to change it.
Liu Muzhi thought for a while and said, "My Lord, although this corvee service is quite cruel to the common people,... Why don't you need people to build bridges and roads, fight and deliver food? The adults eliminate the weak soldiers, of course
It’s easy to use, but they have too few people. Where can we find so many people to work?"
"Of course these people are still these people, but they cannot be requisitioned for free in the future. They have to be paid," Duan Ye said firmly.
Liu Muzhi was a little stunned. In the past, he used to use the law to force others to do it. Over the years, the people have long been used to it and taken it for granted. But now, why do you think you have too much money? You actually took the initiative to give money.
?
Duan Ye explained: "On the one hand, you can't take money like this, you can't kill chickens to get eggs. Besides, instead of letting these people work for free, otherwise you will give money to work. In fact, this will be better in the long run because they have money.
Of course, you have to spend money, consume, and buy things. This promotes the market for those who want to make things and sell things will flourish and we can also receive taxes.”