The servitude is returned to the land, the land is calculated, and the money is paid for the service.

Li Chao's stalls are completely different from the imperial court's rent-in-one regime. Even Cheng Yaojin could see that Li Chao's stalls are robbing the rich and helping the poor again.

Li Chao's move was actually abolishing the capitation tax since the Qin and Han Dynasties. The abolition of the capitation tax was actually a relaxation of the personal control of farmers.

The Tang Dynasty could not have done a sheep and cannibalism movement, and wanted to develop industry and commerce. The court's rent-in-law regime was actually the biggest obstacle. The rent-in-law regime and the equal-land system were intended to tie all farmers to the land.

The abolition of the tax on the tax on the tax on the counties means that the people have no land, so they do not have to bear the tax on the land. Then the tax on the tax on the tax on the people does not need to be hidden households or rely on those powerful landlords. Taxes and levies of money can adapt to the rapid development of the commodity economy, promote the commodification of agriculture, and even promote the germination of capitalism.

Li Chao also planned to wait until the stalls entered the next stage after entering the next stage, the court would no longer collect physical goods, but instead directly collect money or money.

"Will the court still implement the equal land system in the future?"

Li Chao thought about it and found that the equal-field system was ultimately difficult to adapt to the development of the Tang Dynasty. When the equal-field system appeared, it was during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when wars were frequent, resulting in sharp decline in population and deserted fields. Therefore, the court implemented the equal-field method, distributed vacant land to the people, and then collected rents and transferred mediocre people. In this way, production was restored and the court's income also increased.

But in the era of unification, the population will no longer decrease sharply, but will only continue to increase. However, there are still so many fields. Even if the Tang Dynasty opens the border and expands the land, it will not be possible to keep up with the population growth and the speed of land mergers. Land annexation is very powerful. Even if the imperial court implements the equal-land system, it will have no impact on annexation.

The increase in population and intensified land annexation will eventually make more and more people have no land to divide. The equal-field system will inevitably collapse, and even the government soldiers will find it difficult to divide them into military fields, which will inevitably lead to the collapse of the government soldiers.

Without fields, it would be difficult to buy his own equipment, and he would not have the energy to ask someone to help him cultivate and farm during his war.

Without land, you still have to pay rent to the court and serve and fight for the court. In the end, the people will inevitably not survive and the army will have no combat effectiveness.

Li Chao actually does not oppose land annexation.

However, the premise of allowing land annexation is to abolish the rent and mediocre adjustment method and implement a new two-tax law, which will spread the privy to the acres, and a one-whip method, and the privy to the land and the privy to the acres.

The people have no heavy taxes and dying servants, so even if they don’t farm, they have other options. For example, they can rent landlords like Li Chao. As tenants, they just need to pay rent to the landlord Li Chao, and they don’t have to pay taxes to the court. Their original tax and dying servants were spread into the fields and paid by landlords like Li Chao, the owner of the field.

People who have lost their land can also work as Li Chao for the workshop, get Li Chao's salary directly, rely on his salary to support their families, and do not have to pay land taxes and responsibilities to the court.

"Don't suppress the merger?" Cheng Yaojin was extremely surprised.

Since the Han Dynasty, the court has always emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, and has cracked down on land annexation. But Li Chao has now said such words as not suppressing annexation.

"Yes, it will not suppress annexation. As long as the people no longer need to bear rent and adjust mediocre things, what does it matter if the annexation is serious? The court no longer focuses on taxes, but instead focuses on property and land, then all noble officials and landlords have to pay taxes. Even if they merged more land, they cannot be exempted from classes or paid very little taxes as before."

"For the court, taxing a hundred peasants is no different from levying taxes from a landlord. The tax amount has not changed, and the court has not lost it."

Song did not suppress mergers, and there was a big reason why Song's economy could prosper, which was that Song also implemented the two tax laws implemented after the middle Tang Dynasty.

Cheng Yaojin felt that his brain was a little insufficient, and these new statements were so novel.

"Can the court allow me to annex the land at will in the future?"

"The premise is that you can buy so much land without restraining mergers, and it is not that you can make a quick snatch. If you want to buy land, people have to be willing to sell it. Why does the court prohibit it for normal trading? If you buy land, it is equivalent to buying taxes for this land, and taxes for this land will be yours in the future."

In the past, bureaucratic and aristocratic landlords often had the privilege of exempting courses. Therefore, the more land they merged, it did not mean that they paid more taxes. Often, their taxes had an upper limit. Perhaps one thousand acres of land were only a tax of 100 acres, and ten thousand acres were also paid 100 acres.

In this case, the more land the landlords annexed, the greater the losses the court will have. The landless farmers have no land, but the tax on the tax on their heads has not changed.

It means that these people have no land, but they are still paying taxes for the landlords who have acquired the land. Landless farmers often become poor people, and without money, so it becomes a problem for the court to collect taxes on them. The court does not collect taxes from the rich, but collects taxes on the poor people. This phenomenon was most prominent in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the end, someone will inevitably rebel.

"The court can also collect deed taxes if it does not suppress annexation. For example, if it stipulates that land transactions must be established, and the government will collect deed taxes of 5% or a certain amount according to the transaction amount. In this way, every time the land transfer transaction, the court will not only lose no losses, but also earn deed taxes."

The premise of not suppressing mergers is that in the future, the tax will be imposed on the acres and taxed by the acres of land. None of the nobles, bureaucrats, and landlords do not have the privilege of tax exemption.

"Can everyone pay taxes?"

"What can't be done about this? Didn't the two taxes we have implemented before just make everyone pay taxes?"

Historically, the two tax law was officially implemented in the Middle Tang Dynasty. At that time, the imperial court was extremely weak and the vassal states were divided, but the imperial court made everyone pay taxes.

At this time, it was the early Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was established, and the prestige of the court was rising.

It is not impossible to implement the new law at this time and let everyone pay taxes. As long as the court has this determination, it can still be implemented with the emperor's will and the strong strength of the court.

It is not the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the country was corrupt and it was difficult for the government to implement any policy that the court wanted to implement, and it would even be impossible to implement the government orders and would even be opposed by the people below.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, such a thing could not have happened.

"But this new law has hurt the interests of many noble landlords and bureaucrats."

"But this new law is of great benefit to the court. Moreover, the damage to the interests of the noble landlords and bureaucrats is within their tolerance. Just like you, the court has distributed acres to earn more taxes, but the court will not suppress the merger in the future, you can buy more land to make money, and even the industry and commerce you run can have more employees. Your life may be better than you did before and you make more money. Do you have to try your best to block the new law and compete with the court because you pay more taxes?"

Cheng Yaojin pinched his chin, "I'm not that stupid again."

"That's it. Spending acres may have caused some losses to the landlords, but they can get many benefits without restraining mergers and business development."

"Will you no longer equalize the fields?"

"There is no need to equalize the land. You can instead rent the land to farmers, then collect tenant rent, or sell it directly to private individuals. Anyway, no matter what, the court will not lose."

"Of course, the people will not lose money. Even if they are uneven in their land, don't they have to pay the tax on their duties and serve in the service?"

"What I said seems to make sense." Cheng Yaojin sighed.

"Then do you think your Majesty will agree to this new law?"

Li Chao shook his head, "This matter may not go smoothly, but I believe that as long as your Majesty understands the relationship, he will definitely adopt it in the end. After all, this new method is not a little stronger than the original one, but a hundred times stronger."

Chang'an.

The emperor personally fought against the Western Regions, and the army was transferred from various places, including the Northern Imperial Army in the capital, and the soldiers from various places were drawn.

The court dispatched a lot of civilians to transport money, grain and equipment.

The army gathered the troops drawn from all over the country along the way, but they did not move quickly.

It was not until June that Li Shimin arrived in Chang'an.

Here, only 100,000 soldiers and horses have been completely assembled.

The armies were reorganized here and formed five legions.

Chang'an has now been demoted to the capital and is called Xijing.

Li Shimin lived in the Tai Chi Palace in Chang'an, which was the first time he had moved into the Tai Chi Palace since he ascended the throne. Previously, he promised the Tai Shanghuang that if the Tai Shanghuang was in one day, the Tai Chi Palace would belong to the Tai Shanghuang, and he would always be in the Eastern Palace to listen to politics.

However, now the Emperor of Taishang is in the Daming Palace in Hanjing. This time Li Shimin returned to Chang'an and moved directly into the Tai Chi Palace.

After leaving Chang'an for a long time, the whole Chang'an seemed much more desolate.

With tens of thousands of palace personnel, the officials and relatives of Chang'an, tens of thousands of troops, as well as craftsmen, merchants, etc. in Chang'an, the whole Chang'an seemed extremely empty.

At this time, I looked at the layout of Chang'an City, especially those walls and doors. The more I looked at it, the more I felt awkward.

The tall walls clamp the streets, there are no windows, no doors, and no shops on the street. No matter how you look, it looks like a large military fort.

There were hundreds of thousands of people missing at once, and now the total population in Chang'an City is only more than 100,000 points left.

A city originally designed to accommodate millions of people has only one tenth of people living in the area. More than one hundred yards are now empty, and the remaining half are only a few people living in it.

Many workshops in the south of the city are now full of crops and vegetables, and even sheep and pigs are raised.

The rich and noble houses in the yards are not as lively as before, and only a few old servants left behind by the families are left.

Even in the palace, there are only a few hundred old eunuchs left in the palace.

Without comparison, there is no difference.

"Hanjing is more lively, prosperous and more convenient." Li Shimin sighed.

Fang Xuanling next to him nodded.

"Now when you look at Chang'an again, you suddenly find that Chang'an is really not suitable for being a capital, and it is out of place everywhere."

Changsun Wuji smiled and said, "Now Chang'an has dropped by hundreds of thousands of people sharply, but Guandong will not have to work hard to transport grain into Guanzhong in the future. Guanzhong, Shuofang, Suiyuan, Hexi, and Longyou are self-sufficient enough to no longer look up to Guandong's supply."

"This item saves countless manpower and material resources of the court, and in the future, Guanzhong will gradually accumulate food. Without a disaster, the entire Guanzhong will have to leave Guandong and eat at Guandong." Li Shimin also sighed.

Guanzhong, which was once the capital of the Qin and Han Dynasties, is no longer suitable as the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

Muzi blue said
Chapter completed!