Chapter 1351: Robbing people

After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, in the fourth year of Emperor Wude's reign and in the sixteenth year of Emperor Taizong's reign, edicts were issued to inspect household registrations.

After Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian, land was merged and developed, and farmers' land was dwindling. They were unable to afford taxes and labor, and were forced to abandon their homes and leave their hometowns.

Especially in Wu Zetian's later years, heavy taxes and servitude forced a large number of farmers to flee, and a situation emerged where "more than half of the world's registered permanent residents fled".

In view of such a severe situation, Wu Zetian sent ten envoys all over the world to flee.

These are all small things.

The largest household expansion in the Tang Dynasty was completed during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.

In the early years of Kaiyuan, the situation of farmers fleeing continued to develop. Some of them fled into the mountains and forests or went to other places to reclaim land for farming, and some fled into the cities to work as employees.

More and more became hidden tenants and servants of landlords, and even some new landlords emerged among the fleeing team.

As well as creating fake honors and acting as sex slaves to escape corvee.

In order to increase the country's financial income and expand the sources of corvee and military service, in the ninth year of Kaiyuan, Yu Wenrong proposed to check the fraud and abuse of sex labor and search for evaders.

The first plan was not too successful. The Tang government ordered that those who fled from prefectures and counties should surrender within 100 days, and ordered Yu Wenrong to push Gou.

Since only those fleeing peasants who were annexed by the decree could be "attached to their place of residence", and the rest had to "return to their hometowns", they were resisted by the peasants.

Therefore, in the twelfth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong clearly changed his plan in the "Edict to Promote Envoys to Encourage Farmers to Appease Hukou": "First, flee, and then surrender. If you can cultivate the land diligently, and cultivate the idle fields, persuade them to cultivate them."

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Farmers are allowed to attach citizenship where they are and no longer need to submit ultimatums to return to their hometowns.

It was Yu Wenrong who raised the matter and appointed twenty-nine agricultural judges and censors to go to all parts of the country to seize fugitive households and registered foreign lands. At the same time, new customers were exempted from six years of rent, transfer and corvee service.

, only charging light taxes.

This inspection was a great success. In just three years, the Tang government expanded its registered population to more than 800,000 households, a population of several million, and increased the court's tax revenue by more than 4 million guan, which directly promoted the arrival of the prosperous Kaiyuan era.

The key to the success or failure of several household expansions lies in the stimulation of six years of "light taxation" and the temptation to change "narrow households" into "wide households".

As the Song Dynasty has developed to this day, similar problems have arisen.

For example, Hebei suffered from repeated disasters, so there were officials who reported deaths, hid refugees, and embezzled taxes.

When Su You and Han Chunyan studied the issue of Hebei, they keenly discovered a problem: since Hebei began to recover during the Xining period, the cultivated land has almost doubled, but the population still has not increased at all.

So Su You wrote to Zhao Xu, Your Majesty, this is incredible! All the people in Hebei used oxen for plowing luxuriously, replacing manpower, doubling production efficiency, and solving the big problem of mismatch between land growth and population growth. Minister

I would like to express my special congratulations. I am really happy for His Majesty.

Zhao Xu was furious and ordered Wang Kechen to investigate the matter thoroughly and took down a large group of subordinate officials.

The problem of hidden households in the Song Dynasty has a special name called "fake names".

This includes several situations, such as using a false name to hijack a tenant, a false name to hijack a household, a false name to host a child, and a false name to hijack a child.

Tenancy under false pretences means that free people who own cultivated land place their land in the name of "official households" and call themselves tenants. In fact, the land title and deeds are in their own hands. They must discuss the distribution of benefits with the official household.

All benefited.

The reason for this problem is that the Song Dynasty imposed too many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, as well as excessive government service and corvee.

An official household is an official family. Although the law stipulates that the number of acres of an official household is limited, and the excess is taxed according to regulations, but in the Song Dynasty, in addition to taxes, the issue of coronation and labor service was actually more serious than the tax problem.

Co-payment is an act in which the government compels the purchase, and sometimes no money is even paid, which is called "Baike".

Not to mention corvee work, repairing canals, building roads to transport grain, etc. are all included.

There were even cases of soldiers being sent directly to the battlefield forcibly. Sima Guang once denounced the imperial court for this matter.

Official households are exempt from all these, and are also exempt from transfers, changes and many other items, so they can play a "protective" role.

Hijacking households under false pretences is to transform one household into multiple households by turning one household into multiple households.

Because in the Song Dynasty, tenants and lower-class households were protected and supported, and they were not required to pay taxes or serve in the military service. Therefore, many households that were supposed to pay taxes used this method to take advantage of the loopholes.

The strange name Shen Ding is aimed at another type of tax - Ding tax.

The Song Dynasty stipulated that men between twenty and sixty were called Ding, and all kinds of labor were apportioned according to Ding. There was also a Ding tax in the south.

At the same time, the laws of the Song Dynasty also stipulated that single-person families could be exempted from these, so many families disguised themselves as single-person families, or entrusted themselves to wealthy families as tenants, or they did not cover their heads when they were thirty years old and pretended to be less than twenty.

, are all methods.

These problems were not basically solved until the Qing Dynasty. Policies included the government and gentry receiving grain from one unit, the whip method, and sharing the land between the grain and the land, etc.

However, Su You now does not dare to let the Song Dynasty play like this immediately, because every law has its own historical background.

For example, the prerequisite for sharing one's land into an acre is the large-scale use of currency, which can only be implemented after copper coins are spread throughout urban and rural areas. Otherwise, it will be the same as a system of whipping silver. People have no money, so in order to pay taxes, they have to exchange grain for copper coins.

In exchange for silver, I was exploited by the wealthy gentry over and over again for no reason.

What Su You can do is to write to Zhao Xu to encourage local officials to expand households and give them rewards - if you expand 800 households, you will be promoted for half a year; for 1,500 households, you will be exempted from the exam; for 3,000 households, you will be reduced by one year;

Two thousand households will be reduced and surveyed for three years.

At the same time, these people are encouraged to move to Ningxia on the third road - as long as they arrive in Ningxia, one person can rent forty acres of the imperial village, tax-free for ten years, and the rent is two and a half cents; the official will give farm tools, cattle and sheep; and the most important thing is to provide transportation

The local material rewards for expanding customers are one-size-fits-all.

Another method is that anyone without household registration, as long as they live in Ningxia No. 3 Road, can register with the local government, apply for land, and become a registered household.

This is not only a reward, but also a threat.

In the fictitious name, Su You believed that this was just a reasonable tax avoidance, not a serious crime, by dividing the households from one household to another.

But it’s not impossible. You like to change your household registration to a lower household to evade taxes, right? Now we have a policy for the lower household—immigration.

So whether you would rather choose tax evasion or immigration, it’s up to you.

This article effectively avoids the occurrence of fraudulent claims.

At the same time, it was also a crackdown on officials, and moving households to produce food was a policy that the Song Dynasty had been piloting for a long time, and a set of patterns had been developed over the years.

There are so many lower-class households registered under the rule of noble officials. When it comes time to immigrate, you won’t be able to change these people for the court... Hehehehe...

Finally, I suggested to Zhao Xu that now that the Song Dynasty has entered a period of population gap, it is necessary to stimulate population growth. How to do this? The simplest way is to divide the land into acres.

Of course, it will definitely not work to do this nationwide from the beginning, so we can only start from the developed areas - Bianjing, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and Sichuan.

Because these three places have developed commerce, Ding tax has been replaced by commercial tax and is no longer an important local tax.

However, this will cause the already dense population in the three regions to become even larger, and the advantage of tax exemption for immigrants will become more prominent, which will lead more people to go to places with vast land and sparsely populated areas to become "broad households".

Therefore, the land on Ningxia No. 3 Road was given great discounts and allowed to be sold publicly.

Social problems have always been complex and must be treated using traditional medical techniques, with emphasis on the individual monarch, ministers and envoys.

If I take just one penicillin tablet, I am afraid that not only will the disease not be cured, but the condition will become more serious.

These issues are still being discussed in the court, but Su You no longer cares about them. He has posted preferential measures everywhere on Ningxia's Third Road, and also posted them in Shuzhong Business News, Liangzhe Chao News, Bianjing Business News, and

Advertise heavily in the Times.

Zhao Xu also turned a blind eye because these people went to Sanlu to help him cultivate the land, so he neither supported nor opposed it and let things develop naturally.

Central Sichuan is the place with the best mass base in Suyou, and it is also the area where land tension is the most serious. After thirty years of vigorous economic development, although some people have been diverted by the development of Zhejiang and Jinghu, it has now reached a level of tension.

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Therefore, this policy is very popular in Sichuan. It is a matter of mutual consent. Sichuan officials expand their private households to gain political achievements, and send them to Ningxia to earn another round of money. They are as happy as they want.

The enforcement in Bianjing City is a bit worse, but for many proletarians in the city, the temptation is still very huge.

However, the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture did not make much money, because Zhao Xu mainly used this quota to solve the problem of redundant troops in Bianjing, and the prices in Bianjing were so high that the consistent reward of Yiding was not very attractive.

On Liangzhe Road, there was almost no response, but instead they taught Wang Shao a lesson.

Why are you going to Shaanxi? There is less land in Nanhai, but isn’t it delicious when it is cooked three times a year? Besides, you are not used to eating noodles there. Come to Nanhai, come to Nanhai, we eat rice?

Whatever policy the Duke of Shu gives you, I will give you the same policy!
Chapter completed!