Piao Tianzi    Chapter 291 Tire

The power of Ebony Cliff has taken root in Guanzhong, but what makes Qu Bucai feel frustrated is that the dead soldiers of Ebony Cliff have never found a chance to assassinate Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, and Bai Mo, and there is even less chance to assassinate Liu Bang. After Bai Mo's reform, these ministers were afraid of revenge by the powerful Guanzhong, so they all strengthened their own guards. (""net 7*

However, news about Baimo's reform continued to spread to Jiangdong.

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At the turn of spring and summer, Qu Bucai finally returned to Jiangdong.

Xiang Zhuang immediately summoned Qu Bucai in the study room, and at the same time sent people to invite civil and military ministers such as Fan Zeng, Xiang Da, Xiang Tuo, Baili Xian, Wu She, Bi Shu.

In front of Xiang Zhuang and the ministers, Qu Bucai briefly stated the whole story of Bai Mo's reform.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang said in disbelief: "Bai Mo's new method of implementing Jun Yao's military and calculating the fu did not trigger the resistance of the powerful people in Guanzhong?"

Qu Bucai said: "Returning to the imperial court, the powerful people in Guanzhong resisted, and hundreds of powerful families in more than a dozen counties revolt. However, their resistance was eventually brutal suppressed by the Han army. Zhou Guanfu, who was appointed as the guardian general by Liu Bang, massacred all the powerful people in one breath!"

Xiang Zhuang said sternly: "Liu Bang, he is really cruel!"

Fan Zeng sneered: "In order to escape from his own life, Liu Bang's son could even push off the carriage with his own son and daughter. What is it to kill hundreds of Guanzhong tyrants?"

Wu She frowned and said, "What about the remaining Guanzhong tyrants? There are at least thousands of powerful tyrants in the four counties and 70 counties in Guanzhong. Zhou Guanfu bloodily suppressed hundreds of tyrants. Could the remaining tyrants just watch like this? Are they not afraid that Liu Bang will free up his hands to slaughter them again?"

Qu Bucai sighed: "The doctor, the remaining Guanzhong tyrants are powerless even if they want to resist. Because Jun Yao's military service was very popular with the people. After Zhou Guanfu suppressed hundreds of powerful families, the people of Guanzhong knew Liu Bang's determination to reform, so they all supported the new law, and no one would work hard for the powerful families!"

The reason why the powerful are powerful is not only because of their status in the village and their respective property, but also because of their reputation. As long as they climb high and call, the strong men from all over the country will gather and respond. This is the powerful men, but once the strong men from all over the country no longer bid them, they will lose their power. ("" website.com)

"After the vassal of Jun Yao, after the levy calculation, the vast majority of ordinary people will have no worries. From then on, they can be freed from birth and raising them. The population of Guanzhong and Bashu will probably increase sharply!" Bi Shu said worriedly, "This is not good news for Da Chu."

Fan Zeng, Xiang He, Baili Xian nodded deeply in agreement.

This is indeed the case. Today, the common people of Chu State generally only have a small amount of arable land. Although Jiangdong is full of wastelands and countless lands can be reclaimed, the labor of a strong man is limited after all. Instead of spending more energy to reclaim low-yield raw land, it is better to rent a mature land from the gentry and powerful.

But even if it is cooked rehmannia, the grain grown with hard work must be paid for land rent. After several layers of exploitation, less than half of the remaining grain will be left. It is still very difficult to support a family of four. If you give birth to seven or eight, just counting the tuition can squeeze out all the harvest of the year. What can the family eat at that time?

Therefore, the vast majority of ordinary people dare not let go of life and raise them.

If the calculation of the tuition is abolished, the people will not have so much concern, because no matter how many babies are born, they don’t have to take more money. Although there are too many babies, they will have more mouths, but if they don’t have enough food to eat, can they still dig wild vegetables? When the babies are a little older, when they have labor, they can help reclaim raw land or rent a few acres of cooked land, which isn’t it enough to eat?

Xiang Zhuang nodded and said in a deep voice: "Liu Bang can be equal to Yao's mission and calculate the tuition equally, so can we do it!"

After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said to Xiang him again, Bailixian said: "Ziyi, Ziliang, you will go back and check the calculations, calculate the various vassals, calculate the tax and calculate a fixed quota, and then uniformly calculate it into the land tax, and then re-establish a tax rate. From this year on, the land tax will be levied according to the new tax rate, and all vassals and miscellaneous tax will be abolished!"

"Here!" Xiang he, Bailixian, quickly knelt down and bowed to Xiang Zhuang. The latest chapter of the Holy Hall.com

Xiang Zhuang paused and said, "If you want to be at the right and left, you should just apply the third batch of new laws and complete the military system reform."

"Now!" Xiang he and Bailixian nodded again.

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Three days later, Xiang He and Baili Xian entered the palace overnight and reported their accounting results to Xiang Zhuang.

Taking advantage of Xiang Zhuang's search for the list, Xiang said: "The king, Yao Shi, Gengzhu and other people are mainly used to build cities, roads, Xu, etc. The problems of Xu can be solved through military reform, mainly building cities, roads, bridges, etc., and then the treasury needs to allocate money and grain from the people to recruit labor."

"Yeah." Xiang Zhuang nodded and asked, "What about?"

"I have calculated with Ziliang. Currently, the population of Jiangdong is more than 2.6 million, and the number of people on the list is more than 800,000."

"Each man must serve Yao for one month every year, and each Wangju consumes at least one stone of food every month, so the Yao man converted it into a land tax of 800,000 stones!"

"More than 1.8 million entries, the entries are worth 900,000 stones!"

"There are more than 800,000 Ding Na calculated the tuition, which is 800,000 stones!"

"In addition to the original land tax of 900,000, the final land tax quota is 3.4 million stones!"

"Three and four million shi?" Xiang Zhuang was secretly shocked when he heard this, and said, "There are more than 12 million mu of arable land in Jiangdong, which means that the average arable land needs to be paid 34 kilograms of land per mu. Assuming that the output of one mu of arable land is one shi, which is 120 kilograms, then the final land tax rate exceeds four taxes and one?"

Four taxes and one tax, this is an unimaginable tax burden!

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiang Zhuang suddenly remembered another thing and asked, "By the way, you said that Jiangdong should receive tuition, and the calculation tuition is equivalent to 1.7 million shi of grain? But why didn't this batch of grain enter the warehouse last year?"

Baili Xian said in surprise: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten? When you implemented the law on the establishment of household registration and civil affairs, you had issued an edict that the entire Great Chu would not stop talking about the tutu for ten years, and calculate the tutu!"

Xiang Zhuang slapped his forehead and said, "Look at my memory."

When the law was first implemented for the establishment of household registration and civil law, Xiangzhuang issued an edict to reduce the 10-year vocational tax and calculate the vocational tax. Because the Jiangdong clan and the gentry hidden a large number of vocational taxes at that time, the actual vocational taxes were extremely limited, so Xiangzhuang didn't care much, and he was exempted for ten years with a stroke of his pen.

Xiang Zhuang said again: "Since this is the case, then the tax quota will be exempted if you calculate the tax quota."

Xiang He said: "If the tax is reduced and the tax is calculated, the final land tax rate should be seven taxes and one."

Xiang Zhuang said: "If you reduce it, the final land tax rate will be set as ten taxes and one!" This is also Xiang Zhuang's psychological bottom line. Title tax is almost the highest tax burden of the Chinese feudal dynasty. Of course, at the end of all dynasties, it is not comparable to the abnormal situation of crazy tax increases and even pre-collecting land taxes for decades.

"Ten taxes per one?" Xiang he frowned, "Master, will this cause the national treasury to be tight?"

Bailixian was also a little worried and said, "Yes, the king, the Yao service, the errand service, the tuition will be abolished, and the tuition will become the only tax source for the national treasury. If there is one ten tax, even if it is a prosperous year, it will only be two million stones. After deducting the salary of officials at all levels, the family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's food and military rations, there will be very little left."

Baili Xian is telling the truth. There are now about 300 civil servants and more than 300 military officers in the entire Chu State. The average salary of these civil servants is 500 stones, which is 300,000 stones. It takes 600,000 stones to support 50,000 permanent garrison troops every year. In addition, the Lumi of Shiqing Xunqi has to be distributed, and how many can they be left in the end?

What can only be done by just a few melons?

At that time, let alone building a city or building a road, even if you repair the palace for Xiangzhuang, you will have to borrow it from all over the place.

Moreover, there are not many honorary relatives in Shiqing who have won the title now, and the pressure is not great. However, as more and more honorary relatives in the future, the pressure on the national treasury will inevitably increase. Once a famine occurs, it is afraid that they will be unable to make ends meet, and it is even more impossible to use grain to provide relief to the victims. That would be bad.

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said calmly: "The tight capital is temporary. As the population increases, the total arable land area in Jiangdong will definitely increase. In this way, the annual income of the treasury will increase, and the situation will gradually improve. What's more, although Yaofu, tuition and calculation tax are abolished, land tax is not the only income of the treasury."

Xiang said: "Why is the king talking about goods tax? But how much income can this be?"

What kind of goods tax is the tax paid according to the total value of the goods when the goods pass through the dock and check in.

However, the scale of commercial trade in the pre-Qin period was small, and most of them were retail retail sales. Giant merchants like Tao Zhugong were rare, and the tax revenue they contributed was naturally limited. Now, the Chu State has public transportation paper, books, soju and other items continuously sold to the Central Plains. Commercial trade has become much more prosperous than before, but there is not much tax.

It is worth 30,000 to 50,000 s. It is worth 30,000 s.

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said, "There are few merchants in Jiangdong at present, and there are not many goods circulations, so there are very few goods and taxes. However, after the third batch of new laws were implemented, merchants accumulated a certain amount by trafficking goods and paying goods and taxes, and they could also obtain titles. In this way, the number of merchants in merchants will definitely surge, and the number of goods and taxes will also surge!"

In ancient China, business did not begin to flourish until the Song Dynasty. However, as a time traveler, Xiangzhuang knew that factors such as population and productivity were not the main factors that restricted the development of business. When ancient Rome was just a small city-state, business was already quite developed. The reason why the business in ancient China could not become a climate was the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce.
Chapter completed!