The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 191 Taxation
While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

All the suffering is only accumulated on the bodies of these small people, those high-ranking families, those powerful families, and those high-ranking officials and nobles can sit in the mansions and enjoy themselves wantonly.

And the original officials of Shangdang County, after seeing the fierce methods of Yinglangwei, are now trembling and dare not neglect in the slightest.

Because those officials who thought they were smart and were unwilling to cooperate, without exception, were brought into the Eagle Wolf Guard Office located in the north of the eldest son city by those vicious Eagle Wolf Guard Tiqi.

Then he never came out again, and there has been no news since then.

Even the most frightening thing is that when they occasionally mention it in their own homes, those Tiqi can actually repeat it verbatim.

It also made these officials who were a little unwilling to cooperate tremble with fear, and now the order issued to the Yellow Turban Army is not to neglect the slightest, for fear of entering the terrifying Eagle Wolf Guard Office.

After several months of training, the talismans in the Taoist hall are barely qualified for some civil servants' work, and the Yellow Turban Army's rule over Shangdang County has gradually strengthened, and it is no longer as powerless as before. .

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Eagle Wolf Guard Office.

After the last public trial, the reputation of the Eagle Wolf Guard gradually spread, which also made people fearful.

At this time, the Yamen of the Eagle Wolf Guard was much quieter, and when those pedestrians passed by, they would unconsciously quicken their pace.

"Call-"

Yan Zhong reined in the horse under his seat, glanced at the plaque of the Eagle Wolf Guard in front of him, and felt a little nervous.

When Xu An summoned Liu Pi to establish the Eagle Wolf Guard, no one told him. He only figured out some of the joints when the Eagle Wolf Guard arrested officials for the first time.

However, he originally thought that the Eagle Wolf Guard was only used to monitor those officials, but the arrest operation at the beginning of this year made Yan Zhong understand the Eagle Wolf Guard better.

The scope of surveillance of these eagle wolf guard cavalry was far more narrow than he had imagined.

Yan Zhong led the guards to the gate of the Eagle Wolf Guard. It was the first time he had entered the office of the Eagle Wolf Guard. When he saw the engraving on the wooden pillar, he read it softly.

"Monitoring the world, patrolling Kyushu... What a eagle watcher, Gu, the name is really good."

Yan Zhong's guard showed Yan Zhong's token, and the eagle wolf Wei Tiqi only took a cursory look, and stepped aside to open the door.

After entering the gate, you came to a courtyard, and the surrounding aisles were full of eagle wolf Wei Ti cavalry in a hurry.

Next to the partition walls on the left and right sides, there are hangboards saying Eagle Guard and Wolf Guard. In the middle there is a rather majestic house that has been repaired. The courtyard outside the door is full of yellow angels in heavy armor. The Experience Department of Eagle Wolf Guard.

Yan Zhong withdrew his gaze. It had been some time since Xu An summoned him. Although he was a little curious about the Eagle Wolf Guard, he couldn't make Xu An wait too long.

Yan Zhong quickly walked towards the direction of the experience department, almost all the yellow angels did not know Yan Zhong, so no one stopped Yan Zhong, and Yan Zhong directly stepped into the experience department.

In the experience department, not only Xu Anzai, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Zhang Yan and other generals gathered here.

Xu An was frowning at this moment, looking at the bamboo slips in his hand, as if thinking about something, but Xu An also heard Yan Zhong's footsteps.

Yan Zhong first made a series to Xu An, and asked suspiciously: "My lord, why did you call me so eagerly?"

Xu An motioned Yan Zhong to sit down, and said, "Remember what I said earlier about collecting land from those tyrants in Shangdang County who invaded the land?"

"The Eagle Wolf Guard has already recorded the land collected from those tyrants."

Yan Zhong's eyes lit up, and his face also showed joy.

"That's very good. Those hidden households, as well as refugees, households that lack land, have records in the government office. I am still a little worried that I will not be able to catch up with the spring planting, and the farming season will be missed."

Xu An smiled and continued, "I will ask the Eagle Wolf Guard to deliver the bamboo slips to your office later."

"However, how to use these lands, what can the military division have in mind?"

Hearing Xu An's inquiry, Yan Zhong replied without hesitation: "I think these lands are directly assigned to the name of Taiping Road and leased to those households for use."

Xu An had mentioned this matter to Yan Zhong before, so Yan Zhong actually had a draft in his chest.

Xu An then asked: "What percentage of the tax do you think the military advisor should charge?"

Xu An was indeed a little uncertain about the percentage of the tax that should be charged. He did not have a detailed understanding of the taxes in the Han Dynasty.

He vaguely remembered that the land tax in the Han Dynasty was only [-] yuan, but if only these taxes were collected, it would not be enough for the Yellow Turban Army at this stage.

Yan Zhong replied: "Preaching the Way of Peace everywhere is to persuade people to do good. The army strictly prohibits soldiers from disturbing the people, and public trials of powerful and bully to win the hearts of the people. It is even more unwilling to force the people to join the army and join the Tao."

"I think the land tax should be slightly lighter in order to win the hearts of the people for the lord."

"The whole territory of Shangdang belongs to Huang Tian. My lord has not promulgated any decree to recover taxes, and my lord's collection of corvees is also a supplement of money. So I think the tax can be collected at [-]% now."

Xu An frowned slightly, and confirmed to Yan Zhong: "Thirty percent?"

"Yes, [-]% of the rent tax, and now there is no other tax collected. There is no head tax, and there are no complex and exorbitant taxes such as counting and oral taxes. Collecting [-]% of the tax looks at the world today. It can even be said to be a cultivation , and it is in line with my lord's current strategy."

In fact, as Yan Zhong said, if it was only land tax in the Han Dynasty, it was indeed light, but in fact, far more than land tax was paid, poll tax, oral tax, counting tax...

There are also a series of new exorbitant taxes, as well as the corvee conscripted by the government, all of which are like a mountain on the shoulders of Shengdou Xiaomin.

In the Han Dynasty, from the time of birth, as long as the name appeared in the government's household registration book, everyone had to pay poll tax.

Although the tax rate on the land is very low, the head tax still has to be paid a lot for the family.

At the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that the scope of oral tax collection was from children aged seven to fourteen, and each person was [-] qian per year.

In the fourth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (203 BC), "the beginning of the calculation was Fu".

It is stipulated that all adult men and women aged 15 to 56 years old shall pay 120 yuan per person per year.

It is called a calculation, and it is used to purchase chariots, horses and weapons.In the time of Emperor Wen, it was changed to 40 qian, and in the time of Emperor Wu, it was restored to 120 qian. In the time of Emperor Xuan, it was calculated as 90 qian, and in the time of Emperor Cheng, it was calculated as 80 qian.

Although the advantage counting tax will be slightly reduced at certain times, the tax reduction measures will not be implemented for a long time, and the burden on the people is still heavy.

"From the [-]th to the [-]th year of the Republic of China, the money is paid for the purchase of soldiers and horses." "Hanyi Notes"

During the reign of Emperor Hui, the government also used counting as a political means to encourage people to have children.

"In the six years of Emperor Hui, if a girl from fifteen to thirty did not marry, she would be counted five times." That is to say, if a girl was fifteen years old and had not married, the population tax would be five times that of ordinary people, that is, 600 yuan.

In that fragile small-scale peasant economy era, although the national land tax was very low, the agricultural output was also very low.

In good harvest years, apart from various tax and tax expenses, the people can barely maintain their lives.

However, in the event of natural disasters and man-made disasters, locust floods and droughts, countless people will go bankrupt immediately. At this time, those gentry tyrants will take the opportunity to collect the fields, turn the bankrupt farmers into slaves, and further strengthen their power and family.

(End of this chapter)