Emperor Ming Dynasty

Not to mention, in the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen dynasties, three additional rates were imposed, especially the Liao rate, which ran through the three dynasties and became a practice.

And how much is Liao's salary?At most, it is no more than nine percent.

One tael is equal to ten cents, one cent is equal to ten cents, and one cent is equal to ten cents.

In other words, one tael of silver is equal to one thousand cents.

In the Ming Dynasty, the largest Liao payment was involved, but in fact it was just an extra nine Wen per mu, which was only a few catties in exchange for grain.

But you must know that the one whip method in Zhang Juzheng's period had already completely combined all taxes and servitude, and there was only one tax for farmers across the country.

As for the collection of Liao's salary, the court slapped itself in the face and broke the trust of the people, so it was naturally crooked from the beginning.

Taxation without anti-corruption will allow Jiapai to be used by corrupt officials, and the people will be exploited. Coupled with natural and man-made disasters, it is not surprising to rebel.

During the shogunate era, new regulations were formulated. The division of land between upper, middle and lower land was no longer based on acres of land, but on the basis of provinces.

After the capital was moved to Beijing, the Ministry of Household Affairs formulated new regulations, and the provinces in the whole country were designated as third-class.

The first-class pays three cents per mu, the second-class pays two cents, and the third-class pays one cent.

The third class pays only ten Wen per mu.

With the two provinces of Huguang, the three provinces of Jiangnan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, and Sichuan as the core provinces, there are more plains, so they are the first class, and the silver is three points ([-] coins).

The second class refers to middle-level lands, such as Fujian, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Shuntian Prefecture, which receive two points of silver.

The third class is the barren provinces, which are Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Gansu, and Suiyuan. The greatest hope of the court is that they can be self-sufficient.

It seems like a big burden to pay one cent for silver and ten cents.

Compared with the thirty-one tax in the Hongwu period, it is already several times.

Although it is a bit too cold-blooded to say that taxation is only based on the status of the recipient, regardless of the size of the land, but considering the administrative efficiency at this time, the more complicated the procedures, the easier it is for people to take advantage of loopholes.

The fool's way is the most appropriate.

In addition to the tax rate, the biggest difference from the previous dynasty is that the Shaowu court completely abandoned the ancestral system.

Without the burden of the ancestral system, taxation on all land can be thrown off the shoulders.

That's right, Zhu Yuanzhang felt sorry for the heavy taxation of the people, so he stipulated that the national tax quota would remain unchanged, only about 30 million per year.

For example, a government stipulated a tax of 1 million shi, and 100,000 people paid it at that time, but after more than 200 years, the population and land increased several times, and the tax was evenly distributed, but even lower.

And this has formed a financial crisis. Times have changed, and the situation we face is different, and the expenditure will naturally be different.

But now, after the shogunate then exercised in the south of the Yangtze River and then expanded to the north, the imperial court no longer cares about the ancestral system, and taxes all the land.

In this way, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, taxes increased greatly.

It is conservatively estimated that if the north and the south pay taxes at the same time, the imperial court can collect 30 million silver dollars just for the land tax.

Adding commercial tax, breaking through 40 million is just a matter of time.

This is still the result of exempting the three rates.

"After the combination of Ding and Fu, it has been cultivated for three years. Even if the mother is expropriated for three points, the common people can bear it."

Zhao Shu softly said something that was not quite in line with the rules, but it was the truth.

"As long as the officialdom is rectified, such taxes will not be a problem."

"The imperial court is fighting, and it is not appropriate to cause chaos. Let's talk about it later."

The emperor shook his head slightly, showing helplessness.

To fight against the outside world, we must first settle down at home. There can be no chaos in the country at this time. It is better to have corrupt officials in power than nothing.

In the distance, under the scorching sun, countless peasants pushed their chariots and horses forward with difficulty, and there were many wheelbarrows and carts, which also occupied a huge proportion of the team.

Compared with livestock, young and strong are the cheapest.

"Rest, prepare to eat—"

As soon as the meal time came, the peasants sat under the shade of the trees by the side of the road and received the food distributed.

Four fist-sized coarse-grain steamed buns, a large bowl of porridge and pickled vegetables, and herbal tea containing salt are also placed in buckets for drinking at will.

As for those livestock, they ate fodder mixed with beans and bean dregs, grunting non-stop, and drank salt water freely, which made people envious.

In a quarter of an hour, everything was in their stomachs, and the peasants, who barely had a full meal, began to work hard.

"Your Majesty, although there are smooth rivers from Beijing to Tianjin, but today is dry and water transportation is insufficient, manpower still occupies the majority."

"One stone of grain arrives in Tianjin from Beijing, and it costs half a stone on the way."

"The 300,000 peasants and livestock eat about 700,000 stones a month, not counting the loss..."

As for the loss of money, Zhao Shu can be said to be open-mouthed, and he has already memorized it by heart.

"Spending money is like flowing water." The emperor sighed: "If it's not corvee, but pure employment, how much money will it cost?"

After a word of emotion, Zhu Yixi kept silent.

For ordinary people, taxes and corvee are the thresholds that cannot be escaped in life.

If it is levying miscellaneous taxes, selling fields and land, selling children and daughters, you can always make do with it for a few years.

And if it was corvée, the house would be broken down almost in the blink of an eye.

Corvée is more painful than heavy taxes.

The most obvious example is the large-scale corvée during the Qin and Sui dynasties. Every time a young man was recruited, it broke a family.

At the peak of the Qin Dynasty, the population was around 30 million, and 700,000 people were expropriated from the Afang Palace and the Mausoleum. Together with military service such as building the Great Wall, opening the Lingqu Canal, repairing the Chi Road, and guarding the frontier fortresses, 3 million young adults across the country left their hometowns to serve at the same time. .

Excluding the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, the number of people serving in the military accounts for [-]% of the youth labor force, productivity is destroyed, and taxes are heavy. How can we not rebel?

And if it is just taxation, like the Ming Dynasty, from Wanli to Chongzhen, it can finally last for decades.

"The harm of corvée, and even miscellaneous taxes—"

After muttering something, Zhu Yixi stopped talking, then got on the horse and left the place.

After all, he couldn't bear it, so he might as well just ignore it!
Since it was a war period, the emperor returned to Beijing in order to better face the complicated battle situation.

The cabinet implemented the emperor's love for the people, and made clear regulations on corvee service:
All local corvees must be used during the slack hours of farming, and the county will collect labor for a maximum of [-] days, and must take care of meals, and must not cross the county border.

If it reaches the government, it will be halved.

In addition, there are also detailed regulations on the standards for the collection and issuance of corvee.

In terms of age, it has increased from 16 years old to twenty, and the highest has been reduced from sixty to fifty.

There are three other non-conscripts, the only son not to serve, the disabled not to serve, and the widow not to serve.

If you don't want to, you can also hire qualified young adults to serve in the military, but you have to pay the service fee.

Conditions have become looser, which will definitely lead to a sharp drop in the number of people serving corvee.

"It's nothing more than that."

The emperor was slightly complacent: "If there is not enough corvee, the locality can also hire idlers to save the trouble of the poor."