Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 574
political affairs hall.

Several ministers sat on high-legged chairs, divided into two rows, with three people in each row, and the emperor sat first in the middle, and a long table was placed in front of the emperor.

This is a new piece of furniture that was just purchased this year. It cannot be summed up as comfortable to use, but it should be very comfortable.

The emperor didn't know how other people felt. At least, now the Prime Ministers don't have to worry about leg cramps when they are dealing with things in the political affairs hall.

But now, no prime minister cared about leg cramps, and they all fell silent because of a piece of paper given by the emperor.

What is written on the paper is that the land is divided into acres.

These four simple words have completely overturned the poll tax from ancient times to the present.

Datang is now a "zuyong transfer" system, which is essentially a poll tax.

What is rent?
The land rent is also paid with two millet stones per dicing per year.

Very reasonable, right?

But you have to know that once there is a natural disaster and there is no food, the common people can only sell their fields, and then hide under the landlord or aristocratic family, becoming a black household!

At that time, where will the court ask for money?
And tune, that is, to pay two feet of silk and three taels of cotton every year, or two feet and five feet of cloth and three catties of hemp.

When you see every penny, you should know that this is a poll tax.

Yong, that is, corvee, or how long you need to serve every year, it can be regarded as an alternative poll tax.

The biggest disadvantage of this kind of tax is the land issue.

For example, a landlord's family has only five members, two men and three women, but there are thousands of acres of land.According to court rules, the family's poll tax was paid.

So here comes the question, what is this small amount of money to the landlord’s family?
Similarly, there are five people in a poor peasant family, two men and three women, and they have to pay the same poll tax as the landlord’s family. Can the poor peasant’s income be compared with that of the landlord?
If things go on like this, once some disaster occurs, how will the people live?
At that time, when the first emperor ascended the throne, with a wave of his hand, he implemented a system of rent adjustment, emphasizing the "personality" as the basis, and no matter how much land or property there is, a "head" tax should be paid.

In other words, no matter rich or poor, everyone pays taxes according to their own heads.

The aristocratic family burst into laughter, and the common people cried like dogs.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has been established for only a dozen years, the land equalization system is operating well, the imperial court has surplus land, and the population of the people has been greatly depleted due to the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, so everything can remain stable.Even the aristocratic family does not dare to annex the land wantonly now, everything is going well.

But what about twenty years later, thirty years later?
Leave this hidden danger to future generations to solve?
Believe in the wisdom of future generations?
Why are the descendants so unlucky, they don't have their share in good things, leaving them with a mess?

Moreover, Li Zhiyun is very clear that this thing can only be enforced by him, otherwise the king of future generations will not have the confidence and strength to do it.

Because they don't have that ability!
To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter if you kill the aristocratic family, or set up a small business, except for him and the first emperor, and the monarchs of later generations, unless they are the kind of existences that are crazy and full of IQ, once they do this thing, he will only Cause the family to rebel.

Throughout history, how many ZTE masters have there been?

Perhaps, some people think that there are still many ZTE masters.

But in Li Zhiyun's view, it was just a flashback. At most, the dynasty's life could be extended for a few decades, and it would not be able to completely change the dynasty's decline.

That's not called ZTE, that's called lingering.

According to the theory of the feudal dynasty curve, from the establishment of the dynasty to about a hundred years, this stage is an overall upward slope, that is to say, at this stage the dynasty is prosperous and always getting stronger.That is to say, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the government is well-organized and the people are harmonious.

A few mentally retarded dynasties are not counted, here are only normal dynasties.

And after a hundred years, it will start to decline.Some dynasties will decline more slowly, and some dynasties will plummet in an instant.

At this time, when the Lord of ZTE appears, there will be a small upward curve on the downward slope, but it will soon decline again.

Those without the Master of ZTE will directly touch the ground and die suddenly.

In history, there is a saying that the decline of the Tang Dynasty began with the reign of Zhenguan.Does it make sense?

I don't know, I'm just giving some opinions here.

The first is the rent modulation system.

Do you think this is Li Yuan's first creation?
wrong!
This thing is just a modification of the rent modulation in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It has not changed much at all, but it is just to cooperate with the implementation of the land equalization system.

But Li Yuan and Li Shimin, the two generations of emperors on horseback, possessed huge power. With their knowledge, couldn't they understand the problem of the rent-yong adjustment system?

Regardless of rich or poor, all pay a fixed amount of taxes.

As far as this sentence is concerned, a normal person can see it. Isn't this good for those aristocratic families and local landlords?
Can't Li Shimin and Li Yuan see it?
No.

Old Li's family is from aristocratic background, a member of Guanlong, who knows more about the twists and turns than Old Li's family?

With Li Shimin's vision and political sense, how did the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, and even the Sui fall? Don't you really understand?
If you really think so, then you simply look down on Li Shimin.

Then why doesn't he change?

Li Zhiyun thinks that there are two reasons.

First of all, he may not be able to think of a way to spread the money into the mu.Maybe, he can think of it, but he can't execute it.

Why can't it be executed?
This is the secondary reason, aristocratic family!
If you take Datang as a pyramid-shaped plan, you will see that the emperor is at the top.

The aristocratic family is half a shoulder shorter than the royal family.

The lowest level is the common people.

Who will react the most once it is done?
Still need to ask?
Who else but the family.

What is a small amount of money into the mu?

Those with more land pay more, those with little land pay less, and those without land don’t pay.

Who owns the most land in Datang?

Aristocratic family.

Not to mention the nobles of Guanlong, the phrase "farming and studying heirlooms" of Shandong aristocratic families does not refer to the small-scale farming economy of each family.

In history, once Li Shimin threw out the idea of ​​"spreading into the mu", the Guanlong nobles first turned their backs on him, and then the Shandong family who didn't like him in the first place.

When the time comes, follow Yang Guang's old path.

Datang GG.

This is not an alarmist, but a fact.

The land is merged, the family and the common people's land.

Now that Li Zhiyun brought this out, he naturally considered the family's reaction.But he is not afraid, because his vision has never been limited to the inherent land of the Central Plains.

In order for the aristocratic family to accept their income, Datang must continue to expand externally, and the aristocratic family must have a new source of income.

This involves the innovation of production technology.

Coincidentally, this is Li Zhiyun's purpose.

After these two years have passed, the Tang Dynasty chariot will surely roar and expand wildly towards Goguryeo, the Western Regions, and even overseas.

At that time, the family must be involved.Only by sharing their share of the pie can they be obedient.

Just like Li Zhiyun let many aristocratic families distribute soap and wool as agents.

Having said that, are there any disadvantages to living in a family?

Yes, the population will increase year by year, and a large amount of land will be reclaimed. Once a certain limit value is reached, the landless people will flee everywhere.

However, isn't this the best opportunity for the rise of capitalism to recruit workers into the cities?

Of course, this is fifty years later.

Now, it is impossible for Li Zhiyun to implement the system of apportionment into mu across the country, because it is simply unrealistic.

The root cause, family.

If the aristocratic family is not dead and clean, it is impossible to fully promote this system.

But the problem is that the current Datang was established by the aristocratic family.

The most intuitive feeling is that [-]% of court officials come from aristocratic families, and the remaining [-]% ​​are closely related to aristocratic families.

Even the meritorious nobles of the newly promoted army also have a lot of land, and they cannot accept this system.

Therefore, Li Zhiyun can only conduct pilot projects now, and cannot promote it on a large scale.

As for the place of the pilot, he also had a choice.

Right now, he has to persuade the prime ministers to cooperate with him.

(End of this chapter)