Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 814 Thunder, Rain, Dew, All Are Your Grace

Now, according to the official, the land in Shandong is divided into military settlements, official villages, two private lands of nobles and powerful families, and six lands shared by ordinary people.

The nature of the land share has completely changed. Coupled with the unified purchase of grain by the Purchase Order, the grain in Shandong is basically in the hands of the government, and the common people have also transformed into productive self-cultivating farmers through the equalization of land, paying two taxes for Daqin. In addition to food, you can also get enough food and clothing.

A large number of people have a product and have enough food and clothing, so Shandong will naturally be stable.

Although those old gentry tyrants were dissatisfied, the place was stable and the people felt at ease. Although they were dissatisfied, they couldn't express it.

Although they are kindling, if the firewood of the common people is covered with the emperor's rain and dew, how can they burn.

When he was in Donglai Port, Li Mi saw many salt boats.

"In the past, there was no tax for industry and commerce, and salt mines were not allowed to be privately owned. The price of salt was not high. Now there is a salt tax on salt, and a tea tax on tea. A catty of salt can be worth a bucket of rice. Isn't this equivalent to taxing the common people in disguise? Paying a poll tax? Do the people have no complaints?"

Li Mi sensitively saw the nature of the salt tax.

Daqin implemented the salt tax, which was introduced by votes.Salt is allowed to be cooked and sold by merchants, but the production and sale are separate. The produced salt needs to be registered with the imperial court, and all the salt must be sold to the government’s special salt office, and private sales are not allowed.

And merchants who want to sell salt must buy it from the government’s salt yamen, and when they buy it, they have to pay the tax first and then get the tax. When you buy a catty of salt, you have to pay the salt price plus the salt tax, and then get the salt. lead.

Only with this kind of salt can it be transported and sold, otherwise it is a crime of trafficking in illicit salt, which is a very serious crime. If you sell a bucket of illicit salt, you will be exiled to the border farms, and if you sell a stone of illicit salt, you will end up selling it as a slave.

Although the salt tax is not too high, it is a tax of [-]% or [-]% of the salt price.

But merchants will eventually pass this tax on to the price of salt, so in the end the common people bear the additional salt tax. Unlike tea and wine, salt is a dispensable consumer product, and salt is a necessity.

In this way, the salt tax is actually equivalent to the poll tax.

At the time of Kaihuang, the price of salt was very low, and the better salt was only ten yuan per bucket, while at that time, the price of rice in the capital was fifteen yuan per bucket.The price of salt is not as high as that of rice, and the turmoil in the past few years has affected the production and transportation of salt, and the price of salt itself has indeed risen, but now in a stable and prosperous place like Dongnae, the price of salt is a pound of rice.

How much is the price of rice in Donglai Port?Twenty Wen for a bucket of rice.

This price is very astonishing. After all, the price of rice in Luoyang City is sold at [-] yuan per stone. Although this is a special case during the siege, in other places, the price of rice is also frequently priced at a hundred yuan per bucket.

Dongnae’s food price stability is still due to Luo Cheng’s food policy, the locality is stable, and the food production is guaranteed. Then there is the unified purchase policy of Hebu, coupled with the policy of prohibiting private food purchases and outflows, so that no matter how outside the food price rises or falls However, Anton's area has always been stable.

A catty of salt for a bucket of rice, twenty coins for a catty of salt.

Compared with the salt that cost ten cents a bucket during Kaihuang's reign, the price was more than ten times lower, but compared with other counties, it seemed to be cheaper.But the price comparison between salt and rice in other counties is not so exaggerated.

"Any policy always has advantages and disadvantages, but in general, the advantages of the salt tax outweigh the disadvantages."

The Daqin Salt Administration implemented a system of public collection, official collection, commercial transportation, and commercial sales. Today, ten salt supervisors have been set up in Liaodong, Shandong, Huainan, Fanyang and other places. The annual salt tax is as high as more than 100 million guan.

This is a huge sum of money. After all, this sum of money is equivalent to the income of at least dozens of counties during the Daye Dynasty.After all, the tax system of the Sui Dynasty was too simple. There was no tax for industry and commerce, only rent collection and adjustment, and only rent was collected from land output, and rent in kind was collected.

"More than 100 million coins?"

Li Mi's eyes widened.

The Kaihuang was known as a prosperous age, but the local officials did not even have salaries and salaries during the Kaihuang period. What did they rely on for their income?They rely on the government to collect rent for their jobs in the local area, and rely on public money to lend and collect interest as salary.

And Luo Cheng only relied on the salt tax to earn more than 100 million yuan a year, and what's even more astonishing is that Luo Cheng has only occupied a few lands now.

If he unified the world, according to this method, wouldn't the salt tax be as much as 500 million yuan a year?
What about the tea and wine tax?
No wonder Luo Chengbing has a strong general, excellent equipment, and his subordinates are so capable of fighting. It turns out that this guy is so good at making money.

I heard that the Qin army fought fiercely because of the generous rewards. The Qin army has a good military discipline and never robs the people. It seems that it is because Luo Cheng has money in his hand. Otherwise, if there is no reward, how can the soldiers be willing to fight and not rob? Sweep?

After Luo Cheng conquered the land, the stability was quickly restored, the fields were produced, and the taxes were sufficient to supply the army.

And Li Mi fought in Henan for three years, Xingyang, Luoyang and other places were even turned into ruins, and large tracts of fertile land were all turned into wasteland. It seems that there was indeed a reason for his failure.

However, he is still not convinced, thinking that Luo Cheng is a warrior, how can he have such a strategy to stabilize the country?It must be the credit of people like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, those younger brothers of gentry officials still have some skills, envy Luo Cheng for being so lucky to be able to recruit so many talents for his own use.

It's a pity that I was forced to rely on a group of thieves and bandits to start a family, and I was tainted with the name of bandits. It was always rare for the younger brothers of the gentry and officials to join me.

I, Li Mi, are not as good as Luo Cheng, Luo Cheng is really lucky to get so many people to help me, but I, Li Mi, am too unlucky, I can only resort to a group of thieves to start an incident, but in the end I am still defeated by those thieves.

Damn bandits!
Boarded a huge boat at Donglai Port and headed for Lushun.

On the blue waves under the blue sky, there are many ships traveling together, forming a fleet.

Standing on the deck, Li Mi saw that in the convoy of the same boats, many of them were carrying people from the Central Plains who had emigrated from outside the customs. These people were said to be victims of the war and were forced to flee their hometowns. Some of them accepted the advice of Daqin officials. Persuasion, decided to give up everything in the Central Plains, and go to the outside of the pass to equalize the land and grant land. There, they can get a higher amount of land, share more fields, and be farther away from the war and disputes in the Central Plains.

When passing an island, Li Mi saw a fleet coming from Liaodong.

"That's a slave ship. This fleet transported about [-] Goguryo slaves."

There are slave ships coming from Liaodong every day. The rebellion of the Goguryeo people in Xuantu County has not been completely quelled, and the Goguryeo people in Le Lang and Daifang County are fighting again. Captured as slaves, transported to the Central Plains for sale, so that there will be no free Goguryeo people who can resist the Great Qin on the land outside the pass.

(End of this chapter)