Please, let me be a fool

Chapter 77 Spread the Ding into Mu, Start Implementing!
The next morning, the sky was not yet bright.

The three soldiers were divided into multiple groups, and according to the plan, they began to implement the division into the mu.

Song Gongwen is the main person in charge.

First things first.

It is to convene officials at all levels of Longyang Mansion to announce the matter.

Land annexation.

It's not just Wei Wei's current problem.

It is also a chronic disease that has been difficult to solve since the dynasties.

Today, the Great Wei Dynasty continues the system of the previous dynasty, collecting land mu tax and head tax.

Poll tax is also called Ding tax, which means as long as it is registered with the government.

All men, young and old, are required to pay taxes.

In addition to gaining fame.

Almost inevitable.

However, compared with poll tax, field mu tax is much easier to operate.

The so-called land mu tax.

It is to pay taxes according to the amount of land in each household, which is also the bulk of the imperial court's tax revenue.

But the land in the world is limited, and the expenditure of the imperial court is constantly increasing.

So it came to Wei Yunyi's dynasty.

On the contrary, the land tax received is even less than that of the first emperor.

The reason is also very simple.

Rich people and officials, although they have vast fields, all have ways of exempting them from taxation.

No matter how bad it is, they will do everything possible to avoid court taxes.

If it was tracked down by the superiors, it would not be a big deal to them, it was nothing more than a symbolic handover.

As for the poor who do not have land, let alone, they basically cannot collect taxes.

Therefore, the annual field tax collected by the imperial court is almost all on the farmers who have little land. After a year of hard work, the peasants not only have to pay rent to the landlord, but also need to pay taxes to the imperial court.

As a result, the life that is not rich is even worse.

In this case, some people have no choice but to avoid paying taxes.

Therefore, they will choose to transfer their own fields to the name of the master who is qualified for tax exemption.

In this way, the big households do not pay taxes, and the poor do not pay taxes.

This makes the number of acres that can be taxed less and less.

This kind of thing is not only in Longyang Mansion, it is a common thing in the whole Jiangnan, and even the whole country, and this move is also called: sacrificing.

However, taxation is an important achievement of every local official. Failure to collect the field tax means that they will not pass the assessment of the Ministry of Households.

Even the evaluation of the officials above will be greatly affected.

Therefore, some officials thought of a way.

Since the field tax cannot be received.

Then increase the collection of poll tax.

In order to complete the assessment and increase their political achievements, even those who do not have land are forced to collect taxes.

In this way, taxes have been collected, but more and more poor people are getting poorer.

The rich who were not affected, on the other hand, got richer and richer.

Song Gongwen was aware of this situation.

Only then did he choose to implement the apportionment into the mu.

Direct exemption from poll tax.

Put the tax on the fields, and the more fields there are, the more you will pay. The purpose is to take out the money of the rich and landlords.

As for farmers with little land, not to mention the exemption from poll tax, even the per-acre tax will be reduced accordingly.

Especially Song Gongwen also thought of a way.

In order to prevent some people from obedience and disobedience.

He ordered officials at all levels.

He sent his servants to start measuring the land again.

Those masters who have read some books are also asked to review the registered fields in addition to posting notices.

Undoubtedly, this move caught officials at all levels of Longyang Mansion completely by surprise.

I thought the head of the country was just going through the motions, but I didn't expect it to be real.

Of course, they did not dare to oppose it openly.

Just keep making excuses.

It is difficult to say what to say, and it needs to be well planned.

As for Song Gongwen, he also fully guessed what these people would say.

Then he moved out of Li Fang to annex the fields, and was seized by Dongchang, with all witnesses and material evidence, and the whole family was exiled.

Moreover, he directly said that this is the national policy set by His Majesty, and no one is allowed to disobey it.

Officials at all levels of Longyang Mansion have no choice.

Can only bite the bullet and proceed.

Who made Song Gongwen the second assistant of the cabinet and the head of the country?

And there is Li Fang's lesson from the past, and I am afraid that I will not be able to fool around this matter.

However, it violated the interests of most people after all, especially the gentry in Longyang Mansion.

They thought that the land they had worked so hard to acquire would now be taxed by the court, and they immediately united against it.

In particular, the notice posted by the government was intended to tell the common people the benefits of sharing their income.

However, under the distortion of these people, it became that the imperial court wanted to impose taxes.

Although the common people did not trust the words of the gentry.

But this is not at the feet of the emperor after all.

Therefore, a large number of people are completely confused and feel that the court is unfair.

In particular, some officials of the Longyang Mansion also quietly stood up for the gentry, which convinced the common people even more.

It is also because there are more gentry manipulating public opinion.

Some officials, with justified reasons, began to put forward suggestions that the implementation of the tenements should be postponed, after all, the will of the people cannot be violated.

At first, Song Gongwen didn't pay attention to this, and still gave orders on his own.

Seeing this, the officials of Longyang Mansion secretly confronted.

Slowly turned to the surface.

Even if the other party is the king of the dynasty and the chief assistant of the cabinet, so what?
The common people did not agree, which caused grievances among the people, and when the time came to report to the court, they also had something to say.

As a result, the implementation of dividing the land into the mu fell into a stagnation stage.

And in the process.

The gentry also began to take out some petty profits and hand them over to the common people.

At the same time, they also began to connect with officials, preparing to push the head of the country to the opposite of the entire Longyang Mansion.

Things are just as they planned, and there are more and more discussions.

In a blink of an eye.

Because of the fact that the stalls entered the mu, the whole Longyang Mansion was full of uproar.

But at this time, Song Gongwen finally made a move.

The list listed by Li Fang before.

Also came in handy.

Immediately gave the order, and once again prepared to kill chickens and monkeys.

However, he knew that the local yamen servants were unreliable, but Wang Jin's Dongchang hadn't been withdrawn yet.

Although there were not many people, they were all elites from the imperial camp.

So almost overnight.

Song Gongwen began to arrest a number of people from the gentry faction, and even the local officials who made trouble behind were not spared. They were sent to prison without interrogation.

The local gentry and some officials were silent, and everyone began to panic.

In desperation, they set out to find someone who could resolve the matter.

That is the chief official of Longyang Mansion, Wang Shouyuan!

Due to five full years of painstaking efforts.

Almost everyone knows it.

He is from the gentry faction, absolutely reliable, and they all went to ask for help.

Naturally, Wang Shouyuan did not 'disappoint' everyone's expectations.

Stand up directly to confront Tan Ding Rumu.

Immediately won the favor of many people.

Moreover, Wang Shouyuan also declared that he would unite with officials at all levels, write a letter to His Majesty, and participate in the official documents of the Song Dynasty!

The gentry landlords were ecstatic for a while, knowing that things had turned around.

Everyone only saw that Wang Shouyuan complained for the gentry.

Handed a copy of the reference book to the capital.

For a while, the Longyang gentry were extremely grateful to the new magistrate, saying that he had the legacy of the Wang family, and greatly appreciated him.

But in fact.

No one knew that all of this was actually planned by Song Gongwen and Wang Shouyuan.

(End of this chapter)