Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 249 Land Reform
This act of killing chickens and monkeys made the wealthy families all over the country frightened.

But the killing cannot continue like this, otherwise it will cause great damage to production, and it will also be very detrimental to the Southern Expedition in the future. It will completely unite the landlords and gentry, and the Southern Dynasty regime will obtain unparalleled resources to support the war.

After all, the landlord class in the Song Dynasty was still very powerful.

Therefore, Xiao Zhonggong's follow-up land reform is no longer directly allocating land, but sending reformed subordinates into the localities to measure the land of the rich in detail, and pay as much tax as there is land.

Even the more land you own, the higher the tax base you pay, which is equivalent to the personal income tax of later generations, which is dedicated to killing the rich and helping the poor.

Under the previous killing of chickens and monkeys, the "evil government" of Qingzhang Tiantu and others touched the nerves of the scholar-bureaucrats, and it was carried out smoothly, and no one dared to stop it.

There are even quite a few wealthy families who, after learning about the graded taxation under Fan Zhuoyuan's regime, actively sold their land at a low price before clearing their land. This can be called a momentary spectacle since the Song Dynasty.

Of course, there are also quite a few rich families with bad deeds who moved their families to the south, otherwise, when Jin Yiwei investigates, the butcher knife of the Xiaojie army will directly kill all the families.

In fact, the land annexation itself is not terrible. What is terrible is that after the land annexation, the gentry relied on their own resources to take advantage of the loopholes in the system and carry out "reasonable tax avoidance".

Just like the big capitalists of later generations registered their companies on some unknown islands, they avoided the taxes that should be paid by various reasonable and legal means.

This made it impossible for the central court to collect enough taxes with the same resources, and the tax burden could only be transferred to the self-cultivating farmers, which made the self-cultivating farmers bankrupt and then annexed by the landlords, and then the tax collected by the court was reduced again, thus forming a vicious cycle.

In order to avoid this situation, under Fan Zhuoyuan's current rule, no matter rich or poor, high or low, all counties who have land must re-measure every three years to determine taxes.

To put it simply, I am not afraid that your landlord has land. Anyway, the more land you have, the higher the tax base is, just like the income before 3000 yuan in later generations does not pay tax. More than [-] yuan is the basis, and income of [-] yuan is another. The base number increases sequentially. If you are not afraid of bankruptcy, you can try to annex land as much as possible.

As long as the administration of the imperial court is effective and the system is not bad, there is no fear of land annexation.

Of course, if the system is broken, then any policy is useless as insurance.

Most of this series of systems imitated the Manchu Qing system and were transformed on a certain basis.

Although the Qing system was established on the basis of the rule of a large country by ethnic minorities, its origin is in the same line as the Ming Dynasty, and it improved the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's excessive bureaucratic power and excessive preferential treatment for literati.

From the point of view of the centralized bureaucratic system, the Manchu Qing system improved from the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as the great success of the centralized system in the feudal era!
Leaving aside the national ideology, just taking the rule of the Qing Dynasty as an example, the control of land, military, local, taxation and other aspects almost reached the peak of the feudal era.

The Qing Dynasty did not have the Song and Ming dynasties that emphasized culture over military affairs. From the beginning to the end, the status of soldiers in the bureaucratic system could not be considered low. The tradition of martial arts.

The second is the central government's control over the localities, and it has always been more than controlled, even better than the Song and Ming Dynasties.

Except for the outbreak of large-scale peasant uprisings and other rebellions, the Manchu Qing basically did not lose its ability to control the local area. Even at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was able to deal with various major border incidents such as Outer Mongolia, XJ, and XZ. This is indeed more advanced than the Song and Ming Dynasties.

Of course, the subsequent impact of Western capitalism and the rise of new ideas are another story.

The Manchu Qing dynasty can despise the Manchu oppression of the Han people, as well as all kinds of castration and destruction of Chinese civilization and culture, but it must not underestimate the dynasty's ability to centralize power to the extreme, and to maintain great unity, centralization and It is a system that China must implement.

Fan Zhuoyuan adopts such a system, and he will naturally discard all the disadvantages of a small family facing a big country, and only use its advantages. As for whether to engage in capitalism in the future, he has doubts.

For a unified country like China, the development of capitalism will inevitably directly or indirectly cultivate a group of powerful capital consortiums.

They controlled the regime with their respective influences and became shadow emperors. When they developed to their final form, they would form a family system similar to that of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

This is not the case behind the old capitalist powers such as the beautiful country of later generations.

The so-called politicians cannot betray capitalists, and it is obvious that capitalists can abandon politicians at any time.

Therefore, instead of thinking about changing the political system, it is better to enhance national strength, expand abroad, vigorously develop productivity, reform traditional thinking, and let the powerful productivity stimulate changes in production relations.

At that time, it may not be a purely capitalist road.

This is a series of fundamental reasons why Fan Zhuoyuan imitated the Manchu Qing system and built the political system of the current Yanjun regime.

Since Fan Zhuoyuan reformed the system and announced it to the world, there have been mixed movements, especially in the Song Dynasty.

As for the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Zongwang dispatched the first army to Shangjing in a hurry, and completely suppressed the rioting slaves.Except for the dead and those who fled, the population of the Kingdom of Jin has dropped dramatically!

In fact, many people fled back to Yandi and the grasslands. Therefore, when suppressing the slave riots, the soldiers of the Jin Army were not very willing to kill people wantonly.

However, the Jin army was not polite to the invading and looting grassland peoples. Everyone was cavalry, and the Jin army had no fewer horses than the other party. Chasing and killing them was basically an annihilation battle.

Especially after Wanyan Zongwang arrived, he led the whole army as the commander-in-chief, and even chased him all the way to Mobei.

Originally, it was just revenge against Zubu and Shiwei's ministries, but in a raid, the former allies of the Mongol tribe were also beaten, and a leader of the Mongol tribe was beheaded.

Mengwu is the Mongolia of the later generations. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been nomadic in the remote Gobi Desert in Mobei.

However, the remnant Mughals have passed on this hatred from generation to generation. If the Jin people knew that among these barbaric tribes that were more backward than them, there would be a man named Temujin to unify the grasslands, and finally wiped out the Dajin. What do you think.

Wanyan Zongwang returned in a big defeat, which shocked all the nobles.

That was Wanyan Wu Qimai, although he had been kidnapped, he had no shame in asking for succession.

Later, when all the ministries in the grassland were wiped out, Wanyan Zongwang did his best to restore some of his prestige. Since the country could not be without a king for a day, he ascended the throne with the support of the Taizu family, and vowed to kill all the Xiaojie troops and kill Fan Zhuoyuan!
However, Wanyan Zongwang hadn't sat on the throne for a month before he passed away from old injuries and the occasional cold.

Originally in history, Wanyan Zongwang passed away due to the cold after returning to Yanjing after taking down Bianjing. His fate has not changed in this time and space.

Before his death, Wanyan Zongwang did not pass on the throne to his young heir in order to stabilize the regime of the Taizu family, but entrusted it to his fourth younger brother Jin Wushu, who was Wanyan Zongbi.

However, the military prestige of Jin Wushu is far inferior to that of Wanyan Zongwang, and there are quite a few people in the Kingdom of Jin who have objections to this.

(End of this chapter)