The heavens start from saving Daming

The land in the Han Dynasty was privately owned when there was a title deed.

You can grow whatever you want on your own land, and you can also buy and sell it as a gift.

Of course, if you have land, you have to pay taxes, which is the most common land tax.

Throughout the dynasties, land tax and poll tax have been the most important sources of income for the imperial court.

For example, the most fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was that under the policy of land annexation and tax exemption for scholars, the land that was originally fixed was gradually transferred to ordinary farmers who still had land in their hands.

Farmers can only go bankrupt if they can’t pay the taxes, and the bankruptcy of the farmers makes the court unable to collect taxes. Without taxes, it is natural that they can’t afford soldiers and horses. If they can’t raise soldiers and horses, they can’t defeat the enemy.

In order to curb land annexation, it is necessary to bring the land under the name of the emperor in name.

But even if it is in name, it has to give enough satisfactory benefits, otherwise, if one's own land is taken away in name, it will inevitably cause huge turmoil and even rebellion.

As for the benefits, there is no need to say much, as long as one is enough, that is, the exemption of agricultural tax.

Li Yunze's operation was no different from that of the scholar-bureaucrats in the late Ming Dynasty. As long as he dedicates his family's land to the emperor in name, he can be exempted from agricultural tax.

Of course, Li Yunze wasn't crazy, so he wouldn't engage in transfer matters, transfer the share that others should pay to the remaining farmers, and force the farmers to go bankrupt and rebel.

In the early Han Dynasty, the agricultural tax was a tithe, that is, one-tenth of the tax.

However, during the period of the Second Emperor Wenjing, in order to encourage production, the agricultural tax was changed to one thirty taxes, which is definitely a very benevolent tax amount.

But no matter how kind it is, it is also a tax, and it also needs to pay food and grass (straw).

During the autumn harvest, my family had to pay some taxes, but the one next door who invested the land to the emperor didn't have to pay anything, so he naturally had his own ideas.

It's just that the tax of one thirty taxes is too little, and it is not enough for all farmers to give their land to the emperor in name.

Because after serving to the emperor, you can't buy or sell.

In the agricultural era, land was the largest property, and this property cannot be moved, so the impact is still great.

In order to allow farmers to put the land under their own names as soon as possible, thus cutting off the source of land annexation, the magic tool for destroying the country, Li Yunze turned his attention to the poll tax.

But when he proposed this idea, he was opposed by almost all the courtiers at the court meeting in Qingliang Palace.

"His Majesty."

As the prime minister, Zhu Fuyan was the first to oppose "the agricultural tax has been abolished for those peasant households who invested in the land. If the counting tax is abolished now, the court will have no income."

Taxes and taxes are two different types of fiscal revenue.

Tax refers to the payment of money by farmers to the country, while tax is the war fee collected by the country when it goes to war.

Although there are many different names, such as 'fu, rent, donate, class, tune, calculation, Yong, grain, question cloth, money', etc., they can be summed up, which is the word tax.

Taxes are fixed revenues that are mainly attributed to court expenses.

The endowment is the extra income temporarily or permanently increased by the emperor, which mainly belongs to the emperor's private pocket.

When Li Yunze was exempted from the agricultural tax, it caused a big disturbance in the court, which cut off an extremely important source of income for the court.

That is to say, when Li Yunze's prestige and strength reached a certain level, most of the important officials in the court at this time were his cronies who had been single-handedly promoted, especially those civil and military personnel who entered the court through the imperial examination, they all absolutely supported Li Yunze.In addition, he promised that the income from the salt and iron monopoly

All of them belonged to the imperial court, which barely suppressed the voices of opposition.

That is to say, the moral level of officials in this era is not low, and they have not yet formed a body of interests, and they still have a sense of responsibility to the emperor and the people.

If it were the civil official group in the Song and Ming dynasties, they would either scold the emperor or make the emperor 'dissolve in water'.

Officials in this era, the main income is the salary of the imperial court, and their own family has not been strengthened by the powerful and aristocratic families in the local area, and the loss of interests has not been so serious.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, the civil official groups had long regarded court taxation as their own income, and their own family was even more local emperor, so of course they couldn't allow it.

Any emperor who dares to do this kind of thing has to be dissolved in water, fire, soil, and... anyway, he has to kill him.

Now, Li Yunze holds the righteousness of the emperor in one hand, and the power of the world's soldiers and horses in the other, so that he can forcefully push forward.

But Li Yunze wanted to use Fu again, civil and military officials really couldn't bear it anymore.

"Your Majesty, think twice~~~"

Everyone saluted, asking Li Yunze to take it back.

Although the Fu and the Fu are both received from the Shaofu, they are regarded as the money of the emperor, but when the court needs money, the emperor is willing to pay for it from the Shaofu.

If this is also avoided, it will also mean the loss of a large amount of income for the court.

Moreover, the calculation and oral Fu at this time were mainly used to pay military expenses.

The importance of military expenditure is self-evident. Once it is cancelled, it must be taken from the court, which means that it will affect the court's income.

"I didn't say to cancel all of them."

There was a slight smile on Li Yunze's face, "It's just a reorder."

The master father sighed, what the emperor said to re-set, in fact, is to set the amount of counting and oral Fu, and the hidden population will no longer increase income, which is naturally a big loss for the court.

The so-called counting tax can be directly regarded as a poll tax.

According to the Han system, men and women who have reached the age of 16 must pay the poll tax to the imperial court. The annual standard for each person is 120 yuan, which is a one-time calculation.

This poll tax needs to be paid until the age of 56 before it will be exempted.

At this time, the registered population of Dahan nationwide is almost 3000 million or close to 4000 million.

Among them, there are more than 16 million men and women aged 56 to 3000.

Because of medical hygiene, food supply, and war diseases in the Han Dynasty, not many people could live to be over 60 years old.

3000 million people get 120 yuan a year, which means that the poll tax alone can collect a full 36 billion yuan a year!
There are also special regulations, such as family servants and merchants, their calculations are directly doubled, reaching the scale of 240 yuan, which is all paid by the owner.

The reason is to restrain tyrants and merchants. After all, in the eyes of people in this era, slaves, maidservants and merchants are unproductive and unproductive populations.

What's more, in order to crack down on the unmarried people, unmarried women over the age of 15 have to pay an extra fine every year, and it will be raised every few years until it reaches an astonishing 30 yuan at the age of [-].

After the age of 30, there will be no fines. After all, in this era, a woman who is over 30 is an old woman.

If the little fairies in the modern world traveled back in time, it would be nonsense to find a sweetheart by themselves, and the annual fines for being unmarried would be enough for the old father to marry them off as soon as possible.

During Emperor Wen's period, the Fu was reduced to 120 yuan per calculation, but during Emperor Jing's period, due to the large-scale invasion of the Huns, it was raised back to the level of [-] yuan per calculation.

Li Yunze didn't change it before, so the current Fu is still 120 yuan, but there are exceptions.

Looking around at all the ministers, Li Yunze coughed and said, "Among the Fu, Ba Zhong Ban Man and Qu Shuai with seven surnames are all exempted from Fu. The rest of the barbarians only have forty dollars a year. I am deeply dissatisfied with this. From then on, Ba Zhong The Zhongban Man and the Qi surnamed Qu Shuai are not exempt from taxation, and all the Man
All households pay twice as a gift! "

As soon as this remark came out, there was another commotion among the civil and military personnel.

Here, Ji An of Dahonglu Temple couldn't help but stand out and salute, "Your Majesty, being so harsh on barbarians may cause turmoil."

"Turbulent ass!"

Li Yunze's face was slightly cold, "If you dare to turmoil, the army will go there! Why do the big men keep so many soldiers and horses, isn't it just to protect their homes and the country? Barbarians pay less or even don't pay, but the son of the Han family wants to pay more. I don't allow it."

"His Majesty."

Ji An still wanted to persuade him, but Li Yunze had already grabbed the seal on the table in front of him, and smashed it directly, "Shut your mouth!"

The noisy Qingliang Hall suddenly fell silent.

The emperor was angry, and no one dared to talk at this time to find bad luck.

Seeing Ji An retreating in embarrassment, Li Yunze took a deep breath, and then said, "I intend to exempt the obligatory duty of serving the land family, and there is no need to discuss this matter."

The so-called oral tax is also a kind of poll tax.

The difference with Suan Fu is that the scope of its collection is children aged seven to 14.

Each person's annual share is twenty qian.

It doesn't seem like much, but children of this age group must have at least a few million. The oral gifts of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions a year can be regarded as an income.

And this money is mainly dedicated to the royal family, that is, 'to eat the emperor'.

It's ridiculous to say that the emperor and the royal family actually need to rely on their children for support, which is really a shame.

However, what is even more embarrassing is that in history, Emperor Wu simply lowered the age for collecting oral gifts to three years old and started collecting money, and also raised it from 23 yuan to [-] yuan. This is really shameless.

Emperor Wu was shameless, and Li Yunze couldn't care about it.

But he, Li Yunze, had no choice but to be shameless.

Regarding the fact that Li Yunze wanted to exempt the children from the oral calculation, the honorable ministers had no objection.

After all, this income was originally given to the emperor and the royal family. Since the emperor didn't want it, he naturally wouldn't meddle in other people's business.

It can be regarded as a gift here. The annual income of billions of dollars, I really can't throw it away.

At this point, Li Yunze finally revealed his ultimate trump card.

"I didn't say that I would get rid of the Fu, but I just plan to never add Fu."

"Never increase the tax, that is, the current registered population is limited, and each household only needs to pay the calculated tax of the corresponding population at most, and there is no need to pay for the surplus population in the future. Of course, it must be the farmers who have invested in the land. have this qualification."

At this time, the registered population of Dahan was more than 3000 million and close to 4000 million.

But the actual population is much more than that.

Some of these extra population are hidden in the mountains, forests, lakes, and islands. They live in isolation from the world, and many of them are even descendants of those who fled to the deep mountains and old forests during the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Of course, bandits and water bandits are indispensable among these hiding people, and these people naturally do not have household registration.

In addition, the slaves of the big family's family, that is, the family's son.

Because each child in the family has to pay a calculation tax of up to 240 yuan a year, which is too much money, so even a large family is desperately hiding its population from the government.

It's like Wei Qing, who used to be a gangster when he was a child.

The real bulk of the hidden population is the children of the common people's homes everywhere.

Just like the joke said, when the little official came to visit, the infant child was called Xiao Wu, and the bearded man was also called Xiao Wu.

120 yuan a year for one person is not a small burden for a peasant household, so there are two or three children who can be admitted to the household registration, and three or four children are not bad.The children reborn later are almost all hidden from the household registration and become non-paying taxpayers.

Black households.

Li Yunze's "Never Add Fu" is actually aimed at these black households.

Directly exempt these black households from their fortunes, so that they can live in the sun dignifiedly, instead of dodging around all day, black households with beards and no official names.

If all black households are counted, the actual population of the big man may exceed 5000 million!
After all, after Liu Bang, from the period of Empress Lu to the period of Emperor Wenjing, the great Han was recuperating.

Except for the conflict with the Huns on the border, there have been almost no major wars and epidemics in the interior.

After decades of recuperation, the population has naturally multiplied and the number has increased tremendously.

In this regard, just think about the population of China when it was founded, and how many decades later it will be clear.

And Li Yunze did so many things just to encourage the farmers to put their land to him in name, so as to cut off the land trading, and there will be no more land mergers from now on!