In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 272 Anyone who opposes can be killed
Households with an average of more than [-] mu to [-] mu per capita will receive a summer tax, Dingkou will transport seven feet of silk and five catties of salt, and other taxes will be exempted.

Ding is usually an adult man, and mouth is an adult woman. If there are adult men and adult women in the family, they must transport silk and salt.

The summer tax will go up directly. Of course, according to the usual rules, you can lose money without silk or salt, cloth, anything, as long as the prices are equal.

Now the court's salt price is much lower than before, and the salt import has been reduced by more than half.

However, there are two buckets of tax per mu in autumn.

But this kind of family has three people, that is, there are [-] to [-] mu of land, which should be within the acceptable range, and the autumn tax is still lighter than that in Jiangnan.

This is tantamount to the middle class in the countryside. In the absence of natural disasters, this amount of money is absolutely affordable.

Calculated on the basis of the minimum of [-] mu of land for three people, even if one mu produces one stone, it will cost thirty stones of grain a year.

Zhao Yurui had someone calculate that the sum of the summer tax and autumn tax at this time would cost less than a kilogram of food, which was completely affordable.

And the latter is getting more and more terrible.

The per capita household is more than [-] mu and less than [-] mu. (This kind of family has at least one or two hundred acres of land.)
In the summer tax, a bolt of silk, twenty kilograms of salt, a bolt of cloth, and some cowhide, horns, and tendons (can be exchanged for money)

The autumn tax is five buckets per mu.

The faces of the officials at the scene changed slightly when they heard this.

Because this group is basically middle and low-level officials, officials, and small landlords, and most of them must have cattle in their homes.

Including Zhao Yurui's military attaches, a large number of military attaches across the country are also in this group.

This can be regarded as one of the largest groups in Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yurui found that there are nearly 30 households of this kind in the country when they surveyed the fields. (In the past, there were nearly [-] to [-] civil and military officials in the Great Song Dynasty. Their relatives and friends, plus hundreds of thousands of officials, and small landlords, businessmen, juren, etc. from all over the country, most of them had more than [-] mu of land per capita.)
So these people have been heavily taxed, but it is completely within their tolerance.

Moreover, the emperor also required all civil and military officials to pay taxes.

Some of the on-site officials may also be within this range. After all, most of them are honest officials, and the land property of their families is only within [-] mu per capita.

Many of their relatives, friends and fellow countrymen will also be in this range.

This means they all have to pay taxes.

The ministers didn't speak, because the tax sounded heavy, but it was within their tolerance.

Sure enough, the emperor spoke at this time.

"Zhu Aiqing may think that many officials of the imperial court are within this range."

"But Zhu Aiqing should think about it. It seems that the tax is very heavy, but your monthly payment is enough to pay for ten or ten years, until you retire."

"The court's taxation, of course, is considered in all aspects, and it will be within everyone's tolerance."

Li Zongmian immediately stated: "Your Majesty is wise, and all ministers are willing to pay taxes."

Immediately there was echoing voices all around.

But some people still have a bad expression, probably because they don't want to pay taxes.

Zhao Yurui saw it and thought, I haven't collected payroll tax yet, so I'll get it for you sooner or later.

Then he said the later collection standard.

The per capita household is more than [-] mu and less than [-] mu.

From the summer tax Dingkou, two pieces of silk, two pieces of silk, ten pieces of cloth, twenty catties of salt, ten catties of iron, 50 taels of cotton, ten pieces of money, and two ox horns each were sent. (Of course, all materials can be converted into money)
Autumn tax mu seven buckets.

This is tantamount to a clear robbery, and Qian Shiguan shocked everyone even more.

But if you count carefully, there are really not many.

Ten guan qian is now the price of a few stones of grain. The average person has [-] mu of land, and the average household has [-] mu of land.

But this tax has been dozens or even hundreds of times higher than before.

This group of people can be regarded as the middle and high-income earners of Song Dynasty, even the wealthy class.

They are mainly concentrated in groups such as big businessmen, big landlords, mid-level and high-level officials, and noble clans.

There are quite a few of these people, at least [-] households across the country.

Finally, there are the top wealthy households in the Song Dynasty.

Households with an average per capita of more than [-] mu.

Xia Shui Dingkou loses ten bolts of silk, four bolts of silk, and 100 taels of cotton. In short, he loses all kinds of things, and finally loses one hundred guan of money, five horses and cows each, and twenty sheep.

Autumn tax is one stone per mu.

This is no longer an obvious robbery, it is even more ruthless than an obvious robbery.

It was Zhao Yurui who forced these people to sell their fields.

There were more than 700 counties in the Southern Song Dynasty. In ordinary counties, there were only a few or even one or two households of this kind of people in each county. They were all the largest landowners and businessmen in each county, or top officials in the court.

Like Shi Miyuan and Xia Zhen in the past, they had tens of thousands of acres of land.

There are only two people who can meet this standard on the scene today.

Qin Zhuo and Liang Chengda.

At that time, Qin Zhuo had no expression after hearing it, but Liang Chengda looked like he was about to cry.

He looked at Zhao Rushu in horror, because as far as he knew, Zhao Rushu's land had reached this standard before, but Zhao Rushu seemed to have sold it a lot, and he didn't know how much was left.

But seeing Zhao Rushu's calm expression, it turned out that his family only left more than 1000 mu.

But Zhao Rushu's family has several members, and the average person is less than [-] mu, so Zhao Rushu is rejoicing at this time, and fortunately, I sold it quickly.

Liang Chengda and Zhao Rushu flattered the emperor every day, but they didn't expect the emperor to attack them the hardest.

He calculated the remaining fields and the population of the family, and the per capita was still more than [-], so he was a little flustered.

After the new tax law comes out, it will definitely shock the whole country next year.

The landlord will fry the pot.Those who have more than [-] mu of grain fields per person in the family are basically robbed by the court.

Zhao and Rui knew that land annexation was one of the biggest problems that caused the collapse of the imperial court in the past dynasties.

The best way to prevent land mergers is to tax Tian Duo.

The more fields there are, the heavier the taxes are, forcing them to sell the fields and divide their families, and they dare not farm the fields.

Baoqing's four-year new tax law is definitely the heaviest bomb since Zhao Yurui ascended the throne for more than four years.

Under his new tax law, the impact on households with a per capita income of less than [-] acres will not be very great, while those with a per capita income of more than [-] acres will be directly hit hard.

The new tax law is also fixed, and all civil and military officials in the world, as well as nobles, will follow this law.

But this has little effect on the newly promoted military officers. The working land provided by Zhao Yurui to the military officers is only [-] mu for the first rank. These tax rates are affordable for the military officers.

But many former civil servants, nobles, and officials who have accumulated a large amount of grain fields can't bear it.

But it's useless if you can't stand it.

Either you divide your family or sell your land.

The summer and autumn taxes in the Song and Song Dynasties are based on the amount of land. That is to say, if you sell the land to only ten acres, no matter how much money your family has, no matter how many shops you have, no matter how many houses you have, you will not be taxed. There are two taxes in summer and autumn.

Zhao Yurui just forced them to sell the land to completely solve the scourge of land annexation.

Later, they will be tempted to use the money from selling their land to buy houses and shops. When everyone has more houses and shops, they will start collecting commercial taxes and real estate taxes.

In this way, at least during his tenure as emperor, it is necessary to ensure that Da Song's financial revenue will not have major problems.

"Don't tell the outside world about the new tax law for the time being. If you have a lot of grain fields in your home, get rid of them quickly."

"I think that most families have a thousand mu of land, which is enough to live well, and there is no need to accumulate more grain fields."

The emperor kindly reminded that after the new tax law comes out, the price of land will definitely drop, and it should be dealt with as soon as possible.

If he had done this two years ago, everyone would have persuaded the emperor that it would be impossible to carry it out, but when the grain fields across the country were measured, everyone had already seen the emperor's thunderous tactics, and no one would think that this matter could not be done at this time.

Li Zongmian couldn't help thinking of a question at this moment.

"Your Majesty, in a few years, if the land in the world is evenly distributed to every household in the country, won't the court be unable to collect taxes?"

Yes, all the officials at the scene stared blankly at Zhao Yurui.

Most of the land is now in the hands of official landowners.

But what about after a few years?

With Zhao Yurui doing this, the grain fields may be gradually distributed to the people of the whole country in the future.

According to the current 8000 million mu of land and [-] million people in the Southern Song Dynasty, the average household is less than ten mu, all of which are tax-free.

"Let's talk about the future."

Zhao Yurui remained calm, and there will be no agricultural tax in the future.

"I removed the agricultural tax last year, and other income accounted for more than half."

Zhao Yurui definitely intends to replace the agricultural tax with a commercial tax.

Moreover, what Li Zongmian said, if he wanted to equalize all the farmland to the people of the whole country, it might not be possible for decades.

After all, less than [-] mu is affordable, and most landlords and officials will choose to keep [-] mu even if they sell their land.

At this time, everyone suddenly looked at Qin Zhuo.

This guy is known as the richest man in the country, and his family property has exceeded [-] mu. After Wei Wang Zhao and Rui got rich, it is said that the land property has also increased, and he has acquired a lot in the past two years.

But at this moment, Qin Zhuo took a step forward calmly and calmly: "Your Majesty, I am willing to hand over the [-] mu of land in my family to the imperial court and use it as official land to appease the people."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone around had an incredulous expression.

But thinking about it in another direction, Qin Zhuo has been with the emperor in the past few years, has been promoted and made a fortune, from a businessman to an important court official, his family's money can't be spent, and it really doesn't matter whether there are so many fields.

Afterwards, they learned that Qin Zhuo only kept one thousand acres for himself, and gave another one thousand acres to his son Qin Xiaopang, and the rest of the land was handed over to the court.

This guy is really easy to pick up and put down. He handed over tens of thousands of acres of land as soon as he said it, and he deliberately set an example.

It's a pity that no one else has learned to do so among the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty and the great landlords all over the country.

Even the Liu family in Jeju, which developed under Zhao and Rui, and the Yan family of Four Seas Shop did not do this. They all sold their fields slowly.

But Qin Zhuo's statement is also very important.

He is the emperor's father-in-law and owns one of the largest grain merchants in the Song Dynasty.

He directly handed over tens of thousands of acres of land, which proved that the reforms of Emperor Zhao Yurui of the Song Dynasty were unstoppable.

In the fourth year of Baoqing, the tax reform for next year was decided to be quite heavy.

But Zhao and Rui are confident that they can carry it out.

Now that the grain fields across the country have been re-inspected, the number of fields for each household is clear, and there is no way to escape if you want to.

In all dynasties throughout history, most of the reforms of the regime were struggles between the royal family and powerful landlords, and no one had ever succeeded before the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Anshi's Fangtian equal tax law and Zhang Juzheng's whip method all ended in failure.

Why?

Because the emperor dared not kill landlords and scholar-bureaucrats.

But Yongzheng’s method of whipping in the Qing Dynasty was successful. Why?

Because Man Qing dares to kill no matter who you are.

So now that someone dared to stand up and object, Zhao Yurui would kill him without saying a word.

Zhao Yurui is sure that anyone who opposes this tax law must have vested interests, and killing them will definitely not be wrong.

(End of this chapter)