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Chapter 118 Someone Connected
Under the canopy, more people began to put down their work and listen carefully to the canopy's explanation.

Not to mention emperors and generals, even knowledgeable people among the people heard something from it.

Wuyou continued: "Actually, it was not Zhang Juzheng who proposed the one-whip method, but Cai Gui during the Jiajing period. However, it was not until the ninth year of Wanli that Zhang Juzheng popularized it. What is the content of the one-whip method? It is to combine the laws of various states and counties. Land taxes, corvées, and other miscellaneous levies were combined, levied in silver, and paid per mu. This simplified the tax system to a great extent, made it easier to collect taxes, and made it more difficult for local officials to cheat. It will also be used to increase the central government’s fiscal revenue.”

"Maybe everyone still doesn't know the benefits of this whipping method, so let's talk about it in detail. The first thing is to re-measure the land. At that time, land annexation was serious, there were many cases of underreporting, taxation was also confusing, and many people had no land. The people also have to pay a lot of taxes, which makes it impossible for the people to live, making civil commotions and unrest occur every year. In response to this situation, it is necessary to re-measure the land across the country. This measurement uses There are 2.8 million acres more land across the country, and many landowners have uncovered land that was concealed, which has greatly increased the country's tax revenue."

"You know, Hongwu's 24 years of land statistics, the nationwide data is 3.9 million mu, and this part of the land that was only found out in the Wanli period is equivalent to seven tenths of the land in the Hongwu period. You can think about it. How much tax."

"In the previous tax law, taxes and labor were separated. Fu was land tax, and service was corvee. In addition, there were various additional assignments and levies, which made the people miserable. After the implementation of the whip method, the taxes and labor were combined. Taxes were levied on the mu, and hard labor was replaced by employment, which made it difficult for local officials to name them cleverly, and various additional assignments made the burden on the people much lighter."

"Before the implementation of the new law, taxes were levied in kind. After the implementation of the new law, except for a few places in Suzhou and Hangzhou that need to hand over in kind for the royal family to eat, other places are converted into silver, and the tax collection is no longer handled by the head of the village and the head of grain. , but changed to a unified collection by the local government, which is uniformly released and put into the warehouse. No physical objects are collected, which saves the cost of storage on the way to escort, and does not have to be collected by the Li Changliang, and also saves the erosion of intermediate links. There are benefits.”

"Just the change from the people's support for the people's liberation to the government's support for the government's liberation will be of great benefit to the people."

"Let's put it this way. The land tax is collected by the village chief and has to be escorted to a designated place to hand it over. There is a lot of cost along the way. Who will bear this part of the cost? It is not the responsibility of the village chief himself, but the common people. If we calculate the responsibilities in detail, if the journey is long, the cost spent along the way may be more than the tax itself. If the leader himself cannot bear it at all, then he has to be distributed. In other words, many people It's like paying twice as much tax as you should be paying."

"This is not going to stop. When you get to the place, you will still be harassed by the expropriating officials. If you don't give benefits, they will make things difficult for you in various ways. Even if they don't take your food, you will have to stay for a long time. How to calculate the expenses in the process? Woolen cloth?"

"Changing it to official ending and official interpretation, there will be no worries in this regard, which is equivalent to reducing a lot of burdens on the people."

"It's a pity that such a tax law will be abolished after Zhang Juzheng's death..."

Wuyou couldn't help but sigh again when he said this.

She really felt that it was very difficult for people in ancient times to survive. Not to mention living a good life, just surviving was an extremely difficult task.

Nowadays, many little girls fantasize about traveling to ancient times. At first, they want to meet princes and generals, and then they fantasize about farming and doing business in ancient times. Oh, what they want is beautiful. If you really go to ancient times, see if you can survive.

Not to mention the poor people in ancient times, even those who were officials, in terms of the convenience and comfort of life, they are far from modern times.

Wuyou thought, if she were to go to ancient times, she would die in a few days.

Throughout the dynasties, emperors and officials have been silent.

The tax law is good, but how to implement it is a problem?
If you want to carry it out, you must have great perseverance and courage, and you must offend many people. I am afraid that you will not die well, and even after death, your reputation will be tired.

But the common people understood it.

Many people burst into tears when they heard this: "This residence is a good official, a good official..."

"Our family has lost everything because of various miscellaneous taxes."

"When my father was the head of the village, he was escorted to pay the autumn tax... This trip not only used up all the family's money, but also owed a lot of money. There was no choice but to sell the field."

"It would be great if we could implement this whip method here."

"Yeah, I don't know if His Majesty will..."

"The fairy said that this is a good tax law, maybe His Majesty and the ministers of the court will implement it?"

People are really not sure about this.

After all, those people are so superior, how have they ever truly sympathized with the common people?

"The tax law has been changing. In the Song Dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world. Not only were the punishments not as good as the scholar-bureaucrats, but the taxes had nothing to do with the scholar-bureaucrats. This made the rich richer and the poor poorer. In the Ming Dynasty, those who passed the examination for meritorious service could be exempted from tax, but not All of them are exempted, but part of the land tax is exempted."

"There will be another reform later on, and that time it will be very strong. Among them, the gentry will pay the grain and the fire will be returned to the public. It is a pity that the method is good. If the successor does not implement it, there is no way to abolish it."

"However, no matter how the reform was carried out, except for the Song Dynasty, agricultural taxes were the main source of finance for the country in all dynasties. Until more than 400 years after Zhang Juzheng's reform, later generations completely abolished agricultural taxes. From then on, farmers no longer had to pay taxes for farming. .”

Wuyou smiled a little when he said this: "Let's stop talking about Zhang Juzheng's reform here first, and then talk about Emperor Wanli. Well, everyone, wait a moment, I have to eat something more."

In front of so many people, she calmly opened another pack of jerky, took out a piece and took a bite.

And her last words are like dropping a bomb, and the dynasties that will explode will bloom.

"what?"

"Agricultural tax exemption?"

"Then what does the country rely on to pay officials? What does it rely on to provide disaster relief?"

And the people were crying and beating the ground.

"Why is the hereafter so good? I want to go to the hereafter..."

They know how much the yield per mu will be in future generations. Anyone who paid attention to Wuyou in the early days knows that the grain output in future generations will be extremely high, with the yield per mu basically reaching upwards of a thousand catties.

If more than 1000 catties of grain per mu are not taxed, how rich will the people of later generations be?I'm afraid they can't finish the food they produce every year...

"Then you have to have white rice and white flour steamed buns every day. You can have whatever you want, right?"

Many people are thinking about it, and the more they think about it, the sadder they feel.

Chewing bran pancakes was okay at first, at least it could soothe my stomach, but now, it doesn't taste good at all.

Wuyou ate two pieces of dried meat before he planned to continue talking. Xiaowan suddenly woke up at this time.

As soon as he woke up, he saw the emperor chat group established through the subsystem. Seeing this, Xiao Wan was frightened.

"It's bad, it's bad."

But upon closer inspection, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, and it did not cause any adverse interference to him.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Xiao Wan did not cancel the chat group in line with the attitude that one thing is worse than one thing less.

Then he checked the energy he had obtained in the past few days and found that the energy he had obtained recently had not increased much.

In other words, the energy has tended to be stable recently, which also shows that the changes in the past dynasties have not been great.

Xiao Wan wanted to have a chat with Wuyou to stimulate those ancient people again, but he was disturbed before he could call Wuyou.

Xiao Wan almost screamed.

This is……

It seems that another different time and space has been captured, but this different time and space is only vague, and the coordinates are not very clear. I am afraid that more energy will be needed to completely capture it.

However, Xiao Wan was stimulated by capturing different time and space, and he found that there was an extra ability to reward.

"Host, host."

Xiao Wan was extremely excited: "Hurry, hurry, someone is online and wants to reward you for your abilities."

(End of this chapter)