Chapter 1740

Sun Lan said, "I also discussed with Rong Li. The matter involves a lot. It's inconvenient to take the Ming Road. We can only take the secret way."

If you cross the Ming Road, many people will come into contact with this fold, and you can't hide the news.

If it is delivered in the form of secret folding, the contents can only be seen by confidants, dignitaries and the Lord.

Compared with the former, the latter is much more confidential.

Changsheng couldn't help but wring his eyebrows. "If it's just for the test of sister Jinghui, you don't have to."

If one is bad, it's enough to make countless enemies. I'm afraid I'll fill my life.

Feng Yi said, "it was because of this at first, but after the secret fold was written, I found that the meaning was more than that."

Changsheng was a little anxious, but he still couldn't help listening to Fengyi's explanation.

Feng Yi said, "I remember that before Alan and I joined the army, the last lesson taught by the master of the Academy was' the causes of troubled times'. The master asked us to explore the root causes of troubled times. If you remember correctly, the master compiled this into a volume..."

Changsheng nodded.

She is also a senior student. Her learning content is closer to current politics, and she has taken similar courses.

Feng Yi continued, "I remember that many students said that the royal family was greedy for money and plundered money. Because of their fault, the world was in chaos. Some said that officials were in collusion, which made the people suffer from deep water and fire. Some said that natural and man-made disasters were frequent, and the people turned into violent people. This is the case in Dongqing and Nansheng, but the answer to this question is really so superficial and simple?"

Changsheng said, "of course not. These are only part of the reason, but not the main reason."

Coincidentally, I had the same class a while ago.

She asked her grandfather to open a small stove and learned a lot from the wise old man.

What leads to the demise of a country cannot be local factors, but factors related to the whole.

Fengyi Road, "I think so, too. After entering the barracks, I asked several military divisions for advice and had different opinions. Qi official military division once talked about the problem of the Treasury at the end of Dongqing. The royal family's great success and misappropriation of military supplies is a problem, but it can't hide the fact that the revenue of the Treasury has decreased year after year. Even if the money can't meet the royal family's extravagance, how can I have more money to equip military supplies? The problem is, according to In the last population inspection, before the destruction of Dongqing, the population increased instead of decreasing, but the Treasury tax and silver decreased instead of increasing. What is wrong with this place? Just because someone misappropriated tax money to enrich their own pockets? How can it be so simple... "

Changsheng said, "brother Rongli, these... Haven't thought about it, but no one dare to move."

Feng Yi naturally thought about what she said. Under the guidance of her grandfather, she also peeled silk and cocoons and analyzed a lot of content.

Even if the understanding is not as profound as Fengyi, the general direction is right.

Because the five countries in the world were divided in the Xia Dynasty, the tax and servitude systems of various countries are similar on the whole, with only different details.

The so-called Fu is to take the land as the object of expropriation, while the service is to take the head as the object of expropriation, which can be physical or human.

Dongqing, for example, the tax and servitude system of Dongqing is quite complex. On the whole, it still uses the template of the Xia Dynasty.

There are not only many items for young people to serve, but also very heavy. If you don't want to serve, you need to pay a certain amount of money and food according to the head. Even if you don't serve, you still have to pay a certain head tax. There are not so many names of taxes, but they are also very stupid.

Land taxes are drawn in a certain proportion according to the average output of the occupied land.

What is land occupation?

The average area of land occupied by a family.

For example, father Ma has one billion yuan, poor a has zero yuan, and their average savings are 500 million yuan.

It is easier to understand the achievement of pumping per mu. One mu of land produces 100% and the government draws 50%. This proportion is still low. For some time, it even reached 80%. In other words, the government will have to take 50% to 80% of the harvest from farmers' hard work for a year, and the remaining 20% will be given to the people. This 20% will also deduct the head tax of the family and other miscellaneous taxes.

This rice grain can't even eat enough, let alone be handed over to the government to avoid heavy corvee.

If the corvee is levied on your family, let's go out obediently.

Of course, these guidelines have privileges for ordinary people, gentry and nobles. They can be dealt with by reducing taxes and exempting from military service.

In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China in Dongqing, there were many good fields in the hands of ordinary people, and the amount of land occupied was not too outrageous, but natural and man-made disasters could not be predicted by human beings. Many fields were resold to the gentry at low prices by the people. Gentry and other high-level officials obtained more land from the people to achieve the purpose of merger. The people had less and less land, but the tax charged based on the amount of land occupation was not very small.

Generally speaking, the income is low, but the tax paid is not low, which means that the people have less money.

Over time, the people were overwhelmed. More and more people sold themselves to the gentry as serfs or farm labourers, so as to strive for a living.

After the land merger, there were more and more fields in the hands of the gentry, but as a privileged class, the number of fields actually owned by them was much larger than the theoretical amount of land occupation, which meant that the more fields in their hands, the more tax-free fields, and the higher their income.

Not only that, the gentry can also use their own privileges to reduce and remit low taxes.

The poor people are getting poorer and poorer, and the rich taxi people are getting richer and richer.

There are fewer people paying taxes, and the number of taxis paying taxes does not increase. Naturally, the overall treasury income is lower.

Coupled with the corruption of tax and silver by local governments, it is strange that the revenue of the State Treasury can be high.

The National Treasury has no money, so poor that it can't even pay the salaries of officials. This country takes jujube pills.

Dongqing's situation was not so bad, but he couldn't stand the royal family. He was so extravagant that he killed himself.

Changsheng remembers the words of Mr. Cheng Jing, the master of the Academy - taxation is the foundation of the country.

Those hypocrites who say money is like dung should swallow dung.

Not far away, the rise and fall of dynasties in recent countries alone shows the importance of Treasury taxation.

If you want to move this, the contradiction between Jiang Pengji and the gentry will become more and more intense.

Whether the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, the bastards who put forward tax reform will be pulled out to worship heaven.

Chang Sheng looked at Feng Yi and his eyes were full of struggle.

"Don't worry, I have discretion." Fengyi knew that Changsheng was worried and said gently, "Lord, she doesn't know what's at stake. She is also an elder who watched me grow up. She really wants to cut someone, and she won't cut me and Alan, two suckling boys."

To put it bluntly, he and sun LAN are tied together. The weight is still not enough.

If we really want to reform, most of them are also calculating which unlucky scholar clan will sacrifice the whole family to heaven and pay God.

This seems to be a great risk, but if the fight is right, Fengyi can struggle for 20 years less.