Wishing You Eternal Happiness Chapter 1071: ：Return to the old place
The Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the registered acres of land across the country. The Ministry of Household Affairs also knows how much tax each place should pay each year and how much tax money is converted into it.
The tax system has been simplified, making it easier to collect taxes, making it difficult for local officials to cheat and commit corruption, and increasing fiscal revenue.
To a certain extent, corruption of local officials has been greatly curbed.
The same is true for corvee service. As many people as there are in the family, when the yamen needs to recruit people, they can send out as many people as required according to regulations. If you don't want to send out people, you can also pay for them.
Control local tyrants and landlords, prevent the development of private ownership of land, make land transactions increasingly capitalized, and prevent powerful landlords from colluding with the government to seize people's land and evade corresponding taxes.
However, the "one whip method" to enrich the national treasury is an act of enriching the country, but it is also "silver is expensive and grain is cheap." Businessmen will inevitably raise the price of silver, and grain is cheap and hurts the people.
So, on the basis of the ‘One Whip Method’, ‘dividing a small person into an acre’ came into being.
Emperor Zhaoyong abolished the "capitation tax" and wrote in his own handwriting "Never accept a population tax". If the descendants have unworthy descendants and want to collect the poll tax, they must also consider the "filial piety" of their ancestors.
The poll tax accounts for more than 30% of the people's taxes. There is no need to pay the poll tax, which substantially reduces the burden on the people. This alone makes the people grateful.
The capitation tax is also the biggest way for corrupt officials to become corrupt. It is simple and easy to operate. Abolition of the capitation tax is equivalent to abolishing the biggest way for corrupt officials to squeeze the people.
As soon as the list came out, the people were so excited that they knelt on the ground and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live the emperor."
Since then, the world has returned to its center.
No one mentioned Emperor Zhaoyong’s reputation for being violent and murderous.
And the method of "spreading people into acres" continues to be extended to a "one whip method".
How is the field divided?
According to population, the more children you have, the more fields you will be allocated. You do not need to pay the capitation tax. The more children you have, the more fields you will be allocated. This is to increase the population, improve social productivity, further curb collusion between officials and businessmen, and make corruption common. There is one less channel for corruption and the control over local officials is strengthened.
At the same time, the increase in population and the increase in productivity are enough to make up for the loss of capitation tax.
The improvement of productivity will make domestic materials more abundant, and it can also make up for the "one-whip method" that brings expensive silver and cheap grain, which hurts the people.
These two political moves were based on the lessons learned from the Zhou Dynasty and carried out drastic reforms in order to ease social conflicts and promote production development.
In addition, Emperor Zhaoyong also issued the ‘Law of Land Equalization’.
The land that has been abandoned or confiscated will be used as public land and distributed to the people on a per capita basis. Sergeants will be given five points of land, civilians will be given four points, and orphans, widows and disabled people will be given three points. Landowners are not allowed to occupy more fields, let alone let them If the land is left desolate, offenders will be charged with occupying the land, further freeing the people from the control of local powerful landlords and strengthening the centralization of power over the court.
These three items are benevolent policies for the people, putting agricultural development in the first place.
Yin Huaixi issued another tax law specifically aimed at paying taxes to noble officials.
Abolish the original "exemption" clause and change it to exempt, reduce or remit various taxes as appropriate depending on the fame and official position.
For example, if you are a scholar, you do not need to pay tax on the acres of land in your name, but now it is exempted from tax if it is less than five acres. If it exceeds five acres or more, you will have to pay taxes depending on the size of your fame and the number of acres of land.
According to the number of acres of land and how much land the family has, taxes must be paid according to regulations. The more land there is, the more taxes will be paid.
In short, even Emperor Tian and I must pay taxes according to law.
Anyone who is found to have missed, underpaid, or failed to pay will be punished according to law by ten times the amount of the tax, or be confiscated, exiled, or decapitated, depending on the size of the tax and the seriousness of the case.
Yin Huaixi also planned commercial taxes.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the 'tariff'. Every land official road checkpoint set up by the imperial court has a 'tariff'. Passers have to pay a certain amount of money, one-cent tax for civilians and three-cent tax for merchants.
This move has strengthened the control of various checkpoints and also increased revenue for the national treasury.
Port tax, water trade depends on the quantity and value of the goods, and a 30% tax is charged based on the value of the goods. This move is really unfavorable to the merchants, but he also liberalized the trade of salt, tea, cloth, porcelain and other items The quota allowed merchants to trade freely, greatly increasing trade development.
At the same time, foreign mutual markets were opened, and Xiaoyuguan became the first test point for mutual markets.
More taxes are paid, but there are also more business opportunities.
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The new decree issued by Yin Huaixi drew lessons from historical books, but the dynasties were different and the national conditions were also different, so they cannot be copied in full.
Yu Youyao is proficient in agriculture, industry, and commerce. In the past few years in Liaodong, she has also done a lot of good deeds that benefit the country and the people. Whenever Yin Huaixi issues a new policy, he must discuss it with her and listen to her opinions. Then he brainstorms with the cabinet The ministers worked together to discuss and improve the new policy, which was centered around the "people-oriented" policy.
The issuance of successive government decrees gradually brought Dazhao back on track.
Because the Ministry of Etiquette was preparing for the conferment ceremony, the man and woman could not meet before the wedding. Yin Huaixi had to return to the palace under the repeated urgings of Eunuch Zhu.
Yu Youyao sent someone to deliver a message to the Yu Mansion, planning to go back to the Yu Mansion. Her biological relationship with the Yu family was also constantly involved, so she did not return to Beijing, but she did not go back to move around.
This message caused an uproar in the east and west mansions of Yu Mansion.
The imperial edict had been issued, and Yu Youyao wanted to return to the Yu Mansion. Jiang family immediately panicked and went to look for Yu Zongzheng.
At the beginning of the new dynasty, the new emperor successively appointed many officials from the previous dynasty, especially a large number of people from the Yu clan, and placed them in important positions in the court.
Lao Yu Ge was promoted to chief assistant.
Yu Shande appointed Dongge Bachelor to be directly appointed to the cabinet, and was promoted to the third rank and served as the left minister of the Ministry of Industry.
The Ministry of Industry is in charge of the construction, dredging of the main city, the repair of civil engineering, the procedures of craftsmen, the cultivation of salt ponds, weirs and canals, water conservancy and navigation and other fortifications. The most important thing is hard work.
The current minister of the Ministry of Industry is over fifty years old. Anyone can see that Emperor Zhaoyong has the intention of training Yu Shande. He just wants to wait for a few years to master the affairs of the Ministry of Industry. He took over the post of Minister of Industry.
Yu Shande is a man of human nature and somewhat lacking in worldly sophistication, but he is deeply rooted in people's feelings. For him, the Ministry of Industry is a place where he can flex his muscles and display his ambitions.
The members of the Yu clan who used to be in the court were all given important positions. On the contrary, Yu Zongzheng had only been back in Beijing for two months, but he had not yet waited for the imperial edict to be used, and had been idle at home.
Therefore, when he heard that Yu Youyao was going to return home, he couldn't help but cheer up: "Although the imperial edict has been issued, the ceremony has not been completed yet, so it is difficult to go beyond the etiquette system."
It means, as long as there are no mistakes in etiquette.
After hearing what Jiang said, he calmed down and quickly went down to make arrangements.
Three days later, the east and west mansions of the Yu Mansion opened their doors early in the morning~IndoMTL.com~ and swept the doors. Guessing that it was time, Yu Zongshen took the first and second bedrooms and the whole family to wait outside the mansion to welcome Yu Youyao. .
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The concept of apportioning people into acres sprouted during the Kangxi period. When Kangxi was in power, he proposed to breed more people and never increase taxes. However, the person who implemented the policy of apportioning people into acres was Yongzheng. The idea of apportioning people into acres was directly The interests of all nobles, local tyrants, gentry, and landlords were affected, and only the common people benefited.
For this political move, Yongzheng offended all the ministers in the court, both loyal and treacherous, and made himself infamous. He also worked himself so hard that he died young. Yongzheng died. Later, his son Qianlong enjoyed the fruits of Lao Tzu's political achievements and drained the treasury.
Later, it was implemented again and again by our great founding leader, more thoroughly and comprehensively, and the landlords, local tyrants, and capitalists were suppressed to death.
The land equalization system originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was a system that allowed the land to be owned by the court and helped the people to a large extent get rid of the control and exploitation of the local gentry. It was used until the Tang Dynasty, and was abolished in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Rarely used, but undeniably a great system.
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