Chapter 879 The tax system must be changed
Qian Rujun began to think about what the people needed and how to strike a balance between the Han court and the happiness of the people.
People can't be treated as pigs and dogs, if people only have one thought of living, then Qian Rujun really doesn't know what the meaning of living is.
When I saw the emperor again, this time, Qian Rujun became a little hot, unlike before, who always brought good news to the emperor.
"The craftsmen were all gathered by the Han court and did not have the right to move freely.
The imperial court needed a lot of craftsmen to maintain its activities.
But private production also requires a lot of craftsmen.
If the artisan develops an item among the people that can increase agricultural production, then the tax revenue of the imperial court will increase by 20 percent.
With this 20 percent of the money, it is more than enough to pay the salaries of the craftsmen to build the various projects that are being built now.
The artisan system can also be included in the tax, so that in the end, the tax can be increased.
Golden Wheat City is the best example of this.
There are almost no mature craftsmen among the people, except for those who are trained by Jinmaicheng, they are not real craftsmen, just office workers.
So, it's not counted among them, and I don't think of them as craftsmen.
Having the identity of a craftsman is a sadness in Dahan. ”
Qian Rujun secretly said in his heart that it was a kind of sadness in the history of traditional court rule.
"I don't want to see them as craftsmen, they only have the ability to make the decomposed parts.
I'd rather call them office workers.
Because the craftsmen will be co-opted by the imperial court, although they can make money with their own skills, but there is no money to make for the official work.
But according to the regulations, they must obey the instructions and set off at any time to do things for the imperial court, and they have to pay for the road themselves.
How unfair this is to them.
They have to stay away from home, spend half a year on the road, and end up working for only three months.
With three months left, what can they do when they go home?
But outside, the cost of living is so high......
In this way, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets will make their lives even more difficult.
So many craftsmen wanted to escape from the Han.
This is the saddest and most lamentable thing. Because, the nearby countries can give them a good life.
They carry the brilliance of our Han Dynasty, and they are no different from the classics studied by scholars.
But for the Great Han, craftsmen are the most precious resource, and if our skills are outflowed, it will be a disaster for us.
Perhaps you don't agree that the exodus of artisans is a drought.
To take the simplest example, my firearms are made using the techniques of many craftsmen.
If this manufacturing technology is leaked out, then craftsmen from other places will be able to make a lot of guns, and if the other side has more guns than us, they will break our rivers and mountains.
The son asked his father to think twice and give the craftsmen freedom. ”
Emperor Liu Heng's face didn't care about it originally, this kind of alarmist words, the ministers of the court and the central government had already said too much.
In the end, he found that the sun rose and the moon set, as if the days were no different.
But the example given by Qian Rujun was a real threat to the emperor.
"There are so many craftsmen, and they are not willing to pass on their skills to others.
Even if he takes his life, he must hold on.
As long as their family can pass it on.
People who are not craftsmen are not serious about learning, and craftsmen are not serious about teaching, how to make more craftsmen?
And we want craftsmen, the most important thing is that the court has demand, where do the people need craftsmen?
If the imperial court wants to hire craftsmen, it will be a lot more expenses. ”
Qian Rujun found that the emperor had no way to understand what she said just now, so it was ignored in the emperor's ears.
Although people can see that Jinmaicheng is rich, they can't see the reason why Jinmaicheng is rich.
In the end, they attributed the reason for Jinmai City's wealth to Qian Rujun.
It is also attributed to the privileges given by Qian Rujun to the imperial power and make full use of it.
But they feel that it is the scarcity that has this effect, and if everyone is privileged, the effect will be lost.
"Don't you need craftsmen to make pots and pans? Does my father know how difficult it is for the people to obtain these daily necessities?
Can those people in Shaofu make farm tools for the people of the world?
They may not even be able to meet the needs of the imperial court and military.
A farm tool takes them a lot of time, and if we don't have enough craftsmen to develop the technology, we will never be able to make farm tools faster.
Craftsmen have to be motivated, and we will get many fantastical things, such as mattresses and cushions that our sons and daughters have dedicated to our fathers, and are they more comfortable to use than before?"
Qian Rujun is confident that what she gives the emperor will definitely be used by the emperor.
These are all items that can make people's lives more comfortable.
"We need to build a lot of new tools and set up farmers' associations so that farmers can use these new tools to replace the tedious and laborious work of the past, and save a lot of working time so that they can cultivate more land or have time to fertilize the land and collect fertilizer.
Peasant associations can provide tools and teach them the most important things about farming right now.
And in place of the officials to take care of the peasants and collect taxes.
If the types of agricultural tools are always those and there is no way to improve our production technology, there will be no increase in food.
Now there is so little food that is produced, it is too little per unit area, and the land, with proper maintenance, plus agricultural machinery, can be increased at least fivefold. ”
Although Qian Rujun wanted to enlarge it, he thought of the emperor's order, but it was a military order, and it must be done.
It is not uncommon for the emperor to have the idea of pit her.
If it comes to the highest yield of land, then Qian Rujun is looking for death.
There are too many conditions that there is no way to do it now.
In case something happens to this place, and productivity is not reached, then her head may be explained.
Although the emperor didn't necessarily want to get her head at this time, Qian Rujun didn't want to give the emperor an excuse.
She knew that she had always been a threat to the emperor.
"The artisan register must be opened, and if the craftsmen of the Shaofu become the objects of the emperor's employment, just like the hundred officials, the productivity will definitely be doubled.
Their salary can be symbolically given to the average person's salary.
But I think that the role of craftsmen is not lost to that of the officials, and they are given a small salary, so perhaps they must be allowed to take on some private work.
Otherwise, there is no benefit in working for the state, and they are not willing to work for the government.
And only when agricultural production increases, will we have the opportunity to innovate business.
For a person to leave the land, there must be enough food to cooperate.
When the majority of the people were able to engage in industry and commerce, and pay taxes to the court, the court would become richer.
Because only a few capable people can do things that can always get a higher salary. And the salaries that people receive, the money they earn, have to pay part of it to the treasury.
When people make money, they will consume and increase their industries, and the employees of these industries should also pay taxes, so that our business taxes will be very much.
Merchants can achieve sufficient status.
Why does Dahan attach importance to farmers, because Dahan's money and grain come from farmers.
Why do merchants have no status, because merchants are not helpful to the imperial court, then to the imperial court, they are moths.
The danger of business is that it is too attractive, but if everyone does not farm, people will lack food.
Baiguan will be the first victim.
But more low-level workers will not be able to get paid to farm.
The market will regenerate a mechanism. A large number of people will return to the farmland, as long as the farmers are guaranteed to have something to eat.
The tax on luxury goods should not be consistent with the tax on ordinary daily necessities, that is, the commercial tax should be differentiated, otherwise it will be a bad government.
Commercial taxes should be collected by special people, and corruption should be strictly prevented.
In the business of merchants, we can notice that some people make a lot of money and some people make a small one.
First of all, regardless of whether this person has this method to make a lot of money, this person who makes a small amount of money cannot be subject to high taxes.
Even, the money he earns can only sustain his life, and he should not collect money, and the targets of collecting money should be those big businessmen.
If he makes a lot of money, if he collects low-dimensional taxes, it will make it expand rapidly, and perhaps his money will threaten the big man.
Half of his money should be taxed to the court, so that his money will never exceed the court.
You know, their money can be reinvested, or most of it can be left for enjoyment.
What is even more frightening is that they are able to arm themselves with the money they earn to protect their property.
And it was the imperial court that gave the merchants this burden.
And if the court has money, it can build on a large scale, if the construction is paid, the people will have money, and if there is money, it will increase consumption, increase taxes, and most of the money will come full circle and return to the government.
You must know that our money is not to be used by ourselves but to make all kinds of things for the people, and there are some things that ordinary people will not make, because this thing is about most people, people are selfish, in their hearts, they always think that their own things can be done by themselves, but other people's things are waiting for others to do, and the most appropriate person for this is the court. The court can't do nothing, otherwise the people can ask you why the court is eligible for taxes?
And the imperial court did it, but it was able to make more people make money, turn it into taxes, and return to the imperial court.
This circle will roll bigger and bigger, and the money and food that the court can use will become many times more, and you will spend more money, and you will find that when the court is rich, the people will also be rich. ”
"The common people are ignorant and ignorant, they only know how to dress and eat, and if they are not assigned by the imperial court to carry out various affairs, they do not know how to do things.
If no one provokes them, how can they make trouble?"
The emperor really couldn't figure out this concept of Qian Rujun for a while, and he still maintained the old concept.
"The last thing this world lacks is a provocateur, and whenever someone thinks it is necessary, he will start provoking.
Father, are you really not interested in the court and your own money bag being able to conjure up more money without killing so many people?"
"I think the officials will oppose it, and the businessmen will oppose it. ”
Regardless of whether Qian Rujun's statement is correct or not, the first thing the emperor thinks about is the possibility of operation.
When it is in operation, there will be those difficulties.
Those difficulties must be broken through, and if they are not broken through, there will be immediate danger to the big man.
Qian Rujun can accept that the emperor thinks that the imperial court does not have enough funds, so there is no way to carry out the next construction, because this lack of funds will occur in any era.
Because there are always more things to do, but there are always fewer things to do, then it is necessary to choose the most appropriate thing to do, but this is a rational choice, often not practiced, only in the initial most equal situation will be done.
More practice comes from compromises, and if you live where you have strong supporters, then your place will be able to get greater benefits.
Where you live, the bus booth will become more luxurious, but the bus waiting place in other places will only have a dilapidated pillar.
Qian Rujun found out that she thought about it, and thought of something that must be had, that is, buses, if they can reduce the time spent on the road, people will be able to do more.
Even going to other cities for rail transit actually exists for this purpose.
However, there is no way to expand too far into the area, and the most important thing is the land problem.
Because there are more places where there is no way to build rail transit, but if the public carriage is established, there will be many places that he can reach. The thing about safe public carriages, Golden Wheat City has actually been built.
Even, Jinmai City has established a transportation link between the main city and satellite cities.
As long as you find a boarding spot, you can be guaranteed a safe car to sit in.
However, except for the establishment of a public transportation system through Jinmaicheng, no one imitated the entire Han Dynasty, including Chang'an.
Originally, Qian Rujun believed that as long as a place has a good initiative, then this initiative can promote the development of the place, and let other places start to imitate and learn.
But Qian Rujun found that this move did not actually hit the hearts of local officials.
For local officials, working for the welfare of the people is not the most important thing, what they want is a Shilin reputation, and if the Shilin reputation is good, then he can be promoted.
Of course, there are some basic assessment items, as long as they meet the standards.
But none of these assessments had anything to do with the welfare of the common people who were digging in the soil, and what was related to them was to collect taxes from them, and to make them serve as laborers and soldiers.
It's all about taking some of their time or money away from them.
It can be said that they only ask for better benefits without providing them.
As for whether this official is good or not, it depends on the evaluation of him by the local gentry, and the local gentry, for the local people, will take care of people if they are good, but in the bad aspect, they are the ones who oppress the people.
What was good for the gentry could be a big bad thing for the common people.
Qian Rujun found that if you incorporate other people's ideas and actions into your own thinking space, you can't do anything.