Chapter 346: Industrialization Won't Be a Romantic Word

As for the tax system in North Vietnam, it is simply disgraceful to say, and the Trung shogunate implemented a unified tax system in North Vietnam.

In fact, it is a disguised tax package system, and the amount of tax paid by a county is fixed, and this amount is still agreed with the local tyrants and gentry of each county.

Once the tax was set, the Zheng shogunate was only responsible for collecting taxes, and as for who paid the taxes, the Zheng shogunate did not care.

As a result, the local tyrants and gentry in the counties will definitely distribute the vast majority of the tax amount to the rich peasants who have no status and the yeoman farmers who own more than a dozen acres of land.

This method of tax collection, which is tax collection? This is a terrible begging!

Begging the local tyrants and gentry in each county to pick out a little bit from the teeth after eating the meat and give alms to the Zheng shogunate, and the Zheng shogunate also had to bear the resentment from the bottom for the local tyrants and gentry

Can Ye Kai tolerate this tax method?

Absolutely impossible!

The person who wants him to be Beizheng, I'm afraid that King Ye, who is blind and ruthless, is definitely not a soft lie like Lord Zheng in the past dynasties!

Speaking of Lord Zheng, Ye Kai felt miserable when he thought about it, the Zheng Shogunate, which implemented such a tax back then, was extremely weak, and even the rebellion of the Sanfu Army under his command for decades could not be pacified.

During the penultimate reign of Zheng Palm, the Duannan King of Zheng Palm, the Sanfu army rebelled again, attacked and killed Zheng Palm's henchmen, trapping him in Thang Long City.

The dignified lord of the Zheng Shogunate was almost starved to death, and in the end, he was released by the Sanfu Army only through the mediation of the local tyrants and gentry of North Vietnam.

Speaking of this thing, Bei Zheng is really very similar to Japan, Bei Zheng calls the Li royal family the imperial court, and calls himself the Zheng family's bureaucracy, when Zheng is strong, he can lead North Vietnam, and when he is weak, his own safety cannot be guaranteed.

And the Sanfu Army, a military group attached to the Zheng family, is even more virtuous with the Japanese soldiers, and likes to go down to the top very much, and encourages the Zheng family to seize power at every turn, and then reaps the dividends of the war in a big way.

But whoever wants to seize the power of their Sanfu army will collectively rebel and engage in heavenly punishment of national thieves, so that the biggest problem faced by the Zheng lords of the past dynasties is how to weaken the power of the Sanfu army.

Of course, this rebellion of the Sanfu Army under the rule of Zheng Brown, the king of Duannan, completely went overboard, and not long after the Sanfu Army released Zheng Palm, Xishan Nguyen Hue saw the opportunity to immediately launch the Northern Expedition!

At this moment, the Sanfu Army and the Zheng Shogunate, who had just finished infighting, were extremely stretched, and they did not organize even the slightest decent resistance.

Zheng Brown escaped from Thang Long with more than 100 elephant soldiers, and was finally captured by the farmer Nguyen Trang in Taiyuan Province.

And the Sanfu Army collapsed after being hung up and hammered several times by Nguyen Hue, and the remnants were entangled and integrated with the local tyrants and gentry of North Vietnam, but although the army was gone, the thinking of the Sanfu Army was still there.

This is also one of the biggest reasons why Ye Kai wants to make a heavy move, he wants to completely eliminate the Sanfu Army, which has been circulating for hundreds of years and is an extremely dangerous military freak and idea.

He was originally an outsider, and what he was most afraid of was that the Yue people would unite and punish him, so the soil for the survival of the Sanfu Army must be eradicated!

Of course, there is also a very important reason, that is, he wants to squeeze a large part of the wealth of the North Vietnamese people out of the land.

Industrialization sounds good to say, but it costs a lot of money!

Prospecting for mineral deposits, repairing roads, and dredging rivers all cost a lot of manpower and material resources.

But fortunately, there is good news, that is, Lavoisier has made a breakthrough in diatomaceous earth, and a relatively stable nitroglycerin explosive is about to be available.

This is a very big step forward for this era, and without a little stabilization of high explosives, it would be unimaginably difficult to open a mine.

The prerequisites are there, but with all this, it is impossible to let King Ye do it alone, right?

It is impossible for him to only take care of the affairs of the factory, and he does not have many high-quality management personnel, so what will happen when the time comes?

And industrialization is not just a matter of building a few coal mines and iron works, and if you don't make this business profitable, you will end up in a pool of stagnant water.

Relying solely on the power of the administration to promote, unless you are like the republics of later generations, you have a large number of people with quality and integrity to use, and there are ready-made big brothers to show you the way, and even personally go down to help, otherwise it is delusional.

And King Ye, it's a pity that he doesn't have either, so the most important factor in his establishment of industrialization is to take the lead and spend a lot of money on it, but also to make this industry a profitable industry.

And now, what is the most lucrative industry in North Vietnam, or in the entire East Asian Confucian cultural circle?

It's to buy a land!

Especially in a land like North Vietnam, where the yield of land is high, there is no need to pay taxes, you can use it for a lifetime if you buy it, and you can pass it on to your descendants, and you can control the personal freedom of a large number of tenants, just like a king!

See, what better deal could be made than buying a land?

So King Ye is not really trying to collect as much tax as he wants now, even if the current agricultural tax is doubled, it will only be tens of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year, although it looks like a lot, but for a country, how much effect can it have?

What he wants to do now is to make the purchase of land an industry with extremely limited income and even loss!

Raising tenants, raising cattle, and buying farm tools all cost money, and it is also necessary to prevent natural disasters, as long as they are exempt from taxes, and the government is looking for trouble every once in a while, the profits from farming will plummet.

After squeezing the funds out of the land, as long as mining and setting up factories become profitable, the funds can be sucked in.

When the time comes, everyone will invest money and work together to invigorate this industry, and only then can they be more tightly tied to King Ye.

At the same time, industrialization will definitely require a lot of labor, and in this era, if you ask a commoner to choose between farming and working in a factory, they will 100% choose to farm.

To be honest, Ye Dawang was also a peasant child before he crossed over, farming in the countryside, if he just wanted to have food and clothing, in fact, farming was not very tiring, except for the busy farming season, the rest of the time was relatively idle.

Compared to farming, the factory at this time is like hell!

In a dozen years, the average life expectancy of a labor worker is only in his thirties, and a strong young man in his teens will be tired in less than ten years.

Do you dare to say that the labor intensity is too great, the working hours are too long, believe it or not, Carnegie is pulling a cannon to reason with you?

The reason why the workers' movement surged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was because the workers were so miserable, too tired, and too miserable that they had sold all their strength and had to live on the streets waiting to die.

Capitalism is built on blood and tears, not only of the colonial and semi-colonial people, but also of the industrial workers of their own country!

And after King Ye made the farming industry of the local tyrants and gentry unprofitable, they were bound to no longer be able to afford so many tenant farmers.

These tenant farmers, who had lost their livelihood, had only one choice: the men became miners, and the women became weavers in factories such as textiles.

Recall Xia Yan's article "Contracted Labor", that kind of intense work and unbearable environment, people are not as good as cattle and sheep on the hillside.

Industrialization, definitely not a romantic word!

Thinking of this, the black-hearted King Ye was silent for a long time, he looked at the vote that was frightened like a quail, waiting for the unknown future of the North Vietnamese tyrant gentry, and said a word that they were completely confused.

"It's really going to be bitter for the people of Jiaozhi!"

King Ye said word by word, and then waved his hand.

Ruan Xing was immediately beheaded, and the direct descendants were all killed, and Deng Shangshu immediately selected cadres to survey the acres and grades of the fields.

If you and others cooperate, the cadres who survey the level of acres of land will be recommended by you.

If you don't cooperate, then wait for the inquest, and if you dare to resist, Ruan Xing's fate is the tomorrow you are waiting for! ”

After speaking, King Ye walked under the city wall without looking back, and the surrounding soldiers came over and surrounded a group of local tyrants and gentry on the bloody city wall.

As soon as he thought of the days that the people who crossed their toes were going to live, King Ye sighed in his heart.

It had to be so!

But for them, if one or two generations suffer, future generations will be blessed.

How did the high welfare of Europe come about in later generations? Not only did their ancestors rob the world, but also generations of pigs and dogs earned it.

How did my heart become so dark?

Ye Kai slowly walked towards the Ascending Dragon Imperial City, tonight he must find a few gentle and lovely palace people to comfort his wounded heart!