Jingzhao Mansion and other princes and magnates, as well as some temples and Taoist temples, although they also took out some porridge and winter clothes to give alms. But those porridges are not only so rare that even human figures can be seen, but the number is not enough at all. There are even some mansions that only one bowl per person can receive at the time of soup kitchen. As for winter clothes, there are even fewer of them.

Although she had already been mentally prepared, the words of the women made Huang Qiong frown, and she never let go, and her left hand was constantly clenched into a fist and then opened. Even if he has been mentally prepared for a long time, for Huang Qiong, he still can't be indifferent to this matter.

Looking at Huang Qiong, who was frowning, He Yao said softly: "Master, should we take out some more money and things?" Although we have gathered more than 4,000 yuan of grain and rice today, and some winter clothes. But there are too many displaced people around Jingzhao Mansion, and those large amounts of money and food still seem to be a drop in the bucket. This winter is surprisingly cold, and if we don't give it back, some people may not be able to survive. ”

It's just He Yao's kindness, but Huang Qiong shook her head slightly. After a long silence, he said, "That's it, any more will be too much." It's not that I feel sorry for the money and grain, but the money and grain spent on the displaced people is taken from the people and for the people. But if there are more, I am afraid that some people will be unhappy, or even secretly do something. The old man, it's going to be full of impeachment folds again. ”

"There are some things you don't understand, this kind of thing is to do good, but it is also a thing to attract wind. In many eyes, this king is already a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh. This time, he took out 4,000 yuan of money and food, and in some people who are unwilling to do good deeds and others are unhappy, I am afraid that they are already competing for the hearts of the people in their eyes, or they are simply asking for merit in front of their father. ”

Speaking of this, looking at He Yao, who was somewhat overwhelmed after hearing his words, and even thought that he had caused trouble for Huang Qiong, and his face was a little pale. Huang Qiong gently grabbed her little hand and said, "Sister Yao, I am really happy that you have good intentions." But in this matter of the court, you are still a little too immature. ”

"Even if the father knows about it, as long as we are not deliberately pretentious, even if the father knows about it, he will only praise it, and he will definitely not say anything. But the prince of the capital is not alone. We took out so much food and winter clothes at once, what do you let other princes think, and what do you let other princes and magnates do? ”

"And more people will think that I am taking the opportunity to buy the hearts and minds of the people, intending to make some personal gains for myself. Besides, all we can do now is help them for a while, and we can't do anything more. The matter of ten thousand families giving birth to Buddhas is not suitable for the children of the heavenly family. But don't worry too much. It's no secret whose women you are now in the capital. ”

"We have taken out so much money and food this time, and some people will not be too stingy when they see the British Royal Mansion doing this. Look, at least King Yong will also take out some money and food. There are also some officials with a heart, I am afraid that they will not be able to sit still. In addition, some big people who are stranded in the capital at the moment will also take out a sum of money and food to help the victims. ”

Huang Qiong didn't say it explicitly, because he had no choice, so he told the girls what the old man said to himself in Wende Hall a few days ago. Therefore, He Yao, who has never had experience in political struggle, and Lin Wanqing and Zhu Xing'er naturally heard this passage, but Duan Jin and Lin Hanyan understood it.

The two daughters have been married to King Jing for many years, although they have always been a nominal couple. But after all, after all these years by King Jing's side, Lin Hanyan has already understood what he should know. This kind of scheming is at least not new to Lin Hanyan. What's more, the almost semi-closed life in the past few years has given her an understanding of the cruelty in this regard.

A person who was born in the Dali royal family, and this world has always been a place where the magnates are concentrated, the more fierce the struggle in some aspects is. Duan Jin, who was also from the royal family, naturally saw those things very clearly. In the battle for the throne, there is nothing that should not be done. In the eyes of many people, whether you do something sincerely or not, it is a foreshadowing for the sake of competing for status.

After Huang Qiong finished speaking, Duan Jin and Lin Hanyan both glanced at Huang Qiong. It's just that the second daughter looked at Huang Qiong's eyes, Duan Jin was a little surprised, but Lin Hanyan was not surprised. As for Duan Jin's surprised eyes, he was more surprised that Huang Qiong had come to this point. It was not because of Huang Qiong's words that I was surprised.

Regarding the eyes of the second daughter looking at her, Huang Qiong just smiled faintly and didn't explain anything. After patting He Yao's little hand, who was still a little unwilling, to show comfort, Huang Qiong stood up and left the room and returned to her study. It's just that after returning to the study, thinking of He Yao's daughters' return, Huang Qiong's brows furrowed again.

He did not deceive He Yao in that matter, and he was telling the truth. The British Royal Mansion took out so much money and goods this time to help the victims of the snow disaster in the capital. Some people will certainly feel uncomfortable in their hearts, thinking that he is buying the hearts of the people. But some people with active minds, I'm afraid that in order to please themselves, they will also take out money and things to paint a scoop according to the gourd.

The ability of his own government is limited, and if others take action, I am afraid that the victims of this snow disaster will have a much better life. The problem is that this is a temporary solution, not a permanent solution. In fact, the most fundamental thing now is to let these displaced people who have poured into the capital return to their hometowns to live and work in peace and contentment. As long as the cultivator has his land, who will come out to be a homeless person?

However, the root cause of allowing these displaced people to return to their hometowns is the increasingly serious land annexation. If this is not solved, no matter how many ways are done, it will only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. But this problem is precisely the most difficult to solve. China's thousands of years of history, except for the one that came to itself, the era of compulsory land state-owning.

Hardly any dynasty was able to properly resolve the issue of land annexation. Even more than one dynasty has caused a huge contradiction between the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer because of the drastic land annexation, and it will cause violent turmoil whenever it encounters natural and man-made disasters. Even if you encounter Zhang Jiao or the like, and agitate in the name of mission, it will immediately be full of beacons.

Not only the dynasty he knew in his previous life was finally overthrown by the peasant uprising. In this era, didn't his ancestor also take advantage of the peasant uprising to finally get a yellow robe and lay down the country of the Great Qi Dynasty? If it weren't for the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, his ancestor might still be living a life of selling illicit salt and adding blood to the knife's edge.

The biggest problem now is that in addition to the forcible occupation of land by clans and officials, the common people are not unaffected by the voluntary use of land for investment. Under the so-called ancestral family law, which restricted merchants in the imperial court, taxes were mainly collected from agriculture in addition to the salt tax. However, it is the clans, officials, and even the gentry and scholars who occupy the most land are exempt from taxation.

For those lands that have not been annexed, the burden on the people is getting heavier and heavier. There is no way, officials want political achievements, and the court wants taxes. Clans, officials, and even scholars are exempt from taxes. The money and grain can only be collected by those who have no land. The imperial court has a special examination method for the collection of taxes in various places.

Even for those state and county officials, the assessment of the annual tax collection is not only on the basis of integrity, but also directly determines their subsequent careers. If you are a state or county, and you are in arrears and should pay too much money and food, then don't say that you don't expect to be promoted, and even whether you can keep your current official hat is two different things.

Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, if you don't let people be promoted, or even let people become officials, how can you do it? Therefore, for the sake of performance evaluation, those state and county officials have more and more ways to deal with it. It's like the money and grain that should have been collected for 100 acres of land, but in the end it was evenly divided into dozens of acres, or even only a dozen acres of land to afford. As for more land, it was forgiven for various reasons.

However, the money and grain collected by the Great Qi Dynasty in each state and county were collected according to all the fields in each state and county, and no one cared whether those fields were exempt from taxes or not. This results in people who have no merit and no way to be exempt from paying taxes. The burden on ordinary people, who are already very poor, is getting heavier and heavier.

Once the per capita tax is added, the amount of money and food borne by the tenants exceeds the rent paid to the tenants of large households. Many people prefer to invest their land in the service of large families who can be exempted from taxation, and become tenants for others. In this way, the annual burden will be smaller. Even if you have to pay the poll tax, it is much easier than paying money and food to the imperial court.

even simply lost the land and went out to be a homeless person, so that even the human tax could be exempted. If you can't even find people, where are you going to collect the tax? Not to mention other places, Zhengzhou, the largest source of displaced people in Jingzhao Province. Huang Qiong, who had just stepped down as the disposal envoy of Zhengzhou, clearly knew that the states and counties under his jurisdiction had the least amount of tax arrears of more than 10,000 yuan.

And the people go out to be homeless, and the impact is not only the per capita tax. The decrease in the number of people in the prefectures and counties also means that the number of people who eat salt is also decreasing, and the salt tax, which is another main source of revenue for the imperial court, is also decreasing. What is even more dangerous is that once the displaced people take up residence in the Wushan Forest because they cannot find a way out, the consequences may be even greater.

This becomes a vicious circle, and there is less and less land available for money and grain under the sky. The people who lost their land and went out to become displaced people in large numbers brought more negative impacts. And the state and county officials below, in order to complete the performance evaluation, can only desperately collect money and food from the poorest group of people.

The imbalance in taxation not only further exacerbates land annexation, but also makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. Moreover, the limited amount of land in the world is becoming more and more intense with land annexation. No matter what the officials below are working on, they are afraid of losing their official hats. However, in the absence of control of land annexation, there is also less and less land available for expropriation.

And the less land available for taxation, the less input the imperial court, which relied mainly on agricultural taxes. As the imperial court's annual income decreased, there was no way to raise soldiers, pay salaries to officials, and provide relief to the victims. Even now, a drought involving a small area has made the court unable to even come up with the money for disaster relief.

Even a snowstorm in the capital couldn't give much money to help. It's just that at present, the income of the imperial court is decreasing, but it still puts the tax collection on the agricultural tax. On the contrary, those merchants who are thriving in business, except for some so-called common rules that are levied at checkpoints along the way of cargo transportation, almost no one collects taxes.

No matter how big the business is, there are almost no taxes to pay, except for the usual customs at the checkpoints along the way. Although those common practices are not low, compared with the income of the business, Huang Qiong estimates that it is not proportional at all. What's more, those businessmen are still unscrupulous to evade this limited business tax, which is not high.