Chapter 403 When a local tyrant is not a turtle

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Veterans do not return to their hometowns, and whoever comes back means that they are not productive, which makes it difficult for those military families who have children to serve as soldiers for a while. When the baby is discharged from the army, should the baby be left with another door, or should he call it home, and the family will guard the thatched hut and hot kang?

Of course, this kind of trouble is actually mainly for those military families who live in difficulty, like those children of powerful and rich families, who don't care whether they will be resettled, divided into houses and land, and after completing their military service, they can go home and continue to be sons.

However, the poor have the trouble of the rich and the rich, and each family has its own difficulties, because the Legislative Department has introduced a new tax bill.

In the past, the main sources of tax revenue of the imperial court were divided into two categories: "field tax" and "oral endowment", and "oral endowment" was divided into two types: "calculation endowment" and "oral money". "Calculation" means that ordinary people, regardless of gender, from the age of 20 to 56, each person must pay a "calculation" to the state every year, that is, 120 yuan, and double the levy on slaves and maids. "Kouqian" refers to "little men and girls" between the ages of seven and twenty, and each person pays 20 yuan per year.

The new tax bill first abolished the "mouth money" of small men and women and the "calculation of money" of ordinary people, but did not cancel the "calculation of money" of slaves and maids, and even increased the income of a large number of slaves and maids according to the number of slaves and maids used by the head of the family. For example, if there are less than 10 slaves and maids in the family, the head of the house pays 200 yuan per year for each slave and maid to "calculate the tax"; If there are more than 10 people and less than 100 people, pay 500 yuan; More than 100 people, less than 500 people, pay 1,000 yuan; More than 500 people, less than 1,000 people, pay 5,000 yuan; If there are more than 1,000 people, you need to pay 10,000 yuan.

In other words, if a family has a thousand slaves and maids, they will have to pay 10 million yuan every year for the "calculation" of slaves and maids, which will be converted into the latest distribution vote, and they will also get 100,000 points!

On the other hand, after the abolition of the oral tax of ordinary people, a new personal income tax was added, which was mainly levied on court officials, doctors, teachers, workers and craftsmen, etc., who had a fixed occupation and a stable income. The higher the income, the greater the proportion of tax paid.

Therefore, the oral tax is actually the poll tax, and the highest state of ordinary people's life is that "you can not eat food, and you can't pay taxes." Now the imperial court has taken off the ring around the necks of ordinary people, but it has changed hands and put it in the necks of rich people, however, this is not the end, and the most important should belong to the "field tax".

In the early days, the resettlement of displaced people was divided according to the size of the population and the size of the labor force of each family, and each family did not exceed 50 mu at most, and it took five years to settle the fields. Due to the disasters that occurred during this period, Liu Hanshao reduced the number of years of tuntian, so next year, the first batch of displaced people to be resettled will be relieved of their status as tuntians, sign a permanent land lease contract with the state, and become yeoman farmers who rent state land.

Homesteaders who lease state land need to pay 3 percent of the grain tax and 2 percent of the land rent, totaling 5 percent, which is called "public rental grain."

The new "field tax" is based on this, and those self-cultivated farmers who have less than 50 acres of land in their homes only need to pay 3 percent of the "field tax" because the land still belongs to their own family and does not need to pay land rent; For those with more than 50 mu and less than 100 mu, they need to pay 6% of the "field tax"; If it is more than 100 mu and less than 500 mu, it is necessary to pay 10%; Those who are more than 500 mu and less than 1,000 mu need to pay 15%; For more than 1,000 acres, 20% is required.

Since "slave and maid calculations, personal income, and land rent and field tax" are all divided into five tiers, the new tax bill is also called the "five-tier tax law".

However, after the "Five-Order Tax Law" was formulated, it caused an uproar in the imperial court without waiting for its implementation, and even the parliaments at all levels participated in it, writing to the imperial court to refute it, saying that the bill was unfair and obviously aimed at the wealthy and wealthy families.

This is also expected, the eunuchs in the court, the famous families in the house, who doesn't have a few slaves and maids and a few acres of land? The crux of the matter is that if it is really "a few, a few acres", it is easy to say, but those official eunuch families, famous and wealthy families, can easily raise thousands of guests at home, and tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land. This kind of strength is no different from the actual country within a country, and if you don't agree with each other, you can pull out a force of soldiers and horses, can you not be jealous?

On the other hand, not to mention that the thirty tax is a thin tax, even if it is a hundred tax, the land is in the hands of those people, and the poor people who have no land can not get the preferential treatment of the imperial court at all, and they turn to rent the land to the people, and even collect up to half of the grain production, which is really more ruthless than the Ziqian family!

After all, as long as the people don't starve to death, they don't have to borrow money from Ziqian's family, but the people have to farm, and the result of farming for them is that they work hard all year long, but they may not have enough to eat.

Now, the "fifth-order tax law" that Liu Hanshao, Chen Qun and others came up with is even more ruthless than the so-called "spreading into acres" in the original history, and they directly draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle.

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Taking the family with 1,000 slaves and maids and 10,000 mu of fertile land as an example, first of all, the slaves and maids have to pay 10 million yuan and 20 percent of the land tax.

Good!

Don't be a slave or a maidservant, as long as the land, the court collects 20 percent of the field tax, and we collect half of the harvest of the field farmers. The problem is that the state only collects 5 percent of the 50 mu of "small land" leased to the peasant families, including the rent and tax, and what should we do if the peasants all run to the state to rent the land and not rent our land?

Wasted and not planted?

It is still not allowed to pay less than one penny of land tax every year, or in a few years, there will be no need to plant at all, and the land will be deducted from the tax.

Therefore, at present, it seems that the most cost-effective way is to raise ninety-nine slaves and maids at home, with nine hundred and ninety-nine acres of land......

Chen Qun said at the time: "Your Majesty wants to encourage the small rich, suppress the big rich, and resist the rich and rich." ”

Liu Hanshao said: "No. Whether poor or rich, they are all from our Han country, and my brother has never been afraid of the people being rich. Even the so-called rich people today are nothing compared to the state. The purpose of this is to free up more labor and put the land in the hands of real farmers. As for the turtles who now dominate a large number of slaves and fields, they can sell their fields to the state and invest their funds in more new and profitable industries. ”

Seeing Chen Qun's drooping face, Liu Hanshao hurriedly said: "Changwen, don't get me wrong, brother didn't say that you are a turtle. When I dared to take out ten hectares of land and run here to rub a meal, it was very courageous and insightful! ”

Hey...... It's okay if you don't mention it, it's okay to mention it, we are still distressed until now, you really have a hand in scraping the ground.

However, thinking about it the other way, it seems that what His Majesty said is not completely unreasonable, although he used ten acres of land to exchange a few cookies for a taste, but his Majesty appreciated it, and set up a special legislative department and sat in the position of director. His father is still the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Chen family now has a small field in the Xiangfu compound and the Yufu compound, which is very honorable. Now that His Majesty wants to "release people and collect land", as an important minister of the imperial court, His Majesty's brother should naturally choose to support him.

But......

"Your Majesty, with all due respect, Your Majesty has done a lot of things that have benefited the people in the past two years, and you have also given a lot of favor to your subordinates, but as soon as our fifth-order tax law comes out, the big clans in various places are strong, if you can't reach the general favor of the ministers, you can't get the general benefits of the people, and you can't understand Your Majesty's painstaking efforts, I'm afraid there will be a lot of chaos."

"Confucius said that it is good, cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents."

Liu Hanshao thought about the words for a while, tried hard to make himself look serious, and then said: "Any reform will harm the interests of some people. However, if reform can benefit the country and the people, it must be carried out, and the world must not be turbulent and the country restless because of the selfish interests of a small number of people. What the long article said makes sense, if those people really guard the slaves and fields at home, as long as they pay taxes according to the law, we will not persecute them; On the contrary, if anyone dares to resist the tax and not pay it, or even rebel......"

Suddenly, Liu Hanshao clenched the saber on his waist and said: "A saber like my brother, each of our soldiers in the Han Zheng Army has one!" ”

As a result, Chen Qun knew that His Majesty was iron-hearted this time.

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Originally, the Aiqing in the imperial court joined forces with parliamentarians at all levels for the first time, intending to oppose the "five-tier tax law" with incomparably strong, honest and selfless, pure and flawless fighting spirit, determination and courage, and some people even felt that it was like opposing the "divine law", and the more they opposed, the more loyal they were.

However, Liu Hanshao showed his stubborn side again, pretended to be cowardly, and left the next sentence: "Brothers, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility." Then he jumped around, avoiding the Aiqing, and no one saw him, but the "fifth-level tax law" began to be officially implemented.

The current situation is:

First, His Majesty has just formulated the "Divine Law", and in the future, even the emperor will have to abide by the law and introspect himself.

Second, the Han Zheng army had just won another victory, and His Majesty's prestige had once again been raised to a new height.

Third, everyone still has official positions, is it really necessary to convene a great court meeting and work together to depose the emperor? Then who will be the official in the future?

Aiqing, who gradually calmed down, began to think about their own problems, isn't the so-called material wealth that there is land outside the house and money under the bed? However, now, many people have taken out a lot of money under the bed and invested it. For example, shares in banks, new workshops and factories, or advances to projects such as the Great River Bridge. If the land and money can only choose to keep the same, it is obviously too difficult to keep the land.

Rebel?

We don't have the guts.

Tax resistance?

I don't have the guts either.

Tax evasion?

It was okay before, everyone took care of each other, you give me face, I give you face, and it can be passed on to the people of Qianshou layer by layer. However, now the Prime Minister's Mansion has the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Finance, the Imperial Government has three departments and the Audit Office, and there are still houses at all levels squatting next to it.

If you are really caught and punished according to law, it will be simple, confiscate all your property, and be on the border for a year.

Perhaps, it should really be like the Legislative Secretary Chen Changwen explained on behalf of His Majesty: let people sell land, change production and careers, strive to be a local tyrant, not a turtle!