In the eyes of many people, inheritance tax is definitely a representative of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so why should the property left by one's parents be taxed by the state? It may not be acceptable to Chinese in the twenty-first century, let alone in ancient times three hundred years ago, so Jiang Tian made a fuss about the most important legacy and the most problematic land in this era. On the one hand, it is to rely on the big hat of the whole world to oppress people, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent the land from being excessively concentrated in the hands of a few people, resulting in the instability of the country's foundation. At this time, if anyone stands up against land reform, he will definitely be charged with the crime of bringing disaster to the country and the people and having bad intentions and being sent to the great northwest.

In fact, smart people have already discovered the trick of tax avoidance from Jiang Tian's compromises, since the inheritance has to be taxed, then it is no problem to give the property to the children while the old man is alive! This is also a loophole deliberately left by Jiang Tian, because the deposit of land accumulation tax has already avoided land concentration in a certain way, and the main object of inheritance tax is those soldiers who are now alive and have obtained meritorious fields, regardless of how many acres of these fields are, according to the existing welfare system, they can be directly passed on to their immediate descendants and enjoy tax subsidies, then these people may become a new generation of local tycoons, thus affecting the political pattern of the local countryside. Therefore, Jiang Tiancai mentioned the fairness of the inheritance tax in the memorabilia, and added a clause to ensure that everyone is held hostage by this tax, that is, meritorious fields are not allowed to be given to others before death, and those who insist on giving will no longer enjoy tax subsidies. But those civil officials can't understand it, although your Jiang family's meritorious fields are not much, but if you continue to implement this method, your own property will also be affected, even if everyone understands that land annexation can almost be equated with the omen of the country's demise, but why do you waste your martial arts so much? Is it really the selflessness of the people who worries about the country and the people?

Jiang Tian cites Qiu Tian's report on the investigation of the land north of the Yangtze River, pointing out that a new local gentry force is taking shape, and even if the imperial court deliberately disrupts the local population, it cannot prevent the rebirth of the landlord class. Therefore, Jiang Tian's alarmist prediction, in the long run, I am afraid that the national Zuo of the Chinese Dynasty will not last for 200 years, and the world will be in chaos! If he did not repeat the old path of the previous Ming Dynasty, he would inevitably reform the land ownership system in depth, so he built a state to implement land nationalization reform in the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan, which were the most problematic in Qiutian's compromise! The existing private land is still held by the owner, but the land property rights are owned by the state, the farmers only enjoy the right to use, and the real estate tax must be paid to the state symbolically every year, and the income from cultivation belongs to the individual, but the land use cannot be changed at will, and the sale is only the right to use, but its direct descendants have the priority inheritance qualification, if there is no heir, the land will be recovered by the local competent authority, and it needs to be sold after a public auction and publicity for one month, and no one can sell it after no objection. For newly cultivated land, it is stipulated that it must be reported to the government, and can enjoy tax exemption status for a minimum of three years and a maximum of ten years, otherwise it will be confiscated as official land once discovered. In order to exclusively manage these lands, Jiang Tian also established a national land and resources bureau, which was in charge of the work of directly managing state-owned land beyond the local government.

It is conceivable that this reform plan, which combines China's land management laws and regulations in the 21st century, is simply a huge opportunity and danger in the eyes of all kinds of well-intentioned people. He is said to be an opportunity, because for the first time in thousands of years, a state-owned land management agency has emerged that surpasses the local government, and as long as it is a land issue, this new yamen has the right to intervene, and the power is so great that people are eye-catching. It is said that it is dangerous because at a time when the existing economic production is inseparable from agriculture, once the laws and regulations are resisted by the people, it is very likely that there will be armed @ pretending @ riots @ riots. When the time comes, who can take responsibility for the crime of an official @ forcing @ people @ anti to be suppressed? However, this is not without room for maneuver, the three provinces that Jiang Tian asked for the experiment were severely injured in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the local area can be said to be ten rooms and nine empty, even if the state encourages all kinds of immigrants to settle in these areas, but due to the short time, it has not formed a very strong local force, and it is also the first choice for reform to be tried drastically. For the first time, the fiscal revenues of these three provinces will also develop from agriculture to various industries, and the tax pressure on farmers will be reduced, so that the excess output can enter the market for circulation, and after the commercial prosperity is stimulated, the secondary and tertiary industries will also flourish together, and the economic center of gravity will inevitably shift from the rural areas to the cities. It won't take too long, at most, in ten years, the total economic output of these three places will surpass that of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and even if you don't want to promote reform, there will be a group of people with red eyes to promote the whole country to follow suit. In this way, when people find out that there is not much oil and water in their clutches of land, who still dreams of becoming a big landlord?

"Who told you to change my meaning?" Zhang Tao's roar echoed in the study, and even Liu Junding, who was standing at the door on duty, couldn't help but shudder.

Jiang Tian, who was standing opposite Zhang Tao, had already guessed that there would be such a scene, and he slowly bent down to pick up the fold that Zhang Tao threw on the ground: "If it is according to your original intention, just check the total number of acres of land in the country, collect the outstanding taxes, kill a few officials who damage the public and private interests, and pull out some big landlords to criticize and parade the streets, can you solve the problem in the end?" Fighting local tyrants and dividing the land is indeed the only magic weapon for the mass movement in your hometown, but it will also lead to economic turmoil and social unrest, so our hometown will eventually nationalize the land, but are you ready to engage in a vigorous WG movement to completely erase the national class division? ”

Zhang Tao's anger did not diminish at all: "Don't talk nonsense, when Lao Tzu criticized the landlord, your kid was not born yet!" How can you nationalize these people without beating them down? Ransom buy, buy, you pay! ”

Jiang Tian pursed his lips and smiled slightly: "What does the Land and Resources Bureau do?" Whoever is not willing to sell can not sell, but not only is there no preferential tax treatment, but it is impossible to transfer even the land sold, and after a long time, I see who can withstand the economic pressure and not invest the land to the state! ”

Zhang Tao was slightly stunned, and then understood that the so-called redemption is actually a change of law to force farmers to hand over their own land, and there is no need for any complicated means, as long as the lever of taxation is controlled, no yeoman farmer can stand this pressure, and then he will have a good reputation. In fact, to put it bluntly, whoever wants to be a tenant for this country can live a small life, and if anyone wants to be a landlord like the country, then the court will make you live in peace all the time. For Jiang Tian to magnify the relationship between landlords and tenants in the late Ming Dynasty to the whole country, Zhang Tao, who was accustomed to going straight, really didn't turn a corner for a while.

"That's not going to work either! I asked you to write a book to check the country's acres, why didn't you mention it? How many years will these moths be eaten by the people's fat and people's ointment! ”

"Don't worry, the inventory is certain, but who can guarantee that the staff below will not have the power to trade for money? The key is that you can't always use high-pressure means to force corrupt officials and corrupt officials not to dare to break the law, this is like me doing trial production in the mountains, no matter how you wear out your mouth, people will always have a kind of luck psychology about the danger, when the benefits are big enough, there will be people who take risks to defy the law, you can't always use a tyrant image to show people, right? Even if you don't care, can your children and grandchildren be as jealous as you? After a long time, it will not be like the Ming Dynasty. That's why I came up with this method of using economic means to promote reform, and it's not my original one. It's just that I jumped directly to the package to the household. What's more, Zhili is the territory of the King of Ji, Shandong is the hometown of Confucius, and there is a group of imperial relatives of the former Ming Dynasty in Henan, whether it is the current prince, or the remnants of the previous dynasty, or the spiritual leader, the three types of people with the highest status in China are in these three provinces, and it is also the land of the agricultural essence north of the Yangtze River. ”

After listening to Jiang Tian's explanation, Zhang Tao really hesitated. It is not that he is unaware that some of the practices of his hometown have been criticized in the end, but in the long run, the reason why China in the 21 st century does not have the problem of rural land is directly related to the fact that the local forces were liquidated by various movements in the years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and even more so because of the emergence of rural cooperatives, which has expanded China's cultivated land to the limit of history, and many rural water conservancy facilities that are still in use in the 21 st century are all the products of mobilizing the masses in those 20 or 30 years, and only under the commune systemIt was possible to concentrate a small amount of productive forces to make a big @leap @ advance in production technology, so he resolutely wanted to inventory the land in the whole of China at the beginning, and also saved the purpose of launching communization in the future. But Jiang Tian's explanation of the evaluation of future generations completely touched him.

Don't look at the Emperor Zhang Tao as a proletarian revolutionary, but when he sat on the dragon chair with his yellow robe and his back to the north, the feeling of licking calves in his heart was magnified many times. Especially now that he has only one crown prince, of course there is no question of the right to ascend the throne for this only son, but when faced with the question of what kind of country to leave for the successor, he is not much different from Zhu Yuanzhang. An instinctive urge to do the work for our children and grandchildren naturally influenced the formulation of some policies. He wants to carry out land reform because he wants to leave his son a country without land problems, but according to Jiang Tian's explanation, if he continues like this, at most he will return to his hometown, but today's productive forces cannot complete the historical mission of moving the economic center from the countryside to the city, and it is likely that there will be a situation of equal emphasis on the countryside and the city in the next 100 years, so who can guarantee that his children and grandchildren can withstand the pressure and continue to take the road of industrialization? In this way, not only is it necessary to carry out small-scale pilot work, but it may even affect the course of China's future development, and it will not be possible to confront the traditional Confucian landlord group for a long time without cultivating a number of industrialized capitalist groups. But looking at it this way, it is very likely that at some point in the future, there will be a civil war similar to the American Civil War. Fortunately, Zhang Tao understood in his heart that the revolution was indeed not a dinner party, and this war was really unavoidable, but the northern faction with an advanced industrial system could not lose to the landlord group under any circumstances.

After figuring out this section, he had to admit that Jiang Tian's approach was more tactful and long-term than his, and according to Jiang Tian's vision, in a few decades, a group of bourgeoisie supported by the royal family would emerge, and these people would closely rally around his Zhang royal family and resolutely fight the reactionary forces to the end. But...... When these tails are too big to fall, who will guarantee the basic interests of the proletariat? Could it be that the Chinese version of the Civil War was followed by the Beijing version of the Paris Commune? Therefore, although Zhang Tao adopted Jiang Tian's construction, he still stubbornly modified this plan, except that because the experimental area was too wide and only limited to Beizhili, the most important thing was that the national census of acres of land must be carried out, and compulsory registration or removal of private land!

"You don't need to say much, if anyone dares to move against the sky, my tiger will knock on someone's door!" After throwing down this cruel sentence, Zhang Tao didn't care about the big vote who knelt down in the hall, and walked away directly.

It wasn't until the eunuch on the station shouted out that he had withdrawn from the dynasty, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty looked at each other and didn't know what to do. At this time, Jiang Tian, who was at the front, stood up slowly, shook his head regretfully and was about to turn around and leave, but these officials would not let him go like this, a group of shrimp soldiers and crabs who didn't know how to be good surrounded him in three layers inside and three layers outside, that is, Ning Jiao, Tian Yu and other court bigwigs, who were also standing aside and listening.

I saw a white-bearded official take the lead and said: "Lord Jiang, you are also a relative, who doesn't have a few acres of thin land, and can't pass it on to your descendants. ”

"Yes, yes......" a group of people also chimed in.

Jiang Tian looked left and right, he was the first to stand up against the retreat of private land in today's court, because he felt that this matter not only involved a wide range of people, but also was unnecessary, once the industrialization first achieved results, or the production to households obtained relatively good results, then under the national promotion, there will be no room for private land to survive. However, Zhang Tao insisted on forcing it, and he had the intention of not giving up if he did not dig out the moths, which made him feel that his painstaking persuasion that day did not play its due role.

"Listen to me." Jiang Tian made a circle to everyone: "Most of the ministers are my predecessors Jiang, many people are still the pillars of the Northern Expedition back then, of course, I know that this retreat involves a lot, so I am also against it, but everyone has also seen that even the fiefdom of King Ji will be nationalized, do you have a higher prestige than King Ji?" If you want me to say that this is a decision, no matter how much we oppose it, it will be useless, so let's find some other way to subsidize the family. ”

The old man still didn't give up, and said with a somewhat anxious expression: "Since ancient times, how can you cultivate and read heirlooms, if you don't have a field to study?" Master Jiang is not going to laugh. ”

Jiang Tian smiled slightly when he heard this: "It's true that the cultivation and reading heirloom is true, but from the three emperors and the five emperors to the present, the so-called cultivation and reading heirloom is only six or seven hundred years, and the reincarnation of the world is just that this road is not going through, why should everyone hang themselves on a tree?" ”

Of course, everyone knows what he meant, and now Jiang Tian's earning ability is no one to doubt, just making glass for the royal family, improving movable type printing and developing new muskets, these jobs have made Jiang Tian's pockets more and more bulging, although no one knows how much money he earned, but at least there are hundreds of thousands of inputs, and it is unimaginable to accumulate so much money in such a short period of time, it is unimaginable to rest on the landlord, not to mention that Zhang Tao relied on eating coarse salt and selling refined salt to feed the private army. People all over the world know that this brother and sister really have the ability to turn stones into gold, so the methods of those big landlords to collect money are certainly not worth it in the eyes of others. But these two people are the only ones in the world who have this ability, and the others don't want to keep their eyes on the land?

Before these people could not be spared, Jiang Tian took the initiative to open his mouth and change the topic: "I said that you are also old men of the imperial court, since this son of heaven does not like it, why bother to anger Tianyan?" The Royal Academy of Sciences is not a private workshop that cherishes itself, whether it is glass technology or a new printing press, it is open to sell the world, that is, some of the country's heavy weapons can not be shown, but there are more ways to make money, far from mentioning, the current army dressing, whether it is the processing of firearms parts, or the replenishment of clothing consumables, is a considerable business, it is because of their own limited production capacity, so that the change of clothes work is extremely slow. Another example is the stainless iron sheet that I successfully tried to produce a few days ago, and the inner courtyard of the palace has long wanted to replace the buckets with this thing, which is light and cheap compared to the original wooden barrels, but the academy of sciences can't be reduced to making buckets, right? If someone has a little spare money and buys a technology from the Academy of Sciences that is not classified as a secret, they can open a factory in their hometown and sell it to the state, and the annual income is more than ten times that of the previous one, and the most important thing is that His Majesty still likes such an interesting person, what should I do? ”

Jiang Tian, who was forced to be helpless, had no choice but to become a salesman directly, and recently because the stall of the Academy of Sciences is getting bigger and bigger, it is difficult to take care of all aspects of work, so from Old Man Song to Jiang Tian, they all think that it is time to put some things with low technical level out for money. All kinds of food-grade containers made of tinplate can be produced semi-streamed by water conservancy machine tools, as long as the iron and steel factory of the royal control has an exclusive monopoly on the production process of tinplate. Even if some inconsequential technology is sold, it can be exchanged for a large patent transfer fee, and at the same time, it will allow the Academy of Sciences to focus its efforts on what is really needed. It stands to reason that Chinese businessmen do not only understand the collusion between officials and businessmen, and they are also sensitive to various business opportunities, but because of the royal word in front of the Academy of Sciences, the vast majority of people can only be discouraged, so today's Jiang Tian's statement is also a reassuring pill for some people, the secret of the mirror, galvanized, tinplate production process of course is not a luxury, the new ** is not even asked, but it is also profitable to do some downstream work, especially tinplate, when the current steel price falls strictly, It is a good time to popularize metal utensils, not only is there a huge demand from the common people, but also the prospects for export are equally bright. It's just that they don't know that Jiang Tian has already started to trial produce stainless steel and enamel, otherwise they would never buy any tinplate.

It's just because of Zhang Tao's insistence that Jiang Tian found an opportunity to sell products, which is definitely an example of unintentional insertion. But the whole world understands Zhang Tao's determination to thoroughly investigate the land, whether you want to or not, those farmland that is not registered are classified as official land, and when the army is completely controlled by the emperor, the result of any confrontation with the imperial power is to be condoled by the whole family of the soldiers, not to mention that the army at this time is still the kind of team that has been baptized by the Northern Expedition and has strong combat power and strict organization, and it is a fanatical army that regards the emperor as a soldier @ God, and confronts them? No kidding.