A whip law is an epoch-making event in the history of China's enslavement system, which changes the form of collection parallel to "fu" and "conscription" in previous dynasties, unifies the enslavement law, simplifies the enslavement system, and marks the transformation of taxation from physical to currency, and the types of taxation from complicated to simple.

However, this is not to say that a whip law is without any defects, although a whip law has its progressive significance, it is an integral part of the social superstructure of the feudal aristocracy, and still serves the foundation of state finance.

It was implemented in order to sort out and improve the finances of the feudal regime, and the whip law was a reformist policy, a helmet that contained the struggle between the professional regime and the landlords.

However, this "reform" and "struggle" were also extremely weak, and even the right of preferential exemption to the gentry and landlords at that time had to be "excepted."

How to treat differently, in the Ming Dynasty, a whip law is the result of more than 100 years of reform of various enslavement systems in the Jiangnan region, which itself has a very strong regional color in the south of the Yangtze River, and the local policies with strong regional colors are immutably implemented in other parts of the country, which will inevitably cause contradictions due to factors such as differences in regional environment, different levels of economic development, and obstruction by local officials to safeguard the interests of their own regions and strata, and this contradiction will directly lead to the damage to the interests of farmers.

In the Han Dynasty, because the cultivation technology has not been greatly improved, the use of ploughing cattle has not been popularized throughout the country, and even the Han people in remote areas are still in the Stone Age, using polished stones as hoes.

And the fertility of the land of the Han family is also different, so the Han family in the early days of the establishment of the subdivision of the tax standards, according to the land situation, the tax collected is different, if the right to make the decision to the locality, you can imagine what kind of chaos it will be, the magistrate for their own promotion, have more tax achievements, will definitely be under the jurisdiction, the poor people's field is set as the field, the landlord is strong and strong in the field of the field, and Chang'an because the whip is out of reach, can only use a one-size-fits-all method.

This is a double-edged sword, although it nominally protects the people of Limin, but it also gives the local government and the landlords the opportunity to unite and harm the masses!

There was also a whip law in the Ming Dynasty, which was originally used to levy silver into the official and take it for the official, but after the implementation of a whip law, it did not achieve the purpose of eliminating the harm of miscellaneous labor.

The destruction of a whip law is prominently manifested in the additional allocation, and the local government has increased the levy tax in addition to the whip law, which is very disturbing to the people.

Generally in the Ming Dynasty, at the end of Wanli and the beginning of the apocalypse, a whip law has not been observed, this bloody example, you can understand the style of grassroots officials, in the Han Jian unearthed in later generations, it is clearly recorded that in Hedong County, the local government has to collect taxes a year, and even the personal expenses of officials have to be apportioned.

Moreover, the problem of fire consumption also appeared in the Han Dynasty, because the implementation of a whip law also bred another problem that had a very long-term impact in the future, that is, the problem of fire consumption, because the tax law stipulates the payment of silver, and the so-called "fire consumption" was produced in the process of silver smelting and casting.

The actual fire consumption of the smelted silver was on average every two to two cents, or one or two hundredths, but the actual fire consumption levied was often much higher, reaching two to three cents per tael, and sometimes even more. Fire consumption has become an ingenious means of local agglomeration, and it has also become a heavy burden for taxpayers.

In the Han Dynasty, there are a huge number of copper coins, Xiaowu Emperor Liu Che's five-baht coin, Qin's half-tael coin, Emperor Gao's two-baht coin, Empress Lu's three-baht coin, Taizong Xiaowen's four-baht coin, as well as the princes, kings, merchants from all over the country minted coins, among which the exterminated Wu King Liu Bi's Wu Wang Qian is the most, Liu Bi also relied on the huge profits of minting coins to dare to rebel.

Even the later Xiaowu Emperor Liu Che, after taking back the coinage right to the central government, collected a large number of miscellaneous coins.

But when Liu Xun was still in the people, and even in Liu Xun's own hidden treasury, all kinds of coins were gathered, just like ancient and modern currency exhibition halls, so the exchange of various currency values was also a big problem?

There is also a whip law, the official tax of the Ming Dynasty is silver.

When paying taxes, the people will convert grain and other outputs into silver, so they should concentrate on exchanging with merchants when paying the two taxes, and the merchants will use this to raise the price of silver, which is a major malpractice of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is also known as a whip for the remnants of the people.

There is also the same problem in the Han family, the common people of the Han family cannot directly obtain money, more often it is in exchange for goods, with the cloth woven by my family, in exchange for your meat, so when the common people of the Han family pay taxes, it is also the time when the black-hearted landlord Lao Cai wantonly expands the land.

Liu Xun rubbed his eyes when he thought of this, how could he really learn from a whip law and turn it into a practical reform that combines conscription and taxation?

Not only can they collect a large amount of taxes and start to build infrastructure in the southeast, but they can also reduce the burden of ordinary people, so that they will no longer be bankrupt and separated from their wives for taxes and forced labor, and finally become a factor of social instability!

This problem plagued all the feudal dynasties of the Chinese civilization.