Chapter 917 Taxation (Second Update, Asking for Subscription)

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Shen Xi groaned slightly, and said: "Madame teaches younger brothers and sisters for the official, and they are in the backyard of the post house, and no one will come to disturb them on weekdays." ”

After agreeing on the details of the teaching, the woman bowed her head and immediately bowed and retired.

Shen Xi can't let her go out like this, you were a son-in-law when you came in, and when you went out, you became a girl's house, just the people who supervised the yamen might chew their tongues, and those soldiers like to talk about everything on weekdays.

Shen Xi asked her to cover her face with a cloth, and then let her go out of the mansion.

When the person left, Shen Xi couldn't help but sigh, in the end, he still chose this woman to come back as Xixi, where is the face?

"Master, but you want to send someone to send the bundle?" Zhu Qi came in and asked.

Shen Xiyi waved his hand and said: "You don't have to send it first, wait for a few **** to teach, let's talk about it separately." ”

A woman's family, saying that it was for two taels of silver a month to take this errand, Shen Xi didn't believe it, there may be some ulterior motives behind this woman, he directly asked the people from the Yamen to investigate, but he could ask Hui Niang and Li Jin to help him investigate.

When Shen Xi told Hui Niang about the matter, Hui Niang had already prepared for this, and asked with a smile: "The master still chose Miss Qi as the West Seat?" ”

Shen Xi was a little surprised: "Hui'er, you know everything?" ”

Hui Niang explained: "After the concubine told the master last time, she was concerned about this matter and found out the situation of Miss Qi. This Miss Qi was originally an official eunuch in Huizhou Mansion, but unfortunately she was guilty, and some dignitaries ransomed her nationality, and then found a merchant in Guangzhou Mansion to marry. ”

"The husband's family was originally quite wealthy, but the husband was a gambler, and within two years he lost all his family property and her dowry. But if you only teach women's studies, after all, the source of students is limited, and it is not enough to maintain the family, so this time you should choose the west seat of the Shen Mansion, purely to help the family. ”

This woman's life is bumpy.

The daughter of an official eunuch, who received a good education since she was a child, grew up to be guilty of the crimes of her father and brother who was an official, and fell into the dust.

This noble man ransomed her, but she didn't enter the door, which is tantamount to being irresponsible after playing, and it is not easy to marry a businessman to be the main house. Her husband is too gambling to keep the family business, so she can only come out to teach people, teaching the daughters of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but in this era when women are not talented and virtuous, it is obvious that life is still very difficult.

Shen Xi has seen this woman's methods, it can be said that even Tang Yin, Xia Kuan and others do not have such scheming and strategy as her, it may be a bit too much to say that she is a "female Zhuge ", but at least she is a smart, wise and knowledgeable woman.

"You help keep an eye on it. If she approaches the Governor's Yamen for any ulterior motive, let me know in advance, and I can be on guard. Shen Xi instructed, "At the beginning of March, I will lead the troops to the north, and before that, I will give you the customs clearance documents for the transportation of goods to Gui Province, and in the future, you and Jin'er will be responsible for the business of the two Guangzhous, and the local news will be summarized and sorted out." ”

Hui Niang bowed: "Yes, master." ”

Hui Niang is not a big belly at this time, but he likes to hold the pregnant Hui Niang on his lap and feel the warmth of Hui Niang's body with his hands, which can be regarded as his long-term efforts to melt the ice in Hui Niang's heart, and the relationship between the two is developing in a benign direction.

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On February 13, the female gentleman hired by Shen Xi officially started classes in the backyard of the post house.

Shen Xi sent both Shen Yun and Shen Yi'er to study, in order to let Xie Yun'er not have to worry about the male gentleman would damage Shen Yi'er's reputation, he privately told Xie Yun'er that Mr. was a woman.

Xie Yun'er changed color when she heard the news, but when she saw the article written by Mr. Woman, she had to feel sincerely admired, although she couldn't write a beautiful article, but at least the quality of an article could be clearly distinguished.

As for Shen Xi's four-panel comic essay questions, she was a little confused.

Shen Yun cried for a few days, and before he came out of the haze of "losing his mother", he had to carry his schoolbag and follow his sister to the backyard of the yamen to attend classes.

"Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" are many school enlightened textbooks in this era, but they are not formal textbooks, after all, what they learn is not the content of the imperial examination, but it is very helpful to teach students to read and write.

Shen Yun and Shen Yi'er were studying in the backyard, and Shen Xi was writing martial arts novels in the middle hall in front, and there seemed to be no conflict between the two, but Shen Xi heard the sound of Na Lang reading aloud, and suddenly remembered the carefree time when he was in school.

Now Shen Xi is a member of the three grades, supervising the party, and in order to coax the children, he has to sit in the hall and write martial arts novels, which are "indiscriminate" in the eyes of Confucianism. But this is part of his management strategy, unless he wants to be an official outside for the rest of his life, and he will not touch the supreme authority of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Xi is currently writing "Smiling Proud Jianghu", and he can't help but immerse himself in the story, Zhu Hong came in and played: "My lord, the feudal department sent someone over there, saying that he wanted to determine this year's spring ploughing tax." ”

"Got it." Shen Xi put down his pen, put down the manuscript that he had written more than 30 pages, walked out of the door, walked through the courtyard, and went to the front hall to discuss business with the people of the political envoy.

Before the implementation of the "One Whip Law" in the Ming Dynasty, the levy of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes was relatively complex, and could basically be divided into three categories: field endowment, errand service, and military service.

The so-called tax per acre, that is, grain households need to pay land tax according to the amount of land they cultivate; Errand service is the errand that the government needs to approve, such as the dismissal of households, jailers, menzi, bucket ranks, patrol fences, fasters, cooks, etc., which cannot be used as a substitute for errand service with money before the implementation of a whip law, and must be served by people; Military service is military service.

After the local yamen collected the grain, they needed to exchange it for silver and hand it over to the state treasury, which involved many gray links, such as wear and tear and the color of the silver, and the officials had the opportunity to get their hands on it.

Until the implementation of a whip law, to a certain extent, the "unity of the land and the ding", according to the tax mu to collect taxes, and the field endowment, errand service and military service are all replaced by silver, no longer to the imperial court to pay grain, but to silver to replace the tax and so on, which greatly simplified the process of taxation in the imperial court, but also allowed laborers to leave their fields and enter the city to work, and vigorously promoted the development of industry and commerce.

A whip law is actually very simple, and its characteristics can be summarized in 16 characters: merger and allocation, merger and collection, payment with silver, official collection and official collection, and more complex is "tax consolidation, measurement of land, land collection of silver, positive and miscellaneous co-ordination, tax and silver directly collected by the local government".

In fact, a whip law did not change the total amount of tax burden, nor did it reflect the Confucian financial concept of "light taxation and thin taxation" thinking, under the institutional norms of the "Hongwu ancestral system" of fixed amount tax, only changed the way of collection, through the method of expanding the scope of tax burden, to a certain extent, changed the burden of various taxpayers, and formed a new pattern of interests.

Before the implementation of a whip law, there have been many measures to replace the levy with silver, such as in Guangdong Province at the same time in the implementation of the Shiduan Jinshu Law, the Gangyin Law and the Junping Silver Law, it can be said that by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, both the imperial court and the local government have been aware of the disadvantages of the taxation and conscription system, but there is a lack of a unified system of the imperial court to change the status quo, but some new systems implemented locally have also been adopted by the imperial court.

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Now more than 20 years before Zhang Juzheng's birth, although Shen Xi intends to carry out tax reform in Guangdong Province, he is afraid of touching the interests of too many people.

Land reform will always hurt the interests of the landlord class and will be obstructed by the bureaucracy, because most of the officials are "big landlords".

The officials are powerful and powerful, and they naturally do not have to worry about money, they can buy more land, and pass it on from generation to generation, they buy the land back, but the land tax is paid less or even not paid, and the burden of state taxes falls completely on those ordinary people.

The reform required a re-measurement of land, a register of all land according to the head of the household, the exposure of the landlord's private possession, and the taxation of land according to the actual amount of land.

While telling the people and the court that only the existing system could better maintain the revenue of the state treasury and ensure that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the landlords tried their best to cover up the biggest facts and encroach on a large amount of the wealth of the state and the common people, so that the rich became richer and the poor became poorer.

Taking Shen Xi himself as an example, the Shen family is now a landlord class, owning hundreds of acres of land in Ninghua, and if he wants to implement the "one whip law" or "spread the land into the mu", it is equivalent to digging the corner of his own wall, and he does not need to punish him with those powerful people in the court, and his father and mother are the first to refuse.

According to the previous rules, the number of taxed acres of land in the new year was increased by about 1 percent on the basis of the previous year, which was the number of reclamation in a province, but the specific figure was far more than that.

After agreeing with the imperial court on the amount of tax to be levied, the political envoy will issue the specific amount and quota to the state capitals, and then the state capitals will distribute the quota to the counties, and the counties will then have the quota to each lijia, and the lijia quota will be given to the households.

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