On top of the city tower, Cui Wenqing stood outstanding, just like an insurmountable Great Wall, facing the people in front of him.

"I know that all of you fathers and villagers have been coerced by the big family to hand over the farmers, and it is not your fault, and I also know that it is absolutely impossible for you to give up your body as tenant farmers, give up the low grain tax and choose to stay in the ...... of Xuzhou."

Hearing Cui Wenqing's words, the anger in the hearts of the people gradually subsided, and they all looked at him intently, waiting for the following.

Speaking of this, Cui Wenqing's voice gradually turned high-pitched: "So, a method that I came up with, to be precise, is not a method, but I, Cui Wenqing, use my own officialdom future and my own head to make a promise for everyone, that is, the people resettled in Jiangnan Road who came to the four states of the Northland this time will all be exempted from taxes for 50 years!" The imperial court will never collect taxes in these fifty years! ”

The people looked at each other, but they couldn't believe it, but Cui Wenqing's voice was clearly resounding in their ears, and for a while, they all thought that they had accidentally misheard, after all, for thousands of years, how could a dynasty be exempted from grain taxes.

Cui Wenqing was the only one who was too shocking in this way, so he repeated it again: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, you heard it right, what the official said is that the people who have been resettled in other places will be exempted from taxes for 50 years!" ”

There was a huge commotion sound, just like the Qiantang tide coming suddenly, sweeping over the black crowd like a thousand huge waves, and the whole world was instantly filled with exclamations and exclamations.

"Exemption from taxes? And still exempt from taxes for 50 years?! ”

What a shock! How incredible! How shocking!

According to the historical records of the land of China, taxation has always been the main means of accumulating wealth in the imperial court.

Tens of millions of people worked their own land, and after harvesting grain every year, they paid a part of the grain to the government according to the taxes stipulated by the imperial court.

Just like gathering sand into a tower, piling up soil into a mountain, and collecting grain from all over the country, it has become the basic guarantee of the imperial court's money.

Therefore, in the Qin and Han dynasties and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period before the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, the level of officials was measured by how many stones were used as the standard, and the so-called "stone" was the unit of measurement of grain.

Nowadays, although the commercial tax is gradually rising, accounting for a certain proportion of the tax income, the agricultural tax still accounts for more than seventy percent of the annual income of the imperial court, so it can be said that the agricultural tax is also the foundation of the Daqi tax.

Although there have been tax reductions and exemptions for victims in natural and man-made disasters, most of them are one year or two years, and at most they have not exceeded three years.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Cui Wenqing opened his mouth, he would reduce or exempt the taxes of the people resettled in other places for 50 years.

Fifty years is almost equivalent to a jiazi, which is enough to turn a croaking baby into an old man, and the exemption from taxes for fifty years will bring unimaginable benefits to the people resettled.

And listening to Cui Wenqing's meaning, not only the agricultural tax of the cultivators, but also the people who are engaged in craftsmen and merchants after being resettled in other places will also receive a tax reduction for 50 years.

The shock of this statement continues for a long time.

Zhi Zhao in the crowd was completely stunned by Cui Wenqing's sudden words.

According to the agreement between the Zhe family and Qi Taizu, after the Zhe family returned to the Great Qi, Fuzhou, Linzhou, Xuzhou, and Fengzhou were nominally under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, but in terms of taxes, all expenses were incurred by the Zhe family.

The most important part of this tax is to be used for the expenses of the Zhenwu Army, of which the grain tax is to ensure that the Zhenwu Army's military rations are located.

Now Cui Wenqing has opened his mouth and directly exempted more than 700,000 people in the four states of the North from paying taxes for 50 years, which means that within 50 years, these 700,000 people will not pay a penny of taxes to the Zhai family.

Although Zhe Zhao is not good at calculating, it is certain that the tax exempted by Cui Wenqing is an astronomical amount, and the tax of the Zhe family will also suffer a large loss.

"This soul is faint, such a major matter, and he doesn't even discuss it with me before making a decision!" Suddenly, Zhi Zhao was relieved and secretly angry, and felt that Cui Wenqing was too reckless and sloppy.

Moreover, Cui Wenqing's promise was not approved by the Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Zhenwu Army, nor did it have the consent of the imperial court, so it is believed that such a matter of cutting first and then playing will definitely cause greater monstrous waves in the court.

In front of the crowd, Lu Ruoxuan was completely stunned.

She looked at the high-spirited Cui Wenqing on the city tower stupidly, only to feel that the cognition of her life collapsed and collapsed in an instant, and she couldn't believe that there would be such a completely ridiculous promise.

If taxes are really exempted, then these tenant farmers who are attached to the major families will all change their minds without asking, after all, the imperial court has exempted all taxes, and as long as they are normal people, they will not be willing to pay money and grain to the big families.

And without such a relationship of interest, these tenant farmers will naturally no longer act according to the will of the big family, and the matter of returning to Jiangnan Road is impossible to talk about, and it has become unattainable!

However, what scared Lu Ruoxuan the most was that after the tax was exempted, the 2,000 tenant farmers who originally belonged to the Lu family would also leave the Lu family and completely leave the Lu family.

Thinking of this, Lu Ruoxuan only felt that her body gradually became cold up and down, and an indescribable sense of panic enveloped her deeply.

Cui Wenqing silently stared at the chaos downstairs, but the corners of his mouth overflowed with a wry smile.

If it weren't for the last resort, how could he choose such an extreme tax exemption method, and when he was desperate, this was the only way to quickly quell the chaos in Suizhou, so as to completely block the people's desire to return to Jiangnan Road.

The 50-year tax exemption will also bring huge economic benefits to every family, as long as it does not face major natural and man-made disasters, it is enough to enable the people to live a worry-free life.

In the face of such huge interests, I believe that the people will be willing to stay in Xuzhou and take root.

Thinking of this, Cui Wenqing was greatly excited, and for the time being, he didn't pay attention to how much turmoil this matter would have when it reached the imperial court, and continued to add loudly: "As long as all the fathers and villagers are willing to stay in Xuzhou, then the fifty-year tax exemption will take effect immediately, starting from this year, everyone will not have to pay taxes, and when the Fu tax will be re-levied after another fifty years, everyone can also choose to leave Xuzhou and return to Jiangnan, and the imperial court will definitely not stop it!" ”

When the words fell, the excitement of the people was suddenly ignited, and the plain turned into a sea of joy and boiling, and the calls of "Long live the imperial court", "Long live the official family" and "Chitose Cui" wiped out everything.

(End of chapter)