Chapter 1235 Beef Leg Tax
Snowy plateau.
The city of Luo, the newly relocated capital of Tubo Zampu.
Countless slaves are working hard under the command of craftsmen to build a new palace city.
"Please give the temple a name!" The nobleman in charge of building the palace was the young Gardonzan, who was very young but loyal, and did an excellent job last time escorting Princess Saimaga to Qin. Especially in Luoyang City, he led the Tubo warriors to thwart the vicious conspiracy of the Zhangxiong King Li Mixia and guarded the princess.
After returning to China, Nangri Ronzan was unusually promoted to Dongzan's official position and made him a Wanhu. As a 10,000 households, not only to manage the people of Zampu, but also to be responsible for military and civil affairs, he can also make great benefits, which is a great reward.
Returning from Luoyang, Gardonzan also asked to move the capital to Luo, where the river valley was larger, which could accommodate more subjects and people, and could grow more crops.
The Sang Ri Praise agreed, and moved here from the old capital.
At the same time, in the conversation with Dongzan who slept day and night, he also learned a lot about the strength and advancement of the empire in the East, so he made up his mind to reform the Tibetan system.
Previously, although Nangri Lunzan set up Wuru and placed sixty-one Dongdai, many soldiers who were loyal to him and many vassal officials and generals who submitted to him were awarded the posts of ten thousand households and thousands of households, so that they could become new nobles and be more loyal to themselves. At the same time, while retaining the territory of the old nobles, he also specially divided the eighteen great nobles into fiefs, which were not subordinate to Wuru, and these eighteen aristocratic fiefs were also reserved for the old nobles.
Nangri Yanzan wants to send troops to Zhangxiong to avenge his attack on the murder of the princess, and he also needs to expand the army, but these also need money.
In the past, Tibet was a tribal alliance and did not have any real tax system.
Now Dongzan is entrusted by him, following the example of the Great Qin of the Central Plains, and has also drafted many new tax reforms for Tibet.
First of all, the first article is that all the arable land is nominally owned by Zampu as the king's land. Then it was granted to the Tibetan people, but the cultivation of the royal field had to pay a field tax every year, and ten taxes were one. And once the land is out of reach or unable to be cultivated by the cultivator, it must be taken back and allowed to be cultivated by others, so that it will not be wasted and wasted.
This is a model of the Central Plains system, but the tax rate is much higher.
At the same time, Dongzan also proposed that the trade of agricultural products should be levied an additional ten taxes.
In addition, the herdsmen also had to provide for the royal family, and as for the shepherd's tax, it was set at the ox leg tax, which was actually one of the four. If you raise a cow, you have to pay a tax of one-fourth of the value of the cow, and the same is true for raising sheep, horses, etc. In addition, herders who sell their livestock are also subject to transaction tax.
In addition to the taxes to be paid by farmers and herdsmen, Dongzan also proposed to actively develop trade routes, build trade routes from the Central Plains to Tianzhu through Tubo, compete with Zhangxiong for trade routes, and encourage mountain people along the way to relocate to the river valley area to build town markets and strengthen commercial trade. Tibet also set up customs cards, and collected customs duties, industrial and commercial taxes, and trade taxes, and these foreign and local merchants were taxed in gold, which was called the gold tax.
Even the Tibetan royal family had to follow the example of Great Qin in the Central Plains, and also established official trade caravans, strengthened trade with Great Qin, and took advantage of the geographical advantage of being close to Great Qin, striving to be an entrepot trader and make money from it.
In addition to these taxes, tributes were also levied on vassals who submitted to Tibet, and the amount of tribute was clearly determined for them.
Of course, in order to accomplish this, there is another important thing to do, that is, to count the fields, count the number of households, conduct census registration, naturalization, and unified management.
Dongzan suggested that Nangri should discuss praise, learn from Daqin, and set up a complete system of military and political officials at the central and local levels.
Dongzan proposed to imitate the political hall of the Qin State and the Zaifu of the Hanlin Academy, and set up a system of great ministers and internal ministers, the great ministers are also called great theories, and then set up a deputy theory to be responsible for central affairs. The internal minister system is responsible for internal affairs, and has the chief minister and deputy minister in charge.
In addition, imitating the imperial history platform of the Qin State, the Minister of Rectification was set up, and the Minister of Rectification and the Deputy Minister of Rectification were set up, who were mainly responsible for supervision and justice.
The six ministers and vice-ministers of these three systems, collectively known as the Six Great Monks, led the state of Tibet and assisted Zampu in governing Tibet.
Under these six theories, seven types of official positions were established according to types, which were domain officials and local officials, and governed the administrative affairs of the region by laws and regulations.
Maben, an officer, was ordered to lead his troops to victory over the enemy.
Qi Ma, Sima Guan, guided the way for His Holiness and had good horse training skills.
Kishimoto, the official of the degree, was in charge of grain, gold, silver, and property.
Chu Ben specializes in managing yaks, calves and camping credit.
Masamoto, who is primarily responsible for managing criminal trials.
Siben, a local grassroots or tribal leader, manages tribal affairs.
Six theories and seven positions, coupled with the five ru and sixty-one Dongdai system, the Tubo State can transform from the original tribal alliance into a monarchical kingdom like the Qin State.
And all officials are awarded a confession, which is distinguished by six materials such as gold, silver, copper, and iron, and the six levels of confession are divided into large and small, a total of 12 grades.
The corresponding rank corresponds to the corresponding official position, and it is strictly distinguished.
However, according to tradition, these officials of the Tibetan court will be nobles. And the six major monks, undoubtedly can only be held by high-ranking nobles, in order to be able to maintain the authority of Zampu, Dongzan also put forward a ruthless one.
It is to let the six great monks live with Zampu, once Zampu dies, whether it is a normal death or murder, etc., the six great monks who live together have to commit suicide and be buried.
In normal times, Tubo and the aristocratic officials had a small alliance every year and a big alliance every three years, so that the aristocratic officials swore allegiance to Zampu.
"Dongzan, we also need a legal code, you follow the example of the Qin people, choose some laws that are suitable for us, and then combine our traditions to formulate a Tibetan legal code. Also, from now on, Zhangxiong is our mortal enemy, and Tubo will destroy Zhangxiong. I announce that from today onwards, Tibet will abandon the Xiangxiong script and use Chinese characters instead. ”
Gardong Zanpu trusts and is naturally full of energy.
So he studied the books he had secretly brought back from Daqin day and night, and finally drafted one hundred and twenty laws, and after presenting them to Nangri, he thought it was still too complicated, so he asked him to change them to twenty.
And let him take out the name of the law as part of the ten virtues of Buddhism, such as stopping evil, advancing good, etc., but the specific provisions are still very strict, such as stealing one and punishing nine, and repaying debts every month. Another example is not to fight with the nobility, but to fight and see the fine.
Although these twenty laws are few, they also cover many aspects, such as murder, such as debt, such as theft, such as deception, such as offending the nobility, adultery, and so on.
The relocation of the capital is a sign that Nangri is praising the need to comprehensively reform Tibet and make it truly a kingdom on the plateau.
The first thing after the relocation of the capital, Nangri Praise ordered the construction of a new temple, and the public statement is that Zanpu missed marrying the princess of the Central Plains, so he repaired this temple.
"The name of the palace is called the Potala Palace."