In order to achieve military integration in Yingchuan County and completely eliminate the private forces scattered among the various estates, it is necessary to break the cornerstone of the manor economy from the root. The simplest and most direct way is to take out the tax system that was created in the Ming Dynasty and was widely implemented in the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. The main content of this tax system is to abolish the poll tax (ding tax), which has been practiced in China for more than 2,000 years, and incorporate it into the land tax.

As long as the two items of calculation and oral tax are abolished, and the land tax is collected only by the system of 30 taxes and 1 tax of the imperial court, even if it is 15 taxes or even 1 tax of 10 taxes, the pressure on the peasants will be greatly reduced. When the pressure on the peasants is relieved, they will naturally reclaim the wasteland and no longer take refuge in the wealthy families. It's just that Guo Bin is just a small Yingchuan county guard, how can he easily change the financial system of the imperial court?

Compared with the land rent, the calculation and the oral endowment are the main sources of income for the imperial court, of which the calculation is attributed to the central finance, and the oral endowment goes directly into the pockets of the royal family. Where does the royal family's expenses come from? In the event of today's turmoil, the imperial court needs to send troops everywhere, the central financial pressure is huge, and the central government is on the verge of bankruptcy, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to abolish the poll tax. Even Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, and the princes of the court knew that this was drinking to quench their thirst, and they had to cross the immediate crisis first.

Now that I think about it, the reason why the Han court repeatedly cut the land tax should be to a large extent also to reduce the burden on the peasants, curb land annexation, and thus maintain the stability of the country. The imperial court reduced taxes, and the profiteers were wealthy families who owned a large amount of arable land, and they hired tenants to plough the fields for themselves, collect half of the harvest, and then pay one-thirtieth of the field tax to the imperial court.

Is it true that the imperial court has been kept in the dark from beginning to end, and has no knowledge at all? The high-ranking officials in the court and the eunuchs knew it in their hearts but didn't say it, the Son of Heaven may not know, but he definitely didn't have the truth that he had been concealed for four hundred years! Even if Liu Bang couldn't think of it, Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing didn't realize it, but didn't Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor who was born recklessly, still not know? It's just that this economic situation has undergone hundreds of years of development, and the general trend has been achieved, and the imperial court is also powerless. Even if you just want to cut the feudal domain and start the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the Western Han Dynasty almost changed the sky, if you want to fight with the wealthy families all over the world at the same time, it is also fearful for the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, in Guo Bin's view, the imperial court is just pretending to be confused in this matter. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, because of the implementation of the well field system, the core of the land issue was focused on the question of whether the well field system was abandoned. With the development of productive forces, public land was gradually abandoned, and private land was constantly reclaimed and expanded, and people's attention was focused on the question of whether private land was legal. Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, and even after the Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, the private land side has really stepped onto the stage of history.

It can be said that the emergence of unified weights and measures provided a strong impetus for the legalization of private land, because its emergence prompted the phenomenon of "paying wages" through subdivision to be swept into the dustbin of history, and the emergence of a method of measuring grain by a unified measuring instrument, and the imperial court issued salaries to officials according to this new method of measurement. The so-called "600 stones" and "2,000 stones" in the official ranks are all about the amount of grain.

At the same time, the emergence of unified weights and measures also provides a basis for the state to update the tax law. In the original well field system, the method of "paying taxes" by cultivating public land was relatively extensive, but with a unified measuring instrument, the field tax could be paid in this way, and the original worry of public land being abandoned was naturally gone. Because the land tax is levied on private land, you need to pay as much land as you have, and the more land you cultivate, the more land you have to pay. From then on, even the original public land could be operated by employing tenants and slaves to cultivate the land, and thus collect land taxes.

Therefore, it can be said that it was the emergence of unified weights and measures that prompted the reform of the tax law in the world, thus forming the phenomenon of land annexation after the Qin and Han dynasties. Therefore, it is still necessary for people to maintain proper respect for nature, and no one knows what unpredictable consequences one of their actions will cause. Although the invention of weights and measures has brought many benefits, promoted the innovation of human economic forms and the reform of political systems, and promoted the emergence of a new system of financial institutions, so that the civil service system has developed greatly, it has also brought about the problem of land annexation that has plagued traditional Chinese society for more than 1,600 years, and the rise and fall of many dynasties have arisen because of this!

In other words, even if the Han Dynasty realized that land annexation was not a good thing, there was no historical experience to use as a reference, because it was from the Han Dynasty that the large-scale and drastic land annexation began.

When the Han court realized the dangers of land annexation, it was already difficult to return, and if it wanted to solve this problem, it was necessary to uproot the court first. It was against this backdrop that when the central government was scrambling to solve the problem, it found that they were helpless and the only thing they could do was to reduce the land tax. The so-called "to rule the world with scholars, not with the people", although the poor people cannot enjoy the policy of reducing the land tax, they can at least win the favor and support of the wealthy through this method, otherwise if the land tax is increased, the wealthy landlords will also increase the people's land rent.

Therefore, the more the court lowered the land tax, the more profitable the wealthy landlords became, the more powerful and unrestrained the desire for land annexation became, and the more unscrupulous the wealthy landlords would be to force the yeoman farmers to bankrupt and become their vassals. In this way, a vicious cycle was formed, so that the larger and stronger the local tycoons, the more powerful the central government became, and the more powerless the central government was to solve the problem of land annexation, and there was no suspense in the end.

In order to solve the problem of land annexation and fundamentally break the economic situation of the manor economy, it is necessary to vigorously develop the productive forces, so that the role of human labor in agricultural production is becoming smaller and smaller. For example, in the past, ploughing required several people to work from morning to night under the hot sun with hoes, and it took a day to complete the work of loosening the soil. However, with the intervention of animal power, only one person needs to hold the plough and control the oxen, and the work can be completed in one day. In this way, the manor naturally needs less labor. However, in order to prevent the landlords from using the saved human resources to continue to invest in expanding the area of cultivated land and reclaiming wasteland, it is also necessary to give correct guidance to those who have been "laid off" in agriculture.

In what direction do you lead them? Industry and commerce are the solutions that Guo Bin came up with.

The most important reason why the peasants took refuge under the wing of the wealthy landlords and became a hidden population was that the oppression of heavy land taxes, oral and arithmetic taxes, and labor and military service made it impossible for them to stand on their own feet in society, and they were unable to earn a living. And once hidden in the manor of the local tycoon, it can be regarded as successfully avoiding such heavy taxes and servitude. Most of the wealthy families have great influence in the local area, and the local officials and petty officials will not offend them for the sake of a few fleeing ordinary people.

Labor-intensive industrial production requires a large number of workers, and the textile industry, the construction industry, and other industrial production projects in Guo Bin's hands today are inseparable from the support of a large number of labor with personal freedom under today's level of productivity. The strong profitability of industry and commerce at present has undoubtedly shown a new means of gaining wealth for the majority of wealthy landlords. Only by diverting their attention from the land and directing their capital, manpower, and material resources to industry and commerce, can we truly release the labor force that is "imprisoned" in the estate.

Historically, the Chinese dynasties have hollowed out their minds for this issue of land annexation, and how many social elites and well-known politicians in history have cleverly conceived in the face of this thorny problem, and have changed and changed the national policies, including the tax policy, and have not completely solved this problem, but Guo Bin has made it possible to solve the problem of land annexation theoretically by vigorously developing the method of the productive forces, which seems to be not very compatible.

This is not to say how wise and wise Guo Bin is, nor how far-sighted he is, but that he has crossed the limitations of time and space. As a socialist five good young man born in a new society and grew up under the red flag, Guo Bin understood the truth that "productive forces are the fundamental driving force for promoting social development" when he was in school, and he tried his best to promote the development of science and technology through various methods, and even did not hesitate to take out the three laws of Newtonian mechanics to play a magic stick, but in the final analysis, he just wanted to pretend to be X.

Needless to say, Guo Bin had such a vision at the beginning. Now in the last years of the Han Dynasty, with today's level of productivity and his own half-baked new knowledge, there is no need to think about aircraft artillery, and at least it is not a big problem to get some simple machinery, right? And the steam engine, which was the driving force of the first industrial revolution, did not seem to be so difficult to develop. Guo Bin thought, if a steam engine can be developed and installed on a large ship, wouldn't this kind of steam ship be against the sky? Who can beat it? How majestic would it be to sail a steamship across the Pacific Ocean to the American continent?

Thinking of this, Guo Bin couldn't help but think of the passage in Guo Degang's cross talk, a car had a traffic accident and fell into the river and killed a fish, and the fish never thought that he would die in a car accident. Lao Guo came to the conclusion that it is often not your peers who kill you, and it may be cross-border.

China's social elites of all generations worked hard to reform the tax system with great effort and ingenuity, and it was not until more than 1,600 years later that they developed the concept of "apportioning the land into the mu." As long as we change our thinking, strive to develop industry and commerce, and accelerate the development of productive forces, we can also solve the problem of land annexation.

Xi Zhicai said that Guo Bin has been doing it, referring to the development of industry and commerce and the promotion of science and technology.

Guo Bin has been working hard to develop industry and commerce, and tried every means to pull the wealthy into making money together, at the beginning, it was indeed to make friends with wealthy families from all over the world, so that Fulong Villa could gain a foothold in the troubled times. However, with the improvement of Guo Bin's status, the position he and his advisers stood on also increased, and the angle of looking at the problem also changed.

The small three cities outside the Saiwai can accommodate more than 500,000 yellow turban soldiers, what does it rely on? Not yet a huge scale of material storage and transshipment? Although there are a large number of people engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry production in the three cities, but this is a sideline business that has to be engaged in to ensure food security, the largest scale in the city, the largest number of people are still in charge of weaving felt, making garments in Yangzhai clothing, workers who ensure the smooth operation of the storage system, and tertiary industry practitioners who provide services for merchants who come and go.

It can be said that the power of industry and commerce has been vividly demonstrated in the three cities outside the Saiwai, and it has also opened a window to a new development path for Guo Bin's advisers, making them realize that industry and commerce can also save China. And Guo Bin, who created all this, has undoubtedly been respected and admired by them, and their lord is truly mindful of the world and strategic.