After a two-day break, Yang Lin began his intense official activities.

Fighting a war is actually about money, and now the volunteers are strong and strong, and there are many people, and it takes a lot of money and food to build so many soldiers and horses.

Drawing on the practice of field troops and local militias in the previous life, and referring to the establishment of the main generals of the Liukou and the pro-army, the general army, and the displaced people who came with them, a total of volunteers have been established for the purpose of field warfare, as well as local militias that defend the localities and provide logistical support for the army.

Today, the field army of the Volunteer Army includes 13 towns and 13 towns, including two cavalry associations, three naval forces, and infantry, with 100,000 soldiers, well-equipped, well-trained, and able to enter the battle at any time.

In addition to the field troops of the Volunteers, they also established local people's strong.

Minzhuang is based on township (rural) fang (city), according to the county as a unit, each township and fang more than one squadron of people, each county to train one battalion of people.

Minzhuang is equipped with simple equipment, all kinds of weapons are varied, and the agricultural leisure is organized by the county barracks (sub-bureaus) for training, and living allowances are provided during the training process, and when encountering bandits or facing war, they are conscripted into the army and paid military salaries.

In fact, the most ideal state is to train a brigade of people in each township (nearly 10,000 people in a township, 120 people in every 100 people, the number is not much), and each county is trained in a standard (regiment) people, but because one person has one mouth, 100,000 people and ten mouths, it costs too much to train so many people (even if the training subsidy rations and the distribution of tasks are paid), the scale has to be reduced.

Money money money, Yang Lin once again felt the importance of money, and on this day, he convened everyone to discuss the matter, and the first thing to talk about was money.

Financial Secretary Yim Ximing looked quite excited and said: "My lord, the effect of the new policy is gradually emerging, and the new policies of other state capitals are gradually being implemented, and so far only Shunqing Mansion has implemented it the best.

After several years of hard work, the effect has gradually come out.

At present, the area of paddy fields in Shunqing Prefecture is more than 1.5 million mu, and the dry land is more than 3.5 million mu (the government counted 40 million mu of cultivated land in the fourth (Sichuan) during the Wanli period, taking into account the factors such as the concealment and omission of the local government at that time, coupled with the potential potential of the cultivated land area of the four (Sichuan), even taking into account the impact of the war, the cultivated land area of the four (Sichuan) is now more than 50 million mu, and the cultivated land area of Shunqing Mansion is 5 million mu. According to the tax level of 6 liters of rice per mu in paddy fields and 6 liters of wheat per mu in dry land, 90,000 quintals of rice and 210,000 quintals of wheat can be harvested every year, and if the harvest of official fields is added, there will be 350,000 quintals of grain per year.

There are 800,000 people in Shunqing Prefecture, including 200,000 men, and 150,000 people who need to pay the Ding Levy, which is 18,000 taels of silver according to the calculation of 1 yuan and 2 cents of silver per ding.

More township offices were established with the market as the center, and each township office was given six or seven hundred taels in a year, and the city market was more, and the whole government could collect 80,000 taels.

After the opening of the salt endowment, the sales of salt increased greatly, and more than 60,000 taels of silver were received in a year.

After the special levy of the liquor tax, even though there was a shortage of food in various places, the tax rate was twice as high as in the peaceful period, and the people's drinking was sharply reduced, but the liquor tax also received 40,000 taels of silver.

Guan Fu implements the county's commodity circulation without paying taxes, paying 3 cents out of the county and 5 cents out of the government, and receiving more than 20,000 taels of silver in a year.

In addition to these, there are also taxes such as mining and income taxes, which can collect 250,000 taels of silver per year. ”

Zhan Tianyan was shocked, in the past, the Taicang silver in the imperial court was only three or four million taels of silver, and it made people angry and resentful in order to levy Liao salary.

Now, even if the division method is adopted, 2 percent will go to the county and 1 percent will go to the prefecture, even so, Guangshun Qingfu will be able to hand over 240,000 quintals of grain and 175,000 taels of silver.

Some people say that Yang Lin's new policy is superficially light-hearted, but the exploitation of local areas is far greater than before.

In the past, the taxes paid by the province to the imperial court were only one million taels of silver, and the discount of the money and goods collected in Shunqing reached 280,000 taels of silver.

Poisoning the squire? Zhan Tianyan first thought of such a name, but then shook his head?

If it really poisoned the squire, the local government should have complained, but in the past few years, in addition to the establishment of the township office and the establishment of the county council, most of the others are within the scope of the "Da Ming Law", and the level of tax collection is even far lower than that of other governments of the same era.

Now up and down the whole Sichuan, paddy fields are given 6 liters of rice (1 bucket of rice) per mu, 6 liters of wheat on dry land, 1 coin and 2 cents of silver for ding, 3-5 cents (100%) for business, 3 cents for passing through the county, and 5 cents for passing the government, all of which are completely within the scope of the requirements of the Daming Law.

The salt levy is 3 taels of silver before and after each introduction, which is just a collection of places that should belong to the imperial court.

The high-grade wine is 10 wen per liter, the medium wine is 8 wen, and the low-grade wine is 5 wen copper coin, although it is higher than the requirements of the Ming law, but it is also lower than the level of the Song Dynasty government.

It's just an additional two new taxes: mining tax and income tax.

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Unexpectedly, this is just the case, and the annual tax is several times higher than before.

In the face of such achievements, Qian Bangqi, who has always regarded himself as an opponent, also laughed happily, and said while talking: "Adults often say that people who read books should not read dead books, but read books alive.

In the past, although the government forcibly collected salt taxes, it did not collect much, and other taxes such as commercial taxes were very few.

Adults started in the village, found the big drawbacks and worked hard to get rid of them, so now even if the war is chaotic year after year, without adding taxes to the common people, it is really a great merit. ”

Everyone was elated, but Yang Lin was like frost, his mind was carefully calculated, and then he shook his head and said: "Everyone, everyone has been deceived by the results, but I don't know that there are too many cats in it." ”

Everyone was shocked, their eyes widened one by one, and everyone seemed to not understand.

Yang Lin talked eloquently and pointed out the problems.

Shunqing Prefecture has an area of 5 million mu of cultivated land, a population of 800,000 mu, a per capita cultivated area of 6.25 mu, and a family of four cultivated land area of 25 mu.

Even now, when the population has been greatly reduced due to the war, and there is a lot of abandonment in society, each family should try to cultivate as much wasteland as possible.

However, the average family is mostly labored by one man and one woman, and it is even more difficult to cultivate so much land.

Everyone suddenly realized, but helplessly, since the Spring and Autumn War was implemented by the imperial court two taxes, in order to avoid taxes, the society has hidden a large number of people, so it has become a national security risk.

Everyone sighed with emotion, just as Qian Bangxin, the inspector, said, although the household registration system implemented by the government is not as strict as that of Emperor Hongwu, it also increases the risk of underreporting, and the number of hidden people in society is greatly reduced compared with the past.

Not to mention anything else, during the Wanli period, Sichuan's cultivated land area was 40 million mu, with a population of 3.1 million, and the per capita cultivated land reached 13 mu at that time, far more than this census.

Some people lament that there have been a large number of hidden people in society since ancient times, and it is simply impossible to implement demographic statistics.

Yang Lin listened carefully and asked a question for a long time:

Now that the government issues ID cards free of charge, those who find that they do not have ID cards will be fined a large amount, and the policy is so relaxed, why should the people hide the population?

Everyone opened up the conversation one by one and discussed for a long time, for the following reasons:

Now the war is in chaos

The common people are afraid of trouble

Now that the government is lightly dispensing with money, it is difficult to ensure that the policy can be sustained

Although the levy is light, adult men still need to pay 1 yuan and 2 cents of silver (equivalent to three days' wages)

The common people are worried about hard labor, and although the government only levies it in its own county, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be levied in other places in the future.

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Yan Ximing suggested the adoption of the system of apportioning the land into the mu, Yang Lin was initially shocked, as if the policy implemented by the barbarian Qing Emperor Yongzheng was decades in advance?

After asking carefully, I suddenly realized that when the land was re-measured during the Wanli period, some areas felt that it was difficult to calculate the Ding Fu, and implemented the system of apportioning the Ding into the mu.

In the late Ming Dynasty, some places began to implement the system of apportioning the land into the mu, but then the policy repeatedly overturned the previous system, and it was repeated for a long time.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was not a new policy, and many people also recognized the benefits, but because it was better to be still than to move, and the officials cherished their reputation, such a good policy was tested for many years, but it has not been promoted.

Of course, it is a good policy to divide the land into the mu, not to mention that the Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented this policy to solve the financial problem in one fell swoop and solve the explosive growth in population statistics (27.35 million in the twelfth year of Yongzheng (1734), but seven years later in the sixth year of Qianlong (1741), the number of people was 143.41 million, an increase of 5 times in just 7 years).

Yang Lin originally wanted to implement the system of apportionment into the mu, but then he thought about the problems that the policy might bring, and secretly shook his head.

Although apportionment to the mu can increase fiscal revenue and improve population statistics, the problem is still obvious, that is, the sense of citizenship is weak, and the people's responsibility to society is cut off.

Although the imperial court implemented the system of apportioning the land to the mu, the system of labor on the heads of the people has not been eliminated.

In order to develop in the future, it is still necessary to get rid of feudal shackles and establish a sense of citizenship.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin announced the abolition of the non-local labor system in the area ruled by the volunteers, and as compensation, the policy of 20 taxes and 1 was implemented, and the government levied one-twentieth of the grain produced in the fields as a field tax. (Combine the three salaries with hard labor.) ）

Combined with the modern social security system, the Ding Fu is linked to the people's rights, and only the normal payment of the Ding Fu can enjoy certain civil rights, and those who do not pay the Ding Fu can not enjoy the corresponding rights, including:

The right to vote and the right to be elected, only those who have paid the regular contribution in a row have the right to be elected, and only those who have paid the contribution for three consecutive years have the right to vote (participate in social affairs).

The right of a child to go to school is only if he or she has paid the Ding Fee for three consecutive years, and the child has the right to enter a public school.

Civil rights, only those who have paid the ding for three consecutive years have the right to make civil complaints.

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Obviously, the people are divided into two kinds in the form of legal decrees, one is to enjoy full civil rights by paying the ding fu normally, and the other is to enjoy the limited civil rights without paying the ding fu.

Just like the implementation of civil rights in Western countries, some citizens initially enjoyed civic rights, and after hundreds of years of developing civic consciousness and establishing it, the number of people enjoying civic rights gradually expanded.

Obviously, the normal payment of Ding is the right of all citizens.

Worried that some people would oppose it, Yang Lin did not dare to be blatant, and in order to ensure social justice, it was stipulated that some people would automatically enjoy the rights of all citizens without payment:

Local Folk Warriors (Participation in Public Affairs)

Volunteer soldier (participated in defending the homeland and defending the country)

Teachers in public schools, etc

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I thought everyone would object, but that wasn't a ghost, and I might not have understood it at first, but I suddenly realized it under the guidance of others.

This citizen is a high-class citizen, a middle-class citizen, and those who do not pay the tribute are de facto inferior citizens.

Confucianism advocates the friendship of relatives (first close to one's own family, then relatives, and then others), everyone advocates divide and rule, and now I listen to Yang Lin openly mention it, but there are fewer objections, and most people are in favor.

Of course, it is not without objections, just like Yan Ximing is quite opposed, why is this so?

Now that there is a war outside, there is a lot of money needed, and now the ordinary people are exempted from the Ding Fu, and the citizens pay the Ding Fu, which may reduce the taxes of the imperial court.

Yang Lin quickly moved out the reason, since ancient times, the population statistics have never been accurate, and this practice is just to reduce the demographic bias.

The reason for this is because demographics are so important.

For those who did not pay the ding, although the government did not directly collect taxes, it collected many indirect taxes.

Each person needs to eat 6-8 catties of salt a year, and the family of four reaches more than 24 catties (2 taels of silver per caterage, plus other taxes, from the place of origin to the place of sale, the salt tax is more than 3 taels of silver, and the salt tax is 1 point and 5 cents of silver per catty), and the salt tax alone reaches 3 coins and 6 cents of silver.

To buy and sell goods in the bazaar, you need to pay merchant taxes, wine taxes or something, so that even if you save more, a family of four will pay no less than 5 yuan of silver a year.

Demographics are so important, why bother with Ding Fu?

When I heard it, I suddenly realized that everyone was just entangled in Tian Fu and Ding Fu in the past, and I couldn't imagine that the government could collect so many taxes from each family?