Article 603 New Taxation System1

Evacuate all the Song and Song troops in the area west of the Yao River.

The terrain is too high, the weather is bitter and cold, the land is thin and difficult to cultivate, and the number of ethnic minorities is far more than that of the Song people. Therefore, Cai Dao took the initiative to give up some places.

In this regard, Wang Hou did not insist, in fact, at the beginning, his father Wang Shao did not agree to open another road there at all. It's just that Song Shenzong has some great achievements, and it is precisely for this reason that there is a gap between the monarch and the minister.

A generation of Confucian generals will eventually not be rewarded for their achievements, which Wang Hou, who opened up Xihe Road with Wang Shao back then, naturally knows very well.

Xihe Lu Jingluo made Wang Hou very cooperative and completed the task handed over to him by Cai Dao.

There are not many Song people west of the Yao River, and it is very easy to execute. And the minority chiefs and common people here actually welcomed Cai Dao's new policy very much. Without the direct control of the Song people, it is only necessary to submit to the Song people on the surface, and both sides can see it, so as to avoid the rebellion caused by the civil officials brutalizing the local people or chiefs.

For the border minorities who do not have a unified country, most of the generals on the border are reluctant to provoke disputes with them. And Wang Jian is an outsider, the son of Wang Junwan, a heavy general under the famous general Wang Shao, is a general who has the ability to provoke border wars, but has no talent. To put it more clearly, it is the rat feces of a country in the good soup of the Western Army.

If you are not careful, it will be ruined, and Wang Hou will not be able to reconcile the relationship between the Song people in the Qingtang region and the Tubo tribes.

Therefore, Cai Dao ordered someone to transfer him to Yongzhou, which is closest to Dayue on Guangnan West Road, don't you have the ability? Then let him try to provoke another invasion of the Great Viet Kingdom.

In addition to wanting to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, Cai Dao has no love for the land in the north at all. The more it was recovered, the more Great Wall had to be built, and with the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, it was simply impossible to maintain a large contingent of border troops. Even if it is the Western Army, there were indeed only two roads in the northwest, but now it has been turned into Xihe Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, Yanyan Road, Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road.

These six route soldiers will not be subordinate to each other, and before Sun Jue did not govern the Yongxing military route, the food needed for the entire northwest has always needed to be transported from Beijing. Even later, the grain income of the Guanzhong Plain increased greatly, and the grain needed for the other five roads could not be self-sufficient.

Of course, with the strike between Song and Xia, peace returned to the border. The Northwest Region is more suitable for the implementation of Cai Dao's fire, which completely eliminates all the landlord classes in the entire Northwest Region.

As a matter of fact, most of the landlord class in the northwest region are middle- and high-ranking generals in the Western Army, and as long as they are given sufficient benefits in exchange for these people, they will not resist this policy. As for the civil and official groups in the northwest region, the Lantian Lu family has played a very good role in leading and demonstrating.

Cai Dao suggested that Zhao Xu directly dismiss Lu Dafang, but he gave the Lu family face, and Lu Dazhong also knew the current affairs and moved the entire family to Jinghu South Road. Correspondingly, in the northwest region, the civil official group headed by the Lu family and dominated by Guan Xue's disciples took the initiative to obey Cai Dao's policy and sold the excess land of the family to the government.

The new tax policy is also expected to be the first to be implemented in the Gyeonggi region and the northwest.

As soon as Cai Dao took office, he began to promulgate and implement a new tax system.

He did not choose to directly adopt a one-size-fits-all approach and forcibly impose a new tax system in various localities, but adopted the previous method to identify a few pilot areas and gradually promote them.

Of course, when Cai Dao was the third envoy, Cai Dao only planned to promote this new tax system north of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and north of the Huai River. As for whether it will be promoted in the south in the future, it is up to the new emperor himself to judge.

The new tax system was named the 'New Junda System'.

In fact, both the household adjustment law of the Western Jin Dynasty and the rent adjustment law of the early Tang Dynasty were born out of the Cao Wei period, when Cao Cao promulgated and implemented a new tax system that was different from the Han law.

The records of Emperor Wei Zhiwu in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms can be as follows: He collected four liters of land and rented four liters of mu, and his household produced two horses of silk and two catties of cotton, and he was not allowed to prosper. The county and the country keep the prime minister, and the procuratorate is clear, so that the strong people are hidden, and the weak people are also endowed.

This sentence describes in detail the tax system of Cao Wei, and it is very different from the tax system of the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty.

First, the land tax in the Han Dynasty was levied according to the amount of land harvested, such as 10 taxes, 15 taxes, 30 taxes, and so on. Cao Wei's land tax is directly levied on a fixed amount per mu, and only four liters per mu is collected.

Cao Wei's land tax collection was a relatively obvious improvement. To a certain extent, the specific amount of grain levied per mu in the fixed area can stimulate the enthusiasm and subjective initiative of the peasants to find ways to increase the grain output per unit area. This also provided the foundation for the writing of the book "Qi Min Yaoshu" in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Of course, at that time, Cao Wei was based on Cao Cao's vigorous promotion of the tuntian system in the north, so it was not most of the ordinary people who really benefited from the taxation of this land, but the local heroes who survived the war.

Therefore, the taxes to be paid by those tuners are still very heavy. When Cao Cao was in Tuntian, he was able to collect five or six percent of the harvest per mu.

Second, in the Han Dynasty, both the adult and the underage people had to fight for a fixed amount of money taxes, which were called 'oral endowments' and 'calculation endowments', while Cao Wei's household registration tax was two horses of silk and two catties of cotton per household.

This is the change from collecting coins to collecting physical goods.

At the beginning, to be precise, before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court was relatively light on the age and specific amount of levy, and later, it was harsh, and in order to meet the needs of the war with the Xiongnu, the age of the people who began to levy taxes in the imperial court was getting younger and younger, and the amount of the two levies was increasing.

This is also because of the excessive tax in Nanyang, the people are unable to raise extra children and drown babies. Later, after Shao Xinchen and Du Shi came to govern Nanyang, they took the initiative to reduce the burden of the people and guide the people to goodness.

Land has the function of increasing and preserving its value, but it has its own limitations, and no one can directly obtain money from the land. This is especially difficult for ordinary people.

The landlords always deliberately lower the price of grain when the grain is harvested, but in February and March of each year, when the grain is not harvested, they greatly increase the price at which the grain is sold.