In this world, due to the strong rise of Gao Shun, the currency is relatively stable, and Gao Shun issued a strict decree to prohibit the circulation of five baht coins such as edging, trimming, and insufficient weight, and then, it is strictly forbidden to mint money privately, so that the five baht coins in circulation now are all the money that Gao Shun puts on the market.

The five-baht coin from the system, which is full of weight and similar to machine die-casting, has a smooth surface and clear handwriting, and people are happy to accept it.

And there is more money in the market, Gao Shun consciously put more materials, recycle a part, when the money circulating in the market is less, and take the initiative to put five baht money into the market, so that the world trade is smooth.

Even if Dong Zhuo and Li Ru's forces were impoverished later, they did not dare to mint insufficient money privately, but strictly minted the five-baht coins issued by the imperial court before to supplement their financial difficulties.

After dealing with the selection of martial arts and the abolition of the princely kingdoms, Gao Shun's energy was put into tax reform.

The taxes of the Han Dynasty were very complex and varied, and Gao Shun decided to straighten them out and simplify them.

First of all, the forced labor (force tax) was abolished, and the government had to pay salaries for employees; Along with the abolition of military service and levies, this greatly reduced the burden on the common people.

Secondly, cancel the oral endowment, the oral endowment is a 1-year-old ~ 14-year-old child, regardless of gender, and have to pay 23 yuan per year (royal taxes, belonging to the Shaofu, of which 3 money is horse mouth money, which belongs to special military expenses, belonging to Dasi Nong), and sometimes the imperial court will also change to collect it from children between the ages of 7 and 14.

The purpose of this is to reduce the burden on the people and increase the number of people.

Thirdly, the tribute fee was abolished, which was for adult men and women, each of whom had to 'give' 63 yuan per year to the emperor for court expenses, and the draft girl was abolished.

Finally, the vehicle and vessel tax and the money ban will be abolished; The commercial tax is more detailed and the tariff is reduced; The aim is to speed up circulation.

In the end, only the land endowment, household endowment, oral endowment, customs duties and commercial taxes remained.

Moreover, Gao Shun is ready to use the field endowment, household endowment and oral endowment as a weapon to attack the big clan.

First of all, the land endowment, the implementation of differential progressive collection policy, households below 100 acres, 30 take one, households between 100 acres and 199 acres of 20 take one, households between 200 acres and 499 acres of ten take one, households between 500 acres and 999 acres of five take one, households more than 1,000 acres of five take two.

Secondly, the household endowment is set at 100 yuan per household registration year, and those who are under the age of 20 and are not married are not allowed to dismantle the household.

Finally, the levy ranges from 15 to 50 years old, with a value of 100 yuan per person per year.

Oral endowments are further divided into many situations.

Slaves, maidservants, and other persons who are dependent on the master's household registration shall be paid 500 yuan per person per year, which shall be borne by the master.

Heavy taxes are imposed on those who take concubines, and they need to report to the official before taking concubines, and they need to pay an annual salary of 1,000 yuan; take the second concubine, and the mouth endowment is doubled; accept the third concubine, and the oral endowment will be doubled; By analogy, the purpose is to reduce the number of concubines, so that more people have the opportunity to marry and have children; And those who can take concubines are all rich families, and they don't care too much about this tax.

In order to cooperate with the implementation of the policy, strict punishment measures have been formulated.

No one has the privilege of being exempt from taxes, even Gao Shun has to pay household and oral taxes.

Any cultivated land that is concealed and not reported to the government will be confiscated as official land as long as it is discovered.

Those who conceal it and do not register for the household register, as long as they are found out, will be accepted as official slaves and serve the government for life.

For officials who assist in hiding, the official's house will be raided, and family members will not be allowed to hold public office for five generations.

Persons belonging to ethnic minorities are also required to pay taxes in accordance with the regulations.

Gao Shun's move is to avoid excessive concentration of land, and to avoid the early division of households by large clans to evade taxes; What he meant at a deeper level was to reduce the chance of large families appearing, and to promote social stability by making each household smaller and smaller.

In order to cooperate with the local tyrants to sell the cultivated land, Gao Shun also used the price of grain to adjust, and reduced the price of grain to 200 yuan a stone at one time, directly reducing the price by half, causing the local tyrants and scholars who stored grain to suffer serious losses.

Gao Shun has reasonable reasons to explain that now that the world is stable, and all localities have obtained bumper harvests, grain prices will naturally fall.

He has the help of the system, can supply the market at any time, and is not afraid of hoarding by merchants and wealthy families, and he is also ready to lower the price of grain again and take over the grain stored by the local tyrants at a low price.

Even so, Gao Shun was worried that those big families would take risks and make the armies everywhere ready for battle.

Ordinary people are very supportive of tax adjustments, which reduce their burdens too much, and cancel other miscellaneous taxes, and how much tax they bear each year is clearly within the scope of their affordability.

What is uncomfortable is the local tyrants and scholars, who occupy a large amount of cultivated land, most of which reach tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres, while some ordinary people do not even have an acre of cultivated land, and the gap between the rich and the poor is too great.

Now that Gao Shun's soldiers are strong and strong, it is difficult for them to resist, so they have to accept it silently.

Large households were forced to sell their farmland to avoid high taxes, so that the price of farmland continued to fall.

Gao Shun sent officials to buy cultivated land on a large scale at the same price as per mu of cultivated land as official land.

Wine, iron, salt, etc., are still strictly controlled by the government.

At that time, food production was limited and the population was growing rapidly, so the people and merchants could use wine, but they had to pay high taxes.

Merchants can mine iron ore, copper ore, and even smelt, but the government must control the flow direction and implement reasonable taxation, which is 1 out of 10 for iron and 1 out of 5 for copper.

For salt, it must be developed by the state and control the source, but the people and merchants can operate at will, expand circulation, cancel huge profits, and let the people eat salt.

In the coastal areas, Hedong County and Yizhou, all of them are controlled by the government.

Everyone felt that Gao Shun's taxes were too harsh on the common people and too harsh on the big clans, and that this would reduce the government's revenue.

Gao Shun felt that as long as the society was stable and there was no hidden arable land and population, the income of the government would not only not decrease, but would increase significantly; If it is strictly implemented, it will ensure that his descendants will be free for 300 years.

Three hundred years later, the number of the common people was too large, the increase in arable land was limited, the output could not meet the consumption of the population, the social contradictions intensified, and the change of dynasty was inevitable.

Due to the constraints of climatic conditions and production conditions at that time, there was almost no possibility of expanding northward, and those territories were war lords and could not be cultivated land, so Gao Shun only made Pingzhou blockade and barbarians and cut off trade for so many years, and did not directly send troops to the northeast region of later generations.

Gao Shun's goal is the south, such as the Philippine Islands, Cambodia, Thailand and other places in the later generations, and even India in South Asia, which are all good development goals, where more Han Chinese can be carried.

It's just that for the present, the cost is too high, so Gao Shuncai appointed Gao Wei as the pastor of Guangzhou to vigorously develop navigation and shipping; He made Ma Teng the assassin of Jiaozhou, and ordered Ma Teng to expand several counties to the south.

If the population can be moved southward, it will not be a problem to carry an additional 100 million people, and in that case, it will also greatly reduce domestic contradictions.

As for the west, the distance is too far for a large number of people to be moved, and there is no land suitable for farming, so it is not within the scope of Gao Shun's plan for the time being.

Gao Shun's plan is perfect, and tax reform is only the first step.

After stabilizing the interior, he plans to go to Yizhou in person to develop the Nanzhong region, which will be a springboard for land to the south, he can't rely entirely on the sea route, the current navigation technology is not trusted by him, it is too backward, or it is safer to immigrate by land.