Article 604 New Taxation System2

If the supervision of the regular liquidation is unfavorable, it will become the norm for the grain to hurt the farmers after the bumper harvest.

At the beginning, Sang Hongyang creatively set up these regular positions, which indeed played a very huge role in stabilizing grain prices in various places. However, as long as the central government does not supervise effectively, the local government will act recklessly.

Therefore, Cai Daoxin's 'new Juntian system' is based on the Juntian system and the tax system implemented by Cao Wei as the meat, learning from each other's strengths.

No matter how good the idea is, in the process of implementation, there are still all kinds of problems that emerge.

However, all the land in the Gyeonggi region and the northwest region is now in the hands of the forbidden army and ordinary people.

Of course, with different identities and different places of residence, the number of acres of land that these people can get in their hands is also different.

For example, the land that each household in the forbidden army can get is relatively fixed.

In order to move the capital in the future, Cai Dao did not place the area of the forbidden army in the vicinity of Bianliang City, but around Luoyang Mansion.

Around Luoyang, each forbidden army could get 60 acres of cultivated land, and if he married a wife, he could also get 10 acres of barren land.

The land around Kaifeng Bianliang was allocated to the families of those who had been discharged from the forbidden army or those who had been newly recruited into the forbidden army.

However, the land tax to be paid by the forbidden army was doubled by the people, that is, six liters per acre.

This is because the nature of these lands is not Yongye Field, but Tuntian.

The extra 10 acres of barren land given to the forbidden army were used to grow mulberry trees, cotton, hemp, and other cash crops, and each military household only needed to pay one horse of silk and one pound of cotton per mu every year.

The land allocated to the common people was less than that of the forbidden army, and the actual situation in each place was slightly different.

In the northwest region, except for the Yongxing Military Road, in other areas, the land in the hands of the people is basically 50 acres. In the Yongxing Military Road and Gyeonggi area, the land allocated to the people is much less.

In the Chang'an area, each ding can be allocated 30 acres of cultivated land and 10 acres of wasteland, while in the Gyeonggi area, there are only 20 acres of cultivated land and 5 acres of wasteland.

Incidentally, in the new tax system, Cai Dao made strict rules that only after a man reached the age of eighteen would he be recognized as a strong man, and then he would be granted arable land after the autumn harvest and wasteland after marriage.

As for those half-grown children under the age of eighteen, Cai Dao also began to gradually promote the primary and secondary school system to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, in the first year, first in the northern state capitals and counties, and in the following year, began to promote primary schools to the township-level localities below the counties.

In fact, the promotion of primary schools at the township level has already been implemented on a pilot basis in the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi area

In the beginning, it was enough to teach the children to read and count. There are so many redundant officials in the DPRK, and except for a very small number of children of officials who do not know how to learn, most of the other redundant officials are still capable of doing a good job in this brand-new post.

For this reason, Cai Dao set up two new official positions - Township Literature and Township Mathematics, he originally wanted to add a martial arts official, but later, after careful consideration, he took the initiative to give up, because the Great Song Dynasty has always emphasized literature and light martial arts, if he establishes these three official positions together, there will be very few redundant officials.

After learning the news, some officials who had been kept in Bianliang City by Zhao Xu to repair books took the initiative to participate in this pilot.

Among these officials, the senior officials are all from Jinshi, but most of the others are the students who were selected when the department opened in the eighth year of Yuanyou, that is, they are equivalent to the college students of later generations, and their treatment and qualifications for promotion are much lower than those of their colleagues who were born as Jinshi.

What's more, repairing books is not only a chore, but also a clear water yamen. The only one who really became famous because of this was the editor-in-chief. Their low-level personnel have very little money, no chance to become famous, and there is no oil and water to make in this official position.

With no money, no profit, and no fame, most of these students began to think seriously about their lives after the initial excitement. Instead of slowly eating and waiting for death in the pile of old papers, it is better to become a petty official in the local area.

Therefore, Cai Dao's two newly created official positions have given these people new hope. These two official positions are even lower than their current situation in terms of treatment and rank, but their prospects are very different. Although he is still a sesame official who is not in the stream in the local area, once he takes office, he can be regarded as having a step forward. Because, if someone does a good job, Cai Dao will definitely know, then they will also have the possibility of promotion.

Moreover, these two official positions are not considered small, but there is a lot of oil and water to be fished out of them. Not to mention the others, although Cai Dao does not charge a penny for tuition fees for all students who come to primary school, their parents have to prepare a bundle of repairs for these two officials every year!

At this point, even if Cai Daoming knew that this was a nominal benefit, he couldn't stop it, and he couldn't stop it. Because, this is the ancient etiquette, the rule set by Confucius.

In this comparison, it is much better than staying in Bianliang City to repair books.

As a result, there were a lot of redundant officials who applied for these two new positions, and the promotion was very smooth in various villages in Gyeonggi.

In the new regulations, there is also a very special provision, which is also the first in the history of China to clearly stipulate the minimum age for a woman to marry, and women must be at least 16 years old before they are allowed to marry, and betrothal is no longer listed. Both civil officials and military generals opposed this point, but no one dared to stand up against it.

After an old master learned of this regulation, he insulted Cai Dao everywhere in Bianliang City. However, Cai Dao didn't have time to retaliate against him, and on the same day, two edicts came out of the palace, demoting the old master's family to the Song-Liao border.

It has become a new place of fear for officials, and now, the Lingnan and Northwest regions, which everyone used to hear about, have become treasures of feng shui. Everyone knows that Cai Dao's ambition is to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so the battle of Song Liao is imperative.

The reason why these civil and military officials did not dare to speak was because they all knew that the real people in power in the Great Song Dynasty were the two women in the palace. Women naturally want to be women, not to mention, Cai Dao's new decree is indeed beneficial to women's childbirth.

The land allocated to the common people was only 3 liters of land tax per mu of cultivated land, but the amount of tax in kind per mu of barren land was the same as that of the forbidden army.

On the surface, it seems that the forbidden army has become a Tuntian soldier, and it is more at a loss.

However, don't forget that this is the north, and arable land can only be cultivated for one season.