Chapter 234: Supporters of the Restoration Han Army
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With the end of the summer harvest, the work of officials at all levels of the general's palace became even busier, because the day of the common people to pay taxes and grain had arrived. In terms of the tax system, the Fu Han General's Mansion had 'teachers' inherited from the Ming and Qing dynasties, such as levying merchants, salt and iron, making wine, tea, pit metallurgy and miscellaneous levies, etc., and these 'good' tax systems all need to be inherited. The only thing that changed the Han army was the field tax, which was abolished in China for several years in the 21st century.
Kang Mazi played a hand of 'prosperous Ziding, never add endowment', it can be said that he has won a lot of people's hearts, and in later generations, it has also been touted by many people as 'the first virtue and politics', which is the most direct manifestation of Kang Mazi's 'Emperor through the ages', but the actual effect is how to make the discerning people's teeth cold. Because this policy is not absolutely average, 1,000 people receive 1,000 taels of silver, and now the population has become 2,000 people, and each person receives half a tael of silver, which is not the case. It's 'offset'. That is to say, those who are assigned according to the person will be expelled within one household and complement the new addition, which is not enough to compensate for those who have more food for their relatives, and not enough to make up for those who have more food for the first family. "In the top of the house, the top of the first, the top of the household": "If a certain household is expelled, a certain household must be compensated; If there are ten dings in the household, and nine of them die and flee. There is no new Ding to make up for it, that is, one Ding is used for nine Ding. If you don't have a household, you will be tired, and if you don't have a family, you will be tired." In this way, the compensation leads to flight, and the escape leads to more compensation, causing a vicious circle, so that the number of registered people is less and the number of people is heavier.
Gai because the Manchu Qing Dynasty followed the Ming Dynasty system, and the land tax and Ding silver were levied separately. Although the Qing court has implemented the exemption of money and grain many times, the exemption of Tian Fu does not mean that Ding Yin is reduced. Although Ding Yin was also repeatedly exempted, the Qing court has never been able to conduct a thorough and effective inventory of Ding Ren. During the Kangxi period, the number of people increased rapidly, but most of them were not registered. In this way, the state could not control and manage these people, and the local officials and gentry took the opportunity to oppress them, so that the poor people had to migrate and go into exile. The increasing number of migrants is bound to disturb social tranquility and cause social unrest. Kang Mazi threw out the big pretense of "prosperous times and never add endowments", controlled the population, stabilized the social order, consolidated the feudal rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and basically fixed the total amount of Ding silver in the whole country, so that the burden of the vast number of peasants was relatively stable, and the number of fugitives was reduced, which was conducive to the development of the Manchu Qing Dynasty's national strength. The most important thing is that it laid the foundation for the later Yongzheng Dynasty to implement the policy of 'spreading the land into the mu'.
[It's really a bit too much to praise the never-ending endowment of Kang Mazi, but Yongzheng's 'spreading into the mu' is still worth affirming the benefits to the most ordinary farmers. 】
[Kang Yongqian's three emperors, Yongzheng is the most powerful one]
The tax system of the General's Mansion was different from that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the General's Mansion completely abolished the poll tax, and did not even need to divide the grain into the mu, and the grain tax was set very low, only fifteen to one, and the peasants only paid the grain tax, and the General's Mansion did not care how many people were in the family.
In fact, this was the general's government using the benefits to buy off the thousands of peasants under its rule, including the squires and landlords. The grain tax in the General's Mansion was much smaller than that of the Manchu Dynasty, and it was a great thing for both the peasants and the gentry and landlords.
Moreover, the Fu Han army also set up grain depots in various counties to purchase grain. The price was set quite high, one stone of wheat and two silver dollars, I believe that if it were not for the Manchu Qing Dynasty blockading the entire southwest of Henan, there would definitely be large gentry selling grain from outside to change hands.
After the summer grain and summer tax this time, the local peasants seemed to have more confidence in the Fu Han army. Soon, one construction site after another was filled with people.
Zhang Fusheng drove a carriage to his home slowly.
His home is in Nanguan, Nanyang Prefecture, and a large area is full of residential areas for the families of the Fu Han army like Zhang Fusheng.
The size of each household is exactly the same, and if you look down from the sky, you can clearly find that there are ten small alleys, ten alleys, and a total of five plots of land.
The carriage entered the alley and stopped at the first door. This is not Zhang Fusheng's home, but the home of a veteran of the Fu Han Army. But when he jumped out of the carriage and knocked on the door of the house, an old man soon came out of it. "Uncle Zhou, I bought you a piece of meat and a fish."
Zhang Fusheng carried the fish and meat into the door, but the old man couldn't stop him.
"Oh, Fusheng, I have all of them. The army didn't forget my family's pillar, and the subsidy was sent the day before yesterday......"
The old man couldn't stop Zhang Fusheng, so he could only follow behind. His eldest son, Zhou Tiezhu, is a disabled veteran, and Zhou Tiezhu's younger brother is under the light of his eldest brother and is now working as a bailiff in the Nanyang Provincial Court, and cannot return home several times a month. The people in the stove heard the movement, and two women, one old and one young, came out to see. The older one's drenched hand was clutching on the apron around his waist.
"Auntie, brother and sister, cooking." Zhang Fusheng greeted the two women familiarly, and handed over the fish in his hand.
"There is it at home. When the army sent it the day before yesterday, didn't you see it......" Disabled veterans like Zhou Tiezhu, in addition to a large amount of retirement compensation every month, also have a lifetime of disabled soldiers' allowance, which is more than ordinary veterans, and a three-year living allowance. Rice, salt, sauce and vinegar, meat, poultry, eggs, sugar, all kinds of things, every month, and they should be added during the New Year's holidays.
The old woman said she wouldn't take anything, and the young one drank alongside. As a family member of the Fu Han Army and a disabled soldier, the living allowance they receive every month is enough for them to eat for half a month, which is not ordinarily rich.
Zhang Fusheng was pushing and giving way to the old couple, and a young man on crutches walked out of the house. The soldier's temper is different, Zhou Tiezhu waved his hand indifferently, "Dad, mother, Brother Fusheng brought it, you will bear it." In the evening, cook two dishes, put a whole table, and tell me to drink two cups with Brother Fusheng......"
Bidding farewell to the uncle and aunt who enthusiastically sent them out, Zhang Fusheng drove the carriage and knocked on the doors of the other two houses in the alley one after another. It was no longer a well-intentioned help, but something that the neighbor asked him to buy outside. Who made Zhang Fusheng a person from the transportation team of the Food Bureau, or a veteran who was qualified to bring the carriage home.
Of course, this is also because Zhang Fusheng is a warm-hearted person. Besides, this piece is full of military dependents and people from the organ system of the Fu Han Army. He helps people today, deals with a relationship, and has many roads in the future.
Zhang Fusheng returned to his home, and his mother-in-law held a small girl in her arms and greeted him with a four-year-old boy in her hand.
With a wife, a family, children and daughters, and no worries about food and drink, Zhang Fusheng's life is at least more than ninety percent of people in China today.
Moved the vegetables, white noodles, pork and live fish into the kitchen, and then took out the rattle bought for his son to tease the child, and took out a few feet of new cloth for his wife to show his skills. People live for a lifetime, and that's not what they want to do.
Therefore, Zhang Fusheng was not dissatisfied at all with joining the Fuhan Army. You must know that at this time last year, their family still didn't have a meal, and it was the Fu Han Army who gave his family a full meal and let his wife keep the child he was carrying. Even if this second child is a money-losing goods without a handle.
Untied the horse harness, Zhang Fusheng led the old horse to the horse pen set up in the southwest corner of the yard and fed it attentively. This horse has been with him for seven or eight months, and he has a lot of affection.
Or that since he was completely stabilized in the [initial logistics unit] of the Fuhan Army system, this horse has followed Zhang Fusheng.
It's just that the entire base area and the entire Fuhan army system are impossible for every household to be as happy as Zhang Fusheng's family. Some of the families of the disabled and fallen in battle are also miserable and embarrassed. But at least some people's lives have changed dramatically.
"I didn't go to Yuncheng, I just went to Ye County." At night, at Zhou Tiezhu's house, Zhang Fusheng sat with Zhou Tiezhu and Zhou's father, and the three of them had wine and meat in front of them, chatting and chatting, Zhang Fusheng talked about how he had followed the convoy to the front line to transport food.
For Zhou Tiezhu, a vested interest group of the Han Army, their family is very concerned about the battle situation on the front line.
"The place was not affected at all. The Qing soldiers don't look at the fact that there are so many horse teams, and no one can break through Xiping. ”
"We talk a lot about bunkers here, don't they? When I arrived in Ye County, I knew how to write multiple words. Naxiping is much more than Ye County......"
The transport convoy of the local grain bureau under the General's Office is, to a certain extent, the external organization of the logistics unit. Some of the food needed by the army was transported directly to the local area by them through local grain depots, or transported to the wharf for loading. These people are like old drivers in the 18th century, well-informed. And when they started talking, they also talked endlessly.
Aunt Zhou and her daughter-in-law were holding the soles of their shoes in the east room, and a wall could not prevent her from hearing the sound next door. Whether Zhang Fusheng's words were exaggerated or not, Aunt Zhou didn't think about it, she just had to feel at ease after hearing these words.
The current days are already a 'paradise' that Aunt Zhou can't even think of, she knows who the Zhou family relies on to live such a life, and of course she doesn't want such a beautiful life to leave their home. Therefore, the people who supported the Fu Han Army the most in the base area were not necessarily those who were officials, but families like the Zhou family.
Whether life is good or bad, the people know best and understand it best.
Since the Fu Han Army's general's office took control of southwestern Henan, it was the local merchants who suffered the most, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented a blockade policy on the base areas, and the general's palace now has some routes that cannot be put on the table except for Yuzhou, and there is no possibility of large-scale commercial exchanges in other directions. Therefore, the business under the rule of the General's Mansion has really suffered a heavy blow.
There is no vast market outside, only the narrow market space in southwest Henan, and there is a lot of war, so there is no room for commercial development in this situation. In addition, after stabilizing the control of the local government, the general's government implemented a monopoly on salt and iron, and entered all aspects of cloth, paper, tung oil, candles, pottery and porcelain production, which squeezed the market space even more.
However, the market entry of 'government-run' enterprises can greatly alleviate the needs of the people in the base areas for all kinds of materials at the beginning, and can also keep some people's daily necessities at a reliable level.
This situation is not limited to the base areas in southwestern Henan, but also the Jiujiang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province, the Anqing Mansion in Anhui Province, Nanjing in the south of the Yangtze River in Jiangyin, and the Yangzhou Prefecture and Nantong Prefecture in the north of the Yangtze River (all the way north to Gaoyou Prefecture), all of which have suffered a devastating blow to commerce to a certain extent. Because the Manchus imposed an absolute blockade on the areas controlled by the Fuhan Army, not to mention the circulation of bulk goods, even a piece of paper and a bag of salt, the Manchus would not put it into the area under the jurisdiction of the Fuhan Army.
The difficulty now for the Fu Han army is the formation of a 'multi-class interest group', and they now support a part of the bold peasants at most, in addition to their own families, while the squire, landlords, and wealthy merchants all hold a relatively large rejection of the Fu Han army. (To be continued.) )