787. Chapter 787: The First Step of Reform
There is preferential treatment after passing the Jinshi examination, which was also present in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not as powerful as it was in the Song Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Therefore, the most important thing is to be able to be an official, if you can't be an official, you can't be a particularly powerful golden job.
However, if a certain amount of money is given every year, this jinshi will become a golden job, and the number of people admitted to the Tang Imperial Examination every year is very small, so if a certain amount of money is given every year, it is not particularly unacceptable.
Tang Zhou told the eldest grandson Wuji about the situation, and the eldest grandson Wuji saw that he was only attacking those Diao people, and Li Shimin supported it, so he hurriedly expressed his support.
In this way, the next morning, when Tang Zhou mentioned this matter, the eldest grandson Wuji also echoed a few sentences below.
The eldest grandson Wuji agreed, and the other powerful ministers also felt that it was okay, anyway, it did not affect their interests, it affected those who put the land in the name of Jinshi, but do they still need to do this?
The court officials unanimously agreed, and when Li Shimin saw this, he naturally issued an edict.
The edict was issued, which immediately caused an uproar in Chang'an City.
Many people in Chang'an City are talking about this matter, but many people are just curious about this matter, and they are not angry because of it, after all, many people are not able to hang their land in the name of those Jinshi, and those who can are at the level of those big landlords and rich people.
These people get angry, but a lot of ordinary people don't.
Those big landlords and rich people are angry, but what's the use of them being angry?
Although this edict was made to deal with them, the main target was the jinshi and people with military merits, as long as these jinshi and people with military merits did not make trouble, if they wanted to make trouble, it would be unreasonable to make trouble, that is, to oppose the imperial court.
But those jinshi and those with military merits will not make trouble.
In the past, they only had one year without paying taxes, and in this year, those big landlords and rich people were not good to them, but after a year, these people immediately abandoned them, because they had little use value, and they would go to find new people with military merits and new jinshi.
But now, the imperial court gives them a certain amount of money every year, and they can be regarded as having a long-term income if they fight for this, which is much better than cooperating with those people.
These jinshi and people with military merits not only did not make trouble, but felt that this new edict was very kind to them, and they liked it very much, and they heard Tang Zhou's proposal, and they all praised Tang Zhou, the head of the household department, for being young and promising, so they sent him a pennant to send to the household department.
After the edict was issued, the household department collected a lot of extra grain because of this.
And after this matter was done, Tang Zhou targeted those people above the Duke of State, these people paid so much less taxes every year than themselves because of their titles, which was too unfair.
It's just that these people on the other side, Tang Zhou is not as casual as dealing with those people, and if the people are offended, they will be offended, and they will scold themselves a few words at most, but these princes are all ruthless characters, and many of them have a good relationship with them, offending them, I am afraid that the future will not be easy.
So he had to think of a way to get the best of both worlds, but was there such a way?
Apparently not.
On this day, after the morning court, Tang Zhou stood up.
"Holy Lord, the minister thinks that my Tang tax system should be reformed."
Hearing that Tang Zhou was going to reform again, the ministers couldn't help but panic a little, for fear that Tang Zhou's reform would touch their interests, Li Shimin had already understood what Tang Zhou meant, and knew that he was going to attack those powerful people.
But wouldn't it be a little too fast?
After frowning slightly, Li Shimin said, "Oh, what good advice does Tang Aiqing have?" ”
"Holy Lord, the minister went deep into the people to investigate, and found that there are many unreasonable places in my Tang Dynasty taxes."
"Oh, that doesn't make sense?"
"That's the case, the imperial court stipulates that taxes are paid every year, and the people's fields are collected more or less, but if it is a good year, this has no impact on the people, and they can pay the taxes collected by the imperial court, but if it is a disaster year, they are afraid that they will not be able to pay the prescribed figures, doesn't this make the people have no way to live?"
When Tang Zhou said this, Li Shimin felt that this was indeed the case, and even some ministers in the court also felt that this was indeed the case.
"Then what is Tang Aiqing's suggestion?"
"Taxes are collected according to the amount of income, those with high income are called more, and those with less income are paid less, so do what you can, I have food in Datang, and those poor people will not sell their children and daughters."
After Tang Zhou said this, some people in the court didn't realize the danger very much, after all, people like them who have a lot of land, they do take the lion's share every year, and those people pay a lot, but each household is not particularly much.
And they have the privilege of paying one or two less than many people.
However, some more cautious people were still a little suspicious of Tang Zhou's over-friendship, so someone stood up and asked: "Lord Tang, how should this over-payment be divided?" ”
For example, if a family has 100 deniers of grain this year, then it will receive 100 percent, if a family has 1000 deniers of grain, then it will receive 20%, if it has 10,000 deniers of grain, then 30% will be harvested, so everyone can accept it, right?"
After Tang Zhou said this, the ministers in the court couldn't stand anymore, they finally understood Tang Zhou's wolf ambition, it turned out that he was not thinking about those poor people, but to draw their blood, this kid is too treacherous.
"Holy Lord, the minister thinks it's inappropriate, it's not fair to collect grain by this standard, it's still better than before."
"Yes, Holy Lord, if someone falsely reports the number, then wouldn't he be able to pay less food, it's still better than before, and the annual quota is as much as it is, as long as it is called, so there won't be so many problems."
Everyone stood up to express their opposition, even Cheng Biting Jin and Changsun Wuji also stood up, they are also Guogong, they still have privileges, and paying a tax of 10% every year is about the same, but according to Tang Zhou's method, they are only afraid that they will have to pay 30% of the tax every year, which is simply drinking their blood, how can this work?
The ministers objected, Li Shimin sat on the dragon chair and hesitated a little, it stands to reason that Tang Zhou's method is very good, not only to give those with low income a way to live, but also to increase taxes for the imperial court, but those princes in the court do not agree, this is not easy to do.
was crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, the one who was not born and died with him Li Shimin, their power in the court is still very large, if they want to say that something happened, this mess will not be easy to clean up.
What's more, now that even the eldest grandson Wuji has stood up, what can be done?
Just when Li Shimin was hesitating, in the chaotic court, a person suddenly stood up, and after this person stood up, everyone suddenly fell silent.