Guan Yu escorted more than 300 captives on foot, carried a middle-aged fat man and five people tied up in front of Ji Ping, pointed to the middle-aged fat man and said: "Lord, this person is Hu Chi, the master of the dock of the Hu clan, together with his five minions, more than 100 women were found in the dock, all of which were plundered by Hu Chi. ”

The middle-aged fat man Hu Chi scolded: "Who are you waiting for? Dare to rebel! I have a relationship with General Niu under Dong Xiangguo......"

Before Hu Chi finished speaking, he was kicked to the ground by Guan Yu.

At this time, more and more people came around on all sides.

Lu Zhi said in a deep voice: "Lord, there are many local people around here, as well as other people from the fort. ”

Ji Ping nodded, ignored Hu Chi, and said to Guan Yu: "Find two elderly local people to come over." ”

Soon two trembling old men were brought over, and Ji Ping smiled warmly: "Elders don't need to panic, I just have something to ask, I don't know what is the reputation of this Hu Chi in the township?" ”

The two old men looked at each other for a while, then at Hu Chi, but they didn't dare to speak.

The detained Hu Chi had a sneer in his eyes.

Ji Ping looked up at Guan Yu and said with a faint smile: "Cut off this Hu Chi and five cronies, and hang them in the gatehouse of Hu's Dock." ”

"Ahh ――How dare you? When Hu Chi heard Ji Ping's indifferent tone, as if he was killing a pig, he howled in anger, and the two old men were also shocked, and their eyes widened.

As soon as Guan Yu heard Ji Ping's words, he asked his soldiers to pick up Hu Chi and five cronies and throw them to the side of the road, without waiting for them to resist, the knife fell in his hand, blood splattered, and several heads rolled to the ground.

The people around suddenly fell silent, and they all looked at this ruthless young man Ji Ping who was talking and laughing, silent.

Lu Zhi said in a low voice: "Lord, why kill people. This move may cause the local people to hate the migrants......"

Ji Ping said indifferently: "Now that it is in shape, if you want more people to survive and establish a pure land of peach source." Weeds must be cut with heavy means. ”

This Lu Zhi fought well, and he was also experienced in governing the local area. But as a great Confucian, he reads poetry and books, and his methods are inevitably a little benevolent. Ji Ping can also perceive that Lu Zhi's lifelong ambition is actually to make a difference in scripture like Xun Shuang and Cai Yong, rather than fighting wars and governing places, but now Ji Ping's talents are still in short supply, so he can only let Lu Zhi's capable people work harder.

Seeing that Lu Zhi still had to open his mouth to admonish. Ji Ping said slowly: "These heroes, private soldiers, kidnapping people's daughters, they are against the laws of the Han Dynasty. ”

Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up, if from the perspective of the Han Dynasty's laws, he resolutely supported Ji Ping.

Ji Ping turned his head to look at the people around him, some of these people had migrated from Luoyang, but there were also many local people, and he took a deep breath. Lang Sheng said: "Elders and people, Hedong County is originally a great land of the Han Dynasty, with thousands of miles of fertile land. Cattle and sheep are all over the field, and the people are rich, but for decades, there have been repeated raids by the Huns, and there is a resurgence of white waves, and there are more national thieves Dong Zhuotun Qiang Hu soldiers here, wantonly plundering, causing the people to live in danger and live in forts. In exile, you can't plant land if you have it. You can't have a family, wait...... It's been a long time! ”

Many of the people were silent. Even those local people looked at Ji Ping's eyes with a little less resistance, Ji Ping's words exhausted their bitterness, whether it was the migratory people or the local people, in this troubled world, it was difficult to survive, and life and death could not be autonomous.

Ji Ping said in a deep voice: "Now this king came to Hedong, is to build a pure land, so that you and others live and work in peace and contentment, the old man in the hall to raise the day, the young children around the knee happy and worry-free, but the establishment of the pure land, not the power of one person, the rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible, the king has his own elite soldiers to resist the enemy outside, you and so on to cultivate on time, do not miss the farmland." But where there is wasteland, I have my own diligent people to reap it! But if there is a lawless tyrant wantonly plundering, I have my own elite soldiers to kill it! I hope that you will work with me to build a pure land in Hedong! ”

"The rise and fall of the world, it is the responsibility of the husband to build a pure land together!" Lu Zhiqing snorted, his eyes full of determination.

Immediately, thousands of soldiers shouted: "Build a Pure Land together!" ”

Then came the migratory people, and finally some of the native people followed suit.

After everyone calmed down, Ji Ping took a few steps forward and said in a deep voice: "Under the rule of King Ben, the field tax is ten and the tax is one." ”

"Lord!" Lu Zhi, Yuan Ji and Wu Qiong all screamed in shock, and the people on all sides were also in an uproar.

Since Gaozu opened the Han Dynasty, in order to live with the people's livelihood, adopted the policy of "light taxation and thin endowment", and when the fifteenth tax reached Wenjing, there was the edict of "halving the land rent", and adopted the policy of "thirty taxes and one", Liu Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty had implemented "ten and one tax", but soon reverted to the old system of "thirty taxes and one".

Looking at the tax system of the two Han Dynasty, in addition to Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling's increase of ten yuan per mu, the rent in kind of "fifteen taxes and one" or "thirty taxes and one" is generally popular, so Ji Ping suddenly raised the field tax to "ten and one tax", which not only caused the surprise of Lu Zhi and others, but also caused an uproar among the people.

In the uproar, Ji Ping's voice sounded clearly: "From now on, under the rule of the king, the oral endowment will be exempted, and the endowment will be halved!" Donation fee halved! ”

Quiescence! The tumultuous people fell silent.

Lu Zhi and other officials were also dumbfounded.

The two Han Tian tax is thirty taxes one, which is the lowest land tax in history, but the poll tax is extremely heavy, the poll tax started from the Shang Dynasty reform, and the two Han Dynasty followed, the most important thing is the oral endowment and the calculation of the endowment.

The oral endowment is a "poll tax" levied on minors between the ages of seven and fourteen, regardless of gender, each person pays 20 yuan per year, and when it comes to Huanling, the oral endowment rises to 23 yuan.

The levy is a "poll tax" levied on adults between the ages of fifteen and fifty-six, and is levied on each person of 120 yuan per year, regardless of gender, which is called "one calculation", and is doubled for merchants and slaves, at 240 yuan per year. In order to encourage childbearing, women between the ages of 15 and 30 who do not marry are divided into five classes, and each liter of the first class is taxed and one is counted, and if a woman is pregnant, her husband is exempted from paying one year.

The oral tax and the calculation tax are poll taxes, which are attributed to the big farmers and included in the national treasury for the management of various expenses of the state.

As for the consecration, it was a separate tax, which was paid to the royal family for court expenses.

In February of the 11th year of Gaozu, he issued an edict: "Order the princes, kings, and marquis to often pay tribute in October, and the counties shall each pay sixty-three yuan per year according to the number of mouths." ”

In the feudal kingdom of the kings and princes, the land rent, arithmetic and oral taxes were collected by the kings and princes, but a part of it had to be paid to the emperor as a tribute or a sacrifice to the temple. Each adult man and woman was to 'give' sixty-three pieces of money to the emperor each year for the expenses of the court.

This fee is halved by Ji Ping. It was not canceled, because he did not know the cost of the court in the future, after all, the attendants and guards all needed salaries. It is also impossible for him to go farming and business to make money, so it is temporarily halved. It will not be canceled, so as not to run out of money when it is available, and then increase the amount of money to cause a backlash.

Now although Ji Ping has increased the field tax, he has greatly reduced the poll tax, so the eyes of the surrounding people all reveal a look of disbelief.

Lu Zhi took the lead in bowing down in front of Ji Ping: "The king's move benefits all the people, long live!" ”

Then Guan Yu took the lead and bowed: "Long live the king!" ”

"Long live the king!" The people on all sides knelt together, and the cry shook the sky.

Before the Song Dynasty, including this period. Banzai is just a cheer to express people's inner joy and celebration, not for the emperor.

Ji Ping added the field tax and reduced the poll tax, which is not without consideration. It is not for nothing that the field tax has increased and the poll tax has been greatly reduced.

Since Gaozu, the reduction of the land tax and the implementation of the capitation tax have allowed production to be quickly restored in the early stage, but it soon caused a big problem, that is, it intensified the land annexation!

Because the land tax is light and the poll tax is heavy, it stimulates the wealthy to annex a large number of land. Because their family has a relatively fixed population, they only need to pay a fixed poll tax, but they annex a large amount of land. By paying a small land tax, they were able to earn a large amount of money from a meager tax, so they became richer and richer and had more and more land.

At the same time, landless or landless peasants had meager incomes, but large families could not support the relatively heavy poll tax, and they might have sheltered the wealthy in order to escape unaffordable servitude. strengthened the power of the powerful landlords, or became homeless. Factors that became social unrest, such as the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Such. A large number of registered Qi people disappeared from the imperial court's household registers, which only exacerbated the country's financial crisis.

However, Ji Ping's reduction of the poll tax greatly reduced the burden on the peasants, increased the land tax, and collected taxes per mu, but increased the taxes and fees of the rich and powerful, because they had more land.

Such a policy, on the one hand, can increase the collection of taxes and fees on the rich and powerful and balance the intensity of land annexation, and on the other hand, it can encourage the common people to withdraw from the protection of the rich and powerful and incorporate them into the state household registration, because the poll tax has been reduced or reduced, and the land tax has only increased slightly.

But another problem with this kind of policy is to face the counterattack of local tyrants!

This Ji Ping has long been accustomed to it, he is not afraid of itching if there are many lice, anyway, many of his policies have to suppress Haoqiang, as long as he has elite soldiers and strong generals in hand, plus the selection of talents in the imperial examination, plus the support of the people, he is afraid of a bird!

What's more, this field tax is not high, but any family with a public heart and conscience will naturally not have much repercussions, and those unscrupulous and greedy heroes are his Ji Ping's goals.

Looking at the officials, soldiers and people who fell to their knees, Ji Pingbing did not let them get up immediately, but continued: "Under the rule of King Fanben, it is strictly forbidden for the prefectures, counties and counties to increase taxes indiscriminately.

too conservative to govern the people, advance to the virtuous, decide lawsuits, and prosecute adultery;

The lieutenant is in charge of the county soldiers and guards the county;

The superintendent is in charge of supervision, conveys fatwas, supervises subordinate officials, examines prisons, and examines illegality.

Under the superintendent of the imperial history, there is a superintendent post, which is divided into four parts: eastern, southern, western, and northern, and each supervises the counties.

There is a pavilion chief under the post superintendent to supervise the township. ”

The separation of administrative, military, and supervision powers is also Ji Ping's early idea, or this system was implemented after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, and the system of Taishou, Duwei and Supervisor Yu Shi was implemented, and the Western Han Dynasty followed the Qin law, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the history of assassination, which was also in charge of supervision.

But at the end of the Han Dynasty, in addition to supervision, the history of the assassin gradually gained more power, and by the time of Wang Mang, the history of the assassin was changed to the state pastor, realizing the transformation of the history of the assassin from a supervisor to a magistrate. Subsequently, local rebel forces flocked to oppose Wang Mang's claim to be emperor, and in order to suppress the locality, Wang Mang gave the state pastoral army the right to fight, which was already a combination of administration, military, and supervision.

In the eighteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the state pastor was still changed to the history of the assassins, but from the Western Han Dynasty to the history of the assassins without a fixed place of governance, they became their own stations, and the power of the history of the assassins gradually expanded, and there were often things about sending the history of the assassins to lead the troops to fight, and there was no original intention of the history of the assassins to be supervised at the beginning.

Therefore, Ji Ping abolished the history of assassination and changed it to the history of the prison. To be continued

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