Qin Dong officially decided to implement the Baojia Law, after all, this is conducive to ruling the lower classes, and the officials will naturally not oppose it, even if there are individual officials who oppose it, it is only against the Lian Sit Law, but this opposition was quickly drowned out by most officials.

At this time, another official said: "Lord Agul, you just said that there is another way, I don't know what the solution is?" ”

Agul said word by word: "One errand, one food!" ”

The officials looked at each other, and for some reason, Qin Dong asked in real time, "National Master Agul, what does this sentence mean?" ”

Agul said: "It can also be called 'the official gentry is one errand and the one is the grain' The official is the official, and the gentry is the gentleman and the landlord." This means that the gentry also have to serve as an errand like ordinary people, and they also have to pay taxes like ordinary people! ”

Qin Dong originally thought that when Agul said this new policy, the most opposed should be the Xiongnu officials or the Skir officials, after all, they were local officials, not only powerful, but also deep-rooted, but out of his expectation, the first to stand up against it was Zhong Hui, a Han official.

I saw Zhong Hui stand up and glared at Agul angrily and said angrily: "It's just nonsense, how can it be justified!" The people are the people, the gentry are the gentry, how can the gentry serve and pay taxes like the lower classes? As an assistant to help the king rule the people at the bottom, the gentry should enjoy preferential treatment, which is also a spur to the people at the bottom, if you want to live a good life, you must work hard to become the gentry, so that they have a good hope, and if the gentry and the people are the same as the errand and food, then what is the difference between the gentry and the people? What other superiority does the gentry have? How can you be motivated to help the king govern the place? ”

Then Pethius stood up and said, "Great King. Regarding Lord Zhong's remarks, the lower officials did not dare to agree! ”

"Oh?" Qin Dong asked, "I wonder if Lord Petheus has anything to say?" ”

Pethius was a foreign official, not a native official. The roots here are not deep, but he is also one of the first officials to follow Qin Dong, and his status is quite high, it stands to reason that he should follow Qin Dong's pace closely, and he should not stand up and express his opinion lightly, but the current situation seems to be a little weird, and even Peteus has stood up and spoken. This shows that the shock caused by the new policy of "one errand and one food" is very large.

Peteaus said: "Great King, the lower official was originally an official of Rome. It is because those officials in Rome who are not accustomed to seeing the people as people and are not accustomed to the corruption of Rome that they are far away from Rome and come here to serve under the king. The reason why they are the lower classes of the people. It's just because of their origins, if they were born in official families, they would also be in the official gentry class, and this point, presumably the king and your colleagues would not object, right? ”

Qin Dong did not speak, and neither did the other officials, and this is the case, in this era. It is almost impossible for the people at the bottom to reach the top, and it is not impossible. This is rare, and there are exceptions to this kind of Qin Dong.

Pethius continued: "The lower officials do not understand, why should the lower classes of the people be allowed to perform errand service and pay taxes, while the gentry do not need to serve and pay taxes? Why? Is it because they planted the fields of the empire? Isn't the house you live in the Empire? Every single one of them has to pay a poll tax, and why don't you pay a poll tax? This poll tax is so bad that people don't dare to have children, because if you give birth to a child, you have to pay a poll tax, which is one of the reasons why the population of the entire Obarro is so small! Of course, there is not only one reason for the small population, but there are other reasons, such as low productivity and the inability to support more children. In the final analysis, the officials who oppose the implementation of the integrated taxation of officials and gentry just don't want to pay the money, and there is no other reason, the lower officials agree with Lord Agul's suggestion to implement the decree of the integrated taxation of the officials and gentry, and the lower officials are the first to pay taxes! ”

In ancient Western societies, like Eastern societies, poll taxes were basically levied, and in terms of the basic organizational structure of society, Eastern societies were based on households, while in the West, individuals were units.

"The official gentry pays grain in one" originated from one of the three new policies of the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. The other two are "spreading the land into the mu" and "returning the fire consumption to the public". After Yongzheng ascended the throne of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was actually very bad, because in Kangxi's later years, his brother's struggle for the throne caused Xiao Wall, corruption in officialdom became common, and the tax revenue of the imperial court decreased; There are ethnic minorities rebelling in the border areas, and the war is not stopping! So what Kangxi left to Yongzheng is actually a mess! In the early years of Yongzheng, the silver available in the treasury was less than six million taels, and the military expenses needed to solve the border rebellion were tens of millions, and it was necessary to repair the Yellow River embankment and maintain the daily expenses of the imperial court. In order to solve the above problems, Yongzheng decided to implement the three new policies of "the integration of officials and gentry, the integration of errands and the payment of grain", "apportionment into the mu", and "fire consumption to the public".

The ancient tax system is very different from the present, it is now a commodity economy society, commodity circulation is active, and the government only needs to collect taxes in the production and circulation of commodities. For example, every commodity on the market is now taxed when it is produced and circulated out of the factory, and these taxes will eventually be passed on to consumers, that is, ordinary people. There are all kinds of taxes now, and there are many stamp duty, urban construction tax, and education tax. From buying a pen in the supermarket, having a meal at a restaurant, buying a ticket, to buying a house and a car, the money spent includes a lot of taxes! But in ancient times, the circulation of goods was not active, there were factories of no scale, and some ordinary people were afraid that they would not spend money to buy anything in their lives, and these taxes could not be raised. If you want to collect taxes, you only need to collect them from the government to the people's homes! In addition, the common people have to be on errands, that is, military service and conscription! The gentry belong to the ruling class, and they should not pay taxes! "The officials and gentry are on an errand and pay the grain in one" is to let them also pay taxes and errands, of course, it is not really to ask them to perform military service and conscription, anyway, the officials and gentry are required to pay money! Of course, the gentry were unwilling, so it was very difficult to implement! However, at that time, Yongzheng appointed capable officials to implement this new policy to the end, and it was effective.

The integrated payment of grain by the officials and gentry deprives the officials and gentry of the privilege of exempting them from military tax, and cannot directly increase the revenue of the central government, but it avoids the taxable households such as the poor and middle peasants, who include their own fields among the relatives of the official households, and pay some land rent but exempt a larger amount of land tax. This situation used to be called "land annexation" and was really the result of the magnate.

Zhong Hui wanted to refute Peteaus's remarks, but he didn't know how to refute them, Peteus's remarks themselves stood on the moral high ground, so he couldn't find the entry point to refute, and he was so angry that his beard was cocked.

Felton spoke again at this time, and this time he disagreed, "The king, the minister does not agree with the opinion of Lord Pethius, people have hierarchies, social classes have hierarchies, this is true in any country of Obaro, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, and the southern kingdoms of Vandal and Visigoth, including the Ostrogoths and Gepidians, all have hierarchies, and this hierarchy is made by the gods, since man has hierarchies, Then it is natural that the gentry, as the upper class of human beings, do not have to be on errands and do not have to pay taxes, and the officials work day and night for the empire, serve the king, plan for the lives of the people, but get very little salary, if they still have to pay taxes, how does this make the officials live, how can the officials feed their families? Therefore, the ministers oppose the officials and gentry to pay food in one piece! ”

When Felton finished speaking, Qin Dong could hear it, the reason why Felton opposed it was not because he stood up for other officials who opposed this matter, but because he was a clean official who only took a salary to support his family, if this kind of official had to pay taxes, with the current salary, it would be very difficult for them to support their families, so Felton would object.

Until now, few Xiongnu officials have stood up to speak, after all, Agul said first, Agul's official position is the highest, and the Xiongnu officials are not easy to speak out against him, but Felton has no such concerns, he is a Skier, after he objected, many officials followed to oppose the new policy of the gentry to pay for food.

The controversy has continued to this day, and the proportion of the number of officials who oppose and support it is also obvious, and those who oppose it are naturally in the majority, and the officials who are in favor account for the minority, and there are also a considerable number of those who do not oppose and do not approve.

Qin Dong is no longer ready to take off this matter, his time is limited, and now that it has entered autumn, all aspects of the army have been prepared, and he can march north to Deng Zhixike at any time, if this matter drags on any longer, he will not have the energy to command the northern expedition.

Qin Dong raised his hand and said, "Okay, don't make any noise!" There are people who oppose and support, and there are many people who have not expressed their opinions. The problem of land annexation has always been a major problem for various regimes and dynasties, and the integration of the gentry and gentry can effectively prevent it, and the king believes that it should be adopted, but it is not possible to ignore the feelings of the officials, the corrupt officials have money, and they don't care about paying a little tax, but some loyal and honest officials can't afford to pay taxes, and they can't support their families if they pay taxes.

In this way, from next month, the implementation of the official gentry integrated payment, including the king and the big single, and all members of the royal family must pay taxes, in order to compensate for the honest officials, from now on, the salary of officials will be increased by fifty percent, in addition to setting up a diligent and honest bonus, the official department implements the attendance system, but all officials who are not absent every month have a full attendance award, and the honest officials are also set up with a clean bonus, which needs to be inspected and reviewed by the officials at the next level! What do you think? ”

What else is there to say about this? Even Felton, who was the most opposed, did not object, only Zhong Hui, a person who had been influenced by Confucianism, was still stubborn.

Of course, Qin Dong would not meet his requirements for such a person, and since the vast majority of officials did not object, he immediately announced the implementation of the decree that the officials and gentry would pay grain in one piece. (To be continued......)