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A public examination and approval meeting was held in an unusually smooth manner, starting with the public trial of the Zhu family, followed by the public trial of other bullies, in addition to announcing the larger crimes committed by these people in public, there was also a free link to go to the city tower to complain. After all, the total number of people who were seized of family property or caused death was only one or twenty, and the rest were all big or small. Let the people come up and tell the story themselves, the effect is better, and it can drive the feelings of the people below.

At first, no one dared to go upstairs, but Han Biao took the lead. He himself has a deep hatred with the Zhu family, but he has also been bullied by other bullies in the city, and he has also told the Zhu family and other bullies what they have done to their village in the past few years, as if he was the spokesman of their village. Although he has no culture, he speaks clearly and logically, and every time he says something, he has to call the person concerned from the stage to prove that he is not framing these people and strengthen his persuasiveness. Fortunately, he has been actively cooperating with the actions of the Mawei Army, and today's criticism meeting has basically mobilized the people in their village, which is very convenient for this roll call. There were a few people named by him who didn't plan to go up to the city tower, but they had to kick up to expose it when he squeezed it so much.

With such a beginning, the rest of the matter is simple, dozens of people came up one after another, criticizing these caught bullies on the city tower as incomplete, as if everyone is a heinous crime and an unforgivable crime. In fact, it is exactly what it is. The people who were brought to the castle tower were basically a group of people who were not sorry to die. As for the smaller ones. If they are strict, they are going to be sentenced to hard labor, and if they are lighter, they will be fined.

The public trial meeting lasted for three hours, and the warm atmosphere made the people forget the time for lunch. In the end, the nearly fifty criminals were shot in public, and after the assembly was completely over, the people found that the sun had passed due south, and it was late in the afternoon. The effect of the public trial conference is obvious, and today is the public trial meeting. It was the Mawei Army, Han Biao and other people who cooperated with the agitation that the people who loved to watch the excitement came to the scene, and nearly 10,000 people gathered, less than a quarter of the number of people in the city. But the next day, the streets were crowded again, and the shopping for New Year's goods continued, but more of them were talking about yesterday's public trial and the new policy that had just been announced.

The people who didn't watch it almost all had the same expression after listening to yesterday's events, regretting, quite regretful, especially those who were bullied and had a miserable life. Even more regretful, the intestines are blue. This meeting basically eliminated the people's resistance to the Mawei Army. It can be said that most of them have accepted the Mawei Army and agree with what the Mawei Army has done. Next to the original Mawei Army and Civilian List, a new list was posted again, this time there was more content, and one red paper was not enough, so three sheets were pasted, all of which were full of text. The list posted in each place is read out by a special person and explained to the public one by one. According to Geng Jingzhong's consistent requirements, the explanation of the list must be in the vernacular, and it must be easy to understand, after all, the vast majority of ordinary people are illiterate, and they can't listen to those who don't listen.

The reason why the new deal has a new one in it is that it must be different from the original. At this time, there is no content to fight local tyrants and divide the land, and of course there will be no in the future. The first article on the first list emphasizes the sanctity of private property, in fact, the purpose is one, to reassure the people of the city, and even more so that the remaining big families can rest assured that the Mawei Army is not here to rob everyone's property, but to protect everyone's property. put this in the first article, and sure enough, it immediately received a burst of praise and calmed people's hearts. In fact, the people in the city are still a little worried that the Mawei Army will loot on a large scale, and they are indeed a little worried in the past few days. But don't worry about it now, the list has been announced, which completely explains the difference of this army.

But then, it was to make the landlords and rich people unhappy. Qingzhang land, this matter has been done in Fujian, and now that it is here, it must also be implemented. The extra land will be confiscated directly, and the Ministry of Government will be of great use in the future. This matter is not in a hurry, anyway, now that the Mawei Army has taken over the county government, the information of Yiqiē is there, and after the official staff arrives in the back, it will be slowly cleared.

Next, only the common people were taxed on the acres of land, exempted from the other miscellaneous taxes, and the officials and gentry paid grain on an errand basis, which had not yet been implemented in Fujian, but had been implemented in Luzon for a year. When it comes to experience, it is indeed a lot of accumulation. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the national war, Geng Jingzhong was also preparing to promulgate it in Fujian and the occupied areas at the same time. The common people did not listen to other words, but they clearly knew one thing, and there would be no more excessive taxes in the future. There is only one fixed tax burden, that is, the tax per acre, which is based on the standard of 30 taxes, and all others are exempted, and miscellaneous taxes such as Ding tax will no longer be levied on people.

The taxes formulated by us in ancient China have always been low, generally between 15 and 30 taxes, and the highest is 10 taxes, which is also affordable for farmers. But in practice, it often changes tone. First, some large households that have encroached on a large amount of land do not pay the land tax, and the local government has no choice but to pass on the double share they should pay to the ordinary peasants in order to complete the tax collection. Moreover, in addition to the regular tax, there are also additional levies and consumption from time to time, and sometimes these fees even exceed the regular tax, and these fees can also be ignored by the wealthy and large households, and the local government does not dare to collect them, and finally falls on the heads of ordinary farmers, and the result becomes a heavy burden, and this is not counting the rent that needs to be paid for renting the landlord's field.

In addition, in the process of paying taxes, because ancient China collected taxes in kind, it was a whip law of Zhang Juzheng's reform in the Ming Dynasty, and it was also exchanged for silver with grain. As a result, the local government and the lower-level officials also had to use their hands from the top and bottom of the middle, plucking the goose and plucking the feathers, and so on, so as to enrich their own pockets and make the peasants pay a lot of expenses. The so-called excesses and miscellaneous taxes refer to these conditions. The so-called errand service, in fact, refers to some local public works, such as repairing city walls, building bridges, building embankments, auxiliary land, etc., all of which allow peasants to do free volunteer work, of course, doing some private work for local officials, which is naturally unavoidable. Farmers who do these things not only do not get paid, but on the contrary, they also miss their own farm time. Thus the errand service was another heavy burden for the peasants.

Therefore, in ancient China, tax reduction has always been regarded as the greatest virtue, because the exemption of peasants' taxes is actually to protect the vast majority of their income. Moreover, the peasant uprisings in ancient China would without exception play the slogan of "tax exemption". Li Zicheng a few decades ago, he really began to gain momentum, that is, from the time he raised the banner of three-year exemption. In later generations, when the Taizu of the Heavenly Dynasty was fighting the country, he fought the landlord to divide the land, which was essentially to reduce the burden of the peasants.

Although, in the long run, the collection of agricultural taxes is inevitable, because there is no substitute for agricultural taxes at a time when the social productive forces are backward. If you don't collect taxes at all, the people will be suspicious, after all, farming and paying taxes are a matter of course, and every dynasty has risen and fallen, and there is no saying that there is no need to pay taxes, which has been imprinted into the bones of the people. But it is this exemption from a single harsh tax that can be said to have won the hearts of the people, and the people celebrated with their crowns. Although most of the people in Dapu County do not own land, they are exempted from other miscellaneous taxes, so their lives are much better. As for the latter one, those large families were not happy, and basically most of the large households were thinking of avoiding taxes, such as hanging their fields and properties in the names of scholars or officials with meritorious reputations, so that they could not pay taxes. And they don't have to serve, it can be said that everything is borne by ordinary people, and they don't have to care. Not anymore, everyone is treated equally, and there is no specialization.

The article also emphasizes the matter of service, and in the future, each household still has to send people, but the government will pay wages and provide food, so there is an essential difference from before. The people of Dapu are not so lonely and unheard, and the people of Yongding County next door, who build roads and rivers, etc., all have money, and it is not a small number, more than they give to the helpers of large families. The people of Dapu County have long been envious of this. In the past few years, many people have moved to Longyan Mansion in Fujian Province next door. There are some people who are still working in the starting point county, and they will come back every six months to bring back a large amount of money, which is the envy of others.

As for the matter of fire consumption, it is no longer in the current Dapu County. Now the silver money in the hands of the people, except for the copper coin, the others are the regular silver dollars minted in Fujian, one or two large silver dollars and five small silver dollars, as well as the standard silver slots. In the future, when the common people pay their taxes, they will be spared the fate of being exploited again.

In fact, Geng Jingzhong originally wanted to add the commercial tax law to the first few new policies issued by the Ministry of Government Affairs, but it is better to postpone it somewhat. Now that the whole country is in turmoil, business has been greatly affected, and it is not appropriate to promulgate it at this time. The original plan for implementation in Fujian has also been suspended, but it has not been terminated in the two ports, but the newly established General Administration of Customs there has its own tax system, which does not conflict with this side. And it is not too late to wait until the overall situation stabilizes, and then improve these policies.

Dapu County is stable, and at the same time, Jiaoling County, which is adjacent to Dapu County, is not much different, and it was taken a little later, but the measures of the Mawei Army in the city are the same as those here, and one day later at the latest, Jiaoling County will also be the same as Dapu County. And just when the Mawei New Army cooperated with the officials of the Ministry of Government Affairs to stabilize the place, the siege of Meizhou and Chaozhou officially began. (To be continued......)

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