The young man should be an employee of the Security Bureau, and his work seems to be quite serious and responsible, Zhao Lide took the document, looked at it and handed it to him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The young man left in a hurry, walking with a trot.

However, Chi Zhengjie looked at the other party's back with some surprise - he had seen that face in the materials circulated within the committee. Although it is only hand-drawn, it is also quite expressive.

He ...... He's not that ......? ”

"That's right, he is the member of the Manchurian Blue Banner who took the initiative to defect to us, and his current name is Sultai."

"How dare you use him? Aren't you afraid that this guy will assassinate something? ”

Chi Zhengjie was stunned, but Zhao Lide sighed:

"Beiwei and I have tested him several times, both openly and covertly, so there should be no problem - if this kid can trick me and Beiwei, then we will admit it. The key is that talent is rare. If it weren't for the fact that he knew nothing about our time, I would have treated him as a modern man."

“…… His ability is indeed good, his mind is quick-witted, and his ability to accept it is very strong, and he is very suitable for engaging in intelligence work in all aspects. After a few years of training, maybe you can really take over my class in this area. ”

Hearing Zhao Lide actually give him such a high evaluation, Chi Zhengjie was a little sluggish, and after a while, he said:

"Looks like you're really short of people. From the Donglin Party to the Manchurians, those who come do not refuse. ”

"yes, why don't I talk so much about you, don't I just want to recruit talent—how about it, Applejack, think about it?"

Chi Zhengjie nodded slightly and didn't say anything, but how poisonous is the eyes of a person like Zhao Lide, he immediately saw that he had actually been touched, and he was no longer wordy at the moment. They went back to their rooms to freshen up and rest.

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In the days that followed, Chi Zhengjie began his investigation plan, and Zhao Lide also handled various daily government affairs. However, as long as he has the opportunity, he will try his best to let Chi Zhengjie participate in his work, and at the same time explain all aspects to him. It's just a posture that has treated him like an administrative assistant - and by the way, it also instills a concept in the people below: this is the second boss.

Chi Zhengjie acquiesced to this approach, and while continuing to do fieldwork, he also began to learn along. However, as he gradually began to take over specific affairs, Chi Zhengjie soon discovered that even if a parliament was established, the so-called "gentry class" would not automatically stand on their side.

"Damn, those local tyrants and shoddy gentry can't be killed!"

Just a few days later, Chi Zhengjie let out such an angry roar -- because he wanted to go to the countryside to do field research, Zhao Lide entrusted Chi Zhengjie to do some agricultural investigation work by the way, mainly about the implementation of the "375" rent reduction system.

-- Beginning last year, the Qiong Navy has fully implemented the "375 system" in their areas under their jurisdiction. That is to say, no matter who owns the land, whether it is official or private, the tenants who farm the land only need to pay a maximum of three-eighths of the harvest, that is, 37.5 percent of the rent. The remaining five-eighths must be their own.

This is divided into two situations: one is that the official land is leased to private individuals or collectives, such as the various collective villages and farms established by the Qiong Navy recruiting immigrants from all over the Ming Dynasty, and the land they are allocated is considered to be the government, and these units need to pay a quarter of their output to the government - that is, the Qiong Navy government, 25% of the income is used as tax, and the rest is at their own disposal.

As for the yeoman farmers and landlords on Hainan Island, who originally owned their own land, of course, they also had to pay taxes to the government on their cultivated land, which amounted to one-eighth of the total output, or 12.5 percent -- if they had cultivated their own land, they would only have to pay so much. If it is rented to tenants, then as mentioned above, the landlord can collect up to three-eighths of the rent, of which one-eighth needs to be paid to the government, and he can keep one-fourth.

In addition, another big mountain that weighed on the common people of the Ming Dynasty -- the annual labor required for the state was also abolished, and if the government needed a large amount of labor, it would be hired at the expense of money, instead of forcibly recruiting manpower.

In the future, the only obligation for the inhabitants of the Qiong Navy Government was military service: all adult men of sixteen years of age were obliged to serve in the military for a period of five years. However, it is permissible to spend money to apply for exemption. If you don't get selected after you sign up, you have fulfilled your obligations that year - most people don't actually get selected. Because of the principle of elite soldiers implemented by the Qiong Navy, the physical fitness requirements are very high, and the number of people is not much.

Originally, the preferential and exemption policy of the Ming Dynasty for scholars was still retained: Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, there were different degrees of tax exemption according to the level of merit, and at the same time exempted from military service. Moreover, the Qiong Navy Government has also added a category on this basis: the families of military martyrs are also exempt from taxes, and the quota is equivalent to Xiucai.

-- The literary style in Hainan is not prosperous, there are very few Jinshiju, and there are few talents, and not many people can enjoy the original tax-free policy. But military families are different, as soon as this policy comes out, as long as you are a soldier, you can help your family get tax exemption, plus the supporting veteran resettlement system, after the demobilization of soldiers, you can often enter the government to work, eat public food, and count as a family member...... Even when he returned to his hometown, he served as a militia captain and a local leader such as a village cadre, which led to a sharp increase in the status of the soldiers under the Qiong Navy. From the first time I hid as soon as I heard about recruitment, to the later stuffing money to recruit cadres who wanted to be selected, there was not much time in between.

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The rules are very clear, and they do reduce the burden on the people, and after the new rules are released, they must have received the support of the public, which has attracted a lot of cheers and thanks?

-- Dreaming. When these rules were first announced, they caused an uproar in the Qiongzhou region -- not in favor of them, but in opposition to them. Almost everyone said that the short-haired army was extorting money and raising the imperial court's taxes in a big way! What is the "375 rent reduction", which is obviously an endowment!

Why do you say this -- if we only look at the proportion of publicly available figures, the proportion of taxes collected by the Qiong navy: 12.5 percent, one-eighth is indeed much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty itself -- the fiscal and taxation system of the Ming Dynasty was basically a mess in the later period, and even the most detailed academic papers of later generations could not come up with a relatively clear conclusion.

However, nominally, the taxes collected by the Ming court have always been collected in strict accordance with the "ancestral system", that is, the rules left by the Zhu Yuanzhang era: only ten taxes or even lower. Later, it was reduced and reduced many times, and many places have not even paid taxes for many years.

Of course, in fact, this low tax rate is only nominal, and various items were quickly added: what is the promotion, the addition, the three salaries...... As well as the local yellow list and white list, drenching the tip of the kick, silver and two fire consumption, etc., emerge in endlessly.

The new rules of the Qiong Navy have exempted all of these, but those big landlords can pretend not to see it, and insist that the short-haired tax has been raised! And it was a large group of people shouting together, and it was huge for a while.

If it is in the Jiangnan area, if there is such a trouble, maybe a people can really come out, and even if the suppression continues, maybe there will be literati who write an article such as "The Tombstone of the Six People" to commemorate it. Later, it was included in middle school textbooks and memorized by countless students before the exam......

-- It's a pity that these landlords have made two mistakes: First, this is not Jiangnan, there are not so many scholars, and there is no market for the "Shilin Qingyi" here. Hainan Island has indeed become rich in recent years, but most of the rich are the merchant class, and most of them have a relationship with the short hair to get rich, and they will definitely not go against the short hair.

Second, and most importantly, the regime they are fighting against is formed by a group of modern people, not the stupid Ming Dynasty, whose basic governing ability is gradually declining.

As the actual controller of Qiongzhou Mansion, Zhao Lide is well aware of the importance of controlling the position of public opinion. In fact, at the same time as the new regulations were announced, he developed a series of follow-up publicity plans. Newspapers, theater troupes, teahouse storytellers...... and Pang Yu and others tried out the good "Wumao Party" in Shandong, and even the small merchants who went to the countryside to buy groceries were found by him for publicity.

No matter how loud the big ones shout, they can't stand up to the government departments that have a formal mode of action and special publicity funds. If it is an ordinary outsider who has no foundation, those landlords naturally have various ways to make those propagandists unable to stay, or simply "disappear". Light and dark, soft and hard...... It's been played like this for many years.

But on Hainan Island today, they really don't have the courage -- "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", Shorthair has always been openly propagated, and for those forces who dare to openly use violent means to oppose them, Shorthair has never been afraid to suppress them by force. It's just that they are very smart, and every time they will find sufficient reasons before dealing with anyone, occupy the full righteousness, and separate them from other people in the same class, so as not to cause resonance similar to "rabbits die and foxes are sad", in short, they will minimize the impact surface as much as possible, and then they will do it.

Not to mention the fact that the shorthairs have the status of a legitimate government on Hainan Island, coupled with the propaganda and action methods that are hundreds of years ahead, and most importantly, they are indeed the party that holds "justice" - even according to the moral standards of this era, reducing the burden on the peasants is a very great virtue. Those big landlords who want to stop this kind of thing are congenitally on the opposite side of public opinion.

After the first few big families who dared to defy the law ended up in ruins, no one on Hainan Island dared to play with shorthair anymore. If the hard ones don't work, the soft ones will come -- those big ones have adopted the method of "passive resistance" again: we will not engage in confrontation with you, but we will not cooperate with any demands, and we will live by ourselves behind closed doors, as if you do not exist.