Chapter 400: The Secret Legend of Taizu
Julia didn't quite understand the explanation given by Wei Feng, and she understood the people of the Ceris Kingdom as Roman citizens.
Rome seems to be a vast territory, but before Constantine established the new city of Rome, the actual ruling center was only located in the Apennine Peninsula, and the rest of the country was in the form of colonies, and Roman citizens only accounted for a small part of the population, they were the ruling class, and they naturally enjoyed political power and personal freedom, how could they rebel against the Roman government? And Middle-earth is all over the world, it is not the land of the king, the shore of the land, and the prince's ministers, which is very different from the form of Roman colonial rule in essence!
Bathed in the traditional civilization of the West and the light of God, Julia naturally couldn't understand the form of political power in Middle-earth, and just as she frowned and thought secretly, Wei Feng had already beckoned backwards: "Go ahead with Ben and say two words!" ”
The three hundred horsemen grabbed their horses' bellies and galloped towards the front of the formation, and Julia stopped thinking about it for the time being, and followed closely.
After the reins of the horse were reined, Wei Feng called loudly: "Listen to the soldiers on the other side, this general is Wei Feng, the assassin of Guangzhou, and the military of Guangzhou and Erzhou will be supervised by the Son of Heaven.
But God has the virtue of a good life, the court has a compassionate heart, this will put down the rebellion, only the head of the evil is not enough, the rest of the people who have surrendered, can go to slavery and move to the beloved, by the court on behalf of the court according to the adult male and female each fifty acres of land, tax fifteen tax one, no tax according to the capitation, no payment of any donations, the year of service does not exceed ten days, away from home not more than 100 miles, if there is a service beyond the time limit. Adopt the recruitment method, take the principle of voluntariness, and pay daily at the average price of short-term workers in Panyu!
The rest of the principals, if they sincerely repent, they can also forgive their sins after the assessment, the opportunity is rare, and I hope you will not make mistakes again and again, as for the slang side, please relax, there will be another solution! ”
As Wei Feng's words fell. There was a buzz from the other side. Come to think of it, the conditions offered by Wei Feng are too generous, fifteen taxes and one, I can't even think about it!
Since the fifth year of Emperor Xianhe (324 AD). Emperor Cheng began to pay for the people's fields. Take a tithe. The rate of tax per mu is three liters, but this is not implemented alone, but in addition to the rent collection by ding. The additional additional tax on rice per mu is about four stones per hectare in normal years, and eight liters per mu from another perspective.
The tax system has been used until the first year of Taiyuan (376 AD), in between, the imperial court is burdensome, Wu will be particularly prosperous, since the rise of the army, conscription and transport of death and rebellion do not return, waste to this, and the replacement of the usual place, where the withering, do not know what to come out of!
Xie An in the second year of Taiyuan in view of this, to record the six things of the book of the abolition of the field to collect rent, the prince under the mouth tax three Hu, only the body of the servant, roughly equivalent to the tax reduced to six liters of tax per mu, called the average flat tax, for a while, the people are happy, the valley is Yinfu, almost the family is enough, Wang Fuzhi (has nothing to do with Langya Wang, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty physicists) once praised and said: An dominates the world, thinks deeply and exhausts, and the body of the world is based on the people's system.
And Wei Feng set the fifteen tax one, Zhongtian normal years per mu of rice one stone and six buckets, because it is wet rice must also be removed, the grain rate at that time is about 40% to 45%, in fact, each mu of rice harvest is about seven buckets, the average tax is four and a half liters per mu, than Xie An's average flat tax has been greatly reduced, the key to this is that Wei Feng levies not a mouth tax, but a tax according to output, the so-called mouth tax, that is, people have to pay taxes, and those who are unable to work and the old and young can not run, this measure is very unfair, It is beneficial to the high-class good people or powerful landlords who have few people in the land, and as for the ordinary people with few people in the land, if there is another sick number in the family, it is better to hang themselves and die and pull them down!
In addition, there is also a very important point, that is, Wei Feng does not levy harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, you know, China's Zhengtian tax since ancient times will not make most people unable to live, the Han Dynasty even once reduced to thirty taxes, but the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are as many as cattle hair, at that time the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes include mouth money, service pension money, Tangding tax, salt and wine tax, the tax levied on business travel, the city tax and the assessment tax, the miscellaneous supplies needed by the local government, the welcome money for the arrival and departure of the magistrate, the people's fishing, the fish tax and the tax on mountains, forests and rivers, etc., are different in different regions. There are hundreds of names.
What's more, the expropriation of rent is collected by household according to the rating of qualifications, the most direct problem of this expropriation is that you can falsely calculate the property of the beloved, improve the level of the beloved's family, in order to collect as much as possible. Another so-called: the mulberry is one foot long, the price is surrounded, the field is one acre, the degree is money, the house is not tiled, and the responsibility is real, so that the people dare not plant trees, dare not reclaim the soil, and dare not add mud to cover the tiles when the house is dilapidated and leaking.
In addition, with regard to conscription, the court stipulated that men between the ages of 16 and 60 were considered to be full-time service, and those under the age of 12 and over 66 were old and young, and they could be exempted from military service, and those who were sandwiched in the middle could serve for half service, which was harsh enough, and not many scholars lived to be 60 years old, let alone middle- and lower-class people, but in fact the execution was even more harsh, and some county sergeants were still serving at the age of nearly eighty, and some were already serving at the age of seven.
This is the age of conscription, and the burden of conscription is also particular, and its Ding male, each year of conscription is only 20 days, and he leads 18 people to carry out a transportation of Ding service, which is two types of conscription, a total of 40 days, the first is to repair weirs, build houses, dig trenches, build cities and other temporary miscellaneous labor, and the second is specifically refers to transportation service, including transporting rented rice to prefectures and counties and Beijing divisions, or transporting grain in wartime.
The grain transportation in wartime is the most fatal, it cannot be exactly twenty days, a battle may be ten days and half a month, or it may be several months, and the people who are requisitioned and transferred with the army's grain transportation are not likely to be removed in the middle of the war, just like the battle of Weishui, the conscription of the court reached more than 100,000 people, and the number of levies levied by Shi Huanchong, the assassin of Jingzhou at that time, will not be less than that of the court, although the number of service in a year is more than 20 days, and the surplus can be used to offset the future service, but it is almost impossible in the implementation, there are many names of service, there are dozens of articles, how to offset it?
In the case of conscription, the court adopted the three-five levy system, that is, half of the even number, one of the three dings, two of the five draws, at most three draws of two, five draws of three, but in case of emergency, it is often the end of the household or empty households to serve, when the men are not enough, women will also be conscripted to serve.
What is particularly outrageous is that when people die in labor or military households die in battle, they are often tainted with the crime of defecting or joining the enemy, so that there is no need to pay family pensions, and secondly, the local government can be notified to go to the deceased's house in the name of pursuing the rebellion to arrest the strong man and make up for the substitute, as a result, the family of the deceased is forced to flee with their families, so they take the people of the same clan, and then the same clan escapes, then take the neighbors, and the neighbors flee, then they will be arrested when they see the villagers, and finally one person will commit a crime, and the village will be empty!
Therefore, at that time, the life of the middle and lower class was not as good as that of the tenants, although most of the output of the tenants had to be handed over to the master's family, but the officials, state guests, the descendants of the sages, the descendants of the scholars and the guests under the shade, as well as the military honors, those who paid for the service, monks, nuns, and Taoists were all exempted from the army!
This is also the original Wei Feng's reliance in Shanyin to force his lover to join the army in the name of forced conscription, and serving is equivalent to death!
The buzz in the opposite military formation is getting louder and louder, and the arrows on the archers are unconsciously slowly drooping, originally the tenants were unwilling to be good people, but as soon as Wei Feng's new rules came out, the benefits of being good people immediately emerged, except for the fifteen taxes and one, the others are their own, and the conscription is only ten days a year, who wants to be a tenant again? As long as you abandon the darkness and surrender to the court, a bright future is already in front of you.
Miss Chen reminded with a hint of worry: "General, the concubine understands that you are kind, and it is indeed beneficial to your beloved, but is it too hasty?" ”
Wei Feng waved his hand and said: "Although the three Wu have dealt a heavy blow to the scholars because of Sun En's countermeasures, they have not been completely destroyed, the scholars still have a fairly strong influence, I will inevitably have great obstacles in the three Wu lines, and Guangzhou is different, because the three Wu have been occupied by the scholars, the Shu people have to continue to move south, so the strength of the scholars in Guangzhou is extremely weak, I am in Guangzhou to make light and thin endowments, there may be resistance, but I am only targeting the Shu people, not against the scholars, not to mention the pacification of the dock fort and the power of the slang people, Who else dares to mess around? ”
Miss Chen thought about it, nodded, but asked again: "Where do you put Wang Xie by doing this?" ”
Wei Feng said lightly: "Wang Xie is kind to me, I won't ask them to do anything, but they can understand what I want to do, I hope that in the future, Wang Xie can make the right choice and set an example for the people of the world!" ”
As soon as Wei Feng's words fell, a scream suddenly came from the opposite array: "The surname Wei, it turns out that you are the one who rebelled, you risked the world to buy people's hearts, isn't it a rebellion?" Don't listen to his nonsense, following him is a great crime of rebellion, and you want to raid your family and destroy your family! ”
It turned out that although no one in the army had gone to Wei Feng for the time being, it didn't mean that they didn't want to, but there was a lack of leaders, if someone took the lead, the whole army of 20,000 people would collapse immediately, and the army's heart was already on the verge of getting out of control.
But this voice didn't play a big role, but the buzzing became louder and louder, and the general shouted loudly: "The whole army listens to the order, whoever takes off the head of Nawei will be given a thousand gold, and in the future, he can also show the court Gao Liang Taishou!" ”
Wei Feng then turned his gaze over, and it was a general in his thirties who shouted, about two hundred paces away, so he stretched out his hand and made a move, and a soldier knowingly handed over a divine arm crossbow.
Wei Feng picked up the crossbow and aimed at it, perhaps because he was far away, the general didn't dodge, and there was a hint of mockery on his face, as if to say, come and shoot!
"Tension~~" with a soft sound, Wei Feng pulled the trigger, and a black light shot out, and before the bowstring vibrated dissipated, he heard a terrible scream from the opposite side, and the arrow hit the general's nose, and the eight-inch iron arrow did not enter the face six inches! (To be continued......)
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