"Okay, so we're going to move on to the next step, and I think we can try to change the current tax base." Jingwen said.

"Changing the tax base? Does this make any sense? Ma Zhou asked.

Jingwen explained: "Originally, the tax base of our Datang was based on the rent adjustment. The rent adjustment is based on the number of people, that is, everyone is born and has to pay agricultural taxes once they reach adulthood. In other words, every citizen has to pay agricultural taxes, and this tax system is calculated on a per capita basis. The problem is that no matter if everyone has more land or less land, they all pay the same tax. If the people don't have land in the future, how can they afford it? I also told the emperor that the development of Jiangnan is the reason for the long-term stability of my Tang Dynasty. And my Datang's Juntian system, I'm afraid it won't last long! Therefore, it is necessary to change the current tax base, and not to use people as the basis of taxation. I think it's better to base our taxes on the land. ”

The Tang Dynasty practiced a system of equal land, so theoretically every citizen was born with land that could be granted by the state. But the land is constant, and the population is constantly increasing. In a few years, the population recovered, and the land became less and less. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty also had a more pitiful thing about not suppressing land annexation, which would also cause land to be more and more concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. And in the end, the people have no land to obtain, so they will naturally not be able to bear the taxes.

However, the rent adjustment in the Tang Dynasty was based on the people, that is, whether you had land or not, you had to pay taxes, which was the obligation of the people. And this method, in the early years of the founding of the country, the population was small, and almost every common person was able to obtain land, so of course everyone could afford it. In case decades have passed. Land annexation became more and more strict, and in the end, the landless people could not afford the tax system in which the unit of measurement was per person, so they would also flee from the tax. Even, in the end, it was revealed.

Now Jiangnan has been developed, but the development of Jiangnan also requires a large population. However, this is a long-term process, and without the population, the development of Jiangnan will not be able to be carried out for a long time. As for the next, it is necessary to mobilize the people to go to Jiangnan to beg for a living, but this process is also very difficult. After all, the Chinese people are inseparable from their homeland, and this is also an important question. And now the people can still live well in the flower world of the Central Plains. Why do you have to go to live in that poor country in the south of the Yangtze River? Jiangnan in this era is not the Jiangnan that has been developed into a land of fish and rice in later generations, and when you get to that place, you have to start all over again, and there are almost no supporting facilities. That's a headache!

Therefore, Jingwen must find a way to let the people pass, and the best way is to "persecute". If you don't use real life to persecute them, the people won't think about the past at all. And Jingwen doesn't necessarily think that land is not good, it depends on how you think about governance. If the ruling mindset only wants to steal peace, then of course it is better to curb land annexation. But if the land is annexed and used well. That can completely turn the pressure of domestic land annexation into a driving force for opening up territory to the outside world. The Chinese people are like this, as long as there is a bite to eat, they will not rebel lightly. And the ancient Chinese emperors and ministers for one reason or another. This kind of pressure will not be vented to the outside world.

If the ancient Chinese emperor could be good at guiding the people when the domestic land annexation was at its strongest, let the people strive for foreign development, and let the army expand the territory and even colonize. In this way, China can use the pressure of land annexation to expand its territory. However, there is a class of cheating fathers in China, that is, the class of literati and doctors. They were opposed to foreign conquest and expanded their territory. Because this will increase the power of the five generals. Therefore, they would rather absorb the pressure of these land annexations internally than expand their territory externally. In the end, the pressure of land annexation was increasing, and it could only force the people to rebel. However, if the people can be guided to open up the outside world at the time of land annexation, then I am afraid that this pressure will not be on the rulers themselves, but on foreign countries.

After all, Chinese peasants will not hesitate to pay a price for the sake of land. Even, let them go to the hardest. If the rulers of the time could take advantage of this and let these poor people who had only one life left to expand their territory, it would probably have worked wonders. And they are probably the bravest of all, because they can fight for the land. This is the principle of translating internal pressure to foreign countries, but the emperor officials in ancient China just couldn't learn it, and this has to be said to be a tragedy. If the ancient emperors and officials could use this method, it would not necessarily be impossible for the country to maintain peace and stability for a long time and change the results of chaos and order.

"Ma Zhou, what I meant just now is already obvious, that is, to count the population of this Mengjin County, and then change the taxes of these people. That is, the taxes that the population needs to pay are evenly distributed to the land of Mengjin County. That is, the tax to be paid by the population is divided by the number of acres of land, so that the number to be paid per mu of land is obtained. Jingwen said.

But Ma Zhou saw this plan for a while, and then said, "Is it interesting to do this?" Isn't it interesting that this doesn't seem to increase our taxes or reduce the burden on the people? Isn't it a bit of a pants off...... Well, I don't want to say it, that's what I mean anyway. ”

"Do you think I take my pants off and fart? It's not that simple. Jingwen said.

Jingwen's policy, in fact, seems to be useless at all, it cannot increase taxes for the government, and it cannot reduce the burden on the people. Because now the vast majority of the people are people who own land, and their land is basically the same. So, even if the taxes paid by the entire population were spread evenly over the land, the result would be the same. And the taxes received by the government are all the same amount, which is not interesting. And the people do not seem to have lightened their burdens, because the taxes they have to pay are the same, and they have not been reduced.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Ma Zhou also said that this policy is a bit of a fart to take off his pants - a suspicion of doing more. However, Jingwen knew that this policy had far-reaching significance. (To be continued......)