From mid-to-late March to early April, the substantive content of the government's administration was gradually unveiled with the promulgation of one after another decrees of the Chongguo Prefecture and the Privy Council to Jiangning, to the Jianghuai region, and to Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces, which were under Jiangning's direct control......

In addition to Song Fu, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi, Liu Shidu, Chen Huazhang and other Privy Council ministers, Lin Xuwen, Hu Wenmu, Fu Qinghe, Liu Zhi, Huang Jinnian, Hu Zhiyong, Ye Junan, Zhang Han, Liang Wenzhan, Li Wei, Lin Jingzhong and nine others all received the title of Governor; In addition, Zhou Guangnan, the manager of Huaidong Qianzhuang, Zhou Guangdong, the manager of Heishui Foreign Ship, Wang Chengfu, the manager of Colonial Yinzhuang, and the manager of Nanyang Shipping Society, all added the title of Governor of the State Council, that is, the Minister of Governor of the 21st Counsellor of the State Government.

In addition to Qin Chengzu, Gao Zongting, Sun Jingtang, Yang Yihang of the Military Staff Department, Zhou Pu and Zhao Hu of the Forbidden Camp Army, Ge Cunxiong of the Jingjiang Navy Division, and Cao Ziang of the Army High Command School, the commanders of all the camps, the commanders of the armies and the cavalry towns and divisions were all given the rank of counselor, that is, the military minister of the 17th Counselor of the Guogong Mansion.

In addition, there is a public council to enable the senators to attend the proceedings as observers. In addition to the 22 people who participated in the military and political affairs in Jiangning, 11 people were selected from the Lin clan, the Privy Council, the Military Staff Department and the newly established Chongxue Museum, a total of 33 people were added to the rank of senator to form a public council to decide on the new policy and new system.

The public council was placed under the national government, above the military staff and the privy council, and Lin Tingli resigned from the official positions of the left deputy capital and imperial history, and was in charge of the affairs of the public council.

Under the Guogong Mansion, there is a Chongxue Museum, Lin Lian and Jiang Yue, Ge Siyu, and Song Shixian lead the Chongxue Hall scholars, and Sun Dalu, Wu Jiye and other 24 people are the bachelors of the Chongxue Museum.

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The new government policy is gradually coming out, and it has naturally aroused a lot of discussion in Jiangning City, and it is becoming more and more difficult to stir people's hearts in the summer season in April.

The feudal building changed several owners, and after Xie Chaozhong's soldiers were defeated and killed, they finally returned to the hands of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion.

It's just that the Yongchang Marquis Mansion is also a few years of rise and fall, and the old Marquis Yuan returned to politics in Henan, which is the last territory controlled by the imperial party; Yuan Jinqiu, who had a bad relationship with his father for many years, attacked the title, and in the past few years, he has done nothing else, but has concentrated on running the feudal building, making the feudal mansion prosper again in Jiangning City.

Zhao Shuhan and Zhang Yubo climbed the stairs and listened to the scholars in the front hall talking loudly: "Who is Jiang Yue?" The nephew of the former Prime Minister Chen Xinbo, who entered the Shike in high school in the year of the weak crown, joined the Si Tianjian to supervise the construction of the armillary sphere and innovate the calendar, and was the first person in astronomy in this dynasty. Who is Ge Siyu? The son of Ge Fu, the grandfather of the craftsman, joined the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, supervised the construction of the seawall and the astrological art to make the ship sail to the sea. These two people have to be listed as scholars of Chongxueguan, and we are convinced, but this Song Shixian is not well-known, how can he be listed with Jiang and Yue? ”

Zhao Shuhan and Zhang Yubo glanced at each other, but they didn't expect that the people in this hall would argue about the name of the scholar of Chongxue Hall, slow down, and continue to listen.

“…… If you want to say that there is anyone else who can be in the same column as Jiang and Yue, except for Zhao Shuhan, there is no one else," someone else spoke in the hall, "I think Zhao Shuhan has been teaching in Hekou Zhutang for ten years to solve doubts, without his merit, how can miscellaneous studies flourish in Jiangning?" Without his work, how can a craftsman's book be compiled? Only the compilation of the craftsman's code and ten years of work, he has to be listed with Jiang and Yue, do you say that the Guogong Mansion has done this unfairly. ”

When Zhao Shuhan heard this, his heart was mixed, and he had the taste of turning the river and the sea upside down.

Song Shixian's name is unknown, but Lin Jian listed him with Jiang Yue and Ge Siyu, and Zhao Shuhan naturally knew about him. Speaking of which, in his early years, he was also a depressed official of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.

As far as Zhao Shuhan knew, Song Shixian was proficient in the Taixi Studies, and secondly, he was valued by Lin Jian because he established the refining method from the alchemy handed down by the previous dynasty. It is rumored that the large-scale use of green dyeing in Huaidong weaving and dyeing and the light fire oil for the burning of glass lamps are all his contributions.

Of course, Song Shixian may have other merits, but they are all military secrets that the Privy Council and the Military Department strictly prohibit leaking to the outside world, and they are not something that Zhao Shuhan can know.

At the beginning of the rumors that Lin Jian would set up the Chongxue Museum, Zhao Shuhan thought that Lin Jian would invite him into the museum, and he also silently thought about several words of refusal in his heart, how could he have thought about his departure with Zhang Yubo, Lin Jian did not have the intention of retaining it in the end, and the establishment of the Chongxue Hall under the Guogong Mansion had nothing to do with him at all - it was Zhao Shuhan's firm wish to have nothing to do with the Chongguo Mansion years ago, but it was really forgotten in the corner, and he couldn't help but feel lost.

After more than 20 years of ups and downs, he couldn't get out of the utilitarian heart, and Zhao Shuhan suddenly felt sad, pitiful and sad.

"I'm thinking about Brother Yu and Brother Shu Han coming over!" Yuan Jinqiu watched Zhao Shuhan and Zhang Yubo climb the stairs, saluted, and smiled and invited the two of them to go upstairs into the elegant room to drink tea, which was staggered from the outer hall, but would not make the gentry who were talking about it embarrassed each other when they saw them.

Yuan Jinqiu is also an embarrassing figure, he is incompatible with the imperial party, and even had a very antagonistic relationship with his father and brother in his early years, but he is the son of Yuan Guizheng, a lonely minister of the imperial family. Those old ministers of Yuanyue and Jiangning who were watching the situation had no way to integrate into the government for a while, but they didn't want to have anything to do with the imperial party, even if they came to the mansion for a banquet, they didn't want to have more contact with him, the Marquis of Yongchang.

Zhang Yubo and Zhao Shuhan resigned from their official positions, and they were idle in Jiangning, but they could only get together with Yuan Jinqiu.

The Mansion was one of the 24 places designated by the Xuanzheng Department to sell the Xuanzheng Mansion Newspaper in Jiangning, and in addition to the posting of the poster, the Xuanzheng Mansion Newspaper was one of the limited ways in which the people of the market and the gentry could understand the current situation.

Every time a new issue of the Xuanzheng Mansion newspaper is released, the feudal building will become a place for the gentry to discuss, and the Xuanzheng Division can't help it.

"At the beginning of the rumor, the government was going to promote a new policy, and when there were many people talking about it, it would breed right and wrong; But looking at these new policies, the situation of the government ruling the world and the military and government cannot be changed, right? Yuan Jinqiu waited for Zhao Shuhan and Zhang Yubo to come over for a small gathering, the new tea had already been brewed, and the pot was filled for the two of them, "But three days ago, the Privy Council's new order to reduce and reduce the amount of land by the acres and the number of acres per field may cause some right and wrong?" ”

Zhang Yubo sighed lightly and said: "The government has issued a lot of policies that violate the old system and innovate, which is indeed against the concept of the times; However, the power of the world is nothing more than two things: wealth and military equipment, and only with military equipment can financial rights be protected. When Lin Jian first entered Jiangning, he would see these two things more thoroughly than anyone else. With these two, the imperial system can be changed, but the old system and patriarchal law cannot be changed? It is a good law to spread the land into the mu and implement the tax difference method per mu, and if it is done in the old days, it may cause big disputes; But if you want to cause strife at this time, it's difficult! ”

The method of apportioning the tax into the mu and the tax difference per mu is a new tax policy that Lin Jian has implemented in a unified manner after the establishment of the Department of Taxation under the Privy Council.

The core of the new tax policy is to spread the current land tax, tax and various capitation assessments borne by the households into the acres of land for accounting and then carry out unified reduction and exemption.

After the household owns less than 40 mu of land, the amount of land tax paid by the household will be reduced to the level before the Qingyu year, which can reduce about two-thirds of the burden compared to this time.

The number of acres owned by households is between 40 and 300 mu, and the amount of land tax paid by the apportionment is reduced to the level before Chongguan eight years ago, which can reduce about half of the burden compared to this time.

If the household owns more than 300 mu of land, the three additional levies since the beginning of Yongxing will be subtracted after the apportionment into the mu, and about a quarter of the burden will be reduced.

However, from then on, no matter the ministers and nobles, the peddlers, the pawns, and the scholars and Confucian scholars, all of them were divided into the mu, and the land tax and the municipal commercial tax were levied according to the law, and they all had the obligation to be conscripted into the army for military service, and all the previous privileges of exempt service were abolished.

After the land is apportioned into the mu, the national field tax will form a three-level tax difference, the lowest per mu tax will be 20 draws 1, the highest will be 10 draws, the difference is doubled.

In the Privy Council Order, Lin Jian also drafted a proclamation to the world: "When the captives invade, the poor are displaced, and the rich are even more miserable and miserable, so everyone thinks about governance, establishes officials, and sets up an army to protect the country; However, the poor do not think about what they gain and lose little, and those who go in and out of the battlefield to fight and spill their blood do not know how many, how can they see a few rich people on the battlefield? Therefore, this time the tax policy is adjusted, the poor are exempted from more, and the rich are exempted from less! ”

Based on this, Lin Jian made a final decision and established a system of apportioning the land to the land and the tax difference between the acres of land, so that those who have no land will not be taxed, those who have less land will be taxed, and those who have more acres will be taxed.

The highest ten-out tax is also the result of the intensification of the war in the later period of Chongguan and the frequent tax increases, in any case, this time it can also reduce the three additional taxes since Emperor Yongxing ascended the throne. Those large landowners who own more than 300 acres of land can only complain about Emperor Chongguan, but they can't complain that the Privy Council doesn't give them a reduction at this time.

Of course, Zhao Shuhan, Zhang Yubo, and Yuan Jinqiu were all proficient in political affairs, so it was natural to see at a glance that the new tax policy was intended to curb land annexation, and the impact was even more obvious that the new tax policy would completely abolish all the tax-exempt privileges of the clan, nobles, and gentry.

Of course, in the past, the landlords were able to spread the new taxes to the tenants, and the nobles and gentry of the clan openly concealed the acres of land and the households to evade tax service, but this time, Lin Jian used Li Shuyi to take the tax administration department to thoroughly investigate the acres of land and households in the world.

In the early stage of the Battle of Jingxiang, Lin Jian invited the world's soldiers to join the army, and a total of 3,000 soldiers joined the army. After the battle of Jingxiang, these 3,000 scholars were trained in the Agricultural Administration School, and successively added to the two Zhejiang, Eastern Fujian, Jianghuai, Jinghu, Xianghu, Jiangxi and other places as officials, but after the training, nearly half of the scholars will be directly assigned to the newly established Department of Taxation and Administration, and participate in the large-scale inventory of acres and households.

Although the complete abolition of privileges such as tax exemption was a blow to the entire gentry class, the fact that the Privy Council hired 3,000 scholars this time, and their ability to make up for the officials, was in itself a kind of compensation. Moreover, these scholars who threw their pen into Rong were either enthusiastic young people who were bent on saving the dead, or they were scholars who lived in hardship and had an urgent desire to make up for the officials, so they supported the new tax policy more than resisted.

In Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Ehu and other places, not counting the clans and nobles, only the group of scholars who are famous and famous was as high as 70,000 or 80,000 before the war. If the world is peaceful, the implementation of such a subversive new tax policy will inevitably be met with crazy opposition and resistance, but the Privy Council decree issued three days ago, except for the price of Jiangning Tian rose by more than one-third, this Jiangning City did not cause much turmoil.

"People's minds are governed, the old story of Jiangning City's destruction and death has not passed for two years, who wants to experience the destruction of the city and the death of people again?" Zhao Shuhan sighed lightly, people's minds are governed by one thing, and he knows that Jiangning City has destroyed Jiangning's traditional gentry forces extremely badly, and then look far away, how many places in the world have not experienced war and have not been destroyed?

If there are opposing voices, in addition to Huaidong, the imperial party and those old ministers who are waiting and afraid to purge Huaidong, how many people dare to stand up and test Huaidong's knife edge at this time?

Before the new policy was frequently introduced, Lin Jian strangled more than 400 war criminals at Nanchengkou at one time, and handed over the corpses to the medical hall for autopsy in place of Ling Chi's punishment - the scene of more than 400 war criminals strangled together is still quite shocking, who knows if Lin Jian will use this method on opponents?

If there is any opposition, it can only be within Huaidong. At present, there are conditions and capabilities to annex land on a large scale, but the Huaidong people, once Lin Jian abolishes the Yuan Yue and establishes a dynasty, the Lin family and Huaidong generals will definitely become the new royal family and the noble group - the new tax policy implemented by Lin Jian is to prohibit land sales and at the same time, forcefully suppress land annexation for the purpose of food and rent profits, and abolish the economic privileges that the Lin family and Huaidong generals can enjoy as royal family and Xungui group in the future.

Why is there no opposition within Huaidong?

If you look at the heads of the Colonists Yinzhuang, Huaidong Qianzhuang, Nanyang Shipping Society, and Heishui Foreign Shipping Society, and Song Fu, Lin Mengde, Lin Xuwen and other important ministers of Huaidong are listed as the Governors of the Guogong Mansion, and after the Battle of Jingxiang, Lin Jian handed over 80,000 of the 140,000 prisoners of war directly to the Nanyang Shipping Society and the Heishui Foreign Shipping Society to be exiled overseas to be punished with hard labor. It is the real interests of the people of Huaidong.

The land owned by the Lin family has long been converted into the principal of money estates, ship yards and many new factories; The Song family attached Huaidong, and even discounted millions of acres of land to four million taels of silver into the money village, and the same was true of Chen Huazhang Chen, who led the Xuanzheng Division at this time; Forces like Hu Wenmu and Zhang Han who were attached to Huaidong must also be dealt with in accordance with this example and given a certain amount of compensation......

Yuan Jinqiu thought that the new deal would cause some disputes, but he didn't see Huaidong thoroughly enough. Zhao Shuhan and Zhang Yubo's relationship with Huaidong has been cold and indifferent over the years, and they are probably the people who know the Zhundong system best except for the Huaidong people.

The new system of apportioning the land into the mu, the tax difference per acre, and the privilege of exempting the elite from tax service was actually a step for the people of Huaidong to prevent the Huaidong people from going back to the old road. This step cannot even be delayed until the Northern Expedition is successful and the new dynasty is established.