Chapter 145: Li Fengniang, the Empress of the Southern Song Dynasty (23)
On the third day after the completion of the agrarian reform, Qiao Mu immediately issued a decree to the whole country, announcing the abolition of all agricultural taxes in the world, the abolition of all human taxes and all other excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and the collection of only commercial taxes, customs duties and personal income taxes.
[Fengtian carrier, the Holy Emperor said:
Since then, all exorbitant taxes such as agricultural tax and per capita tax have been abolished, and all labor has been banned, and in the future, government construction must be paid according to normal hired labor, and at the same time, all forced conscription systems have been abolished, and conscription has been changed to voluntary ......]
The content is very long, but in a nutshell, it is one point, that is, all the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, including forced labor, should be abolished, and at the same time, some necessary taxes should be mixed into the commercial tax, and no longer directly taxed people, so as to not only reduce the labor of the government, but also prevent some tax-collecting officials from oppressing the people through various small means, or collecting more taxes.
In fact, if all the taxes in ancient times were collected according to the rules and regulations, not much for a penny, not a lot for a penny, then most of the people could actually afford it, however, the fact is that many officials collected not in accordance with the rules, and those who should collect one point can collect two points, plus messy things such as fire consumption, he can collect two or three pennies when he should only collect one penny, and it is strange that the people are not poor.
The same is true of conscription.
They are all channels to make money below, ordinary people don't want to go to have to pay money, if you don't have money to dredge something, maybe you will be arranged in the most bitter and tiring, the most easy to die work area.
This is also the main reason why there are many casualties in labor every year, some of which may not be exhausting at all, but deliberately killed by people.
These situations cannot be completely solved in a short period of time, so what should I do, then cancel it directly, cancel it, and the officials below will naturally have no way to continue to oppress the people through various means, after all, they will not be conscripted, nor will they be conscripted, and they will naturally not be able to ask for money through this.
As soon as this move came out, the world was solidified.
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Lingnan Liaocheng
After the announcement was posted, all the onlookers were boiling, and everyone was in disbelief around the document that the county government was responsible for reading the announcement, and kept asking about the content.
"Oh my God, is this true?"
"It must be true, this is posted by the county government, how can it be fake."
"The Holy Emperor is merciful!"
"The Holy Emperor Niangniang is really better than the Bodhisattva, not only to help us people to be the masters, but also to give us land, and now even exempt so many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, hey, no, according to the way the Niangniang's will is written, wouldn't we not have to pay taxes in the future, this is really something that the Three Emperors have never done!"
"Isn't it written in the will, all personal monthly income of less than one tael is exempt from tax, and only those with a monthly income of more than one tael need to pay tax."
"What you are saying, if I can earn more than one or two silver a month, then I will be happy even if I pay taxes, I only have three dollars a month now!"
Of course, in addition to the praise one by one, there were some people who cried loudly at that time, crying that the Holy Emperor Niangniang had not ascended the throne a few years earlier, if Niangniang had ascended the throne a few years earlier, wouldn't their sons and grandsons have died without hard labor, and the grandchildren and daughters born in the family do not have to drown in order to save the little human tax to be paid in the future!
But in any case, everyone's centripetal force was instantly condensed because of this holy decree, and at this time, if anyone dared to say bad things about Qiao Mu, they didn't need the government to do anything, just the masses of the people could drown him with a mouthful of spit, and even drown his family.
The cult of personality is almost at its peak.
At this point, the person has been formed.
As the old saying goes, the time and place are favorable, in fact, the time and place are still secondary, and people are the most critical, unless there is a meteorite from the sky, a flood that has not been encountered in a thousand years, and other large-scale disasters that are unfavorable to the sky and the earth from time to time, otherwise the general disaster is simply fearless under the power of people and people.
This is the power of the masses of the people.
As soon as the people were formed, Qiao Mu began to carry out the next step, such as showing all his hidden industries in the open, using the money obtained from the robbery to start the initial national literacy education and the construction of new schools, and at the same time carrying out large-scale popularization of improved varieties and the construction of a new army.
Because these measures have been prepared for the first ten years, there is no shortage of popularization personnel, but it takes a certain amount of time to promote, and the most important thing for arbor at present is to continue to maintain a relatively peaceful international environment, and wait for the domestic reform to be fully completed, and the end of a year or two, after the entire Great Song Dynasty national strength has a qualitative improvement, it is the time to sweep the world and regain the lost territory, rather than now while busy with domestic reform, while insisting on foreign war.
Because of this, Qiao Mu did not stop giving the Jin Dynasty coins for the time being, but still gave enough according to the prescribed amount as always, anyway, this is just a buffer period, as short as three years, as long as five years, and then it will definitely be taken back, so there is no need to care about these, the gains and losses of a moment are only secondary, and the gains and losses of a lifetime are the most critical, because the Jin Dynasty was restrained by Mongolia and Western Xia, plus they also think that an empress does not matter at all, maybe they will finish playing with themselves, Therefore, he did not take the opportunity to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, nor did he ask for an increase in the New Year's coin, everything was still the same, neither increasing nor decreasing.
This undoubtedly gave Qiao Mu time to develop and strengthen the new army, in the case of the concerted efforts of the whole country, it took only five years for Qiao Mu to equip a whole million new army, all of which are able to use firearms, and the new army equipped with firearms, the total economic output of the country has increased more than nine times in five years, with the support of the state, it is really a whole kind of things that have been produced to be dumped overseas and other countries around it, and it is strange that the total economic output of the whole country is not crazy to rise.
There is money, someone has weapons.
Naturally, you can fight back.
In the spring of the sixth year of Emperor Wa, after the spring ploughing, Qiao Mu officially carried out a national mobilization, ordered the crown prince to supervise the country, and personally led a million troops to the expedition.
The army passed, and it was unstoppable.
Because this is completely millennium technology crushing.
During the Song Dynasty, although firearms have been developed in many places, the power of firearms at this time is still very weak, there are many inconvenient places, and it is even possible to hurt others and hurt themselves, so most countries have not carried out comprehensive equipment, it can only be regarded as a small classification, arbor is not only fully equipped, but also advanced firearms for nearly a thousand years on their side, almost comparable to the standard of modern firearms, such an army is comprehensively promoted, how can those ordinary armies be stopped?
It can be said that almost a day in the city.
The army in front was attacking and advancing, and the government personnel in the back were also hurrying to keep up, carrying out land reform in the newly defeated areas and winning the hearts and minds of the people.