"I've fallen for the old thief!"

In the mansion of Dongbohou, Jiang Wenhuan was furious, pulled out his long sword, and wanted to chop Jiang Ziya into meat sauce.

"It's hard to prevent!"

Jiang Huan Chu's face was also gloomy, and he spit out four aggrieved words from his mouth.

Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao were ordered, one east and one west, one wen and one martial, to go to the two major vassal states.

When the Su Hu army and the Xiqi army were fighting to the death and could not be separated, Donglu was very calm, because Jiang Ziya refused the escort of Wang Shi, and entered Donglu with a light car.

Jiang's father and son are very satisfied, Your Majesty sent this mountain and wild horseman, what can they do, I'm afraid it's going through the motions!

Therefore, they superficially agree with Jiang Ziya's so-called restoration of the ancestral system and harmony throughout the world, but in fact they are completely perfunctory.

And Jiang Ziya was not in a hurry, calmly urged, and then proposed changes in taxes, and his attitude gradually hardened.

Throughout history, economic sufficiency is necessary if a regime comes to power if it wants to make a difference, and the most direct source of the economy is tax revenue.

Therefore, there are so many regime changes in various dynasties and generations, and when each regime first came to power, it basically paid attention to reducing taxes and stabilizing the people's hearts, but in the later period, as the greed of those in power became greater and greater, more and more excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes increased, the economy collapsed, and it was unable to make ends meet, and finally went to extinction.

Not to mention, as early as the Dayu era, there was a tax.

There is a famous incident called Dayu killing the Fengfeng clan.

Roughly, after the success of water control, when the meeting was celebrated, a tribal leader Fangfeng was belatedly killed by Dayu, and afterwards claimed that the killing was wrong, which made future generations speculate a lot.

This story was later adapted into a myth, what Fengfeng is a giant, three feet and three feet high, a bone needs a car to fit, all kinds of myths, in fact, the real reason, is not that Fengfeng is strange, nor that Dayu can't tolerate people, but a battle for taxes, control of monetary materials and seashells.

The death of the Feng clan was the first time that the central government collected taxes from the people, and the lack of cooperation of the local authorities led to the killing of people, which also reflected the importance of this system to the ruling class.

Dayu succeeded, Tushan will be in the alliance, the world is for the public, a word, the first dynasty Xia was founded, and the first tax system in history was created-

Tribute.

Ren Tu as tribute, described in the "Shang Shu Yu Gong", this system is very interesting, based on the distance between the princes' fiefs and the royal city, the world is divided into five levels, and then subdivided in the five major levels, quite a kind of later generations of seven ring road division of the first scene.

For example, the subjects who are 100 li away from the royal city should pay tribute to the crops they have cut, 200 li away from the royal city should pay tribute after cutting off the straw of the crops, and 400 li away from the royal city should pay tribute, etc., which is a kind of tax in kind levied according to the land and output.

In the Shang Dynasty, it became famous, the Jingtian system.

As the name suggests, the well field system is to divide the land into nine districts according to the word "well", of which the outer eight districts are called private fields, which are divided into eight peasant households to cultivate, and the harvest is for these farmers to support their families, and the central area is public land, which is cultivated by eight peasant households on a joint basis, and all the harvest is owned by slave owners and the state.

Eight people's power, help cultivate public land, not tax private land, compared with the Xia Dynasty, not only the rigid payment of taxes in kind, but counting the labor force, hello, hello, everyone.

The purpose of implementing the well field system is to achieve equal welfare, equal distribution, and equal taxation among the subjects, which is a very idealistic tax system, but there are big problems in its operation.

There are policies, there are countermeasures, it should be a matter of interest from top to bottom, but it was ruined by greedy desires, and the same is true of the Jingtian system, which is not detailed in detail, which has gone through the system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and is currently manipulated and controlled by the superiors, called the Fa Help.

On the basis of the inherent land, by virtue of its power and position, the ruling class forced the peasants to provide labor without compensation, so as to solve the expenses of officials at all levels, military expenditures and other state expenditures.

For example, renting a façade room to do business, originally just simply paid the rent, paid the share that should be paid, and the rest is your own income, now in addition to the rent, the landlord's family's living expenses are all borne by you, who can stand this?

Under this deformed system, after hundreds of years of brewing, it will be on the verge of breaking out, and Yin Shang will be destroyed.

It can be seen from this that the demise of a dynasty is by no means caused by one or two simple decision-making mistakes, but is the accumulation of shortcomings over the years.

However, the changes of the princes of the four towns shifted the contradictions.

Donglu is the head of the 800 princes, the first to reform, walking in the forefront of the times, and occupying a geographical advantage.

After Dongyi was destroyed, Huang Feihu was ordered to establish a Dongping city outside the original ancestral mountain of Dongyi, which is close to the sea by the mountain, and now it has become the most developed commercial city in the world.

Donglu is close to the water, and naturally it also vigorously develops commerce.

So, on this basis, Jiang Ziya opened three taxes:

The first is the taxation of forest products and marine fishery products in the mountains.

This was collected at the time of mining, that is, in Dongping City, merchants had to pay a large amount of taxes.

The second is the endowment of the customs market, that is, the goods passing through the border "customs" and the domestic "city" to be inspected and taxed.

This "pass" is the five passes, and the "city" is every big city.

In other words, every time you pass a check, you have to pay a tax, and the same is true for every time you enter a big city.

The third is the surplus endowment, which refers to other taxes that do not belong to the above categories.

The third is fine, the first two are to dig a piece of meat from the merchant.

Jiang's father and son are not pure martial artists, and they have discussed it for a long time, believing that this is an economic suppression of Donglu by the central government.

Training is money, Donglu reformed the military system, the permanent military strength reached an astonishing 120,000, is the most of the four princes, every day of the expenses are very amazing, if not vigorously develop commerce, in the cornucopia of Dongping City to share a piece of the pie, long ago can not support.

Now, as soon as the new tax is raised, a part of the income must pass the tax and be handed over to the central government, and it will not be possible to do it without disarmament.

Soft knife to cut meat!

However, at this sensitive juncture, Donglu has scruples and does not want to turn his face directly with the central government.

Yang Fengyin can't be too much, although Jiang Ziya is easy to deal with, but after all, it involves His Majesty's face, if you don't eat the toast, you may have to eat and drink.

After the Battle of Jizhou, they realized that even if the most proud army of Donglu still had a certain gap with the Central Army, it was unrealistic to rebel.

As a result, Donglu was forced by Jiang Ziya several times to finally start the tax reform.

Jiang's father and son are not panicking, anyway, there are a lot of taxes to be paid, and it is not up to the Donglu officials to decide how much to pay in the end?

However, they never imagined that this was the beginning of the tragedy of Donglu.