"Your idea is to split my Datang tax in two?" Uncle Lee seems to understand my thoughts, but he hasn't done it or thought about it, so everything is a mess in his head, and I need to sort it out for him.

Uncle Li is very open-minded, and more importantly, he is very wise, the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty to emphasize the simultaneous development of agriculture and industry, advocating and promoting commerce is him, and he has done it, and his vision is very agile, it is easy to grasp the key points and centers for new things, after all, the Datang Military Academy, which has made Uncle Li has been a headache, has been very headache The separation system of soldiers and generals has been implemented, although this goal is still far away, it will take at least five to ten years, however, Uncle Li can grasp the key and dare to use an immortal talent, That is, my son, I boldly delegated power, so that today's Datang Military Academy is gradually becoming the place of promotion that Datang soldiers crave, unlike in the past, the boss needs to be promoted, which can not only avoid the emergence and formation of warlord factions, but more importantly, strengthen the loyalty of generals at all levels to Datang, so that they understand that they eat Datang's grain and become Datang's soldiers, not someone's private soldiers.

In addition, the establishment of the Jinju Yuan has achieved great results for the Tang Dynasty to obtain domestic and foreign military, people's livelihood, and product intelligence in a timely manner, and this time the operation against Goguryeo, in addition to the firearms developed by the Martial Arts Research Institute to make the Tang army destroy the city and pull out the village effortlessly, it is also suitable for the Jinju Academy to draw a precise and detailed military map, in addition, a large amount of detailed and timely feedback information also allows the Tang military high-level to have a full time to respond at the command level.

Not only that, if it weren't for the strict monitoring of Tibet by the Jinju Academy, it is very likely that Uncle Li would still be immersed in the dream of never disturbing the country of Weng's son-in-law. All of this proves that Uncle Li's foresight is beyond the reach of ordinary people, I dare to say that without Li Shimin, there would be no prosperity and strength of Datang today.

---------------------------------------------------- I looked at Uncle Li and said very sincerely: "Father-in-law, the main thing that my son-in-law wants to say is that the population will not automatically decrease, he will increase, and it will increase very fast. In the past 30 years, there have been no less than 500,000 households, which is what the son-in-law saw when he sorted out the documents for his father, and the current population is much more than when the previous emperor was in power. ”

Uncle Li sneered a few times, sighed lightly and said, "If the control is not strict, is it not just that the control is not strict?" The old man wept bloodily, tried his best, and tried his best to find a way, is it useful? No, because what is touched is not only the interests of hundreds of officials, but also the interests of the foundation of my Tang Dynasty's rule. Not to mention anything else, in the family of the nobles of the DPRK and China, who is not a good field? Therefore, I know very well that land annexation can only be delayed, and it cannot be stopped. ”

"So, my father-in-law, the population will increase and the land annexation will become more and more intense, and a large number of people will have no food and clothing, or will become tenants by the big landlords, and some of them will flow from the countryside to the cities. I dare to assert that this trend will become more pronounced over time, and how to properly resettle these people who have migrated from the countryside to the cities can be said to be fundamental to the stability of the Tang Dynasty. I stood up with my hands behind my back and looked very serious, this is a painful lesson worthy of deep consideration by all dynasties, but the problem is that the technique of the scholars and businessmen who have established them, focusing on the scholars and ignoring the industry and the lowly merchants, is precisely the obstacle to the progress of the society from an agrarian society to an industrial and commercial society.

"Since the imperial court has no good strategy and is determined to limit the land annexation of the landlords, otherwise this trend will be unstoppable, but it will also cause social instability, and the large number of various workshops run by the merchants can effectively absorb these people, so as to silently resolve this contradiction." After saying this in one breath, seeing Uncle Li tilting his head to look at me, he smiled a little embarrassedly: "Son-in-law, isn't this too worrying?" ”

Uncle Li smiled, took the wine cup and saluted me, and then drank it all. stroked the wine stains on his short beard and shook his head: "It's okay, you just say it, anyway, this is our son-in-law chatting in private, and the old man won't blame you." ”

"That's that, that's." I laughed dryly, although Uncle Li said this, it meant that he gave me a package ticket, but Uncle Li's special recorder on the side didn't care about this, and continued to splash ink frantically, and I couldn't help but shiver when I saw it.

"First of all, then we must first analyze the rent adjustment, what is the rent adjustment, where are its advantages and disadvantages, this, hehe......" I scratched my head and decided to give up the national tax system formulated by Uncle Li himself, and there is no one else who knows its pros and cons best, except Uncle Li.

"You kid, you want the old man to speak, don't you? Look at your scratching ears and cheeks, hehehe. Uncle Li laughed. I just let Uncle Li, the leader of imperialism, have a chance to display his intellectual wealth, lest the old rascal sit for a long time and become impatient and lazy to listen to me after finishing business.

Uncle Li stood up, shook the front of his yellow robe and said with a smile: "The rent modulation is a servitude system based on the implementation of the Juntian system. This system stipulates that all households with equal land, regardless of the amount of land granted by their families, shall pay a fixed amount of taxes and perform a certain amount of forced labor. Its contents are: every Ding must pay two stones of corn to the state every year, which is called rent; Pay two zhang of silk, three taels of cotton or two zhang of cloth and five feet, three catties of hemp, called tune; ”

If the state does not need his service, he can pay the full amount of 20 days according to the standard of paying 3 feet of silk or 3 feet 7 inches and 5 cents of cloth per day. If the state requires him to serve, he shall be exempted from transfer if he has served for an additional 15 days, and for an additional 30 days, he shall be exempted from rent. In the event of a serious natural disaster such as floods and droughts, more than four-tenths of the crop loss will be exempted from rent, more than six-tenths of the loss will be exempted, and more than seven-tenths of the loss will be exempted. ”

"What do you mean, Yong means servitude?" I understand, it seems that the agricultural tax can be done something to make a fuss, that is, forced labor. This is the most feared tax of the people in the past dynasties, and the fall of the Qin and Sui dynasties was largely due to forced labor. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that silk silk could be paid instead of servitude.

Uncle Li nodded approvingly: "Hehe, it is this reason, the old man knows that the danger of the fall of the Sui Dynasty lies here, so he thought of such a method, in addition, the virtuous son-in-law you discussed with me, to take prisoners to lead the conscription, to free the people from the conscription, this point, but let the old man see this matter clearly from another aspect." ”

"My father-in-law is really holy, but, Your Majesty, this point must be maintained, so that the people will not be served, which will not only reduce the burden of the common people, but also allow the people to specialize in farming." I said convincingly.

---------------------------------------------------- "But the son-in-law has a question, what about the craftsman and the merchant?" ”

Uncle Li stroked his beard: "All craftsmen need to serve dozens of days of forced labor every year, or work in the workshops of the court. ”

"That little son-in-law doesn't understand a little." I touched my nose: "In the Martial Arts Research Institute, there are now more than 1,000 craftsmen, why don't you need to go home to work?" Doesn't that mean that they have no food to eat at home? ”

Uncle Li threw me a roll of the eye: "! Will the old man do that thing of killing chickens and taking eggs? They are doing things for the country, and the old man pays the money according to the Ding, so that doing things for the country also gets the resources to support the family, just like you and your father take the country's Fenglu. ”

Well, I understand a little, but it's still not comprehensive, I pondered, and Uncle Li saw that I hadn't improved for the time being, so he squatted aside and continued to drink.

I cleared my throat, took a big sip of wine and continued my train of thought: "Then, my son-in-law thinks the best way is to take two steps, and this first step is the two taxes and two levy system." ”

"Two taxes and two levies?" Uncle Lee nodded slightly, motioning for me to continue my point. "First, what are the two taxes? Daoxian, first of all, under the Juntian system, the state's expropriation of rents and conscription was mainly based on the Ding body; The two-tax rule is mainly based on the amount of land taxed. Although the household tax is based on assets, land is an important part of assets, so it is mainly based on land. ”

In fact, the most important point of this method is that it is aimed at land annexation, because sooner or later the equalization system will be destroyed, and the land ownership situation will become more and more uneven, so the tax on land has become an inevitable trend of development. Of course, the sacrifice of taxes and land also meant that the feudal government had loosened its personal control over the peasants. This will also be a considerable opportunity for the development of Datang's industry and commerce.

(To be continued)