Listening to Zhu Youlan's words, the faces of everyone in the hall were suddenly extremely exciting.

Although there were no gentry present, they were all businessmen, but they were also very famous businessmen in Jiaozhou.

Each family can only keep 20 acres of land to pay taxes normally, and the excess is levied a tax of one stone per mu, and if an acre of land is good, the harvest will be one or two stones, and even a stone can not be collected in disaster years, which is forcing everyone to donate the fields!

"Master Zhu, my family of forty or fifty people, twenty acres of land can't make ends meet at all." A businessman in his fifties stood up and said.

"Forty or fifty? It can be separated, and adult married men can be separated, and each family can still keep 20 acres of land after separation. Zhu Youlan said lightly.

Everyone present looked at each other and understood what Zhu Youlan meant, this is to force large families to divide their families. In Jiaodong, many large families often have dozens or hundreds of people, relying on the law of the clan to control the clansmen, and they have great local power. Such a family is difficult for the government to manage. After the separation, the forces were scattered, and they were unable to compete with the government.

"After this official came to Jiaozhou, he flipped through the yellow book of fish scales and found that the population and fields in Jiaozhou had decreased year by year over the years. In the past two hundred years, although there have been occasional natural and man-made disasters, there have been no major wars in the Jiaodong area, and it stands to reason that the population should increase year by year. As the population increases, so will the number of newly cultivated fields increase, so can there be any reason for decreasing year by year?

So there is only one result, and that is that there are a large number of people and fields hidden!

Thinking of the turmoil in Jiaodong, I pity the people of Jiaodong. His Majesty announced that from now on, the three prefectures of Jiaodong will implement the order of releasing slaves, canceling all slaves, and all slaves can go to the government to register and change their civil registration.

The war in Jiaodong, the gentry and the people were killed and injured a lot, and then considering the hidden fields, so from now on, in the three provinces of Jiaodong to re-measure the acres of fields, all the hidden fields out of the clear zhang, all as the official ownership, distributed to the landless people. Zhu Youlan continued.

Forced separation, release of slaves, and clearing the fields, these are the three things that Zhu Youlan summoned to Jiaozhou celebrities and businessmen to announce. The local problems were nothing more than population and land problems, and each household was only allowed to keep 20 acres of land, forcing the wealthy landlords to divide their families, and also forcing the wealthy landlords to release the hidden population, and after the release of slaves, the number of people registered in the government would increase. The hidden fields that came out of the Qingzhang, together with the fields that were stolen from the gentry and officials, gave the government control many fields, and distributed them to the common people and the freed slaves, who were only allowed to cultivate and not to sell them. In this way, the population and land have increased, and the land tax of the government has naturally increased.

In the past, the gentry occupied a large amount of land but did not pay taxes, resulting in a decrease in government taxes year by year, but now, the gentry have been raided in large numbers, and there is no tax-free land, and the field tax alone is several times more than in previous years!

"My family has donated 8,000 acres of land before, and I am willing to donate all the remaining fields and keep only 20 acres of ration fields." Chamberlain was the first to stand up and speak. 8,000 acres of land have been handed over, so naturally I don't care about the remaining hundreds of acres. The Li family is now an official and in the cotton and cotton cloth business, so they don't care about the grain in the field.

"I, I am also willing to donate my family's land and keep only twenty acres." Lu Changde also followed. The arm can't reach the thigh, and in such a situation, it is useless to oppose it, so it is better to take the initiative to express its position.

Some people took the lead, others hesitated for a while, and they also expressed their willingness to donate their fields. The fields are important, but the lives of the family are even more important, and these people are worried about the fate of the gentry. And they are all businessmen, even if they don't have a field, they can live well by doing business.

"Very good," Zhu Youlan said with satisfaction, "You are all reasonable people, and you have made great sacrifices for the stability of Jiaozhou, and this official on behalf of the government and the imperial court thank you!" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Everyone hurriedly said.

"After talking about the fields, let's talk about business." Zhu Youlan continued, "Jiaozhou Yamen has set up a new commercial house to manage business, and from now on, all commercial inns and shops need to be registered in the commercial house, and the business license will be issued by the commercial house. Those who have a business license are legal, and those who do not have a business license are illegal and will be banned according to the law.

In the future, the commercial tax will be levied uniformly, and the commercial tax can be set according to the items sold in the store and the scale, so you can rest assured that the tax amount will not exceed the 11th tax. After paying the commercial tax, the commercial property will issue a tax payment certificate, and there will be no more apportionment. Officials will not extort any money from shops. Once everyone is blackmailed by anyone, they can report to the yamen, and the yamen will make decisions for everyone. ”

Everyone couldn't help but lift their spirits. Although it is a little troublesome to go to the Yamen commercial house for the record, it is nothing. It is even more natural to pay business tax, and what interests them the most is that they only need to pay business tax once from now on, and there is no more extortion and apportionment, which is simply wonderful.

For the merchants, the commercial tax of the imperial court was actually not high, but the local apportionment and extortion of the officials were too much, and the government would impose a tax on a random reason, and the annual tax rate paid far exceeded the tax of the eleventh. And most of these commercial taxes fell into the pockets of officials, and had nothing to do with the imperial court.

According to Zhu Youlan, in the future, everyone will pay much less business tax than before, how can this make them unhappy?

"Lord Zhu, is it true, do you really need to pay any fees except for commercial taxes in the future?" Lu Changde suddenly stood up and asked excitedly.

"In Jiaozhou City, you really only need to pay commercial tax once, but if you transport goods, you also need to pay national tax once, and the tax department is responsible for collecting it, and it has nothing to do with the local government." Zhu Youlan thought about it and said.

The tax levied by the Yamen merchant house was a local tax, and part of the revenue was used for local expenditures, and part of it was handed over to the imperial court, while the tax collected by the tax department belonged to the national tax, which had to be handed over to the emperor's inner treasury.

"Hmm!" The merchants nodded in understanding. Customs has always existed, and the delivery of goods needs to be taxed at the customs office. However, there are now many fewer tax customs in various places, and the tax customs set up by the feudal lord and the local government are gone, except for the tax customs at the canal pass, which is the tax division. And you only need to pay the tax once, and you can pass unimpeded.

The field system, the tax system, this is the reform carried out by Zhu Youjian in the three prefectures of Jiaodong.

By distributing the fields of the gentry and landlords to the common people, Jiaodong will soon settle down, and all the people will become their own supporters.

In the past, it was the imperial court that set a specific amount of tax and silver for the local government, and how much silver each county should pay each year. After that, the land tax was levied entirely according to the number of acres, and without the privilege of the gentry not to pay taxes, there would no longer be the phenomenon that the rich did not pay taxes while the poor were responsible for most of the land taxes. All fields have to be taxed, which inevitably leads to a surge in the amount of grain paid each year, far exceeding the original tax amount, and the revenue of the state treasury will also surge!

Of course, in order to do this, we need a strong government that can directly manage every household. In the next time, the three prefectures of Jiaodong should establish a system of protecting the armor, county-protection-first, and three-level government to ensure that the imperial court can manage every household.

The commercial tax system was reformed, and although the commercial tax rate was not high, all commercial taxes would go into the hands of the government, instead of being privately embezzled by the officials, as in the past. Although Jiaodong's commerce and trade were not developed, the commercial tax alone was enough to support the officials in the yamen.

Through the Wenxiangjiao rebellion, the gentry in Jiaodong were completely eradicated, so that the reform could be carried out smoothly. From now on, the three provinces of Jiaodong will open a new chapter like Liaodong in northern Shaanxi.