The girl's body made the emperor a little nostalgic, and he was half an hour late for work.

The female official of the celebrant was already waiting for the concert, and Li Xiangjun picked out a separate copy and placed it: "Your Majesty, the registered population of each province has been reported......

It is a national census, in fact, it is reported according to the household registration, otherwise the floating population will not be counted at all.

Three Zhao Han opened it and looked at it, and his heart suddenly became happy:

Jinling Prefecture (directly under the central government): 2.63 million. Peiping Province (directly under the central government): 390,000 people.

Jiangxi Province: 9.15 million. Anhui Province: 7.04 million. Jiangsu Province: 7.78 million. Zhejiang Province: 6.41 million. Sichuan Province: 9.3 million.

Hunan Province: 6.22 million. Hubei Province: 5.33 million. Guangdong Province: 6.08 million. Guangxi Province: 3.82 million. Fujian Province: 5.94 million.

Shandong Province: 2.66 million. Henan Province: 2.45 million. Hebei Province: 1.03 million. Shanxi Province: 1.84 million. Shaanxi Province: 1.66 million.

Liaoning Province: 1.14 million. Yunnan Province: 3.02 million. Guizhou Province: 2.88 million.

Excluding children under the age of 12, the total population of the country is 86.77 million, more than 20 million more than the last statistics.

Sichuan's population soared by 2.3 million for three main reasons: first, the recovery of southern Sichuan; second, a large number of children have reached the age of 12; Third, many people in the mountains have made books and settled down.

Guangdong and Fujian have both risen by more than one million, which is due to the fact that a large number of ethnic minorities have settled down, and Hainan Island and Taiwan Island are also equally famous. Take Hainan Island, counting the Li and Miao ethnic groups who settled down, the population is more than 120

Ten thousand.

As for Liaoning, not only the Mongols and Jurchens are counted, but even the Koreans are counted.

Baozhou, the border area of North Korea, was also placed under the jurisdiction of Liaoning.

Jiangxi's population situation is particularly embarrassing, not to mention the second largest number of registered students in the country, but many people are working as officials, doing business, and serving as soldiers. In addition, young and middle-aged people continue to migrate to the north, and there are many teenagers who have just been included in the statistical age, accounting for one-fifth between the ages of 12 and 18, resulting in a somewhat insufficient labor force in the rural areas, and those with a lot of land and property cannot recruit tenants at all, so they can only spend money to buy foreign slaves.

The next day, the morning meeting.

Zhao Han smiled and announced to the hundred officials: "The two governments and eighteen provinces in the country have a population of 86.77 million, which is more than the population of the former Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qing has worked hard! ”

In fact, Liaoning has not yet been formally established as a province and is temporarily under the jurisdiction of Shandong, but the population statistics are separated.

"Your Majesty will do your best to govern the world with benevolence, so that all the people can multiply."

"The Holy Son of Heaven is in the court, and the blessing of the people of Shenzhou is also!"

"I am in the same dynasty as the new dynasty, and now at the beginning of the founding of the country, the population was nearly 90 million. Twenty years later, there will be hundreds of millions of trillions of people, and it is really an unheard of prosperous era! ”

For a time, hundreds of officials sang praises of merit, and most of them were sincere.

This is China after many years of war, natural disasters, famine, and plague, and the registered population is more than in the heyday of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the population of the north is scarce, even if you don't do anything now, let it develop, the population can skyrocket, and it is estimated that in a few years it will have a population of more than 100 million (over 12 years old. ）

A large number of people is a prosperous age, how not to make the officials happy?

Zhao Han said: "There are still too few people in Beiping Mansion, in the former Ming Dynasty, Beijing City alone had a population of one million, and now the entire Beiping Mansion is less than 400,000 people. In any case, 100,000 people will be emigrated to Peiping Province next year, from the most densely populated areas in the south. ”

"Obey the order!" The members of the household department lined up with wat boards.

Julius and other missionaries of the Hanlin Academy were dumbfounded when they heard the data, are there so many people in the whole of Europe?

The topic of today's meeting is to talk about the contradiction between man and land. Mainly discussed in the Han and Tang dynasties, the Guanzhong area had a large population,

The problem of serious shortage of cultivated land per capita. For example, not long after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to power, he distributed the royal land to the people for cultivation, and then allowed the people to move freely, and a large number of farmers in Guanzhong moved to Guanwai for reclamation.

After discussing the land system of the Tang and Song dynasties, Zhao Han finally came to the conclusion that after 50 years, China's land would not be enough to cultivate, and then it would need to expand overseas. For example, Luzon, where the climate is hot and the rainy season is long, but with careful cultivation, the tropical rainforest can still be cultivated little by little.

This thing is not only told to hundreds of officials, but also published in newspapers for the people to know, and has been instilled for a long time to form a consensus on overseas development.

At the end of the court meeting, Zhao Han said to Fei Chun and Wu Yingji: "You two stay and go to the cabinet together." ”

These two people are in charge of finance and taxation, and they jointly wrote a letter requesting the reform of the fiscal and taxation system.

Zhao Han went to the cabinet and held a financial meeting, which was attended by Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, Song Yingxing, Fei Chun, and Wu Yingji.

Zhao Han asked the three ministers: "You all agree?" ”

Li Banghua said: "The minister feels that he should not completely cancel his true colors, and he can keep a little in case of need." “

The true color is the taxable goods, such as rice, wheat, and timber. Folding color is to discount items, such as silver taels and cloth.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the tax was mainly to reduce the administrative pressure, and at the same time to reduce the storage pressure, allowing the grain to be converted into silver taels and cloth to be handed over. But the scale is not large, because silver is not a currency in circulation, and the currency at that time was called Daming treasure banknotes.

It wasn't until Zhang Juzheng's whip method that folding color became the mainstream, and the true color became an auxiliary Fei Chundao: "I went to the true color and folded color in parallel, because there were not enough coins in circulation, and many mountain people had never even seen money." Nowadays, countless silver coins and copper coins are minted every year, and a large amount of copper and silver flows into Nanyang, North Korea, and Japan, and the people are no longer short of money. Therefore, the minister suggested that in Jinling Mansion and Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Hui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan,

In the future, it will be changed to silver dollars and copper coins to pay taxes. As for the other provinces, it can be done slowly, and it is expected to be gradually completed within ten years. ”

Zhao Han asked: "Is Datong Bank's money and grain exchange business also canceled?" ”

Fei Chundao: "It can't be completely canceled, otherwise the peasants will be exploited." However, it must also be abolished, only a part of it must be retained, and a money and grain exchange point must be set aside in each county. Your Majesty, there was no way before, but in the future, you will be able to use the money completely.

There is too much money and grain, and the expenses are huge, and people have to be hired every time the grain is paid, and the grain transfer will also produce great consumption. ”

Wu Yingji also said: "Your Majesty, the same is true for excessive taxes, and it must be forbidden to collect them in their true colors, otherwise the annual consumption is too great." ”

The commercial tax of the Datong Imperial Court basically continued the Ming tax system, which was divided into two types: residential tax and excessive tax.

Housing tax includes door stall tax, landing tax, deed tax, wine vinegar tax, collapsed house tax, etc., which are collected by the local yamen and will not be handed over to the central government, which can be understood as land tax.

Taxes related to taxation, tax divisions, etc., need to be deported to the central government.

When collecting commercial tax, according to the actual situation, there are a variety of different tax rates such as 30 draws 1, 15 draws 1, 10 draws and so on. When the merchant's capital turnover is not open, he really takes the goods for you to draw, and directly uses cloth, timber and other goods to pay taxes.

This has led to the fact that all localities have their own warehouses, which are specially used to stack the extracted goods, which is also called true color.

The emperor and the center of the Ming Dynasty repeatedly competed for taxes, and finally Emperor Jiajing made a decision: the silver was returned to the imperial court for border military expenditures; The materials were owned by the royal family, and the emperor used them to reward ministers (which was also convenient for the royal family to repair the garden).

Wu Yingji said: "Abolishing the true nature of banknote customs can reduce the number of banknote customs officials by one-third, reduce the number of employees (temporary workers) by more than half, and reduce the loss of warehousing and transshipment." ”

Zhao Han nodded: "This is the right move, in the future, whether it is the seaport banknote customs or the inland river banknote customs, only silver dollars and copper coins will be collected, and the manpower of the banknote customs will be reduced as much as possible." ”

Wu Yingji again: "Inland banknotes, all ship banknotes should be levied, which can greatly improve the speed of customs clearance, and can continue to reduce the number of banknote customs officials." ”

Ship material banknotes are taxed according to the tonnage of merchant ships, and they no longer care what kind of goods are on board.

In this way of taxation, goods such as cloth, spices, and jewelry are taken advantage, and bulky goods such as coal and timber are even more disadvantaged.

It is equivalent to that when merchant ships pass through the inland banknote customs, only tolls are charged, regardless of the type and weight of the goods, and the banknotes customs directly become inland toll stations.

The large banknotes are all on the inland rivers, and there are also many small land banknotes, which are located on the official roads in the mountains. The imperial court wanted to dredge the river and maintain the official road, and it was reasonable to collect tolls.

The unified collection of tolls can improve the efficiency of tax collection, reduce administrative expenses, and facilitate the circulation of goods. Zhao Han discussed in detail with the three ministers and agreed to the suggestion that only tolls be collected at the banknote customs.

As for the commodity tax, the Ming Dynasty system was followed.

In the Ming Dynasty, the commodity tax was collected in this way, and merchants who trafficked goods must obtain a business license, and also indicate the business scope and the place of trafficking. Then pay the handling fee, apply for commodity customs coupons (road guides), and sell them to the destination with the customs coupons. When you arrive at the place, you can't sell it directly, you must deposit the goods in the official store for tax declaration, and check whether the goods transported are consistent with the customs coupons, and you can only be allowed to enter the market after paying taxes and obtaining bills.

If there is no customs clearance, it is smuggling!

Wu Yingji added: "Since the beginning of the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, small merchants and hawkers in the countryside have to be taxed at the city gate to sell vegetables and chickens. During the Chongzhen period, all kinds of commercial taxes rose by one-fifth, and there were countless additional taxes on goods. Although His Majesty has banned excesses and miscellaneous taxes, some remote places still collect them. Please Your Majesty issue another holy decree to tell the world that the small people of Shengdou do not have to pay taxes if they sell some goods. ”

"And the magistrate is collecting the excesses and miscellaneous taxes of the previous Ming?" Zhao Han was very surprised and angry about this.

Wu Yingji said: "This phenomenon is extremely serious in northern and southern Sichuan, and it was discovered by the integrity inspectors. Because it mainly involved commercial taxes, he conveyed the truth to the relevant yamen and did not alarm His Majesty. ”

Zhao Han said angrily: "Immediately draft a decree to list all kinds of positive taxes, and all the rest are classified as harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes." Whoever dares to collect it in violation of the law is corrupt and perverts the law! ”

This situation also made Zhu Yuanzhang so angry that the magistrate actually collected taxes on the small people who went to the city to sell dates.

Of course, Zhao Han is not as conscientious as Zhu Yuanzhang. Weddings and funerals, cultural items such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., Zhu Yuanzhang is not subject to commodity tax, and all of them are taxed here in Zhao Han.

After a day of discussion, the six of them finally decided on a rough plan for tax reform, and the details will continue to be discussed.

Industrial and commercial taxes, tolls, and business taxes are all recognized in a unified manner, removing the last obstacle to the revitalization of commerce.

The Datong Bank's money and grain exchange business also began in two or three towns, and was reduced to one office in each county.

The national and local taxes were also again subdivided, reducing the local retention of agricultural taxes and increasing the proportion of agricultural taxes that were deported to the central government. The establishment of local standing positions is no longer the business of local officials, and the money and grain exchange offices of Datong Bank in various counties are equivalent to the standing positions established by the state.

The current adjustment of the bank's money and grain exchange business will certainly be able to catch a lot of grain rats, and it is estimated that there are enough to cut off their heads.

After the adjustment of the tax system, the provincial-level government should provide financial support to areas with particularly difficult financial difficulties, such as poor mountains and so on, so as not to even be unable to pay officials money in the future.

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