Today, they have compiled countless booklets, copied countless household names, calculated the data reported in each room, and calculated the taxes that each household needs to pay this summer.

Just fill in the tax you have paid and tick the box.

The entire county government is busy with this, and Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong are always seconded because of their good grades in arithmetic and low qualifications. Fan Lianyin was lent out five times by the teachings of their ceremonial room within three days, and the ancestral road was even worse, and the people who caught the house were generally not good at arithmetic, not only to help their county lieutenants, but also to be called brothers by various catchers on their shoulders, and then

Stick a knife in the ribs for the brothers, and stay up all night with the lights lit.

Both of them have been exerting too much brain power recently, and they are both a little sluggish at this time.

Zhao Mingming glanced at them sympathetically and said, "When collecting taxes every year, the manpower of the county government is simply not enough, and outstanding students must be seconded from various schools, and strong men in the county will also be transferred." She lowered her eyes and pondered, and muttered, "In the final analysis, it is because it is grain that is paid, and a large number of people are required to carry and calculate. After entering the warehouse, we have to go out of the warehouse again, escorted to the capital, we have a smooth road to Luoyang, you can first

By water and then by land, you can come back in two months, but farther away from Jiangdong and Lingnan, it will take a long time to escort them to the Prefecture Assassin's Mansion and Luoyang, and a large number of servants."

The tax on the grain for escort was made up of three parties, the servants, the soldiers of the garrison, and the servants drawn from the people.

All of them need to be self-fed. The soldiers of the government and the garrison also have travel allowances, although it is a little harder, the loss is not large, but the servants are different, they escort the grain tax, and they also need to bring a lot of rations, and they go for two or three months, not only consume a lot of food, but also

Delay the farming time at home.

The escort of grain is also troublesome, afraid of water, afraid of fire, and low value, so it is very heavy and volume.

Zhao Mingming said, "It would be nice if taxes could be simplified."

Zu Daozhong asked blankly, "How to simplify?" Less tax? Or will it be completely escorted by the imperial court?"

Fan Lianyin glanced at him and said disdainfully, "Idiot, doesn't the imperial court escort cost manpower and money? Simplify and collect money."

Zhao Mingming slapped his thigh and said, "Lianyin, my confidant, I think so too."

Fan Lianyin grinned.

Zu Dao was clever, his eyes widened, "How much does this cost? It's not a good thing for the people, is it?"

He frowned and said, "We must first exchange grain for money, and if the price of grain is low in any year, won't they need a lot of money to make up enough money for the grain tax?" In addition to food, there are also cloth and other things, and these must also be exchanged for money?"

If this is the case, then there are too many things to consider, too complicated, and I am afraid that it is not a good thing for the people.

Zhao Mingming said: "The price of grain has always been under the control of the imperial court, and the silver money used by the treasury every year to stabilize prices and grain depots is not spent in vain. "Taxes are changed from physical to silver, one is to facilitate collection and accounting, and the other is to facilitate transportation," Zhao Mingming said: "The imperial court exempts taxes and labor every year, and my mother exempts a lot of miscellaneous labor every year for the benefit of the people, but this is the case, the common people are still troubled by the regular service, Lijia service and other services, especially some families, there is only one person in Chengding, once he is transferred to the service, the family will delay the agricultural time, and in the long run, the family will become more and more impoverished, or even broken."

There are also those who have a loose family."

Yes, Yongye Tian cannot be bought and sold, but if the only Cheng Ding has been sent to labor and cannot work, the remaining weak mothers and orphans will not be able to work to pay taxes and survive on food, so they can only abandon their land and flee.

This has created new displacements.

Zhao Mingming is not a princess who doesn't know the sufferings of the people, she has followed her mother since she was a child, and she knows many things from her.

The imperial court has good policies, and the original intentions of the people who formulate them are also good, but when it comes to implementation, it is not necessarily the case.

A person is different from another person, the interpretation of policies, the collision of public heart and selfishness, and selfishness is different from selfishness.

Therefore, when a policy is implemented at the local level, various problems will arise.

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Such as service.

There are many kinds of service, in addition to building bridges, roads, digging water conservancy projects and other major services, there are also miscellaneous services such as carrying sedan chairs, beating guards, and even sweeping the floor for the county government.

Except for the number of servants set by the imperial court, and the county government regularly dispatched servants, other miscellaneous servants were appointed by Lizheng.

So there is a lot of room for operation in Lizheng.

Most of the people in the world are fair, even if they are selfish, they don't dare to do too much, but they are afraid of what happens.

There are so many people in this world, there are always some people who are bold and ruthless.

If they want to make a whole person, they just keep appointing him to do miscellaneous work.

If a strong man in a family spends most of the year carrying sedan chairs, beating shifts, sweeping floors, and escorting grain taxes to the county government for free, his family will not last long and the family will be scattered. Therefore, in the seventh year of Yuanzhen, after the treasury became richer and richer, the civil business was developed, the handicraft industry was also flourishing, and the local county government gradually became rich, she ordered the escort grain tax to be removed from the miscellaneous service, set up as regular service, and then put the rest of the miscellaneous labor

All waived.

That is to say, since the seventh year of Yuanzhen, the people of the world have not carried sedan chairs, played shifts and swept the floor.

The county government wants to carry a sedan chair, play a watch, etc., so you have to spend money to hire someone to do it.

After that, the imperial court also successively reduced some regular duties, basically in turns.

For example, this year, the imperial court exempted Xuzhou from regular service, and the state treasury will allocate a sum of money to Xuzhou for a series of things such as building bridges and roads, so that they can hire laborers to do these things, which is a special fund.

The next year it will be Yuzhou's turn......

In this way, two or three states are exempted from regular service every year, so that the people of each state can be exempted from regular service once every few years, and there are different degrees of reduction in military service every year, which is mainly a reduction in time.

Originally, he had to serve for 21 days, but sometimes the court was sympathetic, so he only needed to serve for 15 days.

In this way, the escort grain tax has become the most painful, difficult, and time-consuming regular service every year.

Zhao Mingming had the same idea as his mother, it was still too much of the people's manpower and financial resources to be escorted by the servants, and he should find a way to solve the matter.

But she thought about it for a long time, and she couldn't think of a better way than to change the grain tax into money, which would greatly reduce the manpower to escort the tax.

However, she always felt that this method was not good enough.

She looked at the sky in distress, thinking for a long time and still had no clue, but looking at the shining stars in the sky, she thought thoughtfully, "I can't think of a way, it doesn't mean that others can't think of it."

Fan Lianyin: "Who do you know can think of it?"

"I don't know, but I can find it," Zhao Mingming said, "There are so many talents in the world, I don't believe that no one will come up with it."

"I decided, when I return to Luoyang, I will ask my mother for a decree, I will personally be in charge of the national examination, and I will make the questions, I don't believe that I can't find anyone." Zhao Mingming snorted, "I found someone, are you still worried that you can't find a way?"

Fan Lianyin looked at Zhao Mingming, "Empress Dowager, you are too powerful."

Then Baba asked, "When will you go back to preside over the national exam, tell me, I will take the state exam in advance."

Zu Daozhong looked at her with a shocked expression, "You, you actually stole the question on the spot."

Zhao Mingming glanced at them and said, "I will give an order, when the time comes, the two of you will not be allowed to take the national examination, I will preside over the national examination, how can you avoid suspicion?"

Zu Daozhong: ......

He turned his head and glared at Fan Lianyin, telling you to talk more, can't you make a fortune in silence?

Fan Lianyin is still fighting, "Your Highness, only relatives such as parents and brothers are avoiding suspicion, I am your companion, and the relationship is not very close." "That's not going to work, I just can't do it."