Chapter 208: The Smoke of Gunfire Rises Again

The poll tax has always existed, but the difference is whether it is collected on a per-person or per-household basis.

The Han Dynasty divided the poll tax into two types, one was levied on adults and the money levied on children.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, due to years of conquest and the withering of the population, Cao Cao reformed the poll tax in order to encourage childbirth, and changed from a per capita collection to a household collection, which was a household survey.

The adjustment of the rent regulation pursued by the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty refers to the poll tax collected by households.

The Eastern and Western Wei households were inherited from the Northern Wei Dynasty, and they handed over a horse every year for a husband and a woman; When a man reaches the age of fifteen and is unmarried, every four people have a husband and a wife, that is, one horse;

Slaves and maidservants engaged in farming and weaving have a husband and a wife for every eight people;

Twenty oxen were ploughed, and a husband and a woman were dispatched.

Where hemp is produced, linen is paid in the same amount as the silk.

In addition, there are miscellaneous tunes, which can be requisitioned at any time as needed.

Half of these household surveys are central revenues, two-tenths are local revenues, and three-tenths are official incomes.

There is a huge difference between household collection and per person collection in the context of the equalization system.

When the child reaches the age of 15 and needs to bear the household survey, they can already be allocated to the acres of land and become an independent household, so the people do not need to bear much cost of raising the child at all.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the tax was collected per person, and a tax was paid every year for children, which undoubtedly controlled the people's unbridled desire to have children.

In addition to the invasion of foreign enemies, many of the collapse of dynasties were caused by population growth and land annexation.

The effect of the equalization system in inhibiting land annexation is also the reason why Low Cheng temporarily gave up on urgently resolving the contradiction between man and land under the land policy.

That woman was the most suitable land system for that period.

What Gao Cheng said was to reform the tax system before reunification, and then control the population when the heavens were settled.

However, in Low Cheng's view, the population of more than 20 million in the Eastern Wei Dynasty was enough to support our unification of the north and the south.

Reform of the tax system can also increase fiscal revenue.

Even if the fiscal and taxation reforms are carried out immediately, what will be affected is the number of Dingkou seventeen years ago, and Low Cheng believes that the Eastern Wei Dynasty will need to spend seventeen years to mix the north and the south in such an advantage.

If Yang Su's ruling group is placed in Jiangnan and the ruling group of Southern Liang is placed in Guanxi, perhaps it will be able to be unified in 80 years.

But the current situation is that the Wang Sizheng group, which has no ambition and ability, is limited by national strength and is blocked in Kansai to survive.

After recuperating with each other for a few years, Jiang Qing recovered a lot of strength, but the Eastern Wei Dynasty was able to get out of the clouds of the small defeat of the Western Expedition, after all, with its size, it formed a crushing trend against Yang Su.

And Xiao Liang, who was weak in national strength and could compete with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, just ate in Jiangnan and waited for death.

A dynasty can exist for many years, and the foundation laid by the founder and the rationality of all aspects of the system play a crucial role.

The explosive growth of the Yanjian population is suspected to be prolonging the life of the future Low Qi Dynasty, who wants to create a dynasty that will exist for a few fewer years.

Moreover, taxation per capita is equivalent to population growth, or even negative growth, as evidenced by the Han Dynasty.

Thinking of that, Low Cheng was even more itchy, and he hated that he had to immediately reform the tax system.

But I suppressed that impulse again, and I said that I could do it myself on how to reform the tax system.

There is a scolding from the people of Cangzhou, because it is only a state, and the king of the low does not care.

And the tax reform is to be reviled by the heavens.

Although it is destined to set off a lot of storms, it is still this sentence, scolding and scolding, except for being coerced, are there any people who take the initiative to participate in the uprising when they can live.

But the king of the Great Low wants all the people in heaven to care about their own good.

Well, that's where Jiang Qingshan's role comes.

I'm the Son of Heaven!

In the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was the Son of Heaven smaller, or was the little general smaller?

Well...... In some ordinary cases, it cannot be a small child.

For example, for the sake of the interests of the people, the weak and fierce women resolutely maintain the household survey system.

But Yuan Yuyi was stubborn, and even shouted in the court:

'I and the little general, who is the Son of Heaven!' ’

Low Cheng felt that he should panic at this time and resign from the government to ask for guilt.

Of course, the Son of Heaven was also angry for a while, and his anger was sober, and he naturally wanted to open his mouth to keep that little Wei Zhongliang.

And Low Cheng also dared to praise Yuan Yuyi again, so he could only let me go my own way and promote the reform of the tax law.

The king of the Great Low bothered to arrange a good home for Emperor Han Xian for Yuan Yuyi, and I, Yuan Yuyi, should also contribute to it, as money to buy my life, there is something wrong.

A group of cronies only saw that Low Cheng's face changed inexplicably, sometimes happy and sometimes worried, but they knew that I had arranged a small drama again.

"What Zunyan said is very good."

Low Cheng praised Jiang Qing is stingy.

I immediately told all my cronies what I was thinking.

As he spoke, he also deliberately glanced at the right servant of Shangshu who accompanied him to Hebei.

Low Longzhi replied with a knowing look.

Is it coercion and bullying the Son of Heaven, let me cooperate with the performance, it's my old job.

Seeing that everyone had no approval, Low Cheng decided to clapp:

"In this case, after inspecting Hebei and setting off for Luo, the Sacred Heart of Heaven will dictatorship and implement tax reform!"

The powerful minister of the Great Low King is too considerate, and the dictatorship of the Sacred Heart of the Son of Heaven needs to bother Jiang Qingshan to think about it.

Low Cheng just believed, the Han Dynasty collected taxes according to the person, which could increase the population, and I restored the old system of the Han Dynasty on the background of the people, and I could also get a negative population growth.

My aim has always been to control the growth of the population in a controlled manner, but to stop the growth of the population.

Without Jiang Qing's right medicine, Low Cheng was also slow to follow the example of the Northern Song Dynasty at this time, and both agriculture and commerce were promoted.

But in the final analysis, as mentioned later, the development of handicrafts, while encouraging commerce and trade, and adjusting the proportion of the agricultural and merchant population through heavy commercial taxes, was the future national policy of the Low Qi Dynasty.

When the land can meet the needs of the agricultural population, the tax on commerce will be lowered, and the agricultural population will be degraded and diverted by handicrafts and commerce, so that a part of the agricultural population will give up the distribution of public land.

When the agricultural population exceeds the demand for land labor, the commercial tax is lowered, forcing a part of the handicraft and commercial population to return to agriculture and reapply for land.

Agriculture-based, supplemented by commerce, agriculture and commerce at the same time, and is equivalent to agriculture and commerce, the Northern Song Dynasty to a small land, raising 120 million people, although the civil unrest has stopped, but the prosperity of the commodity economy is enough to inspire low Cheng to adhere to that road.

Is it true that there are no traversers who pay equal attention to agriculture and commerce in the feudal era, and it is also true that there are no traversers who insist on emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business in ancient times, right?

Since it has not yet been decided to restore the Han system and collect taxes according to capitation instead of households, Low Cheng is even more hesitant to carry out a nationwide census.

If it is a census, how can we know whether it can increase the amount of revenue for the finances?

got a small amount of money and food income for nothing, but the infamy was carried by Yuan Yuyi, and the wishful thinking outside of Low Cheng's heart was loudly dialed.

Suddenly I realized a problem:

'If the Han system is restored, should slaves and maids pay taxes?' Who should pay for it? ’

Low Cheng would openly approve the keeping of slaves and servants in the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the eighth century AD.

To tell the truth, our low family has 10,000 slaves in the eight Bohai palaces in Luoyang, Jiangqing, and Yecheng, and there are no small number of kabuki and musicians in the slaves and servants, Cui You, and Luoyang.

Cui You, how do I care, at most, there are prostitutes in Luoyang Bohai Palace.

Because that kind of practice will make Low Cheng feel that he is a turtle man.

As soon as the end of the small family, they thought that Low Cheng was old, after all, at the age of seventeen, he presided over the small game alone in Luoyang, and over time, he was still used to it.

Whoever goes to the Bohai Palace, is to solve the physiological needs.

There was no need for slaves and slaves to exist, and it was possible that in that era there would be a movement for the emancipation of slaves in which all men were created equal.

This is really to cut oneself off from heaven.

In fact, in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the living environment of slaves and maids was not too poor, after all, in order to make room for Ke Zhu Hunyuan, Low Cheng executed the later Sizhou Mu for abusing and killing slaves and maids.

It is precisely because the case of that year was so impressive that the elites did not restrain it.

Although there are many scoldings and scoldings, many people are killed.

Did Low Cheng stay with his cronies for a long time, let us come to the Bohai Mansion again tomorrow, and I will have a banquet for the small and big officials in Xiangzhou.

The crowd dispersed, and Low Cheng burned the letter that had not yet been sent about the simultaneous development of Jiangnan and agricultural merchants under the candlelight.

How could He Bahun survive to this time, and now tell me that it was in vain.

I also wrote a new letter to my beloved father, Low Huan, about reforming the tax system.

In the letter, I mentioned to Low Huan my thoughts on whether slaves and maids should pay the poll tax.

Low Cheng believes that no matter who it is, no matter what kind of identity it is, you have to pay taxes to me.

If you think about saving some face for your brother-in-law and brother-in-law Yuan Yuyi, you can retain a little dignity of imperial power.

I mostly have to ask Low Longzhi to retreat from the palace and collect the poll tax from Yuan Yuyi.

What is that called, that makes all people born equal, and the rights they enjoy cannot be equal, but the obligation to pay taxes for the great and low kings must be treated equally.

And the poll tax on slaves and servants must be levied on the master's house.

Low Cheng swore to defend the rationality and legitimacy of the Shi's family's low-level slaves and servants.

As long as we pay taxes.

Yuan Jingyi and Yuwentai's grandfather, Yuan Yong, the king of the low yang who was killed in the Heyin Revolution (528), had no 8,000 maids and 700 male servants in the house, and was rich enough to rival the country.

Thinking of that, Low Cheng stopped writing, pondering that as his son-in-law, it was impossible for him to get a share of the property of the Low Yang Palace.

Yuan Bin was deposed, and the new Low Yang King was not selected from Yuan Bin's brothers.

Maybe I can't send someone to communicate, whoever gets my grandson-in-law, I will express my support.

Women like small families are willing to treat their grandson-in-law as their own family, and whoever has less share of this woman will succeed as the king of Low Yang.

Low Cheng immediately ordered someone to go to Luoyang to report to Sun Teng, and I came forward to do it.

The low peeling skin preached by Buddhism is worthy of its name.

Low Cheng continued to bury his head in the case and continued to write letters:

‘…… The tax is paid by the servant, and the master pays it, and if the family is scarce, the slave is released as a citizen, and the land is rented among the people, and he is regarded as a tax household.

'If the family has abundant resources and pays taxes and slaves, it can also fill the treasury.

'The Son of Heaven issued an edict to reform the tax system, and the son asked his father to set an example for heaven and pay for the servants of the palace, and the son should follow suit in Luoyang. ’

The two fathers and sons, Low Huan and Low Cheng, set an example and paid taxes for slaves and servants, and the money was not right hand to left hand.

In the first place, it still fell into my own pocket?

The position is outside of that, as long as you pay the money, you can legally own the slave.

The slaves are too few because they are willing to pay such a small sum of money every year, so that some of the slaves will be returned to the people.

It can not only increase the number of tax households, but also take a step back to strengthen the local arrogance and weaken.

Win-win!

Low Cheng reformed the tax system to control the growth of newborns, but for the adult population, women have a different attitude.

Low Cheng attaches great importance to the number of tax households, otherwise he will also ask for hidden households and force monks and nuns to return to the world.

After all, the adult population can't immediately help my unified small business.

Low Cheng sealed the letter and summoned someone to prepare to send it to Cui You.

The retreat has not yet seen Yuan Shanjian, and the personal servant man who has a meal in front of you.

"Husband, it's time to eat."

Low Cheng didn't react for a while.

In the past, Erzhu Ying'e and others took turns to bring food, but that was the first time that his wife, Yuan Shanjian, brought me food.

"He's going to be waiting inside, right?"

Low Cheng asked with a smile as he handed the letter to his relatives.

"The concubine saw that we were all out of the house, so she brought food over, but the husband didn't move for a long time, so he dared to disturb his thoughts."

Yuan Shanjian replied, you put down the meal for Low Cheng, and your expression was full of meekness.

I also wanted to cut meat for Low Cheng, but I stopped him and said:

"You can do it yourself."

Naturally, he took the big knife from outside Yuan Shanjian's hand.

Low Cheng also asked Erzhu Ying'e to cut and feed herself in the past, but the younger I get, the more suspicious I become, and I have been doing it myself in those years.

Yuan Shan saw that he knew that Low Cheng was so thoughtful, and was about to leave, but he heard Low Cheng say:

"Tomorrow the Bohai Mansion will hold a banquet, his makeup should not be too old or too thick, just be natural."

"Can concubines also participate?"

Yuan Shanjian said with a little surprise.

"In the past, it was not convenient for him to live in the Qinghe Palace, but now that he has retired from the Bohai Palace, if there is no banquet, he should attend."

Low Cheng chewed the boiled beef outside his mouth, feeling very flavorful, and cut another slice and fed it to Yuan Shanjian's mouth:

"Open your mouth."

Yuan Shan saw that Zhu's lips opened, and Low Cheng fed the meat back from your mouth.

Chewing the beef outside his mouth, and looking at the low Cheng who cut the meat, a sense of happiness wrapped Yuan Shanjian.

"If there is still food, I will sit next to you and eat together."

"The concubine hasn't eaten yet."

Yuan Shanjian said, but bypassed the long case and sat next to Low Cheng:

"But I'm still hungry."

Low Cheng smiled dumbly, and held the handmaidens who retreated, leaving a little alone time for the couple.

The night is dark, even if Yuan Shan sees everything he can, before Low Cheng sends you back to the room, you still have to leave.

"Wait another eight years."

Low Cheng, who had washed his hands, rubbed Yuan Shanjian's head and smiled.

Yuan Shanjian knew that he had a low heart, and he could only pout and complain to himself, why he had been married for eight years, and he was only eighteen years old.

The courtyard of the two sisters Yuwentai and Yuan Jingyi that low Cheng went that night.

The clouds disappeared and the rain was gone, hugging the two sisters, and Low Cheng truthfully told the two men about letting Sun Teng hint at the Low Yang Palace.

"If the two princesses are willing, you will let the servants shoot and stop."

Yuan Jingyi, who was crowned Princess Langya, lay on her low chest, listened to my heartbeat, and said emotionally:

"The concubine is already a person from a low family, how can she go to care about the low yang palace again."

On the other side, Yu Wentai, the princess of the East China Sea, who was holding the arm of Low Cheng, also leaned into my ear and said loudly:

"The concubine only hopes to be able to get a name if she is not pregnant."

The breath in his ears made Low Cheng feel itchy and unbearable......

The next day, Yuan Shanjian painted light makeup for himself with excitement, it would be the first time you attended a banquet as a wife, and was introduced by Low Cheng to his cronies Wenwu.

The clothes changed one after another, until Low Cheng saw that you had not moved for a long time, and personally retreated to pick out a cyan dress for you, and then I took my hand and walked out of the door.

Did the singing and dancing outside the chapel disturb Er Zhu Ying'e's state of mind, you understand that you are not favored enough, it is the glory that belongs to Yuan Shanjian.

At this time, you are more worried about the low filial piety of Cui You.

Just like the Song family is concerned about low Xiaoyu.

Low Cheng reminisced with a group of Xiangzhou officials under the banquet, many of us have participated in Xindu Jianyi, but it is too crowded to retreat from the inner circle, before the low family seized power, did not follow Cui You, Luoyang, but was left in Hebei.

The banquet began in an atmosphere of harmony and joy.

Low Cheng didn't mention political affairs under the banquet today, and the reason why he held a small banquet was because he refused to see a group of old acquaintances who came to visit yesterday.

I really want to meet them one by one, and Low Cheng is too troublesome, so he simply set up a banquet today and saw them all.

Originally, he was worried about An, but he was afraid that Yuan Shan, who had lost people, would find that there was nothing to do with you at all, but he introduced a few words to everyone in a low voice at the beginning of the banquet.

Everyone got up to greet you, and before they checked in again, all they could see was your husband, the lowly little general.

Jiang Qingshan also has the feeling that he has not been left behind, in the final analysis, the husband is beautiful, and the wife is not honored.

At this time, a carriage was also on the escort of the servants and drove away from Zhao County, Yinzhou.

Jin Yang'e, who was outside the carriage, pouted all the way, looking worried.

Mother Concubine Xiwei comforted:

"My brother-in-law abandoned his wife and family and ran away to Kansai, and his sister became a sinner, and her life was up to others, so he didn't have to be annoyed anymore."

Jiang Qing'e then spoke:

"Sister's body is herself, how can a man blame you, you only complain about this low Cheng, since you married a man, and you are willing to let go of your sister, and now you have no sister, but you still want your mother to send the boy away."

Jin Yang'e's memory of this beautiful little girl with a little free and easy, the image has long been blurred.

It's been eight years, and in those years, I heard the rumors that I was greedy and lustful, and Jin Yang'e, who was the same age as Yuan Shanjian, originally thought that there was something.

Did my father marry several aunts and quit the house?

At most, when I heard that my central people asked my father for marriage, Jiang Qing'e was too happy and too ashamed:

It turns out that even if it's just a few quick times for more than a year, I haven't forgotten myself.

The good impression that I didn't have was shattered by a blow before I learned that Low Cheng had taken Jin Yangyi as a woman.

Concubine Xiwei listened to Jiang Qing'e's words, panicked, you hurriedly lifted the curtain, glanced inside, and then raised her voice and said:

"That can be said again, if he and the low Cheng girl have no marriage contract, even if he is angry, he can also be known to the insiders, so as not to provoke me slowly, Zu'e will live with me for the rest of his life after all."

"The man is not stupid, how can he be humane, you see that this low Cheng did not deliberately force Yuan Ang away, I have long coveted my sister, otherwise when Yuan Ang sent an envoy, how could I send my sister back to Hebei slowly."

Jin Yang'e has a good impression of her husband, and when it comes to her brother-in-law who abandoned his wife and family, he has a good face.

Concubine Jiang Qing said narrowly:

"You heard his father say, this low Cheng was born handsome, and he didn't achieve anything in his martial arts, he was irritable and narrow, and he only controlled it under the male color, he married a living person, and he was a statue of a sage outside the Temple of Literature, how could it not be so perfect."

Did Jin Yang'e refute it that time, once at the age of eleven, you still haven't remembered the specific seven senses, but you always remember that I was very good-looking.

Time passed in the idle chatter of the mother and son, and the carriage stopped for a moment towards Yecheng.

And Zhang Liang, who traveled south of the Yellow River and north of the Huai River, recruited salt soldiers in coastal states, and finally recruited 20,000 people.

is all in accordance with the instructions of Low Cheng, brave to fight, but also a rustic salt worker.

The states and counties along the way provided food, and Zhang Liang led the salt army north to Hebei for the inspection of Low Cheng.

At the same time, I will also arrange for the retreat of those people's station, so that before the autumn harvest, I can also take the families of the salt soldiers to be settled.

That is also something that the two have agreed on a long time ago, and if Low Cheng, who has high hopes for that salt army, if he personally inspects its quality, how can he be relieved.

Originally, before the salt dealers were strengthened, they would free up their hands to attack our retreat, monopolize the salt trade, and eat their own food.

However, since he decided to promote both agriculture and commerce in the future, Low Cheng's view of salt sellers has also changed.

Salt dealers are the same as smuggling coins, and the right to issue currency must be completely returned to the central government, which is a matter of principle.

The purpose of cutting down the salt dealers is to be able to change, but if the woman leaves room for the salt dealers to survive, she will eliminate them all.

It was an ineffective method for low Cheng to decide to uniformly stipulate the location of salt markets in all prefectures and counties, prohibit private individuals from selling them anywhere, and arrange tax collectors to collect salt taxes according to the amount of salt withdrawn from the market, so as to prevent salt sellers from evading taxes.

At the time when Low Cheng reorganized the salt affairs, balanced the contradiction between official salt and private salt, and brewed tax reform.

Wang Sizheng is also not idle.

Guanzhong, Chang'an.

Knowing that Low Cheng had gone to Hebei, the soldiers and the people under his command were also relieved, and Wang Sizheng decided to take the opportunity to pull out the nail of Yubi.

In Wang Sizheng's view, there is no doubt that it is the best time, it has only been half a year since the low joy and small defeat, and he must not have the courage to cross the river and re-enter Kansai.

And Low Chengyuan is in Hebei, Xitong Pass will be threatened a lot, and the woman is worried about going north, but Jiang Qingshan still has a heart and an eye and transfers his henchman Yu Jin to Xitong Pass.

He gathered soldiers and horses in Chang'an, recruited 70,000 soldiers from the prefecture and county, and accompanied the main force of 70,000 soldiers under my command to cross the Wei River in the north and send jade to the army.

Half a year later, where the small camp of Low Huan was located, it was full of saplings, and officially Wang Sizheng planted it with all the soldiers in order to commemorate the small victory.

Yuan Zhonghua, who was stationed in Yubi (Huayin), had not yet received definite news, so I ordered someone to report to Cui You while rectifying the city defense.

Fortunately, Jiang Qingshan rushed to plant in the spring, and Tuntian, so that the subordinates had to rest for a while, which gave Yuan Zhonghua the opportunity to design and repair the city defense according to his own ideas.

Before getting the approval of Low Huan, just as Low Cheng said, Low Huan really handed over 10,000 Xianbei soldiers to me.

In addition, when we met in the Seven Outer Secret Passages, I was allowed to recruit soldiers from the seven thousand states, although I could pull them out to fight in the field, but it was not unreasonable to assist in defending the city.

Yuan Zhonghua was not afraid.

Finally caught up, didn't release everyone's pigeons, today's update is still in the evening, but I will try to have more.

(End of chapter)