Chapter 122: Agrarian Reform

This move set an example for the chickens and monkeys, which frightened the wealthy families everywhere.

But the killing could not continue like this, otherwise it would be very damaging to production, and it would also be very unfavorable to the future southern expedition, which would unite those landlords and gentry thoroughly, and the Southern regime would receive unparalleled resources to support the war.

After all, the strength of the landlord class in the Song Dynasty was still very strong.

Therefore, Xiao Zhonggong's subsequent land reform was no longer to directly distribute land, but to send the reformed officials into the local area to measure the land of the wealthy family in detail, and how much land had to be taxed.

Even the more land you own, the higher the tax base you pay, which is equivalent to the personal income tax of later generations, which is dedicated to killing the rich and helping the poor.

Under the previous example of killing chickens and monkeys, the "evil government" that touched the nerves of the scholars and wealthy families such as Qingzhang Tiantu was carried out so smoothly that no one dared to stop it.

There are even many wealthy families who took the initiative to sell their land at a low price before clearing the land after knowing the graded taxation under Fan Zhuoyuan's regime, which can be called a momentary spectacle since the Song Dynasty.

Of course, there are also many wealthy families with bad deeds who move their families to the south, otherwise when Jinyiwei investigates, the butcher's knife of the Xiaojie army will be directly killed.

In fact, the land annexation itself is not terrible, but what is terrible is that after the land annexation, the scholars relied on their own resources to exploit the loopholes in the system and carry out "reasonable tax avoidance".

Just like the big capitalists of later generations registered their companies on some little-known islands, they avoided the taxes they should pay by various reasonable and legal means.

As a result, the central court was unable to collect enough taxes with the same resources, resulting in the tax burden being shifted to the yeoman farmers, causing the yeoman farmers to go bankrupt and then annexed by the landlords, and then the taxes collected by the imperial court were reduced again, thus forming a vicious circle.

In order to avoid this situation, under the current rule of Fan Zhuoyuan, no matter whether rich or poor, as long as there is land, each county must re-measure and determine the tax once every three years.

To put it simply, I'm not afraid that your landlord has land, anyway, the more land you have, the higher the tax base will be, just like the income of 3,000 yuan in later generations does not pay individual tax, more than 5,000 is a base, and 10,000 income is a base, increasing in turn, if you are not afraid of bankruptcy, you can try to annex land.

As long as the imperial court administration is effective and the system is not bad, there is no fear of land annexation.

Of course, if even the system is broken, then it is useless to use any policy as insurance.

Most of these systems were modeled after the Manchu system, and were reformed on a certain basis.

Although the Qing system was built on the basis of a large country ruled by ethnic minorities, its origins were in the same vein as the Ming Dynasty, and the disadvantages of the Ming Dynasty's bureaucratic authority and excessive preferential treatment of literati were improved.

From the point of view of the centralized bureaucratic system, the system after the Manchu Qing Dynasty improved the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a great achievement of the centralized system in the feudal era!

National ideology aside, the control of land, military, locality, taxation, and other aspects of the Manchu rule alone almost reached the peak of the feudal era.

The Qing Dynasty did not have the Song and Ming dynasties after the development to a certain extent, the status of the military in the bureaucratic system can not be considered low, civilian officials can lead troops, military generals can also engage in politics, it can be regarded as a revision of the Song Dynasty since the tradition of noble and lowly soldiers.

The second is the central government's control over the localities, which has always been more than controlled, even better than the Song and Ming dynasties.

In addition to the outbreak of large-scale peasant uprisings and other rebellions, the Manchu Qing basically did not lose the ability to control the locality, and even at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was able to clean up various major border events such as Outer Mongolia, XJ, XZ, etc., which was indeed more advanced than the Song and Ming dynasties.

Of course, the impact of Western capitalism and the rise of new ideas are another story.

The Manchu dynasty can despise the Manchu people's suppression of the Han people and the various castration and destruction of Chinese civilization and culture, but it must not underestimate the ability of this dynasty to centralize power to the extreme, and to maintain the great unification, centralization is an inevitable system for China.

Fan Zhuoyuan adopted such a system, and naturally discarded all the drawbacks of a small clan approaching a big country, and only used its advantages, as for whether to engage in capitalism in the future, he had doubts.

For a unified country like China, the development of capitalism will inevitably directly or indirectly cultivate a number of powerful capital consortia.

They used their influence to control the regime and became shadow emperors, and when they developed into their final form, they formed a gate valve system similar to that of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Behind the old capitalist powers such as the beautiful country of later generations, this is not the case.

The so-called politicians cannot betray the capitalists, and the capitalists can abandon the politicians at any time.

Therefore, instead of thinking about changing the political system, it is better to enhance the national strength, expand externally, vigorously develop the productive forces, reform traditional thinking, and let the strong productive forces stimulate the reform of production relations on their own.

At that time, it was not necessarily a purely capitalist road.

This is a series of fundamental reasons why Fan Zhuoyuan imitated the Manchu Qing system and built the political system of today's Yan military regime.

Fan Zhuoyuan reformed the system and announced to the world that since the movement of all parties, especially in the Great Song Dynasty, the most shocked.

On the Jin side, after Wanyan Zongwang sent the first army to rush to Shangjing, he completely suppressed the rioting slaves. In addition to the dead and fugitives, the population of Jin has decreased dramatically!

In fact, many people fled back to the Yandi and grasslands, so when the slave rebellion was suppressed, the Jin soldiers were reluctant to kill people on a large scale.

But for the grassland peoples who invaded and plundered, the Jin army was naturally not polite, everyone was cavalry, and the Jin army's war horses were no less than the other party, and the pursuit and killing were basically annihilation.

Especially after the arrival of Wanyan Zongwang, as the commander, he led the whole army, and even chased all the way to Mobei.

Originally, it was just to take revenge on the tribes of Zhubu and Murowei, but in a sweep, he beat up his former allies, the Mughal tribe, and beheaded a Mughal tribal chief.

Mengwu is the Mongolia of later generations, since the Tang Dynasty has been nomadic in the desert arctic for the remote Gobi Desert, Wanyan Zongwang will destroy it, and he doesn't care.

However, the remnants of the Mughal people have passed on this hatred from generation to generation, and if the Jin people knew that among these barbarian tribes that were even more backward than them, there would be a man named Temujin who would unify the steppe and finally destroy Dajin, they would not know how to feel.

Wanyan Zongwang originally returned from a big defeat, which shocked the major nobles.

That is Wanyan Wu Qimai, although he has been taken away, he has no cheekiness to ask for succession.

Later, the grassland tribes were exterminated, Wanyan Zongwang made great efforts, which was regarded as recovering some prestige, because the country could not be without a king for a day, so he ascended the throne with the support of the Taizu family, and vowed to kill all the Xiaojie troops and kill Fan Zhuoyuan!

However, Wanyan Zongwang had not been on the throne for a month, and he passed away under the trouble of old injuries and occasional wind and cold.

Originally, after Wanyan Zongwang took Bianjing, he returned to Yanjing and died of a cold, and his fate did not change in this time and space.

Before his death, in order to stabilize the power of the Taizu lineage, Wanyan Zongwang did not pass the throne to his young heirs, but entrusted it to his fourth brother Jin Wushu, that is, Wanyan Zongbi.

However, the prestige of Jin Wushu's military merits is far less than that of Wanyan Zongwang, and there are many people in Jin Guo who disagree with this.