Chapter 44: Ram Innovation (2)
Zi Jue saw the controversy in the court clearly, and he didn't expect that this ram solution would have such insight. In his opinion, the reform of the Ram Liberation is still very immature and has many loopholes, but this set of reforms is very suitable for Huaiguo.
As for the loopholes in this tax law, it will take decades for them to slowly appear. When the time comes, it will depend on what happens to future generations, after all, no system will be inconvenient to operate for hundreds of years.
The debate in the court ended with a comprehensive victory for the Rams. Next, Wang Lin handed over the implementation of the new tax law to the Ram Jie.
The Ram Xie knew that the new tax law had moved the cake of the nobles and the grassroots tax officials below, and it was not easy to implement the new tax law. Therefore, he asked Wang Lin to send some soldiers to assist, and it happened that Wei Ping came back, and the two were also very familiar, so Wang Lin asked Wei Ping to cooperate with him.
In order to implement the new tax law, the Ram Liberation specially asked the tax collector to inform him of the new tax law, and then ordered the tax collector to explain it to the people. Because of the king's orders, these tax collectors did not dare to disobey, and even if they did not want to, they had to preach these new tax laws.
In this era, there are not many people who can learn, the dissemination of knowledge is very limited, and the understanding of government decrees by those people is limited, so these people are needed to explain. Fortunately, Huaiguo has implemented academy education in the past 100 years, and there are many people who have mastered knowledge.
Many tax collectors were sent to various places to preach the new tax policy, but after some time, the ram Xie went to find out, but found that the tax preaching was not very effective. The people did not agree with the new tax law, but felt that the new tax law was a disguised tax increase.
At first, the ram thought that the tax collectors were playing tricks, deliberately preaching falsely, or deliberately misleading the people. At that time, the Ram Xie wanted to punish these tax collectors, but after he personally learned about it, he found that these tax collectors may have been slack and did not pay attention to it, but this is not the main reason.
The real reason is the problem of trust, the tax collectors have been in contact with these people for many years, and the people are afraid. They were afraid that the tax collectors were telling lies. Over the years, tax collectors have done too many intimidating, deceitful, and ruthless things in collecting taxes.
The people did not dare to trust them at all, so the ram sent the tax collectors to preach the new tax law, and did not hesitate to let the tiger say that he did not eat people. How this practice convinces the people.
If the new tax law does not have the trust of the people, it will be a blank slate, useless. Ram Xie frowned, he was a newcomer, and he didn't have any credibility at all.
After figuring out the reason for the incident, Ram Xie began to think about how to make the people believe in him.
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A strange thing suddenly happened in Huai'an City recently, the Shangqing Ram of Huai'an State was untied in the open space outside the south gate, erected a three-zhang high log, and then told everyone that as long as someone could carry this wood to the north gate, he would be rewarded with ten gold.
It is human nature to watch the excitement, and after hearing about such strange things, everyone came to watch, but there was no one who was really willing to do it.
People like to watch the excitement, but they don't like to be the excitement itself.
Someone said: "This wood is three zhang long, anyone can carry it, so easy to have ten gold, it won't be Shangqing who makes us happy!" ”
"Who said no, if you really let people carry wood to the north gate, not to mention ten gold, someone will do it for ten dollars, it must be to make fun of us!"
There was a lot of discussion, but no one dared to step forward and carry the log to the north gate.
Seeing that the crowd was talking about it, but no one did anything, he knew that these people did not believe it, so he ordered someone to shout: "If anyone can carry this log to the north gate, I will reward you with fifty gold!" ”
But after the bounty was raised again, everyone was in an uproar, and they felt even more suspicious. Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, but no one dares to carry this wood.
It's just that there will be brave men under the heavy reward. Under the temptation of fifty gold, soon someone couldn't help it. After all, in his opinion, carrying the wood to the north gate was just a trivial matter, and even if he didn't give fifty gold in the end, it would only take some effort.
The man stepped forward and asked again, "Dare to ask, but if you carry this wood to the north gate, there will be fifty golden horses?" ”
"Exactly, as long as you carry this wood to the north gate, you can get a reward of fifty gold!" Ram Xie said loudly.
When the man heard this, he nodded, and immediately picked up the log and walked towards the north gate. The onlookers saw that someone had finally picked up the wood, and they also followed to see the excitement. Soon, after about a quarter of an hour, the man reached the north gate, and the ram was not polite, but ordered fifty gold to be taken and given to him.
When everyone saw that Ram Xie had really given fifty gold rewards to that person, they were in an uproar.
Many people regret shaving their ears directly, why didn't he try it? It doesn't take much effort to carry a piece of wood.
The matter of the Ram Shangqing quickly spread quickly, and everyone knew that the Ram Shangqing was true to his word. It won't be long before the people of the entire Huai country know.
After seeing that his reputation spread, the Ram Liberation once again ordered the local tax collectors to go and announce the new tax law, and informed them that the tax law was issued by the Ram Liberation Solution.
When the people everywhere knew that this tax law was an order of the Ram Liberation, they immediately believed it. After the reform of the ram, the tax law has become much simpler, and the people know what taxes they have to pay. It's a lot less than the previous taxes.
The new tax law has also been successfully implemented.
When the autumn harvest came this year, seeing the taxes collected in the treasury, the secretaries of Huai no longer dared to underestimate the ram.
At the same time, the Ram Liberation once again issued an order to purchase materials such as sok grass, tendon horns, cattle and horses, and the people enthusiastically sold them, but in just half a month, all the materials needed were received.
The new tax law reduced the opportunities for tax collectors and aristocrats to get their hands on it, and it also benefited the people at the bottom, and the market became prosperous.
After the reform of the tax law, the tax of Huaiguo has increased rapidly, and the people have become richer and richer. Wang Lin was also very satisfied when he saw the ram relieving his governance.
Even the nobles discovered that their various workshops had actually made a lot of money, of course, much less than before.
The aristocracy wanted to repeal the new tax code, but they did not dare to do anything.
After the Ram Liberation requested the abolition of Dingkou, the population of the Huai Kingdom began to increase at an accelerated pace. Population is important in any era. Because only man can occupy the land and create wealth.
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Under the edict, the tax law was reformed, and the tax collector was relieved to read it, but the people did not believe it. It is a three-zhang tree at the south gate of the national capital. He said: If anyone can relocate to the north gate, he will be given ten gold. The people are all strange, don't dare to migrate. He replied: If anyone can relocate to the north gate, he will give fifty gold. There will be a brave man under the heavy reward, and one will be given fifty gold to be clear. Xie Gong gave another order, and when the people heard it, they believed it. - "Historical Records, Ram Biography, Ram Innovation"