From Soldier To Emperor

The city at the lowest level can be set up as a town-level Han municipal committee.

In this way, although the gentry class of Han Chinese has surrendered its armed forces, the children of the family can join the local garrison as officers, and the head of the family can enter the municipal committee with the right to participate in politics. No matter how you look at it, they make money!

The gentry children who enter the local garrison can also command their own family, but they have to take more responsibility for the security of the place to prevent small groups of greenskins and wild orcs from being harassed.

As for guarding the caravan, it is something that Jiading guards would have done.

This seemingly generous reform naturally did not arouse the antipathy of the local Han gentry class in the Western Regions. As everyone knows, Richard has broken the foundation of the gentry class of the Western Han gentry under the unspoken rules!

Although there is no difference from the Jiading **** to the local garrison, don’t forget that the local garrison is actually the official force of the Ming Dynasty. If there is a war, Richard has the right to mobilize the local garrison to take turns to the front!

When the time comes to take a wave from the battlefield, how many gentry officers will be left in the army when they retreat?

Of course, now that the Western Regions have become peaceful and healthy, most of the local Han gentry did not realize that this was wrong. A small part of them could see that they were weak and did not dare to be targeted by the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, having the right to participate in politics and the opportunity to control the local garrison troops is too temptation for the local Han gentry!

The Han people's official-centered thinking made them irresistible to Richard's new policy.

Even if they knew there were risks, they sent their family children into the local garrison corps on a large scale.

The local garrison has no military merits to grant land, and the expenses are paid from local taxes, which also saves the central government a major burden.

As for the municipal committee, the way to get in is not just to hand over the guards, it is just a political smoke bomb released by Richard.

In fact, the criteria for the actual entry of the municipal council is based on the amount of tax!

In the municipal council regulations, the amount of tax paid exceeds a certain amount and reaches a certain time limit, you can enter the municipal committee, and once the tax amount is less than a certain amount and reaches a certain time limit, you must withdraw from the municipal committee.

The municipal committee only has the right to participate in and discuss politics, and the decision-making power rests with the local government. To put it bluntly, the members of the municipal committee are not officials themselves, they are just civil representatives in disguise.

The so-called participation in and discussion of politics seems to have a lot of power, but in fact it is to make some suggestions to the government, which is far from the legislative power!

However, this gadget just came out, and the local Han gentry class was fooled by the government only to see the superficial benefits, and did not realize what the municipal committee was, and only used it as a political tool to interfere with the government.

During the whole year of the 3rd year of Ming Dynasty, Richard focused all his energy on internal affairs, because there were too many temptations on the surface, coupled with the handling of the new dynasty, the deterrence of a hundred thousand troops, and the reform was very smooth. It's just sending unexpected income to the government (copying the home)!

By the 4th year of the Ming Dynasty, the reforms were basically completed. At this time, many gentry who had contributed to the monks’ protection and enjoyed the privileges of the municipal committee for less than half a year suddenly discovered that their tax standards were not up to the standard, and they were faced with being Risk of dismissal of the committee!

Only paying the poll tax, of course, is not a lot of money, it is strange to meet the standard!

At this time, the various New Deals and legal systems have been perfected, and a large number of vested interests have also been mixed in, and because of the particularities of the gentry children and the municipal committee itself, the local defense army formed by the guards of the Jiading almost directly obeys the municipal committee...

Because the municipal committee is determined by taxation, their tax revenue occupies the bulk of the local government, and the maintenance of the garrison army is allocated from the local tax. That is to say, the members of the municipal committee are the parents of the garrison!

Coupled with the fact that many children of the municipal council members’ families are serving in the local garrison corps, the local garrison has faintly regarded the municipal council as its immediate superior...

The gentry and big taxpayers have become accustomed to controlling everything through the municipal council, and they understand that any new municipal council member will share their vested interests, and kicking out other members will reduce their competitors!

Therefore, without Li Cha's action, those members were found to be taxpayers not up to the standard, and after the expiry date, they were immediately removed from the municipal committee by other members and temporary members of the municipal committee!

The gentry who were excluded were naturally not reconciled. As a result, the infighting of the municipal committee became more fierce. In order not to be excluded, many gentry even voluntarily demanded tax increases!

It is impossible to reduce the tax standard, because the municipal council’s taxation needs to raise the local garrison. The caravan guard they provide is related to the money bags of many members. The protection provided by the garrison also allows members to not worry about greenskins and beasts. Human harassment!

Not to mention ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The taxation municipal committees can also benefit. After all, the municipal committees are not white laborers. They are the bigwigs who participate in politics, and they also need to get wages!

Salaries are also paid out of local taxes. The central government does not take a penny, but is paid proportionally. The more local taxes, the more salaries the political members get!

Here, business gentry attach great importance to it, their land is relatively small, and those big landlord gentry who rely on farming and renting form a natural opposite.

Under such a general environment, Richard issued a tax policy of sharing the income into acres, and no longer collect taxes on the per capita basis, but on the basis of the area of ​​production!

In this way, those landlords and gentry whose taxes are not standard enough can immediately keep their membership of the municipal committee!

Continue to enjoy the free protection of the local garrison and the right to participate in politics!

Especially the power to participate in and discuss politics makes gentry obsessed with it...

Since ancient times, the people did not fight against the officials, but the municipal committee allowed the gentry to experience the dignity that they stood on the same level as the local government!

This dignity cannot be bought with money.

After Richard issued the right to share the Ding Ding Lu Mu, he rarely received opposition from a large number of Han Chinese gentry class.

First of all, business landlords generally maintain a neutral attitude towards this policy. They would rather lose some land rent and pay taxes than give up the power of the municipal committee and the free use of the local garrison.

Secondly, the pure landlord gentry, some timid and fearful of the Ming army, did not dare to resist, and became part of the tacit majority.

Only the big landlord and gentry class, because the losses are too great, would rather give up the municipal council than oppose this policy!

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