Hokage, I am Uzumaki Naruto

"Good."

Seeing him so familiar, Watergate shouted hello again.

Then it was necessary to order everyone to go down and be responsible for the layoffs in various places according to the prescribed standards.

At this moment, Fugaku, who had been silent for a long time, looked worried: "But there is one point, we have to worry. What if a ninja warrior is unwilling to cooperate with disarmament?

"yes, what if they don't want to cooperate?"

"It's a real headache."

That is, Fugaku's words, instantly brought everyone present back to their senses.

So there was no doubt that everyone fell into deep worry.

One by one, they felt helpless about this, and could only look at the Watergate that originally raised this question.

How to solve it, it is up to Naruto-sama to decide.

No way, the idea is set.

Watergate could only bite the bullet and say: "All in all, disarmament is imperative, so go ahead according to the plan."

He looked at Mifune, "On the samurai side, there is Rao Mifune, and you will inform the generals of the meeting to the local commanders." Let them follow the instructions and not disobey them.

"Yes."

Mifune replied with a serious expression.

After arranging the samurai, Watergate looked at the leaders of the other four hidden villages, and said in a deep voice: "As for the ninjas, the layoffs of the four major ninja villages, please ask you who were the original village shadows."

"I'll see!"

Like Mifune, Onoki and the others responded in unison.

After that, Watergate looked solemnly at the representative of the former small country ninja headed by Nagato and said, "And you, the layoff." When you each go back, you must also put its policies in place.

"Finally, you have raised the possibility that disarmament may cause displeasure among the military.

When you go back, I'll send Naruto and them with you everywhere. In order to ensure that disarmament can proceed smoothly.

"Then it couldn't be better!"

Receiving the assurance from Watergate, everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief. If Naruto and the others really sat down, then they wouldn't say disarmament.

Even if the entire ninja world is turned upside down, there is no problem, anyway, someone is behind it.

So, on the matter of disarmament, after several discussions, the plan was finally made.

Then again about taxation in the new country.

This has been a big problem since ancient times.

Therefore, when Watergate mentioned this, it was no surprise that everyone's faces that had just relaxed became solemn again.

Seeing this, Watergate did not care at all: "Then next, discuss the matter of state finance and taxation."

Before that, I would also like to ask that among the delegates are officials who used to serve in the five major countries of the ninja world, the central or local government.

If you have a specific understanding of this aspect of the policy, come out and share with us how they collected national taxes in the past era of daimyo rule?

"Yes."

Hearing Watergate's words, soon, in the crowd, there was a pineapple-headed man wearing glasses and wearing Sven.

He spoke, "I... Let me start with that! I am a member of the Nara clan of Konoha, and I used to be sent to serve as a subordinate of the Daimyo of the Fire Nation. "

Although I am not in charge of finance, I also have a general understanding of the tax policy when the daimyo was in power in the past."

"Oh?"

Listening to him say this, Watergate instantly became interested, and said: "Then please Lu Yi, you can tell me, what are the specific tax systems in the previous Fire Country?"

"Yes."

Shikaichi replied, "During the previous reign of the daimyo, the main source of national taxes was national taxes.

The so-called national tax is a tax that is collected directly by the central government, represented by the daimyo, to the various regions under its jurisdiction. Among them, agricultural tax and poll tax are the most important types of taxes.

"Of course, in addition to that, there are local taxes. This kind of tax is mainly collected by the nobles of the daimyo in their own fiefdoms, all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Since it is not subject to central jurisdiction, it is called a local tax.

"In addition, the daimyos have charged high tax rates to some private companies and businesses in the country. The above is the overall tax model of the national finance at the time of the daimyo.

Watergate listened, nodded, and said with feeling: "Understood." This is roughly the same as Konoha, and the percentage of the reward received by the village for completing the mission is also collected.

"It's just that Konoha generally collects personal income tax. And the amount of tax rate is calculated according to the amount of remuneration of each person. "

And the poll tax, such an ancient tax system, has long been abolished. I just didn't expect that the daimyos were still executing. He

sighed helplessly and rubbed his slightly swollen temples.

Watergate said, "What about the agricultural tax?" What tax rate were the daimyos charged in the past?

Lu Yi replied: "This, there is no tax rate. Generally, the peasants pay according to the amount of grain set by the state.

"So what should farmers do when they can't hand over their grain in a year of drought?"

"What else can I do?"

At this time, in the crowd, an official from Harada no Kuni said: "If the common people have no food, then they can only sell their children and daughters!" It is also necessary to exchange it for grain and hand it over.

"Otherwise, the annual tax revenue of the state would have to be paid in the same monetary way."

This is not even counting the poll tax, and when it comes to this, it is even more outrageous..."

He went on to give a lot of examples in order to make everyone more aware of the darkness of the daimyo's rule.

For example, what is calculated according to each household in each village. There is also a calculation based on the adult population, and each person has to pay 120 taels of silver per year, which is called arithmetic.

For the rest, there are minor children, oral allowances that need to be paid, etc. To be a dime a dozen.

And the reason why he knows this is because the taxes of all countries in the ninja world are essentially the same.

The main thing, of course, is that the country is different from the village.

The village is sparsely populated, so with a little land, it can feed tens of thousands of people.

And the village's economic resources mainly depend on the military expenses provided by the original countries.

Therefore, in the context of a small ruling base and very few people. As long as there is no war among the villagers.

You can live comfortably just by becoming a ninja and earning commissions for doing tasks.

Specifically, you can refer to Qatar, a small country that hosts the World Cup in modern times, which is such a truth.

And the state is different.

Not only do they need to manage large areas of land, but from time to time they have to pay reparations to neighboring countries for ceding land because of wars.

Therefore, for large countries, increasing taxes has become a necessary means.

It's just that, for ordinary people who depend on the land for survival.

These taxes that weighed on their heads became the most fundamental cause of their eventual bankruptcy.