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The problems Zhao Mingming discovered could be solved by himself, and the problems that were unique to this small county were all solved by himself.

She has also done everything that belongs to the national policy level, can find ways to deal with the above, and can solve problems for the people.

If she couldn't do it or couldn't think of a way, she would write to her mother and ask her what she should do.

What can the court do?

These are all questions that Zhao Mingming has been thinking about but has no good solution. She feels that her mother must not have any, and no one in the court can come up with a good solution now. Otherwise, as long as someone raised it, her mother would have taken action to solve it.

Therefore, since the problem still exists and there is no news in the court, it means that her mother and the court officials have no good solution, and they may not even discover the problem.

Zhao Mingming felt that she was ahead of her mother this time, so she pretended to be worried, but in fact, she wrote her a letter with a bit of showoff and pride, telling her, "Your daughter, I have discovered a big problem in this country."

Zhao Hanzhang was very happy to receive the letter and immediately wrote her a detailed reply.

Zhao Mingming opened the letter happily, waiting for her mother's praise.

Zhao Hanzhang did praise her, but the pride on Zhao Mingming's face slowly disappeared and became serious.

She read the letter back and forth three times, and after confirming that it was correct, she pressed it on her desk and remained silent.

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong were waiting aside. Seeing her solemn expression, they quickly asked: "What's wrong?"

Seeing her silence, the two of them couldn't help but feel uneasy, and cautiously guessed: "Could it be that we have made His Majesty dissatisfied and His Majesty lost his temper with you?"

Zhao Mingming shook his head slowly, "No, I realized that my mother and I are too far apart." She suddenly felt a little worried, worried that she could not be the emperor well.

Zhao Mingming touched the letter on the case, feeling quite complicated. She thought she was getting closer to her mother, and very close, but this letter made her feel like a polo ball was knocked away by a shot, and she was different from her mother. The distance is getting farther.

She thought she could reach out and touch her mother's back, but it turned out that she couldn't even see her mother's back.

The setback made Zhao Mingming doubt herself for the first time. Can she really be an emperor and take over the power from her mother?

Zhao Mingming was sad for a night, but resurrected with full health the next day. Early in the morning, he woke up Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong from their beds, and said to them with bright eyes: "Let's talk."

The two of them were not fully awake yet, and both were a little confused, "What are you talking about?"

"Didn't I tell you last night? My mother has a whole set of tax reforms. Let's talk about the new tax reforms."

The two of them stood up with half-closed eyes. When they opened the door and saw each other and Zhao Mingming, who was sitting in the corridor in high spirits waiting for them to freshen up, they suddenly came to their senses and said, "My lady, what did you want to talk to us about just now?" ?”

Zhao Mingming: "New tax reform."

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong looked aggrieved, "You didn't tell us what His Majesty wrote in his letter last night."

So the two of them knew nothing, except that the Crown Princess was deeply shocked last night.

But they didn't take it seriously. The Crown Princess was very confident. Even if she was hit, she would recover in a short time.

But they didn't expect that His Majesty's letter contained such important things.

The two asked inquiringly: "The DPRK is going to carry out a new tax reform? Has it been approved by the left and right prime ministers and the parliament?"

Zhao Mingming waved his hand and said: "No, my mother said that this is something that requires the efforts of two generations. Tax reform cannot be accomplished in a day."

Zhao Mingming pulled the two of them into the study, "The problems that puzzled us a few days ago can basically be solved by my mother's new taxes."

The two of them opened their mouths wide, how could this be possible?

Zhao Mingming took out the letter and a piece of white paper and told them with a pen, "My mother has the same idea as us. New taxes should be paid in money. Of course, for some more important regular taxes, people can insist on paying in kind such as grain. "

Zhao Hanzhang had to consider that in some remote places, it was difficult to sell grain and cloth into money, so he would allow some states and counties to continue to pay in kind for the people to freely choose.

However, this is only a small part of Zhao Hanzhang's series of tax reforms.

Zhao Mingming and the others thought it was a big step to take this step, but who knew that Zhao Hanzhang was not going to take one step forward, but many steps.

"The new taxation will eliminate the Ding tax and distribute the Ding tax among the acres. From now on, the tax will only be the field tax, but not the Ding tax."

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong opened their mouths and said in disbelief: "Since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Ding tax has been the main tax. How can the Ding tax be abolished?"

"Without the Ding tax, wouldn't the imperial taxes have to be drastically reduced? Moreover, what will happen to the landless merchants and craftsmen?"

Although Zhao Hanzhang divided the land equally, not everyone had land.

Because they had their own means of making a living, handicraftsmen and merchants. After Zhao Hanzhang's equal distribution of land and household registration reform, they could not buy slaves and could only hire long-term and short-term workers. Farming the land required more energy and time than before.

Therefore, some craftsmen and businessmen will give up their land and concentrate on their profession after weighing the pros and cons.

For this group of people, the court also has corresponding support policies.

Therefore, there are still quite a lot of landless people in the city.

Zhao Mingming said: "These people have to pay property taxes just like before. Such reforms can kill three birds with one stone."

None of the three are stupid. If you think about it, you will know where the target of the new tax reform is.

First, curb land annexation. Although Zhao Hanzhang strictly ordered Yongye Tian not to be bought or sold, he could not leave no way for others.

Therefore, there are regulations that allow people to transfer the right to use Yongye Field for serious illness or bereavement of their family members.

To put it bluntly, if the land can be transferred to a third party due to serious illness or bereavement, this is equivalent to selling it.

The imperial court's taxes have always been collected together with Ding tax and field tax.

Land tax, also called land rent, orally allocated land is given free of charge by the state to the people for farming. When they die, the state-owned land must be taken back and cannot be transferred or inherited.

Yongye fields were distributed to the common people, and they could not be transferred, but they could be inherited. Yongye fields were generally allocated good land, so part of the land had to be handed over to the court for rent every year.

But the majority of the taxes that the imperial court had always collected were capitation taxes, that is, poll taxes.

From ancient times to the present, capitation tax has always been a top priority.

This also gave rise to a problem that has existed for thousands of years - hiding in the house!

This topic is familiar to Zhao Hanzhang and the Zhao clan, because during the previous dynasty, the Zhao clan's Wubao took in many refugees, most of whom were not registered, and these people were classified as hidden households.

In peacetime, they farmed the land for the Zhao family and only had to pay a small part of the land rent. There was no capitation tax. In wartime, they picked up swords and guns and became a tribe to form the Zhao family army.

Although the land equalization system has led to a large number of hidden households, the world is so big that there are always places that Zhao Hanzhang cannot see, and there are always places that the court cannot take care of. Therefore, the problem of hidden households still exists, but there are fewer.

The second target of the new tax is hidden households.

If the Ding tax is abolished and only the land tax is left, how many people in the world will be willing to live in seclusion?

After land tax has become the mainstream, and the fields in the world have been inspected three times, and it is difficult to find hidden fields, how many landlords in the world are still willing to take the risk of housing hidden households?

Their returns no longer match the risks they need to bear.

The third goal is to unify all people in the world, reduce their burdens, benefit all people, and make the country and its people equally prosperous. In other words, wealth is stored in the people. This people is for all people in the world and everyone in the world. (End of chapter)