Wei and Jin cooks

People are living people who can run and hide. Powerful and capable people hide the population. As the tax on population is the main tax for the court, if the court cannot collect the tax and lacks finances, it can only ask the powerless. , ordinary people who did not evade taxes imposed more taxes.

If things go on like this, civilians will have no choice but to find ways to survive if they cannot survive.

They have one and only one way, and that is to rebel, kill all the existing vested interests, kill fear, and smash the cover of interests, so that they can find space for survival.

Mother said, don’t stand on the opposite side of the people of the world. The royal family is supported by all people, so it must protect all people. We and all people should be in a complementary relationship, not enemies.

My mother also said that those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. Back then, Zhao Jiajun was a group of barefoot people who only had one life to fight for, so they were not afraid of failure.

"Never compete for the survival capital of civilians. When they lose everything, they will have nothing to fear; never place yourself on the opposite side of civilians."

The new tax is a measure of the royal family and the court's favor to the people.

Taxes have always been linked to labor, and labor is divided into regular servants and miscellaneous servants. The handyman Zhao Hanzhang has been abolished, and there are still some major servants left.

Zhao Mingming said: "Today, the yield of wheat can reach six stones per mu, and the yield of rice is even higher, seven and a half stones. In the Jiangnan and Jingchu areas, the average yield per mu is even higher than eight stones."

"Our county is a poor county. Judging from previous statistics, every household has iron farm tools. Every year, people from Sinong Temple go to the countryside to explain new farming methods and new cultivation methods. There are also many innovations in the countryside. , the number of cattle owned has reached two-thirds, which means that one labor force can now produce about three times as much food as before.”

"What will the extra labor do?" Zhao Mingming asked: "In handicrafts and commerce, in our county alone, there have been as many as 36 workshops established in the past three years, which is the total number of workshops in the 25 years before the founding of the People's Republic of China. "

"But our county is still a poor county. In fortresses with more developed transportation, in wider plains, and in places with a large amount of minerals and other resources, the number of workshops established is much higher, and their economy is faster and more developed. "Zhao Mingming looked at Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong with bright eyes and said: "And these are all money!"

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong's eyes became brighter and brighter, "The imperial court wants to collect taxes from these places?"

"Yes, these workshops and caravans will be more profitable, and the handicraftsmen and businessmen will also be richer. They use the country's resources and the country's population, and naturally have to pay taxes to the country. Therefore, in the future, the country's finance will come more from these Collect it from people.”

“When national and local government agencies have money, they can spend money to hire people to build bridges, build roads, dredge rivers, and repair water conservancy projects.”

Zudao's heart trembled, and he already had a guess, so he asked in a trembling voice: "So?"

"So, the imperial court wants to cancel the official service!" Zhao Mingming said with piercing eyes: "Just like the handymen, cancel it completely!"

Zu Daozhong and Fan Lianyin opened their mouths and asked: "Now?"

"Of course not now," Zhao Mingming looked at them and said seriously: "But after I come to power, because the country's taxation focus has not yet moved, so regular servants must still exist."

"My mother's generation will have a harder time than us, and our generation will not have it easy, but it doesn't matter. If we suffer more now, future generations will be able to enjoy more blessings."

Fan Lianyin pondered, "So we have to find a way to let people make money from places other than the land, and it has to be a lot of money."

Zu Daozhong was a little worried, "Wouldn't this delay the mulberry farming?"

Farming is very hard work. Zu Daozhong is willing to call it the hardest work in the world. He has participated in the spring and autumn work. He really feels that it is much harder than practicing martial arts and practicing swordsmanship, and it is more difficult than going to the battlefield. Hard.

He is willing to risk fighting on the battlefield rather than farming.

If you can earn a higher income from commerce and handicrafts without relying on land than farming, how many people in the world will be willing to farm?

He felt that he had to make two preparations. "If the people in the world are unwilling to farm, how can the court ensure food security?"

Zhao Mingming frowned, obviously not thinking about this.

Fan Lianyin said: "Are you thinking too much? If one day, everyone in the world can make more money from handicrafts and commerce than from land, then the country will no longer need to collect taxes from land, but only from handicrafts and commerce. The tax collected will be sufficient for the court's expenses, and then the land rent and land tax will be exempted. I don't believe there will be no one farming."

Zu Daozhong: "You are too fanciful. How can you possibly be exempted from land rent and land tax?"

Now that the emperor and the princess have said that the human tax will be spread into the fields, he thinks it is a fantasy that the tax will no longer exist.

Ancestor Daozhong: "The new tax reform is only the idea of ​​His Majesty and the Crown Princess. Before you even write about it, you are already thinking of canceling the land rent and land tax."

"I just imagined based on your hypothesis. Besides, is there anything in the world that is impossible in front of His Majesty?" Fan Lianyin said: "Before His Majesty appeared, could you have thought that the common people could be exempted from their chores? You Can you imagine that all children in the world can go to school and must go to school? Can you imagine that military service is no longer something that everyone avoids, but becomes something that everyone strives to do?"

Zu Daozhong had nothing to say.

He was a few years older than Fan Lianyin and Zhao Mingming. When he was born, the new dynasty had not yet been established. Although he had no memory at that time, when he was young, his father often lamented the past with him.

Moreover, life when he was a child was far less convenient and affluent than it is now. Even if his father was Zuti, there were some things he didn't have.

He is a very perceptive person, otherwise his father would not have sent him to the palace to accompany the princess, let alone stand out among the many companions and become one of Zhao Mingming's best friends.

Thinking of this, Zu Daozhong glanced at the person who admired Zhao Mingming without thinking, and snorted quietly in his heart, but his brain couldn't help but think about her words.

Judging from history, it is difficult for new tax reforms to succeed, let alone the abolition of land rent and land tax;

From a realistic perspective, 70% of the country's fiscal revenue now comes from farmers, and more before that. In the previous dynasty, more than 90% of the state's fiscal revenue came from civilian taxes and land taxes, as well as various taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Commerce and handicrafts were not as developed as expected, and taxes were more difficult to define.

It is difficult for the income from handicrafts and commerce to exceed that of agriculture. It is even more impossible to collect taxes from handicrafts and commerce to offset 70% of the current Ding tax land rent and various taxes and donations.

but……

If it were your Majesty, Zu Daozhong said with enthusiasm, "Maybe it's possible."

Although the voice was small, Fan Lianyin heard it and she raised her head proudly, "Whatever, you can't deny His Majesty's talent, right?"

Zu Daozhong: "But this is definitely not something that His Majesty can do alone."

Zhao Mingming: "So there is still me and you."

She said with piercing eyes: "Aniang said that this cannot be accomplished by one generation. It requires the efforts of two, three, or even more generations."

Therefore, she not only has to do a good job herself, but she also has to cultivate future generations and choose a suitable heir to inherit her and Aniang's policies.

Zhao Mingming's ambition has been burning, "We will start studying and improving His Majesty's policies from now on. When I take the throne, I will start to implement the New Deal. By then, you will be my right and left hand!"

Ancestor Daozhong was startled, looked around subconsciously, and whispered: "My lady, be careful what you say, I don't know if there are any secret agents around here..."

Fan Lianyin nodded with bright eyes, nodding before him and expressing her loyalty, "I swear to be loyal to the princess to the death!"

Zu Daozhong:......

Zhao Mingming didn't take Zu Daozhong's reminder to heart. Her mother had told her how to be a good emperor since she was a child, and she would be the next emperor, so mother and daughter never shied away from this matter.