Three Kingdoms: Summon the Heroic Soul Yue Fei at the beginning

Chapter 114 Excited People
Chapter 114 Excited People
Facing Liu Bowen's question, Ye Xiao got up and looked at the cakes on the table and said.

"Tian Fu."

When Liu Bowen heard Ye Xiao's words, he suddenly realized, yes, now that the problem of arable land and cattle has been solved, what about the land tax?

How much is the land tax?constant?Of course not, if the current land tax is followed, the agricultural plan will be aborted.

After all, after paying the land tax, the farmer will have no money, so there is no money left to pay back the interest.

Therefore, the land tax must be changed. Since it needs to be changed, how should it be changed?Too little and it cannot support the operation of the army, too much and it is no different from unchanged.

"Berwin, what do you think about reducing the land tax to thirty tax one?"

Thirty one tax, this is the rule implemented by Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is also the standard for the land tax of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty. However, with the passage of time, the thirty one tax was slowly removed, and the tax that farmers now have to pay is a full half of the income.

"In addition to the land tax, is there a population tax?"

Faced with Liu Bowen's question, Ye Xiao was not surprised at all. Population tax, also known as poll tax, simply means paying tax based on the population of the family.

This thing can be said to have run through the history of this world for thousands of years, but it is precisely because of this thing that many dynasties have come to an end.

"No, apart from the field tax, there is no need for any taxes on the land."

"what?!"

Liu Bowen looked at Ye Xiao in shock when he heard this. He thought that Ye Xiao would abolish other taxes, but he never expected that Ye Xiao would abolish the poll tax. You must know that the most important thing in a feudal society is population.

"My lord, are you joking, our land tax is so small, and we are canceling this, so where does our tax come from?"

Ye Xiao looked at the shocked Liu Bowen and smiled and said, "We can find ways to generate income."

"How to generate income?"

"How do you feel about the state government doing business and collecting business taxes?"

This sentence made Liu Bo Wen Lei even more unable to move, the state capital for business?You must know that in ancient times, businessmen, farmers, businessmen, and merchants were at the bottom and were cast aside by everyone.

Except for the monopoly of salt and iron by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty court no longer had any commercial actions, and even the right to cast money was distributed to the vassal states.

But now Ye Xiao actually wants to do business in order to generate income, not only that, but also to collect business tax?Since ancient times, who has heard of paying taxes for buying and selling things?

In fact, Liu Bowen didn't blame Ye Xiao for thinking so much, after all, the era he lived in was like this.

Ye Xiao is a person who has lived in a good society. It is not an exaggeration to say that his thoughts and thinking are thousands of years ahead of Liu Bowen.

"I don't know how the lord intends to operate?"

Ye Xiao picked up the pastries on the table and said after taking a bite.

"Yuzhou produces a lot of iron and copper. We can control the mining rights of these mines. Iron is the foundation of casting agricultural tools, and copper is money. If we master these two things, we will control the lifeline of the entire Yuzhou. When we take Xuzhou and Qingzhou in the future Then we can specialize in salt mines.”

When Ye Xiao said these words, Liu Bowen kept nodding his head in agreement. After all, many separatist forces would do this.

"In addition to these mines we can open markets, dominate the bulk trade, and collect taxes from each transaction."

After hearing this, Liu Bowen didn't understand and said: "I have to pay the imperial court to sell things. I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to realize, isn't it?"

Ye Xiao shook his head and said with a smile: "In reality, when merchants have tasted the benefits of bulk trading, they will naturally obediently pay taxes in order to join."

“Other than that we were ok”

In this way, Ye Xiao revealed all his business plans, during which Liu Bowen's servants added a lot of lamp oil to them.

The next morning, a notice detonated the entire Yingchuan City.

"Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the world has been exhausted, and Ye Mou became the prefect of Yuzhou not long ago."

A literate official stood in front of the notice and read the content of the notice aloud.

"The tax has been lowered? Just a land tax? Did I hear you right?"

"real or fake?"

"There is also that agricultural plan, which provides free farm tools to cultivate the land, and also allows multiple households to participate together."

The people in front of the notice were discussing in a hurry.

"Boy, is this true!"

An old man walked up to the little official who read out the notice and asked.

"Old man, of course it's true. From now on, there will only be land tax, and the land tax will be thirty and one tax. If you want to participate in the agricultural plan, you can sign up there."

"Is this money really paid in four years?"

A young man yelled after hearing it.

"If it's true or not, don't you know if you try it?"

Hearing the little official's answer, the man hesitated, at this time a strong man came out from behind him and said.

"Old Liu, why don't we both sign up for a try?"

"Wang Laoba, this is an interest payment, can we afford it?"

The man named Wang Laoba hesitated when he heard the word repayment, but he said it after a while.

"Don't care so much, if there is no more food in my family next year, my family will starve to death on the street. Old Liu, do you want to go? If you don't, I will find someone else."

Old Liu didn't move. At this time, a man beside Lao Liu stood up and said.

"Wang Laoba, I'll go with you. My family's situation is the same as yours, and seeing that Prefect Ye is treating us well, I don't believe Prefect Ye will lie to us!"

After speaking, the two came to the agricultural planning office. At this time, the two officials saw the two walking in and asked after knowing the purpose of the two.

"What's your name, where do you live? How many people are there in the family, and how many people came here?"

"My name is Wang Laoba"

"My name is Zhao Laosi"

After the two nervously answered the question, the official sitting on the seat handed a note to the two and said.

"You are in a joint guarantee relationship. If Wang Laoba doesn't pay back the principal and interest at that time, then Zhao Laosi will have to pay back. Do you have any opinions?"

The two shook their heads, and the official saw that the two had no objection and handed them two notes and said.

"Sign and draw a deposit, then go to the next door to get the farm tools, and then go outside the city to get the cattle."

The two took the note and went to the next door. The officials next door checked the note and confirmed that it was not forged, so they led the two to receive the farm tools. After that, the two went to the cowshed in the suburbs and handed over the note.

The officer looking at the cattle glanced at the note and said: "How to use this cattle, you two should allocate them well, and you are not allowed to abuse the cattle, let alone slaughter them, understand?"

The two nodded. The officer who watched the cattle handed over the cattle to the two. This scene was clearly seen by the people following them.

"It's true! It's true! I'm going to the farm program!"

Many people shouted and ran towards the Agricultural Planning Office, and soon the door of the Agricultural Planning Office was crowded with people.

Things in the city were in full swing, and three days passed like this.

At this moment in the Qinglong camp, Han Xin was standing on the commander's platform. This was his third day of training recruits, and there were still four days left before the seven-day deadline.

(End of this chapter)