Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

In fact, Daheng's agricultural tax, if you look at the past dynasties, is actually quite heavy.

In the past dynasties, the agricultural tax was mostly one-thirty, or one-fifteen. Just like in the previous Ming Dynasty, the average agricultural tax rate was even lower than thirty-one, and even at the end of Ming Dynasty, it reached the Fifty to one ratio.

But obviously, no matter how low the Ming tax rate is, it is of no use at all. After all, most of the land is in the hands of landlords and gentry.

The people do not have land, so they can only be tenants. The tax rate of the people is the rent, and the rent is set by the landlord.

As for Daheng, the agricultural tax ratio is [-] out of [-]!

This ratio is not low.

However, after many arrangements by the emperor, such as seizing the land of the former Ming clan, killing illegal merchants, killing landlords and gentry, using war to disrupt the people, chaos and great chaos, and the final fatal blow, the reform of land finance and taxation.

The people have land, and the people's taxes are directly connected to the court, and one out of ten is much better than being a tenant, five or six out of ten, or even seven or eight out of ten.

Moreover, the Daheng agricultural tax is only the agricultural tax. In the past, all kinds of exorbitant taxes such as Ding tax, land tax, and Liao pay have been abolished in Daheng.

Even the corvée, which the people fear most, is under strict regulations.

In Daheng, local counties, in order to levy corvee, a detailed plan must be drawn up and submitted to the government for approval. At the same time, the government must inspect the censor and go to the local county where the corvée is to be supervised.

The cumbersome approval process has brought about corvée, which rarely occurs in Daheng, especially in these years, with continuous natural disasters and countless victims. Daheng is almost extinct.

In Daheng, when people farm land, they really only need to pay the agricultural tax to the imperial court once a year. What to plant and what to pay, one out of ten is enough, and no one can control the rest.

Moreover, although the agricultural tax is a ratio of one in ten, the price of daily necessities such as food in Daheng is strictly controlled.

Every year, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the State-owned Grain Bank collect statistics on the market conditions in various parts of the world, formulate a price limit, and regulate the price of food in various places.

This is undoubtedly a loss-making business. It is necessary to avoid food being too expensive and the people cannot afford it, and to avoid cheap food from hurting farmers. After all, most people in the world rely on farming to survive, and family expenses also depend on Sell ​​some surplus food.

Every year, Daheng's state-owned grain bank is almost in a state of loss.

During the annual autumn harvest and grain sales, we must protect the farmers, and after the autumn harvest and grain sales, we must secure the people.

With so many policies, Daheng's agricultural tax rate is high, but in fact, it is all taken from the people and used for the people.

The fundamental reason for maintaining such a high agricultural tax ratio is naturally the continuous natural disasters these years.

It doesn't matter whether it's work for relief, or the migration of the people, even if it's the resettlement of the migrants, all of these require a large amount of food to supply.

If the agricultural tax is too low and the imperial court buys it from the market, even if the imperial court suppresses it with an iron fist, it will inevitably increase the price of food and destabilize the country.

The commercial tax and tariffs are as high as 3000 million taels of silver, the agricultural tax and a large amount of livelihood materials, and a small part of the agricultural tax converted into silver. silver.

According to the current market exchange rate between banknotes and gold, silver and copper metal currencies, one yuan is approximately equal to one tael of silver, so Daheng Zhaowu's fiscal and tax revenue for eight years is already more than [-] million Singapore dollars.

For the people, how much money they have is how much they live, and for the Daheng court, it is naturally the same.

In the past, when the finances were tight, they would tighten their belts to live. If it was not possible, they would borrow from Daheng Bank.

And if there is more fiscal and tax revenue, then live a prosperous life.

Of course, even if it is a wealthy day, every penny has to be broken into two halves.

After all, the tiankeng of this era is too deep!

Natural disasters are still lingering, and the money and food invested in labor relief, relocation of people, and resettlement of people have reached an average of tens of millions every year.

Moreover, in order to break the idea that the gentlemen are noble and the military are inferior, Daheng's treatment of soldiers is not bad.

Not to mention the high salary, even in terms of social treatment, it is also a huge sum every year.

According to Daheng's army welfare regulations, those who enlist in the army are almost all Fuze's family. Every year during the Spring Festival, the local government must arrange officials to visit the military with food, oil and other supplies.

At the same time, if the soldiers have military exploits, they will also reward their families. At the same time, if the soldiers die in battle, or are injured and disabled, the imperial court will send them or their parents and children according to their salaries in the army every year. Martial arts practice also enjoys preferential policies.

Moreover, if these policies are only in terms of money and treatment, the social status of soldiers will skyrocket after the soldier's transfer policy comes out!

Changing jobs is an official!

It's a high-ranking official!

In this era, under these welfare policies, many soldiers are really not afraid of death at all, and even afraid of not being able to die!

A bad life, Fukuzawa's family will live forever!

For the Daheng millions of soldiers whose poor children accounted for 90.00% of the total, there is really nothing more cost-effective than this deal.

If you try your best and make a battle without dying, then you will reach the sky in one step, and you will directly realize the class leap.

It is precisely because the soldiers are not afraid of death, and are even full of desire for war, that they have it. Even if the imperial court formulates a strategic defense strategy, the soldiers below are also full of fighting spirit. Invincible military might!

Chapter 679 Big Government and Small Government

"Money..."

In Qianqing Palace, the emperor couldn't help shaking his head and sighing as he looked at another memorial requesting for funding.

Really earn more and spend more.

In the past, when the financial constraints were tight, the pressure was not so great. Now that the financial tolerance is a little bit, the pressure suddenly hits.

In the past, there were a lot of political affairs. If you didn’t have money, you would choose to do things selectively. What is important and what is the priority, you will do it first.

Now that the finances are lenient, it is undoubtedly very uncomfortable to suddenly have to pay back the debts owed in the past.

Tens of millions of taels of silver have not been warmed up in the treasury, and most of them are spilled out like running water.

And now, it was only the beginning of the ninth year of Zhaowu!

Next, Northwest, Southwest, Liao Province, North Korea, Navy, Northern Xinjiang, disaster relief...

Everything needs a lot of money and material resources to create it.

No matter how much money there is, it still feels like a drop in the bucket.

Although after several years, paper money has become the mainstream, and it is possible to try to issue more currency, but obviously, before the concept of currency is completely clear, the emperor does not want to set this precedent.

After all, before there is a clear concept of currency, and there is no clear currency system, the emperor does not want to open this gap in currency and finance.

While thinking about it, the emperor pursed his lips, and casually wrote down instructions on this volume of memorials under request for appropriation, and picked up another volume of memorials. Just picking it up, the emperor couldn't help frowning.

There is no other reason, this memorial book is really too thick, after a moment of contemplation, the emperor slowly opened the memorial book, his eyes froze for only a moment, and the emperor's eyes suddenly froze.

After a long time, the emperor slowly put down the playbook, and the signature at the bottom of the playbook, the name "Du Yinxi" is very clear.

There are not many middle- and lower-level officials that the emperor pays attention to, but this Du Yinxi is the most special one among them.

Those who are officials naturally want to climb up. Those who are in difficult places also try their best to transfer to comfortable places. Most of the other low-level officials that the emperor cares about are also like this.

He was the only one who blocked Yinxi, who had made great achievements in many positions. The Ministry of Officials had transferred him to be promoted to Tianjin Shipping Department, and even transferred to the capital as an official. He retreated deliberately and stayed with the disaster victims in Shaanxi.

From the initial project disaster relief supervisor in one place, to the resettlement officer who participated in the migration strategy, and now the resettlement envoy who is in charge of the migration strategy in Liao Province.

In the Daheng officialdom, few officials are willing to do these things.

Although it is a credit if it is done well, but if it involves tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, if it is a little careless, it will be a major event of heaven.

Not to mention the harsh environment in Shaanxi, that is, the wind and sun and the cold winter during the migration process are not something ordinary officials can bear.

A thankless thing is not popular in officialdom!

However, he blocked Yinxi, but he was willing to do so, and he performed his duties very well. He relocated several times over the years, all of which were successfully completed, which reduced about 40 people in Shaanxi and made the land Liao Province, which is sparsely populated, has an additional 40 people.

And this playbook...

The Son of Heaven opened the memorial again, his eyes shifted, and he almost read every word.

The so-called... The position of the station is different, and the angle of thinking about things is different.

What the emperor considers is the general direction of the whole world.

The specific branches and details are the affairs of officials at all levels.

Not to mention, the Son of Heaven is not a saint, it is also the first time he has taken power in the world, and many things have strong personal prejudices.

Some of these prejudices are right, and some may be wrong.

This is why in recent years, the Son of Heaven has seldom personally promoted anything, but only set the basic framework, and let the officials fill in the branches and brainstorm.

But Du Yinxi's melody revealed a problem that the emperor had never considered or neglected in the past.

In other words, it is an idea that is contrary to the current direction of the imperial court!

At its core, it is the difference between big government and small government.

What Daheng is implementing now is naturally an unquestionable big government system. Strictly speaking, it is even a big government system that is more thorough than previous dynasties.

The rights that can be brought back to the center will be transferred to the center, further weakening local rights, such as the tax department, the inspector's office, the local capital inspection department, the city ship department, etc., almost all the local affairs except basic civil affairs are directly under the center Jurisdiction.

And this is only the concentration of power. The biggest change is that the power brought about by the restructuring of Lijia has sunk to the villages and towns!

Daheng wants to establish a large government system that can directly issue orders to villages and towns with the command of the central government!

This is the emperor's expectation, and it is also the direction in which Daheng is moving forward.

What the Son of Heaven thinks is naturally very good. The big government system with power sinking to the bottom will almost cut down most of the foundation soil of the gentry's control of the place. Moreover, the imperial court's policies can also go directly to the grassroots, so that it can easily coordinate the affairs of the world. force!

The most important thing is that under such a big government system, we can better keep up with the development of the times.

After all, when commercial capital becomes more and more prosperous, the ambitions of commercial capital will inevitably spread with the growth of wealth!

Capital, for profit, must be bloody and ugly!

The oppression and exploitation of the people during the disorderly expansion of Western capital in history has clearly explained everything.

If there is no strong and powerful government system to control, it will inevitably be a scene where rituals and music collapse, capital is disordered and barbaric.

This... is enough to destroy the foundation of this nation!

As long as the big government controls the barbaric and disorderly capital, then under the interests of the sky, the general environment will completely change from agriculture to business.

Lao Cai, a landlord who wants to guard hundreds of acres of land and collect rent, will no longer want to be a miser, but will change with the times and use money to make money.

In this way, the annexation of land that has plagued the people of all dynasties and the overthrow of dynasties has not only been completely resolved, but has also been greatly suppressed in Daheng. Moreover, it is not the suppression of the current policy, but the era that is most in line with the hearts of the people. environmental oppression.

For this alone, Daheng's national fortune will last at least 200 years!

Strictly speaking, the small government does not mean that the government is weak, but it refers to the rule of doing nothing in the Han Dynasty.

It means that the imperial court only needs to grasp the general direction, and don't interfere too much with the people at the bottom.

It is enough to be lenient in corvees and thin in taxes, to be benevolent and good in governance, and to let the people live their small lives with peace of mind.

It seems nonsense, but in fact, it also makes sense.

And this truth is exactly what the emperor has always paid attention to, but has neglected.

It is also the core of Du Yinxi's memorial.

6 Chapter Eighty

Among them, there is a very real problem.

That is... human nature!

The world is bustling, all come for the benefit, and the world is bustling, all go for the benefit.

Looking at the world, how many officials are truly serving the people wholeheartedly?

Even in later generations, in the era of extremely advanced information, the domineering and bureaucratic officials cannot be avoided, let alone this era.

Any policy, even the best good governance, can easily become a channel for officials to extract oil from the people.

The more contacts officials have with the people, the more opportunities they have to oppress the people!

This is almost inevitable.

The fundamental purpose of governing by doing nothing is to avoid too much contact between officials and the people, and to reduce the chance of human nature to do evil as much as possible.

But today's Daheng, the central government system, and the lower power at the bottom are obviously completely contrary to the small government system that governs by doing nothing.

The imperial court can control everything, and wants to control everything!

In this way, although it means that the imperial government's policies can reach the most basic level, and it can easily mobilize all the forces in the world.

But at the same time, it also means that the officials at the bottom have a lot of opportunities to contact the people!

Even all aspects of the common people are under the control of low-level officials.

Rather than in the past, before the imperial power went to the countryside, the power was limited to the county level. Although the Lijia system existed, it was neither an official nor an official.

Du Yinxi's melody is the core of it, and it is here that the current Daheng is obviously... too lenient.

Lijia reform, land finance and tax reform, education supervision and education reform, and the state-owned bank and commercial bank system, etc., the rights have been reduced to the grassroots, and people's birth, old age, illness, and death are either controlled by the imperial court or controlled by the imperial court. Policy support, all of which are inseparable from officials.

Du Yinxi's memorial is not biased. Strictly speaking, it is more like a report on his work. In the form of a memorial, he tells what he has seen and heard, the pros and cons of contacting countless people at the grassroots level over the years.