Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"how?"

"This is not appropriate. What if someone uses a fake Jiaozi to exchange for copper coins?"

"Didn't you say that fake friends have little influence?"

"But there's always an impact."

"Then what do I want those yamen people to eat? Collect fake money for me?"

It is impossible for me not to implement the new policy that benefits the country and the people because the relevant departments do not act and do not want to increase the difficulty of work, right?

If there is a problem, it is a problem of the management of the officials. If the management is not good, get out, or lose your head.

It's not that this matter may go wrong, so it can't be done!

"Official, so..."

"how?"

"I always think this matter, if the officials insist on doing it, it's okay."

"How about handing over the New Deal to you?"

Wang Zonglian jumped up again: "Officials, I feel unwell recently!"

The product of the exchange of money and goods.

Whenever the circulation of goods is involved, money is needed.

Even ancient taxes involved money.

There are two types of taxes in the Song Dynasty. One is in kind, such as agricultural tax, and the tax is paid on food, such as cloth and fodder.

The second type is cash. For example, commercial taxes are mostly cash.

Therefore, why is it said that the currency is also involved in the taxation of the new agricultural policy? This is the reason.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, the agricultural tax was 30 out of 2. A free farmer had 60 mu of land, and each mu produced 7200 shi per year, a total of [-] shi a year, which was almost [-] catties.

According to the agricultural tax is one out of ten, take out 720 catties to pay the tax.

The poll tax, husband's money, cowhide, salt tax, and purchase, and purchase, branch transfer, chief's money and other taxes are calculated again, and the total is about 2000 catties.

Just count on the lowest 2000.

Pay 2000 catties, 5200 catties left?

No, no, the remaining may only be 3000 catties, or even 2000 catties.

How can this be?

Isn't 7200 minus 2000 equal to 5200?

From a mathematical point of view, it is equal to 5200, but from a sociological point of view, it is not equal to 5200.

[-]. The tools used by officials in the process of collecting taxes cannot be standardized and precise, and they will definitely charge more.

[-]. In the process of tax collection, the local officials use the waste in the transportation of tax and grain as an excuse to pay more, that is, to charge more. The specific amount of tax collection is not standardized, and the right to speak is in the hands of the officials.

[-]. Local officials often set up pretexts. For example, today the gate of the magistrate’s house needs to be repaired, and the common people are required to serve corvee.

When these realistic factors are combined, 5200?3000 catties left is not bad!

7200 catties, and the remaining 3000 catties were less than 58 catties. After all, a total of [-]% was handed over. Taking into account the loss of food storage, the family could barely make ends meet.

Even in times of calamity, starvation is a common occurrence.

This is the real situation of ancient farmers.

In the Qing Dynasty, the "one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver from the prefect of the Qing Dynasty in three years" was not only in the Qing Dynasty, but also existed since ancient times.

The fundamental reason is that there is a lack of standardization in the taxation process, and there are too many gray areas, which give local officials a lot of room to play.

Being a commoner in ancient times was really miserable. Even a commoner in a prosperous age may not have a good life.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, countless people sharpened their heads and wanted to enter the officialdom.

Once one person in the family becomes an official, basically one person will ascend to heaven.

If their officials were dismissed, demoted to civilians, their property confiscated, their social status and power lost, their future life would be miserable.

In order to greatly alleviate this phenomenon in the agricultural tax, it is actually not difficult from a theoretical perspective. You only need to popularize paper money and pay taxes with paper money.

But only from a theoretical level, if it is to be implemented in practice, it must be very difficult.

For example, how to circulate banknotes to farmers?

You can't throw money away, can you?

A little carelessness in financial reform can lead to financial crisis, chain economic crisis and financial crisis.

However, even if the reform is difficult, Zhao Ning will do it.

To sum up, this new policy of handing in banknotes is to cut off the tax revenue of local officials, and it is a very large amount of revenue.

This is also the reason why Wang Zonglin is unwilling to do it.

If he dares to take the lead in promoting it, he will be sprayed to death!

"Unwell? Then you are really unlucky. Gao Qiu has been telling me recently that you still have stolen money hidden in your house. I really can't bear to search your house, but for..."

"Officials, I suddenly feel that my body has improved again. You see, it is no problem to kill a cow now!"

"Better?"

"All right!"

"What about handing over the money?"

"Leave it to the minister, absolutely no problem!"

"It's really my good uncle. When I'm in trouble, I'm still my uncle!"

Zhao Ning patted Wang Zongyi on the shoulder, and continued: "Set up another commercial agency bureau in your Taifu Temple, and back up all the commercial agencies on Gyeonggi Road to the commercial agency bureau. Whoever wants to establish a new commercial agency in the future must register with the commercial agency bureau. Pass, understand?"

"Also, some yamen under the Taifu Temple will be cut if they are useless."

"This……"

Boss, you can't just give us extra workload, what about overtime pay?

"something wrong?"

"no problem!"

As long as you don't let Gao Li go to my house, it's fine!

"By the way, from today onwards, you will go to Dongfu to work, and Taifu Temple will be subordinate to Dongfu."

"Officials, those people in the East Mansion cursed people too cruelly, can I not go?"

"You are my uncle, are you still afraid of being scolded by them?" Zhao Ning helped Wang Zonglian straighten his collar, "Show your momentum! The commander in front of the palace, the minister of the Taifu Temple, and the bank of the Song Dynasty Master, my uncle, my Wolong, is very clever!"

While Zhao Ning was talking with Wang Zonglin, news came from the front line.

It was sent by Zong Ze. The scouts discovered a large-scale gathering of the Jin army near Zhending Mansion.

Chapter 214 Restructuring of Grassroots Officials (Second Change)

After reading Zong Ze's letter, Zhao Ning was not shocked, nor even surprised, but had become accustomed to it.

According to the calculation of time, the ups and downs in Tokyo City should have already reached Beijing.

As for what Shangjing wants to do?

Just a few points:

[-]. If you don’t fight, adjust yourself first, and wait for a big one at the end of the year.

Second, fight, fight immediately, but the big ones will definitely not be able to fight, and fight situational wars.

Three, do not fight, negotiate peace.

For Zhao Ning, fighting or not fighting has no impact on the current situation.

Because he arranged the front line according to the possibility of war that may break out at any time.

Whether it is Li Gang, Zong Ze, or Zhang Jun, they all have enough power to recruit and train soldiers locally.

In terms of military expenditures, the 400 million shi of food that the rich have just collected from Gyeonggi Road is enough to feed the frontline for a year.

Not to mention that Shaanxi has a lot of arable land itself, nearly 5000 million mu of land!

The focus of support is nothing more than Hedong and Hebei.

The tax reduction policies of Hedong and Hebei have also been promulgated.

A new round of military pay is also being transferred.

I have done all the preparations I can, but as to whether I can win or not, that's another story.

However, he still replied a letter to Zong Ze, Li Gang and Zhang Jun, telling them not to take it lightly.

Time passed quickly, and it was already July 23rd in a blink of an eye.

Zhao Ding handed over the latest news that the first batch of field purchases by the Ministry of Household Affairs went smoothly, and the private transaction price was even as low as 400 renminbi.

In fact, this is the same as the stock market. Most stockholders buy up or down, and want to sell when they see a drop.

Those who have never experienced the stock market will say that people in the stock market are fools, how can they chase the high?

When he entered, he was instantly dumbfounded.

This is a crowd effect, and crowds are unconscious.

If groups were conscious, there would be no economic crisis in the world of capital.

The purchase of land is progressing fairly smoothly, and the expansion of the staff of the Department of Agricultural Affairs is accelerating, and agricultural affairs offices are set up in various counties and counties along Gyeonggi Road.

These yamen have to undertake the important task of renting land, and all the land that has entered the imperial court must be recorded, sorted, archived, and then leased out.

Now that Tian's sale has been confirmed to be executable, on July 24, Zhao Guan's family made another small-scale restructuring.

This time the restructuring is about grassroots officials.

The role of Baozheng is equivalent to that of the village head, but he is only an official.

The so-called official staff cannot be counted as the official staff of the imperial court, but only temporary workers hired by the local yamen, and their status is very low.

And on weekdays, the county magistrate doesn't interact much with Baozheng.

But the role of Baozheng is really too important.

How important is the role of the village head in an agricultural society?

Tax collection, war mobilization, road construction, canal opening, etc., all require the role of the village head to organize.

But this role is not officially established by the court.

This phenomenon is commonly known as the imperial power not going to the countryside.

Since the role of Baozheng is so important, why didn't the ancients directly incorporate it into the court official system?

Are the ancients stupid?

Of course the ancients were not stupid.

In particular, the ancient Chinese established the world's most advanced and complete empire management system. Looking at the world, no second empire can do it.

Then why not include Baozheng?

The root cause is actually quite simple: limited productivity.

Many policies that could not be perfected in ancient times were the reason for limited productivity.

Productivity is limited, transportation and roads are not perfect, and the central government's ability to manage the local area is really limited. If the village chief is included in the official system of the imperial court, it will be impossible to manage it.

In ancient times, there were no computers, no telephones, and no railways.

Even the amount of paper for backup of official documents is limited.

These are all important reasons for restricting the central government's large-scale strong control of the grassroots.

Therefore, after the Song Dynasty after the end of the aristocratic family, squires and landlords became particularly important. They were the product of the compromise of imperial power at the grassroots level.

The imperial power feared them and adopted a variety of policies to restrain land annexation to restrict them, but also had to rely on them.

This time, the ups and downs caused by the new agricultural policy dealt a heavy blow to the landlords and gentry, severely weakening the power of the local big landlords.