Zhou Zhiruo was unmoved, and said calmly, "Without me, you will be of no use no matter how good you are." One sentence made Zhao Min punch into the empty space, and his heart was suffocated.
Song Qingshu's scalp tingled when he heard that, thinking that it was his biggest mistake to ask them both at the same time, and he should talk to them one by one in private.
Seeing that she had the upper hand, Zhou Zhiruo glanced at Zhao Min quite proudly, and then began to report other things to Song Qingshu as if asking for credit: "During this period of time, I have reviewed the resumes of the Jianghuai land boundary officials, and many of them were corrupt and perverted the law. However, considering that Yangzhou is newly attached, everything is based on stability. During this period of time, our focus is still on controlling the army, so we only made minor adjustments to those local officials. Except for a few particularly asshole officials who were killed by me as an example, The others have not been moved yet, and we will settle accounts with them slowly after everything stabilizes in the future."
"Well done, stability is the most important thing now!" Song Qingshu couldn't help admiring, and looked at Zhao Min in surprise after speaking, "You came up with these too? The princess is really all-rounder!"
Zhou Zhiruo's face darkened, and Zhao Min couldn't help but giggled: "I asked you for credit, I didn't expect you to put the credit directly on the head of the princess, giggling~ It seems that in your mind, I am better than some people Much smarter and more reliable."
Sensing the murderous intent behind him, Song Qingshu only felt a chill run down his back, and instantly changed his words: "But Zhiruo, you are more powerful, and you can drive such a powerful person to your own use."
Hearing his words, Zhou Zhiruo's face looked better, but Zhao Min's face turned dark.
"What about taxes?" Song Qingshu secretly wiped off his cold sweat, and quickly changed the subject.
"Taxation is more troublesome." Zhou Zhiruo frowned. "Although the land of Jianghuai is rich, most of the land is concentrated in the hands of gentry. However, the previous tax policy gave preferential treatment to people with fame. The gentry can reduce or exempt a lot of taxes. In order to avoid taxes, the poor peasants put their land in the hands of the gentry, and it is easy to be merged by the gentry over time...the tax collected is far worse than the actual land amount.”
"Land annexation is a necessary stage of feudal society, normal." Song Qingshu began to ponder, although he understood its inevitability, but he had to find a way to solve this problem.
"Actually, it's easy to solve this problem." Zhao Min who was on the side suddenly said.
"How to solve it?" Zhou Zhiruo had been having a headache with this problem for a while, and subconsciously asked.
Zhao Min raised his chin, and a smugness flashed in his eyes: "Please!"
Zhou Zhiruo choked for breath, turned her head and chose to ignore it.
Song Qingshu smiled wryly: "Princess, don't be a fool, tell us something."
"Hmph, for the sake of your good attitude, this princess will teach you." Seeing that Zhou Zhiruo said to ignore it, but actually pricked up his ears to listen, Zhao Min smiled brightly, "The current border of our Mongolian Empire Taxation is also a big problem. At the beginning, it was improved according to the taxation method of your Han people, but the effect was not very good. Later, some Hui people offered advice and invented a taxation method, which is to adjust the tax rate to a very high level. level."
"Tch, what good idea did I have at that time?" Zhou Zhiruo sneered again and again, "The lower class people will raise the tax rate and still not rise up?"
"What are you doing in such a hurry, I haven't finished yet," Zhao Min gave her a white look, and continued, "The tax rate is so high that ordinary people can't afford it, but the imperial court will establish an institution that can issue loans and lend money to People pay taxes, and at the same time extend the repayment period appropriately, of course, the longer the repayment period, the higher the interest.”
"Wouldn't it mean that the people will live without living? The people will still rise up?" Zhou Zhiruo frowned.
"Of course not," Zhao Min suddenly sneered. "The low-level people are contented animals. As long as there is room for choice, they will not rebel, and the court lending them money is to give them room."
"Isn't this multi-layered exploitation?" Zhou Zhiruo was rather dissatisfied, "You Mongolians are really vampires."
"So what!" Zhao Min didn't care, "The law of the jungle is the law of nature. Although this method seems inhumane, the tax collected is dozens of times that of your Han people. Our Mongolian treasury is full, and the organization can be stronger. armies to conquer more countries.”
"Rude barbarians." Zhou Zhiruo snorted, but she had to admit in her heart that Mongolia was so powerful, and there really was a reason for it.
Song Qingshu's face was strange when he heard that, the imperial court borrowed money from the common people to pay taxes, why is it so similar to the mortgage of later generations...
"The princess's plan is indeed very reasonable..." Song Qingshu praised Zhao Min's hype a lot, and suddenly changed the subject, "However, this method is too advanced, and it is easy to exhaust the fish if you are not careful. There may be no problem in the short term, but Every ten years or so, various problems will erupt, and the people will not be able to survive, and the country is in danger of collapsing."
We must know how many economists, mathematicians, and political geniuses in the future generations are calculating their models and keeping abreast of the pulse of the real estate market. Even so, economic crises break out from time to time all over the world.
In today's world, Song Qingshu doesn't believe that there are so many scientists who can handle this extremely complicated financial system. Huihui people are at most just beginning to get involved in this field. All experience is still being explored, and many big problems will definitely erupt in the future.
Historically, Mongolia adopted the Muslim tax policy, and it did hide its sweetness at the beginning, but then serious turmoil broke out, and this method had to be abandoned.
Although Zhao Min is smart, she has the limitations of the times after all. She thinks this taxation method is so effective, and she told Song Qingshu without reservation, but he didn't appreciate it, so she couldn't help but secretly angry: "Hmph, you don't think this is okay, then No, it seems that you must have an idea?"
"I have thought of a few ways, let me think about it first." Song Qingshu's mind was spinning rapidly at this time, but he didn't pay attention to Zhao Min's emotional changes.
Seeing him hit the snake with the stick, Zhao Min snorted, turned his head away, and planned not to give this bastard any advice in the future, but Zhou Zhiruo, who was at the side, was in high spirits, obviously happy to hear about this situation.
Song Qingshu didn't notice the undercurrent between the two women, and began to pay more attention to the issue of taxation. The first thought that popped into his mind was to divide the land from the local tyrants. The road that Taizu walked in the past proved to be effective, and the enthusiasm of the majority of farmers will be brought into play, and a very terrifying energy will erupt.
But he quickly dispelled this idea, and the time is not yet ripe. The reason why Taizu succeeded back then was because of internal and external troubles. China was facing unprecedented changes in the millennium, and it reached the point where it could not be broken.
In today's world, the gentry class controls a lot of wealth in society, and at the same time almost all the talents come from the gentry class. If they are completely offended, they will flee to other countries. In addition, the gentry class still controls public opinion. It really became the image of a butcher.
You must know that Li Zicheng has learned a lot from the past. When Chongzhen ran out of ammunition and food, he did not attack the gentry in the capital. As a result, Li Zicheng seized tens of millions of taels of silver from the gentry's house as soon as he entered Beijing. In the end, they were regarded by the gentry all over the world as unshakable enemies; on the contrary, the Manchus treated these gentry very favorably, so they all became the leaders of the Manchus. They were the pioneers, so the Manchu Qing was able to sweep the world with tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers.
Song Qingshu still needs the help of these gentry class to govern the local area, and the support of the gentry class is needed to compete in the world. After all, the peasants in this world have no culture at all.
He didn't want to be Li Zicheng, so he could only give up the seductive method of later generations.
"Is there anything you can do? Use mine if you don't have one." Zhao Min waited aside, seeing that he had been silent, and suddenly became a little impatient.
"Of course there is!" Song Qingshu straightened out his thoughts at this moment, and replied directly, "We can combine 'never add a tax' and 'split Ding to Mu' in a two-pronged way."
"What do you mean?" The two women looked puzzled.
Song Qingshu explained: "I myself was just a commoner before. Now that I have the ability, I naturally have to consider the lives of the common people. The main purpose of never adding taxes is to reduce the burden on the common people. Of course, it is also to win the hearts of the people. In the future, the common people in other countries will listen to me. It's time for us to go, Tan Shi Hu Ju to welcome Master Wang."
Zhou Zhiruo also lived at the lower level back then, and agreed with him deeply: "Yes, the world is in chaos today, and the common people are facing all kinds of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and they have to increase taxes at every turn. People admire it, and I... I like it too."
Zhao Min couldn't help but said sourly: "Anyone wants to be famous, but if you want face, you can't get reputation. If you don't add taxes, you will have no money, food, and military pay, and you can only be slaughtered in the disputes among the nations. Maybe it will happen again in history." One more Song Xianggong."
"So this has to be solved by 'split Ding Ding Mu'." Song Qingshu explained calmly, "In the past, the tax was collected from the 'poll tax', as many people paid as many taxes, but often the poor people had a few members of their family. There are only a dozen people in the gentry's family, but the wealth of the two sides is different by countless levels. It is unreasonable to calculate the tax by head. If the tax is paid according to the number of acres of land owned, it will not only reduce the burden on the poor. , can also greatly enrich the national treasury, and the tax collected is far more than before."
Never adding taxes and appropriating the land into the mu were created by the Qing Dynasty in history. Although the Qing Dynasty’s treatment of the Han people and its weakness towards the Western powers became an indelible black spot, from the perspective of the feudal dynasty alone, its Some systems are much better than many previous dynasties.
In particular, Yongzheng's stalls for thousands of years really solved the stubborn disease of land annexation for thousands of years, and later the gentry class encroached on national interests. Of course, because of this, the scholar-bureaucrat class has always had a very bad opinion of Yongzheng. .