Sun Lan said, "I have also discussed with Rong Li. This matter involves a lot, and it is inconvenient to take a clear path, so I can only take a secret path."
If you cross the bright road, there will be many people who come into contact with this book, and the news cannot be concealed.
If it is handed over in the form of a secret fold, the content inside can only be seen by the confidant and the lord.
Compared with the former, the latter's confidentiality is much higher.
Changsheng couldn't help but frown, "If it's just for Sister Jinghui's test, there's no need for this."
If one is not good, it is enough to make countless enemies, and I am afraid that it will take my life.
Fengyi said, "It was because of this at first, but after the secret book was written, I found that the meaning is more than that."
Changsheng was a little anxious, but he still listened to Fengyi's explanation.
Feng Yi said, "I remember, before Alan and I joined the army, the master of the academy gave the last lesson, the title was 'The Cause of Troubled Times'. The Master asked us to discuss the root cause of the troubled times. If I remember correctly, the Master will also teach this lesson. It's compiled into a book..."
Changsheng nodded.
She is also a senior student, and the content of her studies is closer to the current situation and politics, and she has taken similar courses.
Fengyi continued, "This topic, I remember that many classmates said that the royal family was greedy and reckless, because of their fault, the world was in chaos, and some people said that the officials and officials were in one accord, causing the people of Li people to suffer from misery, and even more people. It is said that natural and man-made disasters are frequent, and the common people are turned into mobs. Dongqing is like this, Nansheng is like this, but the answer to this question is really so superficial and simple?"
Changsheng said, "Naturally not, these are only part of the reason, but not the main reason."
Coincidentally, Changsheng also took the same class a while ago.
She asked her grandfather to open a small stove and learned a lot from this wise old man.
It cannot be local factors that lead to the demise of a country, but factors related to the whole.
Fengyi said, "I think so too. After I entered the military camp, I consulted with several military advisors and had different opinions. Military advisor Qi Guan once talked about the issue of the treasury in the last years of the Eastern Qing Dynasty. , but it cannot hide the fact that the revenue of the national treasury has been decreasing year after year. The money is not enough for the royal family to splurge, how can there be any spare money to equip military supplies? The problem is, according to the latest population audit, before Dongqing destroyed the country, the population did not decrease but increased, but the treasury tax Silver does not increase but decreases. Where is the problem in this place? Just because someone misappropriated the tax and silver to enrich their own pockets? How can it be so simple... "
Chang Sheng said, "Brother Rong Li, these... It's not that I haven't thought about it, but no one dares to move."
Changsheng naturally thought about what Feng Yi said, and under the guidance of her grandfather, she also analyzed a lot of content.
Even if the understanding is not as profound as Fengyi's, the general direction is correct.
Because the five kingdoms of the world were all divided by the Great Xia Dynasty, the systems of servitude in each country were similar on the whole, only the details were different.
The so-called fu is to take land as the object of expropriation, and the slave is to take the head of the person as the object of expropriation, which can be in kind or manpower.
Taking Dongqing as an example, the system of taxation in Dongqing is quite complicated, and it still follows the template of the Great Xia Dynasty as a whole.
There are not only many projects for young adults to serve, but also very heavy. If they don’t want to serve, they need to pay a certain amount of money per head. Even if they don’t serve, they still have to pay a certain head tax. There are not many names for taxation, but it is also very tricky to say.
A certain percentage of the land value is drawn according to the average yield of the land.
What is the land allowance
An average household occupies the area of the field.
For example, Dad Ma has one billion yuan, and the poor man has zero yuan, and the average savings of the two is 500 million yuan.
It is easier to understand the achievement of the per-mu yield. Ten percent of the output of one mu of land is taken by the government. This ratio is still low. For a period of time, it even reached 80 percent. In other words, if farmers work hard to cultivate a year's harvest, the government will take 50% to 80% of the harvest, and the remaining 20% will be given to the people, and the 20% will be deducted from the family's poll tax and other miscellaneous tax items.
I couldn't even eat this little grain of rice, let alone even turn it over to the government to avoid the heavy corvée.
If the corvée levies on your family, then be obedient.
Of course, these pointers have privileges for ordinary people, nobles and nobles, tax reductions and exemptions, and they can be dealt with with a little drizzle.
In the early days of the founding of the Eastern Qing Dynasty, ordinary people did have a lot of good fields in their hands, and the amount of land was not too outrageous, but natural and man-made disasters could not be predicted by manpower, and many fields were resold by the common people to the gentry at low prices. High-level officials such as the gentry obtained more land from the common people to achieve the purpose of merger. The common people held less and less fields, but the tax collected based on the amount of land was not much less.
In layman's terms, the income is low, but the tax paid is not low, which means that the people have less money.
Over time, the people were overwhelmed, and more and more people sold themselves cheaply to the gentry as serfs or farm laborers, in order to fight for their lives.
After the land merger, the gentry held more and more fields, but as a privileged class, the actual number of fields they owned was much larger than the theoretical amount of fields, which meant that the more fields they held, the more tax-free fields they had. The more, the higher the income.
Not only that, the gentry could also use their own privileges to reduce or exempt their already low taxes.
The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer.
Fewer people are paying taxes, and no more gentry are paying taxes, so the overall revenue of the treasury will naturally decline.
Coupled with the corruption of tax and silver by various local governments, it is no wonder that the revenue of the national treasury can be so high.
The treasury has no money, and it is so poor that even the salaries of officials cannot be given out. This country eats jujube pills.
Dongqing's situation was not that bad, but he couldn't stand the royal family's profligacy, so he killed himself by writing.
Changsheng remembered the words of Mr. Cheng Jing, the master of the academy, that taxation is the foundation of a country.
Those who say money is like shit should swallow shit.
Not to mention the distance, just the rise and fall of the dynasties of the recent countries shows the importance of taxation of the treasury.
If you want to move this piece, the conflict between Jiang Pengji and the nobility will become more and more intense.
Whether the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind, the bastard who proposes tax reform will be pulled out to sacrifice to heaven.
Changsheng looked at Fengyi, his eyes full of struggle.
"Don't worry, I'm measured." Feng Yi knew that Changsheng was worried, and said gently, "My lord will not be unaware of the stakes. She is also an elder who watched me grow up. I had a surgery with Alan's two nasty boys."
To put it bluntly, he and Sun Lan were tied together, and the weight was still not enough.
If you really want to reform, most of them are scheming some unlucky gentry to sacrifice the whole family to the gods.
This time it seems that the risk is extremely high, but if the fight is right, Fengyi can save twenty years of struggle.