It is painful for all kinds of taxes in kind to disturb people, not only to pay full taxes, but also to bear the extra losses in the process of physical transportation, which has become an important means for officials to exploit farmers
Lu you, an official of the imperial court, has heard a lot about this rule and deeply feels that it is inappropriate and unfair, but there is no better way.
After the national tax reform, it is not only convenient, quick and clear to pay taxes on copper coins, but also can directly abolish this part of transportation losses and reduce the burden on farmers
Good. the policy is …
"Isn’t it a big effort to make such a change?"
Wang qi nodded his head.
"In the past, it was necessary to pay taxes in kind because many strange things were troublesome to collect, not to mention that the most difficult thing was that these objects were easily damaged.
Corruption and damage during transportation are fatal, and in the past, this part of the loss was passed on to farmers by the court, and farmers were required to pay this part of the loss to make up for the loss of the court.
However, this part of the surplus tax is often not handed over to the imperial treasury and is dominated by local officials themselves, which greatly hinders the greed of local officials and will make them make a big fuss about this tax to collect money.
The peasants are miserable, and the court does not collect taxes. This situation must be changed. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, they deeply felt that this rule was not conducive to the people, but to the government’s personal enrichment, and decided to change it.
However, it is still inconvenient for farmers to change taxes. They are still deeply troubled and have thought about it for a long time. Although they have experienced many twists and turns, there is nothing wrong with making it convenient for farmers to reduce their burden. "
Wang Qi replied that Lu You was right.
He felt a little humiliated by asking this question.
And then Wang Qi’s words made Lu You feel very surprised.
"In addition to taxation, the imperial court has also done a lot of practical things, such as distributing fields to farmers and establishing peasant associations, so that everyone can have fields for farmers to work hard, and then the imperial court will make large-scale high-quality agricultural tools at lower prices.
Selling inferior farm tools to farmers in the salt and iron monopoly of the old imperial court at a high price makes it difficult for farmers to get good farm tools, which reduces production efficiency. It is also difficult to turn over the soil in winter. If locusts lay eggs, they can freeze locust larvae to death by turning over the soil.
When the emperor realized this, he reduced the price of agricultural tools on a large scale like salt, and strictly controlled the quality so that farmers could buy enough high-quality agricultural tools, which would not only improve production efficiency, but also turn over the soil in winter to freeze locusts, thus reducing the probability of locust plague. "
Wang Qi said with a smile, "When the state of Jin was still in Shandong, many locusts often starved farmers in the fields, but after the establishment of the big country, locusts rarely occurred, even if they were put out on a small scale, the grain base would be bumper for many years."
"Can the locust plague be controlled like this?"
Lu you some unexpected way "that I have never noticed …"
Wang qi nodded his head.
"Locusts like to put eggs in the land, so even in winter, unless it is extremely cold and snowy, they can survive. Farmers lack farm tools and cannot turn over the soil in winter. Once it is not cold in winter, they cannot freeze to death the eggs in the deep soil.
Now, every winter, the farmers’ association will organize farmers to regularly turn over the soil and turn the surface soil to the ground. Even if it doesn’t snow and wind, it can still kill many pests, so that pests will be greatly reduced in spring. "
Lu you was silent for a while after listening, which was quite touching.
"Oh, I really haven’t heard of this place."
"There are many ways to manage civil affairs, but many problems can be solved. If the court is determined to make progress, these problems can be solved, even if there are enough water conservancy projects in the face of floods and droughts."
Wang Qi smiled and pointed to the east. "To the east here is a water conservancy project construction site. Hongwu has been built for three years. It is expected that the project will be completed by the end of this year. Four rural peasant associations will lead 21 village farmers to meet 21 able-bodied villagers to undertake this project.
The imperial court allocated funds to send engineering guidance, but a village able-bodied man rushed through the work during the slack season, and this project is finally about to be completed. After the success of this project, the cultivated land in four townships will benefit from it, and land irrigation will be much easier.
And similar water conservancy projects have been built in more than 500 counties from the first year of Hongwu until now. More than 500 of them were funded by the court. The rural peasant associations and village peasant associations were responsible for coordinating the labor force, and everyone Qi Xin worked together to complete it. "
"That much?"
Lu You was shocked. "Is this peasant association too effective?"
"Farmers’ associations were defeated by a great force, and the emperor attached great importance to the founding of the country. Even when the county government was in charge, it needed a lot of farmers’ associations to help the county government. This is equivalent to curbing the possibility of Hu Fei in the county government."
Wang Qi is quite proud of the advantages of the national system and laughs. "Because the farmers’ associations in the whole big country are organized and mobilized to do big projects, how can Qi Xin not do things?"
Lu you dengyuan eyes for a long time did not return to absolute being.
It never occurred to him that China’s system has such a function that it can organize the whole country’s farmers and let them work together in Qi Xin to build projects. Is this such a powerful force?
"There are so many things to do, so many water conservancy projects to be built, and we have to go on a big construction campaign everywhere … Is there no problem with the national finance?"
This became the biggest doubt of Lu You.
And this is what Wang Qi feels most proud of.
"Still can maintain agreement lu think it’s strange to collect taxes with less and spend more? It’s not so big. It’s really not much to collect taxes on a single farmer, but the total amount is far ahead of the previous dynasty. "
"What is this?"
Lu you is puzzled
"The landlords, gentry and corrupt officials were wiped out because of the great destruction."
