Qiming 1158

Chapter 1018 The Southern Song Dynasty Ten Thousand Taxes
For the people of the Song Dynasty, the words of the government were infinitely close to nonsense.

Listening is like believing nonsense.

If you don't listen, you will be eaten by ghosts.

They seem to have two options, but in fact there is only one.

They can only choose to pay taxes.

But this year's tax has been paid, and next year's tax has to be paid. This is not the worst. The worst is that next year's tax has also been paid. When the government sees that they still have oil and water to squeeze, they say that the next year's tax will also be paid. If you pay in advance, you won't have to pay taxes the following year.

If they did what they said, it would be fine, but they never said anything, never kept their promises, and they were just lying.

This year is the year of the year, the next year is the year after, and the year after the year is the next year.

The place where the old farmer was located was taxed until 13 years later.

This is not bad, he also heard that some places were received 24 years later, and one extreme place was heard 27 years later.

People in those places basically escaped, and the rest basically all became tenants of powerful landlords who were related to their families, or disabled people who had no money and couldn't escape, so they had to bite the bullet and continue. Endure the oppression of the government.

The financial and population data in these places collapsed in a complete mess. Officials couldn’t even afford food, so they could only falsify them and use paper tax data to prevaricate the Lin’an court.

Anyway, the Lin'an court will not really send people to the countryside to investigate whether the tax data is true. The court officials are very clear about these matters. They know how bad the locality is now. If they are forcibly investigated, everyone will have nothing to eat. .

The only person who can be held accountable is the emperor, but where can the emperor get the real data?

As long as the officials colluded and tried to hide it from the emperor, the emperor really didn't know how much money his country had and how much money he should get.

He can only live in the information cocoon woven by the officials for him, enjoying the pleasure that only one person feels, and the sense of accomplishment brought by the surrender of the country, the people, and the world.

Even if there is an occasional conscientious official who is not politically correct and wants to pierce this illusion of prosperity, the emperor may not really believe it.

What if you doubt it?
Should he let him go to the treasury alone to count the money?Let him check the accounts by himself?The vast digital account book, he wants to figure it out by himself?
Because of the deep understanding of these principles, not only the Lin'an court, but also the local situation is very serious, even worse than Lin'an.

Anyway, officials are all low-ranking officials. They have a three-year term. After finishing their job, they leave. No one wants to stay in such a poor place, let alone make any political achievements. Dilapidated.

The old peasant and his fellow villagers were tormented by various means by the government, and the family was full of apprentices.

But now the peasant army has come, divided their fields and houses, and provided them with farm tools, cattle and other livestock, so that they can produce with peace of mind.

Not only that, but the tax is still so low, only the agricultural tax and the temporary war tax, what else can they be dissatisfied with?

Zhao Yucheng felt very uncomfortable when he heard it.

There are some taxes in the Southern Song Dynasty that he has never heard of even in the Jin Kingdom. Does this mean that the Jin Kingdom is more gentle in taxation than the Southern Song Dynasty?
There really is no harm in comparison.

"You have to pay taxes for killing chickens and fish? This is really unheard of."

The old farmer smiled bitterly when he heard the words.

"What is this? My little old man heard that the county that has been taxed for 27 years has to pay taxes even for shitting and urinating!"

"There is such a thing?!"

Zhao Yucheng was stunned: "You have to pay taxes when you poop and pee?"

"I'm terrified. I've never heard of such a thing, but it's true."

The old peasant smiled bitterly: "So when the peasant army and the revival meeting didn't come a few years ago, the people here lived like ghosts, and starvation to death was not uncommon. If we can have today, we are satisfied, really. Contented, I dare not have any dissatisfaction."

"Don't say you don't dare, without you paying taxes, the peasant army and the Renaissance Society would not be able to survive."

Zhao Yucheng took the old peasant's hand: "These are what you should get. When the war is over, we will destroy the Song Kingdom, and the war tax will be exempted, but it will not be collected. You can live your life as you want, and you should eat it in the future. Eat, drink, and don't suffer any more."

The old farmer's wrinkled face smiled like a chrysanthemum in full bloom.

"The little old man can't believe a word of what those tax collectors said, but the little old man believes everything you say!"

Zhao Yucheng wrote to Su Yonglin what he saw and heard along the way, and told Su Yonglin that he had decided to levy a temporary war tax to contribute to the development of the Jiangnan West Road peasant army.

Adding a tax was to prevent the Southern Song Dynasty from coming back to collect more taxes. He decided to fight to the end on the Jiangnan West Road until the Ming army went south in an all-round way.

Even if an army of one million comes up, he will never admit defeat. The big deal is that he will go back to Luoxiao Mountain to fight guerrillas. All in all, he will fight to the end with this group of unconscionable superiors here!
They are not too much, let them continue to rule, sooner or later toss away the popularity of this place, and make this place an uninhabited wasteland.

How can we let them continue to misbehave?
At the same time, in order to ridicule the Southern Song Dynasty, he also wrote a couplet by himself, and asked someone to post it at the entrance of the Nanchang Peasant Army Headquarters Office to celebrate the arrival of the New Year of Hongwu five years.

Shanglian is "unheard of taxation since ancient times".

The next link is "now there is only fart left without donations".

The horizontal batch is - Southern Song Wanshui.

Anyone who passes by in front of the peasant army headquarters can see this couplet, and they are amazed and moved.

The land reform achieved a comprehensive victory in the land of Kyushu on Jiangnan West Road, and an unprecedentedly stable revolutionary regime was established here and took root deeply.

The locals support this new regime like never before, and they are willing to cooperate with anything the regime needs.

When the peasant army reorganized and recruited new soldiers, the locals joined the army enthusiastically. When the peasant army recruited people to repair the city wall and military defense, the local people were also willing to send excess labor to help them build.

In this way, after the land reform, the peasants' enthusiasm for production has also been greatly improved. After the harvest of summer and autumn grains in the past four years of Hongwu, the peasant army passed agricultural taxes and temporary war taxes to support the [-] peasant army to fight for two years. food.

Under such circumstances, the material embargo in the Southern Song Dynasty would be meaningless, and the mass production movement of the peasant military regime would be able to support itself.

There was no problem with food, and the peasant army had more to eat than the Song army.

The second reason is not the problem of the peasant army, but the problem of the Southern Song Dynasty itself.

As we all know, the more material embargoes are, the easier it is to push up the price of goods. The more the price of goods is pushed up, the higher the profit. The higher the profit, the more people are willing to take risks to smuggle.

Especially when people know the fact that the officials in charge of overseeing them are drooling over it, they are even less likely to take into account the ban, and instead focus on shipping supplies to make money.

With the defiant embargo order of the Southern Song government and the extremely flexible execution methods of the bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is estimated that a complete embargo can be realized in Zhao Kan's dream.

Therefore, since the order to fight the material embargo spread to the surrounding areas of Jiangnan West Road, the active businessmen and bureaucrats have never stopped their actions.

They gathered people, hired them at high prices, provided them with good treatment, and then took them with their carts and donkeys on the road to earn money, all the way through difficulties and obstacles, as long as they could reach the goods trading center of the peasant army , there is nothing that cannot be done.

If the people are like this, how can the government sit back and watch the people make money and remain indifferent?

Officials earn more.

After the Third Encirclement and Suppression War, all the main troops of the Southern Song Dynasty withdrew from the peasant army control area of ​​Jiangnan West Road and were stationed in Hanyang, Ezhou, Qizhou and Xiangyang.

Among them, Song Ting was forced to settle the army led by the most elite Yao Zhong in Xiangyang because of the long-term military performance of the Henan Corps of the Ming Army in the border areas.

The other Central Guards who were transferred later were mainly responsible for guarding against the peasant army on Jiangnan West Road, and did not initiate military operations.

This provides a military security guarantee for the commercial environment in this region.

(End of this chapter)