Qiming 1158

Chapter 1206 Can't Tax Big Households

The Song Dynasty belonged to a model of digging a hole and burying himself.

Not to mention the false commercial prosperity, its strategy of not suppressing land mergers makes those who are easy to bully have no land, and those who have land are not easy to bully.

Compared with the difficulty of combating land mergers in the previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty belonged to the only one, and people did not say whether it could be done or not.

But the Song Dynasty did not even have this.

The Chengdu court can easily bully industrial and commercial civilians and peasants, but it is difficult to bully those tyrannical landlords who have huge influence in the local area.

Although they are the richest, they can also fight against the imperial court. There is a cost in collecting their taxes, and judging which is more expensive between the cost and the tax has become a necessary process for the imperial court.

Tax collection also requires costs. If the cost of tax collection is less than the tax itself, then the imperial court has the motivation to implement the tax.

If the cost of collecting tax is greater than the tax itself, and it will also bring about various other adverse effects, then the court must consider whether it is necessary to insist on collecting tax.

Poor ghosts in small units are particularly easy to bully.

They are docile and submissive, and there are no people like them in the imperial court. As long as they don’t get together in a large group and rebel directly, there is no danger. If they dare to resist and hit them with an iron fist, there will be no consequences. They can also deter other poor ghosts. Hard, so the imperial court is very motivated to collect their taxes.

The tyrannical landlord is not easy to bully.

There are their people in the court, and they also have human resources and material resources. The combination of the inside and the outside can bring a lot of trouble to the court. The cost of tax collection may be greater than the tax itself, which is not easy to offend, and the value of recruiting security is huge.

So whether to charge the tax or not is a question worthy of consideration.

For now, the cost of collecting taxes on powerful landlords will definitely not be low.

After the establishment of the Chengdu court, its upper-level bureaucrats focused on choosing officials from other places to Sichuan and Shu rather than local officials, in order to avoid the localization of the court, so that it was influenced by the local faction and affected the policy of going out of Sichuan to restore the Song Dynasty.

The reason why Zhuge Liang was able to expedition Cao Wei in the north five times that year was that in addition to having money, it was also very important to have a team of foreign bureaucrats who could suppress the local forces in Chuan and Shu and mobilize the people of Chuan and Shu to launch external attacks.

Even so, the locals should not be offended too much. Everything must be done in a reasonable way. If you really want to make the locals estranged from the court of foreigners, once the conflict between the two sides breaks out, it will shake the country.

At present, although most of the senior bureaucrats of the Chengdu court are foreigners, after Zhao Buxi ascended the throne and proclaimed the emperor, he also spent a lot of effort in order to obtain the support of the local people. native.

The natives of Sichuan and Shu hold a considerable part of the power.

It is also clear at a glance what kind of family a native who can read and become an official came from, and who the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty served for is also clear at a glance, so the middle and low-level officials are inextricably linked with these big landlord families.

To round up, a considerable part of the power of the Chengdu court was in the hands of the local powerful landlord families, and most of the tax collectors were also locals.

Using their own people to collect their own household taxes?
The flood washed the Dragon King Temple?
Therefore, for this separatist court, which has just been established in Chengdu and has not yet been truly recognized in Sichuan and Sichuan, it is a bit confusing to start collecting taxes on local big families.

Zhao Bunyi was not a young Zhao Yucheng who couldn't understand his own situation and social situation. He couldn't do that kind of ideal and very naive thing.

He is very clear that for the current Chengdu court, a rice disturbance is not a problem, and it is not something to worry about at all.

Urban industrial and commercial civilians are rootless duckweeds, with no industry, no foundation, no means of production, nothing but human life, and a limited number of them.

No matter how they rebel, they are easy to deal with. Wu Lin can dispatch a team to kill the Quartet, even if they kill all of them, it doesn't matter.

Those who have no permanent property have no perseverance. When they are employed, they still have a little surplus value that can be exploited. Once they are unemployed, they have to open their mouths to eat when they cannot generate value, which is the most annoying.

These proletarians are only hidden dangers and obstacles to the court's rule. The rebellion at this moment has given the Chengdu court a good opportunity to clean up the garbage. Getting rid of them all will reduce the possibility of social unrest.

Therefore, Zhao Buxi secretly instructed Wu Lin to kill a few more people, and it is best to kill all these proletarians.

According to his order, Wu Lin asked the army to kill more people. He indulged the army and killed more than 5 people, and then recruited a group of people into the army. There were more than [-] people before and after, and almost wiped out seven or eight state capitals around Chengdu. Unemployed proletarians, greatly reducing the possibility of social unrest.

They can rebel, even if he rebels, if Zhao Buxi blinks, he will lose.

The attitude of the court towards the peasants was better than that towards the proletarians, and it was also more cautious.

And this is also the reason why Zhao Buxi did not dare to offend the masters of the big households in Sichuan and Shu. If he had bad relations with these people, it would be an endless nightmare.

Their intricate and intricate network of relationships can affect the whole body. They have money, rice, and tenants who can act as thugs. There are also countless courtiers in the DPRK who act as spokespersons for their interests. Let these people pull up a team to rebel against the Chengdu court.

If you don't move them, they can still come up with a little soup to help the Chengdu court, and they will never be enemies with the Chengdu court.

If you move them, they will take out all of them to fight against the Chengdu court. The Chengdu court will face both internal and external enemies at the same time. It is only a matter of time before they are overthrown.

At that time, it is really a question whether the army under the command of Wu Lin alone can be suppressed.

Therefore, although Chen Yongyan had suggestions and action plans to levy agricultural taxes from the powerful landlords, after thinking about it, Zhao Buxi still did not agree to this suggestion.

Instead, he made up his mind to further exploit civilian farmers and decided to use this to get through this crisis.

Although he knew how difficult the people's life was, he knew that the people in Shu were living in hardships, and they would lose their land and die of starvation if they were not careful, but he had no other way.

In order to survive, Zhao Bundi had to make decisions that were not in line with his wishes. In order to survive, even if he was eating his own hands and feet, he had to persevere until the world changed.

"I know what you said, and it makes sense, but at present, it is out of time to levy taxes on the big households. Without the support of the big households, our entire court will be paralyzed, so let's not talk about such things."

Zhao Buxi shook his head and rejected Chen Yongyan's suggestion.

Chen Yongyan was dissatisfied with this.

"Your Majesty, if you don't levy taxes on big households, the treasury will be empty and you won't be able to get the money. How can you alleviate the crisis? The military needs money, the people need money, and the imperial court needs money, otherwise, even the salaries of officials won't be paid out. what.

Judging from the current treasury savings, at most three months, the imperial court will not be able to pay the salaries of officials. At that time, the officials will complain and some officials who live on their salaries will even starve. What is there? "

Zhao Buxi nodded to show that he understood.

"I know it all, I know it all, but the problem is that I don't know if this tax is not collected, and I don't know how much it can be collected. In order to collect this tax, how many people have been separated from the imperial court, and even secretly opposed the imperial court. I don’t know, isn’t the standard worth the loss.”

Chen Yongyan wanted to persuade him again, but Zhao Bunyi no longer wanted to hear him say these things.

Chen Yongyan was helpless.

"Since this is the case, the minister has no way to fill the deficit in the treasury, please ask your majesty to instruct the minister how to fill the deficit in the treasury, otherwise, for a maximum of three months, the minister will have no face to continue to be the minister of the household, and let the officials block the door of the household. Asking the minister for a salary, the minister really can’t do such a thing.”

"Are you protesting against me? If you don't agree with me, you will resign? Is this your loyalty? Since you are so dissatisfied with me, why don't you unite with the ministers and oust me?"

Zhao Buxi looked at Chen Yongyan, annoyed in his heart.

(End of this chapter)