Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 283 Reforming the Tax Code
Everyone was looking at Qi De with playful eyes.

Under such gazing, Qi De was sweating profusely on his face, and just as he was about to say something, Chen Yunfu's voice sounded first.

"Okay, I'm not talking about Zhenzhi. Whether it's posting or spraying, they are all loopholes in the national tax law. Our task is to check and fill the gaps. Before the leaks are checked and filled, this kind of behavior cannot be said. It’s a crime, and you can do anything that is not prohibited by the law.”

Chen Yunfu defined Qi De's behavior.

Those fields of yours are posting fields.

Posting fields are tax-free.

Although it is said that the tax exemption for imperial officials is [-] mu, it is classified into grades. The higher the grade, the higher the number of acres of tax-free fields.

Taking the Tang Dynasty as an example, the prince had [-] mu and the prime minister had [-].

In the Song Dynasty, because of the ancestral system of sharing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, the so-called tax-free land restrictions were useless.

The tax-exemption restrictions for officials in the Ming Dynasty were much stricter. Qi De, an assistant minister, was only ten hectares at most, that is, one thousand acres. In addition to tax-free land, there is also a discount policy.

The student discount is [-]% off.

The so-called students refer to scholars and scholars.

If these students have [-] mu of land under their names, they will pay a [-]% discount on the remaining land tax that needs to be paid except for the part that is exempt from tax.

You can pay food or money.

Of course, Qi De's conversion ratio is not comparable to that of a student. He has [-] acres of land. After the first exemption and then the discount, the part that should be taxed is probably not even a few hundred acres.

Even if Chen Yunfu wanted to trouble him with this, Qi De could still pay a discount and get it back.

That's why Chen Yunfu covered up the matter and didn't go into it further.

Pointless.

Zid wiped the sweat off his forehead and smiled sarcastically.

"The reason why Benfu intends to formulate a stepped tax law is to check for omissions and make up for gaps. Benfu's idea is to combine the yellow book and the fish scale book into one. You must remember clearly the number of people in each household and the number of acres of land under your name. .

In this way, the Tax Law can be merged with the Ding Corvette Law. For example, households with a small number of households but a large number of fields are exempted from corvee service. .

For specific standards, after the meeting, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War will conduct accounting together and give specific considerations.

As for the tax law, if the number of mu is less than [-], the tax is still [-] for [-], and if the number of mu exceeds [-] but less than [-], the tax is [-] for [-];

Those who exceed [-] but less than [-] will be taxed at [-] yuan.

Those who exceed [-] but less than [-] will be taxed one out of ten.

For those who own more than [-] mu of private land, they will be charged five taxes and one tax! "

The Yellow Book and the Fish Scale Book are combined into one, and the tax law has been changed to a stepped system. This is forcing all the clans in the world to divide their families and fields.

The corvee system was also reformed, regardless of family separation, families with more males had to endure the pain of separation, not only had to serve corvee service but also be incorporated into the military guards.

This is a blatant 'tyranny'.

Just as Qi De was about to speak, he glanced at Yan Zhenzhi who was sitting beside him from the corner of his eye, and suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"Master, in this case, what will the grain chiefs of the provinces do? Let's say Yan Zhenzhi, Yan's family is a big family in Zhejiang, and the fields of the grain chief Yan's family"

"There are 380 hectares of fields in the Caomin family."

Without waiting for Qi De to call him, Yan Zhen reported the number by himself.

A full 13 mu!

"The children of Yan Liang's family are not prosperous. No matter how the 10,000+ mu of land is divided, each child will get tens of thousands of mu of land. Five taxes and one tax. How can there be such a tyranny."

Chen Yunfu looked at Yan Zhenzhi, nodded at the latter indiscernibly, and the latter stood up and said.

"Caomin's family has hundreds of thousands of fields, but only a few dozen people. How to plow it? It depends on the labor of tenants on weekdays. If the imperial court intends to reform the tax law, then Caomin is willing to sell all the land to tenants and let them use rent instead of redemption every year. money.

So ten or twenty years later, it's almost the same. "

The tenants buy the land in installments, and the tenants become self-cultivated farmers.

Qi De suddenly looked at Yan Zhenzhi in disbelief.

You are a big landlord, where is your ass crooked?
"Well, there are a lot of benefits involved in this change process, and it is not easy for the imperial court to let the three-level food chiefs of the provinces, prefectures, and counties bear the burden. Didn't Benfu say before that tenants and tenants are rented instead of bought, and the difference is borne by the imperial court. repair."

Chen Yunfu answered in a timely manner: "For example, an acre of paddy field in Zhejiang is sold for 20 taels. After the tenant buys it, the annual output of each mu is about three shi. With enough rations, the remaining grain can be sold for one tael. It will take 20 years. to pay.

If the imperial court simply pays for this farmer, it is equivalent to that the imperial court will pay the money owed to the world's grain chief within ten years, and at the same time pay additional interest at the rate of one hundred and fifty per year.

The debt was transferred to the court, and the food chiefs did not have to worry about not getting the money back.

As for the money owed by tenants and tenants to the imperial court, the imperial court will recover it in the form of annual supplements. "

The imperial court redeemed it, paid it off in ten years, and paid one hundred and five interest.

These are put together to explain simply and clearly, that is, the imperial court forcibly issued a ten-year national debt with an annual interest rate of 5.00% to the food chiefs of the world.

The kind that doesn't work if you don't buy it!

If the imperial court goes bankrupt, all grain chiefs and big landlords in the world will go bankrupt together.

Anyone can rebel, but they cannot.

On the contrary, it is smashing the pot, and no one has anything to eat.

There is only one thing that the court presses on, and that is reputation.

Exchange credit for this ten-year national debt.

Yan Zhenzhi's family has 13 mu of Shangtian, which is worth 300 million taels in conversion. The court has to pay Yan Zhenzhi 30 taels of principal plus 15 taels of interest every year.

It's a good account.

It was because of the easy calculation that Shao Zhi's expression suddenly changed.

There are at least tens of millions of acres of land concentrated in the hands of provincial food chiefs and landlords. According to this calculation, the imperial court is equivalent to a one-time extra debt of hundreds of millions of taels.

The annual interest alone is as high as at least 1000 million taels!
Last year, the country's current silver did not reach 1000 million.

This is not counting the annual principal of 3000 to [-] million.

Where can I pay for it?

Once the imperial court fails to pay the money, the world will be in chaos in an instant.

"Master, this matter is very important, let's think about it in the long run."

Xu Ben also figured out this account, so his complexion changed drastically, and he proposed to put it aside for the time being.

This step is too big at once, and it is impossible for the court's finances to support it.

"You only counted expenses, but forgot to count income."

Chen Yunfu was sure of winning, he took out a leaf and threw it on the table.

"The Ministry of Household Affairs gave out extremely detailed data last year and this year, remembering clearly the number of Dingkou, field mu, tenants, and tenants in each province.

Including the number of fields granted by the imperial property, granted fields, vassal kings, and military officials are all recorded on this.

Guochao has several million tenants and tenants. If they can become self-cultivated farmers, it means that there will be no less than 5000 million mu of land to pay taxes to Guochao. You should be able to figure out the output of 5000 million mu of land.

Right now, due to tax avoidance behaviors such as posting and flying, the country loses tens of millions of land taxes every year. If this shortfall is collected, and a few million more self-cultivating farmers are added, the government's finances can reach a balance of revenue and expenditure. of.

After the imperial court pays off this debt in the future, it will generate tens of millions of taels of additional revenue every year.

In order to improve the financial situation, when it is time to reform the tax law, we must not look forward and backward, and we must not only look at the present, but must have determination, perseverance and confidence.

In addition, the two volumes were combined into one, and after the reform of the tax law, the provinces no longer needed to add grain chiefs, and all the fire consumption for transporting grain along the way belonged to the imperial court. "

The fire consumption is returned to the public, and the grain chiefs still have ten years of interest to receive from the court, and the big landlords and grain chiefs can barely accept it.

Chen Yunfu is trying to appease the lowest class of landlords who also directly control the original production individual 'peasants', which means that what Chen Yunfu is going to attack is the middle or upper interest groups in the state power.

Ensure that the basic disk is not turbulent, and then attack the middle and upper layers?

Just thinking about it, Chen Yunfu spoke again.

"After the country's finances improve, the princes and nobles can increase their salaries as appropriate, and officials can also increase their salaries. This is good for the court and good for everyone."

Plus salary!

That's what it means to push back and feed back.

Starting from the bottom, every class can enjoy the benefits and subsidies of the state finances, but who has suffered losses?
In fact, it is still the landlord class and local clans.

Because they lost the land, the most primitive means of production.

What he got was nothing more than a ten-year interest subsidy from the imperial court.

Chen Yunfu drew a big cake that he couldn't see yet, let alone eat, but the knife for dividing the cake was clearly in his hand.

After the cake, this knife is used to share food, but before there is cake, this knife.

You can still commit murder!

After everyone figured it out, they also felt that it was acceptable.

But they ignored one point, how to divide this cake, whether to give points or not, depends on Chen Yunfu's face!

He is the one who makes the cake, but also the one who divides the cake!
And the first person to taste whether this cake is delicious is Zhejiang grain chief Yan Zhenzhi.

Yan Zhenzhi, who was the first to throw away all his land and surrender to the imperial court to betray the landlord class, was appointed by Chen Yunfu as Si Cheng, the research department before the reform of the tax law.

Affiliated to the Ministry of Households, with a false title, is the fifth rank!
Chen Yunfu is much more stingy than Zhu Yuanzhang.

In history, Yan Zhenzhi also served the imperial court, and his first step into an official career was the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry!

In the second year, he was awarded the Minister of the Ministry of Industry!

Qi De understands why Yan Zhenzhi is so eager to attack the landlord class, and his feeling is that Chen Yunfu protects him into an official position.

What about Wanguan family wealth? Under the background of the era of official status, this false title of fifth rank is much more expensive than the 10,000+ mu of land!
"Caomin, no, I must do my best as an official, and dare not let down the trust of the young master."

Yan Zhenzhi excitedly took over this job, which also means that from this moment on, Yan Zhenzhi is willing to be the knife in Chen Yunfu's hand, to coordinate, negotiate and even deal with the landlords of the world!

Once he became an official, Yan Zhenzhi can be regarded as confident and confident to draw a line with the former class.

Now, he is of one mind with Chen Yunfu!

(End of this chapter)