I am Da Song

Chapter 166 New Deal Ethos
In April, the spring breeze is bright and the flowers are brilliant.

The ethos of the imperial court's New Deal quickly spread from the Forbidden City to all directions. When the content of the New Deal spread, the entire Tokyo fell into a sea of ​​carnival.

From now on, the court will be exempted from all exorbitant taxes!
In the past, there were many and heavy and harsh taxes, and none of them were reserved.The heavy burden on every citizen of the Great Song Dynasty has been completely removed.

The people are relaxed and don't have to think about anything.Just go home and see how many acres of fertile land there are, and pay the land tax on these acres in the twelfth lunar month.Each mu of land needs to pay [-] imperial banknotes.

People in Tokyo gathered in front of the bulletin board, so excited that they couldn't help themselves.

Someone asked in ecstasy: "I opened a restaurant in Tokyo, and the fields in the countryside have already been sold to friends. Under the new policy, don't I have to pay a penny of taxes?"

The person next to him replied: "The government seems to have said so. If a tax collector collects taxes from you outside of December, you can go directly to the government to sue him. Once verified, you will be rewarded with a hundred coins."

"Hahaha! This is how the sea is wide and the fish leap, and the sky is high and the birds fly!"

"It's true that the heavens descended to the holy official's house to give me the Great Song Dynasty, and they actually implemented such a benevolent government in the world! Even in a well-off world, Datong society is nothing more than this?"

"You can live in a well-off life! The world is in harmony! Whoever dares to offend me in the Song Dynasty, whoever dares to be an enemy of the officials, I will fight them to the death even if I give my life!"

Outside the crowd, several well-dressed middle-aged men gathered together and whispered.

One person was dressed in black robes, with a rosy face and plump complexion, named Zhao Li.Although it is the surname of the country, it is not a descendant of the royal family, but a descendant of Zhao Pu, the founding prime minister of the Song Dynasty.That is, after the prime minister who "ruled the world with half of the Analects of Confucius".

As the most typical Confucian family, Zhao Pu's family naturally included all the bad qualities of scholar-bureaucrats.Annexation of land, tax evasion, and deception are all common to them, and they are used to it.

Looking at the cheers of the untouchables in front of him, Zhao Li felt so dazzling at this moment, and said angrily: "Is this considered a benevolent government? There is no harsh law in ancient times that surpasses today's! This is the cruelty of our scholars! For the law of collecting silver, my whole family will have to pay 14 guantian taxes!"

14 strings?

This number is simply dizzying!
When he first learned that he had to pay so much land tax, Zhao Li almost passed out, and his heart is still bleeding!

Throughout the ages, which dynasty emperors have ever collected such huge taxes on official families?This is to force me and other virtuous scholar-bureaucrats to rebel!
We must know that when Wen Gong Wang Anshi implemented the recruitment law, the entire Jingdong Road exempted money was only more than 25 guan.

After Ji Mu collects the silver, it is equivalent to Zhao Li's family bearing nearly half of the burden of the people along the way!

The faces of the people next to him were also ugly. They silently calculated the property of Zhao Li's family, which was more than [-] hectares.

This number is too rare among the scholar-bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty. Li Yan, one of the six thieves, took only a few years to annex more than 200 hectares, which is ten times the accumulation of the Zhao family in [-] years.

Emperor Taizu clearly stated: "The imperial court does not control the bureaucracy, does not suppress mergers, and the rich houses and fields are connected to the rice fields, and it is for the country to protect the wealth."

As a result, the scholar-officials invaded the fields and houses of the people one after another, and welcomed hundreds of guests.

In the Ming Dynasty, he tried his best to suppress mergers, and Xu Jiedu, the chief assistant, still had 24 mu of fertile land.

Think about the hundreds of thousands of scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty, but they can occupy 70.00% of the country's land, and they have hidden more than 5 million mu of land, so you can know how much property they have.

"Do you want to allow the imperial court to torture us virtuous scholars like this?" asked a bloated man in plain white robes next to him.He is also a descendant of the Fan family, a famous official family in the Song Dynasty, named Fan Meng.

The Fan family can be said to be the ivy in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. From generation to generation, there are children who hold important positions in officials. The closest ones are Fan Ne and Fan Zhixu, two typical arrogant scholar-bureaucrats.In the past dynasties, there are also prominent officials such as Fan Chong, Fan Zhen, Fan Kuan and so on.They even want to touch porcelain Fan Wenzheng and Fan Zhongyan.

On the other hand, the people next to him were relatively calm, ignoring the anger on Fan Meng's face, and asked, "Otherwise, what do you want to do? I didn't hear what the people said, whoever dares to be an enemy of the official will fight with his life?"

Fan Meng snorted coldly and said, "What do a group of ignorant people know? Isn't the world controlled by me and other scholar-bureaucrats? As long as we incite our neighbors, we will definitely shake the foundation of the imperial court."

"Ridiculous! Incitement? Believe it or not, if you go out and shout about tyranny, it will immediately arouse public anger, and you will be beaten to death on the street. No one dares to collect your body! What are you using to incite? Is it by your fish and meat village? Or by yours?" Taxes that are several times more expensive than the imperial court?"

Mentioning being beaten to death, both Zhao Li and Fan Meng instinctively trembled.The scholar-bureaucrats' external toughness and internal softness have already implemented their decades of pampered career.

It can be predicted that as long as they dare to rebel near Gyeonggi, the Shenwu Youjun will definitely cut off their heads.The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were completely defeated by this army.In fact, there is nothing to do with this elite imperial army who is only loyal to the emperor.

Before they could defeat this unparalleled army, even if they thought about rebelling in the dark, they would shudder.

If they pay taxes honestly, they can still continue to live in luxury.After all, it is only 9000 yuan per mu of land, and the tax paid is less than [-]% of the output.If you think about it, you will lose [-]% of your property.Nothing more than [-] mu of land has become more than [-] mu.

Everyone can live in luxury with 9000 mu of land. Could it be that if it becomes more than [-] mu, everyone can't live?In fact, it doesn't affect the fact that everyone is still wealthy and drunk.

But once they rebel, let alone rich clothes and fine food, they are not eligible to eat rough tea and light food, or even bad food!

The progress of the New Deal has been smoother than expected.

Zhao Huan thought that the scholar-bureaucrats would jump up and refute fiercely no matter what, and even aroused an uproar in the government and the public.

But the fact is that the situation is calm, and the scholar-bureaucrats did not cause any waves.

After all, this is a privileged class that has been able to rule the Central Plains for nearly 2000 years. It can be said that they are corrupt, depraved, and despicable, but their ability to calculate interests must not be underestimated.

Many scholar-bureaucrats actually have an overall view, especially after experiencing the invasion of the Jin people. They know very well that this reform is a good governance for the country and the scholar-bureaucrats.

The scholar-bureaucrats need a strong imperial court to ensure that their heads will not be chopped off by barbarians at will, and their wives and daughters will not be insulted at will and left as zombies in the wild, with a stench for hundreds of miles.

Of course, this is relatively secondary. What is really important is that they quickly settled the account. The tax paid per mu of land is less than [-] percent. As long as the production tools are improved or there is a good year, they can make up for it casually. .

Even in an ordinary year, the harvest in the field will vary by [-]-[-]%.

But this time the New Deal has guaranteed the legitimacy of their land. They can take out the land for cultivation in an open and aboveboard manner, and they no longer need to hide secretly, worrying that they will be severely punished if they are discovered by the court.

This makes it easier for them to develop agriculture, build water conservancy, and achieve a breakthrough in yield per mu.It is said that in the area of ​​Chengdu, Sichuan, there has already been a situation of producing six or seven stones per mu.

Everyone felt that the current situation of producing two stones per mu in the north could be easily broken.

One increase and one decrease, it means that the imperial court has not taxed me!Under this kind of self-comforting heart, the scholar-bureaucrats quickly accepted the status quo.

(End of this chapter)