I am Da Song

Chapter 374 Planning Economic Crops Area

After Zhao Huan and Hu Quan talked about Yizhou affairs, their eyes immediately focused on the area further south in Yizhou.

The southernmost tip of Yizhou is already in the tropics, and further south are those tropical Indochina Peninsula countries and island countries.

These countries are too far away from the Central Plains, and it is not cost-effective to grow grains back, so the most suitable layout for them is to grow cash crops.

Such as sugar cane, palm tree, nutmeg tree, coconut, tea, clove, flax, cocoa, rubber.

Among them, sugar cane can be used to produce sugar on the spot, palm trees can be used to produce palm oil, nutmeg, cloves, and flax are all expensive spices, and they can be sold to any region to earn a lot of money.Coconut, tea, and cocoa are famous beverages that are sold well in various Hu tribes.The last rubber will significantly affect the process of industrialization.

Moreover, as economic crops, these plants are perennial except sugarcane, and are usually produced in plantations.After planting, it can benefit for a long time. For example, the natural life span of rubber trees is more than 80 years, and the economic life span of coconuts can reach more than [-] years; even the vine peppers can have economic life spans of several decades;

By planting 12 nutmeg trees at one time, a family can continuously obtain a large amount of precious spices from the plantation and sell them everywhere.

The fruits of these economic crops such as tea, spices, sugar, and palm oil are sent back to the Central Plains, and the profits of the harvest far exceed the freight, which can greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of all wealthy families.

So after Hu Quan left, Zhao Huan said to Tang Yi: "Let Prime Minister Zuo and Prime Minister Shu come over."

Soon the Left Prime Minister Zhang Jun and the Key Prime Minister Zhang Shuye arrived in the room, and they bowed their hands respectfully: "I pay my respects to the official family, best wishes."

"Excuse me. How did you two feel about the Jiangnan style along the way?"

The Prime Minister, Zhang Shuye, was highly respected. He first said: "The wealth in the southeast is truly the best in the world. But the wealth is passed down from generation to generation and buried underground. It is useless to the country. It is a pity."

Zhang Jun was young and energetic, so he said directly: "Until I go south, I don't know what is rich in the southeast. If I want the country to prosper, I think I should try my best to inherit the ancestral system, and [-]% of the world's taxes come from the southeast."

"In addition to the ancestral system, the minister believes that the most important thing at present is how to take the surplus of the rich and make up for the deficiency of the world."

Zhao Huan nodded with a smile, and said: "I think the views of the two of you are very good. In my opinion, the disadvantages of the previous dynasty were that they were kind to the wealthy and had more than enough, while being harsh on the common people ended in cruelty."

Of course, this is also the system that the feudal rulers had to choose.

The people were illiterate, and the emperor had to rely on those big families who had been powerful for generations if he wanted to govern the country.If you don't win over them, how can they support the emperor's rule?
Therefore, between the suffering of the people and the stability of the imperial power, they resolutely chose the imperial power and gave up the benefits to the scholar-bureaucrats and the rich.

To solve this problem, it is not by fighting and killing.

The prosperity of the people is suffering, and the death of the people is suffering.It is because even if a dynasty is changed, the common people are still the lowest level of the ruled.

The real way to completely solve this problem comes from the people themselves.

That is everyone is like a dragon.

Everyone reads books widely and can decide their own destiny.

The emperor does not need the support of certain big families, and there are endless grassroots students who can truly determine the direction of the entire country.

At this time, the emperor will naturally be able to wield the butcher's knife against the big family.

Zhao Huan said: "The real good governance of a country is to take the wealth of the rich and achieve financial prosperity. Use a large amount of surplus wealth to help the grassroots. In this way, we can achieve peace and prosperity for everyone."

"As for the system, it doesn't need to be too complicated. I plan to implement five levels of inheritance tax on all wealthy households, starting from the wealthiest households, with a minimum tax of 40.00% and a maximum tax of 60.00%!"

The inheritance tax is Zhao Huan's opinion that the Central Plains should learn from the ancient Roman tax.

Because there are too many wealthy households in the Central Plains, and the families and powerful families have passed on from generation to generation.They annexed land, fish and meat villages, and piled a lot of wealth in the cellar for the sake of being rich.

It is simply a cancer of the country and the biggest obstacle to social governance.

If the head of a big family dies, 60.00% of the family's wealth will be taken over to the court, which will greatly strengthen the country's ability to rule, while weakening the family's local influence.

And heirs must first pay taxes in order to inherit the estate.

If a yamen has a family property of one million guan that needs to be inherited, he must first be able to hand in 60 guan before he can inherit the million-dollar property.

If the 60 guan is not paid, the unpaid tax will be collected by the state.

As for donating wealth to future generations while alive, that is completely despising the IQ of the government.

Gift tax and inheritance tax are actually the same tax.

Except for the thousands of free gifts each year, the excess tax is exactly the same as the inheritance tax.

Another advantage of imposing inheritance tax in the Song Dynasty compared with later generations is that the rich cannot avoid taxes by transferring their nationality.

There is no king's soil under the whole world, and there is no king's ministers on the coast of leading the soil.

Wherever he goes, he will be caught and brought back to pay taxes.

No wealthy family would actually bring hundreds of thousands of family property to a colonial country thousands of miles away in order to avoid taxes.

The most important point is that ancient Rome was able to collect inheritance tax thousands of years ago. Zhao Huan has carried out so many reforms in the Song Dynasty, and it is impossible to be unable to collect inheritance tax now.

After listening to Zhao Huan's order, the two prime ministers did not make any disturbances.

At present, within the Song Dynasty, the scholar-bureaucrat class has been completely destroyed, military power is firmly in the hands of the emperor, residence newspapers and newspapers control the world's public opinion, and tens of thousands of colleges have cultivated loyal and enthusiastic students for the court.

The national consciousness has been formed, and it has become the concept of the people of the world to protect the family and the country for the Song Dynasty.A mere group of wealthy households can no longer make waves, let alone have the ability to coerce the people and overthrow the imperial court.

Zhang Jun immediately replied: "The minister will coordinate the household department and the third department to properly formulate this fifth-class inheritance tax system."

Zhao Huan nodded and said: "In order to cooperate with the implementation of this system, I also plan to implement another matter to appease the wealthy families everywhere."

I gave the rich people a blow, and I have to give them a date to eat.

This sweet jujube is the country of dissent in the south of the Song Dynasty.

The imperial court will encourage the powerful families of the Song Dynasty to go to the southern countries to build manors, control the land, and monopolize trade!
So Zhao Huan said to Zhang Shuye, the prime minister: "I see that the countries in the south do not obey the king's order and lose the ceremonies of the vassals. I want to obey the heaven and the people, so as to carry out hunting. All the people in the Central Plains can go there, pastoral."

After military conquest, of course, fertile land was won on a large scale.

This is the best opportunity for wealthy families to expand their wealth, and it is also a good opportunity to distribute property to the children of the family.

For a small sum of money, you can buy a large sprawling estate in a newly conquered land, live an idyllic life, and your wealth will expand rapidly.

The interests lost by the wealthy families in the inheritance tax can be easily compensated by making big cakes.

(End of this chapter)