I received my adopted son in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 186 Ignorance makes people ignorant

"Wen Ruo, don't just eat, talk quickly..." In the lobby, Lao Dong and Xun Yu sat around a small table, which was full of the lunch that the chef had just cooked.

While eating, he was also rudely urged.

Seeing him sitting across from him with his legs crossed, Xun Yu couldn't help rubbing his aching calf: he didn't wear pants with a crotch, so he had to sit upright and squatting to maintain a gentleman's self-cultivation and demeanor.

However, self-cultivation and demeanor come at a price: no matter who sits on their knees for so long, their calves will be crushed and hurt.

That's nothing.

The main Han Dynasty still had a meal-sharing system, that is, one person had one case, and they ate by themselves.Old Dong was so familiar, eating with him face to face, made Xun Yu feel uncomfortable.

After finally overcoming these, as soon as he picked up the chopsticks to pick up a bite of food, he heard Lao Dong start urging him.

He sighed, and turned on the Tucao skill without a teacher: Don't just talk about it, eat more, it's all reversed when it comes to you?

But he had to keep a smile on his face: "Taiwei, don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep..."

"Well, what's the fun in life if you don't talk when you eat or sleep?" Old Dong opened his mouth and interrupted, "Don't be so cautious, this old man is not the kind of person who cares about etiquette."

Xun Yu was stunned: Am I being polite to you?

Sighing helplessly, he could only talk about business: "Does the Taiwei know the characteristics of my big man's taxation?"

Now it was Old Dong's turn to be taken aback, with a shy expression on his face: "Old man, I know a little bit, a little bit..."

Xun Yu understood: he doesn't even know the fart!

Fortunately, I was more disappointed, and I was a little numb, so I popularized the tax law system of the Han Dynasty from the beginning: "Since the founding of the Great Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has learned the lesson of Qin's cruelty and death, and adopted a tax policy of light corvee and low tax. Fifteen and tax one."

"At the time of Wenjing, there was an edict of 'half the land rent' and adopted the policy of 'one tax per thirty'. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, once implemented 'ten tax one', but soon restored the 'thirty tax'. tax one' of the old system."

"Oh...the land tax is only one-thirtieth in kind, so it's not very heavy."

Old Dong didn't understand, and said: "Since the land tax is like this, why do the people I see have no food to eat? Even in times of famine, do you still have to sell your sons and daughters to serve the powerful landlords?"

"This is the characteristic of the big man's taxation that I will talk about next, lightening the land tax and emphasizing the poll tax."

"Poll tax?" Old Dong was a little surprised, and said, "It means... you have to pay tax when you're alive?"

Xun Yu nodded solemnly: "That's right. The poll tax originated from Shang Yang's reform and was followed by the Qin and Han Dynasties. There are two types of taxation: oral taxation and calculation taxation."

"The oral tax is levied on children aged seven to 14, regardless of gender. Each person pays 23 qian a year. By the time of Huan Ling, it had risen to [-] qian."

"The calculation of Fu is levied on adults aged 15 to 56, regardless of gender, and each person is 120 yuan per year, which is called 'one calculation'."

"Among them, the tax on merchants and slaves is doubled, 240 yuan per year."

"In order to encourage childbearing, unmarried women between the ages of 15 and 30 are divided into five grades, and each grade increases by one more tax. If a woman is pregnant, her husband can be exempted from paying taxes for one year."

Hearing this, Old Dong couldn't help but widen his eyes: "This is no longer a matter of quiet time and heavy burdens, but that there are indeed people riding on common people and scolding them for not working hard..."

But immediately, he looked at Xun Yu strangely, and said, "Then why don't the people rent out the idle houses, and the ox carts at home can also be used to pull goods..."

Xun Yu looked at Old Dong in shock.

Then he calculated the value of the land property for the old director face to face, and told him that the head tax was more than ten times the land tax, which accounted for a huge proportion of the tax, and the common people could not even afford to eat!
"Oral Fu and Calculation Fu are handed over to Da Si Nong, included in the national treasury, and used for various expenses of governing the country."

After finishing speaking angrily, Xun Yu continued: "In addition, the common people also need to pay donation fees for the use of the emperor's royal court. All adult men and women, each have to donate 63 qian to the emperor every year!"

"And the contribution fee?" Old Dong was even more surprised, and finally understood the meaning of lightening the land tax and paying more attention to the poll tax: this is not just heavy, but so heavy that people can't get up.

And after analyzing it for a while, he also found that this tax system has great drawbacks!

This is what will undoubtedly intensify land annexation.

The population of wealthy and powerful families is relatively fixed, and they only need to pay a fixed poll tax.However, a large amount of land was merged, but only a small amount of land tax was paid, and the rich and powerful could obtain a large amount of income from the low tax.

As a result, the rich and wealthy families are getting richer and more land.In times of famine, land can be annexed again like a snowball.

At the same time, the greater their power, the stronger their local influence.

Either force the government not to dare to provoke them, and allow them to conceal the population and farmland.Or it is to pull officials into the water and fish the common people together...

At the same time, farmers with little or no land had meager incomes, and their families had a large number of people, so their income could hardly support the relatively heavy poll tax.

In order to avoid unaffordable taxes and labor, they could only shelter the rich and powerful, which strengthened the power of powerful landlords; or they became refugees and became a factor of social unrest, such as the Yellow Turban Uprising.

In this way, a large number of registered households Qimin disappeared from the imperial court's household registration, which intensified the financial crisis of the imperial court.

After the imperial court ran out of money, it imposed exorbitant taxes on ordinary people, forcing ordinary people to take shelter of powerful families, forming a perfect vicious circle.

"However, apart from taxes, the big man has other chronic diseases." Old Dong thought that this had reached the bottom of the valley, but Xun Yu sighed again and told him that there was still a basement at the bottom of the valley.

"Our dynasty does not prohibit officials from operating, and they can farm and do business at will... The Taiwei should know how easy it is to evade taxes with power in hand?"

"Of course the old man knows." He really knows about this: at present, he is the most powerful person in the Han court, so he can do whatever he wants.

"Except for these officials..." Xun Yu continued.

Old Dong was shocked: "Under the basement, there are eighteen floors of hell?"

Xun Yu frowned, not knowing what it meant.

Old Dong smiled and motioned him to continue.

"There are still many tax-exempt groups in our dynasty. Not only can they be tax-free, but they also compete with the court for taxes."

This old Dong also understood right away: "Wen Ruo said, but those princes, kings, lords and kings?"

"good."

It has to be admitted that after the Qin Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, the history was reversed.

Qin abolished enfeoffments and established prefectures and counties, and the world was unified. As a result, Liu Bang enfeoffed his children as princes and kings.In addition, those with super meritorious service will also be crowned as Marquis for men and Jun for women.

These princes, princes, and queens all have fiefdoms, even if there is a "Tweet Order" and a policy of restricting nobles.However, the middle seal was limited until the end of the Han Dynasty, and the princely kingdom still existed, and the princes and female monarchs could also eat the city.

"First, the heavy poll tax and donation fees led to the unrestrained annexation of land by the rich and powerful; then the officials were not full-time professionals, and the door to using power for personal gain was wide open; finally, there was a group of nobles who could exploit the people without doing their jobs..."

After summarizing, Lao Dong felt that everything was clear and clear.

In the past, I couldn't figure out why a good dynasty would end in about two hundred years.Only now do I know that with so many taxes on the people, there are no high-yield cash crops to make the cake bigger.

It's not that after the new aristocrats continue to grow, the ebb and flow lasts for more than two hundred years, and the common people have no way out again, and then push it to reshuffle the cards.

"Oh... boring, very boring."

After enduring too many shocks, Old Dong seemed to have entered the time of a sage, and sighed leisurely: "Sometimes things like history are really boring after you understand them."

The so-called reincarnation is nothing more than.

Xun Yu nodded first, then shook his head, and said bitterly, "But no matter what, it's millions, or even tens of millions of lives!"

"Born in this world, if you are as humble as dust, you can only lament the injustice of the world. However, if the Taiwei walks like a dragon and holds a lot of power in his hand, if he only sings his gratitude like this, how dare he call him a man?"

When Old Dong heard the words, his whole body was excited immediately, his eyes lit up: "Big man?...Wen Ruo finally feels that this old man is big, isn't he small?"

Xun Yu was startled again, and then his expression became gloomy. He couldn't help but commented in a low voice: "Playing the piano with a cow! Sure enough, ignorance can make people ignorant."

"Cute girl?..." Old Dong was overjoyed again, and looked left and right: "Where is there a cute girl?"

Xun Yu couldn't bear it any longer, stood up and waved his sleeves: "Sex is not enough to plan!"

Old Dong laughed, and grabbed Xun Yu's sleeve: "Why is Wen Ruo so incapable of joking?...Come, let me read the policy that I wrote a few months ago."

As he said that, he really took out a piece of Zuo Bo paper from his sleeve.

Holding the last glimmer of hope, Xun Yu reached out to take it.Soon his expression became serious, his brows became tighter and tighter, and he stuttered a little: "Tai, Taiwei..."

"Well, I don't understand, right? It's all in simplified Chinese."

As he said that, Old Dong patted the futon next to him expectantly, and greeted warmly: "Come on, I will give you a good explanation, all of which are solutions to the problem just now."

Seeing the wretched smile on that big face, Xun Yu's eyelids twitched, and finally chose to sit back in his original seat: "Taiwei, let's continue eating..."

(End of this chapter)