Xuande

Chapter 260 Liangzhou is full of good people

Because the homes of the returned population were basically destroyed by the previous rebels, or destroyed by natural disasters.

Now these people have left the powerful family and returned to the household registration of the government. Although it is a good thing for the government, how can they feed so many mouths that need to eat?

Some people suggested that taxes should be paid to these big families as a punishment for hiding their accounts.

Some people think it is not possible, because it takes time to recover taxes, but the mouths to eat cannot wait for a moment. The money needs to be spent immediately, and who will spend it is a problem.

Some people think that it is not something to do too much to stimulate powerful and powerful households to completely oppose the state government, and it will affect Liu Bei's status in Liangzhou.

Liu Bei considered everyone's opinions comprehensively, and decided to let the state government spend the excess food expenses for the time being to solve people's urgent food needs, and we will discuss the matter of tax recovery later, and record them in a small book, and they are indispensable.

At present, problems that can be solved with money are not problems, and problems that cannot be solved with money are real problems.

Liu Bei didn't have the heart to argue with the county government over these trivial matters, so he decided to pay for it, and then settle accounts slowly after the situation stabilized.

So Liu Bei ordered the counties to gather all the people who returned their household registrations to Hanyang County for food, so that he could make arrangements nearby. After the war, they would be mixed with the Han and Hu population captured by the war, re-registered, and resettled.

At this time, the land status statistics of Liangzhou's ten counties and two subordinate countries led by Zhen Yan, Yin Da, and Sun Qian were almost complete. According to the previous written records of the government, some important data were obtained.

After Liu Bei took a look, he found that due to long-term wars and poor management, the number of tax-paying lands recorded by the government has been decreasing year by year. This is the case in almost every county, but the average annual decrease is more or less.

This is the case with the official statistics on the bright side, let alone the actual situation?

Because of Gai Xun's full assistance in Hanyang County, the figures are relatively real.

Gai Xun confessed to Liu Bei, letting Liu Bei know that the land that can still be produced in Hanyang County is less than [-]% of what it was before the war, and a large-scale war would have a great blow to agricultural production.

Especially Hanyang County, Jincheng County and Longxi County were the most severely affected.

"The direct loss is not too much, but the impact of the war on people's hearts is too great. Many people abandoned their land and houses to escape and have never returned. The government has no way to count this group of people, and they don't know where they went. Where, unless they come back voluntarily.

Uncultivated land will be abandoned after one year, and it will take time to reclaim it after being abandoned. It will take at least three years to restore the original production. For a place with barren land like Liangzhou, it is really harmful. too big. "

Liu Bei continued to read the land records of Hanyang County, and found that the agricultural taxation situation was not as good as Wang Xiaoer's new year. He pointed to these records and asked Gai Xun, and Gai Xun also sighed.

"In our tax system, although the agricultural tax is [-] and [-], it is set according to the number of acres, regardless of the output. In a good year, the harvest is large, and you can still survive. In a disaster year, the harvest is small, but the tax is still the same. The people are mostly affected by it. As soon as a disaster year comes, a large number of farmers abandon their land to flee famine.

Most of these fleeing farmers were taken into the homes of powerful families and became tenants, or they simply sold their land to powerful families and entered into it to survive. As a result, the rich became richer, and the poor became a problem even if they survived. , The government's taxation is also not as good as every year. "

"The rich and powerful families always have ways to avoid taxes, right? For example, they never admit how much land they own, and they don't allow the government to send people to save the land. The government doesn't know how much property they have, so they can't collect more agricultural tax."

Liu Bei flipped through the official archives, and said with a sneer: "Look at these big households, how much land was 30 years ago, how much land is now, the amount of land remains unchanged, and tax payment remains unchanged. They are all good people. There are good people everywhere in Liangzhou. The lost land should be caused by wars and disasters, and there is no other human reason, right?"

Gai Xun had nothing to say about this.

To be honest, his family may not be completely clean, and he knows this somewhat, after all, this is an open secret among the entire Han family.

"These problems are not a problem that will happen overnight. It is not a simple matter to completely solve them. It requires the coordination of many aspects to do it. I understand your worries, but now is indeed not the right time."

Gai Xun saw Liu Bei's anger, thought about it, and persuaded Liu Bei.

"You have just come to Liangzhou to serve as the state shepherd. At this moment, it is not the time to deal with these problems. There are many abandoned wastelands in the counties. The most important thing is to reorganize these wastelands and cultivate them manually. All these lands With farming resumed, these people who have nowhere to go now can be properly resettled."

Liu Bei looked up at Gai Xun.

"And then wait until the disaster year, these farmers are once again forced by the government tax to abandon the land and put it into the powerful family. The powerful family doesn't need to pay anything, just occupying the land that the government spent to reclaim it for nothing?"

Gai Xun had nothing to say again.

After a while, he still sighed.

"If you really want to make changes in this area, it will be very difficult. One is the tax system, and the other is the resistance of powerful families. I can guarantee that Gaishi will respond to you, but Liangzhou is not only Gaishi , This will affect the whole body, you have not yet effectively governed the counties and counties in Liangzhou, so it is too early to do it at this time."

"I know what you mean."

Liu Bei shook his head: "At this stage, I don't know what to do. I must follow your suggestion to organize the people to reclaim wasteland and re-register households. Moreover, the problem is not with the powerful families at all, but with the government and the government's tax system. If you don't change it, it's useless to kill people.

Moreover, the problem of the tax system is not only the agricultural tax, but also the taxation and oral taxation. Okay, this oral gift is really too much. "

"Oral Fu, Emperor Xiaowu has had it since the beginning, and it has been more than two hundred years, and it is also a question of whether there is more or less."

Gai Xun said slowly: "These things are all very important things. From the current point of view, there is no need to touch them. What Liangzhou is looking for is stability."

What Gai Xun said was of course reasonable, and Liu Bei admitted that it was right.

However, some things should not be pleasing to the eye or not.

For example, this unconscionable calculation and oral Fu.

(End of this chapter)