Xuande

Chapter 261 The initiator, is there no future?

Suan Fu, also known as Ding Fu, is a poll tax levied according to the number of adults.

At that time, it was stipulated that people over the age of 15 and under the age of 56 had to pay a calculation tax, 120 yuan per person per year.

Oral Fu in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a head tax levied on children aged seven to 14, with [-] yuan per person per year.

Forget about the poll tax for adults, at least they can work to support themselves and earn their own living. Although they are just as wicked, at least they can barely speak.

That verbal gift is a complete evil government that lacks great virtue.

Seven-year-old children can't give birth at all, and they have to pay money every year, which means they have to pay to live. It's okay for rich people, but how can poor people afford it?

Therefore, they either forced their young children to work in the fields from the age of seven to subsidize the family, or simply did not marry or have children, so that the burden on the family could be reduced and the family would not go bankrupt.

But where does the ruler get his conscience?
Seeing that the people below have no children in order not to go bankrupt, they began to legislate to coerce and lure them to marry and have children.

In the Han system, women between the ages of 15 and 30 who do not marry are divided into five classes, and there are five tax penalties. When you get married, you will be taxed five times a year, which means you have to pay 30 yuan.

Do you think you can escape?
As long as you live under the rule of the Emperor Liu, as long as you are in the household registration system of the government, you will have nowhere to escape.

In this way, the government successfully forced the people to carry out large-scale marriages and marriages, especially families with daughters, racking their brains to marry their daughters in order to avoid calculating their fortunes.

Moreover, people at that time lacked knowledge related to childbirth, and childbirth was an unavoidable thing. Even if they didn't want to have children subjectively, they couldn't avoid it objectively.

If counting Fu can be regarded as a little reasonable, then oral Fu is really devoid of conscience.

In order to conquer foreign countries and lack money, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did many pioneering things. There are good sides and extremely bad sides. Among them, the most notorious one is the oral gift.

Oral taxation did not exist before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In order to conquer foreign countries, he tried every means to set various heavy taxes on the people to exploit wealth.

His oral tax is calculated from the child's three-year-old, and the child will start to pay the oral tax to the state when the child reaches the age of three, and it will be paid until the age of 15, and then the calculated tax will be paid.

The common people are heavily taxed, unable to survive, and have no choice but to drown their children after they are born, without sufficient knowledge and products about childbearing, so that they have no burden.

In the end, some officials still couldn't stand it anymore, and wrote a letter suggesting that the court change the policy, and wait for the child to reach the age of seven before collecting the oral tax.

It was at the end of the Han-Hungarian War, a long-delayed war that brought the country to the brink of collapse. Seeing that the people's grievances were boiling to a critical point, Liu Che had to back down, so he was finally determined to be seven years old.

But since then, another layer of exploitation has been added to the heads of all people in the world.

This layer of exploitation started in the war under the banner of war, but after the war was over, it was never removed.

Therefore, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the practice of drowning infants among the people has gradually flourished, and it has never stopped in all dynasties.

It was the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and when Liu Bei was living, infant drowning was common in many places. No matter whether it was a boy or a girl, as long as the family could not afford it, they would drown.

Some conscientious local officials really couldn't stand it, so they asked the people not to drown babies, and the officials themselves paid the oral tax for babies, so as to keep the babies alive.

But there are too few such conscientious officials, not necessarily one in a thousand, some have the heart, but they don't have the money.

Every year, in this land, how many children are killed by their parents when they are just born?

Thinking to this point, Liu Bei thought that even if someone dug Liu Che's grave and opened the coffin, it would not be too much to kill his blood as a way of apologizing.

His own great talent and general military exploits of the Han Empire exist.

But in the 2000 years since him, until the population tax was completely abolished, the corpses of babies still existed all over the land of Chi County.

The initiator, there is no future?

Liu Bei felt hatred and dissatisfaction for this.

"The existence of oral odes makes people dare not have children, and children are killed when they are born. Is this an example? I grew up in Youzhou Zhuojun, Luoyang, and now Hanyang, Gaijun. Is it less? We often say that Liangzhou is sparsely populated, what is the reason for the sparse population, do we really not know?"

Gai Xun could hear Liu Bei's lament from the bottom of his heart.

"I am clear about your thoughts, but this is an imperial court regulation, which can be discussed, and it is very difficult to abolish it. This income cannot be parted with the princes of the Manchu Dynasty, and the local governments are also reluctant to part with it. This money."

"Yeah, how can they be willing? Without this money, it will be more difficult for them to spend a lot of time! There will be one or two less plates on their table! How can they bear it!"

Liu Bei sighed and put away the land account book.

"Let's not talk about these things now. It's time to reclaim land and land, and it's time to reduce or exempt. Don't think about how much tax you can get a few years before the resumption of production. The money I bring is also limited. We have to find another way to get wealth .”

When Liu Bei said this, Gai Xun remembered what Liu Bei said about the caravan.

"When I was talking about Liangzhou with you before, you said that you could introduce foreign traders into Liangzhou. This matter..."

"Well, I have this plan. In addition to resuming agricultural production in Liangzhou, I plan to develop commerce, otherwise it will not be enough to change the current situation in Liangzhou."

Liu Bei looked at Gai Xun, smiled, and asked, "Then I want to ask Mr. Gai, what is the most famous product in Liangzhou?"

"Naturally rose apples and rose peach wine."

Gai Xun nodded, and said: "Supplement is a precious fruit, and there are many plants in Liangzhou. It is very sweet to make wine from it. Not only the people of Liangzhou, but the whole man, as long as he likes to drink, no one can refuse the apple. Liquor, this is the most famous product in Liangzhou, but..."

"But what?"

"Liangzhou is full of wars, and the production of rose apples and rose peach wine is very rare and unstable. It is very difficult to get rich from this."

"Then let it stabilize."

Liu Bei opened his mouth and said: "The government stepped in to build and protect a large roseberry plantation, protect the production of apple apples, and then build a winemaking workshop outside the plantation, while producing apple apples, and brew roseberry wine at the same time, and then I will contact you. The caravan will increase the volume of cargo, and go to Chang'an, Luoyang, and Kanto, and sell it all the way."

Gai Xun was a little surprised.

"It's easy to say, but not easy to do. It costs a lot. I'm afraid I can't know it right now. Many rose fruit planting lands have long since lost people. Finding people, breeding, and planting all take time, and there is also a waste of time." Many of the water conservancy projects have to be repaired by people. How can there be so many people?

It is true that the tyrants in those places handed over 3 people, but they are more used to restore food production. Although apple apples are good, they cannot be eaten as food. Besides, how can there be manpower to use them on a large scale? What about planting rose apples?What Liangzhou lacks the most is not only money, but also people. "

Liu Bei smiled.

"Why does Mr. Gai think that I want to capture more than capture in this battle?"

Gai Xun was taken aback when he heard the words, and immediately realized that Liu Bei's moves were all linked together up and down!

As Gai Xun expected, news of the great success of the five-county conquest plan soon came, followed by a total capture of about 6 people.

Among these captives were not only Han Chinese, but also a large number of Qiang, Hun, and Xianbei, all ethnic groups, and all kinds. Among them, young and middle-aged men and women were the main ones, and the elderly and children were very few.

This is a very high-quality workforce.

After Gai Xun heard the news, he was both happy and worried.

"Manpower is available, but before they are allowed to produce and earn income, they also need to eat. Suddenly there are [-] more mouths to eat. Where should we go to raise so much food?"

The large amount of food that Liu Bei brought before was mainly for the supply of military supplies. Hanyang County had just experienced war, and the treasury was empty, so there was not much food available for a while.

If you want to buy locally in Liangzhou, it will definitely cause local food prices to rise immediately, which may cause additional turmoil, which is very unfavorable to Liu Bei.

But Liu Bei didn't take this matter seriously, he already had a solution.

(End of this chapter)