Pioneering

Chapter 63 Statutes and Organizations

The "One Whip Law" stipulates:
The land tax, family tax, firewood tax, church tax and other miscellaneous levies of the cities, towns, and villages in the territory directly under the earl's mansion are combined into one, and [-]% of the farmers' grain is collected together, and the payment is based on the size of the field and the grain output.

Don't think too much, [-]% to [-]% of the land tax is the average level of the Principality of Andreia, and there are dozens of exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, large and small.

Master Zhong's actions, in the eyes of the peasants, are simply saints alive and gods descending to earth.

The collection of land tax in this way greatly simplifies the tax system and facilitates the collection of taxes. At the same time, it also makes it difficult for tax officials to corrupt and increases fiscal revenue.

The Farming Incentives Act states:

Encourage the citizens to engage in productive activities such as farming and weaving.

Families who work hard to engage in agricultural production, and whose grain and cloth output exceeds a certain amount, can be rated as excellent farming families.

Families with excellent farming can be exempted from the Benzoa (annual) agricultural tax and military service for themselves and their families.

Those who are idle and do not do their job properly will be punished with double military service.

For three consecutive Zoyas (480 days and nights) who have been rated as excellent farming families, one person can participate in the selection of the standing army under the earl's mansion, and the earl's mansion will provide all round-trip board and lodging expenses.

Military merit is regulated by the Noble Law:
In addition to the three levels of feudal nobles of knights, barons, and viscounts, a tenth level of military merit with no land and salary was established.

The salary of military meritorious ranks is distributed annually, half of which is food and half is coins.

After the tenth rank of military merit is completed, the leader can be canonized as a feudal knight noble;

Originally belonged to nobles, they could obtain higher titles through military exploits.

First, for ordinary soldiers, if the total number of kills reaches one enemy, they can be promoted from white body to first-level military merit; Can be promoted from second-level military merit to third-level...

By analogy, from the zeroth power of two to the ninth power of two, beheading 510 enemies can become a feudal knight noble.

If you can kill the enemy who has a title, you will be granted the title of knight directly.

Second, for the generals who lead the army, after the number of enemies killed by the troops under their command is subtracted from the number of their own battle losses, they will also be awarded nobles when they reach a certain number.

Obtaining military merit, in addition to military merit, there are other rewards such as food, clothing, fields and houses.

In addition, in order to prevent the phenomenon of killing good men for meritorious service and robbing meritorious service, civilian military judges were added as supervisors outside the military system, and military judges recorded and reported military merits.

The Earl's Mansion will conduct a second military merit review based on the records provided by the military judge, the photostones on the battlefield and the ears of the enemy.

The Household Registration Act stipulates:
All citizens in the Earl's territory must go to the designated place for household registration within a time limit of one Zoya (480 days and nights).

The Earl's Mansion no longer recognizes and protects the private property safety and personal safety of the citizens who have not registered their household registration within the time limit.

Commercial tax collection regulations:
The commercial tax collection of shops in the city is changed from the original annual fixed amount collection to the collection according to the size of the turnover, and a commercial tax of [-]% of the turnover is collected.

In addition to these five laws, there are also some generalized criminal punishment measures such as those who hurt people, those who kill people pay for their lives, and those who violate women are reduced to hard labor (experimental products) in the Earl's Palace.

No matter how much, Zhong Ming really can't think of it!
Zhong Ming studied computer before time travel, and became a street writer after he was unemployed after graduation. Asking him to write laws really made things difficult for him.

Relying on the legal basis in his school career and life, it is okay to occasionally give advice on the Internet, and it is okay to ask him to compile a code of law out of thin air, that is, let the butcher do the embroidery.

In this magical world, feudal lords have extremely high autonomy over their territories. As long as they pay taxes and military service to their lords on time and fulfill their feudal obligations, that lord cannot morally interfere with the governance of his vassals' territories.

Therefore, although Zhong Ming's implementation of statutory law may be regarded as far-reaching, earth-shattering, and famous in history in the eyes of later generations, it does not actually violate the ruling logic of the aristocratic class.

In fact, Zhong Ming didn't want to bring out the statutory law so early, especially in the current situation where his foundation is not stable.

However, look at the batch of "crashing dragons and phoenix chicks" and wine bags and rice bags under Mr. Zhong.

The average vocabulary of this group of "talents" does not exceed [-].

Let this group of "talented people" manage their territory for themselves, play freely, and properly turn the foundation land that they have worked hard and energy into a land of garbage.

It would be quite meaningful if there is a sound code to regulate these "talents".

Of course, not being able to compile a legal code does not mean that Mr. Zhong cannot copy a legal code.

The magic world cannot be copied, and Zhong Ming has already planned to return to the Great Yan Dynasty to copy and revise it in the near future, so as to create a code of law.

These decrees were engraved on the wall of the city hall by Zhong Ming, which was regarded as a warning to the citizens and these uneasy subordinates.

And after the drama of "Moving Wood and Establishing Faith", under the dissemination of bards, merchants, and citizens, Zhong Ming's deeds of establishing faith and legislation have spread throughout Moant City and some nearby places.

The credibility of the Earl's Mansion has been significantly improved. The most obvious manifestation is that he has harvested [-] or [-] citizens from the civil class who applied for officials.

Even if the literacy rate in the magical world is only one percent or one thousandth, the situation in Moant City has recently stabilized. After the population returns, the population base of more than 15 should have several hundred people.

It is not surprising that there are sixty or seventy literate people here.

These defectors come from richer families and are generally younger, and they were all fooled by Zhong Ming's recruitment order of "referring to meritorious service", "receiving honors for meritorious service", and "the capable will be promoted to the mediocre".

Poor families have no money to teach their children to read, and the elderly intellectuals don't believe in Mr. Zhong's recruitment order at all.

Most of the former officials were offshoots of noble children, the second sons or illegitimate sons of nobles without inheritance rights. The new lord suddenly recruited ordinary citizens as officials, which is indeed very strange in the eyes of older cultural people.

But Zhong Ming doesn't dislike these defectors, it's good to be young, it's better to be inexperienced!
A blank sheet of paper is easy to draw on, and the principle is universal.

Only by cultivating these "blank papers" well can we raise Zhong Ming's satisfied subordinates who can use them smoothly.

Mr. Zhong now divides these more than 130 old and new officials into ten departments, including finance department, tax department, audit department, household registration department, construction department, agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry department, education department, judicial department, public security department, and court.

The financial department is in charge of the Earl's House's fiscal revenue records and approval of expenditures.

The taxation department is mainly responsible for collecting commercial tax, agricultural tax and customs duty.

The audit department is responsible for the second approval of fiscal revenue and expenditure, and the public accounts can only be used if the two approvals are unanimous.

The household registration department manages the household registration of all the citizens of the earldom.

The construction sector is used to complete the construction and maintenance of infrastructure in some territories.

The agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry sector promotes advanced production technologies in the territory.

The education department is responsible for cultivating the earldom's talent pool, and it is currently an empty shell.

The judiciary manages hard labor for criminals, and studies and drafts administrative laws and regulations for Zhong Ming's review and approval.

The public security department is responsible for maintaining the law and order of the territory, investigating civil and criminal cases and arresting criminals in accordance with existing laws and regulations.

The court is responsible for maintaining the law and order of the territory and adjudicating civil and criminal cases in accordance with existing laws and regulations.

(End of this chapter)