Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 373
"Thirdly, to educate the people - since the establishment of the country, regardless of Jingchu, the north and the south, the county school, the county county school, the township school, and the school in the county for three years, the family can reduce taxes and taxes ! I hope all the people in the world can learn from childhood!"

If the previous article only made ordinary people a little excited, but had no real benefits, then now... they are really excited.

After all, "there is a way to serve the country" is just a door, but... without the ability to cross the threshold, it is still in vain.

But now, the government's township schools can accept civilians, and send their children to school, free of part of the tax?

More people began to rush to find someone who could read the Di newspaper and translate specific measures for them.

In fact, it may be somewhat different from what they thought. The township school only dealt with basic literacy and basic arithmetic, while the county school started by dividing subjects... In Yangzhou, the people in the areas where the Ministry of Rites has been working for a long time actually know better that "education" is not The only goal is to become an official.

If they really want to educate students who can take the "official administration" exam, ordinary families are really unable to do so, unless they are really prodigies and can continue to receive the "Baigong's Encourage Scholarship".

Of course, if you don’t aim to be an official, there is actually a lot of knowledge that can make your life better!

For example, the master craftsmen in some workshops, whose annual income is comparable to that of ordinary wealthy families, can earn more during their leisure time, even if they only learn a superficial way, right?
After hearing this, Liu Xie's face became a little ugly - except for the first one, which changed from crossing the river to rule the country to "loving the benevolent", wasn't this the third of the eight strategies that Bai Tu used to humiliate himself?

Could it be that the back is...impossible!That kind of thing is simply not feasible. If he dares to do this, he will definitely be in chaos first!Liu Xie convinced himself silently.

"Fourth, help agriculture and heavy industry - since the founding of the country, the grain tax of the Chu State has been one for every fifteen years, and will never be increased again. All the craftsmen in the workshops will be supported. I hope everyone will benefit and be supported in old age."

Bai Tu was already prepared to exempt agricultural taxes. When the Eastern Han Dynasty was completely victorious, it had only a population of more than 4000 million, but now it has been reduced a lot, and the Chu State has only a population of more than 1000 million.

The per capita cultivated land area is very sufficient. If we refer to the early stage of the Industrial Revolution, as long as industrialization is initially achieved, agricultural taxes will become an additional tax. When there is sufficient per capita cultivated land, industrial power can easily shrink the agricultural population, let alone asking farmers to collect taxes. Just be careful about "sheep eating people".

What's more, there are millions of hectares of land suitable for collective and efficient farming, which are already under the name of official land...

The advantage of having fewer people is that if the population really increases more than ten times, both the industrialization process and the per capita cultivated land will limit the transformation.

However, only Bai Tu and the core staff of the Sixth Department knew this account clearly, and the others...

Ordinary people and Yangzhou wealthy families were all excited at this time. What the people were excited about was that the agricultural tax, which originally accounted for the majority, had returned to the [-]-percent tax in the former Han Dynasty and would never be increased again. This was only possible in the Chu State. Can you do it?
What excited the wealthy people in Yangzhou was that they heard the implication of continuing to support private workshops!

As for the wealthy families in Jingzhou...

Obviously he is still not used to it. Hearing that after fifteen taxes and one tax, he is still a little uneasy. After all, if farmers can live and work in peace and contentment, it will not be conducive to the merger of wealthy families.

However, this "disadvantage" is completely tolerable-in fact, it is the same as when the dynasty was just reborn from the ashes. The land is cheap and the tax is low. .

Only a few advanced wealthy families with active brains and understanding of the situation in Yangzhou are ready to "hold Jingzhou" at another level. We can't let the bastards in Yangzhou occupy our living space. We have to open up the workshops first!

Those who are not forward-looking enough are even worried that Chu State will not be dragged to death...

As for Liu Xie of Chang'an, he really wanted to bring up his chief minister and ask him if we could also pay one tax per fifteen.

Liu Bei was below at this time, already showing a shameful face - he knew very well that Xuzhou is now subject to two taxes and one tax, and the people still have to cultivate the official land...

Fifteen tax one?Not to mention that he still has to donate to Guanzhong, it is not enough to support his own army!
Liu Xie continued to stare at Bai Tu's figure, because if it really corresponded to the eight strategies, then the next thing... was to restrict the royal family. Would Bai Tu really restrict his descendants and give opportunities to outsiders?

"Fifth, the king is a noble of the Chu Kingdom - I am the king of Chu, starting from myself. The property of the royal family will not be plundered from the people. I only take ten thousand yuan from the annual income. I will be self-employed. The children of the royal family will not be awarded titles without merit. No merit, no reward, all support from the royal family's property, taking away a share from the people, God forsakes it!"

The words "Emperor has one title" are very harsh, especially to Liu Xie's ears - there is a theory in Gongyang theory that "the emperor has one title", which means that the emperor is regarded as the highest title...

At first glance, modern people may feel that it is not inconsistent, but isn't it because the emperor is the biggest?
However, in the period of great unification, this was simply making fun of the imperial power!
Its essence is to obliterate the specialness and sanctity of the emperor as the "Son of Heaven", and treat the emperor as a title that is only a higher level than the "king".

Bai Tu doesn't care about the "Emperor and One Lord" thing now, but he has carried out "self-imprisonment" in Chu State, which means roughly the same!
Just like Bai Tu's eight policies to Chang'an, he stated that he would not use the taxes from the imperial court for his own family, nor would he seal off the taxes of a certain place to them just because he gave birth to children, thereby embezzling them in disguise. Imperial Finance.

Even in terms of royal support, Bai Tu has directly drawn the line - just in case, take one out of ten thousand!

Liu Xie had no idea what he was talking about, and even felt that this man had gone crazy.

Not to mention that there are only about [-] million households in the Chu region now. Even in the heyday of the Han Dynasty, there were more than [-] million households. One ten thousandth... the annual payment of a thousand-household prince?
It’s not that much among the princes, enough to support the royal family?You're a single guy, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are when you don't have a family!
This article was not overly explained in the Di newspaper. After all, it was used to regulate the royal family itself, and Bai Tu did not need to explain it in such detail.

For example... Bai Tu will certainly not explain to them that the key point of this article is "the royal family's properties are not plundered from the people, the annual income is only taken in case of emergency, and they are self-operated and self-operated". .

Since we can all "operate and operate by ourselves", why do we have to take money directly from the imperial treasury?One ten thousandth is all symbolic, otherwise Bai Tu would be afraid that other princes would be embarrassed in the future.

From the Gan family's brocade to the Lu family's artificial colored glaze, all have shares in Baitu. On the gradually expanding waterway, the largest trading firm also hangs the name of Baitu.

There are countless good things in Bai Tu's hard drive. He can take them out at random, find an obedient family to invest in technology stocks, or reward meritorious officials. It's not all about making money.

It gives me a headache as well as how to distribute these things so that they don’t get burned in my own hands!
Why should the royal families of industrialized countries still worry about taking money from the treasury?

What's more... Now that we are here, Bai Tu feels that by continuing to think about the descendants who don't even have a shadow, he has really "earned" something. After reaching this point, Bai Tu already feels that he is taking too much, so he decides to I need to do more self-examination in the future.

But after Bai Tu said this, he felt calm for no reason. Not only did his mental strength increase significantly, but even the gilded military talisman became a little hot. This was... a sign that Chu's luck had greatly improved!

Looking at the people below, a few were so moved that they wanted to cry, but most of them...were already crying!
Bai Tu was really embarrassed. He took a few deep breaths before he could hold back the feeling of being condemned in his conscience...

(End of this chapter)