At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 77, Dividing a small family into a single family and being a powerful man with no choice

After the Qin and Han dynasties, there was the military household system of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, which was a variant of the government soldiers. It’s just that Zhu Yuanzhang was too selfish and had too many demands. I not only want people to farm and pay taxes, but also want people to travel thousands of miles to conquer the country for you. I also want to fix you in a position. Don’t think too much about rights. You are all wage earners. I am Lao Zhu in this world. In the Ming Dynasty, only two generations of the Ming Dynasty were capable of expeditions, and the military household system also quickly deteriorated.

Ming Taizu, like Ms. Dong today, always told wage earners not to ask for too much. However, his descendants wished that all of them could be princes for generations, and the lowest was a lieutenant in the state of salary and a die-hard banker.

The Jin and Song dynasties were at a low point. The ruling classes of these two dynasties had too good ideas. They were unwilling to give land and rights. They were promoting the PUA of the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Permanents. They wanted the people to risk their lives to fight for their wealth, but they did nothing. If you are willing to pay, you deserve to have the whole family arrested by the barbarians.

Therefore, it is true to say that the common people are the promoters of history. If the internal distribution is unreasonable, the common people will not support you. Take the Ming Dynasty as an example. Doesn’t the Ming Dynasty have famous generals of historical level?

Not to mention the founding generals, Yu Daqiu and Qi Jiguang in the middle and later periods are both famous generals that are rare to see in a century, especially Qi Jiguang. His battle loss ratio is the kind of crushing gap in modern information warfare. This famous general No one dares to imagine what kind of results they will achieve by leading the army in the northern expedition to the desert.

It's a pity that this famous general never crossed 500 miles of the Great Wall in his entire life. After all, the Ming Dynasty failed to live up to the talent of this famous general.

After Xu Fan finished explaining, people like Chen Lin, Ji Bu, Ying Bu, and Chen Gang dominated the upper ranks of the rebel army. They all agreed with Juntian. Zhou Zhang and Chen Xiao found that they had no choice but to agree.

But Zhou Zhang still said: "The matter of equalizing land must be done slowly. Land is related to the foundation of a family. If it is done too quickly, there will be turmoil."

Xu Fan said: "This matter really cannot be done quickly. We will start with all the wounded soldiers of our rebel army, and at the same time arrange for them to become local pavilion chiefs to train the villagers and provide future generations for our rebel army."

During the defense of Qixian County, the rebels suffered more than 3000 casualties. Most of these people were rescued. Some wounded soldiers could continue to fight on the battlefield, but some were disabled and had to retire.

Xu Fan simply let them become local armed forces, train rural soldiers, and increase the war potential of the rebels. They rebelled against Qin and returned to rebel against Qin, but Qin's war system still had to be used.

Zhou Zhang said: "After the land is equalized, our rebel army will have to find a way to fight out. Otherwise, we will have nothing to lose. Even if we have 300 million stones of food reserves, we will be eaten up."

Xu Fan smiled and said: "The rebels only have 700 million acres of land in their hands. Brother Wen has forgotten the remaining 7% of the land tax. This should be a lot of money."

Zhou Wen smiled bitterly and said: "The taxes on these lands are not enough to make up for this gap. My lord, you have abolished the corvee, and the income of the rebels has been greatly reduced."

I have to say here that the land tax in the Qin Dynasty was about one-tenth, which is relatively low. Of course, this means that ordinary farmers only need to pay this tax. In addition to the land tax, farmers also have to pay the tax. In the past, it was around 100 yuan. It's about 3 shi of grain. For a family of five, that's 15 shi of grain, which is equivalent to the land tax of 150 acres of land. Grain is valuable later. Generally, one person needs 3 shi of grain. In short, for officials, they calculate what is valuable. What, it’s impossible for them to lose money.

In the future, the county government will have to maintain and generally collect miscellaneous taxes. This depends on the conscience of local officials. In addition, the landlords' powerful tenants will print money. These people took away more than half of the people's income. The ordinary people were able to make ends meet after a busy year because of the strong conscience of these Qin officials.

This tax system is unreasonable. Ordinary people bear too much burden, while powerful officials and those with more land bear less burden. However, this unreasonable tax system has existed for more than 2000 years.

It's not that no smart people have noticed this in the past two thousand years, it's just that they don't dare to offend this huge vested interest. The person who really solved this problem in later generations was Emperor Yongzheng, who solved this problem with a trick of 'dividing a small family into an entire family' .

"From now on, we will only collect land taxes on the territory of our rebel army, and no other taxes will be collected." It just so happened that this era was an era when official land and private land were intertwined, and one step could solve the burden of the people of future generations. Zhou Zhang was shocked and said: "My lord, you must not do this."

Xu Fan stopped Zhou Zhang and continued: "Other taxes are not collected, but merged into the land tax. From now on, Chen County's land tax will be levied at 30%, but only this 30% will be collected."

Chen Lin laughed and said: "The more fields you have, the more taxes you pay. This tax is very fair and should have been like this a long time ago."

People like Chen Lin have long been dissatisfied with the taxes. The more powerful the land, the less the taxes, and the shame of poor people like them will be pulled off.

Chen Gang also smiled and said: "In this way, we can make up for the tax gap, and we only pay 30% of the tax. Our rebels have also reduced the tax by half."

Zhou Zhang was a little dumbfounded. This way he didn't have to worry about insufficient taxes for the rebels, but such a policy greatly offended the powerful nobles of Chen County.

He persuaded: "Lord, if our rebels act like this, I'm afraid that the powerful people in Chen County will avoid our rebels like tigers."

Xu Fan sneered: "From the uprising to the time when our rebels occupied the entire Chen County, how many powerful nobles have joined us? Those who have been fighting for our rebels are not all the people of Chen County."

Then Xu Fan looked at the crowd and said: "Who is one of our own, who is a stranger, and who is the enemy? In the past month, everyone has not been able to see clearly. We overthrew the Qin Dynasty and committed beheadings. The rebels did something to themselves. Of course, people should be treated preferentially, and the violent Qin will be exterminated. For these powerful nobles, contributing food is the only thing they can do for our rebels."

The biggest difference between Xu Fan's uprising and Chen Sheng's uprising is that the First Emperor was not dead yet. Under the threat of the First Emperor, the powerful nobles did not dare to join the uprising immediately. The entire Chen County should have been the place with the most powerful nobles in Chu, but only Xiang Xiang The family provided some of their children anonymously, while other powerful nobles only dared to secretly provide some food and supplies, and even the family's children did not dare to send them.

Without the participation of these powerful nobles, the disadvantage is that Xu Fan's uprising is not powerful enough, but the advantage is that the purity of the team is preserved. At least among Xu Fan's rebels, most of them are ordinary people. Xu Fan has formulated some policies to take care of the people. They will support all policies.

Moreover, the environment at the end of Qin Dynasty was different from that at the end of other dynasties. At the end of other dynasties, the powerful landowners would find ways to cooperate with the court to suppress the rebels, but now these powerful powerful people in Chen County have no way to unite with the Qin army.

Chen Jun's powerful people have no choice. Xu Fan will of course lead the rebels to bargain more and let these powerful people cough up more benefits.

　Let’s talk about Chapter. I don’t want to express what a good thing Great Qin is, but compared to the centralized Great Qin, the aristocratic feudal system of Shiqing Shilu of the Six Kingdoms is even more rubbish.

　　Qin is not a good thing, and the powerful nobles of the Six Kingdoms are even less good. When the nobles and powerful people of the Six Kingdoms have no choice, the protagonist must of course suppress them more. After all, the rebels occupy a monopoly position.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)