Chapter 26 [Standing into Mu, Cement]
After looking at Emperor Long Xing who was listening quietly, Lin Zhibai sighed and continued:
"Even if these babies survive, if they encounter natural disasters and lack food, they will not only not be able to eat enough, but they will not be able to bear the tax on the meal. For the sake of the family's livelihood, they often have to sell themselves and land to wealthy families.
"This is also the reason why local tyrants can continue to grow, and it is also the fundamental reason why population and land concealment continues. Father, even if you complete the tax reform in this case, a large number of people will still hide and avoid household registration.
"After a few decades, it will probably become the current situation where taxes cannot be collected.
"In response to this phenomenon, my son-in-law thought hard and finally found a solution, that is, to spread the stakes into the acres."
Hearing this, Emperor Long Xing's interest has been fully mobilized.
After this preparation, he knew that Lin Zhibai was very meaningful, so he asked: "I will tell you in detail, how to spread the dime into the acres?"
The so-called "spending a minus" means turning the tax on minus acres into a land acre tax.
Taxes are no longer collected based on the number of people, but taxes are collected based on the number of property and land, shifting the pressure from ordinary people to the middle and high-level income class.
In this way, ordinary families no longer have to worry about choosing to kill infants because of too much population and unable to afford the Ding Ge tax. Ordinary people will not be forced to voluntarily sell themselves as slaves by the Ding Ge tax, effectively curbing the cruel situation of drowning infants.
For the government, after measuring the land and collecting fixed taxes every year, you are not afraid of hiding the population among the people. You can run away or hide it, but the fields are not good.
As long as the central government has military power, there is no need to worry that taxes will not be raised.
Even if the people continue to reclaim new land in the future, they only need to re-measure it every once in a while, so that the central tax revenue can be naturally increased.
As soon as Lin Zhibai finished talking about the detailed content of the policy of digging into the mu, Emperor Long Xing discovered the benefits and was immediately overjoyed.
Although this suggestion is not as good as snow salt and can directly bring huge benefits, the benefits created after implementation will not be inferior to snow salt, and can also consolidate the country and country of Dahua Dynasty.
Maybe their Dahua Dynasty can break the cycle of reincarnation for tens of thousands of years and become an immortal dynasty forever.
For Emperor Longxing, being able to consolidate the country and extend the country was a huge achievement in itself.
If this policy is implemented, even if he fails to complete his expedition to the frontier, he will become the emperor of the eternal world by the horse grassland, and at least he can be considered as the leader of the revival.
"Okay, OK, OK!"
"The emperor's son is really my blessing star. If you give birth to a son like this, everyone in the world envies it."
Emperor Longxing was generous and praised him, and praised him again and again.
The last time he was so excited was when Lin Zhibai offered snow salt, this talented prince could always bring him uninterrupted surprises.
At this moment, Emperor Long Xing felt that the luckiest thing in his life was to be the emperor, he should have given birth to the prince Lin Zhibai.
"It's thanks to the father's contribution to teaching."
Lin Zhibai showed a sincere smile and responded in a very modest way.
"Encourage refugees, clean up the harem, cultivate talents to master the court, and then implement tax reform to spread the tax system and then fight with the royal family. The father can finish these things within ten years, so he is diligent and wise.
"In this way, at least ten years, there is no need to worry about the father's failure."
At this moment, Lin Zhibai was bragging with Longxingdi Business on his face, but he was thinking about his own affairs in his heart.
His original intention has not changed from beginning to end, and he is afraid that Emperor Longxing will overturn and implicate himself.
To be honest, Lin Zhibai does not support Emperor Longxing to attack the grassland at this moment.
Let’s not talk about whether he can win or not, even if he can win.
Due to the productivity of this era, the income from robbing foreign races outside the border is not as good as war expenses. If the grassland can farm, the wealth brought by the land can naturally make up for losses or even make a lot of money.
But the reality is that you cannot farm and the subsequent management costs are very high.
Therefore, the Central Plains dynasty was not interested in most outside the Great Wall, but only built the Great Wall defense and sent border troops to beat them regularly to protect the country and the people.
Fortunately, Emperor Long Xing did not have the idea of going directly to the expedition outside the border at this moment, otherwise Lin Zhibai would probably have to prepare now and clean up the fines and soft things and be ready to run away at any time.
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Emperor Long Xing originally thought that Lin Zhibai's surprise to him today ended here.
However, unexpectedly, after discussing the tax reform, Lin Zhibai did not rush back to the East Palace for class, but instead took himself to the craftsman.
The Craftsman is an engineering team belonging to the royal family. He is usually responsible for building and repairing palaces to create various royal equipment, and sometimes he also works part-time as an arms workshop.
Because Emperor Longxing has been obsessed with the achievements of the emperor for thousands of years, he does not build palaces or creates wonders, and the Xueyan Workshop will no longer need them, so the entire craftsman is a little leisurely.
When Lin Zhibai pulled Emperor Long Xing over, he was shocked by these lazy fish masters.
He quickly got up and saluted, fearing that he would be punished.
But Lin Zhibai and Emperor Long Xing ignored them at all, but walked into an independent courtyard behind the craftsman.
There was a stove here at this moment, and something was being burned, two young apprentices were looking at the stove.
A master in an official uniform looked furious at this time, staring at a steaming iron lump that was ecstatic.
“What is this?”
Neither father nor son disturbed the master craftsman and stopped the apprentice from saluting.
At this time, Emperor Long Xing pointed at the stove and said curiously.
Lin Zhibai pointed to a pile of mud on the ground and introduced: "Father, this is cement, a building material. As the name suggests, it can be shaped like mud after adding water, and can be mixed with stones.
"When it dries, it will become extremely hard, no less than ordinary rocks, and can be used to build official roads or city walls, or even build houses.
"This is the inspiration that my son has when he was thinking about Xueyan, but because he was busy studying and practicing martial arts and had no time to think about it, he handed it over to the master craftsman who was the chief craftsman to complete it. Now it has begun to be effective."
Frying cement is indeed an extremely simple thing, but Lin Zhibai only remembers one thing, and it will take a lot of time to restore it.
In order to save time, Lin Zhibai chose to outsource.
When I came to the craftsman to get magic weapons and weapons last year, I chose a craftsman who looked very scientist-like and said the general principles, and let him follow his own ideas and continuously improve the experiment.
Now more than a year has passed and it has begun to be effective.
Although the cement produced now is not as good as the products in the industrial era, it can be at least barely used.
Compared with the current materials for building walls such as glutinous rice, it is very cheaper and has better results.
Chapter completed!