Great Peace

If we only look at the Liguo court, we can simply bring in the rise and fall cycle of the feudal dynasty and apply the economic model of agricultural society. But if we also put the concepts of Taoism, monks, and Xiuzhen families into this basket, it will not be enough.

It can be explained clearly in one sentence.

Li Fan didn't want to make a long speech, but only by understanding the significance and impact of the incident of "Mozhushan joining Xuanmen" on all classes in Liguo can we understand the violent social turmoil that is taking place in Changsi City, and even in Liguo as a whole.

First of all,

The real master of this world, the person who controls the most powerful force, is not a prince, a vassal, or a clan.

It used to be Asgard, but it isn't anymore.

This is the world of Xuanmen.

Or to be more clear, it is the 'monk group headed by the Nine Great Xuanmen' that rules the world.

It is not the Twelve Kingdoms of the Immortal Palace, but because of the "Nine Great Mysterious Sects", the "Twelve Kingdoms of Three Walls" exist today.

Xuanmen is the real weaver, rule maker, and maintainer of the entire system today.

In fact, the three major sects have been exploring how to manage the 'monks', a group that transcends 'mortals'.

In fact, Xiangong lost the world because it failed to handle its relationship with this group.

After all, what practitioners care about are genius treasures, magical secrets, and breakthroughs in cultivation. What they pursue is pure, absolute power and immortality. Of course, they look down on those vain titles, fiefdoms, and rewards given by your king.

Therefore, the Immortal Palace's attempt to monopolize the method of cultivation and stabilize the rule of the family and the world is essentially standing on the opposite side of the world's monks.

Although the lineage of the Immortal Emperor has the orthodoxy of the world and is surrounded by the service of hundreds of civil and military officials, it was once able to kill and suppress the monks in the world like catching thieves and thieves.

However, the power of a monk requires repeated training and experience in Taoism. This cannot be obtained through blood inheritance or monopoly of resources.

As the ancient Immortal Palace becomes increasingly corrupt and weakened, the Tai Chi Immortal Way is constantly innovating. Bloodline rule based on the cultivating family model is destined to be impossible to last long.

Therefore, changes gradually occurred in the place. It was enough for the bureaucrats to use their swords to bully and exploit the unarmed mortals. If they went to monks with swords in their hands to collect mountain and forest tax, vehicle and boat industry tax, and environmental protection tax, that would not be the case.

Looking for death?

If you always use the same old methods of dealing with mortals to manage monks, sooner or later a very messy and mysterious scene will appear.

'I know that the Immortal Palace stipulates that you have to pay taxes, but I snatched all the geniuses and treasures back with one sword and one sword. Why should I pay taxes to you? I just won't pay! What can you do??'

What else can you do, violently resist taxes, just draw a knife and do it.

So in the end, the head of the previous Immortal Emperor who wanted to violently pay taxes was chopped off, and the rule of the Immortal Palace naturally collapsed.

In the past, Li Fan couldn't understand why Xuanmen won the Immortal Palace but didn't take the throne. But when he was completing his daily life, he accidentally wandered to Lou Guan Pagoda and saw the owner of the temple sailing on the ocean.

On a daily basis, he understands.

Because it is no longer necessary. For Lao Xuanmen, it is good as it is now. The purpose of the monk group has been achieved.

To put it more simply, this purpose is ‘to pursue the Tao with ease’.

To put it bluntly, that is, 'If I don't pay taxes or food, I can ascend, and the common people will do my damn thing.'

As the ruler of the world, but not shouldering the obligation to protect the world, this is a born immortal.

Because supporting a huge bureaucracy and military group and maintaining order in the world is absolutely thankless and financially impossible to make ends meet.

Monks have to practice. Who in the normal cultivator has time to care about such nonsense? You are so busy that you are bald and you can’t care about it, okay!

So you, the Immortal Palace, can organize themselves as much as you like. Anyway, don’t bother me in my cultivation of immortality. Just go as far away as you can.

But the Immortal Palace also has something to say. If all the resources in the world are used for cultivation by Xuanmen, how will the rest of the people live? Let the powerful and nobles cut their flesh? It's impossible, okay? We might as well just draw the knife and do it!

Therefore, the old Xuanmen did not do anything in the end, and did not completely eradicate the Immortal Palace. Instead, they made many compromises, compromises, experiments and peace talks with Sanyuan, and finally advanced to today's step, and finally launched Yuntai Peak.

perfect system.

The foundation of this system is that regardless of the traditional sect, country, origin or bloodline, only those who have joined Yuntai Peak are considered 'Xuanmen'.

Only 'Xuanmen' can avoid paying taxes.

As for the casual cultivating sects in other places, as long as they are labeled as 'devil', they can be suppressed to death.

The political function of Sanyuan back then was gradually replaced by Yuntai Peak, and it became a pure administrative agency, responsible for maintaining the basic stability of the mortal world, while suppressing local casual sects, and in many cases, it could even get the support of Taoist sects from all over the world.

, let’s fight against the emerging casual cult.

Such as Mozhu Mountain.

Yes, from the perspective of the Liguo court, Xuanmen is the real master behind the scenes, the nobles and nobles are the flesh and blood backbone of the country, and the common people are the nourishment of this giant beast, and the local casual cultivators like Mozhushan,

This is the biggest disaster that may lead to the collapse of this system.

Although the master of the temple is a national master and canonized by the Immortal Palace, Mozhu Mountain has been recruiting people from the common people, expanding its preaching, and squeezing the space of traditional clans.

If the common people seek refuge in Mozhu Mountain one after another, become disciples of Mozhu Mountain, or dedicate their fields to the monks of Mozhu Mountain, whose taxes will the court collect? Whose land will the powerful rob?

Therefore, Mozhushan, a loose cultivator sect managed by immortals and a large tax collector in Liguo, had an irreconcilable conflict with Yushitai, the representative of Liguo's imperial court.

Therefore, as long as Mozhu Mountain is still a casual cultivator, the family members of its disciples are still not included in the "tax-free" quota. They are still productive and have money and food, but they also have the thorn of resistance. They are the source of trouble in the world.

But the situation is different now. Mozhushan has joined Xuanmen, Yuntai Peak’s Xuanmen! He has become the master!

To put it most bluntly, now the disciples of Mozhu Mountain can finally be justified in not paying taxes to Li Guo!

The heads of the wealthy families in Liguo are the most sensitive. They no longer simply buy a place and bet on both sides to maintain the relationship, but they are so eager to come over and submit their services.

Such Mozhushan is no longer the target of tax collection and suppression, but has become the master. How can Yushitai still look for trouble as before?

Of course, they are united around the leadership team of Mozhu Mountain with the Guanzhu as the core, hoping to send the children of their own clan to practice in Mozhu Mountain!

As for where the money for the imperial court comes from, aren't there still a lot of common people? If you squeeze in, there will always be some.

But ordinary people are not fools, okay?

It is better to say that the people who can survive in this world are more cunning than the last, especially those in Changsi City who are accustomed to businessmen from all walks of life. They also quickly discovered the change in the Shengxuan Sect of Mozhu Mountain.

policy loopholes.

It is different from Liguo, which keeps pace with the times and repeatedly carries out economic reforms.

What Mozhu Mountain uses is still the ancient system handed down from the ancient Immortal Palace era.

For example, Li Fan himself complained about the salary system. The monthly salary of inner disciples is only "two thousand gold", two guan of money. Although the guardian of the Nascent Soul realm collects offerings from the residents of the area under his jurisdiction, the monks do not need money, food or cloth.

Just asking the families of the disciples in the territory to support them, planting some spiritual herbs, raising divine beasts, making mechanisms and other tasks is better than nothing.

To be honest, the disciples of Mozhu Mountain hardly receive any sect welfare subsidies.

But on the other hand, Mozhushan's tax laws have not been updated for at least five hundred years.

In the past, Mozhushan was a casual cultivator and had to pay additional tributes to the Liguo court. This tax was settled by the censors of Liguo based on the actual situation. It has increased year by year, which is also one of the main contradictions. But now Mozhushan is

Xuanmen, so the donation was immediately cancelled.

In this way, the disciples of Mozhu Mountain only need to pay the basic 'oral tax', head tax, old, weak, women and children, 20 cents a year, 'counting tax', adult income tax, 120 cents, and 'household tax'.

', the household registration tax for the land allocated to a family after starting a business is two hundred cents per household per year, and the land rent was also set by the Immortal that year, with a tax of thirty per cent.

As for capital calculation, city tax, rent, customs and other commercial taxes, there are none. After all, we are cultivators in the mountains, bartering, why do we do so much mess? Isn’t it troublesome enough? As for corvee

Not to mention! The treatment of disciples is already very low. How can we recruit new people if we continue to engage in corvee service? Now when people are asked to work for the sect, the KPI is calculated based on their contribution!

From the perspective of the cultivating sect, the system of Mozhushan is really not very attractive. This has led to the disciples of Mozhushan being very keen on producing and doing business on their own. The family unit organized a group to go to Changsicheng for trade and engage in trade.

Make some money to support your family.

Now, Mozhu Mountain attracts refugees to reclaim hundreds of thousands of mountains, and the same management methods adopted by the disciples of Mozhu Mountain are adopted for these refugees who venture to reclaim the land.

This is mainly to facilitate the unified management of refugees by each peak and institute, organize land reclamation, and recruit disciples. In addition, considering the difficulty of land reclamation, it also provides subsidies for investments such as money, food, equipment, etc. in cultivation techniques.

Of course, the current situation is difficult. In line with the national policy of farming and war, all the grain output of the refugees' land reclamation will be purchased by Mozhu Mountain, and the cultivation of grain, herbs and spiritual fruits will be arranged and used by the sect. In view of the flood of Shengang money, now

Mozhu Mountain also launched the 'Immortal Ticket', which can be used to exchange supplies with the sect.

To sum up, this is the current situation of leaving the country.

Isn't this a fucking joke?

The people in Liguo will be exploited to death by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The taxes over there in Mozhu Mountain are as low as chicken feathers! And if you are a 'refugee', there are also benefits and policy subsidies for farming and land reclamation! Are you a fool who still stays in Changsi?

Staying and waiting to die??

As a result, in just a few years, millions of people have moved out of the Gyeonggi area alone! Most of the streets in the city have been emptied out!

Mozhu Mountain is currently short of people to farm and open up wasteland, so of course it is necessary to absorb all these manpower. Moreover, most of these people are experienced craftsmen in Changsi City, so most of them have been recruited by Tiangong Peak to work in the factory.

Otherwise, do you think that so many armored soldiers and crossbows in Mozhu Mountain fell from the sky?

And the officials of the Li Kingdom did not stop them. After all, those who really care about the country and know what is the fundamental virtue of the country have long been expelled from the court to eat sand on the border. And the leader of the Li Kingdom does not care about this, as long as he can

After building a big house, you can keep your official position. What if you leave the country in the future? What does it have to do with the officials below?

Moreover, we have driven away all the stinky beggars in Changsi City. Isn’t it just right! It’s just in time to reorganize and develop the slums in Changsi City and snatch, ahem, rebuild and develop new residences and properties!

After all, everyone understands it! Officials also have the need to manage money! They have been corrupt, exploited and extorted, and hoarded so much money and food. Now the Shengang money has depreciated significantly, and the losses of the powerful are greater than those of the poor.

Much more!

But now that the trade routes are cut off, the national finances are under the unified management of the Zhidusi, silk and cloth have been sold at sky-high prices, and the surrounding land and estates have been carved up earlier, then what better investment method is there? What else is there?
To be continued...