"Zihou, you came to Yangzhou first to say goodbye to me. You probably wanted to figure out something, right?" Gao Yue first asked Liu Zongyuan the purpose of this trip.

Liu Zongyuan stood up and bowed, and then admitted that he was indeed confused.

"It was after the painting industry in Gwangju that the new tax amount was determined. I instructed the governor to take the opportunity to increase the tax of the household by 30%, right?"

"Yes, you said before that Duke Wei said that you are unwilling to increase taxes to the people of Huainan, but now..."

"Go back on your word, right?" Gao Yue smiled and said what Liu thought.

Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan were solemn, and they didn't dare to joke about accepting Gao Yue's words.

At this moment, Gao Yue said: "Since the implementation of Yang Yan's two tax law, we have paid special attention to the word "yuan amount". You should all understand that the so-called "yuan amount" is the total amount of taxes. In each province, every county, it is enough to collect the tax and rice in full according to the amount of yuan they allocated to their own yuan. In addition, the amount of the two taxes is definitely not high. Take Jianghuai as an example. The tax that each household previously distributed was eight jin a year, but now the amount of yuan has been increased, which has increased to ten jin jin 500 jin 500 jin 500 jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin jin

What about hudu rice? On average, each acre is five liters of rice, and if it is corn, it will be eight or nine liters; in the end, the additional levy of the Ministry of Revenue green seedlings, which is distributed equally to about 18 cents per mu. The edict clearly stipulates that all taxed hudu rice by prefectures and counties will be subject to the yuan amount, and they shall not be simply blamed according to the year. In this way, is it true that only one household can cultivate thirty acres of land and live a very prosperous life. In addition to having enough food, you can still have money to buy tea and wine, and can support your wife and elderly, but is this the truth?"

Speaking of this, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan fell silent.

The actual situation is that the annual tax amount of the two yuan in the imperial court has not changed, but the lives of the people have not improved. In some prefectures and counties, the trend of escape and escaping is becoming more and more intense. This situation is well known to Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan.

Gao Yue wanted to tell them that this was the famous Huang Zongxi's law, that is, every time when the feudal court unified the tax law and the people were able to reduce some burden in the initial period, they would soon fall into the vicious circle of "the government has no reputation for being more conservative, but the people have more conservative" - ​​but Gao Yue would not say it, because they did not recognize Huang Zongxi at all.

In later generations, this law was called "Gao Yisong Law".

"The court can set the amount of yuan every three years to solve the situation of escaping." Han Yu suggested.

Liu Zongyuan also agreed with this because he really couldn't think of a better way.

Gao Yue smiled, shook his head, and then looked at the distance of the Yangtze River. There was a line of water and sky. He pointed to the vague and long line and said to the two people: "The so-called Yuan E is like this line, ups and downs, but it always follows a rule, that is, the "Heaven" means that the government sets this line, of course, the lower the better, the purpose is to calm people's hearts; and "Shui" means that the people can accept this line, of course because they think this line is the upper limit they should bear. This line is the bottom line that officials and the people follow together, that is, the "yuan E" mentioned by the government, and the "constant fu" mentioned by the people.

Yang Yan originally implemented the two tax law, which was to mix the miscellaneous taxes that the people had originally received with the regular taxes, and reorganized the taxes, and promised that they would never increase the amount in the future. But what is ridiculous is that Chen Shaoyou, the governor of Huainan, requested that the amount of two taxes will increase by 200 yuan per stake, and it will definitely increase in the future. Even if it is not added openly, it will be exploited in the form of miscellaneous taxes. Every time the tax is reorganized, it will soon give birth to a new round of miscellaneous taxes, and then it will be reorganized again, repeating the tax burden, and there will be no removal. So how can people's lives be improved? In the end, either dry water or turbid waves are emptying."

In fact, Gao Yue is here, and the criticism of the spearhead is not only Yang Yan’s two tax laws, but also what Han Liu doesn’t know: Zhang Juzheng’s one-whip method, or Yongzheng’s ditto to enter the acre.

Short-sighted people always think that these reforms are of great significance and success. However, in fact, the essence of these reforms is the same, which is an attempt to use simplified procedures to incorporate complex taxes into the positive amount of the state's finances. The simplified means - Yang Yan relies on copper coins, and Zhang Juzheng relies on silver (1).

"However, once the country sets the yuan amount, it loses its flexibility of expansion. The court can only collect so much money, because it loses its credit if it is randomly charged. Since the yuan amount is fixed, the number of officials they are raising is fixed, but the household registration of the people is constantly changing, and coupled with the merger and transfer of fields, if the court relies on the unchanging yuan amount to raise the number of officials to manage the ever-changing household registration and land property ten years later, it is simply unsatisfactory. If it is really as you said, two taxes must be re-determined every three years. By the boundary land, then more local financial resources must be used to expand the official team. Otherwise, who will do this for you? If the local finance wants to achieve this goal, it must be done with the regular payment of yuan amount and by increasing miscellaneous taxes. Finally, it is a real cycle - yuan amount

If it remains unchanged, it cannot expand the official taxes effectively, and if it is not added to the miscellaneous taxes, it cannot expand the official team. Excessive miscellaneous taxes will inevitably make the people's households flee, and the prefectures and counties can only escape, that is, transfer the taxes to the people's households who have not escaped. In the end, they have no choice but to increase the yuan by tax consolidation. However, the government lost all its credit, the national economy collapsed, civil strife, foreign invasions, and life was devastated. The great evil that Han Tuizhi said before may arise at this time. Even if a new great sage is born, relying on his own ability and diligence to maintain the good situation of the thirty years of founding the country, it will soon fall into the cycle we just mentioned, repeating cycle, repeating cycle... It is the poverty of the people, repeating cycle, repeating cycle, repeating cycle! Just as Buddhism said, this is truly the hell of the infinite."

Even though Han Yu was a determined person to eliminate Buddhism and eliminate old people, he heard the "Infinite Hell" picture drawn by Gao Yue, and felt a terrifying cold air rising on his back. Coupled with the previous hot sweat, almost making the hairbow smoke come out. He and Liu Zongyuan both understood what Gao Yue said, but it was because he understood that he felt boundless despair.

In the circular "yuan-value taxation country", "promoting the suffering of the people and destroying the suffering of the people" is really not a sour saying that Chouda pretends to be profound. The way Confucianism can only implement the so-called abstinence. In addition, due to the rigidity of Yuan-value taxation, the country cannot spend extra financial resources to invest in construction. It can only adopt the policy of first-ranking officials and army, the water conservancy, and the road is becoming increasingly declining. The people are always in the pain of chronic poverty. In the end, what should be corrupt, what should be degenerated, what should be degenerated, what should be degenerated...

"The ancestors thought of a way to cure. The meaning of Confucius and Mencius's scriptures is to respect heaven and love others, and to behave properly. This is really a 'poverty morality'." Gao Yue's sarcasm made Han Yu very embarrassed, but he could not refute it.

He and Liu were even more eager to know if Gao Yue had a way to rescue him.
Chapter completed!