Chapter 400: The Secret Biography of Taizu
Julia didn't understand Wei Feng's explanation very much. She understood the people of Serris as Roman citizens.
Rome seemed to have a vast territory, but before Constantine established its capital for the city of New Rome, its actual ruling center was only located in the Apennine Peninsula. The rest of the land was in the form of colonies. Roman citizens only accounted for a small part of the population and were the ruling class. How could it be possible to resist the Roman government? And Middle Earth was under the sky. Is it the king's land, the shores of the land, and the king's ministers, which was essentially a world of difference from the colonial form of Rome!
Julia, bathed in traditional Western civilization and the holy light of God, naturally could not understand the form of the regime in Middle Earth. Just as she frowned and thought secretly, Wei Feng waved backwards: "Follow me to say a few words!"
Three hundred cavalrymen rushed towards the formation with their horses in their belly. Julia didn't think much about it for the time being and followed closely.
After setting the reins of the horse, Wei Feng called out loudly: "Listen to the soldiers on the other side, this general is Wei Feng, the governor of Guangzhou. The emperor gave the emperor the throne to the military affairs of the two provinces of Guangxi. Now the troops were sent to Lijiashan City. In fact, Li Xun gathered a group to rebel and followed the rules. The first offensive to the three tribes of Yi, and those who follow the followers should be punished!
But God has the virtue of being a virtuous person and the court has compassion. I will suppress the rebellion and only punish the evildoers but not even as well. Anyone who surrenders can leave the slaves and move them to be good people. The general will grant land on behalf of the court at fifty acres of adult men and women, with 15 taxes and one tax. No taxes are collected according to the heads, and no donations are paid. The year of service shall not exceed ten days, and no more than a hundred miles away from home. If there is a service envoy that exceeds the deadline, the recruitment method shall be adopted, and the principle of voluntary work shall be paid daily at the average price of short-term workers in Panyu!
If the other officials sincerely repent, they can forgive their sins after being tested correctly. It is rare to have an opportunity. I hope you don’t make mistakes again and again. As for the slang, please relax. There will be another solution!"
As Wei Feng finished speaking, a buzzing sound came from the opposite side. Thinking about it, Wei Feng offered the conditions too generous, 15 tax. It was impossible to even think about it!
Since the fifth year of Xianhe in Emperor Cheng (324 AD), Emperor Cheng began to save the people's land, taking one tenth and taxing three liters of rice acres. However, this was not carried out separately, but in addition to collecting rent based on D. The additional additional tax on taxed rice is calculated in normal years, which is about four stones per hectare. From another perspective, it is eight liters per acre.
This tax system was used until the first year of Taiyuan (376 AD). During this period, the imperial court had heavy taxes and labor services, and the Wuhui was particularly prosperous. Since the rise of the army, many people have been conscripted and rebelled and dispersed, and they have been wasted. However, the replenishment and rebellion were in full swing, and no one knew where they were born!
In the second year of Taiyuan, Xie An took advantage of this and used the six entries of Shangshu to collect rent. The king and the king paid three hu of entrusted taxes. Only the entrusted tax was roughly equivalent to reducing the rent to six liters of acres, which was called equal entrusted tax. For a while, the people enjoyed their business, and the grain and silk were almost enough for the family. Wang Fuzhi (has nothing to do with the Wang family of Langya, a Neo-Confucian scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties) once praised: An was the master of the world, thought deeply and the Tao was exhausted, and the natural classics were used to determine the people's system.
The 15-digit tax set by Weifeng is one. In normal years, the rice yield per mu is one stone and six dou of rice per mu. Since it is wet rice, it must be removed from the shell. The grain yield rate at that time was about 40% to 45%. In fact, the rice harvested per mu was about seven dou, and the average rent tax was four and a half liters acre. This was significantly lower than Xie An's average entitlement tax. The key is that Weifeng levies not entitlement tax, but taxes based on output. The so-called entitlement tax means that people have to pay taxes, and those who are unable to work and cannot escape. This measure is very unfair and is beneficial to the best good people or powerful landlords with a large land and a small population. As for ordinary people with a small land and a large population, if there is another patient at home, it would be better to hang themselves and kill them!
Another point is also very important, namely, Wei Feng does not impose harsh taxes. You should know that the main land tax in China since ancient times will not make most people unable to survive. The Han Dynasty even reduced it to thirty-one taxes at one time, but there are many harsh taxes. At that time, the taxes included verbal money, servicing money, pond tax, salt and wine tax, Guanjin truss tax levied on business travelers, municipal tax and tax assessment, miscellaneous supply needed by local governments, welcome and send money for local officials when they take office, fishing for the people, fish tax collected by the people, mountain forests, rivers and lakes tax, etc., there are different regions, and hundreds of items are counted.
What's even more amazing is that the collection of rent and adjustment is based on the calculation and evaluation of the capital. The most direct problem of this collection is that it can falsely calculate the property of a good person, improve the level of the wealth of a good person, and collect as much as possible. There is a folk song saying: The task is to win, and it is engraved and engraved! It is also said that: mulberry grows one foot long, and the price is taken as a price, and the land goes up to one acre, and it is considered money. The house cannot be tiled, which is all responsible for the capital, so that the people dare not plant trees, the soil, and the houses are dilapidated and leaking rain and dare not add mud to build tiles.
In addition, regarding corvee labor, the court stipulated that men aged 16 to 60 are regular and serve full service, while those under 12 and over 66 are old and young, and can be exempted from service. Those who are sandwiched in the middle serve half of service are already harsh enough. Not many scholars live to be 60, let alone middle and lower-class good people, but the actual implementation is even more harsh. Some sergeants from counties are still serving in service in their 80s, and some are already in service at the age of seven.
This is the age of corvee service, and the burden of corvee service is also very particular. The men of the covee service only lasts twenty days per year, and lead 18 people to run for one covee service. This is two covee service, totaling for forty days. The first is to build weirs, build houses, dig trenches, build cities and other temporary labor services. The second is to specifically refer to transportation services, including transporting rented rice to prefectures and counties and capitals, or transporting grain during wartime.
The food transportation during the war was the most deadly. It was impossible to be exactly twenty days. A battle could be ten or half a month, or it could be for several months. The civilians who were recruited to transport food with military food could not be replaced in the middle of the war. Just like in the Battle of Feishui, the court levy had more than 100,000 corvee labor, and the then governor of Jingzhou Huan Chong, who was the governor of Jingzhou, would not be less than the court entrusted. Although the extra number of military service can be used to offset the subsequent military service, it is almost impossible during the execution. There are many types of labor service, and there are dozens of them. How can it be offset?
For corvee service, the court adopts a three-five levy system, that is, even numbers are drawn half, three numbers are drawn one, five numbers are drawn two, and five numbers are drawn three. However, in an emergency, all households are often given or empty households are assigned to service. When there are not enough male numbers, women will be recruited to serve.
What is particularly outrageous is that people die during labor or military households die in war, and are often defiled for crimes of fleeing or surrendering to the enemy. In this way, there is no need to give family members to their families. Second, they can notify local governments to go to the home of the deceased to catch the strong men in the name of pursuing the deceased's rebellion. As a result, the family members of the deceased were forced to flee together, so they took people from the same clan, and fled again, so they took neighbors. When the neighbors fled, they arrested them when they saw the villagers. In the end, one person was infringed, and the whole village was empty!
Therefore, at that time, middle and lower-class good people lived a life worse than tenants. Although most of the output of tenants had to be handed over to the master's family, they were exempted from rank, state guests, descendants of scholars, descendants of scholars, guests who had military merits, those who received money to serve, monks, nuns, and Taoists were all exempted from service!
This is also the reliance of Wei Feng in Shanyin forcing good people to join the army in the name of forced labor service. Serve is equivalent to death!
The buzzing sound in the opposite army was getting louder and louder, and the arrows archers sagged slowly. Originally, tenants were unwilling to be good people, but as soon as Wei Feng's new regulations came out, the benefits of being good people emerged. Except for the fifteenth tax and one, everything else was their own. The corvee service was only ten days a year. Who would still be willing to be a tenant again? As long as you abandon the darkness and surrender to the court, a bright future is already in front of you.
But the girl Chen reminded her with a trace of worry: "General, I understand that you are kind-hearted and it is indeed beneficial to the good man, but... have you been too hasty?"
Wei Feng waved his hand and said, "Although the Three Wus caused a heavy blow to the scholars because of Sun En's rebellion, it was not completely destroyed. The scholars still have a very strong influence. I will inevitably have great obstruction in the Three Wushang scheme. Guangzhou is different. Since the Three Wus have been occupied by the scholars, the common people have to continue to migrate south. Therefore, the scholars in Guangzhou are extremely weak. I have paid light taxes and taxes in Guangzhou. There may be resistance, but I am only targeting the common people, not the scholars, let alone using the power of pacifying Dingwu Fort and summoning the lie people. Who dares to do anything randomly?"
When the girl Chen thought about it, she nodded, but asked again: "Where did you thank the king for doing this?"
Wei Feng said lightly: "Wang Xie is kind to me, I will not ask them to do anything, but they can understand what I want to do. I hope that in the future, Wang Xie can make the right choice and set an example for the scholars in the world!"
As soon as Wei Feng finished speaking, a scream suddenly came from the opposite camp: "Who is surnamed Wei, it turns out that you are the one who rebelled. You are not treasoning for the world to win people's hearts. Isn't it a treason? Don't listen to his nonsense. Following him is a serious crime of treason. You want to confiscate your family and destroy your clan!"
It turned out that although no one in the army has yet to surrender to Wei Feng, it does not mean that they don’t want to. They just lack a leader. If someone leads, the entire army will collapse immediately. The morale of the army is on the verge of losing control. A general was anxious and quickly shouted!
However, this voice did not play a big role, but the buzzing sound became louder and louder. The general shouted again: "The whole army obeys the order. Anyone who takes off the head of the guard will be given a thousand gold medals. In the future, he can also represent the prefect of Gaoliang to the court!"
Wei Feng then turned his eyes and called out to a general in his thirties, about two hundred steps away. So he stretched out his hand and a soldier handed over the crossbow of the God-arm in understanding.
Wei Feng picked up the crossbow and glanced at it. Perhaps he was confident that the distance was far, but the general did not dodge, and there was a hint of mockery on his face, as if saying, come and shoot!
With a light "strength~~", Wei Feng pulled the trigger, and a black light shot out like an electric light. Before the sound of the bowstring vibrating sound had dissipated, he heard a shrill scream from the opposite side. The arrow hit the general's nose, and the eight-inch iron arrow penetrated into his face and six inches!
Chapter completed!