I'm The Emperor of All-Heavens

Chapter 886

"I was fooled by the old thief!"

In the dongbohou mansion, Jiang Wenhuan was furious and pulled out his long sword. He wanted to chop Jiang Ziya into meat sauce.

"It's impossible to prevent!"

Jiang Huanchu's face was also very gloomy, spitting out four words of Wei qubaba from his mouth.

Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao were ordered to go to the two major vassal states, one east, one west, one Wen and one Wu.

At a time when Su Hu's army and Xiqi's army were locked in a bitter struggle, Donglu was very calm, because Jiang Ziya refused the escort of division Wang and entered Donglu with a light car and simple obedience.

Jiang's father and son are very satisfied. Your majesty sent this mountain man. What can you do to them? I'm afraid it's just a show!

Therefore, they superficially agree with Jiang Ziya's so-called restoration of ancestral system and harmony throughout the world, but in fact they are completely perfunctory.

Jiang Ziya was not in a hurry, calmly urged, and then proposed changes in taxation, with a gradually tough attitude.

Throughout history, if a regime wants to make a difference after it comes to power, it is necessary to have sufficient economy, and the most direct source of economy is tax.

Therefore, with so many regime changes in all dynasties and generations, when each regime first came to power, it basically paid attention to reducing taxes and stabilizing the people's hearts. However, in the later stage, with the growing greed of those in power, more and more exorbitant taxes and levies, the economy collapsed, unable to make ends meet, and finally perished.

Far from it, there was tax collection as early as the Dayu era.

There is a famous event called Dayu killing Fangfeng.

Generally speaking, after the successful flood control, during the Kuaiji celebration, a tribal leader Fangfeng came late and was killed by Dayu. Later, he claimed that he had killed the wrong one, which made later generations speculate.

The story was later adapted into a myth. What Fangfeng is a giant? It is three feet and three feet high. A bone can only be loaded in a car. In fact, the real reason for all kinds of myths is not Fangfeng's singularity, nor Dayu's inability to accommodate people, but a competition for control of taxes and monetary materials seashells.

Fangfeng's death opened a precedent for the central government to collect taxes on the people. The disaster of killing lives was caused by the lack of cooperation of local governments, which also reflects the importance of this system to the ruling class.

Dayu's success, Tu Shan's alliance, the world for the public, nine words, founded the first dynasty Xia and the first tax system in history——

Gongfa.

Ren Tu as a tribute is described in Shangshu Yugong. This system is very interesting. Based on the distance between the vassal fiefs and the king's city, the world is divided into five levels, and then subdivided among the five major levels. It is quite the first scene of the division of seven loops in later generations.

For example, subjects who are 100 miles away from the king's city should pay tribute to the crops they cut, those who are 200 miles away from the king's city should pay tribute after cutting off the straw, and those who are 400 miles away from the king's city should pay tribute to millet. It is a kind of kind tax levied according to the land and output.

In the Shang Dynasty, it became famous, the well field system.

As the name suggests, the well field system divides the land into nine areas according to the word "well". Among them, the outer eight areas are called private fields, which are distributed to eight farmers to cultivate and harvest for these farmers to support their families. The middle area is public land, which is jointly cultivated by eight farmers, and all the harvest belongs to the slave owners and the state.

Compared with the Xia Dynasty, the eight people's forces assisted in the cultivation of public land rather than tax private land. They not only paid taxes in kind, but also counted the labor force. Hello, Hello, everyone.

The purpose of implementing the well field system is to ensure equal welfare, equal distribution and average taxation. This is a very ideal tax system, but there are great problems in operation.

There are policies at the top and Countermeasures at the bottom. It should have been a matter of interest to both the top and the bottom, but it was destroyed by greedy desire. The same is true of the minefield system. I won't repeat it. At present, the system of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties is manipulated and controlled by the upper authorities, which is called assisting the law.

Law aid is a means by which the ruling class, on the basis of its inherent land, relies on its power and status, forces farmers to provide labor free of charge by dividing fields and making salaries, so as to solve the salary expenditure, military expenditure and other national expenditures of officials at all levels.

For example, when you rent a front room to do business, you simply pay the rent and pay the share that should be paid. The rest is your own income. Now, in addition to the rent, you have to bear all the living expenses of the landlord family. Who can stand it?

Under this abnormal system, after hundreds of years of brewing, the Yin Shang Dynasty would collapse until it reached the edge of outbreak.

It can be seen that the demise of a dynasty is not simply caused by one or two wrong decisions. It is a long-standing disadvantage.

However, the reform of the princes of the four towns shifted the contradiction.

Donglu is the first of the 800 princes, taking the lead in reform, walking at the forefront of the times and occupying a favorable geographical position.

After the destruction of Dongyi, Huang Feihu was ordered to build a Dongping city outside the original ancestral mountain of Dongyi. It is close to the mountain and the sea. Now it has become the most commercially developed city in the world. The natural materials and earth treasures on the mountain and the rare foreign objects in the sea are continuously delivered inland, which is deeply loved by the princes and nobles.

Donglu's proximity to the water and the tower first gets the month. Naturally, it also vigorously develops commerce.

Therefore, on this basis, Jiang Ziya set up three taxes:

The first is the tax on mountain forest products and marine fishery products.

This is collected when mining, that is, in Dongping City, businessmen have to pay a large amount of tax one after another.

The second is the tax of customs and cities, which is the inspection and taxation of goods passing through the "Customs" at the border and the "city" at home.

This "pass" is exactly the five passes, and the "city" is every big city.

In other words, every time you pass a customs clearance, you have to pay a tax, and the same is true for every time you enter a big city.

The third is the surplus tax, which refers to other taxes that do not belong to the above situations.

The third kind is worth mentioning. The first two kinds dig a piece of meat from the merchant.

Jiang's father and son are not pure Wufu. They have discussed for a long time and believe that this is an economic crackdown by the central government on Donglu.

Military training requires money. Donglu reformed its military system, and its permanent military strength reached an amazing 120000, which is the highest among the four princes. The daily expenses are amazing. If it hadn't been for vigorously developing commerce and taking a share in the cornucopia of Dongping City, it would have been impossible to support it.

Now, with the new tax, part of the income should be handed over to the central government through tax, and it will not be possible without disarmament.

Cut meat with a soft knife!

However, at this sensitive juncture, Donglu had scruples and did not want to turn against the central government directly.

You can't go too far. Although Jiang Ziya is easy to deal with, it involves your Majesty's face. If you don't toast, you may have to drink.

After the war in Jizhou, they realized that even if the most proud army in the eastern Lu still had a certain gap with the central army, it was unrealistic to rebel. It would be better for both sides to tear their faces and end up in a war like Xiqi.

Therefore, under the pressure of Jiang Ziya for several times, Donglu finally began the tax reform.

Jiang's son and son are not afraid. Anyway, the tax matters are very much tricky. How much is the final payment? Has the final say been made by the officials in the east?

However, they never thought that this was the beginning of the tragedy of Donglu.