However, Gao Yue obviously has greater actions in Xingyuan Mansion.

He had just returned from triumphant success in southern Xichuan and summoned the magistrates of the counties in the prefecture to Huguo Temple, saying that there were important matters to discuss.

The county magistrates sat on the table and ate the vegetarian rice in the temple. Master Mingxuan asked the disciples to use red pottery bowls to serve the rice full of rice, which was slightly red and had a bright white aroma. Then the green vegetable sunflower was poured with vinegar, and then mixed with pickled garlic, cut into pieces, spread around the vegetable sunflower, and green and white were reflected.

Gao Yue picked up a bunch of rice with chopsticks, and the cabbage and garlic were smooth and crispy in his mouth. The surrounding county magistrates also shook the chopsticks, and the hall was full of chewing crisp sounds.

Until the chopsticks scraped the bowl of noodles that were left with little food, and after that, Gao Yue put the bowl on the food plate, touched his lips slightly with his fingers, and announced his thoughts, "I am going to try the Jingjie Law in Nanzheng and Chenggu counties in Xingyuan Prefecture."

As soon as this statement was made, several county magistrates were a little surprised, but the expressions of Nanzheng County Magistrate Wei Zhiyi and Chenggu County Magistrate Li Jie were relatively calm. I thought Gao Yue would "blow" them in advance.

Among them, Wei Zhiyi was about to return to the court to become a minister of the county magistrate in Xingyuan for the best exams in previous years.

This matter was accepted by Gao Yue as the magistrate of Nanzheng County, Cichi County.

Of course, the competitive Wei Zhiyi will not be too erroneous.

Li Jie is Gao Yue’s favorite junior brother. He is still unable to raise his head now when his husband’s escape case caused by Huang Wenyu. This time, Chenggu County took the lead in implementing the new law, and he is also obliged to make some political achievements to prove himself.

Then Gao Yue stood up and frowned and said, "Mencius said, benevolent politics must start from the boundary of the classics. The boundary of the classics is not upright, the well land is not even, and the grain and wealth are not equal. Therefore, tyrants and officials must be slow to the boundary of the classics. Since the boundary of the classics is right, the land is divided into wealth, and the salary can be determined. This is the case in the well fields back then, and now private fields should be even more like this. The world has implemented the two tax laws. The principle of taxation is to calculate capital (capitals, houses, land and other private property) and set taxes, and it is no longer based on the population. Therefore, I want to practice the "law of the classics" to figure out the situation where each household actually has land, pay taxes and distribute taxes evenly, and think it is the foundation. The rich can protect their careers and the poor can revive their lives."

The county magistrate of Baocheng County, Jie Shanji, Mian County, Huang Shun, and the new county magistrate Liu Chuanzong of Jinniu County, all looked at each other.

Gao Yue's move was an amendment to Yang Yan's former two tax laws, and it also wanted to strengthen the national government's control over the situation of rising households in various places after the Anshi Rebellion and enrich tax revenue.

To put it bluntly, the so-called "local tyrants" in each state and county. Since the middle Tang Dynasty, the government's control over personal gain has weakened. The two tax laws are the product of this kind of compromise after the weakening of power. The summer and autumn taxes. No matter whether it is native or customers, they all have to "pay taxes on the land". As a result, a group of wealthy households, such as Huang Wenyu, who was killed by a stick, rely on the earliest accumulated food to donate a summoning army to exchange for a county party official who assisted the historian, and then they go to the top to control the taxes and service at the county level, and control the yamen. The county magistrate appointed by the court cannot do anything without relying on them. This is what the saying goes, "a strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake." Then these people rely on their local power to collude, trade in business, evade service, and transfer taxes.

These tricks were familiar to Gao Yue for many years (similar to the military and the vain family) and he knew that the rise of the situation was inevitable of the times, but letting it grow stronger and stronger was extremely harmful to the country. This group of situation households had increasingly larger industries, but the taxes the country could collect were less and less, and the gap between the rich and the poor in society would become more and more shocking (the problem of the Song Dynasty was that the official households or the households in clothing represented the struggle between the central imperial power and the local households. Although this struggle was fierce, it also ensured that the Southern Song Dynasty had more than 100 years of survival; in the late Ming Dynasty, the officials and households simply colluded and integrated, and everyone saw the ending). In the end, once the resources that the country could control were exhausted, it was nothing more than three outcomes:

If the poor households cannot survive, peasant uprisings break out and the country will perish;

Foreigners took advantage of the country's decadence and powerlessness to launch an invasion, and the country was destroyed;

The state simply delegated power to local governments, allowing them to mobilize "households of situations" to resist foreign tribes and suppress peasant uprisings at home. The state preserved it, but it gave birth to warlords or powerful ministers. In the end, the country died after a while.

In the Tang Dynasty today, Gao Yue knew that he was following the last path.

So Gao Yue spoke out loudly about the three major dangers of the current unjust economic world: "Due to the Anshi rebellion, most of the municipalities in various places died in the war. The scathing households impersonated the names of tenants and did not pay rent and taxes, and transferred the land tax to wasteland, which caused the country's annual plan to be reduced sharply. This is a harm. The state implemented two taxes, and the original provisions of rice per mu were not large, with the purpose of abolishing the harsh taxes and hoping that the people would benefit. However, now the county and township were controlled by clerks and tyrants, deceived the superiors and concealed the subordinates, and made the land less taxes.

The taxes with less land are large, and the poor households in the lower households are short of their livelihoods. These two harms are the two harms; the country has not existed, and the country has been using troops for many years and spending a lot of money. If this continues, the credibility of the two taxes is declining. The most obvious thing is that there is constant lawsuits between land. If there is no fair arbitration for a long time, it will no longer be resolved by litigation... If the poor households in the lower households cannot survive, they will inevitably take risks and gather as bandits, attack the government and subvert the country. These three harms are also the ones."

Then Gao Yue pointed to Li Jie who was thinking about it, "Weichang, do you think that if a county reaches the third level, as a county magistrate, what can you do? What force can you rely on to solve the catastrophe formed by accumulating strength for a long time?"

As soon as these words were said, not only Li Jie, but also other county magistrates were also frightened and sweating profusely.

Li Jie said at this time: "Emperor Taizong once said that water can carry a boat and can also overturn it."

Everyone present nodded.

"A county can easily spread to a state, and then there will be a path. In the end, the whole country will fall into a chronic disease and cause chaos. When the world turns around, who cares whether your hand is the hand holding a jade scepter, and who cares whether your lips are the lips that are eaten with cream? It is all the end of a burning jade. This country will either revival or perish, but the people who fill the ravines and dilapidation are not the people of Li Yuan who are suffering from the ravines? Now this sutra is the best prescription for resurrection in the world, and there is nothing else to do! We should shoulder the rise and fall of the world."

Then, the judge Wei Ping spread the draft of the Julien Law on the floor of the temple.

Nanzheng County Magistrate Wei Zhiyi stepped forward with regret, took the lead in picking up the pen, and signed a picture on it, saying, "Although I am not from Taofenpeng, I admire Dayin Gaoyi and am willing to shoulder the rise and fall of the world with Dayin."

Others, except for Wei Ping, who were Wei Gao's brothers, Liu Deshi, Li Jie, Huang Shun, and Jie Shanji were all friends in the squad. At this time, they also took up their pens and wrote on the draft, and finally Liu Chuanzong also wrote on it.
Chapter completed!