Xiao He asked: "Brother Bai thought, how should the big man carry out the change?"

Bai Mo did not immediately answer Xiao He's question, but asked Xiao He: "Prime Minister Xiao thought that what is the most scarce thing in the Han Dynasty now?"

Xiao He pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Bai is a sensible person, so there is no need to deceive him in his true form. The Han Dynasty is currently short of money, food, and even more short of strong men. But in the final analysis, what is lacking is still people. As long as the population is sufficient, the money, food and taxes will naturally be sufficient, and there will be no shortage of strong men who can be recruited into the army.

Bai Mo gently tapped the verse and said, "Xiao Guozheng hit the nail on the head!" After a pause, Bai Mo said, "So, if the country is rich and the people are strong, such as implementing the law of enrolling households and integrating the people, the land tax method is a symptom treatment. Only by rewarding childbirth and accumulating population is the fundamental way to cure it. If the Han Dynasty promotes changes, it should be a breakthrough!"

Xiao He pondered: "Reward fertility and save people."

"Yes, reward childbirth and save population." Bai Mo said that, and raised his wine cup to cover his sleeves and drank it all, and said, "However, with the current situation, it is not easy for the Han Dynasty to truly do this."

Xiao He nodded gently and said, "I wish to hear it carefully."

Bai Mo put down the wine cup and said, "In Guanzhong, most of the land and land are controlled by aristocratic families. In the hands of the gentry, many of the common people were aristocratic families. The tenant farmers of the gentry actually did not have many self-cultivated farmers who really owned their own arable land, and the arable land they owned was extremely limited. However, these tenant farmers, self-cultivated farmers, bear all the Yao labor, calculation and land tax."

Xiao He nodded silently. Bai Mo said everything was true. Guanzhong had thousands of miles of fertile land and millions of hectares of fertile land. At least half of the land was in the hands of major families and gentry of all sizes. Less than half of the arable land belonged to self-cultivated farmers, while these self-cultivated farmers who only own less than half of the arable land bear all the land taxes of the Han Dynasty!

There are also those tenants and employed farmers who rented aristocratic families and aristocratic farmland. In addition to bearing high land rent, they also had to bear the Yao service assigned by the state, and even the taxes (capital tax). The burden was extremely heavy.

Bai Mo pointed and counted: "Look at the small farmland, the self-cultivated farmers have to pay land taxes, calculate taxes, serve Yao service, and have to work harder. In this case, even if you reward the state, you will be rewarded with children, do they dare to have children? You need to know that you have to pay one more meal, and you will pay one more money for the calculation taxes!"

Xiao He was silent when he heard this. Under such circumstances, the common people did not dare to live for more because they could not afford to support them.

Bai Mo sighed and said, "People only know that war is a major cause of population losses. Who knows that the heavy Yao service, calculating taxes and land taxes are the main factors that restrict population growth!" After a pause, Bai Mo said, "So, if the Han Dynasty wants to obtain more population, more tax sources, and more military sources, it must be equal to Yao service and calculating taxes equally!"

"Jun Yao, I'll make a tribute?!" Xiao He suddenly changed and said in a deep voice, "I'd like to hear the details."

Bai Mo said: "The so-called Jun Yao service means converting the Yao service of the sturdy men into a fixed amount of silver. In this way, the sturdy men in the Han Dynasty can only pay the sturdy men in the fixed amount of silver, and there is no need to suffer from the Yao service. If the country needs a large number of sturdy men to work hours, it can pay the money to recruit labor from the private sector."

"Jun Yao is like this, so what about the tuition?"

"The so-called "singlearning of tax" means abolishing of tax (poll tax)."

"The calculation of taxes is the biggest tax source for the national treasury. If it is abolished suddenly, wouldn't the national treasury be tight?"

"That's true." Bai Mo nodded and said, "I dare to ask the Prime Minister, how many plans are there in Guanzhong now?"

Xiao He said without thinking: "Now, the four counties in Guanzhong, including Ba and Shu counties, have more than three million Dingkou."

Mo stretched out his right hand and raised five fingers, saying, "Then use five million people to make a fixed quota, and then convert the quota of the five million people to silver and money, and convert them into the land tax together with the Yao servants, and re-measure the land tax amount. At the same time, it is stipulated that no matter the aristocratic family, all arable land must be paid, and then the major event will be accomplished."

Xiao He was moved and said, "You mean, you will convert Yao Shi and the calculation of the tuition into the tuition of land?"

Bai Mo focused on the head and said: "Yes, if you count the Yao service and count the tuition into the tuition, how much land there is in the Han Dynasty, there will be a tax source. The amount of treasury income will only be related to the amount of land, but there is no connection with the population. In this way, the factors that restrict population growth will no longer exist."

"Once the factors that restrict population growth are removed, coupled with the encouragement of the state, the common people will dare to give birth to raising them with confidence. Once the population is larger, more farmland will be cultivated to support their families. In this way, the area of ​​cultivated land in the Han Dynasty will be more, and the tax sources in the Han Dynasty will be more, which will enter a good cycle."

Xiao He had to admit that the prospects depicted by Bai Mo were indeed very popular.

Today, a common reality is that the vast majority of common people only have a small amount of arable land, but bear most of the heavy taxes. A few aristocratic families and gentry have a large amount of farming, but almost no taxes are borne. Because of this, the common people dare not live for more and dare not raise more because they cannot afford to raise them.

If the Junyao service mentioned by Bai Mo can be successfully implemented, most of the tax burden will be transferred to a few aristocratic families, and the burden of the general public will be greatly reduced. In addition, there is no need to pay the tax (poll tax), if there is a state reward, they will dare to live and raise it with confidence.

It is completely foreseeable that the population of the Han Dynasty will grow explosively by then!

With the increase in population, the arable land area of ​​the Han Dynasty will also increase. In this way, the tax and military sources of the Han Dynasty will also increase. At most, the comprehensive national strength of the Han Dynasty will be able to leave the Kanto countries far behind, and this is something that even the powerful Qin Dynasty could not do at the time.

However, it is not easy to calculate the tuition evenly if you want to work together.

Xiao He said: "But, it is a very difficult task to clear the arable land in the country."

After a pause, Xiao He said again: "Also, it is difficult to obtain aristocratic families and gentry taxes. Once forced changes are made, it will inevitably lead to strong backlash from all parties. Wouldn't it shake the foundation of the country?"

Xiao He's concerns were not overly worried. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, many scholars and powerful scholars discussed the possibility of calculating the fu in the same way. However, no one could do it for more than two thousand years. It was not until Zhang Juzheng was in power in the Ming Dynasty that the true Jun Yao service was finally realized, which was just a whip method.

As for the fu, it was finally realized during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty.

The population of the Huaxia people only achieved explosive growth during the Yongzheng period. The peak of the population occurred in the Wanli period of the late Ming Dynasty. At that time, the total population of the Huaxia people was only more than 100 million. However, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the population of the Huaxia people suddenly increased to as many as 300 million, mainly because of the abolition of the capitation tax.

The cap tax was not truly abolished until the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, which shows how difficult it is to abolish it.

Especially now in the turmoil at the end of the Qin Dynasty, King Liu Bang of Han urgently needed the strong support of the Guanzhong family and the gentry. Once a forced change is made at this time and the tax burden is transferred to the various aristocratic families and the gentry, it is likely to cause a disturbance in Guanzhong. Maybe Liu Bang may be killed by the Guanzhong family and the gentry.

Therefore, Xiao He’s concerns make sense.

Bai Mo seemed to be in a stable position and said lightly: "The Prime Minister of Xiao, so-called heavy rituals should be used in troubled times. Today, the heroes of Guandong are working hard to govern and are determined to change. If the King of Han adheres to the rules and sticks to their own conscience, the general situation will be gone." After saying this, Bai Mo said, "As for the aristocratic families, the reactions of the gentry..."

Just as Xiao He pricked up his ears and was about to listen quietly, Bai Mo kept it aside and smiled and said, "Prime Minister Xiao, it's not too early today, and I'm already a little overwhelmed with alcohol. Why not talk about it again next day?"

Xiao He laughed silently when he heard this, thinking that Bai Mo was clearly waiting for a price.

"Okay, let's talk about it another day." Xiao He said, "But today I feel very pleased with Brother Bai. My experience and real admiration."

"Xiao Guogong praised me and bowed, and turned around and floated away.

Until Bai Mo's slender figure disappeared on the street, Xiao He hurried out of the restaurant and ordered the junior official who was waiting outside the restaurant gate and said, "Hurry up, prepare two fast horses immediately!"

"Quick horse?" The clerk at the school was stunned when he heard this, "Where will the country go?"

"Longxi, I have urgent task to make a statement to the king in person!" Xiao He said this and said, "Why don't you go quickly!"

The lower-level official bowed and turned around and left in a hurry.

Longxi, Han army camp.

Liu Bang was spinning around a horse with red hair and shoulders of more than eight feet high, and asked Sui He, "Sui He, is this the Dayuan horse you mentioned?"

Suihe nodded and said, "That's right."

While speaking, several Han army school members who had had a confrontation with the Chu State's heavy cavalry in Jiujiang had arrived in front of the tent.

Liu Bang asked the small schools, "Look, how about this Dayuan horse compared to the heavy mount of the Chu army?"

Several Han army school nodded repeatedly and said, "Report to the king, the mounts of the heavy cavalry of the Chu army are almost like this."

"Okay!" Liu Bang slapped the big tui and ordered Sui He to say, "Sui He, you go to Yuezhi again immediately, and ask for such a horse for me, and tell the King of Yuezhi that he would need as much as he has such a horse!"

Sui He nodded and said, "But the king, the Yuezhi people are now facing the threat of the Huns, and the situation is not optimistic. Once the Yuezhi people are destroyed by the Huns, it will be difficult for us to get the Dayuan horse again."

"Huns?" Liu Bang frowned and said angrily, "It's these damn Huns again!"
Chapter completed!