Chapter 416 Zhao Gou's Hope
Zhao Gou didn't need to exempt ordinary people from food at all. He just needed to adjust and abolish some taxes, which would be the savior of hundreds of millions of farmers.
The proportion of the summer and autumn taxes of the Lao Zhao family is less than one-twentieth of the land acres. However, the consumption of grain and rice, head money, charity warehouse tax, agricultural instrument tax, cattle and leather horn tax, interim tax, silkworm salt money, quintile money, market money, etc., are several times more than the regular tax.
For example, grain and rice consumption, counties and prefectures, state treasurys on the road, and national treasurys on the road are all added. One stone of the positive tax will be added to a few liters. In addition, there are also charity warehouses, and 1/10 of the positive tax is collected, which are all tax burdens that farmers have to bear.
As for the relocation, the summer and autumn grain tax should have been paid at a fixed location, just like the grain stations in later generations, where rabbits were built directly at the township level. However, the Zhao family often forced the people to send tax items to their designated locations, which is called relocation.
Well, you are from Chenzhou (Kaifeng South), right? Don’t pay taxes in Chenzhou. You should send them to Luoyang. The court wants to fight against the Western thieves!
This really saves the government's affairs, smoothes out the government's large amount of transportation costs, but increases the burden on the people.
Even regulations have been made that the first and second-class households (large and small landlords) will be moved 300 miles, the third and fourth-class households (self-cultivated farmers) will be moved 200 miles, and the fifth-class households (semi-cultivated farmers) will be moved 100 miles.
If you don’t want to spend your time on your own, then pay the money with ease. During the Yuanyou (Zhezong) period, the money for each pound on Jingxi Road was as high as 56 ci, which is equivalent to the positive tax amount during the Yuanfeng (Shenzong) period. The amount is so high that it is shocking.
And the so-called "change" means that the Zhao family exchanged the taxes that the people should pay according to their own needs, which was called "change".
Well, the court's granary is a little empty, so you don't want to pay silk and cloth, you have to pay all the food. A dou of grain on the market is 100 yuan, and a piece of cloth is 500 yuan. In theory, one piece of cloth is 50 yuan. But the court will not give you the price of 100 yuan per pound of grain, just fifty yuan per pound of grain, while the cloth is 700 yuan per pound, which is forced to pay two or three times the food.
This is the change.
The Zhao Song government did not follow the market parity with you, lowering the price of taxes paid by the people, raising the price of the discounted items, and squeezing the people in disguise.
This is Zhao Song's purpose.
It can be said that the tax policy of the Zhao family is extremely exploitation and exploitation.
Zhao Gou just abolished and adjusted some tax projects, and he did not reduce or exempted the people at all, which was enough to make himself a life-born Buddha among countless families in the North.
These are all the evil fruits planted by the old Zhao family before. Zhao Gou only made a slight change, so the effect should not be too good.
Li Ruoxu was taken with him in his hometown all year round. Unlike Li Ruoshui, he often contacted farmers and tenants.
"So what?" Li Ruoshui's face turned red.
"So the official family in the south is destined to be in trouble. One of the soldiers of the King of Yan lost, and the people of Hebei could make up ten. So you have to be your honest gentleman and do it yourself. Whether I or my father, I will not stop you. But I still have to accumulate blessings for the descendants of the Li family, so don't stop me." Li Ruo said vainly and said with confidence, and even Li Ruoshui didn't know how to refute it. In the end, he could only say with a hard neck: "The world is up to our scholars and officials, how can a man be a rough man do?"
"Haha, it's the same as if the King of Yan is not a scholar. This world does require scholars, but is there a lack of scholars and officials here?" Li Ruoxu sneered.
How many people in the world want to be officials? Zhao Gou is ten times more "violent and vicious" than he is, so someone will still kneel down and lick him.
Look at the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Isn’t Zhu Ming also a civil servant politics? The civil servant group with self-will (interest) wants to put the emperor in a weak position. But when facing the extremely vicious Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, wasn’t he kneeling down and wishing to be happy?
Li Ruoshui couldn't say anything anymore. How could he not know what the Tai students and many alternate officials in Bianliang City were doing these days?
To be honest, he himself knew who would be the world in the end? If he really was loyal to Zhao Huan and had no distracting thoughts, he would not have ordered the door to be opened.
But the inner ethics also mean that Li Ruoshui really doesn't want to respect King Yan, and the two are not in line with their ideas, so he doesn't resist or cooperate. This is his choice.
Li Ruoxu's arrival can even relieve him of some pressure.
Because outsiders will naturally associate Li Ruoxu's arrival with Li Ruoshui's recent choices. Although he will certainly be a big critic in the short term, he is less than forty years old and will be in the long run in the future. When he is fifty or sixty, how will outsiders evaluate him?
If he could not serve as the King of Yan, Li Ruoshui had already maintained his loyalty.
But he didn't expect that he would be blocked by his second brother and his chest was so stuffy.
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Outside the Sour Jujube Gate.
Yue Fei and Han Shizhong each led a thousand cavalry to the city gate. Looking at the open Bianliang City, the two of them had no tantrum in their eyes.
They have reached the present point, and they believe that Li Ruoshui will not be so wise that he set up an ambush in the city to earn them once.
Not to mention that as soon as the gate opened, there were already many people entering and leaving inside and outside the city, but I never heard of ambush.
"This battle is really a battle..." Han Shizhong's face was full of 'unspeakable'.
Yue Fei also felt that the war against the south was becoming more and more boring. "It will take ten or eight years to go south and establish the country. As long as the south is pacified and the army turns to the north, it will be a good opportunity for us to show our skills."
Now they are fighting with the thunder of the sky, which is like playing, but when they arrive at the grasslands outside the border or the northeast, the thunder of the sky is unable to follow the army.
On the vast grassland or in the northeast where mountains and forests are densely populated, the cavalry galloped. If you want to completely defeat the Jurchens and the nomadic people on the grassland, you have to rely on the iron horses.
When Han Shizhong heard this, a different style immediately rippled on his face.
Northern Xinjiang, Northern Xinjiang, is the real place for their warriors to use their skills.
The two thousand horses did not stop at the Sour Zao Gate. They followed the avenue south and passed through the old Sour Zao Gate, which was Jinglongmen. The Iron Cavalry entered the inner city.
Their mission is to station in the imperial city and ensure the safety of the imperial city.
The guards of the Sour Zao Gate and Jinglong Gate greeted them, but Yue Han did not respond at all, and only took down Donghua Gate, Xihua Gate, Gongchen Gate and Xuande Gate. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
But Zhao Gou no longer entered Bianliang City because the time has not yet come, and his "reverse actions" have not aroused the vast number of "indignation". How could he enter Bianliang City?
Chapter completed!