Chapter 426 The Southern Song Giant Spy
How to formulate tax sharing between the central and local governments actually involves the question of how big a cake is. A small cake of six inches and a large cake of sixteen inches are both half and half. Can the weight be the same?
Zhao Gou planned to turn the allotted money and grain into open and honest taxes and set a charter for it, which would make the cake bigger.
If you have a careful calculation, you can know that according to Zhao Gou's method, you will need thirty or forty officials in one county, and hundreds of subordinate clerks, which can be ten times higher than the number of officials in the past.
The salary required should be the same.
You should know that Zhao Song was a high-paid official. Local officials, such as the county magistrate of a large county, 12 jin of a small county, and five to three jin of a month. Local officials were also equipped with land for jobs. In addition to the regular salary, there were also various subsidies, such as tea, wine, kitchen ingredients, wormwood, charcoal, salt, grass for horses, and food for the personnel, and food expenses for the personnel, which were linked to the specific official positions.
If all the money is converted into money, it can be said that the county magistrates of all sizes have a legitimate income of less than 30 to 50 cents per month. The county magistrate, the magistrate, etc. can also have a ten to twenty cents. Even if the salary is low, the clerks below must have five or six cents of money? You must know that even if you are a traitor who is used to smuggle, clean, squeeze, cook, and clean up the neighbors in ordinary cities, you can get dozens of hundred cents a day.
Zhang Lei's poem "Song of Spring" even wrote: "The easiest mountain people to live for their livelihoods, and they make money for the mountain trees. The people who carry the food and get a hundred coins in the market, and they will be given the wife and children to steam millet."
Those who chop wood can cook a hundred coins a day, but four coins will be included in that month (the Northern Song Dynasty regards 770 coins as the same as the official).
No matter how low the status of a clerk is, he is also a member of the court. Moreover, the status of a clerk is not low now. You should have at least five or six stans on the surface, right?
In this way, Zhao Gou asked the officials of a county to make a discount on all the money, but the monthly salary was less than 5,000 guan. When it was consumed by the government office, the 100,000 guan of a county was said to the young people.
Once this number was revealed in public by the newspaper, it would be compared with the money and food required by the Song Dynasty county in the past, which would make the entire Bianliang city full of rebellion?
Zhao Gou was not in a hurry. He was still staying at home to review the test papers, wanting to find out if there would be any remains of the sea inside.
However, there has been a big quarrel between the "Court" and the market.
Originally, the spearhead was pointed at Zhao Gou's new policy, but after a few days of fermentation, a series of detailed data taxes were published in the new newspapers, such as the "pile throwing out the piles" and the "pole throwing out the piles" in each state and county, and when each warehouse receives it, the people lose the "head money, etc. Such a miscellaneous calculation, the county will consume 100,000 yuan in grain, and it seems that the number is not so huge.
At that moment, countless people cursed local officials for corruption, but some shouted and some shouted injustice. Do local officials also knew that being too harsh would hinder people's livelihood, but they had no money and all their money and food were collected by their superiors. Wouldn't they have to find ways to get money and food from the people?
This involves the problem of insufficient funds in one place and the continuous squeeze of the central government's finances has caused frequent insufficient finances. Once this topic changes, it returns to the issue of central and local tax sharing.
After all, local taxes have to be paid to the central government and how much does the local government have to keep? The whole city of Bianliang is in a noisy situation and has not yet come to a definite conclusion.
"Oh, it's so difficult for the people. The King of Yan had only abolished many taxes and captured people's hearts. Now he has to turn miscellaneous taxes into regular taxes. The new bottle of old wine is just a little bit like those ignorant grass people."
In the city of Bianliang, Fanlou, who was still full of guests, was still very crowded. As Zhao Huan's special envoy, Wang Yun, who came to Bianliang, seemed to be a little dizzy before he could drink a few sips of wine.
Liangyuan sings and dances are full of romantic style, the wine is like a knife to relieve sorrow, and I remember the peace and happiness, and the lights go up to Fan Tower late at night!
Everything in Bianliang City in the past has obviously become an irreversible past event, but now Wang Yun is in an old dream.
The three floors are high, the fifth floors face each other, the flying bridge railings and the light and darkness are connected. The eaves and corners are intertwined, and Fan Tower is still so magnificent. Among the gray tiles and blue bricks, carved beams and painted buildings, the singing and dancing here are still so intoxicating. Why is Wang Yun not dazed?
However, Yuwen Xu, sitting opposite him, looked at Wang Yun with a little contempt. This man was really too unbearable to resist the blow. Now that he still says such words, will he feel really relieved if he demoted the King of Yan? This is a kind of cowardice.
The miscellaneous taxes abolished by the King of Yan are not the same as those miscellaneous factions. The former is the court's taxation and national laws, while the latter is the local government's own secrets. How can we confuse them?
With Wang Yun's experience and insight, Yuwen Xuzhong didn't believe that he could not see the benefits of Zhao Gou doing this.
To make the miscellaneous factions clear is far better than to let officials extort and blackmail them at will.
Is Wang Yun really unable to see through? If so, he would have been in the officialdom for so many years in vain. He is an absolute fool.
If he saw through it and said this on purpose, Wang Yun's spirit would probably have been completely destroyed by the cruel situation. Speaking like Ah Q, it was a spiritual victory method.
But no matter whether Wang Yun is a fool or Ah Q, it is a great sorrow to be able to be entrusted by Zhao Huan to be the sect of the King of Yan. It is the sorrow of the Southern Dynasty, the sorrow of the emperor Zhao Huan, and the sorrow of the deputy envoy of Yuwen Xuzhong.
But he would not refute, so why bother to make trouble? Yuwen Xuzhong is still responsible for the task of the Supreme Emperor.
In order to beg for mercy from Zhao Gou, Zhao Huan asked Zhao Gou to withdraw his troops as soon as possible. Not only did he write it himself, but he also asked Zhao Ji to come forward to send a letter to Zhao Gou. When Yuwen Xuzhong and Wang Yunlin came to visit Zhao Ji, Yuwen Xuzhong also received a secret letter from Zhao Ji.
Maybe it was because Zhao Huan's surveillance of Zhao Ji was a little incomplete on the way to escape. Anyway, Yu Wen Xuzhong got this secret letter.
He didn't know what was written in this letter, but Yuwen Xuzhong did not betray Zhao Ji.
At that time, he was originally named Yuwen Huangzhong. After the high school of the imperial examination, Song Huizong gave him the name "Xuzhong". In just over a decade, he served as a servant, editor of the national history, and a servant of the Central Secretariat. When the Jin people invaded, they were promoted to the Grand Secretary of the Zizheng Hall. They went to the army to appease the king's army. After the mission was completed, they were appointed as the Privy Council and were responsible for peace talks with the Jin people.
Why did Yuwen Xuzhong not serve as a messenger for Zhao Ji?
When Zhao Gou got the letter, he looked at Zhao Ji's beautiful thin gold body. If this letter was taken to the 21st century, wouldn't it be sold for hundreds of millions?
As the messenger, Yuwen Xuzhong also made his eyes lit up. Yes, when the two Song dynasties were in the relationship, there was a character like Yuwen Xuzhong.
Chapter completed!