032: Never embarrass your in-laws
Even if the Su family is dissatisfied, they dare not play rogue with Su Ying now. After all, they are second-rank officials of the court. If they really make a fuss, they will only suffer a loss.
Of course, even though Su Ying's relationship caused trouble, Su Ziyi did not have a gap with this father, but instead admired her very much.
How could such a strong father be hated if he could make a fuss in such a situation?
He was not for himself, but for the common people who were deeply trapped in dire straits.
If there was no one in the court speaking for these people, what prospects would the Great Zhou have?
There are always people who have to take that step, either you or someone else, so simple.
Come to the central hall with Uncle Fu. Su Ziyi greets his father, and then sits at the bottom of the head. Uncle Fu also stands respectfully behind Su Ying.
"Uncle Fu, you can sit down too."
Uncle Fu shook his head, "Master, just stand and listen."
"Sit down, you have suffered a lot for the Su family over the years. If Ziyi and the others had not been by your side to take care of them, they would not know how many winds and rains they would face. This is what you deserve. When my father was alive, he regarded you as half a brother. Of course, I would be half of your son, so don't be so restricted in my own family."
Uncle Fu's eyes turned red when he heard these words. Su Ying could not help but say something unbearable. Uncle Fu hurriedly thanked him and sat next to Su Ziyi.
"Father, I wonder what happened to you calling your son to come?"
"This morning, Your Majesty said something, requiring the land of the Great Zhou Dynasty to be owned by the land, and the land of each household must be brought with them, and the compensation will be obtained by the Ministry of Revenue according to the current silver money. Uncle Fu, how much land does our family have now?"
"Master, there are three farms in our mansion, with a total of 650 mu of land. Because they are all fertile land, each mu of 7 taels of silver, you can get 4,550 taels of silver. This is just the land of our Su Mansion, and the wife's dowry, which is richer than the one in the mansion. The total number of two taels of silver is about 10,000 taels of silver."
"A Nuan's dowry must be left to Ziyi. After receiving the compensation, the money will be handed over to the young grandma."
"Yes, the old slave will do it."
Su Ziyi hurriedly stood up, "Father, since we are a family, why do we need to say two families? All of them are put in the public."
"What do you know? Just say how you do it." Su Ying was pleased with his son's intimacy with his father, but that was his wife's dowry. He only had Su Ziyi, the son, and naturally his wife's dowry was left to his son.
Even if the son doesn't care, the daughter-in-law will inevitably feel inappropriate.
Su Ziyi's wife's surname is Fang, and she is the youngest daughter of a Fang family in Beijing and the only daughter.
Because Fang Youniang's mother met Su Ziyi's mother at a young age, even though she was a government-businessman at that time, Su Ying did not object at all. After all, Fang Youniang's child was taught very well by the Fang family and was enough to be a clan wife.
The couple was very affectionate after getting married, and Qin Se and Rhyme were harmonious. Now the son is four years old. There is still only Fang Youniang in Su Ziyi's room, and there is no room for her, so let alone the concubine.
After dinner, Fang Youniang took a pair of children back home, first sent the two children to her father-in-law's side, and returned to the yard alone.
Su Ziyi told her father's decision.
"Young mom, what do you think?"
Fang Youniang thought about it and said to Su Ziyi: "According to my opinion, my father has no intention of remarrying. Now I am taking care of the gifts in the mansion. It doesn't matter if I am timid, but I plan to be my husband and also plan for our two children."
Seeing that Su Ziyi seemed to be considering, she continued: "My dowry is quite generous. Even if I don't have my mother's dowry, I can still help my husband manage this family. I think since I am a family, I naturally cannot do so. My father must be worried that I have a grudge in my body and mind, so I handed over the money from my mother to us. I am grateful for my father's kindness, so I naturally don't want my husband to be embarrassed."
"Young mother, thank you." Su Ziyi held his wife's shoulders, feeling warm.
The next day, after Su Ying went to court, Fang Youniang returned to her parents' home again and told her parents about the family affairs.
When they learned about their in-laws' behavior, the parents of the Fang family naturally felt grateful to each other's mind and advised their daughter to act according to their own wishes.
The Fang family is a merchant and has a lot of land in the family, at least much more than the Su family.
Now that the court has promulgated this system, they also feel that it is like cutting off the flesh in their hearts.
But the in-laws and father-in-law are so happy, so they naturally won’t resist stubbornly. At least they don’t make it difficult for the in-laws and father-in-law to do it. Who can make people treat their daughter so sincerely?
Therefore, after seeing off his daughter, Mr. Fang also took a stack of land deeds from his home to the Ministry of Revenue to receive compensation.
If it weren't for this, the Fang family would not be short of money at all. After all, land is the lifeblood of the people, so they can be paid as soon as they say they are paid.
No need to guess, Mr. Fang also knows that this order will inevitably cause a tide after being issued to the prefectures.
Xie Lang naturally knew it well, but now is a good time.
If it weren't for the great efforts of Queen Mother Yao to kill people from the royal family over the years, if the Yao family had not framed and murdered the Great Zhou Xunqiu over the years, this decree would have been absolutely impossible to implement now.
After all, she has benefited from the Yao family. Who has been so hard that they have been tormented by them over the years? Only some soft persimmons are left in the Great Zhou Dynasty?
But any reform will always be accompanied by different voices. If the Great Zhou Dynasty develops and grows, and the grain reserves exceed the load, I am afraid that there will be few people who really want to farm.
Xie Lang's classmates in his previous life started their own business after graduation. Every year, they gave their parents in their hometown a lot of money to feed, drink and have fun.
The other party’s parents simply stopped farming and expanded their house in their hometown. They just walked their dogs, raised flowers, and danced square dances every day. The amount of population in their hands was given to the people in the village for free, and no one wanted it. Who had the spare time to plant so much land? It’s easy to plant it, and you won’t be tired and your waist and legs hurt when you harvest it.
Therefore, at that time, the land was basically contracted to others, and they would contract a large area of land and plant some fruits, etc., and would not waste it.
But what about the Great Zhou today?
The taxes are pitifully small every year, and most of them are related to the officials of the current dynasty and even those who are famous, so there is no need to pay taxes.
At the same time, the main taxes in ancient times were concentrated on the arable land of the people. On the contrary, the taxes paid by the industrial and commercial banks were smaller than those of the arable land, which was simply unreasonable.
The other two industries earn more than the people who cultivate, but the tax revenue is less. Do you think it is wronged?
Therefore, Xie Lang convened the three departments to discuss and prepare to issue a law on personal income tax. Merchants earn so much and want to not pay taxes? What about the trouble?
At the same time, it is prohibited to attach land to officials and those who have fame and fortune, because the privileges of these people will no longer exist and no one can afford to pay taxes.
In this way, the officials no longer care. Anyway, they have no place to do whatever they want.
Even if someone is attached to him and can get a sum of money and food every year, it doesn’t matter. It’s really a mess.
Chapter completed!