In Pingyang Mansion, Fei Qian looked at the civil servants and military officers gathered together in the main hall, and seemed to be in a trance for a few seconds.
Once upon a time, with three to five hundred soldiers, he managed to seize a piece of territory in Pingyang, Bingzhou with some small tricks. Now, more than three years have passed in the blink of an eye...
Now in the hall, not only are these civil servants and military officers gathered, but more importantly, in the area of Pingyang, from scratch, from a few to a large number, now a large number of people have settled. These people are Fei Qian himself.
The most important foundation at present.
All the way back from Diaoyin, I saw a busy and warm scene, which made Fei Qian feel very comfortable.
For the people under the rule now, perhaps this is the beginning of hope for the year, and it is also the most energetic time of the year. The green crops begin to mature and grow quickly under the appropriate temperature, and it seems that the changes in the crops can be felt every day.
, and at this time point, there will be no conquest of various corvee labor. In addition, under the rule of Fei Qian, including Pingyang, many of the hard labor was shared by the captured Hu people...
Taxes are low and corvees are light. Although the proportion of land rent is relatively large, it will be reduced by 50% after five years of continuous farming. After ten years, the farmed land can be obtained. This is for farmers who have never had a foothold.
It is undoubtedly a thing full of hope.
In addition to these farmers, there were many people under Fei Qian who fought with Fei Qian and were injured on the battlefield, but fortunately they did not die from their injuries, either because of their health or because of their age, and could no longer go to the battlefield.
After that, they were replaced by some low-level local officials based on their merit. After all, these people knew a few words and numbers in the military, so they had no problem dealing with some superficial civil affairs.
Of course, there will not be too many people like this, only about a hundred or so, but it is enough to become a model for ordinary soldiers, and to become that so-and-so in other people's families...
Of course, there were even more soldiers who died in battle or were injured and died. In addition to being recorded under the heroic monument, these people enjoyed the incense offerings that the Han Dynasty people attached great importance to, and their families could also receive a pension.
, the most important thing is that the county government can also provide an ordinary position or an errand, so that these families can continue.
This is enough.
Ordinary people are always easily satisfied. If you can come back alive, you are lucky. If you are not disabled, you are lucky. If there are no injuries at all, or just flesh wounds, and you can even bring some trophies, then it is a blessing to the ancestral graves.
There is smoke. As for those who unfortunately die on the battlefield, their families can also be taken care of by the government. For soldiers, there is nothing more reassuring than this.
And Feiqian is also preparing to promote an initiative...
In the hall, looking at the slightly beaming civil servants and generals on the left and right, he said slowly: "...Common generals and generals in the army will be awarded fields according to the law according to their merits this winter!"
As soon as these words came out, the civil servants and generals sitting down were a little surprised.
The great righteousness of supporting the country can hold its own among the nobles, but it cannot arouse the resonance of many common people. For ordinary people who work hard every day, maybe Fei Qian will be more powerful, and they will be happy and proud, but
When these excited emotions recede like waves, these people still have to face day after day work, and they still have to worry from time to time.
Passion is only a momentary thing, but hard work is a lifelong thing. It is obviously unrealistic to want the people to shout slogans every day, and then forget all the bad realities and endure all oppression and exploitation. Even if it is only for a moment,
It works, but sooner or later there will be problems.
In the early Han Dynasty, there were also land grants. According to the Han law and the title system left by the Qin Dynasty at that time, from ninety-five hectares of Guannei Hou down to one and a half hectares of public officials, the same as public soldiers, soldiers, and common people.
They are all one acre, but this law was not implemented well at the beginning. As a result, this law became more and more unfeasible. From the beginning, the number of acres of land was reduced, and eventually it became two acres.
The stall is gone...
Coupled with the subsequent land annexation of the Han Dynasty, the public land controlled by the imperial court became increasingly scarce. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, even before the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, there was no land left for rewards...
However, Feiqian now has quite a lot of land. Not counting the Pingyang area, just taking out this area of Yinshan Mountain for distribution can also have a lot of quantity.
Nowadays, the number of soldiers following Fei Qian in the war has gradually expanded. Even not counting the recruited Huqi, there are nearly ten thousand people. And behind these ten thousand people, one person is a family. Although more than ten thousand households do not represent the people under Fei Qian's rule,
The entire population is involved in all aspects, and so many people naturally become the most direct basis for supporting Fei Qian.
Zao Zhi was the first to express his approval. As someone who basically deals with farmers all day long, he knew how much farmers longed for land, so he happily said: "This is a great kindness for the Lord!"
The rest of the people present also agreed, because they actually knew that although Fei Qian only mentioned ordinary soldiers, how could he be missing the number of people present?
So everyone was inevitably a little happy and praised him one after another.
So the first civil affairs matter was finalized, and it went extremely smoothly...
However, Fei Qian knew that conferring farmland was not a good thing.
Once land can be bought and sold, it is like opening Pandora's box, and many things will fly out.
But it is unrealistic to ban land sales.
Just like in later generations, while leaving a huge back door, they also covered it with the so-called "circulation", "renting", "use" and other words, but in essence it is just like "transfer in place", it is still a kind of
A euphemistic deal...
If it were now stipulated that land sales were not allowed in the Han Dynasty, first of all, not to mention whether the gentry would riot as a whole, but also whether the enthusiasm for production would be lost because of this. Initiative is a very serious problem.
Such a population tax caused many farmers to be unable to have children, and even deliberately killed their children after birth, causing many human tragedies. This extreme situation attracted the attention of the Han Dynasty, and it was finally changed from 7
Collection begins at the end of the year...
In order to collect more population taxes, and also to encourage childbirth, if a woman reaches the age of 15 and is not married yet, she must start to collect heavy taxes, which will be increased every three years, up to five times. In other words, in the Han Dynasty, women who wanted to upgrade
To become the highest level of "Dead Man", the first condition for a family is to have enough money, otherwise the first level of "Leftover Fighter" alone is enough to collapse an ordinary family...
Of course, there are also rewards. If a woman becomes pregnant, her husband will be exempted from the tax for one year.
Even so, the taxes collected still could not meet the huge expenditure, so the so-called "donation fee" was added later, which is a tacit understanding that all people in the world are self-sacrificing, so every adult man and woman pays a tax every year
An additional 63 coins must be "dedicated" to the emperor to cover his court expenses.
Secondly, local corvee labor is also the heaviest burden on farmers.
Every male registered in the household who is over the age of seventeen must serve one month of unpaid labor every year in the place of household registration, engaged in civil engineering, building bridges and roads, managing rivers, transporting grain and grass, and other infrastructure or labor.
The collection of corvee is limited to thirty days, but as long as the quality of the project is not up to standard, it needs to be reworked. This time is called "not counted as corvée", that is, it is not counted in the fixed service period, so in practice, the time of corvee
Often it takes more than a month...
Under Fei Qian's rule, it was an exception.
Why do farmers in Pingyang think that Fei Qian is very good and a good official, and will even come to greet Fei Qian's return on his own initiative? A very important reason is that many of the local corvee laborers are captured Xianbei people
Instead, the burden on farmers near Pingyang was reduced, so there was basically no phenomenon of farmers fleeing due to corvee labor.
Although Han law strictly prohibits the appearance of refugees, whether it is a county guard or a county magistrate, as long as a refugee appears under the rule, he will be punished with a serious crime, but the problem of refugees has been repeatedly banned, and it is also a major problem that currently plagues the Han Dynasty regime...
"It may be feasible to avoid speaking and counting..." Xun Chen nodded and said, "...if the speaking tax is reduced, we can use it to recruit people, and we can gather people from the surrounding areas...If we eliminate the calculation, we should facilitate business and promote people's livelihood.
also……"
Linghu Shao and Wei Liu on the side also nodded in agreement.
The newly joined Jia Xu silently looked at his nose and mouth, making it clear that you can do whatever you want and I don't have any objections...
In the Han Dynasty, refugees were often given preferential treatment by exempting them from oral tax, serving more people, etc., and then attracting them to resettle. Therefore, everyone including Xun Chen was no stranger to such measures. As for Suanmin, it was more targeted at Che.
, ship owners, that is, the fuel surcharge in later generations is only a tax levied on people above the middle class, and it is also a measure that can promote commerce.
Taxing cars and ships was an initiative of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The fuel surcharge in later generations was more or less a civilized money grabbing, and consumption was only done if you had a driver. However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a more shameless plunder. As long as there were cars, boats, livestock, and slaves at home, they had to be taxed, regardless of whether they had them or not.
For use, all taxes will be paid. Those who do not pay taxes or pay less taxes will be allowed to report to each other among the people, and a complaint order will be issued. Those who complain will be rewarded with half of the property found. As a result, the effect is naturally quite ideal...
In fact, the most important impact of this incident was that it weakened the development of many middle classes in the Han Dynasty, leading to the entire Han Dynasty eventually making great strides towards extreme polarization.
Regarding these matters, the gentry like Zaozhi, Xunchen, Jia Xu, and even Du Yuan, Wei Liu, Linghu Shao, etc., who are more or less familiar with people's livelihood and political affairs, can still understand it to a certain extent, but as for Huang Xu and Zhang Liao on the side
, they seem to understand but are confused, so they don’t have any opinions...
Fei Qian looked at Xun Chen and others, knowing that these people probably regarded what he just said as a temporary measure to attract refugees, so he coughed twice and emphasized: "Everyone
, the meaning is not to exempt the oral tax for a while, but to never collect it from this year on!"
Jia Xu, who originally looked like a wooden sculpture, suddenly raised his head, his eyes that were originally narrowed into a line widened, staring straight at Fei Qian.
But no one noticed Jia Xu's strange behavior, because other people also looked surprised and found it incredible...
ah?
Permanent exemption?
Everyone in the hall looked at each other.
This is easier said than done. Not to mention the resulting reduction in tax revenue. If it is implemented and then goes back on its word because there is not enough money to spend, then the credibility that has been built up with great difficulty will completely collapse...
Could this Fei Qian be confused because he just became Marquis of Pingyang?
