Not two days after the Chamber of Commerce meeting, many notices were posted outside the Kuncheng Yamen.
The people were encouraged to open up wasteland and were exempted from land tax for the first five years. At the same time, many measures were implemented to increase the population.
For example, young men and women are required to get married in time; encourage more children, and provide rice and cloth subsidies to poor families who give birth; women are exempted from taxes during the period of childbirth; couples with three or more children are exempted from taxes on the wife, and fathers with more than four children are exempted from household chores.
; While protecting women and children, we also encourage widows, widowers and lonely people to get married; for those who are exiled, Taoist monks and the like are allowed to naturalize on the spot.
For merchants, local miscellaneous taxes are fully exempted, and tariffs on some goods are reduced. Small traders with annual sales of less than 50 taels are exempt from commercial taxes.
As soon as the notice was posted, there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the city.
In the meeting hall, the officials and staff who heard about this for the first time asked the prince repeatedly...
"Allowing refugees to be naturalized on the spot, such as registering as a registered citizen, will indeed increase the local population. But as a result, unrest will increase, will it cause conflicts and destabilize the local area?"
Mu Yan's voice was calm, "Local turmoil and instability are caused by the inaction of various officials. Some exiles and registers are not managed well, so why bother sitting in that position? And naturalization is not allowed, so the registers of displaced persons do not exist?
"
Uh... His Majesty seems to have some truth to what he said.
Another official asked, "If we provide maternity subsidies to poor families, will this increase the burden on local government offices? It will also mislead the poor people. As long as they are born, the court will support them? Or in order to raise four children and avoid household chores?"
, but it will give birth to more. Once it cannot be fed, it will not be beautiful to throw it away.”
Mu Yan raised his eyelids leisurely, "That's because the yamen's propaganda is not good enough. The notice only said that it would provide subsidies to poor families for multiple births. Did it say anything about helping them raise children?"
Uh... shut up, you can't speak to the prince.
Another official asked: "Tariffs are retained by local governments. This reduction will greatly reduce local fiscal and tax revenue. In addition, merchants will be completely exempted from miscellaneous taxes. If the local government taxes are insufficient next year, it may lead to irreparable consequences. How should we report to the court?"
explain?"
Mu Yan turned to look at Duke Qian, "You didn't tell them?"
What did you say? Duke Qian was stunned.
Being stared at by Mu Yan, he quickly reacted. He said sternly: "It will be a trial period for one year. If there is any deficiency compared to last year's tax, the prince will make up for it."
He added: "The prince's private account will be used to make up for it." Don't expect him to dig into the treasury to help.
Mu Yan withdrew his gaze calmly and never thought of digging into the Mu Mansion's treasury.
All the officials and staff in the hall looked at each other in disbelief. Should the Crown Prince make up for his personal account? They all opened their mouths. The Crown Prince was indeed very wealthy! If the occasion was not right, they would all want to give the Crown Prince a thumbs up.
Another official who knows money and food calculated for a while. In the past few years, the annual tax revenue of the country has been less than 30 million taels. There are 13 provinces, and Yunnan, a borderland, is only a little better than Guizhou, which is at the bottom. It is easy to make money.
Finished second to last.
How much tax did the province collect last year?
Do you have one hundred thousand taels?
Tsk tsk, one hundred thousand taels. Neither the emperor nor the Ministry of Revenue looked down upon this small amount of money, so they kept it all with a wave of their hands. But even this small amount of money was not enough to feed Yunnan's 300,000-strong army.
One hundred thousand taels, with the power of the prince and his wife, there is no burden at all.
However, asking them to accept a provincial tax that is not as much as the prince's wife's monthly business income makes them feel sad and toothache. It seems that they, who are in charge of the imperial court, have done nothing.
"But Your Majesty, the tax revenue of this province is already low, which is not enough to support the military expenditure. If we reduce the collection of commercial taxes, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to support."
You can't just let the crown prince's wife fill it every year, right? Furthermore, if the trial is implemented after this year and restored to the original state next year, will the merchants be dissatisfied? If it causes turmoil, it will not be beautiful.
Who doesn’t look forward to a stable life?
"The Yunnan area wants to increase taxes, but relying on the collection of miscellaneous taxes does not help. It still needs to increase revenue. The first priority is to increase the population and hoard more fields. When the old marquis was alive, the hoarded land amounted to more than 7 million acres. Since the old marquis passed away, it has been
, the increase in the number of acres is less than 20%!”
One sentence made Duke Qian and Mu Ang lower their heads.
When their old father took over Yunnan, he had nothing and even hoarded more than seven million acres of land. But these unfilial descendants, standing on the great mountains and rivers that had been cultivated by their predecessors, had hoarded an unexpected amount of land after so many years.
An increase of less than 20%.
When Mu Yan pointed it out, his face felt hot.
"The old marquis and the previous marquises hoarded fields, built water conservancy projects, and vigorously developed grain cultivation. Not only did they provide all the supplies for the local garrison, but the surplus grain could also increase the army's income. Nowadays, there are many shortages, and more than half of it depends on local government taxes.
Give subsidies, and reach out to the court."
Duke Qian lowered his head again.
Mu Yan added: "Now some health stations implement double-crop planting, and winter wheat has been planted in military fields. If there is a good harvest of winter wheat next spring, the whole army will immediately promote it and implement food self-sufficiency."
There were whispers in the hall that if the 300,000-strong army could achieve self-sufficiency, it would be much less constrained. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"In addition, to replenish the population, everyone needs to work together and think of more good ways. For those who are living in exile, in addition to encouraging them to naturalize on the spot, we must also strictly investigate the issue of illegal registration. If conditions permit, we also encourage them to
Local naturalization.”
When selecting officials through the imperial examination, the imperial court wanted to show fairness, and the admission conditions varied from place to place. This led to the flow of students from areas with developed education to remote places, resulting in the phenomenon of impersonation.
Pretending to be from another province to apply for the imperial examination.
During the Wu Dynasty, Yunnan produced only five Jinshis in a hundred years. In this dynasty, it was not until the ninth year of Yongkang that Yunnan implemented the provincial examination for the first time. In Guizhou, the province with the lowest taxes next door, students had to come to Yunnan for the provincial examination.
In the southwest border area, education is backward. According to Huo Xi's words, if you walk on the street and meet a hundred people, ninety-five of them are illiterate.
Education was backward, but the imperial court could not recruit all students from southern Zhili and other places with developed education. As a result, all officialdom was filled with officials from Jiangnan and other places.
Therefore, a system of selecting officials by province was adopted, and each province had a fixed quota of candidates. Therefore, in order to obtain the candidates, students from other places often came to Yunnan to take the scientific examination.
Each province has different conditions for local naturalization of floating population.
The richer the place, the more stringent the restrictions. In addition to buying land and property locally, you also need to meet the time limit of how many years you have lived there.
But now that the Dian region wants to increase its population, as long as you buy land and property there, you can be naturalized on the spot. What needs to be lived for twenty years is something that the current Dian region, where the annual tax is less than 100,000 taels of silver, should consider.
thing?
Occupy the quota of local students?
Mu Yan wanted to roll his eyes.
The imperial court gave preferential treatment, and more places were given to the Dian region, but the Dian region failed to live up to expectations. Every year, the number of applicants was insufficient. Is there a decent academy in Kuncheng? Is this the time to consider this?
Strictly investigating the issue of illegal citizenship is not to expel them, but to provide them with favorable naturalization conditions, attract them to naturalize, let them buy land and property locally, let them prosper the local economy, and maybe stimulate some academic style.
As for other things, we shouldn't consider them now.
Mu Yan acted vigorously and easily, and easily convinced many officials and staff.