"The walk is over, the relevant data has been compiled."
"Where's Jin Yiwei?"
"All the living good people who have been robbed of good farmland have had the land assigned to their names, but there are still 1,421 households whose traces cannot be found..."
Rui Hai, who was at the center and assigned various tasks, was silent for a moment after hearing this report, and then said: "Register these household registrations clearly, make a unified list, and send it to the Ministry of Household Affairs..."
Zhang Mingtu nodded in agreement. According to normal rules, he should not report on relevant work here. Relevant people from the county government should be responsible for this.
However, too many people were killed by Rui Hai and the work could not be organized, so Jin Yiwei could only be mobilized to take charge of this situation. Jin Yiwei was usually responsible for intelligence anyway.
Zhang Mingtu didn't have much objection. He was very familiar with these things.
Even though there are not many Jinyi guards, he basically has a rough idea of the situation in Jianyi in his mind. He only needs to do some sporadic investigation and supplementary work, and make one or two visits to the relevant documents and investigation work as a scene.
Specific reports are drafted and submitted by him.
The situation in Jianyi as a whole is not complete after the fall of the Wang and Li families.
The follow-up work is really arduous, and it is almost breathtaking. It is to register all the people who have not been registered before and register the relevant household registration.
To put it simply, it is to find out all the number of people with household registrations that were previously hidden by these large families, and then register them in a register. They should be allocated the fertile land, and those without land should be allowed to cultivate and live on the official fertile land.
This job is not as exciting as before, but it is more popular.
In the past, these large households had corresponding tax avoidance methods. Even if they had hundreds of thousands of acres of land under their names, they basically did not have to pay taxes. On the contrary, many good people who had owned fertile land in the past were heavily taxed.
Usually there are hundreds or even hundreds of acres of tax burden on them.
But their farmland has been taken away by wealthy families or sold off due to floods and other circumstances.
Now I don’t have any land in my name, and the annual taxes are still extremely high.
Now that Ruihai has conducted an inventory and re-registered it, it is equivalent to reshuffling all the original order here.
This is simply a lot of work.
However, only after this work is truly completed and submitted to the Ministry of Revenue can the situation in Jianyi be truly improved.
Not to mention hundreds of years, it is still very likely that it will last for decades.
After all, with the original data, subsequent land annexation and corresponding land seizures will be much less likely to occur.
There won't be many people who are forced by taxes to have no other choice but to flee to other places and become refugees without even registering their household registration.
In addition, a corresponding feedback mechanism must be established, and property changes also require supervision by dedicated personnel. This requires a complete set of procedures and processes.
In Zhang Mingtu's view, this reform is more like the situation he has seen in history.
In the past, taxes were collected based on household registration, and different people paid basically the same taxes.
But now Ruihai is unique in collecting taxes based on land property.
Just check whose name the property is in. If it is in his name, you need to pay taxes. The more property there is, the more taxes you have to pay.
For Daxia, no matter who pays taxes, as long as they can pay the corresponding tax items, he doesn't care who pays them.
As for the many tycoons in the Jiangnan area, they had a lot of tax avoidance penalties in the past. No matter how much they paid, they could not be pressed against them. Even if they were forced to pay, they could still pressure the common people and ask them to hand over their money.
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Nowadays, according to Ruihai's reform method of collecting taxes based on land property, this is directly cutting off the flesh of the wealthy gentry in the Jiangnan area.
For ordinary civilians, this is a great good thing.
Yes, but for the wealthy gentry, they are not willing to kill him.
The reason why it could be implemented in Xingguo and Jianyi was because the leaders and the largest gentry in both places were killed, and no one confronted Ruihai head-on.
Overall, the implementation went very smoothly.
"All the work is almost completed, so today's meeting is over. Well, I'll leave the general flag here."
Rui Hai looked around. He was not very tall, and his body was quite thin, but he was very dignified when arranging his work.
He announced the adjournment of the meeting. After a moment of silence, a group of people filed out. When leaving, many people even took a special look at Zhang Mingtu.
When there were only Rui Hai and Zhang Mingtu in the huge county government office, Rui Hai's expression softened a lot compared to before. His face was still the same, but after his skin relaxed, he looked quite gentle.
He looked at Zhang Mingtu with a rather cordial look.
"I wonder why Magistrate Rui left me?"
Facing the murderous Rui Hai alone, other characters would feel anxious and uneasy at this time, but Zhang Mingtu was quite calm.
Although he was asking, he actually knew what he was talking about.
These days, the work of the county government has been extremely heavy.
The county magistrate came by air, and as soon as he arrived, he arrested everyone involved in corruption in Jianyi. Basically, everyone in the officialdom of Jianyi received a slight or severe blow.
The overall atmosphere has changed, and everyone is fearful and uneasy when facing Rui Hai, but just using this to force them to work hard and complete the tasks assigned by Rui Hai is completely overthinking.
They can avoid corruption, and at the same time, they can delay a job for as long as possible within the prescribed work process.
Rui Hai arranged the task carefully, but they delayed it casually.
The entire officialdom is still maintained, but work efficiency has been greatly reduced.
This is a gentle way for them to declare their resistance.
Ruihai had already expected that many important tasks would be handled by people he specially selected from other places.
Even so, a lot of work cannot be completed, and a lot of time is delayed.
Among such overall big reactions, Zhang Mingtu's Jinyiwei is the most unusual.
Jin Yiwei completed all the assigned tasks with ease, and did not do perfunctory investigations. He was very serious and meticulous. Later, Ruihai even assigned many large and important tasks to Jin Yiwei, and Zhang Mingtu also completed them very well, and could even be said to be excellent.
Perfect.
Of course it was not like this originally. Originally, Zhang Mingtu was just completing his work normally.
Zhang Mingtu doesn't want to have too much contact with Rui Hai, because Rui Hai is destined to stand at the center of the storm.
After experiencing subsequent changes, Zhang Mingtu felt that he needed to change his strategy.
"Have you ever considered joining me?"
"You work very seriously. I can see that you have them in your heart. Come with me!"
"The county magistrate is sorry, I just did my job."
"No, the fact that you can propose to divide the family into two households shows that your talent and knowledge are far from that. You have common people in your heart, and you are the same person as me."
"Come with me. I have a promise from the chief minister. He will transfer me to Fuzhou."