Chapter 161 Household Registration and Land Agricultural Tax
It's not that Chen Xi hasn't thought about other household registration systems, but after much deliberation, he finally settled on the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty. After all, this system can be regarded as the most complete system since ancient times, although there are many disharmonious aspects in it.
, but it is undeniable that the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty had huge benefits for taxation, population management, and corvee!
Whether it is the household registration card equivalent to the 21st century household registration book, or the method of household registration division and management, it is too advanced.
First of all, this household registration not only indicates the name and place of birth of the family, but also the property. The property written on the household registration is recognized by society and protected by law. If it is not written on it, then I am sorry, stealing.
There is no way to prove it, so this thing is still very useful.
Another division of household registration is mainly divided into civil registration, military registration, and craftsman registration, which are managed by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry respectively. These residences do not affect being an official. As long as you have the ability, you can become an official. This household registration is mainly used for
To distinguish, in addition, in ancient times, sons generally inherited their father's business, so this kind of bound household registration generally had little impact. At most, it allowed a group of idealistic guys to face reality decisively, and according to this era, sons inherit
Due to the inertia of father's business, most elders with this kind of household registration are very happy...
Next is the lijia system that comes with the national registration. One hundred and ten households are divided into one li, and the ten households that are best at farming are the lijiang, and then the remaining 100 households are evenly divided into tenjia.
In this way, every year when corvee work is needed, a Li Zheng will take a head of A and other people from the ten households to bear the corvee.
Each person is responsible for one year, and everyone queues up, which is called "planning the year." In this way, 90% of the people do not need to be disturbed every year, which protects rural agricultural production and normal order of life.
Of course, the more important thing is that the corvee is arranged by year, so the people will spontaneously keep an eye on whether there is anyone in their group who wants to escape, because the person who has served in the corvee is equivalent to serving everyone in the same group that year.
Corvee, and if you have never served corvee and want to escape from corvee, you must first ask the people before you if they are willing.
As for after the annual ranking is over, you can reorganize it, do a census along the way, and then calculate the population structure if you are in the mood. If necessary, you can adjust the ratio of men and women in various places. In short, in addition to tying all the people with national registration to their place of residence
Other than that, everything else is pretty good.
As for what to do when this kind of household registration system becomes more prosperous in the future, Chen Xi can only say that it is a cold drink. When the time comes, God knows what kind of household registration system should be used when moving around.
Agricultural taxes are collected based on this binding household registration.
After giving a long explanation to Lu Su and Liu Ye, I saw that the eyes of the two people were shining brightly without any hint of dizziness. I was overjoyed. They were indeed capable ministers recorded in history. For such a distant person,
A system that was beyond the level of the time and was able to understand everything!
"That's basically it. See if there are any loopholes. If not, I'll leave it to you. If there are, you can find a way to solve it. This is not a big problem for you." Chen Xi took a sip of tea.
After that, my mouth was barely dry anymore.
"I can't see any problems in the short term. This system is almost complete. Zichuan must have spent a lot of effort on it." Lu Su asked without raising his head. It was obvious that there was no sincerity at all. He asked whether Chen Xi had tired him.
I don't take it seriously at all. As long as it can still move around, it means the foundation has not been damaged.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you how to operate it. I'm really tired. What are you going to do with the land? And have you figured out a way to deal with other parts of Qingzhou? No matter how prestigious we are in Qingzhou, we can't do it in Qingzhou.
Here you can wait, fame, benevolence, etc.
For the Yellow Turban, he cannot be used as food, just like Xuan Gao. If he goes to the Qingzhou Military Camp in a few months, except for the generals who followed him all the way to the end, no one else will know this handsome man." Chen Xi
They didn't even bother to talk about the problems with this system and just talked about other topics.
"Zi Yang, I thought of a way. There were still some problems originally, but after your household registration is issued, there will be a basis for implementation." Lu Su said while writing.
"Zi Yang, tell me about your land plan. Let me refer to it. By the way, since you already have a land plan, how will you handle the agricultural tax?" Chen Xi asked Liu Ye sideways. As the designer of the plan, Liu Ye must have his own ideas.
My opinion, as for Lu Su, it’s better not to waste other people’s time.
"I plan to grant land directly. There are no real aristocratic families in Qingzhou and Taishan. The Yellow Turban plunder directly wiped out Qingzhou. This kind of place is very suitable for dividing the fields, so the easiest way is to divide the fields. However, I don't recommend dividing the fields according to the household.
Or divide the land individually." Liu Ye said without thinking.
"Originally, this method has huge loopholes, but Zichuan's Lijia system can fill this problem. I plan to divide the fields according to Lijia. I am not sure how many fields will be divided into each mile. According to different places, the land allocation will be different.
Each li will be different. As a li, it will be distributed to each head, and then the head will be distributed to each household." Liu Ye said calmly.
"This plan..." Chen Xi had a strong sense of immediacy, but he had to admit that this plan directly spread the contradictions and would no longer directly point the finger at the central government over the land issue.
"As for fairness, that has nothing to do with me. What I guarantee is fairness at the top level, what the state and county guarantee is fairness at the middle level, and what the county guarantees is final fairness. There may be problems, but compared to now, I think
The system has improved a lot." Liu Ye said proudly.
Chen Xi frowned. He had already noticed what Liu Ye's system demanded the most. It was not for the people to have land, but for the world to be stable and to share the contradictions. Even if problems broke out,
He will not rise up, and even if he rises up, he will not be attached to everything. This will be of great benefit to the stability of the Liu family.
"It's not bad. I've almost guessed what your taxation is. It's probably devolved directly to each district, right?" Although Chen Xi was a little dissatisfied with Liu Ye's attitude, a stable world would also be of great benefit to the people.
Da, so I didn’t say anything more. After all, we are human beings and have selfish motives.
"Well, I do plan to collect taxes based on the entire territory. Every year, I will extract the average value of grain production in each state and county, and then calculate the average output, and collect taxes based on this output." Liu Ye nodded and said, looking very serious.
After all, such attention is not something ordinary people can think of, and Liu Ye is confident that his tax law is much better than the current agricultural tax.
Chen Xi smiled bitterly. Liu Ye was all focused on how to maintain the rule of the Han Dynasty. He didn't think about it at all. If some people wanted to please the upper class and just changed a number, the entire state and county might suffer.
