Seeing all the humerus, they all agreed with Qin Yu's words.
Emperor Wei looked at Qin Wenyao and said slowly: "Wenyao, let the Ministry of Household Affairs prepare a report on this matter, detail what the prince-in-law said, and then post a notice to implement it as soon as possible."
Qin Wenyao saluted and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."
Qin Yu's method can alleviate the conflicts between the common people and the landlords, and also make the landlords willingly hand over their land and food. This is simply killing two birds with one stone.
Emperor Wei was amazed.
Qin Wenyao, Zhang Zian, and Tao Xing were all shocked when they recalled Qin Yu's words.
Qin Yu has a very profound understanding of governing the country and the people, handling government affairs and resolving class conflicts.
Nowadays, official selection, rectification of officials, separation of military and political affairs, land reform, alleviation of conflicts between the common people and the landlord class, and ensuring that the common people's food and seed problems before the first harvest have all been solved.
At this point, Qin Yu and Xiao Nan have basically completed most of the preparation work in front of Xiazhou County.
There was a pause.
Emperor Wei glanced at everyone and continued: "Now, we still have an important issue, which is the issue of corvee and tax."
"Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have always been a sharp sword hanging over the people's heads. The head tax, the land tax, and it is said that there are also drinking water tax, shoe tax, door knocking tax... These corrupt officials are squeezing the people.
, you really do everything you can!”
“The most important thing is that the gentry in many states and counties occupied the most fields, but they also had various privileges, tax exemptions and exemptions, improper tax exemptions, and frequent non-payment of grain. In the end, all taxes and corvee fell on the people.
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"So I plan to reformulate the taxes and corvees in the Wei Dynasty, so that exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes can no longer become a huge burden on the people."
Hear this.
Everyone nodded, agreeing very much with Emperor Wei's words.
Without solving the excessive levies and heavy taxes and corvees, the Wei Dynasty will never be able to prosper. Even if it does prosper, it will only be false prosperity.
Qin Wenyao spoke slowly, "Your Majesty is right. The corvee and tax burdens on the people of the Wei Dynasty are too heavy. I think the poll tax is the most unreasonable and one of the important reasons for the huge gap between the rich and the poor in the Wei Dynasty.
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"When a disaster comes, families with more people and less land will have no other way to survive except selling their land at low prices and borrowing grain from landlords at high prices. The final result will still be land annexation."
"This created a vicious cycle of fiscal revenue in the Wei Dynasty. Increasing taxes would increase the burden on the people. The increased burden on the people would intensify land annexation. In the end, the landowners and gentry who were full of money would try their best to evade taxes, which caused
In the Wei Dynasty, more and more people became tenant farmers, the state finances became less and less, class conflicts intensified, and finally there was a peasant uprising!"
Regarding the issue of finance and corvee taxation in the Wei Dynasty.
Qin Wenyao, the Minister of Household Affairs, has the most say.
Emperor Wei nodded and agreed: "Wen Yao is right. It's not that the imperial court has never thought about reform before, but the imperial court and local officials colluded, and aristocratic families controlled the officialdom, so there was serious resistance."
"Now that the corrupt officials in the imperial court have been eliminated, it is a good time for reform. We must solve the problem of excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed by the people. Only when the people are rich can the country be rich, and only when the people are strong can the country be strong."
Emperor Wei also had a very deep understanding of this matter.
Zhongshu Ling Tao Xing pondered: "Nowadays, the most important thing to change is the head tax. This is very unreasonable. The tax does not depend on the wealth of the family, but on the number of people in the family. This means that the poor are getting poorer."
, the fundamental reason why the rich get richer.”
"Nowadays, how many people in Wei Dynasty have their babies drowned because they can't pay the poll tax? A newborn baby can't even get enough milk, so what kind of tax should he pay!?"
Tao Xing said, also indignantly.
Nowadays, these humerus in the palace do not have corrupt officials involved in land annexation. They have experienced the decline during the Guangyuan period and have a deep understanding of increasingly corrupt politics.
Qin Yu listened, frowning slightly.
He has more say in the matter.
As long as the policy is imperfect, all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be imposed on the people. The final result is that the people are overwhelmed, and then a large-scale uprising breaks out, and the country falls and is destroyed.
The trajectory of the wheel of history is the same, but few people in power can learn lessons. This is one of the reasons why there are many obstacles between the DPRK and China.
But now, the Wei Dynasty is a great opportunity to overthrow everything.
There was a pause.
Qin Yu sorted out his thoughts and said slowly: "Well, I have a good idea."
Qin Yu felt that it was time for him to perform a wave of ultimate moves.
After saying this, everyone looked at Qin Yu.
Emperor Wei's eyebrows rose with joy and he said happily: "Consort, you...do you have another clever plan?"
All the humerus bones were also amazed.
He is worthy of being a prince-in-law, and he has the policies to govern the country and the people at his fingertips.
Qin Yu said lightly: "I'll give it a try."
Emperor Wei nodded excitedly, "Okay, no problem, just say it."
All the humerus were also looking at Qin Yu expectantly.
Qin Yu said slowly: "If you don't follow the same rules in governing the world, you will follow the country's ancient laws. I think we now have the opportunity and ability to carry out drastic reforms."
"We have been talking for a long time, and it is not the land annexation that makes the people breathless, but the exorbitant taxes and heavy corvee that caused the land annexation."
"Then we might as well make drastic reforms. What does our court collect? What we collect is grain. What is the basis for the wealth and poverty of the people? It is the amount of land in their families, not the number of people."
"Then why do we have to levy a poll tax? Why can't we focus on the fields? After this land reform, we will distribute land on a large scale and then register it."
"Then why don't we cancel all corvées and taxes, especially the poll tax, and then attribute all corvées and taxes to the acres, and collect taxes according to the number of acres."
Hear this.
Emperor Wei and the others were stunned at first, and then were shocked.
Qin Yu wants to overthrow the entire corvee and tax system that has existed for thousands of years.
Let’s not talk about his method for now.
But the boldness and courage of Qin Yu's idea amazed everyone.
The prince-in-law is still as quiet as ever and will not stop until his death.
Instead of being angry because of Qin Yu's boldness, Emperor Wei was very excited and said hurriedly: "Tell me, keep talking. You are right. We just want to be bolder this time and walk a path that has never been walked before in all dynasties."
road!"
Emperor Wei was also too excited, too excited.
All the humerus also looked at Qin Yu in amazement.
They felt that Qin Yu was going to come up with something shocking again this time.