In the residence of Dongbohou, Jiang Wenhuan was furious and pulled out his long sword, wishing to chop Jiang Ziya into meat paste.
“It’s hard to guard against it!”
Jiang Huanchu's face was also extremely gloomy, and he spat out four aggrieved words from his mouth.
Jiang Ziya and Shen Gongbao were ordered to go to the east and west, one civil and one military, to conquer the two major vassal states.
While Su Hu's army and Xiqi's army were fighting to the death, Donglu was very calm, because Jiang Ziya refused the escort of Wang Shi and entered Donglu in a simple vehicle.
The Jiang family and his son were very satisfied. His Majesty sent this wild man to do anything to them. I'm afraid it was just a formality!
Therefore, they superficially agreed with Jiang Ziya's idea of restoring the ancestral system and spreading harmony throughout the world, but in fact they were completely perfunctory.
Jiang Ziya was not in a hurry, and urged him calmly, and then proposed changes in taxation, and his attitude gradually became tougher.
Throughout history, after a regime comes to power, if it wants to make a difference, economic adequacy is necessary, and the most direct source of the economy is taxation.
Therefore, there have been so many regime changes in various dynasties. When each regime first came to power, it basically paid attention to reducing taxes and stabilizing people's hearts. However, in the later stages, as the greed of those in power grew, more and more exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were imposed, and the economy collapsed.
Being unable to make ends meet will eventually lead to destruction.
Not to mention, tax collection was already in place as early as the time of Dayu.
There is a famous incident in which Dayu killed the Fangfeng clan.
Generally speaking, after the flood control was successful, during the celebration meeting in Kuaiji, a tribal leader named Fangfeng was late and was killed by Dayu. Later, he claimed that he had been killed by mistake, which caused a lot of speculation by later generations.
This story was later adapted into a myth. Fangfeng was a giant, three feet tall, and one bone required a cart to fit in. In fact, the real reason for all these myths was not that Fangfeng was strange, nor that Yu could not tolerate it.
Instead of people, it is a battle for taxation and control of monetary materials and seashells.
The death of Fangfengshi set the precedent for the central government to collect taxes from the people. The failure of the local government to cooperate led to killings, which also reflected the importance of this system to the ruling class.
Dayu succeeded, formed an alliance in Tushan, and established the world as a commonwealth. He established the first dynasty of Xia and established the first taxation system in history.
Tribute method.
Ren Tu Zuo Tribute is recorded in "Shang Shu Yu Gong". This system is very interesting. Based on the distance between the princes' fiefdoms and the royal city, the world is divided into five levels, and then subdivided into five major levels. It is quite
There is a scene of the seven ring roads being divided into the first in later generations.
For example, subjects who are one hundred miles away from the royal city are required to pay tribute from the harvested crops; those who are two hundred miles away from the royal city are required to cut off the straw from their crops before paying tribute; those who are four hundred miles away from the royal city are required to pay tribute of millet, etc.
It is a kind of physical tax levied based on land and output.
In the Shang Dynasty, it became famous as the Jingtian system.
As the name suggests, the well-field system divides the land into nine districts according to the word "well". The outer eight districts are called private fields and are allocated to eight households of farmers to cultivate. The harvest is used by these farmers to support their families. The middle district is public land, which is shared by eight households of farmers.
All cultivation and harvests belong to the slave owners and the state.
Eight families of people help cultivate public land without taxing private land. Compared with the Xia Dynasty, it is not just a rigid payment in kind as tax, but also including labor force. Hello, I am well, everyone is well.
The purpose of implementing the well-field system is to achieve equal welfare, equal distribution, and equal taxation among subjects. This is a very ideal tax system, but in operation, big problems have arisen.
There are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. This should be a matter of benefit to both the top and bottom, but it was destroyed by greed and desire. The same is true for the well field system. I will not go into details. This system that went through the Shang and Zhou dynasties is currently controlled by the superiors.
The method is called the method of assistance.
Aiding the law is a means by which the ruling class relies on its power and status on the basis of its inherent land and through the land distribution system to force farmers to provide labor for free to solve the salary expenditures of officials at all levels, military expenditures and other national expenditures.
For example, if you rent a front-end house to do business, you originally just paid the rent. After paying your share, the rest is your own income. Now, in addition to the rent, the landlord and his family have to pay for all their living expenses.
Who can bear this responsibility?
Under this abnormal system, after hundreds of years of brewing, it reached the edge of explosion and the Yin Shang Dynasty was destroyed.
It can be seen that the demise of a dynasty is not simply caused by one or two mistakes in decision-making, but is caused by years of accumulated shortcomings.
However, the reforms implemented by the princes of the four towns shifted the contradiction.
Donglu was the head of the eight hundred princes. He took the lead in reform, was at the forefront of the times, and occupied a favorable geographical location.
After Dongyi was destroyed, Huang Feihu was ordered to build Dongping City outside Dongyi's original ancestral mountain. It is close to the mountains and the sea. It has now become the most commercially developed city in the world. The treasures of heaven and earth on the mountains and the rare and exotic objects in the sea.
It was continuously delivered to the inland and was deeply loved by the princes and nobles.
Donglu is near the water and the buildings are first to come, so naturally it will vigorously develop business.
So, on this basis, Jiang Ziya established three types of taxes:
The first is the tax on mountain forest products and ocean fishery products.
This is collected when mining, that is, in Dongping City, merchants have to pay a large amount of tax.
The second is the customs tax, which refers to the inspection and taxation of goods passing through the border "customs" and the domestic "city".
This "pass" is exactly the five passes, and the "city" is every big city.
In other words, every time you pass a level, you have to pay a tax, and the same goes for every time you enter a big city.
The third is the tax on money, which refers to other taxes that do not fall into the above categories.
The third type is nothing more than that, the first two are just ruthlessly poaching a piece of meat from the businessman.
The Jiang family and his son were not pure warriors. They discussed for a long time and believed that this was a form of economic suppression by the central government against Donglu.
Military training costs money. Donglu reformed the military system and the permanent military strength reached an astonishing 120,000, which was the highest among the four major princes. The daily expenses were very staggering. If it were not for the vigorous development of business, in the cornucopia of Dongping City
After sharing a piece of the pie, I can no longer support it.
Now that new taxes are imposed, part of the revenue will have to be turned over to the central government through taxes, and it will not be possible without disarmament.
Soft knife cuts flesh!
However, at this sensitive moment, Donglu was wary and did not want to fall out directly with the central government.
Don't go too far when it comes to giving and taking offense. Although Jiang Ziya is easy to deal with, after all, His Majesty's face is involved. If you don't eat the toast, you may have to drink as a fine.
After the Battle of Jizhou, they realized that even the most proud army of Donglu still had a certain gap with the Central Army. It was unrealistic to rebel. Otherwise, the two sides would break up and end up fighting each other like Xiqi. Or,
It's better to give in a bit.
Ever since, Donglu, under Jiang Ziya's repeated pressure, finally began tax reform.
Jiang and his son were not panicked. Anyway, there were a lot of tricks in the matter of taxation. Wasn't it the Donglu officials who had the final say on how much to pay?
However, they never imagined that this was the beginning of Donglu's tragedy.