Chapter three hundred and sixty second only in case
"Third, educate all the people - since the founding of the country, regardless of Jingchu, north or south, prefectural schools, county schools, and township schools have been established in prefectures, counties, and townships. When children are in elementary school, they study in the countryside for three years, and their families can receive tax reductions.
!May all the people in the world learn from childhood!"
If the previous article only made ordinary people a little excited, but had no real benefits, then now... they are actually feeling excited.
After all, "there is a way to serve the country" is just a door, but... without the ability to cross the threshold, it is still in vain.
However, now, the government's rural schools can accept civilians and send their children to school, and can they be exempted from part of the tax?
More people began to rush to find someone who could understand the Di newspaper and translate specific measures for them.
In fact, there may be some differences from what they think. The township school only deals with basic literacy and basic arithmetic, while the county school starts with branch subjects... In Yangzhou, the people in the areas where the Ministry of Rites has been working for a long time actually know better that "education" is not
The only goal is to become an official.
If we really want to educate students who can take the "official administration" exam, ordinary families are really unable to do so, unless they are really prodigies and can continue to receive "Bai Gong's Encourage Scholarship".
Of course, if you don’t aim to be an official, there is actually a lot of knowledge that can make your life better!
For example, the master craftsmen of some workshops, whose annual income is comparable to that of ordinary wealthy families, can earn multiple incomes during their spare time even if they only learn a superficial way, right?
When Liu Xie heard this, his face became a little ugly - except for the first one, which was to switch from crossing rivers to rule by "benevolent people love others", wasn't this the third of the eight strategies that Bai Tu used to humiliate himself?
Could it be...impossible later on? That kind of thing is simply not feasible. If he dares to do this, he will definitely be in chaos first! Liu Xie convinced himself silently in his heart.
"Fourth, help agriculture and heavy industry - since the founding of the country, the Chu State's grain tax has been one for every fifteen years, and will never be increased again. All the craftsmen in the workshops will be supported. I hope everyone will benefit and be provided for in old age."
Bai Tu was already prepared to exempt agricultural taxes. When the Eastern Han Dynasty was completely victorious, the population was only more than 40 million, but now it has been reduced a lot. The Chu State only has a population of more than 10 million.
The per capita cultivated land area is very sufficient. Referring to the early days of the Industrial Revolution, as long as industrialization is initially achieved, agricultural taxes will become an additional burden. When there is sufficient per capita cultivated land, industrial power can easily shrink the agricultural population, let alone asking farmers to collect taxes.
Just be careful about "sheep eating people".
What's more, there are millions of hectares of fields suitable for collective and efficient farming, which are already under the name of official fields...
The advantage of having fewer people is that if the population really increases more than ten times, both the industrialization process and the per capita cultivated land will limit the transformation.
However, only Bai Tu and the core staff of the Sixth Department knew this account clearly, and the others...
Ordinary people and Yangzhou wealthy families are all excited at this time. What the people are excited about is that the agricultural tax, which used to account for the majority, has returned to the 15-1 tax in the former Han Dynasty and will never be increased again. This is only possible in the Chu State.
Can you do it?
What excited the wealthy people in Yangzhou was that they heard the implication of continuing to support folk workshops!
As for the wealthy families in Jingzhou...
Obviously he is still not used to it. Hearing that after 15% tax and 1% tax, he is still a little uneasy. After all, if farmers can live and work in peace and contentment, it will not be conducive to the merger of wealthy families.
However, this "disadvantage" is completely tolerable - in fact, it is just the same as when the dynasty was just reborn from the ashes. Land is cheap and taxes are low. Even if the wealthy family loses the benefits of the troubled times, they are not determined to rebel because of it.
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There are only a few advanced wealthy families who are smart and understand the situation in Yangzhou. They are ready to "defend Jingzhou" on another level. We cannot let those bastards in Yangzhou occupy our living space. We must open all the workshops first!
Those who are not forward-looking enough are even worried that the Chu Congress will not be dragged to death...
As for Liu Xie of Chang'an, he really wanted to bring in his chief minister and ask him if we could also pay a tax of 1 per 15 per cent.
Liu Bei was down below, already looking ashamed - he knew very well that Xuzhou now had a tax of two to one, and the people had to cultivate official land...
Fifteen taxes per one? Not to mention that he also needs to help Guanzhong, it is not enough to feed his own army!
Liu Xie continued to stare at Bai Tu's figure, because if it really corresponded to the eight strategies, then the next thing... was to restrict the royal family. Would Bai Tu really restrict his descendants and give opportunities to outsiders?
"Fifth, the king is a noble of the Chu Kingdom - I am the king of Chu, starting from myself. The royal family's property will not be plundered from the people. The annual income will only be taken in case of income. I will be self-employed. The children of the royal family will not be awarded titles without merit.
No reward will be received for no merit, all will be supported by the royal family's property, and a share of the people will be taken away from them, and God will abandon them!"
The words "the emperor has one title" are very harsh, especially to Liu Xie's ears - there is a theory in Gongyang theory that "the emperor has one title", which means that the emperor is regarded as the highest title...
At first glance, modern people may feel that there is nothing inconsistent with it, but isn't it just that the emperor is the biggest?
However, in the period of great unification, this was simply making fun of the imperial power!
Its essence is to obliterate the specialness and sanctity of the emperor as the "Son of Heaven", and treat the emperor as a title just one level higher than that of the "King".
Bai Tu doesn't care about the "Emperor and One Lord" matter now, but he has carried out "self-imprisonment" in Chu State, which means roughly the same!
Just like Bai Tu's eight policies to Chang'an, he stated that he would not use the taxes from the imperial court for his own family, nor would he seal off the taxes of a certain place to them just because he gave birth to children, thereby embezzling them in disguise.
Imperial Finance.
Even in terms of royal support, Bai Tu has directly drawn the line - just in case, take one out of ten thousand!
Liu Xie had no idea what he was talking about, and even felt that this man had gone crazy.
Not to mention that there are only about 2 million households in the Chu region now. Even in the heyday of the Han Dynasty, there were more than 10 million households. One ten thousandth... the annual payment of a thousand-household prince?
It’s not that much among the princes, but it’s enough to support the royal family? You’re a single dog, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are when you’re not a family member!
This article was not overly explained in the newspaper. After all, it was used to regulate the royal family itself, and Bai Tu did not need to explain it in such detail.
For example... Bai Tu will certainly not explain to them that the key point of this article is "the royal family's properties are not plundered from the people, the annual income is only taken in case of emergency, and the royal family's properties are self-operated and self-operated"
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Since we can all "operate and operate by ourselves", why do we have to take money directly from the imperial treasury? One ten thousandth is symbolic, otherwise Bai Tu will be afraid that other princes will be embarrassed in the future.
From the Gan family's brocades to the Lu family's artificial colored glaze, all of them had shares in Bai Tu. On the gradually expanding waterway, the largest trading houses also carried Bai Tu's name.
There are countless good things in Bai Tu's hard drive. He can take them out at random, find an obedient family to invest in technology stocks, or reward meritorious officials. It's not all about making money while lying down.
If you have a headache, how can you distribute these things so that they don’t get burned in your own hands!
Do the royal families of industrialized countries still worry about taking money from the treasury?
What's more... Now that we are here, Bai Tu feels that by continuing to think about the descendants who don't even have a shadow, he has really "earned" something. After reaching this point, Bai Tu already feels that he is taking too much, so he decided to
I need to do more self-examination in the future.
But after Bai Tu said this, he felt calm for no reason. Not only did his mental strength increase significantly, but even the gilded military talisman became a little hot. This was... a sign that Chu's luck had greatly improved!
Looking at the people below, a few were so moved that they wanted to cry, but the majority...had already cried!
Bai Tu was really embarrassed. He took a few deep breaths before he could hold back the feeling of being condemned in his conscience...