"Pingshen." Li Xingchen stretched out his hand to help his brother-in-law up, "How is the new tax law being enacted now?"
Chen Shushen had already guessed that Li Xingchen's visit must also be about tax issues.
In the first few months after the Han Dynasty entered Chang'an, all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were exempted, and only the most basic taxes and fees were levied in accordance with the laws of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Of course, the taxes that were levied before the Northern Zhou Dynasty until thirty or forty years later were directly overturned by the Han Dynasty.
It is definitely impossible for Li Xingchen to admit this, otherwise it would mean that the Han Dynasty would not be able to collect taxes from the Guanzhong area for thirty or forty years. Therefore, although Li Xingchen wanted to pull Yuwen and Yang Jian out and beat them up, these two guys obviously knew that they
His political power was no longer stable, so he simply made some troubles and left this situation disgusting to Li Xinchen.
Li Xingchen knew that the people were under a lot of pressure and burden for this, but he could only hold his nose and firmly refuse to admit it. It is absolutely impossible for a big man to give up the taxation in a place like Guanzhong.
Of course, the common people certainly do not expect that after the change of times, the new dynasty will recognize all the empty promises made by the previous dynasty. Everyone is still mentally prepared for this. Even if it were not for the force of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the common people would not have been able to do so.
Maybe he really spent so much money.
The Han Dynasty can exempt all the rest of the messy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and even exempt some reasonable taxes, and only levy the simplest taxes on people's income, everyone can be considered grateful.
Of course, this is only temporary. Light corvee and low taxation are inevitable, but it cannot be so thin that only the most basic taxation is left. The Han Dynasty is not qualified to govern the world with the learning of Huang and Lao like Wenjing's rule. And in Guanzhong
If the land is light and the taxes are low, where will the remaining land of the Han Dynasty be?
Now the Han Dynasty no longer divides the world into one region after another as before, and there is almost no circulation between the regions. Through merchants, the Han Dynasty is now increasingly connected as a whole. Within the Han Dynasty, the communication of news
The circulation of goods and commodities is nothing new. This can also allow the South and the North, which have been divided and confronted for three hundred years, to be integrated into a whole as soon as possible.
The problem this brings is that it is impossible for Dahan to use different tax methods in different places. Therefore, a new tax law destined to be unified across the country is being formulated and is expected to be trialled next year and will be implemented throughout Dahan the year after that.
Implement.
"Now we have formulated preliminary regulations based on the investigation in Guanzhong." When it comes to tax regulations, Chen Shushen is very confident. These days, he has led people from the Ministry of Revenue to cooperate with people from the Ministry of Punishment, and has been working hard on this.
"In the regulations, we temporarily plan to divide the entire tax into three parts. One is the tax on people's daily income, the other is the tax on the sale and circulation of goods, and the last one is different taxes on different industries."
Li Xingchen didn't have much opinion on this classification. In his previous life, he didn't do much research on commodity law, tax law, etc. He just knew roughly what he should pay taxes on. Now the entire Han Dynasty's legal and regulatory system is just
It has just started, and people can only say that they have an "understanding" of these legal provisions.
It is naturally impossible for them to formulate completely complete laws and regulations in such a short period of time. As long as one or two accurate directions of efforts are first defined, the rest will naturally be based on long-term experience and lessons.
Make supplements.
After all, before this, there had never been a legal provision in the history of China that could truly be called a law or regulation and had the absolute ability to restrain violence. Many laws were actually made up of government decrees or even unwritten rules and regulations.
Whether it is determined by tradition, whether it is justified or even whether the court will uphold the authority of these laws has to be debated.
Although there have been things like Qin Law and Han Law in Chinese history, these laws have not been handed down, and the provisions in them are as mixed as mentioned before, so it is difficult to call them real laws.
The truly written record of Chinese law in history is considered to be the "Tang Laws and Comments", which was already in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and naturally there is no such thing in this era.
The reason why the Tang Dynasty began to gradually realize the importance of written laws was because exchanges and communications between various parts of the world inevitably increased with the advent of the prosperous age. Naturally, the court could no longer allow localities to maintain different legal provisions to create differences. Therefore,
Naturally, it is necessary to formulate a legal provision that can bind everyone in the world from the perspective of the central government. On the one hand, it can ensure the stability of the country, and on the other hand, it can also strengthen the centralization of power and consolidate the imperial power.
In the previous Northern and Southern Dynasties, the focus was on unification or self-preservation. In the final analysis, it was all about war. Naturally, no one cared about laws. If there were laws, the powerful families would certainly not be willing to abide by them, because in most families,
In the eyes, they should be the legislators, or in other words, what comes out of their mouths is the law and the social rules that everyone needs to abide by.
Naturally, the imperial court is not willing to have something to restrict them from increasing excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes through various means. Otherwise, if they violate the law after it has been established, it will be no different from slapping themselves in the face. After all, if the imperial court really enacts a law, it will naturally require
Maintain and protect the correctness and justice of the law.
But things are different now. Li Xingchen has almost completed the unification of the world and has broken the barriers that originally existed between various regions. In addition, he has begun to suppress aristocratic families through various means. The enactment of the law not only accelerated the changes within the Han Dynasty, but it was different now.
To form a whole, a centralized whole, is also a step forward on the road of suppressing the aristocratic family.
When the orders and words of the aristocratic family could no longer shake the authority of the imperial court, the aristocratic family naturally completely became a nobleman who submitted to the rule of the imperial court and became one with the imperial court. There was no longer even the name aristocratic family, because they
The family is no longer irreplaceable.
However, Li Xingchen did not intend to establish a complete legal system in one step. After all, law is not something familiar to this era, and people only have a preliminary concept of it.
Li Xinchen chose taxation as a pilot project. Firstly, it was to solve the problem of different taxation and different algorithms in various places. Some imitated Qin Shihuang's unification of "weights and measures". Secondly, he also wanted to test the attitude of the family. After all, Li Xinchen did not have the courage to do many things.
complete in one step.
To deal with the aristocratic family, he prefers to use the method of boiling frogs in warm water, constantly eroding the aristocratic family's territory from all directions, and eventually overthrowing the aristocratic family completely and achieving centralization of power.