Shao Shude now urgently needs to find out the family background of Ding Nanjun.
He knew everything roughly, but now that war was imminent, he needed to be more precise and estimate to see how long he could last.
The fiscal and taxation system of the imperial dynasty was roughly divided into three parts: offering supplies, sending envoys and staying in the state, that is, a pattern of two taxes and three parts.
Specifically, when it comes to a certain state, the governor will send part of the state's taxes to the Jiedushi envoy and observe the envoy's place, which is called "sending envoys". The rest is reserved for the state's expenses, which is called "liuzhou". The Jiedushi envoy will then send part of it to the state.
The tax collection was sent to the capital, which was called "offering to the emperor".
Each feudal town had to pay the tribute part, even the towns in Hebei, which were always domineering, had to pay more or less. Relying on this system, the imperial court received a total of more than 35 million yuan during the Yuanhe period.
Including taxes in kind, it was three to four times that of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years.
In fact, in terms of population alone, later generations such as Yan Gengwang and others believed that although the vassal towns were separated, the population during the Wuzong period was not necessarily smaller than that during the Tianbao period. Otherwise, the tax base was obviously much lower than that during the Kaiyuan period. Even with fiscal reforms, the population would be greatly reduced.
Commercial taxes were greatly increased, and it was impossible for the Zhongtang Dynasty to achieve three or four times the fiscal revenue. During the Tianbao period, there were more than 8 million households. During the Dali period, there were only 130 households. As a result, once the two tax laws were implemented, the number increased to more than 3 million households within ten years.
, and grew to 5 million households in the next fifty years, with an average of 6.63 people per household, exceeding the average of 5 people per household in Tianbao years, which is really impressive.
After Huang Chao entered Chang'an, the offerings in all towns were suspended, and perhaps they will continue to be made in the future. Well, some obedient feudal towns have already begun to offer offerings to Chang'an, although the emperor is still in Shu.
But the eight towns in the northwestern part of Beijing are already poor, and they have not paid any debts for the time being. Not to mention the wealthy towns in Hezhong, all the salt profits of 700,000 yuan a year have been withheld. It is no wonder that Tian Lingzi wanted to get rid of him later. It may not be out of selfish motives, but
The court is really short of money.
In the fourth year of Zhonghe, after four or five years of development, Suizhou's household registrations gradually increased, and there were more and more fields cultivated. The annual local tax revenue collected a total of 414,200 dendrobium of millet and wheat, and the household tax collected 68,480 pieces of silk and 12,750 yuan of money;
The local tax is 120,900 dendrobium, the household tax silk is 57,920 pieces, and the money is 11,313 pieces; Xiazhou local tax is 77,100 dendrobium, the household tax silk is 20,960 pieces, and the money is 4,094 pieces.
Among these three states, the burden on the people of Yinzhou should be the heaviest, because the average population per household is only 3.2 people, Suizhou is 5.96 people, and Xiazhou is 5.53 people. The reason is that there are a large number of people who have just married.
, the household registration is too small. The state tax is collected on a per-household basis, so the burden is heavy. If thousands of people from the state had not followed to conquer Yuzhou, and one person had four sheep, life would have been very difficult.
It is worth mentioning that the country implements a fiscal and taxation policy of living within your means, that is, estimating how much money you need to spend, then setting a target value, and collecting taxes based on this value. Towns all over the world basically follow this approach. Last year
After two battles, too many were seized, so Shao Shude confiscated the excessive taxes, which allowed the people to breathe a sigh of relief. They were no longer in a state of severe hunger, and even had enough money to buy livestock and raise them.
The reason for doing this is because the tax system at this time was very crude. There was no Internet and no big data. It was basically how much the military leader wanted. Then the shogunate roughly estimated the wealth of each state, set an amount, and then apportioned it layer by layer to each state.
.The military leader doesn’t care what the process is like, he only wants money.
Shao Shude was afraid that if he tightened the restrictions too harshly, he would force those people with few children and acres of land to death. After all, the official system of the dynasty had great flaws, and the number of officials was too small. Compared with the developed bureaucracy and huge scale of the Song Dynasty,
It's totally incomparable, tax collection is too dependent on locality.
Especially after the secession of vassal towns, a large number of state and county official positions were occupied by the shogunate, almost at a standstill, but there were only a few people in the shogunate? Couldn't the military chiefs have to rely on force to collect taxes and distribute them to the localities? This process must be uneven.
Yes, local gentry and clans are all involved. If one person is not good, many people will be killed or forced to go into exile, and the tax base will be lost.
The three prefectures of Xia, Sui, and Yin are our foundation. We must take good care of them and not dry up the lake for fishing. In the past few years, the population of the three prefectures has almost doubled. There are immigrants from China, including family members of soldiers, captives of women and children from the prairie, and households.
There are small tribes of people in Dangxiang who have migrated from other states one after another. The yellow household registration registers in the three states and twelve counties are generally reliable. After all, they are all newly registered households, and there are actually very few hidden households. This is precisely because
In this way, the efficiency of tax collection is actually not low, and we cannot squeeze too much.
Twelve counties in the three prefectures collected a total of 612,200 dendrobium of grain and beans, 144,200 bolts of silk, and 28,200 dendrobium of cash from the two taxes. In addition, there were nearly 6,000 dendrobium of tax from trade, which had just picked up this year, and 182,200 dendrobium of rent from military-affiliated farms.
, the income from selling military horses is equivalent to about 98,000 yuan.
This regular tax does not include miscellaneous donations, but is actually lower than the national average at this time. If converted into money based on the Xia Sui grain price, the average household would be more than eight cents, while the national average in the first year of Jianzhong was already more than ten cents.
In the past hundred years, it will only get higher.
Of course, the Late Tang Dynasty was not the highest. The Later Liang Dynasty was higher than the Late Tang Dynasty. The Later Liang Dynasty was still the lowest among the Five Dynasties. The Later Tang Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, and the Later Zhou Dynasty were higher each generation. And in the Northern Song Dynasty, the per capita tax burden on farmers was the highest in the Late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.
If there is a significant increase based on the severity of the later weeks, I don’t know how the people can survive.
For the Dingnan Army and the Yamen Army, the state soldiers were given more than 600,000 dendrobiums of grain per year, the sergeants killed or disabled in battle received a pension of more than 20,000 dendrobiums, and the sergeants in the camp daily consumed more than 200,000 dendrobiums of food. Adding the three together, it is 900,000 dendrobiums a year.
There are more than 10,000 dendrobiums, not to mention the reward of money and silk.
Next year there will be more than 100,000 yuan of salt profit, and the yield of newly reclaimed wasteland is also slowly increasing. In addition, Xia and Yinzhou continue to open fields, and the people of Suizhou are also spontaneously increasing the number of acres of land. Next year's two taxes
, discussing taxes, renting military farms and selling horses, should be able to cover most of the military expenditures.
Well, we can't forget the more than 200,000 peasants under his rule. Marshal Shao also allocated 40,000 large livestock and 160,000 small livestock a year, plus leather, medicinal materials, honey, and wax.
There are some specialties such as camel hair, with a total value of about 200,000 yuan. However, we cannot receive so much this year because some tribes have been severely plundered and have lost a lot of people. Marshal Shao specifically allowed them not to pay taxes this year.
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Anyway, the disaster-defeating army seized hundreds of thousands of livestock this year, which was more than enough.
After making up for the gap in military expenditures, the tribute from the grassland farmers can also completely cover the salaries of state officials and various affairs expenses. Overall, there is even a lot of surplus.
That is, all they paid were in kind, and the seizures in the two wars this year were also in kind. This reflects that the money on the books is enough, but in actual operation, it is a lot of trouble. If you pay officials a salary or a cow, what will happen to them?
The sergeant didn't have enough food to eat, so he used the meat of cattle, sheep, horses and camels to offset part of the food. How to calculate this?
Therefore, it is still necessary to develop commerce. There is a serious shortage of money in the four states of Xia and Sui, specifically copper coins and silk that bear some monetary functions. The overall wealth is sufficient, but it is difficult to realize it. This problem needs to be solved urgently.
After calculating the wealth at hand, Shao Shude's confidence greatly increased, so he directly said to the marching Sima and the judge Zhidu: "Xiazhou Duzuo Academy is working hard to make arrows, bow strings, leather armor, tents, ropes and other items. Suizhou Duzuo Academy has
The hospital is rushing to make iron armor, vests, swords and axes. In addition, you can make calculations based on the consumption for a year. If you need private workshops to make tools, you should find someone as soon as possible. No, take the two major cities as the hospital's sparse
The manpower is definitely not enough, so we need to implement it now. After a few months, plus the previous inventory, I feel that it is almost the same."
"Since the commander-in-chief has given instructions, we will go and do it immediately," Wu and Lian said.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work. The first month has not passed yet, so we have to work on this."
"This matter is of great importance, how can we ignore it? I'll take my leave now."
After seeing off the two men, Shao Shude went to Duyu Housi to summon the generals who were still in Xiazhou. He did not intend to hold back when fighting in Lingzhou, and he would take all the capable troops and generals with him.
The system of the Dingnan Army is relatively stable among the towns in the world today. Since the position of coach began to appear in the Xuanzong Dynasty, the power of the generals in the feudal towns has been gradually weakened. The generals who go out to guard are okay, they are in their own hands
The army could rebel if they disagreed, but the generals were indeed suppressed to death.
Large towns such as Hedong, Chengde, Hezhong, Weibo, and Jiannan rely on military envoys to usurp the power of logistics, and rely on coaches to usurp the power of training. The government offices will be completely reduced to idlers clocking in and clocking in to work, unless they follow the procedures.
Then lead the troops to go on an expedition, otherwise they will not be able to contact the army and it will be difficult to rebel.
During the Qianfu period, Shao Shudeshang conquered Li Guochang and his sons in Hedong. At that time, the supply and demand envoy in Hedong was Li Shao, the capital coach was Zhang Yanqiu, and the Yamen generals Zhang Kai and Guo Fei wanted to cause rebellion. They had to force the commander-in-chief Li Kan to send them out, and they were awarded
Military power is enough. Otherwise, you can only achieve your goal by cutting rewards and other reasons, hoping to incite the soldiers to rebel.
After Li Keyong took control of Hedong, because he was a foreigner, he could not afford to support his 50,000 Tibetan soldiers, so he dismissed half of them. Therefore, when facing tens of thousands of yamen troops in Hedong, he was under great pressure and took this system to its extreme. He
Even the head coach doesn't trust him. He changes players twice a year, and I don't know what he is panicking about.
The generals of the Dingnan Army in the state were basically the group of people invited to the Lantern Festival dinner. Shao Shude thought about it and decided to transfer Yang Liang from Suizhou to serve as the Xiazhou military envoy, in charge of two thousand state soldiers.
He was transferred to Yinzhou's army envoy, and Monk Sanmu was in charge of Suizhou's army.
After sorting out the left-behind soldiers in the rear, he decided to appoint Wang Yu as the military envoy, and Li Yixian, the tenth personal general, as deputy envoy, and promoted Cai Songyang to Du Yuhou. He personally led the Tielin Army, and Li Yanling served as deputy envoy.
Li Renjun was promoted to the title of Marquis of Yu, and Xu Hao was promoted to the envoy of Youyi. The cavalry army was put under the control of Zhe Siyu, and Zhu Shuzong, the commander of the capital, stayed in Xiazhou.
The Yi Cong Army should be expanded as soon as possible. The 4,000 people from the grassland and Hengshan tribes have not come yet. Very good, let them send more, expand the total strength to 8,000, and set off with the army. Shao Shude does not expect them to play a big role.
Help transport food and grass, guard prisoners, and a few elites can be considered qualified if they can get into the battle.
After these three armies set out from Xiazhou and joined the Wuwei army in Youzhou, the total strength will reach 33,000. Youzhou will build a new thousand state soldiers, selected from the soldiers stationed in Suizhou, and promote Shao Desheng as the army envoy of Youzhou.
Guard Yuzhou City.
After the plan was completed, each general led his troops to familiarize themselves with the troops. Ordnance began to work overtime, and grain and grass were transported to Youzhou in advance. These things must be completed before the end of March. Before that, it depends on the court.
No matter how hard you give it, in short, you can't give Han Lang and Kang Yuancheng the name to control Lingzhou legitimately.
As for whether he can get the name of Lingzhou, it doesn't matter, anyway, he is now in the name of conquering the Hexi Party Xiang who crossed the border and plundered Yuzhou. What happens next will be decided step by step.