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    Liu Jin crossed her legs, but because of her obesity, even crossing her legs was difficult.

    He picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

    Liu Ji said again: "Father, there is one more thing Now the county government has required all hidden households and hidden fields to pay taxes. Ouyang Shixue uses a whip method, and it needs to be divided.  Now the gentry are complaining a lot, let's talk about the Yang family. After calculation, their annual taxes are more than 900 taels of silver. The Yang family is very resentful, and the others are almost the same"

    The Yang family has a lot of land.

    According to the tax system regulations carried out by Wang Shouren and others in the DPRK, they wanted to set a precedent in Dingxing County by using whips and stalls to farm acres.

    The essence of this whip method, called a whip, lies in merging taxes and levies, merging land taxes and various types of corvees and levying them together, and at the same time spreading part of the burden of the labors onto the land.  In the past, corv¨¦es were based on households and dings, and instead they were apportioned according to the number of dings and fields. Except for the government's need to collect rice and wheat, all tax burdens were converted into two taels of silver. Farmers and various households that could afford to do the servitude could pay for the servitude.  The government hired people to undertake the tasks; the collection of taxes and levies was handled directly by local officials. The original "people's collection and people's liberation" system in which taxes and levies were collected and released through grain chiefs and district chiefs was abolished and changed to the "official collection and official relief" system.

    The essence of the so-called whip is to simplify the process and at the same time take back the rights of the gentry.

    In the past, people's taxes included land tax and a certain poll tax. At the same time, they also had to assign corvees. They had to pay a small amount of tax as well as grain taxes. When the farming season was slack, you were even required to go to work.  Served in corvee service.

    Because taxes are complex and cumbersome to implement, the government has no way to directly manage them.

    In the end, what is often adopted is ¡®the people accept and the people release¡¯.  In other words, the government doesn't care how to levy the tax, but I need my share. Your village must send the corvee population and food needed by the government to the government on time, which belongs to 'local self-government'.

    But this so-called "people" collecting "people" solution is actually tantamount to giving the power of tax collection to the hands of the gentry.

    This is scary. The gentry has the most land in the family, and it is the gentry who helps the government collect taxes. Guess who will pay the tax in the end?

    But it is different now. One whip is used directly, that is, all taxes are unified. Everyone only collects one tax, and all is given in silver. Because the tax system is simple, it is necessary to directly let the county government¡¯s households  The tax collectors went to collect the money and simply threw the gentry aside.

    In addition, the gentry had more land and naturally had more households. Therefore, the taxes paid by the gentry were naturally higher than those of ordinary people.

    Liu Jin squinted: "Besides the Yang family, who else is there?"

    "I'm making inquiries. I heard that someone is trying his best to ask someone to file a complaint."

    Liu Jin sneered: "Complaining to the imperial court? Are they worthy of it?"

    Liu Ji said with a smile: "Ouyang Shixue is quite courageous, but now he has offended the gentry to death. My son has also heard that there are many songs in the market, all of which are insinuating that Ouyang Shixue is a cruel official."  . The two magistrates and bookkeepers in the county also sensed something was wrong. They both claimed to be ill and ignored the affairs of the county"

    Liu Jin said with a smile: "These are so cunning."

    Liu Ji also laughed: "What's even more interesting I heard that this year, the county's advance tax collection will be close to 110,000 taels. This is equivalent to two households, just one tael of silver. Of course  , those who have money are still those big households. Therefore, not only the gentry have to pay taxes, but business taxes are also changed from physical taxes to silver taxes"

    The Ming Dynasty collected business taxes using the method of drawing one out of ten. For example, if a merchant brought ten carts of cloth, one cart would be included in the official treasury.

    But now, all of them are broken into silver.

    Liu Jin said in his heart that 110,000 taels means that all food, goods, and corvee have been cancelled, and now all cash is collected.

    In the past, it was very inconvenient to collect money. After all, there was not much money on the market, but it is different now. The money on the market has been circulating too fast recently.

    "This Ouyang Shixuenow"

    "This is none of your business. You just need to continue to inquire. Pay special attention to those who are secretly dissatisfied and want to collude with the ministers of the DPRK and China."

    "Yes, yes, yes." Liu Ji smiled broadly: "My son must do his best, dad. My son hasn't seen you for two days. He was thinking a lot, so I came to see you today and was a little verbose. Dad, don't be angry."

    Liu Jin rolled his eyes upward.

    He doesn¡¯t like people rushing to call someone his father.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Twenty thousand taels, this is an astronomical figure.

    Ouyang Zhi continued: "This road will be built on the original official road, so there is no need to recruit additional land. For the planning of the road, Xishan Jianye will appoint craftsmen. In addition to the craftsmen appointed by Xishan Jianye, the necessary  Labor can also be hired in this county This road is only more than seventy miles and two hundred and twenty thousand taels, I think it is enough."

    But in the Yamen hall, it was boiling.

    Someone said: "Is the county's tax money enough? County Lord this this"

    Ouyang Zhidao: "Of course it's not enough. In addition to the money paid to the national treasury, the county also needs to keep some money in case of emergencies. The only money that can be used is thirty or forty thousand taels a year, but it is enough.  Already" He raised the official document in his hand: "Xishan Bank has promised the county to borrow 200,000 taels from it for road construction, and the county has agreed to borrow 30,000 taels per year for ten years.  After ten years, you can pay it off"

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    Many gentry almost fainted.

    Some people¡¯s faces were even more ashen.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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