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Chapter 143 Li Fengniang, the fierce queen of the Southern Song Dynasty (23)

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    On the third day after the completion of the land reform, Qiao Mu immediately issued an imperial edict to the whole country, announcing the abolition of all agricultural taxes in the country, the abolition of the owner's tax and all other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. From then on, only commercial taxes, customs duties and personal income taxes were collected.

    ¡¾Blessed by heaven, the Holy Emperor decreed:

    Starting from today, all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes such as agricultural tax and capitation tax will be abolished, and all labor service will be banned. In the future, government construction must be remunerated according to normal hired labor. At the same time, all forced conscription systems will be abolished and conscription will be made voluntary]

    The content is very long, but in short, it comes to one point, that is, to abolish all exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, including corvee, and at the same time mix some necessary taxes into commercial taxes and no longer directly tax people. This will not only reduce the government's  Labor can also prevent some tax-collecting officials from oppressing the people through various small means, or collecting more taxes.

    In fact, if all the taxes in ancient times were collected according to the rules, not one cent too much, not one cent too little, then most people could actually afford it. However, the fact is that many officials collected  It's not a rule. Those who should receive one cent can receive two cents. In addition to messy things like fire consumption, he can only receive two or three cents when he should only receive one cent. It's strange that the people are not poor.

    The same is true for conscription.

    They are all channels for making money from below. Ordinary people have to pay if they don¡¯t want to go. If you go there and don¡¯t have money to clear the way, they may arrange a work area for you that is the most painful, tiring, and most likely to die.

    This is also the main reason why there are many casualties in labor every year. Some may not be dead from exhaustion at all, but deliberately killed by others.

    It is impossible to completely solve these situations in a short time. So what should we do? Just cancel it. If we cancel it, the officials below will naturally have no way to continue to bully the people through various means. After all, there will be no conscription of soldiers or labor.  , naturally they can¡¯t ask for money through this.

    As soon as this move came out, the world was consolidated.

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    Lingnan Liaocheng

    After the announcement was posted, all the people watching were excited. In disbelief, everyone gathered around the county official who was responsible for reading the announcement and kept asking about the content.

    ¡°Oh my God, is this true?¡±

    "It must be true. This is posted by the county government. How could it be fake?"

    "The Holy Emperor is so kind!"

    "The Holy Emperor Empress is really better than the Bodhisattva. She not only helps us people make decisions, but also distributes land to us. Now she even exempts us from so many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Hey, no, according to the way the empress's will is written, we won't have to use it in the future.  Paying taxes is something that the Three Emperors have never done!"

    "Isn't it written in the decree that all personal incomes of less than one tael per month are exempt from tax, and only those with personal monthly incomes of more than one tael need to pay tax."

    "What you're saying is, if I can earn more than one tael of silver a month, I'll be happy even if I pay taxes. My monthly salary now is only three taels of silver!"

    Of course, in addition to praising each other, some people burst into tears at that time, crying about why the Holy Emperor Empress had not ascended the throne a few years earlier. If the Empress had ascended the throne a few years earlier, wouldn't their sons and grandsons be the same?  There would be no need to die in labor, and the grandchildren and the like born at home would not have to drown to death just to save on the capitation tax that would be paid in the future!

    But no matter what, everyone's centripetal force was instantly condensed because of this imperial edict. At this time, if anyone dared to speak ill of Qiao Mu, the government would not need to take action. Just one spit from the general public could drown him.  , and even drowned his whole family.

    The cult of personality has almost reached its peak.

    At this time, harmony has been achieved.

    As the old saying goes, the right time, right place, and right people are, in fact, the right time, right place, and right people. In fact, the right time, right place, and right people are the second most important thing. Unless there are large-scale disasters such as meteorites falling from the sky, floods that have never happened in a thousand years, etc., otherwise general disasters, in  There is nothing to be afraid of under the power of human beings.

    This is the power of the people.

    As soon as the number of people and people became equal, Qiao Mu began to carry out the next step, such as openly displaying all his hidden industries, using the money obtained from confiscating houses to start preliminary universal literacy education and the construction of new schools, and at the same time carry out large-scale popularization of improved seeds.  and new army building.

    Because these measures have been prepared for ten years in advance, there is no shortage of people to popularize them. They just need a certain amount of time to promote. The most important thing for Qiao Mu at the moment is to continue to maintain a relatively peaceful international environment. After the domestic reform is fully completed and it ends in one or two years,  Only after the national power of the entire Song Dynasty has been qualitatively improved,It¡¯s time to sweep the world and regain lost ground, instead of being busy with domestic reforms while persisting in foreign wars.

    Because of this, Qiao Mu has not stopped giving Jin Dynasty coins for the time being, but continues to give them the prescribed amount. Anyway, this is just a buffer period, which can be as short as three years or as long as five years. It will definitely be necessary by then.  I got them all back, so there is no need to worry about these. Temporary gains and losses are only secondary, and lifelong gains and losses are the most important. Because the Jin Dynasty was restrained by Mongolia and Xixia, and they also believed that a queen was not important at all,  Maybe he was done playing with himself, so he didn't take the opportunity to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and he didn't ask for an increase in Sui coins. Everything remained as before, neither increasing nor decreasing.

    This undoubtedly gave Qiaomu time to develop and strengthen the new army. With the concerted efforts of the whole country, it took only five years for Qiaomu to equip a million new troops, all of whom were capable of using firearms and equipped with firearms.  Army, the national economic aggregate has more than doubled in five years. With the support of the state, all kinds of things produced are really dumped overseas and other surrounding countries. The national economic aggregate is not crazy.  It's strange that it seems to be rising.

    If you have money, some people have weapons.

    You can naturally fight back.

    In the spring of the sixth year of Emperor Wa's reign, after the spring plowing, Qiao Mu officially launched a national mobilization, ordered the prince to supervise the country, and personally led a million-strong army to go on an expedition.

    Wherever the army passes, it moves forward in an indomitable manner.

    Because this is completely crushed by millennium technology.

    During the Song Dynasty, although firearms had been developed in many places, the firearms at this time were still very weak, had many inconveniences, and could even hurt others and themselves. Therefore, most countries did not fully equip them and could only  It can be regarded as a small classification. Not only are Qiaomu's side fully equipped, but they are also nearly a thousand years advanced in firearms, almost comparable to modern firearms standards. With such an army advancing in an all-round way, how can ordinary armies stop it?

    It can be said that almost one city is built in one day.

    The army in front is attacking and advancing, and the government officials behind are also rushing to follow up, carrying out land reform in the newly conquered areas to win people's hearts.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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