Chapter 7 What is fire consumption?
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These government affairs are not pursued by Li Xiangqian, he just uses these, knocking on the side, and during this period of time, these old bureaucrats in the north are considered to be in the semi-ruled areas.
This is no way, because they are completely incapable of using it by groups who are all credible in character, they can only take their time like this, fortunately, the opponent is too weak, and they can build the industrial base between the imperial capital, Tangshan, and the North China oil field in the triangle little by little.
Therefore, their previous policy was that stability was overriding everything, and even the treasury of some county towns was directly looted by the county order, and the account books were revised beyond recognition, and even the county order directly donated money and ran away.
These can be recognized by pinching their noses, but the old man in front of him, who looks like he is dozens of years old, is a county official at the grassroots level in the civil service system of the Ming Dynasty, and he is really a bit of a failure, but he immediately thought that he was almost fifty years old, and he was admitted to the Jinshi, and Zheng Banqiao, who became the county commander, was relieved, so he asked: "By the way, He County Order, I came and saw that the wheat on the road was ripe a lot, this is about to be harvested, but what do you need help with?" ”
He Youqiu was also surprised, and said: "This is all arranged, and when the tenth day passes, the sickle will be opened." ”
Li Xiangqian put some effort into agriculture in this era, and understood that for the vast majority of land, the fish scale diagram was used, that is, it was like fish scales, one here, one there, unless it was an extremely powerful big landowner, otherwise, no one could divide the land into one piece.
If you think about it, a person may cultivate several acres of land, but it is on many plots of land far away, and how long does it take to travel back and forth between these places, as well as to carry water and fertilizer?
In this era, it is the peasants who account for the absolute majority of the population, and if they are unhappy, they will not be able to get by, and the essence of their problem is still the land issue......
For the unambitious elders, come to the end of the Ming Dynasty to make a revolution? But they don't have such a long-term idea, they have no interest in building through the improvement of the internal system, because of the cost performance problem, instead of spending 1oo million efforts to engage in these things, it is better to directly learn from British imperialism, and send the extra unemployed population in the country because of the progress of agricultural technology to the colonies, so much trouble, as for the destination, there are still a lot.
Thinking of this, he still continued to encourage: "Well, the rest will bother the boss, and we don't ask for any gold and silver, in fact, from now on, the Celestial Empire will cancel the agricultural tax, so that the people can work hard, well, all kinds of benefits in the future, what fertilizer companies, seed companies, will also come out slowly, they are all good things." ”
He Youqiu was suddenly shocked and said, "Elder, this is true, this ...... This is really the blessing of all the people and the suffering of the people, but how can the court raise soldiers in this way. ”
Li Xiangqian said: "This is not simple, and it will naturally be to collect business taxes in the future." He said it casually, and he didn't know what to ask for, and his face changed dramatically at that time, and he said, "Elder, elder, this is not a joke. ”
Li Xiangqian said: "Of course it is. ”
He Youqiu said: "Isn't that just the cruelty of the people, the establishment of the new dynasty, it should be recuperated with the people." ”
Li Xiangqian knew that the scholars of this era were either the group of Donglin Party with ill intentions, or they were bad at reading, thinking that business was to compete with the people for profit, in short, it was a complete blow to business, in fact, the final benefits were all attributed to those big families.
Li Xiangqian said: "Ah, you just publicize it like this, we never lie, if we say that we don't collect commercial taxes, we won't collect commercial taxes, as long as you give orders." ”
The few "ancients" in front of them are not young, not only are they so old when they are admitted to civil servants in this era, but also men in this era have no maintenance skills, twenty is like thirty, and thirty is not difficult to see, Li Xiangqian suddenly showed a trace of emotion from between their eyebrows, with a little dissatisfaction and a little cunning.
According to common sense, tax exemption, and permanent tax exemption, should be beneficial, why are there people dissatisfied, he tasted this, thought about it carefully, suddenly jumped, and said: "Well, you must have a reserve when you collect taxes." ”
He Youqiu listened, seemed a little ignorant, and said, "I don't know the meaning of this Tiliu......"
"Oh," Li Xiangqian recalled for a moment, and said, "It's fire consumption, yes, I know the word, right?" ”
The meaning of fire consumption, the magistrate from the people to levy taxes, will receive a large amount of scattered silver, these silver after melting into a large ingot, there will be some loss, but this loss, the court is not back, those officials also do not carry, can only be handed over to the common people to carry, so at the beginning of the increase in fire consumption and cover up, and then began to increase the number of layers, how much to collect or depends on the conscience of the official himself.
Some of them are taller, even higher than the part that is turned in.
Yes, even in the 21st century, there is this, the state clearly stipulates that when a tax is abolished, the superiors have not done much, and the bottom of the charge is supposed to reduce their work burden, but they resist it in every possible way, why?
There is less opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to make a big profit.
Li Xiangqian's own ability to observe words and emotions is very good, and he already knows at a glance that these people are definitely not civil servants with a long-term vision, but rats who occupy the granary, and the state tax exemption brings them not only good governance, but also proper bad governance.
"Elder Qiqi, it's not that we don't understand the painstaking efforts of the new dynasty, but if this fire is collected, we have to bear the expenses and miscellaneous expenses of the yamen, which is really unsavable, if there are no such expenses...... The lower officials can endure the lack of money, but the small officials and servants in the yamen still have to rely on this to eat. ”
Li Xiangqian nodded, in fact, the consumption of "fire consumption" is good to have 1, but these officials can receive 2o, and they must share a little profit from top to bottom, otherwise, how can it make you last a long time.
It is better to use paper money, as well as silver dollars, which are all means for a regime to control the economy, but because even if there are people with finance-related backgrounds on the ship, it is too watery, and although it can avoid this kind of fire consumption, it will still cause a big problem if it is used rashly without government credit.