Chapter 17: Changes (3)

Duan Ye knew that this poll tax, which had a long history and tradition in this land, was suddenly abolished, of course, it was a good thing for the people. But it is impossible for Duan Ye to be a philanthropist.

The taxes that should be collected must be collected, otherwise what will be used to fight, build, welfare, and charity?

Duan Ye was in that era, and he often watched YY, and in it, many of the protagonists seemed to have money easily, and they almost reached out to it. However, with money, for Duan Ye, who has many insights and visions ahead of the times, it is not difficult to make some money.

But the problem is that one's own money is one's own money, private money, government money, and it is public money.

Like many of his predecessors, there is no distinction between public and private, and the money he earns is donated to the government and the army, which is not impossible. But Duan Ye was unwilling to do this, and even disgusted with it.

If there is no distinction between public and private, sooner or later there will be a big problem.

Duan Ye prefers to establish an institutionalized method, so that the government can legally obtain enough money to maintain and develop without increasing the burden on the people, which is the real long-term solution to the problem.

There are so many people, and there is so much land, and if you really want to receive more taxes, the best way is to figure out the distribution of private wealth and set a good ratio. And apportioning into the mu is undoubtedly a way to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.

In this era, due to the war, although a large amount of land is barren, Duan Ye has also encouraged the reclamation of land and recruited the people to ensure that these lands will not be unable to create value all year round.

But the rest of the land, in fact, is almost in the hands of a few people, their land stretches for thousands of miles, their long-term workers are tens of millions, and almost all the local people are working for them.

As for Jiangnan, it is even more serious, the wealthy families almost monopolize the land. Once they monopolize the land, they also monopolize the resources of the whole society, but under the current tax law, they don't have to pay much tax at all, while those yeoman farmers, who are already very hard, have to pay a heavy tax burden for them.

If this continues, the consequences can be imagined, and it will only lead to a large number of land annexations.

In addition, as soon as there were wars and disasters, the peasants could not live, and the only way was to sell their children and daughters and sell their land, so that after investigation, Duan Ye found that the arable land in Liangzhou today was less than one percent.

At that time, when Liu Muzhi and Zhang Gon told Duan Ye the news worriedly, Duan Ye was also shocked. However, it is useless to shock alone, the most important thing is to be able to solve the problem. Moreover, the harsh punishment advocated by Liu Muzhi is not feasible in Duan Ye's view. It is a good idea to restrict things that do not involve economic interests through regulations. But this kind of big money is related to it, and you can't use the law to prohibit it. What's more, laws are inherently made by people, and there is generally room for flexible interpretation.

The best way is to let them annex the land without substantial benefits, and naturally they will not take the initiative to annex it. It is an indelible truth that the economic structure determines the superstructure.

Specifically, the apportionment of land to acres is a good way to alleviate the crisis of land annexation. Of course, Duan Ye must say that he knows this method, and he still learned it from the Manchurian Tartars, of course, the Manchu rulers are not so kind, the reason why they want to do this is entirely because if they don't do it, they will encounter a catastrophe, and Duan Ye took the initiative to do it when he was not threatened by anything, which are two different things.

During the Manchu Qing Dynasty, their royal family, nobles, and officials, large and small, frantically occupied the land of the Han Chinese, and land annexation became unstoppable. Later, as the rule was stabilized and the degree of resistance of the Han people decreased, it was natural that there would be a period of economic recovery, and when these Manchurian nobles had money in their hands, their annexation of land became even more arrogant. There are many ways to buy, to beg, or to give. Especially in such an era when the commodity economy has developed to a certain extent, land is also included in the category of commodities for trading, and the transfer of land rights is accelerated by the sale and purchase of land. Land concentration has reached a point where it is irreconcilable. As a result, a large number of unemployed people were divided in the countryside.

In any era, this kind of landless young adults is a great hidden danger. The Manchu rulers, of course, knew this.

Those who lost their land either rebelled, and then they needed to spend money and food to suppress it. Either flee, then the fleeing will directly cause the government to reduce tax revenue, and there will be no levy for forced labor, so there will be a chain reaction that endangers the rule.

When Duan Ye explained all the truths to his subordinates, fortunately, most of them were aware of the overall situation, so they basically agreed.

As for those who still had some doubts, Duan Ye did not force them, but clearly told them that on the one hand, if the tax is spread into the land now, there will be a loss to their interests in the short term, but after all, this is a long-term perspective. The trend of land annexation is not good for anyone if it is not nip in the bud.

On the other hand, Duan Ye also knew that for these people who had a lot of interests in their hands, it was not good to sing a high profile with empty white teeth, and Duan Ye clearly promised them that the little benefits they have lost now will definitely use other methods to make up for them in the future!

So everyone rejoiced, and the matter was over.

Of course, there must be opponents of any reform policy, and whoever infringes on their interests will oppose it.

But Duan Ye didn't want these big landlords, these grassroots gentry were against him at this time.

If you can do good things under the table, don't spread them out and make everyone ugly.

Therefore, when the news had just spread and many people began to speculate in their hearts, the people from the Assassin Mansion had already arrived.

Next, there was an extremely luxurious dinner, and few people knew what Duan Ye talked about with them.

But what everyone knows is that when the decree on the apportionment of the land into the mu was officially announced, not only did no one object, but several large landowners in Liangzhou also took the initiative to stand up and express their support.

Now that the big landlords are supportive, what else can those small and medium-sized landlords and gentry say?

So this far-reaching policy was decided. Everything went very smoothly.

And after finishing this, Duan Ye has to do another big thing, because in three months, Duan Ye will hold the imperial examination in Guzang!

Before, Duan Ye had promised the gentry and students of Liangzhou that when they became officials in the future, they had to rely on their own abilities, and they could not just rely on the blessing of their ancestors or their families, and the way to test your ability was to take the exam!

But now, Duan Ye's strength has been able to rank first in the world, and Duan Ye is also confident that he will further expand his sphere of influence in a short period of time, so the past plan can't catch up with the changes. Duan Ye has decided that he is not just to select talents in Liangzhou, but to select them throughout the world.

Of course, Liangzhou is Duan Ye's own territory after all, and the operation will be much more sophisticated. Last year, Duan Ye held two exams in a row, the purpose of which was just to have a rough idea of the readers and find out the level and depth of the readers in Liangzhou.

At the same time, of course, this kind of imperial examination can not be bought and sold with a hammer, but to be a hierarchical examination, through these two examinations, the first calculation of the bottom, let the literate readers to practice their hands, the second count of the children's examination, those who have passed the examination, will be eligible to enter the next stage, and those who do not can go back to continue their studies first. The third exam is the exam held in Liangzhou, and that time is the key.

As for the form of the exam, Duan Ye thought about it again and again before deciding to take the poem and strategy at the same time. There's no way around it. Originally, in Duan Ye's era, the demonization of Baguwen was very serious, but in this era, Duan Ye realized that Baguwen was actually very good, mainly because a large number of people who had no ability to pass the Bagu exam complained every day, and later they mastered the right to speak, so they made their reputation stink.

For those who want to be officials, the necessary writing skills are of course indispensable. Especially the standardized application writing, these things, don't you take the test?

You say that Bagu is not level, but you can't even do this levelless thing, what else is there to say.

In addition, Duan Ye also thought about it carefully, in fact, there is also a reason for taking the Bagu Wen, which essentially gives you a limited style and subject matter, so that you can speak on behalf of the sage. This is certainly very difficult for people who write articles. But from another point of view, this also has the advantage of doing so, because although the person who is an official says that he has power in his hands, he will never do what he wants. You are an official, but the people below are in a hurry to rebel against you, and the officials above want to dismiss you as a matter of one sentence. People who are officials want to do something, in fact, to put it bluntly, they make decisions under the condition that there are many constraints and restrictions, and they must take into account the interests of many people.

This is the real level. From this point of view, the eight shares are certainly very reasonable.

On the other hand, the strategy theory is also a must, to put it bluntly, the strategy theory is to test whether these readers can come up with a way to come up with a statement, which is a basic level test.

Of course, since ancient times, there have been many people who have empty mouths and white teeth, and they can say that they can't do it, and Duan Ye still has to interview when it comes to the final choice. After all, interviews can really test a lot of things that can't be detected by words.

However, for those who passed the first two exams, Duan Ye also awarded them the title of Xiucai. and sent small officials to beat gongs and drums to their hometown to report the good news, and also let them taste the taste of glory to their ancestors.

This is a terrible time, this year, wearing red and hanging colors, riding a high-headed horse, and having the guards of the government escort back to his hometown, it is amazing. In the past, he was a poor scholar, but now he has become a talented man, and it is said that if he can pass the exam again, he will be a person, or even a jinshi, and he will be an official at that time. Chao is Tian Shelang, and Dusk is in the official mansion, where can I find such a good thing?

So for a while, up and down Liangzhou, the book was loud, and the literary style was prosperous for a while.

In view of the fact that the name of Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi is too loud, Duan Ye does not plan to abolish this title for the time being. But now, Duan Ye didn't have time to wait for three years before taking the exam, but directly decided to hold the first official imperial examination in the middle of summer this year, and made it clear that those who passed the exam could become officials.

What's even more shocking is that Duan Ye made it clear that this exam is not only for Liangzhou, but for the whole world!

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