Chapter 166: Yu Sheng's Ancient Law Surabaya Qing (9)
The various changes of the monarch are based on the ability to pay more taxes.
The system of the Song Land was quite chaotic.
There are double fields, because there is no composting, deep ploughing and other technologies, it is necessary to abandon one piece of land and cultivate the other for rotation.
This kind of double land will also be titheed on the abandoned land, so it is called tithes.
If there is a single share of the field, while collecting tithes, they must also participate in the public land work of the number of their own private fields under the well field system, and nine households and one duke are also considered tithes, so they are also tithes.
There are also the original hemp tax, silk tax and other strange taxes.
Serfs under the fiefdoms of the nobility also had to bear certain labor obligations for the nobles, and they also needed to be called up as apprentices to fulfill military obligations when fighting.
The peasants in the non-aristocratic fiefdoms were responsible for the taxes and taxes that they were quite dissatisfied with, as well as the work of feeding the horses and riding on the carts, which made them miserable.
Who owns the land?
It's a question that can't be explained.
The Son of Heaven, the Dukes, and the Marquis said that these lands were the Son of Heaven according to the rites.
The Son of Heaven gave it to the princes, and the princes to the doctors, and the doctors to the scholars, and the scholars to the farmers.
Therefore, the farmer has to fulfill various obligations for his superiors, nominally in exchange for land.
Who really owns the land?
If it is Zhou Tianzi, then it is simply unreasonable for the ink artist to change his private mu like this.
Moji is reasonable, especially when debating with others, he is even more reasonable.
The question of who the land is has long been decided within the Mo scholars, and there is a complete consensus on where the wealth will come from.
It's just that this truth does not need to be explained to the people for the time being, but needs to be instilled slowly......
The people can make the music successful, but they can't know the beginning, and it is not completely wrong to use it here, and the people's requirements for private acres are not a day or two.
It's just that private acres need to be supported by iron cattle farming, and it is best to use a group of ten households to better cope with natural disasters.
Now that the iron has appeared, the Song Kingdom will be in chaos immediately, and the ink warriors are in full swing, and if you don't make this kind of change at this time, there will be fewer opportunities in the future.
Pei County is nominally not Mo, but still belongs to Song Gong, so the endowment still has to be collected.
However, this time, the ink man went to Shangqiu to defend the city, and what he wanted was the right to control the tax and tax, so this endowment would not be handed over to the Duke of Song in the end.
The nobles acquired the fief with military obligations, and the Moshi actually used the righteous master as a military obligation in exchange for a whole fief.
It's just that because Song Guo is often beaten, it is difficult to beat others, so it is in line with the concept of "non-attack, refusal to fight unjustly", and a small marginal ball is played here.
If the taxes and taxes remain unchanged, the people of Peiyi have already seen the Mo's reform in the grain business, so they are extremely supportive of this change in the apportionment of taxes, which is obviously in their favor.
Leaving aside the rest of the conditions, the mere fact that the Mo-cha wanted to tax the private acres of the nobles was enough to get the support of the people.
The simple algorithm can be used to make even the most stupid farmer know: the total amount of taxes remains the same, and the nobles' private acres are taxed, which means that the taxes are also borne by those nobles, and the rest of the acres are less.
This kind of thing was extremely difficult to do in a country even at the end of the Warring States period. The virtuous Pingyuan Jun turned his face with the tax-collector because of the tax on his own acre.
Moreover, this involves the issue of tax on those tenants under the private acre system. Once the tax was levied on the private acres of the nobles, it actually meant that the tax was levied from the hands of the tenants, and if this problem was not properly solved, it could easily be incited to a rebellion.
The ink artist must guarantee five conditions before he dares to do this.
First, the situation in the world has changed, and the eyes of the prince will not be on Peiyi for a few years.
Second, the military power of the ink is enough to suppress the nobles who may turn their faces.
Third, the ink scholar was familiar enough with Peiyi, and there were enough "scholars" who could measure acres of land as basic officials.
Fourth, there is sufficient financial support, and under the condition of acknowledging that the nobles' private acres are not divided into fields, it is guaranteed that the tenants on the nobles' private acres will not rebel, but will take the initiative to join the side of the Mo, and force the nobles to sell the uncultivated private land.
Fifth, the dissemination of Mozhi's cropping technology, various experimental fields, and the yield per mu of the township pavilion can intuitively make the people of Peiyi think that the apportionment of taxes is a policy that is beneficial to them, and it will be supported without too much publicity.
For this decree and these five conditions, the ink artist has waited for two or three years, and now he has finally waited for this opportunity, where can he miss it?
The ownership system is the foundation of all changes, so once this is moved, the remaining supporting policies must also be fully implemented.
After the silence after the cheers of the people, the remaining changes that must be made began to be explained.
"Second, the change of weights and measures."
"All Pei County and its surrounding township pavilions are prohibited from using the original weights and measures."
"Length, number of acres, area, weight, quantity...... All of them are approved by the secretary of the ink book, and the specific measurement standards are in Peiguo Township. ”
"Thereafter, taxes, acres, etc. are paid; Weekday trading, all subject to the new weights and measures. ”
"Abolish the old ruler, kettle, bean, eridium, bucket, stone, liter and other weights and measures, and unify the new weights and measures prescribed by the Mo."
"All those who want to become officials must be familiar with the new weights and measures of Peixian."
"Third, the reform of books and literature."
"From today onwards, all official documents, mu taxes, land deeds, and financial deeds in Pei County will all be written by official documents."
"Numbers, the number of the common official script and the ink, is easy for the people to understand and understand."
"All officials who are not proficient in the use of documents are not eligible to participate in the selection of meritorious."
"Fourth, work."
"All 100 labors shall be abolished from the original military endowment in kind, and all military endowments shall be purchased by taxes."
"Salt, iron, cotton, etc., are exclusively owned by Peiyi."
"For the rest, a tax of one-thirtieth of the price shall be paid for each item, and the specific amount of each tax shall be promulgated and discussed in five days."
"The tax officer of Pei County provides a seal, and the seal is used as a tax mark, and those who do not have a seal are regarded as tax evasion, and in addition to the confiscation of the original goods, double the amount of the money is levied."
"Whoever makes a seal or counterfeit will be fined ten times."
"Anything with a stamp can be sold at Peiyi."
"Fifth, commercial tax."
"For merchants, if the goods have the seal of Pei County, they do not need to pay again."
"For goods transferred from other places, the specific taxes and fees will be rated."
"Sixth, hard labor."
"All labor is proposed by the Mo, and the people of Pei County agree to it or not."
"If they agree, they will either be paid for hard labor or daily payouts, and the exact amount will be negotiated in five days."
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It involves all kinds of changes in all walks of life in Pei County, and they are said from the mouth of the right one by one, and basically covers the entire Pei County on the issue of taxation.
The low taxes on industry and commerce allowed some landless farmers who originally wanted to open up their fields to choose to become craftsmen or work in the workshops of the ink makers.
The collection of indirect taxes is only a formality, and the bulk of the Mo's income from industry and commerce still comes from the workshops under their own control, as well as profiteering goods such as iron and wine.
The existence of the well field system is the best result of adapting to the originally low productivity, and it is accompanied by a complete set of management models and military systems.
The Mozhi changed the land ownership system in Pei County and broke the well fields, which actually meant that the original management model and military system were meaningless in Pei County.
Peixian's special situation has made Peixian's changes impossible to replicate elsewhere, supporting the grass-roots officials, the windfall profits of the Mo's workshop, the military system that completely elite the military line can expand the army at any time for grass-roots officers in the future, and the military recruitment for military recruitment that is not prepared for large-scale war within ten years......
All these can be described as the characteristics of Pei County. Even the Wei State, which has changed its law, and the Xihe region, which has implemented another private mu system on a large scale, cannot be replicated at all.
If Duke Song dared to follow Peixian's example and promote it throughout the Song Kingdom, he would definitely be killed within a month.
All these changes will touch the interests of many people, but the biggest interest will be the reform of the land system.
Now that we have resolved to change the land system, it is better to put forward all the basic changes at once, and crush any possible rebellion before the main force of the Moshi leaves Peixian for Shangqiu.
The deprivation of the fiefdom privileges of the nobles will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among a large number of people, but there will also be some nobles with more private acres who will choose to remain silent.
The ink man did not force all the nobles to the opposite side, at least the nobles' private acres of ink were recognized and not separated.
As for the later use of the tenant peasants to flee to force the nobles to sell their land, and to force the old nobles to devote themselves to industry and commerce or to join the business industry, with the current vision of these nobles, it is not obvious for the time being.
The aristocracy will be divided into two factions, one faction will fight with the ink and the ink will never die; The other faction will accept the changes of the Mo, and will not see the danger they face for the time being.
The farmers absolutely supported the Moji, not only because of the Mo's reform of the private mu system, but also because the Moji had iron, salt, cattle and horses in their hands.
The most important thing is that the ink man has money. There was enough money to provide all kinds of loans: not necessarily gold and copper, but the money could be exchanged for the seeds of iron tools that the farmers desperately needed.
After the industrial and commercial food official system was broken, the Mo people had their own workshops, which could accommodate some of the craftsmen who were originally within the industrial and commercial food officials, and there were also organizations such as the artisan associations that could implicitly govern these private handicraftsmen.
Anyway, the Mojo doesn't play chariot warfare, doesn't need a lot of chariots, and has its own armory workshop, so it doesn't need to collect military taxes from industrialists and merchants.
It is difficult for the merchant class to transport some goods to Pei County for sale, whether it is grain, cloth, ironware, wood, etc., Pei County occupies an advantage in price and quality, and these things can also be greatly profitable to transport to the outside, which is under the jurisdiction of the Mo people for the time being.
The civil law decree can directly use the original twelve grass silk laws, and add some to fully fit the Pei County after the reform.
This reform is only the beginning, and it will take about three years for the people to adapt and the productive forces to develop, and then make some corrections.
The political system will also be settled at the assembly five days later, and it will not be difficult to have the construction of the six townships outside.
Amid the cheers of popular support, some people were ready to quietly flee to relay the shocking news after listening to the Mo's first proposal for a change in the land system......
The Ink Artist had not revealed this meaning at all before, and no one dared to think that the Ink Artist would really dare to do such a thing at the risk of the world's disapproval.