Chapter 534: The Great Pioneer of Tax Reform
When Ji Xianzhao ordered it in his hand, he was also anxious when he looked left and right, so this guy was angry and led someone to tie up the monarch of Changsang Kingdom.
At the same time, Ji Xian wrote a letter to Bian Que, who was in the Lixia School Palace to regulate Yan Hui's body, and asked him to come over to help.
In this way, the first joint consultation of experts in the history of the Spring and Autumn Period appeared.
It is precisely because of the joint action of these three medical legends in the Spring and Autumn Period that Ran Qiu has a good look today.
At that moment, Ran Qiu's words of concern for Lu Di were warm in his heart, and he saluted: "Thank you for your concern, please be warm." β
When Lu Di heard this, he smiled and said, "That's good, that's good!" β
It's just that Ran Qiu suddenly frowned again, he took off a piece of snow from the pear tree, felt the bone-chilling coldness, and said to Lu Di: "Your Majesty, the war with foreign countries must end as soon as possible, this year is a cold winter, if we don't plant wheat anymore, we will be hungry next year!" β
Lu Di nodded, he had always been worried about this matter, but at this time, whether it was the war with the Jin State or the confrontation with the Chu State, it was an extremely embarrassing situation, whoever retreated first would be defeated first, Lu Di couldn't let the hard work and blood of the 270,000 soldiers go to waste, so he couldn't be the first person to say a truce: "The son has something to say, this matter has been told to the Minister of State the day before yesterday, I believe in him, I will definitely be able to solve it."
When Ran Qiu heard this, he stopped talking about it, and then the two of them discussed the major event of the upcoming fiscal tax and monetary reform of Qi while enjoying the surrounding snowy scenery, and more than three hours passed unconsciously.
Ran Qiu had long heard that Lu Di wanted him to be the pioneer of reform, but he didn't know the specifics, but after talking these days, Ran Qiu was really frightened by Lu Di's ambition for reform.
Because what Lu Di reformed was not only the monetary system, the tax system, but also the land system.
Monetary system: Lu Di toured the world, summarized the strengths and weaknesses of various countries, and proposed the use of gold, silver and copper, and the system of three currencies at the same time.
In Ran Qiu's view, there is no difficulty in implementing this, because the Great Qi Tongbao system was originally a copper-standard system.
However, in recent years, with the rapid development of Qi's economy, the copper standard can no longer meet people's needs, and the entry of gold and silver is in line with the times.
As for where to find gold and platinum, it was not what he needed to consider, but the specifics of how to implement it.
Taxation system.
Fu is to pay money, which refers to the samurai class, and the samurai class only pays the money.
The tax is to pay grain, which refers to the class of "doctor landlords", and only the land doctors and yeoman peasant class pay taxes.
The tax system is a hornet's nest, and once it is provoked, I don't know how many people oppose it.
In this era, how can there be taxes?
It can only be said that it is called worship!
The doctors make offerings to the imperial court every year according to the custom, and as for the offerings, there is no certain coercive force, only the binding force of public opinion and morality, but once the doctors are shameless, the monarch can only be angry.
Of course, there are also ambitious monarchs who are not used to it, and they have used power to reform, for example, Lu Xuangong of Lu State has engaged in the "tithe" of managing your private land or public land to pay grain in one, but the good times did not last long, and soon Sanhuan topped him, and this tax system also disappeared in the long river of history.
The tax system proposed by LΓΌ Di is a relatively fair and relatively fair tax system that integrates the "one-size-fits-all" tax system of the Qin Dynasty, the "household and the people" of the Han Dynasty, the "rent and yong adjustment" and "two tax laws" of the Tang Dynasty, the "one whip law" of the Ming Dynasty and the "apportionment of the land into the mu" of the Qing Dynasty.
This system involves the third hornet's nest, the land system.
The current land system of the country is a parallel system of public and private land.
The so-called public land refers to the land of the monarch, and the private land refers to the fields of doctors and common people at all levels.
If Lu Di's tax system is implemented, does it mean to say the abolition of public land, the abolition of large estate fiefdoms, or the abolition of serfdom?
These are all major events that affect the whole body.
Whenever Ran Qiu thought about this question, the cold sweat behind him couldn't help but burst out.
After sending Ran Qiu away, Lu Di was taking Lu Qu and his son to eat hot pot around the stove.
Lu Qu has now changed from a radish head to a sheep's horn head, he took the chopsticks and added a piece of mutton to Lu Di before adding a piece to himself, dipping it in the sauce, squeaking, and eating it into his stomach.
The flesh was hot, and his whirring little hands fanned his mouth, as if the wind could cool his scalded mouth.
"Qu'er, eat slowly, no one will rob you!" Lu Di smiled and touched his head.
Lu Qu took a piece of persimmon cake and ate it, and his mouth felt better: "Father, the persimmon cake sent by Uncle Wuze at the East Gate is good, and the taste is authentic!" β
On the same day, Wuze at the East Gate was reprimanded and rolled back to Linzi, and the Langya people shouted: "Lu Di is wise, long live Lu Di", and his cheers were loud.
After coming back, Dongmen Wuze has been imprisoned in his mansion and forbade him to go out, but now Lu Qu has received persimmons from Dongmen Wuze, which makes Lu Di very surprised.
Lu Di's eyes narrowed and asked, "Qu'er, is Dongmen Wuze looking for you?" β
Lu Qu nodded.
Seeing this, Lu Di put a piece of sheep and scorpion in his hand on the desk, and said in a deep voice: "Qu'er, what kind of person do you say your father is?" β
Lu Qu was stumped by the question that Lu Di suddenly popped up, and he said, "Father, it's hard to answer this question."
"Oh? Say whatever comes to mind? Lu Di thought that Lu Qu would say it directly, but now the answer he gave not only made him look forward to it.
Lu Guan: "Father, children sometimes think that their father is a very strong person, but sometimes they feel that their father is a weak person; Sometimes I feel that my father is a loving and righteous person, but sometimes I feel that my father is a cold and cruel person; Sometimes I think my father is a good person, but sometimes I think he is a bad person......"
Lu Qu was not afraid that Lu Di would be angry, and said his thoughts very straightforwardly.
After hearing this, Lu Di's eyes glared at Lu Qu and pretended to be angry: "Qu'er, what do you mean by this, when did my father become weak, when was he cold and cruel, and when was he broken, if you don't say a word, I will punish you?" β
Seeing that his father was angry, Lu Qu hurriedly knelt down in front of Lu Di and said, "Father, don't be angry, child, it's wrong. β
Lu Di twisted his head and didn't speak, obviously waiting for his explanation.
Lu Qu hesitated for a long time and finally said, "Father, you can shed tears for a slave, for an irrelevant person, or even for an enemy, isn't this weakness?" β
"It's weakness in the eyes of a child!"
Lu Di didn't refute, he knew that Lu Qu was referring to what he was talking about crying and begging for Chen Heng's henchmen on the Linzi city wall to commit suicide by jumping off the city: "Then what do you say I am cold and cruel?" β
Lu Guan: "Father, you have been mourning for three years, and you have declared that you will hand over all the national affairs to Wu Xiangguo, but you are actually in charge of the reform at the grave, why don't you shirk the responsibility for the failure of the reform to Wu Xiangguo?" β
"The child thinks that this is ruthless and cruel, because Wu Xiangguo is loyal to his father, but he will suffer ......"