Xu Ping looked at Zhou Zhenghai, and after a long while, he smiled: "Since I came to Jingxi Road, I have written many times, I am not allowed to send the yaqian to escort the official property, and I am not allowed to buy the official property in the future. As for Lizheng www.biquge.info helping to collect taxes is the right thing to do, if you don't even do this, then what else is Lizheng doing? However, the villagers' tax arrears are no longer guaranteed by Lizheng, and those who do not pay taxes will be kept accountable for the time being, and will be kept to make up for the principal and interest next time. Outside of Zhou Yuan, the taxes owed are not being urged to the inside, how can it still be a heavy service? What are you saying about the rules I set in Bishui County? ”

Zhou Zhenghai rolled his eyes, looked at the people around him, and then said: "Official-official, this year's summer tax has not yet begun to be collected, and the little one doesn't know that there are new rules." But no matter what, Li Zheng is a heavy service, a rule since ancient times, is this still wrong? Since the little one took over this mission, he has been so cautious that he has not even eaten meat for a long time. ”

"What since ancient times, Han Gaozu cut the white snake and opened the two Han Dynasty and four hundred years, and at that time he was just a pavilion chief, which is now Lizheng. Don't say that far away, Tang Shili is also a servant, how can it be a heavy service? Until now, it has only become a heavy service for the villagers to ensure that Li Zheng is guaranteed to pay taxes and the government collects them. I don't do that now, Li Zheng is just an ordinary errand soldier, and he can't talk about it at all. You don't blame you for not knowing, but I told you today, but you know. ”

Where did Zhou Zhenghai know these things, in fact, he was doing it, and he couldn't even understand what this messenger was going to do. Anyway, I know that this is not a good errand, and after serving in office, the family has a lot of expenses, and I can't escape when I spend money in the county to find someone.

Because the backlash of the two types of errand servants in the people was too great, and it was indeed time not to change it, Xu Ping slightly lightened their burden and abolished the heaviest items.

The first is that they are afraid of escorting official property, and once there is a mistake on the road, they will have to compensate themselves, and many times they will have to pay for the road. The other is that he is afraid of being forced by the government to buy restaurants, ferries, etc. Since these industries have reached the point where they are forced to buy them, they will lose money without asking. Xu Ping abolished these two items, one is to ease the contradictions, win the hearts of the public officials, let them do their best, and carry out the new policy. In the future, when the commodity economy develops, the government will have a fixed source of tax revenue, and the government-run industries will not need to rely on this method to exploit them, and they will focus their energies on the industries that make money. In fact, in addition to these two measures that are clearly official measures to grab money from the yaqian, the burden on the yaqian is still very heavy, whether it is public security, tax collection, or even various miscellaneous matters such as ditches and roads, they also fall on their shoulders first.

Li is the same reason, originally put the focus of official income on the commodity economy, the burden on the countryside will be reduced in the future, Li Zheng for the imperial court tax as a guarantee is dispensable, it is better to abolish it directly, it can be regarded as Xu Ping's moral policy for large rural households. But on the other hand, a very important part of Lizheng's burden is the distribution and purchase of science, whether it is the government to forcibly distribute salt to the countryside, or to buy silk at a low price, this burden is the first to be pressed on Lizheng's head. These Xu Ping did not move at all, and everything was done according to the old rules. The reins of riding a horse and driving a car should be loosened little by little, and the accelerator pedal should be made bigger and smaller, and something big will happen in the end. The remaining untouched part can be regarded as a kind of buffer, and the government is not financially strained, and it will not take such measures that could easily provoke popular unrest.

Even if it only relieves part of the burden, those who are righteous should be grateful to Xu Ping, Zhou Zhenghai, a bastard, has no such consciousness at all, and he is still complaining here.

Zhou Zhenghai saw that others were looking at him with strange eyes, and he couldn't help but panic, and gave his hand to Xu Ping indiscriminately: "The official is a rare good official in the world, and what he does is naturally for the sake of us small people, and he is small and has no knowledge." ――Is Rizheng really not a heavy soldier now? When my grandfather used to do it, he lost half of his net worth! ”

Xu Ping said: "Naturally, the errand service is still the same, but it is not a heavy service." Zhou Zhenghai, you are also a native of your hometown, since you have some wealth, you have to do something good for the township. What is a good thing? The first is to re-learn, and the second is to build bridges and pave roads, and pay for Yizhuang Yidu. There are no houses in the village school to teach, you should stand up and cut wood for them and burn mud for tiles, how can you use all kinds of excuses to excuse it? I think, this matter is so decided, you do the right, then you will take the lead, before the summer comes, the middle and upper class households in the township will produce money according to their families, and build a school house for the school society, how about it? ”

Tang Congli was overjoyed and saluted Xu parallelly: "The students represent the schoolchildren in the township, thank you Ducao!" ”

Zhou Zhenghai looked left and right, and he couldn't say anything about the bitterness in his heart. A big official from the township came to meet him by himself, why did he have to break the bank? If you build a house in the countryside and don't have anything to buy, you have to pay for it, so why should you pay for it? The conscience of heaven and earth, there is only one child in my family who learns to read and write.

Seeing Zheng Zhongpan next to him with a dodgy look, Zhou Zhonghai had a flash of inspiration in his mind: "Official, Zheng Yuanwai is also a big family in the township, and he did it in the last Lizheng!" How can such a big thing be done? It's better to let Zheng Yuanwai take the lead, and the small ones will help from the side! ”

Xu Ping smiled on his face and turned his head to look at Zheng Zhongpan.

Zheng Zhongpan had no choice but to stand up, his face was flushed, and he said: "Official, the little one has a family property, which has been accumulated by his ancestors for several generations and has provided for many families, so he really has no money to spare. ”

Xu Ping just smiled: "Zhou Yuanwai has already agreed, why, Zheng Yuanwai does not agree?" ”

Zheng Zhongpan lowered his head and was silent for a while, then raised his head suddenly, and said in a downward manner: "It's not that the small ones are reluctant to give up money, it's just that there are more than a dozen people in the family, the old ones are old, and the little ones really don't have those spare money." Besides, no one in the small family is enrolled in the club! ”

"The society naturally has the rules of the society, and for the sake of the long term, it cannot be broken. However, what we are talking about now is not the rules of the society, and Zhou Yuanwai is also paying extra money in addition to the money that the society should pay. Isn't it, outside the week? ”

Zhou Zhenghai's cheeks twitched, and he was still heartbroken and wanted to spend the money, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "What the official said is true." ”

"You see, now it's not about the school, it's about the rich, if you have money, you have to do something good for the township. Now the schoolchildren in the township are exposed to the wind and sun, and they follow Tang Xiucai to read and write, how can you bear it? It is your merit for a few big families to pool some money and build a few houses for the society, and future generations will benefit from it. Now that your family is well-off, who would dare to say that your children and grandchildren will be like this? There is really a day when you are down, and this is also a blessing that you have accumulated for your children and grandchildren. ”

Zheng Zhongpan stiffened his neck, and said in his heart: "The official said so, why not let the government pay to build a few schools!" ”

Xu Ping looked at Zheng Zhongpan, the smile on his face slowly faded, and after a while, a smile resurfaced on his face: "The government has no money in its hands, and if it wants to pay, where does the money come from?" Or from you. In that case, why don't you just let the money go out and have a reputation as a good person in the township. If you want the government to forcibly levy it, why bother? ”

Zheng Zhongpan blushed and said loudly: "The money in my family is all saved by my ancestors, why should I spend it to build a school house for other people's children!" It's a big deal that my children will grow up, and I won't join this school! ”

How much can it cost to build a few huts? It's not a big deal for the government. However, Xu Ping can't break the rules. Today, let the money for the construction of the school in Bishui County come out of Bishui County, so what about other villages? It's all paid for by the government? What are you kidding, the economic level of this era is far from even universal education in cities and towns, let alone in the countryside. No matter how much strength can be done, education in the countryside can only be based on allowing peasants to run schools on their own.

The reason why Xu Ping looked down on these two big families and asked them to contribute money to help them study was also to set a rule. It is possible to reduce the burden imposed on the big families by the authorities, but it is also necessary to make them accountable accordingly. When the pressure from the government was less, he became a prestige, ran rampant in the countryside, and even widened the gap between the rich and the poor in the countryside, which Xu Ping could not allow.

Is social development the pursuit of equity or efficiency? Is it a balance of both, or is efficiency a priority over fairness, or vice versa is a matter of fairness before efficiency? There is no perfect answer. It is also possible for the two to develop in harmony, but it is always limited to a range, and to a certain extent, a choice will inevitably be made. The best of both worlds can only be a short stretch, and there will always be a fork in the road when you go down, depending on which side your legs want to take.

Xu Ping wants to promote the commodity economy in this era, so within the scope of the commodity economy, we can only talk about efficiency first and take into account fairness. This is only the beginning, and the contradiction between the two is not obvious, but there will always be a time to choose one at the expense of the other.

The commodities of the commodity economy do not include grain, and the commodity economy naturally does not include the peasants who simply grow grain. In the future, the wealth expropriated by the government will be mainly derived from the commodity economy in the cities and towns, and the burden on the rural areas will become lighter and lighter. At this time, the development of commodity economy does not have to face international competition, and there is no need for such cruel primitive accumulation, and the difference between industrial and agricultural scissors is not necessary, and the speed of accumulation is a little slower.

The pursuit of efficiency will inevitably lead to the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor, and the deepening of social contradictions. Xu Ping wanted to confine this contradiction to the towns and villages, and in doing so, to minimize social unrest. The strongest official power in the towns, if something happens, whether it is to pacify or suppress, it is much easier and the cost is much lower than in the countryside.

What to do in the pursuit of equity in rural areas? Naturally, according to the previous policy, we will suppress the upper and middle households and reduce the burden on the lower households and customers as much as possible. If the rich man is disgruntled, can he still go to the sky? If you can't stand this, you can either move your family business to the town, or you can obediently be a good person in the township, and you will have the money to contribute and make a strong contribution.

This is Xu Ping's different attitude towards towns and villages, and it is a basic policy, no matter where he goes or who he meets, he will stand up against this, and Xu Ping will not be able to make any compromises.