Chapter 243 Tax Reduction

"I think maybe we can establish a tax reduction system for official ranks." Guo Jia suddenly spoke, immediately attracting everyone's attention. In fact, Guo Jia has rarely spoken recently, and the specific reasons are all a little known here. Among them, Cao Ying naturally knows best, and the news must have been transmitted back by Cao Xi.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the ugliness of the family, which should not be publicized, is probably spread out in this way. Just like when he was in Luoyang, Wang Yun was able to let Diao Chan blow the pillow wind to Guo Jia, Guo Mansion is not a prison, Guo Jia can't put an end to any communication with the outside world. And even if Guo Jia can put Diao Chan under house arrest, does he dare to put Cao Xi under house arrest now?

Besides, the "fault" of this matter was already on Guo Jia, so Guo Jia was not happy, and he didn't do anything to Cao Xi because of this. Your man is infertile, don't you want her to complain to her family? Cao Ying may not talk nonsense about things if he knows about it, but the news that Cao Xi sent back, maybe only Cao Ying knows about it? At least Mrs. Ding, Cao Ang or something, should also know.

And not only on Cao Xi's side, but also those sisters of Zhurong must also have a lot of big mouths. These women are relatively naïve, they can't hold back their words, and they are not as intriguing as the Central Plains people. For example, a friend who has only known each other for a short time, when they don't know much about each other's character, they may pull others and say, "I'll tell you a secret, don't tell anyone else......"

So, the whole world knew.

Guo Jia didn't do anything bad, and because of several things during that time, whether it was among the people at the bottom or among the scholars, his reputation was quite high. This has also led to the fact that it is now widely recognized in the world that Guo Jia would cut off his children and grandchildren? It's definitely because he has no bottom line, and he actually beat the idea of a young girl, no, God punished him.

In short, because of this incident, Guo Jia, who has been in a bad mood recently, has not taken the initiative to speak for a long time. This time he took the initiative to speak, which was already a little surprising, not to mention that Guo Jia proposed such a novel theory.

But seriously, when he said this, Guo Jia himself wanted to slap himself hard. Didn't you say that you want to be a military advisor? Now that this is the case again, won't it go further and further down the "evil road" of internal affairs?!

The scene is full of smart people, although Guo Jia's novel word is the first time everyone has heard it, but after thinking about it in their minds, they quickly understood the meaning of Guo Jia's so-called "official rank tax reduction system".

You must know that in this era, there is no personal income tax, and you can take as much money as you should as an official, including other aspects of income, and you will not be taxed. Since there is no tax itself, how can we talk about tax reduction? It's impossible for Guo Jia to establish a tax system for officials first, right?

When we connected to the issue we were just discussing, everything suddenly became clear. Guo Jia's tax cut is aimed at those local scholars!

At this moment, everyone on the scene, not only Cao Ying and Xun Yu, but also Xi Zhicai, had to sigh that Guo Jia's thinking was too peculiar. The reason why Xi Zhicai was able to think of recruiting the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was because of class reasons. But Guo Jia is obviously in the opposite class, but he can also think of this problem that others can't think of, or won't think about.

It is said that the scenery seen by tall people is different from that of short people, but Guo Jia, as a tall man, prefers to play handstands, and everyone else walks with his feet, so he has to try to walk with his hands, so he also sees the scenery that only short people can see. (Hey, isn't this short guy too short?) Could it be 4...... For example, this time, everyone knows that Cao Ying will be short of food in the future, so they are all trying to find a way to find food. But Guo Jia still needs some tax cuts, and when the tax revenue comes with less food, won't it be even more scarce? This kind of thing is obviously the opposite of the same thing, and a fool wouldn't do it, right? Okay, a fool maybe, but is Guo Jia that kind of fool?

As a result, Guo Jia just did it! Could it be that he has no heirs anymore, and he no longer has any hope for life, so he simply drags everyone to die together? Please, Guo Jia is not the lord, will others be stupid with him!

Therefore, Guo Jia must have something to say, and the key lies in the word "official position"!

Everyone knows that many of the current Yanzhou scholars have not served under Cao Ying, and Guo Jia's "official position" is also an "official rank", which is obviously to guide these scholars to become officials under Cao Ying, and only after becoming a certain status official, will there be tax reduction.

For these scholars, although they pay great attention to reputation and personal preferences, these people pay more attention to interests! These are all local scholars in Yanzhou, and the taxes are all to be handed over to Cao Ying, who is now the pastor of Yanzhou, that is to say, this method of tax reduction, even if other princes want to learn, it will not affect these scholars in Yanzhou.

For example, if Bian Rang ran to Yuan Shao, even if Yuan Shao and Cao Ying implemented the same policy, no matter how big an official Bian Rang was with Yuan Shao, his family in Yanzhou would not be able to enjoy the tax reduction policy, because it was Cao Ying who collected the tax instead of Yuan Shao.

So first, Guo Jia's move will not only attract the local scholars in Yanzhou to join Cao Ying, but even their outstanding talents who are already under the hands of other princes outside may also be called back by their families and let them serve here with Cao Ying.

Second, there is a distinction between ranks, increase the competitiveness of these scholars, let them do things seriously, if they still want to be as sneaky as before, and have no actual political achievements, then they can not enjoy the treatment of tax reduction, or they can not enjoy too much tax reduction.

With the above two points, we can completely solve the talent problem of Cao Ying today.

And then there is the third, wouldn't the scholars in other places be envious when they see the situation in Yanzhou? Although they could only envy, they could not move all the land in their families to Yanzhou, but with the strength of these scholars, they all united to put pressure on the princes above, so that these princes could also implement the same policy as Cao Ying. In this way, if it does not weaken the strength of the other princes, it will at least increase their internal contradictions.

For example, those scholars who are adjacent to Yanzhou will think that if the territory they are located is also owned by Cao Ying, wouldn't they be able to enjoy such treatment?!

"Why should we worry that the nobles will not borrow food? It's because they didn't side with us! Once these scholars come to take up their posts, the interests are completely tied to Yanzhou, and they will be both prosperous and lossy, will they still be reluctant to borrow grain at that time? ! Guo Jia continued, "Maybe we will do have less tax because of this, but it is almost always us. And because of the competition, in the end, it is equivalent to those who are not good enough to pay for us and take care of those who have excellent talents! ”

(To be continued)