795, paved into the mu (medium)
Yang Jia told Li Shimin that if the whole project is not apportioned into the mu, I am afraid that it will be difficult after more than ten years. This is because the current practice of apportioning land to mu does not seem to have any practical significance, and the state tax revenue has not increased, and the burden on the people has not been reduced. But after more than a decade, things will be different. More than a decade later, land annexation would become increasingly strict, and many of the landlord classes would begin to rise. And many people will lose their land, and they will become displaced people.
As for thinking about solving it when the time comes, I'm afraid it's already burning eyebrows. What's more, at that time, the landlord class had really risen, and the landlords who owned land wealth, their political influence was not comparable to that of ordinary people. When the time comes, they can use the influence of the government to hinder the implementation of this plan. At that time, the entire government will be singing and declining, and I am afraid that Li Shimin will feel a headache at that time. Even, whether Li Shimin can single-handedly confront the entire class that helps him rule is also an important question.
Because this apportionment is to make the landlord bear more taxes, and the more land they have, the more they bear, so how can they be willing to pay more? As long as you are a human being, you don't want your interests to be harmed. And when the time comes, the landlord class will certainly stop this policy of apportioning the land to the acre, after all, this is detrimental to their interests, and it is not even the slightest bit. Although there are good people and bad people in the landlord class, they are not willing to take on too much social responsibility. Don't expect the ancient landlords to love the country's court, they wouldn't be much better than the merchants. If their interests are damaged, then they will definitely rebel too.
Therefore, instead of letting the landlord class rise at that time, and the difficulty of implementing this apportionment into the mu will greatly increase, it is better to start implementing it immediately when the people have not really risen. Even if the landlord class rises by then, they will already be in the woods, because this policy has been in place for many years. They have no chance to oppose it. This is the best time, although it seems to make no sense, but it is this policy that has no meaning, and that is the most appropriate time.
In the later period, in fact, ordinary landlords accounted for the proportion of landlords who accounted for the majority of landlords. If there is a difference among the landlords, it is the difference between the landlords of the common people and the landlords of the officials and gentry. In ancient times, officials were exempt from taxes, but Tang officials had an order to limit the amount of land they owned. Therefore, even if they try hard to get the land, it will be difficult to have an absolute advantage. The vast majority of landlords were common landlords. They also have to pay taxes, so when the time comes, they can only pinch their noses and admit it. In this way, the country's tax revenue will not only not decrease in the later stage, but will increase and increase. Because the population is growing, and the common people do not have land and do not have to pay taxes, and the part of them that should be taxed will be included in the landlords.
And this paving into the mu can also relax the control of the imperial court on the people. In the past, because taxes were collected on a per-person basis, the government must have kept an eye on everyone because they had to pay taxes. As a result, people will not be able to move relatively freely, and they will not be able to engage in other industries. For example, handicrafts, or other industries. And if the population tax is turned into a land tax, then the control over the next population will be relaxed a lot, and the people can enjoy a certain amount of free movement. There is also the possibility that they can migrate to the south to develop Jiangnan.
And this spread into acres is actually a policy implemented in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the later generations. Although Jingwen had no good impression of the Manchus, he had to admit that the allocation of the land to the acres had helped to ease the internal contradictions of the Manchus. Of course. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's paving into acres did not have much effect. Because when the Manchu Qing Dynasty implemented the apportionment of land to the mu, the landlord class was already at its peak. Therefore, it is very difficult to implement the apportionment into the acre. Therefore, although it was a good policy for the Manchus to divide the land into the mu, it was sung crooked by those officials from the landlord class. Even, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the apportionment of land to mu not only did not reduce the burden of Baixin, but on the contrary increased the burden of the ordinary tenants who rented the landlord's land, because the landlord could pass this tax on to the ordinary tenants again.
However, there is no good or bad policy, only whether it is suitable or not. It is also spread into acres, but when the Tang Dynasty was just founded, the effect was very different. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the landlord class did not rise, so the apportionment of the land into the mu could be carried out perfectly. Although it may not have brought much change to the people at first, after ten or twenty years, the effect can be easily demonstrated. When the time comes, I'm afraid anyone will be able to know Jingwen's foresight.
Therefore, on the whole, it is advisable to implement the practice of apportioning the land into the mu sooner rather than later, once the landlord class rises, then I am afraid that they will use their political influence to stifle this good policy of apportioning the land into the mu. At that time, the pressure on the people was still so great, and because of the poll tax, the government restricted the people from leaving, so that the people could only be trapped and die together.
If the tax system is based on the number of people, the local government will definitely keep an eye on the people and prevent them from leaving their sphere. Because if the people leave, the government's tax revenue will also be reduced, so isn't the local official derelict in his duty? Therefore, in order to control the people from leaving, the local officials could not go farther outside to open up the wasteland, so the people could only stay where they were and wait for death. If you don't die in silence, you will go crazy in silence, if you don't give the people a way to survive in the wilderness, then wait for the people to rebel!
Therefore, lowering the control of the people is to give them a way to live, so that they can survive. Otherwise, as long as there are some people who take the lead, then I am afraid that many people will rebel. Therefore, this tax system is also an important problem, if you don't want to solve it, then once the land is annexed, the people can't go to other places to survive, then it will be more and more difficult, and finally it will explode in silence.
"Yang Jia, I have another question, please explain!" Li Shimin said again.
"Please explain to the emperor!" Yang Jia replied.
I'm not afraid that Li Shimin has a problem, I'm afraid that he has no problem. If there is no problem, then I am afraid that Li Shimin is not tempted at all. Therefore, if there is a problem, it means that Li Shimin really wants to understand this thing, not not not interested. (To be continued......)