The so-called whip law, the source of Jingwen is actually from a whip law implemented by Zhang Juzheng's reform during the Ming Dynasty. As early as in the past, Jingwen had already implemented Zhang Juzheng's examination method. The examination method is also the earliest performance appraisal method, which is a good way to determine whether officials are competent. And now it is the implementation of Zhang Juzheng's whip method, and Jingwen has also undergone a certain amount of abridgement and revision, because Jingwen also knows that he can't be dogmatic, so he took the initiative to change some content.

Originally, a whip law actually levied silver uniformly, but now the Tang Dynasty did not have the inflow of silver in the late Ming Dynasty, and a large amount of silver made silver monetized. Therefore, silver is now expensive and not suitable for the people to pay taxes. Moreover, if silver is used, then the people will have to exchange grain for silver, and then they will also be exploited. Therefore, the best and most economical way is that the government directly collects the grain, and then the government comes forward and the merchants exchange the silk cloth and grain.

Of course, Zhang Juzheng's reform in the year was to change all taxes into silver. However, judging from the current situation in Datang, the state still has many needs for taxes, and it is not suitable to collect only grain. Jingwen also retreated to the next best thing, exchanging these grains for silk cloth, and then sending them to the central government.

And now Jingwen has unified the standard of all taxes into grain, so that the grain produced by the people can also be used to pay taxes. And the rest of the food, in fact, the people are enough to eat, and there is even surplus food. In the past, although the imperial court paid light taxes, after the exploitation of those grain merchants and silk cloth merchants, it was equivalent to doubling the tax out of thin air, so that the people may not be able to bear it. However, now it is equivalent to doubling the tax, and the conscription can be specially hired to serve on behalf of the conscription, so that the farming can be safe, but it should be able to increase the harvest of the field, and it may not be a problem to offset these taxes. In this way, on the whole, in fact, the people still benefit more. And Zhang Juzheng's whip method back then. It can almost be said that it saved the Ming Dynasty, and the role in this is not insignificant. If it weren't for the counteroffensive of those opposition Zhang Juzheng, who undermined Zhang Juzheng's good policies, then maybe the Ming Dynasty would have been able to last for a hundred more years and wait for the day when the monarchy was constitutional.

The best of this kind of whipping method is to reduce the opportunities for various officials and businessmen to exploit the people. If there are too many types of taxes, the officials can come up with a name for it, and then come up with more so-called tribute, or various taxes in kind. If there are too many types of taxes in kind, then the people will not be able to obtain them through their own production. You can only use what you produce to redeem huàn. However, in this process, it is inevitable to accept the exploitation of other officials and businessmen, but instead increase the pressure out of thin air. And this unification became a kind of tax in kind, which meant that it was difficult for officials and businessmen to set up names and then exploit the people. Without this process of exchanging goods, that is, the exploitation in it is reduced, which is equivalent to reducing a lot of burden on the people.

From a historical point of view, the "standard" of unified taxation is an evolution from a historical perspective. In later generations, taxes were collected through guò money, which represented the unification of the tax standard. At present, the Tang Dynasty is not suitable for unified collection with currency. So Jingwen also uses food. At present, more than ninety percent of the country's population is agricultural, and the population is specially responsible for agricultural production. Therefore, these agricultural people are all producing food, and the collection according to the grain standard is a place that can benefit hundreds of people. So. With grain to collect, the people called to pay taxes, and the loss in this process can be said to be the lowest. And once the government sells the grain on behalf of the people, the merchants will not be able to exploit the government as they exploit the people, so that the loss of tax revenue will be minimized.

So. Jingwen believes that this whipping method is a very good method, which can greatly reduce the burden of the people. Therefore, the implementation of Jingwen changed a whip method. It is imperative, after all, it can bring great benefits to the people.

However, if common sense is followed, all reformers generally do not end well. However, Jingwen is not worried that he will not end well. The so-called reformers did not end well, and that was because the so-called vested interests counterattacked. But now Jingwen's reform, are there so-called vested interests? Or are these so-called vested interests strong enough?

Now is the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the officials in the court will work hard for the good of the people, but there is less corruption. And if anyone wants to increase the burden on the people, then you are clearly a corrupt official and have nothing to say. Moreover, Jingwen only changed the tax process, and in fact did not reduce the tax to the imperial court, so why did those officials oppose it? If the tax is not reduced, then there is no reason for the officials to object. What's more, officials can't actually get much benefit in this process. The officials themselves are only responsible for collecting taxes and transporting them to designated places. Now is the period when the country has just been founded, and when the whole country is full of people to cultivate and recuperate, it is impossible to increase all kinds of miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous labor.

If anyone dares to propose to increase miscellaneous taxes and servitude for the people, then your career will come to an end. Therefore, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the common people did not have too many miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous labors, so the interests of the local government were not actually damaged. And if the Tang Dynasty has developed for a certain period of time, then the local government will also have some miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous expenses, and at that time, it will be too late to reform. Now that the country has just been founded, there are not too many various interest groups, so their strength is still very weak, as long as Jingwen proposes it in the name of reducing the burden of the people, no one has the courage to oppose it at all. If you oppose it, you want to increase the burden on the people. The whole court will shoot him to death.

As for those businessmen who make profits, with the businessmen of this era, they still can't argue with the government for the time being. Even if it is Jingwen, if he takes off this official skin, he will definitely not dare to argue with the government. Therefore, those grain merchants and silk cloth merchants whose interests have been damaged can only break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs, what can they do. And Jingwen didn't let them lose money, just let them make less money, and they weren't as profitable as in the past. Therefore, those businessmen definitely did not dare to do anything to the government, because their strength was still relatively weak in this era. (To be continued......)