Roland pondered for a moment, then put pen to paper a number of policy recommendations for preferential treatment of military personnel and their families.

"If you have a family member who has served in the service, your immediate family members can receive tax deductions during their service."

"Reserve militiamen are given food subsidies for participating in military training."

"The government's public security department gives priority to veterans when recruiting civil servants."

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After writing 10 pages of manuscript paper, he finally clarified the two issues of compulsory military service and militia reserves. Roland got up and moved his stiff wrists, stood in front of the window and looked out at the greenery of the courtyard, rested his eyes, and returned to his desk to continue writing his report.

"Considering that more than 60 percent of the country's population is distributed in rural areas, in order to establish a national compulsory military service system, it is necessary to strengthen the power of the central government and strengthen the central government's control over the local villages, and in order to achieve the above goals, two prerequisites must be achieved first, one is 'the king's power to the countryside', and the other is 'land reform'."

During the sixteen centuries of rule of the Holy Assanian Empire, its vast administrative apparatus adhered to an unwritten principle - "the king's power does not go to the country".

To this day, the administrative body of the empire still reaches the town, and the village adopts the mode of self-government, and the township and village chiefs are not considered regular civil servants, and usually the local old man with high moral integrity and wealthy wealth serves as the village head, which is called "elder governance".

Roland fully understood the plight of the imperial government, and that the royal power was forced not to go to the countryside - the territory was so large that if the administration penetrated into the countryside, it would inevitably expand the bureaucracy tenfold, and bear a heavy cost of governance.

The Imperial treasury could not afford such heavy administrative costs and had to relinquish direct rule over the countryside, and the government of Kolas faced a different situation.

"The provinces of the Far East are very small relative to the Empire, even if they do not count the Empire's overseas colonies, the territory of the Far East is only a quarter of the territory of the Empire, and the population is one-fortieth that of the latter. The traditional thinking that the royal power does not go to the countryside', and more effective administrative rule over the countryside. ”

Writing clearly about the necessity of "royal power going to the countryside", Roland next analyzed the specific measures of "rural governance", this part of the content was briefly mentioned in his conversation with his father yesterday, and now it is written as an official report submitted to the cabinet for consideration, in addition to adding some details, more pen and ink are spent on demonstrating the feasibility of the policy, if a policy is not feasible, no matter how great and glorious it seems to be correct, it is just a piece of paper.

Roland's rural governance policy is innovative and inherited, inheriting the traditional "elder governance" model, inviting local elders with high moral integrity and wealthy wealth to join the village-level government and serve as village or township head (the township is half a level higher than the village and half a level lower than the town); The innovation is to clarify the power structure of the government at the village level.

"According to tradition, the village-level government is called the 'township (village) office', and the management body of the office is named the 'township (village) management committee', with four members, namely the village head, the village priest, the village druid, and the village magistrate."

"The resident priest is sent by the Sindra Church, the resident druid is sent by the 'Harvest Ring', and the sheriff is sent by the military; in principle, the sheriff has at least one Sindra rank or one ranger rank, and priority is given to veteran officers from the village, and the sheriff also serves as a reserve militia instructor."

"Rural affairs are decided by a four-member committee through consultation, and in principle, the minority obeys the majority, and if a consensus cannot be reached, it is submitted to the higher-level town government to make a decision on its behalf."

After the establishment of the village management body, in addition to the implementation of the reserve military service system, a more important mission was to be responsible for the collection of agricultural taxes.

Experience on Earth has taught Roland that since modern times, the path to the rise of any nation-state has also been the path to industrialization. Of course, he wants to devote himself to the promotion of industrialization in the Far East, but he must be soberly aware that the Far East has been an agricultural region since ancient times, and that agricultural taxes will continue to be the main source of state revenue for a long time to come.

Roland put down his pen and got up to pull out a thick volume from the shelf. This is the tax workbook of the Far Eastern provinces. After the victory of the revolution, Roland specially instructed his father to protect the library and archives of the provincial residence, and to keep the government work report and the statistical data of various departments over the years intact for the reference of the new government.

Roland turned to the relevant chapter of "Agricultural Tax" and found that the tax work in this world is more complicated than he imagined, and the agricultural tax alone is divided into hundreds of subcategories, corresponding to different tax rates for different crops. As far as cereals are concerned, they can be divided into two main categories, with a slightly lower agricultural tax in the northern wheat (barley, wheat, rye, oats) growing areas and a slightly higher agricultural tax in the southern rice-growing areas, which translates to an average national agricultural tax rate of about 40% of the average annual production.

Putting down the thick information in his hand, Roland put his hands on his cheeks and fell into thought.

Emptying his mind and recuperating a little, Roland began to think about what the agricultural tax rate on the earth was. It's a pity that he is not a genius prodigy, and he does not have a memorable memory, he has traveled to the world of Varess for more than three years, and the life on the earth recalls it as if it were a lifetime away, and he can't remember a lot of the data he has seen before, not to mention that he is not a tax professional in the first place, and his understanding of this aspect is really limited. I only vaguely remember that Adam Smith counted in The Wealth of Nations that the land tax in Western Europe in the 18th century was mostly about 20% to 30%, but in addition to land rent, the peasants also had to pay tithes to the church, 20 taxes to the king, and poll taxes.

In addition, the agricultural tax of the Huaguo Red Dynasty at the beginning Luo Lan also had some impressions, and the average tax rate seemed to be about 15% of the annual output. This tax rate was already very high at the time, and to some extent it was a reflection of the fact that the state shifted the cost of industrial development to the peasants – the so-called "industrial and agricultural scissors gap", the price that the latecomer countries had to bear for industrialization. The call that "the peasants are really miserable, the rural areas are really poor, and the agriculture is really dangerous" prompted the central government to finally make up its mind to completely abolish the agricultural tax, ending the tradition of the peasants in China for thousands of years of "farming and paying for grain," and putting an end to the agricultural tax (field tax), which has the longest history.

The experience of the earth has its own unique historical and social background, and Roland is well aware that it cannot be copied in its entirety to the world of Vales, and given the current situation in the Far East, the agricultural tax rate set by the imperial provinces is too high, and he recommends a reduction of 20% in his report.

Worldwide, the 20 per cent agricultural tax rate is not too high, compared to the 20 per cent tax in the Assanian Empire and the major princely states—not to mention the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees that are not included in the formal tax.

PS. About the 20 take 1 tax

This tax was originally born in ancient Rome, when it was a "inheritance tax", and in modern Europe, it evolved into a "land tax".