Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1189
Such thinking is naive.At the same time, it is also a continuation of thinking under the influence of Dashun orthodoxy.

But at least, an idea.

It seems to be more reliable than the mysterious and mysterious cultivation of virtue and kingly way.

At least from Niu Er's point of view, he felt that it was more reliable.

Because there is such an idea.

So in my heart, I have my own judgments about what to do, what is right, and what is wrong.

Then in his judgment, it is completely wrong to go to the country to do as the Romans do and retain India's original taxation system.

Although, it seems that this system is preserved, it is very easy, Dashun can easily collect taxes here-since the descendants of Timur can collect taxes here, the Afghans can also collect taxes here, and the British can also collect taxes here As for taxation, it is not difficult for Dashun to collect taxes according to its tradition.

However, in Niu Er's view, Dashun's vassal policy, foreign policy, or the purpose of managing vassals should all revolve around the development of industry and commerce, and his plan to emigrate with a thousand ships.

Including Dashun's pressure on Japan and North Korea in these years; the conquest of Nanyang, etc., in his opinion, the thinking is the same.

He thinks that Liu Yu's way of thinking is like this, and in his heart he thinks that Liu Yu's way of thinking is correct.

Since many problems have occurred in the Songsu reform, these problems can be predicted and resolved in the next reform.

For example, the landless people in Songsu had no money before the court, so in Niu Er's view, Duke Xingguo worked hard and let capital exert its power to move the people to Kanto and Nanyang.

Then, immigrating to the Southern Ocean and North America is not profitable. As long as the court has money, can't the court do this?The court can do it too.

As long as these problems are resolved, coastal areas can follow the path of Songsu reform.

Therefore, Dashun's vassal policy should revolve around the idea of ​​being conducive to the development of industry and commerce, and being able to collect enough taxes to immigrate.

Obviously, continuing India's original taxation policy is not conducive to this long-term goal.

On this point, Niu Er believed that Dashun and British rule over Bengal were necessarily different.

Britain can drive the industrial and commercial development of Bangladesh in a short period of time, because the British come to buy.In just a few years, Calcutta has gathered tens of thousands of people, all of whom are mainly engaged in the textile industry.

On the other hand, Dashun will cause the old industry and commerce in Bangladesh to collapse in a short period of time. Even if it cannot be sold, it will never buy something.

Then, the state of Bangladesh that is most conducive to Dashun should be growing rice, jute, cotton, knitting yarn, selling raw silk, and ironing and reeling silk.

Other industries such as iron smelting, weaving, and pottery should all be destroyed.

However, in order to promote the development of rice, cotton, and mulberry trees, the original taxation system must not be adopted.

Otherwise, Dachai Mingda will contract 1100 million silver taxes, subcontract to the next level to collect 2000 million, and then subcontract to the next level to collect 3000 million... What kind of cotton, mulberry, and rice are planted?
How many times has Dashun suffered in such a matter?Facts have proved that if this is done, people will only hoard land and collect rent, rather than engage in planting and farming.

As for how to solve this problem, Niu Er's idea is also very simple.

Shred all the big ones.

Hereditary the small ones, that is, let them be real landlords, and fully privatize them.

In some small Chamindar, the land still belongs to the government in theory, and they are only responsible for contracting the taxes of several villages.Of course, they also have their own land, estates, etc.

Niu Er's idea is to hereditary contracting, which is a radical landlord ownership reform in disguise.

For example, this Chai Mingdaer has four villages.Then, just draw a circle, measure the size of these four villages, and directly contract this Chai Mingdaer permanently.

From a legal point of view, the land that originally belonged to these four villages belonged to the government.Chamindar just helped the government collect taxes.

But now, these four villages are directly packaged, and the tax is still collected according to the original, but the permanent use right of the land belongs to Chaming Daer - the government collects land tax from Chaming Daer, legally it is Chaming Dar who is Collect rent from farmers instead of being a taxpayer to help the court collect taxes.

Peasants are still peasants, not serfs, and Chamindar has no legal power over these peasants.

It doesn't matter whether you migrate, run away, or change homes.

In short, the colonial government recognized mothers but not people.

That is to say, it is a radical method to smash the traditions of the village community, smash the unclear issue of land ownership, and quickly turn a group of roles between landlords and tax collectors into landlords.

In the future, it will be convenient for you to set up plantations, lease the land to industrial and commercial people, and drive the people to flee; or force the people to grow rice and cotton;

Because of Dashun's level of governance, it is absolutely impossible to directly reach every peasant household, and the village communal system and caste system are also troublesome for Dashun.

Therefore, in Niu Er's view, this method of clarifying ownership and mass-producing landlords is the most suitable method for Dashun.

Farmers also had to pay taxes, and because of the existence of the tax subsidy system and the layer-by-layer subcontracting system, their taxes were not low.

Now it is nothing more than a change of skin, and the tax that the peasants have to pay has been replaced by the rent of the landlord in name.For farmers, there is little difference, and maybe even less burden than before.

Because the intermediate links are reduced, although there is still a middleman.But compared to the legendary 8-tier intermediary system under the original Chai Mingdaer system, it must have lightened the burden on the common people.

Eighth-tier middlemen, the government can still receive so much money, and God knows how much taxes are borne by the lower levels.

It would be better to directly hire a first-tier contractor. Dashun directly creates thousands of landlords with tens of thousands of acres of land in Bangladesh.

They, as the mainstay of Dashun's rule in Bengal, will disintegrate the influence of the original old forces and old aristocrats.

Form a vertical structure of colonial government-county government-landlord-permanent tenant farmers to reduce intermediate links.

In terms of taxation, Dashun only deals with these created landlords, and does not deal with the farmers and village communities below.

There are obvious benefits to doing so.

Politically, the old upper-class forces can be swept away.

On this point, Dashun does not need to hesitate, because Dashun is not the United Kingdom and can use troops in Bangladesh without any form of compromise with the old upper class.

At the same time, Dashun has no shortage of low-level officials, because Dashun has a large number of students who have graduated from practical studies, and it is impossible for them to participate in the imperial examination, and there is no shortage of people in the selection of colonial officials directly in the form of imperial examination.

It is nothing more than the content of the examination, which is different from the imperial examination.

If Dashun had the current strength at the end of Ming Dynasty, he would naturally not compromise too much.Now that they are outside, they are strong, so they can choose not to compromise.

Those who were originally low-level vassals have become permanent landlords. Their power and interests are derived from the colonial government. Of course, they will firmly stand on Dashun's side.

At the same time, the reduction of middlemen is also a kind of benevolent government for farmers, and they will also recognize Dashun's rule.

In terms of taxation, this form will not affect the original tax amount in the slightest.

Theoretically, Dashun can increase the degree of squeeze, but Niu Er thinks that this kind of thing should be done carefully and not squeezed too hard.

Economically, this form is conducive to the long-term development of the bright future that Niu Er believes.

The per capita land area of ​​Bangladesh is higher than that of Dashun. These farmers who have changed from national farmers to permanent tenant farmers will have greater consumption power after reducing their burden.

It is wrong to kill the goose and take the egg.

It is necessary to sustainably exhaust the fish.

The main body of Dashun's attack on India is the imperial court, not the company's shareholders, and it may not be entirely for the purpose of profit and dividends.

At the same time, the established permanent landlord contract system is conducive to future agricultural transformation and the promotion of improved varieties and agricultural technology.

Under the premise that the tax amount remains unchanged, the landlord has several choices.As long as the price of cotton is higher than that of rice, some of them will choose to grow cotton.

Even after confirming their permanent possession of the land, they can lease some land to capitalists in Dashun through commercial cooperation, and let them develop cotton plantations and the like.

This can also greatly accelerate the gap between rich and poor in rural areas.

The small landlords produced in batches and the permanent land use rights mean the legalization of land sublease transactions. The current headache for Confucian scholars in North Korea is the emergence of land sales and the legalization trend of land sales. And this is precisely the direction that Dashun will actively guide and radically reform in India.

The problem of Dashun is the issue of private ownership of land, which is too serious and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and has become an obstacle to the further development of Dashun.

The problem here is that the concept of private ownership of land is too unclear, which has become a major obstacle for Dashun to turn this place into a raw material production area and a consumer market.

Because the concept of private ownership of land is not very clear and somewhat vague, these small landlords are mass-produced and continue the tradition. They can only sign contracts similar to permanent tenancy rights with farmers in the village community.

As long as Dashun recognizes this permanent tenancy contract, and this tenancy right can be legally resold, it means the promotion of private ownership of land, and it means that there will soon be a huge gap between the rich and the poor in the countryside.

This is just another way in line with Indian traditions to quietly promote the private ownership of land in Dashun.

Of course, this method is only aimed at the legacy of the original dozen or so large Qaidamina oligarchs.

The rest, of course, will not take this approach.

For example, in some self-cultivating rural cooperatives that have been divided, they originally handed over taxes to the Mujiadan class, and then the Mujiadan class directly handed over the tax to the government.

If this is the case, let Dashun take over directly, and Dashun will send people to replace the Mu Jiadan class, measure the land, and issue title deeds to the self-cultivating farmers.Buying and selling are allowed and taxes are fixed.

For another example, there is still a large amount of uncultivated land in Bangladesh, all of which are owned by the colonial government.Whether Dashun is willing to immigrate, or willing to contract plantations, or willing to recruit people to cultivate, that's fine.

In the short term, this kind of governance concept of the land system should not be as profitable as the method of tax package and auction package tax.

In Niu Er's view, this is the advantage of Dashun.If in the form of a British company, shareholders only care about dividends, then it must be how to make more money.

The initiator of the Dashun Conquest was the imperial court, so in theory, it could have a long-term, clear, long-term goal that is beneficial to the country.

Moreover, Niu Er believed that Dashun’s governance of vassals or colonies in the future should be a study of “how to promote the development of domestic industry and commerce, and how to collect taxes to ensure a large number of domestic immigrants to Southern Oceania and North America”.

The ritual of the government is outdated.

You must know what the purpose is in order to know how to go.This is a sentence commonly used by Confucianism in the ideological confrontation in the late Ming Dynasty. Now Niu Er wants to use this sentence, but it is not known whether the court agrees with him.

(End of this chapter)