Daozu is Cthulhu

Chapter 431
If we only look at the imperial court of Liguo, we can simply bring in the cycle of the rise and fall of the feudal dynasty and apply the economic model of the agricultural society. One sentence can be said clearly.

Li Fan didn't want to write a long story, but only by understanding the significance and impact of "Mo Zhushan's joining Taoism" on all classes in Liguo, can he understand the severe social turmoil that is happening in Changsi City, and even Liguo as a whole.

First thing first,
The real master of this world, the one who wields the strongest violence, is not a prince, a feudal town, or a powerful family.

It used to be Asgard, but not anymore.

This is the world of Xuanmen.

Or to be clearer, it is the monk group headed by the Nine Great Taoist sects that rule the world.

It is not the twelve kingdoms of the fairy palace, but because of the "nine great sects", there are today's "three walls and twelve kingdoms".

Taoism is the real weaver of the entire system, the maker of rules, and the maintainer of order.

In fact, the three major factions have been exploring how to manage 'monks', a group that surpasses 'mortals'.

In fact, Xiangong lost the world because it failed to handle the relationship with this group properly.

After all, what practitioners care about is geniuses and treasures, secret books of magical skills, and breakthroughs in cultivation. What people pursue is pure, absolute power and longevity. Of course, they look down on those vain titles and fiefdoms given by your king, and rewards to win them over.

So Immortal Palace's attempt to monopolize the method of cultivation and stabilize the rule of the world is essentially standing on the opposite side of the monks in the world.

Although the lineage of the Immortal Emperor has the orthodoxy of the world and is surrounded by civil and military officials, it was once able to catch thieves and kill monks who suppressed the world.

But the strength of a monk needs to be honed repeatedly by oneself, and can only be obtained through the experience of Taoism.This is not something that can be inherited by blood or monopolized by resources.

And as the Ancient Immortal Palace became increasingly corrupt and weak, and the methods of Tai Chi Immortal Dao continued to innovate, the bloodline rule based on the cultivation family model was doomed to be impossible for a long time.

So the place has gradually changed. Bureaucrats bully and oppress unarmed mortals with swords and soldiers. If you go to monks with swords in their hands and collect mountains, rivers, forests, vehicles, business taxes, and environmental protection taxes, that’s not it. Are you courting death?
If you always use the old method of dealing with mortals to manage monks, then sooner or later there will be a very ridiculous and mysterious picture.

'I know that Asgard requires paying taxes, but my genius and treasures are all taken back with one blow, so why should I pay you taxes?I just don't pay!What can you do? ? '

What else can you do, violent tax resistance, just draw your sword and do it.

So in the end, the head of the last immortal emperor who wanted to pay taxes violently was chopped off, and the rule of Immortal Palace naturally collapsed.

In the past, Li Fan couldn't understand why Xuanmen won the Immortal Palace, but he didn't sit in the mountains and rivers. But when he finished his daily life, he happened to wander to the Louguan Pagoda and saw the copybooks of the temple master floating in the ocean. Everyday, he understands.

Because there is no need, for the old Taoist sect, it is quite good now, and the goal of the monk group has been achieved.

This purpose, to put it bluntly, is to 'seek the Tao freely'.

To put it mildly, that is, 'If I don't pay taxes or food, I just need to be able to ascend, and the common people will do my shit'

As the ruler of the world, but does not undertake the obligation to protect the world, this is a born immortal.

Because it is absolutely thankless to support a huge bureaucratic system and military group and maintain the order of the world, and it is completely beyond the means financially.

Cultivators want to practice, who the hell is a normal cultivator to care about such crap?I can't handle it even if I'm so busy that I'm bald, okay?

So you Immortal Palace like to do whatever you want, anyway, don't disturb my cultivation, just roll as far as you can.

But Xiangong also has something to say, if all the resources in the world are given to Xuanmen for cultivation, how will the rest of them live?Let the rich and powerful cut their flesh?Impossible, okay, everyone might as well just draw their knives and start doing it!
So the old Taoist sect didn't do it in the end. It didn't completely eradicate the fairy palace. Instead, it made many compromises with Sanyuan, compromised, experimented and negotiated, and finally advanced to today's step, and finally launched Yuntai Peak perfect system.

The root of this system is that, regardless of blood origin in a traditional sect country, only those who have joined Yuntai Peak can be considered "Xuanmen".

Only 'Xuanmen' can not pay taxes.

In other places, casual cultivators, casually, as long as they are labeled as "demons", they can all be suppressed to death.

At that time, Sanyuan's political function was gradually replaced by Yuntai Peak, becoming a purely administrative organization, responsible for maintaining the basic stability of the mortal world, and at the same time suppressing local casual cultivators, and even in many cases, getting the support of various Taoist sects , Let's fight against the emerging Sanxiu orthodoxy together.

Such as Mozhushan.

Yes, from the perspective of the imperial court of Liguo, Xuanmen is the real master behind the scenes, the nobles are the backbone of the country, the common people are the nourishment for this giant beast, and the scattered sects that have sprung up locally like Mozhushan, This is the biggest scourge that may lead to the collapse of the system.

Although the temple master is a national teacher and canonized by the Immortal Palace, Mo Zhushan has been recruiting people from the common people, expanding his preaching, and squeezing the space of traditional aristocrats.

If the common people turn to Mozhu Mountain one after another, become disciples of Mozhu Mountain, or dedicate their land to the monks of Mozhu Mountain, whose tax will the court collect?Whose land is Haoqiang robbing?
Therefore, Mo Zhushan, a loose cultivator sect under the management of Xianji, and a major taxpayer from Liguo, had an irreconcilable contradiction with Yushitai, the representative of Liguo court.

So as long as Mo Zhushan is still a casual cultivator, then his disciples' family members are still not eligible for 'tax exemption', and they still have productivity, money and food, but they also have the thorns of resistance.It is the source of the chaos in the world.

But the situation is different now, Mo Zhushan joins Xuanmen, the Xuanmen of Yuntai Peak!Turn over and be the master!

To put it bluntly, now the disciples of Mozhu Mountain can finally be justified and not pay taxes to Liguo!

The patriarchs of the powerful family in Liguo are the most sensitive. They are no longer simply buying a quota and betting on both sides to maintain the relationship, but rushing to come here to work.

This kind of Mozhu Mountain is no longer the object of tax collection and suppression, but has become the master. How can Yushitai make trouble like before?
Of course, they are united with the leadership team of Mozhu Mountain with Guanzhu as the core, hoping to send the children of their own clan to practice in Mozhu Mountain!
As for where the court's money comes from, isn't there still a lot of people, if you squeeze, there will always be some.

But ordinary people are not fools, okay?

It would be better to say that the people who can survive in this kind of world are more cunning than the other, especially those in Changsi City who have been in the market and are used to seeing businessmen of all kinds.They also quickly discovered the policy loopholes in the change of Mo Zhushan's promotion of Xuanmen.

It is different from Liguo, which keeps pace with the times and repeatedly carries out economic reforms.

What Mozhu Mountain uses is still the ancient system handed down from the time of the Ancient Immortal Palace.

For example, the salary system that Li Fan himself complained about, the monthly salary of inner disciples is only "two thousand gold", two guanqian.The real guardians of the Nascent Soul Realm collect offerings from the residents of the jurisdiction, but the monks don’t need money, food, and cloth. They just ask the families of the disciples in the collar to support them, plant some spiritual grass, raise beasts, and make organs. That's all.

To be honest, the disciples of Mozhushan really do not receive any welfare subsidies from the sect.

But on the other hand, the tax law of Mozhushan has not been updated for at least 500 years.

In the past, Mozhu Mountain was a sect of casual cultivators, and they had to pay an extra contribution fee to the imperial court of Liguo. This tax was settled by the censors of Liguo according to the actual situation, and it increased year after year, which was also one of the main contradictions.But now the Black Bamboo Mountain is a Taoist sect, so the dedication fee was immediately cancelled.

In this way, the disciples of Mozhushan only need to pay the basic "mouth tax" every year, head tax, old and weak women and children, 120 Wen a year, "computing Fu", adult income tax, [-] Wen, "household tax", get married and start a business The household registration tax assigned to the land is [-] Wen per year per household, and the land rent was also set by the immortals back then, with a tax of [-] yuan.

As for capital calculation, city tax, baht rent, commercial tax such as tariffs, there are none of them.After all, we are cultivating immortals in the mountains, bartering things, why do so many messes?Isn't it troublesome enough?As for the corvee, there is no such thing!The salaries of disciples are already very low, how can they recruit newcomers if they are engaged in corvee?Now when people are asked to do things for the sect, the KPI is calculated according to the contribution!

From the point of view of Xiuxian sect, the system of Mozhushan is not very attractive. This has led to the disciples of Mozhushan being very keen on their own production and business. Some money to subsidize the family.

But now Black Bamboo Mountain is attracting refugees to reclaim the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and for these refugees who venture to reclaim, they all adopt the same management method as the disciples of Black Bamboo Mountain.

This is mainly for the convenience of the peaks and institutes to manage the refugees in a unified manner, organize land reclamation, and recruit disciples. Moreover, considering the difficulty of land reclamation, they also provide investment in exercises such as money, food, and equipment as subsidies.

Of course, the current situation is difficult. In line with the national policy of plowing and war, all the food produced by the refugees to open up wasteland will be purchased by Mo Zhushan, and the cultivation of food, whether it is herbs or spiritual fruits, will be arranged and used by the sect.In view of the flood of Shengang money, now Mozhushan has also launched a 'immortal ticket', which can be used to exchange materials with the sect.

To sum up, this is the current status of leaving the country.

Isn't this fucking a joke?
The people in Liguo will be exploited to death by exorbitant taxes, and the tax on the Black Bamboo Mountain is as low as a chicken feather!And if you are a 'refugee', there are benefits and policy subsidies for farming and land reclamation!Are you a fool, still staying in Changsi City waiting to die? ?
So in just a few years, the number of people who moved out of the Gyeonggi area alone reached one million!Most of the workshops in the city have been completely emptied!

Mozhu Mountain is currently short of people to farm and open up wasteland, so of course it is to take all these manpower into the bag.Moreover, most of these people are experienced craftsmen in Changsi City, so most of them were recruited by Tiangong Peak to work in the factory.Otherwise, do you think that so many armored soldiers and crossbows in Black Bamboo Mountain fell from the sky?

And the officials from Liguo didn't stop them. After all, they really care about the country and know what is the fundamental talent of the country. They have long been expelled from the court to eat sand in the frontier.And Li Guozhu himself doesn't care about this, as long as he can build a big house, he can keep his official position, what about leaving the country in the future, and what's the matter with shutting down the officials?

And drive away all the stinky beggars in Changsi City, isn't it just right!Just in time to reorganize and develop the slums of Changsi City, rob, ahem, rebuild and develop new mansion real estate!
After all, everyone understands it!Officials also have financial needs!They have been corrupt, exploited and extorted, hoarded so much money and food, and now the money in the gods has depreciated sharply, and the losses of the rich and powerful are much greater than those of the poor!
But now that the trade routes have been cut off, the national finances are under the unified management of the Branch Department, the price of silk cloth has been sky-high, and the surrounding land and manors have been carved up earlier, so what better investment method is there?What other financial products have never changed?
Yes, I have!house!Mansion!How could the house in Changsi City fall?Make sure you don't lose money!
As long as the folk squares in the southwest are emptied and bulldozed, and the development zone is rebuilt, everyone will make money!

In this way, the common people have a way to live, Mozhushan has manpower, and the dignitaries have houses!
win win win!Everyone wins!We all have a bright future!

So in the end, Changsi City became what it is now. All the households in Changsi City ran away, and those with some connections sold their properties, and even quit their citizenship and became refugees, and went to Mozhu Mountain to open up wasteland. .

Only those who came from humble backgrounds, were in criminal households, were old, weak, sick, and disabled, and could not leave, or had some errands or ancestral property, and were really reluctant to leave their hometowns, and they stayed in the city to be exploited.

As a result, at the end of the chat, not to mention Li Fan was speechless, even the spies who were sent to monitor him were depressed, and one by one came over to drink bitterly, full of anger and complaints.

They all complained that the price of goods is soaring, the value of copper coins is depreciating, the court is still deducting the salaries of officials, the previous subsidies are gone, and the merchants have run away and their filial piety is gone.He can only get a dozen basic wages a month, not even enough to listen to a ditty.

Those high-ranking and powerful people have all made a windfall, and their favorite actors and actresses can get tens of millions of dollars in rewards for singing a song!And they are not enough!The eunuchs emptied the clan's private money and wanted to speculate on the land, driving up the house price!

Now even these officials with iron rice bowls work hard all day long, but they can't even make up the dowry, and they can't even get married. Alas, how did the Xiba country become like this!

Then a group of hunks just cried there, hugging their heads and crying, and Li Fan couldn't do it anymore...

You guys, what are you doing crying here now, when the common people are driven away?Is this sad about the rise and fall of the country, or is it sad that you didn't invest in real estate in time?

Forget it, it's not that Liguo has never had opportunities, good ministers and strong generals, opportunities of the times and so on, in fact, everything is missing.But in the final analysis, this is still a pure feudal dynasty. From top to bottom, it is a decadent feudal landlord class. The improvement of changing the soup without changing the medicine is just like this in the end.Even if the lottery seems to draw one or two wise monarchs and virtuous ministers, what's the use?
Fortunately, there is still a pocket of Mozhushan, and there is still a way for these millions of people to survive, what if there is no?Doesn't that mean everyone has to die?
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Fan didn't think about it too much. Taking advantage of these spies chatting to the sad point, embracing and crying in a group, no one noticed, he resolutely withdrew and went to Dayefang Taiping Temple in Dongshi.

Sure enough, the concept of peace is still peaceful.

The wealthy district of Dongcheng is just as prosperous and prosperous as before, and even better than before.The rich and powerful have squeezed the savings of millions of households, and they are so rich.

The so-called good at the top must be good at the bottom. The Liqiu Palace is building new houses, the eunuchs are speculating on land, and the nobles in Dongcheng are also renovating villas, building gardens and pavilions, digging lakes and ponds, and building gardens.

After all, the commercial activities in Liguo have been completely monopolized by the Duzhisi, or powerful families, so private business routes have been cut off, but the officials can borrow silk tea, copper and iron wares, etc. to the Nanyang Islands and Kunlun by borrowing the flying boats that escort military rations. The mountains are exchanged for pearls, agates, amber, rhino horns, ivory and other valuables, and the houses in the garden are decorated with splendor and resplendent, like a palace.

The only difference is that some people earn a lot and some people earn a lot.

And the Taipingyuan is a dignitary, a clan, and an immortal. Even if he was one of the richest people in Liguo, he certainly made money this time, and it was really a lot of money.

Now the entire Dayefang and the three or four neighborhoods around it have been bought by Taipingguan, and the walls of the square have been smashed to connect the city, which is called Taipingfang.Among them, in addition to the Taiping Temple in those days, there are also three pavilions of Linchun, Jieqi and Wangxian in the north, south, north and east, with a height of tens of feet and dozens of rooms.The windows, wall belts, county lintels, and sills are all made of agarwood, decorated with gold and jade, with pearls and emeralds in between, and bead curtains on the outside.There is a treasure bed and treasure tent inside, and its clothes and toys are so magnificent that it has never been seen in modern times.Every time the breeze comes, the fragrance smells for several miles, and the sun shines at the beginning of the morning, and the light reflects the backyard.The piled stones below it are mountains, the water diversion is a pool, and strange trees are planted, mixed with anthers.Within dozens of miles around, there are also new residences of princes and princes, with pavilions and pavilions, scattered high and low, with golden valley water lingering and flowing through them, birds singing in secluded villages, and fish jumping in lotus ponds.

The servants and fairy concubines are constantly coming, and the princes and nobles shuttle between them, singing and laughing, playing silk and bamboo orchestras, enjoying themselves, and extravagant.The scene of corruption and luxury in it, even if the fairy clan of Sanyuan sees it, it will be speechless.

Hey Nima, with this group of insects, how can it be possible to govern the country well?
Li Fan was also sullen in his chest, with evil fire in his heart, burning with anger, he kicked to the courtyard, roared, and the sound shook half the city,

"Evil heretics! Chaos and chaos! Assassin the king and kill him! Heinous crime! Black lotus and demons are all fucked up by me! Get a punch from your grandpa!"

The gatekeepers of Dayefang and the Taoist priests of Taiping Temple only glanced at Li Fan, and immediately pouted in horror, fleeing one by one, screaming and screaming,

"Yaoshou! The Nangong family is attacking and destroying the family!"

(End of this chapter)