Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 68
Liu Yizhen brought the two of them to the yamen in a hurry and found a pen and paper to paint and draw.

Wang Xiu had question marks on his face, and so did Liu Yilong.

"Mr. Chang'an, what are the symbols and rules on it?"

"These symbols are called numbers, which were passed down from Tianzhu, and the frames are tables. I will teach you when I finish drawing."

Numbers and tables are just tools, much simpler than the counting chips that Chinese mathematicians play with every day.

But with the development of civilization, the carrier of civilization should be simpler.

For example, the Chinese characters are gradually simplified, and the classics have changed from "Book of Changes" to "The Analects of Confucius". Only in this way can the Chinese civilization gradually prosper.

Therefore, the role of these simple tools in the development of civilization is not inferior to some specific things.

Both Wang Xiu and Liu Yilong are smart people, they don't even need Liu Yizhen to teach them, but they can roughly understand the functions of numbers and tables after reading Liu Yizhen's writing.

Liu Yilong is okay, he just thinks that this seemingly mysterious thing is not so difficult to understand.

But Wang Xiu saw something and became excited inside.It's just that Liu Yizhen hasn't spoken yet to verify his conjecture.

After Liu Yizhen finished writing, he placed a draft in front of the two of them.

"Look, this is a new tax system I plan to implement in Guanzhong."

Now the taxation system in the north is very chaotic, but in general it still pays equal attention to rent and tax.

Rent is land rent.

Fu probably means poll tax.

Such taxes are actually very heavy, and it is too miserable to exploit the people.

Therefore, with the rise of the aristocratic family, many people will go to the aristocratic family to hang under the name of the aristocratic family to avoid taxes.In this way, the government cannot get the money they should have received from them, and can only exploit the people who have not taken refuge in the family more fiercely, so that these people will go to the family again, thus falling into a vicious circle.

The imperial court is essentially a big landlord, and what he has to do is to grab land from the family.

The tax system is the key to the imperial court grabbing land.

The new tax system proposed by Liu Yizhen means that regardless of the amount of land and property, as long as you are an individual, you must pay taxes.It's just that the government will give you 20 mu of land when you reach the age of [-], of which [-] mu is Yongye farmland and [-] mu is koufen farmland.Returning to the field after death, the aristocratic family can't even try to get it.

The government collects rent from the common people based on the land grant records.

Rent means land rent.

Yong is hard labor.

The adjustment is a household adjustment, that is, males pay according to what they produce in their hometown, which is a bit like a personal income tax.

Regardless of rich or poor, all pay a fixed amount of rent.

This is the modulation of Zuyong in the early Tang Dynasty in the future.

It is not that there will be better taxation systems in the future, such as the two-tax law, the Fangtian tax law, the one-whip law, and so on.

But the premise of taxation is to conform to the national conditions. The current Guanzhong economy has not yet developed to meet the conditions of more advanced tax laws. It must be done step by step, otherwise it will be easy to mess up.

But even this not-so-advanced tax law shocked Wang Xiu and Liu Yilong.

Rent modulation is not important.

The equal-field system is also not important.

But their addition is far from the effect of one plus one equals two.

The two of them seemed to be able to imagine the expression on the family's expression after hearing Zuyong's modulation.

But will they dare to resist?
The Yu clan, the top wealthy family in the south before, was exterminated against Liu Yu's "Yixi Tuduan".

As long as Liu Yu is still alive, these paper tigers will not dare to make trouble.

Wang Xiu suddenly realized: "Quick! Send it to Jiankang!"

At this time, Wang Xiu had forgotten the numbers and forms.

At this moment, Zuyong modulation is more important to him than anything else.

Because Wang Xiu is sure that Liu Yu needs Zuyong's modulation very much.

Even if this policy does not hit the deep-rooted families in the South, it can restrain their development.

Moreover, Liu Yu also has the conditions to implement the land equalization system.

There may be no land in Yangzhou and Jingzhou.

Due to traffic congestion in Sichuan and Jiaozhou, it is unrealistic to impose policies.

But there is still the Central Plains!

It has been less than ten years since Liu Yu conquered the Central Plains!
Among them, there must be a large number of people who were newly assigned to the land.

As long as this policy is implemented, the finances of the land in the Central Plains will no longer be impoverished, and may even directly become the most important money bag in the hands of the imperial court.

More importantly, this has a huge effect on improving Liu Yizhen's reputation.

What is it to build a Weiyang Palace and build a Chang'an City?How much attention can it get from the Jiankang court?
Zuyong modulation is the magic weapon.

Wang Xiu is confident that as long as it works well, even if Liu Yizhen is far away in Guanzhong, the legend of Liu Yizhen can be spread in the imperial court.

Liu Yizhen was not in a hurry.

Zuyong's modulation sounds nice, but Liu Yizhen is somewhat uncertain.

After all, there are not enough facts to prove the benefits of Zuyong modulation.

There are too many things to talk about on paper. If Liu Yizhen just handed over the Zuyong modulation, he might have a temporary reputation, but it will be difficult to spread the Zuyong modulation policy to the whole country.At that time, it is very likely that someone will be wrong about people, suppress this policy, and then frantically obstruct it.

At least it should be tested in Guanzhong, and the uncles in the imperial court can see the achievements, and then hand them over in full. This will also give Liu Yu less resistance to implement the policy.

Now that he decided to fight for the position, Liu Yizhen consciously regarded the country as the object of his service.

If it is because of one's own selfish desires that the rent-yong regulation is implemented late or even not implemented, it is somewhat unjustifiable.

"It can be tested in Guanzhong first."

"After the spring plowing is over, organize the people to start."

"Forces should not allow the people to be too far away from home. The construction of the new city can only use the people around Chang'an, and the people from other places should stay in the local area to repair their own water conservancy and roads."

Anyway, the new construction of Chang'an was only incidental, and Liu Yizhen's real purpose was to test the people's attitude towards Zuyong in Guanzhong.

If you're too resistant, that's another story.

After talking about Zuyong modulation, Liu Yizhen began to explain to Wang Xiu the role of numbers and tables.

Randomly brought the expenditure and tax report of a small county last year, and Liu Yizhen started the actual combat drill.

The first is to use tables to clearly distinguish each item of finance.

After that, the lengthy text is replaced with numbers.

Six thousand eight thousand one hundred four thousand two directly becomes 68142, which is much simpler.

Moreover, the most significant contribution of Arabic numerals is not its simplicity, otherwise Roman numerals are not inferior to Arabic numerals. The reason why it is regarded as a classic by later generations is because it created "0".

0 not only brings "nothing" which is the opposite of "existence" to numbers, but also simplifies operations by a large margin.

With 0, there are simple calculations, and with simple calculations, you can lead to greater mathematics.

Of course, there is no need for Liu Yi to teach Wang Xiu such a lovely natural subject as mathematics, as long as Wang Xiu can learn and spread addition and subtraction among officials so that they can use it in practice.

After all, multiplication and division are still difficult for them.

(End of this chapter)