Overlord!

Chapter 65 The Right Path of History My Zhuxia Clan Should Have Taken
Sun Ce always finds Liu Bei's words very interesting.

"Cao Cao is the one who is in the same situation as me today. If you are anxious, I will be lenient; if you are violent, I will be benevolent; if you are deceitful, I will be loyal; every time you go against Cao, things will come to fruition."

Every time you fight against it, things can come true.

Sun Ce sat upright, and said to all the tyrants: "The Han Dynasty lost its morality, and its administration was tyrannical, so the yellow scarves were rampant, the four directions were in chaos, and the world was in dispute.

"Since the politics of the Han Dynasty caused turmoil in the world, I want to focus on Anzhou County, but I think it will be against the Han Dynasty, so that the four directions can be at peace, the hearts of the people can be settled, and things will come true!"

"The three chapters of today's agreement are all contrary to the law of violence!"

"First, the taxation of the Han Dynasty is heavy, so that starvation is everywhere. I lightly pay and pay less, and wipe out the gates of Jiangdong!"

This first one surprised and amazed all the tyrants.

Eliminate the Jiangdong portal!That is, no poll tax will be imposed on everyone!

This is indeed great news for powerful families and even ordinary people.Previously, only scholars from aristocratic clans had this treatment.

Everyone looked at Sun Ce expectantly. They eagerly wanted to know how Sun Lang planned to govern without collecting household taxes.

But the second one immediately plunged them into unparalleled shock and ecstasy.

"The second article, the Han Dynasty suppresses development, and I will not establish the land system!"

But before the tyrants' surprise erupted, Sun Ce suddenly drew out his long knife and cut off the table in front of him with a single stroke. The sharp blade made the hairs of the ecstatic tycoons stand on end in an instant, and their whole bodies were chilled.

Sun Ce looked down at everyone, paused every word, and said in a stern tone: "There is one last thing, tax evaders die!"

The tyrants' faces immediately turned serious, and they didn't dare to look sideways.At this moment, Sun Lang was as violent as a tiger, and his heroic spirit was even far superior to that of Gaozu. All the tyrants had a sense of death oppression in the tiger's mouth.

All the people in the room were instantly engraved with the third article, and they were sure that if they evaded taxes, they would definitely face Sun Lang's butcher knife.

But looking at such a heroic and powerful general, the tyrants really don't have the courage to resist.

And under this terrifying and murderous aura, the tyrants also felt a little secretly happy, even ecstatic!
As we all know, the great Han has always restricted the powerful, and the 400 years of the Great Han are the 400 years of fierce struggle between the royal family and the powerful.

Tyrants were killed, restricted, and targeted, and every day felt like a cold light on their backs, like sitting on pins and needles.

And Sun Lang will go all out today, and will not set up the land system!This is ruling the country with leniency, how can it be unpopular?
Regarding these three items, Sun Ce also has very firm confidence.

In fact, these three items can all be summarized into one, that is, the purpose of the two tax laws is to focus on assets, not personal status.

This is also the main direction of the tax law reform in the Central Plains for thousands of years, that is, to abolish the head-based tax standard based on rent and mediocrity, and to collect taxes based on land and assets.

Among them, the second one that surprises the tyrants the most is the non-establishment system, which is exactly the opposite of the suppression of mergers that the big man has been promoting.

The tyrants were full of novelty for a while, but Sun Ce didn't make any waves.

Because there is no land system, it boils down to allowing the free circulation of land. The Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties were all implementing it. The principle is that "the rich and the poor have no fixed situation, and the fields and houses have no fixed owner. Sell"

Of course, even without considering the experience of later generations, the current population of Jiangnan may only be between 100 million and 200 million, but it occupies millions of square kilometers of land. In this actual situation, what needs to be considered to curb mergers?
The later feudal dynasties of this land supported tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people.There are only one or two million people at the moment, so how can the powerful merge.

After all, there are people in the business of beheading, but no one in the business of losing money.Merging so much land and no one to cultivate it, what is the benefit except paying more taxes?
On the other hand, Sun Ce did not like the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy.

Agricultural technology has advanced by leaps and bounds in history, and the dynasty with the fastest development in farming level was the Song Dynasty, which took the lead in eliminating the land system.

The most famous ones in the Song Dynasty were the manors and the outsiders. They had their own farms, which were classified as the main households, and hired customers with impermanent production for farming and production.

Under this mode of production, large manor owners have improved their farming techniques one after another, which has led to the rapid development of agricultural production.

To be reasonable, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty are completely false successors.The Eastern Han Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty were the real father and son.

The systems of the two dynasties are very similar. In terms of economy, the manor economy is the mainstay. In the military, both dynasties implement the recruitment system. Even in terms of industry and commerce, the two dynasties are very similar. The sea is salt.A family gathers a crowd, or more than a thousand people.

What's even more coincidental is that both dynasties lasted for two dynasties, and their combined duration accounted for half of the duration of all unified dynasties.Counting the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the duration of these two dynasties exceeded one-third.

With so many coincidences, people have to think about whether there is any necessary connection among them.

In Sun Ce's view, regardless of whether he likes it or not, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the powerful manor economy was already the economic basis of factual existence.

If he insists on destroying this economic model and redoing the equalization and granting of land, he will be doomed to be the enemy of all the tyrants, causing the world's tyrants to revolt.

If there is not an extremely powerful new force behind him, such as the Guanlong Military Group, it is impossible to crush the countless tyrants in the world.

Therefore, instead of confronting all the tyrants, it is better to further improve the manor economy and set up a corresponding tax system.

An important reason for the disunity of the Han Dynasty was that the tax system was seriously out of touch with the manor economy. On the one hand, wealth such as fields, houses, and real estate were in the hands of the powerful, and on the other hand, the government was still desperately collecting harsh poll taxes on the small people.

In the Tang Dynasty, the two tax laws were implemented for the first time, and taxes were collected according to assets. After the implementation of the two tax laws, the wealth collected within two years even far exceeded the taxes collected by the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years after the founding of the country, the rule of Zhenguan, and the prosperity of Kaiyuan. lump sum.

Of course, since ancient times, both China and foreign countries have faced the same problem, that is, "Those who are able to pay taxes are also able to not pay taxes!"

Therefore, after the establishment of the land system, the most important thing is taxation!
The death of tax evaders is an iron law that Sun Ce must establish.Just like the heinous crime, the perpetrator will be killed immediately.

Sun Ce said solemnly to everyone: "Jiangnan is in ruins, with a population of only one million. Even if the land is granted equally and all people are taxed ten times heavier, it is only more than [-]% of the tax of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, I exempt households Fu, nuclear field taxation. Field tax will be the only agricultural taxation."

While everyone was thinking about it, Sun Ce helped them do the math: "There is no land system in Jiangdong, you can have thousands of acres of fertile land, or even tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. Even if you pay a tax, you can still get several times or even ten times the wealth." , A hundred times more than today."

"Ten times, a hundred times richer than today! The benefits are so different that even a Mengtong can see them at a glance. So I hope you can distinguish the pros and cons, and don't give up this hundred times wealth, glory and wealth for petty gains. Tax evaders die, This is the iron law!"

"At the same time, those who report tax evasion can get half of their tax money! The government will share it with them."

The last one immediately made all the tyrants take a deep breath, only feeling the chill behind their backs.

There are a large number of guests and parties in each of their homes. Once they evade taxes, they will be reported by one of these people.

Their tens of millions of wealth, thousands of hectares of fertile land, and beautiful wives and concubines all get half of the score for this whistleblower.But they themselves were decapitated and thrown into the wilderness to feed the dogs.

If this is the case, all the other people in the clan will benefit from the matter of tax evasion, and only Hao Qiang bears all the risks and consequences.

Tyrants are naturally not stupid enough to do such a thing.

Someone immediately asked: "Then how does Sun Lang plan to collect agricultural taxes? Is it collected as a well or in kind?"

The taxation system in the Central Plains has always been relatively chaotic. The well field system divides one mu of land into nine blocks, like a nine-square grid. The surrounding eight blocks are classified as private fields, and the middle block is public land.The grain produced in private fields belongs to the common people, while the grain produced in public lands is taxed.

Levying objects is more popular at present.For example, each commoner has to hand in a piece of cloth every year.In Cao Cao's farming, the officials weighed the grain produced per mu of land and levied taxes according to the actual grain produced.

But these taxation schemes are too troublesome to count.

So Sun Ce said: "I plan to implement a whipping method, combining all household taxes, taxes, and miscellaneous labors into one, and taxing on the basis of mu. The tax is fixed for each mu of land, and the number of fields is paid according to the number of mu. "

This law saves a lot of messy taxes, and does not engage in any progressive tax system.A thousand mu of fertile land in the hands of the common people pays the same tax as a thousand mu of fertile land in the hands of the powerful.

A lot of officials can be saved, and the tax officials only need to do one thing now, which is to check how many acres there are in the powerful family.

It can not only improve the tax system, but also save small officials from disturbing the people.

As for the amount of tax per mu of land, it cannot be decided now.

After all, Sun Ce's power now counts Wu County, and the territory he controls does not exceed five counties.Almost nothing is known about the population, acres of land, and production in the territory. At least they have to wait for Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and other virtuous officials to check it out before they can make a decision.

When the banquet was over, the departing tyrants were all excited.It is even more firm in his belief that he must persuade relatives and friends in the county to fully support Sun Lang in occupying Wu County and implementing the rule of Huang Lao.Now even if Liu Yao comes back, the tyrants will try their best to resist and firmly support Sun Lang.

This is the rule of Huang Lao!Light corvee and light taxation, governing by doing nothing, is the best way to recuperate, and the government almost doesn't care about anything except taxation. It is definitely a blessing for all Wu County tycoons.

That's right, the tyrants who left talked and exchanged, and they all agreed that what Sun Lang implemented was not a new law, but a restoration of the rule of Huang Lao in the early Han Dynasty.

Sun Ce's three chapters of the agreement, you can say that he has changed drastically, completely subverting the Han Dynasty's long-standing philosophy of governing the country.

But on the other hand, you can say that Sun Ce has almost done nothing.It's just a light payment and a thin tax, and then admits the economic foundation of the big man's objective existence today.

If after the Three Kingdoms period, there had not been the Five Husbands, Xianbei had not re-introduced the land equalization system since the Spring and Autumn Period, prohibiting the free circulation of land.As long as the big Han carried out a tax reform similar to the two tax laws, the economic system of the Eastern Han Dynasty should directly transition to the manor economic form of the Song Dynasty, and at least it was at the level of the late Tang Dynasty.

It can only be said that a series of coincidences such as Emperor Ling's mediocrity, Dong Zhuo's brutality, and Yuan Shao's ambition came together, ruining the possibility of the great man's final revival.

Of course, if there are so many coincidences, there must be some inevitability behind them.

Even if there were no Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shao, there would still be Wang Zhuo and Li Shao, a powerful border county or aristocratic family, who would attack the rule of the Han Dynasty.

In the end, there will either be a Liu Xiu, a Wang Mang, or a Sima Yi in the powerful and aristocratic family, who will come out to end the dispute and establish a new dynasty.

During this period, the aristocratic clans, tyrants, and common people in the Central Plains were all severely injured in the chaos of war, and none of the common people survived.The world only wanted to recuperate, and even had no desire to acquire land, and then ushered in a so-called "prosperous age".

This kind of prosperous age is not even as good as Zhongxing in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. At least after the implementation of the two-tax law in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River really developed rapidly.The entire Tang court relied on taxes from the southeast, and it was for the first time that Han Yu said that "today's taxes come from all over the world, and Jiangnan occupies the nineteenth place".

The famous official Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty who wrote the Song of Everlasting Regret went a step further, bluntly saying that "today's state use is more in the south of the Yangtze River, and the southern states of Suzhou are the largest."

Suzhou is the Wu county where Sun Ce is now.

Sun Ce can even boast that as long as the free flow of land is allowed, the tax laws adapted to it are reformed, and Wu County is well developed, the wealth in Jiangnan will not only rank nine out of ten in the world, but also realize the first southward shift of the economic center .At least the taxation is comparable to the entire broken north, no problem.

Of course, this policy is still in its infancy, and it is impossible to build the entire Jiangdong governance system with just three words from Sun Ce.More critical is how to improve governance in the future.Get on the horse to rule the army, and get off the horse to rule the people.In the future, he will be dismounted and govern the people for decades, but he will not be idle in the court every day. The key to governance is to build a complete governance system.

So when the tyrants left, Sun Ce began to work on the governance and development of Wu County.

To govern Wu County, there are two most important points. First, implement Sun Ce's philosophy of governing the country, and second, select talents and talents, and appoint a virtuous minister as the county magistrate of Wu County.

This is why Sun Ce must seize a large number of county towns before Zhu Zhi.

Even the old officials of the monarch and ministers have to exchange certain interests.

Sun Ce said to Zhu Zhi: "Mr. Zhu has been in Wu County for a long time, and he is very popular. I also ask Mr. Zhu to set up a county mansion, act as a prefect, and govern the entire Wu County. Appease the counties such as Qu'a, Dantu, and Wuxi that my army has conquered."

Zhu Zhi got up immediately, and solemnly bowed his hands: "I will inspire myself, move things and move the wind, and help the general capture Wuhui, occupy Jiangdong, and regard it as the foundation of the king and hegemony."

Sun Ce nodded in satisfaction. No wonder Zhu Zhi was deeply used by Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan in history, and he was quite popular.He is indeed able to advance and retreat, and can be diligent in doing things.

He cooperated with Sun Ce's thoughts very tacitly.Sun Ce respected him as the prefect of Wujun, and handed over all the counties to him for supervision, and he enjoyed all the powers of the prefect of Wujun.You can form the Wujun county government on your own, and appoint and dismiss the subordinate officials.It is also possible to govern the people and promote the virtuous, that is, to recommend filial piety and honesty, to recruit subordinate officials, and so on.

As a county guard, he can send a post to be in charge of picketing the counties and supervising the officials and people in the county.It is also possible to set up three elders to help promote administrative implementation and enlightenment.It is also possible to set up Gongcao to take charge of all personnel affairs in the county, and Tiancao to take charge of and guide the agricultural production in the county and so on.

But at the same time, in return, he also clearly respected Sun Ce, never crossed the line, and returned the right to appoint county magistrates to Sun Ce.

If Yuan Shu could have Sun Ce's kindness and appoint Sun Ce as the prefect of Lujiang, he would definitely not be able to force away his most capable general!As long as Sun Ce is still under his command, why was he beaten by Cao Cao and Lu Bu in various ways?
　Thanks to the book friend Zhan 6 Jiang and Zi Mu for the 500 starting coins

　　
　
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