The road to immortality for a hundred generations

Chapter 90 Sustainable Development
Tianyang County is getting better day by day, which is obvious to all the residents of Tianyang County.

In just half a year, nearly one-third of the civilians who were struggling to make ends meet can now at least have enough to eat.

For foreign caravans, the biggest change in Tianyang County is not the new bridge outside the city or the renovated houses in the city, but that the beggars that can be seen everywhere are almost gone.

After questioning, they learned that almost all the beggars in Tianyang County were forcibly taken away by the government to serve in corvee labor.

However, unlike most people who even need to bring their own meals, the corvees in Tianyang County are paid twenty copper coins every day.

Although the wages of ordinary residents for doing corvee work is [-] cents, which is twice as much as that of beggars.

But for the beggars, at least they can have enough to eat, and they can also earn a lot of wages.

You know, some apprentice handymen only earn one or twenty copper coins a day, and some even only get food and accommodation.

If beggars want to receive normal wages, they need to serve for three years. At that time, they will obtain civilian status, a house and a piece of land donated by the government, and become ordinary residents of Tianyang County.

There is food to eat, wages to pay, and a house and land after three years of work. This kind of treatment is envied by civilians in other counties, let alone a beggar.

While the beggars in Tianyang County can live a good life, ordinary residents will naturally live a better life.

Things like free replacement of new houses, reduced tax rates, no tax for the elderly, low-price schools, martial arts gyms, etc., made the caravan merchants who came to Tianyang County so envious that they bit their teeth to pieces.

They also had the idea of ​​settling in Tianyang County. At the same time, because of their mobility, the various benefits of Tianyang County were also spread to surrounding counties with them.

Population is the primary productive force.

Officials and wealthy businessmen who were born in ancient times may not understand very well. They just think that common people are like leeks. Once they are cut, there will be another one. They don't take ordinary civilians as the same thing at all, but Wang Feng understands.

Under his guidance, Tianyang County has a series of immigration benefits.

For example, the first year after moving to Cheonyang County is completely tax-free, and the first three years are partially tax-free, etc.

Of course, Tianyang County has also added benefits for the new population. One child will be exempted from the poll tax for ten years, and two children will be able to stack up.

For example, if a couple gives birth to twins, they will not have to pay any poll tax for the next ten years.

As for having three children, what should I do if the poll tax is no longer exempt?
Simple, directly reward silver, and one extra person will be rewarded with two taels of silver.

Generally speaking, Dawei has five types of taxes.

The first is a poll tax levied based on population.

This tax is generally targeted at civilians and has nothing to do with wealthy businessmen.

The second is property taxes charged on a household basis.

This tax mainly targeted wealthy businessmen, but also incidentally targeted civilians living in poverty.

The third is land tax based on land.

This tax is not only targeted at civilians, but also at wealthy businessmen. After all, the richer the wealthy businessmen, the more fields they have.

The fourth type is business tax collected on the basis of doing business.

This tax targets small traders and wealthy businessmen.

The fifth type is service, which includes corvee service, military service and other local exorbitant taxes.

For now, Tianyang County has not made any changes regarding the second type of property tax, and everything else has changed.

It's just a change for the better.Not to mention the benefits of lowering land tax, commercial tax, and reducing certain poll taxes, the changes to the fifth type of service alone have made many civilians who were afraid of corvee and military service relax and no longer resist so much. .

In fact, it is very simple. It is nothing more than paying wages for corvee service, including food and accommodation, and the benefits of military service are improved.

Originally, the governor of Tianyang County and the six major forces felt that such an operation would definitely increase expenditures and reduce profits in the coming year.

What people did not expect was that in the first half of the year, the overall income decreased as expected, but in the second half of the year, Tianyang County's overall income actually had a breakthrough compared to previous years!
Although the increase in income is not much compared to previous years, it was achieved under a series of new regulations that significantly increased expenditures and reduced taxes.

After a year of observation, the government and the six families also discovered that the reason why they were able to achieve an increase in income despite a huge increase in expenditure was because everyone worked harder and took more trouble.

The road was not easy to walk originally. There were no bridges in many river areas, so we had to take a long detour.

As time costs go up, merchants can only make up for their losses by raising the price of goods.

Now the time required for each trip between major counties and Tianyang County is gradually reduced, and they can complete the purchase and sale of goods faster.

In previous years, even if profits were high, they would not lower the price of goods for no reason, they would only put more money into their pockets.

But things are different now. There is a grandmaster above them, and the Gao family, who represents the grandmaster's wishes, acts as a messenger and supervisor. They can only follow the grandmaster's wishes and only collect a limited profit.

In addition, the residents of Tianyang County worked harder.

"Wang Wu! You can personally take people down to check and find out why this year's land tax revenue was obviously reduced by half, but the tax collected was actually [-]% more than in previous years."

In the Tianyang County Sheriff's Mansion, Sheriff Du frowned and stared at the tax account book in front of him, and said in a serious tone, "I want to see if someone deliberately fails to implement the new county regulations for the sake of good official performance."

If the tax is [-]%, the yield per mu will be two hundred catties.

Under normal circumstances, the subordinate counties should take 110%, which is [-] jins, of which [-] jins are kept for personal use and the other [-] jins are turned over to Tianyang County.

Tianyang County will keep fifty catties for its own use, and the other fifty catties will be handed over to the imperial city.

But some officials, in order to highlight the prosperity of the local people under their management, imagined a bad idea.

First, increase taxes on farmers, from [-]% to [-]%.

In this way, one acre of land can get 140 kilograms of tax, and then all of it is turned over, claiming that this is [-]% of the tax on one acre of land.

In this way, it is equivalent to saying that the yield of one's own county government's fields per mu is 280 kilograms.

If they had not sent people to conduct field inspections, the superiors would not have discovered any problems at all. They would have thought that the county magistrate was able to produce 280 kilograms of land with an average yield of [-] kilograms per mu. He was really good at governance and was a rare talent. .

Finally, favor the other party and promote his position.

The fact is that the increased taxes in subordinate counties were too high for farmers to bear, and they ended up selling their land to landowners and working for others.

Over time, although the landlords will not be able to make money due to high taxes, they will at least be able to control a large number of apprentices.

But ordinary people only sell their fields, land, houses, wives, and children. In the end, they have nothing, and even having enough to eat becomes a luxury.

"Subordinates take orders."

Wang Wu responded, bowed respectfully and left.

　The next chapter will be released. I deleted the comments about the poor sales, but I am indeed about to go to the factory to drive screws.

　　If you like it, I hope you can support me. I really can’t sustain it anymore.

　　
　
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