"Okay, we're going to the next step next. I think we can try to change the current tax base." Jing Wen said.

"Change the tax base? What's the point?" asked Ma Zhou.

Jing Wen explained: "Originally, the tax foundation of our Tang Dynasty was based on the tax foundation of renting and mediocre reconciliation. The tax foundation was based on the tax foundation of people, which means that everyone was born and once they became an adult, they had to pay agricultural tax. In other words, every citizen had to pay agricultural tax, and this tax system was calculated based on the population. The problem came, that is, no matter whether everyone had more land or less land, they would pay the same tax. If the people had no land in the future, how could they afford it? I also told the emperor that the development of Jiangnan was the reason for the long-term stability of my Tang Dynasty. The equal-field system of my Tang Dynasty probably would not last long! Therefore, the current tax foundation must be changed, and the population should not be used as the basis of tax. I think it is better to build the tax foundation on the land."

The Tang Dynasty implemented the equal-land system, so theoretically, every citizen has land that can be granted by the state as soon as they are born. However, the land remains unchanged, and the population continues to increase. In a short time, the population will be restored and the land will become less and less. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty had another even more deceptive thing, which was that it would not inhibit land annexation, which would cause the land to become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. In the end, the people had no land to obtain, so they naturally could not bear taxes.

However, the Tang Dynasty's rent and mediocre remediation were all based on the population, which means that no matter whether you have land or not, you have to pay taxes. This is the obligation of the population. In this way, in the early years of the founding of the country, the population was small and almost every citizen could obtain land, so that everyone could certainly afford it. If decades of land annexation become more and more serious, then in the end, people without land could not bear the tax system with population as unit of measurement, so they would evade taxes and flee. Even finally, they would rise up.

Now that Jiangnan has been developed, Jiangnan also requires a large population. However, this is a long-term process. Without a population, Jiangnan development will not be carried out for a long time. As for the next step, we must mobilize the people to go to Jiangnan to make a living, but this process is also very difficult. After all, it is also an important question for the Chinese people to live well in the Central Plains, the flower world. Why do we have to live in the remote area of ​​Jiangnan? Jiangnan in this era is not the Jiangnan that has been developed into a hometown of fish and rice in later generations. When we arrive there, we have to start all over again, and there are almost no supporting facilities. This is a headache!

Therefore, Jingwen must find a way to let the people pass, and the best way is to "force". If you don't use real life to force them, the people will not think about the past. Jingwen may not necessarily think that land inter-region is not good, it depends on your governing thinking. If the governing thinking is just to be in vain, then of course it is best to curb land annexation. But if the land annexation is used well, it can completely transform the pressure of domestic land annexation into the driving force for expanding territory from the outside. This is true for the Chinese people, and as long as they have a bite, they will not easily rebel. And the ancient Chinese emperors and ministers would not vent this pressure from the outside due to this or that.

If ancient Chinese emperors could be good at guiding the people to strive for external development when the domestic land annexation was the most powerful, allowing the people to strive for external development, and even colonize the army. In this way, China could completely use the pressure of land annexation to expand its territory. However, China has a deceptive class, that is, the literati and doctor class. They opposed foreign wars and expanded their territory. Because this would increase the power of the five generals. Therefore, they would rather digest the pressure of land annexation internally than expand their territory. In the end, the pressure of land annexation is getting greater and greater, and they could only force the people to rebel. But if the people can be guided to explore the outside world during land annexation, then the pressure is probably not the ruler himself, but the foreigner.

After all, Chinese farmers were willing to do anything for the land. Even if they could make them fight to the death. If the rulers at that time were good at using this and let these poor people who had only one life stayed to expand their territory, they might have had a miraculous effect. And they were probably the bravest to kill the enemy, because they could fight bravely for the land. This is the principle of turning internal pressure into foreign countries, but the ancient Chinese emperors and officials couldn't learn it. This has to be said to be a tragedy. If ancient emperors and officials could use this method, the country might not be able to maintain long-term stability and change the consequences of chaos and governance.

"Ma Zhou, what I meant was very obvious just now, that is, by counting the population of Mengjin County, and then changing the taxes for these populations. That is, spreading the taxes that the population needs to pay onto Mengjin County's land. That is, using the taxes that the population needs to pay by dividing by the number of land acres, so that the number to be paid per acre of land will be obtained." Jing Wen said.

But Ma Zhou saw this plan and said, "Is this interesting to do it? Doing this does not seem to increase much taxes to us, nor does it reduce the burden on the people. Is this interesting? Is it a bit of taking off my pants... Well, I won't say it anymore, I mean that I mean it anyway."

"Do you think I fart when taking off my pants? This is not that simple." Jing Wen said.

Jingwen's policy actually seems to be of no use. The superior cannot increase taxes to the government, and the subordinate cannot reduce the burden on the people. Because now most people are people who own land, their land is basically the same. Therefore, even if the taxes that all the population has to pay equally on the land, the numbers obtained are the same. The taxes received by the government are the same, which is meaningless. The people seem to have not reduced the burden because the taxes they need to pay are the same, and they have not reduced.
Chapter completed!