Sign In a Lu Bu Fengxian at the Beginning

In the past few days, the inside and outside of the courthouse gradually settled down.

After several months of turmoil, Da Zhou also ushered in a few days of stability.

However, many people know that such a stable situation may not last long.

The one on the dragon chair who first cleaned the court and then killed the family was obviously not a master who could melt sand in his eyes.

The Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Xiliang respected their own troops, listened to the propaganda but not the tune, and twice prevaricates the holy will.

According to the temperament of the person on the dragon chair recently, it is impossible to be indifferent to the actions of the Marquis of Zhenbei and the Marquis of Xiliang.

Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zhou Chen sat on the throne of the dragon chair and listened to the reports of Lu Bu and Cao Zhengchun.

The end of the year is approaching.

Lu Bu and Cao Zhengchun also returned to Luoyang one after another.

After listening to the reports of Lv Bu and Cao Zhengchun, Zhou Chen looked at Cao Zhengchun; "How do you say, the Yuan family, the Zheng family, the Fan family, the three families made preparations and secretly let some young children flee outside the gate?"

Cao Zhengchun nodded; "Yes, Your Majesty."

"When Dongchang reacts, it's too late to send someone to chase him."

"So, the remnants of the three families have all escaped from the customs."

Cao Zhengchun said.

Zhou Chen pondered for a while, and said to Lv Bu and Cao Zhengchun, "Go down and rest first!"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Lu Bu and Cao Zhengchun left the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Zhou Chen didn't pay much attention to the fact that the remnants of the three great families escaped from the border.

Perhaps, these remnants may bring some trouble to Zhou Chen.

But in Zhou Chen's view, as long as his strength is strong enough, this trouble is nothing.

These remnants who escaped from the pass can escape the monks but not the temple. Sooner or later, they have to go down to reunite with the people from the three major families.

A few minutes after Lu Bu and Cao Zhengchun left, a factory guard came in to report.

"Your Majesty, Xun Shangshu is asking to see you outside the hall."

"Let him in."

Zhou Chen said lightly.

The factory guard bowed and stepped back.

After a while.

Xun Yu walked into the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"Chen Xun Yu has seen His Majesty."

Xun Yu walked into the Hall of Mental Cultivation and bowed respectfully to Zhou Chen on the dragon chair.

"Wenruo needn't be more polite."

Zhou Chen raised his eyes and looked at Xun Yu; "How is the household affairs handled, what's the problem?"

Before, Liu Yeqing found out a lot of problems in the Ministry of Household. After Xun Yu, the Minister of the Household, took office, these problems had to be dealt with by Xun Yu, the Minister of the Household.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, I have already dealt with all the problems of the Ministry of Household."

"However, as the New Year is approaching, taxes from various places have been reported to the Ministry of Households successively. Compared with last year, Dazhou's taxes this year have been reduced by more than 30%."

Xun Yu said with a sigh.

After Xun Yu joined the household department, he spent a lot of time learning about most of the household's situation.

Especially the annual tax situation of the Ministry of Household, Xun Yu took the situation as the key to understand.

After all, taxation is the most important lifeblood of a country.

If there is any problem with the tax, it will affect the operation of the whole week.

After learning about Da Zhou's annual tax situation, Xun Yu felt very heavy.

Xun Yu did not expect that Da Zhou's tax revenue was declining every year.

In particular, this year's tax has been directly reduced by more than 40% compared with last year.

This made Xun Yu have to go to the palace immediately to face the saint.

"Reduced by more than 30%?"

Zhou Chen frowned.

Taxation is the foundation of a country, and it is a concrete manifestation of measuring whether a country is prosperous or not.

In layman's terms, a country can only do other things when it receives sufficient taxes.

Without adequate taxation, the country is poor and backward.

"What's the reason?" Zhou Chen asked.

Zhou Chen knew that the four northern states suffered a severe drought this year, and Zhou Chen exempted the four northern states from taxes for three years.

But even without the taxation of the four northern states, Dazhou's taxation cannot be directly reduced by more than 30%!

Without the taxes of the four northern states, Da Zhou's taxes would be reduced by less than 20% at most.

But now Dazhou's tax has been directly reduced by more than 30%, so what is the matter with the reduced tax by more than 10%?

Xun Yu took out a memorial and handed it to Zhou Chen; "Your Majesty, please read it."

This is part of the reason why Xun Yu's investigation found that the tax was lowered.

As the Minister of the Household, Xun Yu immediately investigated the reason after discovering the tax reduction.

This investigation allowed Xun Yu to discover the seriousness of the problem.

If these problems are not resolved, Dazhou's tax revenue may decline afterward.

Zhou Chen opened the memorial and glanced at it, his face became more and more ugly.

Dazhou implements the land-equalization system.

What is the equalization system?

That is, Da Zhou distributed the land equally to the common people.

Then the people cultivated the land, and Dazhou collected taxes according to the population.

How many people there are in the family, the imperial court collects as much tax.

It has nothing to do with how much food is grown or anything else.

This land system has many advantages. If it does not encounter natural and man-made disasters, it can greatly promote the prosperity of Dazhou.

How many years of Da Zhou can be passed down is inseparable from the land-equalization system.

However, the land-equalization system also has one of the biggest drawbacks.

That is the tax exemption for the privileged class.

Some wealthy families, children of officials, and clan landlords all have the right to tax exemption.

In other words, even if these people have more land in their hands, they still enjoy this privilege and do not have to pay taxes to the imperial court.

This privilege has existed in all dynasties and cannot be avoided.

Even Zhou Chen knew that this kind of privilege could not be easily eliminated.

If you just have this privilege, it's not a big problem.

After all, the privileged are the minority.

The most people in this world are ordinary people.

Ninety percent of the people in the world are common people.

As long as these people pay taxes, it will not shake the foundation of Da Zhou.

It's just that Dazhou has been inherited for hundreds of years, and the system of equal land system has been implemented for hundreds of years.

For hundreds of years, the group of people who had been allocated the land had long since died.

And their descendants, after hundreds of years, perhaps due to various reasons, the land in their hands gradually fell into the hands of the family landlords.

When land is in the hands of aristocratic landlords, it becomes their land. Those with privileges do not have to pay taxes to the imperial court.

Thus.

The land is still the original land.

But it has become a tax-free zone for family landlords.

The taxation of the imperial court was virtually missing a piece.

In the long run, hundreds of years have passed.

The taxes collected by the imperial court naturally decreased.

The small part naturally fell into the hands of the landlords of the aristocratic families.

This is the so-called wealthy family, while enjoying the privileges, they are still digging the foundation of Dazhou, annexing and occupying Dazhou's land.

Zhou Chen looked at the memorial that Xun Yu handed over, with a gloomy expression on his face.

The imperial court gave these aristocratic families all kinds of comfort. All kinds of subsidies, especially this kind of class privilege, can hardly be regarded as preferential treatment.

But how did these aristocratic families report to the court?

invaded and annexed the land of the people.

He enjoys the privileges of the court, digs the foundation of the court, and competes with the court for tax revenue.

That's what aristocratic families do.

Zhou Chen knew that in all dynasties and dynasties, there was no shortage of this kind of occupation and annexation of the land of the common people.

Especially in the latter part of the dynasties, this kind of thing is the most serious.

This is also one of the most important reasons for the demise of all dynasties.

Zhou Chen did not expect that Da Zhou's land was also annexed and occupied to such a serious extent.

If the common people have no land, they can only help the crops under the wealthy family.

The common people help the wealthy family to cultivate the land, and the wealthy family squeezes the labor force of the common people while enhancing the strength of the wealthy family.

Over time, the wealthy and powerful families will become stronger and stronger, and the imperial court will become weaker and weaker without enough tax revenue.

If things go on like this, what will be the consequences?

Needless to say, Zhou Chen knew it better than anyone else.

Da Zhou has also declined to the extreme in this direction.

Just a little bit, I am afraid that it is walking in the footsteps of the past dynasties and heading towards extinction.

This is no longer a simple land annexation and taxation.

This is an issue that concerns the foundation of the Great Zhou and shakes the country of the Great Zhou.

It is precisely because these aristocratic families have such privileges that Dazhou is divided into one country, China.

The local people only know the wealthy and powerful family, but do not know the majesty of the Great Zhou court.

There are other reasons for the reduction of tax revenue in Xun Yu's memorial, such as the salt tax issue in the imperial court, which also has a lot to do with the wealthy family.

In a word, that is, those taxes lowered by the imperial court have entered the pockets of private individuals.

Zhou Chen's eyes flickered, thinking about these questions.

These problems must be resolved.

Otherwise, it would be an empty talk to want ZTE Dazhou.

Besides, if you want ZTE Dazhou, you can't get around these problems.

But in order to solve these problems, the first thing to do is to eliminate the privilege of tax exemption for family landowners.

These lands can only be taxed if the tax-exempt privilege of the family landowner is eliminated.

Zhou Chen is not afraid of the aristocratic wealthy family annexing and occupying the land, what he is afraid of is the tax-exempt right of the aristocratic landlord.

Zhou Chen raised his eyes and looked at Xun Yu; "Xun Yu, taxation is the foundation of the country, and only with the taxation court can we do other things."

"Now, Dazhou's taxes are decreasing every year. If things go on like this, this is a problem that shakes Dazhou's foundation."

"How do you think this matter should be resolved?"

Zhou Chen looked at Xun Yu and asked seriously.

Xun Yu pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, if you want to solve the tax problem, you must first solve the problem of land annexation in Dazhou."

"Half of my tax revenue comes from land."

"So, the minister believes that the privilege of exempting Dazhou's land from taxation should be eliminated."

"At the same time, we will investigate the annexed and occupied lands in the world of Great Zhou."

"Redistribute these annexed and occupied lands to the people for cultivation."

"Also, other taxes have to be revised and checked again..."

Xun Yu said one by one what was in his heart.

Xun Yu had already prepared for these questions when he entered the palace to face the saint.

Now that Zhou Chen asked about it, Xun Yu almost pondered for a while, and said it all without thinking about it.

After listening to Xun Yu's suggestions, Zhou Chen nodded; "Xun Yu, your suggestions are all good."

"You're right. If you want to solve the problem of taxation, you must first solve the problem of land."

"However, these problems cannot be solved all at once."

"I gave you a task to measure the land in the world."

"Whether it's the land of the common people or the land of the landowners of aristocratic families, it must be measured into a book, counted, and recorded clearly, and it can't be wrong at all."

"I would like to see how much land that does not need to be taxed now occupies the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

As soon as the words came out.

Xun Yu's face changed.

Measure the land of the world?

Isn't it an inventory of those annexed and occupied lands?

What is your majesty doing?

Xun Yu couldn't believe it, the emperor Zhou Chen simply wanted to know how much land Da Zhou did not need to pay taxes on.

Since His Majesty's purpose is not that simple.

Then what is the real purpose of His Majesty to measure the land in the world?

In the blink of an eye, a light flashed in Xun Yu's mind.

Does His Majesty want to take over the land of the world?

Thinking of this, Xun Yu's face became a little solemn.

If Zhou Chen is really for this purpose, then this matter is no trivial matter.

Reclaim the land of the world.

The resistance of those people would not be too great.

But aristocratic families are different.

For aristocratic families, land can be regarded as the foundation for aristocratic families to truly survive.

To take back the land of aristocratic families, isn't that just digging the foundations of aristocratic families?

The wealthy family will definitely not agree.

At that time, the resistance of the aristocratic families is not ordinary.

Maybe it's no exaggeration for the crazy things that aristocratic families will do.

"Does Your Majesty want to reclaim the land of the world?"

Xun Yu asked cautiously.

Zhou Chen shook his head; "The resistance to reclaiming the land is too great~www.wuxiahere.com~ Even if my blade is sharper, there is no reason to reclaim the land that originally belonged to the landowners of the noble family."

"I can't do that either."

"I asked you to measure the land in the world in order to reform the taxation. In the future, the land will be cultivated and the tax will be collected according to the amount of land."

Zhou Chen's words made Xun Yu's eyes flash with light.

However, Xun Yu's brows furrowed again.

Taxes are collected according to the amount of land. If the land is not cultivated, then there will be no taxation?

If so, the problem would be even more serious.

Zhou Chen seemed to see what Xun Yu was thinking, and said, "This matter is only my preliminary expectation. How to reform the taxation, and how to collect the tax according to the amount of land, I have to convene the ministers to discuss it."

"You first measure the land in the world for me, collect the data, and I will let the East Factory cooperate with you."

Zhou Chen knows that it is not so easy to measure the land in the world.

There should also be resistance.

It is estimated that the wealthy family will not cooperate easily.

However, compared with these problems, just measuring the land, the resistance will not be much.

With the assistance of Dongchang, it should not be too difficult.

"The minister obeys the order."

Xun Yu bowed to the order.

Afterwards, Xun Yu reported to Zhou Chen some other circumstances of the household and left the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Measuring the world's land, this is not a simple matter.

Xun Yu quickly went back to make a good plan.

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