Xiaoyao Mountain Villa of Douluo

Chapter 394 Emperor Xin's Reform

At the court meeting, Di Xin slowly got down from his seat, and said to the ministers: "My dear friends, I have decided to build this deer platform with [-] slaves, and the [-] slaves except the old You can leave the rest.” When the ministers heard Di Xin’s words, they didn’t feel that there was much strangeness in the other party. After all, it was normal to use three thousand slaves to build a deer platform, and it was even a bit rare.

Then, Di Xin said: "However, the slaves who built the deer platform are different. When they build the deer platform, they can eat two meals a day for free."

"What!" Everyone was surprised when they heard Di Xin's words. You must know that only high-ranking officials and nobles like them can enjoy three meals a day, while ordinary people can only eat two meals a day, and slaves eat a day. For one meal, some vassal states did not even give slaves one meal a day, but Di Xin actually allowed slaves to be treated like poor people, wouldn't it be a mess!

"Your Majesty, don't!" A minister came out suddenly and said to Di Xin.Di Xin took a look, ha, the other party is the minister in charge of the treasury.Seeing the other party's objection, Di Xin asked, "But my Dashang treasury can't support [-] slaves?"

The minister immediately said after hearing Di Xin's words: "Yes." Because when Emperor Yi was in power, Emperor Yi Zhongxing appeared in the Shang Dynasty, so the treasury of Dashang was still very rich at this time.

Di Xin asked: "Then why can't slaves be given two meals a day?" After Di Xin finished speaking, he looked at the minister gloomyly.

After the minister saw Di Xin's expression, he felt a little uneasy, and at the same time secretly regretted his actions just now. If the king does this, won’t the system be in disorder? The people and nobles of the world will be disappointed?”

After hearing what the minister said, Di Xin didn't even look at him, returned to his seat, and said, "Is there anyone who disagrees?"

For a while, everyone was silent. After all, people had already seen Di Xin's determination, and the reason the minister said just now was too far-fetched. Just a slave, life or death doesn't matter.I don't even care about the other party's dining problem.

Di Xin saw that there was no objection from the crowd.So he said: "Okay, from today onwards, the national teacher Shen Gongbao is responsible for supervising the construction of the deer platform, ordering that except for the necessary craftsmen, all the rest will be slaves, with two meals a day. If slaves can't eat two meals, or automatically save, allow other Bring it back and let your family eat it."

After Shang Rong heard Di Xin's words, he immediately said: "Your Majesty is wise!" Bigan also said: "Your Majesty is wise!"

At this time, Di Xin said: "Decree, from tomorrow, the city gate tax will be abolished and miscellaneous taxes will be collected instead." Di Xin said again in a surprising way.

"Your Majesty, please!" This time, it was Shang Rong who stood up, and then said to Di Xin in shock: "My lord, my Da Shang currently only has city gate tax and agricultural tax, and these two are very stable at present. Changing it easily will definitely cause chaos in Dashang, so please take it back."

Di Xin said to Shang Rong: "Prime Minister, don't rush to refuse. Please listen to me and finish first. If the ministers still think it is not good, we will discuss it later."

Shang Rong cast a glance at Di Xin, motioning for Di Xin to continue.

Di Xin said to the ministers: "Since ancient times, whether it is the former dynasty or the great merchants, there have been only two kinds of taxes, which are the city gate tax and the agricultural tax. Due to the lack of harvest, the people have no crops and are starving, while the city gate tax is charged for everything, goods, clothing, horses, wild animals, livestock, these are too numerous to count, it is too difficult to count.”

When Di Xin said this, the minister in charge of the treasury nodded repeatedly. Indeed, currency has not been popularized yet, and shells are the most used by people. Why have copper coins not appeared yet?Therefore, the tax collected has everything, which makes the national treasury almost become a warehouse.

At this time, Di Xin continued: "Now, I have decided to reform it. First, the agricultural tax will be reduced. From the current tax of three out of ten to one in ten. Moreover, there will be no more statistics in the future. Instead of paying taxes based on the number of people, it is better to pay taxes based on the number of acres of land owned by individuals, and to encourage the poor to open up wasteland and strive for the common people to cultivate land.”

Shang Rong and Bigan nodded repeatedly after hearing Di Xin's words, but they still had some opinions, so Bigan came out and said, "Your Majesty, changing the tax collection system and reducing taxes are indeed good things that benefit the country and the people. I agree very much. , but wouldn’t that mean that the income of the national treasury will also decrease a lot, and the king will build a deer tower, I’m afraid the treasury will be empty after a long time.” After Bigan finished speaking, all the ministers nodded repeatedly, agreeing with Bigan’s words .

At this time, Di Xin said to Bigan: "Uncle Huang is right, that's why I will reform the city gate tax."

"Oh? I wonder what this has to do with the city gate tax?" Bigan asked suspiciously.

Di Xin said: "Abolish the city gate tax and change it to miscellaneous tax. Miscellaneous is a collective name for some people who do business, because business people buy and sell a variety of goods, especially miscellaneous." Nowadays, merchants cannot be called merchants. After all, the name of the country of Dashang was built there, so the current merchants still belong to the ancestors of the miscellaneous families.

Di Xin went on to say: "Civilians, businessmen, who enter the city to do business, or buy and sell goods, are all allowed to come in and out, and only the tax of these businessmen is charged, which is one thirty taxes. At the same time, miscellaneous taxes will also have many benefits. It is a profitable policy, but whether it is a commoner or a business person, they only pay one kind of tax. If they have two occupations, they will pay two kinds of taxes.” That is, farmers only pay agricultural taxes, and businessmen Only miscellaneous taxes are paid, but if there are farmers who are doing business and farming land at the same time, then they have to pay two kinds of taxes.

At this time, Shang Rong came out and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know that nobles can pay taxes?" After Shang Rong finished speaking, he immediately felt eyes from all around him, and they were very unfriendly.

After hearing Shang Rong's words, Di Xin thought for a while, and then said, "Only pay the agricultural tax." Di Xin did this mainly for food. , but the current era is still dominated by food. After all, people's purchasing power is not so much. This is why the agricultural tax after the reform is higher than the miscellaneous tax. And the nobles have fiefs, and most of the fiefs are fields Therefore, the agricultural tax is still the main one.

Shang Rong nodded after hearing Di Xin's words. After all, nobles are a force to be underestimated, and although the nobles have a high gold content, they are also very competent. Therefore, if Di Xin has any orders, no matter how noble they are, If you don't want to do it, you will do it.

Shang Rong did not retreat, but continued to say: "Your Majesty, I think that it is already winter and the farmers have finished harvesting. Therefore, it is not appropriate to implement this reform immediately. It should be officially implemented from next year, and miscellaneous taxes will be collected first. After that, the agricultural tax will be collected during the harvest time.”

"Well, what the prime minister said is reasonable, so let's do it according to the prime minister's words." Di Xin thought for a while, and agreed to Shang Rong's suggestion. After all, implementing it immediately will definitely make people unacceptable. Instead, give them some time to get used to it. .

Then, Emperor Xin announced the disbandment of the court, and then called Shang Rong, Bigan, Zhao Qi, Mei Bo, and a group of ministers to his Xianshou Palace to discuss the details of taxation. After all, Xin, the God of the Great Court, only said A more detailed framework requires further discussion.

It was not until late at night that Di Xin bid farewell to the ministers, and when Di Xin finished these things, he sat on the ground and rubbed his head. For several hours, Di Xin was mostly talking, and Shang Rong They were just using notes, so they made Di Xin very tired.

And at this moment, Di Xin suddenly felt his head was being pressed against by a pair of soft yi, and then began to massage his head, and there were also hands on his shoulders.

When Di Xin saw it, he smiled. It turned out to be his queen and Concubine Huang. Di Xin said to them, "Thanks for your hard work." Do your best to massage Di Xin.

At this time, Jiang Wenyuan said to Di Xin, "Don't you go to Daji's bedroom?" Although neither Jiang Wenyuan nor Concubine Huang knew Daji's identity, fortunately, Di Xin had already done ideological work with the two girls.Moreover, the second daughter also knew that Daji came to the palace for a purpose.

Di Xin said: "I'm not going, let Daji be nervous for a night before talking, don't leave today, stay with me in Xianshou Palace."

"Ah, the two of us." Huang Fei was a little surprised when she heard Di Xin's words, and at the same time she was deeply shy.

"Why, you don't want to?" Di Xin smiled and said to the second daughter. Although the second daughter was shy, she did not refuse Di Xin's request, but stayed in Xianshou Palace.

And Daji, as Di Xin expected, after not seeing Di Xin, always thought that the construction of the deer platform had not been approved by the ministers, and was sulking, and Daji also heard that Di Xin originally wanted Jiang Ziya to build a deer However, Jiang Ziya not only refused to do it, but also spoke rudely to Di Xin, and even pointed out Daji's identity, which made Daji feel very scared, and Shengsheng was afraid that Di Xin would notice something again, or let the ministers love some powerful people to come Subduing demons.

The next day, two imperial lists were posted, and what was written on them was exactly what happened at the Great Court Meeting yesterday. Moreover, Di Xin also sent eloquent officers headed by Mei Bo and Zhao Qi to explain the reforms to those who did not understand. However, people did not pay too much attention to miscellaneous taxes, but heard that Di Xin reduced the agricultural tax and changed it to ten taxes, which made people very happy. wise.After all, food has always been the most concerned thing for people. Now that the agricultural tax has been reduced and the city gate tax has also been abolished, this makes the rural people outside the city especially happy. After the news spread to the princes, The princes were immediately stunned by Di Xin's policy, but most of the princes thought that Di Xin was seeking his own death, so they didn't take it seriously, but they didn't think so after a year.

(End of this chapter)