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With the increase in the proportion of commercial tax to 20%, the commercial tax levied in the entire taxation system has become more and more important.

In the past, land tax must have dominated.Now, the commercial tax has been rising year by year, and it is gradually replacing the land tax, ranking first.

At this time, Yuzhu's land tax reform, which had been brewing for a long time, was immediately put on the agenda.

In the former Qing Dynasty, the collection of land taxes mainly relied on the servants of the county government and the grain gentry from all over the country, and the quota system was also adopted.

This tax system has great disadvantages.Often, when the court received a land tax of one tael, county officials, servants, and grain gentry would receive a kickback of five to eighty taels.

In the county government of the former Qing Dynasty, it seemed that there were very few officials, at best they were the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief bookkeeper.

In fact, the poorer the western counties, the more subordinate officials and servants they had.

According to Yuzhu's knowledge, Yumen County, the poorest in the west, has a total population of less than [-], and the number of subordinate officials and servants supported by the county government exceeds [-].

Because, in places with poor mountains and bad waters, the folk customs are often aggressive.There are fewer people in the yamen, and it is impossible to collect land taxes by violence.

Pulling pigs, dragging cattle, robbing pots, tearing down door panels, and even robbing farmers' wives and selling them for money have been repeatedly banned in poor counties in the central and western regions.

Now, due to the substantial increase in commercial taxes, and the local police stations under the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court have also been fully established.

Based on this, Yuzhu can already free up his hands to sort out the subordinate staff, servants and taxation system.

"Your Majesty, if farmers with less than [-] mu of land in poor counties in the west such as Shaanxi and Gansu were to be taxed at [-] mu, the imperial court's annual revenue would be greatly reduced." Zhang Tingyu has been in charge of the household department all along The reform of the tax system has an inseparable relationship with him.

The matter of the tax system is related to the foundation of the country, so we must not be careless.

Yuzhu also liked that Zhang Tingyu took the initiative to stand up and argue with him.

"Hengchen, take Yumen County as an example. There are only 1000 households in the county, and the county government actually supports more than [-] servants. Well, most of these people are white servants who do not receive salary. However, these People also have to eat, marry wives and have children, and support their families, so how can they be employed by the county government for nothing?” Yuzhu picked up the teacup, sipped his tea, and said, “Why is the west always in chaos? Ah, the root problem is the tricky officials and villains, who exploited too much."

Financial issues are not only a major national issue, but also have nothing to do with forming gangs. Zhang Tingyu dares to discuss the matter.

"Returning to the emperor, I think that since the Qin Dynasty, the county government has been the most important thing in all dynasties. If the county government is suddenly moved, I'm afraid that the place will be unstable!" Zhang Tingyu thought about the problem, and it was indeed far away.

However, Zhang Tingyu's way of thinking about problems never broke out of the mold of the prefecture and county system after the Qin Dynasty.

If it weren't for the lack of fiscal revenue, all dynasties must have wanted imperial power to enter the village.

The reason why the imperial power does not come down to the county is that the management cost of raising people is much higher than the tax levied.

The reason why Zhang Tingyu's concept is outdated is because he didn't realize the eight words: transfer payment, leniency and strict investigation.

In Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, the total land tax collected was only 100 million taels of silver.

Among the financial revenue of the empire, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Not to mention anything else, the 500 million taels of silver and 100 million shi of grain from North Korea alone crushed the two provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu.

To be honest, if there is no external colonial income, how can the internal burden of the empire be continuously reduced?
The colonial history of the British Empire has proved that if the inside of the empire wants to hide wealth from the people, there must be people from outside to bear the necessary management costs for the people of the empire.

Civilian industrial products in the former Soviet Union have backward technology and inferior products, and there is no way to cut the wool of the wealthy Western market.

Therefore, the Soviet Empire has always focused on squeezing the people inside the Soviet Union, only paying attention to military production, and not paying attention to hiding wealth for the people.

The [-] million Soviet people have to line up to buy bread every day, and their overall consumption power is not as good as that of a mere West Germany. How can it last for a long time?
The Soviet Union fought the Seven Injuries Fist. The more developed the military industry, the more miserable the people were.

Over time, the Soviet Union must be the first to implode.

Yuzhu's tax reform is mainly to provide continuous tax cuts for citizens in the western region.

Under the small-scale peasant society, the two western provinces mainly earn food from the ground.

Now, after the police stations in various places have been established, the imperial court can fully implement the imperial power into the villages.

In layman's terms, that is to say, in the western region, less land tax is collected, or even no land tax is collected, and only commercial tax is collected.

The corresponding tax gap was made up by North Korea's tribute silver and rice.

As a result, the vast number of self-cultivating farmers in the western region have become the biggest beneficiaries.

Forced immigration to the real border has proved to be a dead end.

Even though Yuzhu used the majesty of the founding king to forcibly relocate the people in the inland to the border areas.As time goes by, there will inevitably be many escaped people.

The laws of economics determine that the barren land in the west has too little income.

For example, the military household system established by Ming Taizu, after only a few decades of development, a large number of military households have collectively fled.

This is not a problem that can be solved by the will of the next dao.

The root cause is the hereditary military officers. You took five hundred acres when you were in office, and he took a thousand acres when he was in office. Over time, the military households would not survive if they did not flee.

The reform of the tax system is a big deal, and Yu Zhu intends to implement the new tax system starting from the poorest regions of Gansu and Shaanxi.

The new tax system, in a word, means that self-cultivating farmers with less than [-] mu will be taxed as little as possible, or even not taxed.

However, 20 to 100 mu of land shall be subject to the original tax system.

More than 100 mu of land, the more land, the heavier the tax.

Moreover, the new tax collection method has also been changed, from door-to-door tax collection to landlords voluntarily declaring, and the imperial court sending people down to spot checks.

Facts have proved that if everything is covered and everything is included, the management costs must be unbearably high, and the burden on the people is extremely heavy.

After changing to the random inspection system, the imperial court directly sent people down to conduct detailed inspections based on the landlord's declaration materials.

If you dare to evade taxes, you don't kill people, but you are only fined [-] times.

For example, Zhang Ju's family has tens of thousands of mu of fertile land. As long as he dares to evade taxes on one mu of fertile land, he must change his surname.

Random checks, maybe 50 years will not come to check you.However, once it is found on your head, more than 100 people will go to your house to check.

As long as the reward and punishment measures for the inspectors are determined, Yuzhu can completely eliminate most of the vampires in the poor counties in the west, and the tax revenue can only be more, not less.

Let the county government reduce the number of servants, and prohibit the county government from tossing less, which is to hide wealth from the people. This is the most important thing in governing the west!