celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 94 Establishing a System Begins with Taxation

Luo Yi was sure that the freedmen understood the new identity, but why were they hesitant and even afraid?
In doubt, Luo Yi remembered the article "Wise Men, Fools and Servants".

The fool helped the slaves improve their living conditions, but the fool was afraid of being scolded by the master, so he rallied other slaves to drive him away.

Is it because of slavishness?
Luo Yi shook his head.

No.

The original master of the slaves has been killed by Luo Yi. Luo Yi is not a fool who helped the slaves, but the new master of the slaves.

So……

Luo Yi also thought of the slaves who were freed after the Civil War, but their living conditions were worse than before they were liberated.

So Luo Yi suddenly realized.

The free people are not hesitant because they are free, but they are afraid that they will have no means of production after they are free, and they can only starve to death freely.

That's easy.

Luo Yi announced to the free citizens: "In addition to gaining freedom, you will also get a piece of land, which is your own land!"

The eyes of the free folk were unbelievably joyful, but instead of cheering, they asked the people next to them.

"Did you hear clearly?"

"I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"how is this possible?"

"Will you really give us freedom and land?"

"There will be such a good thing?"

……

The crowd became noisy.

Luo Yi took this time to think about it.In a feudal society, the biggest drawback of a centralized state is that the administration of officials will gradually become corrupt, and officials at the grassroots level will extort excessively.

According to the analysis of the title of King of Kings in the prophecy, Luo Yi should establish a feudal fiefdom empire similar to the Zhou Dynasty.

Luo Yi had no idea how the princes or Luo Yi's vassals would govern the territory - legally speaking, unless he planned to establish an autocratic monarchy, Luo Yi really had no control over how his vassals governed the territory.

However, Luo Yi firmly believes that he can have a large number of directly subordinate territories through the war with the orcs.With so many directly subordinate territories, of course officials must be dispatched to manage them.As a result, there will be a chronic problem of official corruption similar to that of centralized countries.

Taking advantage of the fact that we can formulate laws and establish systems as we please, we need to finalize some things as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Luo Yi increased his voice and said: "In the name of the King of Kings, I hereby declare that real estate owned by free people, including land and houses, only needs to pay two taxes."

"One, is the property value tax."

"The second is the real estate shield tax."

Hearing Luo Yi's words, the crowd became even more noisy and even commotional.

The disbelief in their expressions was gone, replaced by ecstasy.

To gain benefits for no reason, the slaves could not understand, let alone believe.On the contrary, it is a matter of exchange, which can gain their trust.

Luo Yi raised his hand to signal them to be quiet.

After a long time, the square gradually quieted down, but the eyes of the free folk were full of uneasiness, excitement, anxiety and yearning.

"Real property value tax is self-declared by the owner of the real property."

"However, the total amount of land tax paid by the owner of the real estate in the past three years can be multiplied by ten times by other people to get a value, and then the real estate can be compulsorily purchased according to this value."

As soon as Luo Yi finished speaking, not only the free people started to make noise again, but even the light cavalry began to talk about it.

Smarter people figured out the truth quickly, and then showed off to those who didn't.

"This is the best way to collect taxes. The lord can no longer raise taxes at will."

People who don't understand ask: "If you have the final say on how much tax to pay, wouldn't it be considered a fee if you pay a copper coin every year?"

The wise man's tone became sarcastic.

"You are so smart! If you pay real estate value tax for your own land, you can indeed pay only three copper coins in total for three years. However, others can also forcefully buy your land for only thirty copper coins. !”

The person being ridiculed stupidly exclaimed: "Then what should I do? Can I only pay most of the land income as taxes? Otherwise, what if I am forced to buy it?"

Chun Chunshan, a wise man, tempted: "That's not necessary."

"If you have a hectare of land, and the market price of this land is thirty gold coins, then you can pay one gold coin every year."

"At that time, if someone else wants to forcefully buy that piece of land, you can get monetary compensation at the market price, and you won't lose money."

"Of course, if your expected transaction price is not the market price, but 33 gold coins, then you can pay one gold coin and one silver coin every year."

Those who are taught understand.

"Oh, I see! I think my real estate is worth more, so I pay more taxes. I think my real estate is worthless, so I pay less tax. I even think my real estate is worthless, so I don't have to pay taxes!"

The wise man taught him like a teacher: "Under this system, the lord cannot raise taxes at will. However, correspondingly, it is difficult for real estate owners to evade taxes."

"In the past, if the real estate owner could buy off the officials responsible for collecting taxes, he could pay very little tax as long as the lord didn't hear about it."

"But with this kind of taxation, can he stop everyone else who wants to buy real estate at a cheap price?"

While everyone was discussing enthusiastically, Luo Yi's thoughts began to wander.

In fact, this self-paying tax system, in which the tax amount is linked to the real estate transaction price, can play a great role in curbing tax evasion in the middle and late feudal dynasties.

In the process of social development, taxation will become more detailed.For example, in land taxation, in addition to the size parameter, land classification also appeared later. For example, in 1336 AD, it was stipulated that the tax per mu for upper fields was three and a half liters, for middle fields three liters, for lower fields two liters, and for paddy fields five liters.

In feudal dynasties, the administration of officials always tended to become more corrupt. Therefore, in the middle and late feudal dynasties, landlords would get used to buying officials and assessing their upper fields and middle fields as middle fields and lower fields in order to pay less taxes.

As for which level a piece of land belongs to, except for low-level officials, it is impossible for the high-ranking officials to know, let alone the emperor in the palace.

What's more, some landowners with even darker intentions will collude with officials to remove their own land from the government's tax base, thus becoming hidden land.As a result, the imperial court could not collect even a penny of tax from Hidden Field.

The implementation of the real estate value tax tax system can perfectly solve these two problems.

First of all, there is no need for officials to waste time and effort in determining whether the fields are good or bad.If the landlord thinks it is good, that is fine, but if the landlord thinks his own field is not good, then it is not good.

Secondly, whoever wants to hide the field, then hide the field.Anyway, no real property value tax of a penny has been paid, which means that even though the landowner owns the title, the landowner thinks the land is worthless.So anyone can pay the official for a small fee and own the land.

Thinking that this kind of tax system will definitely make many people cry in the future, Luo Yi can't help but secretly laugh.Those who dare to hide their land and evade taxes must be local tyrants.That being the case, how can a family cry all the way?

(End of this chapter)