With the sound of the bell, the first assistant of the cabinet, Huang University, went directly to the ranks.The content of the big court meeting at the end of the year is much the same, basically summarizing the development of the past year, telling a good story by the way, and bragging."
The total amount of tax collected by the imperial court this year is as high as 1,260,000 taels.Among them, the field tax is rarely only 12 million taels, and the commercial tax accounts for the majority, with a full 6.2 billion taels, in addition to the transactions with the demon clan, the four seas, the heavenly court, and the netherworld......
"The field tax of Da Chu is really cheap, almost for nothing."
If the amount of land owned by an individual is less than 10 acres, only one copper plate shall be collected per acre.More than ten acres of land, it begins to increase.And when it grows to 500 acres of land, if you just rely on farming, the profits and taxes are already the same.And when the number of land grows to 5,000 mu, even if all the land is planted with spiritual rice, the high tax is enough to make the landowner lose the bottom.This special tax policy, coupled with the relatively strong bureaucratic combat effectiveness of Da Chu, has caused a consequence.Even if the family is powerful, the number of fields owned by an individual is two or three hundred acres, which is about the same as that of a landowner in the countryside.Soon, after talking about the tax issue, Huang Dashoufu began to continue to talk about this year's demographic changes, the number of births, the number of deaths, and the ratio of men to women."
Finally, please let the old minister talk about the shortcomings in this year's internal affairs.""
First, there is still a great disparity between male and female populations.My Dachu now has a total population of 5.6 billion.Of these, 2,760 million were men and 2,840 million women. ”"It seems that the number of women is higher than that of men, but in fact, because many men are monogamous and have multiple concubines, some Yin God and Yang God monks have hundreds of wives and concubines......
"The total number of women is 80 million more than that of men, but because of the monogamous and polygamous concubine system, there are still some men who are facing the situation of not having wives, which really makes Xiong Yan not know what to say.""
Well, Lone knows.Lone already has some thoughts on this matter. ”Xiong Yan's method is also very simple, it is definitely impossible to prohibit the monogamous and polygamous system directly from the perspective of the law.Although there are many powerful female monks in the entire Great Chu, on the whole, it is still stronger than women in male strength, which is doomed to inequality between men and women.The inequality between men and women, between the monks and the commoners, between the officials and the commoners, these problems all exist objectively.Trying to pass a law to change this situation is wishful thinking!
Of course, direct change is not possible, then change indirectly.For example, if you are taxed, if you are monogamous, you will not be taxed, and some rewards will be given, which will be regarded as money given by the imperial court.If there is a husband and a wife, the court will not reward or punish them.If there are two concubines, they must pay a sum of money that is not very large when they take the concubine.The exact number is still uncertain.This amount must be investigated in detail, and it must not be one-size-fits-all.And the amount is definitely different in different regions.In the end, maybe a relevant department will be built to deal with this matter, and if you accidentally have thousands or even tens of thousands of official hats in the imperial court, you can't be better for this group of civil officials!
In the middle of the night, Huang Dashoufu's summary was about to end: "At present, it seems that there is still a gap of 50 million taels in the financial aspects of the imperial court this year. ”"Oh?
A gap of 50 million taels?
How was it handled in previous years?
”Xiong Yan said with a smile, looking very kind.It's just that for some reason, looking at Xiong Yan's posture, Huang Dashoufu felt that someone was going to be unlucky again.Hey?
Why do I say again?"
Under normal circumstances, if the imperial court does not have enough money and lacks some small money, it will ask for it from the inside.If you lack a lot of money, you will directly ask for it from the wealthy family and the merchant sect. ”According to the usual practice, 10% of the annual income of the imperial court must go directly to the internal treasury.This year, for example, the amount of money going into the treasury is as high as 1.26 billion taels.It may seem like a lot, but it's not.This compliment includes all the expenses of the entire imperial family, not just the emperor alone.The queen, all the concubines, the palace maids and eunuchs, all the princes and princesses in the palace, and even the rewards during the New Year's holidays, the rewards for the civil ministers and military generals, the rewards for the people, and the rewards for the noble clans are all from within.If all this money is owned by Emperor Laozi alone, then it will be okay to make a living.But once there are so many uses, often in the end, there is not much money.Even many times, if it weren't for the annual output of the imperial village, the great Chu emperors of the past dynasties would have gone bankrupt many times."
In other words, there is still a shortage of 50 million taels, and this year will be fine?""
Yes."
Huang Dashoufu said seriously.Fifty million taels of silver, frankly speaking, for Da Chu, it is nothing at all, and it is not a dime.Sell a policy at random, with a ten-year limit or a one-year policy, more than this price.Some are big businessmen and wealthy families, and they are willing to pay for these temporary policies.However, although the money is not much, it is a small temptation for the civilian community.In the future, they will have one small temptation after another.These temptations are harmless, but they can allow civil officials to quickly figure out Xiong Yan's character and way of thinking in these temptations."
Well, Gu knows, he already has some ideas, Shoufu doesn't need to worry."
Hearing this, Huang Dashoufu nodded, and retreated without saying a word.Listening to the footsteps, I knew that this time it was a military general, who was the general of the imperial court, and the head of the Privy Council.As for the Privy Council, it can be simply understood as the cabinet of the military, or an institution similar to the Military Aircraft Department.The entire Privy Council, which is directly responsible to the emperor, is now directly responsible to Xiong Yan.Even the Cabinet has no power to manage the Privy Council, let alone the military.Civil officials are not more noble than military generals, so naturally there will be no situation where the three-rank military generals of the Dameng Dynasty kneel in front of the Qipin County Order."
This year, the imperial court relocated 80 million people according to the plan and built a new land of eight states on the grassland.Thanks to the prestige of His Royal Highness the Prison State, it all went well. ”"At present, these eight states are still under military control.As it stands, it will take about three to five years for the end of military administration. ”In addition, there have been six small-scale rebellions at the village level this year.These six rebellions have caused a total of 18 civilian officials to be killed and 62 civilian officials to be injured......"
Hearing this, Xiong Yan recalled the relevant information he had specially checked before.At that time, I was still afraid that the people below would make up nonsense for the sake of merit.But the result made Xiong Yan gain knowledge again.Two of the village-level rebellions were caused by fake wine, two were really drunk, and two were genuinely forced by officials to rebel.()