“Have all relevant procedures been completed?”
"The walk is over, and the relevant data has been compiled."
"What about the Jinyiwei?"
"All the living good people whose good lands were seized by trickery and robbery have had their lands divided into their names, but there are still 1,421 households whose lands remain untouched..."
Rui Hai, who was at the center, arranging various tasks, was silent for a moment after hearing this report. He then said, "Register these households clearly, compile a unified list, and send it to the Ministry of Household Affairs..."
Zhang Mingtu nodded in agreement. According to normal rules, he should not report the relevant work here. The relevant people in the county government should be responsible for it.
However, too many people were killed by Rui Hai and the work could not be organized, so the Jinyiwei had to be mobilized to take charge of this matter. Anyway, the Jinyiwei was usually responsible for intelligence-related matters.
Zhang Mingtu didn't have much resistance to this, as he was very familiar with doing this.
Even though there were not many Jinyiwei people, he basically had a general idea of the situation in Jianyi in his mind. He only needed to do some sporadic investigations and supplement them, and go through the relevant documents and investigation work once or twice.
He was responsible for drafting and submitting specific reports.
The situation in Jianyi as a whole is not completely resolved after the fall of the Wang and Li families.
The subsequent work is really arduous, almost suffocating. All people who have not registered before must be registered and the relevant household registration must be registered.
Simply put, the goal is to find out all the previously hidden household registrations of all the wealthy families, register them, give them fertile land if they deserve it, and let those who don't have land live and farm on the official fertile land.
This job is not as grand as the previous one, but it is more popular.
In the past, these wealthy families had corresponding means of tax avoidance. Even if they owned hundreds of thousands of acres of land, they basically did not have to pay taxes. On the contrary, many good people who previously owned fertile land were burdened with extremely heavy taxes.
They are usually burdened with taxes of hundreds or even thousands of acres.
But their fertile land had been taken away by wealthy families or sold due to disasters such as floods.
Now he has no land under his name, and the annual taxes are still extremely high.
Now that Ruihai has conducted an inventory and re-registered everything, it is equivalent to reshuffling the original order here.
It's a ton of work.
However, only after this work is truly completed and submitted to the Ministry of Revenue, can the situation in Jianyi be truly improved.
Not to mention lasting for hundreds of years, there is a high possibility that it will last for decades.
After all, with the original data, the subsequent land annexation and the corresponding seizure of land will be much less likely to occur.
There wouldn't be many people who were forced into desperation by taxes, who would not even give up their household registration and flee to other places, becoming refugees.
In addition, a corresponding feedback mechanism must be established, and changes in land properties also require supervision by dedicated personnel. This requires a complete set of procedures and processes.
In Zhang Mingtu's view, this reform was more like the land-based tax system that he had seen in history.
In the past, taxes were collected based on household registration, and different people paid basically the same taxes.
Now Ruihai has a unique way of collecting taxes based on land ownership.
Just check whose name the land is under. The person in whose name the land is under needs to pay taxes. The more land the person has, the more taxes he has to pay.
For Daxia, no matter who pays taxes, as long as the corresponding tax items are paid, it doesn't matter who pays.
As for the many wealthy people in the south of the Yangtze River, they had many tax evasion penalties in the past, and no matter how much they paid, they would not be affected. Even if they were forced to pay, they could oppress the common people and force them to hand over the money.
Now, according to Ruihai's reform method, taxes are collected based on land ownership, which is directly cutting into the flesh of the gentry in the Jiangnan area.
For ordinary civilians, this is a great thing.
Well, but for the gentry, they would never agree to do that even if they were beaten to death.
The reason why it could be implemented in Xingguo and Jianyi was that the leaders and the biggest gentry in the two places had been killed, and no one confronted Ruihai head-on.
The overall implementation went smoothly.
"All the work is almost done. That concludes today's meeting. Okay, General Flag, please stay for a while."
Ruihai looked around. He was not tall and was quite thin, but he was very majestic and decisive when arranging work.
He announced the adjournment of the meeting. After a moment's silence, a group of people filed out. When they left, many of them took a special look at Zhang Mingtu.
When only Ruihai and Zhang Mingtu were left in the huge county government office, Ruihai's expression became much more relaxed than before. His face was still the same, but his face looked quite gentle after relaxing.
He looked at Zhang Mingtu with a rather friendly gaze.
"I wonder why Magistrate Rui wants me to stay here?"
Facing the murderous Ruihai alone, other characters would be nervous and uneasy at this time, but Zhang Mingtu was quite calm.
Although he was asking, he actually knew the answer.
These days, the work at the county government office has been extremely heavy.
The county magistrate was parachuted in, and as soon as he arrived, he arrested all the corrupt officials in Jianyi. Basically, everyone in the officialdom of Jianyi was hit hard, either lightly or severely.
The overall atmosphere has changed. Everyone is afraid and uneasy when facing Ruihai, but if you think that this alone can force them to work hard and complete the tasks assigned by Ruihai, then that is completely wishful thinking.
They can avoid corruption and at the same time, within the prescribed work process, delay a task for as long as possible.
Ruihai carefully arranged the tasks, but they delayed them at will.
The entire officialdom is still maintained, but work efficiency has been greatly reduced.
This is their way of expressing their resistance in a gentle way.
Ruihai had expected that many important tasks would be carried out by people he specially selected from other places.
Even so, a lot of work could not be completed and a lot of time was wasted.
Among this overall reaction, Zhang Mingtu's Jinyiwei was the most unique.
The Jinyiwei completed all assigned tasks with ease, and they were not perfunctory in their investigations but rather serious and meticulous. Later, Ruihai even entrusted many major and important tasks to the Jinyiwei, and Zhang Mingtu also completed them very well, which could even be said to be excellent and perfect.
Of course, it was not like this originally. Zhang Mingtu was just completing his work normally.
Zhang Mingtu didn't want to have too much contact with Ruihai because Ruihai was destined to be at the center of the storm.
After experiencing subsequent changes, Zhang Mingtu felt that he needed to change his strategy.
"Have you ever considered joining me?"
"You work very hard, and I can see that you care about them. Come with me!"
"The county magistrate is being too kind. I was just doing my job."
"No, the fact that you can propose the equalization of land tax shows that your talent and knowledge are far greater than that. You care about the common people. You are a person like me."
"Come with me. I have a promise from the Prime Minister. He wants to transfer me to Fuzhou."
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