To Wang Anshi, Zhang Fei was truly half god and half devil.
Sometimes, when you have low expectations of him, he can often give you a huge surprise and make you look at him in new light.
But when you have high expectations of him, he can often give you a huge surprise and make you extremely disappointed.
If Wang Anshi had known this would be the result, he would definitely not agree to it and would have let Zhang Fei go as far away as possible.
You can implement this method yourself, but how can you change the laws I have made?
Wang Anshi formulated these laws based on political ideas and political needs, which can be adjusted by addition and subtraction, but it cannot be said that all the laws were changed directly.
If Zhang Fei had not guaranteed that if he could not collect so much money, he would pay for it himself, Wang Anshi would not have agreed to Zhang Fei's request.
Even so, he was hesitant.
Therefore, after Han Jiang left, Wang Anshi immediately called Lu Huiqing.
When Lu Huiqing heard this, he said, "Master, from what I know about Zhang San, he will not do it without a purpose. He must have a way, but this method is not suitable for us, nor for other states."
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Wang Anshi nodded: "You think the same as I do, but now I have been forced to this point. If I regret it, it will only make people laugh at me, and it will also be extremely detrimental to the new policy."
Lu Huiqing thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, Master. This is not a bad thing for us. Zhang Fei's tax calculation method will definitely target officials and wealthy households. Once he succeeds, the wealthy gentry in the local counties will be deeply frightened. After thinking about it, they will support Master's method instead."
"Zhang San also mentioned this to me." Wang Anshi nodded slightly.
Lu Huiqing said: "Master, please don't express your opinion for now. Let Han Sishi tell the emperor. It happens that some people here are dissatisfied with this. I will explain to them and use them to tell them that Master does not agree with this method. In this way, even if Zhang San succeeds in Kaifeng Prefecture, it will be more conducive to the promotion of our new policy."
Wang Anshi thought for a while and felt that even if Zhang Fei achieved remarkable success, it would still be very difficult to apply it to local areas. He could only learn from it, but not copy it. He said, "Okay, let's do as you say."
Wang Anshi went to find Han Jiang and said, "We must make preparations for both situations and leave ourselves a way out."
Han Jiang's doubts about Zhang Fei were even greater than Wang Anshi's. After all, he had little contact with Zhang Fei, so he agreed and let him talk to the emperor.
Chuigong Hall.
"Huh? This seems different from what was said at the beginning?"
Wen Yanbo was deeply surprised after reading the latest exemption law issued by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Zhao Xu knew this a long time ago, but he still looked at Han Jiang with puzzlement.
Sima Guang breathed a sigh of relief. He had been afraid that Zhang Fei would use a head-on attack, but this tax law was much better than he had imagined.
Han Jiang said: "After collecting the statistical data, we calculated that this method will not increase the burden on the people, even the poorest people.
According to our calculations, the salaries of official households basically reach the third or fourth level. If we calculate it based on ordinary upper-class households, a tax of 6% would be charged. Now we only calculate 3%, and only the material money. The grain, cloth, and coal given by the court every month are not included.
By this calculation, officials and households do not have to pay too much labor service tax.
As for the private profits of officials, they are taxed as ordinary people, which is reasonable. And this is not just a fee for the service, the Royal Police also provides a better environment and protection for the officials. "
Another huge advantage of Zhang Fei's tax calculation method is that it can shut up conservatives.
They always say that it will increase the burden on the people. Look for yourself. I have calculated it clearly for you. It makes it clear to you that after the people pay this exemption tax, they will definitely not have problems with food and clothing.
As for the official households, a large amount of welfare is not taken into account, only the material money is counted. You must know that the welfare of the Northern Song Dynasty accounts for the majority, so will it have an impact on the official households?
Definitely not.
They are officials themselves, how could they not be clear about this?
In fact, the most important content is that the extra income of officials will be taxed at 10% as long as it meets the standards.
Zhao Yan, who had originally opposed it, remained silent when he saw the algorithm.
Wen Yanbo found it incredible. They had roughly calculated it, but it was impossible to be so easy. The key point was that they had said to calculate the labor service fee first and then share it equally. Now it was not shared equally, so he asked: "Can this tax money support the cost of hiring labor service?"
Han Jiang said firmly: "It will definitely be enough."
In fact, he was not sure, but Zhang Fei said that if it was not enough, he would make up for it, so it must be enough!
Wen Yanbo looked at Han Jiang in surprise, and then glanced at Wang Anshi. Wang Anshi remained silent from beginning to end. Although he was suspicious, he really had nothing to say.
There wasn't much debate.
Zhao Xu had even less objection.
Afterwards, the Sino-Agricultural Ministry first used official bulletins to publicize the tax rates in the imperial city.
See what everyone thinks.
What is unexpected is that after the tax rate was announced, it did not cause much opposition, but rather silence.
Logically speaking, a 3% tax was levied on government households.
Everyone should be unhappy.
Actually, it is not.
This is because this tax rate is very friendly even to most middle and low-level officials. They do not need to pay much money because their salary is relatively low. Even those officials in official positions only pay three or four strings of money at most each year, and the salary for officials on salary is even lower.
Although three or four strings of cash is still a lot of money, they believed that wealthy officials should pay more. They were also jealous of those official families, and they were all insiders and knew how much land and wealth those officials had hidden privately.
Officials also suffer from inequality.
At the same time, official, you are ten times richer than me, why?
If they kept silent, those officials who were really rich would also not speak out. If anyone spoke out, it would prove that they had huge extra income. And on that statistical table, few officials reported the real numbers. Most of them were hiding their land, which was hidden anyway.
The officials did not have much objection, so the Ministry of Agriculture officially promulgated the tax exemption rate for city walls.
Compared with the silence in official circles, the society is more lively.
Many people thought that they did not have to pay the exemption tax, but they still had to pay it every year. Of course they were very unhappy. For these common people, they would cry for a whole day if they lost ten cents. This time they had to pay one or two hundred cents every year.
But when I got home and counted, I suddenly realized that some miscellaneous income was not included when they declared it, such as raising a few chickens at home, or my wife doing sewing for others. So if they worked a little harder, they could earn back the money in a few days.
That's fine.
The happiest people are the middle class. Under the corvée law, they were struggling on the line between life and death. But now, as long as they pay 5 or 6 percent of their annual income, they don't have to serve in the military. It's like returning from hell to heaven in an instant.
It’s so cool that I can’t get any better.
They really want to pay all the money for the next ten years today to prevent you from changing your mind again.
After the announcement here, statistical data from Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties were also submitted.
When Han Jiang saw it, everyone laughed.
It feels like the territories of Kaifeng and Xiangfu have shrunk by half. The territory of our Great Song Dynasty is already small enough, and you are going to shrink it further.
hateful!
The key point is that you are too blatant. You really don’t take the Tax Commissioner seriously. Not to mention the Tax Commissioner, I can find out everything.
So they immediately obtained last autumn's tax account books from the two counties for comparison.
Suddenly, it was discovered that the upper-class households had reported truthfully, and the autumn taxes they paid were consistent. Although there were fluctuations, they were all within a very reasonable range. On the contrary, the land area of the lower-class households had decreased sharply.
Han Jiang then realized that the upper-class households still gave the tax commissioner some face, but the lower-class households did not hide anything either, and there were problems with the autumn tax accounts.
Many self-cultivating farmers had to share the official land and the disappeared land equally, because the imperial court collected taxes based on how much land a county had. Now that the land had disappeared, everyone had to share the burden, and the county magistrate could not fill it up himself.
This is a decision made by the government and there is nothing they can do about it.
Now they have to declare it themselves, so even if they want to help the government cover up the lie, they can't do it. He only knows how many acres of land he has, but he has no idea how much land he has to share.
Although Han Jiang saw through the trick, he did not tell Zhang Fei. Who asked you to choose to declare on your own? He just showed the declaration form to Zhang Fei and continued with your performance.
After reading it, Zhang Fei didn't say anything. After thinking for a while, he gave his own tax rate.
Fifteen acres of land is used as the benchmark, and land below fifteen acres is tax-free.
A tax of 1% is levied on 15 to 30 acres.
A 2% tax is levied on land between 30 and 50 acres.
A tax of 4% is levied on plots of land ranging from fifty to one hundred acres.
A tax of 6% is levied on land between 100 and 300 acres.
A tax of 10% is levied on land over 300 acres.
It's not much different from the households in the city.
After listening to this, Han Jiang didn't say anything. Anyway, you, Zhang Fei, have to cover the losses. So he just glanced at the statistical table and thought, how much tax can you collect?
Compared with the city, the rich and poor in the countryside are even more exaggerated. The poor households with less than 30 mu of land account for more than 70%, while those with 30 to 100 mu of land account for more than 20%, and those with more than 100 mu of land account for only less than 10%.
It is easy to imagine why Wang Anshi levied exemption tax on lower-class households, because with a large population, a pile of sand can make a tower, and the officials and households are more cunning than him, so he cannot squeeze too much out of them.
According to the statistics, even if the upper-class households paid their taxes truthfully, it would still be far from enough.
Han Jiang didn't care about all that and reported it to the government first. Everyone saw that the tax rate was indeed low enough. No matter which class, paying the exemption tax would not affect their food and clothing issues.
After being announced in the imperial city, the decree was directly promulgated.
At the same time, it was stipulated that upper-class households and households in cities would pay exemption taxes in the summer, while lower-class households would pay exemption taxes in the autumn.
Kaifeng and Xiangfu began to collect taxes. According to their own declarations, the taxes were calculated and then paid at the place of declaration.
The middle class in this village also made a lot of money. They were directly transformed from the main force to the secondary force. This happiness came too suddenly.
early morning.
Zhang family.
Nowadays, breakfast time is time to read newspapers.
Except for Zhang Fei, everyone had a newspaper in their hands, reading while eating.
"Brother-in-law!"
Xu Lingxiao asked: "Can you set this tax?"
Zhang Fei said very seriously: "It was my suggestion and they adopted it."
Xu Lingxiao asked again: "With such a low tax, how much money can be collected?"
He basically didn't care about anything, but even so, he knew that such a low tax rate would never be able to make up for the financial deficit of the police department.
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "I don't know exactly how much, but it should be enough."
Xu Zun said: "I heard that judging from the current reported numbers, it is still far from enough!"
"The reported figures cannot be taken seriously."
Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "Actually, my tax rate is not determined based on this declaration form."
Xu Zun asked: "What is the basis for that?"
"Tax evasion form."
"tax evasion?"
"Um."
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I just look at which class evades taxes the most, and I give a higher price. As long as we dig out these hidden wealth, it will be enough to support the finances of the police station."
Xu Zhiqian said: "Wouldn't it mean that we would have to fight many lawsuits?"
Zhang Fei nodded.
Xu Zhiqian added: "Then why don't you go to the procuratorate and help Daddy."
Xu Lingxiao also nodded.
He had returned to the capital for many days and had heard about Zhang Fei's deeds countless times.
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "That won't work. If I join the procuratorate, I won't be able to work in the office. I can't sue Zheng Wen and the others. No one will believe the result of the lawsuit!"
"Not only that, given our relationship as father-in-law and son-in-law, if we were to work in the same government office, I'm afraid no one would agree."
Xu Zun said, and then laughed: "Besides, we have a strong man joining our procuratorate recently."
Zhang Fei asked: "Who?"
"Su Zhe, Su Ziyu." Xu Zun stroked his beard and said with a smile.
It turned out that Su Che could no longer stay in the Regulations Office of the Two Prefectures, so he applied for a transfer. Sima Guang happened to encounter this incident and simply transferred Su Che to the Procuratorate.
Su Che was also very willing to do so. His brother had been defeated by the Procuratorate, and he wanted to prove something for his brother.
"he?"
"Why? Don't underestimate Su Ziyu. I think he is more suitable to be the prosecutor than his brother."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Let's see it for ourselves when we get a chance."
Xu Zhiqian thought something was wrong and immediately asked, "Whose side are you on?"
Zhang Fei said unhappily, "What do you mean I'm on whose side? We are on the same side, right? Our firm is definitely a rival to the procuratorate. Besides, I also want to fight with my father-in-law. Don't you want to?"
Fight with Daddy? Xu Zhiqian's eyes lit up, and a hint of rebellion rose in her heart, but she said, "How could I be an enemy of Daddy?"
"Really?" Zhang Fei curled his lips to show his contempt.
Xu Zun laughed and said, "Last time in Dengzhou, I was the prefect and had to be fair. You took advantage of me. If there is a chance, I would like to fight you."
He also likes to show off his legal attainments, and Zhang Fei is a rising star in this field, so he really wants to compete with Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei laughed and said, "There will definitely be a chance."
(End of this chapter)
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