In the Song Dynasty, people were lawless. The main text of the book, Chapter 308, was about the land tax and slaughtering pigs for the New Year. In early August, when Di Qing was attacking Jiaozhi with great momentum, the people of the Song Dynasty were in a completely different picture.
From the fourth year of Jingyou to the fifth year of Qingli, the imperial court has carried out five rounds of new policies in nine years.
Each round of new policies is like the right medicine for a disease, gradually beginning to eliminate stubborn ailments.
The last new policy of this year targets all aspects of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, the duration will be very long. It may take one or two years for various policies to be released, unlike previous new policies, which were all released at one time.
Starting from the first content of the New Deal, the Song Dynasty version of the movement to simplify classical Chinese, now it has come to the second content - the distribution of land tax and capitation.
Outside the city of Bianliang, there are vast fertile farmlands. Since the imperial court has vigorously repaired water conservancy facilities in recent years, many barren lands have gradually become arable land, and the amount of arable land in the Song Dynasty has further increased dramatically.
Chicang Town is located more than 40 miles south of Kaifeng, with Chenliu County to the east. Because it is along the Cai River, there are many ships traveling back and forth, and the town is the most informed.
At this moment, three constables from the county government brought stacks of paper and a bucket of paste, came to the notice board at the entrance of the town, and began to post notices.
"There's new business, come and take a look."
"Brother Yi, what new announcement has the court made? Can you tell us about it?"
"This notice is simple and easy to understand. Just read it for yourselves. We still have to go to several other villages."
"All right."
As soon as the yamen runners left, the surrounding people immediately rushed over.
"What did the notice say?"
"Mr. Zhu is here."
"Huh? I think I understand this notice."
"I understand that, too."
"Then you guys should tell me quickly."
Without waiting for Zhu Xiucai to come over, most of the illiterate people urged the few who could read.
As I said, the level of knowledge in ancient times varied greatly. Some were extremely learned and could recite all kinds of allusions by heart, some could understand basic classical Chinese, and some could barely recognize a single word.
Most people were completely illiterate. At least before my country launched large-scale nationwide literacy classes in later generations, the literacy rate in ancient times had always been very low.
Those who could barely recognize a few words found it difficult to understand classical Chinese, but now they found that they could understand the announcement.
Because the announcements written nowadays are all in the vernacular, also known as folk slang.
Starting from June, the imperial court stipulated that all official documents must be written in vernacular Chinese. Although local governments occasionally issued some local policies in the past two months, they were not actually popularized.
After all, the court did not issue a large-scale announcement, so many places still did not know about this matter. It was not until today that the court issued another national announcement that people learned that the form of the official document had changed.
"It says that the imperial court has decided to officially abolish the Ding tax and distribute it according to the amount of land a person owns. From now on, a slightly higher tax will be added based on the amount of land a person owns, and that will be considered the Ding tax. From now on, no more Ding people will have to pay taxes."
Soon someone read out the document.
It immediately caused heated discussion.
"What does this mean?"
"Stupid! What I'm saying is that you don't have to pay taxes for your children every year, and you don't have to pay for yourself either."
"No more taxes? That's great."
"It's not that you don't have to pay anything, it's that you don't have to pay the head tax, but you still have to pay the land tax."
"oh."
"It also states that the Statistics Bureau and the Household Registration Bureau must conduct a county-wide census, and that all concealed population and land must be reported. Once discovered, there will be penalties."
"In that case, I have to go to my children's aunt's house to pick them up. I hid my four children to avoid the Ding tax."
".You are awesome."
"But if we divide the capitation tax into land tax, does that mean we are including the capitation tax in the land tax? How much will the land tax increase?"
"They said the increase isn't that much, but based on the number of people in a household, the maximum increase is 100%."
"That's not high?"
"This isn't the total tax, it's 100% of your original tax. This means no matter how many children you have in the future, the tax will only be 100% higher. Before, with two children in your family, the child tax alone was more than this."
People around were talking about it, and some immediately went back to tell others, informing relatives and neighbors near and far that they no longer had to pay the tax.
Some are calculating how much tax their family members should pay each year to see whether the new tax is cost-effective.
Others took immediate action, bringing the hidden children out to report them to the Statistics Bureau, and then registering them at the Household Registration Bureau.
There were also servants of wealthy families among the crowd, who quickly passed the news back.
The system of allocating taxes to each household is naturally a good thing for the lower classes and self-cultivating farmers, because they have a large population and little land, which reduces the amount of taxes they have to pay, and they no longer have to worry about taxes on the head of the household.
But it’s different for the rich.
If a wealthy family assumes that you have ten wives and thirty sons, how much tax can they pay?
However, their lands range from thousands to tens of thousands of acres.
In the past, the imperial court adopted a policy of recuperation and abolished a large number of exorbitant taxes and levies, and the land tax rate was basically maintained at only one tenth.
That is to say, if you have 10,000 acres of land, and according to the average annual yield of six to seven dan per acre in the Song Dynasty, taking the minimum value of six dan, in a year, the annual output is 60,000 dan of grain, and you only need to pay 6,000 dan in taxes.
Now what?
The tax rate doubles to 20%.
On the other hand, if a self-cultivating farmer cultivates 40 mu of land, no matter how many children he has, the maximum tax he can pay each year is 48 shi.
According to the previous ratio of adult tax, if a family has two or more children, the adult tax alone will be much higher than this number.
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