Suan Fu, also known as Ding Fu, is a head tax levied on the number of adults.
At that time, it was stipulated that people over the age of fifteen and under fifty-six had to pay a tax of one hundred and twenty yuan per person per year.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the oral tax was a head tax levied on children between the ages of seven and fourteen, worth twenty yuan per person per year.
Forget about the poll tax for adults, people can at least work to support themselves and support themselves. Although they are still immoral, at least they can still talk about it.
That is a completely bad government that lacks great virtue.
A seven-year-old child cannot give birth at all and has to pay money every year, which is equivalent to paying for it while living. It's okay for rich people, but how can poor people afford it?
So either the young children are forced to work in the fields from the age of seven to support the family, or they simply don't get married or have children, so that the family burden can be reduced and the family will not go bankrupt.
But where does the conscience of the rulers come from?
As soon as I saw that people in the community were refusing to have children in order not to go bankrupt, they began to legislate to coerce and induce people to get married and have children.
In the Han system, unmarried women between the ages of fifteen and thirty were divided into five grades, with five calculations of tax penalties. For each grade that rose by one level, an additional one calculation of unmarried tax was levied. If you are still unmarried at the age of 18, you will be taxed five times a year, which means you must pay six hundred yuan.
Do you think you can escape?
As long as you live under the rule of the Emperor Liu, and as long as you are included in the government's household registration policy, you will have no way to escape.
In this way, the government successfully forced the people to carry out large-scale marriages, especially families with daughters, who racked their brains to marry off their daughters in order to avoid the calculation of wealth.
Moreover, people at that time lacked knowledge related to childbirth, and giving birth to children was unavoidable. Even if they did not want to have children subjectively, they could not be avoided objectively.
If the calculation of Fu can be considered to be slightly reasonable, then the oral Fu is really unconscionable.
In order to conduct foreign conquests and lack of money, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did many pioneering things, some of which were good and some extremely bad. The most notorious of them was undoubtedly the oral gift.
There was no oral tax before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In order to conquer foreign countries, he tried every means to set various heavy taxes on the people to exploit wealth.
His oral tax begins when the child is three years old. When the child reaches the age of three, he will start to pay the oral tax to the state until he is fifteen years old, and then he begins to pay the calculated tax.
The common people are unable to survive due to heavy taxes and have no choice but to have sufficient reproductive knowledge and products, so they have no choice but to drown their children as soon as they are born, instead of raising them, so they have no burden.
In the end, some officials couldn't stand it anymore and wrote a letter suggesting that the court change its policy and wait until the children reached seven years old before collecting oral gifts.
It was at the end of the Han-Hungarian War, a protracted war that brought the country to the brink of collapse. Liu Che saw that the public resentment had boiled to a critical point and had to give in, so Koufu was finally determined to be seven years old.
But from then on, there was another layer of exploitation on the heads of all people in the world.
This layer of exploitation started in the war, under the banner of war, but after the war was over, it was never removed.
Therefore, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the practice of infanticide gradually flourished among the people and has never ceased in all dynasties.
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It was the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and at this moment in Liu Bei's life, infant drowning was a common practice in many places. Regardless of whether the baby was a boy or a girl, as long as the family could not afford to raise them, they would all be drowned.
Some conscientious local officials couldn't stand it anymore, so they asked the people not to drown the baby. The official paid the oral tax for the baby in order to keep the baby alive.
However, there are too few officials with unyielding conscience, and there may not be even one in a thousand. Some have the intention, but don’t have the money.
Every year, how many children in this land are painfully killed by their parents right after they are born?
At this thought, Liu Bei thought that even if someone dug Liu Che's grave, opened his coffin, and killed all his blood as an apology, it would not be too much.
His personal talents and strategies, as well as the military might of the Han Empire, existed.
But in the two thousand years since him, until the capitation tax was completely abolished, the corpses of babies still existed all over Chi County.
Whoever created the figurines has no descendants?
Liu Bei felt resentful and dissatisfied for this.
"The existence of oral traditions has made people afraid to have children and killed their children at birth. Is this an exception? I grew up in Zhuojun, Luoyang, Youzhou, and now Gaijun, Hanyang. This situation is still there Is it less? We often say that Liangzhou is sparsely populated. Do we really not know the reason for the sparsely populated area?"
Gai Xun heard Liu Bei's heartfelt lament.
"I am clear about your thoughts, but this is a regulation of the imperial court and can be discussed. It is very difficult to abolish it. This income cannot be given up by the princes of the Manchu Dynasty, and the local governments are also reluctant to part with it. This money.”
"Yeah, how could they be willing to give it up? Without this money, it would be harder for them to spend their time and have fun! There will be one or two less plates on their table! How can they bear it!"
Liu Bei sighed and put away the land account books.
"I won't talk about these things now. It's time to open up land, and it's time to reduce or reduce taxes. Don't think about how much tax revenue you can get a few years before resuming production. The money I bring is also limited. We must find other ways to obtain wealth. ."
When Liu Bei said this, Gai Xun remembered what Liu Bei had said about the caravan before.
"When I was talking about Liangzhou with you before, you said that we could introduce foreign traders into Liangzhou. This matter..."
"Well, I have this plan. In addition to restoring agricultural production, I also plan to develop commerce in Liangzhou. Otherwise, it will not be enough to change the current situation in Liangzhou."
Liu Bei looked at Gai Xun, smiled, and asked, "Then I want to ask Gai Jun, what is Liangzhou's most famous product?"
"Of course it's rose apples and rose apple wine."
Gai Xun nodded and said: "Putou is a precious fruit. It is cultivated in Liangzhou. It is used to make wine. It is very mellow. Not only the people of Liangzhou, but also the whole Han Dynasty, as long as they like to drink, no one can refuse the peach. Liquor, this is the most famous product in Liangzhou, but..."
"But what?"
"There are many wars in Liangzhou, and the production of rose apples and rose apple wine is very rare and very unstable. It is very difficult to get rich from this."
"Then make it stable."
Liu Bei said: "The government will come forward to build and protect large rosewood plantations, protect the production of rosewood, and then build winemaking workshops outside the plantations to produce rosewood while brewing rosewood wine. Then I will contact the reliable ones." The caravan will increase the freight volume and transport and sell all the way to Chang'an, Luoyang and Guandong."
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Gai Xun was a little surprised.
"It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do. It costs a lot of money, and I'm afraid you can't know it right now. Many rosewood planting areas have long been deserted. Finding people, breeding, and planting all take time, and there are also wastes. Water conservancy projects need people to repair them. Where are there so many people?
It is true that the powerful locals handed over 30,000 people, but they were mostly used to restore food production. Although the rose apples are good, they cannot be used as food. Otherwise, where else can there be manpower to use them on a large scale? What about planting rose apples? What Liangzhou lacks most is not only money, but also people. "
Liu Bei smiled.
"Why does Mr. Gai think that I am going to kill, or even capture, this battle?"
Gai Xun was stunned when he heard this, and immediately realized that Liu Bei's moves were all connected up and down!
As Gai Xun expected, news of the success of the five-county conquest plan soon came, followed by a total capture of approximately 60,000 people.
Among these captives, there were not only Han people, but also a large number of Qiang, Huns, and Xianbei people of all ethnic groups. They were mainly young men and women, with a very small number of old people and children.
This is a very high-quality workforce.
After Gai Xun heard the news, he was happy and worried at the same time.
"We have the manpower, but before we let them produce and reap profits, they also need to eat. Suddenly there are 60,000 more mouths to eat. Where should we raise so much food?"
The large amount of food Liu Bei brought before was mainly to supply military supplies. Hanyang County had just experienced war and the treasury was empty, so he could not produce much food for a while.
If you want to purchase locally in Liangzhou, it will immediately cause local food prices to rise, which may cause additional unrest, which will be very detrimental to Liu Bei.
But Liu Bei didn't take this matter seriously, he already had a solution.
