In June of the sixth year of the Grand Duke, the asset registration tax collection operation in the UK has reached the final stage.
According to Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte's decision after discussion, after Britain became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, it must complete a round of comprehensive social reforms.
The core goal of most reforms in history is actually to adjust the asset ownership and distribution system.
As the saying goes, killing someone's wealth is like killing their parents.
Directly depriving a person of his assets without reasonable compensation is tantamount to killing his father and seizing his wife.
Therefore, the reforms that have been relatively successful in history have either made sufficient compensation or have been offset by other forces.
In other words, reform promoters have absolute force to suppress them.
Even if there is true hatred of killing his father and seizing his wife, people who don't want to die can only accept this result.
The situation of Ming Dynasty in Britain was the latter.
This reform is called a reform, but in fact it is a simple and crude seizure of the assets of the wealthy class, and most of them are distributed to the emperor, king, and court.
Finally, distribute it evenly to the poorest families at the bottom.
But when actually implementing this matter, there must still be a basic public reason.
Britain became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty with the help of the Ming Dynasty Prince Zhudi Pu.
The nature of Britain has completely changed. British assets need to be re-registered with the Ming Dynasty before they can continue to be legally held and inherited.
Before registration, only the original British royal family recognized it. After registration, it was recognized by the entire Ming Dynasty.
But it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to register you unconditionally.
Therefore, assets with a total value exceeding a certain amount are required to pay asset registration tax in a progressive proportion.
Zhu Jingyuan originally promised that the British mainland's reform plan could be formulated with reference to Dongyi's plan, but he would further relax restrictions.
At that time, the Dongyi people could only retain assets of less than 10,000 silver notes.
It is equivalent to one million yuan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
British people can keep higher-shelf assets, but they have to pay a one-time asset registration tax based on progressive tax rates.
Those holding assets below one hundred silver notes do not need to pay registration tax.
For the amount above 100 silver notes and below 10,000 silver notes, a 1% registration tax is payable.
For the amount above 10,000 banknotes and below 100,000 banknotes, a 10% registration tax is payable.
For the amount above 100,000 banknotes and below 1 million banknotes, a 20% registration tax is payable.
For amounts above one million banknotes and below ten million banknotes, a 50% registration tax is payable.
For amounts above 10 million banknotes and below 100 million banknotes, a 70% registration tax is payable.
Above 100 million banknotes, a 90% registration tax is payable.
Progressive tax rates are only used to calculate assets within the target range. Each stage is calculated separately, and finally paid together.
Instead of a person with a total asset of 300 million, he can just collect 270 million.
Instead, we will first collect the portion above 100 million, which is 90% of 200 million, which is 180 million.
Then for the part between 10 million and 100 million, the total assets of 90 million are collected at 70%, which is 63 million.
For the part before one million to ten million, a total of nine million assets will be collected at 50%, which is 3.5 million.
After all the stages are added up in this way, a total of 240,779,099 will be collected.
It doesn’t seem to be much different from 270 million.
Only families with less than one million banknotes can retain more than half of their assets.
In fact, for assets over 100 million, the new court directly charges 90% of the registration tax, which basically means confiscation.
Leaving one Cheng behind was a sign of the Ming Emperor’s “kindness of heart”.
In this world where the United States died young, Britain was the country with the most developed capitalism.
Therefore, unlike the relatively poor and marginal Yinzhou colony, the British mainland has several families with assets of more than 100 million yuan.
Some of them are real estate aristocrats, and some are industrial and commercial capitalists.
The main targets of the new British court in the Ming Dynasty were these noble and capital families with huge assets.
Since the British did possess a large amount of assets, the British also took the initiative to join the Ming Dynasty through relatively legal means.
Therefore, we cannot simply and crudely confiscate all assets like other places in the Western European Continent, and at the same time, each person is given a cash payment of 100 silver notes to offset the account.
It does require a large number of personnel to liquidate and evaluate assets based on previous market conditions, and ultimately collect taxes in proportion.
According to the suggestions of Emperor Zhenzong Huan of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhongliang on inheritance tax.
For large landowners, a corresponding proportion of the land will be charged directly in proportion to the registration tax.
For industrial and commercial capitalists, equity is charged in proportion.
Even with this experience, it still took more than two years of hard work before the liquidation was finally basically completed.
However, during this process, Ming Dynasty also completed a comprehensive asset and census in the UK, and registered everyone in the UK.
The most important fixed assets in the UK, the core land closest to the city, have become owned by the royal family or the state.
The King of England directly became the largest bourgeoisie and real estate owner in the UK.
Other members of the aristocracy within the original British royal family also completed a major reshuffle in this process.
Although the British allowed them to continue to call themselves nobles, the former remote branches of the royal family were not recognized by other areas of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, the asset registration tax cannot be paid less.
The princes and princes of the Ming Dynasty are not exempt from tax, let alone nobles from other races.
The King of the United Kingdom is exempt from asset registration tax because he is the monarch.
The nature of the British mainland within the Ming Dynasty system was that it was a foreign vassal state like Persia, Egypt and other countries.
Therefore, British land and important national assets are owned by the British King.
Now that the King of England is still a child, the King's mother, Charlotte, serves as regent.
Charlotte will stay in the Ming Dynasty to have children with Zhu Jingyuan for the next two years.
Therefore, the current management of the British mainland is actually carried out by officials arranged by the Ming Dynasty, along with local British officials and nobles.
But they also followed the instructions of Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte.
With reference to the Ming Dynasty's royal consortium and the Ming Dynasty consortium, a British royal family industrial group and a British national industrial group were established.
The division between the two is similar to the royal family and court of the Ming Dynasty.
It’s just that there are no high-end industries in the UK.
Basic industries such as mining, steel, military, railways, highways, shipping, and finance can only be handed over to the royal group.
The National Industrial Group is responsible for bulk industries such as food, agriculture, automobiles, trains, aircraft, and machinery.
Most of the urban land and large estates on the outskirts of the city are owned by the royal family, and a small amount is given to national industrial groups for office use.
A large number of small-scale properties, including apartment buildings, townhouses, and small estates, are evenly divided between the two groups and used as dormitories for employees.
Apartment buildings are directly occupied by employee families, townhouses can allow each family to live on one floor, and small estates can be divided into multiple families according to rooms.
And announced the same policy, after twenty years of continuous service to the royal family and the country, they will be able to get a house.
Including current apartment blocks and townhouses, more family homes will be built in the future to replace families living together on the estate.
In the original British industrial system, most workers lived in rented houses.
Rent is also an important expense in their lives.
Now a large number of workers have become employees of the royal family and the state, and have directly received free apartments to live in.
First of all, the cost of renting a house is gone, and the pressure of life has suddenly dropped a lot.
The key is that after you own your own house, your emotional happiness will skyrocket.
The royal family and the country gave a large number of estates occupied by nobles to workers to live in, which also turned the rental market in British cities into a buyer's market.
The pressure on life of other workers who did not become employees of the royal family and state industry also declined simultaneously.
At the same time, the royal family and national industrial companies, and even the Ming Dynasty royal consortium, are investing in more industries in the UK.
They have created more jobs in the UK and offered higher salaries than before.
The original poor classes in the UK now have the most basic living security.
The situation in the UK has naturally stabilized overall.
The wealthy businessmen and nobles who had lost a lot of assets did not have the courage to resist under the direct suppression of the Ming Dynasty's garrison and the general trend of the whole world surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.
On June 16, the sixth year of the Grand Duke, the property registration tax in Britain was completed.
For the Ming Dynasty occupying army and the British Chief Envoy, it was considered to have completed an extremely important task.
After repeated review, it was submitted to the British Regent and the Ming Emperor for review.
Finally, the Ming Emperor replied that he understood, and the Regent, Her Royal Highness Charlotte, responded that military control could be lifted.
During the asset registration period, that is, during the process of surveying the British mainland, the entire UK was also under military control.
On June 20, the sixth year of the Grand Duke, the British Chief Envoy and the British Metropolitan Commander jointly issued an order to formally lift the military control state in the British mainland.
After the news was made public on the radio, Britain's wealthy classes finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The most depressing time has finally passed.
Although many people have lost a lot of wealth, the whole family is basically intact, and a large part of the wealth is still left.
For assets below 100 million banknotes, more than 30% can be retained.
More than 50% of assets below 10 million banknotes can be retained.
One million banknotes can leave 80%, which means that 100 million yuan of assets can leave 80 million.
Taxes are collected directly from land and equity. If there are multiple manor lands or multiple manufacturer equity, you can also use several of them to pay them all together.
And then retain complete manors and complete control of factories and businesses in other areas.
So they still have a lot left on their hands.
For people at this level, this loss does not directly affect their standard of living.
Because at this level, more asset growth only increases the value of the asset, and has less and less actual impact on the holder's life.
It is also for this reason that the bourgeoisie has a high tolerance for absolute violence.
Just like the gentry and landlords in the south of the Ming Dynasty in history, they were extremely patient in facing the butcher knife of the Qing Dynasty.
Wherever bourgeois revolution breaks out, there is no exception where the people at the bottom cannot survive.
The bourgeoisie relies on its own knowledge and management capabilities and spends the power of the lowest people whose lives are not valuable to force the traditional monarchs who do not cooperate with them to obey.
Let the bourgeoisie carry their own guns and start a revolution?
They won't do it.
If your life is gone, how can you make money?
If a monarch in the traditional sense can influence the vast majority of ordinary people at the bottom, he can provide them with basic living security.
Then he used ordinary people to stop the large army.
No matter how great the resentment in the hearts of the bourgeoisie is, they still don't have the courage to do anything ruthless.
But at the same time, when traditional monarchs want to manage ordinary people at the bottom, they also need to use the management capabilities of the bourgeoisie.
Therefore, even if the traditional monarch possesses absolute force, he cannot really push the bourgeoisie to death.
In the end, they have to be given a way to survive and their basic interests and privileges must be guaranteed.
This is a contradiction of mutual hostility and mutual need.
From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the relationship between traditional Chinese emperors and traditional aristocratic families was also very similar.
The modern method of electing bureaucrats in Western Europe is very similar to some extent to the ancient method of selecting bureaucrats through the selection of rural sages and promoting filial piety and integrity in China.
People who can participate in elections and people who can be promoted as filial and honest have similar social positioning.
They are all representatives or spokespersons of the "Aristocratic Family".
The emperors of Tang and Song Dynasties in China did not want to unconditionally protect the privileges of aristocratic families, so they created another way, the imperial examination.
It has created a way for ordinary people to be promoted to become national managers through assessment.
As well as a way to select for yourself the people in the family who are willing to cooperate and who are truly capable of governing the country.
Gradually, officials will be recommended by aristocratic families, instead they will be selected by themselves.
Even though most of the people chosen in the end still come from aristocratic families, the initiative between the two parties has gradually reversed.
Because aristocratic families cannot guarantee that their heirs will achieve the highest achievements.
Even if the concubine of the family is brought to the emperor's side, it is enough to break the family's system and control it.
The royal family and court of the Ming Dynasty, who were born in China, have accumulated experience from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the present day, and have gained experience in subduing aristocratic families by controlling the lower levels.
Now we also know how to control the capital families in the UK.
First, violently suppress and confiscate a group of most of the social assets, and then use the universal imperial examination system to break the traditional family system.
Let the children of nobles and ordinary people without inheritance rights become the main force of officials.
So on the third day after the announcement of the lifting of martial law, the British Chief of Staff officially released another equally important news.
The Chief Envoy of Britain will hold the second British Imperial Examination on the 11th day of the 23rd day of the 23rd month of the Imperial Calendar, 2046, which is August 11th.
It will also be the first round of official and strictly held imperial examinations.
During the period of military control, Britain held an informal imperial examination last year and recruited a group of British students and talents.
This time the provincial examinations will open up the UK's elite examinations.
The highest person in the UK can serve as the chief official of a British government-level government office.
After the news of the lifting of martial law was sent out, the remaining traditional aristocrats and factory owners in Britain were already preparing a banquet to celebrate freedom.
Although they lost a lot of assets, their identity was still barely protected.
And the remaining assets can be protected by Daming.
It is indeed something worth celebrating.
In fact, the more important thing is that they have not held a banquet for two years and have no chance to communicate and discuss things at any time.
Now the purpose of holding banquets is more to exchange information.
Discuss future situations.
The reason for the party itself is not important.
In order to lower the vigilance of Ming Dynasty official uniforms, it is more appropriate to use the name of celebrating freedom.
As a result, after receiving this news, many people's originally unhappy mood became heavier again.
The traditional aristocratic families in Britain, as well as the emerging wealthy families, can all see what will happen to the Ming Dynasty's imperial examinations.
It will allow the second son in the family, or in other words, the child who originally had no inheritance rights, to become a supporter of the new British royal family.
It will give the children of managers and clerks the opportunity to become officials who manage themselves.
Your social status will be further reduced.
Their emotions were complicated, but the so-called celebration banquet had to continue, or rather should be held.
Even if you can't find any good way to deal with it, it's good to complain to each other to vent your emotions.
So since the beginning of June in the sixth year of the Duke's reign, large and small banquets and gatherings have been held one after another in and outside London.
As a result, their emotions were not fully vented, but a large number of people were sent directly to prison.
Because Jin Yiwei went back to inspect the banquet and checked the identity registration information of the participants. The key was the marriage registration information.
If a man and woman dancing holding hands and arms around their waists are found to be not husband and wife, they will be pulled out directly and beaten ten times with a stick on the spot, plus a fine of one hundred silver coins.
If one of the parties is already married, both parties will be beaten with twenty sticks and fined with two hundred silver coins.
If the person is directly caught having sex in bed and the two parties are not husband and wife, he will be beaten with an eighty stick and fined with an additional eight hundred silver notes.
If one of the parties is married, he will be beaten with a stick of 100 yuan and fined 1,000 silver coins.
Of course, if the woman is a prostitute, has an officially registered workplace, and has an invited work arrangement, then both parties are innocent.
In fact, it was treated as a crime of adultery. It was just divided into different levels according to the severity of the situation.
He should have been caught by the Yamen and put under control. At another time, he should have been publicly beaten with a stick and his pants had to be removed.
The official law of the Ming Dynasty punished adultery with a stick.
If the husband discovers it himself, he can kill both parties on the spot without guilt.
But then the husband himself and no one else can interfere.
To kill immediately on the spot is actually to allow the superior to kill.
After leaving the scene, the husband became more and more angry. If he killed someone again, he would be punished.
The so-called immersion in pig cages and ponds in ancient times were unofficial clan lynchings and had nothing to do with the court or the yamen.
The Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei's action of investigating party adultery once again completely destroyed the traditional British wealthy families.
Several gatherings in different cities turned into a group of people lying on the ground and getting slapped.
Then for a short time no one gathered anymore, and everyone began to carefully study the laws of the Ming Dynasty.
No one thinks that Ming’s behavior is bad, and no one says that this kind of law is against humanity.
On the contrary, someone soon published an article in the newspaper, saying that England was finally going to truly become a civilized world.
I call on all British people to work hard to learn and abide by the Ming Dynasty's system and live according to the Ming Dynasty people's way.
Abandon the backward moral, legal, cultural, clothing, food and other traditions of the British native land.
Only if there is no difference at all can Britain truly break away from ignorance and integrate into the civilized world led by the Ming Dynasty.
The standard of civilization in this world is the Ming Dynasty, and the standard of the Ming Dynasty must be civilized.
If you have a different tradition and culture than Ming Dynasty, then your own tradition and culture must be wrong.
In the future, we must comprehensively study the system, culture and lifestyle of the Ming Dynasty.
However, there are also some people who are stubborn and refuse to change, and even develop a rebellious mentality.
Continue to live in a traditional Western-style castle and let your whole family and children wear traditional Thai and Western clothes.
Insist on speaking English in daily life and completely reject Ming Yayan.
The Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty did not care about them.
As long as you use Daming elegance and writing when you face Jin Yiwei or when you go to the Yamen to do things.
Just do whatever you want in your daily life.
The nature of Britain itself is special, and they who barely joined on their own initiative are not suitable for being completely and comprehensively purified.
So we got the permission from Ming Emperor Zhu Jingyuan.
The UK does not need to completely demolish the original traditional buildings, nor does it need to force the British to become fully enlightened.
Britain, a depression of Thai and Western culture, a place that was already a mess, will become a traditional Thai and Western cultural reserve.
People who want to preserve tradition with a rebellious mentality will only retain a bunch of stitched things.
Of course, there are a lot of imaginary elements mixed in.
(End of chapter)
