Zijue stood in the void and looked at the land of Huai Kingdom in front of him. After a hundred years of development, Huai Kingdom has become more and more powerful, and its influence on Bangzhou is also growing.
The Qi Luck Mysterious Bird in the cave world is also becoming more and more powerful, but on the Qi Luck Mysterious Bird, there is a stain that cannot be wiped clean like a dark cloud.
A hundred years ago, this stain was only the size of a fingernail. Now, this stain has expanded more than ten times. It was just that Huai State was suppressed due to its strong luck.
According to the current level of backlash, as long as there is no problem in Huai Kingdom, the power of backlash will not be able to shake the Luck Black Bird. But Zijue knew that the backlash would increase faster and faster. One day, the increase in luck would be exceeded by the backlash.
In this case, we can only try our best to collect luck.
[Chinese Divine Sword: The emergence of the Ouye family means that the bronze sword casting technology has entered a stage of rapid development, and the top ten famous sword tasks have begun. Every time you collect one of the top ten famous swords, you will receive a lot of luck and special props. And each of the top ten famous swords will add 1 attribute point to your descendants. 】
[Your descendants have discovered the Ouye family, your family has made outstanding historical contributions, and you have obtained the earth-level props and military soul flag]
[Earth-level props·Military Soul Flag (will to trap, life or death): After using it, you will get a military soul flag. With the help of the military soul flag, an army of no more than 5,000 people can obtain the military soul bonus, no matter where it is. Under any circumstances, high morale can be maintained. The army will not surrender, run away, blow up camps, or accept death. Note that this prop can be used ten times and will be destroyed after ten times. 】
A system prompt suddenly came to his ears. After seeing the props that appeared, Zijue was a little silent. Is the effect of this military soul flag powerful? It's powerful, but the consequences are serious.
This is equivalent to a death-defying army of five thousand people. But when will the death-defying army be used? Only when the Huai Kingdom is in crisis. Zijue does not hope that the family will use this flag one day, because once it is used, it means that the family has reached a point of life and death.
Zijue sighed, put the treasure away, and then looked at Ou Ye. Ou Ye should be the father of Ou Yezi, the master swordsmith in Zi Jue's previous life. In his previous life, Ou Yezi forged eight famous swords by himself.
[Chinese Famous Sword] This task can be regarded as a point question. As for the remaining two famous swords, General Mo Xie was also forged by Ou Yezi's daughter and son-in-law. Just put these swords away when the time comes.
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After Gong Yangjie gained Wang Lin's trust, he became an official in the Huai Kingdom and became the top minister of the Huai Kingdom. Gongyang Jie was very grateful to Duke Huai for trusting him so much, and vowed to govern the Huai Kingdom well.
Although the Huai State is now powerful, it still has many shortcomings. Especially after annexing the Han State, many new problems have arisen.
In addition to the land tax implemented in the Huai Kingdom in the past, there were also many miscellaneous taxes such as corvées. There were many types of taxes, which not only made tax collection cumbersome, but also easily led to corruption. People often don't know about these taxes, and those tax collectors who collect taxes can easily get their hands on them.
In the end, the people were squeezed and lived in poverty, but the national tax revenue did not increase. On the contrary, they enriched themselves and made the people resent the country.
Some of these taxes were set when Zijue was in power, and some were set by subsequent monarchs. Some taxes were out of date and needed to be adjusted.
Gongyang Jie first spent three months personally going to various parts of Huai State to understand the tax situation, and then sorted out the taxes over the years for comparison.
When Gongyang was solving the tax issue, there were also some rumors among the Huai Kingdom.
There are many rumors in the market that Gongyang's explanation is exaggerated. A man who was originally a slave relied on his words to deceive the emperor into trusting him, and then he got the high position of minister. As a result, he became minister for more than three months, but he did not give a single decree.
Wang Lin didn't care about these rumors. He knew very well that they were resentments among some people in Huai Kingdom. After all, Gongyang Jie was originally a slave who was captured after the defeat, but he was actually appointed as a minister, jumping from the bottom of society to the top.
This made them very dissatisfied, but Wang Lin's prestige was too high, and they did not dare to object openly, so they thought of this method. They thought that they were from a noble family and had noble blood, but they were not reused. How can a person of high birth get a high position?
Wang Lin knew very well what these people were thinking. These nobles had limited talent and learning. Although many nobles have studied in academies, the results are not good.
Although the Huai Kingdom has established academies since the time of King Wen, as time went by, these academies almost became academies for nobles. Ordinary people could not obtain knowledge in them, and most of the nobles who came here were indulged in pleasure.
On the contrary, there are outstanding figures in every generation of the Huai Kingdom's dukes.
Although there are many rumors in the market, these rumors have not affected Gongyang Jie.
It took Gongyangjie a month to figure out Huaiguo's taxation, and after some calculations, he came to write to Wang Lin.
“Your Majesty, the taxes in the Huai Kingdom are complex and of various types. In addition to the official land tax, there are more than 20 types of taxes such as Shucao tax, Dingkou tax, cattle and horse tax, corvee tax, silk tax, salt tax, commercial tax, etc.
The materials collected include grain, cloth, silk, sokcho, salt, horses, large trees and other materials. Taxation is extremely cumbersome and there is no unified standard. It is all collected by tax collectors. There are many corrupt people and the people are in poverty. I implore you to reform taxes, unify standards, restrain tax collectors, and reduce the burden on the people. "
"I already know what you have told me. I wonder if you have any good ideas?"
"Your Majesty, this is my tax policy!"
Gongyangjie told Wang Lin about the tax reform. In order to solve the problem of cumbersome taxation, Gongyangjie advocated the abolition of unimportant miscellaneous taxes. After calculating these miscellaneous taxes, they were added to the regular taxes and collected uniformly.
This can reduce the number of times tax collectors collect taxes, make it easier for people to pay taxes, and make it more difficult for tax collectors to commit corruption. At the same time, people were sent to preach taxation and inform the people how much the tax was.
Taxes no longer levied on various materials such as Sokcho, goods, salt, large trees, etc., but only grain and cloth. Reduce the difficulty of tax transportation and management.
According to the previous tax collection standards, the state collects various physical taxes every year, which requires a large amount of warehouse storage. In many cases, due to poor storage, it is damaged and cannot be used. Of course, it is difficult to say whether this is really damaged or reported as damaged and corrupted.
At the same time, some taxes were directly exempted, such as the Dingkou tax.
According to Gongyang Jie, the existence of Dingkou tax is to limit the population. According to the regulations of the Huai Kingdom, after the age of 16, men need to pay a tax of 30 qian every year, and women pay half of it. Some poor families cannot afford the money and drown their babies.
Therefore, Gongyang wrote a letter and was exempted from the Dingkou tax.
