Zi Jue saw clearly the debate in the court, and he did not expect that Gong Yang Jie was so knowledgeable. In his opinion, Gongyang Jie's reforms were still very immature and had many loopholes, but this set of reforms was very suitable for Huai Guo.
As for the loopholes in this set of tax laws, they will only appear slowly after decades of implementation. It depends on what future generations will do then. After all, no system can run inconveniently for hundreds of years.
The debate in the court ended with Gongyangjie's overall victory. Next, Wang Lin handed over the work of implementing the new tax law to Gong Yangjie.
Gongyang Xie knew that the new tax law had affected the interests of the nobles and lower-level tax collectors. It was not easy to implement the new tax law. So he asked Wang Lin to send some soldiers to assist him. Wei Ping happened to come back and the two of them were familiar with each other, so Wang Lin asked Wei Ping to cooperate with him.
In order to implement the new tax law, Gongyang Jie specially found tax collectors to inform them of the new tax law, and then ordered the tax collectors to explain it to the people. Because of Wang Lin's order, these tax collectors did not dare to disobey. Even if they did not want to, they had no choice but to publicize these new tax laws.
In this era, there are not many people who can learn, the spread of knowledge is very limited, and the people's understanding of government orders is limited, so these people are needed to explain. Fortunately, Huai State has promoted academy education in the past hundred years, and many people have mastered knowledge.
Many tax collectors were sent to various places to preach the new tax policy. However, after a while, Gongyang Jie went to learn about it and found that the effect of the tax propaganda was not good. People do not agree with the new tax law, but feel that the new tax law is a disguised tax increase.
At first, Gongyang Jie thought it was the tax collectors who were playing tricks, deliberately preaching wrongly, or deliberately misleading the people. Gongyang Jie wanted to take down these tax collectors and punish them at that time, but after he got to know them personally, he discovered that these tax collectors may have been slack and did not pay attention to them, but this was not the main reason.
The real reason is a trust issue. Tax collectors have been in contact with these people all year round, and the people are afraid of them. They were afraid that the tax collector was telling lies. Over the years, tax collectors have done too many intimidating, deceiving, and ruthless things to collect taxes.
The people simply did not dare to trust them, so Gongyangjie asked these tax collectors to preach the new tax law, and he did not hesitate to let the tiger say that he did not eat people. How to make people believe this approach.
If the new tax law does not gain the trust of the people, it will be a blank piece of paper and useless. Gongyang frowned. He was new here and had no credibility at all.
After figuring out the cause of the matter, Gongyang Jie began to think about how to make people believe in him.
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A strange thing suddenly happened in Huai'an City recently. The Shangqing Gongyang of Huai State set up a three-foot-high log in the open space outside the south gate, and then informed everyone that as long as someone can carry the log, If you go to the north gate, you will be rewarded with ten gold coins.
It is human nature to watch the excitement. After hearing about such weird things, everyone came to watch, but no one was really willing to take action.
People like to watch the excitement, but they don’t like to be part of the excitement itself.
Someone said: "This piece of wood is three feet long. Anyone can carry it. It's so easy to get ten gold pieces. It's not like the Lord is taking advantage of us for fun!"
"Who says it's not true? If someone really carries the wood to the north gate, let alone ten gold, someone will do it for ten gold. They must be making fun of us!"
Everyone was talking about it, but no one dared to step forward and carry the wood to the north gate.
Gongyang Jie saw that everyone was talking and watching, but no one took action. Knowing that these people didn't believe it, he ordered someone to shout: "If anyone can carry this piece of wood to the north gate, I will reward you fifty dollars." gold!"
But after the bounty was increased again, everyone was in an uproar and became even more suspicious. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to carry the wood.
However, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Under the temptation of fifty gold, some people soon couldn't bear it anymore. After all, in his opinion, carrying the wood to the north gate is just a trivial matter. Even if he doesn't give fifty gold in the end, it's just a waste of effort.
The man stepped forward and asked again: "Can I ask if you can get fifty gold horses if you carry this wood to the north gate?"
"Exactly, as long as you carry this wood to the north gate, you will get a reward of fifty gold!" Gong Yangjie said loudly.
After hearing this, the man nodded, immediately picked up the wood and walked towards the north gate. When the onlookers saw someone finally carrying the wood, they also followed to watch the fun. Soon, about a quarter of an hour later, the man arrived at the north gate. Gongyang Xie was not polite and immediately ordered someone to fetch fifty gold coins and reward him.
Everyone was in an uproar when they saw that Gong Yangjie actually gave the fifty gold reward to that person.
Many people even regretted it and scratched their own ears. Why didn't he try it? It doesn't take much effort to carry a piece of wood.
The news about Gongyang Shangqing spread quickly, and everyone knew that Gongyang Shangqing was true to his word. It won't take long for the entire Huai Kingdom to know.
After seeing his fame spread, Gongyangjie once again ordered tax collectors from all over the country to announce the new tax law and informed him that this tax law was issued by Gongyangjie.
When people everywhere knew that this tax law was an order from Gong Yangjie, they immediately believed it. After Gongyang's reform and reform, the tax laws have become much simpler, and people know the taxes they have to pay. Taxes are much less than before.
The new tax law was also successfully implemented.
When the autumn harvest comes this year, when they see the taxes collected from the treasury, the officials of Huai State no longer dare to underestimate Gong Yangjie.
At the same time, Gong Yangjie once again issued an order to purchase supplies such as Sokcho, sinews, cattle and horses. The people enthusiastically sold them, but in only half a month, all the needed supplies were received.
The new tax law reduced the opportunities for tax collectors and nobles to take advantage of them, and also benefited the people at the bottom, and the market became prosperous.
After the tax law reform, Huai State's taxes increased rapidly, and the people became increasingly wealthy. Wang Lin was also very satisfied when he saw Gongyang Xie Zhizheng.
Even the nobles discovered that the various workshops in their hands actually made a lot of money. Of course, the money was much less than before.
The nobles wanted to repeal the new tax law, but they did not dare to take any action.
After Gongyangjie requested the abolition of Dingkou, the population of Huai Kingdom began to increase rapidly. No matter in any era, population is very important. Because only people can occupy land and create wealth.
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Under the imperial edict, the tax law was reformed and the public officials read it to the tax collectors, but the people did not believe it. A three-foot-long tree was erected at the south gate of the capital city. He said: If anyone can relocate to the north gate, I will give you ten gold coins. The people are all strange and no one dares to move. He said again: If anyone can move to the north gate, I will give him fifty gold. Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. One of them migrates and gets fifty gold, so as to show his innocence and not deceive. When Duke Jie issued another order, the people began to believe it when they heard it. ——"Historical Records·Biography of Gongyang·Gongyang Innovation"
