Reducing corvee and tax is a good thing for everyone in the world, but from a policy that benefits everyone, the ones who benefit the most are definitely not the common people, but the nobles.
It's a simple question. Common people don't have much land in their hands. They only have a few acres or a dozen acres of land. Let alone collecting 10% of the land, even if they don't charge a penny of tax, they still have no ability to resist risks.
Natural disasters, man-made disasters, the destruction of ordinary people's homes and lives, only a very small thing is enough.
And for the Cui family, whose land is connected to each other, their industries are spread throughout Langya and even the old Qi region, and their connections are connected to the top nobles in Xianyang and all over Langya, a four-tenth reduction in taxes is of great significance.
In the past, the Qin State tried its best to concentrate the wealth of the people in the center, engaging in war and plundering.
But future wars are destined to no longer be as continuous as the Warring States Period.
Only when society stabilizes can the cake get bigger.
But if the cake is small, which group of people will eat it; if the cake is bigger, the same group of people will eat it.
As for the common people, they can't eat anything.
After the founding of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang moved a large number of nobles to Xianyang to strengthen centralization of power.
The famous governance of Wen and Jing in history was to adopt the national policy of resting with the people, doing as little as possible politically, and governing by inaction.
After the rule of Wenjing, "in the first seventy years of Emperor Wu's reign, the country was in trouble, except for floods and droughts, and all the huts were full, while the treasury had surplus wealth." In other words, Gaozu, Empress Lu, and Emperor Wen of the early Han Dynasty The rulers of the past dynasties, such as Emperor Jing and Emperor Jing, have already made a huge cake of social wealth. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came to the throne, the biggest problem facing society was how to divide this big cake.
But in fact, this big cake has already been divided by the emerging powerful groups.
Therefore, in the early years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the financial resources that the treasury could mobilize were still very limited.
Because the powerful interest groups in the Han Dynasty accumulated most of the social wealth and occupied most of the country's interests.
The social divide between rich and poor is even more shocking: on one side, the rich and powerful are extravagant and extravagant, while on the other side, "the poor often wear the clothes of cows and horses, but eat the food of dogs and pigeons."
Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar of the Han Dynasty, once said: "The rich have fields stretching across the country, but the poor have no place to stand."
The rich and powerful are extravagant, profiteers are getting rich, the market is chaotic, and the country is weak and the people are poor. This makes the Han Dynasty, which is gorgeous and wealthy in appearance, vulnerable to the strong horses and strong bows of the Xiongnu.
The prosperity of the world does not mean that the emperor is wealthy.
The cake is never eaten by the ruler alone.
Zhao Si's idea, in addition to making the original cake bigger, is to make it so that ordinary people can taste the cake they worked so hard to make.
Someone comes on, and naturally...someone has to leave.
Before turning over the table and telling some people to eat less, we must let the common people who are ignorant and easy to follow the crowd realize a problem.
Whoever you follow can have your cake and eat it too.
The biggest beneficiaries of the corvee and tax reduction were the nobles. The First Emperor, Li Si, and Zhao Si all knew it.
But it doesn't matter, this is just an act to send a kind signal to the common people and improve the government's credibility, so that they can clearly understand which side they should stand on.
Oh, no, just don’t help each other.
In fact, in this era, it is still too easy to take it for granted to start a struggle among the vast masses of people.
All they have to do is stand by and say a good death.
The Cui family, father and son, and even most of the nobles in the world were immersed in the joy of reducing corvee and tax.
Some people have even begun to praise the First Emperor.
Some people think that the First Emperor may have changed his mind.
Some people recognized the First Emperor's right to share the cake...
This is a big deal. Four-tenths of taxes are reduced out of thin air. Four-tenths of a year, ten years, or a hundred years?
Who can still stand today who is not a nobleman for hundreds of years?
In their view, this was a major victory in their struggle, and they also realized that they might be able to cooperate further with the First Emperor.
Of course, the premise is that it does not harm their interests too much.
Judging from the Emperor's initiative to reduce huge taxes, the Emperor already had the elements of a king they recognized.
A good king is a king who knows how not to treat his people harshly.
They were completely unaware that the First Emperor, who was blackmailed by their public opinions, was gradually clearing his name.
But still living in dire straits, I suddenly found that the target that had been set up before had fallen down.
Their anger had no way to vent, after all, the blame could not be placed on the First Emperor who was already willing to take the initiative to reduce corvee and taxes.
Their anger is still there, their resentment is still building up.
They didn't realize it, but someone... did.
On the edge of the East China Sea...
Zhang Liang looked at the notice posted by the county government and raised his eyebrows.
"How can it be!"
Zhang Liang’s face was full of disbelief!
How could Qin Shihuang make such a ridiculous decision?
This decision cannot be said to be wrong, it can only be said that it is so right!
Zhang Liang knew something about the Qin State. In fact, anyone with great knowledge can basically understand the severe social contradictions and conflicts in the Qin State.
They may not be sure that Qin will be destroyed as a result, but they can also feel that huge turbulence will inevitably occur in the long run.
The serious social contradictions and conflicts in the Qin State have been put on the surface, and the First Emperor insisted on going his own way, walking a tightrope of national policies, and controlling the empire to the limit amidst the ups and downs. It seemed that the First Emperor had reached the limits of the people's power and the country's endurance. Extreme.
Of course this is his outstanding ability for the king, but isn't this a mockery to thousands of people?
Their anger and resentment are building...
The First Emperor's action of reducing corvee and tax was no different than one day suddenly standing in front of this group of people full of resentment and anger and saying sincerely: "I was wrong."
And they also offered a lot of compensation in one fell swoop.
The social conflicts in the Qin Dynasty were indeed very violent, but the fact that the Qin Dynasty has not yet seen wars and rebellions everywhere shows that the social conflicts in the Qin Dynasty are far from reaching the limit that society can bear.
All Zhang Liang could foresee was that the First Emperor continued to operate to the extreme, and public anger and anger continued to accumulate.
What's the situation now?
The beast stopped halfway through his big move...
That's not the crux of the matter.
First Emperor!
That's the First Emperor!
Although Zhang Liang hated the First Emperor for ruining his country and his family, he had to recognize the First Emperor in some places.
No, how could it be soft?
Why aren't you in a hurry?
broken! Qin is going to get better!
The First Emperor suddenly seemed to be less anxious.
According to the law of conservation of energy, urgency does not disappear, it just shifts.
The First Emperor was not in a hurry.
Zhang Liang is anxious!
(End of chapter)
