Chapter 205 Something unprecedented! We listen to you!

If Zhu Yunxuan's request was to exempt all the people of Ming Dynasty from paying taxes for one year, Lao Zhu would not be shocked at all.

Most likely I would agree directly.

Anyway, there is a lot of money and food in the national treasury now, so it is nothing to exempt the world from paying taxes for a year.

But, exemption from corvee?

Or is it permanent?

If Zhu Yunzhen hadn't said it twice in a row, Lao Zhu would have suspected that his ears had heard it wrong.

People in the Ming Dynasty generally did not have to perform military service.

Because serving as a soldier and fighting in a war is a matter for military households and has nothing to do with ordinary people.

But transporting grain and grass also requires recruiting people.

Of course, this is only a small part.

Sun Erhen is full of confidence.

The first point is that a small amount of money invested in national construction will minimally stimulate the development of the national economy.

The other unestablished personnel were all conscripted personnel serving as corvees.

Lao Zhu picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

The official structure of the feudal dynasty was very streamlined.

The government relied on local clans to govern and allocate people to serve as corvees.

There will be no radical changes in grassroots governance.

Nothing more.

For example, if there are 110 households in a li, a li is divided into 10 jias, each with 10 households.

Includes very few daily tasks.

According to customization, you cannot receive money for that type of position.

It's just that, Lao Zhu still understood it.

For example, Zaoli and the like.

The taxes levied will be perfectly covered, so there is nothing to worry about.

The equal corvee refers to the regular servants dispatched by the yamen at all levels, with differences in power and silver.

Money must be distributed into the hands of the people.

"Grandpa Huang, Zhu Yun is serious. Zhu Yun thinks that he should exempt the people in heaven from all the servitude?"

"You govern the country in an orderly manner, and Xiao Ming is prosperous. Now that he has little money and food, the people praise him, which shows that his governance ability is still far inferior to mine."

The seventh point is that by doing corvee service, the burden on the people will be slightly reduced.

The most important thing in governing the country is county governance.

The remaining 700 million are still lying outside the treasury.

Sun Erhen's idea was to spend the money on minor repair projects by paying labor remuneration.

Once the decree is issued, the heavens will surely shake.

Only if there are no small projects such as building rivers, roads, or cities, the people will be burdened.

Because they had to perform corvee labor, in practice, there were no physical restrictions on the people.

In Lao Zhu's impression, Sun Erzhen was a willful and random person.

This resulted in the local clans having too little power.

Seventh, the court did not have enough money to afford it.

As a result, new interest groups were formed and they took a step back to consolidate their rule.

That's for personnel stability.

There are relatively bad positions where you can usually get a decent salary.

The extra 10 households will serve as the head of the A family, and one person will be elected as the head of the inner house.

So there are a hundred households in total.

How to spend money is a difficult thing.

This has caused many social problems.

But I'm willing to listen.

Anyway, when the farm is idle, idle time is idle.

"Although there is very little money and food outside the treasury, once the corvee is abolished, the court's expenditure will also increase sharply."

They only obey the orders of the state, but the orders of local clans.

Lao Zhu is still too much.

This can only cause the poor to become poorer and the rich to become richer.

If you use corvee service, the power of the clan will be slightly weakened.

Lao Zhu stood up and said: "Nonsense!"

In fact, even if they are conscripts, a small number of them are only nominally obligated, and the country will still pay them a fair amount of remuneration and provide benefits in various aspects.

Cao Juan told Lao Zhu in detail the disadvantages of abolishing corvee service.

Eighth, corvées are the responsibility of local clans.

But how to pronounce it, he asked an elementary school student.

Lao Zhu really didn't wake up at all.

Kill two birds with one stone.

However, most of these "officials" have no official establishment, are paid by salaries, and are under the jurisdiction of the court, so how can they be governed?

As for spending too little money...

The water is cut off, but the money is invested in the real economy.

County governance also focuses on the administration of officials.

First, the abolition of corvee can effectively reduce the burden on the people.

"Tell me, why is that? With or without corvee, even the government can't function abnormally. If he wants to build a project, how should he build it?"

But so far, only 100 million taels of that money have been spent.

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Usually, it often gets worse after being collected.

Therefore, in modern countries, except that military service is still compulsory, there is basically no concept of corvee.

"Zhu Yun has long been vague. Before the corvee is abolished, tax revenue will increase slightly, enough to cover expenses."

When I say that, I must not have my own ideas.

Once those people become salary recipients from the state and are paid by the state, they are no longer "civil servants."

In addition, people will only buy things when they have no money, which will greatly stimulate the prosperity of the commodity economy.

But it was temporary, and the number of people recruited was too few.

Those people are under the management of local clans, and naturally they are also under the orders of other local clans.

In this way, the projects needed by the country will be built, and the money printed will be distributed to the people.

The handymen are non-recurring and temporary local errands.

"There is not enough money outside the treasury." Sun'er said: "In the past, the country needed corvees, and it was enough to spend money to hire them. The state only collected taxes, and then forced the people to do corvees."

Lao Zhu murmured to himself, still unsure.

"Abolish corvee, abolish corvee..."

"Grandpa Huang, please doubt Zhu Yun and repeal the decree." Cao Juan implored.

As long as the desperate people are willing to contribute, they only have to worry about whether they have enough to eat.

Very few corvées were allowed to be paid.

"He has no such intention, and he loves the people as his own son. Now that he has made up his mind, there is nothing we can promise?"

Restricting population mobility actually limits economic development.

Lao Zhu seemed to understand, but at least he didn't understand two things.

Reward heroes, generals, princes and marquises?
To be continued...