I really didn't want to write yesterday, so I went on strike... I was in good condition today, and I'd like to make up for yesterday in the early morning.

————————Soon, Zhao Yan promulgated the Shandong Agricultural Tax Collection Act.

This was only promulgated in Shandong, while Liaodong and North Korea are still in the tax exemption stage. How to collect agricultural taxes will be observed for two years.

At the same time, there was no public statement everywhere. The Ming Dynasty Yuebao did not mention this matter, as if he had not seen this bill in Shandong.

The Shandong Agricultural Tax Collection Act stipulates that if you own 50 acres of arable land in Shandong, no tax-exempt privileged class will be allowed to exist.

As soon as the bill was announced, the Western Three Palaces were in an uproar.

The landlords and gentry were in a very strong mood. Zhao Yan went to the Western Prefectures to preside over the agricultural tax reform, and while he was ready for forceful suppression, the five infantry brigades of the first division that were reorganized were all transferred to the Western Prefectures.

When Zhao Yan arrived in Jinan, he met with the landlords who arrived in Jinan three times and explained the truth to them that land is the foundation of agricultural production, and it is impossible to concentrate too much. But it is not to take away other people's business. They can completely withdraw the capital concentrated on the land and invest it in industry and commerce.

I have told them the truth, and whether or not they will cooperate later depends on their self-consciousness.

Zhao Yan then held an administrative meeting in Jinan, mainly about the details of the implementation of this tax reform.

After the meeting, the various government offices of the Western Three Prefectures began to comprehensively measure and register the cultivated land in the Western Three Prefectures according to Zhao Yan's instructions.

Most of the Xisan Prefectures are plains, but it is very easy to measure.

The standards for arable land are also different. For some arable land with poor environmental conditions, only half or even less agricultural tax can be considered.

Each county is responsible for the measurement of the region and is responsible for the re-registration of land owners in the region.

Regarding the question of who owns the land, the land deed must be given, and all legal surnames of the deed (notified by the government) are not recognized.

For those land without land deeds, that is, those who have been reclaimed and evaded in the tax scope, they will not be investigated, but land deeds must be added and then they will enter the tax scope in the future.

Each county has its own police force, and this time Zhao Yan even dispatched 5,000 armed police forces from Shandong to cooperate.

If you encounter a nail household who does not cooperate with the measurement of land mu, you will first arrest it and lock it up for ten days and half a month.

With the promulgation of the Shandong Agricultural Tax Collection Act, the entire Xisan Prefecture was in a situation where everyone was happy and worried. The self-cultivated farmers in Xisan Prefecture were naturally excited. As long as they did not have more than fifty acres of land in their hands, they could be exempted from taxes, and there was no corvee service, and there was no miscellaneous taxes. Then, after a year, there was no need to pay a copper coin.

Of course, they were also too happy too early. In the future, Zhao Yan would have to impose taxes such as "value-added tax" and "personal income tax". Even if it is tax-free, personal income tax needs to be taught. However, there is currently no such sophisticated administrative system, so it is more difficult to collect.

The administrative system is not that the higher the productivity, the more precise it is. Take China in later generations as an example. In terms of personal income tax collection, there were only 7,000 people in Jiangsu Province who had a monthly income of more than 20,000 yuan. Who believes this? How can those rich people escape personal income tax? Just like that, the more the individual tax collection efforts, the poorer the poorer the richer the richer.

The self-cultivated farmers were happy, and the landlords were unhappy!

If Zhao Yan made this trick, wouldn’t he force them to death?

It’s easy to say, invest in industry and commerce!

Not everyone knows how to do business.

The landlords criticized each other for the "Shandong Agricultural Tax Collection Act" promulgated by Zhao Yan, but after scratching it, they still obediently went to cooperate with the government's land measurement work.

Since Zhao Yan ordered that Bai Qi not be recognized, the landlords could not transfer the land falsely to others, because it was legal to register the land at the government office. However, once they registered at the government office, it would be really transferred.

The landlords of the entire Western Three Prefectures saw that Zhao Yan was here this time.

Even most of the troops were stationed in the Three Western Prefectures in a swagger. At this time, they had a chance to make trouble. But these landlords had a lot of small moves, and bribing local officials was their usual method.

Of course, Zhao Yan also pretended not to see it.

However, after Zhao Yan returned to Zhaojiabao, in mid-March, Zhaojiabao formed a huge measurement team again, entered the Western Sanfu under the protection of the Shandong Armed Police Force, and began to remeasure the land of the Western Sanfu.

"Lord, this time, it will probably lead to many despicable people, and even many landlords involved in the case. How should these people be dealt with?" Zhang Buyun asked Zhao Yan for instructions.

"Catch them all, you will be punished by bribery, and you will be punished by bribery." Zhao Yan said coldly.

Zhang Buyun couldn't help but feel shocked, and he was also guilty of bribery! This time the involvement was probably a big deal.

There was no bribery at the beginning, so there was no bribery.

Once the official starts and no one stops it, the official will ask for bribes. At that time, not only those who want to take advantage of loopholes will bribe, but even those who do serious business will bribe.

Therefore, not only officials are responsible for accepting bribes, but also for those who take bribes.

...When Zhao Yan was dealing with agricultural reform, he was also making arrangements for Shanxi. This year, he wanted to swallow Shanxi, not only to take action against Shanxi merchants, but also to find a coal production base.

According to the report of the Intelligence Department, after more than a month of investigation, they have locked all the 28 Shanxi merchants on the list seized in Shenyang.

These twenty-eight Shanxi merchants are distributed throughout Shanxi. If you want to search, you must first control the administrative power in Shanxi.

Shanxi's administration is divided into two parts. The Datong area in the north is the area under the jurisdiction of Lu Xiangsheng's "Governor Xuanda" while the other areas are under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Shanxi.

Shanxi's administrative layout is the same as Shaanxi. Shaanxi also has two governors: Shaanxi Governor and Yantuo Governor, one is the local governor and the other is the highest commander in the military important places.

It is not difficult to seize the administrative power in Shanxi. After all, the cabinet is controlled by Zhao Yan and has the right to take over the local administrative power.

Just let someone go.

When Zhao Yan was handling official business in the morning, he looked at the list for a long time with his list, but he really didn't know which one to choose.

Now, when Zhao Yan chose an official from Shandong, he had to be more cautious. Because this tax reform offended all the landlords in Shandong.

Similarly, Shandong merchants are also landlords.

But these Shandong businessmen have less resentment. After all, Zhao Yan has opened a convenient door for them in business, and their future prospects are also clear.

Therefore, when Zhao Yan chose to be a governor in Shanxi, he would first analyze the family components clearly before making a choice.

"It's better to send Ruan Jingyuan to Shanxi. Recently, when my father came to write a letter, he said that he was very cooperative with us in the court." Yan Yuyao saw that Zhao Yan was unsure of his mind, so he suggested.

"What does his family do?" Zhao Yan asked.

"I heard that I was from an industrial and commercial background." Yan Yuyao said with no certainty.

"I'll check it out. If my family is born without any problem, let the cabinet transfer Ruan Jingyuan to Shanxi as the governor, and then send someone to inform him of what he wants to cooperate." Zhao Yan said.

Zhao Yan just said it. Yuan'er and Yan Yuyao will help him remember that the two beauties are secretary, so this day is so good that they can't be more happy.

After dealing with the issue of the candidate for the governor of Shanxi, Zhao Yan picked up another letter and read it.

The letter was written by Chen Zhongsheng. Chen Zhongsheng said that the cabinet's finances have been very tight recently. Since the military spending bill of 8 million taels, there are only 3 million taels left in the treasury.

The court's fiscal deficit was very serious.

This won't work!

I have to think of a solution.

In the past, Chongzhen came to manage this country, but now Zhao Yan was in charge, but Zhao Yan couldn't do anything nonsense. He had to do better than Chongzhen to block the mouths of the world.

Chen Zhongsheng said that this year's fiscal revenue will be further reduced after tax exemptions are made in Shaanxi, Gansu Xingdusi, Shanxi, Henan and Hubei.

At present, the court has to raise nearly 200,000 royal relatives and more than 20,000 officials, which costs more than 10 million taels each year.

Among them, it doesn’t take much money to raise officials. After all, there were not many officials in the Ming Dynasty and their salaries were not high.

The fatal ones are the royal relatives. They cannot work freely and can only wait for the court to support them. If they are required to pay more than 12 million taels a year, the cabinet budget will still be compressed.

Once this aspect is concise, let alone repairing water conservancy.

In fact, even Chongzhen could deduct these royal relatives. Those royal members who were already considered very remote, just like those military households, were likely to not get the imperial rice from the court in a few months.

Royal relatives, this is a very deformed group.

Those direct royal relatives were all rich, while those in the side were so poor that they couldn't even eat.

As an emperor with a strong clan concept, Chongzhen never deducted any deductions for those direct members, but the fees for those side-line departments were deducted very seriously.

Chen Zhongsheng said in the letter that if Chongzhen did it, it would cost about 5 million taels a year. Now the cabinet cannot afford even 5 million taels.

The reason why the cabinet's finances are so tight is because it paid three months of military pay to the soldiers across the country at the end of last year.

The eunuchs were sent to the end of last year under the supervision of Shandong officials. But in fact, after leaving the capital, it turned upside down. When the eunuchs were sent to the public, they were sent to the public by Shandong officials. The eunuchs took some money and went to get the money themselves.

That sound quickly stabilized the situation in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers received full military pay and their combat effectiveness was improved to a certain extent. The Ming army should not be so weak in combat effectiveness, but the reason for such weakness was [***].

This time, Zhao Yan presided over the news. The money was only the government office of the Ministry of War and the military officers, and it was directly sent to the soldiers below. This made the soldiers not eat everywhere due to hunger and cold in the eleven years. In addition, the thieves showed a decline, so the years of the eleven years, are relatively stable in various places.

But that time, more than five million taels were sent.

Zhao Yan was in a good mood when he got married, and promised Chongzhen's military expenses of 8 million taels, which made the national treasury empty.

Of course, the taxes this year have not been collected, and it cannot be said that there is no silver spent this year. However, the court did not use the fiscal revenue of last year this year like Zhao Yan, and the silver this year was saved first, and it was not enough to take it out.

The military expenditure was given 8 million taels, which was also considered a normal expenditure.

But in theory, it would cost seven or eight million taels to raise those royal families, and it would cost five million taels to deduct, which really made Zhao Yan unbearable.

In the letter, Chen Zhongsheng said that he planned to vote in half a month to lift all personnel outside the royal family's direct line, and then cut off the expenditure in this area and reduce the amount of rice for some direct line members, which can save about 3 million taels, while the expenditure of the entire official system also requires about 2 million taels.

After the proposal was passed, the 4 million taels of the treasury were just enough for the operation of the empire.

But he is unable to repair water conservancy and transportation.

Money, money, money!

No money!

However, the governance of the Huanghuai River and the Huai River has reached a point where it has to be carried out.

In the renovation of water conservancy, Zhao Yan focused on the renovation of water conservancy in the commercial grain production areas first. Currently, the commercial grain production areas of the Ming Dynasty are the Huanghuai Plain and the Han River Plain in Huguang.

Zhao Yan, Nanzhili, had never been to see it, but he heard from the report that the water conservancy in Huguang was relatively bad. Zhao Yan had seen it with his own eyes. When it rained, the place would be flooded.
To be continued...