Cui Junsu told Li Gang, "The people of the Sui Dynasty had to pay the same rent no matter how much land the land was. The service was free. If they were less than 20 days, they had to pay silk for service every day to serve as mediocre men. But in our dynasty, all the miscellaneous expenses and labor were spread into the fields with one whip. The tax was not based on the tax, but on the land, so the people actually had to be much more relaxed."

However, in this way, the expenses of the court have actually increased. The positive tax has been reduced, and there is no free civil servant to collect various labor services, and they have to pay for hiring workers. In this way, the civil engineering projects in various places have increased a lot of expenses. Building roads, bridges, waterways, cities, and even rivers and embankments have become extra expenses.

For example, in counties and counties beside the Huai River, because there are many floods in the Huai River, they have to repair dikes and slopes every year. This expense cannot be borne by itself and the imperial court must withdraw money every year.

To this end, the imperial court now had to set up several other yamen, one of which was the Canal Governor's Office, responsible for the dredging, maintenance and management of canals, and the other was the River Governor's Office, responsible for the management of rivers, such as the Yellow River, Yangtze River, Huai River, Han River and other rivers.

The river channel general management is responsible for river and lake dredging and embankment prevention.

The rivers and lakes in various places are managed directly by the imperial court's river yamen and are no longer borne by the local governments. This has reduced the burden on the local governments, and is also dispatched by the imperial court to increase management efficiency.

The annual expenses of these two governors' yamen are quite amazing, many of which are the wages of hiring civilians to serve.

"Li Dongge, in the past, people often said that taxes are more powerful than tigers, and people are more difficult to work. During the previous dynasty, they dug canals to build the eastern capital and build the Great Wall to conquer Liaodong. The battles continued and the people were in trouble, and finally the world was in rebellion. I was moved by this that the two tax methods replaced the tax system of renting and tax adjustment, and they also distributed local miscellaneous expenses and labor services into the fields to alleviate the suffering of the people. Are these wrong?"

Li Gang had nothing to say, of course it was wrong not to say that the emperor was wrong.

"In the past, Yang Jian built Chang'an, Yang Guang built Luoyang, and the emperors of the Sui Dynasty built the east and west capitals. How many civil servants were recruited? They were all free servants. The people brought their own dry food to serve. The time spent on the road was sometimes several times the service, but will the Sui Dynasty manage this loss?"

"Now, the imperial court has successively restored some palaces in Luoyang and Chang'an in recent years. There are many civil servants in it, but the imperial court did not use any free service. They all paid for hiring. The people came to work, volunteered to apply for the tuition, and all food and accommodation were on the construction site. They still had wages every day. They never owed a single person their wages. The people exchanged labor for wages and subsidized their household income. Everyone was very happy, and no one was dissatisfied with resentment."

"The money spent on the imperial court to restore palaces and transform cities is not directly using the money from the treasury, but operating through commercial means, and finally winning both profits. For example, Chang'an City last year demolished the walls and changed the market, demolished the old walls, repaired drainage ditches, added public toilets and bathrooms, added water wells, etc., which cost a lot, but in the end, the newly built street shops were sold or rented out, and the expenses were recovered, and even a lot of surplus was made."

Local officials in later generations all understood urban management. A city was actually a huge business entity. If it was well operated, it would only make a profit. Now Luo Cheng has also begun to quote some of this concepts and changed the simple administrative means of the past into commercial operation methods. For example, representative cities such as Chang'an and Luoyang performed well.

The pilot project of market renovation in Chang'an, the imperial court demolished walls, changed street shops, rented for sale, and became a land transferor, a land developer, and finally a street shop manager, and what he earned was not a little bit.

It was precisely because of Chang'an's success that Luo Cheng promoted Chang'an Prefecture to the Chief Censor before his generation, but he was almost completely blocked. Although he was young, his political achievements were placed there.

Luo Cheng actually looked down on Li Gang, a little old scholar who was a little bit old, but his moral education was pretty good, which was why he kept Li Gang as the prince's teacher. Luo Cheng knew that his heir was ordinary, but he still hoped that the prince could be upright and upright. It doesn't matter if his ability was weak. The emperor would have prime ministers to assist in the rule, but if the emperor had poor moral character, then the country would have a great disaster.

"Sir Li only saw the money obtained by the court, but he didn't see where the money came from or where it flowed."

"Can a bachelor know what taxes are?"

Li Gang looked at the emperor, "Taxes are the source of finance for the court."

"That's right, but you only talked about the surface. Taxation is not only the source of finance for the court, but also a tool for governing the country. It is the distribution of wealth and the root of stability in the world. The essence of taxation is fairness and justice, but this fairness is by no means a common ground."

Whether an imperial court can be strong or not is actually the tax system.

Just like the Sui Dynasty, the tax on population tax was the most backward tax system. It seemed fair, but it was actually the biggest unfairness, which inevitably led to instability in the country's foundation.

What is the essence of taxation? It is the redistribution of social wealth, which means that the poor pay less taxes and the rich pay more taxes. The more social resources they occupy, the more wealth they get, the more tax they have to pay.

The Sui Dynasty went against the rules and died in two lifetimes.

Just like Wang Mang usurped the throne and reformed, his destruction was also caused by the tax system. Wang Mang's tax system was even more castle in the air, so he died faster.

"Tax is the country!" Luo Cheng directly said four words.

Without taxes, there will be no country. If a country wants to maintain it, the people must pay taxes. The manifestation of the country is taxation. Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, the court could only impose taxes on ordinary people. Officials and scholars did not need to pay taxes, and even those who were attached to their names were exempt from taxes. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was actually not a normal country.

He could only pay the ordinary poor people again and again, and the end result was a peasant uprising and the country was destroyed.

Why did the tax system change after the founding of the Qin Dynasty? One of the important ones was that officials and gentry paid food together. Aristocratic officials could discount money and serve on behalf of others, but they were never exempted from taxes.

The emperor could give them higher salary, even privileges such as family Yin, but he would never give them tax exemption privileges.

The core of the Daqin tax law is property tax, not population tax. Even if you are a slave, a girl, or even a Hu person, as long as you own property on the land of Daqin, you will have to pay taxes, just Nadona.

"Mr. Li, you can actually go out to the streets more and ask these folk people, and ask them when they were happier than the Sui Dynasty."

In terms of happiness, Luo Cheng was confident that Qin State, which was founded for only six years, definitely made the people feel happier than during the Sui Dynasty.
Chapter completed!