The Song Dynasty was a model of digging a hole and burying itself.

I won’t talk about the false commercial prosperity. The strategy of not restraining land annexation makes it difficult for those who are easy to bully to have little land, and those who have land are not easy to bully. The policies of the landlords and the court are firmly bound, and it will be painful if you move a little.

Compared with the difficulty of cracking down on land annexation in previous dynasties, the Song Dynasty is the only one. People don’t say whether it can be done or not. At least in terms of policy, they oppose land annexation, and there are major names.

But the Song Dynasty didn't even have this one.

The Chengdu imperial court could easily bully industrial and commercial civilians and self-cultivated farmers, but it was difficult to bully those powerful and powerful landlords with huge power in the local area.

Although they are the richest, they can also fight against the court. Collecting their taxes requires cost, and judging which is more expensive, is a necessary process for the court.

Tax collection also requires costs. If the cost of tax collection is less than the tax itself, then the court will have the motivation to implement taxation.

If the cost of tax collection is greater than the tax collection itself and it will also bring various other adverse effects, the court must consider whether there is a need to insist on tax collection.

The poor people in small units are particularly easy to bully.

Meekness, obedience, and there is no one in the court. As long as you don’t get together, there is no danger of rebelling directly. If you dare to resist and smash it directly, there will be no consequences. It will also shock other poor people, making the court look tall and hard, so the court will be full of motivation to collect taxes from them.

Landlords and powerful people are not easy to bully.

Those who have them in the court also have human resources and material resources. Combining the inside and outside can cause great trouble to the court. The cost of tax collection may not be better than the tax itself, which is not easy to offend, and the value of recruitment is huge.

So whether to collect this tax is a question worth considering.

As of now, the cost of collecting taxes on powerful landlords will definitely not be low.

After the establishment of the Chengdu court, its upper-level bureaucrats focused on choosing officials from other places to Sichuan and Shu instead of local officials in Sichuan and Shu to avoid localization of the court and being entrusted by locals, which influenced the policy of fighting in Sichuan and restoring the Song Dynasty.

The reason why Zhuge Liang was able to attack Cao Wei five times back then was that in addition to being rich, there was a foreign bureaucratic team that could suppress the local forces in Sichuan and Shu and mobilize the people of Sichuan to launch external attacks.

Despite this, locals should not offend too much. Everything must be done. If you really want to make locals disagree with the court of foreigners, once the conflict between the two sides breaks out, it will shake the foundation of the country.

Although most of the senior bureaucrats in the Chengdu court are foreigners, Zhao Buxi has taken some effort to gain support from locals after he ascended the throne and became emperor. The middle and low-level officials who are doing business are basically locals in Sichuan and Shu.

The locals in Sichuan and Shu hold a considerable amount of power.

It is clear at a glance what family the locals who can study and become officials come from, and it is clear at a glance who served the imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty, so middle- and low-level officials have a close relationship with these big landlord families.

Rounding, a considerable part of the power of the Chengdu imperial court is in the hands of the local powerful landlords' families, and most of the tax collectors are also locals.

Use their own people to collect taxes from their own homes?

The flood washed away the Dragon King Temple?

So for this separatist court that was just established in Chengdu and has not been truly recognized in Sichuan and Shu, it is purely a bit confused about the situation when it comes to taxes from local wealthy families.

Zhao Buxi is not a young Zhao Yucheng who is not clear about his own situation and social situation. He cannot do such ideal and very naive things.

He knew very well that for the current Chengdu court, a quagmire turmoil was not important, and it was not a thing worth worrying about.

Urban industrial and commercial civilians are rootless duckweed, without industries, without foundation, without mastering means of production, without anything but human life, and with limited numbers.

No matter how much they rebel, they are easy to deal with. Wu Lin just needs to send a group of troops to kill all directions, and it doesn't matter if they are killed.

Those who have no constant property have no perseverance. At least there is still a little surplus value to exploit when they are employed. Once they are unemployed, they cannot generate value and have to open their mouths to eat. This is the most annoying.

These proletarians are just hidden dangers and obstacles to the rule of the court. The outbreak of rebellion at this moment has given the Chengdu court a good opportunity to clean up garbage. Eliminate them all, which can reduce the possibility of social unrest.

Therefore, Zhao Buxi secretly instructed Wu Lin to kill more people, and it would be best to kill all these proletarians.

Wu Lin, in accordance with his order, asked the army to kill more people. He indulged the army and killed more than 50,000 people, and recruited a group of people to join the army. More than 100,000 people were almost cleared out the unemployed proletarians in seven or eight prefectures around Chengdu Prefecture, greatly reducing the possibility of social unrest.

They can rebel, even if they rebel, if Zhao Buxi blinks, he will lose.

The court's attitude towards farmers was better than that of these proletarians, and they should be more cautious.

This is also the reason why Zhao Buxi dared not offend the wealthy landlords in Sichuan and Sichuan. If he had a feud with these people, it would be an endless nightmare.

Their complex and complex relationship network can affect their whole body, and they have money, rice, and food, and tenants to act as thugs. There are countless people in the court who should act as spokespersons for their interests. If you are not careful, you can get these people to form a team to resist the Chengdu court.

If they don't touch them, they can still take out a little soup and help the Chengdu court. No matter how badly they are, they will not be enemies with the Chengdu court.

If they are moved, they will take out all of them as enemies of the Chengdu court. The Chengdu court will face two enemies inside and outside at the same time. It is only a matter of time before they are subverted.

At that time, whether the army commanded by Wu Lin can be suppressed is really a question.

Therefore, although Chen Yongyan had suggestions and action plans to collect agricultural taxes from powerful landlords, after thinking about it, Zhao Buxi still did not agree to this suggestion.

Instead, he made up his mind to further exploit civilians and self-cultivated farmers and decided to survive this crisis.

Although he knew how difficult people's livelihood was, he knew that the people in Shu lived a difficult life, and if he was not careful, he would lose his land and die of starvation, but he had no more ways.

In order to survive, Zhao Buxi had to make decisions that were not in line with his wishes. In order to survive, he had to persevere even if he had his own hands and feet, and hold on until the world changed.

"I know what you said makes sense, but at present, it is inappropriate to impose taxes on large households. If we lose the support of large households, our entire court will be paralyzed, so don't talk about such things."

Zhao Buxi shook his head and rejected Chen Yongyan's suggestion.

Chen Yongyan was dissatisfied with this.

"Your Majesty, if you don't impose taxes on large households, the treasury is empty and you can't afford to pay. How can you alleviate the crisis? The army needs money, the people need money, and the court needs money, otherwise you won't even pay the salaries of officials.

Judging from the current treasury savings, the court will not be able to pay the salaries of officials for up to three months. At that time, officials will complain, and some officials who rely on salaries will be even hungry. If officials are hungry, how can the court face it?"

Zhao Buxi nodded to show that he understood.

"I know, I know, but the problem is that I don't know how much I can collect this tax, and I don't know how much I can collect it. In order to collect this tax, how many people are disagreeable with the court and even secretly oppose the court, I don't know, isn't it a standard gain that is not worth the loss."

Chen Yongyan wanted to persuade him again, but Zhao Buxi no longer wanted to listen to him say these things again.

Chen Yongyan was helpless.

"Since that's the case, I can no longer fill the treasury deficit. I'd like to ask Your Majesty to instruct me how to fill the treasury deficit. Otherwise, at most three months, I will be indifferent to continue to be the Minister of Revenue, so that officials can block the door of the Ministry of Revenue and ask me for salary. I really can't do such a thing."

"Are you demonstrating to me? You will resign if you disagree? Is this your loyalty? Since you are so dissatisfied with me, why not join hands with your ministers to depose me?"

Zhao Buxi looked at Chen Yongyan and felt annoyed.
Chapter completed!