"In reply, Wu Jun governs Wu, Haiyan, Wucheng, Yuhang, Piling, Dantu, Qua, Youquan, Qiantang, Fuchun, Yangxian, Tin, Lou, Yong ‘an and Linshui with a population of 420,94,000."
Ran Min slightly, and said, "Wu Jun deserves to be the richest county in Jiangdong. The population of only one county in Wu Jun is the sum of Taishan County and Pengcheng County in Xuzhou! I heard that half of the tax revenue in the Eastern Jin Dynasty comes from six counties in Jiangdong, and it is only natural that it should be so. "
Li Song was silent.
"I just saw a rich Wu Jun pay taxes to the court last year, but it’s too little to have two million yuan in treasure money, isn’t it?"
"With all due respect, Wu Jun is rich in people and many merchants, but Wu Jun is a land of fish and rice. It is true that there are not many people who can pay precious banknotes a year, and silk, cloth and rice are not allowed to be used as tax exchange in the tax laws formulated by the court. So far, Wu Jun has paid two million yuan in taxes last year."
Ran Min eyebrows a wrinkly "Li Song this is wrong? According to the market price, banknotes are always equal to 1000 pieces of copper coins and one or two pieces of silver. When Wu Jun was not included in the rule of Wei and was still in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I still remember that Wu Jun paid all kinds of taxes to the Eastern Jin Dynasty for four million and two thousand a year! And it’s still money, such as rice millet, cloth and silk, which have not been counted yet! I’m curious. Why did Wu Jun treat Wei Dongjin so differently? "
"positions! I am guilty of death! " Li Song turned pale with fear and immediately knelt down.
When he saw this, all the officials present went to their knees and confessed one after another.
Ran Min and the pie mouth said "capital punishment? Your death is not about this. I don’t want you to be honest, upright, good officials and love the people like good officials, but you really let me down. I, Royal Guards, you should all know that it’s not all over the world, but in the territory of the Great Wei Empire, I want to know what even what you Li Song ate yesterday, slept with that concubine and whether you took a bath yesterday. I can know all these things clearly. "
"It’s a crime to deceive you without telling me. I’ll give you another chance. Wu Jun has paid less and less taxes to the court in recent years?"
Smell speech the officials present looked at each other and didn’t know how to answer Ran Min’s question.
To tell the truth to Ran Min, it is estimated that if they can’t get along in officialdom, they will still have life worries. If they don’t tell the truth to Ran Min, they may be detained for "deceiving the monarch".
Chapter 64 Jiangdong cremation
It is shocking to see that Wu Jun has paid taxes to the court in recent years, and less than half of it was in Ran Min during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
You know, in order to reduce the burden on the people, Wei has cut a lot of taxes and levies several times, which has made the people live a good life. Many of them live and work in peace and contentment, but this does not mean that Wei’s income has decreased in one year.
Wei pays equal attention to agriculture and commerce, encourages people to do business, and at the same time promotes the system of equal land distribution to the people for farming. It is reasonable to say that Wu Jun should be able to become more taxed after such a decree reform, which can increase a lot of taxes for the court
But the eye Wu Jun gave the court two million yuan a year, which is still generally the case every year. I don’t believe it if there is no trick to kill Ran Min!
When Wu Jun’s officials have all retired, Ran Min will leave the chief Li Song alone.
Ran Min took a sip of tea, calmed his mind a little and said faintly to Li Song, "Now there is no one else. Li Song, can you tell me why?"
Li Song plopped down on his knees again and said in awe, "I am guilty of death!"
"Don’t say die, I want to hear the truth from you."
Hearing this, Li Song sighed faintly and said, "I dare not cheat Wu Jun that there are two million treasure notes in taxes a year. There is something really fishy about the fact that many merchants in Wu Jun pay different taxes every year!"
"Where did the rest of the taxes go? Have you been greedy by local officials? "
"Where do they have the guts?"
Li Song said with a wry smile, "The whole economic lifeline of Wu Jun is in the hands of these gentry. Since the empire destroyed the Eastern Jin Dynasty to govern Wu Junyi, it has implemented the land equalization system in Wu Jun, forcing all the gentry to demolish the dock fort and release the village. At that time, there was a special person to supervise the gentry, but they didn’t dare to disobey the official, so they held a grudge against the government!"
"oh? Li Song, are you saying that Wu Jun’s taxes are so low that the gentry are doing something? " Ran Min eyebrows a wrinkly.
"Report back. Actually, this is not entirely true. Even if you are bold, the cremation dare not move the imperial taxes. However, Wu Jun merchants are more attached to Wang, Xie, Chen, Chu and other Wu Jun giants. These cremation giants privately encourage merchants not to pay taxes to the imperial court, and often collusion between officials and businessmen. Coupled with the support of these cremation merchants, it is even more reckless. Sometimes our officials find the door and are sent out! I can’t receive this 2 million tax, or ask my grandfather to tell my grandmother to come! "
"It’s outrageous!"
Ran Min roared, "How dare the gentry of Wu County be so presumptuous?"
"It’s more than Wu Jun?" Li Song sighed, "Even the counties in Jiangdong, such as Huiji County and Yuzhang County, are in the old place of Jin State, except for some gentry who can’t influence remote areas!"
"How can the gentry have the courage and strength to bully my Wei officials?" Ran Min still doesn’t believe it.
Li Song shook his head and said, "Who can say that the cremation gate valve does not have this strength? With all due respect, there has been a saying in Jiangdong that I would rather offend the court than provoke the cremation! The gentry’s potential is greater than that of the imperial court, and when the Eastern Jin ruled the south, the Eastern Jin court wanted to fight, ask for money and food from the gentry, which further encouraged the gentry’s arrogance. "
"After the Great Wei unified the day and got Jiangdong, he also carried out court decrees in Jiangdong, but the gentry all resisted this, and their influence on the people was too great."
Ran Min stared at this and said, "Since you handled this matter in a legal way, you didn’t report it to the court?"
"Report to the court? It’s not that easy. It’s like a county magistrate in Wujun is an official who was put in Wujun by the court. He was upright and found out about it and reported it to the court, but the messenger was stopped in the middle of the play. It wasn’t long before the county magistrate died strangely in the house, saying it was overwork and sudden death, but who would believe that there was nothing fishy about it? "