The team had grown bigger, especially after the rapid expansion.
It was often very easy for the good and the bad to be mixed together.
Zhang Mu's train of thought had always been consistent.
The army had to listen to the command of the Da Tong Society. A military and political department had to be set up in the army and directly transferred to the company.
The construction of one's thoughts could never be stopped.
Political and idealistic work must be carried on all the time.
Even if the progress in the early stages was a little slow, it would be better to have quality than quantity.
This was an ideological-political work, as well as the establishment of an organizational structure in their own base. In other words, the judicial system, taxation, and even their own bureaucracy had to be established.
Yongxin County
Lu Chengwu, Alan Tai, and Master Huang, who colluded with them, were also one of the targets of Zhang Mu's test.
As long as his Da Tong Society was here, the laws of the Qing court would not work.
Of course, Zhang Mu did not just kill people casually.
To kill someone, one had to kill their heart.
Show them the evidence of their crimes and then try them according to the laws of the Da Tong Society.
I'll kill you, but I still have to make you convinced.
"Women's Liberation!"
"Child labor is prohibited!“
"Everyone is equal!"
"According to work!"
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"These things have to be implemented. In the process of dividing the land equally, we will encounter all kinds of problems and difficulties!”
Zhang Mu held an impromptu meeting in the county office and said calmly," However, I ask everyone not to be afraid of any problems or difficulties. We must think of practical ways to push forward the land reform. We must think of practical ways to let women participate in labor. There is also the issue of education. We must let the people recognize us and recognize us. We cannot be high and mighty. We must be down-to-earth. We must not kill all the landlords, big and small. We must give them a piece of land. We must not force them to a dead end. I repeat myself again. Our officers must be disciplined, and at the same time, they must lead by example!”
In the past few months, Zhang Mu had trained a group of officers.
There weren't many of them. There were a total of 368 people.
More than forty of them had presided over the land reform of the five counties of Longgang.
Now, the number of people had doubled.
However, in Zhang Mu's eyes, it was still far from enough.
A considerable number of people were pulled out by Zhang Mu to practice without any experience.
It could still be used.
There was still some theory.
However, in the process of practice, there would always be problems.
This was something that needed to be discovered and adjusted by oneself.
The situation he was facing now was completely different from the situation he would face two hundred years later.
In this era, the mobility of the people was extremely poor. The main economic power of the local area was still the clan.
These were all his obstacles.
However, experience was something that could only be cultivated slowly.
The only thing he could do was to summarize and analyze the situation, find the specific problem, and then deal with it in detail.
Other than Yongxin County, Zhang Mu's expansion this time was also huge.
In one breath, the original five counties were expanded to fifteen counties, and the number of farmers who accepted Zhang Mu's land reform reached 250,000.
Of course, Zhang Mu also collected taxes.
It was a gradual tax rate.
Overall, it was 15% of the harvest of one mu of land, while the Qing Dynasty's head tax was 20%, which was 5% higher than Zhang Mu's.
However, the actual situation was not like that.
In fact, the officials in the middle would inevitably fill their own pockets.
He imposed heavy taxes on his subordinates, but underreported the population on his superiors. What was left in the middle was all his own.
In some areas, taxes could be as high as 60 to 70 percent.
Zhang Mu, on the other hand, demanded 15%. If he exceeded that, he could report it to the agricultural society, which would then report it to the Datong Society. Naturally, the Datong Society would deal with the local officials.
This was also Zhang Mu's method to let the commoners supervise the Da Tong Society.
The tax system and other systems of the Qing Dynasty were inherited from the Ming Dynasty. In terms of taxes, they also used the "one-whip method". The method of collecting taxes and the amount of taxes were all based on this.
However, because Kangxi had been fighting all this time, he continued to levy labor services in addition to the taxes collected by the " whip."
To put it bluntly, the burden of the common people in the Qing Dynasty was once again levied on the basis of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, this tax was still problematic in the later years of Kangxi.
First, the population was growing too fast, but the main land was gradually concentrated in the hands of the big landowners and bureaucrats. The peasant population grew, but they did not have land in their hands. The peasants bore the heavy head tax, and because they did not have land, they could not produce, so they could not afford it. This caused the number of refugees to increase and directly threatened social stability.
Second, the successive years of war had forced the imperial court to collect more grain. Faced with the pressure of the imperial court's taxes, a large number of farmers began to flee and evade taxes. In order to complete the task of collecting taxes, the bureaucrats constantly came up with excuses to transfer this portion of the Ding Fu to other farmers, creating a vicious cycle.
Third, in the later years of Kangxi, he ruled the world with leniency. In order to fill their own pockets, local officials imposed heavy taxes on their subordinates, but underreported the population to their superiors. The administration of officials was corrupt, and the income of the court decreased sharply.
These three rules were basically what these officials often did in the late Ming Dynasty, and they were all used on Kangxi.
If there was another Little Ice Age, it would basically be perfect.
At the end of Kangxi, the phenomenon of land annexation was already very serious. There were no people who could be found to levy labor service. The change to levy Ding Yin made the burden of land-losing farmers too heavy, causing serious social conflicts and affecting the government's financial revenue.
It wasn't until Emperor Yongzheng ascended the throne that he began to implement the bold and decisive reform and decided to implement the " household registration system." In other words, the "head tax" would be exempted, and the "head tax" would be added to the "land tax".
Although the population had changed a lot, the land remained the same. Most importantly, he deposed the privileged class. Land was concentrated in the hands of bureaucrats and scholars with achievements. They enjoyed tax exemption, and Yongzheng cut them off. The gentry were all paid for their work. No matter what status they had, if they had land, they had to pay taxes. Officials and gentry had to pay taxes. They had the ability to bear taxes. Those poor people did not have land in their hands, so they did not need to bear the head tax.
The essence of this reform was to impose the head tax of the peasant class on the land of the landlord. Therefore, it violated the interests of the bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats. Officials everywhere were unwilling to implement this reform.
Of course, this was also because of the iron-blooded Yongzheng, who used harsh methods to force the various places to implement it.
The national treasury had increased from 8 million taels to 60 million taels.
What Zhang Mu did was to spread out the land.
I don't care what your identity is. If you have land, you have to pay taxes.
He couldn't learn from Li Zicheng and not pay grain. Taxes were necessary.
However, how to collect them and how to fill the pockets of his subordinates required a lot of thought.
Not only the peasants, but the former landlords, the gentry, and those who are exempted from taxes must also pay taxes to me.
If Yongzheng could do this, then Zhang Mu could do it too.
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