parentshiftbook Chapter 430: The Unsolvable Problem, The Difficulty Of Collecting And Avoiding The Greedy Population
Chapter 430: The Unsolvable Problem, The Difficulty Of Collecting And Avoiding The Greedy Population
"In addition, the biggest disadvantage of the capitation tax is that it is easy to have inaccurate population numbers!!!"
"The people at the bottom who cannot afford to pay the capitation tax will choose to hide their population in order to avoid paying the capitation tax, or they will simply choose to flee!!!"
"And local officials, gentry, and landlords, in order to line their own pockets, embezzle tax money from the people."
"They will also choose to deliberately conceal the specific number of local people in order to reduce the population tax that should be paid to the court!!!~"
Having said this, Yan Changqing's eyes fell on Zhu Yuanzhang and said calmly -:
"The reason why His Majesty wanted to implement the Lijia system was to count the world's population and register it in the register."
"Maybe part of the reason is because they realized that local officials, gentry, and landlords were lining their own pockets, evading, underpaying, or underpaying the head tax.
Zhu Yuanzhang below nodded. He wanted to implement the Lijia system before, and indeed there was this reason in it.
In other words, the reason why he wanted to implement the Lijia system before.
The purpose is to put an end to the phenomenon of local officials, gentry, and landlords enriching their own pockets, evading payment, omitting payment, or underpaying land tax and per capita silver.
Yan Changqing shook his head and sighed:
"it's useless!!!"
"Not to mention that the Lijia system itself has the flaws that I mentioned when I taught "Dragon Slaying Technique" several times before. Even if the Lijia system does not have the flaws I mentioned, it cannot really solve the problem of unrealistic numbers. "
"Because Your Majesty cannot control the birth, old age, illness, and death of the people under your rule."
"As time goes by, the birth, old age, illness, and death of the people under the rule, and the number of people are constantly changing."
"So the capitation tax that should be levied should actually be a continuously changing tax amount."
"And it is impossible for Your Majesty to know everything about this capitation tax amount that is constantly changing in real time."
"Because every time the specific number of people in the world is determined and the land register is compiled again, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources from the court.
"If the specific number of people in the world and the interval between compilation of the land register are shortened to once every five years, or even shortened to once every three years."
"The imperial court cannot afford to spend so much manpower and material resources frequently in such a short period of time!!!"
"Your Majesty himself should be aware of this, otherwise he would not have determined the specific number of people in the world and the interval between reorganizing the land children's register as every eleven times."
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, nodded unconsciously when he heard this.
The faces of the surrounding princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes also became extremely serious at this moment.
Yan Changqing on the podium continued to speak:
"And from a practical point of view, no matter how short the interval between determining the specific number of people in the world and re-compiling the land register is shortened."
"As long as we can't do it in real time, then we can count all the people and acres of land in the world.
"From the moment it is reported to His Majesty, the overall capita tax amount that people in the world should pay in the future is finally determined."
"This population tax amount has already deviated from the number of people in the world at the time of statistics due to the birth, old age, illness, and death of people all over the world at that moment."
"And as time goes by, this deviation value will become larger and larger!!!"
"Wait until ten years later, as your Majesty has decided, the number of people in the world will be counted again and the Land Yellow Book will be compiled."
"Compared with the number of common people determined ten years ago and the actual number of common people ten years later, there has been a huge difference!!!"
"During this ten-year period, if the capitation tax is too heavy and causes a mass exodus of the people, the real-time number of people will be far less than the number of people at the time of the original statistics.
"Then local officials will distribute the capitation tax to the people who have not yet fled in order to collect a sufficient capitation tax."
"In the end, the people who have not fled will be forced to flee again because of the increased capitation tax."
"In the end, it fell into a vicious cycle, until the number of fleeing people was too large, and finally they even gathered and rebelled, causing turmoil in the country and society!!!"
"If the number of common people during these ten years far exceeds the number of common people at the time of statistics."
"Then local officials, gentry, and landlords can openly take advantage of this discrepancy in the number of people and unscrupulously embezzle tax money!!!"
"And when the census of the world's common people begins in the second decade, local officials, gentry, and landlords will most likely choose to continue to conceal or underreport the actual number of common people."
"Or it could be to add a little bit to the number of people ten years ago to show changes."
"Then they continue to conceal and under-report the number of people who actually exceed the majority of the population, and finally continue to line their own pockets with the population tax."
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"So no matter how strict your Majesty is in formulating a household registration management system, or in determining the specific number of people in the world, or in shortening the interval between re-editing the Land Register, it will be within a short period of time."
"As a matter of fact, Your Majesty will never be able to get an accurate, real-time amount of the capitation tax that should be collected!!!"
"As long as Your Majesty cannot get an accurate and real-time amount of the capitation tax that should be collected."
"Then your Majesty directly determines a specific number of capitation tax collection, and then asks local officials to issue it level by level and collect it. Once the amount is reached, it will stop."
"It is better to say that Your Majesty directly delegates power to local officials, allowing local officials to collect different population taxes based on the actual number of people in the local area [and then turn it over to the court.
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"Both of them also give local officials, gentry, and landlords room to maneuver to avoid paying, underpaying, underpaying, and enriching their own pockets!!!"
"Under normal circumstances, His Majesty and Your Highnesses in the court cannot see this kind of maneuverable space."
At this moment, the faces of Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes became a little ugly.
Although they all knew about the collection of human tax before, there have always been some problems. Either it was difficult to collect, or the amount of labor tax collected was not much.
It turns out that they thought it was because the number of people in the world had not yet been fully counted.
As long as a new household registration system is introduced and the number of people in the world is calculated, this problem should be solved.
However, they now understand that this is not a problem that can be solved by launching a new, more rigorous household registration management system.
At the same time, they all understand why it is difficult to collect the capitation tax, or there is not much capitation tax left!!!
What's even more terrible is that unless they can know the changes in the number of people in the world in real time.
Otherwise, the issue of collecting the capitation tax would be an unsolvable problem for them now!
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