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Chapter 505 Issues with the Restructuring of the Han Army

However, no matter what the Han army is doing now, it is increasing its strength, and it is changing and strengthening every day.

And because the summer harvest is approaching, tax reform has also been discussed, and people are cheering for agricultural taxes.

Of course, the news was released, but the agricultural tax policy was not implemented during the summer harvest. After all, the three-year period was after the autumn harvest.

Therefore, this tax reform should be said to start after the summer harvest is completed.

In other words, during this year's autumn harvest, in the two towns that were first ruled by the Han army, if the average grain harvest for a family does not reach six dan, then there will be no need to pay a grain tax after the autumn harvest.

In these two towns, the average farmland of the people is four acres, so if one acre of land can harvest two stones of grain, then the tax paid by one person is only three buckets.

If according to the original tax law, it would be four stones of food per person.

The gap between three buckets and four stones is huge.

So the people in the first two towns were all very happy.

For a while, I worked even harder in the fields. After all, if things go down like this, my life will get better and better.

Of course, such taxes will also lead to a decrease in food for the Han army, which will make it impossible to start construction on the land after the autumn harvest, call in militia for training, and make it difficult for the village's neighbor chiefs, security chiefs, and village chiefs to distribute food.

Even as the Han army's territory becomes larger and larger and more and more areas are controlled, this difficulty will intensify.

Therefore, in the first three years when the Han army ruled a land, they trained the militia and built water conservancy, roads and bridges. After three years, it depends on the local people themselves.

In order to deal with this problem, the Han army also had to carry out sufficient ideological education, such as asking the people to bring their own dry food for militia training, and to bring their own dry food to build roads, bridges, and canals.

Of course, this is not mandatory. At least the Han army will not force people to do this. Even the training of militiamen will gradually be relaxed, making it the responsibility of local villages and towns.

That is to say, the amount of local taxes, how much needs to be paid, and how much is allocated are all fixed.

Studying and becoming soldiers are also two ways out for the common people. If the militiamen are not well trained, the Han army will not even call them to the battlefield, but will only order them to guard their homes.

Similarly, in this way, there will be no opportunity to join the soldiers as a militiaman, and then retire as an official as a soldier.

Therefore, the Han army left two paths for advancement for all people, one was to study and the other was to serve as a soldier.

But if they cut off their own path to becoming soldiers, they can only study.

At the current rate of expansion of the Han army, if they still fail to study, then these people will be useless.

At least according to what Han Jun said, the people need to live a good life, that is, let them have food to eat, and also set up ascending channels to allow social classes to circulate.

If the people are content with the status quo, don't want to be officials, don't want to study, and just want to live on two acres of land, that's not impossible.

As long as your annual income per person is no more than six dan, then you won't pay any grain tax.

However, the Han army needs to develop, and there are naturally countermeasures to this situation, which is the proposed commercial tax.

To put it simply, the Han army does not prey on the poor, and whoever has money will get it.

In addition, when people have food at home and are full, they want to eat better and live better.

So under Liu Wu's leadership, preparations for the farmer's market, for example, have begun.

This kind of farmer's market is called a market, and special days are set up, and the doors open when the days are up.

In this kind of market, the Han army would sell their own products to revitalize the market.

At the same time, local businessmen and farmers are encouraged to take the surplus materials at home to sell in the market.

When the stalls are closed at sunset, a certain amount of tax will be collected according to regulations.

The advantage of this kind of farmer's market is that it only collects taxes once in the market run by the Han army.

Unlike Daqian and Bailian, there are more exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Tax cards come one after another. Maybe they don't do business, so they pay a lot of various taxes.

If this happens, people and businessmen will come to the market to do business, and there may not be a large market with tens of thousands of people.

As long as the interests of business are strictly guaranteed, even businessmen under the rule of Daqian and Bailian will come to the Han army's market to do business.

However, this kind of thing also has a ceiling, and the ceiling is relatively low. At least before development, unlike modern times, the ceiling is not that high.

Therefore, Yanhan Commercial Bank will make efforts in the future, while ensuring stability in the territory, it will also produce local specialties in Bailian and Daqian.

For example, rural materials such as bamboo, wood, tea, and oil are integrated and sold, and the profits are used to purchase strategic materials, such as coal, iron, and the like.

Not only that, the Han Army's agricultural machinery department, under the guidance of Liu Wu, also needed to reform cloth production, hoping to establish enough cloth production lines to produce enough linen.

Because the Han army is no longer working as a full-time nanny, they will naturally not distribute salt, grain, cloth and other materials for free, so this requires the people to unite independently and do business with the Han army.

In this way, the development of the Han army will also reach another point, that is, the income will not necessarily decrease, but the investment will become less, and the people will live a better life.

In this way, the dominance of the Han army will rise to a terrifying stage, and at least the people who have lived a good life will not allow Bai Lian and Da Qian to come back again.

Similarly, while the Han army strengthened its control over the countryside, it was also able to recover more scattered forces, concentrate on expanding its territory, and prepare for war with all its strength.

This is the Han Army's plan for the future and what the Han Army is preparing to do.

To put it simply, the Han army wanted to increase agricultural production, stimulate commercial development, and then accelerate industrial development through war and move forward quickly.

Such a rotation put the Han army on the fast track of rapid development.

But for many settings in the future, we still need to go step by step, step by step.

For the Han army, money is called money only when it circulates.

As long as there is enough food in the territory and it is not controlled by merchants and enemies, there will be no problems with the development of the Han army.

If it weren't for the current insufficient conditions, the Han army would have developed its own coin-making technology! !