After learning about Liao Yuan's disposal results, Qushan County Magistrate Chen Ying looked very poor.

Liao Yuan asked him to give an explanation, give a promise and time limit to accomplishing this matter.

Faced with Liao Yuan's questioning, Chen Ying hesitated for a while before finally explaining helplessly.

The county government is not unaware that this matter is illegal, nor is it that tax refunds should be done. However, the number of personnel in the county government responsible for tax work is limited, and there is no precedent in this matter. The provisions on this matter in the Interim Agricultural Tax Law are relatively general.

More importantly, Su Yonglin's tax laws implemented in Haizhou are different from those in other places.

Before the newly compiled "Ming Law" was officially promulgated in the world, other places temporarily continued to use the tax laws that were commonly used by the Jin and Song dynasties. Su Yonglin only abolished many heavy taxes and reduced the burden on farmers, but the tax method did not change much.

Only in Haizhou, Su Yonglin announced at the beginning of this year that it would implement a new tax law, replacing the tax law that the Jin and Song dynasties used by the Jin and Song dynasties.

That is, taxation is calculated in a mu.

Agricultural tax is levied according to the amount of land and land, and the physical items that need to be levied will be disbursed into money.

In short, Su Yonglin believes that the methods of collecting taxes in previous dynasties were too complicated and numerous, which was inconvenient to the people and the official ones.

To give the simplest example, in the past, taxes were all collected. Some physical items were fine, but cloths were easy to be damaged, and larger quantities of grain were easily damp, moldy and rot.

Once stored improperly, it is easy to cause a lot of loss.

Take grain as an example. In the past, the government collected taxes and collected food. When the grain was collected from farmers, it had to be transported and stored. In this process, due to unscientific and rough operations, food loss alone was a lot of money.

In the past, the government was unwilling to bear the loss and found that the loss was too large, so it spread the loss to farmers and required the farmers to add an additional loss fee when paying normal taxes.

This is a matter of being open and upright to increase the burden on farmers and requiring them to bear the unscientific and unreasonable transportation methods of the government in the past.

What's even more excessive is that the amount of money spent on the additional levy is often not the rated amount, which gives local officials and minor officials a lot of room for operation. They can use their power to collect several times the amount of money spent on farmers in order to achieve the goal of filling their personal pockets.

Farmers have suffered very harsh exploitation for this, and farmers who are unwilling to accept this rule often end up in a tragic way.

Su Yonglin has been doing business among the people for a long time and has a good understanding of this system and hates it deeply, so he decided to reform the tax method.

He decided to make some changes when the Ming Dynasty was just founding, and from then on all agricultural taxes were distributed to the land, and taxed the land, and all agricultural taxes were settled using copper coins.

No matter what the farmers plant or what they harvest, farmers only need to pay a sum of copper to the tax collector, and everything will be fine and they can rest assured.

They don’t have to worry about tax collectors coming to harass them, and they don’t have to pay extra expenses for loss.

As for how farmers get copper coins...

Su Yonglin intends to provide a strategy to purchase grain and other crops from farmers in the name of the country and store them as reserve grain in addition to such a tax system.

That is, before taxes are imposed every year, people who purchase grain and other crops are arranged to go to the countryside to purchase grain and other crops from farmers. Farmers can sort out crops other than food and seed grains and sell the crops to the official according to the official rated purchase price.

The purchase price will not be very low and will not harm the interests of farmers, so that farmers can obtain money from the official hands.

After the official obtains these physical objects, they can transport them to designated warehouses for storage in accordance with the prescribed system. They can be distributed by the court to allocate them to all aspects.

The transportation loss costs are borne by the Ming government and do not require farmers to bear.

When the farmer gets the money, he can directly pay the tax with the money and record it with one hand, so everything goes well.

The official can reduce the loss caused by decentralized transportation and no unified regulations, greatly saving the cost of transportation and storage losses, and farmers can also save money on loss and reduce the burden in a substantial way.

This is the basic spirit of the new tax law.

Su Yonglin discussed with officials from the Central Committee and the Ministry of Finance for a long time, formulated such a set of strategies and took the lead in implementing them in Haizhou.

However, this set of tax laws looks simple, and there are many areas that need to be adapted to local conditions in practice, and it also requires a lot of official labor to solve it.

Therefore, after implementation, it was determined that this set of tax laws actually reduced the burden on farmers, but increased the official burden.

Because Haizhou was the first place to be implemented, Su Yonglin needed to see the results as soon as possible, so local governments worked overtime and finally completed supporting measures for the reform of the new tax law before the tax season, and were able to implement the new tax law.

It’s true that the new tax law really saves a lot of trouble. The farmers who have suffered from tax payments in the past praised this and think that the court is really humane.

But the officials in charge of this matter do not think so.

They worked overtime to facilitate farmers, but they were not at all easy for themselves. Moreover, there was still a lot of work to be done in the process of collecting taxes from farmers to completely completing tax payments, and tax officials were under great pressure.

Under such a background, it is inevitable to make some mistakes in the taxation process, and this matter actually involves not many people, just a few villages in one township.

There are only a few villages, but tax officials need to work overtime to find the tax records of those villages to determine the amount of tax refunds, which increases a lot of work burdens. The tax officials are quite resentful.

So much so that after the county government handed over this task, it was too late to find a free tax collector to handle the matter, so the matter was delayed again and again, and finally it was delayed to the present.

After the incident was clear, the Judicial Branch upheld the original judgment for the clerk Liao Yuan, believing that this was caused by the county government's work mistake. No matter what, it was a work mistake and the county government needed to bear all the responsibility.

County Magistrate Chen Ying complained about this.

"The new tax law has just been implemented, and the court urgently needs to see the results. The time left for us is too little. We finally completed the arrangement before the tax season, but it is not just a simple matter of collecting money. The grain collected before also requires the county government to organize manpower and material resources to transport it to designated warehouses.

There are so many things to deal with, so in this tax season, few people from all over the county government can handle their work safely, and almost everyone has been seconded to assist in tax processing. In this way, it is still too rush. Suddenly, such a thing happened, just a few villages in the same township, and I really have no choice."

As he said that, Chen Ying took off his official hat, grabbed his head with his hands, and stroked dozens of hair in one hand.

"I am busy day and night, unable to sleep well, and unable to eat well, for fear that it will hinder the trial of the new tax law. I have finally completed the task, but I still have to face such a dilemma. Is the national affairs not as important as the small matters of a township and several villages?"

Liao Yuan did not answer Chen Ying's inquiry, but turned his attention to Wang Kangshi, who had been listening and Bu Liang, the branch director of the Qushan County Fuxing Association.

Wang Kangshi and Bu Liang attended the entire meeting. The meeting is over now, and everyone's eyes are on them, obviously hoping that they can say something.

As the heads of the Revival Society, they have enough influence to make judgments that influence the final decision.

Wang Kangshi looked at Bu Liang.

"Director Bu, what do you think?"

"I think... Director Wang will talk first."

"Okay, let me tell you what I think."

Wang Kangshi nodded and said slowly: "I think the first thing to be clear about this matter is that it is indeed the work error of the county government that caused this incident, so the county government did make a mistake in this matter, violated the law and needed punishment."

Wang Kangshi's words were said to confirm the matter.

Chen Ying was deeply injustice and was about to defend again, but Wang Kangshi raised his hand to stop Chen Ying's defense.

"I originally thought so, just a little punishment and warning, but now I think this is not enough."

Wang Kangshi looked at Chen Ying with a surprised expression and said seriously: "Mr. Chen, you made a big mistake, a bigger mistake than a tax mistake. Have you realized it?"
Chapter completed!