Chapter 20 Where the Tax Comes From
"The government of the world is not only money and food. Martial arts cannot be used internally, and benevolence and righteousness cannot be sought from the people. In order to resolve the dangers of the world, money and food are the most important. The money and food of the court have the benefits of banning the vertebrae, and salt and iron are included, and the fundamental lies in taxes."
"Some say, the current imperial court's salt and iron collection is not as heavy as before, so why does it mean that the tax is basically taxed?"
"I said that when salt and iron are introduced, the income is prohibited and given to the court. Taxes are collected from the world, and the use of the court is beyond the court, which shows the meaning of the court. The meaning of the court is manifested in the people who are pacified and suffering, so the bias of the court lies in the people who are pacified and suffering."
"It shows the great righteousness of the court, so the taxes of the court are not levied from the people who are suffering. The people in the world earn from farming and servicing, and the value of the labor force is not levied. The taxes of the court should be levied from the family of power, and the taxes are based on property rather than from others."
"Some say, if this is the case, shouldn't the agricultural tax be imposed?"
"I say that rural taxes are based on land, and land is property, and it is not collected from people. In addition to taxes on land, it is not collected from other people. This tax is based on property, which shows that the court is based on the bias of the people who are suffering. The taxes on cities and towns are based on this, and the value of employed by force is not collected."
(This means taxing assets, not taxing workers' labor income, based on a political standpoint.)
"If a cunning person hires himself and raises his employment value to avoid taxes, the official can investigate it. The company in the world, the person who calculates the accounts, does not allow private employment to be investigated. This is to investigate it. If you investigate it clearly, even if there are extrajudicial people, it will not cause any major harm."
After remembering this, Wu Yu saw Xu Ping stopping and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Such a long-term discussion of the king and minister is really a hard job for daily officials. Not only should you remember, but you should also understand the meaning. Wu Yu is very hard-working to use his own mind and two things.
Seeing Xu Ping taking a sip of tea and sitting down to rest, Wu Yu stepped forward and said, "The Prime Minister has time, can he be deluded for a moment?"
Xu Ping said: "It's okay to speak. Chunqing is famous all over the world. If I have any questions, don't laugh at me."
Wu Yu hurriedly gave a tribute and said, "The Prime Minister must discuss the affairs of the world based on two or three issues, why?"
Xu Ping said: "This is the basis. Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and all things are born. The two and three things are discussed in the world, and they are all the two and three of the Tao transformed. In ancient times, people did not fight, and one was the first. There was a surplus, and there were those who did not get it without work, and those who did not get it for work but did not get it, the people in the world were born from one. Two must fight, so there was a court. The power family, the people who were suffering, the court, and the three. The three produced all things, and the affairs of the world were all caused by these three. Therefore, the rule of the country must be based on the two and three."
Why did the evolution of the primitive society in the previous life to the slave society to the three stages of primitive Datong, the present and the future Datong? Because the philosophical foundation that explains this historical law has changed. Communism divides history into such stages, and the philosophical foundation is the negation of the theory of contradiction and dialectics. Xu Ping made three divisions to change the philosophical foundation to the Tao of Chinese traditional culture, that is, to completely sinicize the theory of class struggle.
In his previous life, he described the negation of negation as a correct statement. On this basis, he evaluated the philosophy of Tao giving birth to one, one giving birth to two, and two giving birth to three, with only the correct idea of dialectical methods, but it was very simple.
The basis of the theory of contradiction, the internal factors of the development of affairs play a major role, that is, internal struggle is the main contradiction in society. The development of contradictions evolves into a process of negation. Slave society is a negation of primitive society, and feudal society is a negation of negation of slave society. It continues to develop. The contradiction and struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie will eventually lead to negation of negation, and the proletariat will eventually win and usher in a new communist society.
This is the philosophical basis of the social evolution of communist theory, which is based on the European dialectical tradition. With this philosophical basis, the conclusion that the proletariat will eventually win and communism will inevitably come.
Ideology is a complete set of theories, starting from the philosophical foundation, extending its understanding of history. It is precisely because of its scientificity and rigor that it can be considered to guide reality and move towards the future.
Negation comes from the European dialectical tradition and is a philosophy. Communist theory introduces this philosophical thought into the analysis of class struggle, and the division of social stages emerges, the inevitability of communism emerges, and socialism becomes scientific socialism. Without this philosophical basis, communism becomes a fantasy.
By replacing the philosophical basis of class struggle with the traditional Chinese Tao that produces all things, the three-decision theory of social development emerged, a primitive classless society, a class-divided society, and a society where the regime has a class reconciliation. The three-derivation of all things means that the class society with power will exist for a long time, such evolution as slaves, feudalism, capitalism, and socialism will disappear.
This is the explanation of social development in traditional Chinese culture, that is, from the people's struggle, to the emergence of regimes for the purpose of reconciliation. That is, the emergence of regimes is not for the realization of class oppression, but for class reconciliation. This is the social development concept that continued from the pre-Qin philosophers to Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan. On this basis, the politics of sages was constructed, and a beautiful description of the three ancient times without disputes and a yearning for the future great harmony.
The change Xu Ping made was to take the theory of class struggle in communism, get out of the politics of sages, and change it to the traditional Tao produces all things as the philosophical basis, forming an ideology that focuses on class harmony. The ideology must be rigorous and must have a philosophical basis. The philosophy of Tao produces all things is natural for Zhao Zhen, and there will be no doubts because of the negation of being taught. For Zhao Zhen, it is completely contrary to Xu Ping's previous teachings, and it is certainly correct to have Tao produces all things.
Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. A simple but not rigorous understanding can be used to show all things in a more concrete way. In the first primitive society, there was no class, and Tao was one, governing the country with virtue, and being virtuous under traditional culture was the saint. The world at this time was regarded as a collection, which gave birth to one. With the division of classes, this collection divided into two, which were from the previous collection and still coexisted in the big collection of people in the world. At this time, one gave birth to two, although there were two, one still existed, which was the philosophical basis of the saint. The existence of class struggle, the two collections continued to struggle and exchange, and created an intersection.
.This intersection is three, one part is part of a collection, and one part is part of another collection. The intersection that appears is the regime, and at this stage it is two to produce three. Three lives, the two of the previous stage are there, and the first one is also there. Three lives are all things that have appeared in this stage. At this stage, all things have appeared in the world. Either they have gone back to the path of turning back or to the end. The road back to the path of no dispute, the three returns to one. The three lives are all things that have returned to one. The negation of negation is achieved through a series of negation, and the class nature is similar to that of primitive society.
Although intersection belongs to two sets, intersection is different from each set, this is the independence of the regime. With this intersection, isolation eases the contradiction between classes and thus reaches a stable state. Intersection is composed of each part of the two sets, and class contradictions are manifested in the struggle for the weight of intersection. There must be struggles in the class, so the regime can never be located in the middle. In fact, because there is a larger one above, one will grow, and the middle does not exist.
Three itself is the part of two, so it can only be reconciled. The emergence of the three regimes is also for reconciliation. For the three regimes, there must be a bias, because the power of the exploiters has been growing all the time, and the regime itself will be eliminated. This is an inevitable need for the regime to survive, so every once in a while, reforms that the regime has to shift to the exploited in order to survive. As long as the regime does not want to disappear, the demand for this reform is inevitable.
Each collection has its own part, so the regime actually talks about benevolence to each class. Because of its own independence of seeking existence, there is a real existence. Therefore, the regime only has great righteousness, and small benevolence and small righteousness do not exist.
On the basis of two or three, the big set of one has always existed, and this is virtue. It is virtue. It is a higher level of morality. On the basis of virtue, similarities between Datong and communist society have emerged.
This philosophical foundation was used to change the division of social stages and to have an ideology that advocated class reconciliation. Ideology is based on philosophical foundations and summarizes historical laws. The philosophical foundations used are different. Even if the same class distinction is discussed, different ideologies will appear.
The reason why he gave up the negation of negation and changed to the three-generation all things was because Xu Ping did not see the victory of negation of negation in his previous life. The historical laws he observed were in line with the three-generation all things. History has always been developing and changing. Whether there will be another philosophical foundation in the future will not be known by Xu Ping.
The three-birth of life is the broad consensus of this era, and it is also the philosophy of Chinese traditional culture to explain social development. Xu Ping used such a philosophical basis and people of this era understood it as soon as they were said. If he really saw communist society in his previous life, and the negation of negation proved the correctness, he would work hard to explain the philosophical basis to the people of this era.
The ideology given to this world by Xu Ping was to replace the theory of class struggle and philosophical foundation of communism in previous lives with the three lives of China, which was a kind of sinicization of Marxism.
Chapter completed!