After regaining Jiangnan, although the situation was beneficial to Zhao Bing, he also understood that politically inheriting the throne was supported by the exiled government, rather than the orthodox inheritance of the throne, and Emperor Deyou was still alive, so in the eyes of some people, his throne was flawed. Financial tax sources will certainly be alleviated as the population and territory expand, but after the cruel exploitation of the Mongol Yuan, they also needed to recuperate, so they were not optimistic, and the more serious was the high concentration of land.

China is a traditional agricultural society, and this situation did not change until modern society. The fundamental problem of agricultural social finance is land and people. In this way, those who have farming have their own fields are the most ideal social form and is also the slogan used by founders of all dynasties to win people's hearts. After Zhao Bing occupied Jiangnan, he naturally hoped to gain the support and support of the people in Jiangnan and obtain stable fiscal revenue, but it was not easy for him to do so.

First, since the Jingkang Incident, a large number of northern military and civilians fled to the south of the Yangtze River due to war, and many northern aristocratic families also went to the south to purchase and occupy land, and land became a scarce resource. This caused the situation of large populations and small land, and a large number of refugees were generated. Secondly, after the Mongols and Yuan encroached on Jiangnan, the powerful and wealthy plundered a large amount of land. In addition, the Song Dynasty's policy of not restraining land annexation led to the concentration of land in the hands of bureaucratic families, making it difficult to redistribute land.

After the Mongols occupied Jiangnan, they only used this as their wallet and granary, and did not implement effective land redistribution, so it was difficult to change the land possession structure. The Song Dynasty implemented a policy of preferential treatment for scholars at that time. Not only could officials occupy dozens of times more land than ordinary people, but their land was also tax-free, including their relatives, and even sheltered a certain number of tenants and food and clothing.

Therefore, in order to evade taxes from the court, many self-cultivated farmers named their land in the name of officials, and even gave their land for free and acted as tenants, thus forming a large number of fugitives. This led to a large number of tenants changing from relying on the country to relying on bureaucrats and aristocratic families. They did not register their household registration and did not need to serve in the military. They only needed to pay food to the aristocratic families they depend on.

The number of bureaucratic aristocratic class is limited, but they can have many "customer" classes. When the number of "customer" classes is larger, the number of taxpayers will be greatly reduced. When there are more and more tenants, the government's tax revenue and military sources will be affected. The remaining land is no longer enough to support the entire huge bureaucratic class and army.

After Zhao Bing occupied Jiangnan, the first thing he did was to check the land and population as the basis for taxation. Someone at that time suggested that it was inappropriate to check household registration and land so early, because the Qin Dynasty established a strict household registration system to prevent the people and imposed strict taxes that the people abandoned them. We should do the opposite, not establish a strict household registration network, and not interfere with the people's lives and make them happy. Only when the people live and work in peace can the government be rich, otherwise, registering household registration and land is useless.

Zhao Bing knew that these people's intention was to retain their privileges and restore their lost land ownership relationship. The most important thing was to use the scholar group to control the entire country. But he didn't think so. The royal family had very little existence under the suppression of the Mongolian Yuan, which led to his lack of deep foundation in Jiangnan. Moreover, he did not want to be controlled by the scholar group and fall back into the whirlpool of power struggle, so that he had to break the solidified national structure.

Therefore, when formulating the financial system, Zhao Bing used the excuse that due to the war in Jiangnan and the land changed ownership many times, it was difficult to restore the land ownership relationship of the previous dynasty. Therefore, when the imperial court rebuilt the system, it took the opportunity to tighten its power, and he conquered the world with force, which determined that administrative efficiency should be high. Taking advantage of the opportunity to eliminate the Mongol Yuan forces and traitors, he suppressed many local tyrants and aristocratic families, confiscated a large amount of land, laying the foundation for the court to uniformly plan land for distribution.

In order to successfully investigate the population and land, Zhao Bing broke the practice of granting land for thousands of years, and implemented the distribution of land according to the method of oral land and tax payment by officials and civilians, thus re-enrolling many fugitive households, breaking away from the control of officials and families, and rebuilding the social system. In fact, this method is similar to a story of fickleness, which includes women in the scope of land allocation and abolishes the D tax, which seems to increase the contradiction of large populations and small land, but in fact it also increases the tax source.

In order to stabilize people's hearts and allow the people to cultivate and maintain their health, Zhao Bing implemented a policy of light taxes and low taxes, which reduced the fiscal revenue of the court. Therefore, some court officials proposed to use public fields to implement military garrisons to solve the problem of military garrisons, but he knew that the participation of the army in operations would inevitably lead to corruption and lead to a decline in combat effectiveness. Moreover, military garrisons always showed inefficiency in peacetime. This military farming system with the components of state-owned enterprises could not motivate people's enthusiasm for production, and also caused general dissatisfaction in society. And once the military purpose was achieved, the military farming system would either be changed to private fields or be gradually abandoned.

In order to solve the military rations and local financial expenditures, Zhao Bing's idea was to turn the confiscated land into public land, recruit a large number of refugees to cultivate land, and implement private settlements. According to the policy, the households can rent public land for a long time. If the households have cattle themselves, the grain they farmed will be as high as the court; if the households do not have cattle and the government provides the cattle, the grain they grow will be divided into 50% of the court.

At the same time, the court guaranteed that the garrison households would no longer pay other miscellaneous taxes besides the land tax, nor would they force the military service and corvee service, which made the garrison households more comfortable than ordinary farmers. In order to solve the production problems, the court also introduced policies to encourage people to learn technology and use slack farming to develop handicrafts and breeding industries. After making money, they could buy cattle and production tools, and obtain fertilizers, which greatly improved the farming efficiency.

Good income has increased the enthusiasm of the households for production, and in order to produce more grain, they consciously participated in the construction of water conservancy and the transformation of farmland and other infrastructure. The court not only ensured the supply of military rations and obtained stable meat assistance, but also placed these people under the direct rule of the court and obtained their support, making it difficult for the gentry to control civilians.

Since this system is brand new, there are no intricate conflicts of interest, and no unresolved social agglomerations, it immediately shows great superiority. Therefore, whether it is the implementation of the civil settlement or the oral land policy, even under the implementation of the policy of light taxes and low taxes, grain production has been greatly improved. Although the court did not seem to have any benefits, the private sector still stored a large amount of grain for sale, and if necessary, it can be bought as long as there is money. This is also the reason why Zhao Bing was not worried about the insufficient grain storage in the official warehouse.

In addition, Zhao Bing knew that money still needed to trade in sea trade, which not only filled his wallet, but was actually beneficial to the country and the people. The court could obtain a large amount of tariffs and commercial taxes, and obtain huge inflows of gold and silver as reserves for bank currencies, thereby ensuring the stability of the currency value. The large increase in the demand for foreign trade products will inevitably have a guiding role, promoting the prosperity of the ceramics, textiles, tea making and shipbuilding industries.

The prosperity of economy and trade will also drive the development of related industries such as catering, construction, transportation, etc., and bring a large number of employment opportunities, allowing landless farmers to obtain a job, alleviate the conflicts between people and land in Jiangnan, and play an immeasurable role in social stability.

Although Zhao Bing's series of fiscal policies are still far from "rice flowing, corn white, public and private granaries are abundant", they have also stepped on the accelerator of economic growth, and the demand for money as a medium for wealth flow will also increase. Therefore, he chose to increase money at this time, which will not cause uncontrollable inflation, but can promote the reproduction of materials through government purchases and promote the prosperity of the market.

Therefore, Zhao Bing was able to raise an army from a small place in Qiongzhou to achieve a series of victories, and it was precisely because while fighting, he would develop his economy wherever he went and ensure that the court could obtain enough finance to support the war. It was his far-sighted spirit that enabled him to gain huge potential to support the war.

More importantly, only by making sufficient financial preparations can the stability of the regime be maintained after pacifying the Central Plains, rather than adding new instability as the expenditure expands. For Zhao Bing, the outcome of a battle is far less important than the perfect financial system. Even if the Northern Expedition failed, he was able to quickly recover his vitality through the perfect financial system and continue to complete the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

In contrast, the current Mongol Yuan regime inherited the "ancestral property" almost at the same time as Zhao Bing. He tried to use the power in his hands to carry out political reforms and forcibly use the Han law to smash the social blocks, try every means to promote finances, and try to become the ultimate winner, but he just ran out of his head. This is precisely because although he inherited the rule of his ancestors, he also inherited many problems accumulated by the previous regime.

The internal structure of the regime was intricate and formed a huge inertia, which made the real gold helpless. It made him understand that such a regime was difficult to redesign its political and economic system, and could only make some changes based on the previous dynasty, which could only be maintained, and admitted that reality would be tinkered with a revision. Its ambitious reforms could have a blueprint, but never have any results, and in the end it would be futile.
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