Chapter 86: This Mark is Called Time
Summer, the ninth year of Chongming.
Vice Minister of Revenue Zhang Jingheng presented a policy to save the country and was promoted to Minister of Revenue.
His wife, Liu Yuqing, was granted the title of a Second-Rank Lady of Mandate.
This national policy focused on four main points. First, all taxes, including the poll tax, were merged into the land tax. The more land one owned, the more taxes they paid; no land meant no taxes.
Second, all tax collections were converted to silver, no longer collecting physical grain and other goods, to avoid spoilage and facilitate transportation.
Third, continue to implement official assessments. Those who were passive, slacked off, or failed in tax collection would all be dismissed and investigated.
Fourth, enlighten the people's minds, and the country will prosper!
It shared the same brilliant purpose as the national policy presented by Dong Xingjian back then.
But it was more detailed, more in line with the national conditions, and also more brilliant.