Chapter 35 4. Extra officers and soldiers, extra expenses

In the early and middle period of the Northern Song Dynasty, a serious social crisis occurred. After the Tang Dynasty, the land system was not established, and no one was in charge. People paid as much tax to the state as they had land, and did not pay taxes to those who had no land.In the Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizu of the Northern Song Dynasty was born as a son of a high-ranking cadre. He became the emperor because he took advantage of the usurpation of power by orphans and widows, so he did not understand the suffering of the people, and he did not see the great power of the peasant uprising, so The Northern Song Dynasty still did not allocate land to the common people.

In particular, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty had such an understanding. Song Taizong said: "The rich family is connected with me, and I will keep the money for the country." The richer the better, because the country can levy taxes because there are more rich people. .What you are talking about is the United States. 60% of the personal income tax in the United States is paid by these rich people with an annual income of more than 100,000 US dollars.China's personal income tax is mainly paid by the salaried class. If you ask the company boss to pay personal income tax, what does he pay?He set his salary to 1600, which was not enough to pay taxes.Can your monthly salary of 1,600 afford the first-class cabin on your plane?He will definitely take the company account for any money he spends. My monthly salary is 1600 and I do not pay personal income tax.This is illegal in foreign countries, Bill Gates salary is $400 a month, can you believe it?

Those who are rich are not benevolent, so it is impossible for China to point to the rich to contribute to the country, and the same is true in the Northern Song Dynasty.The first social crisis caused is that the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger. "The rich have a place of hope, but the poor have no place to stand." At this point, the country doesn't care about it. You don't care about the conflict between the rich and the poor. In the end, the conflict points to the government. Second, the common people were forced to rebel after being exploited by the landlords until they were starving.Don't farmers have to eat that?He definitely resisted.

Third, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, redundant expenses, three redundant.Redundant officials means that it is useless to raise too many officials.Redundant soldiers, the purpose of raising soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty was to prevent internal troubles. Song Taizu believed that "the only thing that can benefit a hundred generations is to raise soldiers. Fang is in a hungry year, and there are rebels but no rebels." The purpose of my raising soldiers is to keep you from rebelling. Rebels but no rebels.As a result, every famine year, the government sent people to the disaster-stricken areas to recruit hungry people to serve as soldiers.Then your army has no combat effectiveness at all, and the soldiers are all made up of hungry people.In the past, there was a slogan called "Put up the recruiting flag, and there will be people who will eat food." As soon as I put up the flag, people will come and eat food.They didn't come to defend their home and country, if they didn't have enough food, they would mutiny.

So the army of the Northern Song Dynasty loved to mutiny, do you think he can eat food?The officer will have to deduct the military pay no matter what.You see, the officer is sitting on a Mercedes-Benz 600, and you don’t have a bicycle. The officer has a meal of abalone wings, and you can’t afford pancakes, so this group of people mutinied.Why did the Yue family army fight so well later, "Don't demolish houses to death, don't loot to death from starvation." The common people support the people's soldiers.The common people in the other armies of the Northern Song Dynasty did not support him, thinking that he was even more of a jerk than the Jin and Liao armies, so they would rob the common people.Seeing the common people look like wolves and tigers, and seeing the enemy like rats and cats, it feels like there is no way to defend against the enemy, and there is no way to disturb the people. This army is no good.The redundancy is easy to understand. 80% of your money is spent on raising officials, which is called redundancy.