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First of all, this is a misunderstanding, the policy of 30 taxes and one tax in the Han Dynasty was just a two-year tax reduction policy implemented during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty. If it is a long time, no one may sell the land and become a slave, but unfortunately, it is only two years.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, in fact, the peasants' taxes were very heavy. When Liu Bang first entered the Qin Dynasty, the tax rate was fifteen taxes and one tax, which relatively allowed farmers to have time to take a breath, but later it was changed to ten taxes and one tax. Not only that, but when he first ascended the throne, the peasants had to pay him more than 60 yuan per household.

In addition to this tax, the people of the Han Dynasty did not pay taxes for nothing, in fact, the taxes of the Han Dynasty were really mixed. In addition to this field endowment, the subjects of the Han Dynasty also had household endowments and more endowments, oral endowments, arithmetic endowments and conscription, and military service. How to say it, don't look at the fact that the field is not high, but your family has a large population, and you still pay a lot of money.

Therefore, I don't think we can just look at this kind of policy of benefiting the people in a certain period, you know, in addition to ordinary people in the Han Dynasty, there were also powerful people, and the powerful also needed to serve, but they would not go, so these heavy things were also added to the people. Even if there are five people in a family, there is basically nothing left in a year except for these miscellaneous taxes. If we catch up with natural disasters, then we can still only sell fields and land, and sell our children and daughters.

In addition to this, there was also a tax in the Han Dynasty, although it was not formally written into the law, but it also existed, that is, to sacrifice their beautiful daughters every year. If the emperor likes it, he will leave, and if he doesn't like it, forget it. But it is also a tax, which in the Han Dynasty was called "counting people".

Although the Han Dynasty was said to be rich, the Han Dynasty had low productivity after all, and not every era could have Yuan Longping. Therefore, in ancient times, when there was no chemical fertilizer and hybrid rice technology, the burden on the common people was actually very heavy even if it was a fifty-one tax. Except for the powerful, the common people are basically the same no matter what era.

Because in the Han Dynasty, selling land as a slave, in the end, according to the laws of the time, there would be a lot of subsidies. These subsidies are sufficient to support a family.

Farmers struggle with food and clothing all year round, and if they are even more unlucky, they have to borrow money to get by. When the political darkness and the land annexation were intense, it was the bankruptcy of large areas of small farmers.

First of all, the first thirty taxes were a policy during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and this policy was only implemented for two years, and at that time, the peasants had a wide variety of taxes, in addition to the field tax, they also had to pay mouth money, calculate the tax, household tax, and also have to serve in the military. At that time, the income of farmers was four or five thousand yuan a year, and this was also counting the population of the peasant households, and if there were more people working in the peasant households, women could also do needlework to subsidize the family. After paying the taxes, there is basically not much money left, and the farmers are basically struggling on the hunger line, so it is normal to sell their fields into slavery.

At that time, many people could not support themselves by farming, there were many environmental and political factors, and sometimes it was better to live by selling the land as slaves than farming.

Taxes have never been the reason for being rich or poor. The problem of farmers is that their ability to cope with natural disasters is too poor and their production capacity is too weak. The reason why the big family group living system was implemented in ancient China is because it is difficult for small families to fight against famine, and large families live in groups to divide labor and cooperate, jointly reserve materials, and jointly build water conservancy projects to fight natural disasters.

I think there was no way to sell the land as slaves in the past, because they wanted to live, so they had to do this, and according to the law, there was a subsidy to do so. Can support a family.

There are still many factors in this, after all, every field is personal, what plans does he have or what happens to him, he will definitely sell the field for money to solve.

Although the tax rate is not high, there are many kinds of taxes, and the peasants' annual income can only barely maintain food and clothing, and the population is large and they cannot even maintain food and clothing, so it is normal to sell land as slaves.

This is a very low figure, and it is often necessary to reduce the ration to maintain simple reproduction, and the capacity for expanded reproduction is negligible. At that time, the means of agricultural production were much higher than agricultural products, such as a large iron tree worth more than 100 wen at that time, and a cow was worth more than 1,000 wen to more than 3,000 wen, and even reached 15,000 wen. Therefore, the level of agricultural production is not high.

The peasants are also living in hardship. In normal times, they can barely maintain production and life, but in the event of floods, droughts, diseases, funerals or other accidents, or if the state service is aggravated, the peasants are in danger of bankruptcy, starvation, and exile.

Because at that time, the existence of the family had already arisen, and the existence of the family caused land oppression, and the people had no choice but to sell their food, and finally because they had no money, they could only sell themselves to others in order to have something to eat.

In the hundreds of years since the state established the "restoration" policy in the early Han Dynasty, the tax amount established in the Han Dynasty was only "fifteen taxes and one", and in practice, sometimes people only had to pay half, that is, "thirty taxes and one". In addition to the low tax rate, there is even an important national tax exemption every year. During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the state also exempted and disturbed land rent for 11 consecutive years.

By Confucian standards, the Han Dynasty not only truly realized the "royal palace", but did it better than their ideals.

However, on the other side of the Han Dynasty "kings**", every year there were a large number of people ** their cultivated land and were willing to become slaves under the leadership of the feudal landlords. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, in order to reduce the burden on the people and speed up the resumption of production, the most direct means was to reduce taxes! At that time, people's tax rates were decreasing, from the first ten taxes, to the fifteen taxes, to the last thirty taxes.

On the surface, the burden on people seems to have been lightened. Is this reality? First of all, when we spoke earlier about the first MU tax, we said that due to the objective limitations of the tax collection capacity, it is impossible for the state to calculate each door-to-door tax and then extract it precisely.

In fact, this situation still existed during the Han Dynasty.

At that time, after the end of the war, the whole country was in a state of small number of land. The State can grant large amounts of land to all people on an equal footing so that the land can be shared by all. Based on this situation, the state takes a different approach to taxation.

Everyone sets a fixed amount and is then taxed on a per capita basis, which is much simpler!

Objectively, there is nothing wrong with this method in itself, because at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, basically everyone owned land, so there was no big difference between a tax on a per capita basis and a tax on a land basis. But over time, the situation has changed unexpectedly!

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It was caused by the policy of the time, because the military service and forced labor system at that time were particularly onerous, and every boy could not escape, and at that time there was a tax based on the head, which was divided into the tax of Koumingxiang and the calculation of the tax, and the treatment of private slaves at that time was better. The harvest of the empty locust guess is relatively low, and it will be affected by natural and man-made disasters.

In the Han Dynasty, the only male in the family had to pay everyone's poll tax every year, and his life was relatively poor, while the private slave companion had better benefits and could earn more money to subsidize the family.

Because the state has to collect a lot of taxes, poll tax, military service, forced labor, these systems make people's lives feel stressed.

Mainly because private slaves were treated very well, and the common people did not want to pay taxes.

Although the state levies low taxes, agricultural production is also low. In a good harvest year, the people can barely live except for various tax expenses.