It is with strong economic and military forces that backed up the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, once he changed the national policy of rest with the people in the early Han Dynasty, he was more extravagant and eager to engage in military activities outside the country. Frequent battles, patrols, Zen, asking for immortals and medicine, offering Song Mountain, Fengtai mountain and sacrificing God of heaven and earth. These activities are very expensive, and the money spent is hard to calculate. The activities with various patterns, various names and huge cost have reached the level of "dizzying, boring life". As a result, the wealth accumulated by the government over the years has been consumed, and social contradictions are increasingly acute.
In order to make up for the lack of support, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty tried to search for the wealth of the people. According to records, the means of collecting money successively introduced by Han and Wu dynasties include Yantie official camp, calculation of the amount of money, loss, gold, calculation of Fu, selling of the Lord, redemption of death and Atonement, etc.
Salt iron official camp.
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All losses. Except for the high quality ones, the tribute of every prefecture and country should be transported directly, and the general tribute should not be sent to the capital teacher again, but sold by the officials who are all transported to the local government at a high price; Or simply use the cash of the tribute discount for commercial operation, and earn the difference by buying low and selling high. The measures of average transportation make tribute commodity, reducing the loss in the past. However, the officials who lost all the official power "to sit down the real list of four, sell goods for profit", and strong buy and sell, the public is very angry.
Gold. Refers to the money that the emperors offer to the ancestral temple in August. The emperor of Han Dynasty formulated the law of "Jin", which stipulated that when the emperor was personally in charge of the ancestral temples, the princes must sacrifice the gold to help them. The amount paid shall be calculated by the number of people in their jurisdiction, and four or two shall be paid for each thousand people, and fourorfor for those with a population less than 1000. The gold in Han Dynasty was two thousand and five hundred. However, the real burden of this money is not the Lords, but the vast number of working people. And after the princes collected the gold, they often tried to strip them from the middle market. In the five years of Yuanding, due to the poor color and insufficient weight of the gold presented by the princes, the Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty ordered "Wang Qixian, Hou Jieguo", and the number of the seized lords reached 106, which was called "the golden event".
Calculate and mouth Fu. The tax of the person who was paid to the adult was calculated and granted, which was implemented in Qin Dynasty. front
sell offices and barter ranks.
Redeem the dead and atone. That is, money is exempted from punishment.
It should be said that the above measures increased the government's financial resources, temporarily eased the financial tension caused by the war and the extravagance of the Emperor Han Wu, but the negative effect caused by this is also very serious.
