The policy of "being an official and getting a whole grain" or "being an official and getting a whole grain" means that officials and landlords must also pay taxes. "That is to abolish their tax-free privileges.
Kangxi has been in power for more than forty years, and the national financial crisis and limited tax revenue. However, due to the tax exemption system inherent in feudal society, truly rich people such as officials and landlords do not have to pay much tax.
Not only does the financial burden fall on the poor, but the state treasury is also empty. Therefore, the introduction of this policy is to optimize the tax structure and let the wealthy class bear more tax responsibilities.
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Passing Ding into mu, also known as passing Ding into land and combining Ding with land, was initiated in the Ming Dynasty, and it was a tax system that the Qing government included Ding Yin, who had been in contact for generations, in the land tax collection. It was widely practiced during the reign of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.
Its main content is to abolish the poll tax, which is an objective relaxation of the personal control of the lowest farmers. It was an important tax reform in the late feudal society of China to abolish the poll tax (Ding tax) which had been implemented in China for more than two thousand years and incorporate it into the land tax.
Fire consumption returns to the public:
Returning fire to the public is also called returning envy to the public. Fire consumption means that local officials will levy more money and silver on the grounds of consumption when collecting money tax. In July of the second year of Yongzheng, it was popularized all over the country, and the additional tax of "consumption envy" in the Ming Dynasty was changed into a statutory regular tax, and a system of keeping clean was established, with the intention of cracking down on the arbitrary apportionment of local officials.
This centralized the right to tax, reduced the extra burden on the people, increased the wages of foreign officials, and played a positive role in rectifying the management of officials and reducing corruption. However, in addition to collecting fire consumption, prefectures and counties also secretly sent more troops, which failed to fundamentally improve the management of officials.
References:
Walk into Mu- Baidu encyclopedia
Fire consumption returns to the public-Baidu Encyclopedia