I watched Er Chuang’s short video, and everything went numb!

[The plan of the Katara Project is to dig a canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Katara Lowlands to bring seawater into this depression. ]

[This will continuously provide water vapor for the desert area. ]

[And because the climate here is hot, the water brought in will evaporate quickly, making the water level in the depression always lower than the Mediterranean Sea, which is equivalent to having a super-large natural automatic water pump that can continuously bring water from the Mediterranean Sea to the heart of the desert, and can also use the drop in the canal to generate electricity. ]

[At the same time, the newly formed "Kattara Salt Lake" can also turn the uninhabited desert into a vibrant fishing community. ]

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"Hey, this plan feels pretty good!"

After reading the specific description of the Katara Project, many ancient people in all dynasties thought so in their hearts.

It can generate electricity and transform the desert.

It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

For the country of Egypt, there are many benefits.

"Did Eji implement this project?"

With this question, many ancients continued to look at the giant screen in the sky.

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[In order to win over Eji, the Eagle Sauce Country was very interested in this plan. ]

[Because the Eagle Sauce Country planned to use this plan as bait to get Eji to join its side. ]

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"Does the Eagle Sauce Country intend to pay for Eji to build this project?"

Many ancients in the past dynasties thought in their hearts.

They felt that if this was the case, the Eagle Sauce Country really spent a lot of money to win over Eji.

Obviously, it would take a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to complete this Katara project.

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[But in the end, it ended because the cost was too high and the visible benefits were not very clear. ]

[Therefore, this plan never became a reality. 】

The bullet screen flew out:

"Has anyone calculated the cost of this project?"

"Reply - I haven't heard of it, but for comparison, the construction of the Suez Canal cost 18.6 million pounds, and this is estimated to be tens of millions."

"Reply - This investment is indeed large."

"Reply - The investment is large on the one hand, but the main thing is that it is difficult to say the benefits. The effect in the plan is a theoretical conception, and it is difficult to say in reality."

"..."

See here.

Many ancient people in all dynasties can understand why this plan cannot be implemented.

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[Fourth, divert "South" water into "Africa". ]

[In fact, in order to conquer the Sahara Desert, someone has proposed a more crazy engineering plan. ]

[That is to divert water from the Amazon River in South America to Africa. 】

[That is the place on earth with the least water shortage, with 35,000 to 120,000 cubic meters of water flowing into the sea per second. 】

[If a water pipeline with a total length of more than 4,000 kilometers is built across the Atlantic Ocean, 10,000 cubic meters of fresh water per second can be provided to the Sahara Desert. 】

[This water can irrigate 300,000 square kilometers of land, making 1 million square kilometers of land habitable.]

[It will also create large tracts of forest, which is equivalent to creating another lung of the earth in Africa.]

[However, this is extremely expensive, and it may take 20 trillion US dollars to complete all of it.]

[The global GDP is about 80 trillion a year, and it is possible to complete this major project with the joint efforts of all mankind.]

The barrage flew out:

"Good guy, this is really daring!"

"This plan is simply out of the blue!"

"20 trillion US dollars, who can afford this money?"

"..."

Many ancient people in all dynasties took a breath when they heard the cost of this project.

Build a water pipe to transport water across the Atlantic? ! ! !

This project plan is really crazy!

And the cost is also ridiculously high!

Twenty trillion dollars!!!

This is too much!

Daqin plane.

Qin Shi Huang shook his head.

This project plan has no feasibility at all.

It's pure fantasy.

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[V. Kola Superdeep Drilling Project. ]

[During the Cold War, Big Brother and Eagle Sauce Country launched an arms race. ]

[Seeing that Eagle Sauce Country is far ahead in space exploration, Big Brother decided to find another way. ]

[You go to the sky, right? Okay, I'll drill the ground! ]

[In 1970, Big Brother officially started the earth-digging operation code-named "Kola Superdeep Drilling Project". ]

[This project is located on the Kola Peninsula and claims to "dig through the entire earth." 】

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“Ah?!!”

Many ancient people in all dynasties were shocked.

This big brother is really crazy!

He can even come up with such a crazy plan to dig through the entire earth.

It’s simply outrageous!

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The plane of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

After being shocked, Li Shimin was still quite confused.

“Big Brother’s benefits from launching this plan are more than that.”

“It can’t be just to compete with the Eagle Sauce Country, right?”

However.

What Li Shimin didn’t know was that this was actually the case.

The super-deep drilling project was actually initiated by the Eagle Sauce Country.

At that time, the Eagle Sauce Country carried out an experimental scientific research project near Guadeloupe Island, intending to drill as many holes as possible into the crust under the seabed to study the geological structure inside the earth.

However, the super-deep drilling project of the United States was soon terminated in 1966.

Because the engineering and technical difficulty was too great and the project cost was overrun.

When Big Brother saw that the United States chose to give up, he immediately decided to start his own super-deep drilling project to prove to the world that what the United States could not do, Big Brother could do.

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[This project started in 1970 and was continued intermittently until 1993, with a total excavation depth of 12,262 meters underground. ]

[It is undeniable that this project did bring some scientific results to Big Brother, but it is indeed very crazy. ]

[According to the drillers, the project was finally stopped because "supernatural phenomena" appeared when digging more than 12,000 meters, and "voices from hell" were heard. ]

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See here.

Many ancient people in the past dynasties were shocked.

"Is the underworld inside the earth?"

Some ancient people even had such thoughts in their minds.

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[Of course, these are just rumors. ]

[Officially, the reason why the digging slowed down and even stopped was largely due to insufficient funds. 】

[In 1991, after the collapse of Big Brother, the economic source of this plan was gone, and the Bear Country did not want to continue, so it finally stopped the plan. 】

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This reason is simple and direct.

The ancients accepted it very smoothly.

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[The above are the five craziest plans to transform the earth in human history! 】

[Which plan do you think is the craziest? 】

The barrage flew out:

"That must be digging a canal with a nuclear bomb! It's crazy!"

"I choose to dig the earth!"

"It must be to dig water from South America to Africa!"

"..."

Similar to the different opinions in the barrage.

The ancients of all dynasties also had different opinions on this issue at the end of the video.

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On the giant screen in the sky.

The video refreshed.

A new video appears.

[Both reforms affect the national destiny, why is the "tax-sharing system" in the Qing Dynasty far more successful than the "one whip system" in the Ming Dynasty? 】

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The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the giant screen in the sky, his eyes stern.

"Reforms that affect the national destiny?"

Immediately.

He looked at the giant screen in the sky intently.

He couldn't help but pay attention to the reforms related to the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty in this life is bound to be different from the Ming Dynasty in the original historical time and space.

But he still wanted to know what the problems that affected the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty in the original historical time and space were? (To read the violent novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

If he encounters the same problem in this life, he can also be mentally prepared in advance.

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[Among the reforms of the ancient Chinese taxation system, the "One Whip Law" of the Ming Dynasty and the "Diffusion of Land Taxes" of the Qing Dynasty were undoubtedly two extremely important reforms. ]

[In fact, the basic ideas and ultimate goals of the "One Whip Law" and the "Diffusion of Land Taxes" are almost the same. ]

[However, Zhang Juzheng's "The "One Whip Law" was in name only after Zhang Juzheng's death, but the "One Whip Law" was said to have prolonged the life of the Qing Dynasty for a hundred years.

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The Ming Dynasty Wanli Plane.

Zhang Juzheng was shocked at first, then smiled bitterly and muttered to himself:

"The government dies with the death of the leader! ”

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[So, why are there such different results?]

[Let’s analyze this problem today.]

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After reading this preface.

Even many emperors of other dynasties outside the Ming Dynasty have shown great interest in the following video content.

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, financial issues are the core issues of a country’s government.

Therefore, among the ancient emperors of China, as long as they are not unjust and incompetent, they will pay close attention to the issue of taxation.

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[Before analyzing why the two have different fates, let’s first look at the “One Whip Law” of the Ming Dynasty and the “One Whip Law” of the Qing Dynasty. What is the specific content of "dividing the land tax into mu"? 】

[Let's first talk about the "One Whip Law" that inherited the Two Tax Law, which mainly includes the following contents. 】

[1. The land tax and labor service that have been levied separately since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the various labor services, including Jiayi, corvée, miscellaneous labor, labor service, etc., are merged into one, compiled into one, and levied together with the summer and autumn taxes of the land tax. 】

[2. The labor service required by each state and county each year will be hired by the government from the taxes collected, and civilians will no longer be transferred for free. 】

[3. The local tributes and local products previously demanded from the local areas, as well as the expenses paid to the Beijing Treasury for annual needs and kept in the local areas for supply, are all levied in the One Whip Law. 】

[4 .The tax is levied on the land, and the tax is paid in silver, which is the so-called "silver levy per mu". 】

[To put it simply, the land tax, corvée and other miscellaneous taxes of each state and county are combined into one, and silver is collected and paid according to the mu. 】

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The plane of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin was shocked and thought quickly in his mind.

For him, this is definitely a very fresh and unique tax system.

Because since the Warring States Period, the tax system of ancient Chinese dynasties has always been based on rent and labor.

Under this system, the people mainly pay in kind, such as grain and cloth.

It was not until the first year of Jianzhong in the era of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty that the court introduced the two-tax system, which changed to mainly collect money and levy taxes twice a year.

"All converted into silver taels for collection, which is much simpler, and storage and transportation are also much more convenient. ”

Li Shimin immediately thought of the most direct benefit of the "One Whip Law".

Then.

He thought of a deeper effect.

It can avoid corruption among officials in the tax collection process.

He was not an emperor who was unaware of the suffering of the people. He was very concerned about the corruption of tax collection officials.He knew about this.

For example, when handing in cloth, the cloth was of high quality, but the tax collector insisted that it was of low quality. Originally, one piece was enough, but now one more piece had to be added, and the extra naturally went into the official's own pocket.

And all taxes were converted into silver taels and handed in. One tael of silver was one tael of silver. It would be very troublesome for officials to be corrupt.

"｀But there are also problems."

Li Shimin thought of the benefits of the "One Whip Law" and also saw the problems of the "One Whip Law".

That is, it is easy to cause money to be expensive and goods to be cheap.

The reason is very simple.

For example, farmers used to pay one dou of rice as land tax, but now it has to be converted into 4 silver coins, so everyone can only sell grain in the market.

With more grain, the price naturally goes down. Originally, it could be exchanged for 4 silver coins, but now it can only be exchanged for 2 coins, and one more dou of rice has to be sold to make up the tax money.

For farmers, it is a big loss.

"What does it mean to distribute the Ding tax to the land tax?"

After learning about the "One Whip Law", Li Shimin became more interested in it.

After all, according to the preface of this video, "Diffusion of Ding Tax to the Land Tax" was more successful than the "One Whip Law".

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[Next, let's take a look at "Diffusion of Ding Tax to the Land Tax". ]

["Diffusion of Ding Tax to the Land Tax" is actually a further development and refinement of the "One Whip Law". ]

[The biggest difference is that the fixed Ding tax is evenly distributed into the land tax, and a unified Ding tax is levied, and Ding tax is no longer levied on people. ]

[In short, "Diffusion of Ding Tax to the Land Tax" is to abolish the head tax and only collect taxes based on the amount of land. Those with more land pay more, those with less land pay less, and those without land pay nothing. 】

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"The head tax has been abolished?!!!"

Many emperors in the many dynasties before the Qing Dynasty were shocked.

For them, this was an extremely heavy news. []

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the well-field system collapsed and private land ownership emerged.

Farmers need to bear four types of taxes: land tax (land rent), head tax (mouth tax, Ding tax), miscellaneous taxes and corvée.

For a long time, the head tax has been the most important tax in the country.

Before the abolition of the head tax by "sharing the land tax", China had levied the head tax for two thousand years.

Therefore.

"Abolition of the head tax" caused a huge psychological impact on these emperors before the Qing Dynasty.

And after the shock.

Many emperors began to think about the pros and cons of this approach.

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The Wanli plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Juzheng looked at the huge screen in the sky, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes.

This "tax-tax-tax-per-acre" is much more radical than the "One Whip Law" he introduced.

In theory, such a policy is undoubtedly much more difficult to implement than the "One Whip Law".

However, people in later generations commented that the "tax-tax-tax-per-acre" was more successful than his "One Whip Law".

Why is this?

Zhang Juzheng was full ofIt is doubtful.

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[After briefly understanding the contents of "One Whip Law" and "Paying Tax to the Land", let's analyze the reasons that led to the two completely different outcomes. ]

[First of all, it is the reason of the background of the times. ]

[When Zhang Juzheng promoted the "One Whip Law", it was already the early years of Wanli, and the Ming Dynasty had lasted for more than 200 years. ]

[Before that, the taxation and corvée of the Ming Dynasty had always been based on the "Yellow Book of Taxes and Corvées" system invented by Zhu Yuanzhang. ]

[In short, this system is based on the registration information of the population census every ten years, based on the actual situation of each family, and with the basic principle of balancing the rich and the poor, "reasonably" apportioning taxes and corvée, which is actually the continuation of the "People System". 】

【However, after the two generations of emperors Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the "Yellow Book" began to be falsified, and the so-called "balance between the rich and the poor" and "reasonable" became more and more deviated. 】

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The Hongwu plane of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened.

As the inventor of the "Yellow Book of Taxes and Services" system, he knew very well that once the "Yellow Book" was falsified, the tax would naturally become chaotic.

Of course.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, the system he formulated must be fine.

The problem that occurred later was the problem of people, and the mistakes made by the people who implemented it.

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【By the time of Wanli, the authenticity of the "Yellow Book" had reached the point where it had no reference value, and the tax structure was extremely unreasonable. 】

【The problem directly caused by this result was the disorder of the national tax system. Although the people were exploited, the country could not collect taxes. 】

[What about the money? ]

[The money has flowed into the private pockets of the privileged class. ]

[The state cannot collect taxes, and the people are extremely exploited. For a feudal dynasty, the severity of the problem is self-evident. ]

…

“Reform is necessary.”

Many ancient political elites throughout the dynasties thought of this in their hearts.

This situation is already very dangerous for a dynasty.

If you are not careful, it is very likely to be the end of the dynasty. .