Speaking of the most famous emperor in the Western Han Dynasty, everyone must be able to think of the Han Wudi Emperor Liu Che, especially his resistance to the Xiongnu has become a historical story, but behind the frequent wars need a lot of economic support, although the Han Wudi emperor broke the territory, but the huge loss of manpower, material and financial resources also left him a lot of hidden dangers, so how did he solve it?
First of all, he tried his hand with the merchants, according to the ranking of the status at that time, the soldiers, farmers, industrialists, and merchants ranked last, and the social status was naturally the lowest, but the merchants must be rich, and since they were so rich, they should support the country. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued a government decree allowing merchants to take the initiative to change their own status, buy and sell knighthoods, merchants can also be exempted from military service while buying knighthoods, minor crimes can be avoided, such a temptation, how can merchants not be moved, the national treasury is really enriched.
Secondly, the tax rate was raised, and the tax on the profits of merchants began to increase, from 1.5% to 6%. For those merchants who concealed their income, severe punishment was not granted, and Emperor Wu of han issued an edict, but whoever took the initiative to report the property of others, the government first confiscated all the property of the defendant, and then gave 50% to the informant, which is the famous order of reckoning and the order of recourse in history (the so-called reckoning, that is, the collection of property taxes on industrial and commercial and usurers. The so-called recourse was to expose to the imperial court the illegal acts of hidden property and tax evasion of industrialists and businessmen and usurers. That is, these two decrees constantly enriched the treasury of the Han Dynasty, and the local rich and the richest people were defeated and ruined, and finally this decree began to gradually push to the middle class, and hundreds of millions of wealth were all included in the government.
In the end, Emperor Wudi of Han began to fine-tune his own decrees, buying and selling official titles, but those who held positions below a thousand husbands still had to perform military service, so that as long as those who did not want to become soldiers had to buy and sell official titles again, and those who really could not afford to buy them also went to serve as soldiers to enrich the front line of Emperor Wudi of Han against the Xiongnu.
After the above several rounds of harvesting leeks, the national treasury was enriched, the front line was also frequently reported, but the rear was on fire, many merchants began to be reluctant to do business, the common people could not afford to buy knighthoods and could only go to battle to kill the enemy, the age from 16 to 50 years old were all up, even women had to go to guard the border, and the population was greatly reduced by years of conquest.
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, seeing the grim situation, promptly adopted a lot of policies of retiring the people, so that the Han Dynasty appeared "Zhaoxuan Zhongxing", and only then did he reverse the disadvantage in time.
Emperor Wu of han was the king of a country, in order to resist the Xiongnu, it can be said that at all costs, but the quick success and quick profit almost led to the disintegration of the country, which shows that everything can not be too urgent.