Zhang Zhaohua still does not dare to say that all taxes should be spread out to the acres of land and taxed according to the number of acres - she is only saying now that the acres of land should be cleared in a uniform and non-cheating way, and that each province will only give 30,000 hectares of tax-exempt land.

What does this mean, because at this time, those who have meritorious names can be exempted from paying taxes on a certain number of acres, and each prefecture and county has its own preferential treatment, and in some places the middle people can be exempted from tax for 200 mu, and the middle jinshi can be exempted from 1,000 mu, so some people will hang their own acres of land in their names and give them a reward every year to exempt this part of the land from tax. Of course, this money will be much cheaper than paying taxes on land.

"So only 30,000 hectares of land are given, no matter how many Jinshi people are raised in this provincial capital, only these fields, let them divide them by themselves," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Once every three years, if it is a place of government, the official land and the people's land are less than the last Qingzhang, then the officials will be dismissed, the land will be reviewed, and the land will be found out, from the person who surrendered to the object of the sacrifice, all of them will be arrested and killed, and he will be an official for several terms." ”

"All contracts for the sale and purchase of land are not allowed to be carried out privately," Zhang Zhaohua said: "All must be registered with the government, and one person has a limit of 100 hectares of land under his name, and all of them are taxed according to the tax of the official land, and more than 500 hectares are levied at twice the amount of the official land, and the study field is the same as the tax-exempt field." ”

"Actually, I want the government land and the people's land to be taxed in the same way," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The official land belongs to the land that the state directly hands over to the people to cultivate, and the tax amount of this kind of land has always been two to three times that of the people's land, and this kind of thing can be completely manipulated in the hands of the officials, and they will use all means to resell it to the rich people and become the people's land; think about it, if the official land, which is the main source of tax for the state, is lower than the number of tax-free fields and private fields under the hands and feet of the officials, then won't the Ming Dynasty be doomed?"

The uneven land endowment of the Ming Dynasty lies in the region, the number of departments, and the third is that the division of acres is easy to be vague and not defined. At present, the number of official fields registered is definitely several times that of private fields, but the further back they go, the lower the number of official fields, and the increase in the number of private fields and tax-free fields, this is obviously stealing the state's taxes and feeding a group of silverfish.

"Lord Xia," Zhang Zhaohua saw that Xia Yuanji fell into a kind of contemplation, and said, "What do you think?"

Xia Yuanji said: "If you can average the acres of land, then you can give the land evenly!"

Everything she is doing now is to delay and postpone the development and growth of the landlord class, the reason is that the industrial and commercial class that can disintegrate this class is really in an extremely weak state, and what Zhang Zhaohua can hope for is the industrial capitalists and commercial capitalists who have grown up in overseas trade, these people have a broad vision and advanced consciousness, and with the development of commerce, they will realize the importance of the inviolability of private property earlier than others, and they will also have the ambition to pursue political power because of the expansion of capital。

However, up to now, there is no real industrial and commercial class, there is no so-called industrial and commercial industry, and there is no capital to compete for power with the official gentry and landlord class. Zhang Sheng's ten years of hard work came to naught under the suppression of the imperial power, which made Zhang Zhaohua see the difficulties of the rise of this class, so it was necessary to create a relaxed environment for the new interest class, and only after it grew up could the reform have any hope of success.

Zhang Zhaohua is extremely glad that he is different from Zhang Juzheng, he has been frozen to death in the wind and snow in the original history, and the most terrifying thing is that after he died, people had to peel off his skin and light it to continue to keep warm. She had to know the lesson, and know that she couldn't just bring them firewood, but also drive them out to find another way to make a living.

This new method of clearing was introduced in Guizhou, of course, with the first 50,000 immigrants from Shanxi and Henan, and of course it did not take five years to see significant results.

And at this time, the most important and the most unexpected thing is that the Yellow River is in the north of the river.

The Yellow River has not been very stable in the past two years, often rising water, changing the course of the river, and this time the Yellow River from the original Wu through Yangwu, Xiangfu, Fengqiu, Lanyang, Yifeng, Kaocheng, one of its breaks into the Jinlongkou, to Caozhou, Shandong, rushed into the Zhangqiucao River. Most of the land of Bianliang was flooded, especially Kaifeng, the river was damaged and the moat was fifty zhang, and the General Administration Department even received a request from the Zhou Wangfu and Kaifeng officials to move the Kaifeng City away to avoid flooding.

And the most severely affected is not these places, but Caozhou, Shandong, Baimaokou burst the embankment, the embankment on the north bank of the Jialu River was all washed away, the canal rose ten meters overnight, all the boats were impassable, and the boats could not pass, then Beijing could not receive the materials from the south of the Yangtze River at all, and even the three major halls had to be suspended.

Gao Chi immediately sent officials to Henan to provide disaster relief, and at the same time to control the Yellow River and canals and block the breach. And this time is very unclever, because the Yellow River has two flood seasons a year, the big flood is summer, and the water is mainly heavy rain from the upper reaches, starting in June, the flood season may last for three or four months. Xiaoxun is in the spring of March and April, that is, now, the water is mainly the melting of ice and snow upstream, that is, if you don't get the water out before June, then you will encounter a summer flood, and it will be a big disaster.

When the Yellow River flooded before, the emperor sent Shangshu to preside over the river, and sometimes sent Shilang and Du Yushi, Zhang Zhaohua specially suggested to Gao Chi this time, and wanted to set up a river governor.

"The governor of the river, in charge of the Yellow River, the Grand Canal and the embankments, dredging, etc. Zhang Zhaohua said: "The official rank is the second grade, and he has full authority to deal with river matters." ”

Gao Chi was surprised: "Second rank of official rank?"

Gao Chi originally wanted to be the governor of Cao Yun and also in charge of river affairs, but Zhang Zhaohua was obviously very concerned about the flooding of the Yellow River, and finally Gao Chi agreed to temporarily send a member of the chief river minister to Shandong.

In the end, he was sent to Henan and Shandong to govern the river, Lin Fang, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who had also governed the Yellow River in Henan before, and was recommended by the Ministry of Works.

And Zhang Zhaohua was restless for two days, and told Gao Chi that she also wanted to go to Henan, and she wanted to see the situation of river control.

"You want to go to Henan too?" Gao Chi completely disagreed: "What can you do, do you know this water conservancy and river work? The river is full of husbands, and women are not allowed to walk." ”

"I want to go to Henan and Shandong, Shandong is now a bitter place," Zhang Zhaohua persuaded him: "The emperor has done his best to transfer the people of Shandong, and he does not give him exemption, the autumn grain has just been handed over, and the payment of each year is less than the previous year, and the emperor has compared the autumn grain and summer tax of Hongwu for 30 years, and has already let go, saying that if this year's summer tax is not paid evenly, the officials will be dismissed." This time to build the river, I don't know how many people have to be levied, I always feel that Shandong has been overwhelmed, this time you let me see it with my own eyes, I can tell the truth better than those patrols of the imperial history, and I will not deceive you. ”

Zhang Zhaohua has also been to Shandong, this time she dressed up in disguise, followed the nurse Yang and the grandmother Jiang Tingqi, who happened to go back to their hometown in Shandong to visit relatives, took a carriage, and also set off from Nanjing, day and night to Henan.