Chapter 350: The Little People in the Great Era 4
After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he immediately announced the reform, but his actions seemed to be huge, but in fact, in fact, there were not many places where it was implemented, and the biggest impact was only Hebei Province, which evolved from Beizhili, and the newly established Liaodong Province. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In both places, after a large-scale purge, the landlords and gentry, who had great resistance, were swept away, and then land reform was carried out without any waves.
As for the other provinces, they were all on the sidelines, from the governor to the magistrate, as well as the local landlords and gentry, in fact, they were all concerned about the reform of Hebei.
The theory of land reform has spread to the whole world, but it is also just a saying, and now it is only a propaganda work in the early stage. Really implemented, I don't know what to do, Daming is too big, there is no way to start all at the same time. The bureaucracy and the emperor are not of the same mind, so Zhu Youxiao can only do it with capable manpower, province by province.
Among Zhu Youxiao's many measures, there are only a few that have really spread to the whole world, a Tiangong firm, an Imperial Daily, and a Daming Royal Bank, of course, the scale of the latter is still smaller, only in each province, and it takes a long time to grow.
The above are private aspects, and in the officialdom, his real actions are only to reform the military system and reform the rule of officials, and all those who have made meritorious contributions above him have been summoned by him and then entrusted with important tasks.
After that, he exempted the agricultural tax and let the magistrates collect the commercial tax, and all the salary increases he promised were taken from the commercial tax.
You can't collect taxes? Very well, then you can go with the northwest wind. As for you, you still want to find farmers to collect taxes? Hehe, if you are not afraid of death, you can try, even if some people don't know that they want land reform, but there are really few people who don't know that they will be tax-free from now on.
Can you take it a second time after you receive it? The farmers you are taxed will not know at first, but what if they know later? That would provoke civil unrest. Nowadays, every county has a metropolitan procuratorate, and the county-level metropolitan procuratorate cannot control the county, and it cannot be reported to the government.
In the face of such a major right and wrong, no one dared to show favoritism, so the officials only thought about collecting taxes on the peasants, and no one dared to do what I asked them to do.
Zhu Youxiao's trick is very unique, which is equivalent to forcing all the officials in the world to a dead end, and if he doesn't want to starve to death, he will collect business taxes. Therefore, this progress is not bad, and most counties have implemented it. Although the process and method are not very formal, it is good to have a start.
Just like the imperial power plan to go to the countryside, first assign the manpower, set up the shelves, and the basic business wants to sit up, and it will be useful slowly. But all this takes time and needs to wait, and the last thing Zhu Youxiao wants is to wait.
Therefore, he let go of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to hook out those thorns and get rid of them, but unfortunately, the people in the world seem to be smart, although there are many people who are in tandem with each other and conspire to act, but none of them really act.
Commercial taxes need to wait, land reform needs to take its time, imperial power needs to wait for the countryside, ports need to wait, fleets need to wait, the promotion of the Heavenly Emperor Temple needs to wait, and the reform of the city defense army also needs to wait, Zhu Youxiao has to do something that does not need to wait too long, such as the clean-up and division of North Korea.
To tell the truth, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at the point in time when the East was getting worse and worse, North Korea's strength was really weak, if it weren't for the fact that the East and West were too far apart, not to mention Korea and Japan, it is estimated that even the Ming Dynasty was pushed flat.
Therefore, it is effortless to occupy North Korea Zhu Youxiao, but the next governance is a big problem, but fortunately, this is abroad, not the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao does not need to pay too much attention to it, and the night of North Korea is about the size of two provinces in Hebei, so he can reform with iron and blood.
The magnitude of its movements, the magnitude of killing, it is unimaginable to put it in the Ming Dynasty, but it seems that North Korea still eats this set, Zhu Youxiao raised the butcher's knife, and after killing tens of thousands of people, the whole North Korea was calm, and various prefectures and counties changed very quickly, and then various institutions in the inner government were stationed.
The internal territory of the Ming Dynasty can be left alone, anyway, it is all in the pot, and you can't run away, but North Korea is different, this is accidental, let's stop it first.
Therefore, the subordinate institutions of each inner government have sent capable candidates, such as the Taoist priests of the Heavenly Emperor Temple, such as the treasurers of the Daming Bank.
Of course, they only came here to collect benefits, not to reform, and it was the group of Confucian officials that Cui Mingji gathered that really did things. The soldiers sent out by Zhu Youyou from outside the school played a role of supervision and study, and many of them were going to be transferred to local officials after all, and it would be good to have more experience at this time.
There are not many opportunities for such learning, and all kinds of problems encountered are valuable assets in the future, not only them, but even Zhu Youxiao also pays close attention to the land reform of the Korean people, and he must also study seriously to understand the various ideas of the peasants in this era.
Of course, he is not Cui Mingji's direct faction, but the descendant of his descendant, and he is regarded as the generation of apprentices. However, this did not prevent them from going down to do business.
Their policy of dividing land is also very mechanical, first go to the village to count the number of people, and then divide the land according to the number of people, whether you are a boy or a girl, or an old man or a child, all of them have five acres of land, and you have a few acres of land for a few people in your family. Calculate the total amount of land according to the number of people, and then take a look at it on the spot, circle a piece of land, and this is the cultivated area of your village in the future.
As for which land to cultivate, which land is more fertile, and which has better hydraulic conditions, these officials who divide the fields do not care, you can discuss and solve it yourself. Moreover, the fields to be cultivated are not static, or they are changed every three years or every five years, and they choose for themselves.
As for the person who presides over this matter, it is the village chief whom you have chosen yourself. The same goes for the village head, you decide who you choose, and you change it every three or five years.
When this young Confucian official announced these regulations, everyone looked at each other and chose for themselves, what is the matter?
But their stupidity only lasted for a short time, the peasant, you can call him ignorant, you can say he is conservative, you can say he is old-fashioned, but you must not say that he is stupid, especially everything related to the land, they are very shrewd, these rules are complicated to say, and they are complicated to operate, but these tenant farmers just go through their heads and figure it out.
Everyone is counting how many fields they can get, and then choose those lands, everyone has a good plan, but all the land is cultivated in rotation, and it is impossible for a person to occupy it for a long time, at most only a few years, you want it, others also want it, and the best is to calculate the fat and thin match.
They were very shrewd in the matter of land, and soon discovered the shrewdness of this method, and all the distribution of land was negotiated by everyone, and it was impossible for anyone to take advantage of it in plain sight.
Thinking about it this way, many family members Ding Buwang's hearts are relieved, and they don't have to worry about eating too much loss.
"Okay, have you figured it out? If you think clearly, come and register your account. After a while, the Confucian shouted loudly, "After registering the name of the household registration, you will elect the village head, and I will send him a letter of appointment, and he will be the grassroots candidate of the government in the future." ”
Under the watchful eyes of the Great Tomorrow soldiers, no one dared to make a mistake, and all the tenant farmers, including Master Jin, came over to line up, register their names, and distribute the fields.
"Name."
"Dog leftovers."
"Dog leftovers? This is a nickname, can you register? I want a full name, the kind with a surname, is there any? The clerk of registration said impatiently that he had encountered many such things in the previous villages, and most of the tenant farmers did not have official names, so many names were thought of on the spot.
"Name!" Gou Yu was a little stunned, this ........ was something he had never thought of, it was only old men who could have it, how could a pariah tenant farmer like himself have a name.
No, I'm a Ming person now, and I've also been allocated land, although it's only five acres, but I don't have to pay taxes, and the food I receive is my own, and it's enough for me to eat, I'm also a master now, and I can have a name.
Thinking of this, Gou Yu was a little excited, and the name of the village behind him was even more excited.
"Name, name."
"It's still the kind with a surname, just like Master Jin."
"Is it true, we can have a last name!"
"I want my surname to be Jin, and I will be Master Jin in the future."
All the waiting tenant farmers broke out in an instant, and they talked about this new change, and the requirement to have their own name was simply beyond their expectations, and after having a name, it meant that they became the upper class, the master.
Especially the last remark, I also want to be Master Jin, so that more and more tenant farmers decide to use Jin for their surname, after they choose, looking at the queue in line with Master Jin's eyes are a little weird, which makes Master Jin feel uncomfortable.
He didn't want to queue up, the land was gone, he still had a lot of money, he could do anything else, and he couldn't lose his share for five acres of land. However, the heavenly soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not allow him to go, and now it is the division of the field and the change of households, and everyone has to settle down, so it is now forbidden to circulate.
Everyone has to have a place to settle down, and in the countryside, if you settle down, you have to divide the land, whether you want it or not, you have to divide it, whether you plant or not is your business, but this procedure is going to go.
In desperation, Master Jin had no choice but to slowly line up and carry out the procedure of dividing the land and changing households. He has already made up his mind, and when all this is over, he will change his household registration, leave here immediately, and live in the county seat.
What Zhu Youxiao is implementing in Hebei and Liaodong at the moment is a household registration file ID card system, where everyone has an ID card, everyone has a file, and everyone has a household registration.
This system is somewhat similar to the era of the planned economy in the Celestial Empire, but it is not so strict, it is just a way to manage records, when someone wants to give up the life in the countryside, they will call up their own files, take the files, and go to other grassroots receiving units to attach.
[Author's digression]: Just got off work, whew, so tired.