Chapter 332
When he came out of Wen Suxin's room, Qin Chuan found that Li Yueru was passing by the corridor opposite.
Although this girl's buttocks are smaller than Wen Suxin's, her waist is also thinner than Wen Suxin's, and there is not much meat on it, but it is also obviously bulging.
I guess I'm still young and not fully developed.
Listening to Wen Suxin, Li Yueru is sixteen years old this year, and she has long reached the age of marriage.
Sixteen years old, Lori.
Qin Chuan squinted his eyes and looked Li Yueru up and down from head to toe several times, especially the hips and legs, trying to judge the hip shape and leg length by the other party's walking posture.
As if feeling his gaze, Li Yueru suddenly turned around, and after seeing that he was looking at himself unscrupulously, she was just about to open her mouth to scold, but suddenly she seemed to think of something, her face turned red, and she twisted her waist and ran away.
"Hey, hey, little girl, if I don't treat you well, I'll have to jerk off for a year."
Qin Chuan retracted his gaze and walked out whistling.
The first thing I did when I left the inner court was to convene a meeting of the officials of various departments to listen to the work report.
Today, there are several prefectures and counties in Qinchuan's territory, and the original population, plus the starving people who have been pouring in during this time, plus the people rescued from Jiannu and the captive Ahha, the total population has reached 280,000.
Under the resettlement of the household administration officials led by Wang Jizong, all of them have moved into various villages, and they have begun to register and compile registers, census households, and rent land according to the population, and each family is limited to a maximum of five acres of land rented.
The cultivated land belonging to the public middle school has reached 1 million mu, of which 700,000 mu is old land, and more than 300,000 mu of newly reclaimed land this year are all abandoned fields that were abandoned before the reclamation was given priority.
There are also 200,000 acres of self-owned land owned by yeoman farmers, which was owned by the local people before Qinchuan occupied other prefectures and counties.
For these lands, all large families with more than 500 acres of land and no traitors were allowed to donate part of the land, and then give them some silver as compensation.
And the land of those small households and ordinary farmers, Qinchuan did not move a single acre.
The farmland reclaimed by the people themselves, Qinchuan did not move, and registered according to their own land.
However, Qin Chuan began to collect taxes from them.
Taxes in the Ming Dynasty were very low, very, very low, and they were going down all the time.
During the period of Zhu Yuanzhang, the total tax rate of agricultural tax plus other apportionments such as forced labor was about 5 percent of the yield per mu, and by the Wanli period, the tax rate had been lowered to about 2 percent.
Later, the salary was increased, and the tax rate was only raised to about 5 percent.
You must know that before the 90s of the 20 th century, the peasants had to pay 25 percent of the grain per mu and sell 15 percent of the surplus grain at a low price.
It can be seen that the tax rate at the end of the Ming Dynasty was outrageously low.
Moreover, after Wei Zhongxian's death, the Donglin Party also abolished all the industrial and commercial mining taxes he had set, because the industrial and commercial mining industries were controlled by the scholar class, and the land was concentrated in the hands of the scholar class.
It is not unreasonable for the imperial court to be poor like that at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
In the chassis of Qinchuan, there is no privileged class to speak of, all industry and commerce have to pay taxes, which are charged at the rate of five percent of turnover, and agricultural taxes are seven liters of grain per mu.
After the people who rented the land paid the rent, they did not need to pay the agricultural tax, and Qin Chuan decided to reduce the rent again, directly to 20%, if one mu of land and one stone of grain, only two buckets of grain were to be paid.
This is because there are already as many as one million mu of land in Gongzhong, and according to the calculation of two buckets of grain per mu of land, it can collect 200,000 stone rents and feed at least 40,000 troops.
In addition, Gongzhong also had the income from taxes of yeoman farmers, the income from industrial and commercial taxes, and the income from the sale of iron materials and iron pots, which could feed another 20,000 or 30,000 troops.
Therefore, Qin Chuan is not worried about fiscal revenue.
The Financial Secretary is responsible for the collection of taxes and rents, and for this purpose, a tax department has been set up, which is also served by Wen Suxin, and when her belly is bigger, she will have to be temporarily handed over to someone else.
After the number of fields reached 1.2 million mu, the labor force was already somewhat stretched, after all, the real labor force was only in the early 200,000s, and under the condition that the farm tools were complete and the cattle were owned, a strong man could only cultivate six or seven acres of land.
Qin Chuan simply asked the Department of Agriculture to stop land reclamation, and only encouraged the people to cultivate their own farmland, and the cultivated farmland belonged to them, but it was limited to the wasteland of the valleys and plains, and the slopes were not allowed to be reclaimed at will, and the number of fields owned by each population was limited.
Officials in the Department of Agriculture will focus their work on water conservancy projects, and through paid recruitment, more workers will be involved in water conservancy construction.
It was necessary to dredge the river, build more reservoirs and ponds, and even set up a major project: divert water from the Biguan River into the small plain of Qilan.
This is a big project, and it is still in the planning stage, but it is known that this artificial river will be more than 100 miles, passing through countless valleys, and the whole construction period may take several years.
But this is a century-old plan for the benefit of the country and the people, and no matter how much time it takes, it will be done.
Another century-old plan is to green the Loess Plateau.
Qinchuan attaches great importance to the control of animal husbandry throughout the territory, because overgrazing can turn the grasslands into deserts and gnaw the mountains one after another.
All the cattle and sheep grazing population in the jurisdiction is strictly managed, the mountains and grasslands are kept vegetated by rotation, and the number of cattle and sheep grazing is also strictly controlled, and the number of sheep and sheep in a certain area cannot be too large.
In addition, the herders are also forced to replant pasture, and a sheep has to replant one acre of land, as long as the grass seeds are evenly sprinkled.
These systems were unprecedented, and when they were first promulgated, the herdsmen immediately exploded, questioning whether General Qin was deliberately making things difficult for them, and they had to manage how many sheep they raised, and they had to plant grass for sheep.
In the past few months since the promulgation of the animal husbandry regulations, more than 30 herdsmen have been arrested for violating the regulations, some of them have too many sheep and have gnawed away the mountains of a certain area, and some of them have not replanted grass seeds according to the regulations, and they have not even collected grass seeds.
For these people, Qin Chuan has no mercy, the first offender gives them the opportunity to rehabilitate, replant the pasture or reduce the number of sheep within a time limit, and if they do not change within the time limit, they will be fined cattle and sheep according to the severity of the situation, and they will be directly taken away, and for those who have a criminal record, they will also be directly punished by cattle and sheep.
As for those who refuse to change their ways, or even deliberately destroy vegetation, they will all be thrown into the mines for mining.
After the more than 30 herdsmen were punished, they were all obedient.
In the case of maintaining vegetation, Qinchuan also recruited people to green the loess slope in the form of compensation.
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