Chapter 296: Liaoyang New Deal
The situation in Liaoyang has been very bad for nearly a hundred years, not only has there never been a military rebellion, but also has never been broken by natural disasters, under the double blow, the population is sparse, a dilapidated, many people have taken risks to rebel, and those who dare not rebel have to sell their sons and daughters.
Most of them couldn't stand it anymore, so they forcibly moved people from all over the country. It can be said that although Liaoyang has a population of one million, seventy percent of them are poor, and two and a half percent of the other three local people belong to those who have eaten the last meal but have not eaten the next meal, and there is almost no really rich local, and all the rich people in Liaoyang are basically foreign officials.
Copying these officials is equivalent to collecting the vast majority of Liaoyang's wealth.
Wu Qi held the report, his eyes were full of murderous aura, if he hadn't restrained himself repeatedly, he might have issued a hundred killing orders.
According to the report, the 521 officials in various localities who were inspected obtained a total of more than 130 million ingots of silver, which were calculated as more than 130 million taels of gold. Comment: Every official has a fortune of several million taels of gold!
Out of corruption, it is the resale of grain and weapons, so much wealth, how many equipment did the Jurchens and Goryeo get?
I'm afraid there are 500,000 sets!
How many lives will he have to take to fill this huge hole?
"These corrupt officials and corrupt officials, let them go one by one to open mountains, pave roads, build bridges, and mine, and don't let them be idle for a moment!"
Wu Qi angrily gave the order and announced the first wave of new policies in Liaoyang.
The first wave of Liaoyang's new policy was divided into three aspects, simply put, "equalizing land, equalizing money, and reducing taxes", focusing on winning people's hearts.
Juntian, that is, the government pays to recover all the land (anyway, there is not much land left in the people, most of it is in the hands of officials and the official land in Tuntian), and then divide the city, town, and village according to the household registration, and divide the leased land according to the existing population, and the policy is basically similar to that of Henan Jiangbei Province. But because the land was not confiscated by violent means this time, the overall situation was much milder.
Equal money, that is, according to Wu Qi's request, half of the 130 million ingots of silver were taken out and distributed equally to all the people in the household, and after rounding, each person could get 50 ingots of silver, that is, 50 taels of gold. If you save a little, this will be about a person who can live without food and clothing for 30 years!
Of course, the fields were given in one lump sum, but not silver, which was given in twenty years, two and a half ingots a year. Those who want to take the money and leave are reluctant to leave, and after 20 years of farming, everything is stable, and they are not willing to leave.
Tax reduction means that no matter what the harvest is, the government only needs to rent one percent, and the tax system is one, that is to say, this rent already includes all the taxes to be paid. From ancient times to the present, there has not been such a low tax, and there are very few people who have implemented a tax system, so to speak, these taxes are symbolic sexual payments.
In addition, all accounts are zeroed: tax arrears are zeroed, crimes are zeroed. All taxes owed in the past are written off from scratch, and all crimes committed in the past are written off from scratch, except for those who are heinous.
In three aspects, as soon as the three major policies came out, the entire Liaodong and even Liaoyang began to boil, all the black households went to the government to verify their identities, and there were long queues in each city, and the number of people registered in Liaoyang increased sharply by sixty percent, reaching a population of 1.6 million, the vast majority of whom were people who gathered in the mountains and forests. These thieves have been rubbed on the ground by Yue Fei and Xiang Yu these days, and at this moment, they suddenly encountered such a good and rich opportunity, and in the future, they can eat well without lifting their heads, and how many of them are willing to rob their homes?
Therefore, after being driven out of the mountain by Yue Fei and Xiang Yu, they immediately entered the nearest city, registered their households, settled down, and received local management, and became good citizens from then on.
However, this also brings up another important problem, which is the insufficient number of officials. In case of emergency, Wu Qi and others decided to adopt the Han Dynasty era of the election system, and recommended people with good moral character to be officials; It doesn't matter if it can work or not, anyway, Wu Qi has already made arrangements, and Yelu Chucai, Yao Chong, etc. sent by the Ministry of Political Affairs have already arrived, and they have formulated policies for governing the country, and the local government only needs to implement them.
At the same time, people from the Ministry of Commerce arrived. The Ministry of Commerce is nicknamed the Temple of Wealth, which is the foundation of real finance and taxation. The reason why Gong Qianbai dared to collect such a low tax and even give money to the poor was to rely on the monopoly operation of the Ministry of Commerce, and collect the wealth of the people into the hands of the government through trading and services, and the money earned every year was five times that of the Yuan Dynasty by heavy taxes. During the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, all the annual taxes, excluding inflation (a certain treasure banknote in the Yuan Dynasty was far less than worth a physical ingot of silver), were only equivalent to three million taels of gold when calculated into gold, and Gong Qianbai now has a net profit of 500,000 taels of gold every month.
With the expansion of the territory in the future, coupled with the money earned from salt, iron, real estate, war horses, etc., this figure will be doubled up, and there is no need to collect taxes at all. Moreover, the Ministry of Commerce is a monopoly business, there is no competition, and all private businessmen are not recognized by the imperial court, so do you need to consider the sales volume?
Therefore, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Government are the most desired and respected people by Wu Qi!
In just half a month, Liaodong has been completely stabilized. In addition to Bai Qi and Li Mu guarding against the Mongols on the western border, Wu Qi, Tian Sui Tho, and Yang Yanzhao guarding Liaodong, and Tao Kan, Wei Qing, Huo Quai, and Shi Wansui stationed on Dongning Road, Wanyan Chen, Yelu Huge, Tuoba Tao, Yu Wentai, and Murong Chui were scattered all over Liaoyang Province, responsible for appeasing the people and garrisoning the place.
Dongnyeong Road is the northern part of Goryeo, close to the capital of Goryeo; In order to better control Goryeo, the Yuan Dynasty government directly incorporated the northern part into Liaoyang Province. Later, in order to conquer Japan, he set up the province of Expedition to the East...... Of course, the water war was abandoned after a few defeats. However, Goryeo has always wanted to take Dongning Road and Shuangchengfu to pass, and often sent people to harass them. Fortunately, Hudu Ganger had a "friendship" with Goryeo, and Goryeo did not dare to persecute too much, so nominally Dongning Road was still under the rule of Liaoyang Province.
Now Tao Kan and the four of them led an army of 50,000 suddenly stationed on Dongning Road, and when the Goryeo Kingdom reacted, the whole country was about to collapse.
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Huanglong Mansion.
This is an important town in eastern Liao, whether it is the Liao State or the Jin Kingdom, the Huanglong Mansion is extremely important, and now Murong Chui is personally guarding here.
Outside the city, on a high post, there is a big flag hanging high, on which are written 9 big characters: "Sky wolf double knife, capable people get it"; There is a stone tablet under the banner, which records the rules of the ring in detail, but to put it simply: hunting all the mountains and forests in Liaoyang Province that are not in the household registration in a group of two, and one month since the start of the competition, the number of heads is counted, and the largest number wins!
If this is to completely force the wild people of the mountains to the plains!