429, Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow down to become king (14)
In terms of social economy, he first selected some officials with a good reputation among the large number of captured officials in the former states and counties, and let them return to their original jobs, after all, although the Tiandao Army fought first-class, but it had no experience in managing states and counties, and managing states and counties seemed simple, but in fact it was a lot of cumbersome things, and these people served in the yamen of various states and counties all the year round, and all the management work was hand-to-hand, Zheng Fei in line with the principle of making the best use of people, or absorbed some of the former officials for his own use.
Second, Zheng Fei immediately ordered the abolition or reduction of many complicated taxes and exorbitant taxes formulated by the Great Song Dynasty, such as the money tax, the monthly pile tax, the tax on the distribution of taxes, etc., and only retained some basic taxes, such as the land rent tax and the salt tax. But even if the tax continues to be collected, it is much lower than the tax rate stipulated by the Great Song Dynasty, and it is much more just and fair. For example, the people have to pay the "rice" tax after paying the tax grain, the so-called "rice consumption" is to make up for the loss of grain in the process of transportation and the additional grain, this "rice" moisture is large, generally the official said how much you have to pay more, generally will be increased by five or six percent, or even two or three times is not uncommon, for example, a common people need to pay one stone of grain, and so on counting the consumption of rice, but in fact to pay one and a half or even two stones. Another example is the "big bucket" used by the government in collecting tax grain, there is also a mystery in it, according to the regulations, the big bucket is filled with a bucket, that is, an acre of land needs to be paid for the grain, but in actual operation, the "big bucket" used by the officials is deliberately made much larger than the standard, this bucket down, less than five or six percent more, more than two buckets, the people know that it is unfair, but dare to be angry but dare not speak. There are many such tricks, and when the people pay other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, there is not much left of the annual harvest that can really remain in their hands, and when the harvest is good, the grain production capacity per mu can be maintained when it is more, if it catches up with the year is not good, the harvest is average, it is simply impossible to open the pot!
In response to this situation, Zheng Fei ordered that the grain tax should still be collected according to one bucket per mu, but no longer collect the rice consumption tax, and at the same time strictly according to the standard to make and use the big bucket, rather than collect less, plus the abolition or reduction of taxes, the burden of the people was immediately reduced by more than half, and instantly won the praise of the people on Jingdong and West Road, and also stimulated the enthusiasm of the people to grow grain.
Immediately afterwards, Zheng Fei gave the people of various states a real gift! That is a round of vigorous land reform! First of all, Zheng Fei ordered that all owners must provide legal proof of land ownership, that is, land deeds, title deeds, etc., for the land income that can be proved to be legal, and there is no fraud, malicious annexation, forced purchase and sale, and forcible seizure, the Heavenly Dao Army will protect the legitimate interests of the landowner, even if the owner is a big landowner and owns a large piece of land. For the land income that cannot be proven, the land of the big landlord will be confiscated, and the land of the poor peasants can continue to be owned by the villagers and neighbors after the collective certification. Zheng Fei then ordered that the confiscated land, the land obtained from the bullies who had been executed and the house raiders, as well as a large amount of ownerless land, be distributed to the landless poor people without compensation, and at the same time encouraged the people to actively adopt various ways to reclaim wasteland, stipulating that as long as anyone can reclaim a piece of wasteland, the things grown on this land will not be taxed for three years!
In the treatment of merchants and commerce, Zheng Fei did not hesitate to encourage merchants to engage in business, especially to engage in "smuggling" activities, because now Jingxi Road has been surrounded by many resources, such as grain, ore, salt, etc. Zheng Fei not only greatly reduced the taxes borne by the merchants, but also gave the merchants a very high social status, and everyone who dared to engage in smuggling and sell the scarce resources of the Heavenly Dao Army to the Heavenly Dao Army could not only obtain rich profits, but also be welcomed and protected like a hero.
In terms of social life, Zheng Fei first announced the abolition of all lowly status, declaring that all the people in Jingxi Road would henceforth be equal beings, and that no matter what kind of work he or she had previously engaged in or the descendants of whom, whether he or she was a poor peasant, a beggar, a slave, a prostitute, or a trader, a petty official, or a criminal, as long as he was willing to abide by the laws formulated by the Heavenly Dao Army and maintain the Heavenly Dao Army, he would be an equal person who could be protected by the Heavenly Dao Army and treated equally.
Then, Zheng Fei began to run schools in various states and counties, and greatly promoted education, all people over the age of six and under forty could enter the school to learn to read and write, of course, the teaching materials still used the books carefully selected by Zheng Fei, as well as the "brainwashing" teaching materials that preached the Heavenly Dao Army and praised the Heavenly Dao Army.
Subsequently, after Zheng Fei left enough grain and grass for the Tiandao Army, he opened the granaries in various places and distributed the grain and seeds to the people everywhere to ensure that they could survive the winter safely and be fully prepared for the next year's production.
In terms of social security, Zheng Fei ordered the Heavenly Dao Army stationed in various places to play the role of military defense and public security, and at the same time strictly ordered all officers and soldiers of the Heavenly Dao Army to strictly abide by the military regulations of the Heavenly Dao Army, as long as anyone dares to violate the military regulations, no matter who he is, no matter what position he is, he will be severely punished. Similarly, if there are people in various places who dare to break the law and resist the Heavenly Dao Army, let them see the most ruthless and iron-blooded side of the Heavenly Dao Army!
In dealing with the Great Song Dynasty, Zheng Fei ordered that the border guards in all parts of the country must not make any moves to provoke the Great Song Dynasty, and all of them are based on defense. Ordered that the main task of all the soldiers of the Heavenly Dao Army now is to train the troops! Training! Training and training! Training! Training!
The implementation of these policies is the specific implementation details of Zheng Fei's policy of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king", and in a very short period of time, Zheng Fei and the Tiandao Army have won the support of the people in the prefectures and counties of Jingxi Road, especially the support of the poor peasants who occupy the vast majority, and the states and counties of Jingxi Road have also quickly stabilized, and the people regard the Tiandao Army as a savior. The comprehensive strength of the Heavenly Dao Army has also developed rapidly and solidly.
Of course, some people have asked Zheng Fei, didn't you say that now is not the time to occupy Shanxia Prefecture and County to confront the imperial court? Why did you occupy all the east and west roads and take great pains to govern them?
Zheng Fei was also very helpless about this problem, because he really didn't want to occupy Jingxi Road for a long time, he thought that the imperial court would soon send a large number of troops to attack him, and the reason why he implemented these benevolent policies was just to buy the hearts of the people on Jingxi Road as much as possible, so that the people knew that the Tiandao Army was good, and laid a good foundation for the comeback of the Tiandao Army in the future. And Zheng Fei has done another thing that is very vicious, and he has left enough back, that is, land reform. I have already distributed the land to the people, and when your court army comes, you have to let the people return the land, the people regard the land as their life, it is easy for you to let him eat it, and it will be difficult to let him spit it out, which is bound to cause huge contradictions between the court and the people, and the people will also look forward to the return of the Tiandao army in the future.
But who would have ...... Zheng Fei couldn't wait for the army of the imperial court, so he sent a large number of intelligence officers from the Investigation Bureau to Tokyo to take a look. Emperor Zhao Ji was not in a hurry at all, and he was still celebrating the whole country with extravagance, and it was said that even the expenses for holding the celebration were embezzled from the military funds that were originally going to attack him.
Zheng Fei was really funny and surprised by this result, he found that he really overestimated Zhao Ji, the monarch of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Zheng Fei immediately made a new decision according to the new situation, okay, aren't you Zhao Ji not in a hurry? Then you're welcome, such a good Jingxi Road, you don't want what I want!