Chapter 541: Proposal to Divide the Family
Sun Xiangfu's series of designs are all more perfect improvements on the examples of later generations.
If the plot is suitable, it may be directly circled to a place as big as a county, or even a larger place, to plan the field as a whole.
At the same time, he also hopes that when the field is completed, all the infrastructure in the wall will also be completed.
For example, although there are only six villages and more than 30,000 acres of land, there are 1,500 households, not three or four thousand people, not inferior to the lower counties in remote areas, but its future output may be higher than that of many middle counties with a population of more than 3,000 households.
Because the population here is very concentrated and the output efficiency is very high, when the embankment is built, the main irrigation canal and auxiliary irrigation canal in the embankment have been dug, and the main road, the auxiliary road, and the roadbed of the ridge have all been paved.
After that, the samurai sent people from the engineering team to simply pave a cement road that ran through the entire embankment for more than 40 miles, and then, along the road, more than 1,500 sets of brick and tile houses were divided into several pieces and built, and 1,500 households were well placed here.
You must know that the overall area of the No. 1 field where Sun Xiangfu is now planting rice is not as large as one-fifth of the territory of an ordinary county, and the cultivated area is not even more than one-tenth of that of a county, but in the first season of planting last year, they produced nearly 200,000 stone of rice, with an average yield of more than five stones per mu, and set a tax of six or seven thousand stone rice for the imperial court, worth more than 400 guan, or more than 800 guan if calculated according to two seasons.
In addition, there are large areas of lotus root ponds, water chestnut ponds, fish ponds, forest farms, vegetable fields, dry land for planting cash crops, livestock breeding sites, etc.
In a place with a radius of only thirty or forty miles, each household only cultivates more than 20 acres of land, and relying on the cultivation of staple grains alone, it generates more than 800 yuan of income for the imperial court every year.
In this way, Sun Xiangfu will use nine fields along the river to set up, the rice planting area will exceed 500,000 mu, the population of more than 20,000 households in Jiuyuan County, just the agricultural tax for planting staple grains, can generate more than 15,000 yuan of income for the imperial court every year.
This is not all the taxes in this county, but the tax on the cultivation of staple grains is calculated on the basis of 30 taxes and 1.
And now, the internal tax structure of Datang, the tax on grain output, in fact, has long been not the main thing, in all the tax structure, and the proportion of output in other aspects is about three to seven, staple food only accounts for three, vegetables, cash crops, and aquaculture taxes, accounting for seventy.
The value of an acre of lotus root pond, lotus roots, lotus seeds, loach eels, etc., may be several times that of an acre of rice field.
Not to mention the fish pond, as well as livestock breeding, just for the No. 1 big wall equipped with more than 500 cultivated water buffalo, from last year to this year, for the new addition of more than 100 cows, one or two years, can make the original three households share a ploughing cow, become two households share a ploughing cattle, and then after that, there may be cattle in each household, and even a large number of surplus cattle to sell ploughing cattle, you know, the price of a cow cubs, but several times, hundreds of heads of sold out every year, that is, thousands of inputs, and a small number of horses, pigs, etc., without careful calculation, you also know that the tax revenue created by adding up is much more than the tax revenue on food.
The bigger head is poultry breeding, the reproduction of chickens and ducks is relatively fast, there is more grain, the cost of raising chickens and ducks is also low, the number of chickens and ducks raised by each household is more than 50, this is still the residents at home with their hands breeding, and so on the contiguous large wall is built, between the wall and the wall, it will also form a larger tributary, divert the water system of the Yangtze River, and ensure irrigation.
These gentle tributaries, usually, will have wide river beaches, but natural large-scale duck breeding sites, in later generations, just the ducks in this area, duck egg production, can meet the food of more than one billion people in the country, and even a large number of exports, it can be seen how great its breeding potential is.
According to the ratio of 37, this county, which is not too big, can almost create 50,000 yuan of tax revenue for the imperial court every year in terms of raw output.
And when a household can collect more than 100 stone of grain per quarter, and the harvest of two seasons a year, in addition to the expenditure of their own food and taxes, they will have to have a surplus of more than 200 stone, and they will definitely sell the extra grain for money, and they will first contribute a commercial tax to the imperial court.
Moreover, the people who have more than a dozen dollars from selling grain, as well as many other outputs, will definitely need all kinds of consumer goods when they have money in their hands, and these money will continue to create commercial taxes for the imperial court in the rolling rounds.
That is to say, even if other large industries have not yet been developed, the tax potential of this county with relatively stable output is much higher than 50,000 or 780,000 yuan, and it may not be unexpected.
After the Tang Dynasty was incorporated into many new territories, there were more than 2,000 counties, and if all the counties had such a strong output like Jiuyuan County, then the imperial court would be able to have more than 10 million yuan of income per year in local taxes alone, plus some bulk commodity transactions and international trade taxes, and the total amount would be counted.
Sun Xiangfu wants to promote the development of the central region, that is, to do a good job of these infrastructures, so that all the production potential can burst out, and enrich the local people, and whether more such places can be built requires everyone to work together.
Cai Can and others, naturally, can't think so far about people's livelihood and economic development like Sun Xiangfu, they just summed it up a little, and they felt that this thing should be done, after all, their current situation is that there are too many fields, and there are not enough people to help them plant, and they can afford to contribute some to repair embankments, canals, and roads, after all, after repairing, it is convenient for them.
So, after Cai Can and the others summed it up, they said, "Boss, this one, a few of us, can also agree." ”
When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he nodded, his face looked better, and said, "One more thing, that is, you and other local clans, you can no longer bully other small households, especially this winter, there may be more than a million foreign workers who come to the land of Jinghu to help build and open up fields, you need to cooperate with the imperial court policy as much as possible to open the door for these workers."
You know, when the population is retained, the wealth will naturally come.
What do we use to retain those foreign populations?
Only by relying on fertile fields, simple folk customs, and a good living environment.
If you do this well, in the long run, it will be even greater for your interests than doing a good job in the construction of the infrastructure of the fields, because with the population base, you can hire a wider range of workers and do big industries. ”
If you want to say that the people in the northern region can stay here, it may not be, because the people in the north are not poor, and the annual income of their young and strong groups has reached more than 15 guan, and one household is counted as two young and strong, that is also more than 30 guan.
But for Sun Xiangfu, the population of the entire Shannan Province is still too small, not even a million households, and he has built so many fields, who will cultivate them?
Therefore, after he and the samurai Tong combined, he felt that it was more reliable to move most of the people from the original Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje and other places who had adapted to farming, after all, the total population over there is almost more than three million, and moving hundreds of thousands of them can alleviate the problem of local arable land resources, but if he forcibly moves so many people from the policy aspect, Zhang Gongjin will definitely be reluctant, after all, now that there is under the rule of his Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, he also has to engage in construction and economic development.
Therefore, I can only think of some other way, that is, let those people voluntarily move over to settle down, which requires a good environment and good policies to attract them.
"This one, we naturally agreed." After Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, Cai Can and the others didn't need to discuss, so they agreed.
At this time, they knew that the conditions that Sun Xiangfu said may not all make them bleed and suffer losses, and at the same time, they have more knowledge of Sun Xiangfu's ability to engage in people's livelihood and economy.
"The last one, what I said, is just a suggestion to your families, and it doesn't require you to do it."
"Boss, please."
"I personally think that the way of thinking that your families are like this, gathering all the clansmen in one place and working together to develop is a bit outdated, and now, the policy of the imperial court, the protection of the people is more and more comprehensive, and even the basic cultivation knowledge is taught by special officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, after the legal system is grasped, you can no longer have the possibility of bullying the people in a group, and in the past, those who obtained wealth by exploiting other people's labor, you have no way out, that is to say, in the future, the development of your clansmen must rely on themselves.
And when the things they get are obtained by their own labor, they will definitely become more and more reluctant to contribute these things to the family in vain, after all, your family's resources are mainly for some core people, and these core people may not be able to bring them any benefits, only contributions, no profit-sharing things, can not be done for a long time.
Therefore, for the sake of your own wealth, I suggest that you separate your family as soon as possible. ”
"Separation?" 、
These two words are like a hammer hitting the chests of several people, shaking the bodies of several people, if they allow the situation of separation, they will not appear here today to negotiate with Sun Xiangfu.
Seeing that a few people were silent for a long time, Sun Xiangfu smiled, "What? Do you think my suggestion is unreasonable? Then I'll tell you about it. ”
When a few people heard this, they cast a puzzled look at Sun Xiangfu, Sun Xiangfu took a sip of tea, and said slowly, "When the clansmen in your family work hard to farm the land, and they don't work hard to farm the land, and the food income they get is the same, do you think how many people will continue to work hard to farm after a long time?"
Let me put it another way, when a family plants more, he will get more, and a family, no matter how much he plants, he will get so much, do you think, under what circumstances will these two families produce more? ”
Cai Can and the others are not stupid, they can naturally analyze it, and if they plant for themselves, they will work harder and harvest more.
And Sun Xiangfu said this truth, just like the later generations to engage in collective eating in a big pot of rice, in the first few years, maybe it's okay, after a long time, inertia will come out, the person in charge of things, don't have to do anything, you can still enjoy resources, work, no matter how you do it, it's just like this, after a long time, you can't do it.
In fact, this time, because of the confinement of Qian Zhuang, several of their clansmen were dissatisfied on a large scale, which allowed them to see the essence of human nature.
The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, you can work for their interests, they support you, depend on you, you can't work for their interests, they will jump out against you, but they will not blindly obey you because of the same clan and clan, brothers, and settle accounts!
Of course, Sun Xiangfu's words are just to let them reflect on themselves, if they really want to take any action, they are afraid that they will wait until the contradiction breaks out to the point where they have to deal with it before they actually take action, and they will not make a decision in a hurry because of a possibility.
And for Sun Xiangfu, it is almost a step to completely smash these powerful families, he only needs to develop the local people's livelihood economy, so that the bottom of these families are dissatisfied with their clan, and he will succeed.