Chapter 40: The Future (Part 3, Asking for Support)

"Is there another two kinds of Gongtian?"

After such a rhetorical question, although Zhu Mingzhong smiled and said nothing on the surface. However, it is difficult to calm down in his heart, because until now, even the civil officials in the government are still resistant to the "Gongtian system".

And what is the Gongtian system?

It is a measure that Zhu Mingzhong used to stabilize the morale of the army, and it can be said to be the source of the combat effectiveness of the loyal and righteous army.

When the "meritorious field system" was first implemented, many people were opposed, but if the "meritorious field" was implemented, 100 acres of meritorious land were awarded to one arm, 120 acres were given to both arms, 150 acres were awarded to one leg, 180 acres were awarded to both legs, and 200 acres of land were granted to the bereaved family in addition to the bereavement pension. ”

For Zhu Mingzhong, who is from the 21st century, what does he understand most profoundly? I'm afraid that honor can't be eaten. The soldiers cannot be allowed to shed blood and tears, so there is a compensatory compensation for the disabled and the fallen officers and soldiers.

"Lonely is not exempt from millions of acres, but the income is 200,000 elite soldiers who are not afraid of death, such a cost-effective business, how can Lone not do it? And ......"

Staring into the distance, Zhu Mingzhong continued.

"After the Qing captives entered the customs, they enclosed more than 10 million acres of land in Zhili and other places, and not only did the land they occupy belong to the banner soldiers, but even the people on the ground were forcibly plundered as their coats. Qing Yu still knows how to treat soldiers well, doesn't Lone know? ”

Go on the line and wear a hat.

Maybe when he was in later life, he was used to debating with people on the Internet, and he was used to saying "wearing a hat" at every turn, so Zhu Mingzhong occasionally used a hat to dispel the idea of dissuasion from others. Sure enough, as soon as he said this, Liu Can suddenly didn't dare to say anything, if he continued to say more, it would be equivalent to saying "The king is not as good as Qinglu", this kind of thing is not something that people can do.

"The benevolence and righteousness of the king are by no means comparable to the Qing captives."

Even if he didn't want to, Liu Can had to follow the king's words and bow and compliment.

As for the "meritorious field" in the northeast, the same is true, the Manchu people can award flag soldiers in the enclosure of the Han land, why can't they give meritorious fields in the northeast to reward them for their achievements in recovering the country? ”

Although he never admitted that the Northeast was "Manchuria" and what was the "hometown of the Manchus", it did not prevent Zhu Mingzhong from comparing this matter with the "enclosure", although the land here was terra nullius, and the Manchu enclosure occupied the land of the Han people.

"Of course!"

Liu Can, who found himself being brought to the Tao, although he was a little helpless, he still expressed the reason for his opposition.

Of course, the king's move is autonomous, but the minister thinks that since the king intends to set up provinces in the northeast to build counties, then it is necessary to consider the land tax and the errand service. After all, for as little as a dozen years, or as many as decades, this northeast is bound to be dominated by the garrison, and how can it be maintained only by relying on the people to pay for food? ”

Liu Can's words are also extremely fair, not just against the "Gongtian system", but also considering the future of the entire Northeast.

"At that time, the imperial court will inevitably still be burdened by the Northeast, after all, the garrison soldiers neither pay food nor errands, and there are very few people at this time, how can the official garrison be maintained? can only rely on the imperial court. ”

If it were someone else, he might be moved by Liu Can's words, and then suspect the implementation of the "Gongtian system" in the Northeast, but for Zhu Mingzhong, who had been prepared for a long time, he just laughed and said.

"Maolin, how can there be no people?"

After that, Zhu Mingzhong asked rhetorically.

"Can Mao Lin remember, what is the law of Jiangbei land?"

"Guanshan Forest, the land north of the river, in addition to the private land that has been planted, the mountains, forests, rivers and raw and mature wasteland are all official land, and the private cultivators have no property and serve for six months!"

Liu Can almost without thinking about it said Jiangbei's "Land Rules", which is also the place he didn't understand the most when he first entered Jiangbei, after all, all over the country is recruiting people to reclaim the wasteland, only Jiangbei Africa not only does not recruit the people to reclaim the land, but also implements the "official mountain forest", the wasteland is owned by the government, and leased to the people to cultivate after reclamation, if it is the wasteland that has not been reclaimed, even if it is wasted, the people are not allowed to reclaim it privately. He even did not hesitate to use drastic methods to restrain it.

"So how much official land did the people of Jiangbei rent last year? How much does the government earn? ”

"Back to the king, last year, the people of Jiangbei rented more than 1,415 mu of official land, and the government collected 3.37 million taels of land rent!"

Facts speak louder than words, at the beginning of the implementation of the "Guanshan Forest", there were many people in the government who opposed it, because in their opinion, the most important thing in Jiangbei was to recruit displaced people and reclaim wasteland by tax-free and even provide agricultural tools, ploughing cattle and other materials, so as to enrich tax revenue, but the king did the opposite, but did not think that the government's income did not decrease, but rapidly surged.

"Tens of millions of acres of private land in Jiangbei, the government only received more than 2 million taels of land, while the official land was only 10 million mu, and the land rent was more than 3 million yuan. Maolin, why is this happening? ”

Zhu Mingzhong still asked with a smile on his face.

"Back to the king, the Tian Fu is no more than twenty taxes and one at most, and the official Tian takes three into five of the land rent, although the first year is only one into five, but even so, it is several times the Tian Fu."

Taxes are not as good as rent!

To be sure, the former government only collects part of the tax, while the latter government becomes a landlord and can get the maximum amount of profit.

However, when mentioning this three-to-five land rent, Liu Can couldn't help but think of another group of people - the gentry who owned hundreds, thousands of acres or even ten thousand acres, they used to collect fifty percent of the land rent, but now the rent of the official land is only three or five, which directly led to them reducing the land rent one after another in order to avoid tenants subleasing the official land. Their losses are devastating.

However, the income of the government has surged because of the rental of official land, and by next year, just the land rent, Jiangbei will be able to earn nearly 10 million taels, and even in Liu Can's view, if it is not for the distribution of official land, the land rent of the government can be doubled.

"Since the official land was rented, the land rent in Jiangbei has dropped from 4 to 60 percent, and generally dropped to 3 to 7 to 40 percent, and the gentry have all reduced their rents in order to recruit tenant farmers to farm for them, lest the fields be rented and planted. Ke Maolin, logically speaking, so the price of this field will fall, but why is the price of land more than twice as expensive now as in the past? ”

The king's rhetorical question made Liu Can stunned for a moment, and then said.

"It's because there is no land to sell!"

When he said this, Liu Can's expression was a little depressed, he didn't understand why this was the case, while the gentry were afraid that the land would be cultivated without tenants and the rent had been reduced, logically speaking, when the land should not be valuable, the price of the land was like a monkey sitting in the sky, and it had been repeated more than a year, and the price continued to rise.

"Now the price of land is getting high, the price is rising, the more we don't sell, the root cause is because there are more official fields, less private fields, and the king has the order of the official fields not to be sold, so everyone sees that the land of the people is limited, so the land price will continue to rise, after all, not to mention other places, at least in Jiangbei, the fields are divided into official and private, and the private fields are not military merits, and non-academic fields cannot be more than the slightest, and the high land prices are also reasonable......

The reason why he is so is to become the largest landlord in the world like the government of later generations, but the government of later generations who holds the ownership of all the land in the world is to sell land, so he is reluctant to sell, and Zhu Mingzhong is to become a landlord and get more "land rent".

And in this process, the interests of the gentry who should have been hurt were also taken care of - the rise in land prices not only offset the loss of the reduction of land rent, but also increased their property several times, although the wealth remained on paper - land was immovable property, just like the millionaires and multimillionaires in many cities in later generations, but even so, the gentry were still satisfied with this increase in wealth, especially when every city in Jiangbei had a land exchange, where the land price would be announced every day, according to Jiangbei's " Land example", Jiangbei's land and houses, a rate is not allowed to be sold privately, must be traded on the land exchange, if the land price is low, it will be determined as tax evasion.

Now, although the land in Jiangbei has not been "speculated" like the real estate of later generations, but the land, as a symbol of capital, under the deliberate guidance of Zhu Mingzhong, has changed from "acres of land" to "land price" measurement, only need appropriate guidance, can change people's traditional thinking, of course, the premise of maintaining this economic order is that the government must master a large number of official land, only in this way, can be the maker of the rules of the game. Now the government of Jiangbei controls more than 60% of the land in Jiangbei, which is the reason why Jiangbei can play this game.

"Maolin, you see that non-military merits are not awarded!"

Smiling slightly, Zhu Mingzhong looked towards Guan Nei, and then continued.

"After the world is calm, this method, lonely will write to the imperial court to promote the world, non-military merits are not allowed to grant land, but the prosperous era is prosperous, the peaceful and prosperous world, and the people are breeding, what should I do then? How will the people be tenant farmers forever? ”

The king's rhetorical question made Liu Can suddenly fall into contemplation, the land price in Jiangbei is high, not because of anything else, because everyone sees that there will be more and more people in the future, but there are only so many private fields, and in the end, the vast majority of people can only rent official fields because they have no land, so the originally limited private land is naturally valuable.

"Then, if the people ask for land, but the government refuses to let it go, will it provoke a civil uprising?"

"Of course!"

Zhu Mingzhong said without the slightest concealment.

Therefore, in the future, in addition to the land in the northeast, northwest and Sichuan, a part of the official land will also be taken out and handed over to individuals for reclamation, as long as it has been cultivated for five consecutive years, you can buy land from the government at a low price. And only Gongtian? ”

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