In order to promote land reform, Li Xuan successively released the two big killer tricks of tax exemption and rent-for-purchase, which instantly caused a lot of discussion in almost the whole world, and even the Ming Dynasty ruled area received the rumors and caused widespread discussion.

If it is said that the tax exemption is good, after all, this can be regarded as encouraging agriculture, and for the Tang government, there is no need to spend additional costs, on the contrary, it can also benefit a lot.

Those wastelands were originally wasteland without production, and now that they have been reclaimed, even if they are not taxed, they will not affect anything, but in the short term, they can increase the food supply under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and in the long run, they can allow the Tang Dynasty to collect more agricultural taxes.

However, renting instead of purchasing, this is not a small matter, and many people actually don't believe that the Tang Dynasty government will really take out so much official land to rent and purchase.

Because in the eyes of people, even the ruling class, land is one of the most valuable treasures, otherwise, what would the Zhu family clan do with so much land.

Even within the Tang Dynasty, there were many people who opposed this policy, believing that it would damage the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, after all, the annual income of these official fields was also a large part of the grain income of the Tang Dynasty.

But for those opposing opinions, Li Xuan treated them as if they hadn't heard them!

What are you kidding, I divide my own fields and take care of your, Lao Tzu just likes to do this, and you bite me if you have the ability.

Of course, to be able to successfully launch this policy, Li Xuan still won the support of high-level officials in Datang, and Li Xuan's reason for persuading them was very simple, only using six words: hegemony has not yet succeeded!

But these high-ranking officials were immediately able to figure out the deep meaning of Li Xuan's promotion of this policy from these six words!

The hegemony has not yet succeeded, what does this mean? It means that failure may occur at any time, and after failure, the Tang Dynasty will definitely be finished, and Li Xuan and a group of high-level civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty will all die without a place to be buried.

If you fail to compete with the Ming Dynasty for world domination and are finally wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, everything will turn into nothingness!

At that time, will it still make sense to keep these official fields?

No!

It's better to distribute these official fields now, and then collect the hearts of the people all over the world, especially the people at the bottom!

The high-level leaders of the Tang Dynasty knew very well that the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was not actually on those gentry and landlords, nor on those merchants, but on the ordinary people at the bottom.

The core pillar of the Tang Dynasty is not officials, gentry or the like, the core pillar of the Tang Dynasty has always been the Tang Dynasty.

The army is the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also where all Li Xuan's confidence lies!

In order to keep the land they were divided into after joining the army, no matter how harsh the training was, even if they were facing death, these soldiers gritted their teeth and persisted, because these ordinary soldiers also knew very well that once the Tang Dynasty was finished, the land they shared would be reduced to nothingness.

Countless peasant children willingly went to the battlefield to fight for a piece of land!

A considerable part of Datang's taxes are agricultural taxes, and who pays these agricultural taxes? Farmer!

Those are the agricultural taxes paid by the landlords, and in fact the fruits of the labor of the tenants!

It can be inferred from this that the peasants with the largest population base, especially the middle and lower class peasants, are the core pillars of the Tang Dynasty!

Therefore, in the process of expansion, although Li Xuan will also ease the relationship with the gentry class, Li Xuan has never actually cared about them, otherwise, Li Xuan would not have forcibly promoted tax reforms such as agricultural tax and commercial tax, then and now, the gentry are strongly opposed, but does Li Xuan care?

He doesn't care!

Oppose it and collect it, suppress it if you resist taxes, and exterminate it if you rebel!

Raiding the family and exterminating the clan, this kind of thing can be seen in every time and place during the rise of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to further strengthen the ruling core of the Tang Dynasty and firmly tie the peasants to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan will make such things as clearing the wasteland and exempting taxes and renting instead of purchasing.

And what is interesting is that this kind of thing will not cause much damage to the existing Datang finances in a short period of time, because the rent collected now is the same as in the past.

At least for ten years, the benefits brought by these official fields to the Tang Dynasty will not be reduced in the slightest.

As for ten years from now?

Ten years later, either the Tang Dynasty has already destroyed the pseudo-Ming, or it has been destroyed by the pseudo-Ming, or it has shared the world equally with the pseudo-Ming, but no matter what the result is, it doesn't matter anymore.

And ten years later, after these official fields become private land, the government will still be able to collect agricultural taxes, although the amount will be less than the land rent, but it will also be within the controllable range.

Li Xuan and a group of high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty did not feel sorry for the division of the fields, but a group of middle and lower-level officials and even the gentry outside were heartbroken.

Don't think that they are sincerely thinking about the future of the Tang Dynasty, there is only one reason why they are heartbroken: "That is to occupy 15% of the land under the rule of the entire Tang Dynasty, why should they give it to those mud legs?" How nice it is to give us! ”

But now, many people have not seen another impact of renting instead of purchasing, and it is quite a big impact!

That is, those tenants who were originally landlords from all over the country, after seeing such a good thing as renting instead of purchasing, do you think they will continue to rent the land of those landlords or will they rent official land?

If you rent the land for ten years and rent the landlord's land, the land will still be the landlord's after ten years, but if you rent the official land, the rented land will become your own after ten years.

How do you say ordinary people will choose?

If you think about it with your toes, they will definitely rush to rent official farmland!

Once a large number of tenants have gone to rent official land, it will not be easy for those landlords to find tenants on their land, but the land cannot be abandoned, so that not only will there be no production, but the agricultural tax will still have to be paid.

The tax system of the Tang Dynasty was quite strict, since you have a field, you have to pay taxes, and the tax collector doesn't care whether your land is abandoned or rented to others, or you grow it yourself.

Unless there is a natural disaster and there is a special purpose to reduce taxes, otherwise, as long as you have land, you have to pay taxes, of course, if you don't want to pay taxes, the land will be confiscated by the government, and it will become official land.

But when a large number of tenants went to rent and cultivate official land, these landlords had only one way to find tenants smoothly: to reduce the rent, at least lower than that of the landlords of the official land.

Of course, they can also hire people directly to farm the land in the form of hired labor.

Either way, these methods will greatly improve the situation of excessive land rents in the modern era, and will help improve the living standards of ordinary people, especially landless peasants.

Therefore, renting instead of purchasing, it is not only as simple as dividing the field, but also has more profound meanings.

But in the final analysis, these policies are still for the benefit of ordinary people, especially poor people!

And after the people have obtained the benefits, in order to keep the current benefits, they will fight in the most direct way!

After these policies were issued, coupled with the fact that the Recruitment Department of the Ministry of War carried out extensive publicity in various recruiting places, they directly linked joining the army as soldiers, being loyal to Li Xuan, and fighting for the Tang Dynasty with the division of land and tax exemption, and preached to the peasants that once the puppet Ming army came back, the fields in the hands of the big guys could not be saved.

If the false Ming comes back, this land will be gone?

This is not good, these lands obtained by renting and purchasing will be their family in ten years, even if it is the king of heaven, don't want to snatch it!

Hypocrisy wants to fight back and rob us of our land?

What else is there to say, join the army as a soldier to fight hypocrisy!

As the saying goes, the head can be broken and the blood can be shed, and this land cannot be lost!

The Department of Recruitment, a Department of the War Department, reported that in early August, there were three times as many conscripts as before!

This is not 30 percent, but three times, which shows that the policies of renting instead of purchasing, clearing wasteland and tax exemption specifically for the poor people have aroused the most widespread recognition and further consolidated the ruling foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

After seeing this report, Li Xuan smiled and gave the report to Liu Bagou and other senior cabinet officials to circulate, and at the same time said, "What do you Aiqing think?" ”

Liu Bagou was the first to read it, and then, with a face full of joy, said: "My Tang Dynasty foundation has been completed!" ”

Then Qian Mengjiu also said: "The people of the three provinces are all my soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

And although he was deprived of the title of Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study, Wang Wenhua, who was still a scholar of the Wenhua Palace and concurrently a scholar of the Ministry of Agriculture, disregarded decency, his face was full of ecstasy, and then he knelt down with a plop: "Congratulations, congratulations, Your Majesty, with this good governance, my Datang foundation has been completed, and the hegemony is just around the corner!" ”

His words were not finished, only to listen to him continue: "From ancient times to the present, the emperor does not know how many, but can award this good government, only Your Majesty, for thousands of years, can have such a love for the people, can be so loved by the people, no one can be out of Your Majesty's left, our emperor's merits, Qin Emperor Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song ancestors are far inferior, even the three emperors and five emperors are slightly inferior."

Then he kowtowed violently, and then raised his head and said loudly: "Minister, I respectfully ask Your Majesty to be honored as the 'Great Emperor' to comfort the hearts of the people of the world and the hearts of all officials!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Bagou and the others on the side scolded in their hearts: I'm Chao, how can this person's face be so thick-skinned!

What is this Wang Wenhua doing lately, taking gunpowder every day? Why is the firepower of every sycophant so fierce, some time ago, I patted the sycophants, saying that Li Xuan's exploits have broken the sky, please give the ancestors of the Li family a respectful title, and it is not the four generations of the traditional feudal dynasty, but the eighteenth generation, that's right, it is the eighteenth generation, the whole eighteen generations!

The barbarian Jin Dynasty is so shameless, and he only dares to chase the tenth generation, and this Wang Wenhua is even more shameless, he even wants Li Xuan to chase the eighteenth generation of his ancestors!