Chapter 672: Xanadu
Everywhere there were crowds of joy.
In order to be able to exert more strength, everyone also slaughtered chickens and ducks to add meals, and was willing to pay for it.
Many families with small populations even harvest together.
In the military tun, the sergeants were even more enthusiastic, and even launched a competition of cutting wheat, picking wheat, and beating wheat, and rewarded the top three with money and silk, which stimulated everyone even more.
Tiangong is also very beautiful.
For more than ten days, it was a hot and sunny day, without a trace of rain, which allowed countless wheat to be harvested and safely put into the warehouse.
After the grain is collected, it is handed over to the warehouse.
One cent of the grain in the fields of the military cantonment will be kept in the cantonment, one point will be handed over to the military town, and one point will be handed over to the marshal's mansion. One cent of the grain in the official tun will be left in the tuncang, one cent will be handed over to the county, and one point will be handed over to the marshal's mansion.
And the people are also pulling the grain and lining up to hand it in after the harvest.
The military fields of the government soldiers do not need to pay the land to rent public grain, but they need to pay a sum of community warehouse grain and righteous warehouse grain according to the number of acres, and the community warehouse grain is the grain that is uniformly managed and dispatched by the county to prepare for disasters and famines. The Yicang grain is located in the county and managed by the county government, which is only used for disaster relief and preparedness in the county during famine, or for the relief of the orphans, widows, sick and disabled in the county in peacetime.
Both Shecang grain and Yicang grain are levied on a mu-by-mu basis, and both are two liters per mu.
Compared with the yield of at least one stone per mu, the grain of Yicang and Yicang that is two liters per mu is actually not high, and the total is less than four percent. But on the other hand, because there is no upper limit, only according to the mu of collection, so compared with the current Central Plains Shecang, Yicang grain is more, after all, the Central Plains stipulates that Yicang grain is levied by households, and the highest upper household is only five stones, and the rest are different.
And if a government soldier has 1,000 acres of land at home, then he has to pay 20 stone for Yicang grain, and 20 stone for Shecang grain.
But in general, it's quite reasonable, after all, it is levied on the basis of the field, and the more you pay, it means that you have more land, and you can keep more.
There was not much discontent among the people.
The government soldiers only paid grain to the Yicang and Shecang, but the fields granted under the names of their families had to be rented.
According to the previous agreement between Luo Cheng and them, in addition to the government soldiers, the rest of the people who granted land on the land were also rented according to the mu, and according to the average amount of one stone per mu, the three buckets of millet per mu were set.
One mu of corn and three buckets is much lower than the initial output of half of the levy, and in fact it is only thirty percent or even less. However, because there are few people in Liaodong and more land, and the land is in place, each ding who is qualified to grant land actually has 100 acres of land, and even his wife can get 50 acres, and the middle-aged men who have not become a Ding can also get 50 acres, so a family generally has 2 or 300 acres of land.
If such a family is monogamous and has three children and five people, it may have 300 acres of land, and the annual rent of land is 90 stones, which is very different from the rent regulation in the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, rent is collected by Ding, and rent is collected by Ding, and two stones are collected by Ding.
The difference is huge, but most of the people in the Central Plains do not have the same amount of land, and the average land of 100 mu is only the amount of land, in fact, few can reach this amount, and the various apportionment costs in the Central Plains are also more.
For a family of five, 300 acres of land are granted, 90 stone of rent is paid, and a total of 12 stone of grain from Shecang and Yicang is added, and a total of 102 stone millet needs to be paid.
But in addition, there is no need to pay for silk cloth, only need to serve another twenty days of free service, and there is no other burden.
300 acres of land, in addition to the 100 and 2 stone of grain handed over, and then deduct seeds, etc., in fact, there is still a lot left.
In the event of a disaster, resulting in a poor harvest or no harvest, the government will also reduce or exempt the land rent according to the actual situation.
On the other hand, Andong Road has very strict control over grain.
After the people have paid the public grain, the remaining grain, in addition to keeping it for themselves, if it is to be sold, then it can only be sold to the government.
The government will pay a price about 10% higher than the market price.
In fact, this system began in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but the purchase of Andong was better, although other merchants were not allowed to buy the grain in the hands of the people, but they were bought at a price higher than the market price, and then stored in the warehouse. When there is a shortage of grain in a disaster, we can sell the grain at the market price, which can not only help the people, but also stabilize the price of grain and safeguard the people's livelihood.
At the same time, the government has taken grain, an important material for people's livelihood and military use, into its own hands as much as possible.
The government uses the money obtained from taxes to buy the people's grain, and the people sell the grain to get money, and then have money to spend, so this can form an excellent economic environment in Andong Province, a virtuous circle.
And that's exactly what happened.
Anton Jiedu envoy government has a special rice department, organizes and arranges the counties to buy grain, takes out a large amount of copper coins, silk, cloth, etc. in the government treasury to buy the people's grain, and flows the money and silk obtained from those taxes to the people.
In every township and county, there are people everywhere who deliver grain.
As long as everyone sends the grain from home to the township grain collection office, they can sell the grain in exchange for money and silk cloth, and they do not have to go too far to the county or county warehouse to hand over the grain, and even the public grain is the same, and the government will go to the countryside to collect the grain, and then the government will organize the villagers to transport the grain to various warehouses.
The grain was sold, and the money arrived.
Naturally, everyone took their wives and babies with them, visited the merchants' stalls that took the opportunity to go to the countryside to sell goods, pulled some flower cloth and red head ropes, bought some jewelry, cut some meat to buy a fish, and even bought a few chickens and ducklings.
There are also many people who also sell some of the handiwork they usually do, such as willow baskets, baskets, and wooden barrels.
There is a lively market everywhere.
The county also sent the militia to patrol in a timely manner, and sent the market administrator to manage and supervise.
The six counties and eighteen counties of Andong Province are very lively after the summer harvest.
After the public grain was handed over and the rations were kept, the rest of the grain was sold, and the county also began to organize the townships and villages to sing and dance, hold social dramas, and drink local wine.
Luo Cheng, the envoy of the festival, was also dressed in purple gold and jade with a beam crown, and led a group of subordinate officials and generals to enjoy with the people in Liaodong City and celebrate the harvest together.
On the Liao River, even a very grand Dragon Boat Dragon Boat Race was organized, and the teams from various counties competed for dragon boats in the Liao River and won the first place.
The first-place team has a heavy prize of 80,000 yuan, the second place also has 50,000 yuan, and the third place has 30,000 yuan.
In addition, there are archery competitions.
Military and civilian personnel are welcome to participate.
If you shoot it, you can get a prize dumpling.
And the best ones can even be rewarded with fine bows.
The dragon boat race on the Liaohe River, the archery competition outside the city of Liaodong, and finally the polo game that the people like to see. Luo Cheng gave full play to the purpose of having fun with the people, not only let the government soldiers and the army send teams to participate in the competition, but also let the county soldiers, local regiments, township soldiers and other selected teams to participate in the competition.
In addition, there are teams from each county.
There are some representative teams of big merchants.