"It's still too little." Luo Cheng shook his head, although the fields in Luoyang are relatively fertile, the rivers and canals here are vertical and horizontal, and the irrigation system is developed. But Yiding is only 20 acres of land, and in terms of farming technology in this era, the yield is still too low, so the harvest is also small.

Generally speaking, at this time, a family of five or six people must have at least 100 acres of land, so that they can barely have enough food and clothing and have a surplus of life. Of these 100 acres of land, 20 or 30 acres must be used for planting mulberry and hemp, raising silkworms, spinning and weaving, and the remaining 60 or 70 acres of land can be used for growing grain.

These fields can often only be planted for one season, and even have to be cropped in rotation, and the yield per mu can only be more than one stone. In the event of a natural disaster, the people will have a hard time, and they will even have to borrow money, and if they fall into debt, they may bankrupt a homesteader.

Therefore, the ancients often said that after three years of cultivation, there is a surplus.

Under the new two-tax law, the taxes of ordinary people are reduced, but if there is too little land, it will still be very difficult.

"In the past, the imperial court implemented the policy of buying public land, although it also had an effect, and bought back a lot of land, but Luoyang is not as good as other places, there are too many noble officials, monks and temples."

The eldest grandson Wuji still has something to say, that is, Luoyang is the imperial capital of Zhongjing, and there are also royal manors here, and in addition, there are many tuntians belonging to the army.

Although the imperial court limited the land order, the aristocratic officials all had official titles, and their land was very high, and a prince had more than 10,000 acres of land.

Even if he is a petty official of the ninth grade, he has 200 acres of land.

Not to mention, in the land of the capital, there are countless aristocratic officials, and no matter how limited the land is, it is destined not to be like ordinary local counties.

"Mowgli, do you have any good suggestions in this regard?" The emperor asked the young brother-in-law.

"Your Majesty's new Buddhist and Taoist management decree, the temple view of the limited field Chen thinks very good, as far as the minister knows, Luoyang City outside the city of the big temple, generally have the temple field in more than 10,000 acres, the middle temple is generally more than 1,000 acres, the general small temple has hundreds of acres and hundreds of acres. Moreover, there are many temples in Luoyang Mansion and many spectators, these temples occupy a huge amount of land, extremely huge, if they can be cleared out, they can add tens of thousands of hectares of land, and can give tens of thousands of fields to Ding. ”

"It's not enough." Luo Cheng shook his head.

Although the monks and Taoists have a lot of land, but there are more than 20 counties in Luoyang Prefecture, there are more than 1,000 temples, although there are a lot of them, but in the face of one or two million people, one person can not increase a few acres of land.

"The only way the minister can think of is to limit the purchase. It is forbidden for people other than local residents of Luoyang Prefecture to purchase land within the territory of Luoyang Prefecture to avoid land occupation. ”

"For aristocratic officials, it is also necessary to further strengthen the amount of land in the heartland of Liujing and the Central Plains."

The meaning of the eldest grandson Wuji, if a prince has 10,000 acres of land, then in the territory of Liujing, he can only have one-tenth or less of his land at most, and his total land amount remains unchanged at 10,000 mu, but in Luoyang, he can only have a maximum of 1,000 mu or 500 mu of land. The rest of the land can be purchased elsewhere. The purpose of this is to avoid occupying too much land in a place like the Central Plains, where there are many people and too little land to be allocated, so that ordinary people can give too little land.

"How much land does my royal manor have in Luoyang?"

Luo Cheng asked suddenly.

The eldest grandson Wuji immediately reported a number, which was very amazing.

These royal estates are the private property of the emperor, in addition to the grange under the name of the emperor, and there are many granges under the name of the queen and concubines.

These lands mainly belonged to the Sui Dynasty royal family in the past, and then naturally now belong to the Great Qin Imperial Family, and the emperor gave a lot of rewards to the concubines and ministers.

"I asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to sort it out, keep one-tenth of the manor, and then replace the rest with the vast and sparsely populated frontier land, and you can take the replaced land and give it to the people."

"Your Majesty Shengming!" The eldest grandson Wuji shouted excitedly, he didn't expect the emperor to be so generous. You must know that the land in Luoyang is, of course, better than other places.

One acre of land in Luoyang City can even be two acres in Shanghebei, three or five acres in Shangjiangnan, ten acres and eight acres in Lingnan, and as for places such as those outside Longyou Pass, that one acre can be dozens of acres.

But the emperor was willing to take the lead and take out ninety percent of the Luoyang Huangzhuang to replace it with the frontier, which was really a great support for him.

"Of course, Luoyang is located in the heart of the Central Plains and is an important place in Gyeonggi, no matter what, it must be more people and less land, so it is not enough to suppress the annexation, but also to find a way to move more people to the border counties."

Luo Cheng asked the eldest grandson Wuji to find a way to select one to two thousand households from each of the twenty-two counties in Luoyang and prepare to move to the frontier. The specific criterion is that poor proletarians, or those who have previously had a bad record, such as those who have joined the bandits, or those who have been tenants of temples, or former slaves who have been exempted and returned to good people, etc., should simply move these people to the border counties, and give them enough land in those vast and sparsely populated places, enrich the frontier, and pioneer and colonize the frontier.

If one county moves one or two thousand households, it will be able to recover about 100,000 mu of land, and the remaining 10,000 households, according to the calculation of two cents per household, one person can add five acres of land, and one household can increase ten mu.

Through a number of measures such as the collection of land in temples, the purchase of public land, and the new land restriction order, it is expected that one ding can reach about thirty or forty acres of land, so that a family can have seventy or eighty acres, or even one hundred acres of land.

An increase in yeoman farmers, especially those who have a large surplus of them, can make the country more stable.

"The land given to them by the people is open field, and it is forbidden to buy and sell, and the field is reaped by death. For the sale and purchase of private land, it is necessary to go to the government to make a deed, and a deed tax of one cent is levied according to the transaction price, and it is stipulated that the deed tax shall be paid by the buyer. The emperor knocked on the armrest of the dragon chair and said to the eldest grandson, Wuji, "Write this down." ”

For the sale and purchase of private land, the deed must be registered, the ownership must be transferred, and the tax rate must be paid, which is not low. The purpose of this was naturally to increase the cost of land annexation, and at the same time, the imperial court could also get a tax from it.

However, Luo Cheng also knows that the purchase of land in this era, just like the purchase of houses in later generations, seems to have become a hard investment, and there is a profitable and unprofitable transaction.

When you have money, your first choice is definitely to buy land.

Therefore, the deed tax only has a slight restrictive effect, and the key is to increase the ban on purchases and quotas and the diversion of population in places where the land is narrow and there are many people, and prohibit ordinary people from trading and buying the land they have granted, so as to ensure that the vast majority of the land can always be granted to ordinary people, so that they can become homesteaders who own land, rather than becoming landless tenant farmers after one or two generations.

For a newly established dynasty, Luo Cheng should not only take care of the present, but also look to the future, as the founding monarch, he must establish a good institutional framework.