After the restoration of this national government, the new fields irrigated will be used as Li Zhi's private land and will be leased to the local poor tenant farmers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Li Zhi has not yet given his land in Shandong, no local official in the private land of Jinguo Gong dared to collect more than Li Zhi's field endowment. Li Zhi has informed the magistrate that the annual income of these new fields is six liters of wheat per mu. In fact, if Li Zhijun equalizes all the fields in Shandong and does not increase the field endowment, the average field endowment per mu is about six liters a year.

In fact, Li Zhi didn't pay the field endowment, and the magistrate couldn't do anything about Li Zhi. But Li Zhi pondered Junping Tianfu every day, of course he had to set an example to pay the field endowment, otherwise he would have to teach the truth.

Li Zhi charged 30% of the land rent per person for the small people who planted their own fields. Based on the average yield of one stone of wheat per mu, two buckets and four liters per mu can be obtained by removing the field endowment and plum planting. 270,000 acres of new land is calculated to be a net income of 65,000 stone wheat per year, worth 160,000 taels of silver.

Li Zhi did the math, and Chaojing Yishan asked, "How much labor and materials were used to develop these new fields?" ”

Jing Yishan was promised a reward of 200 taels of silver by Li Zhi, but he was more cooperative than just now, and replied: "This country used 35,200 people to work for three months, and 87,000 taels of silver were spent on cement, stone and other materials. ”

Li Zhi turned around and asked the ambassador of the Shogunate Tax Agency and asked, "Liangyou, how much silver is this?" ”

Xie Liangyou does tax statistics every day, and his calculation ability is very strong, and he arched his hand and said: "Grandpa Guo, the labor cost plus the material cost is 150,000 taels." ”

Li Zhi nodded, the cost of building this irrigation reservoir can be recovered from a year's rent. By the way, when the project is built, the labor cost is included in the project, so that the people can work for relief, and the cost of disaster relief is also reduced.

No matter how you look at it, the development of water conservancy and reclamation of new fields is a sure-fire business.

However, this situation was only true for Li Zhi, the political chaos in the late Ming Dynasty, the local bureaucrats and gentry were eyeing each other, and the people were afraid that others would worry about even a few acres of fertile land, let alone carry out water conservancy and develop new fields.

If a person with no power comes out to organize a water conservancy project, I am afraid that the project will not be completed, and Xintian will be divided up by the landlords who have appeared in various names. And for the powerful people, the idea is to try to bankrupt the people who have good land, and they can directly benefit by annexing the people's good land, so why bother to make a big deal about water conservancy? really made a lot of good land, and the other gentlemen and heroes didn't want to come up and get a piece of the pie.

In a society where there is political corruption and disorder, benefits are distributed according to power rather than contribution. In such a pattern of interests, no one is willing to contribute, everyone is staring at the existing cake to divide, and in the end the cake will only get smaller and smaller.

A character like Li Zhi who hollows out his heart to make a big cake, holds a strong soldier and swears to defend his big cake, and does not snatch the cake of the powerless small people, is just an isolated case in a society like the late Ming Dynasty.

However, the seventeenth century was no longer a closed age. The Manchus, Western colonizers, and even the ethnic minorities of the southwest all eyed the decaying Han Chinese society. If the Han people do not manage their cake well and do not make the country bigger and stronger, the history of being enslaved by foreign races will be staged.

Whether it is for himself or for the sake of this nation, Li Zhi must persist in his solitary example.

Li Zhi nodded, and then helped the thin young man on the ground.

Xie Liangyou thought for a while and said, "Grandpa Guo, this farmer who cultivates our new fields can harvest fourteen stone of grain per person every year, which is equivalent to thirty-five taels of silver. These people used to earn only eight or nine stones a year, and their lives were turned upside down... Is the rent we charge too low? In my opinion, it would not be too much to charge an extra 10% of the rent. ”

Li Zhi said with a smile: "What is the income of thirty-five or two years? It's just that the family has food and clothing, and it can't be well-off. In the future, the public will make all the people in Tianjin and Shandong rich, and of course they cannot collect high land taxes. It was charged at 30 per cent rent. ”

Xie Liangyou arched his hand and said: "Grandpa Guo is benevolent, and the people of Shandong and Tianjin are blessed!" ”

Li Zhi inspected the construction site for a while, and then asked Zheng Hui: "How many new fields can be reclaimed in Shandong this year?" ”

Zheng Hui said: "We have planned eight projects like Guogongpi, but the scale is slightly smaller. After all of them are made, 1.1 million mu of new land can be obtained, and the annual income from land rent alone is more than 600,000 taels of silver. ”

More than 600,000 taels of silver is not a small number, and it can greatly enrich Li Zhi's finances.

Li Zhi patted Zheng Hui on the shoulder and said, "Zheng Hui, after the successful completion of the project in Shandong, I will go to the imperial court and promote you to the deputy general of the sea!" ”

When Zheng Hui heard this, his face flushed with excitement.

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On the fifth day of October, in various provinces, prefectures and counties in Shandong, the Jinguo Public Tax Office was opened one after another.

Like the tax offices in Tianjin, these offices were also renovated by purchasing houses in the downtown areas of various cities. The basic principle of the tax office is that the businessman declares his own taxes, and the tax office levies taxes according to the business turnover declared by the businessman, and the tax is 30 tax one. Of course, businessmen tend to take risks to evade taxes, and there are a large number of tax accountants in each tax office who act as supervisors to check the turnover of merchants.

Li Zhi stationed 150 tax accountants in each prefecture, 100 in each prefecture, and 50 in each county. The daily job of these tax accountants is to enter the vendors' business premises and check whether the actual turnover of the vendors is truthfully declared.

If a businessman is found to have evaded taxes, he will be severely fined according to the principle of one penalty of five for evasion. If the tax evasion exceeds 100 taels, the tax evader must be handed over to the Jinguo Public Court to play the board.

Li Zhi flipped through the account books at the Jinan Tax Office and asked Xie Liangyou: "How much does the accounting staff have to spend this year?" ”

Xie Liangyou sniffed and said, "Grandpa Guo, in order to cover Shandong Province, we have hired five thousand six hundred and thirty-seven accountants. The monthly money of these accountants, the maintenance of the premises and all kinds of miscellaneous expenses cost 300,000 taels a year. ”

Xie Liangyou shook his head and said: "This year's drought in Shandong, the farmers all rely on the relief of the Tianjin State Disaster to live, and they have no money to buy goods, and Shandong's economy is very depressed. It is estimated that this year, Shandong will only receive more than 600,000 taels of commercial taxes. ”

Li Zhi said: "Isn't that only a net income of more than 300,000 taels? ”

Xie Liangyou nodded heavily and said, "Grandpa Guo, it's true. However, next year, when the peasants have profits, the situation will be greatly improved. It is estimated that 1.6 million taels of commercial tax will be received next year, and 1.3 million taels will be removed from expenses. ”