Chapter 897: Tax Reform Encounters Obstacles
Liu Lan, who was in a good mood, had been discussing with a few people all night, and after having dinner with them, he returned to the mansion and came to the front of the room only to see that the room was dim, it seemed that Zhen Jiang had rested, and he paced in step by step, not daring to make any sound, for fear of waking Zhen Jiang up.
hurriedly took off his clothes and was about to climb onto the couch, but he heard Zhen Jiang say in a deep voice: "Did I let you go to the bed?" Wherever you fall in love. ”
"Hey, my daughter-in-law didn't fall asleep." Liu Lan blushed, ignored Zhen Jiang, and hurriedly climbed onto the couch.
"Who let you come up, who let you come up."
Zhen Jiang kicked him down with his little feet, and said, "If you don't come back for a day, since you are so in love with that slut, go to her couch, I don't allow you to come up here." ”
How could Zhen Jiang struggle with Liu Lan, plus he was pregnant with Liujia, he didn't dare to work too hard, not only did he not kick him off, but kicked him, and he was squeezed into the room by Liu Lan, only to hear him smile and say: "You are my wife, I should go to your couch, if I secretly go to another woman's couch, then people don't go to the government to sue me for indecent acts?" ”
Zhen Jiang laughed, then sank his eyes, and said, "If you go to that slut's couch, she will definitely not sue you, and you will be happy to come." ”
Liu Lan smiled lewdly: "Then when I go to your couch, are you happy?" As he spoke, he hugged her in his arms, although Zhen Jiang struggled a few times, but in the end he let him do whatever he wanted, and then glanced at him and said, "Shameless." ”
"Don't I just ask casually, what's so shameful about this? Besides......" kissed Zhen Jiang's jade-like neck, slowly went up, bit her ear and said, "It doesn't matter if you like it or not." I'm glad anyway. ”
Liu Lan didn't know when he became such a flirting master, and he had already extended Zhen Jiang's lust. Gasping heavily, she hurriedly pushed him aside. He whispered, "Deran, no." ”
"What can't be done."
Liu Lan was stunned, and suddenly saw her holding her lower abdomen with her hands, and suddenly realized in her heart that this is what feelings are all about, and immediately laughed.
Zhen Jiang said angrily: "Deran, you have to cherish Jiang'er, and you have to cherish scales." ”
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The next few days were extremely busy, and one after another government decrees were issued from Xiaopei Center. In the first three days, it did not achieve the effect expected by Liu Lan, and the people in Xiaopei County or the villagers in the surrounding townships did not show much interest in the land reclamation, "Maybe the autumn harvest is approaching, and the people are busy with the autumn harvest." Liu Lan thought so in his heart.
But when the people were busy with the autumn harvest, there were still no people coming to recognize the territory, which made him unable to sit still any longer. Hurriedly visited the township to find out, and finally figured out a rough idea after two rounds, it turned out that the Han Dynasty mostly encouraged the people to open up the wasteland, but not only did not collect a penny. And there are rewards.
At this time, the people heard that not only did they not own the land they owned, but they also needed to buy it from the government after five years, so they naturally lost their enthusiasm.
And it is already difficult to open up the wasteland. If there are no oxen to plough the land, the amount of manpower consumed can be imagined. However, Liu Lan's policy was to allow only landless hukou families to come to recognize the land, and the result was that those who had cattle in their hands could not receive it. Those who are able to land have to give up because they don't have a ploughing ox, and the list goes on and on. There are even some poor people who have ploughing cattle in their hands, but they scoff at Liu Lan's orders, and would rather continue to be tenant farmers than come to claim them.
Originally, the land price of one acre of cooked land was about (1-1.2W, the new reclamation is more consistent, it is cheaper, and there are few buyers, although the decree clearly points out that as long as the people of the territory are recognized as the people of the newly reclaimed land for five years, they can buy half the price of the cooked land for themselves, which is naturally a policy to benefit the people in Liu Lan's view, but in the eyes of the people, it is not so......
There are also some that make Liu Lan cry and laugh, people have never heard of the 'government' to introduce such a policy, and it was after Liu Lan told them, but everyone who heard it shook his head and said innocently: "No rent." ”
All this gave Liu Lan a headache, and finally discussed with everyone and came to a conclusion, if you want the people to rent the land, you can, you have to let them have ploughing cattle first, even if they have ploughing cattle, the grain for the coming year must be prepared for them, otherwise don't think about it.
What to do, the treasury is empty, and if you want to buy some farming cattle and rent them to the people, you can only use your brains on the private money transferred from Liaodong or in your hands, thinking about it, Liu Lan still chose the latter, and did not move the Liaodong treasury, after all, their life is not much better in order to raise so many troops, as soon as he goes to this decree, it is estimated that Yan Rou or Tian Chou will have to kill him to recruit him desperately.
This is really not a family who doesn't know that rice, oil and salt are expensive, and he used to be in the mine to be the shopkeeper, thanks to Yan Rou and Tian Chou, otherwise it would be impossible to insist on controlling Liaodong, and now there is Tao Xuzhou to raise, and he has not cared about the money, and now he has a hundred taels of gold on hand, which he thought was a huge amount of money, but it was such a huge amount of money that he could only bring him thirteen ploughing cattle, and Liu Lan, who thought that this money could solve the problem of ploughing cattle, looked at the thirteen ploughing cattle that Zhen Yan bought back from Xuzhou City, and the whole person was stupid, And what hit him even more was that Zhen Yan said that the reason why he was able to buy back so many more ploughing cattle was because the Mi family thanked the lord for saving his sister Mi Zhen's grace and gave five for free......
Now even if you go to other counties to buy, I'm afraid that the effect is similar to going to Xuzhou, there is no price, and I scolded in my heart what kind of world is this, and I can't spend it if I have money? It was the illness that rushed to the doctor, naturally he was unwilling to give up halfway, give up the new deal, he looked to his side, if he said who was the richest person around, it was nothing more than Zhen Yan and Zhen Jiang, just let him open his mouth to persuade Zhen Jiang to persuade his mother to send cattle, or sell him cattle, it was easy to say, but he was extremely good-looking in front of women, if you let him open his mouth, it would be really difficult to do.
But the matter has come to this point, this official document is placed in that bright place, and 'it' can't be allowed to become a topic of conversation for the people after dinner, right? had to bite the bullet and mention this matter to Zhen Yan vaguely.
Zhen Yan heard that the gap is huge, and the Zhen family may not be able to make up for it, so it is best to see if they can get some cattle from the Hu people in Liaodong, so that the gap can be solved.
Liu Lan immediately agreed, and the two sides implemented it together, and the ploughing cattle could be bought as one, and the big deal was to solve the problem of clearing the wasteland for the poor people around Xiaopei first, and as for the township, it would be solved step by step......
Immediately after Liu Lan promulgated the second decree, measuring the land production, the spearhead pointed directly at the small clans and rich peasants around Xiao Pei, which was still extremely cooperative for the rich peasants, but these small clans already had a large number of hidden fields, how to make Chen Qun and them measure normally, it can really be said that there are constant conflicts, but under Liu Lan's high pressure, after several bloodsheds, the clans finally compromised......
After the measurement of the fields was completed, Liu Lan finally came up with a killer feature, that is, to abolish the poll tax, divide the land into barren and rich, and instead of collecting taxes on people and households, they would instead collect taxes on the land, and as for the craftsmen's workshops, they would pay 20% of the annual income, and the merchants would pay 40%. There is also military service, which stipulates that each household pays one ding, and if there is only one male in the family, it is exempted. For the time being, if a woman does not accept forced labor, she can accept three horses of silk or cloth to serve on her behalf, and the method of not marrying a woman for fifteen years or five counts will be withdrawn......
Liu Lan believes that with the promulgation of this policy, his prestige will definitely reach its peak, and he doesn't say that when he leaves Xiaopei in the future, the people will give him an umbrella, which is probably a word for him.
It's just that he underestimated his opponent and overestimated himself, and when he learned the consequences, he immediately thought of the old saying, 'The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny'......
It is precisely because there are policies and countermeasures that Liu Lan's decree not only did not have the intended purpose, but boiled the public resentment of Xiaopei's rectification, and for a time he became the embodiment of evil, and everyone wanted to get rid of the corrupt officials and corrupt officials as soon as possible.
If it weren't for the fact that the people didn't dare to openly attack the officials, they were afraid that when they walked on the streets, they would have been greeted with eggs and pickles......
But there are often a few praises in the scolding, but these praises are quickly annihilated in the collective condemnation of Liu Lan, and in desperation, he can only continue to send people to inquire about what went wrong in the link that will cause public resentment to boil over. He had long since gone to the street without a face, and looking at the strange eyes of the people, his heart was overwhelmed.
In fact, Liu Lan also has some feelings, there must be someone behind the trouble, and can have such a great influence, naturally it is the local clans around Xiaopei, and the soldiers who came back from a private visit brought the same idea as him, Liu Lan, who was frowning to himself, listened to the soldiers who took over and said: "All the clans around Xiaopei originally rented land and only charged tenant farmers 30% of the rent, but since the new tax system was promulgated by the king, they changed the land rent to 60%, and they even said everywhere that all this was forced by you, and they had no choice. If you want to blame, you can only blame Liu Yuanjun, you are an official and unkind...... "said here, but I didn't dare to say it anymore.
"What, there is such a thing?" Liu Lan took the case and said viciously: "Notify me and let Yun Chang gather troops." ”
"No." (To be continued.) )