Regarding the historical illiteracy of the lord Lu Peng, Wu Tao and Xu Jie made up for him.

"You don't see the taxes on the land are heavy. But it was taken away under the name of an extra clever name. It is often several times to dozens of times the amount of the officially prescribed tax. There are too many names to list them all. Anyway yes. What is the face, the change, the dressing, the suppression, the punishment of the stolen goods. Fire consumption. Rat consumption. Finch consumption. After the grain is harvested. It also requires the people to be transported thousands of miles to the specified place. Think about it. In the current conditions of road transport. Transporting grain thousands of miles to the specified place. How much manpower and material resources need to be spent. And all these freight costs are borne by the farmers; Although all the losses have been collected in advance in advance in several times the amount. But. Once there is real wear and tear and risk in transportation. It is still entirely borne by the tax-paying peasants.

"Lord, there is another point, that is, taxes are taxes, taxes are taxes, taxes are taxes, taxes are so much, but taxes make the people's lives worse than death."

Lu Peng touched his nose and wondered, emotional tax is not one word, but two independent meanings. So, I was ashamed to ask.

Xu Jie explained: "Tax, of course, refers to the land rent, but the endowment, is forced labor, for example, the government stipulates that the people must be no less than fifteen days a year, free of charge for the government to do things, and that is, every adult man must participate in the army to defend the city, if you add the tax paid by transportation, then these simple three are almost equal to half of the people's farming time, therefore, the people's suffering, Fu is fundamental, if according to the lord's will, we no longer levy forced labor, the people will definitely be thunderous, Set up a longevity brand for you. ”

Lu Peng was really speechless. It looks like he's still a layman. But according to what Xu Jie said, it is a bit too much to extract half. A people who have no food in store will have no money to survive the famine. Once the catastrophe comes. Only government relief can be relied upon. That back and forth. Definitely a waste.

Since this is the case, Lu Peng changed his mind at that time: "Then according to the good land, 50 catties of grain per mu, the land and so on, in descending order, and then tell the people, except for each adult man, there are two families, one should be conscripted as a soldier for three years, and after three years, he will not be conscripted, and the soldiers will eat food and get military salaries, and there will be bereavement for the dead, and there will be compassion for the wounded, and the people who are retired from the army will have no land rent for the land they get, and the rest of us will have no more conscription, we need manpower construction, and all of them will adopt the employment system, which will not be used in vain." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone worshiped and danced together, and called the Lord benevolent.

Lu Peng accepted it proudly, and was worshipped, is it really cool.

Lu Peng pondered for a while and then said; "First of all, give priority to the families of our soldiers. This is also a kind of treatment for our soldiers. Then the uncultivated land was divided into five classes according to its anointed and barren nature. The anointed land is divided into four acres per man. Add one acre for each drop. And so on. It's called a ration field. It can also be called self-reserved land, which is no longer taxed, and is cultivated when it is born. Death is retracted and redistributed. Other reclaimed land is exempt from tax for three years, and after three years it is returned to public ownership. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"But I stipulate that this year's ration field must be planted with high-yield yams, and if you don't plant this, you won't give it."

This is the coercive measure after the government liberalizes.

In order to fill everyone's stomachs, now Lu Peng has begun to play scoundrels.

Then Lu Peng continued: "And the land rent is charged 50 catties per mu according to the anointed land. Then drop ten pounds for each drop. In the end, it was reduced to ten catties per mu. If the weather is drier than this. It would be better for us to reduce the rent as appropriate. Now though the ground rent is a little more. But there is no way. The base is complicated. It is necessary to raise soldiers and build equipment. Soldiers can't be produced. So there is a lot of food and a lot of money to spend. Let's just bear with it. We'll talk about it when we have other income."

Seeing that there were no opinions on the civil and military forces below, Lu Peng took a sip of water and continued: "There is another point, I want to emphasize, that is, I am going to implement the practice of storing grain for the people, so the land rent we collect will no longer collect grain, but replace it with money." ”

Before the reform of Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, the taxes collected by the imperial court at that time were all based on the goods, and only when the descendants of the Ming Dynasty Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law to pay taxes in kind and transform them into paying taxes in money.

The government told the people of the world, I will charge you so much money, and if the officials want to make any other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, you can refuse to pay them, and you can also sue directly.

This method has really convinced you, and it is an unprecedented reform.

"At the same time, we have also carried out the purpose of storing grain for the people."

The advantage of hiding grain in the people, all of you here are smart people, of course, a little through, the grain is handed over to the government, not only is it consumed layer by layer, but also to prevent rats, moths, if the officials in a place are slack, there is more possibility of directly mildew of all the grain, it can be said that the gains outweigh the losses, but the food is not the same in the hands of the people, the people's cherishing of food is more important than life, in this way, it will put an end to the senseless waste of food, which is really a bright spot.

"There is also the iron ore we just discovered, this treasure, we can't let it become something we look at, but should become the basis of our development, so we must take advantage of this period of agricultural slack to build a smelter, mining requires manpower, smelting also requires manpower, but we must not be like the government, just levy the people to servitude, that is the exploitation of the people, we can't set this precedent, so I decided that our smelters and mines will adopt a system of employment."

The monopoly of salt and iron, seriously restricting the development of Lu Peng's army, if you can build an iron factory by yourself, then solve the key military problems, if the output can, it can also be used for the manufacture of farm tools, now many people are still using wood farm tools, resulting in low efficiency, if replaced with iron farm tools, the efficiency of reclaiming wasteland will be greatly improved, and the output will also increase, therefore, the iron plant must be built as soon as possible.

Iron smelting, Lu Peng knows a way to increase the furnace temperature with circulating hot air, and the others don't know, but just this one method, you can completely turn pig iron directly through smelting into mature iron, which is already a big progress, as for directly training steel, he really doesn't know, but it doesn't matter, as long as you can take the first step ahead, believe in the wisdom of the people craftsmen, and directly train steel, it won't take too long, the wisdom of the people is infinite, as long as you come up with an encouragement mechanism, as long as you let go.