There was another rapid sound of gongs and drums, and on the stage, the majestic Holy King smiled, as if he had just ordered the execution of thousands of criminals, and he had not done it at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Okay, now that you've dealt with the dirt of the Manchu Tartars, forget about the unhappiness and listen to the new policy preached by this king."

"First of all, this king wants to explain that in addition to the leader just now, the rest of the tens of thousands of rebels, after investigation and confirmation, most of them were deceived by the thieves just now and mistakenly believed their nonsense, so they went on the wrong thing of rebellion and against this king!"

Therefore, the king released more than 13,000 of them among the local people of Guangfu who had been deceived and misled and coerced, and sent them home. The rest killed many Hakka people and the people of Foshan Town, many of whom committed evil deeds and needed to be punished and returned home after a few years. ”

"Here today, the king would like to advise you not to believe the demagogic nonsense. In the land of Liangguang, especially in Guangdong, this king has never prepared to confiscate all the land of everyone, let alone the fields of the good squires and the native people of Guangfu! ”

"But this king can say with certainty that the land and property of the wicked people like the 1,356 who have just been executed, and our captives will confiscate all their lands and possessions, and make reparations to the people who have been poisoned by them! Their fields will also be confiscated by the Holy King's palace and rented out to the landless people at low interest rates for long-term cultivation. Therefore, this king is saying, as long as you do not do evil and do not work for the Manchu Tartars, this king and the captives will not only not confiscate your fields and property, but will also protect them! ”

"However, the two things that this king has decreed must be done! First, food taxes must be paid. This king does not recognize all the merits of the Manchu Tartars, except for the military dependents who participated in the war against the captives, who can be exempted from the grain tax according to the regulations, and everyone else, including the royal officials, must also pay the grain tax according to the regulations! ”

"The second is that all land rents must comply with the standards of rent reduction and interest reduction stipulated by the palace!"

"For specific chapters, please watch the newly revised "Holy Country Tianmu System" issued by the Holy King's Palace."

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Zheng Ji, like the other squires on the side, was attracted by the promise in the mouth of the Holy King on the stage and the "Holy Country Farmland System" he said, and even forgot that he felt that the Holy King was cruel before.

Really won't confiscate their own fields? Will not confiscate property? Perhaps, it was precisely because of the majesty of the Holy King and the cruelty of the executions that everyone inexplicably believed his words.

"The god-damn Li Yuanwai outside Heshan City was shot by the Holy King well! He actually lied to Lao Tzu, saying what a long-haired thief, ah, phew, saying that the army would give all the land of Lao Tzu's family to the Hakka people, and encouraged Lao Tzu to join him and give money to the monk to attack the holy king, but fortunately Lao Tzu was clever and did not listen to his slander. I almost killed Lao Tzu, damn it! ”

"That's right! And that bullshit Master Gu, didn't he just do me a little favor before, he wanted me to pay for it, and he risked killing his head to join his rebellious team, and said that if he didn't capture Guangzhou City, my house would be raided, and he wanted to scare me and be beautiful? I knew they were going to fail, but I ignored him! ”

Zheng Ji listened to the chatter between the two behind him, and couldn't help but think of himself, and he had also thought about selling half of the land first, but now that he thinks about it, fortunately he didn't listen to the rumors, otherwise he sold the ancestral field, how can he be worthy of his ancestors?

However, he said that he would reduce rent and interest rates, but he didn't know what the rules and standards were.

From this aspect alone, this holy king was actually a man of generosity to the people. Otherwise, the squire would not have been forced to reduce rent and interest.

Not long after, some soldiers of the captive army carried two loads of the newly revised "Shengguo Tianmu System" and distributed it to all the squires, instructing them to bring some back to their hometowns and tell the villagers about the Tianmu system of the Holy King's Palace.

Zheng Ji opened it and saw that there were six square characters on the head, which read "Shengguo Tianmu System", but it was a notice.

The proclamation declared that the entire holy kingdom was under the rule of the holy king.

The first part of the acre system is the most fundamental land policy, which stipulates the ownership of land.

It stipulates that all land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and other Tartars will be confiscated. This includes all the official fields and school fields of the original Manchu government. In addition, for the land of various temples, the land under the names of various benevolent halls, such as the Nursery Hall, Puji Hall, Qiliusuo, Qingjietang, Yidu, Chating, Shecang and Yicang, is all owned by the royal government, and all the expenses of the benevolent halls are coordinated and controlled by the general affairs departments of each local county and township.

In the same way, the land and property of the traitors of the Tartars, the rebels who betrayed the palace, the Manchu Tartars and the gentry above the seventh grade, as well as the bully landlords recognized by the people, were all confiscated!

The land of other ordinary people, such as gentry, wealthy households, peasants, craftsmen, private school masters, langzhong, scholars, small traders, hunters, etc., should be protected and not confiscated.

All the land, if there is a lord land, the original belongs to whom, it still belongs to whom, but it must be registered within half a year, the government agency above the township where it is located, and the land deed is reissued, which is considered valid.

However, the proclamation stipulates that all those who fail to pay grain taxes to the palace on time, who do not implement the prescribed policy of reducing rent and interest, and who collaborate with the enemy and betray the palace, will have all the cultivated land under their names confiscated and returned to the palace.

The terra nullius will be owned by the Holy King's Palace, but it will be managed by government agencies such as prefectures, counties, and townships at all levels under the palace.

Then, the second part of the acre system stipulates the standard of grain tax.

The system stipulates that the fields are still divided into five types of fields, such as superior, good, medium, second, and inferior according to the amount of output.

The unit of measurement of grain tax is temporarily used in the previous liters, buckets, and stones, but in order to avoid the different sizes of the buckets in various places, the palace has formulated specific standards, which are divided into 150 parts according to the weight of the holy king, and each part is a royal standard catty.

1 liter is 1.5 royal standard catties, 1 bucket of 10 liters is 15 royal standard catties, and 1 stone is 150 catties. The standard of the royal palace is provided by the county and township tax officials.

The grain tax is levied in a step-by-step geometric increment.

All levy standards are based on medium paddy fields with a yield of 3 stones and 4 buckets of rice per mu.

One mu of high-grade paddy field is roughly equivalent to 1.5 mu of standard field, one good standard field is equivalent to 1.2 mu of standard field, and inferior and inferior paddy fields are calculated as 0.8 and 0.6 times. If it is dry land, it is counted as one-quarter to one-fifth of the paddy field; Newly opened wasteland will not be subject to grain tax for three years, and the tax will be calculated according to the assessment standard after three years.

The standard of grain tax for private land is as follows: A household, no matter how many people there are, the total number of fields is less than 100 acres, and the per capita is less than 5 mu, and each mu of medium paddy field is subject to 1 bucket of grain tax, and the silver tax is 0.5 yuan, and the silver tax can be converted according to the grain tax; if it exceeds the above two standards, the tax will be multiplied by the number of exceedances, and then the tax will be increased by three times until it is equivalent to the rent of renting the land in the palace.

Abolish all surcharges on land levies such as salaries and training salaries of the Manchu Tartars, and abolish all miscellaneous expenses such as expenses, money, bureau fees, errands, room expenses, and errands for local officials.

When Zheng Ji saw this, he couldn't help but secretly calculate how much field tax should be paid on his field. There are 8 people in his own family, and there are 220 acres of private land, which is already more than the total number of 100 acres, so the first 100 acres are calculated according to the grain tax of 100 buckets and the silver tax of 50 yuan, so it seems that the tax is slightly higher than that handed over to the Manchu government, but if it is really abolished, the various miscellaneous taxes and additional taxes of the Manchu government are really abolished, but it is much lower than the actual payment during the Manchu government!

However, the 120 acres behind the house are calculated according to 3 times of 1.2 times, that is, 3.6 times, and 360 buckets of grain tax and 180 yuan of silver tax, that is, 36 stones, 18 taels of silver.

Zheng Ji couldn't help but gasp, fortunately he was only 1.2 times exceeded, if it was more than 3 times or 5 times, it would actually be 10 times and 20 times the field tax, wouldn't it be better not to have this field.

Thinking of this, Zheng Ji understood that this was probably a policy specially formulated by the royal government, that is, to prevent large landlords from hoarding too much land and renting it for profit.

The third part of the acre system is to set the standard of land rent.

There are two types of leased land mentioned in the system. One is the public rental land of the royal palace, and the other is the private rental land of the people.

All leased land is not subject to a deposit and is not allowed to be subleased. All rented grain shall be rented according to a fixed amount of rent, and it is not allowed to be collected according to the share rent, nor shall it be converted into silver taels and collected by itself. All the grain paid for rent must be exchanged through the township tax office if it needs to be converted into rent silver.

As for public leased land, the relevant agencies of the local county and township governments shall determine whether they are eligible for renting and farming. Priority is given to landless and landless peasants, but subletting is strictly prohibited.

The rent of public rental land is about a quarter of the actual harvest, and 8 buckets and 5 liters of grain are charged per mu. Of course, the landlord and the tenant should negotiate the privately rented land, but it should not exceed 3/3 or a half of the actual harvest.

The fourth part is land measurement and liquidation of usury.

It provided for the abolition of all landlords' land ownership and all usury debts and leases of ancestral halls, temples, monasteries, academies, benevolent halls, and private money lenders. Promote the rent and interest reduction behavior of the squire and wealthy households.

The fields of the whole territory under the rule of the royal palace were re-measured and divided into grades. The township and village levels and the villagers' representatives will measure and calculate together, and the county-level agencies will conduct spot checks and supervision, and the new royal land deeds will be issued uniformly after measurement.

In the future, the grain tax and lease will be calculated according to the number of acres and standards of the new land lease.

Finally, the fifth part briefly addresses the question of the social structure of the countryside. Implement the village and town system, and separate the local and the guest. For example, the hukou marriage system stipulates that every family must register their household registration, and the monogamous system is encouraged, but there is no objection to taking concubines.

After reading the newly revised "Shengguo Tianmu System", Zheng Ji couldn't help but secretly admire.

This system of acres of land is not only for the consideration of the landless and landless villagers everywhere, but also does not completely offend local squires like themselves. Once this system is implemented, it will basically be able to completely solve the problem of peasants' land renting and planting, and although it will not be possible for everyone to have land, it will be possible for everyone to have land for cultivation and food for everyone.

Zheng Ji can imagine how those who have no land and little land, whether they are Cantonese natives or Hakka people, will support this royal regime.

This holy king is really calculating! Zheng Ji sighed secretly.

"It's going to change! When I go back this time, it is better to sell half of my family's land as soon as possible and concentrate on business! Zheng Ji, who left Guangzhou, thought so. (To be continued.) )