"Is that okay?" Zhuangzi asked.

In front of this Dai family, Zhuangzi is not ambiguous at all.

Furthermore! If you don't show your hand at this time, people won't believe you.

So! If you don't show some real skills, you won't be able to convince people at all.

Dai Benjia said: "In terms of taxation, I can discuss with the monarch, and there is no problem at all. The premise of encouraging the people to have children and encouraging them to open up more wasteland for farming must be that the amount of taxes paid by various localities remains unchanged. How much tax was paid last year, and this amount will be paid this year, next year, and the year after. I can assure you that the people's multi-faceted non-taxation must be based on this.

As for the question of increasing the population, the people can only feed themselves by multi-land.

What worries me? Once you implement the policy of exempting land from taxation, will your people specialize in cultivating new land instead of cultivating cooked land? You have to pay taxes for planting mature land, and you can do tax exemption for cultivating land? Isn't it? ”

On this issue, the two discussed.

This Dai Benjia is not only the companion of the new monarch of the Song Kingdom, but also the leader of the "Cheetah Team" of the Song Kingdom. Right now! He was inspecting the Song Kingdom.

So! There is a certain amount of weight in his speech.

If you convince him, you will be persuaded by the king.

Zhuangzi felt that such a situation did not exist. First, the yield of the new land opened up is very low. Only by cultivating the land properly will the yield increase. That's the main reason, so! This is the reason why not many people are willing to open up wasteland.

Second, without policy provisions, the people dare not open up wasteland for farming, and it is impossible to negotiate taxes. If the landowner insists: the new land is taxed in the same way as the old land, or! If the taxes are too high, who wants to open up the wasteland?

Third, there is no such thing as cultivating cultivated land instead of cultivating cultivated land. The reason is simple, all the land is not the land owner, but the landowner. If the landowner doesn't let you open up the land casually, you will have nowhere to open it.

In the Great Zhou world at that time, the land was divided. First it was distributed to the various princes, and the princes were divided among their courtiers. The land of the world has been divided up like this.

Fourth, a new tax policy will be implemented for newly reclaimed land. Instead of the previous tax policy. In the past, the tax policy was too taxy, and the people were reluctant to cultivate too much land.

The more land you cultivate, the more taxes you pay, so! No one wants to farm more. Most people only cultivate the land that sustains the family, and a little more do not cultivate. Peacetime! They will find other ways to make ends meet.

New taxes should be levied on newly reclaimed land. Such! The landowner would restrict his subordinates from cultivating the land. So! There is no such thing as a people cultivating new land and not cultivating it.

With the introduction of the new policy, landowners will automatically lower their taxes and encourage their people to cultivate their land.

Fifth, after the implementation of the new policy in various localities, the landowners only had a large number of their own people and cultivated more land, so that they could pay more taxes. So! Landowners do not want their people to live elsewhere, and they encourage their people to stay on their land.

On the surface, it is said that this policy was implemented throughout the Song Dynasty. In fact, Zhuangzi is just talking about how to try it out here in the lacquer garden.

Here in Qiyuan, the landowners belong to the Seven Evildoers and various other gangs. The Seven Wicked Men have the most and the best lands in their names. The other gangs only occupy a small amount of land, and the soil quality is not very good.

The lacquer garden here is different from other places, and no one knows whose fief it was before. Maybe? The family has long since become extinct, and there is no hereditary heir. Anyway! Now it is occupied by the Seven Wicked and others.

Once he Zhuangzi came forward and negotiated with the landowners outside the valley about reclamation, those who did not have land in the Qiyuan could go out of the canyon and go outside to farm.

In fact! As long as the landowners in the lacquer garden reduce their taxes, there are still many people who are willing to cultivate the cooked land.

And also! There is also a lot of unclaimed land in the lacquer garden that can be developed.

For example, there are shallow lakes and beaches, and some sandy land. Although these places have been occupied, but! It's wasteland. As long as someone comes forward to negotiate with the landowner, and is willing to pay taxes to the landowner with the new policy after the development is completed, the landowner will definitely agree. Such! You can sort it out and make it arable land.

If it is not developed, it is wasteland, and if it is developed, they will be taxed, so the landowners will naturally agree.

Dai Daguan looked at Zhuangzi and asked, "You said shoal development, how to develop it?" ”

"That's right! Regarding the development of the shallows, it is simple. It is to build a dam at the edge of the shoal, the higher the better, to separate the shoal from the beach. Starting from the upstream, we will build flood control dams to guide the water flowing down from the upstream into the lake......"

"Who wants to reclaim it?" Dai asked in disbelief.

"Yes! There are so many people who are willing to reclaim the wasteland! ”

"Why are you so scared?" Dai Daguanren asked.

"I called all the poor people around the lake, discussed with them, and everyone worked together. You build as long a levee as you can, and then I'll give you a piece of land. Who doesn't do it? When the time comes, there will be days when the head will be broken! ”

"Why did you break your head?"

"Not? No? It's all vying to develop, to build a dam! ”

"When the time comes, hold a mobilization meeting first, call everyone to discuss, and let everyone discuss a specific plan by themselves. And then! Then we will implement it concretely. When the time comes! All those who contribute will divide the reclaimed land according to the size of their merits. This one! I've already discussed it with the mayor! There should be no problem! ”

"Hmm!" Dai Daguan snorted, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Regarding the taxation of the newly reclaimed land and the policy of encouraging childbirth, I will truthfully report to the monarch!" I'll give you two strokes first! Not bad! Not bad! ”

Zhuangzi knew that the policy of encouraging childbearing, encouraging the people to reclaim wasteland, the policy of diversifying land, and the policy of reducing taxes on new land were all temporary. It won't last long, three or five years, not more than ten years. If it can last for ten years, the Song State will become a powerful country like the Qin State.

Why? Because! Once the people became rich, the kings of the Song Kingdom would think about expanding their power and participating in the struggle for world domination.

And also! Where can those officials of the Song State tolerate the people to live a good life? The people have a good life, and they have to live a better life than the people, or not? So what is the "government and the people"? So! Officials have to do everything they can to raise the taxes of their people, absorb the people's fat and anoint the people, and live a "high-quality" life at the level of officials.

When the time comes! The people, who had just become rich, returned to their misery.

At that time, what made Zhuangzi unbearable was that those newborn people, who had not yet finished their happy childhood, would be involved in a life of misery.

Thinking of this, Zhuangzi felt that he was not enriching the people and strengthening the country, but harming the new generation. If it weren't for his policy of encouraging fertility, there would have been so many people all of a sudden. People can't live on their own, who wants to have children to drag themselves down?

Zhuangzi's benevolence can be seen!

He sees not only the present, but also the future.

(End of chapter)