Chapter 120 New Farmland System
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A family member had already taken it, Jiang Sheng dipped it in ink, and said in Lishu: "In the winter of the second year of Zhongping, Le'an Taishou Mansion borrowed-"
"By the way, what's your name?"
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Jiang Sheng continued: "Borrowing 1,500 stone from Huangtong rice, the word is the basis! β
After writing it, it was handed over to Huang Tong, and Huang Tong hurriedly excused himself! He still doesn't see this bit of food, so he simply wants to send a favor.
"If you want to take it, take it! This Taishou has always said that it counts, and after the autumn harvest next year, you can take this note to the Taishou Mansion to ask for food. β
Huang Tong saw Jiang Sheng's grim face, so he had to accept the note tremblingly.
That night, Jiang Sheng rested at the county office, and the four entourages went to the pharmacy to buy some bone-setting medicine to treat their injuries.
Jiang Sheng tossed and turned that night, he was recalling the scene during the day, these people were unable to afford the taxes, so they had to transfer the farmland to the powerful landlords at a discount, and the landlords would bear the taxes, but the people could only be subordinate to these people who annexed the land and became long-term workers.
The families of these long-term workers all lived in the landlord's grange, and in addition to the family's food, the long-term workers often had to pay compensation to the landlord. There were also people who owned a small amount of land, but they had little left except to pay taxes, so they had to cut wood for food.
Jiang Sheng recalled the land policy of the Han Dynasty and felt that it was necessary to implement it, but the imperial court would never care about these things, so Jiang Sheng decided to implement it in the jurisdiction of Le'an County.
In the following days, Jiang Sheng kept concealing his identity and wandering among the villagers, and gained a new understanding of the people's suffering. After returning to the Taishou Mansion in Linji County, Jiang Sheng began to formulate a new system for farmland.
According to Jiang Sheng's plan, the first step was to reaffirm the state ownership system of land, and then implement it in three steps: the first step was to count the population and cultivated land of the whole county, and the second step was to divide the number of heads according to the number of cultivated land to obtain the land that each person should be allocated. The third step is to add and reduce taxes, that is, the people cultivate the land they have allocated, the twenty taxes are one, which is half of the ten taxes of the imperial court, if it exceeds the due scale of land without authorization, the tax will be doubled, and it will be set at ten taxes and one; When it is difficult for the people to cultivate and must be transferred to others, the other person shall enjoy the fifteen tax one, and the part worse than the ten tax shall pay the original owner an appropriate amount of rent.
This policy was similar to the land policy of the early Han Dynasty, which effectively limited the annexation of land by the rich and landlords, and allowed the common people to reap the benefits.
The current Eastern Han Dynasty implemented the division of land according to households and the collection of taxes according to capitation, so that families with more children lost a lot of land, and the land was very small, but the taxes they bear were higher than others, and this time the tax was undoubtedly reduced by the number of land.
The next day, Jiang Sheng summoned Xiahoulan, Yang Feng and other hardcore subordinates and said what he thought.
Xiahou Lan said: "The land is divided according to the head, and the tax that can be collected is the tax according to the land, in fact, it is the same. β
"That's different, big families have fewer people in land, and the tax paid is much higher than the poll tax. In this way, these big families will not forcibly seize the land of the common people. β
"That's exactly what I mean, I have seen the gap between the rich and the poor in the past ten days, and I have also figured out how to solve it, so I can implement it for the time being. Yang Fengβ"
"The subordinates are here!"
"After the year, you will be in charge of this matter, and you will have to supervise the population statistics and land measurement of each county according to the standard of ten people per county."
The New Year of the old calendar should be a holiday, and the county magistrates under Le'an County are also at home, so Jiang Sheng set up a banquet to invite the county magistrates.
As soon as they heard about the banquet, the county magistrates were shocked in their hearts, the matter of Xiahou Lan's treatment of the salt field was still vivid, would Jiang Sheng's banquet also have the same purpose as that Xiahou Lan?
However, if he didn't go to the banquet, Jiang Sheng blamed him, and it was not easy to explain, so he made an appointment to go to the banquet.
Jiang Sheng first raised a bowl to salute the county magistrates, and the county magistrates all said, "Don't dare!" But they all drank it, and they were too shou to toast, how dare these county officials not give face.
Jiang Sheng saw that he was almost drunk, and began to arrange his own plans, these county officials couldn't sit still, if those big families were not beneficial, how could they still pay tribute, pointing to those mud-legged taxes? It's public, and they don't have the right to put it in their pockets.
"My lord, this is not appropriate!" When Jiang Sheng looked at it, this person was Xu Lin, the county magistrate of Yixian County.
Everyone was shocked, this guy didn't want to do it?
Jiang Sheng smiled slightly and said, "What's wrong?" β
"My lord, now the tax burden of the imperial court is very high, pointing to these mud legs to pay taxes, it is difficult for us to complete the task, in the long run, only large households concentrate manpower to cultivate the land, it is possible to bear the taxes of the imperial court, otherwise, we will wait."
Jiang Sheng nodded secretly when he heard this, and said, "What Xu County's order said is very true, but this official has a supplementary strategy. β
"Listen to your instructions!"
"Since the manpower is loose, we can also concentrate them. We can recruit the people to work in the official fields, and divide the officials and the people equally after collecting and paying taxes, so that the people will not be concentrated? If the family has land and can bear the tax, they are free to farm, and if the family has land but cannot afford the tax burden, they can concentrate on the official land to cultivate. β
"My lord, although this move is a supplement, but the income from farmland varies from time to time, if you can't pay the tax, how should you deal with it?"
"So, we have to find ways to increase the yield of the farmland."
"I wonder if adults have a good plan?"
Jiang Sheng asked people to take the four treasures of the study room and drew the style of the quyuan plough on paper. According to historical records, the Quyuan plough was invented in the Tang Dynasty and has been used until now. Jiang Sheng was born in the countryside and is no stranger to Quyuan plow.
Everyone was puzzled. The plows of the Han Dynasty were all straight ploughs and could not adjust the depth, so it was difficult to meet the requirements of deep ploughing, so the yield was extremely low.
Jiang Sheng said: "This thing is called the Quyuan plow, there are eleven parts, the plough is pulled by the ox when ploughing, the ploughman can adjust the depth of the plough in time according to the fertile and barren condition of the land, to ensure that the soil is deeply turned, and then sow with a cocoon cart, when sowing, the manure of people and animals should be dried and ground into powder, and the seed will enter the ground together, then the harvest will be considerable." β
Everyone nodded yes, and Jiang Sheng promulgated the new farmland system.
Before the end of the first month, Yang Feng had already taken people to the counties and townships to publish the lists, and then supervised the counties to count the household registration and measure the land.
In February, Emperor Ling ordered the rebuilding of the South Palace, casting four bronze figures and four emperor bells, and the money used was exploited from the people in the previous two years, which caused the disgust of the world.
Zhao Ci of Jiangxia County first raised troops, attacked Nanyang, and killed Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie, shaking the government and the opposition. Zhao Ci led the army to run rampant, and under the repeated encirclement and suppression of the local officials and troops in Jingzhou and the surrounding counties, Zhao Ci was defeated and killed.
Emperor Ling didn't know about this, and still arranged for the Ten Standing Servants to study the reconstruction of Nangong, Bi Lan was one of the more brainy, he improved the overturn, and transformed the original wooden trough into a thin barrel-like shape, called Thirsty Wu, so that most of the water outside could be left in Thirsty Wu, so that a large number of water from the lower places could be transferred to the higher places.