The investigation deepened, and Chen Wen also heard the voices of the grassroots through the mouths of several new and old officers and non-commissioned officers' families. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBut how to solve the problem is not so simple, and there are many aspects that need to be considered.

"Husband, if we talk about the issue of tenants alone, we can strengthen supervision and supervision. However, when it comes to the expansion of mechanical production, the reserve of military rations, and the impact of the price difference between cash crops and grain on military households, this is not so simple. ”

Zhou Yueying seems to be like this, Sun Yu is also like this, and Chen Wen is also like this. This problem urgently needs to be solved, Chen Wen proposed at the meeting, often get some single solutions, but this itself is a chain reaction caused by the resurgence of maritime trade, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Mingjun Group through trade, taxation and the expansion of industrial scale to enjoy its benefits, naturally also to face the impact of transformation on the old policies and systems.

"We have to solve the problem at the root."

"What the husband said is very true, so why don't you go through the reasons for this problem again?"

Chain reaction, there are more complex reasons and the current situation, just as Zhou Yueying said, the idea of re-brushing it over is right, Chen Wen has not been like this before, but with Zhou Yueying's reminder, Chen Wen thought of another way that is easier to see clearly.

Picking up the pen, Chen Wen began to refine the whole problem one by one on the manuscript paper:

"The massacre of Jiangxi by the Qing army -- the decline in population -- the shortage of labor -- the shortage of tenants -- the forced decline in tenant rents and the abandonment of some of the military fields. In addition, corruption in some health centers has exacerbated injustice, which has further worsened the overall phenomenon. ”

"The solution, increase efforts to promote machinery and more advanced agricultural tools, recruit more people from neighboring provinces, encourage childbearing, and strengthen supervision and ......"

This is a solution to the problem of tenant rent, and many of them have already begun to do it, but this phenomenon is not only in Jiangxi, but also in Zhejiang. Due to the resurgence of maritime trade, many gentry landlords began to vigorously cultivate cash crops, and many tenant farmers who had rented the land of tenant military households were driven by interests and turned to the gentry landlords' homes to work as planters, which undoubtedly did not aggravate the shortage of manpower.

Think about the beginning, when the system of granting land for military merit was first established, a large number of tenant farmers no longer continued to be exploited by the gentry landlords, and came to serve as tenant farmers for the military meritorious landlords whose rents were more reasonable. Now, because the cultivation of cash crops is more profitable, the gentry landlords have raised wages in order to solve the problem of manpower shortage, and attracted tenant farmers to act as planters, all driven by profit.

This is a normal phenomenon, that is, many of the solutions are far from water can not quench the thirst. Seeing this, Chen Wen began to list the next questions on the manuscript paper.

"The rise of maritime trade -- the prospect of cash crops is promising -- the planting area of cash crops has expanded."

"The old policy imposed on the scale and proportion of grain and silkworm production -- military households restricted the cultivation of cash crops -- the profit rate of cash crops was higher than that of grain -- civilian households planted a large number of cash crops, while military households could only grow grain, and the scale of mulberry and silkworm cultivation was limited -- price fluctuations -- contradictions intensified."

After carefully looking at the overall problem, filtering it one by one, as the handwriting on the manuscript paper became more and more dense, Chen Wen quickly realized the core of the problem.

"Productivity, relations of production, means of production, understood, understood."

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Chen Wen realized the core of the problem, and with the deepening of the investigation of the health centers in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, it also verified that Chen Wen's view on this point was correct.

This is not a trivial problem, but the contradiction between economic transformation and the inherent policies and systems, which is only causing dissatisfaction now, and if it is allowed to develop, it is very likely to cause immeasurable losses and damage to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming military groups that are still in the war with the Manchus.

The relocation of the Yue Wangfu to Nanjing was forced to be suspended, and the problem was in the guard, which required Chen Wen to be in charge, and Chen Wen's next response also required him to continue to act as a Dinghai Shenzhu in Jinhua.

In the winter months, the summer tax has already been collected, and there are still three months before the bottom line of the autumn tax collection. Chen Wen identified the problem and decided to carry out pilot reforms in some prefectures and counties in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces to solve the problems he was currently facing.

Tangya Town, Jinhua County, Jinhua Prefecture, there are still crowds of people in the 100 households, Pan Baihu read out the latest decree, and the melancholy in his heart cannot be vented.

“…… In view of the existence of the above problems, the military households and military fields, military merit fields, pension fields and military rental fields under the 100 households of Tangya Town have been restructured as follows. ”

In line with the purpose of rewarding military merits and sacrificing sacrifices, since February of the 11th year of the Yongli calendar, that is, the end of the autumn tax collection of the 10th year of the Yongli calendar, it is no longer compulsory to plant rice, wheat and other grains and all kinds of vegetables and vegetables.

As soon as these words came out, many of the military households present cheered and jumped for joy. Most of these hundred households are soldiers who have followed Chen Wen for many years, and the number of military achievements is quite a lot, even if there are not too many here, but in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, there are also large tracts of land.

Nowadays, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the profits from growing cash crops are even greater, much stronger than grain, and due to the large infusion of precious metals, price growth is an inevitable result, and at the same time, it also further stimulates the mood of military households. Now that we have a decree, we can start planting cash crops next year, and the benefits will increase, which means that better days are coming.

"Military land and military leased land are the land issued by the Guard Office to the soldiers on active duty and the reserve soldiers to support their families, and the permanent fields such as non-military merits and pensions will be recovered after they are discharged from the army or the qualifications of the reserve soldiers are revoked. In line with the basic principle of winning military merits encouraged by the system of awarding military merits to the kings of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and the fact that military fields and military leased fields are not permanent fields and the needs of military food reserves, grain is still planted in accordance with the usual practice, and those who violate the order must be severely punished. ”

Many veterans have dozens or hundreds of acres of military merit fields, as for those soldiers who have invested under Chen Wen as early as the fourth and fifth years of Yongli, it is not new to have hundreds of acres of land at home, even if many are not in the place where they live.

The amount of land for military merit is different, and the military land is not the same as the military leased land. The number of officers and men on active duty, including the battalions and local garrisons, is as high as 160,000, and the naval division is much worse, but there are no less than 30,000 officers and sailors of the naval division, and the total strength is close to 200,000, and the recruit training camp is constantly training more recruits. As for the reserve troops, there are now no less than 50,000 of them. In this way, the army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming can mobilize as many as 250,000 troops.

The military field is the land used by the active soldiers to support their families before they are discharged, and each person is ten acres, and the officers and non-commissioned officers are the same. The military rental field is five acres for each reserve soldier, and the rent tax must be paid, so the reserve soldier is very positive about the assessment, and they all look forward to becoming the official Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army, so that even if there is no military merit field, they can also enjoy ten acres of tax-free military land and military salary.

At this stage, in addition to the military merit field and the pension field, Chen Wen still controls as much as 2 million mu of military land and more than 250,000 mu of military leased land, and it is inevitable that the price of grain will rise in the next year or two, but with this foundation, the marketization will deepen, and Chen Wen is not afraid of any food shortage or the like.

However, compared with those military households who have military merit fields and pension fields at home, the other military households present are a little depressed. It is understandable that people are like living a better life, but the military merit awarding system of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies itself exists to reward military merits, and it is natural to treat them differently in order to further encourage the active soldiers to seize military merits, and encourage the reserve soldiers to train diligently in order to pass the assessment and become the official Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming Army.

Of course, if he only let go of some of his hands and feet, Chen Wen would not need to sit here. Pan Baihu read the first decree, and then picked up the second decree, but this one is mainly aimed at the owners of those military merit fields and pension fields, and the relationship between the reserve soldiers and the recruits without military merit fields is not very large.

"According to the records of the health center, the number of military households under the 100 households in Tangya Town, the number of local military merit fields and pension fields does not exceed 100 mu. At the same time, due to the newly changed planting crops, the planting method is unknown, which is easy to cause the risk of reducing production and even planting failure. In order to prevent corruption within the planting cooperatives and endanger the interests of the members of the military households, the military households can vote for observers under the supervision of 100 households to supervise the internal operation of the cooperative......"

Planting cooperatives were mainly established in response to the fact that there are many local homesteaders and small and medium-sized landlords. However, regardless of the region, many military households also have a large amount of land in other prefectures, counties and even provinces, even more than the place of residence, and cooperative planting is not appropriate, so Chen Wen came up with another set of methods for a large number of military fields in the jurisdiction such as Nanchang Prefecture in Jiangxi Province.

“…… The establishment of plantations, according to the division of field bones and field skin, by the public promotion of experienced operators in the military households are responsible for the operation, military households can collect land rent, can also be hired at the same time, two-way profits. The plantations are supervised by the health center, and military households can also organize their own supervision ......"

The plantation is not as good as the planting cooperative, and it itself has the shadow of the perpetual tenant system in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it is not necessarily the case. For example, restricting experienced operators in military households, such as public promotion, such as supervision by health centers, and self-supervision by military households, these are all things that the permanent tenant system does not have.

If you have business experience, there are many people among the households, especially the gentry, but it is impossible for Chen Wen to hand over the land to the gentry for management, so many of the things he has done before will be wasted. In addition, there are already contradictions between military households and civilian households, and the management of land under the health center by civilian households is also prone to unnecessary management chaos.

At this moment, the old couple of the Shi family listened to the lecture in the hundred households of Tangya Town in Jinhua, and Shi Daniu, who was on vacation, had already rushed to Jinxian County in Nanchang Prefecture to listen to the explanation of the thousands of households in the local health office.

The pilot project started in Jinhua and Nanchang Prefecture, two more representative prefectures, and if the first year of the pilot achieved results, then it could be implemented in the entire Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming army occupied areas.

"Nanchang Mansion has a farm tool processing factory established by the Song Dynasty, and now the scale of farm tool manufacturing there is still there, and there is a water workshop here in Jinhua Mansion, and the lack of labor can only be alleviated by machinery and farm tools, and it is unrealistic to expect to recruit tenants from other provinces and encourage childbirth."

Chen Wen has read an article before, which mentioned the degradation of the use of agricultural tools and animal power in Jiangnan in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, with the increase of population, the per capita land area is decreasing, and in order to survive, the farmers in Jiangnan can only do their best to intensively cultivate, so as to increase the yield per mu, but the per capita productivity continues to regress.

Now the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, thanks to the Qing Dynasty, the population has decreased sharply, the labor force is scarce, or to reduce the production area, or to promote machinery and agricultural tools, Chen Wen did not hesitate to choose the latter. In his view, the latter can not only solve the problem of abandonment of military land, but also promote the innovation of machinery and agricultural tools, which is the real way out in the future.

"Furen, don't worry, there is me here, there is Governor Wang over there in Nanchang, and a large number of officials from the Yue Wangfu are visiting overtly and secretly, there will be no problems in these two places."

The pilot project of the two prefectures began, Chen Wen's original plan was to sit in Jinhua, but unexpectedly this side has just begun, and the neighboring prefectures and counties have imitators, not only the enthusiasm for investment is not inferior to these two prefectures, but also compared with the supervision of a large number of officials, the progress of the prefectures and counties that are close to the formation of planting cooperatives and plantations is faster, and more open-minded, the organizational model is quickly established, and the opinions of experienced farmers are consulted as quickly as possible, and the planning is carried out according to the guidance books copied from Jinhua and Nanchang.

The transformation of production relations began in full swing in various places, and the farm tool processing factory in Nanchang and the hydraulic workshop in Jinhua worked overtime, and everything seemed to be moving in a good direction.

Chen Wen is still quite confident in this, as long as they can grow it, the workshop will buy it, and after processing, he also has a fleet and an outlet to the sea, and he always has no worries about sales. However, compared with Zhejiang and Jiangxi, which have been recovered for many years, it has been a year since the Jiangnan side was recovered, but the implementation of the new policy is very bad, and it is even bigger than the problems of Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the transition period.

"Then I'll go first."

Yue Wangfu moved to Nanjing, and some departments have already started work in Nanjing. Chen Wen said goodbye to the officials in Zhejiang, took his wife and daughter on a warship at the Wujiang wharf, sailed downstream, and soon arrived in Hangzhou.

The restoration of the provincial capital in Hangzhou has not yet been decided, Jinhua has been regained for a long time, and the power of local people in the officialdom is very strong, and now the dispute between the two prefectures is far from over, especially in Jinhua, which is now in a transition period, and no one can express his position at this time.

On the shore of the West Lake, it is not very suitable to visit the West Lake in this season, but it is still much better than the one when Chen Wen recovered Hangzhou. Not to mention anything else, the horse manure by the lake, the disgusting smell of the lake water is gone, but the willows by the lake cannot be restored so quickly, just as the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed China.

"Hangzhou's recovery is good, and the immortals are attentive."

Li Yu used to make a living in Hangzhou by selling endowments, but now he has become a parent official in Hangzhou, which can be regarded as a creation and a man. However, he was very attentive to the restoration of people's livelihood in Hangzhou, and Li Yu did his best to smooth the Manchu Qing Dynasty after taking office, especially the scars caused by the Eight Banners of Hangzhou's garrison, and this giant city has now begun to regain its vitality, which shows the efforts of his people.

"It's all the credit of my colleagues up and down, and it's just the right time to get off the official."

"The immortals are humble."

As the prefect, Li Yu did not have time to accompany the whole process, and Chen Wen also planned to take his wife and daughter to play, and he did not need the whole process of being accompanied by this parent official who was about to be promoted to political envoy.

"Lady, there is Leifeng Tower, it was still a ruin when my husband came last time, and now it has been restored as before, but I don't know if the white lady is still inside."

"It's not that the husband has let go, which of the gentry and wealthy families in Hangzhou dare not come to participate in the grand event."

"I didn't force them, and besides, their names were also recorded on the monument in front of the tower, and future generations would record their efforts."

Visiting the West Lake with his wife and daughter is a comfortable time that Chen Wen has not enjoyed for many years, but this time he came to Hangzhou is just passing by, according to the plan to leave tomorrow to continue to Nanjing, that is, this West Lake is only afraid that there will be no whole journey.

"Lady, when the world is peaceful, let's repair a house on the bank of this West Lake, and come and live for a few days when we have nothing to do, and the right is to compensate for the debts over the years."

"What kind of stupid words did the husband say, the husband is ambitious in all directions, and the concubine does not need any compensation, as long as the husband can be healthy and convenient, it is enough."

The surrounding guards and maids had already turned their heads away, and even Chen Wen's daughter was a small ghost and made an extremely exaggerated action. Chen Wen is not too rude, even if he has been married for many years, he must pay attention to etiquette, but this does not prevent him from meeting his wife and daughter's requirements for play.

"Where else are you going to see, there is still half a day left today."

"The concubine, the concubine wants to go to the Storm Pavilion to see."