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"Boom Boom ......"

In the villages and towns around the city of Yangzhou, the township officials led their hands to beat gongs and drums through the villages and towns, and posted Chen Han's decree notices at the head of the village and at the end of the village, and posted them in the town office.

All the people, men and women, came out of the courtyards of their homes and gathered around the village officials, or in front of the notices at the head of the village.

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In the city of Nanjing, Chen Ming's face was a little calm, because today was the first day of the implementation of the new land policy reform. It was difficult for him to tell what was right or wrong in his heart, and the knowledge in his head could not tell him the answer clearly. So he watched Chen Hui exercise his last right. Although what Chen Hui said was unreasonable, he felt that it was not necessary.

Now the Fu Han Army is not bad for money, and when the banknotes are issued next year, the tax finance will be even worse. The Chen Han Central Committee can issue three or even five cents of banknotes with one cent of gold and silver reserves.

However, Chen Hui still made the decision to restrict land annexation, and he wanted to use the epoch-making 'idea' of 'tiered fees' to stifle to the greatest extent possible the main problem of land annexation, which had been the end of all Chinese dynasties. At the same time, it was also the last decree he issued during his years as a Han king, and it put into practice the stepped agricultural tax that had been discussed many times within the top level.

Chen Ming's eyes are deep, and there seems to be a sea hidden in his eyes, which makes it impossible to see through them all. This policy was firmly enforced by Chen Hui, and he did not stand in the way.

"Industrial and commercial development requires a lot of labor, and a large number of farmers need to come out of the fields." Chen Hui now understands this official company very well, and he persuaded Chen Ming, "But does this have anything to do with the implementation of the tiered agricultural tax?" ”

"How many families have more than 100 acres of land in this world?" This law is ultimately aimed at those landlords, and to a certain extent, it can also force the people to carry out the initial concentration of small pieces of land.

They don't need to exceed the red line of 100 acres of land at all, they only need 9 acres and 9, and it's completely fine.

Finally, don't forget, Chen Hui implemented a stepped agricultural tax, but it did not add any burden to families with less than 100 acres of land. This is cutting the flesh of the landlord, and it does no harm to the vast number of poor people.

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Time is getting closer and closer to the wax moon, Yunnan, Pinggang Town, Wangliu Village, located on the east side of Dali City.

The township official posted the notice and took the people away, and the originally quiet Wangliu Village quickly became lively.

The landlord of the village, the Wang family.

Wang Chengxin reprimanded his mother-in-law with a repulsive face, "Long hair and short knowledge." I told you that Chen Han has strict laws and disciplines, and Nanjing is a real dragon in the world, and the officers and soldiers under his command dare not come indiscriminately. You mother-in-law just muttering bad things......"

The old ideas in Wang Chengxin's head are still deep-rooted, and the officials in the village have come over, and as the first person in Wangliu Village, he must come forward to solicit the village elders to warmly entertain the visitors, at least he must be pulled into the house to drink tea and chat, and then kill chickens and ducks for a meal. It seems that in this way, he will be able to establish a good relationship with the people of the new dynasty.

However, his wife was worried that these township officials appointed by Chen Hangang would mess up and bring their family to 'disaster'. For example, if you collect taxes and levy people, you will be poked in the backbone by the villagers. So when the township official led people to beat gongs and drums into the village, she grabbed her husband alive. Wait and see the wind.

In fact, Wang Chengxin was also playing drums in his heart at that time, seven up and eight down, and he shrank his head when he was pulled by his wife.

And it turns out that Chen Han's officials are still honest enough, they don't look like they are fighting the autumn breeze at all, and they don't have the slightest action to disturb the people. Wang Chengxin puffed up his chest and trained his wife.

The landlord's wife of the Wang family didn't care about her husband's reprimand at all, and after decades of living, she knew what kind of temper her husband was. It seems to be angry now, but in fact there is nothing at all. The Wang family has a small business, and she is not willing to take a little risk.

"Master, master, it's not good......"

One of the only two servants in the Wang family, Wang Da ran into the courtyard at this time.

Wang Chengxin, who was still moving his mouth, and the landlord's wife were shocked at the same time, "What's wrong......"

"Then the township official brought someone back again?" The landlord's wife asked first.

"No, it's not." Wang replied with a big gasp.

Wang Chengxin and his wife immediately breathed a sigh of relief. But their breath was a little early, and as Wang Da said the next words, the blood pressure of the two of them was like a disconnected hydrogen balloon, and it did not rise enough. "Oops, I'm dizzy." Wang couldn't stand anymore, and was about to sit down with his chair.

"Isn't this robbing the rich and helping the poor?" Wang Chengxin's face flushed, and his body trembled as if he was swinging.

"What you say is true?" The landlord's voice was trembling.

"It's true, Liu Xiucai read it in person in the village. The rent of landlords and tenants cannot exceed 30%; Agricultural tax, 20 taxes for 100 acres of land or less, 1 tax for 15 acres between 100 acres and 500 acres, and 1 tax for all more than 500 acres. ”

"Ah...... the Chen Han, the Chen Han, this is ripping my flesh...... Ah...... "As soon as her legs were weak, she squatted on the ground with her buttocks, as if she had been hit by an arrow, and the landlord's wife opened her throat and scolded with a crying voice.

"Shut up, you mother-in-law, you want to kill the whole family." Wang Chengxin was still shaking, but when he heard his wife's words, he hurriedly rushed forward and covered the mouth of the landlord's wife. The new dynasty is sitting in the world, it is the government and the court, how can it be scolded? Don't look up?

And I don't know how many times such a scene has occurred in the whole of China in the past few days.

The biggest starting point of Chen Hui's resolute introduction of this policy is to limit the speed of land annexation. He knew that this decree would provoke a lot of scolding, but there were some such measures in all dynasties, and he was hesitant about some of Chen Ming's statements. And he also thinks it's okay, the decree can be issued or repealed, if it really gets in the way. And it doesn't matter if he scolds him, because he's about to quit the 'rivers and lakes'. After Chen Ming ascended the throne, some of the scolding and hatred would be transferred to Chen Ming's head, but it didn't matter.

As long as the army still absolutely supports Chen Han.

At the same time that the 'stepped agricultural tax' was introduced, Chen Han also introduced a 'special' policy. About the farm!

This policy is a complement to the former. This is also an 'innovation' proposed by Chen Ming!

In Chen Ming's 'proposal', the 'farm' is a different kind of existence from the usual cultivation of acres, and more precisely, it should be a mutated 'plantation economy'. Although the Chinese 'farm' and the Western plantation are completely different concepts, the former does not even have the innate conditions to become a plantation.

But isn't the name just a codename? Chen Ming is determined to divide the same thing into two different parts. He gave the 'farm' an aura of 'economy'. There were no tenants on the farm, only helpers, and everything on the farm was economic.

This is somewhat similar to the plantation economy, but in a very different form.

Because in Chen Ming's vision, China's agricultural development in the future is completely different from the household contract responsibility system in the previous life, but the farm economy like European and American agriculture. When the footsteps of the Fu Han army occupied the South Seas and landed in North America, China would have a total amount of land to cultivate several times more than Chen Ming's previous life.

Moreover, the household contract responsibility system is too constraining the labor force, isn't it?

China in this time and space will become the most powerful country on the planet in the future, and it will be the first country in the world to introduce mechanization in agriculture. At that time, with the development of society and science and technology, the farm would inevitably 'eliminate' a large number of laborers, because the latter's status was no longer tenants, but hired laborers, and these people could just add to the great wave of industrial development.

He didn't know what the development of workers and peasants in Europe and the United States was like in history, but in Chen Ming's assumption, judging from the knowledge he had, he felt that it was still very reasonable.

When the development of social science and technology has not yet entered a relatively high level, a large number of surplus people can be fed by 'farms'; and when society enters the electric age from the steam age to the electric age, with the invention of a series of agricultural machinery, the farmers themselves will take the initiative to use machines to eliminate batches of hired laborers. Provide a large number of labor for the wave of industrial development in the new era. It's harmonious, isn't it?

Chen Ming clearly put the 'farm' on the side of capital, capital exists for the pursuit of profits, and the farm requires all its output to be profitable after deducting various capital and labor input costs, so as to continue to survive. However, for tenants, even if they have no "profit" after deducting various capital inputs and labor costs, they can still survive because the laborers of the family farming still receive the "wages" as workers, and will greatly crowd out the hired farms. Even if this survival often comes at the cost of more work, lower remuneration for labor, and a lower standard of living, it becomes a big stumbling block.

What to do?

Chen Ming's solution is to use the 'agricultural tax' to pull the shelf.

Although this is quite unfair, in order to eliminate the 'tenants', Chen Ming can only do this. [If you have any objections, you are welcome to raise them, all for the sake of 'reasonable'!] 】

The so-called special regulations are that farm companies of more than 100 acres of land formed by the people on their own initiative -- [such as the previous production team] -- can enjoy a more favorable standard of 25 taxes and one in the payment of agricultural taxes.

In fact, after the introduction of these two policies of Chen Hui and Chen Ming, Chen Han's income from agricultural taxes was reduced to a certain extent. Because the army, officials, and even some landlords, the expression of the 'land' in their hands now -- the shares of military and civilian companies, is that the most obvious 'farm' economic model? Then there is a series of regulations on farm land, and there are very clear regulations on farm land and tenant leased land, which are absolutely 'incompatible'.

In this matter, Chen Ming used concessions to tie the army, the government, and some landlords firmly to his chariot, and then he was not afraid of anything.

Although I don't know if the ministers of the court really agreed on this matter, I know with my toes that their first reaction was not to oppose it, but to apply for the registration of the farm company immediately after returning home.

Time is almost entering the nineteenth century of the Western calendar, and it is now the second half of the eighteenth century, and if the storm brewing in China had not butterflies in North America, the guns of Lexington would have sounded next year, and there would be no more than a few months.

Eight years from now, John Bull's thirteen North American states will stand as an independent nation in the vast and rich Americas.

The world will enter a new era. And then a few years later, the outbreak of the French Grand GM and the rise of Napoleon......

Chen Ming felt that this was an opportunity given to him by God, and it was really a God-given opportunity. After a few years of recuperation, China could have flown over Spain and the Netherlands and take the opportunity to extend its hand to North America. In this way, when the French felt the evil thoughts and threats of the United States, and found that the old United States, who rebelled against the British, was actually a white-eyed wolf, whether the people in power at that time were Napoleon's Corsican monsters or not, China should be easier to buy Louisiana than the United States, right?

Chen Ming believes that under his leadership, China will develop by leaps and bounds in both industry and commerce in the next two or three decades of the 18th century, but there are too many Chinese now. Two hundred million. Agriculture remains the foundation of the country. No matter how confident Chen Ming is, he does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to lead China to complete the overall transformation of society in his limited life.

As long as the commercial capital does not reach a certain level, engaging in agriculture is the greatest guarantee for the resettlement of the population. Chen Ming still remembers that in addition to Britain, France's urban population did not account for 50% of the total population until the outbreak of World War I, and Germany's urban population only exceeded 50% in the early stage of World War I.

Chen Ming knows that such data cannot be completely transferred to China, but he has no other 'reference materials', as long as he thinks about the hundreds of millions of agricultural residents who have no fields, his little heart is also constantly jumping. Yes, the successors of the future will always unswervingly relocate Hermes-Epitek, but this is too dangerous in the end, and it feels like walking a tightrope, so in the face of Chen Hui's insistence, Chen Ming no longer insists but should make a little addition. Since agriculture will remain the national base for a long time to come. The government needs to use the land to tie up many peasants, and it is good to curb the land annexation a little.

Although the farm company can be shared, it can be merged and traded.

"The laws of the ancestral state are immutable" is impossible to happen in Chen Han. The way of governing the country should move with the world. If the law accumulates for a long time, there will be many evils, so 'there is no law that will not change for a hundred years'. If he can change his policies, future generations should also change his policies.

Restricting land annexation and maintaining national stability should not be an obstacle to China's social transformation in later generations.

The 'short-sighted' Chen Ming can now experience a feeling called 'crossing the river by feeling the stones'.

Chen Hui firmly believes that the transformation of China from an agricultural country to an industrial country will not happen in a moment. Moreover, how many factories will it take to absorb such a large number of people's labor?

Therefore, agriculture must not be chaotic.

Another important reason for Chen Hui's resolute introduction of this policy was to disintegrate the local clan forces.

If the land is more than 500 acres, the agricultural tax is one-tenth, which is more than double the lowest level. Chen Ming did not think that many small and medium-sized landlords could endure such a big loss, and they would definitely disperse the land under the names of the children of the whole family.

And the benefits are easy to divide, but it will be difficult to get together again in the future. No one is going to spit out the fat that reaches their mouths to the 'clan'!

In recent years, Chen Hui has collected a lot of information about the Jiangnan clan, and there are not too many things that damage the public and private interests, and corruption and feed. Compared with the aunts and nephews of the Wang family in the Stone Record, few of them in this clan are clean.

In the land law that has been promulgated, the law clearly stipulates that the land in whose name is considered to belong to whomever belongs to the official private property protected by national law.

This is to put an end to the 'false separation'.

Local clan forces, who in this world can have the deep feeling of the Chen family? The Lushan Tumenji Chen family itself is a clan, and after the Chen family has gained a firm foothold, they have always been wary of local clans. An obvious example is that the Fu Han army stationed large armies in Jiangnan, northern Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan, despite the lack of troops to fight in the north.

In the Qing Dynasty, the local clan power has developed and flourished to the peak, and in the countryside, the clansmen make mistakes or violate the clan rules or violate the 'public morality', that is, they are thousands of miles away, and the patriarch has the right to send someone to take it and escort them back to their hometown to be punished. Moreover, the Qing government also had a laissez-faire attitude towards this, so the clan power in the Manchu Qing Dynasty intensified.

And the prosperity of a clan is not something that a group of poor people can support, it needs rich and noble families as pillars, and they are also the source of the 'rights' of the landlords and gentry.

Chen Hui restricted land annexation, collected agricultural taxes at different levels, and combined with the inheritance law, that is, in order to eradicate the rich and noble families that supported the existence of the clan.

Chen Ming didn't know how effective this law would be, but he understood that this law was already the greatest embodiment of Chen Hui's talent. (To be continued.) )