Chapter 40: Suzhou Reform (3)

Whoever has the land, who pays the tax, this point makes sense at all times, if the landlord forces the tenants to be anxious, the tenants can still pick their sons, go to the major workshops to work, in this way, how dare the landlord increase the rent at will?

There are far more peasants in the world than the landlords, and once the peasants have a choice and know that the imperial court is fully supporting them, then the peasants will take the initiative to stand up and confront the landlords for their own interests. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the landlords......... Li Hongfei is beating the landlords, and the main target, or those big landlords, the more land in the family, the more farming tax needs to be paid, if you don't want to pay such a heavy tax, then you can only divide the family property, the land deed to relatives, each person gets no more than 100 fields, there is no additional farming tax.

As soon as Li Hongfei's move came out, it was tantamount to drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and it could divide the landlord class to a large extent, and it is not difficult to imagine that except for the head of the family holding the land deed, no one in the remaining clansmen would object to this.

After all, once the family is separated, the ultimate benefit will be most of the clansmen, the landlord's backyard is on fire, how can he still have the heart to unite against Li Hongfei.

"Humph! Playing stratagem, you also want to play this official? Lao Wu, let the yamen in various places prepare more cash, and be ready to buy the fields sold by the landlords at any time, and remember, but do not buy any fields that exceed the market price of seventy percent. A few days later, after Li Hongfei finished reading the progress reports of various places, he turned his head and said to Wu Hao.

"My lord is really a god!" Wu Hao admired it in his heart.

Now that they are following Li Hongfei's strategy step by step, there are always a few lazy owners in those big landlords' families, and once they get the land, these people are very likely to sell the land for money.

Or those stingy landlords are unwilling to divide the land, but in order to avoid heavy taxes, they can only choose to sell the land cheaply.

In this way, it is the best opportunity for Li Hongfei to recover the land.

Once the land was reclaimed, then leased to tenant farmers, and a contract was signed, half of the harvest was handed over to the imperial court every year, and the land was owned by the tenant farmers ten years later, which not only won the hearts of all peasants, but also completely divided the unbreakable landlord class and completely cleared the way for Suzhou's reform.

As for the point of communicating with the landlord between officials, Li Hongfei doesn't have to worry about it at all, he uses a yang scheme, the whole world is not the king's land, the whole world is the emperor's, and he didn't forcibly expropriate your land, which is already considered a holy mercy.

Besides, even if the land is yours, the tax is set by the imperial court, and the amount of tax levied by the imperial court naturally has his reasoning, if you are not convinced, you can rebel completely, and see if anyone will rebel with you at that time.

In the past, there was no market for arable land, and there were too many people who wanted to buy it, but no one was willing to sell it at all.

Now arable land has become a hot potato, and the more you have, the more onerous the taxes will be, so in addition to the imperial court, those rich people are worried that Li Hongfei will make some more moths, and they don't dare to take it over at all, so the price of land will naturally fall.

And some rich peasants with a little money, or small landlords with less than 100 acres of land, after learning the reserve price of the land purchased by the imperial court, even if they want to buy land, they will definitely take the opportunity to suppress the price.

Li Hongfei even made strange moves, and the tricks were cut to the deadly place, and the landlords complained one after another, how could they still have the heart to support a group of scholars to fight!

This time I made a onerous farming tax, and if I continue to make trouble, I will get you some other tax next time, and I won't be able to finish the game.

After all, he is the king of Suzhou, and he is a madman who "can't live for three years", and no one dares to brush the tiger's whiskers easily.

What's more, Li Hongfei's move has won the hearts of workers and tenant farmers, and most of the common people are simple, although they are not as literate as scholars, but they are not bad at all when they praise people.

And those literati, although they talk wildly, but the common people can't listen to it, and they don't want to listen to it at all, in their eyes, whoever gives more benefits is a good person.

Even some ordinary people were provoked, and they even took a flat pole and a basket to beat these literati fat: How good an official is Lord Li, not only did he not compete with us for profit, but he was still seeking profit for us, and he dared to say bad things about Lord Li, isn't he looking for a beating?

As for the literati who were beaten, they reported to the official......... Hehe, the law does not blame the public, so many people beat you, that can only mean that you are annoying.

After realizing the seriousness of the "collusion between the government and the people", a group of literati became much more honest, and they knew that Suzhou City had become like an iron bucket, and if it continued to make trouble, there would be no good fruit to eat.

But these literati are sometimes just tendons, Suzhou is Li Hongfei's territory, they dare not make trouble, so they went to other provinces to give Li Hongfei free "propaganda", in just a few months, the entire Jiangnan almost understood Suzhou's reform policy.

Not to mention, this effect is really good, and the public opinion in the entire Jiangnan has suddenly become polarized.

On the one hand, it is the power of wealthy people led by businessmen and landlords, and these people have denounced Li Hongfei one after another, saying that Li Hongfei is tyrannical and extortive, regardless of the life and death of the Li people, and the people of Suzhou are in the midst of fire and water.

However, this kind of rebuke is useless, Li Hongfei is the king of Suzhou, and he is covered by the emperor, at least in the past three years, no one can control him, even if you scold it badly, Li Hongfei will not lose a piece of meat.

On the other hand, farmers and craftsmen from all over the country praised Li Hongfei.

The peasants had to guard their own fields, and it was impossible to leave easily, and although they were eager to hope that such a reform could also be implemented in their own provinces, they did not dare to show it excessively, otherwise they would annoy the landlord and make life even more difficult in the future.

But those craftsmen and workers are different, they rely on their own skills to eat, some craftsmen who were pressed by the merchants, after learning about the reform measures in Suzhou, most of them chose to go to Suzhou, get a job, go to Suzhou to work, has become the most popular phrase among the craftsmen at present.

There are technology, there are the ability of the craftsman, have inexplicably resigned, this can be sad businessmen all over the country, and then learned that it is the Suzhou reform to make the ghost, have jumped like thunder, for a time many merchants united, want to boycott Suzhou businessmen.

They refuse to purchase Suzhou goods, and even take advantage of the local price advantage to fight a price war with Suzhou businessmen.

Merchants from all over the world want to completely isolate the merchants of Suzhou and not give Suzhou a chance to breathe, because the holy decree has said that the reform of Suzhou, the economy must be doubled, you can't even sell goods, how to improve the economy, in this way, maybe you don't have to wait for three years, Li Hongfei will have to be removed from office by the emperor and investigated, and the so-called reform will end without a problem, let alone fall on the heads of other provinces.