Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Four Heavens After the War
Compared with the panicked provinces around Siqi Province, Siqi Province under the rule of the Yan clan seems to be very calm, the reason for this is that the war has not spread to Siqi Province, and second, most of the wicked people in Siqi Province have been eliminated, so Siqi Province seems calm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After defeating their respective enemies, the five Han armies returned to Siqi Province with booty and prisoners, and when they entered the first city of Siqi Province, the repercussions were enormous.
The residents of the city came out to see this victorious army, the Han army actually defeated the Manchu Qing, even the people of Siqi Province couldn't believe it, but when they saw the captives escorted by the Han army, they couldn't believe it.
"Alas, the Qing Dynasty was defeated like this." Some of the old bones who were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty looked at the scene of the Han army's victorious return, all sighed secretly, and even cried bitterly, some of them still had braids, of course, they all wanted to keep braids, but some people were not protected, and they were either cut off by their own families or cut off by splashing skin.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually defeated, except for the Yan regime and the Han army itself, no one dared to believe it, under the huge contrast, some people were prone to mental breakdowns, and these were not something that outsiders could manage.
In addition to the old diehards who were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the other common people in Siqi Province welcomed Yan Xueyi as the new ruler very much.
Compared with the previous Siqi under the Manchu rule, SC Province has undergone earth-shaking changes in just a few months.
First of all, the most important point is that the great evildoers who oppressed the common people in all parts of the province have been caught by the governments at all levels in the province, and those who have been shot and shot have been killed as laborers, and the people who have been oppressed in various parts of the province have all applauded, so that the governments at all levels in the province have been initially supported by the people in various places, and the decrees issued by the governments at all levels have also been smoothly passed.
Then, the poor and landless people in Siqi Province have obtained their own land, according to the population of each household, five acres of land for adults, two acres of land for children, although the land is not much, but it is enough for the family to eat.
As for where did the land come from? It is very simple, they are all left by the landlords who have been confiscated and oppressed by governments at all levels, and you must know that most of the cultivated land in the entire province is in the hands of the landlords, and there are not many landlords who oppress the people, but there are definitely a lot, and the confiscated land is enough to be divided.
In addition, the land tax that the common people need to pay has also been greatly reduced, as long as 10 percent of the harvest per mu of land is handed over, and in addition to leaving enough grain for the family to eat, the remaining grain will be purchased at market price by the governments at all levels in the four provinces, and there will be no such thing as a bumper harvest and a cheap grain that hurts the peasants.
In later generations, there was no such thing as a field tax, and even the government subsidized farmers to farm, but in this era, the industry and commerce of Siqi Province have not yet developed, and it is not possible to rely on commercial tax alone, so the field tax has not been completely abolished, but a relatively low field tax has also been set, at least so that the people of Siqi Province can eat, so that Yan Xueyi will be supported.
Secondly, the common people of Siqi Province (referring to the peasants who only refer to the land) have no other taxes except for a relatively small amount of field tax, unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what taxes are a lot of them, and even the local officials themselves also add messy taxes, in the Siqi Province under the rule of Yan Xueyi, this kind of thing will never happen, the peasants only collect 10 percent of the field tax, as for other industries, merchants have commercial taxes, and workers also have to levy personal income tax, the rules of tax collection are similar to those of later generations, the same is that the more you earn, the higher the tax.
Finally, this point can make the people of the whole province happy, all kinds of goods from Yuanhe City are sold to all parts of the province through the Yan firm, such as all kinds of steel products, knives, basins and other daily necessities, a large number of people into the market, high quality and low price, causing the people to rush to buy, as well as bicycles and other strange things There are also many rich people will buy, in short, after the ruler of the province is replaced by Yan Xueyi, all kinds of strange but useful things in the province and city of the province have increased, bringing all kinds of convenience to the people.
Just let the ruler of Siqi Province change from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to Yan Xueyi, it will bring such a big change to the entire Siqi Province, the people of Siqi Province are obviously very surprised, the most important thing is to change the ruler, this kind of big thing, it does not involve ordinary people, as if after a sleep, suddenly changed an emperor.
Isn't changing the emperor a change of dynasty? From the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms Struggle for Hegemony and then to the Jin Dynasty, the original population of 50 million was only a few million, resulting in chaos in China, and the Han people could only retreat south.
After each change of dynasty, the country's population will be sharply reduced, which is also one of the reasons why the new dynasty will be prosperous at the beginning, the amount of arable land remains the same, the population is small, everyone has more arable land, and it is not simple to create a prosperous era.
Don't think so well of every emperor who created a prosperous era, the prosperous era they created was based on the premise that the common people were sharply reduced due to the change of dynasty and the war.
However, when it came to Yan Xueyi, there was no war in the "change of dynasty" in Siqi Province, and it did not affect the normal life of the people.
Of course, this is only for the majority of ordinary people, and many other landlords and merchants have chosen to leave Siqi Province and go to other provinces that are still under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the fate of such people is basically tragic, and this tragic reason is not caused by the governments at all levels in Siqi Province or the Han army, but by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Think about a group of people with a lot of wealth from the "short-haired thief" under the rule of the province to the province under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, once the officers and soldiers encountered, basically people will go to the empty money, a little luck, the officers and soldiers at most rob the money, people don't care, if the luck is bad, not to mention that all the money is robbed, people will also be arrested by the officers and soldiers as bandits or even directly killed, the reason for arresting people is also very simple, only one you come out of the province of Siqi, we suspect that you are a "short-haired thief" spies to get it.
The landlords, businessmen, etc. who fled from Siqi Province all regretted it, and they knew that this was the case, so it was better not to leave Siqi Province, but it was a pity that there was no regret medicine in this world.
As a matter of fact, the other landlords and merchants who did not leave Siqi Province were alive and well, as long as they did not oppress the people and did not do anything bad, there would be no police and Han soldiers to come to the door, and the landlords would continue to be their landlords, and the merchants could continue to do business.
Compared with the chaotic provinces around Siqi Province, Siqi Province seems to be peaceful and prosperous, and this is only a few months after the "change of dynasty" in Siqi Province.