Chapter 184 Decree

Now the remaining refugees have a place to resettle, and the remaining more than 20,000 and nearly 30,000 refugees have moved to Luofeng Town to mine. The population of Luofeng Town has increased dramatically, and this Luofeng Town naturally cannot continue to be called Luofeng Town, and there is no need for Zhao Yu to think that someone has already asked Luofeng Town to change to Luofeng County.

Zhao Yu asked for the establishment of a county, but it was not called Luofeng County, but it was named Zhaoyuan, which was taken from the meaning of 'Zhaoyuan, Zhaoyuan Yiye'. In vernacular parlance, it is to recruit refugees from afar.

However, it will take a while for the Holy Decree to come down, and during this time, Luo Feng Town will naturally not be able to continue to manage in the original situation. Zhao Yu exercised military management over Luofeng Town, Hu Yanzhuo led the headquarters to camp soldiers and horses to Luofeng Town, and Qian Yanyuan served as the Quanzhi mining transportation and resettlement business, temporarily managing the mining area and rehousing refugees.

As soon as the appointment was issued, Zhao Yu had to talk about the installment payment with the big Yizhou households who came to Yidu City. At some point, it is rare to pay in installments, and even if there is, it is between countries. After all, information is not developed, in case a person leaves, who will the advance go to find the arrears to ask for money? People are no better than countries!

At the same time, this time, Yizhou sent seven big families, all of whom were famous land owners in Yizhou, with a maximum of 70,000 acres of land, and even the town where his ancestral house was located was named after his family name. But that's not all......

"Can't pay all at once?" As the largest landlord among these people, Hu Fuchen immediately stood up as soon as he heard Zhao Yu's words. "Lord, although it is said that we bought those fields when we took advantage of natural and man-made disasters, they are all written in black and white, and both sides are willing, why do you want to take out a little money and take it down? As for the future, who knows! Once a son of heaven and a courtier, let alone a pacification envoy? ”

The other six big households all agreed, in fact, they all had careful thoughts, that is, they saw that there was not much money on Jingdong East Road, so they would collectively sell their fields. In this way, it seems to be a retreat, but in fact, it is a retreat.

How could Zhao Yu not have a taste for this? This is the second one, and arguably the biggest difficulty of this meeting.

"600,000! As long as you promise to come down, you can get this money in three years! As for whether it can be cashed out, I believe you should know the latest issue of Qingzhou Dibao, right? At least 1,600,000 taels of gold ore have not yet been accompanied by small veins that may appear around at any time. As for escaping, the great Song Dynasty, can it still escape? Are you afraid that your successor will dare to ignore your king? Zhao threw his first chip, but he didn't think the problem would be so easy to solve.

Hu Fuchen did not come out this time, but gave a look. One of the most faithful doglegs appeared and shouted, "Lord, you have a point! However, the price given is not kind, this is a full 180,000 acres of land! On average, one and a half stones per mu can be produced, and 270,000 stone of grain can be produced after a year! ”

Another big landlord interjected: "No, according to the current price of 500 yuan per stone, this is equivalent to 135,000 yuan!" According to our 30% tax payment, there will be more than 40,000 yuan a year! In this way, we will only get 70,000 yuan more than enough money in three years! This interest is very short! ”

In fact, this big household secretly changed his concept, first of all, the current grain is 500 yuan a stone, but that is because the grain has not yet come down after the catastrophe, and once the summer harvest appears, the grain will immediately fall to about 300 yuan. After the autumn harvest, the grain will drop to two hundred and sixty or seventy dollars. And this is only the retail price, and the price of grain purchased by merchants is generally about 20% lower than the retail price. In fact, when it is sold, one stone of grain is only about 200 yuan.

In other words, over the course of a year, the money received by the big households will actually shrink by half.

Zhao Yu knew that he could see the little tricks of these big households, but he was too lazy to bother with them, and now if he talked about these big households, he couldn't finish it for three days and three nights. After all, when it comes to grain, some people can say that the rice there is better, and the price is different for those who are watered less and the rice quality is worse after the drought this year.

Zhao Yu directly threw the second chip. "This king knows that you all secretly call this king to blame the king, because this king has never done things according to ordinary people's thoughts. This king doesn't care what you think, this king just tells you that this king doesn't like to talk about it the most. This is the decree that the king is about to make, and you can see it. ”

As he spoke, a scribe came out, holding in his hand the seven documents that had to be said, and handed them out to every big landowner. The big landlords opened the paperwork and took a closer look, and their faces turned green when they boarded.

"Yicang Grain Order"

"Grain Prohibition Order"

The former is that in the next three years, Yizhou will requisition 20% of grain per mu of land every year and put it in the Yicang, so that there will be enough grain for disaster relief after the famine.

This decree is good, the problem is two percent of the grain! Originally, the tenants of the big landlords would levy 30% of the rent every year, plus these 20%. Those tenants still don't rebel?

But they didn't have a way to stop it, because the document made it clear. This grain is not a tax levied by the imperial court, but is used for Yicang, taken from the people, and used for the people. This grain yamen did not have the right to use it in the absence of famine, but it could pay money and silver, buy it at market price, and use it elsewhere.

However, Zhao Yu also came to a sentence, which was only limited to the trial in Yizhou.

Isn't this forcing their tenants to go to other states and counties?

The latter's "Grain Ban and Business Order" made the big landlords hate it even more. This "Grain Ban and Business Order" basically means that there has been a three-year drought and three years of flooding, and since there is a drought, I am afraid that there will be a waterlogging in a few years. In order to prevent black-hearted merchants from hoarding grain, in the future, each merchant should not store more than 10,000 koku of grain, and each household should not store more than 8,000 koku. Once a violation is discovered, a fine will be imposed depending on the situation, and the excess grain will be confiscated to the local government.

In order to prevent unscrupulous businessmen from sending grain out of the market, and at the same time disrupting the market. Since the promulgation of the decree, Yizhou grain is not allowed to be transported.

Grain cannot be transported abroad, that is, it is confined to Yizhou, which is not a prefecture and county that can naturally consume all grain, and once these two decrees appear, they will immediately lower the price of grain to a level that is unacceptable to all large households.