"Twenty miles? Fifteen thousand acres of land? Hearing this, Yin Ruizhi's heart slammed, "It's all yours?" ”

"That's right." Li Zhigao nodded proudly, "They all have land deeds, and they are absolutely formal." ”

"You, how did you get so much land!" Hearing this, Yin Ruizhi was angry, after all, she had a black history of the family's land being seized, "You, you are ingenious!" ”

"Trickery? Will I do anything that is low-tech? Li Zhigao pursed his lips disdainfully, "Let's be honest, except for some barren mountains and mountains that no one owned, which belonged to me by myself, most of the other land was sold to me voluntarily by local landlords and farmers crying and shouting, all in black and white, and there are many notaries, they can't be fake, don't believe it, you go and ask someone casually, such as those middle-aged aunts, they all know what's going on." ”

Glancing at Li Zhigao, Yin Ruizhi really ran to the three middle-aged women and began to ask, and seeing that she was wearing a military uniform unique to group training, although the three middle-aged women were a little strange, strange how the other party didn't know about it, but they still explained the matter.

It turned out that what Li Zhigao said was true, and many of the surrounding fields were really sold to Li Zhigao by everyone crying and shouting, and it was not okay not to accept them, and what they asked for was to be able to obtain tax exemption and other benefits.

To be specific, it's more complicated, but let's start with tax exemption. At this time, the Qing government implemented a new policy, and all localities engaged in regional autonomy, but in fact, this was tantamount to giving the localities an excuse for collecting harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in disguise, so as soon as the new policy was implemented, the tax burden in the villages in various localities was higher than in the past, and the peasants naturally complained more, and even affected many landlords, forcing the landlords to go bankrupt and change careers or become inferior gentry and bullies.

This is the case in other places, this Taiping Mansion is no exception, the tax revenue of Taiping Mansion is also getting higher and higher year by year, although Li Zhigao has now become the acting commander of the patrol battalion and the highest local armed commander-in-chief, but he did not blatantly oppose the Qing Dynasty, nor did he seize the administrative and judicial power of the Taiping Mansion, he just started from scratch and played by himself, as long as he didn't touch his interests, he didn't care about other things, which is why the imperial court could tolerate him.

Therefore, in this case, the tax collector still collects taxes according to the practice of previous years, and this reflects the problem, the property under Li Zhigao's name, whether it is a field or a house, the tax collector does not dare to collect taxes at all, which is equivalent to completely tax-free, but not the industry under Li Zhigao's name, it is still the same, the tax burden is quite heavy, and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes make people breathless.

The people in the city are okay, thanks to the prosperity of commerce, and the underworld forces have also been suppressed, most of them can still get by, but the peasants in the countryside are not good, and they are still forced by the tax collectors to be very miserable.

At this time, I heard that the tenants under Li Zhigao's name said that their children were very good, not only did the tenants not have to pay taxes to the government, their children could also go to school for free, and the school was fully covered by food and housing, and even the seedlings, seeds, fertilizers, and even tools for planting were all covered by Li Zhigao himself, and the tenants only needed to exert some effort and work hard.

In addition, the tenants under Li Zhigao's name can use many new gadgets, such as well drilling machines, pumping machines, rice transplanters, cultivators, walk-behind tractors, etc., which are all good things that can really save worry and effort, and these things, as long as you become a tenant under the name of Li Zhigao's land, you can apply for use, once the application is approved, you don't need to spend a penny, you only need to take out part of it as operating expenses when there is a harvest. This operating fee is clearly responsible, and the peasant association, that is, the organization of the "Rural Security Federation", is specifically responsible, and this organization will let people from all villages go in and discuss everything to ensure that everyone will not suffer.

Of course, these are not the most attractive, the most attractive is the minimum deposit system, that is, as long as you become a tenant of Li Zhigao and rent his land, then even if the harvest is not good, you can still receive a minimum deposit, guaranteed to be able to eat a full stomach, and the minimum deposit is quite a lot, all of which are evaluated by the Rural Security Federation, and are basically calculated according to the number of normal years.

Free of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, free schooling for children, free of seed tools, can use all kinds of rare machines, and can have a minimum guarantee...... With so many benefits, why don't you hurry up and donate your land as a tenant of others, and when will you wait? It's too late, you see, other Zhuangzi who are far away also want to join in when they hear the news, but can't they?

In short, if Li Zhigao doesn't want to do too much for the time being, his control is also temporarily insufficient, if he really opens his mouth, maybe the entire rural land near Dangtu County will become his name.

"You, what are you ......" After hearing all this, Yin Ruizhi didn't know what to say, although he felt that this was inappropriate, but after thinking about it carefully, those tenants did get benefits, and the benefits were still great, but why did they always feel wrong?

"That's right, I'm just buying, or luring." Li Zhigao took his words and directly admitted, "I just want to use all kinds of benefits to collect all those lands in my hands and let those peasants tie them to me." You know why? Because in this way, I can hit the use of land, carry out more scientific distribution and utilization, and those tenants who join in will become a community of interests tied to me, and then if anyone moves me, hehe, I don't need to come forward, you first ask those tenants if they agree to say yes. ”

Choked by this sentence, Yin Ruizhi thought for a while, and then asked: "You do this, don't say right or wrong, but it can bring benefits to farmers." But I wonder, why don't you take more people and more land? How can only 15,000 acres be satisfied? ”

"It's not that I'm satisfied, but that my ability can only be like this for the time being." Li Zhigao smiled, "Do you think I'm comfortable like this?" Given so many benefits, you thought it didn't cost anything? Not to mention anything else, the minimum guarantee is not a small amount, and those free schooling, seeds, farm tools and various agricultural machinery, which is not costly? ”

"That's just as well." Yin Ruizhi nodded, "At first glance, it sounds like you are cleverly grabbing land, but if you think about it carefully, your contribution is far greater than buying land, no wonder they are all vying to give land to you." If you're like this, can you buy people's hearts? ”

"Buying people's hearts? Hehe, if you have to think so, I can't help it. Li Zhigao smiled and shook his head.

In fact, outsiders think that Li Zhigao is spending money to buy people's hearts, but only Li Zhigao knows, don't look at him as if he pays a lot, but in fact he makes a lot of money. Not to mention anything else, the value of these lands is absolutely worth the money, even if he does not dry other cash crops, just grow grain, with his modern hybrid seeds, plus all kinds of agricultural machinery, plus large-scale intensive planting, to form economies of scale, just sixty percent of the land rent, after deducting all kinds of expenses, can definitely make a lot of money, not to mention the harvest of cheap labor.

In fact, if we look at these rural towns and towns in later generations, Li Zhigao is equivalent to a township political axe, which is supposed to provide farmers with production tools and various services, and as for rent collection, it can be regarded as tax collection, but if it is replaced by the political axe of later generations, if such a high tax is collected by sixty percent, it will definitely make people rebel immediately! How can the farmers here be so easy to fool, and they still feel that they have made a lot of money.

What Li Zhigao did is that on the basis of not changing the original relations of production, he relied on the scientific and technological strength of later generations to change the core means of production, so that the relations of production remain unchanged, but the means of production have become larger, which is equivalent to increasing the unit productivity, and although the tenants still have only 40 percent of their income, because the overall income has become larger, they will be able to get more than in the past, and they will be able to live a better life. And such a small step of progress can naturally make everyone grateful to Dade, but if the step is too big and gives them too many things, then there may not be such a good situation. Shengmien fights against rice, and it is the same here.

In fact, even if you don't use agricultural machinery, just rely on manpower to farm, as long as you rely on hybrid seeds and fertilizers, Li Zhigao can also make a lot of money, the reason why he keeps investing in agricultural machinery, such as the kind of multi-purpose walk-behind tractor, and started a rural security federation, is to liberate a large number of labor, so as to create conditions for him to recruit workers and soldiers in the next step, and these people are the basic force for his future development!

Therefore, Li Zhigao's method is not to overthrow the local political power, not to interfere too much in the original interest groups, but not to start conflicts at an early stage, and to start a new stove by himself, enclosing land and farming step by step, and on the basis of not violating the original interest groups too early, while accumulating his own strength, waiting for the time to come, and waiting for the best time to come, and then accumulating thick and thin.

Perhaps Li Zhigao's method is slow to work, but it is the most difficult to crack.

Li Zhigao's good intentions, Yin Ruizhi obviously couldn't understand it immediately, but she could feel that Li Zhigao's set seemed to be very useful, and it could really make the peasants get real benefits, but if the peasants of the Qing Dynasty were really allowed to live like this, could the Manchu court still be overthrown?

But as soon as she thought of this, Yin Ruizhi shook her head and felt that she was too careful, because obviously she felt that this method could not be promoted nationwide, because the investment was more than the income, and it was completely a means for a very few people, such as Li Zhigao's generation, to buy people's hearts, not to mention that Li Zhigao, who created this method, seemed to be an anti-Qing element, even if he lacked a little courage and was a little too conservative.

Yin Ruizhi still has a limited surname, I don't know what the essence of Li Zhigao's system is, and I don't know that this is actually a pilot of Li Zhigao's future land system, which can be vigorously promoted with a little change. Now, the attraction is only average, and when the autumn harvest comes, as soon as the output appears, it is the time to really reap the benefits and the people's hearts.

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