With the reform department standing firm, the four major lists composed of the "Shandong Reform Notice", "Tianfu Collection and Management Measures", "Commercial Tax Collection and Management Measures", and "Administrative Supervision and Reporting System" have been posted all over Shandong's towns and villages.

The circular clearly stated the contents of the reform, and the current reform content is to re-measure the acres of land, repair water conservancy, train the township soldiers, and tax reform.

Among these four items, the tax reform has the widest scope, and the agricultural tax only collects 10 catties of rice and wheat per mu, and only 20 catties are collected twice a year.

The harvested grain will be sold to grain merchants through auction.

The commercial tax only collects 10% of the commercial tax on the market and the goods sold into Shandong, and no tax is levied on the goods trafficked out of the country.

For the reform of commercial tax, those businessmen in Shandong have quite words, but they only stop at complaining, they have formed a close cooperative relationship with Zhao Yan, and it is impossible to fall out with him because of this 10% commercial tax. Moreover, these businessmen have been running in Denglai all the year round, and they know Zhao Yan's strength very well, and they will not jump out to oppose it.

A commodity has to go through the process of trafficking and then retail before it can flow into the hands of consumers. After the reform, the commercial tax will be levied once on trafficking and again in the market, and it will not be levied if the turnover is less than 30 taels per month.

"I heard that there has been a change of officials in the county."

"Yes! The original prefectural order is now nothing to do. ”

"In the future, there is no need to pay silver to the government, one acre of land only needs to pay twenty catties of grain a year. This could save a lot of food! ”

"All other miscellaneous taxes are also exempted, and no one needs to pay more."

The common people were overjoyed to see the new method of collecting land levies, and in the past, when paying land levies, they had to sell the grain and exchange it for silver before paying.

At that time, the price of grain was very low, and the amount of grain to be paid for an acre of land would definitely not be less than 20 catties, and coupled with the corruption of officials, it was likely that the remaining grain would not be enough to eat.

As soon as the tax reform came out, the people were happy.

"What else is there to report, if those errands dare to bully our people in the future, they can go to the governor and General Zhao to report it, and they will call the shots for us."

"Your Excellency? I'd better go to General Zhao to be realistic, General Zhao will definitely make decisions for us, and the governor won't be sure. ”

The series of actions of the Reform Department also made the people of Shandong realize that the new administrative organs were gone, and the police patrolling the streets were replaced by the police.

These policemen will not extort oil everywhere, they will also pay a fair price for their purchases, and the people can turn to them for help if they encounter any difficulties.

At the same time, we have never been soft on cracking down on criminal acts, and we have focused on cracking down on gang forces in various localities.

The courts of the Reform Division are also very impartial places, and those who have been wronged never take sides when they come to sue or sue them.

This is also a huge restraining force for those clan forces. In the past, those clan forces were rampant and domineering in the local area, colluding with local officials, and the people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out.

Now, as long as you go to court to file a complaint, as long as it involves clan forces, the compensation given is several times higher than that of ordinary civil lawsuits. Clan forces can be said to be the key targets of the reform department's crackdown, and once they are involved in litigation, they will not be punished softly.

As soon as the Reform Department came to power, it punished a large number of local ruffians and local tyrants, and the people praised them for a while. In terms of crime, the police force vigorously arrested them, and for a time there was silence in Shandong.

In various parts of Shandong, a large amount of information is collected every day, most of which is information on acres of land and household registration, and the work of measuring acres and household registration is carried out in an orderly manner.

After the acres are measured, a new title deed will be issued. At the same time, if they want to buy and sell land, they must register with the reform office, otherwise it will be an illegal sale, and even if they sell, they will have to pay a land tax.

Although the reform did not infringe on the fundamental interests of the tax-exempt class, who still did not have to pay taxes, they did damage their interests to a certain extent, and the new title deeds and land sale management caused them to lose their income, because the reform department did not recognize the legal surname of Bai Qi at all.

Of course, not everyone uses white deeds, and many poor people even give their land to those tax-exempt classes, which is why most of the literati who have been admitted to the meritorious service can become landlords.

The landlord class at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a constantly changing class, and once it lost the protection of fame, it would quickly weaken and be replaced by other landlords.

This class is also the most powerful enemy that Zhao Yan has to face.

The main contradiction is not in the land, but in the taxes, once their cheese is moved, it will inevitably cause a large-scale backlash, and Zhao Yan is far from ready to oppose them.

At present, it is still staying in the rented land, it is very easy to rent land in the East Three Mansions, the land in the East Three Mansions is not very valuable, and because of the development of Denglai, most of the tenants went to Denglai, and the landlords of Laizhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion often could not find anyone to cultivate, and left it in their hands to abandon the wasteland, and Zhao Yan put forward a request for rent land at the beginning of the great victory, and did not let them suffer losses, and those landlords and squires also rented out half-pushed and half-pushed.

"My lord, the land in Qingzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion has been measured, a total of 45 million mu can be used for cultivated land, and the people of the two prefectures have a total of 450,000 households, 1.8 million people, each household is divided into 50 acres of land, and half of the population is still missing." Tang Zhengze reported on the land and population of Qingzhou and Laizhou, which had been measured for nearly a month, and said, "According to the requirements of building a fort in 30 miles, the scope of the fort in the two provinces has also been determined. ”

"Why are there so many things missing?" Zhao Yan couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't see how barren Qingzhou was on the way to and from Jinan, but he didn't expect that the population was only 1.8 million.

"That is, there are people cultivating around the official road, and the bandits dare not act there recklessly, and the other areas are very barren." Tang Zhengze said.

Although the recovery in Laizhou and Qingzhou has been relatively fast, it is also limited.

"So, we're going to recruit 450,000 young men next year?" Zhao Yan frowned and asked, 400,000 young and strong! It's really hard to find it for a while.

"Recruitment is urgently needed." Tang Zhengze said: "Although we are using the land for breeding, and one household is enough to give 100 acres of land, but we have been expanding the army year after year, and if we do not have enough successor population, I am afraid that we will not be able to continue to expand, especially in the navy, and the number of personnel recruited in the future may be more than that of the army." ”

Tang Zhengze complained a little, recently the new barracks have withdrawn a batch of young men from the tundi, which has brought some trouble to agricultural production, if it is the army, Tang Zhengze has nothing to complain about, but the Marine Corps has expanded without the slightest warning, and often catches him off guard.

"Alright! I will write a letter to Zhu Dadian and Lu Xiangsheng in a few days, and ask them to cooperate. Zhao Yan nodded and said, 400,000 young and strong, but it is estimated that there are more than one million people, and they have to be mobilized with the assistance of Lu Xiangsheng and Zhu Dadian, the top local governors.

"With enough population, we can also plant the land more carefully, and at the same time, the young people in the tundi can have enough time to train." Tang Zhengze continued: "Xiaguan plans to plant most of the golden cauliflower as pasture in Qingzhou and Laizhou, and then plant corn and soybeans. Each tun is equipped with a graduate of the Department of Agriculture, specifically to guide the people to raise livestock, usually the people do is to compost, silage and manage livestock, a household of 50 acres of land can reduce the labor force a lot, and have more time for training, and then part of our grain from Dengzhou supplement, part from Handan and Yingzhou supplement, as long as some sweet potatoes are planted enough to support. ”

"The problem of the people's income is first of all tax-exempt, secondly, the forage is purchased by the pound, horses and cattle are directly raised from the tundi, and the people raise chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and sheep and other livestock."

"Okay, just follow this plan." Zhao Yan nodded, the aquaculture industry can also be intensively cultivated, the main thing to do is to improve the output of forage, compost is very important, long-term application of this fertilizer to cultivated land, has an obvious improvement effect on the land, that is, the labor intensity is greater.

Tang Zhengze plans to use golden cauliflower (alfalfa, clover) as the main forage, corn and soybean auxiliary, it is also a very good match, alfalfa yield is much higher than corn, and one can grow for 20 years, but generally the yield will decrease after more than ten years. Much less worry-free than corn. However, meat can feed a lower population than food, so the income of the people will definitely be reduced, so tax exemption is necessary.

The two main points are the source of soldiers and horses, and food has been relegated to a secondary position.

Sweet potatoes are enough to support, and if there is enough meat production, it can also make up for the problem that the protein content of sweet potatoes is too low.

In order to reconcile the grain issue, Zhao Yan immediately issued the "Grain Control Regulations", strictly prohibiting the circulation of grain other than sweet potatoes.

450,000 young people are strong, this is a very difficult goal.

Due to the promotion of sweet potatoes and the fact that there has been no major famine this year, except for a famine in Shanxi, it is not easy to recruit so many people.

For this reason, Zhao Yan wrote to Zhu Dadian, asking him to recruit some poor people in Lianghuai, and at the same time wrote to Lu Xiangsheng, asking him to move as many people as he wanted, and it is estimated that there will be many more poor people and displaced people on Lu Xiangsheng's side.

Shaanxi has the largest number of poor people, and after years of disasters and famines, it can be said that it is thousands of miles of red land, and the people are not able to make a living.

"Let the Yingzhou regiment transfer two infantry battalions into Shaanxi, protect the commercial houses along the way and recruit displaced people, and the provincial inspection brigades will focus on publicizing the treatment of immigrants to Shandong." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said to Yuan'er, who immediately wrote down the order and asked puzzledly: "Childe, if the Yingzhou regiment is transferred out of two battalions, what will happen to Tuntian?" ”

"Let them grow sweet potatoes!" Zhao Yan said helplessly, tighten his belt and raise horses!

(To be continued)