The Xue family waited for five days, but they never waited for instructions.

Jiang Qianyue was afraid that something would happen, so she went to Lizheng again.

Li Zheng also felt strange, although no one in his Zhaojia Village had bought mountain land in recent years, but there were still some in other villages, and according to their usual experience, this approval was just a process, and there was no need to wait so long.

For this reason, he went to the pavilion chief again, and the pavilion chief went to the county to inquire.

After some inquiry, the pavilion chief finally learned from the master that this instruction had been pressed on the county master's case, just because the Xue family made the county master a little unhappy, and it was not approved for the time being.

But it also reassured him that the approval would definitely be approved, but it would only be a few days later.

After receiving such an answer, the pavilion chief felt strange in his heart, how could this Xue family make the county master unhappy?

Isn't it been more than a year since the last complaint, how can the county master still remember it.

And wasn't that matter handled very satisfactorily, when the chastity archway was built, it was still a ceremony that the county lord happily presided over.

If it's not that, it's something else.

He had to know what the Xue family had done, so that he could sort out the seriousness of it and determine the approximate time he needed to wait.

After all, if this thing is done, his merit will not be good.

It stands to reason that it's just a thousand acres of mountain land sold, so it won't have much merit, right?

This has to start with Chu Wuzong's restoration of the human tax.

Originally, in the early years, the people were very willing to buy mountain land for land.

Oh no, there was no need to spend money on mountains then.

At that time, the tax per acre of land was fixed, and the mountain land was much lower than the field, and as long as the people reclaimed the wasteland (including the mountain land), the land belonged to the people, and they only had to pay enough taxes.

In this way, even if the harvest per acre of mountainous land is poor, there is some surplus after taxes.

Especially if there are more people in the family, anyway, there is a lot of labor, if the food is not enough to eat, it is good to open a few more acres of land.

And because of the implementation of the system of apportionment into the mu, the amount of this tax only depends on how many acres of land the people have, not how many people in the people's families, even if they give birth to more, they will not increase the tax, but there is more labor in the family, and this labor force is more, can not continue to reclaim wasteland?

This has formed an excellent atmosphere, which not only makes the people willing to have more children to increase the population, but also solves the problem of homelessness, after all, as long as you make a little effort, you can own land, who wants to be a homeless.

But since Chu Wuzong restored the human tax, this situation has changed.

At the beginning, because of the sudden implementation of the per capita tax, the family tax of the people with more people in the family increased sharply, but as long as they cultivated a few more acres of land, they could barely survive.

Therefore, the wind of clearing the land among the people at the bottom is more prevalent

Every year, a huge amount of mountainous and wasteland is reclaimed, and this extra tax can offset many of the taxes cut for the upper elite and landlords, which is also a good thing for the imperial court.

Why is it that the per capita tax has been introduced, and the tax has been withdrawn from the original land, and the newly cultivated land still needs to be taxed?

It is because the original apportionment system has not been completely abolished, and additional taxes are still required for newly reclaimed land.

With the improvement of the people's enthusiasm for land reclamation, the reduced taxes will be completely offset in the near future, which is more than one stone for Emperor Wu.

Not only did it encircle the elite class to make him more stable as an emperor, but it could also increase a large amount of cultivated land, and the tax could also be steadily increased.

It's just that the imperial court has just finished fighting with Fanbang.

I thought that after this state was defeated by the Chu State, it would have to die down for a while, but I didn't want to, before he sat on the throne, the originally defeated Fan State actually made a comeback.

Not long after the end of the war, the 'rebellion' had just been put down in the country, and the female soldiers who occupied as much as 10% of the total number of troops were reduced, resulting in a serious shortage of troops.

How could the newly settled state of Chu resist the attack of the Fan State with its existing forces?

Naturally, a large number of soldiers were signs.

This soldier is enough, but what about the salary?

The treasury has been empty a lot because of the restoration of the tax on people, and it has not completely recovered, so it is obvious that it cannot be taken out.

So how is this military salary raised?

He had just won the support of the upper elite and the landlord class, and he couldn't take it back from them, so he would have to give up his throne, which had not yet sat firmly.

In this way, there is only one thing left to raise taxes, and they can always accept this little drizzle!

But that doesn't work.

They can accept it, but the people at the bottom can't accept it!

At the beginning of the implementation of the people's tax, a large amount of land flowed from the people at the bottom to the elite.

The people at the bottom have little land, but they have to bear most of the taxes of the Chu State. The sudden increase in taxes is already unbearable for them, and it is really difficult to raise it in a short period of time.

In this way, Chu Wuzong hit the idea on this newly reclaimed land.

Look at this mountainous area, the taxes collected by the imperial court are light enough, and they are cheap enough for you, but you are still not satisfied and want to take it for nothing?

There's nothing so good down there.

From now on, this wasteland will not be opened for nothing, and you will have to pay money.

How much is the right amount to pay? Just a tael of silver.

What the? Can't afford to pay the money?

Then the grain will be exchanged for silver.

Every year, one acre and one hundred catties of fine grain, after five years, this land will belong to you

As soon as this rule came out, how could the people who had already cultivated the wasteland because of the lack of food at home be able to bear it.

If the silver does not disappear, it will naturally not be there.

And what about grain?

Do you know what the yield is per mu in this ordinary mountainous area?

If you grow fine grain, it is only more than 100 catties.

After they had worked hard to reclaim the mountainous land, they had to spend time and effort planting for the imperial court for five years in vain to eat the grain produced on the land.

The people, who have a large family population and few fields, were still counting on cultivating a few more acres of wasteland to support their families.

Well, don't get a little food from this newly opened land in five years, and you have to spend so much labor.

You know, the more labor you produce, the more food you eat. After they reclaimed the new land, not only did they not get any harvest in a short time, but they also had to consume an extra little grain, who would want to do it!

I'd rather sell the original fields in your hands to tenants and become homeless people than plant them, let alone your newly cultivated mountainous land that hasn't been covered with heat.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the people to open up the wasteland was greatly discouraged.

Only those families who have enough land in their hands and a little excess labor are willing to reclaim a few acres of land, anyway, this labor force is not in vain, so they have more strength to plant, and planting this land for five years is ours, and it is better than nothing. But such people do not make up the majority.

Later, because the harvest in the fields became worse and worse, in the hearts of the people, grain was more important than silver, which was the root of life, and those who had a little surplus in the family were more willing to pay silver than grain.

As a result, it became a practice to buy an acre of mountain land for one or two pieces of silver.

Especially now, when taxes are heavier and the harvest is getting worse and worse, who wants to spend that effort and money to reclaim the mountains.

And for the elites, the quality of the mountain land itself is not good, and they have to pay money to buy it, and they have to hire tenants to reclaim it, and in the end there is not much profit, so they also stop thinking about buying mountain land.

In this way, the mountainous land of the imperial court became more and more unsellable.

Therefore, the Xue family suddenly wanted to buy a thousand acres of mountain land, which naturally became the merit of the officials and masters.