Soon, Fan Ning left Songcheng County, with several entourages to inspect the counties under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu, which has jurisdiction over Songcheng, Ningling, Zhecheng, Gushu, Yucheng, Xiayi, Chuqiu and other seven counties, except for Songcheng County, which is commercially developed, the rest of the counties are mainly agricultural, and are important production areas in the Central Plains, with endless farmland everywhere.

Fanning first arrived in Gushu County, at this time it has entered May, it is the time of winter wheat heading and filling, both sides of the official road are full of greenery, the fields are full of farmers busy catching insects and exterminating insects, if there are locusts and other disasters, there is also the mobilization of the whole people, go to the field to catch insects.

The Song Dynasty insecticide mainly uses mirage, fishy water and lime, sulfur and so on, since Kunzhou sent millions of catties of sulfur to the Song Dynasty every year, the price of sulfur fell sharply, the price of sulfur per catty was only sold to more than 20 wen, the farmers used sulfur to grind into powder, sprinkled in the place where the pests and diseases are easy to grow, and the insecticidal effect was excellent.

There are still more than ten miles away from the county seat, and Fanning saw dozens of people building a huge waterwheel, and everyone worked together to pull the rope and erect the huge waterwheel.

Fanning and the others were a little struggling, so they said to the four men, "Go and give a hand." ”

Zhu Long and other four guards rushed up to help stabilize the waterwheel, the waterwheel finally stabilized, and in the shouting of the trumpet, the waterwheel was finally put into the pre-built frame, and then various parts were installed behind, and the waterwheel was basically ready to use.

At this time, a middle-aged man stepped forward to thank him, "Thank you for the help of the officials, otherwise you wouldn't be able to pretend today." ”

When Fanning saw that several of the people in the group were wearing archers' soap suits and carrying knives, he asked, "Are you tolerance?" ”

"It's not tolerance, it's Xie County's order to help with the archers."

Fan Ning smiled, "Please Xie County Commander come to see me!" It is said that Fan Ning is here. ”

The man was shocked, "It turned out to be the prefect, and the villain was rude!" ”

He hurriedly saluted, turned and ran towards the waterwheel.

Not long after, a man in his thirties hurriedly came and saluted Fan Ningshi: "Xiaguan Gushu County Commander Xie Wensheng, see Fujun!" ”

Fan Ning turned over and dismounted, and said with a smile: "Xie County's order is exempt!" ”

At this time, dozens of people came forward to meet Fanning, Fanning asked everyone to get up, and said with a smile: "It seems that this year's summer harvest is good!" ”

Everyone said: "The key is that the water source is sufficient and the irrigation facilities are effective. ”

There are also humanitarians: "It's God who opened his eyes, and this year the wind and rain are smooth." ”

Fanning smiled: "Let's go get busy first!" I'll talk to you a little bit later. ”

Everyone went back to install the water wheel, and Fanning said to Xie County: "Xie County, let's accompany me to see the farmland!" ”

Xie Xianling nodded, and walked towards the ridge with Fanning, the two walked along a slender ridge to the center of the wheat field, Fanning looked around, and saw a lush seedling in the distance, so he smiled: "It looks like I have to plant another season of rice!" ”

"In another month, the wheat will be harvested, and then another season of rice will be planted, and the seedlings will be almost ready, so we have to start watering and cultivating the fields after harvesting the wheat, and the officials of our county will participate in the harvest and seeds."

"Can the ploughing cattle be guaranteed?"

"Almost! We have set up a mutual aid cooperative, which can guarantee a ploughing cow for 300 acres, and when the ploughing cattle are a little harder, they can basically ensure farming. ”

Fan Ning was a little interested, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the Cattle Mutual Aid Society specifically." ”

Seeing that Fan Governor was interested, he pressed the excitement in his heart and said: "The Cattle Mutual Aid Cooperative was established three years ago, first of all, the number of cattle cultivated by each farmer, and then the number of acres of land and cattle ploughing of large households should also be registered, so that it will be found that some people have more land and less cattle, and some people have less land and more cattle, and then adjust the surplus and shortage, and form a mutual aid cooperative." ”

"Do you want to pay for the cow rent?"

"No, the main thing is to exchange labor, they will negotiate on their own, such as today you lend cattle to me to use, winter I will help your family shovel snow, etc., this is a way, another way is to open up the supply demand card in each township of the community, by a special person responsible for registering the cattle for the cattle time, repayment of labor services, etc., after the need for cattle people get the news, they will contact themselves, and come back to eliminate the information after the contact is successful, and use a variety of ways to solve the problem of cattle farming."

Fan Ning listened very carefully, and he quickly understood Xie Wensheng's method, which is actually to provide information and complement the remaining shortcomings, if this method is to last and form an industry, it can be implemented in the rural tooth industry, and a large number of full-time tooth people will go to the countryside to provide all kinds of information.

At present, the services of tooth people involved in rural areas are mainly the sale and purchase of rural houses, and if the scope of services is expanded, it should be a very promising career.

Although Xie Wensheng did not make use of the rural Yaren, his idea of providing information services for the villagers was good, and the plan of exchanging labor services for labor services was also very pragmatic and worthy of reference.

However, Fanning is more interested in his practice of registering the acres of land, you must know that a very serious problem in the Great Song Dynasty is to conceal the acres of fields, the purpose of this is of course to evade taxes, there are many ways to conceal the acres, the most important way is two, one way is not to register with the government, this is the most common way for wealthy families, but the common people dare not do this, if they are occupied by the wealthy, there is no reason to redress their grievances.

Another way is the small deed of the field, a land deed registered on one acre of land, but in fact it is two acres of land, as long as the land is not sold, it can not be found out at all, at present the problem of the Song Dynasty concealing acres of land is very serious, at least thirty percent of the land is in a state of concealment, even Fan Ning's father also concealed a few acres of land.

It would be a surprise if Xie Wensheng could find a solution to this problem, Fan Ning asked: "You said that every family registers acres, can it be completely true?" ”

Xie Wensheng immediately realized what the prefect was considering, registering the real number of acres, how many officials had been troubled by this problem, and Gushu County was no exception, his face was slightly red, how could he do real registration.

Xie Wensheng had to tell the truth: "The number of registered acres is also reported by the people themselves, and we have not measured it on the spot, but the lowly position has an idea of the real acres." ”

"What do you think?"

"Can we refer to the method of collecting real estate deed tax, let the people supervise each other, and reward whistleblowers, I have communicated with many county officials, and we think this is a feasible way."

In order to prevent the people from transferring their ownership privately and escaping the deed tax, the government encouraged the neighbors to supervise each other, and once it was verified, the property would be confiscated, and half of the property would be rewarded to the whistleblower.

After the implementation of this scheme, no one dared to escape the deed tax, but is it applicable to rural land?

It can only be said that it is partially applicable, first of all, the real estate transactions in the city must be transferred for the wealthy families to prevent future property rights disputes, and the large families do not care about the deed tax, and only a few people try to escape the deed tax, so the government's use of the method of whistleblowing and severe punishment is not very large, and the effect is also very good, and the private transfer can be basically eliminated.

But the rural land is different, it is useless to tell the land of the local wealthy, not to mention that ordinary people are afraid of protection and dare not tell the truth, even if it is reported to the imperial court, it is really up to the court to expropriate the land of the wealthy family, which will inevitably trigger a strong resistance from the wealthy families everywhere, and even the powerful and wealthy families.

It is a disaster for both the local government and the imperial court, so this method can only be effective for ordinary people and small and medium-sized landlords, and it is basically meaningless for powerful and back-stage large landlords, so it is called partial application.

Historically, when Wang Anshi changed the law, he adopted the Fangtian Equal Tax Law, strictly measured the land in all parts of the world, and treated all the wealthy and ordinary people equally, and checked the omission of land, which aroused strong resistance from the field owners and almost touched the interests of all the property owners.

This is where the serious conflict between national interests and personal interests lies, and it is also doomed that Wang Anshi's reform will not last long, this is not a question of who is right and who is wrong, it really touches the interests of the entire ruling class, so once Song Shenzong died, the rulers of the Great Song Dynasty abolished most of Wang Anshi's reform measures.

This is an important reason why Fanning opposes Wang Anshi's reforms, and if we want the reform to succeed, we must not touch the interests of the middle and upper classes, and we can only find ways to make the cake bigger and make a fuss about the distribution of the new cake on the basis of safeguarding vested interests, and this is the pragmatic and long-term way of reform.

Fanning smiled and said: "The key to solving the problem of hidden land is still to reduce taxes, if the land does not have to pay taxes, then who will hide the land, don't you say?" ”

Xie Wensheng was dumbfounded, how could it be possible to do it without paying taxes on land?

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