Fortunately, Zhu Shuren is also a temper that follows advice, and the new law is now a pilot, and even taxes have not yet been collected.

After realizing the problem, he thought twice and said to himself casually:

"For some remote and rugged places, the problem of arable land is not easy to concentrate, can be discussed by the household department after the pilot this year. In the future, Tianxia Prefecture can be divided into Ping County and Shanxi County. Counties and townships should also distinguish landforms according to townships, and all counties and townships with mountainous areas as the main ones can reduce the 'lower limit of taxable acres of land' by some as appropriate.

For example, it is halved compared with Pingyuan counties and townships, and the lower limit of tax is 5 mu of paddy field or 10 mu of dry land. However, when actually approving the level and mountains, it is necessary to consider not only the local topography and the degree of dispersion of the land, but also whether there are enough local workshops and workshops, and whether the private industrial and commercial investment is prosperous and can accommodate the surplus labor.

The reason for the moderate annexation of plain fields and the ensurance of cultivators to do their best is also due to the fact that concentrated cultivation of plain fields is more efficient than decentralized farming. However, the fragmented land in the mountainous areas cannot be cultivated intensively, and people cannot do their best, so they can only consume it first. ”

Another consideration of Zhu Shuren also involved his agricultural management thinking that was influenced by later generations. In later generations, the plain area could be mechanized and mass-produced, so the Zhushu people very much hoped that the fields in the plain area would be moderately concentrated, at least to ensure that every household could plough with cattle, and it would also facilitate other advanced production tools in the future, even if it was still manpower and animal power, but at least it could be quickly promoted.

Whether the new agricultural machinery is quickly accepted by the people, and the field area of each household is closely related, if the field is too little, with the old tools a little tired of intensive cultivation can also be done, with the illiteracy rate of the Ming Dynasty, many people are too lazy to toss.

Only when the original labor intensity has been saturated, people are willing to use their brains to save effort and learn the use of new farm tools.

In the final analysis, all the layouts of Zhu Shuren are to serve the promotion of technological progress, forcing people who are unwilling to try new tools to try. Whatever this new tool is that hasn't yet appeared, it's important to create an atmosphere of willingness to try it out first.

Yao Qisheng saw that Zhu Shuren was so obedient, and he didn't hide it at all because he was just a small official, and he also felt the grace of encounter. He hurriedly added a sycophant:

"Your Highness has such a heart to benefit the people, and the above considerations should be selectively leaked through some informal channels to win the hearts of the gentry-

Your Highness, please think about it, who will benefit in the end by turning the poor peasants who have little active land but are still bound to the land into workers? It was the wealthy merchant gentry who ran workshops and workshops.

Because there are more workers, they can get cheaper wages. That being the case, why did the imperial court hide it before, benefiting the gentry and not leaving a name?

If the law is preached, then the gentry who operate the industry and commerce in the world will inevitably support this law, even if they need to pay the service money under His Royal Highness's new law, after weighing it, they will still find that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and they will choose to make a fortune in silence.

At that time, the gentry will also be divided into two factions, the big landlords and gentry will be resentful, and the industrial and commercial gentry will be grateful. The imperial court drove the workshop owners to control the landlords, and the resistance force was bound to be extremely weakened.

And to weaken those who have almost no land at home, but are unwilling to give up their peasant status and migrate down the mountain, the imperial court's methods should also be more gentle.

The students once thought of a strategy, which could learn from the Qingmiao method of Wang Jinggong in the former Song Dynasty, and give the people who were 'below the lower limit of the taxable land area' a certain amount of production loans, or help them buy the neighbors' fields with loans, or give them the capital to choose another livelihood. It would be best if they could expand their fields and live and work in peace and contentment, or find other ways out for themselves......"

Yao Qisheng said this, but Zhu Shuren interrupted rudely: "Then what if there are Diao people who borrow money and don't produce well, but just squander it?" Lonely remembered that in the former Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo once recorded that every time the Qingmiao Law lent money, or the rich were forcibly assigned to borrow debts, and finally overpaid the interest, they were exploited.

Or the destitute green-skinned scoundrel borrowed the money from the seedlings, borrowed it and did not produce it, and squandered it all by going to the Goulan wine shop, and when it came to the day of repaying the debt, he only said that he wanted no money and one life-these lessons of the predecessors, haven't you seen them? ”

Yao Qisheng was not worried, after listening to Zhu Shuren's question, he was a little proud, and after forcibly suppressing his emotions, he replied cautiously: "The former Song government is incompetent, how can it be compared with my Ming Dynasty?" Moreover, the territory of the former Song Dynasty was narrow, and I have so many places that need to be expanded and built in the Ming Dynasty now.

If there is really a loan owed to the court to help them produce, squander and not repay, and kill them, the court has a way to deal with these green-skinned scoundrels. ”

When Zhu Shuren heard this, his eyes lit up.

Indeed, during the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi was too merciful to deal with the green-skinned scoundrels who maliciously borrowed Qingmiao's money to repay their debts.

Of course, Wang Anshi may not really want to be merciful, he has no strength, the Song Dynasty's force is too weak, and he has formed a thinking inertia of spending money to solve problems for more than a hundred years, and has also developed a vicious circle of "whoever quarrels is loud has milk to drink".

The peasant problem in the Song Dynasty was the most serious, and thieves like Song Jiang and Fang La appeared at every turn. The Song Dynasty liked to settle economic accounts purely, so it incorporated all the peasant thieves who had no food to eat in the famine years into the box army.

But the problem is that no matter how rich the Song Dynasty is, the redundancy of troops and officials is becoming more and more serious, and there are more and more van troops, and the proportion of obedient people who pay taxes and grain in the end is getting lower and lower, and the pressure is getting heavier and heavier. In the end, everyone figured it out: the world of the Song Dynasty was that whoever could toss and who had food to eat, and who roared loudly was justified. As long as you are loud enough, you can still kill people and set fires in the end.

In this way, when Wang Anshi engaged in the Qingmiao Method, of course, there was nothing he could do about those green-skinned scoundrels, because these people were exactly what they could toss. And the Shunmin were all "silent majority", and in the Song Dynasty, all parties were infringing on the interests of the silent.

People who didn't dare to cry out in pain after being beaten deserved to die in the Song Dynasty.

And if this is left in today's belt and dares to maliciously borrow money from the bank, then it will be exiled to North America in minutes. In another 100 years, if the United States becomes independent, it will be exiled to Australia.

It's just that now those lands in Australia and New Zealand are all Janssen. Tasman helped him with the exploration of the Zhu Shuren. Zhu Shuren could have exiled Diao Min, who had maliciously repaid his loans, to Heilongjiang, Kyushu Island, and Ezo Island. If those places are saturated in the future, they will be exiled to Australia.

In this way, the people who salute first and then the soldiers, and those who resist the new law are basically eliminated.

It is not easy for bystanders to blame much, because the imperial court is indeed very gentle, and even allows the other party to borrow money to expand production first, unless it is borrowed and not used properly, and it will be exiled overseas.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to learn from the good economic construction of the Song Dynasty, but it was only impossible to learn the problem of "whoever has a loud voice is reasonable, and who can toss and who is subject to Zhao'an". Fortunately, in this aspect, it is also a rare advantage of Da Ming to do well, and it can be fully exerted - Chongzhen would rather die than give in back then.

Zhu Shuren sorted out the general tricks and context in his heart, so he was relieved to dare to reuse Yao Qisheng.

"This year, you first go back to Liyang County to work hard, but now that the tax has not been confiscated, I can't see the results, so it's not good to promote you directly. But as long as this summer and autumn tax performance is good. After paying taxes, Lone will naturally promote you to Yingtianfu's Hu Cao Gong, and there are still many opportunities for follow-up promotion pilots. ”

When Yao Qisheng heard this, he knelt on the ground again: "The student is grateful for the grace of His Highness!" ”

……

In the following months, the Ming Dynasty's reform of "abolishing and separating the nationality" was carried out gradually and smoothly.

Zhu Shuren's promise to "treat the mountainous areas differently from the plains and set a lower limit on the area of land per household for different peasant populations" was also officially added to the new law.

It's just that, after all, the vast majority of Yingtianfu is a rich plain area, even if there are a few mountainous areas, but the local area is still rich, and the industry and commerce are developed, which is enough to settle the squeezed out agricultural population well.

Therefore, in response to the whole territory of Tianfu, in the end, Liyang County, which is close to the border between Nanzhili and Zhejiang, was selected as a pilot for "mountainous counties". This place is close to Tianmu Mountain in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and it is indeed relatively poor.

In Liyang County, people who own less than five acres of paddy fields/10 acres of mountain and dry fields per household can also treat the taxable area as five acres instead of 10 acres in other plain areas in the future.

Of course, the middle and lower peasants who are between 5 and 10 acres of paddy fields per household will also pay grain according to the actual land area they own.

Ordinary people don't know the deep meaning of the imperial court's change. But the secret propaganda channels of the imperial court are the beneficiaries of sparing no effort to analyze this matter.

It is not good for the government to directly say, "We are helping industrial and commercial owners to increase cheap labor", so Zhu Shuren asked his concubine Bian Yujing to publish various jokes and sing stories through the channels of public opinion to preach the truth.

Zhu Shuren used Fang Ziling and Bian Yujing very easily on these private public opinion battlefields, and they were used when they were dealing with Li Zicheng twenty years ago.

It's just that now Fang Ziling has a formal official position and wants to be in charge of part of the administrative management of the Daming Academy of Sciences, so he no longer has the energy to care about the field of public opinion and propaganda.

After all, if Fang Ziling enters the history of the country in the future, she will have to enter her own biography like Qin Liangyu, not into "The Biography of the Daughters".

So those things that are not on the stage, I have to work hard for Bian Yujing to do it alone.

Bian Yujing was still familiar with this aspect, and it didn't take long for the wealthy gentry factory owners in most counties in Yingtianfu to know the court's good intentions, so even if they were famous families who ran business and paid more money because of the change, they still chose to firmly support the court's change.

As a result, the only people who still have grievances are those meritorious and famous landlords who are not involved in industry and commerce at all.

……

In the first year of the pilot, because all aspects were relatively lax, in the end there was no danger, and no one dared to jump out and oppose it openly. Basically, the amount of money and food that should be paid for the service has also been collected in full.

However, it is impossible to do 100% in anything, even if it is a traditional imperial court to collect taxes, and it is the norm for the local government to delay the collection of arrears. What's more, a new sum of money has now been added.

Therefore, when it came time to calculate at the end of the year, Zhu Shuren would not be soft-hearted, and instructed Ying Tianfu and the household department to select the county with the worst money and grain collection on behalf of the people, and as a negative example, the magistrate of the county was fined and suspended, and the person in charge of Hucao and the following typical persons directly responsible for the implementation were dismissed and disposed of.

And for the counties that perform well, of course, they should also reward the promotion of the officials in charge of the county and Hucao.

In the end, after accounting, as a positive model, it is not surprising that it is Liyang County. As a result, the magistrate of Liyang was transferred to the Changzhou Mansion next door and promoted to Tongzhi.

And Yao Qisheng was originally one level lower than Zhixian, but because of his private advice, he was promoted to the general judgment of Ying Tianfu, and he was already on the same level as his original boss, which is the advantage of holding his thighs well and being willing to offend people as a lonely minister.

After accounting, it was identified as a negative model in Gaochun County. There were two local lifters and a group of talents, and they refused to pay the money and food for the service, on the grounds that it was "insulting Sven".

They feel that as scholars, they should not serve, so even if they pay money to subsidize the service in order not to serve, they cannot accept it. Because of the payment of this money, it seems that they "should have been legally included in the shortlist of conscription candidates", and they feel humiliated.

And for this kind of thorn, of course, Zhu Shuren will not be soft. After punishing the people of the county and Hucao, the people who took the lead and refused to pay were directly removed from their reputations, and then they were still required to pay. In this way, they don't have Sven, and there is no humiliation for Sven.

The imperial court did this, but it still respected private property and did not infringe on it, after all, it did not confiscate their family property, nor did it directly rob it. Others saw that the matter did not make a big fuss, so they did not respond, and this matter passed like this.

After all, it's just a trial change within the scope of a prefecture first, or is it at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how much resistance can there be? It's also inconvenient to get blood spilled everywhere against these people. The real big heads are in the back.

……

Time has come to the second year of being well-off, and all the development tones set by Zhu Shuren have continued to advance steadily.

Kyushu, Ezo, and Tohoku all began to build infrastructure and clear areas according to a new rhythm. The chemical industry and the improvement of agricultural varieties are carried out in an orderly manner according to the schedule.

The abolition of the agricultural tax and the gentry's integrated grain payment pilot project was also successfully extended to most areas of Nanzhili.

According to the original plan, if the pilot project in the previous year went well, it should be promoted to the entire territory of Nanzhili this year. But in the end, when it came to the implementation stage, after evaluation and inspection, the imperial court still temporarily fine-tuned it and exempted the Jiangbei Prefectures of Nanzhili.

That is, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Fengyang, Anqing, and Luzhou are exempted, and they can wait until they are well-off for three years before continuing the pilot.

The reason for this determination is also to take into account that the population density of Jiangbei is much smaller than that of Jiangnan, especially Fengyang and Yangzhou Huai'an, which were ravaged by the Qing army, and only Anqing, Luzhou and other places were fortunately partially exempted.

Therefore, there are not so many peasant people who have too little farmland in these places to be squeezed out as workers, and the local industrial development is too slow to catch up even if the labor force is squeezed out.

However, considering that the pilot in the first year of Xiaokang was indeed very successful, the imperial court believed that the scale of promotion should not be changed, but only the specific object was adjusted.

After removing the five prefectures of Nanzhi and Jiangbei, they were refilled with Jiujiang Mansion and Nanchang Mansion in Jiangxi, as well as Huzhou, Jiaxing and Hangzhou Mansions in Zhejiang. In this way, if the five prefectures are removed and the five prefectures are added, the scale of the pilot is still the same as the original, and it can be regarded as the imperial court's promise, and it will not be changed overnight.

In contrast, Jiangxi and Zhejiang in the south of the Yangtze River have never suffered from the Ming and Qing wars, and the local population is still a bit dense, the industry is developed, and there are a large number of small farmers with only one acre and three points of land, which is very suitable for some of them to change careers.

Of course, the imperial court would not force the poor peasants to change their nationality in vain. Therefore, Yao Qisheng persuaded Zhu Shuren to implement the "operating loan provided by the imperial court and applied for by middle and lower peasants", which was also released in due course.

(End of chapter)