Zhao Mengqi knew that although there were already a lot of fields in the Taihu Lake basin at this time, there was still a lot of room for development compared with later generations.

It is true that enclosing fields will affect the ecological environment, but if we stand at the height of the overall situation and make scientific and reasonable overall planning, we can still benefit from and avoid disadvantages to a large extent.

Human beings have never blindly conformed to nature, but have been transforming nature and using it.

Moreover, from the objective facts, the enclosure of the field cannot be banned, not only the Song Dynasty failed to ban it, but the later Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties also continued to enclose the field.

In the past, the Great Song Dynasty court also tried many times to control the chaos around the fields, but the local powerful forces were too strong, and every time the officials who advocated this matter could only withdraw gloomily.

However, Zhao Mengqi, as the successor of the empire, many political methods are ineffective against him, and he still has an army in hand, he has just annihilated the Liu rebels, and the edge is flourishing, which can have a good deterrent effect, coupled with the prestige of the Wushang formed by the sacrifice to the sky, I am afraid that few people dare to jump out to oppose it.

Since he has encountered such a good opportunity, Zhao Mengqi has no reason not to make good use of it, and make great efforts to carry out a comprehensive management of Taihu Lake, which is not only beneficial to the economy of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, but also provides an opportunity for him to reform the army, and at this time, removing the bane of the Taihu Lake flood can also reduce countless troubles for future generations.

Now it's basically everything, and all you owe is money and food.

"Money and food, there is never a shortage of rich people in Jiangnan, my idea is to take out 10,000 hectares of fertile land first and pre-sell it to those big guys, isn't this 20 million yuan?"

The output value of cultivated land in the Taihu Lake basin, even in later generations, was more than twice the national average, so the land price was higher than in other places, and the paddy fields at this time were about 20 to 30 per mu.

Selling the field was in Wu Qian's plan, he was not surprised, he was surprised by Zhao Mengqi's selling method, "Pre-sale!?"

The people of this era pay attention to paying money with one hand and delivering goods with one hand, how do you know that later generations will play so much, and the building can be sold for money while it is still on the drawings......

"Yes, let the buyer pay first, and then give it to them when the field comes out."

Wu Qian was stunned, "Can this work?"

Zhao Mengqi said calmly, "Why not? Don't I, Zhao Mengqi, even have this credibility? Fields are a sought-after commodity, and a delay of a few years in receiving them will not affect their enthusiasm for land."

After thinking about it carefully, Wu Qian felt that this was the truth, "Your Highness is really a wonderful idea, this strategy can be tried."

Zhao Mengqi continued, "Let's recruit the army to work, and give them wages as well, if they want to buy land, the money only needs to be put on the account, and when the time comes, it will be paid in the field, which will save a lot of cash."

This guy is also very handy in using the methods of later generations of capitalists.

Of course, he did not simply sell the fields to the soldiers, but also had a follow-up plan, to have a certain control over the land, so as not to be eventually plundered by the powerful, and intended to carry out some experiments to improve the agricultural production model.

This matter is not in a hurry now, let's talk about the current situation first, "Also, since the imperial court has issued many bans on enclosing fields, there must be many enclosed fields that are not legal, and they are not even on the tax register, so these fields will either make up the land price and taxes, or these fields will not be collected by the officials, in addition, taking advantage of this flood to inundate the land, we can also comprehensively measure and sort out the fields, re-establish the land deed tax register, and eliminate the hidden fields."

In the Song Dynasty, various taxes were transformed into property taxes to varying degrees, and the two-tax law implemented by the agricultural tax was the symbol of property tax, and its principle was "only based on assets, not on the body".

Therefore, the imperial court did not care about how much land a family occupied, but only whether the landlord paid the tax in full, which is the so-called "tax land".

Hidden fields are fields that are not registered with the government to evade taxes, and those who can do this kind of thing are naturally powerful bureaucrats.

In the Song Dynasty, the government only controlled about half of the land in the tax register, so in order to recover taxes, from the beginning of Nandu, the meridian law was implemented many times, that is, to clarify the true situation of land ownership, so as to collect taxes.

Pingjiang Mansion was the first place to implement the meridian boundary law, and the initial effect was also accurate

It is really significant, but in the past hundred years, the world has changed, even if it has passed through the border several times, but the tax registration is still not accurate, and there are still many hidden fields, which is also one of the reasons for the shrinkage of tax revenue.

The Great Song Dynasty did not establish a field system, allowing fields to be traded freely, anyway, no matter who the landlord was, they all paid the same taxes, so the ownership of the land changed very frequently, the so-called "millennium field, eight hundred lords".

Moreover, it has caused a phenomenon that the property rights of the fields are very fragmented, and it is possible to divide them into several different owners in one acre of land, and the land owned by one person is probably not together, one in the east and one in the west, fragmented, which also causes great inconvenience in taxation.

Zhao Mengqi planned to merge the land of each landlord as much as possible, of course, mainly for those big landlords.

Even if it will be broken down later because of the deal, it will be relatively clear for at least a few decades.

After hearing this, Wu Qian was somewhat frightened by these cruel moves, and his heart was shocked, "Your Highness, if you are like this, there will be a lot of chaos!"

Merging fields may have little impact on the landlords, but the inventory of the hidden fields and the fact that they are asked to pay for the land that belongs to them is to put a knife on them.

Touching the cheese of the broadmen, they will definitely not sit still.

"Then let's see, is their head iron, or Lone's knife is hard!" Zhao Mengqi didn't care.

In his heart, he was already very merciful if he didn't fight the local tyrants and divide the land.

Wu Qian frowned, "Your Highness, if this is the case, I'm afraid you will have to fall into an eternal infamy."

"Hehe, *** can make these people pay taxes honestly, but the orthodox Han court can't?"

Zhao Mengqi said that after the death of the Song Dynasty, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was also the Jiangnan gang who were unwilling to pay taxes to the Ming court.

"Now that His Highness has made up his mind, the old minister will give up his life to accompany the gentleman and deal with these big guys well!"

Wu Qianli had a hunch that if he supported and helped King Yan implement these policies, he would probably be scolded as an accomplice to the tyrant of the faint king, and the end would probably be very miserable, but he still decided to side with King Yan.

Then he thought of a practical problem, "Your Highness, if you want to do this, I'm afraid that these local officials will not be reliable, and when the time comes, they will be disobedient to the yang and the yin......

Yes, no matter how good a policy is, if no one implements it, or if it is not implemented properly, it can only become a joke.

Local officials are inextricably linked to Haoqiang, and the transfer of officials from other places may not be effective, and it seems that it is not easy to operate.

Zhao Mengqi pondered for a while, "There are a lot of literate people in Dongwei Middle School, and there are many sects, and then transfer Tai students, the two cooperate with each other and supervise each other, it should be feasible."