If it is said that the agricultural tax of 30 and 1 tax for farmers was exempted before, the attraction is not as great as imagined.

When Li Yunze directly issued a prescription to exempt the children and exempt the black households, the impact was no less than throwing away poached eggs.

You must know the price level of the Han Dynasty at this time, and one stone of wheat millet is only 200 yuan.

Because of decades of peace, the population of the Han people has increased dramatically.

It is common for a family to have more than 10 people.

If everyone pays the calculation, it means that the calculation alone will have to pay one or two cents every year.

For farmers, the annual expenditure is one or two yuan, which can be said to be heavy.

After all, although the income of peasant households is not low, under normal circumstances, the grain of one mu of land is about two or three stones, which is more than 200 catties when converted into modern units of measurement.

Corn costs more than 200 yuan per stone, and the average family can own dozens or even hundreds of acres of land before the large-scale land annexation begins.

In this way, thousands or even more than 10,000 catties of grain a year does not seem to be a small amount.

That's not how the accounts are calculated.

The family has a large population, and everyone has to eat, which consumes a large part of the grain, and it is necessary to reserve enough grain to grow.

After all, 'starve my father and mother, and don't eat grain'.

The rest of the grain was sold, and when faced with profiteers, it was not even sold at an average price of less than 200 yuan a stone.

Farmers need more than just food.

You can rely on your own hemp to grow mulberry and weave cloth for clothes, but what about salt? What about farm tools? What about seeing a doctor and taking medicine when you are sick? Want to eat meat and drink alcohol? What about red and white?

This pile of piles one by one, which one doesn't need money?

By the way, there is also conscription.

The common people had to serve in the conscription every year, not only to pay for their own food and clothing, but also to have money to survive the conscription.

Counting these expenses, it is extremely important for Li Yunze to be exempted from the oral endowment, as well as the calculation of the black households.

With household registration, the children of the black household can go to work in a dignified manner, go to the army, and work in the fields without going to the middle of the night, for fear of being arrested by the yamen.

It is precisely because of this that when Li Yunze increased the conditions for the investment of land, more people couldn't bear it anymore and took the initiative to go to the yamen to handle the application documents.

This is not that the Son of Heaven directly snatched the land of the people, but only owned it nominally, in order to cut off the land annexation.

Because it is nominally the land of the Son of Heaven, if you want to annex it, it is something that will strengthen the Son of Heaven.

Strictly calculated, that is a big reversal!

Some unwilling people spread rumors among the people, saying that the Son of Heaven was going to rob the people of their fields, which did cause a lot of turmoil and trouble.

However, Zhang Tang has never been accustomed to this, so he is busy outside, and the Criminal Department is temporarily in charge of Zhang Tang.

The people of the Criminal Department arrested people everywhere, and after they were caught, they were interrogated in the former Tingwei Yamen, and the current prison of the Criminal Department, and a series of people and families would be involved in the interrogation.

When it comes to killing Haoqiang, Zhang Tang's hand will definitely not be weaker than Zhidu.

Once killed, it really doesn't even let go of birds' nests, egg yolks, earthworms, chickens and dogs.

As for why these big families are opposed, it is naturally because they want land annexation.

As for why land annexation is carried out, of course, it is because land is the most important means of production in the agricultural era.

If there is land, there will be tenants, and with land and tenants, you can be the emperor of the soil and wait for the time.

As for the loss of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, will the world be in chaos because of this, these powerful people can't wait for the world to be in chaos, and they will have a chance.

Food is never enough to eat.

Because of the lack of meat and fat supplements, it is common for ordinary people to eat a pound of carbohydrates at a meal.

As for why not go hunting.

Hehe, the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests all belong to the Son of Heaven, and naturally those animals also belong to the Son of Heaven.

He went hunting without the permission of the Son of Heaven

In fact, Li Yunze is ready to open this ban as a way of encouragement in the next round.

Li Yunze didn't care about anything else. Only the Pandora's box of land annexation cannot be opened.

Once the annexation began, it meant that the countdown to the fall of the dynasty began.

There are many emperors in history who understand this, but they are powerless to resist the opposition of powerful interest groups, and even if the temporary change is successful, they will still be overthrown after death.

Only a traverser like Li Yunze can have the ability and perseverance to do this matter to the end.

Of course, there is another very important reason that he Li Yunze is not afraid of being 'dissolved in water'.

The usual trick of splashing dirty water and scolding people by the civilian clique is ineffective against the thick-skinned Li Yunze.

The black hand dissolves in water or something, Li Yunze is strong and fearless.

Now that Li Yunze is in Dahan, basically no one can control him.

If the Empress Dowager Dou is still alive, or Jia Ji is still alive, then there is room for operation, after all, the Han Dynasty rules the country with filial piety.

It's a pity that everyone is dead, so you can't rush into the mausoleum and carry people out to suppress Li Yunze.

After the autumn harvest, Li Yunze took people out to inspect the autumn harvest.

When he came to the vicinity of Balingyi to check the autumn harvest, the people sent by Zhang Tang caught up with Li Yunze, saying that he had something important to report.

"What?"

"Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo, shouting injustice in prison."

Liu Dingguo was escorted to Chang'an City in advance, and as soon as he arrived in Chang'an City, Li Yunze issued an order to abolish his title of King Yan first.

The current Liu Dingguo is just a traitor Liu Dingguo, and he is no longer Liu Dingguo, the king of Yan.

"Shouting grievances?" Li Yunze on horseback was a little puzzled: "What is he wronged?" ”

Zhang Tang's envoy hurriedly responded, "Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo said that he was bewitched by Liu Ling, the daughter of Liu An, and he did something wrong. He said it was all Liu Ling's fault, he was just bewitched"

"Huh."

Li Yunze was too lazy to say anything, and waved his hand directly, "Tell Zhang Tang to deal with it according to the law." ”

According to the law, Liu Dingguo's treason of colluding with the Huns should be punished with the punishment of car splitting.

Of course, Li Yunze was merciful and abolished torture, and only beheadings were required.

In fact, according to Liu Dingguo's status as the King of Yan, he could have left a whole corpse with Bai Aya's poisonous wine, but Li Yunze was unwilling to give him this dignity.

This time, the Xiongnu invaded the Yan country, and countless people died tragically, and tens of thousands of people were taken captive and plundered.

Just beheading, it's already a lot of saving face for him.

After sending away the envoy, Li Yunze simply dismounted, took a group of officials and palace guards, and walked into the village on the side.

The village is not very large, that is, 100 households.

At this time, the autumn harvest has passed, and the courtyards of every household are full of sacks of grain.

Looking at such a bumper harvest, Li Yunze also smiled.

In fact, Dahan's grain output is not low in this era.

First of all, the mu of the Han Dynasty is different from that of later generations, about 70% of that of later generations, which belongs to small acres.

And also know how to use manure, coupled with intensive farming, can basically maintain the average yield per mu at more than 200 catties.

You must know that in the Roman Empire at this time, except for Italy, where the land was fertile, the grain output in other places was not even less than 100 catties per mu.

It's just that food is something that will never be enough to eat in the face of a rapidly growing population.

"The three fertilizers in agriculture, the manure can only be regarded as a weakened version of nitrogen fertilizer, and there is a lack of the other two fertilizers."

"Plant ash can be used as a weakened version of potash fertilizer, but how to do phosphate fertilizer?"

Li Yunze knows that the Jiangnan paddy field, which is known as the fish and rice water town, has a very important reason why the output exceeds that of the north is that there are many fish and shrimp in the paddy field.

Fish and shrimp are typical organophosphate fertilizers.

It is precisely because there are many fish and shrimp in the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River that there is a high yield of local fields.

But where did the bones and flesh of so many fish and shrimp animals come from in the north?

Unless it is possible to find natural phosphate rock.

Li Yunze frowned and pondered, thinking of a way to do it for the agriculture of the Han Dynasty, and then he was awakened by the sound of quarrels coming from the threshing floor of the village.

I didn't say anything, just go over and see what happened.

"One hundred and eighty-five dollars for one stone of corn, not much for a single dollar."

On the threshing floor, the merchants, surrounded by many villagers, stood on the cart and shouted, "If you want to sell, bring grain, and if you don't want to, don't speak." ”

"How can it be so cheap?" Some villagers shouted angrily: "Last year, it was still 210 yuan a stone." ”

"Last year was last year." The grain merchant who led the team responded with no saltiness: "This year is this year, this year's grain harvest is abundant, and there are people everywhere who want to sell grain, and the natural price is low." The Son of Heaven no longer collects your land tax, and there are people everywhere who want to sell grain, and where can they collect it. unwilling

If you want to sell food, then it will rot at home. ”

There are also villagers shouting that "others collect more than 200 yuan of grain"

"Then you go and sell food to others." The grain merchant made an impatient appearance: "I'm leaving?" ”

The villagers were angry, but there was nothing they could do.

There are many places where people need to spend money to live, and after gradually bidding farewell to the era of barter, the value of money is more and more reflected.

In this case, the villagers can only exchange their main harvest for currency and then buy other goods.

And the difference in price caused by this sale and purchase has become a good opportunity for many businessmen to make a fortune.

This is the case of the phrase 'grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, and rice is expensive and hurts the people'.

Grain merchants who control the purchase channels can suppress prices without scruples, so as to make more profits.

Businessmen, in order to make money, you can really throw away anything, and your conscience will naturally not exist.

Looking at the villagers with aggrieved expressions on their faces, the grain merchants standing on the cart were full of pride.

'The Son of Heaven does not collect land tax, so he cheapens me. ’

Li Yunze does not collect grain taxes, but there are large areas of imperial villages in Shaofu, and the grain produced by these imperial villages is enough to supply the food needs of the officials and the army.

Moreover, Li Yunze is also reforming government affairs, and in the future, the income of officials will gradually change from food and other materials to money distribution, reducing the demand for food.

In the future, the output of the Imperial Village will be mainly used by the army and to feed the large animals.

It's just that I didn't expect that it was originally a piece of good intentions, but the grain merchants seized the opportunity to reduce the price aggressively.

"You can't go."

Li Yunze's cold voice came, with a cold killing intent.