Zhao Jun's promise to the victims spread out like a plague, and it also made Wang Yao miserable as the transfer of Jinghu South Road.

Because of the two-tax system, he has to raise enough grain to send to Zhenzhou this year.

The field tax is collected on the first day of May in the summer and the first day of September in the autumn, and the payment time is two and a half months and three and a half months.

This also means that Hunan's field tax was almost collected at the end of July, but due to the sudden heavy rain, it was blocked by floods just after setting off to Yuezhou, and it is still in the Yuezhou transshipment warehouse.

With a wave of his hand, Zhao Jun immediately asked people to go to Yuezhou to transport the grain back to relieve the victims.

Then his political achievements this year are over, and there is no hope of promotion in the future.

But apparently his arms couldn't reach his thighs, and he couldn't do anything about it.

But it didn't take long for Wang Yao to figure it out.

Now that the Constitutional Yuan is in power, and the Governor is above 10,000 people, this kind of thing is not a matter of the Governor's Voice?

It is a political achievement to collect all this year's summer grain and hand it over to the imperial court, but suddenly the rainstorm comes, the flood rises, and the food is relieved to the victims, isn't that also another degree of political achievement?

As long as none of the victims starve to death, as long as the land can be harvested in the coming year, then the prefect will always make a note for him in the credit book.

So after a short period of entanglement, Wang Yao also quickly changed his position and firmly supported Zhao Jun's decision.

Zhao Jun's embezzlement of taxes is not burdensome.

Because the taxes of the Song Dynasty were mainly two taxes, commercial taxes, salt and wine taxes, tea taxes, and exempt money, although the two taxes accounted for a certain proportion, the proportion has become lower and lower.

From the era of Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi, the proportion accounted for 70 percent, to the era of Zhao Zhen and Zhao Xuan, the proportion has dropped to 30 percent.

For example, Jinghu South Road in the Zhao Zhen period a summer tax grain transport is only about 600,000 stone, according to the Bianliang perennial maintenance of 2 to 400 wen 1 stone of rice, wheat prices, take the average value of 300 wen, about 230,000 guan.

In a year, the agricultural tax to be paid on Jinghu South Road is less than 500,000 yuan.

There were eighteen roads in the Northern Song Dynasty of Renzong Dynasty, except for Huainan East Road, Huainan West Road, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, and Liangzhejiang Road, which were major grain-producing provinces, the annual agricultural taxes exceeded one million guan, and each road would transport two or three million stones to Kaifeng, and the rest of the roads were basically hundreds of thousands of guan.

In total, the agricultural tax alone adds up to more than 10 million yuan from all walks of life across the country all year round, which is not as much as the money that Zhao Jun has made by copying his house everywhere to help Zhao Zhen in the past few years.

Therefore, the embezzlement of this tax itself will not have much impact on the side of the imperial court.

In addition to patrolling in Changsha, Zhao Jun has also gone to other disaster areas these days, although he has been to the disaster area in Huainan before, but after all, the disaster area at that time has been restored after three years, and the situation has improved a lot.

But now it's a different story.

Can you imagine the tragic situation of a village where most of the families are dead, and every household is hanging with a vegetarian line?

Can you imagine other county towns, dirty and dressed in tattered clothes, putting their daughters in baskets, picking them up on the streets of the county town, and sticking a straw in their heads to sell them?

Can you imagine an old man crawling on the ground in the dirty muddy water to pick up a bone dropped by a rich man and gnaw it?

The landlords and the rich swaggered down the streets, accompanied by slaves and sedan chairs carried by manpower, and they scanned every poor man selling their sons and daughters as if they were looking at goods.

Strictly speaking, except for Changsha and Linxiang, where the disaster is more serious, the rest of the counties have already been calculated.

However, other counties did not have Chen Xiliang's early warning, and even if the large-scale disaster was good, many villages along the river suffered heavy losses.

You may be asleep in the middle of the night, when suddenly the embankment bursts along the shore and the whole village is submerged in the tide.

If the rest of the people want to live, they can only sell everything they can sell in exchange for a chance to live.

When Zhao Jun saw this situation, he really couldn't sleep all night.

For modern people like him, although they can get a glimpse of a clue from the history books, such as "Huainan drought, cannibalism", "years of great hunger, easy children to eat" and the like.

But how can the understatement in the history books compare to the cruelty seen in reality?

So the impact of all this in front of him is unimaginable.

It's like the TV series "Awakening Age" I watched when I was in college, and the great man when I was young braved the rain to walk through the streets and alleys, and what I saw and heard was the same.

It's already shocking to see it from the TV series, let alone seeing it with your own eyes?

For this reason, Zhao Jun traveled to the counties many times, instructing the local road division, the state government, the county order, and many other officials to strictly demand their disaster relief actions and ensure the aftermath of the disaster victims.

In fact, it is not difficult to temporarily intercept Hunan's agricultural taxes to support the victims, but what is difficult is what to do with their lives in the future.

Therefore, during this time, Zhao Jun has been urging the local government to clean up the farmland, recruit local troops, hire young and strong people, repair the embankments along the banks of the river, and clean up the fields buried by silt and floods again.

The land of the common people was returned, and the fields of the gentry were required to pay for the clean-up, and the government would help them reclaim the land for more tenants who had no land and could only work for the rich landlords.

After the flood, there is a good point that the flood washed a large amount of silt onto the shore, resulting in sediment everywhere in the plains on both sides, although a lot of sand cannot grow food, but the silt is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which is beneficial to the growth of food.

Therefore, in the past, many barren fields that could not be cultivated could be reluctantly planted after piling up silt, but it was really not possible for Zhao Jun to ask the local government to help excavate the mountains and divert canals for irrigation.

These policies are certainly good policies, but there are many opponents.

First, this requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is by no means that it can be implemented by patting one's head and thinking that it is a good policy. For example, the excavation of mountainous areas, the reclamation of new soil, and the irrigation of aqueducts require at least tens of thousands of young and strong laborers, and the amount of money required is also very large.

Second, those landlords and gentry don't do it, why do they help the mud legs to reclaim the fields for free, and they need money to help them clean up?

The landlords and gentry are not the common people of the Great Song Dynasty?

In this kind of opposition, Zhao Jun can't go his own way.

After all, there must be lawless landlords and rich businessmen and gentry, and he also killed some in Tanzhou, but there are still many landlords and gentry who belong to normal human beings, and they have not done anything bad, and they cannot kill people indiscriminately.

Therefore, Zhao Jun can only be reasonable.

On the first point, Zhao Jun told the local government that after the disaster, since late rice could not be planted, it was the time when the young and strong labor force had nothing to do, so it was better to hire them and let them contribute.

The imperial court paid for them to dig up mountains, open up soil, divert canals, and build ponds. This method is called cash-for-work, and it can quickly resume production.

As for the second point.

Zhao Jun said that under normal circumstances, the imperial court in the affected areas would be exempt from taxes, such as the Huainan area, which has been exempt from taxes for two years.

However, the degree of tax exemption is generally judged by the severity of the disaster.

Huainan was affected by more than 10 states, starving tens of thousands of people, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, and affecting millions of people to varying degrees, so they will be exempt from taxes for two years.

However, only Tanzhou in Changsha was hit by floods this time, about two or three hundred thousand people were affected, and the number of drowned was only more than 1,000 people, and no one has starved to death so far, which is not as serious as the one in Huainan, and the imperial court will not necessarily exempt from taxes.

Even if it is exempt, it is tax exemption for the proletarian poor. Landlords with property still have to be included in the tax list.

Therefore, if you, as a landlord, have a big family and a big business, and your ability to resist risks is far more than that of the poor, and you can make another effort under your limited ability, the court will be very pleased that you have assumed a certain amount of national responsibility, and will also give you preferential treatment in taxation.

After careful consideration, the landlords felt that they seemed to make a sure profit and did not lose money, and they agreed one after another.

The main thing is that tax exemption is too attractive.

Because if it is said to be a preferential treatment, it is actually a transaction.

In the form of tax exemption, we will let you contribute money and efforts in exchange for price stability and speed up post-disaster recovery and construction.

Don't look at the Song Dynasty's agricultural tax is not high, Jinghu South Road only pays less than 500,000 yuan a year in agricultural taxes, but there are many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

In particular, the harsh taxes against the landlords, which exploited the landlords to death, led to the number of landlord uprisings in the Song Dynasty was also very frequent.

Therefore, compared with the tax that knocks on the bone and sucks the marrow, this amount of money and materials can be regarded as spending a small amount of money to avoid a catastrophe, and even if the court is exempted from taxes for half a year in the coming year, it will be able to earn it back.

Therefore, with the help of Zhao Jun's summer tax and the joint efforts of more landlords and wealthy businessmen in Tanzhou, prices in the disaster area have been stabilized and order has gradually returned to normal.

By October, Zhao Jun had been in Tanzhou for more than two months, and today there was good news that the imperial court had sent 500,000 yuan for disaster relief, which had now been sent to Tanzhou.

At the beginning of the evening, in the yamen of Changsha County, Zhao Jun was looking at the official documents of various places on the post-disaster recovery work, and Chen Xiliang came in happily and said: "Zhiyuan, great, the disaster relief funds from the imperial court have arrived." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun raised his head and just nodded in response.

Chen Xiliang saw that he was not very interested, and couldn't help but wonder: "Governor, isn't this a happy thing?" ”

"Yes."

Zhao Jun put down the official document in his hand and sighed: "But this money is still a drop in the bucket, and you have to think that this flood is only a disaster in Tanzhou, and the disaster is not serious, and the imperial court will spend a lot of money to ensure that every disaster victim is properly resettled, but if it is a disaster like the Huainan drought a few years ago, it will be a bottomless pit." ”

"You still have to do your best."

Chen Xiliang said.

"The disaster is inexhaustible, we can only pray that there will be fewer droughts like Huainan that have not been encountered in a hundred years, one is to take precautions, hoard more grain and grass in good years, build more embankments, reclaim more fields, and dredge more rivers."

Zhao Jun said: "The second is to improve the prosperity of commerce, after this disaster, I hope you can communicate with Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Quanzhou, Guizhou and other places, make every effort to dredge the Ling Canal, and increase business and trade with Guangdong South Road, where cotton is being widely planted, and Hunan can also introduce and plant these cash crops." ”

"Ditching is a big deal."

"Well, so we need the cooperation of the local governments along the river in all of your places to build the canal together."

"Yes."

"I learned that the price of private workers is about 50-100 wen per day, and the price of river workers is more expensive, around 150-200 wen. 500,000 guan can employ 30,000 people for about half a year, and this money must be used to restore agriculture and repair river embankments. ”

"Yes."

"Okay, make good arrangements, the post-disaster reconstruction work has a long way to go."

"Yes."

Chen Xiliang answered, and then retreated.

He felt that he could learn a lot from the Zhiyuan, such as the method of cash-for-work, such as the fact that he could exchange the support of the landlords and wealthy households through these negotiations.

In fact, sometimes in addition to class antagonism, there is more need for communication between people, and sometimes communication is more important than antagonism.

After Chen Xiliang left, Zhao Jun was still sad, and he was not very happy because the disaster relief funds from the imperial court had arrived.

In fact, the methods he gave were the more conventional ways to deal with disasters, economic depressions, and reconstruction work in later generations, and history has proven that this method, including US imperialism, is indeed feasible and effective.

But the premise here is that the government must have enough money.

If there is no money, and the currency is issued indiscriminately, and the work for relief is still carried out, it is purely looking for death, and the country will collapse quickly.

The good news is that the imperial court now has money.

The bad news is that it's running out of money.

The situation in the northwest is becoming more and more tense, and it is only the beginning, so the imperial court has a balance to support him to rebuild the disaster area.

Once the war really starts, the amount of money spent will be astronomical, and the treasury currently has tens of millions of yuan in savings, all of which have been saved in the past two years to prepare for war, and I am afraid that it will be exhausted soon after the war starts.

Even in the past two years, Zhao Jun has copied many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and many profiteers and wealthy businessmen, bringing more than 10 million yuan of money to the imperial court, and sending countless amounts of money to Bianliang.

However, the method of killing chickens and eggs cannot last long, so it is necessary to use conventional means.

"Fortunately, the natural disasters encountered by the Great Song Dynasty in recent years are basically minor disasters and small disasters, even if there was a major drought in Huainan a few years ago, it can only be regarded as an upper-middle level. The catastrophe that really affected millions, even tens of millions, of people has not happened for the time being. ”

"Since February of the previous year, I have been walking in the local area for almost two years, and in the past two years, I have accumulated a lot of grassroots work experience, learned about the life of the bottom of the Great Song Dynasty, and gradually explored the path of reform."

"First of all, the tax, the positive tax is really light, the tax is only 5 to 10 percent of the harvest. However, there are ridiculously many taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no wonder when he was studying history, Professor Zhang would say that "the Northern Song Dynasty was heavy, and there were few objections". ”

"But it is also by relying on taxes that the Northern Song Dynasty can last so long, and if the tax adjustment and reform is carried out now, the Song Dynasty may face serious pressure. It seems that in lightening the peasants' burdens, it is still necessary to take their time step by step. ”

"There is some truth in the green seedling method like Wang Anshi's, but it can only be used for reference, not accepted in its entirety. There is also Zhang Juzheng's reform and Yongzheng's reform, which need to wait until the domestic productivity improves before it can be promoted and implemented. ”

"However, the tax is not moving for the time being, and it is still possible to reform the administration of officials first. No wonder Fan Zhongyan wants to deal with the rule of officials first, and sure enough, only by going down to the grassroots level to see the situation can he understand the reason. ”

"As for making money, in the end, it is necessary to open up sources and reduce expenditures, solve the problem of three redundancies, and in addition, absorb gold and silver from Japan, and actively explore overseas markets and expand foreign trade, which is also the way of the Southern Song Dynasty."

"No matter what, I must find a path that belongs to the Great Song Dynasty, for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty farmers, for all the Chinese Han people, for the sake of not having Jingkang shame, and in order to let the Han nation stand on top of the world, I must redouble my efforts and not slack off."

At the end of the night, late at night, Zhao Jun continued to lie in front of the case, fighting for the ideals in his heart.

Thanks to the book friends and book friends 20180106230604207 for putting forward pertinent opinions on the last two chapters, I have made some revisions, and I personally think it is more reasonable, you can go back and take a look. In the previous chapter, I actually forgot to write a paragraph, that is, to write about the people selling their sons and daughters, which led to insufficient foreshadowing, making everyone feel that the protagonist's speech was relatively white, which was my problem, and made everyone feel a lack of substitution. In fact, the protagonist has always been a person living in a greenhouse, and this walk in the world is also to make up for this shortcoming, otherwise it would be a castle in the air all by mouth.

There are a lot of friends who say that the first stage is not so good-looking.,It's true that one is sick this month and affects the state.,The other is that I personally think that the protagonist still has to go to the countryside to do practical things.,So the plot is a little insufficient.。

Thank you for pointing out the problem, I will listen carefully if you have reasonable opinions, as for those who directly scold. I don't think I saw it.

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