The fifth round of the new policy implemented by Zhao Jun is all-round, including the economy, education, military, science and technology, culture, construction, transportation, and other fields.

Chief among them is to boost the economy through the government's increased public spending, which is his big infrastructure plan.

This program has a scientific name in later generations, called Keynesianism.

Similar to this set of doctrines, there are Roosevelt's New Deals, and later generations of Da Mao boosted the economy through the government's increase in military spending.

Da Mao's military jobs have increased by 520,000.

Much of the labor force has been snatched up by the military industry, and in order to prevent the labor being robbed, other industries in Da Mao have had to increase salaries to retain more people.

Therefore, as long as the government increases public construction and expands basic investment, it will have a significant impact on the domestic economy.

This includes the same in our country in later generations.

But there is a prerequisite for this, and that is that the treasury must have money.

Roosevelt finally achieved his goal by running a fiscal deficit and exploiting the Jewish rich, issuing massive amounts of government bonds, and cracking down on monopolies.

Da Mao is sitting on rich oil and natural gas resources, Europe and the United States do not buy some people buy, do not worry about the hard currency in their hands can not be sold.

After China's reopening, the economy took off, commodities were sold all over the world, and a large amount of US dollar foreign exchange was harvested.

So does Da Song have so much money to complete Zhao Jun's plan?

The answer is yes, but not much.

At present, the fiscal expenditures are only enough to meet a certain target every year.

For example, the construction of steel plants, cement factories, and schools.

As for building trains, railway stations, ships and shipyards, don't think about it.

Moreover, the steel plant and the cement plant must be equipped with supporting transportation facilities, and the construction of various projects will be gradual and gradual, and it is estimated that it will take twenty or thirty years before the effect will be effective.

So why can't it be done all at once?

Because the money needed to complete it at one time is too much, and what is needed is not tens of millions, but billions.

With today's financial situation, only 20 or 30 million yuan a year can be invested.

And this can also be problematic as prices fluctuate.

During the Jingyou period, the financial revenue of the Great Song Dynasty remained at about 80 million yuan.

For example, in the first year of Jingyou, there were more than 78 million guan, and in the eighth year of Qingli, it reached 100 million.

Now, after several rounds of the Qingli New Deal, the fiscal revenue is still maintained at 80 or 90 million yuan, with no change, and even in the early stage of the reform, the revenue has been greatly reduced.

There are several reasons for the decrease.

First of all, of course, a large number of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have been abolished, and a lot of income has been reduced.

The second is the fall in food prices, which leads to a depreciation of prices.

Some people may think that the depreciation of prices is not a good thing?

If incomes rise and prices fall, wouldn't it be better for the people to live?

The truth is this, but it's not the same.

At least for the Great Song Dynasty, the crazy depreciation of prices must be bad news.

The reason is simple.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the financial movement was tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, which did not simply mean that there was so much money, but was converted through the grain received.

For example, if you have collected more than 30 million yuan in agricultural tax revenue this year, in fact, this is not money, but the equivalent of more than 30 million yuan in average grain prices this year.

And not only grain, but also cloth, gold and silver, spices, timber, copper and iron, etc., are all counted as part of the tax.

For example, now Guangzhou allows the people to pay a certain amount of cotton as a tax.

Therefore, a large part of the fiscal revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty was not actual copper coins, but equivalent goods. In terms of military spending, these equivalents can also be regarded as part of the redundant army.

If the price of grain soared during the war, then the grain worth more than 30 million guan might even become worth 60 million guan, and when calculated into the total financial income of the imperial court, it could exceed more than 100 million guan in an instant.

However, if the price of grain plummets, then the value of the more than 30 million guan of grain harvested will depreciate to more than 20 million guan. Then the total financial revenue of the imperial court will also fall in response, and the income will plummet.

Therefore, this is one of the main reasons why the Great Song Dynasty has been trying to raise grain prices all these years and not allowing grain prices to fall all the way to tens of pennies a stone.

In this case, the actual amount of cash in the imperial court is relatively limited, and the cash collected every year is only about 30 million yuan.

Including the payment of salaries to officials and soldiers, they often have to rely on copper coins, rice, and silk to be paid together, for example, the current Yulu is often rice and silk, and performance is copper money, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of officials and officials.

If you remove the expenses for soldiers, officials, and other governments, then there will naturally be only 20 million yuan left for construction.

What can you do?

Only a limited amount of industrial construction can be done.

And Zhao Zhen and Lu Yijian hope to see the results in a while.

They want to see trains and train stations next year.

See steamships next year.

Next year, there will be steel mills, textile factories, and schools in the Great Song Dynasty.

It's not impossible.

Because now that steelmaking and steam engine technology has reached the standard, raw materials are also on the way.

Although it may take a few years for rubber to grow.

But the fleet can harvest a large number of rubber in South America and bring it back, and there is no problem in making hundreds or thousands of steam engines.

The human resources of the Great Song Dynasty are currently the most abundant in the whole world, with a population of 100 million.

With the technology, raw materials, and population up to standard, it is not difficult for them to see all this.

The only problem is money.

This is the same as the game, the game is made, your character account is built, and there are only two ways to become stronger.

One is slowly liver, and the other is krypton.

Therefore, in order to speed up the progress, it is time for Zhao Jun to start taking the landlords and wealthy households.

After the implementation of the new policy, the imperial court sent many inspections of the imperial history, and united with the local imperial history and the imperial city department to urge the local government to quickly complete the target task of apportioning the land into the mu.

For a time, the poor people in the Great Song Dynasty rejoiced.

The landlords and wealthy households were so complaining that many of them planned to sell their land to reduce costs.

Under normal circumstances, the larger the output, the thinner the cost will be.

But this refers to industrial products.

The cost of de-industrialized traditional agriculture is there.

Don't look at the imperial court, this time only doubled the tax, so that the tax rate reached 20%, plus the sale of the commercial tax, basically fluctuated between 20% and 25%.

However, the remaining 75%-80% does not mean pure profit, but also the cost of land rent, transportation, employment and so on.

In addition, the continued decline in food prices is also a great harm to them.

The rent alone may go to 30% to 50%, plus you have to sell the harvested grain, hire long-term and short-term workers to carry it, and in the end, let alone make money, it is good not to lose money.

Therefore, the conscientious landlords who collected the lower rent of the tenants could not stand it in the first place, and could only sell the land.

The government took the opportunity to buy them and turn them into official fields.

And those black-hearted landlords who have relatively high rents may still be able to carry it, but the tenants will soon quit.

Because after the government took over the official land, it lowered the land rent again, for example, to 3 to 40 percent, which was much lower than the 5 to 70 percent collected by the landlord.

In addition, the government will also provide certain means of production, such as seeds, farm tools, etc., to attract a large number of young and strong laborers to do things for the government.

In accordance with the instructions of the imperial court, the local government would hire these young and strong laborers to cultivate the land during the busy agricultural period, and repair water conservancy projects, reclaim canals, and build water resources regulating facilities such as ponds, dams, and reservoirs during the idle season.

Under the state's macroeconomic regulation and control, in October, less than four months after the introduction of the new policy, a large number of landlords and tenants left and threw themselves into the arms of the government.

If it was from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, when the gate valve family was in power, these tenants were the slaves of the gate valve family, and they couldn't run away at all.

However, the Great Song Dynasty severely cracked down on the slavery system, not allowing restrictions on personal freedom, and not even allowing the word "slave" to be mentioned, resulting in the landlord not only unable to stop if a tenant wanted to leave, but even did not dare to stop it.

Because the previous government was on the side of the landlord, the tenant wanted to escape, and the government would send someone to arrest him, and the landlord also had dog legs under his hands, and physically injured the tenants, confined them and even destroyed them.

But in the Song Dynasty, after Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Heng, and Zhao Zhen abolished the hard work system, not to mention that if you beat the tenants, even if it is a captivity, you will be sentenced by the government.

Especially in recent years, Zhao Jun has placed more emphasis on the power of personal freedom, and strictly urged the local government to strictly investigate the occurrence of such similar things.

Once you don't report it, help the landlord and rich households to conceal it, or if a more serious accident occurs in the jurisdiction, the loss of official hat can be regarded as light.

As a result, the local officials did not dare to be careless in this matter, and instead of defending the interests of the landlords and wealthy households, they began to defend the interests of the tenants.

If a tenant encounters such a thing, he only needs to report to the official, and the landlord will be bankrupt at least or imprisoned and exiled, which can be regarded as an official's political achievement.

Therefore, under the New Deal, in the face of the large-scale loss of tenants, many landlords suffered serious losses.

Either transfer the land under their name to their children and grandchildren, so as to reduce the tax payment of the apportionment into the mu. Either they are forced to sell their land, so that their land is dwindling day by day.

In early October, Mudu Town, Wu County, Suzhou, the northwest of the town Gusu Mountain is far away, the southwest of the town surrounds the east bank of Taihu Lake, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, when the late rice is harvested, the golden ears of wheat are gently swaying in the autumn wind.

There is a huge manor in the north of the town, which is the mansion of Gong Xu, a large landlord of the Gong family in Wu County.

The Gong family of Wu County is a local noble family, the Northern Song Dynasty has recently produced seven Jinshi, and there are many descendants of officials in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as the ancestor of Gong Ming, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty who moved to Kunshan, Suzhou, whose grandfather moved to Kunshan, Suzhou, is Wu County.

However, the return of the local wang clan to the wang clan does not mean that every clan member is doing well, and the fields within the Gong family are occupied by the elders of the clan and the patriarch of the main line.

The rest of the branches and concubines have a hard time, such as Gong Mingzhi's grandfather, who was forced to leave his hometown and set up his own door.

Many low-level clansmen became serfs, tenants, servants, and the like of the lord's family.

Gong Xu was about fifty, he was born rich, and he was dressed in silk and satin, and he had just returned from the city today, and before he got off the carriage, he heard another bad news.

Several more tenants left their homes and went to the recruitment office of the government in the city and chose to become tenants of the government.

This made Gong Xu's face very ugly.

When he returned home and took a break to drink a bowl of tea, he suddenly heard a servant come to report that the patriarchs of the Pan family, the Wang family, and the Zhang family had come to ask for a meeting.

Gong Xu had no choice but to invite them in.

"Brother Gong!"

The three of them entered the house and bowed to him.

"Brother Pan, Brother Wang, Brother Zhang, why are you here?"

Gong Xu got up and saluted back.

"What else could it be for?"

The patriarch of the Pan family is called Pan Shi, and his expression is helpless.

"Sit down."

Gong Xu said.

The four of them sat down.

The servants served them tea one by one.

After the others left, there were only four of them left in the hall.

"Brother Gong, I heard that you went to the city in the morning, what did the county government say?"

Wang Wei, the patriarch of the Wang clan, asked.

"Ugh."

Gong Xu sighed and said: "This is a death order from the imperial court, and the acquaintances of the county government are useless." ”

"Phew!"

Pan Zhi snorted and said, "Then Fan Zhongyan is still from our Wu County, so he will cause us such a disaster." ”

"Have you gone to the Fan clan?"

"Found, Fan Zhongyan paid for their poor clan children to buy land, how could they help us speak?"

"I didn't expect their Fan family to suddenly make a fortune like this, if only they made friends early."

"Who would have expected this?"

"Forget it, let's talk about what to do. In this year's autumn tax, my family has to pay more than 30,000 stone grains and rice. ”

"My family also has to pay more than 20,000 stones, and not only grain and rice, but also people left, last month has already left 17 households, and if this continues, everyone will be gone."

"Isn't it? In the past four months, more than 40 households have walked from my side alone. ”

"Who isn't."

Several people booed each other.

These big clan landlords are all extremely wealthy, with tens of thousands of fertile land, or even more than 100,000 acres.

A new policy of the imperial court came down and distributed it to them, and tens of thousands of stone taxes were added in an instant.

Who can stand this?

And it's not just taxes, it's people.

Although, strictly speaking, there are really not many people under their hands.

Because the clan regulations in the south are still relatively strict, limited by the clan system, many young people with slightly better family conditions have not left.

Only those families who are so poor, so poor that they can barely survive, will choose to take a desperate gamble and stand on their own feet from the clan.

This phenomenon is all too common in the South.

In later generations, when our army launched a certain reform plan in the Soviet area, many young and strong people in the south were constrained by the clans, and they could not join the army and could not engage in production independently from the clans.

On the contrary, it doesn't matter if it is in the north, the clan binding force in the north has long been useless and almost non-existent under the repeated impacts of the Five Hu Chaohua and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Therefore, the clan reform plan introduced by Zhao Jun a few years ago was unimpeded in the north, but it was not implemented at all in the south.

But the fact that the people under his hands have not gone far does not mean that their interests have not been damaged.

After the land was divided into acres, the taxes they had to pay increased, which made these big landowners who owned tens of thousands of acres of land unable to resist it and discussed ways one after another.

"Brother Gong, when you went to the county government in the morning, didn't you find anything?"

Zhang Ruohai, the patriarch of the Zhang clan, asked.

Gong Xu said: "The county government gave guidance, saying that we should sell the fields under our hands to the imperial court, and let us set up cement factories, steel factories, and textile factories. ”

"What is this?"

The crowd was puzzled.

"Hell knows."

Gong Xu scratched his head and said: "What's more, it's hard to say whether this thing can be profitable, I also inquired a little, the investment in the early stage alone is huge, if you don't make money, wouldn't you go bankrupt?" ”

"Forget it, this land is left by the ancestors, and I won't sell it if I kill it."

Others shook their heads.

"The problem now is that we have to come up with a charter, and there is no way for the county government to do it, and the state government, the Imperial History Division, and the Imperial City Division are checking everywhere."

Wang Wei spread his hands and said: "If you find out that the county is covered, it will be dismissed, and people will not go against the court for us, and it is useless to send more money." ”

"Now the court is trying to force us to death?"

Pan Zhi was furious.

In fact, in previous years, the imperial court's taxes were higher than now, reaching 30% at the peak, but although they were also severely exploited at that time, they could barely live.

The reason is that the price of grain at that time was relatively high, especially during the war with the Liao State of Western Xia, even if the tax was high, they still relied on the remaining grain in their hands, and still made a lot of money through the high grain price.

The second year of Qingli was the best era, not long after the war, the price of grain did not fall much, even higher than usual, and the imperial court drastically reduced agricultural taxes. They continued to squeeze the tenants, taking it all three, and it can be said that they made enough profits.

Until last year and this year, the price of grain has dropped from more than 300 wen and one stone in normal years to more than 200 wen and one stone now, but because the tax has fallen, they still have plenty of profit margins, and no one will starve to death for them, the big landlords.

But when the price of grain fell and the imperial court increased taxes, then they were a little uncomfortable. Although the tax rate is still not at the highest point, but they are used to a good life, who wants to go back to being taxed as high as before?

So one by one, they browled sadly, jumping up and down.

In fact, at this time, the imperial court had already given them a choice, that is, to force them to join the ranks of merchants, invest in steel mills, textile mills, and cement factories, and join the trend of the times.

At this time, if you devote yourself to it, just in time for the critical time of Zhao Jun's reform, then a pig can take off from the tuyere.

But there are always short-sighted people who miss this opportunity.

And even went the wrong way.

I heard Zhang Ruohai suddenly say: "Everyone, if this continues, we will sell the land and sell the land." For now, I think there is only one way. ”

"What's the solution?"

The crowd looked at him.

Zhang Ruohai said in a deep voice: "All our fields are just a corner of Suzhou, the huge Taihu Lake, the huge Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I don't know how many rich families have fallen because of this." If we can unite them and protest to the court, we may be able to regain their fame. ”

"Crazy?"

Wang Wei was surprised: "Aren't you afraid that the imperial court will arrest you and punish you?" ”

"Don't forget, the law does not hold the public accountable."

Zhang Ruohai said: "If it is one or two, the court will definitely punch hard." What if it's thousands? The victims of the gentry and wealthy families are not only a few of us, if they are connected in series, it is a huge force! ”

Does the law not hold the public accountable?

Several people looked at each other, thoughtful.

That's right.

If they join forces, maybe it will really make the imperial court take a step back.

But what they don't know is.

In the fourth year of Yongzheng, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang protested against the sale of acres in the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, and were strongly suppressed by Li Wei, the governor of Zhejiang at that time.

And Zhao Jun.

He will be more ruthless than Li Wei.

(End of chapter)