Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 350 Workaround

Liu Shouzheng became interested when he heard this, and asked: "If the two years of monitoring the people are well used, what will happen after that?"

"Returning to my lord, if the people can make good use of it under supervision, they will be exempted from rent and tax for five years, and after five years, they will have to pay [-]% of the land tax every year.

After three years, you will need to pay [-]% of the land tax every year.Until the end of the ten-year lease period, the wasteland and mountain land originally donated will be returned to the county government. "

It was taken back to the county government again!

Everyone was surprised.

Although this approach took a long time, and the first five years were of no benefit to the local government, but the next five years also raised a lot of taxes.This is not easy for a marginal town that was originally barren and had no income and no oil and water.

Wouldn't it be better if the land tax ratio could be properly raised every year in the future, or some rent could be collected, why bother to take it back.

Although the wasteland has been turned into fertile land after it is taken back, and the price can increase several times when it is sold, but if the people in Linhai Town can afford the land, they will not be so poor in the past few years.

Furthermore, this practice of killing donkeys will inevitably hurt the hearts of the people who have made great efforts to cultivate them in the first few years.

Wasteland is worthless, but fertile land is valuable.Who doesn't want to keep the land reclaimed by the whole family for their children and grandchildren? If it is taken back like this, wouldn't the hard work of making a living for ten years be in vain?

Not only did the others in the study not understand this point, but Liu Shouzheng did not understand it either.

The imperial court's official position transfer orders for local officials vary, but it is not uncommon for them to be changed every three to five years.

Especially for the position of seventh-rank magistrate, if there is no obvious fault, the merits during the term of office are acceptable, and five years is enough to raise it. As far as children are concerned.

For those children from aristocratic families who have some connections in their families, even if they advance half a grade in a year, they are not considered outstanding in the local area.

What's more, that Mr. Xiao Guangping is not a child of an ordinary family. He was born in the Xiao family in Shangjing.

And his grandfather was the highest official minister of the Ministry of Rites, and he was the second rank.His father, Nai, was the prince Taifu during the Taizong period, but died of illness later.

Xiao Guangping is the fourth son of the family. At the age of 17, he entered the imperial examination and became a member of the household department.

Although Xiao Guangping was relegated to Luosong County, his father was a member of the court at the time, and as expected, Xiao Guangping was transferred back to Shangjing once his term of office expired.After that, he was promoted all the way in just six years, and he didn't stop until he became the Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

The Shaoqing of Dali Temple is the same official position as the local county guard, and belongs to the same level.But local officials are naturally different from Beijing officials.

A close minister of the emperor can go up to face the holy every day and see the holy words.

A sky-high emperor is far away, listening to Xiaoyao, but in fact, only oneself can understand the taste of it.

Just like Liu Shouzheng's current situation, although he is an official with the real power of the fourth rank, it is precisely because he is already an official of the fourth rank, it is so difficult to take another step up.

If you don't try your best to clear up the relationship for yourself, you may be locked in this ghost place in Yuzhong for a lifetime.

Liu Shouzheng tapped the surface of the desk lightly with his fingers, suppressing the depression that had accumulated in the past few days to the bottom of his heart, but he still couldn't understand the purpose of Xiao Guangping and Xiao Shaoqing who proposed the rent-free law for wasteland in Luosong County.

Although this method is effective and can indeed relieve the sufferings of the local people, it will take at least three to five years before the initial results can be seen.

To put it bluntly, after three to five years, if there is a mistake in this method, the stain will naturally be blamed on Xiao Guangping.

But if this method is effective, the credit and the increased local taxes will all be credited to the Xinzhi County who was transferred later, which is a typical thankless effort.

After all, with the family background of the Xiao family, even though Xiao Guangping was only the youngest son of the Xiao family at the time and was not the choice of the Xiao family to head the family, given the status of the Xiao family in the court, the crime Xiao Guangping committed was not a big deal at all. Wrong, no matter what, it is impossible to let Qiping spend his whole life in Luosong County.

The result is also the same, Xiao Guangping, who is famous for his willfulness and good luck, was brought back to Beijing by his family after only three years in office.

Liu Shouzheng really didn't understand the reason for Xiao Guangping's thankless behavior, but he was not allowed to think about it at this time.

Only Wang Hebin continued: "Although the reclaimed land was indeed taken back to the government ten years later, the magistrate of Luosong County at that time took back the land and asked people to post a notice in Linhai Town:

All the people who have participated in the reclamation can purchase these lands first, and purchase them at a price of [-]% of the market price, as for the market price.

At that time, Luosong County and Linhai Town were invited to draw up the plan together. "

Everyone raised their eyebrows, that Xiao Guangping, Mr. Xiao, was famous because of his prominent family background and his life deeds were truly bizarre.

Therefore, although his early years as the magistrate of Luosong County were not as well-known as the incidents when he was an official in Shangjing, many people also knew about it.

It's just that since Xiao Guangping resigned from Luosong County, no one has paid attention to the situation in Luosong County since then.

From what Wang Hebin said now, it seems that the county magistrate after Luosong County is also a good official with considerable practical ability, not only following Xiao Guangping's original policy, but also supplementing it in the follow-up.

He Yong, a fellow acquaintance standing beside Wang Hebin, asked curiously, "Will Linhai Town change in ten years?"

"It has changed dramatically."

Wang Hebin nodded, and said earnestly: "You may not know that, although Linhai Town belongs to Luosong County, the actual situation is an outlying island with a decent size off the southeast coast, across the sea from Luosong County. Wang, originally called Linhai Island.

The island has many mountains, water, and tidal flats, but the fewest fields.

Most of the people on the island make a living by fishing, and there are also farmers, but not many.

Ever since the assistant officer of Linhai Town asked Mr. Xiao to donate the excess wasteland and mountains on Linhai Island to the people of Linhai for free, some farmers opened up wasteland for cultivation, others surrounded the mountains to plant fruit trees, and some farmers even occupied the tidal flats along the coast to encircle them with nets. Sea, farmed fish scallops.

Originally, under the jurisdiction of Linhai Town, there were several villages close to the sea, and the people in the villages made a living by going out to sea and fishing all the year round.

People in Minzhou like to eat seafood. If the fishermen can return from the sea, the seafood on the boat will not worry about selling.

However, there are often violent winds and huge waves overseas, and there are Japanese pirates making troubles. The fishing boats that go out often encounter shipwrecks, and the fishermen on board are close to death.

Now these fishermen lease the tidal flats and use nets to raise the sea outside the tidal flats.

In the first two years, there was not much effect, but after the third year, the number of farmed fish and seafood began to increase.”

(End of this chapter)