I want to be emperor

The convoy of four carriages left the small county town all the way, and soon drove on the gravel and dirt road.

Among the four carriages, Song Erniu sat alone in a luxurious carriage and was driven by his full-time coachman. Two maids took one, the butler and his entourage took another one, and there was a carriage with a large amount of suitcases, while the four Three of the security guards were driving, and one was in a car with the butler's entourage.

When Song Erniu returned to his hometown this time, he didn't think about keeping a low profile, but why he had such a good reputation...otherwise he wouldn't have brought so many people back with him.

If you don't bring more people, how can you support the scene!

Many luggages also play the same role. In addition to daily necessities, these luggages also contain many Song Erniu's clothes and accessories.

Being a decent millionaire naturally requires different attire for different occasions.

To attend a traditional-style banquet, one must wear a traditional silk Hanfu.

If you are attending business meetings and other occasions with a business atmosphere, you will wear business attire made of fine cashmere.

If you usually receive guests at home, you should wear professional attire or Hanfu.

I brought more than ten sets of formal dresses used in different occasions...

Then there are maids, entourage, security personnel's carry-on luggage... People also need to change clothes, right?

Then there are some American specialties and gifts brought from the Americas, which are prepared for parents, elder brother's family, and many relatives.

Not only do so many things need a carriage for transportation, but also a lot of suitcases are tied to the tail of the other two carriages.

When there are many people and things, four carriages are needed.

Song Erniu was rich and wealthy, so he disdained the cheap carriages from car rental agencies, so he directly purchased four new carriages and eight Fengzhou horses... The prices were naturally very expensive for ordinary people, but for Song Erniu The words are nothing, and the total sum is actually only a few hundred Chu Yuan, which is trivial.

Such a convoy driving on country roads inevitably attracts the attention of many passers-by.

Through the glass window, Song Erniu saw people around him staring at him and even giving way, a smile could not help appearing on the corner of his mouth... He admitted that he is a very vulgar person, and he likes this kind of scene very much.

I worked so hard in America back then, and even risked being robbed by those criminals, I ran to the gold mining area to do business, and I had to bring a musket to set up a stall... Afterwards, I became rich and didn't wait to die , but continue to work hard to make the business bigger and stronger, and I don’t know how much suffering I have suffered during the period!
Back then, when he first opened up the foreign market and went to various places to sell his canvas tooling, he didn't know how many times he was kicked out of the house... He shed so much sweat and tears, and suffered so many white eyes and grievances.

What for?
Isn't it just to make money!

And what is the money for?Isn't it just to fight for breath and become a master!
So, what's the matter with going back to my hometown to show off, even if it costs the boss a lot of money...the round-trip ticket, the cost of the entourage, plus the cost of gifts, and the subsequent expenses of showing off at the old home, this plus It is estimated to be several thousand Chu Yuan larger.

But he, Song Erniu, is happy!

But now the attention of the people on both sides of the road made Song Erniu feel that the money was not wasted.

The convoy traveled all the way, although it was using gravel and rural civil engineering, but the speed was considered fast. After all, the land where his hometown was located was flat and the road construction cost was relatively low.

Over the past thirty years, the Great Chu Empire has continued to build roads. Even rural roads are basically paved with gravel or cinders. The roads are relatively spacious, allowing two carriages to run side by side easily.

Therefore, the speed of the team was relatively fast along the way, which meant that there was a gentle uphill road in the middle that took a little longer.

About an hour later, their convoy appeared in a village.

This is the hometown of Song Erniu, a small village called Shuangshan Village. The village is located in a small valley, and there are two small hills on the left and right. This is also the source of the village name. There are two It is a small mountain, so it is called Shuangshan Village.

In fact, there were not many people in Shuangsancun in the pre-Ming Dynasty, because the original village had already been abandoned due to the chaos of war, the land was abandoned, and only a few families remained.

After the empire recovered the nearby areas, most of the surrounding areas here and there were turned into official land due to factors such as barrenness or confiscation, and then some people successively moved here to settle down because of renting official land or buying official land in installments .

The policy of purchasing official land in installments was a very successful policy during the unification war of the Great Chu Empire, because the Great Chu Empire confiscated a large amount of land from the officials, dignitaries, recalcitrant gentry and tax-resistant elements of the former Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the official land held by the official government of the Great Chu Empire accounted for more than 40.00% of the total cultivated land in the controlled area... This is a very terrifying statistic.

How to deal with these official lands has also become a core issue of the early agricultural policy of the Great Chu Empire. At the beginning, the Great Chu Empire tried a direct land distribution policy... Later it was found to be unreliable... The common people who got free land distribution I didn't feel grateful to you, and even took it for granted, and I didn't stand on the side of the Great Chu Empire because of this. When the Ming army came, they should run or run, and those who should lead the way will still lead the way...

Even the agricultural tax is not willing to pay!
People will not feel any gratitude for things that are too easy, even without any price. Even after knowing the free land distribution policy of the Chu people, when the Chu people call, they can't wait to ask for it. The fields are distributed for free, and when the fields are distributed, they are full of ugliness, showing the ugliness of human nature.

In order to compete for better free land, they ransacked each other's homes and even fought with each other, and finally the yin and yang eccentricity came to the Chu government...

Furthermore, at that time, the officials of the Great Chu Empire were still implementing the policy of dividing military merits... Then the soldiers found that they were exhausted, fighting and risking their lives to serve for several years before they could get a share of military merits. Those ordinary people who can get free land without doing shit... suddenly feel unbalanced.

In the end, Luo Zhixue personally made the decision to cancel the free land distribution policy, and only the meritorious soldiers in the founding period could obtain land for free.

A large amount of official land continued to be controlled by the government, and then leased to landless peasants. This was the profoundly influential policy of "dividing into tenants" in the early days of the Great Chu Empire.

Subsequently, the agricultural reform was further deepened, and a policy of purchasing official land in installments was introduced, which allowed people who rented official land to pay in installments over a number of years to purchase official land at a relatively low price. The installment payment was paid out of the grain harvested that year.

This is the more important policy of "purchasing land by installments" in the early agricultural policy of the empire.

Subsequently, policies were introduced that the purchased official land could not be freely transferred and could only be inherited by immediate relatives. If it was to be sold, it could only be sold back to the government at the market price and turned into official land again.

The proportion of official land in the Great Chu Empire is very high, and the proportion of official land in the 60.00 provinces in the Guannei accounted for more than [-]%. In the follow-up, landowners continued to choose to sell their land to the government, or were confiscated. And once it becomes official land, even if it is sold in installments later, this kind of land cannot be freely transferred.

This kind of official land cannot be transferred freely and can only be inherited by immediate relatives or sold to the government. After the government recovers the land, it can then be leased or sold in installments to farmers with little or no land.

This greatly limits land annexation.

This is still talking about the [-] provinces in the Guan. If it is the northeast, monan, northwest, central Asia, Siberia and other newly occupied areas, except for a very small number of privately owned land, it is basically all official land...even if it is distributed for free The land has been cultivated by new immigrants, but the land immigrants actually only have the right to use it, and it can be inherited by future generations, but it cannot be sold to others!

After all, what the government restricts is not inheritance rights, or farmers' ownership of land, but land mergers.

Restraining land mergers is the most core part of a series of agricultural policies in Luo Zhixue's administration. Many measures seem to have nothing to do with it, but in fact they are all aimed at preventing land mergers.

The purpose of preventing land annexation is also very simple. It is to give the rural population who account for the vast majority of the empire's population a final guaranteed escape route: no matter how bad it is, they can return to the countryside to farm. Although it is difficult to eat and clothe only by farming... But Never starve to death.

This series of agricultural policies greatly stabilized the internal stability of the empire in the early stage, and gave birth to a rural society in which the family-based self-cultivating farmers were the absolute group!

In the contemporary Great Chu Empire, there are actually no traditional landlords anymore... Those landlords in the pre-Ming period either died in wars, under the hands of armed tax police, or in mines... and A small number of people sold their land early, and turned the funds back into the business class in the Great Chu Empire.

And the existence of the subsequent stepped agricultural tax directly blocks any possibility of private ownership of a large amount of land... The more land there is, the higher the tax rate will be. After a certain amount, the output of the land will not be enough to pay the tax!
These series of policies have greatly stabilized the stability of the rural society for the Great Chu Empire, and made the rural areas of the empire a stable base for the empire...

People, in fact, are not stupid, who is good to themselves and who is not good to themselves, basically knows in their hearts... Although many people will secretly scold Luo Laogou on weekdays, the tax bureau's eagle dog will die Class words.

But if you say that a new careerist wants to rebel and overthrow the Great Chu Empire, quite a few ordinary people are not happy, and even oppose it...

Of course, this kind of objection is only verbal, don't count on donations and the like... Whose money is not hard money!
However, if the military recruits troops on a large scale to suppress the rebels, nine out of ten farmers' children will sign up to join the army... Of course, it's not for the Luo family dynasty, but after joining the army, they can be assigned jobs after retiring!

No matter how nicely you say it, interests are interests...and only interests!

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After Shuangshan Village was retaken by the Chu army, it attracted a large number of immigrants to settle down. Song Erniu’s parents also moved to Shuangshan Village with a group of relatives at that time. post-war life.

Song Erniu was born in this remote mountain village!

There was a childhood that he couldn't remember, but he expected to be happy, and a boyhood and youth full of hunger and fatigue.

As far as he can remember, until he went out to work in Songjiang City at the age of 16, he never really had enough to eat...

Song Erniu's memory is actually a common one. Although the early rural areas under the rule of the Great Chu Empire were much better than those in the Ming Dynasty, there was no large-scale famine, and farmers could eat food and occasionally eat some meat...but It has absolutely nothing to do with eating.

After all, productivity is like that...

In the [-]s of Chengshun, the food level per capita was less than [-] kilograms... This food level was actually in a state of mass famine!
It was not until the 20s that they reached the level of more than 300 kilograms. Even at this level, it is still a state of general malnutrition.

After entering the 30s, it reached the level of [-] kilograms. The Great Chu Empire in this period could barely be considered as enough to feed the people, but a considerable number of them were still in a state of malnutrition.

Today's Chu Empire is still working hard to meet the basic subsistence line of [-] kilograms of food per capita. To this end, it does not hesitate to immigrate on a large scale, colonize the Americas, and plunder large amounts of agricultural products in India, Africa, and Europe.

Large-scale support and promotion of overseas food imports into the country is to solve the food problem!

Although the Great Chu Empire is very powerful, it is actually still working hard to solve the food problem.

It is a common phenomenon that Song Erniu did not have enough to eat when he was a teenager...

Such adolescence is actually not a good memory... At least Song Erniu actually doesn't like his hometown in the countryside.

If his parents and elder brother's family were not still in his hometown, he would never come back to this broken place in his life.

Maybe he is still young and cannot feel the affection for his hometown... Maybe he will miss his hometown when he gets older, but now... at least for now, he has no special feelings for this so-called hometown.

So after returning to Shuangshan Village, he didn't have much special feelings when he saw the familiar mountains and fields and the houses in the village, and he didn't even get out of the carriage.

On the contrary, when the people in the village saw such a convoy of horse-drawn carriages coming outside, many people came out to watch curiously... Many of them even guessed the identity of the comers accurately.

"The second son of the Song family must be back... I heard that he made a fortune in America and became a big boss!"

"In recent years, he has sent a lot of money home. Otherwise, he would rely on Song Daniu to plan food in the soil and do odd jobs. How could he build such a large yard, and even bought a house in the county! "

"The Song family is well-developed, and there is such a big boss as Erniu!"

The population of Shuangshan Village is not large, only a hundred or so households, and they are mostly immigrants. After more than [-] years, everyone has already known the basics, and everyone basically knows what is going on with the Song family.

In the past few years, no one has felt envious or even jealous of the changes in the Song family... This has caused most of the young people in the village to flee to the big cities outside.

After all, with Song Erniu as a successful example, it will naturally attract many people to follow suit...Unfortunately, not everyone can have Song Erniu's luck and strength, and most people are just working outside to earn a living Just eat.

Song Erniu couldn't hear the words of the surrounding crowd, but he could see the pointing of the surrounding people through the window, and he could more or less guess some of their words.

In response, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth!

The convoy continued to move forward slowly, and passed the dirt road in the middle of the village... On the way, Song Erniu's housekeeper got off the car ahead of time and inquired about the location of the new house of the villager Song's family. He ran directly to the Song family's new house to inform the Song family.

Song Erniu's motorcade was not in a hurry, but moved forward slowly!

When the convoy slowly arrived at the gate of the Song family's new residence, the middle door of the Song family's residence was already wide open, and many people greeted them in front of the door.

Wearing a fine silk Hanfu, Song Erniu slowly got out of the carriage with the support of his attendants, like a gentleman. He even practiced this movement before returning to his native land. The pomp of the boss!
Then he looked up, and he saw his elder brother whom he hadn't seen for many years at a glance...

His elder brother was standing at the door. He was still dark-skinned as before, but his expression did not have the tiredness and vicissitudes of life eight or nine years ago... When he came home nine years ago, the elder brother he saw was even though he was only two years old. He was in his early teens, but because of the perennial fatigue of farming, this man who was actually only in his 20s still looked as vicissitudes as he was in his 40s and [-]s.

Although it is still relatively dark now, it looks a lot richer.

Behind her eldest brother was a young woman, holding a little boy who looked about five or six years old with her right hand, and a little girl about three or four years old with her left hand.

Song Erniu knew from the previous letter from his family that his eldest brother was married, and this pair of children should be the eldest brother's children!
Song Erniu continued to look inward, and he saw his parents... Under the sun, his mother, who was wearing red silk and gold forks and jade beads, looked a little rich, but she seemed to have gray hair... In his memory Although my mother has gone through many vicissitudes, she has no gray hair. I didn't expect that after nine years, my mother already has a little gray hair.

The father next to him was the same as in memory, except that he was dressed better, his face was still thin, his skin was dark, and he was holding a stick of tobacco in his hand.

Seeing his family, Song Erniu, who was ready to go home refreshed and pretend to be big, and show off his great achievements over the years in front of his family, found that his eyes were moist for some reason!
He didn't even listen to his brain's command, and passed all the fanciful scenes before... He walked forward quickly, stepped over the gate and came a few meters in front of his parents!
As the distance got closer, he could already see teardrops in his mother's eye sockets, and the teardrops were shining brightly in the afternoon sun!

In the next moment, he knelt down on both knees, leaned his upper body forward to salute, and unconsciously sobbed in his mouth: "Father, mother, the unfilial son is back!"