Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 494 Don't Plant The Land?
In recent years, the commerce in Guanzhong has been greatly developed due to the loose policy. Not only the strength of the caravans and shops backed by various families has grown rapidly, but even some merchants of civilian origin have increased their investment.

In Li Chengqian's view, this is a good thing. It can ensure that he is full, and he can use the remaining money to create more value, so that his family can eat meat, and he can wear a few feet of cloth and new clothes during the New Year's Eve. , what a wonderful thing!
But sugar cane has two sweet ends, and industry and commerce have developed. In a narrow town like Guanzhong, there are a lot of land for rent and sale at low prices. The price is basically as long as you can pay taxes and a very small ration.

Why did such a thing happen? You must know that in the eyes of ordinary people, land is their lifeblood. No matter how hard it is, they will never give up digging out the land for food. The lives of their families depend on it. this.

Moreover, it is so common that you have three points of land and I have five points of land. The accumulated amount is so huge, which also attracted the attention of Changsun Wuji who is in charge of the household department. After a series of investigations and visits, Changsun Wuji wrote a book Arrived at Chengqing Hall.

After reading Changsun Wuji's memorabilia, Li Chengqian handed it to Fang Xuanling who was on the lower right, turned his head and said in a deep voice, "Uncle, I just heard about the low-priced land, but I didn't expect it." With such a large number and so many households involved, no, this situation must change!"

"That's right, Your Highness, this situation must be changed, otherwise, the momentum of land annexation will be uncontrollable in the long run. The reason why the former Sui Dynasty fell so quickly was that the people lost the land they depended on for survival.

Now although they can get more rewards than farming by entering workshops, joining caravans, and doing odd jobs, the risk of breaking their homes will also increase exponentially due to their instability. "

Taking the industrial zone and military industrial zone led by Li Chengqian as an example, each family also has a lot of workshops, and has adopted a one-stop business model of self-production and self-sale after learning from Donggong.

So far, the problem of manpower shortage has been induced. If there are too many workshops, a lot of manpower will be needed to work, but the servants in the family are limited, so they reach out to the farmers. Anyway, you have to pay taxes after farming. No problem, why not come to us to work and earn more money.

That's right, their approach is in the hands of the common people. Now that food is scarce these days, even if the family has a lot of land, how much can they sell at the price of three dollars per bucket of rice.Working hard on the ground for a year is not as good as working in a workshop for half a year, so there are cases of renting or selling land at low prices.

Letting out a long breath, Li Chengqian leaned on the case and sighed: "The low price of grain hurts the peasants, it's time to reduce some agricultural taxes!"

Li Chengqian's emotion is from the heart. Taking Yongzhou as an example, there are grains brought back from Linyi and other places by the household department and industrial zone. The price of grain and rice here has always been very low. Even if there is a small natural disaster, it will not affect it at all. , so the grain of the common people will not be sold at a price.

Of course, the court had anticipated this situation as early as the beginning, but there was no way, both the emperor and the civil and military ministers were frightened by the famine.During the half of their lives, they have been accompanied by such and other famines, and the images of starvation everywhere are in their minds, so no matter what the consequences will be, they still bury their heads in saving food.

"Your Highness's words hit the nail on the head. The land system in my dynasty is an equal-field system, while the tax system is based on the land-equalization system. This system is implemented on the basis of the equal-field system. If an inappropriate reduction of rent and interest is not done right now, it will not only lead to land depreciation, but also It will cause a large number of refugees. For a country, there is nothing more important than this. I think it is right for the veterans to reduce rent and interest.”

Afterwards, Fang Xuanling explained in detail the relationship between the equal-field system and rent-yong modulation. The equal-field system is a system of distributing land according to population that has been implemented in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Migration, a large number of fields were barren, and the national tax revenue was seriously affected.In order to ensure the source of state taxation, the Northern Wei Dynasty allocated the land it had in hand to farmers, who paid rent and taxes to the government, and assumed certain corvee and military services.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taiwu continued to implement the land equalization system, stipulating that every man should receive 300 mu of open field, 60 mu of mulberry or hemp field, and [-] mu of open field for women.The dew fields will be returned to the country after the death of the land recipients, and the mulberry fields or hemp fields are permanent fields, which can be passed on to descendants and can be traded in a limited manner.The servants and servants received the same land as the common people, but there were restrictions on the number of land recipients. The prince's family was limited to [-] people, and the common people's family was limited to [-] people. A small cow received [-] mu of land, and a family was limited to four cattle.

From the prince to the governor, Yongyetian was given, decreasing in order from [-] hectares.All officials in the capital are allocated land for their posts, and the land is reduced from one crystal to five hectares according to the level of grade.In addition to the land assigned to the official position, foreign officials also have a certain number of public lands.The income from the official land was a part of the salary of officials, and the income from the public land was the office expenses of the government office.

Because Wu Dechu followed this system, it played a certain role in restricting land annexation. The number of self-cultivating farmers increased, which was conducive to the recovery and development of agricultural production, and laid a solid foundation for today's Zhenguan prosperity.

Moreover, Zuyongdiao regulations are based on "people". Regardless of the amount of land and property, the same amount of silk and millet must be paid per Ding. The county captain is responsible for collecting Yongdiao. Designated place.The rent is the field rent, and the shipment starts in November after harvest.

The method of substituting labor with silk in the rent-yong system, under the simultaneous implementation of the land equalization system, enables farmers to have enough time for farming while having land to cultivate, and will not delay farming time because of serving outside, and promotes the development of agriculture. develop.

"Okay, the pros and cons have been clearly stated. After you two go down, discuss with the important ministers of Hongwen Palace to see how much reduction is appropriate. A court meeting will be held in Chengqing Palace in three days." He waved his hand to indicate that they could leave.

After Fang Xuanling and the two quit, Li Chengqian frowned deeply. For the current situation, he had already expected it after participating in politics for many years. It's just that he had been busy with political struggles and wars before and had no time, and business hadn't developed to this level. Just lead but not send.

And now, just as Wei Zheng was about to make arrangements, this fatal disease broke out. It really was a road leak that happened to add fuel to the fire when it rained all night.At the same time, it also reminded him of the words Feng Deyi said in the first year of Zhenguan, slow medicine can't cure an emergency, and it's impossible not to think too much about it in one step. .
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