Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 618 Cheap Grain Hurts Farmers?No, it's an opportunity to make money.

In fact, many subordinate staff families in various parts of Ming Dynasty have used various means to seize and plunder over the years, occupying a large number of self-cultivating farmers' land, forcing those farmers who lost their land to become tenant farmers in their names.

And because this group of people holds the right of the local government to collect rents and taxes, it is impossible for them to pay taxes on their fields. As long as the imperial court raises taxes, they will instead try to impose the burden on ordinary farmers. Repeat the collection to complete the amount of tax assigned.

Under the repeated squeeze year after year, more farmers will have to sell their fields in order to pay taxes, and those greedy subordinates will let the tooth dealers come forward to take advantage of people's dangers and buy farmers' fields at low prices, thereby Gradually became a big local household.

For example, if there is ten thousand mu of unpaid land under the name of a housekeeper in a certain county, and one hundred tenant farmers are working for it, based on the calculation of one stone per mu per year, this ten thousand mu of land can be worth one hundred thousand mu of land. The harvest of ten thousand stones, excluding the rations for the tenants, will also leave at least seven thousand to eight thousand stones of grain.

Even if these grains are calculated at the current market price of five taels of silver, if they are all sold, there will be an income of 4000 to [-] taels of silver.

In the Jiangnan region where two crops are harvested a year, more than one stone can be produced per mu per year.

And if the collection is based on the gentry's one-time payment of grain, then these large households will have to pay more than 900 taels of silver.

Compared with this huge sum of money, the Qinzheng Bank and Yanglian Bank at the end of each year are only 60 taels, and the annual pension after retirement in the future is only 20 taels a year. Isn't it clear at a glance?
Of course, [-] mu is an extreme case, unless the family is very powerful, otherwise, the status of subordinate staff is a restriction after all, and there is no such ability to save such property.

Zhu Youjian estimated that there should not be a small number of subordinates with two or three thousand mu in their families, and these people will most likely become a huge resistance to reform.

It is also not ruled out that some subordinate officials with big families and great careers, after seeing the prospect of being promoted to senior officials, voluntarily give up the small profits in front of them and cooperate with the court's strategy in order to gain political capital from it. After all, there are very few people with vision, and they cannot be expected to become the mainstream.

In order to implement the grand plan of gentry and gentry paying food in one package, the implementation of grassroots officials is the most important. Only when this problem is solved, the reform will proceed smoothly.

In the vast land north of the Yangtze River, due to years of famine and war, many former gentry families disappeared, and the remaining few are no longer enough to worry about in the current environment. The focus of this reform is on the south of the Yangtze River.

As for the suzerains and vassals, they are not within the scope of Zhu Youjian's consideration.

My order has been issued, and I believe those factory guards who are like wolves and tigers will come up with an answer that satisfies me.

What should be done now to solve this problem?
"The policy of gentry and gentry paying food as a whole is an established policy, and I have also come up with corresponding compensation measures. If there are still people who obstruct it, then don't blame me for being unpredictable!

There is no need to discuss this matter any further, the various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River will take care of it themselves! "

After Zhu Youjian pondered, he still couldn't find the most appropriate way, so he simply decided to take the simplest and most effective way to deal with the resisters by force.

All the ministers saw that the emperor was acting like this, and no one expressed any objection to this matter.

Force is indeed the best way at present. Those people in Jiangnan have nothing to do with me, just die as soon as you die, who told you not to be short-sighted.

There are bound to be smart and timid people who feel the danger from the imminent large-scale murderous actions in the Songjiang Mansion, so they choose to be obedient and obedient, and then start to slander and abuse Imam and the court officials overtly and secretly. Those are irrelevant, as long as the taxes are paid.

"My lord, the reclaiming of wasteland in many prefectures and counties in Xiabei has already achieved great results. Next year, the development and reclamation of the Jinghu area will make great achievements. In addition, the summer grain will be implemented in the next year. There will be unpredictable growth, and if things go on like this, Daming will not be in danger of food shortage.

However, with the sharp increase in grain production, the price will also drop significantly. Many farmers have a large amount of grain empty-handed, but they cannot sell it at a high price. The daily necessities of cloth, thread, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. have to be bought with money. In other words, how to avoid the problem of cheap grain hurting farmers? "

Li Banghua, who has always been concerned about the country and the people, suddenly raised a seemingly absurd, but far-sighted question.

"Hehe, Li Qing, don't worry too much. In three or two years, the scene you mentioned will not appear for the time being. As for when it really comes, I will have a corresponding strategy to deal with it, so as to ensure that there will be no harm to the peasants. Already!"

Li Banghua's question made Zhu Youjian feel a little dumbfounded.

The most important thing now is to solve the problem of eating for countless people. The problem Li Banghua said is simply the trouble of happiness. Zhu Youjian hopes that this situation will appear next year.

Besides, this problem is also very easy to solve.

The simplest is to set a minimum purchase price for grain. When the grain price is lower than the minimum purchase price, the imperial court will take out money to buy the surplus grain in the hands of the farmers, so as to ensure that the farmers have enough money to buy the most basic living materials. .

As for how to deal with the purchased grain, that would be easier.

In addition to ensuring that there is enough grain in official warehouses in various places, Zhu Youjian will also order the government to increase the amount of grain purchased.

This is a good opportunity to make money.

How to make money?

Brewing.

Brew high-grade liquor and sell it to Mongolian compatriots outside the Great Wall to help them resist the long and severe cold weather.

Now all the wines in the Ming Dynasty are rice wine brewed by private workshops in the south of the Yangtze River. The alcohol content is too low and the taste is not good.

But liquor is different.

The hot burning knife was poured down in one gulp, and the stomach seemed to be on fire. The Mongolian men were afraid that they would take off their fur robes and run wild in the snow?
No money to buy?

It's ok.

Don't you have big animals like horses, cattle and sheep?

Isn't there such a thing as felt, tent, and wool?
Just exchange it.

The brewing process of baijiu is not complicated. China has the habit of making wine for thousands of years. The reason why high-grade baijiu is not brewed is mainly because it is afraid of waste, so it is not willing to distill the wine several times.

As long as you tell the craftsman about this, you can quickly create an airtight distillation apparatus, and you can quickly produce high-alcohol liquor that is as pure as water.

At that time, put these wines in the wine cellar to get rid of the fire, and then mix them with water and put them in the wine jar. No matter the fragrance type or the sauce type, the liquor will be freshly released.

"The next thing I want to talk about is the construction of government infrastructure in various places since the 12th year of Chongzhen."

　Thanks to Jiangzuo Meilang 1 for the reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)