Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1309 Land Revolution
The emperor made a start, and then everyone discussed very enthusiastically.

It is undoubtedly a huge change from granting one hundred acres of land to one household to now proposing one hundred acres of land for one household.The number of land grants has indeed been greatly reduced, but in fact, it has not been possible to grant [-] mu of land per town in the past.

Calculated on the basis of Daye's five-year national boundaries, the whole country is only 890 million mu of land, and at that time there were 70.00 million households with a population of 20.00 million.The population in the north accounts for [-]% one, and the population in the south accounts for [-]% nine.

This does not include slaves, monks, lowly people, and some hermits who escaped, so a family of [-] mu will have nearly [-] million mu of land. In fact, many fields in the world belong to the royal family and others. The imperial court's public land, and noble officials and powerful landlords also occupied a large amount of private land.

So excluding these, the land that can really equalize the land is estimated to be more than half.

In many places, even [-] mu of Yongye farmland is not enough.

During the Sui Dynasty, the basic state policy was based on the land equalization system and the adjustment of rent and mediocrity. The basis of taxation was Ding, so the household registration and Dingkou were extremely strict. This was also the basis for the rapid increase from 300 million households in the early Sui Dynasty to nearly 900 million households. The reason.

However, although the household registration statistics in the Sui Dynasty are good, there are many unregistered households in the Sui Dynasty. In fact, there were not many Dingkou who actually paid taxes and served in the Sui Dynasty. In cloth, the total number of teachers is only over 490 million, which is basically only one teacher per household.

Therefore, according to the regular tax in the Sui Dynasty, the annual grain income was less than 300 million shi, 400 million pieces of silk, and more than [-] million pieces of linen.

But now the emperor said that Daqin would change the granting of [-] acres of land per person to a maximum of [-] acres of land per household and a minimum of [-] acres per dynasties. This is a huge change.

Except for slaves, as long as they are naturalized citizens of Daqin, they can share the land, the minimum is ten acres per person, no matter men, women, old or young, the maximum is one hundred acres of land.

Daqin currently has more than 8000 million households with a population of more than 1000 million.Among them, there were more than [-] million slaves and more than [-] million naturalized barbarians.

Not counting slaves, there are still more than 7000 million people, each with a minimum of 7 mu of land, which means at least [-] million mu of land, plus Huangzhuang, public land, and private land owned by noble officials and powerful landlords, as well as local land. The army farmland, job farmland, etc., would require more than one billion mu of land.

Therefore, it is indeed necessary to relocate some of the population of the Central Plains to the frontiers. After all, the frontiers have fewer people.

If the Central Plains were to be divided up, some villages would be divided by mouth, and one person might not be able to get even one mu of land, so resettlement had to be mobilized.

In this era where farming is the mainstay, without our own land, we will never be able to solve food and clothing, and cannot get rid of poverty.If ordinary people can't even provide for their own food and clothing, how can they contribute to the court's finances?
"As for the private land of noble officials and landlords, further quotas are required. The land quota in the Central Plains must be limited to death. One more thing is that the Yongye land granted by the common people is only allowed to be bought and sold among villagers in the village."

"Saint, isn't this one too much?"

"I think it is very appropriate. If you let go of this hole, the arable land in the Central Plains will not last long, and it will inevitably be annexed by powerful households. Therefore, the court cannot let go of this hole. You can buy fields and land, but you can only let it go." South and frontier."

"In places where the per capita land is less than ten mu of land, some people must be mobilized to relocate. Priority is given to relocating the population from places with the least land. Every commoner has at least ten acres of basic security.”

With more people and less land, all kinds of problems will inevitably occur. Therefore, how to adjust this contradiction has become the foundation of managing people's livelihood.

"It's hard to leave the homeland. To give people [-] mu of land to one family in the frontier, and to give each person [-] mu of permanent land, they may not be willing to give up their current hometown with only [-] to [-] mu of land."

"If you don't want to leave, you have to leave. This is not only to let the people get rid of poverty, but also the imperial court's century-old plan for stability. Otherwise, it is impossible to maintain the newly conquered Baekje, Linyi and other places, let alone the frontiers. It may be developed. The imperial court's troops stationed in the frontier may not be able to support them. In the end, the imperial court can only give up these bloody places, and eventually let other barbarians occupy them. We immigrated to occupy it, develop it, garrison there, and make it our new home there, so that other barbarians can no longer touch it."

In the Central Plains, each family is given [-] mu of Yongye land, with a minimum of [-] mu of land per person and a maximum of [-] mu of land per household.

As for the immigrant frontier land, the imperial court can give each person ten acres of permanent land, and a family of at least two hundred acres of land.

"Saint, I feel that the servants should take the lead to set an example. The guards stationed at the frontier should all move their family members there. In this way, the soldiers can also guard the frontier with peace of mind."

Luo Cheng nodded, "For the soldiers of the guard battalion, the imperial court should not only let them take the lead, but also give them real benefits. I think that each soldier can be given one hundred acres of military land without paying land taxes. When family members moved to the station, they still received [-] mu of Yongye farmland per dictation, and each family was granted [-] mu of land. Outside of Yongye farmland, the rest was divided into mouths. The [-] mu of land does not count the military land of the government soldiers."

"The frontier land can also properly relax some restrictions on land sales, allowing nobles and powerfuls to buy fields and land in the past, and build manors, etc."

The more everyone discussed, the more intense it was.

Land policy can be said to be the foundation of a country. Although the main source of the imperial court's fiscal revenue is not land tax, it is related to the stability of the world and is a major event involving tens of millions of people.

Care must be taken.

"If you divide the land and grant the land, should you divide the land by person or by household?" Wei Zheng asked, there must be a standard for everything.

A minimum of [-] mu for a town and a maximum of [-] mu for a household are just two quotas, but how should they be divided, on a per-person basis or on a household basis?

"I think that each household can be divided into [-] mu of Yongye land first, and then [-] mu of mouth to divide the land. This is the basic land. Then make fine-tuning according to the actual family size. For example, if the number of people is five or less, then one Fifty mu per household. If the family size exceeds five, add another ten mu for each family, but the upper limit is one hundred mu.”

Wei Zheng nodded. A family should be granted at least [-] mu of land. If it is cultivated carefully, it is not bad.

"Then is there a standard for the division of households? Dividing land according to households will inevitably cause many people to divide households. For example, a family of three generations lived together, two grandfathers and grandmothers, and three sons below. Children, but they are all in one household, with more than a dozen people. If the upper limit is used according to the new regulations, they can only be divided into [-] mu of land, but if the family is divided into four households, they can be divided into at least [-] mu of land, which is double the difference. Woolen cloth!"

"In a situation like this, as long as there are several sons in one household, the sons can apply for household division when they grow up, get married and have children. Parents live with the youngest son, and the other sons can live in separate households after they get married and have children."

The imperial court actually encouraged this kind of household division, because under the two-tax system, in addition to the land tax per acre, the household tax was also collected on a household basis. If one more household was dismantled, the household tax of one more household would of course be levied.

The family has three generations, two of the three brothers go out in separate households, and the youngest sons are not divided into households. One household becomes three households, and the amount of land is at least 150 mu. If the population is large, it can be increased.

In this regard, the imperial court does not object or even encourages it.

"Can the slaves, cattle and horses in the family divide the fields?"

"Of course this is impossible. We did not rule in the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties. Nowadays, there are more people and less land, so we will not grant land to slaves, cows and horses."

"Saint, the land is rich and poor, how to solve this problem?"

"This can't be solved. We can only give each villager as much land as possible when allocating land. Try to be as fair as possible. No special treatment will be given to the field."

(End of this chapter)