Xuande

Chapter 797 Everyone should be grateful
The influence of the limited slavery order in the world was not small, but because of its relatively large flexibility in implementation, it did not cause resistance in the world.

The previous wave of people who were unwilling to accept the slavery restriction set off a wave of resistance. At that time, most people watched with cold eyes. They felt that there was no need to confront the court head-on for some slaves, and even lost their lives.

So that wave of resistance was wiped out, followed by a burst of court actions to eliminate the tribalism, and released more than one million slaves, and the rest were basically silent.

Many people think that after the slave restriction order, Liu Bei's coquettish operations will end, but who would have thought that Liu Bei still has a backup.

Whenever the local forces feel that Liu Bei's operation is close to the bottom line of his life, he can always easily break the bottom line and tell everyone that he can punch holes!
So those who survived without resistance at that time can be said to be quite regretful now.

At that time, I felt that there were no slaves, and they had not touched the bottom line that they could not back down. If you hire someone, you can hire someone. It is nothing more than the difference between earning more and earning less. Anyway, the new emperor took office three times, burn him, burn him When it burns, the fire goes out.

But now this serious tax collection, the more land, the higher the tax level, the higher the tax amount, the highest can be paid [-]%, it is like chopping off their limbs with an ax and bleeding them, then The blood gurgles out like a fountain.

Either pay taxes or sell the land to the government. In their opinion, this is no different from robbery. It just sounds better and makes the court look like a robber.

Can this be tolerated?
They can't take it anymore.

There is no choice but to resist and let the court know how powerful they are, in exchange for a compromise from the court.

But when preparing to resist, this group of people found that it was difficult for them to organize enough manpower and material resources.

All because of that damned slavery ban.

Although the slavery restriction was very flexible in execution, it was very strict for families with no official relationship, so many people secretly scolded the imperial court for bullying and fearing strength.

As a result, they realized now that the court is not bullying the weak and fearing the strong, but wants everything, but there is a sequence of execution.

After the slavery ban, a considerable number of small and medium-sized landlord families lost a large number of slaves. In some places, the number of legal slaves that a large family with tens of thousands of acres of land could actually provide was no more than fifty or sixty.

This is the whole family, old and young, who went to battle together, and only stayed after one person bound three servants.

Households with more than a hundred servants are very few big families with a large number of people. If dozens of families are tied together, they can only gather more than 1000 people, which is not a deterrent at all.

At this moment, the slaves are replaced by free-lance farm laborers who are paid.

After the slavery ban, the big landlords’ demand for farm laborers began to surge. They and the remaining slaves could not afford such a large demand for agricultural production, so they hired redundant laborers to help work in their own fields.

And those who can come to help them work during this time period, except for the individual labor provided by a few self-cultivating peasant families with surplus labor, are the collective farms as a whole to recruit labor.

It was relatively rare for collective farms to come out to pick up work before the slavery restriction order, but after the slavery restriction order, it was still relatively common.

Because not every place has a lot of engineering and construction affairs that require the collective farm to contribute, and under the overall farming model, it is normal for a farm to allocate a part of its staff to go out to work and make money.

Originally, this was also one of the advantages of the collective farm model to attract people to join.

Let's all get to the bottom of it together, which to a considerable extent relieves personal concerns about survival.

The big landowners have needs, and the collective farms have labor force, so after a little calculation, we found that the internal agricultural affairs do not require so much manpower to devote full time, and part of the manpower can be allocated to earn extra money.

So everyone asked the court representative to negotiate wages and working hours with the big landowners as the representative of the farm.

In terms of wages, it is definitely not the turn of the big landlords to pay randomly. The representatives of the imperial court will officially ask the big landlords to sign a contract, clearly stipulate the amount of wages, and go to the government for notarization and introduce government management.

Afterwards, we have to take care of drinking water and three meals a day. Farm tools and the like are also provided by the big landlord’s family. If someone is injured, the government will have to punish the big landlord and be responsible for compensation.

These conditions were taken aback by the big landlords.

When have they been so angry?
A bunch of mud legs dare to ask me for three meals a day?

They deliberately refused to accept it and wanted to find cheaper and high-quality labor. As a result, the collective farms in the surrounding area were connected with each other. Everyone communicated with each other, resolutely opposed the introversion behavior of lowering prices, and unanimously safeguarded the interests of farmers.

Individual farmers in a few villages cannot provide so many young laborers. Seeing that they have no choice but to bite the bullet and sign contracts with collective farms in exchange for labor force to help with farming, otherwise they will see the land being left unused. .

Although there are also some big landlords who just don’t want to spend money and don’t want to be angry with the collective farms, they just let the land go uncultivated there. Anyway, there was no order to save the land before, and they paid a little tax symbolically. With this income, they also have strong survival capital.

It's better than being scammed by a collective farm.

But they didn't expect that the land was deserted, and the government began to sing a double reed with the collective farms-the government sent people to the door to inquire, asking why they didn't start farming.

The big landlords complained, saying that the collective farms were too pitiful, and they couldn’t afford the employment price. They had no choice but to let the land go unused in order not to lose money.

The people from the government listened to it, and gave some of their own opinions in a pleasant manner.

Now the imperial court attaches great importance to agricultural harvests, and the government also hopes that all the land can grow food. If you don’t plant such fertile land on your side, it will be too wasteful. The government really can’t help but watch these fertile land become wasteland.

In this way, if you are afraid of losing money, can you consider handing it over to the government to operate it?

If you don't farm, then give you two options, either sell the land to the government, the government will buy it at its discretion, and then arrange people to farm.

If you don’t want to, that’s fine too. You can rent out the land, contract it from the government, and find someone to farm.

The official's tone was very soft, but the meaning in the words was not soft at all.

Such a good land, if you want to leave it barren, there is no door, if you dare to play tricks, don't blame the government for being rude, if you don't like the soft, then come hard.

Let me check your past land tax issues and the issue of servants in your family, as long as you find some problems for me, see if I don't kill you!

Don't take the county magistrate as an official!There are many ways to mess with you!
Under the threat of the government, some big landlords who wanted to fight against the collective farms couldn't stand it anymore. Under the strong pressure of the government, they had to compromise.

Because there is no guarantee that there will be any problems in handing over the land to the government for operation, [-]% of the income is really too small. In the end, they can only choose to accept the quotation from the collective farm and bite the bullet and hire farmers to farm.

As a result, a new model of agricultural production, employing farmers as agricultural workers to farm the fields, became popular.

This model began to appear in the Guanzhong area after the slavery restriction order, and spread all over the country in just over a year. Wherever the slavery restriction order was rectified, this new type of production and employment phenomenon appeared everywhere.

Moreover, because the collective farm belongs to a collective, and there are representatives of the imperial court representing the official power, they have certain bargaining power and protection against the big landlords and tyrants. conditions of.

The big landlords don’t dare to entrap the people in the collective farms, so as not to attract official intervention and make themselves suffer. Therefore, under such circumstances, the wages and benefits received by collective farm farmers are often higher than individual farmers.

Comparing the two, more and more individual farmers found themselves at a disadvantage, so they discussed joining the collective farm when they returned home. In the end, more and more individual farmers chose to join the collective farm in order to seek better development.

Therefore, after more than a year of the promotion of the slavery restriction, the process of agricultural collectivization in many places has made a great leap forward. More than 80.00% of local self-cultivating farmers have joined collective farms and organized themselves.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the number of individual peasant households working for big landlords and tyrants is far less than the number of collective farm households.

Therefore, in the current state, most of the people that the big landlords can contact most directly are the farmers in the collective farm, and no matter what their status is, they are all free citizens and have no personal affiliation with the big landlords. Naturally, there is no need to listen to them and work hard for them.

To put it bluntly, helping these guys do farm work for a few months can make a lot of money, but working hard for this little money?
Think beautifully!

And among other things, collective farms also have some semi-official nature in nature.

Each collective farm is assisted by government representatives in the management, and many things related to the county government are handled by government representatives, so they can contact the government smoothly, and some information from the government will be relatively smooth. farm.

And in the literacy campaign, most of the farmers also learned a lot of characters, learned to read and write, and became literacy or semi-literate players, no longer blind and ignorant as before. , and rushed desperately as soon as he was agitated.

Now the big guys can basically eat their stomachs, and they can understand some government orders, documents, and news from the county government, and they will soon be conveyed to all collective farms to ensure that the information is synchronized, so some big Landlords still think that farmers are easy to deceive, but in fact the situation is completely different.

Just like this rebellion in Guanghan County, the family of Xie Chong, the county government official who wanted to rebel, had some discussions. He felt that although there were not many servants to use, those who helped with the work could also use them. Pay some money, coax it, and it will be done.

However, Xie Chong works in the county government, so he has a better understanding of the working mode of the collective farm. He knows that the government will report a lot of news to the collective farm as soon as possible, and there are official representatives in the collective farm who will spread the news to prevent farmers from being blocked.

He said that the farmers who came out of these collective farms are all "tricksters", literate, not easy to deceive, and accustomed to organization, they have a certain sense of trust in the government, so it is difficult to encourage them.

It is still better to set the target of agitation and deception as the farmers in the village, those are the mud legs that are easy to deceive, make up a lie to deceive them, and then give them some benefits, and keep these guys to follow them as cannon fodder.

However, there are still some people in the Xie family who think that Xie Chong's words are exaggerated, mud legs are mud legs, how can he be so smart?

These people don't believe in evil. When Xie Chong organized manpower to cheat cannon fodder in the village to sell their lives, they sent people to contact the collective farm farmers working in the fields, and preached to them the "exorbitant taxes" of the imperial court, saying that the imperial court would impose levies on them. It's cruel.

What is the tax of [-]% for [-] mu of land, [-]% for [-] mu of land, and [-]% of the harvest for a family with [-] mu of land?

Seeing that the main family can't survive, they want to lead everyone to resist the tyranny of the imperial court. I don't know if they are willing to follow the main family to resist the tyranny of the imperial court. If they are willing, they will give money and food. Wouldn't it be nice to eat meat together?

As a result, what they said here was full of passion, and the farmers who listened to them looked at each other coldly, with strange expressions.

The situation became very embarrassing.

As the most important decree of the imperial court, the Dutian decree was first conveyed to the Dahanzhou County, and then quickly passed down. It took less than a month to basically reach all the states and counties in the country.

The speed of local grassroots transmission varies from fast to slow. In Guanghan County, it is not fast, but it is not slow. When the big landlords know the news, the farmers in the collective farm also know it, and they also know that the imperial court is going to save the land , and there will be land grants in the future.

A representative from Liangzhou sent by the imperial court explained to everyone that Yizhou is a remote state, and although Guanghan County is not a remote county, it also has preferential land allocation.

Guanghan County has a small population, so a man can be allocated about 150 mu of land, and a woman can be allocated 75 mu of land. Calculated by family, the more the population, the more land.

Now anyone who does not have so much land at home, no matter whether it is within the collective farm system or not, can get the distribution of land. Of course, the premise is that the imperial court succeeds in saving the land, so the big guys must support the imperial court. There is more land.

As for the tax, the representative of the imperial court also said that there are eight different grades, most of the people are in the first grade, and the tax is the lowest, which is less than the amount stipulated before. It can be regarded as a welfare from the imperial court.

Everyone should be grateful.

Then this is not yin and yang, it is a serious benefit, more fields can be added, more income, and less taxes, who would not like it?

It is only natural to be grateful for the tangible benefits.

Knowing about this, the inside of the collective farm is full of joy during this time, and everyone is discussing this matter, hoping that the imperial court will succeed in saving the land, and then give everyone benefits.

This kind of good thing may not necessarily come once in hundreds of years. Now it's our turn, isn't it a blessing?

As a result, the family of this powerful and powerful landlord is actually calling everyone to rebel?

Also said that [-] mu of land will have to pay [-]% of the tax?

Do I believe in the court announcement or do I believe in your empty teeth?
I believe you a ghost!
Stinky landlord Lao Cai, very bad!

On the spot, someone stood up and pointed at them and yelled at them, calling them liars, saying that the imperial court notice had been spread to the farm long ago, and the imperial court representative had explained to everyone how to pay taxes, how dare they lie to people now?
Then the peasants drove them away together.

After being driven away, the big guys made up their minds and felt that this group of people came from a wrong path. They urged everyone to rebel, lied to others, and talked nonsense about the imperial policy. There was obviously something wrong with them, so they returned to the farm after work and told the court representative.

The court representative frowned when he heard about this, feeling that the situation was wrong, and sent someone to tell the county government the news.

The magistrate of the county government also felt that the situation was wrong, so he sent someone to pass the news to the county government.

So the Guanghan County Government knew about this special situation.

(End of this chapter)