Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 152

"The first proposal is to reduce Luoyue's original tenancy to [-]%, and overseas islands to [-]%. Let's discuss it."

Jia Cheng Wang Xiaoqian is now 82 years old, and Wang Chaoge is the only remaining fourth generation of the Wang family, the same generation as Wang Changzhi, and Wang Changzhi's cousin.

As for Wang Chaoge, he is now [-] years old, and he is the oldest and longest-lived person in the whole family. Even if you look at the whole world, only Zhao Tuo, who is [-] years old, can be compared with him.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, and those who agreed raised their hands one by one, but some who disagreed stood up and spoke out: "The drop is so much? Our income will drop sharply!"

"I think it's good enough to get down to [-]," said another.

"The tyrants in the Central Plains have all dropped to [-]%, and some have even dropped to [-]%. Our Wang family naturally has to integrate with the Central Plains." Wang Yujun, the family secretary, explained: "As for the sharp drop in income, we have long stopped trading with the Central Plains. , The smuggled North Korea has also become Lelang County, where do we get the income from?"

"Don't we rely on the corruption of the five counties in eastern Liaodong for our current income?"

"As for the output of the family's fertile land, most of them are transported overseas to be eaten by the tenant farmers who are opening up wasteland, and some are used to make wine."

"Although the farmland rent is reduced now, we can continue to be self-sufficient as long as we suspend wine making. We don't sell wine anyway. If we make too much wine, we just drink it ourselves, or sharecroppers drink it."

Wang Yujun's explanation is well-founded.

The Wang family has not conducted foreign trade for a long time, and now it is all domestic trade, that is, internal circulation, selling their own output to their own tenant farmers.

Therefore, it has been a long time since currency was earned through trade. Most of the current currencies are obtained from selling private salt and iron in Liaodong, and some are obtained from official corruption.

This kind of internal circulation is also forced to be helpless. Who told the court that the commercial tax is too high?

It's not that I didn't think about trading with Sanhan before, but later I found that Sanhan was too poor. If I went all the way to trade with them, I couldn't even earn the travel expenses, so I might as well send troops to grab them directly.

In fact, if the Wang family can stop overseas land reclamation, they can accumulate a lot of food every year. After all, overseas land reclamation is the most food consumed by the Wang family.

In the first three or four years of land reclamation, the fields had no output, or the output was very small, and the Wang family could only rely on the grain rented from other farmlands that had been reclaimed long ago to be transported to the area that was reclaiming wasteland. As for starvation.

But the Wang family can't stop eating because of choking, even if they don't make wine, even if they don't drink good wine, even if they save the grain for wine making to eat by the pioneers, they can't stop the land reclamation.

Stop opening up wasteland, that is to stand still, that is to be willing to degenerate, that is to bring about the destruction of oneself!
"In the past, when refugees were everywhere, it was very cheap to buy a refugee and come back as a tenant farmer. You can buy a refugee slave for only [-] baht and five baht. You can even get a refugee slave for free if you are brave enough. But now, there are no refugees in the world. Zero, the tenant farmers are still scrambling to become self-cultivators, which has caused the price of slaves to rise many times, and now a tenant farmer slave actually costs [-] yuan!"

"In the past, fields were more expensive than people, but now people are more expensive than fields. The cost of continuing to acquire tenant farmers is too high."

"So, I think it is appropriate to reduce the rent and let the tenants live better, so that they will be more willing to have children, add more tenants to us, and save us the cost of buying tenants."

Wang Hongyin, who had been a prefect for many years, understood the situation better. He had governed Liaodong for so many years, and it was not that he had thought of deliberately creating refugees, and then the Wang family took the opportunity to kidnap the refugees and become tenant farmers, increasing the population for free without spending a penny.

But the imperial court is politically clear, and those who dare to do so have been sent to Chang'an to be beheaded.

In the previous period of Emperor Wu, although the control over the tyrants was stricter, at least there were more corrupt officials, and the Wang family could still rely on money to fool the above corrupt officials.

Although the management is a little less strict than that of Emperor Wudi, the politics are too clear and the emperor is too diligent. Every day, the chiefs of the counties and states in various places are required to report the work situation. I am afraid that the officials will engage in corruption without telling him.

Under Emperor Liu Xun's tireless and insane diligence, Wang Hongyin restrained himself a lot and did not dare to be too greedy. The same must be true for other counties.

However, emperors who are too diligent generally do not live long, and will exhaust themselves to death, especially emperors who are diligent and worry about the country and the people, there is a high probability that they will not live long.

Often those who are heartless can live longer.

But there are exceptions, but such exceptions belong to the minority after all.

Therefore, Wang Hongyin is not worried about politics being too clear, because according to the normal law, if Liu Xun continues to be diligent in government and love the people like this, it is normal to die from overwork. Everyone is greedy ten times and a hundred times back.

The Wang family will use time to defeat Mingjun!

When it's time to be greedy, you must be greedy, so as to increase the wealth and strength of the Wang family. After all, horses are not fat at night, and corruption is for the sake of the growth of the entire family. Although it is not visible to the world, it is very important to the family. Necessary, if there is no corruption, there will be no money to develop the family.

When you shouldn't be greedy, you can resist the temptation to stop in time, and you won't be greedy like some people, so that you are caught by the court.

The Wang family is very strict about corruption, and their experience is getting richer and richer.

Those who opposed Wang Hongyin's analysis were convinced, so the first motion "reducing the rent of tenant farmers" was successfully passed.

"Since the first proposal has been passed, from now on, the rent of Luoyue's original tenant farmers will be reduced to [-]%, and the rent of overseas islands will be reduced to [-]%." Wang Xiaoqian said slowly: "Now let's start the second proposal."

"The second proposal, the next land reclamation target, Zhinu Island (Kyushu Island)? Mahan? Mouhan? Chenhan? Peach Blossom Island (Juehua Island)?"

As soon as this remark came out, the children of all the families discussed again.

"I think we should continue to develop Zhinu Island to the east. After all, the ancestors once said that the Japanese islands are a refuge for our royal family. We should develop them well so that if the Central Plains is in chaos one day, or the royal family will be destroyed. In times of disaster, we can go there to take refuge." A family member who has a lot of corruption is afraid that he will be caught by the court and wiped out, so he thinks that he should continue to go east so that he can escape at any time.

"No, no, Zhinu Island is too far away, and the virgin forest is dense. The malaria situation will only be worse than that of the previous Penglai Island and Yan Island. The difficulty and cost of development are too high." Another person who is in charge of overseas development all the year round The children of the family put forward valuable opinions, and what he said were all facts.

"Is it necessary for Mou Han and Chen Han to think about it? It is as far away as Zhinu Island, but the effect of refuge is far less than Zhinu Island."

"I think Mahan is good. They have a relatively high level of civilization. In recent years, under the influence of Han culture in Lelang County, they have left primitive society. They can already weave cloth. Many Mahan people no longer wear animal clothes and start to wear them. The commoner clothes have been replaced, and the weapons have been replaced with bronze, and even some Mahan leaders are already using iron weapons purchased from the Central Plains."

"The Mahan people with a relatively high level of civilization are more suitable than other natives to be tenant farmers for our royal family. They are not like those stupid and short Japanese who beat them with whips and forced them to learn farming, but those Japanese You still haven’t learned how to farm.”

"Although the Mahan people are more suitable as sharecroppers, they have already started to build their own cities. Many Mahan people are not as easy to catch as they were 100 years ago. They hide in the city and it is more difficult to capture them as slaves. It's getting bigger and bigger, and it's really hard to conquer."

"If you want me to say, it's better to go to Taohua Island (Juehua Island), which is close to Liaoxi County in the Central Plains. If the Central Plains cancels the commercial tax in the future, we can trade with Liaoxi County in the Central Plains through Taohua Island. This is a big deal. Commercial income!"

"Actually, to be honest, I think..."

Everyone said something to each other, but there was no debate on the next development direction.

(End of this chapter)