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Chapter 414 0410 [Brother-in-law]

Since the court meeting, all ministries have been operating in an orderly manner.

The reason why it was so fast was due to the fact that Han Zhen had already established the political structure when he was in Shandong. After more than a year of running in, officials from various ministries and supplementary officials were already familiar with the work content.

Moving to Tokyo now, it only takes a few days to get used to it, and you can quickly get into the mood.

Secondly, the restructuring of subordinate officials began to show results.

You must know that whether a department can operate normally, officials are not the key, the key is the subordinate staff.

Officials are only responsible for the general direction, and it is the lower-level subordinates who really handle the errands.

After the restructuring, subordinate officials were replaced by supplementary officials, and their salary and status were greatly improved, while channels for promotion were opened up.

In other words, under Han Zhen's rule, there were no so-called subordinate officials anymore.

All became civil servants.

As county officials take office, the first thing they do is to implement the idea of ​​dividing the land into acres.

Dividing people into acres is a national policy. It can not only reduce the tax pressure on the people, but the most critical point is that it can effectively prevent land annexation!

During the Song Dynasty, land annexation was not prohibited.

The main reason is that Zhao Dade's unfair control of the country made it impossible to touch the original interest groups. Coupled with the rise of new interest groups, the land annexation problem further worsened.

Land annexation will inevitably lead to a surge in refugees.

The surge in refugees has been the most troublesome problem in all dynasties, because once this happens, a large number of peasant uprisings will not be far away.

How did Zhao Song solve it?

Redundant army, coupled with developed industry and commerce.

When the people lost their land, they were either recruited into the Xiang army or fled to the city to work.

In essence, it is using national finance to solve the refugee problem. This is obviously wrong. It is using the money from the national treasury to pay for interest groups.

Where does the money for the national treasury come from? It comes from the accumulation of taxes from thousands of people.

Is Zhao Song rich?

rich!

But they are all in the hands of interest groups, and the people at the bottom have difficulty even making ends meet.

Dividing the land into acres can inhibit land annexation to the greatest extent.

The reason is very simple. The wealth produced by land is limited. One acre of land can only produce one or two stones of food every year. If there is more, it will be gone.

If there is a calamity, there will not even be a stone left, or even no harvest.

After the implementation of the apportionment system, for every additional acre of land owned, one additional field tax will be borne.

This results in a threshold for the amount of land owned.

Once the threshold is exceeded, not only do landowners not make money, they also have to lose money and pay taxes.

You will lose money by planting 10,000 acres of land, but you will make small profits by planting 1,000 acres of land. How do you choose?

Of course, you can also say that I would rather lose money than have land.

Han Zhen could also accept this, because you paid all the land taxes of other people. With this money, Han Zhen could develop industry and commerce, and in other ways, compensate the people who had no land.

One is to divide people into acres, and the other is to limit the amount of land owned by officials under their command.

Han Zhen stipulated that each official should have a maximum of one hundred acres of land, and the Supervisory Office would get involved if more land was added.

The third is sea trade, which gradually moves their eyes from the land to the fertile sea.

The sea business is only the first step. After the ocean trading caravan is formed, the combination of fists will follow.

Han Zhen worked hard to do so much, even giving profits to officials, just so that the people under his rule could have enough to eat.

As the saying goes, if you are poor, you can benefit yourself; if you are prosperous, you can help the world.

Since I became the emperor, I had to do something for the people.

The chief officials of counties and counties in Hebei, Western Beijing, Lianghuai and other places worked hard to measure the fields and count the population, striving to fully implement the concept of divination into acres before the summer harvest.

Why rush before the summer harvest?

First, it allows ordinary people to pay less field taxes during the summer harvest.

Secondly, the summer harvest is approaching, and the crops in the fields are about to mature. The landlords and gentry are reluctant to run away even if they want to, and the sunk costs increase.

……

Will be imprisoned.

Yu Bozhuang was surrounded by a group of great craftsmen, marveling in wonderment.

On the ground is a lump of concrete with marks of knife and ax cuts.

After some testing, Yu Bozhuang exclaimed in surprise: "Hiss! This cement is so magical!"

A master craftsman nodded in agreement: "It is indeed magical. Although the adhesion is not as good as that of glutinous rice mortar, the hardness is even greater."

Yu Bozhuang stroked his beard and said: "The key point is that it dries very quickly. It only takes one day in summer and up to three to five days in winter. In contrast, glutinous rice mortar takes several months. Even for years.”

With an artifact like cement, the construction period can be greatly shortened. Now that we have enough manpower and the help of more than 10,000 forbidden troops, we can complete the project before the New Year.

Thinking of this, Yu Bozhuang said with a solemn expression: "Please study this thing carefully and ask colleagues from Shandong for advice. If anyone dares to delay the construction plan, don't blame me for being unkind."

The construction of Cuju venues and low-rent housing was the first task assigned by the government to the Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Not only must it be done safely, but it must also be done beautifully.

Although Craftsman Yuan held the position of dean of the Academy of Engineering, he actually had other responsibilities. After having lunch with the officials in the palace, Yu Bozhuang had never seen his boss again.

He vaguely guessed where Dean Yuan had gone, but he just pretended not to know.

After all, after the weapons supervisor was stripped away, all the master craftsmen under his jurisdiction disappeared overnight.

The entire city of Tokyo has slowly returned to its former prosperity. Two huge construction sites are under construction in full swing, creating jobs for tens of thousands of people and a large number of service industries.

The service industry was a major feature of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In other words, it is a unique feature of Tokyo city.

Do you dare to imagine that food delivery people have already appeared in Tokyo in this era?

But right now, I don’t call him a delivery person, I call him a helper.

In addition to being responsible for delivering meals, he also serves as a tour guide and entertainment companion. On the construction site of the Forbidden Army barracks, countless people were divided into several teams and were digging the foundation.

The scorching sun was shining high, and the harsh sun made people's temples swell and ache.

"Brother Eleven, I can't do it anymore."

Zhao Zhen sat down on the ground, panting with her mouth wide open, sweat dripping down uncontrollably.

When Zhao Mo saw this, he smiled bitterly and said: "I originally had fifty guan, it would be great to do some small business, or buy a cow to cultivate fields in the countryside, but now it's better, I have to sell it without finishing the meal." A coolie makes a living.”

Zhao Zhen is still young and has no wife or concubines. He can only feed one person and the whole family is not hungry, but he still has a wife and children to support.

Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly and said: "I just thought that after the fourteenth sister came to Beijing, for the sake of my mother-in-law, I had to get some relief. How could I have imagined that she would be so heartless!"

Zhao Mo complained: "I blame you for spending money lavishly. Now I am also suffering."

Under Zhao Zhen's instigation, the two brothers lived a very carefree life during this period.

If I have nothing to do, I'll have a meal and then go shopping in Washizi.

As a result, within a few days, all the fifty guan of housing allowance given by Zhao Fujin was spent.

I thought that after the fourteenth sister came to Beijing, she would help them out of the sake of being a compatriot, but she waited and waited and couldn't wait for anyone.

The two brothers were so hungry that they had no choice but to work on the construction site.

Eighty cents a day is barely enough to make ends meet.

Hearing this, Zhao Zhen immediately quit and shouted: "Brother Eleven, I don't like hearing this anymore. You also ate the food and drank the wine. Why is it all my fault now?" Oh, feelings are for me to hold a knife to your neck and threaten you to eat?"

Zhao Mo was about to retort, but he heard a loud shout: "You two are lazy again, hurry up and work, otherwise each of you will be deducted twenty wages!"

Seeing the supervisor staring at them fiercely, the two brothers continued to wave their hoes.

Zhao Zhen cursed and said: "Slave dog, sooner or later I want you to look good."

"What are you mumbling about?"

Unexpectedly, the supervisor had a good ear and immediately stepped forward to question him.

Zhao Zhen shrank her neck: "No...it's nothing."

The supervisor would not beat or scold them, but if their wages were deducted, Brother Eleven would definitely beat himself up.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen still endured it.

"Your Majesty is here!"

Suddenly, there was a noise in the distance.

The supervisor couldn't care less about them and trotted over to watch.

Han Zhen, wearing a piece of coarse linen clothes, said with a smile: "The weather is hot, so the queen boiled some braised plum juice with her own hands and asked me to bring it to everyone to relieve the heat."

"Hail, Your Majesty, Hail, Queen!"

Hearing this, the people knelt down and thanked him.

Carloads of marinated plum juice were brought into the construction site and distributed by the supervisors.

"It tastes really good, and it also has sugar!"

"That's natural. The Queen made it with her own hands!"

Just a bowl of braised plum juice won the hearts of the working people.

Han Zhen was sitting on the ground with a bowl of braised plum juice, talking to the people.

"Are the wages paid enough?"

"foot!"

The workers nodded quickly.

Yu Bozhuang on the side was frightened when he heard this, for fear that the officials under his command would be obsessed with it and use their hands.

Seeing the workers saying this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Han Zhen said loudly: "Don't be afraid. If anyone dares to arbitrarily deduct wages, just go to Kaifeng Mansion to file a complaint. If Kaifeng Mansion does not accept the complaint, go to the Imperial City and I will make the decision for you."

"We understand."

The workers suddenly burst into laughter.

At this moment, a worker asked tremblingly: "Your Majesty, this house is built, is it really for me to live in?"

Han Zhen asked back: "Are you a resident of the shack in the east of the city?"

"Yes."

The worker nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Han Zhen asked again: "Has Kaifeng Mansion sent people to register?"

The worker replied: "Registered."

Han Zhen smiled and said: "Since you are a resident of the shack in the east of the city, and you have registered your information, when it is built, I will allocate a room for you to live in. Again, if you don't get a house, just come to the imperial city and I will take my place. You decide!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!"

The worker was so excited that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times.

Han Zhen turned around and asked, "Servant Yu, what is the construction period of the low-rent housing?"

Yu Bozhuang promised: "Your Majesty, with such magical tools as cement, I am confident that it will be completed before the New Year."

Han Zhen nodded with satisfaction and said: "Okay, let the people in the slum area in the east of the city move in before the New Year, otherwise you are the only one to ask."

After finishing a bowl of braised plum juice and chatting with the workers for a while, Han Zhen patted his butt and stood up, ready to leave.

"Brother-in-law!"

At this moment, a figure rushed towards him, accompanied by a loud shout.

(End of this chapter)