Daming: The most ruthless tyrant in history

Chapter 704: Unified Purchase and Sales
"Your Majesty, I dare to ask."

Under such circumstances, Chen Mingyu, who had been silent all this time, stepped forward and bowed.

"explain."

Zhu Youxiao said: "Since we are discussing, we should express various ideas. It is good to have different ideas and concepts. It is not good to have one person's opinion."

Any decision involving the national economy and people's livelihood must inevitably go through repeated argumentation and discussion. Only in this way can all aspects be taken into consideration, and unnecessary damage can be reduced in the specific trial and promotion process.

If a decision involving national economy and people's livelihood is made in a rush without argumentation, discussion or investigation, the worst thing to be feared is that in the process someone will seek personal gain from it, causing more people to suffer heavy losses, and the impact and damage will be too great.

"If the state-owned farms are restructured, how will the land be owned? How will the land of the garrison, official land, military meritorious land, and civilian land under Liaodong be demarcated?"

Facing the gazes of many people, Chen Mingyu explained his ideas in a clear and logical manner, "There are also groups that are included in state-owned farms. How should they be driven in state-owned farms? Who reclaims the land and who plants it? Who rents the land and who plants it? Or is it something else?"

"In addition, the imperial court organizes immigration. Who should bear the expenses of this part of immigration? The Ministry of Revenue? Liaodong? The Imperial Treasury?"

As Chen Mingyu raised these points, the atmosphere in the East Warm Pavilion began to become subtle.

The problems mentioned above are all very straightforward realities.

If we can't even figure out these issues, then don't even think about implementing them properly. If there is ambiguity from the source, and this is passed down to the local level, it will give too many people reasons to shirk their responsibilities.

"Let's talk about land first."

Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment, then looked at Chen Mingyu and said, "After more than two years of turmoil and recovery, the main farmland in Liaodong is now divided into official farmland, garrison farmland, and military merit farmland."

"As for the people's land, in the past, we have been constantly fighting against traitors and seizing many people's land. Most of the confiscated land was directly turned over to military officials, and a small part was turned over to government officials."

"There are also civilian farmlands under the jurisdiction of Liaodong, but the exact number is unknown, so the nature of the land is easy to distinguish."

"After Liaodong's upgrade, the primary task is to comprehensively measure the land. On this basis, some of the garrison fields that were assigned to state-owned farms will be removed, and the rest will all be included in the category of official fields. As for the management and control of military merit fields, the Military Affairs Council will issue corresponding policies and negotiate with Liaodong in detail."

"Your Majesty, do you want to stop the land transactions in Liaodong from now on?"

Chen Mingyu heard the key point and expressed his thoughts with a frown.

"I don't forbid it."

Zhu Youxiao smiled and said, "It is strictly forbidden to buy and sell official fields and military merit fields. The number of registered fields cannot be less than one acre in the future. This is the bottom line. Whoever touches it will die!"

"As for the private land, if you want to trade it, you must register it with the government, pay the required taxes, and register the land that needs to be sold."

"This part of the state-owned farm land belongs directly to the court. In the first two years, it was mainly cultivated and planted collectively. During this period, work points were used to determine the amount of land. This is very similar to the policy of using labor instead of relief. The more wasteland you reclaim and the more land you plant, the more work points you can get."

"Two years is a deadline. When the two-year deadline is over, the corresponding acres of land in the state-owned farm can be leased according to the accumulated work points. This lease is tax-free, but the corresponding land does not belong to individuals. They only need to pay the land tax based on the private land."

This……

Zhu Youxiao's words made the people present show different expressions.

"Your Majesty, everything else is easy to deal with, except for this state-owned farm. If we really do this, I'm afraid there will be big problems later." Chen Mingyu frowned.

"If this is really the case, then managers at all levels in state-owned farms will have great power. They can even influence work point assessments, land leasing, and other matters. Those who are on good terms with them will all receive corresponding benefits, while those who are not on good terms with them will not only have their work points suppressed, but will also receive less land when leasing, or even nothing at all."

"This is indeed a hidden danger, so I proposed a two-year deadline."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "If time is too long, the problem you raised will occur. If time is too short, the scale of wasteland reclaimed by state-owned farms will not be enough."

"When the two-year deadline is up, these managers will be evaluated. Those with outstanding performance will be promoted first, and those with poor performance will be replaced directly."

"Also, to avoid the situation of people sticking together, all groups migrating to Liaodong must be dispersed before departure. People of the same clan cannot exceed a certain number, and people with the same surname cannot exceed a certain number. All state-owned farms under the jurisdiction of Liaodong, regardless of size, cannot have a situation where one clan or one surname dominates!"

Chen Mingyu frowned and said, "According to your majesty's intention, although most of the state-owned farms in two years will be directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, they will also have villages and towns?" "Yes."

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "When necessary, some state-owned farms can be directly transferred to the scope of official fields. This will reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble."

Dong Yingju stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, will the leasing of government farmland in the future also be carried out in accordance with the state-owned farms?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Land reform is not an urgent matter, and abolishing land transactions is not very realistic. In order to solve this problem, what Zhu Youxiao can do is to gradually clarify the scale of official fields and reshape the laws related to official fields. If anyone dares to touch these bottom lines in the future, that will be the end of the matter.

dead!
After the relocation of vassal states overseas and the relocation of nobles to other states were fully implemented, Zhu Youxiao would gradually increase the scale of land directly under the central government, and at the same time make it clear that all types of mineral deposits were state-owned. If you wanted to mine them, you could lease them. During the lease period, you had the right to mine, but not the right to hold them.

The above is an extremely complex system to sort out, which requires promoting changes stage by stage and cannot be achieved in a hurry.

The core principle of this part is that the central government can only increase, not reduce, and the red line is the bottom line. Whoever touches it will die. This part will be under the jurisdiction of the corresponding government offices.

As for those involving official land, the lower-class groups will have the right to lease it in the future. Except that the land will no longer be under your name, the rest must be subject to corresponding protection policies to prevent anyone from infringing on the vested interests of the lower-class groups!
As for the privately owned part, the imperial court must also introduce corresponding policies to protect it. Things like forced buying and selling must be severely cracked down on! !
Zhu Youxiao certainly knew that if the above policies were to be implemented, problems of one kind or another would inevitably arise. However, he could not ignore these accumulated problems just because of these problems, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would collapse.

As for the future, if the Ming Dynasty has loopholes in land to an irreparable level, then the Ming Dynasty will fall into crisis.

China's attachment to land is deeply engraved in its bones, and this cannot be changed. The only thing Zhu Youxiao can do is to ensure that the basic foundation of land policy is stable and to leave no opportunity for collusion between officials, businessmen, or gentry. However, this will inevitably take a long time.

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After all, you can't use today's perspective to look at the future, nor can you use today's policies to manage the future. Each period requires its corresponding perspective and policies.

"Your Majesty, I have another question."

"explain."

"If what Your Majesty said is true, then in terms of state-owned farms, during the two-year land reclamation period, all kinds of needs, from small things like needles and thread to large things like purchasing livestock, will need to be borne by the court? The people in the state-owned farms can exchange their work points for them?"

"Basically, it's like this. I've thought about it. When it comes to state-owned farms, we'll adopt a model of unified purchase and sale." Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment, then looked at Chen Mingyu and said.

"The Liaodong Governor's Office should set up a special government office to be responsible for this area. All the output of the state-owned farms should be collected by the government office, and all the needs of the state-owned farms should be provided by the government office."

"Especially daily necessities such as grain, salt, cotton, cloth, coal, etc. must be adequately supplied to avoid an imbalance between supply and demand among farm groups."

“Who will bear this expense?”

Chen Mingyu frowned and said, "Yes, the land reclaimed by the state-owned farms belongs to the court, but the two years of reclamation and cultivation will cost a lot of money, and the grain output in the first two years will definitely be very low."

Many people standing in the hall were sweating for Chen Mingyu.

The question raised is too sharp.

"After Liaodong is upgraded, we will set up a customs office in Liaodong."

Zhu Youxiao was not angry at all, and said calmly: "The following customs duties, including those in the border areas, do not need to be sent to the central government and sent to Beijing. They can be used to cover the difference in expenses."

"However, this part of the tax has a time limit. The Liaodong Provincial Administration Office must issue a military order to the court, specifying how many years it will take to fully implement state-owned farms in Liaodong and ensure that the wasteland in Liaodong can be mined."

"At the same time, the corresponding groups in the government offices that coordinate and manage the unified marketing must sell grain, salt, cotton and other items at the lowest price. In return, they will have the opportunity to obtain the qualification to lease and mine minerals."

"If this is the case, the Liaodong Governor's Office will not be able to easily change its chief officer."

When Chen Mingyu heard this, he spoke subconsciously.

You are so bold.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Chen Mingyu. Indeed, as he said, if the Pan-Northeast Strategy wants to continue to advance, Xiong Tingbi, the Governor-General of Liaodong, and Hong Chengchou, the Governor of Liaodong, must stay for at least ten years, or two terms. Otherwise, if they are replaced, the policy will not be able to be continued. However, if this happens, some new problems will arise.

(End of this chapter)